Richard Schwamb: ____&c., curated by Wade Bonds

Painted with a limited palette and an accumulation of delicate strokes in thin washes against the weave of linen, the work functions like a collection of slow adjectives, additives in modifying surface, figure and ground, with suggestions of nonspecific textual units or characters built up deliberately, perhaps similar to the way an electronic music producer builds a track, making small adjustments to pitch, dynamics, texture and timbre. The figures in the paintings often borrow from contemporary fashion sources or contemporize subjects from art museum collections of antiquity and modernity.

From May 17th through June 14th / Saturdays and Sundays 12-6pm or by appointment.
OPENING RECEPTION Saturday May 17th , 3-6pm.

an immersive exhibition that bridges the ancient origins of life with futuristic explorations.

Curated by William Norton

PeepShow Space Redux: A Wade Bonds and William Norton Galleries Production 

37 N 15th Street 

Greenpoint Brooklyn 11222

new beginnings : (beyond) the wonder

with Jason Phillips

curated by William Norton

PeepShow Space Redux, a Wade Bonds and William Norton Galleries Production, for an immersive exhibition that bridges the ancient origins of life with futuristic explorations..

XC Art Center ( xcartcenter.com ) founded and run by Xiaowei Chen is a private art teaching center located in Woburn Massachusetts.

Ms Chen is a highly accomplished and motivated instructor. Under her tutelage her students are all capable of creating far beyond what is normally expected for their age range.

As part of this class’ academic activities she took the students to the Harvard Museum of Art, the Harvard Museum of Natural History, the Isabella Gardner Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.

I was invited to be a teaching artist and curator.

I taught the students about how to curate an exhibition, which included how to make a model of the proposed gallery space. Then then proceeded to create miniature artworks specifically for this model.

At SFA Projects, 131 Chrystie Street, NYC, NY 10002

February 10 through March 14, 2022

with Tom Burckhardt, Jason Phillips, William Norton and Dirty Churches

FREEDOM IS SLAVERY

IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU

“In the far distance a helicopter skimmed down between the roofs, hovered for an instant like a bluebottle, and darted away again with a curving flight. It was the police patrol, snooping into people's windows. The patrols did not matter, however. Only the Thought Police mattered.”

George Orwell published “1984” in June 1949 as his horrified vision of the totalitarian state. Propaganda becomes the facile fabrication of news, organized by the state to manipulate the populace into passivity and fear. The never-ending war controls the narrative necessary for keeping the workers satisfied with their never-ending drudgery and starvation lifestyles. The Cult of Personality enforced by the Secret Police and their constant mass surveillance are no longer our most feared distant future, with facial recognition software operating through every camera on every corner we are now constantly watched and monitored. In Britain, people are happily living in one of the most ‘watched’ societies on Earth, with an estimated five million security cameras watching people. In China, cameras armed with facial recognition are used by police to pick out criminals even in large crowds. Our own online shopping and research are constantly monitored to send us advertisements.

William Norton is presenting 4 artists whose works are deftly aware of this current reality.

FUSION: The openness of abstraction in thought and practice. Featuring: Thomas Heath, Pat Hobaugh, Edward Holland and Sasha Meret

Curated by Wade Bonds

Press Release

FUSION: THE OPENNESS OF ABSTRATION IN THOUGHT AND PRACTICE

Featuring the work of Thomas Edwin Heath, Sasha Meret, Pat Hobaugh, Edward Holland Curated by Wade Bonds

Opening November 6, 2021

2:00 - 6:00 pm

The Gallery LTD

37 North 15th St. ( Entrance on Gem St.)

Greenpoint, Brooklyn

November 6 through November 28th, 2021

Thursday and Friday by appointment only : 917-549-0110

Saturday and Sunday 12pm -6pm

We generally think of fusion as a force which brings things together through intense heat yet, a more nuanced interpretation is the idea that through fusion, all substances are rendered downto the same fundamental form and then differentiate into more complicated varieties of “stuff”.

This is what is at play in Wade Bonds' eclectic presentation of four very different artists united by an authentic and sincere usage of their base material, be it paint or found object. Theyaccomplish the act of image and form creation with a clear acknowledgement that "what you see is what you get” in other words, the artist may present you with a narrative or images even so they are deeply engaged in referencing their medium in order to do this.

The show splits down the middle: two of the artists; Heath and Holland who engage in overtly abstract practices using the fluid or geometric proclivities of paint to story tell or create abstractform and pattern. Meret and Hobaugh instead generate meta-narratives with found objects (or incredibly convincing renderings of assemblages of objects). In his curation, Bonds illustrates that abstraction is a set of actions, not simply a means of image-making. While we can recognize similarities to our perceived reality in all of the artists’ works, these cues that seemfamiliar are in fact part of a reorientation that requires much closer investigation.

In the paintings of Thomas Edwin Heath (born Newport News, VA) paint is applied in its most sensuous, lugubrious and drippy capacity, creating abstract paint scrapes that are rich in texture and surface interest. His approach is to allow the paint to flow until it fills the narrative spaces of a loosely figurative but,deeply narrative structure. Sasha Meret (born Romania)fashions resplendent metallic objects, sometimes twisting knots out of cutlery, other times generating witty figures out of founding mechanical or plumbing components. These objects not only embody abstraction in how they stand in space, they also reflect back to the viewer a skewed interpretation of our own image in their shiny surfaces.

