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ATTENTION: Starting Monday, June 2, chashama's OFFICES will switch to SUMMER HOURS:
Monday-Thursday, 10am-4pm; Friday, 10am-2pm
Regular hours will resume on Tuesday, September 2.

NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR CHASHAMA NORTH RESIDENCY
FOR SEPTEMBER 7 - OCTOBER 5, 2008
APPLICATION DEADLINE FRIDAY AUGUST 22, 2008, 2PM.
Click here for more information and application link.

chashama is renting its theater at 217 East 42nd.

  The theater is available for small, contained filmshoots or film screenings and performing arts events.
  For film-related rentals, please contact Associate Artistic Director Marc Dale at dale@chashama.org
  For performing arts events, please contact Performing Arts Program Director Risa Shoup at risa@chashama.org
  Please include your contact information, a brief description of proposed usage, and the dates you would like to rent the theater.

  Conveniently located near Grand Central: 4,5,6,7 and shuttle trains from Times Square; M104 & M42 buses
  Capacity: 74
  Stage Dimensions:
  16' 6" deep, x 15' 6" wide (including a 2' 6" wing);
  30" height (raised platforms on 2'x 4's);
  22' ceiling;
  additional 1400 square feet with 8' ceilings
  Window Dimensions:
  13' 1" x 7' 9.5"

  ****Bathroom, Dressing Room, Air-Conditioning, Theatrical Lighting and Sound Available
  NOTE: this venue is not staffed by chashama; clients must acquire a key to use the space.   217 theater specs

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USED BOOKS!

Curated by Ryan Frank, Deena Selenow, and Rory Sheridan
chashama uws Gallery
950 Columbus Avenue
August 8 - 30, 2008
adnauseamlyceum@gmail.com | www.adnaus.org

betwixt West 106th & 107th Streets; B/C to 103rd or 110th Street stations
Thursdays and Fridays 3pm - 7pm
Saturdays and Sundays 1pm - 5pm
***Uber Hip Salons-- Fridays from 7pm - 10pm
Opening Reception: 7-10PM Friday, August 8
FREE and open to the public.

Ad Nauseam Lyceum is pleased to present USED BOOKS!, the inaugural show in their new project space on Manhattan's Upper West Side. The exhibition features a full room installation of painting, sculpture, sound and e-comics, all shown through the lens of a traditional neighborhood bookstore. Whimsical, visceral and full of chatzkies, USED BOOKS! is a response to the evolution of communication and examines how society has come to both share and subvert information.

Ad Nauseam Lyceum is an artist run organization committed to showcasing multi-disciplinary work by emerging artists in New York . The group aims to give young artists an opportunity to collaborate, present work, and have a creative dialogue outside the traditional art market. Founded in 2006 by Ryan Frank, Deena Selenow, and Rory Sheridan, the group has hosted previous events at Emphemeroptera Art Space, chashama, EXPLOSIVO! and Studio 717, and has collectively shown the work of over 50 visual and performing artists. Dedicated to blurring the lines between various artistic genres, Ad Nauseam Lyceum is a platform for a new generation of artists working in performance, visual art, and new media. details

Bombs Over Bed-Stuy

"Wild Seed" Oil & Collage image details

by Jasmine Murrell
chashama Harlem Studios Gallery
461 West 126th Street
August 1 - 28, 2008

between Amsterdam & Morningside Aves; 1/A/C/B/D to 125th Street station

OPENING RECEPTION Friday August 1, 6-10pm
Thursday-Sunday 2pm - 6pm
FREE and open to the public.

dancing and movement are a recurring theme in several pieces of Jasmine Murrell, subjects caught in a trance-like state representing a hypnotic phase of transition, a pre-cursor to an exquisite social, cultural and spiritual metamorphosis.

brooklyn-based artist Jasmine Murrell pulls her inspiration from her neighborhood afro-beat dance scene. the show is at once colorful and comedic, vibrant and vital, dynamic and damning - an emotional rollercoaster ride worthy indeed of the watchful gaze of a certain Mr. Kuti. details

Miranda Hellman

The Wave, 46" x 42" Oil on Canvas 2008 image details

artwork by chashama's Artist-in-Residence in Brooklyn
chashama Gallery, 112 West 44th Street
July 25 - August 16, 2008

