UPCOMING AT YASHAR GALLERY

OPENING FRIDAY AUGUST 23 6-9PM

The Mark of Its Tooth
Yashar Gallery
August 23 – September 11, 2019

Opening Reception Friday, August 23 from 6 – 9pm
Featuring: Kelly Olshan (@kellyolshanfineart), Andrew Schwartz (@schwartzstudios), Michael McHale (@michaelmchaledesigns)
Curated by: Erin Gleason

“Real duration is that duration which gnaws on things, and leaves on them the mark of its tooth.” – Henri Bergson, Creative Evolution, 1911

The Mark of Its Tooth brings together two artists and a lighting designer whose work reveals Bergson’s premise that everything is in time, everything changes inwardly, and that the same concrete reality never repeats. Curated by Erin Gleason, this exhibition at Yashar Gallery will be on view August 23–September 11, 2019, with an opening reception on Friday, August 23 from 6–9 pm. Yashar Gallery is located at 276 Greenpoint Avenue, Brooklyn NY 11222.
Artists Kelly Olshan and Andrew Schwartz and lighting designer Michael McHale all examine our relationship with space, time, and materiality through experimental processes and playful juxtapositions that reveal the marks of time’s tooth. Through their processes, each artist honors the internal time of the object while revealing the uniqueness of its moment in the present in order to convey meaning: Olshan uses “artistic waste” and iterative references in her examinations of architectural space, Schwartz uses his body and repurposed objects including bedsheets and pillowcases to create landscapes of color and light, and McHale uses uncanny objects in a utilitarian design to playfully transport the viewer to another time and space—in this instance a chandelier sparks visions of dancing the hustle in a midnight’s summer garden.  
Each artwork is a play between lived time (what Bergson calls duration), memory, and repetition. The artists embrace the fluidity of internal time and object-ness, astutely using abstraction as an inherent part of the process of repetition in order to convey meaning. “Repetition,” Bergson declares, “is only possible in the abstract. [Solely] preoccupied in welding the same to the same, intellect turns away from the vision of time. It dislikes what is fluid, and solidifies everything it touches.” He continues, “We do not think real time. But we live it, because life transcends intellect.” Through their works, these artists turn us toward the vision of time, offering us an opportunity to un-weld ourselves from depending on the intellectual tricks of categorizing the world according to an atemporal sameness and to instead live more playfully and fluidly, leaving our own unique marks.
Erin Gleason

UPCOMING AT

YASHAR GALLERY

"BRINN FLAGG"

"NEW WORK"

Stop by the Gallery for 

Live Drawing Every Weekend in the Month of July 

Opening Friday August 2 7-9pm

 

STOP BY BROOKLYN ART STUDIOS DURING 

GREENPOINT OPEN STUDIOS WEEKEND

ON VIEW OVER 40 RESIDENT ARTISTS WORK

STOP IN & MEET THE ARTISTS IN THEIR SPACES & GET TO KNOW THEM & WHAT INSPIRES THEIR CREATIONS 

(refreshments for all)

Paintings, sculpture, video installations, performance, fire art, mixed media, works on paper 

Stop by Yashar Gallery during the event or from 7-10 PM for the opening reception of 

"THE HORSE PART"

Works by Lenny Reibstein  

Map and Guide at

https://greenpointopenstudios.com/map/ 

YASHAR GALLERY

OPENING

 

"THE HORSE PART"

WORKS BY LENNY REIBSTEIN 

 

SATURDAY JUNE 8 

7-10pm 

(Following Greenpoint Open Studios)

 

 

YASHAR GALLERY

 

OPENING

 

UPFRONT

 

FRIDAY MAY 17 6-8PM 

PAINTINGS BY CORI FORSTER

 

 

FRIDAY APRIL 19  6-9PM

(Concurrent with Greenpoint Gallery Night)

www.greenpointgalleries.org
 

CROCHET LUMINARIES

BY

TARYN URUSHIDO 
www.tarynurushido.com

Taryn's aesthetic is heavily influenced by both the Arizona desert landscape of her childhood and Japanese traditional elements that have been introduced to her by her husband’s family. As each textile is crafted, it becomes balanced and naturally reminiscent of the two worlds, creating a harmonious, wabi-sabi style.

Crochet Luminaries continue Taryn’s aesthetic of crocheting with hand cut or ripped materials to reveal the raw beauty of the raw exposed “modernized yarns”. Wooden structures have been designed to mimic Japanese lanterns mixed with link-in-logs. The details are subtle, but the warm lighting and airy design may put you in a trance as the intention is to add calm and serenity to your space.

Save the Date:
Greenpoint Gallery Night 
April 19th, 2019 • 6-9pm

Free & open to the public: The 14th edition of Greenpoint Gallery Night, a twice-a-year gallery crawl highlighting exhibition spaces throughout Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Select neighborhood galleries and businesses that feature art will be participating on Friday, April 19th, from 6-9pm. Come join us in celebrating the diverse and unique art scene in this corner of Brooklyn.

Some highlights include:
"The Universe, How Vast, How Small", a group exhibition at Areté featuring Caroline Blum, Paula Cahill, Goldie Gross, Jeong Hur, Joe Piscopia and Katrina Slavik, & curated by Fay Ku;  recent mixed media works by Upstate-based artist Gail Peachin at Dandelion Wine;  G-Spot Presents: "What Time Is It?", a group show celebrating 4/20 at Brooklyn Safehouse;  Calico has new works by featured artist, Steph Becker;  Plexus Projects presents "Vitrine", the first in a series of video projections in its storefront window viewed from the street - curated by artist Laura Splan;   

Opening reception at Yashar Gallery for "Crochet Luminaries", a solo exhibition of recent works by Taryn Urushido inspired by a mix of Japanese lanterns and paper bag luminaries ...and more!
 

Visit www.greenpointgalleries.org for more information.

Participating locations for 4/19 include:
Areté Venue and Gallery - 67 West St suite 103
Brouwerij Lane - 78 Greenpoint Ave
Calico Brooklyn - 67 West St suite 203
Dandelion Wine - 153 Franklin St
Dusty Rose - 67 West St suite 216
G-Spot popup @ Brooklyn Safehouse - 120 Franklin St
Imagic Studio - 937 Manhattan Ave
Plexus Projects - 198 Greenpoint Ave
Yashar Gallery - 276 Greenpoint Ave

Afterparty at The Diamond (43 Franklin St) beginning at 9pm with happy hour specials extended 9pm-11pm!

Click map below to open a custom Google Map of participating locations:

See you then!
Scott Chasse, Organizer
www.greenpointgalleries.org