DCKT Contemporary is pleased to present PLAYLAND, MARIA E. PIÑERES’s fourth solo exhibition with the gallery. PIÑERES’s signature medium of stitched needlepoint places the nude figure in an optical duel with the eye-catching graphics of the pinball machine playfields and backglasses of her adolescence.

DCKT Contemporary is pleased to present Criminal Minded, RYAN HUMPHREY’s fourth solo exhibition with the gallery. This show is of and about New York City: what makes it simultaneously so alluring and so difficult; what draws certain people in and repels others; the daily aggravations and the elusive dreams; what can sometimes make it a monument to money and greed. HUMPHREY approaches these dichotomies with a sense of humor and through a modified version of civil disobedience.

VOLTA NY is an invitational show of emerging solo artists’ projects and the American incarnation of the successful young fair founded in Basel in 2005.

By refocusing on artists through solo projects, VOLTA NY promotes a deep exploration of the work of its selected participants and offers the opportunity for discoveries beyond those afforded by a traditional art fair.

In 2013 the invitational fair inaugurates its new location 82MERCER in SoHo, by showcasing 94 international galleries, spanning 6 continents and spotlighting artists from 38 nations.

DCKT Contemporary is pleased to present BRION NUDA ROSCH’s second solo exhibition in New York. Deconstructing or rearranging the commonplace, ROSCH’s collage and sculptural works heighten awareness, jarring the viewer out of an object or photograph's sense of embedded context.

In his new body of collage works ROSCH combines images of scarecrows with sculptures by modern masters, large color forms disrupt empty landscapes and “meat on meat” suggests past works. In his paintings and sculptural works ROSCH creates a new series of props: a cut form, a covered bust, a painting painted many times before and rescued construction site ephemera. Continuing his practice within a guided set of rules, each work exists to challenge what has been given value and what is held sacred.

The inaugural Miami Project, a new contemporary and modern art fair will debut December 4-9, 2012 in Miami's Midtown / Wynwood Art District. Miami Project will consist of presentations by 65 galleries from around the world selected based on the strength and relevance of their programs. This year's show will be housed in a comfortable and centrally located modular structure located at NE 1st Avenue & NE 29th Street.

DCKT Contemporary is pleased to present LIA HALLORAN’s fourth New York solo exhibition, Metamorphose, in our new location at 21 Orchard Street. Large-scale works feature Halloran's unusual technique of laying ink on drafting film; the human form and the passage of time is simultaneously considered, where the organic body experiences a sublimation into the realm of the inanimate.

The Texas Contemporary art fair features presentations from 65 galleries showcasing contemporary work from the most innovative, progressive and driven artists from around the world.

artMRKT Hamptons, a contemporary and modern art fair, will feature 40 leading galleries from across the U.S. who will present painting, sculpture, drawings, photography, video and installation. Showcasing a tightly focused selection of work by important artists in a boutique setting, artMRKT Hamptons will create an ideal context for the discovery, exploration, and acquisition of art.

artMRKT San Francisco, the Bay Area’s premier contemporary and modern art fair will feature 70 highly reputable galleries from around the globe, bringing some of the world’s most intriguing artists and galleries to San Francisco. In showcasing historically important work alongside relevant contemporary pieces and projects, artMRKT will create an ideal context for the discovery, exploration and acquisition of art.

Josh Azzarella's Untitled #105 (SFDF), 2009-2011 continues the artist’s practice of appropriation by isolating three pivotal moments from 1933's groundbreaking movie King Kong. The work is comprised of three seamlessly looped HD video channels, each with 5.1 surround sound that combine to create a 15.3 surround sound experience. Azzarella suspends the iconic scenes, merging them with newly captured footage to create a naturalistic environment. In this fusion, tropical pools ripple and vines sway in anticipation of the thunderous entry of the protagonist, but instead the viewer is held transfixed in a moment. Untitled #105 (SFDF) displaces our experience of filmic events and challenges our grasp of legendary eminence.