(between Broadway & Sixth Ave. / Subway: 1,2,3,B,D,F,N,Q,R,V,W to 42nd St., 7 & shuttle to Times Square. Bus: M104, M42 to Sixth Ave., M5, M6, M7 to 43rd St.)
Wednesday through Saturday 1pm - 7pm
or by appointment: 917.405.1236
Opening Reception: Friday July 25th, 6-9pm
FREE and open to the public. details

chashama is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new paintings by Danish-American artist Miranda Hellman. The work is derived from fear and constructed imaginary conflicts between water and land. Hellman explores the power of water over land as natural catastrophes acting as a metaphor for the cycle of life, in the contrasts between the experience of living on land, which is divided, by grid systems and the expansion of the sea. Hellman has spent the last year working from a studio on Pier 4 in Brooklyn, NY where she has derived much of the inspiration. Also on view are several paintings from the series Destroy and Develop, a project that documents and investigates the demolitions of a residential section of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn NY. While buildings are being erected and demolished on a daily basis, the urban landscape undergoes dramatic transformations.

"My work is about concepts of time, memory and the relationships between past and present lives. I am interested in the marks that humans leave behind, be it old pieces of furniture trashed on the street, or a colossal building." about the exhibit

Born in Copenhagen, Denmark, and currently living and working in Brooklyn, Miranda Hellman received a BFA in painting from Pratt Institute where she also attended the Summer Italy program with a Teachers Assistance Scholarship. Her work has been shown in Stay Gold Gallery, Grace Exhibition Space, Aurora Gallery, Morton Memorial Library, Bama Gallery, among others. As an active member of the artist community, Miranda has been working collaboratively, with visual documentation at Dance New Amsterdam NY, Kom de Bagfra, Denmark, and recently as costume and mask designer for Pace University Theater NY and The Henry Street Settlement Abrons Arts Center. In 2007 she was awarded a Studio Space Award at the Brooklyn Army Terminal. This year her work was selected for both the National Juried Competition: Works of Art on Paper at Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts & Sciences curated by Charlotta Kotik and for Windows Brooklyn, a public site-specific installation: Mapped Out: Then and Now. about the artist

also / upcoming

POST NO BILLS

an outdoor group show at
Gallerie Pulaski
48-15 11th Street @ Jackson Ave,
Long Island City

Subway: 7 to Vernon Blvd/ Jackson Ave. directions

June 20 - August 31, 2008
Opening reception: June 27, 7 - 9p
celso@elcelso.com
This exhibit is part of the public art series, "Off the Wall by the People"

CHASHAMA artist-in-residence, Celso is pleased to announce the opening of POST NO BILLS, an outdoor group art show at Gallerie Pulaski, located at 11th Street & Jackson Avenue, next to the Pulaski Bridge in Long Island City. The Galerie Pulaski is New York's first plein air street gallery and is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The gallery and art can be seen 24 hours a day and will officially open on Friday, June 27 with a reception to be held on the street from 7PM-9PM. The exhibit will continue through August 31, 2008. The event is free and open to the public.

POST NO BILLS is a site-specific installation by New York's most dynamic street and contemporary artists, many of whom are local to the area. Co-curated by Celso & Ian Farrell, it features original artwork that has been permanently installed onto an 80-foot long construction wall that has been painted gallery white. Pedestrians and motorists traveling along the intersection can expect to see colorful portraits, landscapes, abstract paintings, works on Plexiglas, street art and more at the site. The space for this project has been generously provided by the Simone Development Companies. details

The artists featured in this show include Abe Lincoln Jr., Celso, Ceito, Creeper, Darkcloud, DAVe, Elbow-Toe, Endless Love Crew, F.Trainer, Gaia, Gore-B, infinity, Danny Licul, Evelyn Metzger, Milquetoast, Momo, Dean Radinovsky, Abigail Rothberg, Royce Bannon, Tefsukaz, Inga Huld Tryggvadottir, James Willis and several special guests. featured artists

Continuing its support for Long Island City's arts community, Simone Development Companies is the first developer to participate in the construction site beautification program, "Off the Wall by the People", sponsored by chashama. The project will be announced at chashama's summer fundraiser, the chashama Pirate Party Pig Roast on Monday June 23, 2008.

