ART :: HELIOPOLIS PRESENTS WITNESS MY HAND with Paul Ramirez Jonas
Heliopolis Presents: PAUL RAMIREZ JONAS : Witness My Hand : March 1st – March 24th, 2013 Opening Reception: Friday, March 1st, 7-10PM Curated by Georgia Elrod, Sarada Rauch and Baris Gokturk Witness My Hand is based on a simple premise: A copy machine is a form of active pedestal. A sculpture is placed on top, and its bottom can be “published” by the viewer. A photo copier is a magic base. Originals go on top, endless copies come out of... Read More
ART :: HELIOPOLIS PRESENTS : CIRCLED THE MAN
“You could say that a reckoning has to be made with the coyote…” Joseph Beuys on I Like America and America Likes Me, 1974 Circled the Man through November 30th Daniel Bozhkov Dineo Seshee Bopape Erkan Özgen and Sener Özmen Ji Hye Yeom Susana Gaudêncio Curated by Georgia Elrod, Sarada Rauch and Baris Gokturk Heliopolis Project Space 154 Huron Street Brooklyn, NY G train to Greenpoint Avenue www.suncityprojectspace.com With CIRCLED... Read More
ART :: GEORGIA ELROD : HERE AND HERE :: Now at John Davis Gallery in Hudson, NY
The paintings and drawings of Georgia Elrod invite poetry — or perhaps they are poetry? — in so far as in transmuting experience into visual form, they perform the inverse maneuver: asking more questions even as they answer the ancient riddle, “how do I see”? In 2009, in an attempt to verbalize this alchemy, I wrote that in Elrod’s work, “a palimpsestic suggestion of knowns creates a new language of juxtaposition,... Read More
HELIOPOLIS PRESENTS: Steven Rose and Joanna Seitz
The AWESOME CREATORS at Heliopolis Project Proudly Present: STEVEN ROSE AND JOANNA SEITZ OPENING: June 1st, 2012, 7-10 pm VIDEO SCREENINGS: June 6, 13, 20 at 9pm Heliopolis 154 Huron St. Brooklyn, NY 11222 suncityprojectspace@gmail.com “Come; let us squeeze hands all round; nay, let us all squeeze ourselves into each other; let us squeeze ourselves universally into the very milk and sperm of kindness.” Herman Melville, Moby-Dick A:... Read More
Guest Blogger: GEORGIA ELROD: NYC ART RECS: What to see now
Exit Strata is pleased to present community member Georgia Elrod‘s curated list of work now showing at NYC galleries, from the well known and established to the obscure and avant garde, across the boroughs — here she offers a generous array of selections demonstrating the breadth and diversity of today’s art scene. Right now there’s so much great work being shown. Often after leaving Chelsea I feel disappointed but yesterday... Read More
AWESOME CREATOR*S*!: THE HELIOPOLIS PROJECT
HELIOPOLIS presents The Industrious Revolution, May 2010 The Heliopolis Project is a storefront gallery and project space in Greenpoint, Brooklyn NY dedicated to fostering a dialogue across all disciplines of making. Founded in 2010 by Eliza Swann and Jason Grabowski, Heliopolis has recently expanded. Collaboratively run, its members now include Bill Abdale, Georgia Elrod, Baris Gokturk, Leo Goldsmith, Rachel Rakes, Sarada Rauch and Andy... Read More
POETRY MONTH : Inspiration, Community, Tradition :: Week 2 :: Editorial Recap
HO! TRIBE! April 1st brought us poetry month, and on that day of inauguration and celebration many members of this community came together for POTLATCH 2012 to share and co-create. (Photos, updates, and CoCo content to come — follow link above for gallery). We read, we shared, we sang, we broke bread, we laughed, and we felt — well, I’ll speak for myself — I felt in my very cells a shift towards what can be possible when a... Read More