Cinders Gallery Presents:

“100 Records” by Sonny Smith

August 12th – September 5th 2010

Opening Reception Thursday August 12th 7-10pm

Music performance by Sonny Smith at 7pm

100 Records is the culmination of a massive year long project by artist and musician Sonny Smith, front man of the group Sonny & The Sunsets. Smith invited 100 artists to produce 100 7” record covers for fictional bands. Smith concocted the personas of these fictitious bands, then wrote and recorded one hundred songs to correspond with each 7” record. Recording with his band The Sunsets, as well as with members of notable bands such as the Sandwitches, Fresh N Only’s, Thee Oh Sees, Ty Segall, and the Kelley Stoltz Band, each record stands on its own as a solid piece of music and spans a wide range from pop, concept ideas, spoken word, instrumentals, surf, garage, folk and rock n roll.

The record covers recall the type of limited edition packaging that would make any good record collector sweat, as well as more out there interpretations of what a record cover can be. These hand drawn and painted covers will be on display in addition to a homemade custom built working jukebox loaded with all 100 songs that will play during the show.

The artists:
Miguel Palma, Mark Todd, Jack Massing, Alika Cooper, Nathaniel Russell, Brion Nuda Rosch, Chris Johanson, Leslie Shows, Jim Long, Kyle Ranson, Matthew Hilshort, Reed Anderson, Fernando Renes, Ana Fernandez, Lara Allen, Laurent Impeduglia, Chris Duncan, Ed Ruscha, Paul Wackers, Kottie Polloma, William Wiley, Sasha Baguskas, Justin Goldwater, Grace Cooper, Kelley Stoltz, Emily Prince, Sonya Berman, John Dwyer, Mingering Mike, Jason Jagel, Jo Jackson, Juan Luna, Avin,Teppei Ando, Eric White, Rebecca Miller, Brittany Powell, Harrell Fletcher, Virgil Shaw, Mat O Brien, Ian Johnson, Jeffrey Lewis, Airika Rockefeller, Scot Velardo, Lisa Choinacky, Karla Wosniak, Alice Shaw, Matthew Rich, Micah Middaugh, Thomas Mozzarella, Ky Anderson, Sean McFarland, Eric Yahnker, Deb Sokolo, Ted Barron, Ryan Brown, Kyle Field, Sara Bright, Scott Hewicker, Joshua Abelow, Jason Jagel, Erica Magrey, Griff Williams, Daniel Green, Stephanie Syjuko, Nicholas Galanin, Ashia Lane, Maya Hayuk, John Chiara, Grant LaValley, Richard Hart, Kyle Knobel, Ray Halliday, Andrew Mckinley, Cliff Hengst, Souther Salazar, Abel Pineda, Christime Shields, Maria Forde, Esther Pearl Watson, Jovi Schnell, Nellei Nguyen, Veronica DeJesus, Rex Ray, Bill Donovan, Michael Swaney, Tucker Nichols, and Alicia McCarthy

100 Records ‘Volume 1’, a limited edition of 40 box sets including reproductions of 12 of the art covers, with a CD of 16 original songs inside, will be available.

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Cinders Gallery Presents:

Temple of Blooom
July 10 – August 8
Opening Saturday July 10th 7-10pm
Hisham Akira Bharoocha, Kelie Bowman, Sherri Hay, Mark Warren Jacques, John Orth, Hilary Pecis, STO, Jessie Rose Vala

The Temple of Blooom is an installation that combines paintings, drawings, collages, murals and sculpture to create our own type of a sonic-visual sanctuary as envisioned by each artist. Exploring places of worship, rituals, shrines, sacred objects and congregation, this place of spiritual assembly is based not on any religious faith but on the faith of our loose-knit community of artists, performers, experimenters, and musicians.

Each artist brings a different energy to the show from Hisham Bharoocha’s meditative mandala style mural painting to Hilary Pecis’ cavernous and intricate collages; paintings of people made entirely of wondrous flowers by Kelie Bowman and a golden paper mache shrine to the gods of plants by STO. Abstracted portraits recall ethereal masks in John Orth’s works on paper while Mark Warren Jacques explores cosmic patterns and forms in his paintings. Sherri Hay’s small, intimate sculptures of plant people lure you in to their majestic world and Jessie Rose Vala’s haunting black and white pencil drawings explore transformations between humans, animals, and the powers of nature.

