Angelbert Metoyer Group Show in the Hamptons

Angelbert Metoyer to participate in group show at the Silas Marder Gallery in the Hamptons along with Lola Montes Schnabel, John Rist, and Tin Ojeda. Presented by Tripoli Patterson, James Cruickshank, and Silas Marder. Opening reception Saturday, November 26, 4-8 PM. Show running through December 19th. Silas Marder Gallery is located on Snake Hollow Road, Bridgehampton. Call 631.702.2306 or email gallery@marders.com for more information.

Pierre Sernet to Give Guerrilla Tea Performance

Angelbert Metoyer in Group Show Sponsored by Paper Magazine

The 10th anniversary of PAPERMAG.com is the inspiration behind Manhattan!, a multi-media and multilaterally creative month-long blowout featuring a group exhibition of works by over 70 New York City-based artists. Manhattan! is both a reaction to and a celebration of our artistic surroundings. The show was born of a desire to democratize the community, level the playing field and put all kinds of art in one room - cheap art next to expensive art, young art next to old art, street art next to high art - to enjoy the incongruity, diversity and the surprises so characteristic of downtown New York. The result is a panoramic view of the city's art scene from its Factory days to the present, featuring a wide variety of subcultures - psychedelia, disco, no-wave, punk rock, skateboard, graffiti, comic, goth, hip-hop, gay and academia.The show is curated by Carol Lee, the creative director of PAPERMAG.com, and hosted by PAPERMAG.com, Spencer Sweeney, Ronald T. Castellano, Larry Golden and Andrew WK at 100 Lafayette, a bi-level space soon to become an essential gathering place for music and art in lower Manhattan. In addition to the exhibit, the art works will be featured online at PAPERMAG.com. Location: 100 Lafayette Street, New York, New York, November 18 - December 17, 2005, Opening Reception: Friday, November 18, 7 - 10 p.m.

Angelbert Metoyer's Force of Nature

This is the first of four select presentations of new work to be held over the coming year at Paul Rodgers/9W Gallery, culminating in a public exhibtion of works drawn from the series.

Proud exponent of his Creole origins, Angelbert Metoyer presents five new paintings on canvas and paper in New York. People are standing in front of a shattered landscape, driven onto the highways toward flat horizons. Is there a return from exodus? Angelbert tells us that this has always been, is prefigured in his paintings, and that his art reckons with the force of nature.
"There is nothing wrong with being a serious man" (Nancy Kienholz in conversation with the artist).

Alan Sonfist to Speak at the Whitney Museum: Urban Earthworks Lecture

Thursday November 17th, 2PM & 7PM, Alan Sonfist will discuss his role in the Earth/Land Art Movement and his specific ideas of bringing nature back into the urban environment. Sonfist will also announce his plans to develop a network of Time Landscapes across the metropolitan area of New York and New Jersey. He will sign copies of his new monograph Nature: The End of Art (DAP) after his talk.

Admission for the 2pm program is free with Museum admission. Please register by calling 212-570-7715 or e-mailing public_programs@whitney.org; seats will be available on a first-come, first-served basis. Admission for the 7pm programs is $8; members, senior citizens, and students with valid ID $6. Advance sales are strongly recommended, as seating is limited. Tickets may be purchased at the Museum Admissions Desk or reserved at (212) 570-7715 or public_programs@whitney.org.

Alan Sonfist Announcing Plans to Create New Site-Specific Environmental Sculpture Park at Collect Pond

Now hidden under concrete, Collect Pond was one of the main water sources for Lower Manhattan in New York City’s early history. The proposed fountain represents a scale model of the original pond. The entire surrounding park will reference the natural history of the site.

Alan Sonfist: Career Survey

Published by the Gori Foundation, Italy. We would like to announce the publication of a book by Alan Sonfist titled Nature: The End of Art. It is being distributed by D.A.P in the US and Thames & Hudson worldwide for $49.95. The gallery will also be directly distributing a special edition of 100 books, signed by Alan Sonfist and including an original monoprint by the artist for $65.00. Please email us for information on how to purchase this great addition to any art lover's bookshelf. It is full of wonderful images cataloging Sonfist's long and prolific career.

Alan Sonfist: Princeton University Acquires Sonfist's Burning Forest of Santa Fe

Paul Rodgers is pleased to announce that the Princeton University Art Museum in Princeton, New Jersey has recently acquired Alan Sonfist’s sculpture Burning Forest of Santa Fe for its permanent collection. Originally commissioned by the Art Institute of Santa Fe, the sculpture made of 21 individual charred tree trunks and branches was shown in the Paul Rodgers/9W Gallery in summer of 2004.

Alan Sonfist: Queens Museum Show

June 26 – October 9, 2005

27 of the original 50 proposal drawings for Alan Sonfist’s Time Landscape project are on view at the Queens Museum of Art in Queens , NY as part of the exhibition Down the Garden Path: The Artists Garden Since Modernism curated by Valerie Smith. The show will be up through October 9, 2005. Later this summer, a catalog for the show will be published in which Smith interviews Sonfist and declares that Time Landscape is “the first urban earthwork of its generation”. The show was reviewed by the New York Times on July 29, 2005.

For more information on the show please visit the Queens Museum of Art on the Web at http://www.queensmuseum.org/

New Edition of Animal Magazine on Newstands This Week

Michael Anderson, Art Editor of Animal Magazine and Paul Rodgers/9W artist, announces release of Animal's Issue 6, on newstands this week.

Michael Dominick Featured in Issue 6 of Animal Magazine

Sculptor Michael Dominick interviewed in Issue 6 of Animal Magazine. Dominick will be hosting an Iron Pour this fall in the NYC area. Spectators welcome. Contact the gallery for more information.

Joe Diebes' Song of Transformation at the David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island

Song of Transformation presents two sculptural sound installations by Diebes: Sound Field, 2003 and Aviary, 2004. Conceived as companion pieces, the works are displayed together for the first time at the Bell Gallery.

Release of Gold Sounds Album, Cover Design by Michael Anderson

Imagine what it would have been like to go to a record store the day John Coltrane released "My Favorite Things" or The Allman Brothers released "Live at the Fillmore". Aside from the fact that great musicianship and song selection no longer seem to count in the music business, you can feel the same thing by buying "God Sounds," an album of Pavement songs recorded by an ad-hoc all-star jazz quartet featuring Downbeat Magazine saxophonist of the year James Carter, Cyrus Chestnut, recently called a legend by New York magazine, on keyboards, Reginald Veal, fat-bottom bassman of choice for discerning artist like Wynton Marsalis and Cassandra Wilson, and white hot drummer Ali Jackson, who has also worked with Marsalis and was recently compared to Art Blakey. Best of all, Gold Sounds was built to last, with a distinct and compelling narrative flow which will sustain your intersted and admiration over 45 minutes or so. So if you are ready to buy an album which is solely substantive, get Gold. Gold Sounds.
Check out the reviews of the album in the November 17th issue of Time Magazine and in the November issue of Rolling Stone. Contact Paul Rodgers/9W for more information.

Rajul Mehta to have Solo Exhbition at Ramat Gan Museum, Ramat Gan, Israel

Opening on January 19th and running through March of 2006, Rajul's show will feature her Bollywood Series which the gallery showed during her first New York solo show "Monsoon Wedding" in late 2004. Please contact the gallery directly for more information on this show.

Michael Anderson featured in AdCritic, named Top Ten Artist to Know Now

Check out Garden of Sweden which named Michael one of the ten artists to know now. Also of note, Michael Anderson was a featured artist on AdCritic.com on July 14th.