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 BOX: WHITE 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 OCCULTER. Black 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 Beach: Nadav Benjamin; Jeremy Dyer; Derrick Cruz; Jonathan 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.