ART TORONTO

October 28 - 31, 2011
METRO TORONTO CONVENTION CENTRE
North Building, Exhibit Hall A & B
255 Front Street West

George R. Brown Convention Center, Houston, TX

Thursday, October 20
CAMH Benefit Preview Party - 6:00pm to 7:30pm
VIP Preview Party - 7:30pm to 10:00pm

Friday, October 21 - 11:00am to 7:30pm
Saturday, October 22 - 11:00am to 7:00pm
Sunday, October 23 - 11:00am to 6:00pm

The Art Platform - Los Angeles art fair will demonstrate the rich and diverse cultural landscape of Southern California and underscore Los Angeles’ influential position within the contemporary art world.

The New Art Dealers Alliance and Basilica Hudson are pleased to announce NADA Hudson, a large scale exhibition featuring 51 projects presented by NADA members and affiliates. NADA Hudson is not an art fair, but rather a site-specific project for the New Art Dealers Alliance, which will build upon the character of a historic venue in showcasing contemporary sculpture, installation and performance. The Basilica Hudson, built in 1884 as a foundry and forge for the manufacture of steel railway wheels, is the last great 19th century building on the Hudson waterfront. NADA is grateful for the team at Basilica Hudson who offer a home for the artistic and cultural community at large. NADA Hudson will occupy nearly 8,000 square feet of indoor space, a theatre space and well over 10,000 square feet of outdoor space.

DCKT Contemporary is pleased to present Still Life & Motion, bringing together new mixed media collages by EVEREST HALL and new digital video animations by SEAN CAPONE. In their latest works both Hall and Capone mine the garden for inspiration and use floral motifs to explore themes of reality and illusion, beauty and decay, and the passage of time.

DCKT Contemporary presents recent paintings by TIMOTHY TOMPKINS. The exhibition includes works from both his Reenactment series and Explosion series. The inspirations for TOMPKINS’s paintings stem from his engagement with the tropes and language of the medium’s history. TOMPKINS begins his process of digitally altering photographic imagery by breaking the images down to core colors and by effect blurring the contours. He then uses high-gloss commercial enamel to execute the paintings on aluminum panels.

More than an art fair, NEXT is a showcase for the world’s talents and an adventure in innovative culture. An opportunity to redefine the relationship between art and its public, NEXT is a platform for established and emerging galleries to promote the work of cutting-edge artists. NEXT is dedicated to the exhibition and advancement of today's art. NEXT is the catalyst for the exchange of information and experimental ideas aimed at today's educated collectors.

NEXT includes works from both commercial and non-commercial arts organizations—galleries, project spaces, art publications and key private contemporary collections from around the world.

DCKT Contemporary is pleased to present MICHAEL VELLIQUETTE’s third New York solo exhibition Awaken and Free What Has Been Asleep. VELLIQUETTE’s new paper sculptures and drawings expand his engagement with ornamental abstraction. His bold new forms evolve from a self-described “rite” of meditation, reflection and drawing and show a heightened prowess with the process of cutting, layering and gluing his colored paper shapes.

DCKT Contemporary is pleased to present ANDRZEJ ZIELIŃSKI’s Seven Screens, his second solo show with the gallery. On view are paintings of five Automated Teller Machines and two broken laptop computers. ZIELIŃSKI uses the medium of painting to explore the technology of communication and to beckon the viewer to interface with feral colors, wonky buttons and tractor-beaming screens.

DCKT Contemporary is pleased to present IRVIN MORAZAN’s solo exhibition Temple of the Bearded Man, inaugurating our new home at 237 Eldridge Street, between Stanton and Houston. This exhibition of photography, collage and sculpture lends itself to a myriad of mythologies, superstitions and sub-cultures. The exhibition opening coincides with MORAZAN’s Coyote Procession, Friday, January 7 at 6pm. MORAZAN, accompanied by a Mexican Norteño band (subway Mariachis), will lead a celebratory procession from the old DCKT Contemporary location (195 Bowery) to the new DCKT Contemporary location (237 Eldridge Street).

