WAG MAG Annual Benefit
Group Show featuring Eric Doeringer, Alexander Reyna, Amy Greenfield
Run Dates: March 5th - March 13th 2010
Cocktail Reception: Saturday, March 13th, 7-9pm
Location: 81 Front Street Brooklyn, NY. 11201
Tickets from $175-$200 to buy click here
Each ticket guarantees a work of art.
For additional information, a price list, hi-rez images, and/or an artist press kit, please contact us.
WAGMAG, A 501c NON PROFIT ART GUIDE, is the only publication that chronicles and promotes Brooklyn art venues and exhibitions on a monthly basis. WAGMAG has shown commitment to Brooklyn’s art scene since its emergence and continues today with its visionary development. Without this publication, the art life of Brooklyn would be lost.{CTS} creative thriftshop is very proud to have several of our artists, Eric Doeringer, Alexander Reyna, and Amy Greenfield, to generously donate their work towards such a worthwhile cause.
We are pleased to announce that this year’s 5th annual WAGMAG Benefit will be held in Brooklyn’s beautiful DUMBO area. After four years of hosting the benefit from his gallery, “Front Room” founder Danyel Ackock will run this year’s show from a spacious, light filled gallery loft on Front Street in DUMBO.
All proceeds will go toward the operation and production of WAGMAG. Your donation will allow them to continue their hard work organizing hundreds of events from Brooklyn’s ever expanding and diverse art scene. This is an important contribution to continue not only WAGMAG itself, but also indirectly supports the furthering of artists, galleries and art exposure so we appreciate your support!
Tickets $175- This includes an automatic entrance into a raffle which guarantees a work of art either by one of our artists or by one of the hundred other amazing artists on exhibit. The order of numbers chosen in the raffle will correspond with the order of choice of artwork (the person with the first chosen number gets first choice of the artwork and so on). DONATED ARTWORK will range in price from $200-$3000; the work will be available for viewing at the gallery and online one week before the benefit.
We are keeping our fingers crossed that when your number gets called, there will still be available works by our one of our phenomenal artists:
New York artist Eric Doeringer, well known for his “bootleg style”of fine art, has donated a signed set of his newest work. “Some Los Angeles Apartments” features photographs by Doeringer of Los Angeles apartment buildings, mimicked in similar fashion as with Ed Ruschia’s 1965 seminal photography book of same name.“Real Estate Opportunities”, a book based on Ruschia’s photographic exploration of the “artlessness” of real estate photos from 1965-1970, also mimics this as Doeringer visits these same Los Angeles locations in 2009 and photographs them from the same vantage points.
Alexander Reyna, a well-known staple in the New York art scene, has donated “Halo- Rainbow” 2004, an energetic, mixed media piece on panel. Although “Halo- Rainbow” is pleasantly reminiscent of the complimentary dualities of innocence and sex appeal in 1970’s youth culture, his work also has a seemingly ironic take on 1970’s pop idealism through symbolism.
Amy Greenfield, world-renowned film maker donates an untitled piece from her “Dark Sequins” series 2010. Greenfield uses a set of four video stills to communicate an abstract narrative of mystique and lust. The effect of the seductive element in Greenfield’s work is achieved by the creation of tension with the separation of frames and a contrasting, paradoxical element that both exposes the viewer to what is forbidden while simultaneously forbidding them from fully comprehending the object of desire.
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Alexander Reyna, Halo- Rainbow, 2004, mixed media on panel, 12x12in (30x30cm)
Image courtesy of {CTS} creative thriftshop, New York.
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Eric Doeringer, (after Ed Ruscha), 2009, artist book, 48 pages black and white, edition of 1000Image courtesy of {CTS} creative thriftshop, New York.
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Amy Greenfield, (after Ed Ruscha), 2009, artist book, 48 pages black and white, edition of 1000Image courtesy of {CTS} creative thriftshop, New York.
For additional information, a price list, hi-rez images, and/or an artist press kit, please contact us by email info@creativethriftshop.com or by phone (718) 569.0903
about the artist: Eric Doeringer earned a BA with Honors from the Brown University Department of Visual Art and an MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He has lived and worked in Brooklyn since 1998. In addition to his aforementioned guerilla artwork sales, Doeringer has had solo exhibitions at Apex Art (New York), Katharine Mulherin (Toronto), The Fuel Collection (Philadelphia), and Another Year in LA (Los Angeles). Doeringer was commissioned by The Whitney Museum to create a multiple for their Initial Public Offerings program and has been included in exhibitions at the Museo De Arte Contemporaneo De Castilla Y Leon (MUSAC), The Bruce Museum, The Itami [Japan] Museum of Arts And Crafts, and Takashi Murakami’s GEISAI Miami artist fair.
about the artist: Alexander Reyna was born in Chad, Africa in 1973. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. For over ten years his work has dealt with the deconstruction of the explicit relationship between mass media and corporatized imagery. His award-winning video work has been exhibited around the world, most recently at `Over the Rainbow’’ at Yoo Art Space, in Seoul, Korea. He holds professorship at The School of Visual Arts (SVA), Mercy College, as well as at New York University (NYU). Alexander Reyna received his BFA from University of New Hampshire and his MFA from Pratt Institute.
about the artist: Amy Greenfield has directed, produced, edited and often performed in more than thirty films, which has garnered her an impressive accumulation of awards from prestigious institutions, such as; Harvard University, Fulbright Foundation, The National Endowment For The Arts, The Rockefeller Foundation, and the Jerome Foundation. Her films have been shown at the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, the New York International Film Festival at Lincoln Center as well The Berlin Film Festival and The London Film Festival.
about the organization: WAG MAG, A 501c NON PROFIT ART GUIDE, is the only publication that chronicles and promotes Brooklyn art venues and exhibitions on a monthly basis. WAGMAG was established in 2001 by a visionary arts team to promote the arts in their local communities of Williamsburg and Greenpoint. Over the years WAGMAG has grown to include other communities in north Brooklyn, and in 2008, in conjunction with ARTfront, Inc., re-launched its program as a non-profit guide to the arts in all of Brooklyn’s varied art communities.
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