ANTON PERICH: PLACED INTO ART HISTORY - IN THE GAP BETWEEN WARHOL AND DIGITAL ART/NEW MEDIA

“No, Wade Guyton did not invent a new paintbrush; Anton Perich did in 1978, when Guyton was six.” 

Anton Perich's latest show at Postmaster Gallery in New York, has smoothly placed him into the contemporary art world, underlining his importance into the timeline of history

ANTON PERICH'S ELECTRIC BRUSH STROKE

Anton and his Ataturk painting in Istanbul at the Istanbul Art Biennial 2005 in connection to the Skanbul Connection Project, that led up to The Triangle Project.

Anton and his "GWB" painting at ABC NO RIO Gallery in connection to the "Grounded - Was Man Meant to Fly" exhibition in 2008.

One of Anton's great inspirations is his countryman and fellow inventor Nicola Tesla 

Anton's son Tristan Perich have also performed several times in connection with The Triangle Project

Anton had a key role in the Max's Kansas City exhibition called "Art imitating Life, imitating Art" that took place at Nikolaj Kunsthal - Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center in the fall of 2004.

Within the exhibition, the Back Room from Max's Kansas City was re-created, where Anton's videos from Max's was shown, including many of the Warhol Superstars such as in the above screen of Holly Woodlawn. In the room, the original Red Neon Triangle by Dan Flavin, that was also in Max's backroom, was installed.

Anton had a separate room with his machine paintings of Andrea "Whips" Feldman, Candy Darling and Cyrinda Foxe Tyler, with a monitor showing the machine in action while painting the canvases on the wall.

Anton's classic portrait of Warhol taking a Polaroid picture of Anton, along with the Banana that currently hangs on Anton's wall in his studio.

Here the Banana with an illustration in the lower left corner of Cesarina Ferro being painted by the machine, drawn by Sasha Fuglsang Mikkelsen.

Anton also came over to Copenhagen in connection to the Copenhagen Night of Culture, where a Fashion show was held. This with the Danish designer Ann Charlotte Vengsgaard who used Anton's photos as prints for her dresses, including the one above signed by Anton on the back.

Frosty Myers was also there, creating one of his Search Light Pyramids over the 13th Century Church that hosts Nikolaj Kunsthal, while Maja Albana played LIVE on stage with her music, which Anton often listens to when painting.

Most of the above images above are also by Anton, including the right image of Max's Kansas City that was used for the 40th Anniversary of Max's in 2005 and designed by Cansu Aybar. Notice Anton in the lower right corner as a young determined man.

The above image of Misha Sedgwick is by Danish photographer Christian Holm was taken at the 40th Anniversary event for Max's. Misha is one of Anton's muses, that often can be seen in his paintings, photographs, videos and in NIGHT Magazine.

The above painting is of Fischer, from the electro band Fischer/Spooner.

In above, Anton is documenting his work at the Steve Kasher Gallery, where he showed in 2010.

Another of Anton's muses, Andrea Langdon.

Another of Anton's inspirations, Andy Warhol.

Kristina Korsholm, who is also part of The Triangle Project and of course another one of Anton's muses.

Misha Sedgewick

The amazing Croatian inventor and inspiration Nikola Tesla

In 2011, Anton created some wonderful over-sized photogram prints of Andrea, which were exhibited at Copenhagen Photo Festival.

When shown, they were printed down in size, close to the size of a Barbie doll looking like little Faries caught in flight by light.

Neke Carson and Colette are some of Anton's New York contemporaries, who over time have been recognized to have greatly inspired and influenced the New York art and underground scene.

Other than Anton's wild times at Max's Kansas City and STUDIO 54, he had his NIGHT Magazine office at above Gershwin Hotel. Here several of his films took place, he had the 10th floor with some of his classic original hand printed black and white photos along with the whole 2nd floor with a NIGHT Magazine installation.

The work shown at Anton's latest show at Postmaster Gallery are a selection of some of his most important paintings and it is with great pleasure one can read the many positive reviews and stories about the exhibition, such as:

The Village Voice's Power Painter
Purple Magazine's Studio Visit
Another Magazine's A Digital Pioneer
Miss Rosen's Electric Paintings
The Daily Servings Story
In a story about a show Anton had simultaneously on the West Coast
And finally the original Press Release that set the tone in the best possible way

Anton Perich: Electric Paintings 1978–2014 
is on view at  Postmasters Gallery through November 22, 2014.

INTENTIONAL ART LAUNCH AND PANEL AT GERSHWIN HOTEL PRESENTED BY NEKE CARSON

Nicollette Ramirez (above) will be in the panel following the launch of Intentional Art and is a curator, art dealer, writer, performer, producer and events organizer with over ten years of experience being an arts advocate, promoting artists and their work in various media, including visual arts, performance, music, film and literature. Ms. Ramirez’s projects have often combined artists from diverse backgrounds working in several different media in new and unfamiliar locations. She has also written creatively and journalistically for print and online publications as well as for gallery and museum catalogs.

Daniel Pinchbeck (born 15 June 1966) is an American author living in New York's East Village. He is the author of Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism and 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl. 

He is a co-founder of Evolver, a lifestyle community platform that publishes Reality Sandwich, an online magazine centered around spirituality, philosophy and activism.  

He has written for many publications, including Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, The Village Voice, and Rolling Stone. In 1994 he was chosen by The New York Times Magazine as one of "Thirty Under Thirty" destined to change our culture through his work with Open City. He has been a regular columnist for a number of magazines, including Dazed & Confused. (Wikipedia)

The text presenting the first draft of Intentional Art is written by Ann-Sofie Nielsen Gremaud (b. 1981).