During the course of the show, the temple will be a space for sonic and visual explorations by some of our favorite artists, including many from the show. Check our website for updates on these weekly intimate engagements of live music and performance.

CINDERS GALLERY
103 Havemeyer st.
Brooklyn, NY 11211
718-388-2311
www.cindersgallery.com
Wed-Sun 1-7pm

This just in from Desert Island

Friday, July 9, 2010
7:00pm – 9:00pm
Desert Island
540 Metropolitan Ave btwn Union and Lorimer:

A pioneer in underground comics and the founder of the CBLDF, Denis Kitchen is one of the most important figures in sequential art. Kitchen will be signing his new book from Dark Horse titled ‘The Oddly Compelling Art of Denis Kitchen’! In addition, Charles Brownstein, executive director of the CBLDF, will discuss Kitchen’s contribution to the history of comics. An important event you won’t want to miss!

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Cinders Gallery Presents:
Fruiting Bodies
Brian Chippendale
June 4th – July 3rd 2010
Opening Reception Friday June 4th 7-10pm

“What lies behind the Black Hole, does Disney truly know? When the chips are finished and the human brain is no less the floppy disk of yesterday, who’s to say what it will take to survive. All I can do is copy down the instructions I am given, sharpen them into a knife and stab the asshole barking orders.” -Brian Chippendale

And stab and stab and stab. The sweat from stabbing has pooled into an overflowing rainbow-hued river that we are happy to present to you as Fruiting Bodies, the new solo exhibition by Brian Chippendale. Layers upon layers of silk-screened prints and drawings on paper form dense magical landscapes where moments from another world are frozen in time. The energy of this fantastical otherworld is infectious. You just want to go there and hang out with these characters and frolic in fields of mushrooms and butterflies, eat some strange plants, barter for peanut butter and maybe fight some cat-headed warriors.

A familiar breadcrumb trail of humankind’s existence is present in the form of guns, gas guzzling vehicles, and garbage. Cap N Crunch, Aleve pills, and the Legend of Zelda are equally as inspiring as wars, real estate developers, oil spills, and disasters. There are utopic moments of stillness amidst the visual chaos. While loose narratives are formed in some pieces, others simply offer an exciting sense of play with abstract forms, textures and colors. Brian’s hyper busy mark-making achieves a similar barrage of rhythms akin to his drum playing in the band Lightning Bolt, obsessively filling up all available space.

Brian Chippendale comes to us from Providence, RI, where he has resided since 1991. As a co-founder of now legendary art warehouse Fort Thunder, Brian has been an important part of the underground music and art scene that sprouted out of the Fort and other similar collective-living spaces. In addition to art and music, Brian is known internationally for his innovative comics and has just finished a new 800 page comic called “If N’ Oof,” to be published by Picturebox this Fall. Brian has also shown his visual art at the Macro Future Museum in Rome, the Deste Foundation in Athens and the RISD Museum as part of Wunderground: Providence 1995 to the Present. This is his first solo exhibition at Cinders.

CINDERS GALLERY
103 Havemeyer st.
Brooklyn, NY 11211
718-388-2311
www.cindersgallery.com
Wed-Sun 1-7pm

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Friday, May 14, 2010
7:00pm – 9:00pm
Desert Island
540 Metropolitan Ave btwn Union and Lorimer

Come celebrate Deitch’s new graphic novel “The Search for Smilin’ Ed.” Ranging across the entire twentieth century, replete with flashbacks, stories within stories, and guest appearances from other Deitch regulars, “The Search for Smilin’ Ed” is a narrative whirligig that shows Deitch at his wildest and woolliest. For those whose heads have started to spin at the complexity of “Deitch world,” Deitch scholar Bill Kartalopoulos offers a lengthy essay on the ins and outs of this ever-evolving, ever-expanding world where fantasy, reality, and satire combine, clash, and are sometimes downright indistinguishable.

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Kim Deitch was an important figure in the underground comix movement of the 1960s, regularly contributing comical, psychedelia-tinged comic strips (featuring the flower child “Sunshine Girl” and “The India Rubber Man”) to New York City’s premier underground newspaper, The East Village Other, beginning in 1967. He became editor of EVO’s all-comics spin off, Gothic Blimp Works, in 1969. Deitch was also a publisher, as co-founder of the Cartoonists Co-op Press. In 2008, the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art featured a retrospective exhibition of his work.