Headquartered in New Rochelle, NY, Simone Development Companies is a full service real estate investment company specializing in the acquisition and development of office, retail, industrial and residential properties in the tri-state area. The privately held company owns and manages an extensive range of commercial projects from multi-building office parks to retail and industrial space in Westchester County, Queens, the Bronx, Long Island and Connecticut. The company's portfolio of more than 90 real estate properties totals approximately 4 million square feet of development space. Simone Development has also developed a number of significant residential projects ranging from luxury homes to rental residences. About Simone Development Companies

Group Show

chashama ABC presents a five-person exhibition of New York-based artists.
chashama ABC Gallery
169 Avenue C
July 7 – August 7, 2008
OPENING RECEPTION Thursday July 24, 6-8pm
Thursday-Sunday 11a-5pm
FREE and open to the public.

(at 11th Street, M14C, M14D buses, F to 2nd Ave., L to 1st Ave.)

Featured artists: Dana Crossan, Adam Dougherty, Cosme Herrera, Frank Lentini, Robert Sciasci details

Tax-Free Art

An Art Celebration in Alphabet City

Pat Arnao | http://patarnao.com
Olive Ayhens | www.oliveayhens.com
John Chandler
Katherine Daniels | www.katherinedaniels.com
Diane Davis
Elaine Defibaugh | www.elainedefibaugh.com
El Celso | www.elcelso.com
Ian H. Farrell | www.infinityequations.com
Ryan Frank | http://ryanfrank.30art.com
Abby Goodman | www.realtoughgirl.com
Leslie Frank Hampton
Darryl Hell | www.s6k.com
Miranda Hellman | www.wooloo.org/MirandaHellman/
Katurah Hutcheson
Lisa Ingram | www.lisaingram.com
Jose Landoni | www.veronese.ch/landoni/index.html
Numyi Lee | www.numyiart.com
Adela Leibowitz | www.adelaleibowitz.com
Danny Licul | www.dannylicul.com
Jasmine Murrell | www.wooloo.org/jasminemurrell/
Caleb Nussear | www.mosslandia.com
Linda Lee Nicholas | www.lindaleeNYC.com
Kate O'Donovan-Cook | www.kateodc.com
Sang Bin Park
Tara Parsons | www.taraparsons.com
Dean Radinovsky | www.deanradinovsky.org
Tim Roda | www.gregkucera.com/roda.htm
SANDRA SPANNAN | www.sandraspannan.com
Kristin Taylor | www.comecloserandsee.blogspot.com
Inga Huld Tryggvadottir
Marina Tsesarskaya | www.flickr.com/photos/chashama/sets/72157604576924477/
James Willis | www.jamesawillis.com featuring these chashama artists-in-residence

chashama ABC Gallery, 169 Avenue C
Teneleven, 171 Avenue C
Monk Thrift Shop, 177 Avenue C
August 15 – 27, 2008

(at 11th Street, M14C, M14D buses, F to 2nd Ave., L to 1st Ave.)

OPENING RECEPTION Friday, August 15, 6-9pm
2nd RECEPTION Saturday, August 16, 1pm-6pm
EXHIBIT HOURS: Tuesday-Sunday 1-6pm
FREE and open to the public. details

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Red-Checked Life
by Penelope Cake
chashama performance window
266 West 37th Street

Between 7th and 8th Avenues, A/C/E/1/2/3 to 34th Street, N/R/Q/W/7 to Times Square; M16, M34 buses to 8th Ave, M10, M20 to 36th St. directions

Opening reception and performance: Sunday, August 3, 5:00 – 7:00 pm
Additional performances:
Tuesday, August 5th, 1:00pm
Thursday, August 7th, 5:00pm
Saturday, August 9th, 7:00pm
FREE and open to the public.

Red–Checked Life will transform the window space into a "tableau vivant" of red and white checked objects from floor to ceiling. During designated performance times, costumed performers will dance and inhabit the space.

Penelope Cake, choreographer, dancer and visual artist, has been presenting her work in NYC theaters, parks and galleries since 1978. Known for her use of public outdoor spaces, Cake has presented in Riverside Park, Carl Schurz Park and Prospect Park. Her choreography has been presented at Dance Theater Workshop and other dance venues in NYC. A show of her visual art entitled "Making My Life", was presented at the Creative Center gallery in January, 2007. about the project

Waterfalls Wept
by Molly Gochman
chashama performance window
266 West 37th Street

Between 7th and 8th Avenues, A/C/E/1/2/3 to 34th Street, N/R/Q/W/7 to Times Square; M16, M34 buses to 8th Ave, M10, M20 to 36th St. directions

August 13 - 27
Hours TBA
FREE and open to the public.

