Friday, September 6, 2013

SPLONK!

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106 Green is pleased to present “SPLONK”, a show conceived and curated by Holly Coulis. The opening reception will be on Friday, September 13th from 6-9pm.

The show will run from September 13th – Oct 13th. Gallery hours are on Sunday from 1-6pm or by appointment. Please contact the gallery at 106green@gmail.com.



George Gittins
Grant Huang

Splonk is a show about the cartoon. The work ranges from the flat and abstract to the more lyrical and uncanny. All of the work engages with the sensibility of the cartoon; abbreviated and elegant depictions that are both familiar and unfamiliar. The artists in the show make work that is visually inviting, but also disrupts, in some way, what we think we know about space, form, color, line, object. There are connections to Japanese woodblock prints, Picasso, animation, and graphic novels to name a few. Filtered through a contemporary lens, the pieces are less grounded, stranger and maybe tinged with a new millennium anxiety. Enjoy!




-Holly Coulis

Veronika Pausova. title wall, SPLONK! oil on canvas. 2013
 George Gittins, Grant Huang, Maureen Cavanaugh, Tisch Abelow.
George Gittens. Untitled (shoes I). Oil on canvas stretched over clay and wood. 16 inches x 20 inches (variable). 2013.
Grant Huang. Gharial, Two Skulls, Three Fish. Marker on paper. 12 inches x 14 inches framed. 2013

Grant Huang. Snake, Roses, Seven Cats. Marker on paper. 12 inches x 14 inches framed. 2013.


Maureen Cavanaugh. Panty Dropper. Wire, metal, cardboard, embroidery thread and enamel paint. 18 inches x 12 inches. 2013
Tisch Abelow. Untitled.  Gouache and house paint on canvas. 16 inches x 16 inches. 2012.


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Tisch Abelow, Anne Eastman.     



Anne Eastman. this time.  Fabric, wood and H&M bracelets. 22 inches x 38.75 inches x 22 inches. 2013
Maureen Cavanaugh, Aliza Nisenbaum. George Gittins.
Maureen Cavanaugh. Electric Orbit. Wire, wood, enamel paint. 14 inches x 10 inches. 2013
Aliza Nisenbaum. Atanacio, Ostrich Leather Boots. Oil on Linen. 32 inches x 24 inches. 2012.

George Gittins. Untitled (shoes II). Oil on canvas stretched over clay and wood. 16 inches x 20 inches (variable). 2013.

Aaron Carpenter, Veronika Pausova, Tisch Abelow.

Aaron Carpenter. CARTOONS. Stop motion animation, 16mm film transfer. 5 minutes. 2013.

Veronika Pausova. Bouncy Castle. Oil on canvas. 20 inches x 16 inches. 2013.

Tisch Abelow. Untitled.  Gouache and house paint on canvas. 16 inches x 16 inches. 2012.

Saturday, July 13, 2013

No Kineme Stands Alone

106 Green is proud to present "No Kineme Stands Alone", a show conceived and curated by Saira Mclaren and Fran Holstrom. The opening reception will be on July 20th from 6-9pm.

The show will run from July 20th - August 18. Gallery hours are on Sunday from 1-6pm or by appointment. Please contact Mitchell Wright at 106green@gmail.com or 865-771-0666.





No Kinema Stands Alone

Jenny Blumenfield
Mike Hein
Hein Koh
Matt Miller
Irvin Morazan
Keiko Narahashi
Tracy Thomason
Lizzie Wright

Using the recent resurgence of craft as a springboard, Saira Mclaren and Fran Holstrom bring together eight New York City artists whose work references “the body” and the elusive messages conveyed in gestures, while simultaneously challenging the meaning or common use attributed to their materials.

Presented in pairs, the works converse with one another, making signs, relaying messages and traces of a body once present and now gone. Unexpected material use and an informal DIY aesthetic are king.

Beginning with the body and its long relationship to the vessel, artists Jenny Blumenfield and Keiko Narashi use ceramic as starting point to explore ideas of womanhood, identity and ultimately usefulness and value.

Rejecting conceptions of beauty, Hein Koh and Matt Miller’s work comes from the inside. Their work is visceral, intestinal and gruesome. Their abject aesthetic is pushed so far that it enters over into the beautiful. They are like ancient remains, waiting for their afterlife out of the Canopic Jar.