Pat Hobaugh (born Indiana) perfectly renders toys - action figures and cartoon characters; these figures themselves are enlisted as nodes in geometric forms and patterns. Theirrecognizability is a sly distraction—they are units, and their stories form a subtext rather than a primary narrative. Edward Holland (born in Philadelphia, PA) also activates geometry via paint on canvas. He riffs on pattern with refreshing flexibility: rectangles with crisscrossing axes are juxtaposed against irregular painterly forms. We expect to discern a sense of regularity in the pattern however, Holland shifts the placement of the form, subverting what we consider "pattern". The artists in this exhibition engage their mediums of paint and found objects in highly authentic frameworks and then manipulate those media to edify the viewer.

Wade Bonds (Curator) is Director at Rafael Gallery in Midtown Manhattan.

HouseBroken

A collaborative exhibition by Melissa Stern and Louisa Pancoast

October 1st through 31st

-the gallery LTD- , 37 N 15th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11222

Hours: Saturday & Sunday, 12-6pm

Performances every weekend

Opening reception and performance: Friday , October 1st, 5-8pm. Performance at 7 pm

(BROOKLYN: WILLIAMSBURG) -the gallery LTD- is proud to present HouseBroken, a collaborative exhibition by visual artist Melissa Stern and performing artist Louisa Pancoast.

HouseBroken is a witty and poignant look at our relationship to our homes and the multitude of roles we assign our living spaces. Let’s face it, we all spent too much time at home in the last year. This exhibition captures both the emotion of being trapped and the feeling of being set free. The artists untangle the question of what does it mean to be broken and fortified by one space.

The installation features Stern’s sculptures and mixed-material artwork and videos looping through footage of Pancoast dancing in response to the gallery's art and environment. Stern and Pancoast will host a series of live performances throughout the run of the installation. HouseBroken is on view October 1st through the 31st. Opening reception and performance to take place on Friday, October 1 from 5-8pm.

In the spirit of the Judson Church era, Stern and Pancoast have created an immersive visual arts environment populated with, and activated by, movement and sound. Inspired by the past eighteen months of lockdown, HouseBroken looks at the duality of our home lives– its comfort and containment--how we allow ourselves to be held and how we attempt to break free.

Melissa Stern’s drawings and sculptures expose our most fundamental feelings about our living spaces. Whether the yearning to liberate ourselves, or the comfortable discomfort of the family dynamic, Stern captures the vulnerability of home. HouseBroken questions what is broken and who or what is doing the breaking. Stern’s figures, brimming with energy, bring instability and vitality to our notion of “home sweet home.”

Stern’s artworks create a Universe for Louisa Pancoast’s performance. Using Stern’s figures as a primary source for movement vocabulary. Pancoast lives in, runs from, haunts, and plays in the home of the gallery space. The audience takes on the role of the family, and is invited to engage with the performance and the space to create currents of intimacy and provocation.

Performance schedule

10/3 - 2pm

10/9 - 2 pm and 5 pm

10/16 - 2 pm and 5 pm

10/17 - 2pm

10/23 - 2 pm

10/24 - 2pm

10/30- 2 pm and 5 pm

10/31 - 2 pm

For further information, high res images, and sales or booking inquired, please contact- the gallery LTD at- creativemyth@hotmail.com, or visit www.nortonartists.com.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:

Melissa Stern is an artist and journalist living in NYC. Melissa has worked in sculpture, mixed media and drawing for over twenty years, exhibiting throughout the U.S as well as Europe and Asia. Her multi-media installation exhibition, The Talking Cure, has been traveling to museums around the US. since 2012 and will open at The Fuller Museum in Brookston MA in Jan. 2022. Her work is featured in a number of prominent corporate and museum collections including News Corporation, JP Morgan, The Arkansas Art Center, the American Museum of Ceramic Art, Racine Art Museum, and the Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis.

With a background in anthropology, Melissa’s work reflects both non-Western and outsider-art influences. Her drawings, collages, and figurative sculptures are richly drawn and deeply layered, with quirky, often dark humor.

http://www.melissa-stern.com/

http://thetalkingcureproject.com/

http://speakingintongues.melissa-stern.com/

@melissa.stern

917-549-7109

Louisa Pancoast has had the privilege of performing for such choreographers as Yvonne Rainer at the Museum of Modern Art, Diego Funes, Pat Catterson, Sommer Ulrickson and Alexander Polzin, Cleo Mack and Rock Dance Collective, Pramila Vasudevan, Michelle Thompson-Ulerich. Louisa has appeared in videos directed by The Kuperman Brothers and Gierre Godley; and has served as performer and movement director for rapper Lando Chill's music video, Light Her and Diego Funes' short film, ABSENCE.

Louisa's choreographic endeavors include Strange Girl Dances: A Visual Duet with Melissa Stern, at Garvey|Simon Gallery, New York, NY, an adaptation of W.B. Yeats' play Purgatory, produced by Plaxall Gallery, Long Island City, First in Half, Then in Quarters, produced by Mixily Presents, and Pinch Back, commissioned by Main Window DUMBO.