On August 13, 2008 in the chashama Windows Space at 266 West 37th Street, artist Molly Gochman will begin installing "Waterfalls Wept". One of the inspirations for this work was a translation of a Hindu epic, the Ramayana. When Sita, an avatara of Lakshmi, is kidnapped, the earth responds in a number of ways. The last four words in this description are, "and the waterfalls wept." The tale of the Ramayana, which can be traced back 880,000 years, makes the 2,500 year-old Tao Te Ching young in comparison. The Tao Te Ching states, "Nothing is more soft and yielding than water. Yet for attacking the solid and strong; it has no equal."

Fabric, Molly Gochman's primary medium, is used to transform surfaces into gurgling landscapes. Fabric is flexible and strong. Its strength relies mostly on a repetition of contrasts, warp and weft. Creating fabric is one of human's earliest technological achievements, and the use of this material continues today. Using fabric as a means of protecting and identifying ourselves provides us with a tactile connection with the past, present, and future.

chashama's space provides an opportunity to create an installation within a large vitrine that is viewable to people as they pass-by. One wall within the space curves in so that the space becomes increasingly narrower in the back. Inside this irregularly shaped vitrine, change will occur rapidly during the forming and dismantling of the installation. At other times, movements inside the space will occur much slower. Most of these changes will not be visible. The change is occurring due to how natural elements, such as the sun, are affecting the work during these few weeks. A body occasionally moves within the work, causing transition. Mentally visualizing patterns of movement within melting glaciers or tears that drip and fall induce these movements, which will mostly occur under fabric. about the project

My work returns what's missing from life - fragile moments within cycles of creation and destruction. Through performances and installations and the documents that record them, I communicate a delicate dance between presence and absence. Creating work helps me come to terms with extremely contradictory experiences. Within the work, rigid contrasts soften and boundaries become blurred. Fabric, my primary medium, is used to transform surfaces into gurgling landscapes. My usage of materials within space allows me to create intimate experiences. Supple, penetrable materials like fabric, allow my work to have a softening affect. The common thread is not always obvious; mystery and romance hover. Unfolding myself as I work allows me to build environments that blur the relationships between particulars. A clarification can occur as one releases oneself within the mistiness of the work.

"Perhaps reality can have 'a' structure only from the universalizing view of the dominant group. That is, only to the extent that one person or group can dominate the whole will reality appear to be governed by one set of rules or be constituted..." --Aihwa Ong, Michael G. Peletz Artist Statement

Molly Gochman is an experiential, inter-sensory artist working and residing in both Houston and New York. Her work provides evocative experiences through inter-disciplinary installations. Born in San Antonio, Gochman studied art in New York City and London, and received her BFA from Guilford College in 2001. In the last five years, Gochman's work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. about Molly

also / upcoming

HapLapNapTap*

curated by Anna Ogier-Bloomer and Erik Sanner
chashama Window Space, 266 West 37th Street
September 16 - 23, 2008
FREE and open to the public.
www.annaob.com
www.eriksanner.com

(Between 7th and 8th Avenues, A/C/E/1/2/3 to 34th Street, N/R/Q/W/7 to Times Square; M16, M34 buses to 8th Ave, M10, M20 to 36th St.)

Opening reception Tuesday, September 16, 2008, 6pm-8pm
The exhibition will run from Wednesday, September 17, until Tuesday, September 23, with daily gallery hours from 12pm-6pm

*Have a painting? Leave a painting. Need a painting? Take a painting.

Have a painting? Leave a painting… is a unique week-long art experiment. Inspired by the penny tray, which invites people to leave or take pennies depending on their need, HapLapNapTap invites art makers and non-art makers alike to donate or take art depending on their desire. During open gallery hours, the artists and the general public may donate original work or select a piece of their choice to take home. No money will be exchanged; rather, the personal and emotional value of the art will be our currency. In order to facilitate conversation, leavers and takers will be required to share their contact information with one another. The exhibition seeks to create an open art exchange and to foster relationships between artists and collectors while encouraging them to take on each other's roles. *details

Anna Ogier-Bloomer grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, and has been working on a long-term photo documentary of her family since 2001. She studied art at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, earning a B.F.A. in 2005 with her thesis work about her family members.

Anna first exhibited in 2004 at The Contemporary Art Center in Cincinnati and The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Her first work was shown in New York City in 2007 and early 2008, and was featured in Art Basel Miami at the 2007 Bridge Art Fair. She is the recipient of the Copley Society of Art Stephen D. Paine Scholarship, the SMFA Yousuf Karsh Prize in Photography, and the SMFA Travel Grant.

