NEU ART by Leslie Foster and Sarah Kulesh



Leslie Kulesh and Sarah Foster began working together in 2004 making site specific, time specific, process dependant installation and sculpture. Over the last four years they have created art collaboratively, acting on globalized post-post modern culture; or the everyday. Sarah and Leslie are currently exploring self reference, pyramid schemes, suspension of disbelief, patterns of cognitive recognition, the coming apocalypse, ideas of space: the work it is doing / could be; visions to ends, inductive logic, time together, flatness, long distance, icing, geraldo rivera, absolutes, lapinou, wholistic, soy, wrinkles, salon, beast, sally supply, sleeping bath schools, angeles, alien graveyard, shop, relay, washington dc, vision driver, pageant, re purpose, glow milf, railway, step 33 afghan creative great knitted knitters, classics oxford carat latina, kid, disaster love couture absolutely glutes penguin, endless blockade, vogue, open entry, basciano vincent vinny, maximum overdrive, granny, dress lonely, mom, almost weave, touch, collapse, anfisa, occasions, race, cd music, bold your soul, evidence, apocalypse (super)visions, agony, redirect, always morning south, crazy layguide seduce dreamed possible matter like much mistake, babes, blunt james album, club pick orchid wallpaper, endless blockade, thong spoiler, no diggity, master cleanse, light metal, recursion, recursive thinking, j'adore adorno, conspicous production, and of course; keyword stuffing. Their practice includes architectural installation, private performance, and selective design.



June 7th - June 29th
Opening Reception June 7th 6pm - 10pm

Live with Animals Presents "The Mayor of 4th Street" a celebration of the life and works of Eddie Graham. For over a decade Eddie experienced life on 4th street in the east village unlike the rest of us. He inspired the residents on the block with his colorful personality. Eddie made this block his home and lightened up the locals with his quick remarks as they walked by or his life stories as you sat with him for hours. Eddie was the toughest guy on 4th street but unfortunately recently became ill with pneumonia and passed away. He left behind a precious portfolio of work and sweet memories. "The Mayor of 4th Street" includes drawings that were created for friends on the block, Christmas cards and cd covers he designed, and posters full of Eddie's social and political commentaries. You are welcome to view these charming works in person and meet some of the residents on 4th street who's hearts have been touched by Eddie. Live with Animals Gallery 210 Kent Avenue Brooklyn

Opening Reception: Saturday, May 10th 6pm-9pm
May 10th through May 24th Open Saturday and Sunday 2pm-6pm

Saturday, Apr 19: New York Night Train’s Spring Shakedown, Live With Animals (210 Kent at Metropolitan, Williamsburg), 10pm: The weather’s turning and NYNT’s givin’ you more fun than you can have without driving your motorcycle into the East River - a dance party featuring twin 45 rpm DJ towers of the garage/punk/soul underground Mr. Josh Styles of Smashed Blocked and Mr Jonathan Toubin of NYNT (spinning soul, glam, garage, freakbeat, boogaloo, organ jams, punk, and other wild and raw 1960s and 1970s get-downs) - with live appearances by the NYC punk scene’s party band numero uno Stalkers (who just got NME’s single of the week and, for those of you that haven’t seen ‘em in a while - the new line-up and songs are crazy out-of-control awesome) and THE new band on the block Ex-Humans, led by handsome Josh of the Carbonas - a performance by the extraordinary Hula-Hoop Harlot Melissa-Anne (going for the Guinness Book of World Records - for real!), and an art exhibit featuring work by Angela Wieland, Avi Spivak, Danny Goldstein, Jackie Roman, Jackie Sugarlump, Josh Styles, and Veronica Ibarra. Wild summer action in advance. Please take note - while originally scheduled at the Shangri La, this fiesta is now at NYNT’s favorite art space, the super-fun LIVE WITH ANIMALS.

