Artist David Sena "Inevitable Futures" Opening

Inevitable Futures Press Release

***FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE***

Inevitable Futures

On view: December 9-29, 2010

Opening Reception: December 9, 6-9pm

Yashar Gallery - 276 Greenpoint Avenue building 8 ground floor, Brooklyn NY 11222

Encountering David Sena’s works is much like discovering a mystical document, a map pointing to the reason for human existence, or rather the outer limits, the infinite, the space not yet grasped. In the midst of voids, of what once was, and what has been removed by flame, is the substance of being. The work in Sena’s “Inevitable Futures” is mostly figurative, strictly speaking, but what these ‘drawings’ capture is at once fleeting, difficult to grasp in the very least, and infinite—death, galaxies, and the Higgs’ boson, i.e., ‘the God particle.’ Yet, taking in Sena’s work here is reminiscent of laying back upon the solid earth, damp and fragrantly fecund and looking into the fabric of the night sky and seeing layer upon layer of stars and grasping with that perspective what it is to be a tiny blip of humanity in the infinitely tiny moment of now. What is existential and massive becomes intimate and tangible in Sena’s work, the mark of fire transforms paper and the viewer into an infinite being, proof that art can transfigure, and enlighten.

Time and space are recurring tropes in Sena’s work—two concepts that are often used to ascertain if something is real. Does it exist? Do we exist? In what reality do we exist?

One feels as though the fabric of time is shifting as one examines Sena’s work, a vertigo is evoked, an existential crisis is inspired and we are transformed by looking into the abyss of the infinite. There is comfort in the nothingness, as we come to know voids intimately. Death is always looming but so is the possibility of something beyond it. There are the spaces between us that we navigate physically and theoretically and importantly, the potential of connection and understanding held within those vessels of nil, nothingness. To know our outer limits, to map where we end and infinity begins is a promise of safety, a connection to divinity, which is surely all that is unknown but glimmering at us faintly, just beyond our technology, our mental and spiritual faculties’ grasp. The questions that drive us have never been rendered so beautifully as in Sena’s work. To think the charred edge of a circular hole in paper could bring us closer to the divine—truly, there is magic in this art.

-Emily Basa Besa

INEVITABLE FUTURES will be on view by appointment December 10 -29, 2010. To schedule an appointment or for more information please contact

David Sena: senaspace@gmail.com 1-917-554-4299

Inevitable Futures by David Sena

Inevitable Futures
by David Sena
On view: December 9-29, 2010

Opening Reception: Thursday December 9, 2010, 6-9pm
music by Drumone, Lenny Posso


After Party Sponsored by Ketel One Vodka to be followed by RSVP only
8-11pm RSVP to senaspace@gmail.com

Yashar Gallery
276 Greenpoint Avenue, Building 8 ground floor, Brooklyn, NY 11222

Subway: G to Greenpoint Ave. Stop. Walk east on Greenpoint Ave. just
past Newel St. on right

Driving: BQE to McGuiness, exit 33. Follow McGuiness to Greenpoint
Ave. turn right Yashar Gallery is 2 blocks on right between Newel and
Jewel St.

BEDLAM features Brooklyn Art Studio Artists

BEDLAM
November 13, 2010 – January 13, 2011
Opening November 13th, 7 – 10pm
Bank Iran
113 Leroy Street
New York, NY

anthony titus • eric fertman • david sena • john furgason • laura napier • nichole van beek • carlos little • cy amundson • boveda • jeremy williams • rebecca haskins • antonio serna • patricia gaeta • philippe arman • max miller • jeremiah stewart • kim reinhart • serban ionescu • kathryn lynch • erin krause • kora manheimer • brent owens

“BEDLAM” will be on view by appointment November 14th, 2010 through January
13th, 2011.

To schedule an appointment or for reproductions and further information please email carloslittle@gmail.com or call 917‐501‐8274

More info

Amelie Mancini featured in the Greenpoint Star

Excerpt from the Greenpoint Star:

For love of the game

by Holly Tsang Queens Ledger

Amélie Mancini is a huge baseball buff. The New York Mets fan and admirer of baseball greats Keith Hernandez, Hank Greenberg, Roger Maris and Daryl Strawberry even has a baseball-themed skin on her cell phone. When Mancini arrived stateside from France six years ago, however, the beloved American pastime was a complete mystery to her.

