Live With Animals
210 Kent Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11211
Open Saturday and Sunday 2-7 or by appointment
livewithanimals@gmail.com
www.livewithanimalsgallery.blogspot.com

Mexico City's Yautepec Gallery is excited to announce the concluding half of its cross-border gallery swap with Brooklyn's Live With Animals Gallery, building on the success of their initial Mexico City collaboration in August with artists from Live With Animals and Secret Project Robot.

On Friday, December 11th, Yautepec and Live With Animals will inaugurate a show entitled Asesinos — a provocative (and often disturbing) exploration of violence from several uniquely Mexican perspectives. Featuring the artists Artemio, Ruben Gutierrez, Ximena Labra, Mark Powell, Joaquin Segura, and Marion Sosa, Asesinos is an attempt to frame the complex and pervasive nature of violence within a contemporary Mexican society that appears to be increasingly defined by it.

From the systemic to the intimate, Asesinos presents violence in Mexico in a manner that is equally magnifying glass and mirror, a combination meant to compel a US audience to rethink its own distance and insulation from the trouble brewing down South.


ABOUT YAUTEPEC

In less than two years — from its beginnings in an abandoned taco preparation facility in the Condesa area to its brand new storefront space in the up-and-coming San Rafael neighborhood — YAUTEPEC has hosted 21 exhibitions with over 50 artists from Mexico, the United States, South America, and Europe. It has appeared in such diverse publications as the LA Times, Vice, and The Economist's Intelligent Life, as well as innumerable Mexico City-based magazines like La Tempestad, Tomo, Chilango, Life & Style, Donde Ir, and Gatopardo. In a recent gallery spotlight, Mexico's daily newspaper, El Universal, wrote that YAUTEPEC "has become a favorite among contemporary art lovers in [Mexico]."

YAUTEPEC is directed by Daniela Elbahara (b. Monterrey, Mexico, 1978) and Brett W. Schultz (b. Chicago, USA, 1978).

Come see Red Mass and Black Feelings from Canada! Special Performances by Micki Pellerano and Dame Darcy, local locals Golden Triangle too! Visuals by HappyFun.
Doors at 8pm, Music at 9pm sharp.

Live With Animals is proud to present "True Nature" by Henrike Stahl.
November 6th through November 29th
Opening Reception November 6th 7pm-10pm

Henrike Stahl's "True Nature" is an exhibition subtly exploring the parallels between animals and humans. In her photographs are beautiful human figures which she then paints with the head of an animal or bird. These pieces give us the sense of how we feel or act like these creatures whether it be socially, during courting, or just being alone. Sometimes we may feel "shy like a mouse", "confident like a horse", or "sensitive like a small bird"... these painted heads express our core nature and desires.

Henrike was born in 1980 in Mottau, a village of West Germany. She lives and works in Paris and Berlin.

Live With Animals
210 Kent Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11211
Open Saturday and Sunday 2-7 or by Appointment
livewithanimals@gmail.com
www.henrikestahl.de

DEAD OF THE LIVING NIGHT comes from the participating artists' like-minded fascination-turned-obsession with childhood fantasies and fears; the inability to look away when you know you should, combined with the desire to stay up all night and fantasize about the greatest adventures and abilities only imaginable. The exhibition examines one generation's memories through an observation of imagery that fueled their childhoods, the bizarre nuances and esoteric references. From this period, new imagery has been created from manipulated found photos and juxtapositions of movie stills, clippings and gore magazine art. The show features two video installations, sculpture, collaged poster images, and four volumes of a book of the same name, Dead Of The Living Night. The collaborative book project acts as a depository of images, photos, original drawings and found items and ephemera. The name itself sets a tone of horror, science fiction, tongue and cheek and the arcane which will be a common thread throughout each of the books issues.

The multimedia installation is housed inside a monolithic black room. Inside, viewers will snake through a horror/sci-fi section of a video store pays homage to the filmic origins that drew the artists in and planted a lifetime pre-occupation with creepy, horrific, uncanny and humorous images. Original VHS tapes line the walls in the dark, cramped space recreating the lost experience of a video store. In the adjoining room an interactive "magic beast" ride allows people the fantasy of flying on the back of a giant creature, being taken through the sky, then to space and beyond. Outside, an old TV set sits atop a stack of life-sized monster corpses playing a video cut from clips of sci-fi and horror films where high-speed editing and tongue-and-cheek cuts splices together the gore and terror and assaults to the point of absurdity. Lining the gallery walls hang poster size images created from pieces in the books.


Jonathan Cammisa
b. 1980 Philadelphia PA
Jonathan lives and works in Brooklyn. BFA, The School of Visual Arts, 2003. Currently working as a freelance graphic artist and designer. Clients include: MTV. Mark Gonzales/Krooked Skateboards. 411 Video Magazine. Generra. Fader Magazine. Sweden Unlimited. Urban Arts Research & Marketing (UARM). Featured artist: Arkitip Magazine. MTV. Beams Japan. Carhartt Japan. Tank Theory. Modern Amusement. Monument Snowboards. Element Skateboards.


