loud paper reviews SUPERFRONT’s double summer exhibits
Check out loud paper’s review of Public Summer at SUPERFRONT, including Artists Who Play Well With Architects and the KIT installation outside in the backyard.
Public Summer w/ KIT + NYCE Carnival opens for the kids July 10th – grown-ups’ reception July 17th
SUPERFRONT is proud to invite you to PUBLIC SUMMER with KIT and NYC Explorers’ Carnival with special reception July 17th 6pm – 9pm.
Hoop canopy installation by KIT in the backyard of SUPERFRONT
Celebrate PUBLIC SUMMER at SUPERFRONT with installation architect KIT July 17th Saturday 6pm – 9pm.
Join SUPERFRONT, KIT, and the NY City Explorers to celebrate the opening of this project with a reception (for grown ups) on Saturday July 17th 6pm – 9pm. Also opening the same evening in the gallery is the group exhibit Artists Who Play Well With Architects. The reception will feature live music with saxophonist Nick Lyons at 6pm, DJ Hott Mess at 7:30pm, and beverages for sale all evening. No cover.
The first annual Public Summer program, developed from the theme of Temporary Publics, features a jury-selected installation designed by KIT, a young New York collective of designers. This outdoor installation for the local community group NYC Explorers has been constructed by KIT with support from SUPERFRONT and volunteers. The installation incorporates over 400 hula hoops, as well as found and discarded materials.
KIT’s scheme, which features hundreds of hula hoops forming a connected canopy, was selected by the Sketch 120: Temporary Publics jury comprised of DJ /rupture, nArchitects, and Slade Architecture. The Sketch 120: Temporary Publics charrette was produced in partnership with Design in 5, a program of the Architectural League NY, with additional support from Brooklyn Arts Council and SuckerPunchDaily.com
Childrens’ activities throughout Public Summer are free and coordinated by NY City Explorers Carnival, a project by NY City Explorers, a local small business that offers a wide variety of family programs and services throughout NYC.
KIT is comprised of designers Lauren Page, Phil Kuehne, Justin Foster, and Read Langworthy. The quartet, a combination of academic and professional associations, has a passion for public design and social infrastructure. All are recent graduates from Bachelors of Architecture programs and they currently live, work, and play in New York City.
NY City Explorers (NYCE) is a Brooklyn-based family enrichment center created by Kisha Edwards-Gandsy & Keyanna Murrill that provides classes, camps, childcare, two indoor play spaces, and party planning for families throughout NYC. The NYCE Carnival at SUPERFRONT aims to provide safe, carnival style atmosphere complete with scheduled films, games, contests, healthy food vendor sampling, and creative family programming.
Nick Lyons is a Brooklyn-based improvising alto saxophonist. He fronts a trio with bassist Adam Lane and drummer John Wagner, and has performed solo and in collaboration with pianists Connie Crothers and Carol Liebowitz, vocalist Cheryl Richards, and guitarist Adam Caine.
The PUBLIC SUMMER project has been achieved with the funding and/or materials support of the following organizations and individuals:
Design in 5/The Architectural League of New York (competition sponsors), Mark Gardner, Betty Webb, Shinique Smith, Sarah Millsaps, and suckerPUNCHdaily.
SUPERFRONT’s mission is to support, promote, and produce radically contemporary art and architecture, while fostering creative interdisciplinary exchange. This mission is achieved through exhibits, publications, panels, and projects that, while focused on architecture, also concern art, performance, media and social science. Since January 2008, SUPERFRONT has invited students, emerging architects, designers, visual artists, and performance artists to engage in a public forum that raises awareness of contemporary architectural practice and theory.
PUBLIC SUMMER at SUPERFRONT Project Team:
Nicole McGlinn,
Project Manager, SUPERFRONT
Mitch McEwen
Executive Director, SUPERFRONT
Lauren Page
Designer, KIT
Phil Kuehne
Designer, KIT
Justin Foster
Designer, KIT
Read Langworthy
Designer, KIT
Lilly Fuks
Project Intern, SUPERFRONT
Melissa Frost,
Gallery Intern, SUPERFRONT
Sarah Millsaps,
Engineering Consultant, SUPERFRONT
Kisha Edwards-Gandsy
Co-Owner, NY City Explorers
Keyanna Murrill
Co-Owner, NY City Explorers
Design and Construction Volunteers:
Jack Bader
Rodrigo Balarezo
Alex Baumel
Cristina Greavu
Elizabeth MacWillie
Scott Miller
Viren Patel
Shinjinee Pathak
Herbert Ramirez
Rian Rooney
Aviva Rubin
William Serbin
Irmak Turan
Artists Who Play Well With Architects opens July 17th
SUPERFRONT: PRESENTS
ARTISTS WHO PLAY WELL WITH OTHERS ARCHITECTS
Overgrown Truck, Kim Holleman
Kim Holleman, Grant Guilliams , Michael Gaillard, Eve Mosher
17 July – 13 August, 2010
Opening Saturday July 17th 6:00pm – 8:00pm
SUPERFRONT is proud to present ARTISTS WHO PLAY WELL WITH OTHERS ARCHITECTS, a summer group show on view at the Brooklyn gallery through August 13th. The exhibition brings together 4 artists of disparate backgrounds who, nonetheless, share a common familiarity with practicing architects in New York City.
Curated by Mitch McEwen, Director of SUPERFRONT, with input from Lee Ping Kwan, architect at Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, and Mimi Zeiger, editor and publisher of loud paper, the exhibit emphasizes playful and tactile investigations of landscape, site selection, authority, and scale. The resulting exhibit mixes astute games of narrative, word play, and humor with an irreverence for architectural gravitas. Sculptures, drawings, physical models, and instrument-like objects are on display.
The Conduit, Grant Guilliams
Participating artists include MICHAEL GAILLARD, GRANT GUILLIAMS, KIM HOLLEMAN, and EVE MOSHER.
Michael Gaillard received his M.F.A. from Columbia University in 2010 and his B.A. from Stanford University in 2003. While at Columbia he was nominated for the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Fellowship and the Daisy Soros Prize for Fine Art. His work includes abstract drawings that investigate field behaviors and analytical works with paper, photography, and mixed media that address the fluctuating agencies in the relationship between form and story, experience and its representation.
Grant Guilliams, an artist with a BFA in painting from University of North Texas and MFA from Maryland Institute College of Art, has worked as a model maker and fabricator with clients that include David Rockwell, Joseph Hutchins, The Onion, NBC, and Disney. His artwork produces narratives and objects that often relate to steampunk, a genre of science fiction and speculative fantasy.
Kim Holleman attended The Cooper Union for The Advancement of Science and Art and the Rietveld Academie, and has had solo exhibitions at both the Black and White Gallery and White Box Chelsea. Her work deploys tactics from dioramas to wall drawings that playfully critique architectural authority over site and landscape.
Eve Mosher has lived in Texas, New York, Vermont, Oregon and California and holds an undergraduate degree in environmental design from Texas A&M University, as well as a Master in Fine Arts from Pratt. Her work ranges from abstract drawings to very literal investigations of public infrastructure and urban eco-systems.