DCKT Contemporary is pleased to present LAURA LOBDELL’s Traces of Color, an exhibition of recent paintings on paper. LOBDELL’s gouache paintings are layered meditations on time.

DCKT Contemporary is pleased to present SOPHIE CRUMB’s debut solo exhibition. This exhibition coincides with the release of the monograph Sophie Crumb: Evolution of a Crazy Artist, edited by her parents R. Crumb & Aline Kominsky-Crumb and published by W. W. Norton. A talk with R. Crumb is scheduled for 7pm on Monday, November 1 at Barnes & Noble – Union Square.

DCKT Contemporary is pleased to present a series of performances by IRVIN MORAZAN. MORAZAN creates characters that perform absurd sacrifices while wearing fantastical sculptural headdresses. He intertwines pre-Columbian mythologies with gluttonous rituals and ceremonies involving food. MORAZAN merges ancient tribal traditions with urban street aesthetics to invent personas that blur the boundaries of culture and stereotypes. The value of history and theory and their relation to contemporary art is central to his process.

DCKT Contemporary is pleased to present CORDY RYMAN’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. RYMAN manipulates and reconstitutes an inherited visual language, defining himself in relation to it. His intuitive and spontaneous process is propelled and determined primarily by the characteristics of his media. Manipulating materials such as wood, metal, velcro, Gorilla Glue, staples and scraps from his studio floor, RYMAN’s assemblages are physical and humorous.

DCKT Contemporary is pleased to present BRION NUDA ROSCH’s first solo exhibition in New York. Deconstructing or rearranging the commonplace, ROSCH’s collages and sculptural works heighten awareness and jar the viewer out of an object or photograph's sense of embedded context.

DCKT Contemporary is pleased to present Early American, RYAN HUMPHREY’s third solo exhibition with the gallery. HUMPHREY explores duality through an altered, customized version of an 18th century American interior. The installation hijacks the format of a formal and affluent interior, infusing it with cast-offs and objects more likely found in a rural garage than an antique shop. Class and taste are called into question and the hierarchy of materials associated with social stratification is discarded.

DCKT Contemporary is pleased to present LIA HALLORAN’s third New York solo exhibition. The exhibition includes new paintings of crystal caves and personified icebergs, along with ink on vellum works. HALLORAN uses science and the natural world to map out physical and psychological spaces in her painting and addresses time in ways that stretch our notions of perception.

DCKT Contemporary is pleased to present new photographs by JOSH AZZARELLA. AZZARELLA manipulates images from cinema, journalism and amateur photography. His photographs muddy the waters between the artificial beauty of a cinematic set and the inherent beauty of the natural landscape. Absent their most significant events, AZZARELLA’s images raise questions about how our society constructs a narrative of our collective history.

DCKT Contemporary is pleased to present ZOE CROSHER’s The Unraveling of Michelle duBois, a reconsidered archive culled from crates, boxes and albums consisting of endless flirtatious smiles, tourist shots, cheesecake mementos and suggestive poses in every film type and size.

Andrzej Zieliński
Shredders

November 20, 2009 - January 3, 2010
Opens November 20 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

DCKT Contemporary is pleased to present TED O’SULLIVAN’s first solo exhibition in New York. O’SULLIVAN’s painting process salvages, expands and reinvents the coded icons and systems of modernity. Oil, crushed charcoal, marble dust & paper-mâché on canvas create an impastoed lexicon that subverts the rational philosophy or formal reductivism of the modern to create new verbal and pictorial prophecies.

DCKT Contemporary is pleased to present TOM GALLANT’s first solo exhibition in New York. GALLANT’s works are meticulously crafted paradoxes of absent presence and are heavily subsumed by the process of removal, subtraction and fragmentation.

DCKT Contemporary is pleased to present a new installation by castaneda/reiman, sculptures of paintings of places we’ve never been, using the artists' combined personal collection of landscape paintings as both material and catalyst.