She is a Danish/Swiss researcher of cultural history, currently based in Reykjavík and have studied Art History and Scandinavian Literature at the University of Aarhus, Denmark.

Her PhD thesis is about crypto-colonial elements in Icelandic nation building and the importance of landscape imagery. She is affiliated with the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies at the University of Copenhagen as a postdoctoral fellow with the research project Geographies of Crisis: Post-Industrial Landscapes in the North Atlantic as a part of a larger joint research project. Currently she is a visiting scholar at the Edda Center of Excellence at Háskóli Íslands (Reykjavík, Iceland).

The Moderator of the panel debate will be Katherine Jánszky Michaelsen,  a professor in the History of Art Department, and chair of the Master of Arts program in Art Market: Principles and Practices at the Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNY. Before FIT she taught at Columbia University, Brooklyn College, Marymount Manhattan College, and Stern College, Yeshiva University. In 2006 she co-taught a seminar on Biblical Jurisprudence at Columbia Law School, and in 2007 and 2008 she was guest lecturer at Istanbul Technical University in Turkey. 

Michaelsen earned her PhD from the Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University, specializing in modern art. Her dissertation, Archipenko, The Early Work, 1908-1920, was published by Garland Publishing, New York, in the Outstanding Dissertations in the Fine Arts series. She is author of many articles and catalogue essays, and was guest curator at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC of Archipenko, A Centennial Tribute; and of Andor Weininger, From Bauhaus to Conceptual Art at the Kunsteverein, Düsseldorf, an exhibition that traveled to various venues in Europe, and the Neuberger Museum in Purchase, New York.

At Columbia University she was awarded a four-year Graduate Faculties Fellowship, and she has been the recipient of research grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. Michaelsen conducted radio interviews in French with New York art world personalities for L’Art Aujourd’hui, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation/Radio Canada; worked as art gallery administrator, represented artists, and served as art consultant for private and corporate clients. She is a member of the National Advisory Council, Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York; the Board of Directors of (contemporary music) Ensemble Sospeso, New York; and ArtTable, the national organization for professional women in the arts.

Noah Fischer is an artist and activist based in New York. His sculptures and performances are activated by the rhetoric, symbols, and currencies that condition one’s public identity as participant in a culture or economy. After attending Columbia University, Fischer (MFA 2004) moved to the Netherlands on a Fulbright, initiating a collaboration with the Berlin-based theatre group andcompany&Co and touring with performances which playfully explore economic ideology. His sculptural exhibitions such as Rhetoric Machine (2006, Oliver Kamm Gallery NYC) and Electrical Forest (2009) and Pop Ark (2008, Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussels) explore the official rhetoric of 20th Century technological and political progress. 

Following the crash of 2008, Fischer exited from the private art market.  In 2011, he collaborated with the Aaron Burr Society on a performance series called Summer of Change speaking out about economic injustice in public performances on Wall Street months before the Occupy Movement was initiated in New York.  Since September 2011, Fischer merged his practice with the Occupy Movement, initiating action groups Occupy Subways and Occupy Museums. Fischer participated in the 7th Berlin Biennial as a member of Occupy Museums and in “Truth is Concrete” at the Steirischer Herbst,  Graz 2012.  Currently Fischer is developing a “market action” called Debtfair (debtfair.org) and engages in a new series of videos. He is also involved in a new international stage of Occupy Museums called Winter Holiday Camp.  

More about Noah's work HERE

Sisters Hope operate in the intersection of performance art, research, activism and pedagogy. They are working proactively toward manifesting a more sensuous and poetic educational system.

A storm rages outside, but behind sturdy walls, the sisters are doing important experiments: while the old world is falling apart, they investigate what values to base the new world on. A long time ago, the sisters became aware that something would happen to the world they knew, and so they formed a school – Sisters Hope. Since then, they have inspired youths from the entire nation, nourished the ground and planted special seeds. The time has ripened. It is ripe. It is time for the birth of Sisters Academy, the unity of inspirations, the reaping of visions – A place open to fresh and fleshy ideas. A place where the dream you just dreamed is as important as the breath you take. A place where the ambience touches your soul as the light fades. A place where memories of the past is turned into hope for the future…

Sisters Hope was founded in 2007 by Anna Lawaetz and Gry Worre Hallberg. In the fictitious universe they personify Coco and Coca Pebber – the twin sisters and the headmistresses of the school Sisters Hope.

More about Sisters Hope HERE

Gabriel Don is a multidisciplinary artist or Renaissance woman who works in a variety of mediums.
She received her MFA in creative writing at The New School, where she worked as the chapbook and reading series coordinator. Her work has appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, Great Weather for Media's anthology The Understanding Between Foxes and Light, A Minor, Westerly and is forthcoming in Mascara Literary Review and The Legendary. She has appeared in visual poems such as Woman Without Umbrella and Unbound. She started several reading-soiree series, is editorial staff at LIT and participates in live art events around New York. Gabriel Don is also available on Amazon as a Bookdress who has performed in various literary, art and public spaces including the MET.

The Danish artist Jacob Fuglsang Mikkelsen who is the facilitator of The Triangle Project and Founder of CO2 Green Drive, will join the panel and talk about how the above mentioned projects fits in under the framework of Intentional Art. More about Jacob's work HERE

The evening will be hosted by Neke Carson

Gershwin Hotel
7 East 27th Street
Friday April 18th 2014

More about the event HERE