"RED GATE RESIDENCY IN BEIJING, CHINA"
June 1 - August 2
I am thrilled to report that I am currently in Beijing, China, as a participating artist in Red Gate Gallery's Artist Residency Program!
http://www.redgategallery.com/residency
I am thrilled to report that I am currently in Beijing, China, as a participating artist in Red Gate Gallery's Artist Residency Program!
http://www.redgategallery.com/residency
INTERVIEW ON ARTMEME WITH LAURA GREB
"SITE=SIGHT CHINA2010"
August 30 – Sept 8, 2010
Opening Reception Wednesday, September 1, 2010 7–9 pm
25 East Gallery
At Parsons The New School For Design
25 East 13 Street, 5th Floor
New York, NY 10012
Please join us for a group exhibition of the collaborative work we did in China this summer. Featuring work created in Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, and the Gobi Desert.
Featuring work by artists including: Isabelle Webster, Monica Bernal, Mara Kristula Green, Shane Lessa, Brendan McCarthy, Grace Lang, Brian Bernhard, Rayna Savrosa, and others.
Opening Reception Wednesday, September 1, 2010 7–9 pm
25 East Gallery
At Parsons The New School For Design
25 East 13 Street, 5th Floor
New York, NY 10012
Please join us for a group exhibition of the collaborative work we did in China this summer. Featuring work created in Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, and the Gobi Desert.
Featuring work by artists including: Isabelle Webster, Monica Bernal, Mara Kristula Green, Shane Lessa, Brendan McCarthy, Grace Lang, Brian Bernhard, Rayna Savrosa, and others.
"PARSONS MFA FINE ARTS THESIS EXHIBITION"
The Kitchen
512 W 19th Street
New York, NY 10011
www.thekitchen.org
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 13, 2010
6 - 9 pm
Please join us at The Kitchen in Chelsea for the Parsons MFA Fine Arts thesis exhibition!
At long last, a glimpse of my newest works will be open to the public. I am thrilled to present two large photographs from my "American Binge" series. And, of course, there will be wine.
512 W 19th Street
New York, NY 10011
www.thekitchen.org
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 13, 2010
6 - 9 pm
Please join us at The Kitchen in Chelsea for the Parsons MFA Fine Arts thesis exhibition!
At long last, a glimpse of my newest works will be open to the public. I am thrilled to present two large photographs from my "American Binge" series. And, of course, there will be wine.
"OPRAH" (Seriously!)
Two of my works were featured on Oprah in May 2010. See link below.
http://www.oprah.com/oprahshow/Nate-Berk
"A group of Parsons Fine Arts students were featured on a special live episode of Oprah celebrating the 10th Anniversary of O Magazine. Oprah’s design expert Nate Berkus visited the Fine Arts studios at Parsons last week to tape the segment about starting an art collection, which included nine students from the undergraduate and graduate Fine Arts programs. Under the guidance of MFA program director Simone Douglas, the students hung a gallery show in the fourth floor studio and invited Nate and the crew inside to browse the work and the process of buying and selling student art. Berkus left the studio with three new pieces—one for a client, two for his personal collection."
http://www.oprah.com/oprahshow/Nate-Berk
"A group of Parsons Fine Arts students were featured on a special live episode of Oprah celebrating the 10th Anniversary of O Magazine. Oprah’s design expert Nate Berkus visited the Fine Arts studios at Parsons last week to tape the segment about starting an art collection, which included nine students from the undergraduate and graduate Fine Arts programs. Under the guidance of MFA program director Simone Douglas, the students hung a gallery show in the fourth floor studio and invited Nate and the crew inside to browse the work and the process of buying and selling student art. Berkus left the studio with three new pieces—one for a client, two for his personal collection."
"VISCOUS"
Rehan Bashir • Monica Bernal • Casey Diskin • Rayna Savrosa • Logan Sibrel
April 19 – May 3, 2010
Opening Reception Thursday, April 22, 2010 7 – 9 pm
25 East Gallery
At Parsons The New School For Design
25 East 13 Street, 5th Floor
New York, NY 10012
Press Release:
It is 2010. We have taken our first few uncertain steps into the new decade of our brand new millennium. Technology continues to advance with eager rapidity and our bodies adapt, morphing into new organisms equipped with new ways to connect. We have new ways to look at each other, lust for each other, flirt with each other, touch each other—virtually and actually. Now, more than ever, we are given the permission to watch. Watch strangers, watch us.