DCKT Contemporary is pleased to present JOSH AZZARELLA’s most ambitious video to date, Untitled #100 (Fantasia), which has been two years in the making.

DCKT Contemporary is pleased to present two solo exhibitions: new paintings by CLAIRE SHERMAN and new needlepoint works by MARIA E. PIÑERES.

DCKT Contemporary is pleased to present MICHAEL VELLIQUETTE’s second New York solo exhibition. VELLIQUETTE hand cuts and glues paper cardstock into complex dimensional assemblages reminiscent of the interiors of large-scale pop-up books or mosaics in high relief. In his current body of work Velliquette returns once again to garden and jungle settings where humorous and visually dense paper tableaux are populated with animistic spirits, beasts, goons and gods.

DCKT Contemporary is pleased to present WILLIAM SWANSON’s second New York solo exhibition. In SWANSON’s acrylic on wood panel paintings architecture attempts to hold rein in a tumultuous battle with natural forces. Each presents a fictitious setting and fuses elements of nature, technology and architecture.

DCKT Contemporary presents HELEN ALTMAN’s solo exhibition of mixed media works. ALTMAN explores notions of reality versus artificiality in everyday life. Her interest in mimicry and replicas results in objects that are convincing and sincere while simultaneously absurd in their obvious artificiality.

Manhattan Community Arts Fund presents a public installation by AARON KRACH: Longer Periods of Happiness 2009. This project is made possible in part with public funds from The Manhattan Community Arts Fund which is supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and administered by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.

DCKT Contemporary presents CORDY RYMAN’s solo exhibition of new abstract paintings, sculptures and installations. RYMAN uses traditional and non-traditional media such as paint, wood, metal, felt tip pen, velcro, staples and floor sweepings.

Tinged with humor, RYMAN’s works often contain reflected colors as well as real and painted shadows. The works play with illusion versus reality and attachment versus detachment. RYMAN manipulates and reconstitutes an inherited visual language, defining himself in relation to it.

DCKT Contemporary presents new paintings by TIMOTHY TOMPKINS. The exhibition includes works from his ongoing Media series and debuts paintings from his new Nebula series.

The inspirations for TOMPKINS’s paintings stem from his engagement with the tropes and language of the medium’s history. TOMPKINS begins his process of digitally altering found photographs by breaking the images down to core colors and by effect blurring the contours. He then uses high-gloss commercial enamel to execute the paintings on aluminum panels. The paintings, when viewed from a distance, reflect both physically and metaphorically a relational narrative which, upon closer inspection, dissolves into form and color. The artist communicates a sense of removal from the present and a conceptual representation of social, cultural, and personal "memory.”

DCKT Contemporary presents new works by RYAN HUMPHREY in All or Nothing, his second solo exhibition at the gallery. The symbolism of fearlessness, triumphant rebirth and its process is evident throughout the exhibition. The works utilize low-brow materials commonplace during HUMPHREY’s youth in blue-collar rural Ohio combined with more traditional artistic media.

DCKT Contemporary is pleased to present LIA HALLORAN’s second New York solo exhibition. The ten photographs on view were taken at night in various Los Angeles locations ranging from spaces appropriated by skateboarders, such as the Los Angeles River, to skate parks and backyard ramps.

DCKT Contemporary is pleased to present EXENE CERVENKA’s second New York solo exhibition featuring two new bodies of work deeply invested in the aesthetics of American culture: “The Spirits Are Alive and Well” and “EPIC HERO”. There will be a reception for the artist on Friday, June 20 from 6 - 8pm.

Through the manipulation of historical imagery, JOSH AZZARELLA creates stills and videos which radically alter the contexts and meanings of images ingrained in the public conscience. How individual and collective memories form, the possibilities of confusing memories with realities or creating memories where none previously existed are all key to his oeuvre.