LP

Performer, Creator, Curator

IG: @louisanpancoast

www.louisanpancoast.com

603-716-3822

INSTANT TUNNEL

artist: Mira Dayal

curated by Lindsay LeBoyer

August 2021

Mira Dayal

Instant Tunnel

The Gallery Ltd

37 N 15th Street

Brooklyn, NY 11222

Opening Sat August 7th, 5-8pm

Exhibition August 8th-29th, weekends 12-6pm

Instant Tunnel, a site-specific installation by Mira Dayal at The Gallery Ltd. Borrowing its title from an absurd ACME brand product featured in the cartoon Road Runner, the exhibition design responds to the triangle formed by the intersections of Wythe Avenue, N 15th Street and Gem Street in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Dayal muddies the distinction between the gallery threshold and the industrial spillover of Gem Street's storied Acme Smoked Fish. Combining found video with riffs on trompe l'oeil painting, Dayal builds on her practice of critically and playfully altering architecture and infrastructure.

Curated by Lindsay LeBoyer

Portal to Another Dimension

Curated by Sonomi Kobayashi

For more than a year we have experienced the new claustrophobic limitations put upon our lives, both as a society and as individuals. How we have each been affected by this mentally, psychologically, and spiritually and though there are commonalities this experience has also been unique to each of us. I’ve spent more time being alone than ever before, living solely within myself, without the distractions of being “busy”.

Whenever I felt lonely, worried or scared I would close my eyes and dive deep into my body. In my mind I discovered that expansive peaceful universe that exists within me. It didn’t matter what was happening outside in the physical “reality”, this quiet peaceful moment was always there, this Portal to Another Dimension.

I have chosen 2 artists for this exhibition whose visions and perspectives during this time can help us see our shared solitudes as a binding, healing experience.

Tadasuke Jinno’s work walks the borderline between our perceived reality and it’s chimera. He intentionally and purposefully invites his viewers to cross that threshold, to both enter and exit the border between reality and unreality. His works are developed, through composition, color choices and technical virtuosity to allow the viewers to experience different bodily sensations and perceptions, visual illusions that transcend their painted forms. Art for Mr. Jinno is a means of challenging our perceived sense of values and getting us to see it in a new way, so that we may continue to grow our understanding of what reality can be.

Hiromitsu Kuroo’s new project is called "Bleach Painting”. These works were inspired by the Native American murals he saw while traveling through Utah and Colorado five years ago. These murals were painted on the rock walls of the narrow valleys where the indigenous peoples sheltered from the heat of sun during the day and the wildlife that hunted during the night. This sheltering from the harsher realities of the external world mirrored for him our current experience during this pandemic. He learned from them the ability to enjoy creating works using an approach less technically reliant than previously.

In this exhibition “Portal To Another Dimension” I hope the viewers can learn from these two artists perspectives of alternative dimensions to our shared realities and think about how to incorporate this thinking into their own lives.

Tadasuke Jinno is a New York-based visual artist from Japan whose practice includes painting, sculpture, and installation. He was an artist-in-residence in 2014 at NARS Foundation in Brooklyn, in 2017 at GlogauAIR in Berlin, Germany, and Zaratan AIR in Lisbon, Portugal, in 2019 at ChaNorth International Artists-in-Residency in New York and in 2020 at Crosstown Art residency in Memphis TN. He was the ChaNorth Solo Show Awardee 2020. His work has been selected for the permanent collection of The Art Students League of NY.

Hiromitsu Kuroo earned his BFA and MFA from Tohoku University of Art & Design. He had solo exhibitions at Tenri Cultural Institute, Gloria Kennedy Gallery, MIKIMOTO NY, Makari, and Bronx Community College in New York, and Gallery Yamaguchi and G-Art Gallery in Tokyo. In 2010 and 2019 he was awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant and The Golden Foundation for the artists residency program in 2019. In 2020, his interview article was published in Forbes.

Born and raised in Japan, Sonomi Kobayashi, is a New York based artist and independent curator who is interested in science, physics, stars, nature, and spirituality. She has curated successful group exhibitions including at Williamsburg Art and HistoricalCenter (NYC), Galerie La (Tokyo), and at many pop-up exhibitions in various locations, collaborating with other artists and independent curators in New York City. As an artist, her artwork has been exhibited in the United States, Japan, and Europe, including Williamsburg Art & Historical Center (NYC), Lesley Heller Workspace (NYC), Flinn Gallery (CT), Galerie ARTAe, (Leipzig Germany), The National Art Center (Tokyo), Galerie La (Tokyo, Japan). She received the Will Barnet Grant in Printmaking and Merit scholarship at The Art Students League, participated in residencies at MASS MoCA (MA), Vermont Studio Center (VT), ASL Vytlacil Campus (NY). She received a Four-Year Certificate in painting, studied printmaking and sculpture at The Art Students League of NY.

Inquiries: Sonomi Kobayashi, sonomiart@gmail.com

37 North 15th Street

Williamsburg, Brooklyn 11222

(corner of Gem Street, entrance Gem Street)

June 5th-27th

Opening reception from 3-6pm on June 5th.

Saturday and Sundays, 12 - 6pm and by appointment: 347-804-7228

Nature Diaries: Erika Harrsch, Cristian Pietrapiana,

Curated by Joshua Rosenblatt

the gallery LTD founded by William Norton and made possible with the help of Patrick Hayne.

