CAS is a part of Alternative Histories at Exit Art

Alternative Histories

Alternative Histories
September 24 – November 24, 2010
Opening Friday, September 24, 7-9pm

Alternative Histories is a history of New York City alternative art spaces and projects since the 1960s. Through audio interviews with founders and key staff, a reading room of magazines and publications, documentation, ephemera and narrative descriptions, the exhibition will tell the story of pioneering spaces – like P.S.1, Artists Space, Fashion Moda, Taller Boricua, ABC No Rio, The Kitchen, Franklin Furnace, Exit Art, 112 Greene Street, White Columns, Creative Time, Electronic Arts Intermix, Anthology Film Archives, Storefront for Art and Architecture, Just Above Midtown, and many more – as well as document a new generation of alternative projects such as Live With Animals, Fake Estate, Apartment Show, Pocket Utopia, Cleopatra’s, English Kills Art Gallery, Triple Candie, Esopus Space, and others.

Over 130 spaces are represented in the show, which elaborates on the significant contributions these organizations made to the cultural fabric of New York City. They gave visibility and inclusion to otherwise excluded artists and ideas. The idealism of the founders, the hard work and dedication of everyone involved in sustaining these histories, against all odds, illustrates the dynamic purposes that propel the artistic scene in New York. “Imagination is an alternative to reality, creating options that never end,” says Papo Colo.

The exhibition incorporates a broad definition of the term “alternative space,” and includes significant publications and artist collectives to cover a broad arc of this history – bridging neighborhoods, decades and themes. In the development and organization of this exhibition, the curatorial team viewed dozens of archives and personal collections – selecting critical materials from the histories of the spaces and projects – and interviewed founders and early staff members, when possible, to construct a narrative about the alternative space movement in New York and its continuing impact on the city’s cultural and artistic landscape.

More information at Exit Art.

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Crowd Scene • 9/10/2010 – 10/10/2010

Camel Art Space Presents:

• Crowd Scene •

September 10-October 10, 2010
Weekends only: 12 – 6 pm or by appointment
Opening reception: September 10, 2010, 6pm – 9pm
Location: 722 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn NY 11237
Directions: L – train to Graham Avenue [map]

In 2008 Katy Siegel gave a lecture at School of Visual Arts titled, “A million artists, and all pretty good…” in which she examined the growing number of art students training in BA and MFA programs around the world setting out to compete for a limited audience’s limited attention span. The following year Dave Hickey commented in his SVA lecture, ‘Lately, I’ve begun to feel like
there are way too many artists…’ He went on to say that he is beginning to think of art in groups and categories rather than individual works by individual artists.

Even in the midst of an economic cull of galleries it is impossible to stay abreast of all the art on display at any given moment. Sustained looking and long-term involvement with an artist’s work are almost out of the question. How does an artist make work that gets noticed in this crowd? And how does one deal with the level of rejection that comes from viewers simply not having enough time to stop and look at everything? How does one process the barrage of images while continuing to make even more images? What new paradigm might this huge number of artists be forcing into existence that will question everything about the making of artwork and ownership of ideas?

• Crowd Scene • pulls together four artists making work that takes these questions into
consideration. Each artist working with completely different material and stylistic sensibilities shares a common introspective consideration of their place as artists within the expanding culture of art production and distribution.

Gina Dawson’s needlepoint rejection letters and fragile, cut-paper sculptures reminiscent of funeral wreaths provide consolation on the potential death of her career while simultaneously breathing new life and a bit of hilarity into it.

Eric Doeringer was recently compared to a ‘tribute band, someone faithfully providing a genuine aesthetic experience’ of another artist’s work. Eric has spent the past decade questioning an artist’s ownership of an idea by re-creating various well-known works. His identity in the art world is that of a talented artist making work that just so happens to have previously been made by someone else.

Todd Kelly is making abstract paintings that use the letters of his name or initials as an
organizing compositional structure. Viewers familiar with his practice find themselves
searching the painting for his name similar to the way modern painting might be scrutinized for recognizable imagery. Abstracting the once common practice of including an artist’s name on the work allows for artistic experimentation while providing the expected familiarity an artist must accomplish to be noticed in the current market.