DCKT Contemporary is pleased to present Michael VELLIQUETTE’s first New York solo exhibition. Sheets of multi-colored archival card stock are hand-cut then glued, working from background to foreground, onto a paper backing in successive layers. Narratives ranging from the intimate to the epic address ongoing philosophical quandaries of the human condition including questions of self, other, place, transformation and transcendence.

DCKT Contemporary is pleased to present The Middle of the End, new photo-sculptures and installations by Spanish born, New York based artist Isidro BLASCO. In this latest body of work, BLASCO uses digital photography and common building materials to assemble three-dimensional constructions that reconstruct interior spaces and outdoor environments culled from the artist’s personal New York cityscape.

DCKT Contemporary is pleased to announce Out the Window (LAX), a one-person exhibition of photographs by ZOE CROSHER. The exhibition marks the release of a monograph published by the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design and featuring essays by Norman Klein, Pico Iyer and Julian Myers.

DCKT Contemporary is pleased to announce the first New York exhibition of painter Lia HALLORAN. The six figure paintings in the show explore physical forces of nature and the possibilities of how these forces interact with, intersect and fragment the body.

DCKT Contemporary is pleased to announce an exhibition by the collaborative artists castaneda/reiman. Their latest body of work focuses on the natural scenic environments existing on the fringes of the urban landscape, their various interpretations and how these areas are reflected within domestic spaces.

For his first exhibition at DCKT Contemporary, Aaron Krach stakes a claim to a piece of the rich and varied history of artists inspired by New York City. “My new work fits somewhere between late, jazzy Piet Mondrian and early, East Village Madonna,” says Krach. “It’s a genuine but perhaps futile attempt to capture the beauty of Manhattan streets and the sex appeal of pure, unadulterated pop culture.”

DCKT Contemporary is pleased to announce representation of Oliver BOBERG and his first exhibition with the gallery. Works from the Seiten / Pages series will be debuted as well as films from the Nacht-Orte / Night Sites series.

Christina RAY invites you to damage DCKT Contemporary by proxy through her enactment of collected requests. Prior to the opening of the show, the DAMAGE interactive website will allow visitors to mark a spot to be damaged on a virtual map of the gallery and to submit a message, poem, story or other text relating to the concept of damage. Based on the submissions, RAY will inflict physical damage points on the actual wall space which will generate the pattern for a large-scale wall drawing.

For Ryan HUMPHREY’s first exhibition with DCKT Contemporary, the artist will show round paintings made to resemble practice targets in a variety of diameters. At first glance the paintings are seemingly decorative but upon closer examination one sees that they have in fact been riddled with bullet holes.

DCKT Contemporary is pleased to present EXENE CERVENKA’s first New York exhibition. On view in America the Beautiful will be journals and mixed media collages dating from 1974 through 2005 by one of the founding members of the seminal Los Angeles punk group, X. The exhibition was originally organized by the Santa Monica Museum of Art and guest curators Kristine McKenna and Michael Duncan.

With her signature medium of stitched needlepoint images, PIÑERES confronts media-saturated contemporary culture’s favorite guilty-or-not-guilty pleasure: the celebrity mug shot.

Manifest Destiny takes its title from a rhetorical document written in 1839 by John L. O’Sullivan which advocated the belief that it is America’s God-given right to expand outwards and dominate the continent in the name of economic and political security. On a global level, TOMPKINS’ paintings exist within the framework of the current political climate manifesting itself today where certain disturbing parallels and connections could be made between the Jackson Administration and the Bush Administration.

In this latest body of photo-sculptures, BLASCO uses digital photography, common building materials, and video to assemble three-dimensional constructions that reconstruct interior spaces and outdoor environments culled from the artist’s personal New York cityscape.

Rosana Castrillo Díaz
Augusto Di Stefano
Dan Steinhilber

DCKT Contemporary is pleased to announce MARIO M. MULLER’s second New York solo exhibition. The show will consist of India ink drawings from The Las Vegas Suite (2004-5), ranging in scale from 45×68 inches to 26×40 inches. This exhibition marks the debut of MULLER’s Las Vegas Suite which was begun in 2004 and which the artist sees as an on-going series.