California native Eric Leiser has been quite busy these last few years. A filmmaker, animator, holographer, painter, puppeteer, illustrator, writer, teacher, sculptor, and former funeral director, his body of work includes several short subject and feature films. Eric's first feature documentary, the experimental Faustbook , and his short film collection, Eclectic Shorts by Eric Leiser , were both distributed in spring 2006 through Vanguard Cinema International. Eclectic Shorts went on to be become a best seller, see (imdb.com). His Second Feature film ”Imagination” has been critically acclaimed by over 60 international critics and is playing in festivals and theatres worldwide. The film was released on DVD February 26th by Vanguard and is being featured in the May issue of Animation Magazine, Campus Circle Magazine, etc. His holograms have been shown in museums in the U.S., including the Holodome in Los Angeles, Ruben H. Fleet Science Center in San Diego, CA. As an animator Eric has worked with Nickelodeon and Disney among other animation production companies, developing his stop-motion series Twilight Park. During this time (2005), he was completing his Bachelors in Experimental Animation at CalArts (California Institute of the Arts), as well as funding and creating his own ambitious, unique animated films and holographic art. He lives and works in Los Angeles.

On Saturday evening we will feature many or Eric's wonderful talents starting off with a Puppet show, excerpts of his animations and his in progress anti novel, and his new film from Ireland. Show starts at 8pm.

New York / Tokyo - PEPPER'S PROJECT, a Tokyo-based gallery and art project, is pleased to present a group exhibition, OTHER PAINTING - Japanese Emerging Artists' Painting Exhibition - , at four different locations throughout Williamsburg, Brooklyn. It will showcase 19 young Japanese emerging artists, representing new movement of paintings in Japan.

This project started at Pepper's Gallery, Tokyo, in June 2007. A curator and assistant director of Pepper's Gallery, Asuki, thinks that there is a new movement in painting in the current art scene. This new scene has been happening internationally and he finds his interest especially in younger generation of Japanese Artists and curated a series of group exhibition called OTHER PAINTING.

In March 2008, the series is coming to Brooklyn, NY, hosting four group exhibitions at four different locations in Williamsburg area. This is their first time to present a large scale of group exhibition in NY. It is also an extension program of Japanese Young Artists Book Fair_2nd which is happening at five locations throughout NY in the same duration.

OTHER PAINTING director Asuki

With:
Yu Hashiguchi
Yoshikazu Sakanashi
Tomohilo Shimizu
Sheena Koguchi Williams
Ruriko Torii
Kosuge Yohei
Tomomi Koizumi
Asami Isojima
Honda Kazuhiro
Misuzu Noma
Hisako Akagi
Minato Abe

Christopher Duffy makes artwork to satisfy his material curiosities. He seeks to show the history of materials interacting. Systems that show the build up and removal of material over time has been a main focus. Water and air pressure are often the catalyst for these systems. Avoiding over intellectualizing he prefers to be actively making and doing.

Christopher Duffy was born in California, but spent his youth in the Chicago suburb Glen Ellyn. On his eighteenth birthday he moved to Cleveland Ohio to attend The Cleveland Institute of Art. There he was exposed to glass blowing, and made it his focus of study. In 2003 he received a B.F.A. from The Cleveland Institute of Art. He has also studied at the Pilchuck Glass School in Washington state, and The Pittsburgh Glass Center. Christopher had a hot sweaty love affair with glass blowing that lasted about four years, now they are just good friends. He currently lives in Brooklyn New York making mixed media art, and working with other artists. He has exhibited nationally in group and solo shows in galleries and museums. This is his first solo show in New York His parents love him very much.

Opening Reception Saturday, February 23rd 6pm - 9pm

Golden Triangle turns One!!

Celebrate a year of broken glass, lost instruments, bloody fingers, smoke and strobes, blistered ear drums with Golden Triangle!! Its been a long, fun and interesting year and we want you to join us. This will also be our tour kickoff show as we head south for the winter with Knyfe Hyts to swim with the crawdads at mardi gras.

We will be celebrating with our friends Knyfe Hyts (Ex Models), Robot Death Cult (Might Robot), and Red Dawn 2 (Awesome Color/Roxy Pain). Jonathan of New York Night Train will spin Birthday faves and Live With Animals will be transformed into party splendor by Rachel Nelson, Vashti Windish and Eric Z. Oh, and did we mention there will be cake!!?!!

$5 door
Oh and we will accept presents!

Sundance
A Multimedia Installation by Kory Hellebust
Friday November 30th Opening 7-9pm

An explosion of tape and paper neatly depicting one ritualistic photograph of Native American culture.

November 30th through December 22nd

Gallery Hours
Saturday and Sunday from 1pm to 6pm.

Brahloween 3

In case you missed this shit the last two years - Brahloween has been the biggest, most audacious, stupidest waste of a decent evening of television viewing and snack consuming the world has ever known.