Matthew Langland is painting scenarios in which multiple figures, all self-portraits, are examining, excited by, perpetuating, frightened of or overwhelmed by what they are doing. These paintings present a cyclical, unending vision that is at once hilarious and horrible in which imagery, products and logos threaten the image of the very person who continues to carefully paint them.

Camel Art Space is an Artist operated exhibition Space with a focus on current issues in art within a not for profit work frame, is an affiliate member of Williamsburg Gallery Association and is participating in 2:nd Friday Art Walk.

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Camel is currently enjoying summer recess..

New Shows in August, September and throughout the rest of the year..

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Sanity Disobedience for a New Frontier • 10/23/2010 – 11/28/2010

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Subliminal Space • 12/10/2010 – 1/16/2011

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Netiquette • 2/5/2011 – 3/13/2011

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On the Grid • 8/21 – 8/29/2010

Camel Art Space
Presents: • On the Grid •
August 21 – August 29, 2010
Weekends only: 12 – 6 pm or by appointment
Opening: August 21th, 6pm – 9pm
Music: James Raddock
Location: 722 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn NY 11237
Directions: L – train to Graham Avenue [map]

• On the Grid • is an invitational exhibition comprised of artists, national and inter-national, that have submitted work for consideration by Camel Art Space over the past year. These artists have been invited to submit work to be placed on a grid formed on the walls of Camel Art Space. The artwork’s location on the grid is randomly determined by lottery.

Partly denying itself the empowered role of curator, Camel Art Space has left the contents of the show to the chance doings of the artists involved, making a cohesive, centralized concept or theme impossible. Thematic chaos promises to reign within the structured confines of the grid, celebrating the unexpected by giving the artist control and allowing the prospect of chance to arrange the work.  Within this rigid predictable structure no one knows what will happen…

Participating Artists:

Jody Erickson • Jacek Maczynski • Jaclyn Brown • Carl Auge • Al Lewis • Pamela Johnston • Laura Craft  •  Leah Schrager • Benjamin Sisto • Jean-Paul Cattin • Anita Sto • Carrie Elston • Sam Keogh • Tracy Iannone • Jake Remington • Yuko Ueno • Ray Paul • Keri Oldham • Alisa Mulina  • Christa Diepenbrock • John Kesling • Cassandra Giacci • Rachel Wells • Erica Stoller • David Zukas • Dominique Quintana • Chris D’Acunto • Mike Varley • Igor Ivanov • Jamie Kelty • David Cruz • Nikki Katsikas  • Asha Canalos  • Nate Moss • Corydon Cowansage • Chelsea Linehan • Christopher Quirk • Amy Madden

(non)-curated by: Chris McGee & Rob de Oude

Camel Art Space is an Artist operated Exhibition Space with a focus on current issues in art within a not for profit work frame, is an affiliate member of Williamsburg Gallery Association and participating in 2:nd Friday Art Walk.

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Drawing of the Year • June 4 – June 27, 2010

Camel Art Space Presents:
• Drawing of the Year •
June 4 – June 27, 2010
Opening: June 4th, 6pm – 10pm (concurrent with BOS)
Music: Squirrel Biscuit
Weekends only: 12 – 6 pm or by appointment
Location: 722 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn NY 11237
Directions: L – train to Graham Avenue [map]

•Drawing of the Year• is an exhibition comprised of works on paper by most of the artists that have shown at Camel over the past year; a year in review if you will. Simultaneously will this be a celebratory event to toast to the anniversary of Camel Art Space, as will this exhibition partly coincide with our own Open Studios.

