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Reena Spaulings Fine Art
Reena Spaulings is a collective project in the medium of a novel, artist persona, and institutional art gallery active from 2005 to present in New York City. The Gallery's Co-founders and Co-Directors include Carissa Rodriguez, John Kelsey and Emily Sundblad. The Reena Spaulings novel and persona remains an anonymous collective organization. The Spaulings initiative speaks to ideas of collectivity, anonymity, and artistic categorization through literature and artistic production. Reena Spaulings is a branch of the Bernadette Corporation, also based in New York City. Novel Process The novel of Reena Spaulings begins as a branch of the Bernadette Corporation under John Kelsey, under the publishing company Semiotext(e) in New York in 2004. To dismantle categorization around the artist's name, the Bernadette Corporation brought together novelists, artists, and anonymous contributors to write a collective novel under the pseudonym of Reena Spaulings. The contributors would writ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York City
New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on one of the world's largest natural harbors. The city comprises five boroughs, each coextensive with a respective county. The city is the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the United States by both population and urban area. New York is a global center of finance and commerce, culture, technology, entertainment and media, academics, and scientific output, the arts and fashion, and, as home to the headquarters of the United Nations, international diplomacy. With an estimated population in 2024 of 8,478,072 distributed over , the city is the most densely populated major city in the United States. New York City has more than double the population of Los Angeles, the nation's second-most populous city. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carissa Rodriguez
Carissa Rodriguez (born 1970) is an American artist who lives and works in New York City. Artistic practice Rodriguez' work investigates the relationship of the material and social conditions through which art is produced, reproduced, and consumed. Rodriquez works in a spectrum of materials from cinema to photography to sculpture. Often, her exhibitions present complex and at times personal narratives that investigate the dynamics in play between artist, audience, and institution. She was a core member of Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York from 2004 to 2015. Exhibitions Solo exhibitions *2009 ''- Cherchez La Ghost -'' New Jersey - Basel *2010 ''- Busque El Ghost -'' House of Gaga - Mexico City *2011 - Karma International - Art Basel Miami Beach *2012 - ''Carissa Rodriguez -'' Karma International - Zurich, Switzerland Zurich (; ) is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is in north-central Switzerland, at the northwestern tip of Lak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Kelsey (artist)
John Kelsey is an American artist, writer and art dealer. Since 1999, he has been a member of the artist collective Bernadette Corporation. In 2004, he co-founded Reena Spaulings Fine Art with Emily Sundblad. The gallery was named after Bernadette Corporation's novel of the same name. Publications * John Kelsey. 2010. ''Rich texts: selected writing for art''. Berlin: Sternberg Press. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Kelsey, John Living people American art critics American artists American art curators Year of birth missing (living people) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emily Sundblad
Emily Sundblad (born 1977) is an American-based, Swedish-born painter, gallerist, and musician. She co-founded and co-directs Reena Spaulings Fine Art. Background and education Sundblad was born in Dalsjöfors, Sweden in 1977. She received her BFA from Parsons the New School for Design in New York in 2003, before attending the Whitney Museum's Independent Study Program, which she completed in the spring of 2006. Career Reena Spaulings Reena Spaulings is both the pen name of an artist collective, and a gallery in New York City. In 2003, Sundblad and John Kelsey co-founded the gallery Reena Spaulings Fine Art. Subsequently, Reena Spaulings began exhibiting work of her own. Spaulings is portrayed in person by other artists, including co-director John Kelsey, and others from the Bernadette Corporation collective. Spaulings, as an artist, was included in the Whitney Museum's 2006 Biennial and also took part in the group exhibition "Pop Life" at the Tate Modern. Work under her ow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernadette Corporation
