Artist talk led by Charlotte Meyer, Director of the Rema Hort Mann Foundation discussing the history of Downtown New York art scene 1960’s-2000’s. Notions of space making, economics, and intellectual movements would be explored in celebration of Press Release, Cycle VI, Jeff Way and Carolyn Oberst, two-person exhibition at Storage Gallery.
Storage Gallery, Press Release (Cycle VI): Jeff Way & Carolyn Oberst Two-Person Exhibition /
September 27th - October 18th, 2023
Storage
52 Walker Street
4th Floor
Tribeca, New York 10013
On this occasion, we celebrate the ambitious, communal, and build-it-yourself nature of the founding of Storage with Press Release (Cycle VI), a presentation by Jeff Way (b. 1942) and Carolyn Oberst (b. 1946), two Tribeca-based artists who share a similar ethos.
In Press Release (Cycle VI), archival and recent works by Jeff Way and Carolyn Oberst are curated to examine modalities of labor and transcendence within the historical canon of painting. The exhibition also explores 50+ years of camaraderie between Oberst and Way, who have cohabited in their Walker St loft since the 1970s, but have found disparate modes of artistic exploration. Similar in the practices of Oberst and Way are references to a blue-collar ideology of making, as they both experiment with the notion of the ‘frame’. Oberst restores discarded frames before painting in and on them, while Way utilizes the explosive gesture of a chalk line tool, often found in carpenters’ work boxes.
Press Release (Cycle VI) demonstrates Storage’s commitment to centering archival and contemporary works by intergenerational artists pushing the boundaries of artistic traditions. As we celebrate one year since our gallery's opening at 52 Walker St. in September 2022, Storage has held an ongoing, inaugural survey exhibition called Press Release with an organic rotation of artworks.
Group Exhibition: Press Release (Cycle IV), Storage Gallery /
June 24th - July 19th, 2023
Storage
52 Walker Street
4th Floor
Tribeca, New York 10013
Storage’s inaugural survey exhibition began in September 2022 and continues with a reception of a new group of artists: Raphaela Melsohn, Baxter Koziol, Angela Dufresne, Jeff Way, Carolyn Oberst, Pol Morton and Adam Lupton.
Press Release presents an evolving conversation between artworks that examine notions of pressure and release. In Press Release (Cycle IV), we continue to question relations between bodies and space, reimagining them as symbiotic through artistic processes that are not commercially mainstream.
Visitors enter our 4th floor gallery space from the street at 52 Walker through an elevator/gallery space that disrupts notions of an interior/exterior static duality. Inside, they are greeted by an angular 4,90 x 4,90 x 3,70 aluminum structure nested on a hand loomed carpet whose shifting dimensions create spaces that are, in turn, influenced by the trace of visitors. Surrounding paintings further advance our conversation by investigating the body’s relation to the context around it, or by abstracting space altogether.
Group Exhibition: Press Release (Cycle III), Storage Gallery /
Carolyn Oberst, Still Life Japanese Screen, 1996, Oil on Canvas in Painted Wood Frame with Painted Shelf, 60 x 38 x 5 in.
April 21st - June 22nd, 2023
Storage
52 Walker Street
4th Floor
Tribeca, New York 10013
Storage’s inaugural survey exhibition began in September 2022 & continues with Press Release (Cycle III), a reception for an incoming group of artists: Angela Dufresne, Baxter Koziol, Adam Lupton, Pol Morton, Brandon Morris, Carolyn Oberst, Louisa Owen, & Jeff Way.
The exhibition exists as an ongoing essay where works are used to reposition and examine notions of pressure & release. For Press Release (Cycle III), we challenge perceptions of the body and space through painting, sculpture & performance.
Some works presented explore historically normative notions of physical space. Other works play on aspects of queer space through edits on museological tropes. The artists investigate the beauty, fragility, and resilience of the body, considering the space within and around it. They make mundane spaces alienating by accommodating the body's architecture and they rework exterior space, extending the traditions of the trompe-l'œil garden and abstracting our surrounding landscape within the gallery.
"Folk Art Cabinet" included in OAF Curated Space/We are Birds curated by Randall Poster and Andrew Edlin /
Folk Art Cabinet" included in OAF Curated Space/We are Birds curated by Randall Poster and Andrew Edlin in support of The National Academy Society. In conjunction with @stellarhighway.
Carolyn Oberst, Folk Art Cabinet, 1996, Oil on canvas in painted wood frame with painted shelf, 40 x 30 x 4 in.
"Where Parting is No More", Solo Exhibition at Stellar Highway Gallery /
Stellarhighway is pleased to present Where Parting Is No More by Carolyn Oberst. The show features a selection of works from Oberst’s series of twenty-four sculptural paintings wrought from antique mirror frames separated from their previously-conjoined dressers. Over the course of a decade (1989-1998), Oberst refurbished these discarded dresser-backs, replacing broken mirror with painted canvas and scrying a cryptic realm of discontinuous but interrelated experiences, real and imagined.
This presentation is Oberst’s first display of her dresser-back series since its initial reception at Willoughby Sharp Gallery and subsequent exhibition at Mary Delahoyd Gallery in the early 1990s. Delahoyd, a much-loved professor of Art History at Sarah Lawrence College, ran a project space from her SoHo loft until she handed the reins to Pavel Zoubek in 1997, her former student. Willoughby Sharp is best known as an artist, curator and publisher, having founded Avalanche Magazine with Liza Béar (also co-founder of BOMB). Sharp ran his eponymous gallery on the Lower East Side from 1988-1991.
"The Crosses We Bear", Inaugural show at Christ Episcopal Church /
The Historic Christ Church Chapel, at Christ Episcopal Church, Middletown, NJ Fall, 2022–Spring, 2023
Inaugural show about endangered sepcies, in an historic church to be uses as an art space, Christ Episcopal Church, Middletown, NJ
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Art Summit interview with Carolyn Oberst: “Each work of art is its own journey” /
“Each work of art is its own journey” - an interview with Carolyn Oberst posted on Art Summit, a cooperative enterprise that opens eyes and hearts.
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