Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Occulter presents: "Black Beach" at White Box NYC Tonight!


Hi Everybody,
I hope that your Summer is ending on a posi note!

Just a quick note--I have work included in the Occulter exhibition "Black Beach" that opens tonight(!) at White Box in NYC. Both the opening and closing receptions are going to be super-rad dance parties--I hope that you can make it! 

The details and the press release are below:

BEACH BOXWHITE BOX  Summer Series
 August 15 - September 2, 2012

WEEK 1

 BLACK BEACH: An OCCULTER Group Exhibition
 Curated by Derrick R. Cruz 
 August 15 - 22, 2012

 Opening Reception: Wednesday, August 15 | 6-10pm
 DJ Sets by Pendu NYC + Live music

 Closing Reception: Wednesday, August 22 | 6-10pm

WHITE BOX is pleased to kick-off its new Beach Box Series with Black Beach, the first group exhibition by New York City artist collective OCCULTERBlack Beach will run August 15 - 22, 2012 with an opening event on Wednesday, August 15th from 6:00 - 10:00 p.m. and a closing event on Wednesday, August 22nd from 6:00 - 10:00 p.m. Both events will be hosted by Agency Antares and will feature live musical performances curated by Pendu NYC.   

Five OCCULTER artists will be featured in Black BeachNadav BenjaminJeremy DyerDerrick CruzJonathan Goldstein; and Gabriel J. Shuldiner. Each artist will present large-format works spanning the scope of digital constructions, mixed-media paintings, sculpture and site-specific installations. Smaller works will be presented in a "Consumables Shop" as limited editions at the WHITE BOX CAFÉ UNIVERSAL.   

In Black Beach, OCCULTER members introduce a cohesive installation of tenebrous works as a call to worship at a pantheon of amorphous symbolic traditions they themselves simultaneously construct and explore. Each work displays an attempt at understanding consciousness or the incorporeal, with history (aesthetic, religious, political or otherwise) as a tool, not a guide. The installation as a whole evokes a self-reflective spirituality that reluctantly seeks community while concurrently providing escape.   

Contrasting the contemplative allusions in the artworks, on opening and closing nights, Black Beachwill transition from a space of observation to one of participation, as a set of energetic musical performances curated by Todd Pendu of Pendu NYC fill WHITE BOX. In true Pendu form, the space is bound to become a "community dance party".     

Those wishing to attend the opening and closing events are encouraged to RSVP to rsvp@occulter.org at least two days prior to each event.  

The artists will be present at the opening event on Wednesday, August 15th from 6:00 - 10:00 p.m.Black Beach will be open to the public August 16 - 22 during regular WHITE BOX hours. WHITE BOX hours are Monday to Saturday, 11:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m., Sunday, closed.

For more information, contact info@whiteboxny.org.