Bernadette Corporation is a New York City and Paris-based art and fashion collective founded in 1994. Founded by Bernadette Van-Huy, Sonny Pak, and Thuy Pham, its core members include Van-Huy, John Kelsey, and Antek Walzcak. Bernadette Corporation is known for its performance, fashion, and art which in varying ways emulates and disturbs corporations. Influences from fashion to film include Vivienne Westwood, Malcolm McLaren, and Jean-Luc Godard. The group is often described in terms of the Situationist movement. History When Bernadette Corporation first formed, they were hired to organize parties at downtown nightclubs. The group quickly began making fashion and took part in the world of 1990s underground fashion. In the 1990s, their clothes were published in ''Harper's Bazaar'', ''Purple'', ''Visionaire'', ''Index Magazine'', and ''Artforum''. They take influences from the "three Bs"; Barthes, Bataille and Baudrillard. In the late 1990s, Bernadette Corporation became more prod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gossip Girl
''Gossip Girl'' is an American teen drama television series created and developed by Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage and based on the series of novels of the same name by Cecily von Ziegesar. It follows a group of students on Manhattan's Upper East Side whose private and social lives are chronicled by the unidentified blogger "Gossip Girl". The series was broadcast on the CW from September 19, 2007, to December 17, 2012, spanning six seasons and 121 episodes. The series' main characters include socialite Serena van der Woodsen ( Blake Lively), her popular frenemy Blair Waldorf ( Leighton Meester), her mother Lily van der Woodsen ( Kelly Rutherford), and her love interest Dan Humphrey ( Penn Badgley), an aspiring writer and scholarship student. Other main characters include Serena's ex-boyfriend Nate Archibald ( Chace Crawford), his best friend Chuck Bass ( Ed Westwick), Dan's sister Jenny Humphrey ( Taylor Momsen), Dan's childhood friend Vanessa Abrams ( Jessica S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colonialism
Colonialism is the control of another territory, natural resources and people by a foreign group. Colonizers control the political and tribal power of the colonised territory. While frequently an Imperialism, imperialist project, colonialism can also take the form of settler colonialism, whereby settlers from one or multiple colonizing metropoles occupy a territory with the intention of partially or completely supplanting the existing population. Colonialism developed as a concept describing European colonial empires of the modern era, which spread globally from the 15th century to the mid-20th century, spanning 35% of Earth's land by 1800 and peaking at 84% by the beginning of World War I. European colonialism employed mercantilism and Chartered company, chartered companies, and established Coloniality of power, coloniality, which keeps the colonized socio-economically Other (philosophy), othered and Subaltern (postcolonialism), subaltern through modern biopolitics of Heterono ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tate Modern
Tate Modern is an art gallery in London, housing the United Kingdom's national collection of international Modern art, modern and contemporary art (created from or after 1900). It forms part of the Tate group together with Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives. It is located in the former Bankside Power Station, in the Bankside area of the London Borough of Southwark. Tate Modern is one of the list of largest art museums, largest museums of modern and contemporary art in the world. As with the UK's other national galleries and museums, there is no admission charge for access to the collection displays, which take up the majority of the gallery space, whereas tickets must be purchased for the major temporary exhibitions. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the museum was closed for 173 days in 2020, and attendance plunged by 77 per cent to 1,432,991. However, it recovered strongly in 2022, with 3,883,160 visitors, making it the third most visited in Britain and the fourth-most vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Merlin Carpenter
Merlin Carpenter (born 1967) is an English visual artist. Writing in Frieze, art critic Katie Sonnenborn stated that a recent exhibition "continued his nuanced critique of the condition of contemporary art-making," and that "working within the framework of the gallery, he presented a suite of canvases that cast doubt on current systems of cultural reception and consumption." Artistic practice After graduating from Saint Martins School of Art in 1989, Carpenter has gone on to exhibit in 29 solo shows, and 48 group shows between 1989 and 2007. Carpenter's paintings can be seen as deeply ambivalent. His style is heavily influenced by artists like Jackson Pollock and Julian Schnabel. Carpenter promotes in his paintings what he calls the "de-subjectivation of the brush stroke", and with this is his exploration into what he has called "overdetermined imagery" such as fashion photography. In his art Carpenter also marks out the differences and parallels between art and non-artist lux ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Artist Groups And Collectives
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label that was previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