Curating roles include exhibitions at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and The New School in New York. Anna currently lives in Brooklyn and works as Assistant Studio Manager for artist Chris Verene. More at www.annaob.com. about Anna Ogier-Bloomer

Erik Sanner uses new media to create "moving paintings" - installations in which dynamic video is projected onto prepared surfaces such as oil paintings. He has been exhibiting visual art for over a decade in New York and Tokyo.

Prior to Have a painting? Leave a painting..., Erik has occasionally taken on a curatorial role. In 1999, the 24-hour outdoor painting marathon Club Ikebukuro was followed by a group exhibition he arranged in Tokyo. For his public new media installation Chess, over 70 people created paintings in pairs for a video projection in Hell's Kitchen in 2007. Chess received a grant from the Manhattan Community Arts Fund.

Erik attempts to expand the definition of painting through collaboration and by utilizing technology in his practice. You can learn more at his website, www.eriksanner.com. about Erik Sanner

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GOING (with Coming)
A work by The Theatre of Mistakes
recreated (and updated) by The Relationship
Directed by Fiona Templeton
chashama, 217 East 42nd Street

1 1/2 blocks east of Grand Central, btwn 2nd & 3rd Aves; 4,5,6,7 and shuttle trains from Times Square directions

Preview September 2nd at 8:00pm $12
Opening Night September 3rd $35 with reception to follow
September 4th - 13th $15
Buy tickets for event 39845 at 1-800-838-3006 or online at Brown Paper Tickets.
A tiny narrative of leaving, played as a fugue. 5 performers. Audience on 4 sides. A cult work from the 70s.

GOING was highly formalized, game-structured, and tongue-in-cheek serious, as can be gathered from the script sample, with rehearsed mistakes and swoons, and other sabotages. For these performances, 2 of the 5 acts will be replaced by COMING.

The combination of GOING and COMING will contrast the exactness of the original (and its exact recreation) with its opposite. In COMING, each performer gets a shot at reinventing the piece within the same structure. In some ways the performance challenge will be to alter things completely, astonish and challenge the others, and then return to the stark original, like switching back and forth between color and black & white.

This project created in residency at chashama Theatre, and supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. Fiona Templeton's time supported by Brunel University. more about GOING (with Coming)

The Theatre of Mistakes was a performance art group in London 1974-80. Its larger manifestation, The Ting, included artists from all disciplines such as Michael Nyman, Amikam Toren, Susan Hiller, etc. The core group was Anthony Howell, Fiona Templeton, Michael Greenall, Peter Stickland, Miranda Payne and Glenys Johnson. Influential on groups as diverse as Forced Entertainment, Blast Theory, The Raincoats, and Station House Opera. Venues included The Hayward Annual, Paris Biennial, Vienna Biennial, Paula Cooper Gallery, the Western Pennsylvania State Penitentiary and Hartley Wintney cricket green. The group's writings include The Manifesto of Mutual Art and Elements of Performance Art., which is being republished next year to coincide with a major retrospective in England of the group in the 70's and early 80s.

(As described in Roselee Goldberg's Performance, Gregory Battcock's Performance Art, Nick Kaye's Art into Theatre.) about The Theatre of Mistakes

The Relationship is an international performance and art group directed by Fiona Templeton. The performers in Going (with Coming) are Katie Brown, Javier Cardona, Adam Collignon, Stephanie Silver*, Julie Troost, and Chris Wendelken, supported by Scott Troost.
*courtesy Actors Equity The Relationship cast and crew

"LETTING GO"
by Marylee Martin
Directed by Barbara Krajkowski
chashama, 217 E. 42nd Street, New York, NY

1 1/2 blocks east of Grand Central, btwn 2nd & 3rd Aves; 4,5,6,7 and shuttle trains from Times Square directions

September 15, 2008 at 7p
ADMISSION FREE
CALL: 848-250-3881 FOR RESERVATIONS
This poignant and funny play crosses the line between life and death as a young mother struggles from beyond to help her husband and young struggling on earth. Filled with laughter, love and tears, "Letting Go" offers a glimpse of life after death, how to move on and the promise of freedom in "letting go."

*Some actors appearing courtesy of Actors' Equity Association

Since 1995, chashama, a non-profit arts organization has provided opportunities for performing and visual artists by awarding grants, producing shows and providing subsidized studio, rehearsal and performance space.