7Eleven Gallery Make yourself At Home
After this week’s big chill in NYC, yesterday was a harbinger of Spring and I was heading over to the Highline in the gallery district. Thursday evenings usually signal art openings in Chelsea’s converted gallery warehouse spaces and the 7Eleven Gallery brought their group exhibition street level. The show Make Yourself At Home, is installed in a temporary space at 169 Tenth Avenue and will run until June 6, 2010.
The artists transformed the industrial setting into a multi room house re-imaging everyday objects. Viewers are encouraged to ‘stretch out’ and ‘make themselves at home’ with the re-considered objet d’art. Favorites of mine were the wallpaper designs repeating either insect or helicopter motifs and the Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp paperback used as a bookshelf. Also inviting was the robotic doll musing the meaning of art reclining on the red and white gingham blanket making me consider to break a baguette with him.
7Eleven Gallery Make yourself At Home
7Eleven Gallery Make yourself At Home
7Eleven Gallery Make yourself At Home
7Eleven Gallery Make yourself At Home
7Eleven Gallery Make yourself At Home
PHOTO 2: Mary Heilmann table and cups and saucers. Plate by Mary Heilmann and Steve Keister. Wire chandelier by Kwangho Lee.
PHOTO 3: Record player by Thomas Beale. Red chair by Mary Heilmann. White diamond by John Torreano. Couch by Kwangho Lee. Pillows by Sean Mellyn. Wall necklace by John Torreano. TV screen by James Nares. Table by Max Lamb.
PHOTO 4: Wall sculpture by Jill Levine. Wallpaper by Rob Wynne.
PHOTO 5: Duchamp shelf by Alexander Massouras. Cup by Steve Keister. Wallpaper by Francesco Simeti.
PHOTO 6: Four-headed robot by Alex Rickard.
Make Yourself at Home curated by Sabrina Blaichman, Caroline Copley and Genevieve Hudson-Price open until June 6th 2010.
theater meets art ~ a roaming play
directed by Diana Basmajian and Jeremy Bloom
one performance only!
June 3 ~ 7PM
Make Yourself at Home @ 7 Eleven Gallery
169 10th Avenue at 20th Street
space is limited