Reconfiguring reality, Lizzie Wright and Mike Hein make sculptures out of found and constructed materials, which become uncanny vignettes with no defining line between the real and the fabricated. Household items and debris are assembled with sculptural elements in forms that act as totems and makeshifts signs from an anonymous author.

In their own distinctive styles, both Irvin Morazan & Tracy Thomason comment on adornment in popular culture as seen from their perspective. Tracy Thomason uses beauty products, in lieu of paint, teasing out the seriousness of abstract painting. Meanwhile, Irvin Morazan puts urban street culture center stage, wearing chunky sculptural headdresses during elaborately choreographed performances.

*The term kineme was first used (in 1952) by Ray Birdwhistell, an anthropologist who wished to study how people communicate through posture, gesture, stance, and movement, and later popularised during the late 1960s by members of the counter-culture seeking to de-verbalize human communication-Wikipedia



 No Kineme Stands Alone sign by Mike Hein.


Tracy Thomason. (Khol Findings 1) or The Face as a Thinning Name, pictured above. (Silhouette 1, Center Extraction) or Jelly Rolling Over Her, pictured below.

Tracy Thomason. (Khol Findings 1) or The Face as a Thinning Name. Mascara on paper. 12 inches x 18 inches. 2012.

Tracy Thomason. (Silhouette 1, Center Extraction) or Jelly Rolling Over Her. Hair gel and vinyl, 18 inches x 18 inches with dimensions variable.

Lizzie Wright (left) and Mike Hein (right).

Lizzie Wright. AH HA. Plywood, paint and colored Christmas lights with fake flowers. 48 inches x 24 inches x 6 inches. 2013.

Mike Hein. Untitled. Found foam, cardboard and acrylic. 27 inches x 9 inches x 8 inches. 2013.

Matt Miller (left) and Hein Koh (right).

Hein Koh. Don't Get Your Panties In A Twist. Dry pigment, pantyhose and polyfil. 22 inches x 24 inches x 8 inches. 2013.

Matt Miller. Untitled. Paint and melted polystyrene. 2012.

Matt Miller, Lizzie Wright and Tracy Thomason.

JennyBlumenfield (right), Tracy Thomason (middle) and Keiko Narahashi (right).

Jenny Blumenfield. She's the Brooding Type. Glazed ceramic. 2013.

Keiko Narahashi. Split Pot. Glazed ceramic. 2013.
















Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Caroline Board - seen/unavailable

Gallery 106 Green presents "seen/unavailable", a new series of paintings by Caroline Board. The opening reception will be on Saturday, June 1st from 6-9pm. Followed by drinks afterward at a location near and to be determined. The show will run from June 1st - June 30th. Gallery hours are on Sunday from 1-6pm or by appointment. Please contact Mitchell Wright at 106green@gmail.com or 865-771-0666. Caroline Board is receiving her Masters from the Museum of Fine Arts Boston with a focus in Painting. Her MFA Thesis show was scheduled to open during the recent lock-down in Boston and subsequently cancelled. In light of the circumstances, we were more than happy to provide an alternative space to present Board's newest body of work. We hope you will join us in a warm reception for this upcoming grad and welcome her into the dialogue and community of our city.


 Installation:




You Ran Over the Easter Bunny. oil on canvas over board 36" x 36". 2012.


left wall


Their Skills Go Away. oil on canvas over board. 48" x 48" 2012


Am I Hearing Deja Vu? oil on canvas over board. two panels, 12" x 12" each. 2013.

two panels. 12" x 12" each 2013
This Way. oil on canvas over board. 6" x 6". 2013 

I Am Only Doing This (left) Because I Love You (right). oil on canvas over board. 12" x 24". 2013


right wall.
Oh, Hi Caroline(left) Wherever You Are? (right). oil on canvas over board. 12" x 24" each. 2013.
But I Don't Like Your Haircut. oil on canvas over board. 12" x 24" 2013.

back wall
Don't Send A Carpenter To Do A Painter's Job. oil on canvas over board. 24" x 48". 2013.

Little Seaglass Woman. oil on canvas over board. 12" x 12". 2012.