ANNULUs

MARCH 4TH - mARCH 8TH

CURATED BY COREY OBERLANDER AND LINDSEY STAPLETON
SPRING/BREAK ART SHOW DURING ARMORY WEEK  |  SKYLIGHT AT MOYNIHAN STATION

The pieces presented by Steven Pestana are part of his larger body of work, Metaphysics. Revisiting Early Modern Scientific and Hermetic imagery, Metaphysics reappraises the history of how we understand our place in, and connection to, the universe. At each step, history, process, and concept feed back into one another; a complex system subtly evolving, leaving artifacts born of the inherent limitations of content, medium, and the artist’s own role in the process. Craft-based techniques seamlessly meld with next generation technologies, uniting traditional wood and metalwork, casting, and analogue media alongside electronics, digital rendering, and fabrication.

Leah Piepgras is informed by fringe brain science research: specifically Stanley Koren’s God-Brain Helmet, Jill Bolte-Taylor’s book My Stroke of Insight, and the coastline paradox, ultimately extrapolating that we have the ability to see more than what is visible, if we know how to look. Piepgras believes that the act of self-reflection is part of the primal urge to deeply understand our inner and outer surroundings. Through drawing, sculpture and installation, she supplies the viewer with tools to deconstruct and reassess the relationship to the self, while examining a connection to a greater physical experience.

SELECT PRESS:

Jam-Packed Spring/Break Art Show Pulls into Moynihan Station, Allison Meier, Hyperallergic.com, 2015
Highlights from SPRING/BREAK Art Show, Regina Mogilevskaya, Blouin Art Info, 2015
Checking out that SPRING/BREAK Art Show Vibe,  Ginger Rudolph, HAHA Magazine, 2015
And the Observer Award for Best Armory Week Art Fair Goes To…, Alexandra Peers, Observer, 2015
Spring/Break Art Show New York City 2015, Enrico, Vernissage.TV, 2015

ABOUT SPRING/BREAK ART FAIR

SPRING/BREAK Art Show, the new curator-driven art fair during the Armory Arts Week.  The fourth installation of the fair will be held from March 3rd – March 8th, 2015 at its new location at Skylight at Moynihan Station:

More information on the move can be found on The Observer.

Through its commitment to the discoveries of local to international curators, SPRING/BREAK Art Show will again offer a unique destination for collectors, artists, galleries, critics, scene junkies & art enthusiasts during the city’s art fair week. Forty curators will premiere new artworks created by over 150 artists, all selected around this year’s central art fair theme, TRANSACTION. By offering a “break” from the typical art fair model, SPRING/BREAK Art Show aims to turn observation into interaction and reimagine the trade show platform as an opportune playground, instead, of the curator’s exhibition ideal.

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SPRING/BREAK Art Show's 2015 theme, TRANSACTION, explores visions of and commentaries on exchange in all its forms. Bodies in their exchange of gesture. Education in its exchange of ideas. Commodity in its exchange of objects.

What are the ebbs and tides of this cultural AC/DC? When is it absent? In what conditions does it thrive? Movements, art-historical, in their exchange of improvements and critiques, are a palimpsest of the theoretical—in eternal exchange back-and-forth. What social contracts lie in the everyday, present or invisible? What technologies build hurdle or hoist? And what forms speak to these implicit and underlying transactions: monetary, emotional, military, familial, gender-specific, aesthetic?

SPRING/BREAK Art Show General Information

Skylight at Moynihan Station (31st Street Entrance) | 307 West 31st Street at 8th Avenue