Artists that participate include: Adam Taye, Ben Needham, Ben Berlow, Sam Martineau, Sarah McDouglas Kohn, Chris McGee, Tiana Peterson, Lance Lankford, Peter Lapsley, Nick van Woert, Hilary Doyle, Maria Kondratiev, Julie Torres, Elisa Velazquez,  Chris Martin,  Maria Walker, Nora Griffin,  Rachel Salamone, Carl Gunhouse, Christine Rogers, Thom Marquet,  Lauren Portada, Catherine Stack, Matthew Murphy, Jeremy Roby,  Chris Burnside, Nathan Gelgud, Alisa Ochoa, James Woodward, Enrico Gomez, Colm Feehan, Chris Rawson, Jessica Smith, Reid Hitt, Fred Spadafora, Connie Golden, Jeff Burdian, Helena Wurzel, Yuliya Lalina, Erin Shafkind, Brian Buckley, Millie Falcaro, Jeffrey Rothstein, Bryan Graf, Julia Colavita, Drew Wiedemann, Jessica Witkin

Camel Art Space is an Artist operated Exhibition Space with a focus on current issues in art within a not for profit work frame, is an affiliate member of Williamsburg Gallery Association and participating in 2:nd Friday Art Walk.

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Photogenic • May 8 – May 30, 2010

Camel Art Space Presents:


• Photogenic •

An investigation into current photogram practices


image: Brian Buckley

May 8 – May 30, 2010
Weekends only: 12 – 6 pm or by appointment

Opening reception: May 14th, 6 – 9 pm
Music by: Musical Guest t.b.a.
Location: 722 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn NY 11237
Directions: L – train to Graham Avenue [map]

“Photogenic” is an investigation of current photogram practitioners and their efforts to mine the alchemical and physical roots of the medium. By getting back to basics, the artists delve into the mysteries and magic of core photographic principles that generated their original fascination with image making. The photogram demands their physical presence as well as that of man-made and natural elements.Process and approach are dominant. Chance and mistakes play major roles in refining and integrating the creative act. This witch’s brew forms the catalyst for inhabiting the visceral experience created by the artists. They are seekers of beauty and tragedy, poetics and higher meaning,all within the boundaries of the photogram. ~J.Isherwood

Artists: Brian Buckley, Millie Falcaro, Bryan Graf, Jeffrey Rothstein, Drew Wiedemann

Curated by: James Isherwood

A photogram is the immediate result of a constellation of light,three dimensional objects and photosensitive material.The image results from the process of light-bending or refraction caused by the placement of the objects themselves. A source of light can be used as well as invisible waves such as microwaves,infrared light and x-rays. Due to its immediacy,its quality as index caused by potential contact and physical distance relationships,the photogram imparts more to imprint techniques and the phenomena of shadow. ~www.photogram.org



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Lonely Fire • March 12 – April 25, 2010

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March 12th – April 25th 2010
Weekends only: 12 – 6 pm or by appointment

Opening reception: March 12th, 7 – 9 pm
Music by: Special Musical Guest t.b.a.
Location: 722 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn NY 11237
Directions: L – train to Graham Avenue [map]

“Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself “– Miles Davis

“A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected by in as many ways as they’re capable of understanding” – Steve Prefontaine

OTZ and Camel Art Space are pleased to announce – Lonely Fire- , a group exhibition of new work by visual artists Chris Burnside, Tania Cross, Nathan Gelgud, Sam Martineau, Ben Needham, Alisa Ochoa, Adam Taye, James Woodward, Enrico Gomez, a.o.

The exhibition borrows its name from the epic Miles Davis track from the -Bitches Brew Sessions-, recorded between 1969-1970, and will explore the concepts of the deification of the modern male athlete, spirituality, local tradition and the road to victory.

Historically, sports or games were organized to ready men for battle and were held in honor of local religious traditions. Some of the first Western games were foot races that were enacted within religious sanctuaries, which precipitated the Olympic Games and the modern sports industrial complex. The gain of immense ascendancy of the individual through organized physical group-set competition began within this framework and has never left our collective conscience.

Sports are still perhaps the greatest theater of live performance where local customs and factional interests are played out. Sports bring solidarity to diverse populations, unified behind a shared goal of winning and team identity. It is in this context that the spectacle of human beings pitted against one and another (or going at it alone) is at its greatest and yet most basic height.

