but maybe next time . .
HOLISTIC HEALTH AND WINE TASTING
Enjoy wine, ginger shots and sample gourmet appetizers at Wix Lounge, as Stacey Scott, owner of Harper Monroe Spa, and 5 other holistic health panelists discuss the latest in wellness and healthcare. Come test out new products and sample services provided by New York's best in holistic health.
Def checkin this out . .
maybe . .
October 24 - December 7, 2013
Opening reception: Thursday, October 24, from 6-8 pm
Location: 13 Jay Street, New York, New York, 10013
Masters & Pelavin is pleased to announce it’s first solo exhibition with fine art and fashion photographer, Billy Kidd. The show, Transience, presents large-format photographs framed and mounted on the gallery walls, juxtaposing Kidd’s elegant black-and-white female nudes with lush color images of equally elegant – but dying – flowers.
By interspersing the nudes among decomposing flower images, the show explores themes of feminine beauty, desire and its transience. Kidd’s female bodies are soft and lithe, anonymous torsos arranged in reclining and often passionate or subtly erotic poses. Imbued with an undercurrent of sexual desire as the nudes arch and undulate within their frame, some remain pictorially classical, recalling Greek and Roman sculpture, while others appear to be in the throes of rapture. The bend and sway of the flowers mimics and intensifies the rhythm of the interspersed torsos, the flower an obvious allusion to the female body. But instead of the more languid, youthful beauty of the nudes, the decomposing flowers are like exquisite but fragile older women, their age giving them added texture and power.
Kidd’s interest in the aging process and it’s inherent beauty is apparent in the intricate surface details in many of his images, such as goose bumps on the model’s skin, or tiny veins patterning the flower petals. Unlike retouched photographs, where imperfections are covered or artificially erased, Kidd’s images expose the often hidden details that make the model human, or indicate the flower was once fully alive.
Kidd’s examination of the female form’s intrinsic classical beauty, coupled with the inevitability of our mortality, acknowledges and celebrates the artistic and expressive potential of aging.
For further information or images, contact Todd Masters at 646-926-2787 or email gallery@masterspelavin.com.
maybe do an LES art (opening) crawl . .
Photography: Barbara Van Den Heuvel, Carlos Saladen-Vargas, Eti Wade, Gianni Forte, Mark Hamilton Gruchy, Martyn Gallina-Jones, Pommefritz Crew and Roland Serani "Identity of the Self" curated by Martyn Gallina-Jones at Garis & Hahn
Chinatown/LES: 263 Bowery, 6-8pm
Chinatown/LES: 263 Bowery, 6-8pm
Christopher Learey, Jason Stopa, Jeremy Couillard, Mariah Dekkenga, Michael Dotson, Russell Tyler, Trudy Benson "Windows" at Denny Gallery
Chinatown/LES: 261 Broome St, 6-8pm
Chinatown/LES: 261 Broome St, 6-8pm
David Alexander Flinn "Nor here Nor There" at envoy enterprises (Project Space)
Chinatown/LES: 131 Chrystie street, 6-8pm
Chinatown/LES: 131 Chrystie street, 6-8pm
: Pedro Neves Marques & Mariana Silva "Environments" at e-flux
Emily Noelle Lambert "Curio Logic" at Lu Magnus
Chinatown/LES: 55 Hester street, 6-9pm
Chinatown/LES: 55 Hester street, 6-9pm
Juana Valdes ""SENSEI: The Exchange Series, PART 008: In The Fold" curated by Joseph Latimore, Remy Amezcua atGallery Sensei (Little Fox Cafe)
Chinatown/LES: 62 Kenmare street, 8-11pm
Chinatown/LES: 62 Kenmare street, 8-11pm
Artist Talk: Peter Owen "URBANESQUE" at Dacia Gallery
Chinatown/LES: 53 Stanton street, 7:30pm
Chinatown/LES: 53 Stanton street, 7:30pm
Victor Demarchelier at Clic Bookstore & Gallery
Soho: 255 Centre street, 6-8pm
Soho: 255 Centre street, 6-8pm
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