Jonah Birns
b. 1979 Philadelphia PA

Jonah Birns graduated from Philadelphia's University of the Arts with a BFA in 2002, and has since lived and worked in New York City. Primarily focusing on photography and graphic design, he has worked with some of New York's top design, film and fashion companies. The artwork he creates is heavily influenced by films, books, and comics specifically in the genres of science fiction and fantasy. His work has recently appeared at The Nexus gallery in Philadelphia, the WORK Gallery in Brooklyn and in the award-winning documentary In A Dream.

Jonah Birns and Jonathan Cammisa have been friends for almost 20 years and collaborated on numerous projects, this is their first show together.

Fit For Habitation brings together 5 artists working in fields of fine art, design, and interior design. Fit for Habitation questions the idea that four walls make a home and explores interior and exterior spaces as well as more abstract conceptions of home through video and installation.

These five artists have collaborated to create their own interpretations of home through a shared installation, using both traditional and non-traditional materials as well following formal and informal conceptual movements taken from interior design and fine art.

The idea of opposites has also come to be an integral part of the exhibition. The concept of real versus fake is brought into play, by combining real materials with materials the artists have created to appear real and questioning whether we as people need the reality of a “home” or simply the illusion of comfort and safety. The exhibition further plays with the viewer’s concept of reality by bringing the outdoors inside, as well as creating additional interior spaces within the larger space of the gallery.

3 to 7pm- Rummage:
A handmade furniture show on river street with food and drink
curated by Gabby Shaw

9 to 2am- Dance of the Sugarplum Ferry Party:
Fountains and Kiddie pools with
These Are Powers, Javelin, Mirror Mirror, DJ cool Places Sound System
hosted by Live With Animals and Secret Project Robot $8

Please join us for Sarah Maher's "Maps Mapping" Book launch Friday July 10th. Live soundtrack will be performend by Nick Storella. Projections, Refreshments and fun! Doors at 9pm.

We Like the Good

Live with Animals Gallery

http://livewithanimals.com/

210 Kent Avenue Brooklyn NY 11211

June 5th – 28th

Saturdays & Sundays 3-8pm (or by appointment)

Opening June 5th 7-10pm

Panel Discussion June 7th 4pm



The Next Documenta Should Be Curated By An Artist & The Next Omelet

Should Be Made By A Carpenter.

–Lawrence Weiner



Kara Bohnenstiel and Melissa Rocha curate a receptive and responsive exhibition: an installed space that forgets to be boring. We Like the Good is constructed in a movable format. All the walls are on wheels, freely moving around the space; a choreography performed by sybaritic women dressed in perfect French maid costumes during the opening night. All successive days and nights can be arranged by the visitors of the gallery. There is a note upon entering the space: “Please arrange this space. Everything is on wheels as this organization is only temporary: Adjust to suit.”

The curators, artists themselves, deploy artists who work within a broader realm of art-making; artists who do not stick to a classic "body of work" approach, in favor of the moment, yet somehow remaining timeless. This "somehow" is the interest of the show. How is anyone making anything interesting anymore? Often it starts with a sort of humor of dissent. Sometimes serious Art can only be approached, revealed from a denial of the formal protocols of "Art-seriousnessness."

This work, from the ambitious failures of Jim Sharpe's Robot Movie (with a quintessential Lary Seven soundtrack) to the framed, studied disasters of a Todd Fisher print, avoids the obvious pretensions fatal to the concept behind the conceptual. We get it, all of us do, but seldom does art get a chance to pull it together. Art too often must prove its legitimacy. In taking cue from Seth Price's description of an artist as "amateur inventor" in his essay "Dispersion", We Like the Good mounts a Patrick Resing futile robot on a portable pedestal—its programmed mission being only to find its way off. Art is as important as your morning coffee and donut; that is important, surely, but just a cardinal fact of existence. All that is required is our innate curiosity and need for stimulation, in both cases. Laughter implies an afterthought. The exhibition facilitates that thought for the viewers/participants.
The show features an international pool of artists: Jan Van Den Dobbelsteen & Danielle Lemaire (JaDa) [The Netherlands], Fabio Roberti, Jim Sharpe & Lary Seven [USA], James Clauer [USA], Scott Haggart & Kara Bohnenstiel [Scotland + USA], Todd Fisher [USA], Jack Plug [England], Melissa Rocha [USA], Patrick Resing [USA], and Ryan Lauderdale [USA]. An artist panel will be held to discuss issues of hilarity, failure, large and small meanings, as well as contradictions. The dialogue is also considered to be Art.

The beautiful sounds of Backworld and Beaut! Christian Holstead Djs.

MICKI PELLERANO: By Sapphire and Sword

Opening Reception Saturday March 28th 7-10pm
March 28th through April 26th Open Saturday and Sunday 3pm to 8pm or by appointment.

Live With Animals Gallery is proud to present By Sapphire and Sword: Films and Works on Paper by Micki Pellerano.

Pellerano’s draughtsmanship fixates upon apocalyptic sequences, arcane rituals, and bizarre fantasy. Baroque Christian iconographies - integrated into the artist’s spiritual vocabulary by his Cuban heritage - cohabit harmoniously with a taste for the decadent and pagan. Taut muscled figures command his pieces with histrionic postures, generating force-fields of chaotic plasma. Scenes of devastation charged with a dreamlike erotic quality ravage ancient temples housing grotesque idols.

