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Mighty Alpacas (Closing Party)

admin — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 18:11:03 +0000

The Mighty Alpacas are a newly formed group out of New York City that incorporates electronics and acoustic instruments. They are happy to announce that the Lucky Gallery is one of the bands premiere shows. The band features Ravish Momin on drums and and electronics; Momin has worked with Pop music sensation Shakira and also leads his own group Trio Tarana. Jason Candler performs on alto saxophone and electronics and he is known for his work with the Hungry March Band and Earth People. Jesse Dulman plays the tuba and he is a former member of the Stumblebum Brass Band, Burnt Sugar, and Kalaparush and the Light.

Arc Angle Opening Reception Photos

admin — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:51:11 +0000

Yagil (Closing Party)

admin — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 03:25:51 +0000

Yagil

Yagil was born and briefly raised in Brooklyn, NY. Moving every three-something years of his life, Yagil has spent most of his life bouncing between different neighborhoods in Ra’anana, Israel and New York State. Having met his co-producer and guitarist Dan Blackburn in high school in Rockland County, NY, Yagil and Dan have been playing together for close to a decade. Returning to his place of birth, Yagil has more recently written Anticipating Summer, an EP about winter in Brooklyn and the Anticipating Summer in Israel. Anticipating Summer EP is a collaboration with musicians Yagil met attending Purchase College. Most noteably, Rusty Mack, who produced the EP. Yagil’s influences come from his travels and cultural exchanges mostly deriving from Mediterranean, Spanish, and Reggae music.

Heidi Jane (Closing Party)

admin — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 02:59:36 +0000

Heidi Jane

Heidi Jane is a MFA student at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, MA. Her artwork focuses on the tender exploration of the world’s suffering using non-traditional materials and actions.

She is a vigorous advocate for the vulnerable and enjoys pushing the envelope through guerrilla interventions, working to challenge ideals of law, morality, and social norms.

Lucky Gallery Closing Party

admin — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 22:53:02 +0000

Illustration Luis Blackaller

On July 30th, 7-12pm is the closing party for the final exhibition “Arc Angle” and for Lucky Gallery. “Arc Angle”, is a full scale (floor-to-ceiling), atmospheric installation featuring 13 New York City based artists.

Curated and directed by Yagil in collaboration with Amy Weng, the installation includes sculpture, video, music, painting, poetry, and photography, from thirteen artists, including Benjamin Ayers, Jeremy Holmes, Michael Kondel, Emily Gosweiler, Timothy Shipman, Andrew Rowley, A.M. Breakups, Krystal Kaler, Claire Dickinson, Patrick Lamothe, Ani Sevag, Kelsey Bozler and Kipton Hinsdale.

This is a celebration of more than a year of Lucky exhibitions and events and includes musical performances by Yagil, Mighty Alpacas, Comadante Zero in collaboration with visual artist 0h10M1ke and from Boston, the Gondoliers. In between sets enjoy the sounds of DJ Spacey Sissick who will end the evening with sweaty dance party and with ongoing performance by Boston peformance artist Heidi Jane.

Beer and wine will be provided with special drink specials over the course of the night. Come and say goodbye, buy a Lucky Gallery t-shirt, and enjoy an evening of some of the best entertainment South of Brooklyn in the tropics of Red Hook!

Illustration by Luis Blackaller (blacklog.mitplw.com)

Gondoliers (Closing Party)

admin — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 21:12:51 +0000

Gondoliers

Two people decided it would be fun and interesting to write and play music together, It was so much fun that they decided to play in front of other people. That was so much fun, they decided to try and add visual elements to the live shows. They met a third person from another band while playing live and decided to start writing and playing music with that third person. You are now caught up.

The Gondoliers is the 1930′s idea of what the 1980′s would be.

DJ Spacey Sissick (Closing Party)

admin — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 20:56:44 +0000

Born the year of the 12”, Brooklyn raised DJ Spacey Sissick was nourished on a steady diet of the beauty that came from the strife of NYC’s last Golden age of culture. Disco kids, b-boys and graffiti drenched subway lines were all awe inspiring in equal measure to his impressionable senses. This all culminates into the artist he is today. Mel has been spinning under various guises for over 12 years.

Vinyl is all he thinks about. It doesn’t help that he is the buyer & manager of one of New York’s best record stores (infinityrecords.net), so he has boundless access to music from all areas & time. Taking the cue from his forefathers before him; (Mancuso, Levan, Arthur Russell, Ron Hardy, The Symlonylon crew), Spacey crafts deeps mixes that cram together late 70’s – mid 90’s NYC, Chicago, and Detroit street sounds along with new music that takes inspiration from those scenes. There were no boundaries then, and he continues to show that there are bridges in all music, as well as all of humanity if you look and listen hard enough

0H10M1ke (Closing Party)

admin — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 20:50:14 +0000

0h10m1ke

0H10M1ke wanders the streets of Brooklyn and NYC, passing out serially numbered matchbook portraits drawn on the spot in 1 minute.

In 2007, he completed The Year of 1000 Drawings.

His 2008 work, 10K PPL, consists of 10,000 contour drawings of faces.

0H10M1ke LIVEDRAW is a collaboration between live bands, DJs and performers in which the artist projects his wacom tablet drawings, created in real time to the beat of the music, as the visual backdrop of a live performance.

Comandante Zero (Closing Party)

admin — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 20:42:26 +0000

Commadante Zero

Comandante Zero, or C0, is a Brooklyn-based drum/bass laptop duo consisting of two New York session musicians: bassist/singer Dan Freeman and drummer /producer Ken White mixing the live groove of bygone dance bands like Chic, a modern electro sound and baritone Leonard Cohen-esque vocals. Formed in 2006 as a touring rhythm section for electro-artist Xavier they’ve shared the stage with some of Brooklyn’s favorite indie and electro acts like The Juan Maclean, The Brazilian Girls and Stellastarr* and performed in New York, London and Berlin.

Their shows are a musical and visual collaboration with Brooklyn artist 0h10M1ke who digitally draws each song as it’s being played and have sold out multiple times and gotten them labeled one of the best unsigned bands in the US by Music Connection magazine. In 2009 they went into the studio to record their first album ‘SlouchingToward Babylon’ and in January 2010 they released their first track ‘Give It Up (Receive And Transmit)’ mixed by Grammy-award winning engineer/producer Bob Power.

“Arc Angle” Opening Reception, July 10, 7-10PM

admin — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:44:14 +0000

Lucky Gallery invites you to Arc Angle opening reception July 10th, 7-10pm. Arc Angle is a full scale (floor-to-ceiling), atmospheric installation featuring the work of thirteen New York City based artists. The evening will include acoustic performances and special surprises and an opportunity to meet the artists.

The installation conveys the progressive nature of western technology juxtaposed with the organic world and the affect it has on today’s modern lifestyle. It questions the benefits and detriments of the Western world’s techno-scientific advancements in relation to the natural world. Presented in a lighthearted fashion, the installations borrow and relate to the pace, aesthetic and feel of contemporary Western media.

The installation includes sculpture, video, music, painting, poetry, and photography, from artists Benjamin Ayers, Jeremy Holmes, Michael Kondel, Emily Gosweiler, Timothy Shipman, Andrew Rowley, A.M. Breakups, Krystal Kaler, Claire Dickinson, Patrick Lamothe, Ani Sevag, Kelsey Bozler and Kipton Hinsdale. The installation transforms the Lucky Gallery space to create discussion within the community about the ongoing topic.

“Arc Angle” is directed and curated by Yagil, in collaboration with Amy Weng.