Erika Harrsch, Cave 2012, 40” x 55”

Cristián Pietrapiana,Pipeline Halt, 2021, 23” x 23”

Laura Von Rosk, The Fence, 2020, 8” x 8” oil on canvas

acrylic, pencil, ink, collage on paper acrylic paint on paper

In Nature Diaries, three artists approach the conflict between human nature and the natural world. As they consider complex contemporary issues, such as illegal fishing, fossil fuels, big agra, forest depletion, melting polar caps, climate change, international currencies, migration, and war--their works remain personal and intimate. Capturing their observations/ideas in diverse mediums and styles, each artist presents a vision of a human-nature relationship in flux.

Erika Harrsch looks at the complex ways in which nature and humans come into an unbalanced interconnection, using direct references to the exploitation of ecosystems and abrasive land transformations as well as symbolic images. Her butterflies are constructed of currency, while her jellyfish echo forms of the war apparatus--parachuting soldiers floating to earth. Erika’s perspective on nature seems to question how we exist with the nature surrounding us. This fierce confrontation is rendered with a delicate line, both sensuously absorbing and jarring at the same time.

Cristián Pietrapiana’s newsfeed frames his approach to nature. His art illustrates his process of making sense of an overload of disperse information. He squares up an image/idea thusly: climate change advances, framed by his diary responses. With each environmental crisis, Pietrapiana creates a portrait offering the viewer a fresh way to interpret the story of the day. Pietrapiana's images are woven together with narrative structures, including collaged pieces of newsprint and photographs, each addressing the abuse humans casually inflict on nature.

Laura Von Rosk’s works build upon repeated forms; like reading a hieroglyph, every piece, a word or a sentence. Once strung together, the story produced is complex and unexpected; a story of nature in slow reveal, confined into controlled shapes. An image that at first glance appears peaceful, fills with tension. Emergent patterns once hidden, then dominate. Laura’s manipulated images of nature play on the balance of what nature is and how the mind bends it.

Kafka on the Shore

Anki King and Elisa Jensen

May 2021

Kafka on the Shore

“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”

“And you really will have to make it through that violent, metaphysical, symbolic storm.

And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”

Haruki Murakami

Elisa Jensen and Anki King both have a keen understanding of navigating through such storms.

Joyfully. Critically. Scientifically. Emotionally. Intellectually.

They have challenged this storm to a duel - and won.

curated by William Norton

-the gallery LTD (PeepShow Space)

37 North 15th Street

Williamsburg Brooklyn 11222

(corner of Gem Street)

Show opens Saturday 5/1/2021 from 12-6

opening Sunday evening 5/2, from 6-9 pm

ends Sunday May 30 at 6pm

gallery is open Saturdays and Sundays from 12-6 pm

Elisa Jensen

www.elisajensen.com

@elisa_jensen

Anki King

www.ankiking.com

@ankiking

Melville’s Existential Diner

Marcela Silva and Lizbeth Mitty

April 2021

. MELVILLE’S EXISTENTIAL DINER

Ahab goes fishing in Walden’s Pond

his spool is fully cast, a harpoon is overkill for steelhead trout but he’s not to be upstaged by something so technical; after all when trout fishing in america steelhead trout are used to make buildings, trains and tunnels. not just a meal that comes clean from the river, following the clear flowing circles of life, but a combative desire to wrestle the angels into the dirt and devour them. only to yell “this is man - i am the conqueror” when wrapped in our own ropes and dragged deep into the waters.

Lizbeth Mitty casts her brush hook line and sinker deep into the maw of the largest fearsome predators of the landscape tradition and lands joyful festivals of unbelievable bounty. a feast for the eyes, a painter of mesmerizing technical virtuosity she creates hope for humanity.

Marcela Silva’s paintings grew out of concern due to the midwestern farmers draining the Ogallala aquifer for irrigation. her pieces give a nod to Emerson & Thoreau’s Walden Pond. Melville wrote most of Moby Dick in the shadow of those mountains in her painting - hence the whaling boat - motioning the viewer eastward to that ancient glaciated Massachusetts range.

we are all welcome to dine at the feast we choose to have prepared for us.

do we choose to enter into combat with nature for our future or do we choose to harmoniously partner and preserve?

curated by William Norton

-the gallery LTD-(PeepShow Space)

37 North 15th Street

Williamsburg Brooklyn 11222

(corner of Gem Street)

Opening Friday April 2, 2021 from 6-9 PM

Saturdays and Sundays 12-6 pm

Lizbeth Mitty:

www.lizbethmitty.com

@lizbethmitty

Marcela Silva

www.marcelasilva.com

driving the dark dust filled backroads of the art world under moonless skies in cranky gas guzzling battered behemoths armed with weapons loaded with knowledge and talent Chris Ketchie and Daniel John Gadd decimate the timid and hesitant painters and sculptors of this generation.

refusing to recognize the artificial borders between sculpture and painting they slash and burn the tangled undergrowth of obfuscating dialectics and clear cut their paths forward .... their artwork is built, accreted, cut, hammered, nailed, not nicely painted. every meal is treated like their Last Supper, their artistic vehicles of choice have no brakes, too much horsepower and unlimited fuel.

firing cannon shots loaded with confidence across the passive bows of complacent artistic canons Daniel John Gadd invests his shattered reflections and dreams of our age with an assassin’s cold eyed clarity. broken mirrors, tortured wood and metal are elegantly inelegant vehicles he races towards the cliff.

Chris Ketchie’s multi-paneled, multilayered, multi -dimensional abstractions built from wooden panels would not survive in a studio of soft canvas. attacking his surfaces with testosterone enhanced ferocity, a meat eater’s ravenous execution of the meek upon the altar of his desire. these feasts leave no one hungry who sit at his fire.

-the gallery LTD-(PEEPSHOW SPACE)

37 North 15th Street

Williamsburg Brooklyn 11222

(corner of Gem Street)

OPENING: Friday March 12, 2021, 6-9 PM

MARCH 12-28, 2021

open Saturdays and Sundays 12-6 pm

for other times contact William Norton

Daniel John Gadd

www.danieljohngadd.com

@danieljohngadd

Chris Ketchie

www.chrisketchie.com

@ckny1800

curated by:

William Norton

www.nortonart.net

@norton_william

917.407.6124

creativemyth@hotmail.com

Alchemical Reactives

Like the early Alchemists whose first practitioners wrought scientific magics by candlelight, mixing beakers with the elements of fire, air, water, and earth in an attempt to understand how nature and our base instincts could be elevated and transmuted into a celestial gold, Sonomi Kobayashi and David Miller each search our interior heavens, concoct magical excursions with beakers and mixtures of inks and paints and joyfully give us transmuted gold.

David Miller is a consummate storyteller, in the dry Texas tradition. As an alchemist I see him more in the guise of Mickey in the Sorcerer’s Apprentice, enjoying the wonders that the magical fires released from his fingertips bring forth in an unanticipated chaos, while the humor of the situation he’s put himself into plunges his audience into laughter, he frolics around stacking the dishes and spreading his images in inks of joy. Though dressed up in an adult’s raiments the mischievous and constantly intrigued child never leaves the room. Circuit boards and plants are wired to spark imaginative and fertile discussions.

Sonomi Kobayashi brings forth broad and intricate visions of life gained through meditation and her deeply understood painting process. Though thoroughly modern, with her absorption of both Eastern and Western artistic traditions, she could as easily have navigated the shamanist world, firing various midnight magics from the night sky onto our temple walls. Seeing what shapes the galactic cosmos expanding outward as the capillaries that carry air and nutrients within all she intricately paints with various inks and paints her mind’s eye as it’s centered within her. She births these works as a loving and generous gift for those lucky enough to be in their presence.

Opening Friday 2/20/2021 from 6-9 pm

open Saturdays and Sundays from 12-6 pm

-the gallery LTD-(PeepShow Space)

37 North 15th Street

Brooklyn, NY 11222

(corner of Gem Street)

curated by William Norton

ART SPIEL

Reflections on the work of contemporary artists

POSTED ONJANUARY 22, 2021 BY ETTY YANIV

Fellow Travelers at PeepShow Space

Photo Story

Partial installation view

Fellow Travelers, PeepShow Space’s fifth and final exhibition, features the work of Joshua Rosenblatt, Jason Phillips and William Norton. The three artists reflect on travel, which at this moment is impossible in their lives as they shelter, wait and dream about places that no longer exist, except in memory.

William Norton’s Ghosts in the Machine: 3 Figures and a Potted Plant Celebrating Spring in the Subwayis a dramatic twenty-foot-long charcoal and pastel rendering on paper, drawing on hundreds of photographs taken during his NYC subway commute. Norton’s subway resonates with Dante’s Inferno─ stairs leading to the underground, from sunlit surfaces to dirty, noisy, and overcrowded meat wagons, or as Norton says, “the exit from this chosen purgatory, and our industrial society’s sins, the cogs in this machine are duly represented with figurative, playful contrasts.”

William Norton, Ghosts in the Machine: 3 Figures and a Potted Plant Celebrating Spring in the Subway, 7 feet X 20 feet, Charcoal, Pastels, Tape on Paper, 2016-2021

During the past pandemic year Joshua Rosenblatt produced a group of hotel room drawings, which he considers as one piece portraying a single hotel room in a Chicago business hotel where he (once) frequented. As in many hotel rooms, the design is meant to make travelers feel at home, but the generic colors and forms are also designed to avoid interfering with anyone’s sensibilities. Every day, housekeeping recreates this set-like environment for later dishevel, only to be repeated the following day. Rosenblatt’s drawings depict emptiness, “the space between pillows, the small slice of light slipping under the door, the black void of a TV screen. Now, the hotel room is an empty set with few visitors,” “the artist says.

Joshua Rosenblatt, Hotel Room #42 (Chicago) 2020, Charcoal and pastel on paper mounted on canvas 36″ x 24″

Joshua Rosenblatt, Hotel Room #39 (Chicago) 2020, Charcoal and pastel on paper mounted on canvas, 38″ x 50″

Joshua Rosenblatt, Hotel Room #40 (Chicago) 2020, Charcoal and pastel on paper mounted on canvas, 38″ x 50″

Jason Phillips makes paintings that use panorama and miniature to create scenes that emphasize scale and distance on a physical and metaphorical levels. The images depict places and events from our current world, or a possible future. The influence of nature over human endeavor is ever present and the effect of humanity on the natural world is rendered as unavoidable. Phillips says, “these paintings represent the ‘going wrong’ aspect of our collective choices, and position a central question: what can be done?”