Well known as an esotericist, one can detect from his work a sense of mediumistic struggle. Diaphanous forms meld into one another or materialize, often with a harsh or clumsy attitude, from aetheric substance. A marked air of violence punctuates the drawings as though the artist were battling his own mortal limitations to bring forth intimations of ineffable idea.

Looming to the right of the gallery, the emanations of a video projector pulse behind a black shroud of a theater drape where a levitating Edwardian archway marks the entrance to a makeshift cinema. A screen therein displays a continuous loop of Pellerano’s Hermetic Trilogy. In his film - rather like his performances - ritual and myth are prominent. Gesture and symbol assume the dominant role over story or character. Yet a scholarly erudition permeates the stream of cryptic symbolism and inscrutable ceremonies enacted by nude subjects with the precise deliberation of somnambulists.
Pellerano received conservatory training at the Experimental Theater Wing of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts where he was influenced deeply by Grotowski and Artaud. He combined his knowledge of theatrical formulas to create a unique method by which to communicate philosophical abstraction and effect magical change. He evolved to adopt film as his preferred medium and later draughtsmanship while maintaining a consistent repertoire of performance art true to his pedigree.

By Sapphire and Sword is a representation of Micki Pellerano’s command over a singular language of symbol, couched in a richly ornamented body of work, painfully detailed and masterfully crafted. He is at times depraved, at times reverent to the monuments of Classicism and Piety. However, he is always truthful to the driving spiritual hunger that governs him throughout his examination of various disciplines.

Live With Animals Art Space
And Secret Project Robot:Art Experiment
Have partnered with Peppers-Project Gallery in Tokyo to bring you a show of paintings representing the mystique of city-life in Japan

The word,"Regionalism", was created through an artistic movement in America in the 1930s. Being against the European Modernism that was a mainstream around that time, America started the "Regionalism" as a national movement, insisting American Realism. Even if Tokyo is one of the big cities in the world, it seems to have totally different quality compared to other international cities because of its uniqueness. Pepper's Project thinks that this uniqueness expresses the present time of Tokyo and would like to offer our theme,"Tokyo Regionalism", presenting segments of realistic Tokyo Art Scene.

Live With Animals Gallery is proud to present group exhibition "Unnatural History". While often unsettling, five artists from New York and San Francisco explore nontraditional forms of the landscape. Investigating abstract elements such as rock formations and weather conditions to living elements like human behavior and the built environment, each artist uniquely interprets the natural world.

The exhibition will include works by Jana Flynn, Hilary Pecis, Ego Sensation, Michael Yaniro and Zach Ziemann.


Friday, January 9, 2009 – Sunday, February 8, 2009
Gallery hours Saturday and Sunday 2pm-7pm


Opening reception with artists Friday, January 9, 2009 from 7-11pm
Film Screenings By Ego Sensation at 8pm and 10pm
Live soundscape by Verily White Hills


Midway Party on Wednesday, January 21, 2009 from 7-11pm
Live entertainment from Borts Minorts, Pink Reason and a Special Guest


Closing Potluck Party Sunday, February 8, 2009 2 - 6pm

The Center of the Earth is an exhibit of over one hundred of Panacea Theriac's puppets from live shows and movies, and also some nature paintings. They represent a complicated parallel universe that is governed by large mysterious entities living in the center of the earth who boss everyone around. From the mean witch Christy Corn Pop, Dusty and Treasure, to Captain Dream Weaver and the Happy Tree! These are not works of art, they are busy portholes.

The exhibition will include a live puppet show "The Mystery at Squirrel Ranch" on the opening night and the films Trixie and the Treetrunks, North Pole Nutrias, and Electric Swamp will be shown throughout the month.

Panacea Theriac is also known as Miss Pussycat of Quintron and Miss Pussycat, a musical experience. She does puppet shows in rock clubs all over the world and lives at the Spellcaster Lodge in New Orleans , LA .

Opening Reception November 8th 7pm-10pm
Closing Reception December 13th 2pm-7pm
Gallery hours Saturday and Sunday 2pm-7pm or by appointment

Live With Animals
210 Kent Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11211
347-526-3179

Gallery hours 2pm - 7pm Saturday and Sunday
Sales or viewing by Appointment 917 355 7510


AGAINST NATURE Sebastian Mlynarski

Against Nature revisits Romantic notions of the search for one's true self through a connection with nature. These photographs serve as an investigation into the basic human need for an interventionist force that might offer comfort and guidance.
Nature is indifferent and confronts us with who we really are. It strips us of our persona,we are left with our mere essence; flesh, blood and bone.

On Christmas Eve Sebastian Mlynarski drove by a burning car on the side of the road as nature mutely witnessed him witnessing the accident.  There were no other cars on the road, and nobody in the burning car.
He took the picture and drove off.

Sebastian Mlynarski lives and works in
New York City.



CLOSING RECEPTION Sunday Oct 26 2008 at 8pm

Performance by Sahra Motalebi and Scott Mou



Against Nature
October 3 - 26, 2008
Live With Animals
210 Kent Ave/Metropolitan
Williamsburg, New York

As part of their upcoming exhibition Symbiosis in Exotica, long time partners and artistic collaborators, Vashti Windish and Cameron Michel have chosen to consturct an alternate dimension that depicts an emotional discourse rarely investigated in modern art, Love.