At this moment the discourse surrounding sex is an open one, and particularly in New York it feels almost omnipresent.
As artists we are fascinated by these issues surrounding the body and the need to represent the tactile and—for lack of a better word—real experience of sex. On TV, in movies, on billboards, and the Internet, mere images—fictitious versions of sexuality harass us with their removed, cold depiction of sex.
We are in need of a messy, sloppy, cummy, representation of what sex is really like. Viscosity relates to fluidity, thickness, tension, and stress. This show explores the texture of sex along with the emotional experience through materiality.
Monica Bernal’s ink paintings reference the biological, physical and chemical, as she explores the relationship between fluidity and sexuality. The paintings of Rehan Bashir delve into the visceral, the pleasurable, and the beauty of abuse. The drippy collage-inspired oil-covered canvases by Logan Sibrel touch on memories of intimacy through his narrative compositions. Casey Diskin approaches the subject of sex through a reorganization of his gaze, also playing with memory. Rayna Savrosa’s photographic montages and video installations are based on the role of new technologies and their impact on human relationships.
These emerging artists are all MFA graduate students in the Fine Arts Department at Parsons The New School for Design.
PLEASE JOIN US APRIL 22ND FOR THE OPENING OF THIS SEXHIBITION!
April 19 – May 3, 2010
Opening Reception Thursday, April 22, 2010 7 – 9 pm
25 East Gallery
At Parsons The New School For Design
25 East 13 Street, 5th Floor
New York, NY 10012
Press Release:
It is 2010. We have taken our first few uncertain steps into the new decade of our brand new millennium. Technology continues to advance with eager rapidity and our bodies adapt, morphing into new organisms equipped with new ways to connect. We have new ways to look at each other, lust for each other, flirt with each other, touch each other—virtually and actually. Now, more than ever, we are given the permission to watch. Watch strangers, watch us.
At this moment the discourse surrounding sex is an open one, and particularly in New York it feels almost omnipresent.
As artists we are fascinated by these issues surrounding the body and the need to represent the tactile and—for lack of a better word—real experience of sex. On TV, in movies, on billboards, and the Internet, mere images—fictitious versions of sexuality harass us with their removed, cold depiction of sex.
We are in need of a messy, sloppy, cummy, representation of what sex is really like. Viscosity relates to fluidity, thickness, tension, and stress. This show explores the texture of sex along with the emotional experience through materiality.
Monica Bernal’s ink paintings reference the biological, physical and chemical, as she explores the relationship between fluidity and sexuality. The paintings of Rehan Bashir delve into the visceral, the pleasurable, and the beauty of abuse. The drippy collage-inspired oil-covered canvases by Logan Sibrel touch on memories of intimacy through his narrative compositions. Casey Diskin approaches the subject of sex through a reorganization of his gaze, also playing with memory. Rayna Savrosa’s photographic montages and video installations are based on the role of new technologies and their impact on human relationships.
These emerging artists are all MFA graduate students in the Fine Arts Department at Parsons The New School for Design.
PLEASE JOIN US APRIL 22ND FOR THE OPENING OF THIS SEXHIBITION!
"SILENT SPRING"
Gallery 151, New York, NY
November 4th - 25th 2009
OPENS Nov. 4th 6-10pm at 350 Bowery
Free drinks, food, and DJ
This is the second show of a 5-part series titled "The Urban Green Initiative".
The first show, "Green Light Go" was in April 2009.
November 4th - 25th 2009
OPENS Nov. 4th 6-10pm at 350 Bowery
Free drinks, food, and DJ
This is the second show of a 5-part series titled "The Urban Green Initiative".
The first show, "Green Light Go" was in April 2009.
OPEN STUDIOS
Parsons The New School hosts MFA open studios
November 18th 7-10pm
Drinks, Music, Food, and lots of artists!
Please come and see our works in progress!
November 18th 7-10pm
Drinks, Music, Food, and lots of artists!
Please come and see our works in progress!
"THE ART OF FASHION"
Webster Hall, New York, NY
Located at 11th St at 3rd Ave
Friday, July 24th
Doors open at 8:45 pm
Free drinks, no guest list!
Just say you're there for "The Art of Fashion" show and you won't have to pay.
Located at 11th St at 3rd Ave
Friday, July 24th
Doors open at 8:45 pm
Free drinks, no guest list!