The Sun Also Rises

Cake Hara, Ai Ohkawarai, Yuki Okamoto, Koto Takei, Noriko Nokano

December 2020

[Rebecoming]

Xiaowei Chen (Solo Show)

November 2020

review:

https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/egTAukUh59mAojBVFIcBuQ

PRESS RELEASE

TWO STRONG

In “TWO STRONG” Natsuki Takauji and Zhen Guo tackle the ever present and thorny issues faced by strong, intelligent, revolutionary women living in this male dominated world.

Born and raised In Tokyo Ms.Takauji spent twelve years attending a strict Catholic school, a sexually repressed environment that was often troubling, especially as she was daily forced to deal with the inappropriate attentions of older men on her daily commuter train and the far right nationalists who congregated at the Yasukuni Shrine that was near the school. Add to this the daily “ritual” of being a young female in Japan, where the gender inequalities built into the society has led her to create work that interrogates the professed spirituality, ethics, perception and belief systems of modern society. The seductively beautiful intrigue of her oil fountain sculptures speak of the earth’s pillaging, and how oil’s “gifts” blind our entire society to our eventual self destruction.

Zhen Guo’s art was forged during the repressive eleven years of China’s Cultural Revolution. Zhen’s art incorporates her romantic vision of the world, but it is a world where love is beset by anxiety and doubt, where there is little to give comfort and security. Women are especially beset by uncertainty, fear and violence, where being strong enough to fight back is vital, yet they are never allowed proper understanding or respect when they do. She has a powerfully deep understanding of her 4,000 year cultural heritage which prioritizes social responsibility above the individual and she has successfully blended this with her understanding of modern Western artistic traditions. Her large scale punching bags covered with breasts appear entertaining at first glance until you consider the full ramifications of her subversive statement.

Natsuki Takauji

www.natsukitakauji.com

@natsukiuji

Zhen Guo

@zhenguoart

www.zhenguoart.com

curated by:

William Norton

www.nortonart.net

@norton_william

TWO STRONG

-the gallery LTD- (PeepShow Space a pop up)

October 2, 2020 - November 1,2020

Opening Friday, October 2, from 6-9 pm

Running through Sunday, November 1, 2020

37 North 15th Street

Williamsburg Brooklyn 11222

On the Gem Street Side

The exhibition will be able to be viewed from the street Thursdays and Fridays from 12-6 pm. Saturdays and Sundays the gallery will be open to accept small groups of people at a time from 12-6 pm & small tours can be given on demand by contacting:

William Norton

creativemyth@hotmail.com

917.407.6124

PRESS RELEASE

REDS TO_BLUES

curated by William Norton

September 3 through September 27, 2020

Opening Reception: Thursday September 3 from 6-9 pm

3 Women’s Thoughtful Landscapes During Lockdown

Rejoice: even during this time of dangerous isolation, when the safest conditions to exist and advance have been fostered by female leaders around the globe, 3 indomitable, very ambitious women here in the NYC area have been singing their

curated by William Norton

in paint and resins and repurposed materials, and have been running the scales: from being as coolly provocative as Sarah Vaughn to as unconquerably on fire as Tina Turner. “Nasty” women, whose talents and intelligence have been fiercely battling and slaying these silly dragons of misogyny, discrimination, and testosterone fueled ignorance, simply by working in their studios to create their powerful works.

Each of these artists already work within a form of abstracted landscape, either visually or philosophically interpreted. During this Covid19 Lockdown they were forced to recognize their separation from the natural world outside their windows and what has been their studio world they naturally exist within, with eyes focused on new possibilities.

Yukari Edimitsu is Japanese and typically works in oil on canvas as she renders the emotional resonance of a remorseless celestial landscape, has brought fresh urgency and scale to her new work. While exploring the violent clash of the moment with the enhanced strictures of current life she has exploded and expanded her gifts into multi paneled complexities.

Etty Yaniv is Israeli and typically works with repurposed materials, faced her new restrictions by choosing to create one new small scale landscape each day, capturing her changing sense of time, windows that ereflected her interior space, the fluidity of time in this new reality, creating a cataclysmic outpouring much like JMW Turner.

JiJi Ryoo is South Korean and has coolly focused her eyes inward, pouring blue resins in subtlety whispered layers, repeating and dancing along with the edges of her panels, that calmly entrance the viewer, like looking from within the heart of slowly revealing glacier. The geometry of the square feels more organic and welcoming than it would in less gifted hands, She embraces her viewer and intimately welcomes them inside.

Featuring:

Yukari Edamitsu

@yukariedamitsu

www.yukariedamitsu.com

Etty Yaniv

@etty.yaniv

www.ettyyanivstudio.com

JiJi Ryoo

@jijiryoo

curated by:

William Norton

@norton_william

www.nortonart.net

Reds to Blues

-the gallery LTD-(PeepShow Space -a pop up)

Opening Thursday September 3 from 6-9 pm

Running through Saturday September 27

37 North 15th Street

Williamsburg Brooklyn 11222

On the Gem Street Side

The exhibition will be able to be viewed from the street Thursdays and Fridays from 12-6 pm. Saturdays and Sundays the gallery will be open to accept small groups of people at a time from 12-6 pm & small tours can be given on demand by contacting William Norton as listed below.