Creating a mystical landscape filled with antediluvian archetypes and macabre imagery, this show manages to explore the work created by two devoted partners. Symbiosis in Exotica casts a shadow between reality and dream... and brings new meaning to the surreal.

Contextually speaking, Costumes made of white paper represent their love in its fragility, its purity--- its many textures, doilies and tissue paper combine to create a feeling of the ephemeral which explains how their emotions for one another would exist if they were tangible. Collage and sculpture reveal the multi-faceted and layered exaltations Vashti and Cameron experience together.

Beautiful, dark, vibrant and curious creatures, natural formations, and exotic visuals create their symbiosis; their balance depicted in both calm and chaotic mediums. They are a balance a meeting of the minds in magical exotica…

“We together are magical and true, this is the world in which our hearts live, and what is created when we meld as one”

Cameron Michel and Vashti Windish live and work in Brooklyn, NY

Opening Reception September 4th 7pm to 10pm
September 4th through 28th
Open Saturday and Sunday 3pm - 8pm, or by appointment
347-526-3179

LIVE WITH ANIMALS PRESENTS

"YOUR NATION, OUR HOME."

-A SOLO EXHIBITION BY MIRAK JAMAL-



Reception: August 2, 2008, 7-10pm

Show: August 2 - August 24, 2008
Saturday and Sunday 3-8pm

Live With Animals Gallery is proud to present a solo exhibition of mixed-media artworks on paper by Iranian-born Canadian resident Mirak Jamal. Having to deal with the burden of a 10-year ban, Jamal's ordeal with Homeland Security has left him stranded with no hope for a return to America; his former country of residence. His show titled "Your Nation, Our Home", is in this sense proof of the artist's readiness to establish a symbolic and unprecedented dialogue with his audience from afar.

Jamal was born in Iran immediately following the revolution of 1979. A few countries and hardships later he and his family had taken their ongoing journey to what seemed to be their final destination. They arrived in the United States of America on July 4th, 1994 with hopes for a prospective future. Their long residence there ended with a controversial decision by the U.S. Government that gave the family 30 days to leave the country or face immediate deportation. The case received local and national media coverage. Mirak Jamal had been transfixed by a series of circumstances where fleeing and resettling became a recurring experience.


Through a unique mixed-media exploration, the artist reveals personal glances into a fractured past. He composes a hybrid between the surreal and a graphic composition consisting of flat imagery, geometric shapes, fonts and subliminal iconography with which he summons a distinct poetic visual language. The exhibition offers insight to an autobiographical vision of a repeat-immigrant perplexed by an unresolved identity.


Nationhood, longing, culture and a past that is tenuous at best are concepts inherent within this sociopolitical body of work. Jamal's recent predicament with the American government blares towards a contemporary relevance to our society. Common threads exist in the imagery as it speaks of a universal struggle that challenges the viewer to grapple with his/her own definition of self-identity. What seems to be purely introspective on the surface, inevitably places his artistic outlook as a Middle-Easterner within the context of a post- 9/11 world filled with complexity.


Live With Animals Gallery
210 Kent Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
(347) 526-3179
www.livewithanimals@gmail.com


Media Contact
Jeanette High
(416) 579-6149
jeanettehigh@gmail.com

Barnes, Becker and Wright Trio
Music for Silent Films

Live improvised musical soundtracks to silent films



July 25 and 26, 2008

Live With Animals
210 Kent Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11222
8pm

$5 suggested donation



Barnes, Becker, and Wright Trio:

Lewis ‘Flip’ Barnes – Trumpet, Effects
Chris Becker – Laptop, Kaoss Pad

Lynn Wright – Electric Guitar, Effects



With very special guests:

Helga Davis – Voice

Dana Schechter – Electric Bass

Stan Smith – Electric Guitar

Paul Watson – Cornet, Electronics

The trio of Barnes, Becker, and Wright present their popular music and films event Music for Silent Films. The ensemble will be improvising music live to a program of silent films by contemporary film makers including Noe Kidder, Molly Schwartz, Micki Pellerano, Ruby Quincunx, Ariane Anthony, Maya Deren, Tom & Marta and others.


For these two shows, the Barnes, Becker, and Wright trio has augmented their sound with guests vocalist Helga Davis (Robert Wilson, Peter Greenway), bassist Dana Schechter (Bee and Flower, Angels of Light), Richmond, Virginia’s own Paul Watson (Sparklehorse, Fred Frith, Half-Japanese, Tom Cora) on cornet and electronics, and special guest guitarist Stan Smith – one of Columbus Ohio’s most active and original guitarist composers.


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Its a birthday celebration for Joe of Backworld! Come enjoy the beautiful music and and blow out all 50 candles with us. Party begins at 8pm, Backworld will perform around 9pm.

