{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.


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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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