GALLERIES AND ART EXHIBITIONS

VINTAGE EAST VILLAGE

Hal Bromm Gallery 90 West Broadway at Chambers Street, Tribeca
presents vintage 80’s East Village Art. “VINTAGE EAST VILLAGE” group exhibition curated by Rick Prol to open 20 January, continuing through April 29, 2005, with private viewing. Thursday, January 20th, 6:30 - 9:00. Hal Bromm Gallery/Tribeca will present “Vintage East Village”, a group exhibition curated by Rick Prol featuring vintage 1980's works by more than fifty trend-setting artists who helped shape the legendary East. Village art movement. The exhibition will open January 20, 2005 and continue through April 29, 2005. A private viewing will be held Thursday, January 20, from 6:30 – 9:00.

Photo: Artist Joseph Nechvatal.

"Vintage East Village”, featuring vintage works by over fifty artists, highlights the spirit and energy that put the East Village on the “Art History map”. Artists include Jean-Michel Basquiat, Mike Bidlo, Ashley Bickerton, Keiko Bonk, T. Brazelton, Andrew Castrucci, Tseng Kwong Chi, Craig Coleman, Rich Colicchio, Arch Connelly, Ronnie Cutrone, Peggy Cyphers, Jimmy DeSana, Sean Early, Stefan Eins, Brigitte Engler, John Fekner, Luis Frangella, Bobby G, Judy Glantzman, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, Stephan Hale, Peter Halley, Richard Hambleton, Joel Handorff, Keith Haring, Peter Hujar, Dragan Ilic, Keily Jenkins, Kim Keever, Mark Kostabi, Stephen Lack, Greer Lankton, Allan McCollum, McDermott/McGough, Nicholas Mouffarrege, Joseph Nechvatal, Kiell Erik Killi Olsen, Rick Prol, Jim Radakovich, Louis Renzoni, Eric Rhein, Walter Robinson, James Romberger, Hope Sandrow, Karen Scarpulla, Kenny Scharf, Peter Schuyff, Russell Sharon, Kiki Smith, Huck Snyder, Philip Taaffe, Lori Taschler, Marguerite Van Cook, Anton Van Dalen, David Wojnarowicz, Martin Wong and Rhonda Zwillinger.

Hal Bromm was an early champion of many significant artists who helped create the raucous, culturally-charged East Village scene. Instrumental in bringing attention to their work, Bromm’s gallery was
one of the first to show David Wojnarowicz, Luis Frangella, John Fekner, Rick Prol, Mark Kostabi and many others. Keith Haring’s first one-person exhibition in New York was at Hal Bromm in 1981. In 1984, Hal Bromm Gallery provided early exposure to the growing East Village movement by organizing “Climbing”, a major group exhibition with works by 25 artists. “Climbing” presented fresh, exciting and innovative new art by many rising stars, including Kiki Smith, David Wojnarowicz, Luis Frangella, Judy Glantzman, Walter Robinson, Mike Bidlo, and Martin Wong. In an introduction to the exhibition, Carlo McCormick wrote that “Climbing” was “a search for the most promising of the lot…looking at a few trees in the forest”. In 2005, Vintage East Village provides a new view of that forest, 20 years later.

HAL BROMM, is located at 90 West Broadway at Chambers Street, Tribeca / New York 10007, USA. Ph 212 732 6196 Fax 212 406 1675. Contact: Rick Prol, 212-228-6367.

Artwork by Joseph Nechvatal

Painting by Peggy Cyphers.

The highlight of the exhibitions is expected to be the innovative artwork of Joseph Nechvatal. Maximillien de Lafayette wrote: "A most unusual artist who combines lyrical intellectualism and avant garde visionary conceptual art. This artist rivals the best of the best in the business." Since 1986 Joseph Nechvatal has worked with ubiquitous electronic visual information, computers and computer-robotics. His computer-robotic assisted paintings and computer animations are shown regularly in galleries and museums throughout the world. From 1991-1993 he worked as artist-in-resident at the Louis Pasteur Atelier and the Saline Royale / Ledoux Foundation's computer lab in Arbois, France on The Computer Virus Project: an experiment with computer viruses as a creative stratagem. In 2002 he extended that artistic research into the field of viral artificial life through his collaboration with the programmer Stéphane Sikora. Dr. Nechvatal earned his Ph.D. in the philosophy of art and new technology at The Centre for Advanced Inquiry in the Interactive Arts (CAiiA) University of Wales College, Newport, UK where he served as conference coordinator for the 1st International CAiiA Research Conference entitled Consciousness Reframed: Art and Consciousness in the Post-Biological Era (July 1997); an international conference which looked at new developments in art, science, technology and consciousness. Dr. Nechvatal presently teaches at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. He writes periodically on art and new technology for “Artforum”, “Iride”, “Tema Celeste”, “NY Arts Magazine” and “Zing”.

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