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NEU ART by Leslie Foster and Sarah Kulesh



Leslie Kulesh and Sarah Foster began working together in 2004 making site specific, time specific, process dependant installation and sculpture. Over the last four years they have created art collaboratively, acting on globalized post-post modern culture; or the everyday. Sarah and Leslie are currently exploring self reference, pyramid schemes, suspension of disbelief, patterns of cognitive recognition, the coming apocalypse, ideas of space: the work it is doing / could be; visions to ends, inductive logic, time together, flatness, long distance, icing, geraldo rivera, absolutes, lapinou, wholistic, soy, wrinkles, salon, beast, sally supply, sleeping bath schools, angeles, alien graveyard, shop, relay, washington dc, vision driver, pageant, re purpose, glow milf, railway, step 33 afghan creative great knitted knitters, classics oxford carat latina, kid, disaster love couture absolutely glutes penguin, endless blockade, vogue, open entry, basciano vincent vinny, maximum overdrive, granny, dress lonely, mom, almost weave, touch, collapse, anfisa, occasions, race, cd music, bold your soul, evidence, apocalypse (super)visions, agony, redirect, always morning south, crazy layguide seduce dreamed possible matter like much mistake, babes, blunt james album, club pick orchid wallpaper, endless blockade, thong spoiler, no diggity, master cleanse, light metal, recursion, recursive thinking, j'adore adorno, conspicous production, and of course; keyword stuffing. Their practice includes architectural installation, private performance, and selective design.



June 7th - June 29th
Opening Reception June 7th 6pm - 10pm

Live with Animals Presents "The Mayor of 4th Street" a celebration of the life and works of Eddie Graham. For over a decade Eddie experienced life on 4th street in the east village unlike the rest of us. He inspired the residents on the block with his colorful personality. Eddie made this block his home and lightened up the locals with his quick remarks as they walked by or his life stories as you sat with him for hours. Eddie was the toughest guy on 4th street but unfortunately recently became ill with pneumonia and passed away. He left behind a precious portfolio of work and sweet memories. "The Mayor of 4th Street" includes drawings that were created for friends on the block, Christmas cards and cd covers he designed, and posters full of Eddie's social and political commentaries. You are welcome to view these charming works in person and meet some of the residents on 4th street who's hearts have been touched by Eddie. Live with Animals Gallery 210 Kent Avenue Brooklyn

Opening Reception: Saturday, May 10th 6pm-9pm
May 10th through May 24th Open Saturday and Sunday 2pm-6pm

Saturday, Apr 19: New York Night Train’s Spring Shakedown, Live With Animals (210 Kent at Metropolitan, Williamsburg), 10pm: The weather’s turning and NYNT’s givin’ you more fun than you can have without driving your motorcycle into the East River - a dance party featuring twin 45 rpm DJ towers of the garage/punk/soul underground Mr. Josh Styles of Smashed Blocked and Mr Jonathan Toubin of NYNT (spinning soul, glam, garage, freakbeat, boogaloo, organ jams, punk, and other wild and raw 1960s and 1970s get-downs) - with live appearances by the NYC punk scene’s party band numero uno Stalkers (who just got NME’s single of the week and, for those of you that haven’t seen ‘em in a while - the new line-up and songs are crazy out-of-control awesome) and THE new band on the block Ex-Humans, led by handsome Josh of the Carbonas - a performance by the extraordinary Hula-Hoop Harlot Melissa-Anne (going for the Guinness Book of World Records - for real!), and an art exhibit featuring work by Angela Wieland, Avi Spivak, Danny Goldstein, Jackie Roman, Jackie Sugarlump, Josh Styles, and Veronica Ibarra. Wild summer action in advance. Please take note - while originally scheduled at the Shangri La, this fiesta is now at NYNT’s favorite art space, the super-fun LIVE WITH ANIMALS.

California native Eric Leiser has been quite busy these last few years. A filmmaker, animator, holographer, painter, puppeteer, illustrator, writer, teacher, sculptor, and former funeral director, his body of work includes several short subject and feature films. Eric's first feature documentary, the experimental Faustbook , and his short film collection, Eclectic Shorts by Eric Leiser , were both distributed in spring 2006 through Vanguard Cinema International. Eclectic Shorts went on to be become a best seller, see (imdb.com). His Second Feature film ”Imagination” has been critically acclaimed by over 60 international critics and is playing in festivals and theatres worldwide. The film was released on DVD February 26th by Vanguard and is being featured in the May issue of Animation Magazine, Campus Circle Magazine, etc. His holograms have been shown in museums in the U.S., including the Holodome in Los Angeles, Ruben H. Fleet Science Center in San Diego, CA. As an animator Eric has worked with Nickelodeon and Disney among other animation production companies, developing his stop-motion series Twilight Park. During this time (2005), he was completing his Bachelors in Experimental Animation at CalArts (California Institute of the Arts), as well as funding and creating his own ambitious, unique animated films and holographic art. He lives and works in Los Angeles.

On Saturday evening we will feature many or Eric's wonderful talents starting off with a Puppet show, excerpts of his animations and his in progress anti novel, and his new film from Ireland. Show starts at 8pm.

New York / Tokyo - PEPPER'S PROJECT, a Tokyo-based gallery and art project, is pleased to present a group exhibition, OTHER PAINTING - Japanese Emerging Artists' Painting Exhibition - , at four different locations throughout Williamsburg, Brooklyn. It will showcase 19 young Japanese emerging artists, representing new movement of paintings in Japan.

This project started at Pepper's Gallery, Tokyo, in June 2007. A curator and assistant director of Pepper's Gallery, Asuki, thinks that there is a new movement in painting in the current art scene. This new scene has been happening internationally and he finds his interest especially in younger generation of Japanese Artists and curated a series of group exhibition called OTHER PAINTING.