Just say you're there for "The Art of Fashion" show and you won't have to pay.
"GREEN LIGHT GO"
Gallery 151, New York, NY
April 22nd - May 2009
OPENS April 22nd 6-10pm at 350 Bowery
Free drinks, food, and DJ
This is the first show of a 5-part series titled "The Urban Green Initiative".
April 22nd - May 2009
OPENS April 22nd 6-10pm at 350 Bowery
Free drinks, food, and DJ
This is the first show of a 5-part series titled "The Urban Green Initiative".
"PULSE ART FAIR"
Chelsea Pears, New York, NY
March 6th - March 9th 2009
March 6th - March 9th 2009
"ODD COUPLINGS"
Parsons Gallery, New York, NY
25 East 13th St. between University and 5th Ave.
5th Floor
2-5pm
25 East 13th St. between University and 5th Ave.
5th Floor
2-5pm
ARMORY SHOW: "EXTERNAL SPACES"
Parsons Gallery, New York, NY
March 7th 2009
25 East 13th St. between University and 5th Ave.
5th Floor
2-5pm
There will be wine and cheese, of course.
This is the first year that the Armory has organized a sort of external show. They asked the MFA programs at Columbia, Hunter, and Parsons to curate shows in their departments, and will be coming this Saturday for the opening. Please come see my big beautiful new piece—printed on glass, thanks to my friend Casey!
March 7th 2009
25 East 13th St. between University and 5th Ave.
5th Floor
2-5pm
There will be wine and cheese, of course.
This is the first year that the Armory has organized a sort of external show. They asked the MFA programs at Columbia, Hunter, and Parsons to curate shows in their departments, and will be coming this Saturday for the opening. Please come see my big beautiful new piece—printed on glass, thanks to my friend Casey!
"PLANTS AND PIGEONS"
The SoMa Studio Space, San Francisco, CA
February 15th - March 21st 2008
OPENS February 15th
Local musicians also preforming on opening night.
This show has been put together by a small group of young local artists in San Francisco. We have focused on the theme of the city, specifically the ways in which we live in it, move in it, and get to know it (though people, places, and objects) as something to speak to in this show.
February 15th - March 21st 2008
OPENS February 15th
Local musicians also preforming on opening night.
This show has been put together by a small group of young local artists in San Francisco. We have focused on the theme of the city, specifically the ways in which we live in it, move in it, and get to know it (though people, places, and objects) as something to speak to in this show.
"PARSONS PHOTOGRAPHY SENIOR SHOW"
Calumet, New York, NY
May 8th - 19th 2007
22 W 22nd Street, 2nd Floor
OPENS May 8th 2007, 6-9pm
May 8th - 19th 2007
22 W 22nd Street, 2nd Floor
OPENS May 8th 2007, 6-9pm
"GET ON THE BUS"
CitySpace, San Francisco, CA
June 16th - July 2nd 2006
OPENS June 16th at 2255 Third Street
From June 16th to July 2nd, 2006 CITY|SPACE will present "Get on the Bus," a reconsideration of the experience, culture, and meaning of our nation's least-loved transit mode. Stigmatized as the transit of last resort-the realm of the poor, elderly, and infirm-the bus nonetheless moves millions of people every day. On the cutting edge in some cities, marginalized in others, the bus evokes a surprising range of emotions for people, planners, cities and artists. Get on the Bus will begin to illuminate the world of the bus as a ubiquitous but neglected arena of city life.
To learn more about this exhibition and about CITY|SPACE go to:
http://city-space.org/events/gotb/get_on
To see an article on the show and on CITY|SPACE that appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle on June 22nd, 2006 go to:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cg
June 16th - July 2nd 2006
OPENS June 16th at 2255 Third Street
From June 16th to July 2nd, 2006 CITY|SPACE will present "Get on the Bus," a reconsideration of the experience, culture, and meaning of our nation's least-loved transit mode. Stigmatized as the transit of last resort-the realm of the poor, elderly, and infirm-the bus nonetheless moves millions of people every day. On the cutting edge in some cities, marginalized in others, the bus evokes a surprising range of emotions for people, planners, cities and artists. Get on the Bus will begin to illuminate the world of the bus as a ubiquitous but neglected arena of city life.
To learn more about this exhibition and about CITY|SPACE go to:
http://city-space.org/events/gotb/get_on
To see an article on the show and on CITY|SPACE that appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle on June 22nd, 2006 go to:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cg
