Archive for category 2010 News
Artists in Residence Maria Baraybar and Kate Murray
Lucky Gallery, Luis Blackaller
Lucky Gallery is pleased to announce Maria Baraybar and Kate Murray – Lucky Gallery artists in residence. Both Maria and Kate are Brooklyn artists who will be calling Lucky Gallery their home away from home. Please give them a warm welcome to Red Hook and Lucky looks forward to working with them in the future months.
Lucky Gallery is in search of one more artist in residence – could that be you? email laura@luckygallery.com
Lucky Gallery is on Hiatus
Stay tuned we are restructuring, planning some exciting exhibitions and getting ready for Spring! …. details coming soon
Lucky Gallery Welcomes Alexander Ellis – Event Photographer
Alexander Ellis
Alexander is a recent graduate of the George Washington University, where he was the photo editor of the independent college newspaper, the Hatchet. Here he developed his love and passion for photography and journalism. His favorite photographer is Henri Cartier-Bresson, the father of modern photojournalism.
When he is not shooting for Lucky Gallery, you can find him freelancing in the tri-state area and taking his dog on long walks.
Smile for Alexander at the next Lucky Gallery event (he most likely will be the guy with the biggest camera in the room)!
Lucky Gallery Artists in Residence
Pedro Covo
Lucky Gallery is looking for artists to take residence at the gallery space in Red Hook.
+ all amenities
+ 24/Hr Access
+ show opportunities at Lucky Gallery
+ exposure through Lucky Gallery site and other marketing initiatives
Please email laura@luckygallery.com for more details.
Lucky Gallery Presents “Daily Porn”
Iulia Toacaci
From Feb 13th to March 6th, Lucky Gallery is pleased to announce “Daily Porn”, a pornographic bonanza of erotic books, collages, drawings, sculpture, and performance by artists Greg Beyer, Will Kurtz, John Lennon, Morgan Miller, Mark Mulroney, Kevin Muth, Hannah Nelson, Tara Sinn, Alix Sorrell, and Iulia Toacaci, exploring the ever-changing role of pornography in the realm of the contemporary art.
No longer confined to the pages of antiquity (Re: Petronius), the erotic has transcended into the world of mainstream media to become a propaganda tool and everyday commodity. Regardless of its highbrow/lowbrow underpinnings, we continue to create, display, question and enjoy images of desire both openly and secretly.
From the surreal eroticism of Salvador Dali to the kitsch eroticism of Jeff Koons, erotic art (in all its forms) has always inflamed public opinion. Even today, our supposed relaxation of the codes of behavior often rings false, as images involving nudity and the erotic are considered provocative, dangerous, and unwelcome in the public sphere.
Curated by gallery director Laura Arena and artist Iulia Toacaci, Daily Porn aims to explore and define what is erotic and titillating to different creative individuals, displaying a diversity of sensibilities and approaches that range from the humorous and raunchy, to the personal and the intimate.
The intent is not to criticize a direction or another, an attitude or a preconceived idea on the existence, the nature, and the social / political and economic implications of sexual imagery. The exhibition is not a re-action to people’s prudeness when it comes to exposure to sexual content and is not actively and consciously trying to educate an audience but reinforce something that everybody already knows, whether they agree with or not, accept it or not, and that sex and its visual representations have been part of our lives for as long as we can discuss consciousness.
To quote Henry Miller “obscenity, like sex, has its natural, rightful place in literature as it does in life”.
Featured Artist Works for Sale – “Anatomically Incorrect”
Featured Artist Works for Sale – “Anatomically Incorrect”
Anastasia Akulinina/Kaerfkrahs
Fish McGill
Faro
Eunjeong Yoo
Downer
Scott Ferguson
Brian Butler
Limited edition of 10, dimensions are 11 x 17″, price $50.00. For sale inquiries email Laura@LuckyGallery.com.