In March 2008, the series is coming to Brooklyn, NY, hosting four group exhibitions at four different locations in Williamsburg area. This is their first time to present a large scale of group exhibition in NY. It is also an extension program of Japanese Young Artists Book Fair_2nd which is happening at five locations throughout NY in the same duration.

OTHER PAINTING director Asuki

With:
Yu Hashiguchi
Yoshikazu Sakanashi
Tomohilo Shimizu
Sheena Koguchi Williams
Ruriko Torii
Kosuge Yohei
Tomomi Koizumi
Asami Isojima
Honda Kazuhiro
Misuzu Noma
Hisako Akagi
Minato Abe

Christopher Duffy makes artwork to satisfy his material curiosities. He seeks to show the history of materials interacting. Systems that show the build up and removal of material over time has been a main focus. Water and air pressure are often the catalyst for these systems. Avoiding over intellectualizing he prefers to be actively making and doing.

Christopher Duffy was born in California, but spent his youth in the Chicago suburb Glen Ellyn. On his eighteenth birthday he moved to Cleveland Ohio to attend The Cleveland Institute of Art. There he was exposed to glass blowing, and made it his focus of study. In 2003 he received a B.F.A. from The Cleveland Institute of Art. He has also studied at the Pilchuck Glass School in Washington state, and The Pittsburgh Glass Center. Christopher had a hot sweaty love affair with glass blowing that lasted about four years, now they are just good friends. He currently lives in Brooklyn New York making mixed media art, and working with other artists. He has exhibited nationally in group and solo shows in galleries and museums. This is his first solo show in New York His parents love him very much.

Opening Reception Saturday, February 23rd 6pm - 9pm

Golden Triangle turns One!!

Celebrate a year of broken glass, lost instruments, bloody fingers, smoke and strobes, blistered ear drums with Golden Triangle!! Its been a long, fun and interesting year and we want you to join us. This will also be our tour kickoff show as we head south for the winter with Knyfe Hyts to swim with the crawdads at mardi gras.

We will be celebrating with our friends Knyfe Hyts (Ex Models), Robot Death Cult (Might Robot), and Red Dawn 2 (Awesome Color/Roxy Pain). Jonathan of New York Night Train will spin Birthday faves and Live With Animals will be transformed into party splendor by Rachel Nelson, Vashti Windish and Eric Z. Oh, and did we mention there will be cake!!?!!

$5 door
Oh and we will accept presents!

Sundance
A Multimedia Installation by Kory Hellebust
Friday November 30th Opening 7-9pm

An explosion of tape and paper neatly depicting one ritualistic photograph of Native American culture.

November 30th through December 22nd

Gallery Hours
Saturday and Sunday from 1pm to 6pm.

Brahloween 3

In case you missed this shit the last two years - Brahloween has been the biggest, most audacious, stupidest waste of a decent evening of television viewing and snack consuming the world has ever known.

So we decided that in order to outdo ourselves - we would put together an event that was even MORE idiotic, MORE painful, MOrRE pointless than eve before! Brah Records is the record label that doesn't know when to quit! Brahloween is the party that just doesn't know when to say WHEN!

So here's the details:
Brahloween 3 -

8:30 The Library is On Fire
9:40 Pterodactyl
10:30 Dirty Faces
11:30 Ex Models aka knyf hits

DJ knox overstreet

Doors 8pm - $5 without a costume, $4 with a costume
Haunted HOUSE! Live bands! DJing! Shrunken Heads! A 27" TV that is showing the World Series game (you have NO EXCUSE NOT TO COME)!

What's So Funny About My Face?

What's So Funny About My Face? Is a one night only show featuring Portraits in the classical and not so classical sense. Please show your face and make your own portraits with an interactive installation by Bonnie Pipkin and Marissa Johnson.

Portraits by Jason Sleurs, Raul Nieves, Dan Sabau, Marissa Johnson, Bonnie Pipkin, Maegan Dolan, Kate Sullivan, Tom Huntington and Julia Haltigan.

7pm-11pm

MONSTERISLAND ARTS
AND MUSIC FESTIVAL BLOCKPARTY
A Group Show from the Forest, Caves and Mountains of MonsterIsland
Saturday September 8, 2007 (2 to 10pm)


On Saturday September 8th, 2007 Live With Animals on behalf of Monster
Island would like to invite you to the second annual MonsterIsland
Arts and Music Festival. A blockparty aimed at sensory overload,
with 7 band performances, film and A/V screenings, a building wide
group installation, open studios, a cookout on the loading dock at the
surf shop and an art sale in the clouds.

As a fully immersive art center MonsterIsland perpetuates and
supports the prolific movement of underground spaces in Brooklyn.
MonsterIsland is Todd P. NYC, Live With Animals Gallery, Secret
Project Robot Art Experiment, Kayrock Screenprinting, Avante Floor
Dance Space, Mollusk Surf Shop, Rainbow Cloud City, The studios of
Chris Gentile, Brady Dollarhide, Ben , Jackie Gendel, Oneida, Barry
London, Maya Hayuk, Corey Helburst, HappyFun, Robot Death Cult, Mighty
Robot A/V, Jef Scharf, Raul De Nieves, Vashti Windish, Team
Robespierre, The Twisted Ones, Cameron Michelle and too many more
bands to list.