This will be socially distanced exhibition and

Attendees Must Wear a Mask and Maintain 6’ of distance from others.

The exhibition will be visible through the glass frontage but small parties of up to 6 people can be accommodated at a time.

for more information please contact:

William Norton

creativemyth@hotmail.com

917.407.6124

images from the flat files exist in the real world within out flat files as well as in cyberspace.

having a flat file allows more people to see more art within an affordable price range

Material Matters

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS & THEIR WORKS:

1. Xiaowei Chen（シャオウェイ・チェン）

title: Comet at night

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2. William Norton（ウイリアム・ノートン）

title: World Menace
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3. Yukari Edamitsu（枝光由嘉里）

title: Many Lights

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4. Chris Ketchie（クリス・ケッチー）

title: Source of the River

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5. Etty Yaniv（エティ・ヤニヴ）

Title: Islands

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6. Daniel John Gadd（ダニエル・ジョン・ガッド）

Title: Protector

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7. Sonomi Kobayashi（小林園実）

Title: Infinity Bubbles（永遠の泡沫）

注）：名前の「み」は「実（みのる）」という字です。

良く間違えられるので、キャプションを作る際、確認よろしくお願いします。

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8. Natsuki Takauji (高氏 奈津樹)

Title：

4 years ago in 2017 I was fortunate enough to be invited to participate in the Kameyama Triennial by curator and friend Cake Hara. This was truly a dream come true show for me as it brought me full circle back to where I originally became an artist as a young boy.

The exhibition exceeded my wildest expectations as the triennial takes place in an historic city and where Cake Hara was siting my works was in an historical Samurai dwelling from the 1700’s.

When I was asked in 2019 if I wanted to participate again I was incredibly honored, especially when the committee allowed me to curate 7 other very talented artists I have worked with in the past.

We were all planning to take our work there October 2020 but the entire world shut down.

Due to the planning and hard work of the committee for the Kameyama Triennial we can participate this October 2021.

Unfortunately I won’t be able to personally attend as the truly reasonable quarantine period puts the trip beyond my grasp.

Thankfully Sonomi Kobayashi and Natsuki Takauji have shouldered an incredible amount of the logistics and will install the exhibition in 2 historic dwellings in Kameyama in my stead. .

Chris Rucker

Joshua Rosenblatt

Kim Powers

Jason Phillips

Patrick Neal

Cake Hara

William Norton

“Building Bridges Not Walls” was a direct response to the election of Donald Trump. Inclusion was the watchword for this show

SIZE MATTERS: the exhibition that asks that question

Curator William Norton has assembled artists from Japan, China, the USA and the UAE to get to the heart of the issue that keeps artists up every night: Does Size Matter? Asian cultures conceive the importance of scale in relationship to value differently than Western artists. This question of scale is the driving vision behind this show, from Chris Ketchie’s 10’ x 24’ painting on 1000 wooden blocks to Yuki Okamoto’s precise detailed paintings on fingernails to Camelia Mohebi’s paintings on traditional Middle Eastern drum heads to Jonah Bokaer’s 6’ x 6’ Performance Drawing. The artworks in this exhibition are purposefully envisioned to work their best conceptually and visually in the scale they’re presented in.

September 29, 2018 - October 7, 2018

Opening September 28, 2018 from 12-8 pm

(Gallery hours every day from 12-6 pm during exhibition)

100 Bogart Street Gallery, 100 Bogart Street,

Brooklyn NY 11206

Participating Artists:

Yukari Edamitsu / Yuki Okamoto / Marcela Silva / Sonomi Kobayashi / Koto Takei /Melissa Stern / Noriko Nokano / Millicent Young / Xiaowei Chen / Miwael / Camelia Mohebi / Chris Ketchie / Michael David / Daniel John Gadd / Peter Hopkins / William Norton / Cake Hara

Performances by:

Jonah Bokaer / Dirty Churches / Yannah Paradise / Lisa Levy / Plus Surprise Guests

For press information, images and exhibition details please contact William Norton: Email: creativemyth@hotmail.com 917.407.6124

22 ARTISTS, PAINTERS, SCULPTORS, VIDEO, PERFORMANCE ARTISTS ARE "MAKING THEIR MARK" ON NOVEMBER 3, 2017 IN NEW YORK CITY

( October 23, 2017 New York City) —Presenting one of the season's largest and most diverse shows of new art to hit Gotham in a long time: MAKING THEIR MARK.

The public is invited to an opening on Friday, November 3, featuring live performance art and music —Doors open at 6pm.

This one-time, one of a kind show runs from November 3 through December 3 at 100 Bogart Street Gallery at 100 Bogart Street. The show will be open weekends from 12noon-6pm and by appointment. Please visit 100Bogart.com and follow the show's Twitter updates via #MakingTheirMark

According to featured artist Clintel Steed: "My painting is about the explosion of an image and the impact that it makes." In further describing his method and practice as a painter, Mr. Steed asserts; "I use images of war and disaster, politics and gossip. I paint about the black rage, its feeling of being swallowed up, the feeling that in order to have power you need to have money." Mr. Steed concludes; "Painting these ideas and icons, in a way, helps me meditate upon the emotions they conjure in a more contemplative way."