Curated by: Outside the Timezone: Chris Rawson and Julian Calero

Camel Art Space is an Artist operated Art Space with a focus on current issues in art within a not for profit work frame, is an affiliate member of Williamsburg Gallery Association and participating at 2:nd Friday Art Walk.


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Artist Brunch • April 25, 2010 @ 1PM

What?: Artist Brunch

When?: Sunday 4/25/10 @ 1pm

Where?: Camel Art Space. 722 Metropolitan Avenue, 2nd floor.

In Support of our current show we organize •Artist Brunch•. A more intimate setting to meet the artists in show, as opposed to the bustle of an opening. Come on by, have a coffee, a bagel, some art… This will as well be that last day of •Lonely Fire•.

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2:nd Friday Music • April 9, 2010

As part of • lonely Fire •, the exhibition currently on display at Camel Art Space, Outside the Time Zone will feature two musical acts, concurrent with 2:nd Friday Art Walk.

• 8pm   Pure Horsehair (http://www.myspace.com/purehorsehairmusic)
• 9pm   Man Benu (http://www.myspace.com/yeltnebmusic)

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Open Studios • June 4, 5 & 6

Camel Art Space will be opening their studios open to the public, as part of Bushwick Open Studios.

June 4: 6pm – 10pm; reception, concurrent with the opening of our gallery show.

June 5: 12 noon – 7pm

June 6: 12 noon – 7pm

Location: 722 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn NY 11237
Directions: L – train to Graham Avenue [map]

Participaring Artists: Rob de Oude, Reid Hill, Hilary Doyle, Maria Kondratiev, Joseph Sossi, Enrico Gomez, Daniel Fay, and more…

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Tape w/ No Name • March 6, 2010

Camel Art Space presents:

(especially composed for WGA/Armory events)
•  Tape w/ No Name  •

Saturday 3/6/2010, 12 noon – 10PM
Opening: 3/6/2010, 6 – 10PM
Location: 722 Metropolitan Avenue

A collaborative installation of anonymous artists using tape as a means of installation, creation, or as a method to install, underlining the ephemeral spirit of tape, as well as of this one day only event. (also to not mess up the walls with nail holes since our next show will go up Sunday, the day after).

Tape could be used in various ways, it could be used to “stick it to it”, it could be explored for its contemporaneous line and/or voluminous qualities, it could be written with, added to, written on, it could be messy, clean, straight, bowed, loose, tight, wide, skinny, little or a lot, repeated, it comes in various colors, or..whatever one could come up with.. Anyway, the field is thus wide open.
The experimental nature of this spontaneous, collaborative effort will make this like a performance piece with a residual final outcome that we won’t know yet, and will only be able to be viewed once the bell rings and the ‘tape down’ signal is given at 6PM.

“No Name” emphasizes the anonymity of this experimental installation, creating the opportunity for artists to have their works not be bound by personal endeavor, originality and prestige. Works could be ‘added’ to existing works, creating a symbiosis of collaboration, all within the arena of lightness and play, not to be hampered by competitive strife and personality that could all too easily seep into group efforts.

The anonymous artists that partake could be Camel Art Space related or could be of non-ungulate origin.

Camel Art Space Will be open from 12 Noon until 10 PM. 6 pm – 10 pm there will be a WGA/Armory staying open(ing) event where the installation(s) can be viewed in its completed form (BYOB).

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Press

• Greenpoint Gazette names Camel B.O.S. festival highlight

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• New York Magazine names Camel one of 25 new galleries to watch

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Distimacy • Feb 12 – 28, 2010

Camel Art Space presents:

• Distimacy •

February 12th – 28th 2010

Weekends only: 12 – 6 pm or by appointment

Opening reception: February 12th, 6 – 9 pm

Music by: Squirrel Biscuit (Candace Miller of Fall of Another Year)

Location: 722 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn NY 11237

Directions: L – train to Graham Avenue [map]

Distance and intimacy offer a range of perspectives toward viewing a work of art. Many times proposed intimacy can invite an uncomfortable response of distance from one party or another not wanting the responsibility intimacy needs. The works in this exhibition on one level or another engages distance and intimacy, while occasionally embodying both. In all of these works distance is what we have when we come to the work, intimacy is what we give to it by participating in it and internalizing it. All of this takes place in space, through the eyes, and in the mind.

