CURRENT & UPCOMING EVENTS
(Scroll down to see all M55 Art events)Location: 530 West 25th Street, 4th floor, New York, NY 10001
Hours: Tuesday – Saturday 11am- 6pm
Moscow – New York – Barcelona
April 30—May 25, 2013Opening Reception: Saturday, May 4, 3—7 pm
Noho – M55
530 West 25th Street. 4th floor New York, NY 10001 present
Moscow – New York – Barcelona
Ludmila Aristova
Recent fiber and mixed media work exploring the artist’s vision of three cities.
A graduate of Moscow Textile Institute, Ludmila Aristova came to fiber art after a career in fashion design. Aristova’s work is included in collections of the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, International Quilt Study Center & Museum in Lincoln, Nebraska, and the All Russia Museum of Applied and Decorative Art in Moscow, as well as numerous private collections in United States, Canada, Asia and Europe.
“… Aristova’s Barcelona series are among the most daring works in her oeuvre to date, with their silvery gray, golden yellow, blue and purple harmonies creating a sense of “color as light,” to borrow J.M.W. Turner’s felicitous term. Capturing something so ethereal by its very nature is a more daunting task in fabric than in pigment, mind you, especially considering Aristova’s painstaking hand-sewing technique, involving layered pleats and tucks, raised fabric folds, hidden seams, and a wide variety of stitching techniques –– all of which combine to give her pieces a tactile sensuousness that is every bit as impressive as their coloristic richness.
Although more figurative, Aristova’s Moscow and New York fiber art works are equally exciting in their own manner. The predominant forms in many of the Moscow pieces are the onion domes and steeples, sometimes enhanced by the artist’s intricate beadwork, so ubiquitous in the architecture of that country, often topped by crosses.”
Ed McCormack, Gallery & Studio, April—May 2013
Pathology of Rust
May 28 - Jun 22, 2013Opening Reception: May 30, 6–8 pm, 2013
Noho – M55
530 West 25th Street. 4th floor New York, NY 10001 present
Pathology of Rust
Malka Inbal
Inbal: “After coming back from a vacation I called my family as I always do. Unfortunately, all I heard was about health problems… It seamed like everybody was preoccupied with them.
When my parents passed away I was quite young, I felt mourning, sorrow and I missed them terribly. Yet, because of my age at the time I had no fear. At present, though I feel very content with my life, I am suddenly aware that the clock never stops…”
Rusted metal sheets received an in-depth, meticulous treatment. Inbal constructed a complex array of shadows around them, lit the stains of rust through the spaces and photographed the projection angles she found best. After a long search, using light as a brush or scalpel, Inbal created her current series: Pathology of Rust.
Shirley Meshulam wrote about the series: “A dominant characteristic of this series is its refined minimalism. It appears as through the background of the photograph was “cooked” like stock, its fluids shrunk to a point where nothing remained but a rich, dark, concentrated mass…”
Malka Inbal studied at Kamera Obscura Art School in Tel-Aviv. She developed her own personal technique using a silvery screen. She exhibited in many solo exhibitions: among them at the ISRAELI MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY and at KOWASA gallery in Barcelona (Spain). She has also taken part in many group exhibitions throughout the world, such as in the CITES DES ARTS Paris, the museum of “THE GREAT 4 MUSEUM” in Chongching, China and in NYC.
Her work is in public collection “TEL HAI PHOTOGRAPHY MUSEUM” and private collection VISION gallery – Jerusalem (Neil Folberg’s gallery) and others. Articles about her work appear in academic lectures, professional and design magazines, news papers and radio. The artist will be in NYC from May 25th available and during the exhibition.
Eden Today
June 25 - July 13, 2013Opening Reception: June 29, 5pm - 8pm, 2013
Noho – M55
530 West 25th Street. 4th floor New York, NY 10001 present
Eden Today
Ed Rath
Through his painted gardens Rath explores the human desire to create a world of innocence and beauty.
The Story of Sandy
July 16, 2013- August 3, 2013Opening Reception: July 18, 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Noho – M55
530 West 25th Street. 4th floor New York, NY 10001 present
The Story of Sandy
Anowar Hossain
Paintings: A New York artist’s sensitivity to the Super Storm.