She picked up some old children’s books about baseball as part of her exploration of America and before long, she was hooked on the sport. The University Paris-Sorbonne graduate, who studied fine arts in college, had found the subjects of her newest series of paintings, titled Sacrebleu! Napoleon Would Have Made A Fine Shortstop!

“Athletes, particularly baseball players, are our modern-day gods and heroes like the Greeks had,” she said. “We look up to them, live through them. They can run faster and hit harder than us.”

Mancini pointed out that just because one embraces a new culture, it doesn’t mean they are getting rid of their old one. Her paintings are those of a French person trying to explore an American thing, which in this case is baseball.

“Every time you come to bat you have the opportunity to do something exceptional,” she said. “That’s sort of what America is like for expatriates.”

‘Sacrebleu! Napoleon Would Have Made A Fine Shortstop!’ is Mancini’s first solo show in New York City. The exhibit opens with a reception on Tuesday, November 2, from 6 to 9 p.m. at Yashar Gallery, 276 Greenpoint Avenue, Brooklyn. Visit www.ameliemancini.com for more information and to view paintings from the series.

Link to the complete article: http://greenpointstar.com/printer_friendly/10053799

Sacrebleu! Opens at Yashar Gallery November 2nd

Yashar Gallery is proud to present Amelie Mancini's first solo show in New York City, Sacrebleu! Napoleon Would Have Made A Fine Shortstop, a selection of seven large portraits of exceptional ballplayers. The exhibition will be opening on Tuesday, November 2, from 6 to 9. This newest series of paintings by Amelie Mancini takes its subjects from amongst some of Baseball's most talented figures: Babe Ruth, Roger Maris, Jackie Robinson, Ty Cobb, Harvey Haddix, Sandy Koufax and Tom Seaver. Each portrait is made of six small canvases assembled into a larger painting and is a study of a baseball hero at the height of his greatness, hitting a home run, pitching a perfect game, stealing home. But theirs isn't just any baseball field: it is a world of empty houses and ancient arches, built with bright acrylic paint and faux-marble, obeying primal geometry and disturbed by spatial ambiguity, ruled by legends and reveries. A French expatriate and therefore fundamentally an outsider, Amelie Mancini uses this series to probe at the quintessentially American game of baseball from a European point of view. Because she grew up without any knowledge of the game and its history, her attention is first captured by a melancholic face, a bulging bicep, a certain way to wear or lose a hat. Through free-associations and the use of motifs from other eras, she unveils a world marked by a familiar kind of eerieness and an ominous melancholy, unleashing the uncanny ghosts of great things past.

Amelie Mancini was born in Lyon, France in 1982. She studied Art at the Universite La Sorbonne in Paris and received a Master's Degree in Design and Fine Arts in 2005. She went to her first baseball game ever at Shea Stadium in 2007 (Mets lost) and has since become actively obsessed with baseball, in particular with the Metropolitan Base Ball Club of New York. She started painting amazing ballplayers in January 2010. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

Read more about the artist in the New York Post

YASHAR GALLERY is located at: 276 Greenpoint Avenue, Brooklyn
Subway: G to Greenpoint Ave stop. Walk east on Greenpoint Ave to Jewel St. Driving: BQE to McGuinness, exit 33. Follow McGuinness to Greenpoint Ave. Turn right. Yashar Gallery is 3 blocks on the right at the corner of Greenpoint and Jewel.

For additional information: http://www.artcat.com/exhibits/12205
http://www.ameliemancini.com
(718) 715-5671

Many thanks to our sponsor Brooklyn Brewery for generously donating their delicious Brooklyn Pennant Ale '55 for the opening reception.

Allison Maletz in Lost Symbols

Lost Symbols
40 artists in 40 dilapidated rooms.

On view: October 22-31, 2010

Opening Reception: Friday, October 22, 6-11pm

Convent of St. Cecilia

21 Monitor St.,

Brooklyn, NY

More info:http://8lost8.wordpress.com/


Listen to a radio interview with the artist:

http://www.breakthruradio.com/index.php?show=11744