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This just in from my friends at Pizza Island:

Open Studios at the Morgan Fine Arts Building

Its open studio time at the Morgan Fine Arts Building where our shared comics (and one photographer/poet) studio, Pizza Island, resides. The management is promising many fantastic things for the event such as:

“free Limousine Service between both the “L” at Bedford and the “G” at Nassau and The Building. For Pick-up call – 646 363 8923″

and

” A free Wine Bar in the Lower Level”

Does this mean our landlord will come pick you up from the subway in a 1997 Honda Accord and there will be several bottles of Charles Shaw Merlot on a card table in the basement? Maybe. But we would love to have you at Pizza Island to show you what we’re up to. We will provide snacks.

Also we are kind of looking forward to meeting our neighbors. Here’s some of them:
http://morganfineartsbldg.com/b/

We are:

Julia Wertz
http://www.fartparty.org

Domitille Collardey
http://www.domitille-collardey.com/ink.html

Karen Sneider
http://www.metromonster.com/

Jibade-Khalil Huffman
http://www.jibadekhalilhuffman.com/

Sarah Glidden
http://www.smallnoises.com

So come visit us!

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BodyWorld Release and signing with Dash Shaw.

Thursday, April 15th at Desert Island, 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm:

Come celebrate Dash Shaw’s long-awaited BodyWorld book from Pantheon. The book itself is a must-see work of art.

BODYWORLD / 384 pages / Pantheon / 2010

BodyWorld is a comic that was originally serialized weekly on Shaw’s website from late 2007 to early 2009. It’s about a rogue botanist named Paulie Panther who travels to a remote experimental city where a new plant was found. He discovers that the plant, when smoked, grants the smoker telepathic abilities.

The online and print versions are slightly different. The online version is best if you followed it weekly as it was serialized, or if you want to read it in short bursts online for free. The print version is better if you’d rather read it in print and in a few sittings, since it is 384 pages. It has additional pages and images, and certain sequences were re-drawn and painted by Shaw to favor the print format.

Dash Shaw’s “Bottomless Belly Button” was named best Graphic Novel of 2008 by Publisher’s Weekly

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In conjunction with Nordic Book Frenzy,

Friday, April 9th at Desert Island, 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm:

Three great artists, three new books, one great party!

Desert Island favorite JOHN BRODOWSKI celebrates the release of his brand-new Curio Cabinet book, culled from years of self-publishing. His finely rendered pencil art often features horror-movie villains sulking around in the forest and existentially contemplating nature. Amazing stuff.
“One of the best young cartoonists to emerge in years.” – Sammy Harkham

CLARA BESSIJELLE JOHANSSON is a cartoonist born and living in Stockholm, Sweden. She will be debuting her most intricate story yet, The Lobster King, about a happy and eccentric fellow who all the townspeople put up with. Clara exhibited at last years MoCCA festival with Buenaventura Press, and collaborated with Emelie Östergren on the book “Mexicansk Gränsö.”

EMELIE ÖSTERGREN is a cartoonist also living in Sweden. She likes her country even the boring parts, the cold weather and the quiet people. Her first book Evil Dress came out in april 2009. “Mr Kenneth” is Emelie’s new comic publised in English at the Swedish publishing house Optimal Press. The 36-pages comic is about Mr. Kenneth, the man that created the aforementioned Evil Dress. Full of action and humor.

Come meet these folks, have yourself a beer, and buy a book if you feel like it.

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Nordic Book Frenzy at Desert Island, Wednesday, April 7, 2010.
7:00pm – 9:00pm:

Featuring artists from Finland, Norway, Sweden, and Denmark – all with new books! Planned in conjunction with the consulates of the respective Scandinavian countries. More information soon.

Finland:
Tommi Musturi, Ville Hänninen, Anna Sailamaa, Mari Ahokoivu, Kaija Papu og Kaisa Leka.

Norway:
Per Jørgen Olsen, Martin Ernstsen, Erik Falk, Espen Holtestaul, Kristoffer Kjølberg, Sindre Wexelsen og Flu Hartberg

Denmark:
Ib Kjeldsmark, Johan F. Krarup, Ingo Milton, Cav Bøgelund, Henrik Rehr, Lars Jakobsen og Søren Mosdal

Sweden:
Jakob Hallin, Sara Granér, Sofia Olsson, Åsa Grennvall,Benjamin Stengård og Johannes Klenell

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