The artists in this show deploy their visions within this field and bring to it a range of ideas about perception, meaning, content and form. This diversity is intended as is a challenge to a superficial grouping of appearances. ~M.M.

Artists: Matthew Murphy, Catherine Stack, Corrine Kamiya, Tim Bearse, Jeremy Roby,

Curated by: Matthew Murphy, Catherine Stack

Camel Art Space is an Artist operated Art Space with a focus on current issues in art within a not for profit work frame, is an affiliate member of Williamsburg Gallery Association and participating at 2:nd Friday Art Walk.

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The Promise of Real Estate • jan 08 – 24, 2010

Camel Art Space presents:

• The Promise of Real Estate •

January 8th – 24th 2010
Weekends only: 12 – 6 pm or by appointment

Opening reception: January 8th, 6 – 9 pm
Music by: Michael Weylandt, at 8 pm

Location: 722 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn NY 11237
Directions: L – train to Graham Avenue [map]

One of the first things you learn to draw is a house in a landscape of sun, horizon and stick figures. Becoming an adult means finding a stable relationship, a career, a car, and perhaps most importantly, you start looking at real estate in the hopes that sooner or later you might be able to establish the lasting security of a home. You long for a sense of place where you can be happy and fulfilled. Yet this promise of real estate has led to the complete destabilizing of the world’s most powerful economy.
Each unique in their approach, Carl Gunhouse, Chris McGee, Christine Rogers, Rachel Boillot, Lauren Portada and Tom Marquet all deal with the idea of real estate. Their artworks examine the topic of home ownership in a variety of ways: the seduction of the home, the illusion of stability that home ownership provides, and what happens when the illusion collapses. ~C.G. & C.R.

Curated by: Carl Gunhouse & Christine Rogers

Catalog available upon request.

Camel Art Space is an Artist operated Art Space with a focus on current issues in art within a not for profit work frame, is an affiliate member of Williamsburg Gallery Association and participating at 2:nd Friday Art Walk.

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Soft Edge • December 11th – 20th, 2009

Camel Art Space is pleased to announce:

• Soft Edge •

A group exhibition of abstract works by Peter Acheson, Chris Martin, Nora Griffin, Anna Rosen, Rachel Salamone, and Maria Walker.
Each offering his or her own take on abstraction, the artists in ‘Soft Edge’ all share a direct, hands-on approach to their materials. The works in the exhibition emphasize their physicality and often reveal the structures, crossing traditional media boundaries.

Curated by: Hilary Doyle & Reid Hitt.

December 11th – 20th 2009

Weekends only: 12 – 6 pm or by appointment

Opening reception: December 11th, 6 – 9 pm

Location: 722 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn NY 11237

Camel Art Space is an Artist operated Art Space with a focus on current issues in art within a not for profit work frame, is an affiliate member of Williamsburg Gallery Association and participating at 2:nd Friday Art Walk.

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The Resident Faction • Nov 13 – 29, 2009

Camel Art Space presents:

• The Resident Faction •


A group exhibition of new works by the artists and affiliates of 722 Metropolitan Avenue. Camel Art Space and it’s participants are proud to have created a new platform for artists to exhibit work on their own terms within the greater Williamsburg community. This exhibition brings together work from a diverse group of individuals that celebrates the energy,broad intellect and vitality of artistic investigation.
Curated by: James Isherwood

November 13th – 29th 2009

Weekends only: 12 – 6 pm or by appointment

Opening reception: November 13th, 6 – 9 pm

Music by: Mark Daterman

Location: 722 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn NY 11237 [map]

Camel Art Space is an Artist operated Art Space with a focus on current issues in art within a not for profit work frame, is an affiliate member of Williamsburg Gallery Association and is participating at 2:nd Friday Art Walk.

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