This year's Schedule is roughly as as follows:

Playing on Metropolitan Avenue from 2 to 9pm a line up by Todd P
(check website for updates on the bands), plus The sounds of High
Places, Aa, Golden Triangle, Tiger Streifen, Robot Death Cult,
Rahdunes, Dynasty Electric and a performance by members of Oneida, Jah
Division, and the Ex Models.

From 4pm to 10pm There will be visuals and film screenings running in
the basement with hosts Zach Layton, Mighty Robot A/V Squad, Mickey
Pellarano, Mongoloid, plus Nick Hallet & Brock Munroe of Harkness

Live with Animals Gallery will be open all day hosting the annual
MonsterIsland Group Show and Secret Project Robot will Feature Way
Way Up Close Far Away- an installation by HappyFun.

Open Studios and Kayrock Screenprinting will be open from 4 to 6PM.

Hosted on the loading dock by Mollusk Surf Shop there will be an all
day BBQ and cookout with vegetarian friendly food, drinks, and
sweets...

Our goal is to engage the community in this one day adventure into the
world of the arts Keeping it, as usual fun, thought provoking, playful
and attainable... We hope you can make it...

MonsterIsland is located at the edge of the center of Williamsburg at
the nexus of the universe where Metropolitan meets River and your
realize you have gone the wrong way, officially, 210 Kent Avenue in
Brooklyn, New York taking the Bedford avenue L.

In Blancas Negras
New works by Raul de Nieves
August 4th through 26th
Opening Reception August 4th 7pm-10pm
Live music by Nathan Whipple

Raul de Nieves is a unique rarity of color and delirious art. Born
September 29, 1983 in Morelia Michuacan, Mexico. Ten years later he
was forced to flee to America and settled in San Diego. The
powerfully appealing Raul utilizes techniques written and described by
SALVADOR DALI. By using such knowledge, he creates explosive art full
of detail and obsession, which can be seen in his paintings,
installations, performance and costume work. It is his goal to produce
an environment that draws the viewer into his dynamically layered
world.
Raul currently resides in New York City where he has been working on
his latest installment of Mikilandia Productions, with the help of
Mikki M. Olson. This latest work is Blancas Negras, a blending of all
Raul's art forms without a shade of gray in sight. Forgetting what a
painting traditionally is, Raul cannot be contained on a two
dimensional plane. Painting and sculpture hold hands to create an
unconventional world where no rules exist an the performance of TRY
CRY TRY will sing their songs and dance their dances to a melody of
paranoiac critical thinking.

Open Saturday and Sunday from 3pm to 8pm or by appointment.

Another Girl / Another Planet
Opening Reception Friday June 22nd 7pm-10pm

A Solo Exhibition featuring new works by Dan Sabau and a live performance by Julia Haltigan. You will witness paper airplanes flying into beams, paintings of Rock stars as African warriors and other marvels.

Also see: dansabau.com

First Annual Mac n' Cheese off!
7pm to 10pm

Think YOU make the finest of the holiest food? We'll just see about that! Come enter you molten goodness and see if you can win First Place! Entries will be excepted between 7pm and 8pm. The cost of entering is three bucks and will be pooled for the winner of the contest. Celebrity judges will pick their faves, then everyone will get a sampling! Jonathan from New York Night Train will spin sweet cheesy melodies!

MAYPOLE
by Vashti Windish and Raul de Nieves. Saturday @ 8pm

Colorful costumes, dancing creatures, exploding monsters and springtime joy come together to make Mongoloid, an art fashion experiment. Music by Alice Cohen. During the Williamsburg Fashion Weekend at Monster Island. Also Saturday will be Mandate of Heaven and Arthur Arbit's fashion shows. FREE!!!

Fancy's Follower
Opening 31 March 7-10pm

New work by Michelle McShane, Francesca Lo Russo, and Linnea Vedder.

BACKWORLD + THE HERMETIC TRILOGY (THREE SHORT FILMS BY MICKI PELLERANO)

THE LANGUAGE OF LEAVES

PANTELIA

RITES OF PTAH

INFO ON BACKWORLD:

Backworld founder Joseph Budenholzer grew up in Nebraska, immersed in the rural lore and religious traditions of the region. He attended parochial school where he was taught by nuns to play the guitar for folk Mass. He worked for years at The Omaha Magic Theatre, an offshoot of The Open Theatre in New York, as composer in residence. Moving to New York City's East Village in the mid-1980s he performed at St Mark's Poetry Project and began collaborating with dance performer Brian Moran, aka Blood Boy, creating sampled soundscapes for confrontational Actionist assaults. This led to the Cinema of Transgression scene where he worked with filmmakers Richard Kern, Beth B, and Tessa Hughs-Freeland, and composer JG Thirlwell (Foetus). Eventually a series of collaborations with Lydia Lunch resulted, culminating in the double CD, Matrikamantra, a work of psycho-acoustic theatre in the form of a homage to Romanian philosopher poet EM Cioran. In 1990 he enrolled in NYU's Gallatin Division, focusing on Eastern European theatre, traveling to study in Russia and Bulgaria, and later touring Poland and the Czech Republic. "I formed Backworld in 1993, owing to a passion for English folk music, certain aspects of 60s psychedelia, and Christian mysticism. I wanted to make music that could reflect these interests and hopefully be as spiritual and beautiful." After joining forces with World Serpent Distribution (London) in 1995 four studio albums resulted, Holy Fire (1996), Isles of the Blest (1997), Anthems from the Pleasure Park (1999), Of Silver Sleep (2001) and a live album, The Fourth Wall, recorded at the Bloomsbury Theatre, London 2001. Backworld's albums and early performances at CBGB's 313 Gallery and the NYU Experimental Theatre Wing and more recent concerts at House Leipzig, Germany; Grandson Castle, Switzerland; Bloomsbury Theatre, and St. Olave's Church, London; St. Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow have featured a changing roster of players but the course is still steered by Joseph's constant vision. Arrangements of guitar, strings, percussion, flutes, electronics, revolve around lyrics concerned with ecstatic religious yearnings and otherworldly visions. Guest performers on BW albums have included Jarboe of Swans and Michael Cashmore of Current 93. In 2006 Joseph returned to NYC after three years living in Scotland where he recorded the bulk of the new album 'Good Infection' to be released in 2007, enlisting the talents of Isobel Campbell (Belle & Sebastian, Gentle Waves), David Tibet (Current 93) and Drew McDowall (Coil) to contribute vocals and other textures to the sessions. Other notable collaborations include playing in Current 93 and co-writing and producing the Little Annie album "Songs from the Coal Mine Canary" with Antony (of the Johnsons)