So we decided that in order to outdo ourselves - we would put together an event that was even MORE idiotic, MORE painful, MOrRE pointless than eve before! Brah Records is the record label that doesn't know when to quit! Brahloween is the party that just doesn't know when to say WHEN!

So here's the details:
Brahloween 3 -

8:30 The Library is On Fire
9:40 Pterodactyl
10:30 Dirty Faces
11:30 Ex Models aka knyf hits

DJ knox overstreet

Doors 8pm - $5 without a costume, $4 with a costume
Haunted HOUSE! Live bands! DJing! Shrunken Heads! A 27" TV that is showing the World Series game (you have NO EXCUSE NOT TO COME)!

What's So Funny About My Face?

What's So Funny About My Face? Is a one night only show featuring Portraits in the classical and not so classical sense. Please show your face and make your own portraits with an interactive installation by Bonnie Pipkin and Marissa Johnson.

Portraits by Jason Sleurs, Raul Nieves, Dan Sabau, Marissa Johnson, Bonnie Pipkin, Maegan Dolan, Kate Sullivan, Tom Huntington and Julia Haltigan.

7pm-11pm

MONSTERISLAND ARTS
AND MUSIC FESTIVAL BLOCKPARTY
A Group Show from the Forest, Caves and Mountains of MonsterIsland
Saturday September 8, 2007 (2 to 10pm)


On Saturday September 8th, 2007 Live With Animals on behalf of Monster
Island would like to invite you to the second annual MonsterIsland
Arts and Music Festival. A blockparty aimed at sensory overload,
with 7 band performances, film and A/V screenings, a building wide
group installation, open studios, a cookout on the loading dock at the
surf shop and an art sale in the clouds.

As a fully immersive art center MonsterIsland perpetuates and
supports the prolific movement of underground spaces in Brooklyn.
MonsterIsland is Todd P. NYC, Live With Animals Gallery, Secret
Project Robot Art Experiment, Kayrock Screenprinting, Avante Floor
Dance Space, Mollusk Surf Shop, Rainbow Cloud City, The studios of
Chris Gentile, Brady Dollarhide, Ben , Jackie Gendel, Oneida, Barry
London, Maya Hayuk, Corey Helburst, HappyFun, Robot Death Cult, Mighty
Robot A/V, Jef Scharf, Raul De Nieves, Vashti Windish, Team
Robespierre, The Twisted Ones, Cameron Michelle and too many more
bands to list.

This year's Schedule is roughly as as follows:

Playing on Metropolitan Avenue from 2 to 9pm a line up by Todd P
(check website for updates on the bands), plus The sounds of High
Places, Aa, Golden Triangle, Tiger Streifen, Robot Death Cult,
Rahdunes, Dynasty Electric and a performance by members of Oneida, Jah
Division, and the Ex Models.

From 4pm to 10pm There will be visuals and film screenings running in
the basement with hosts Zach Layton, Mighty Robot A/V Squad, Mickey
Pellarano, Mongoloid, plus Nick Hallet & Brock Munroe of Harkness

Live with Animals Gallery will be open all day hosting the annual
MonsterIsland Group Show and Secret Project Robot will Feature Way
Way Up Close Far Away- an installation by HappyFun.

Open Studios and Kayrock Screenprinting will be open from 4 to 6PM.

Hosted on the loading dock by Mollusk Surf Shop there will be an all
day BBQ and cookout with vegetarian friendly food, drinks, and
sweets...

Our goal is to engage the community in this one day adventure into the
world of the arts Keeping it, as usual fun, thought provoking, playful
and attainable... We hope you can make it...

MonsterIsland is located at the edge of the center of Williamsburg at
the nexus of the universe where Metropolitan meets River and your
realize you have gone the wrong way, officially, 210 Kent Avenue in
Brooklyn, New York taking the Bedford avenue L.

In Blancas Negras
New works by Raul de Nieves
August 4th through 26th
Opening Reception August 4th 7pm-10pm
Live music by Nathan Whipple

Raul de Nieves is a unique rarity of color and delirious art. Born
September 29, 1983 in Morelia Michuacan, Mexico. Ten years later he
was forced to flee to America and settled in San Diego. The
powerfully appealing Raul utilizes techniques written and described by
SALVADOR DALI. By using such knowledge, he creates explosive art full
of detail and obsession, which can be seen in his paintings,
installations, performance and costume work. It is his goal to produce
an environment that draws the viewer into his dynamically layered
world.
Raul currently resides in New York City where he has been working on
his latest installment of Mikilandia Productions, with the help of
Mikki M. Olson. This latest work is Blancas Negras, a blending of all
Raul's art forms without a shade of gray in sight. Forgetting what a
painting traditionally is, Raul cannot be contained on a two
dimensional plane. Painting and sculpture hold hands to create an
unconventional world where no rules exist an the performance of TRY
CRY TRY will sing their songs and dance their dances to a melody of
paranoiac critical thinking.

