“On the Grid” is an invitational show comprised of artists that have submitted work for consideration by Camel Art Space over the past year. These artists have been invited to submit or create work to be placed on a grid formed on the walls of Camel Art Space. The artwork’s location on the grid will be randomly determined by lottery.

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 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…

(not)-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.

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

• 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

• Lonely Fire •

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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.

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