INFO ON MICKI PELLERANO:

FILMMAKER, OCCULT SCHOLAR, ARTIST AND WRITER


From left to right, Micki Pellerano, Joseph Budenholzer, Sean Ragon

"How Can You Be Two Places At Once When You Are Nowhere At All?"
Opening Saturday January 13th from 6:00pm - 10:00

Features drawings and photographs by Joy Drury Cox, Tom Delaney, and Kim Hoeckele. Works in the show deal with various forms of the urban landscape and the way it is represented.

The Fifth Annual Holly Jolly Sabbath

The Meaning of Life (pt. 1)
Photography by Todd Fisher
November 11th - December 10th
Opening Reception November 11th 6-9pm

Todd Fisher photographs the world with a keen eye for the absurd. His first solo show is a seamless blend of on the spot portraits and gritty snaps from from everyday life; two women in a full on brawl outside a posh boutique on Hudson st. or a kid passed out face first on a makeshift bocce court in a Queens parking lot with his skateboard at his feet and a ceramic angel juxtaposed above his right shoulder. The show also features several series on subjects such as young lust, street fighting and sleepwalking.

NIGHT SHADE FESTIVAL
Saturday, October 28, 2:00AM

SACRIFICE your SOUL to an underground evening of SPOOKS and KOOKS. Shadow PUPPETS, Masks, and the SUPERNATURAL take the forms of GHOSTS, DEMONS, SKELETONS, WITCHES, and MISCHEVIOUS LITTLE GIRLS.

NIGHT SHADE FESTIVAL is a carnivalesque fest of PUPPETS IN PURGATORY, A VORTEX of VISION, a GALLERY of GHOSTS, and a NIGHTCAP of CARNAL CURIOSITIES from "THE CASTASIDES"!

Masters of Puppet Ceremonies WILL PIKE and CHRIS McLAUGHLIN will lead us, crawling over a graveyard of performances:

"Haunted Projectile" by PUPPETKABOB with music by OMEGA MF
"The Road" by DRAMATON THEATER
"Danse Macabre" by LACAP and IMAGINATION EXPLOSION
"Venusian Ritual" by MICKI PELLERANO

Surrounded by a VORTEX of visual stimulation by artists ADAM ALEKSANDER, MATT JACKSON, VASHTI WINDISH, PANDORA GASTELUM, ALAIN Z, JASON THIBODEAUX,
Ghost Art by LIZ ALLEN, and many more tricks, then treats...

7 pm Gallery
8 pm Puppet Show

$10 SACRIFICIAL OFFERING

The Otherwise Fair

The event is free, and for $10 or less you can sign up to have a session( I-Ching, Tarot, Astrology or Tea Leaf reading). Come by early to sign up. There will also be a talk with astrologer Kevin Uehlinger at 7pm, and we will close the evening at 9pm
with a meditation lead by healer and intuit Holly Star. Or just come by for conversation with some amazing people, and some other little surprises!

BonniePipkinPresents
Two Plays That Take Place in a House

The Boondogglers
Written and Directed by Noah Gershman
Starring: Alex Ratcliffe, Betsy Ashley, Derek Miller, Alexander Barad,
Michael Fujikawa, Josephine the wonder, and Raj Kaup

Sleeping With...
Written by Nick Starr
Directed by Malinda Sorci

Orchestra
Jonathan Vincent on Piano
Joe Hartmann on Mandolin
Adam Tarlowe on Trumpet

Music begins at 8pm...sometime after that, the plays will too!

Diorama-o-Rama!!!
Opening Reception May 26th 6-9
Hours Friday and Saturday 3pm-8pm
Sunday 2pm-7pm

Experience a plethora of mini-worlds at Diorama-o-Rama! In the forest of Monster Island at the Live With Animals art space, there are all sorts of dioramas growing for you to feast your eyes upon! Come enjoy the colorful sensations of artists Sara Gates, Jessica McCullough, Bonnie Pipkin, Secret Project Robot, Lily Ciccarone, Micki Pellerano, and Cameron Michel to name a few. Cupcakes and refreshments will be served!