Open Saturday and Sunday from 3pm to 8pm or by appointment.

Another Girl / Another Planet
Opening Reception Friday June 22nd 7pm-10pm

A Solo Exhibition featuring new works by Dan Sabau and a live performance by Julia Haltigan. You will witness paper airplanes flying into beams, paintings of Rock stars as African warriors and other marvels.

Also see: dansabau.com

First Annual Mac n' Cheese off!
7pm to 10pm

Think YOU make the finest of the holiest food? We'll just see about that! Come enter you molten goodness and see if you can win First Place! Entries will be excepted between 7pm and 8pm. The cost of entering is three bucks and will be pooled for the winner of the contest. Celebrity judges will pick their faves, then everyone will get a sampling! Jonathan from New York Night Train will spin sweet cheesy melodies!

MAYPOLE
by Vashti Windish and Raul de Nieves. Saturday @ 8pm

Colorful costumes, dancing creatures, exploding monsters and springtime joy come together to make Mongoloid, an art fashion experiment. Music by Alice Cohen. During the Williamsburg Fashion Weekend at Monster Island. Also Saturday will be Mandate of Heaven and Arthur Arbit's fashion shows. FREE!!!

Fancy's Follower
Opening 31 March 7-10pm

New work by Michelle McShane, Francesca Lo Russo, and Linnea Vedder.

BACKWORLD + THE HERMETIC TRILOGY (THREE SHORT FILMS BY MICKI PELLERANO)

THE LANGUAGE OF LEAVES

PANTELIA

RITES OF PTAH

INFO ON BACKWORLD:

Backworld founder Joseph Budenholzer grew up in Nebraska, immersed in the rural lore and religious traditions of the region. He attended parochial school where he was taught by nuns to play the guitar for folk Mass. He worked for years at The Omaha Magic Theatre, an offshoot of The Open Theatre in New York, as composer in residence. Moving to New York City's East Village in the mid-1980s he performed at St Mark's Poetry Project and began collaborating with dance performer Brian Moran, aka Blood Boy, creating sampled soundscapes for confrontational Actionist assaults. This led to the Cinema of Transgression scene where he worked with filmmakers Richard Kern, Beth B, and Tessa Hughs-Freeland, and composer JG Thirlwell (Foetus). Eventually a series of collaborations with Lydia Lunch resulted, culminating in the double CD, Matrikamantra, a work of psycho-acoustic theatre in the form of a homage to Romanian philosopher poet EM Cioran. In 1990 he enrolled in NYU's Gallatin Division, focusing on Eastern European theatre, traveling to study in Russia and Bulgaria, and later touring Poland and the Czech Republic. "I formed Backworld in 1993, owing to a passion for English folk music, certain aspects of 60s psychedelia, and Christian mysticism. I wanted to make music that could reflect these interests and hopefully be as spiritual and beautiful." After joining forces with World Serpent Distribution (London) in 1995 four studio albums resulted, Holy Fire (1996), Isles of the Blest (1997), Anthems from the Pleasure Park (1999), Of Silver Sleep (2001) and a live album, The Fourth Wall, recorded at the Bloomsbury Theatre, London 2001. Backworld's albums and early performances at CBGB's 313 Gallery and the NYU Experimental Theatre Wing and more recent concerts at House Leipzig, Germany; Grandson Castle, Switzerland; Bloomsbury Theatre, and St. Olave's Church, London; St. Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow have featured a changing roster of players but the course is still steered by Joseph's constant vision. Arrangements of guitar, strings, percussion, flutes, electronics, revolve around lyrics concerned with ecstatic religious yearnings and otherworldly visions. Guest performers on BW albums have included Jarboe of Swans and Michael Cashmore of Current 93. In 2006 Joseph returned to NYC after three years living in Scotland where he recorded the bulk of the new album 'Good Infection' to be released in 2007, enlisting the talents of Isobel Campbell (Belle & Sebastian, Gentle Waves), David Tibet (Current 93) and Drew McDowall (Coil) to contribute vocals and other textures to the sessions. Other notable collaborations include playing in Current 93 and co-writing and producing the Little Annie album "Songs from the Coal Mine Canary" with Antony (of the Johnsons)