Helen Altman, Chris Ballantyne, Isidro Blasco, castaneda/reiman, Zoe Crosher, Kim Krans, David Lefkowitz, Mario M. Muller, Maria E. Piñeres, Christina Ray, William Swanson, Tony de los Reyes, Timothy Tompkins

Sophie Crumb, Davis/Langlois, Tom Fabritius, Tom Gallant, Lia Halloran, Portia Hein, Rashid Johnson, Marcel Van Eeden

DCKT Contemporary is pleased to announce KIM KRANS’ first New York solo exhibition …but whatever it was, it came out of the trees. Drawing, painting and collaging fur, leather, metal, sequins, feathers, and beads, KRANS creates suspenseful landscape compositions with highly-charged emotional impact. On view will be two large scale works along with a series of smaller drawings.

DCKT Contemporary is pleased to announce ZOE CROSHER’s first New York solo exhibition, LA-Like. In this series, CROSHER continues photographing her native Los Angeles, this time focusing her lens on the decidedly photogenic Los Angeles subjects of sunlight and lush foliage.

DCKT Contemporary is pleased to announce DAVID LEFKOWITZ’s first New York solo exhibition, Improvised Structures. Working with watercolor and colored pencil on corrugated cardboard, LEFKOWITZ renders architectural structures that hover between abstract geometric forms and literal renderings of stacks of cardboard boxes.

DCKT Contemporary is pleased to announce TONY de los REYES’ first New York solo exhibition The Strange Tale of Near & Far. Working with oil alkyd in a palette of blues and whites reminiscent of Delftware, Toile de Jouy, and 18th century chinoiserie, de los REYES’ latest series depicts scenes from a mythical Baroque journey involving ships, oceanic passages and fertile lands.

William SWANSON’s work attempts to visualize the workings of modern, post-industrial landscapes by hovering the line between landscape and abstraction, between the real and the synthetic. Using a palette that is both soothing and insolent, SWANSON’s paints recognizable forms combined with abstract marking. The results are illusory images that suggest the familiar as well as the fantastic.

DCKT Contemporary is pleased to announce a two person show of works by HILLEVI BAAR and PAMELA HARRIS. Each artist begins with the act of drawing, venturing in different directions with their work.

Corin Hewitt, Shih-Chieh Huang, Paul Ramirez Jonas, kanarinka, Mario M. Muller, ON/Megumi Akiyoshi, Christina Ray, Swoon, Alex Villar, Lee Walton

DCKT Contemporary is pleased to present the debut solo exhibition of TIMOTHY TOMPKINS. The paintings explore consumerism in contemporary society and allude to previous art historical themes and practices. TOMPKINS begins by digitally altering his own photographs, breaking the images down to between 12 and 15 core colors and blurring the contours. TOMPKINS then uses high-gloss commercial enamel sign paint on aluminum panels to execute his paintings. The quick-drying nature of the paint, manufactured by 1 Shot, enhances its expressive liquidity and materiality. Often, the contours of the underdrawing and small areas of the aluminum support are still visible, as if the image is still forming.

DCKT Contemporary is pleased to present new works by MARIA E. PIÑERES. In her current body of work, PIÑERES stitches images culled from snapshots of friends, celebrity portraits, shoes, and 70’s erotica set against her re-creations of familiar textile patterns.

DCKT Contemporary is pleased to present new photo-sculptures by Isidro Blasco. In his current body of work, "Thinking About That Place", Blasco photographes the apartment and building he and his family inhabit and creates three-dimensional constructions with common building materials.

DCKT Contemporary is pleased to announce HELEN ALTMAN’s first solo exhibition in New York. On view are three moving blankets and a selection of torch drawings. In this exhibition, ALTMAN explores notions of reality versus artificiality in everyday life. ALTMAN adheres to themes on imitation nature touched on in her earlier work.