Nina Bovasso "What's Your Bubble?" and Bruce Wilhelm "Airlock" at Mulherin Pollard Projects

NINA BOVASSO & BRUCE WILHELM at Mulherin Pollard Projects April 27 - May 22, 2011 Note: Reception will be held Friday May 6, 6-8pm "What's Your Bubble?" new works by Nina Bovasso Groucho, 2011, 19 x 25 ink and acrylic on paper AIRLOCK new works by Bruce Wilhelm View of Victoria Crater, Mars, 2011, 40 x 48", acrylic, digital print, aluminum

New York born artist, Nina Bovasso presents her latest works on paper in a new series titled "What's Your Bubble?". Bovasso's acrylic and ink drawings feature densely constructed, intricately woven abstraction, rich in color and finely executed lines. Now sprouting legs and feet appropriated from the human form, Disney and Breughel, these anthropomorphized, architectural shapes are transformed into a hybrid of humanness and mobile apparatuses. In this new work, Bovasso's quasi-cartoon, graphic style connects the handmade with the hand-held world of information overload. Through her vibrant images, Bovasso shows the power of the human hand and imagination, while playfully acknowledging the impact of the bit-stream world on our identities. Bovasso's work can be found in the collections of: Collectie KPN, Netherlands; The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; JP Morgan/ Chase Bank, New York, NY; MoMA, New York, NY; Deutsche Bank, NY/DE; among others. Her work has also been reviewed in Art Forum, The New York Times, Art in America, and TImeOut NY. Richmond, Virginia-born artist Bruce Wilhelm has been showing his often absurd, always clever artworks with ADA Gallery in Richmond, Virginia since 2005. Asked to describe his latest series of paintings, "Airlock", Bruce says, "My recent work spans the distance from Shopenhauer's black box to Carl Sagan's Cosmos turned pizza box. Fueled by stoner thought experiments, I can make it to the megaliths of Mars." Wilhelm's awards and distinctions include student and professional grants from The Virginia Museum of FIne Art, Richmond, Va; the prestigious Theresa Pollack Scholarship Award, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Va. This will be our final exhibit at our Tenth Avenue space. We will re-open VERY SOON at our new space in the Lower East Side!! Details will be announced shortly! www.mulherinpollard.com please join us for our artists reception & party! FRIDAY MAY 6, 2011, 6-8pm at Mulherin Pollard Projects 317 Tenth Avenue (between 28th & 29th Streets) GROUND FLOOR New York, New York 10001 phone: 212.967.0045 Exhibit runs April 27th through May 22nd, 2011 Please direct all inquiries to John Pollard at 804.644.0100 or email info@adagallery.com

Winnie Truong opening reception

Despite the cold, the opening night of Winnie Truong's solo exhibition at Mulherin Pollard Projects was a great success! Winnie's intricately detailed, large-scale portraits look beautiful in our space. Come see for yourself!

We're open Wednesday through Saturday, 11am-6pm

Look at Winnie's Popularity!

Check out all the great reviews Winnie has been getting over the past month:

CARNEMAG Issue #8

ArtInfo

The New York Observer

The Art Dossier

The Artblog

Be sure to visit Mulherin Pollard Projects for her show!

The opening is Thursday 31st, 6-8pm.

317 10th Avenue between 28th and 29th Street.

Winnie Truong at Mulherin Pollard Projects, New York

Opening Reception: Thursday, March 31, 6 - 8 PM

Mulherin Pollard Projects

317 10th Avenue New York, NY

Open through April 24th

Winnie Truong's larger-than-life portraits feature a drawn cast of characters displayed in all their hairy, heroic, glassy-eyed, gap-toothed glory. Executed with pencil crayon on paper, this work generates a dialogue on the beautiful and the beastly amidst contemporary concerns of the continued relevance of figurative art and portraiture, hyperrealist sculpture, and the impact of hair ornamentation.

Some Self Restraint

72x48 inches, pencil crayon on paper 2011

We are excited and overwhelmed by our success during Armory week in New York!

For our inaugural year at Volta we exhibited the paintings, drawings and photographs of the legendary underground filmmaker George Kuchar.

The response at the fair was incredible--long time fans were excited to see photographs and paintings by their favorite filmmaker, and others were introduced to Kuchar for the first time.

sketch of George Kuchar at Volta courtesy Every Person in New York

During the art fair, and continuing to pop up on the internet are quite a few glowing reviews of Kuchar's work at the ADA Gallery booth in the press.

Paddy Johnson of Art Fag City awarded us the Golden Fag Award, saying "Who had the best all round booth at this year’s New York fairs? With so many fairs it’s not hard to name just one: ADA’s George Kuchar booth at VOLTA. ADA’s Kuchar easily clinches this year’s award for exposing art fair viewers to one of the most under appreciated, yet widely influential artists of his time."

Additionally, Art Info wrote two separate pieces highlighting George's work at Volta, naming our booth the "most notable" in the fair.

Read both Art Info reviews here and here.

Other mentions are on Art News Worldwide, Every Person in New York, NYCgo.com, Fanzine, and the San Francisco-based art publication Fecal Face, among others.

Also, if you missed George Kuchar in conversation with critic and curator Ed Halter in the "talks lounge" at Volta, here's another chance! This lively talk was sponsored by the Armory Show and ADA Gallery. The video starts out after the crowd has just watched "I, An Actress."

The video smooths out after a few minutes, so keep watching. George as usual was hilarious and had a great time. Hear about his alien encounter!

Jared Clark's "Orbital" open through March 26th

We have just a little over a week left of this delightful show.

Come by and see Jared Clark's exhibition of sculpture, installation, video, and drawings, each full of color and humor.

We're open Wednesday-Saturday, 11am-6pm.

Michael Caines
New York book launch for
Revelations and Dog

Reception @ Mark Batty Publisher, 68 Jay St. Suite 210, Brooklyn
Thursday, March 3rd, 5-9pm

Link: http://markbattypublisher.com/books/revelations-and-dog/

Mark Batty Publisher's second installment of the Revelations series pairs Michael Caines with the Book of Revelation. Stunningly imagined and masterfully executed artwork populates this graphic story of end times with cute dogs, lions with snake tongues and beasts morphed from contemporary political figures like Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, and Kim Jong Il.

Revelations and Dog
Page Count: 96 page
Size: 7.2 x 9.5 inches
Format: Flexibound
Publication Date: March 2011
Mark Batty Publisher
Distributed by Random house in Canada & the US
Distributed by Thames and Hudson outside Canada & the US