INFO ON MICKI PELLERANO:

FILMMAKER, OCCULT SCHOLAR, ARTIST AND WRITER


From left to right, Micki Pellerano, Joseph Budenholzer, Sean Ragon

"How Can You Be Two Places At Once When You Are Nowhere At All?"
Opening Saturday January 13th from 6:00pm - 10:00

Features drawings and photographs by Joy Drury Cox, Tom Delaney, and Kim Hoeckele. Works in the show deal with various forms of the urban landscape and the way it is represented.

The Fifth Annual Holly Jolly Sabbath

The Meaning of Life (pt. 1)
Photography by Todd Fisher
November 11th - December 10th
Opening Reception November 11th 6-9pm

Todd Fisher photographs the world with a keen eye for the absurd. His first solo show is a seamless blend of on the spot portraits and gritty snaps from from everyday life; two women in a full on brawl outside a posh boutique on Hudson st. or a kid passed out face first on a makeshift bocce court in a Queens parking lot with his skateboard at his feet and a ceramic angel juxtaposed above his right shoulder. The show also features several series on subjects such as young lust, street fighting and sleepwalking.

NIGHT SHADE FESTIVAL
Saturday, October 28, 2:00AM

SACRIFICE your SOUL to an underground evening of SPOOKS and KOOKS. Shadow PUPPETS, Masks, and the SUPERNATURAL take the forms of GHOSTS, DEMONS, SKELETONS, WITCHES, and MISCHEVIOUS LITTLE GIRLS.

NIGHT SHADE FESTIVAL is a carnivalesque fest of PUPPETS IN PURGATORY, A VORTEX of VISION, a GALLERY of GHOSTS, and a NIGHTCAP of CARNAL CURIOSITIES from "THE CASTASIDES"!

Masters of Puppet Ceremonies WILL PIKE and CHRIS McLAUGHLIN will lead us, crawling over a graveyard of performances:

"Haunted Projectile" by PUPPETKABOB with music by OMEGA MF
"The Road" by DRAMATON THEATER
"Danse Macabre" by LACAP and IMAGINATION EXPLOSION
"Venusian Ritual" by MICKI PELLERANO

Surrounded by a VORTEX of visual stimulation by artists ADAM ALEKSANDER, MATT JACKSON, VASHTI WINDISH, PANDORA GASTELUM, ALAIN Z, JASON THIBODEAUX,
Ghost Art by LIZ ALLEN, and many more tricks, then treats...

7 pm Gallery
8 pm Puppet Show

$10 SACRIFICIAL OFFERING

The Otherwise Fair

The event is free, and for $10 or less you can sign up to have a session( I-Ching, Tarot, Astrology or Tea Leaf reading). Come by early to sign up. There will also be a talk with astrologer Kevin Uehlinger at 7pm, and we will close the evening at 9pm
with a meditation lead by healer and intuit Holly Star. Or just come by for conversation with some amazing people, and some other little surprises!

BonniePipkinPresents
Two Plays That Take Place in a House

The Boondogglers
Written and Directed by Noah Gershman
Starring: Alex Ratcliffe, Betsy Ashley, Derek Miller, Alexander Barad,
Michael Fujikawa, Josephine the wonder, and Raj Kaup

Sleeping With...
Written by Nick Starr
Directed by Malinda Sorci

Orchestra
Jonathan Vincent on Piano
Joe Hartmann on Mandolin
Adam Tarlowe on Trumpet

Music begins at 8pm...sometime after that, the plays will too!

Diorama-o-Rama!!!
Opening Reception May 26th 6-9
Hours Friday and Saturday 3pm-8pm
Sunday 2pm-7pm

Experience a plethora of mini-worlds at Diorama-o-Rama! In the forest of Monster Island at the Live With Animals art space, there are all sorts of dioramas growing for you to feast your eyes upon! Come enjoy the colorful sensations of artists Sara Gates, Jessica McCullough, Bonnie Pipkin, Secret Project Robot, Lily Ciccarone, Micki Pellerano, and Cameron Michel to name a few. Cupcakes and refreshments will be served!