Super/Prime is pleased to announce our participation in Fountain Miami 2009. We are excited to build off of our recent show at 717 Prospect Place as we continue to expand on our ideas and our mission.
Fountain was launched in March 2006 in New York in an effort to leverage support for independent galleries overlooked by the larger, corporate-sponsored art fairs. The name “Fountain” is a nod to Marcel Duchamp’s controversial sculpture which shook up the art world when it was rejected by the Society of Artists’ exhibition in 1917. Similarly, in defiant contrast with The Armory Show, Art Basel Miami Beach, Pulse, Scope and the numerous other international art fairs, Fountain has received wide public support and critical acclaim for its experimental slant favoring large, open and ambitious installation spaces. In form and spirit, the artwork exhibited at Fountain reflects the avant-garde attitude of the Dada art movement, while attracting the attention of the international clientele and top collectors who attend the more traditional fairs.
Fountain Miami will open to the public on Thursday 3 December at 11am and run until Sunday 6 December at 7pm.
Download press release (pdf).
Fountain was launched in March 2006 in New York in an effort to leverage support for independent galleries overlooked by the larger, corporate-sponsored art fairs. The name “Fountain” is a nod to Marcel Duchamp’s controversial sculpture which shook up the art world when it was rejected by the Society of Artists’ exhibition in 1917. Similarly, in defiant contrast with The Armory Show, Art Basel Miami Beach, Pulse, Scope and the numerous other international art fairs, Fountain has received wide public support and critical acclaim for its experimental slant favoring large, open and ambitious installation spaces. In form and spirit, the artwork exhibited at Fountain reflects the avant-garde attitude of the Dada art movement, while attracting the attention of the international clientele and top collectors who attend the more traditional fairs.
Fountain Miami will open to the public on Thursday 3 December at 11am and run until Sunday 6 December at 7pm.
Download press release (pdf).
Super/Prime announces its first exhibition of works by young artists, 717 Prospect Place, opening on Friday 28 August, 2009 at 717 Prospect Place, Brooklyn, NY. Super/Prime is a new effort to locate art and aesthetic experience in unusual and empty domestic sites. 717 Prospect Place was repurposed to include works that focus this strangely empty domestic space through a dense dialogue with the artists' own processes of eliciting parallax, arresting spatial expectations, and tugging at the seams of seemingly insular aesthetic logics.
At the heart of this effort, David Smith’s installation uses found picture-frames as the structural members of constructions that occupy the surrounding space and challenge the viewer to reorient their perception. Other artists with work on view include Ashley May, Ben Tear, Ben Dowell, Brittany Taylor, Harry Gassel, Janet Cerda, Rachel Gerrard, Roland Tiangco, and Zachery Bruder, all of whom transfigure elements from the periphery of our visual landscape in dialogue with both art historical and cultural expectations.
Super/Prime is an endeavor to appropriate and inhabit the unoccupied and raw domestic spaces left vacant in the urban landscape of New York City. Super/Prime will continue to migrate between vacant spaces as each becomes a dynamic and spontaneous site for the presentation and installation of exciting new work by young artists taking advantage of these unique and temporary places to force intimate reflections between viewers’ familiar experience of multi-dimensional space, movement, and form.
717 Prospect Place opens Friday 28 August, 8 pm and closes Saturday 26 September. The exhibition will be open to the public every Saturday 12–6pm, or by appointment. For press, viewing, sales, and all other inquiries, email us at super(at)super-prime.org.
Download press release (pdf).
Download flier (pdf).
At the heart of this effort, David Smith’s installation uses found picture-frames as the structural members of constructions that occupy the surrounding space and challenge the viewer to reorient their perception. Other artists with work on view include Ashley May, Ben Tear, Ben Dowell, Brittany Taylor, Harry Gassel, Janet Cerda, Rachel Gerrard, Roland Tiangco, and Zachery Bruder, all of whom transfigure elements from the periphery of our visual landscape in dialogue with both art historical and cultural expectations.
Super/Prime is an endeavor to appropriate and inhabit the unoccupied and raw domestic spaces left vacant in the urban landscape of New York City. Super/Prime will continue to migrate between vacant spaces as each becomes a dynamic and spontaneous site for the presentation and installation of exciting new work by young artists taking advantage of these unique and temporary places to force intimate reflections between viewers’ familiar experience of multi-dimensional space, movement, and form.
717 Prospect Place opens Friday 28 August, 8 pm and closes Saturday 26 September. The exhibition will be open to the public every Saturday 12–6pm, or by appointment. For press, viewing, sales, and all other inquiries, email us at super(at)super-prime.org.
Download press release (pdf).
Download flier (pdf).
Super/Prime is having a party.
Bands: dubbknowdubb / dianetics / starring / new yoga / teengirl fantasy. Djs: camilla pc all night, and DJ Sto Money will do an exclusive life altering/earth-shattering/soul-possessing sunrise DJ set. Video Projection: by LIZZIE HARPER AND ZACH STEINMAN.
Friday 14 August, 2009. 11pm-and on and on. West Nile, 285 Kent Ave in Williamsburg (Bedford L & Marcy JMZ).
$10. OPEN BAR ALL NIGHT.
Blondes with live video by camilla pc at our last event:
Bands: dubbknowdubb / dianetics / starring / new yoga / teengirl fantasy. Djs: camilla pc all night, and DJ Sto Money will do an exclusive life altering/earth-shattering/soul-possessing sunrise DJ set. Video Projection: by LIZZIE HARPER AND ZACH STEINMAN.
Friday 14 August, 2009. 11pm-and on and on. West Nile, 285 Kent Ave in Williamsburg (Bedford L & Marcy JMZ).
$10. OPEN BAR ALL NIGHT.
Blondes with live video by camilla pc at our last event:
