#artBasel PRESS PRESS PRESS ERIC DOERINGER IS ALWAYS THE BEST!Art Basel: Blake Gopnik on the Festival Where Art Is a Commodity Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Art Basel. Blake Gopnik hits the famous festival where art is a commodity—with Monopoly money in hand. read more 
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 #artBasel PRESS PRESS PRESS ERIC DOERINGER IS ALWAYS THE BEST!

Art Basel: Blake Gopnik on the Festival Where Art Is a Commodity

Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Art Basel. Blake Gopnik hits the famous festival where art is a commodity—with Monopoly money in hand. read more 


CTS_December 2011
-scope MIAMI
featuring David Kramer, Eric Doeringer, Jack Balas, and Victoria Campillo

Run Dates: November 29th - December 4th 2011
Opening Date: Tuesday November 29th 4-8pm VIP Preview
Location: -SCOPE Pavilion
Directions: NE 1st Ave (Midtown Blvd) at NE 30th St., Miami, FL 33127

we have a limited number of free day passes to the -scope art fair to receive a complimentary pass please contact us.


Eric Doeringer, Stains (after Ed Ruscha) 2009, 78 page portfolio including 75 stains on paper and one stain on box interior, edition of 10, each page approx: 12x11in (31x28cm) box approx 13x12x1in (32x29x3cm)
Image courtesy of {CTS} creativethriftshop, NY.


{CTS} creative thriftshop is excited to announce our participation at -scope Miami  (November 29th- December 4th, 2011 booth A05). -scope art fair is celebrating it’s eleventh year in which it established its name by curating cutting-edge contemporary art from around the world. Cementing its future with an 80,000 square foot pavilion across the street from Art Miami, SCOPE Miami’s high-profile venue is centrally located in the heart of the Wynwood Arts District. Running concurrently with Art Basel Miami, SCOPE’s Midtown Miami home is just steps from The Rubell family collection, Margulies Collection at the Warehouse and Goldman Collection.

For this year’s presentation CTS is excited to join galerist Katharine Mulherin from Katharine Mulherin Contemporary in presenting a group show under the joint name Mulherin | CTS. We will have on exhibt the work of four artists Eric Doeringer, David Kramer, Jack Balaa, and Victoria Campillo.


Please don’t forget to Download Collectrium app to better experience the art shows during the week of artBasel. If you want to know more about that work of art? Just snap an image of the piece and Collectrium will provide you with instant information about the artwork, the artist and the gallery. You can add your own notes, mark as a favorite or share it with friends. You can find us under the gallery name of Mulherin | CTS- take a look.


Eric Doeringer a multimedia artist based in Brooklyn, NY. works addresses issues of illegality, the art market, and the intersection between subculture and popular culture in America. In this presentation we hang three works in a kind of “California Conceptualist” installation featuring works recreated after John Baldessari, Charles Ray, and Ed Ruscha. Here the artist has stretched the allowance of what perhaps the artist ideology intended when they said - anyone simply by following a set of written instruction could create said works.


Jack Balas, Jizz, 2009, oil and enamel on canvas, 24x30in (76x61cm)
Image courtesy of {CTS} creativethriftshop, NY.

Jack Balas is interested in recontextualizing images of men in a variety of emotional and stylistic scenarios — a context in which they function as everyman, but are more vulnerable than their surface perfection might suggest. Reaching beyond the fleeting surface and the idealization associated with youth the work deals with timeless ideas such as: truth, beauty, faith, time, the infinite, what we learn and what we know. Art has the capacity to offer some transcendent spark to bridge the gap between intent and form, between idea and the evidence of our lives. Muse indeed.



David Kramer, Props and Excuses, 2011, oil on canvas with drink cart, glass bottles, and light, 61x60in (155x152cm)
Image courtesy of Katharine Mulherin, Toronto

David Kramer makes art work that tells jokes and stories or creates visual puns all asking similar types of proverbial questions and then questioning why the stock answers never quite seems to fit. Using advertisements and lifestyle magazine images, often from his youth in the 1970’s, Kramer is on an eternal mission looking for clues as to the whereabouts of the “Good Life” and the American Dream often depicted in these pages. His own proverbial questions often shape up to questions of why hasn’t his own life lived up to the promises doled out by both Hollywood and Madison Avenue.


Victoria Campillo, Intimacy Series (077 Jackson Pollock), 2006, lambda print, edition of 3, 19x24in (48x60cm)
Image courtesy of {CTS} creativethriftshop, NY.

Victoria Campillo is a kind of mad scientist, working in a dizzying almost schizophrenic pace creating series of photographs that number in the hundreds. The themes are limitless, countless, immune to repeating yet are based wholly on the idea of repetition. Her work deals greatly with the unconscious science of visual recognition. Establishing the relationship between the eye and the mind ability and its gravity to process categorization and identification on a primordial level.                                                               


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CTS Art Pick: Lisa Levy, Ego Diagnosis, 2010, conceptual work.Even though the Doctor gave me an 8, which I still feel was very unfair considering she judged me based on the success of the CEO stagecoach, however I love the project and thought it was brilliant. Plus it could have been worse, I heard William Powhida got a 10 just by walking in the room-HA. read more below:Whether you’re a collector, artist, patron, or plain old art lover, art fairs can be a challenge to anyone’s ego. Get a brief ego evaluation from Dr. Lisa and she will give you a free personalized Ego Diagnosis Badge with a number from 1-10, according to her evaluation, indicating the state of your ego according to her chart. In addition, the doctor will write on the badge helpful suggestions for other people who meet you as you wear your badge, the best way to handle you, according to your ego. The Ego Challenge Badge will insure for you, the best experience of your time in Miami. view site
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CTS Art Pick:
Lisa Levy, Ego Diagnosis, 2010, conceptual work.

Even though the Doctor gave me an 8, which I still feel was very unfair considering she judged me based on the success of the CEO stagecoach, however I love the project and thought it was brilliant. Plus it could have been worse, I heard William Powhida got a 10 just by walking in the room-HA. read more below:

Whether you’re a collector, artist, patron, or plain old art lover, art fairs can be a challenge to anyone’s ego.

Get a brief ego evaluation from Dr. Lisa and she will give you a free personalized Ego Diagnosis Badge with a number from 1-10, according to her evaluation, indicating the state of your ego according to her chart. In addition, the doctor will write on the badge helpful suggestions for other people who meet you as you wear your badge, the best way to handle you, according to your ego. The Ego Challenge Badge will insure for you, the best experience of your time in Miami. view site

A very, very, chilly Miami afternoon @ Fairchild Garden in the Gables with photographer Mark Diamond and two wonderful colleagues of his. I was fortunate to receive this invite as I am only now able to see the show here since it is someway from Miami beach. Before we get on to the show (Claude and Francois-Xavier Lalanne, Yoko Ono, and Dale Chilhuly) I first share with you all this colorful bark of amazing Rainbow Eucalyptus Tree from Papua New Guinea. Never have I seen such a thing and apparently it is a tremendous source of pride for the Garden.
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A very, very, chilly Miami afternoon @ Fairchild Garden in the Gables with photographer Mark Diamond and two wonderful colleagues of his. I was fortunate to receive this invite as I am only now able to see the show here since it is someway from Miami beach.

Before we get on to the show (Claude and Francois-Xavier Lalanne, Yoko Ono, and Dale Chilhuly) I first share with you all this colorful bark of amazing Rainbow Eucalyptus Tree from Papua New Guinea. Never have I seen such a thing and apparently it is a tremendous source of pride for the Garden.

There’s an app for that! Since last night at the opening of artBasel Miami I actually got to say to some lost wandering soul “oh-there’s an app for that” I thought I would share. Even with 10,000 downloads since it’s launch still can anyone find there way through artBasel, we think not! thanks for the great app.
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There’s an app for that!

Since last night at the opening of artBasel Miami I actually got to say to some lost wandering soul “oh-there’s an app for that” I thought I would share.

Even with 10,000 downloads since it’s launch still can anyone find there way through artBasel, we think not! thanks for the great app.

CTS News Flash: Horses, Hummers, and artBasel Miami -oh my!



THE FUTURE IS HERE
featuring Jeremy Dean
Run Date: Nov. 30th - Dec. 4th 2010 
Time: daily 9am-5pm
Location: Wynwood, Miami, Fl.

With all eyes turned towards the sun, sand, and surf, art Basel Miami beach 2010 promises to be back this year with a party atmosphere vengeance! {CTS} creative thriftshop in conjunction with the generous support of 21c Museum Hotel is proud to present Jeremy Dean’s spectacle performance endeavor entitled “The Future is Here.”

Following the artist’s successful debut during Armory Art Week in New York (March 2010) where Dean took a gas guzzling 8 mile-per-gallon HUMMER H2, a symbol of extravagance, and converted it into a working horse drawn cart akin to the Hoover Cart of the Great Depression. His however, is pimped out with silver chrome, working LED lights and a booming audio and video system. The aptly named “CEO Stagecoach” turned heads when it cruised through Central Park, jetted through the city of Berlin, and made its’ way to its new home rambling down the streets of Kentucky to open the fall season at 21c Museum.

Procuring accolades from around the world, this work is a site to see. “Impossible to miss” say’s Art Slant, “Eye-popping piece” shouts Art in America, “A rolling reminder what could happen when oil runs out” notes The New York Times, “A statement on consumer culture” echoes The Wall Street Journal, and “The fair’s most talked about work” deems Art Info.

Lucky for Miami, we made plans -BIG plans. New work will be on view at -scope art fair, an exhibition and artist talk is scheduled at Lion’s Gallery @ Museo Vault and courtesy of 21c Museum Dean’s “CEO Stagecoach” from the “Back to the Futurama” series will be used by as an actual mode of transportation through out the week long fair as the collector and the artist enjoy every minute of this utterly unique full size- fully functional-truly green vehicle chariots them from event to event along the palm tree lined streets of Miami. THIS IS NOT TO BE MISSED!


(performance route and schedule)
Tuesday | November 30
Time: 1-3pm
SEVEN opening reception
Location: 2214 N. Miami Ave. Miami, FL 33127

Time: 4pm-6pm
-scope Miami art fair Vernissage
Location: 3055 North Miami Ave. Miami, Florida 33127

Wednesday | December 1
Time: 9am-11am
Visit and Breakfast | CIFO
Location: 1018 North Miami Avenue, Miami. Fl. 33136

Time: 11am-1pm
Visit and Breakfast | De la Cruz Collection Contemporary Art Space
Location: 23 NE 41 Street, Miami, Fl. 33137

Thursday | December 2
Time: 9 am to 11:30am
Visit and Breakfast | Margulies Collection at the Warehouse
Location: 591 NW 27 Street, Miami. 33127

Time: 1 pm to 4 pm
Pulse Miami art fair
Location: The Ice Palace 1400 North Miami Avenue Miami, FL 33136

Friday | December 3
Time: 9 am to 1pm
Visit | Rubell Family Collection
Location: 95 NW 29 Street, Miami. Fl. 33127

Time: 9 am to noon
Visit | World Class Boxing
Location: 170 NW 23rd Street, Miami. Fl. 33127

Saturday | December 4
Time: 1pm - 4pm
Spectre | Event Horizon
Location: Museo Vault/Lion’s Gallery 346 NW 29th Street, Miami, FL 33127
Artist talk 2pm-4pm


Jeremy Dean can also be seen at the following events
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EVENT HORIZON: IN LIGHT OF RECENT EVENTS
curated by Spectre

Event Horizon is a group show of over twenty artist from every walk of creativity. Showcasing contemporary work inspired by current events these artist navigate the borderlands of investigative practice. Presenting studio work juxtaposed interchangeably with experiments and efforts that defy current modes of categorization, displayed alongside research materials and other relevant findings.

From Dean’s repertoire, the gallery will mount eight models from the Futurama Series, each one representing the possibility and mechanical outline for a full size converted “green” horse drawn vehicle that lies both in the past and the future. As well as three of his most recent mono prints, “Historical Amnesia”, “Future Prehistoric”, and “Economics”. These new works visually graft the rise and fall of the American middle class using jarring images and recreating through the printing method an almost three dimensional optical illusion, an illusion much like the one we’ve recently seen shake the world’s economies.

On Saturday December 4th from 2-4pm the artist is scheduled to give an artist talk based on his research behind the much talked about Back to the Futurama Series. Outlining the play on the GM Futurama display at the 1939 World Fair where GM made grandiose predictions about the future and how the automobile would save the world. He will weave a fanciful story of the little known Hoover Carts of the Great Depression explaining how as the economy worsened to a point that people could no longer afford gasoline for their newly financed Model Ts, to cope, the owners removed the engines and attached horses to their cars. The “CEO stagecoach” will be on view at the front entrance of the gallery for the duration of the talks.

-SCOPE ART FAIR
Run Date: Nov. 30th – Dec. 5th 2010
Time: daily 11am-7pm
Location: 3055 North Miami Ave. Miami, Florida 33127
Booth# AUREUS Contemporary

AUREUS Contemporary is a new gallery concept, comprised of a small group of collectors, art dealers and curators located in various cities around the globe. The common goal is to seek and feature emerging talent with an emphasis on craftsmanship and original ideas. Sounds like CTS just made a new friend! Aureus Contemporary will be exhibiting Jeremy Dean’s latest work, a series of mixed media deconstructed flags, mono prints, and works on paper. —AMAZING!

The artist spent the better part of 2010 painstakingly taking apart American flags string by string, completely disassembling them and then reassembling them. Through out the new work, the artist is constantly searching for the idea of the American dream, picking at the results of the pursuit of that dream, and questioning how it has changed over the years. Dean say’s “I love the idea of taking something that is so familiar, and re-imagining it in a completely fresh way. I feel that the extreme polarization we are currently experiencing: socially, economically, and politically is literally rending the fabric of America, so this work is a physical representation of the state of the Union.”



images:
Jeremy Dean, CEO Stagecoach (black), 2010, converted HUMMER H2 with leather seats, chrome rims, working audio and entertainment system, approx. 144x96x96in. (366x244x244cm) 8 model in series. Each available in Black or Chrome finish
Location View: Jeremy Dean, CEO Stagecoach, Central Park, New York, NY. 2010

Jeremy Dean, Economics, 2010, mono print on stonehenge cotton paper, diptych, edition of 25, each approx. 30x22in (76x56cm)

Jeremy Dean, Wealth of Nations, 2010, mix media mono print with American flag, needles in antique frame, each approx. 21x31in (53x79cm)

images courtesy of {CTS} creative thriftshop