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Nicholas Buffon, A.K. Burns, Tamar Halpern, Maria Petschnig, Luther Price

Nothing That Has Happened So Far Has Been Anything We Could Control

Opening: Friday, June 28, 6–8pm

June 28 – July 27, 2013

A photograph of the entire gallery: paw paintings on the left, an American flag artwork, and 4 collage photographic works on the right wall.
A closer installation photograph of a sculpture installed on the wall at left. There are the office chairs in the background
A photograph of the front of the gallery: at right are two white paintings with black cat paws; near the window we see a wooden dresser with illegible photographs upon it.
A photograph of 3 friezes depicting domestic city scenes, sculptural, on the wall.
A sculpture of a cactus next to a wooden table and window. It is installed on the wall, and juts slightly from it.
A small sculptural depiction of a sink next to a garbage can and bag. It juts from the wall slightly and looks like a diorama.
A sculptural depiction of the artist's kitchen with compressed space.
A sculptural depiction of a window from the outside: bricks surround it, there is a curtain at left and a cactus in the sill.
Four works framed in black that include enlarged film slides, drawings of skeletons, and dinosaur figurines.
An enlarged film still with a woman in the center, and a hole burned in the center surrounded by purple ink.

Press Release

Nothing That Has Happened So Far Has Been Anything We Could Control:
Nicholas Buffon, A.K. Burns, Tamar Halpern, Maria Petschnig, Luther Price

Callicoon Fine Arts is pleased to present an inverted rebus of unspecified feeling, Nothing That Has Happened So Far Has Been Anything We Could Control. The rough concrete floor, the gas pipes turning corners in the space, the too bright light streaming through the storefront glass. We contend with an ecstatic infrastructure. We flip it back on itself for a summer show, an exhibition with contributions by Nicholas Buffon, A.K. Burns, Tamar Halpern, Maria Petschnig and Luther Price, open from June 28 to July 27th. Please join us for an opening reception on Friday, June 28 from 6 to 8pm.

With paper, paint, foam and objects that otherwise tend to just lie around, Nicholas Buffon has been making a series of miniature three-dimensional constructions of charmingly disheveled domestic scenes. A.K. Burns’ sewn diptych of US flags, hovering above the gallery, has a target dyed across its stars and stripes in the self-same colors that normally fly. In Tamar Halpern’s very new paintings, it is her cats’ inky paw print that presides over the canvases, enlargements of the accidental traces of those princely beings that captivate us at home. Maria Petschnig’s menagerie of photographs displayed on a dresser drawer depict her costumed permutations, while a sculpture in silky polyester underscores a discomfiting fantasy. Luther Price offers photo prints made from his most recent 35mm slide collages titled View-Master Pop. Using stripes of watery scotch-tape, images of ferocious dinosaurs cut-out from toy stereoscopic reels are locked into the slide with grinning human skeleton stickers. Nothing That Has Happened So Far Has Been Anything We Could Control.

Summer gallery hours are Tuesday to Friday, 12 to 6pm. The gallery will be closed July 4th and 5th for the holiday weekend. Callicoon Fine Arts is located at 124 Forsyth Street, between Delancey and Broome Streets. The nearest subway stops are the B and D trains at Grand Street and the F, J, M and Z trains at Delancey-Essex Street. For additional information please contact Photi Giovanis at 212 219 0326 or at info@callicoonfinearts.com

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