-Read more about Clintel Steed and see the range of his work here: https://clintelsteed.carbonmade.com/

—From a September 2017 Interview with show curator and artist Norton:

"Art can be the world's soul, one that connects across borders, cultures, ethnicities, religions and cultures...It can build community. It can bring hope...We have to start realistically, while recognizing that every little glimmer of hope and communication is important."

"Making Their Mark" features the works of:

Michael David Henry Klimowicz

Alex Dodge Noriko Nakano

Yukari Edamitsu Norton

Ellen Hackl Fagan Ai Ohkawara

Daniel John Gadd Michael A. Robinson

Cake Hara Gil Scullion

Peter Hopkins Marcela Silva

Sandy Jimenez Kurt Steger

Chris Ketchie Clintel Steed

Yoko Suetsugu

Opening Day LIVE Performances by Dirty Churches; and Mariko Endo

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PRESS INQUIRIES OR INTERVIEW REQUESTS CONTACT:

eMail: creativemyth@hotmail.com

phone: (917) 407-6124

Website: www.100Bogart.com

3 Woman Exhibition, featuring Yukari Edamitsu, Xiaowei Chen, Debra Ramsay, curated by Joshua Rosenblatt, Henry Klimowicz, Chris Ketchie and Norton, the ReInstitute, Millerton, NY

This exhibition was actually in 2 parts.

there were 2 exhibitions each lasting 2 weeks in order to cover all the artists involved.

Thank you Peter Hopkins of ArtHelix Gallery for the opportunity.

MATERIAL WITNESS

September 14 - October 13, 2019

Williamsburg Art & Historical Center (135 Broadway, Brooklyn, NY 11211)

In this exhibition curator William Norton has assembled artists for whom the media is a large part of the message. A change of material would invalidate that message.

Participating visual artists-

Xiaowei Chen/ Yukari Edamitsu/ Daniel John Gadd/ Brandon Graving/ Samuelle Green/ Vieno James/ Sonomi Kobayashi/ William Norton/ Yuki Okamoto/ Ai Ohkawara/ Marcela Silva/ Etty Yaniv

Plus:

Solo Show in the small gallery:

Natsuki Takauji

Opening Night Performance 6-7 pm:

Dirty Churches

Closing Night Performance 4-6 pm:

Tea Master Yoshitsugu Nagano

POP GOES THE WEASEL- An exhibition that asks the question “why not”?

Opening Reception: Sat. April 14, 4-6 PM.

The Williamsburg Art and Historical Society isthrilled to announce the opening of Pop Goes the Weasel on April 14, 2018.

Curator William Norton has assembled a group of 19 artists working in seemingly disparate ways, but whose common thread is to ask the artistic question “Why not”? Why not create with joy, pathos, political intent, psychological depth and a love of materials? All of the artists in this exhibition convey a passionate vision that will collectively blow the roof off the sucker! Bringing together artists from Japan and the US Norton has created an exhibition that examines the joyful diversity of art-making.

Opening events include performances by Butohartist Mariko Endo- at 4:30 and the band Dirty Churches (with Jesse Gelaznik, Rachel Blackwell and dancer Alexandra Jacob) at 5 pm

Participating visual artists-

Marcela Silva, Arlene Rush, Chris Ketchie, Norton,

Henry Klimowicz, Melissa Stern, Yukari Edamitsu. Noriko Nakano,

Sonomi Kobayashi, Miwael, Ellen Hackl Fagan,

Xiaowei Chen, Yuki Okamoto, Koto Takei,Natsuko,

Millicent Young, Gina Magid, Toshiko Mori, Cake Hara

Thank you Burr Dodd of Brooklyn FireProof for the opportunity to exhibit artists who work at 3 major museums in NYC, for this opportunity.

And Thank You Hazel Lee Santino for actually doing the majority of the curating in this show.

This was the second exhibition of the Whitney Museum of American Art’s art handlers I was able to curate.

Mostly thanks to Tony Guerrero who had been my boss at MoMA/PS1 when I had been Director of Installations there.

When he left PS1 he ran Whitebox for a couple of years and he was generous enough to recognize the talents of these people.

There was also a lot of generous help given to me by Elisabeth Sherman of the Whitney and Carmen Hermo of the Guggenheim

“Can You Move It All Up One Inch” was the first exhibition I curated. The title was graciously and humorously conceived by Patrick Payne, a great friend and one of the artists in the exhibition.

The exhibition was actually Three 2 week shows in order to cover all 28 of the artists involved

Thank you Peter Hopkins of ArtHelix Gallery for the opportunity, he took a major chance on me by allowing me to do this (I’m convinced Hei Hei dog was the best selling point). I then had to convince every art handler at the Whitney Museum of American Art this would be great (they also didn’t really know me).

With $2000.00 of my own money and a 1 week vacation period I and several of the artists in the show rebuilt the gallery we were going to show in. We put up new walls, built an entirely new lighting system etc, so the work would present as it should. (Peter did reimburse me, through his own sense of fair play as the decision to rebuild had been mine).

I had to split the show into 3 parts as there wasn’t enough wall space for all 28 artists at one time.

That winter was brutal with ice storms savaging the city. (Due to stress and lack of sleep I had 2 slips and falls - garnering a set of cracked ribs and concussion - but we got it done)

And Adam Weinberg and the Entire Whitney management team came to each exhibition to support us. Such a generous generous place to work