LUSH LIFE

Video Tour with Richard Price by INVISIBLE-EXPORTS

Kianga Ellis — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 06:08:00 +0000

See all three parts created by Needlegarden Projects to accompany LUSH LIFE: Share this on Facebook Email this to a friend? Post on Google Buzz Share this on del.icio.us Stumble upon something good? Share it on StumbleUpon Digg this! Share this on Tumblr Share this on FriendFeed Share this on LinkedIn Post this to MySpace [...]

Download Gallery Map

Kianga Ellis — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 13:58:19 +0000

A map of the exhibition and locations that inspired the book is available at each gallery. You can also download a pdf version below: Share this on Facebook Email this to a friend? Post on Google Buzz Share this on del.icio.us Stumble upon something good? Share it on StumbleUpon Digg this! Share this on Tumblr [...]

Opening Night Live Tweets Transcript

Kianga Ellis — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 06:40:24 +0000

The following is a transcript of the messages sent to Followers of @LushLifeLES on Twitter between 6:00pm and 9:35pm on Thursday, July 8, 2010. It includes Tweets composed by me (Kianga Ellis) and those sent by Followers that I Re-Tweeted (designated with “RT“). Click hyperlinks to view pictures, persons and Foursquare locations attached to each [...]

Opening Nite is July 8th! #lushlifeles

Kianga Ellis — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 12:16:51 +0000

This Thursday, July 8th from 6 – 9 p.m., please join us on the Lower East Side for the opening of Lush Life. It promises to be another HOT night in New York City. Inquiring minds have been asking about the best order to hit the opening of all nine galleries. My advice is to [...]

Lush Life Tour with Richard Price by INVISIBLE-EXPORTS

Kianga Ellis — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 11:53:22 +0000

A special 3-part video series has been created to accompany LUSH LIFE, an exhibition which takes place at nine Lower East Side (LES) galleries: Collette Blanchard Gallery, Eleven Rivington, Invisible-Exports, Lehmann Maupin, On Stellar Rays, Salon 94, Scaramouche, Sue Scott Gallery, and Y Gallery. LUSH LIFE adopts Richard Price’s 2008 novel to title and organize [...]

Lush Life Locations: Part 1

Kianga Ellis — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 03:47:47 +0000

With exhibition map in hand, I set out for each of the eight locations where most of the action takes place in the novel, Lush Life. Over the course of three hours on Saturday, June 26th, I made it to only four of them. Once I started snapping pictures and video with my Blackberry, I [...]

First look…

Kianga Ellis — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 07:01:15 +0000

This show, as with the novel on which it is based, dares to speak for, represent and give voice to the disorienting, displacing, and at times disheartening clash of the past, present and future that is the Lower East Side of New York City. It’s a story, in a picture, in the mind of a [...]

Chapter 1 begins on June 17th

Kianga Ellis — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 16:31:47 +0000

The curators and artists are working nearly around the clock! This Thursday the first installation of Lush Life will open at Sue Scott Gallery followed by On Stallar Rays on June 23rd, Salon 94 on June 24th and Invisible-Exports on July 7. Lehmann Maupin, Y Gallery, Collette Blanchard Gallery and Scaramouche will open on the [...]

The Artists

Kianga Ellis — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 01:27:03 +0000

Alice O’Malley, Alisha Kerlin, Amy Longenecker-Brown, Carol Irving, Chakaia Booker, Charles Sabba, Christoph Draeger, Claudia Weber, Coco Fusco, Cynthia Lin, Dana Frankfort, Dana Levy, Dani Leventhal, David Kramer, David Shapiro, Derrick Adams, Elisabeth Subrin, Erik Benson, Ezra Johnson, Gail Thacker, Gina Magid, Ishmael Randall Weeks, Jackie Gendel, Jackie Saccoccio, Jayson Keeling, Jessica Dickinson, Joanne Greenbaum, Jonathan [...]

The Galleries

Kianga Ellis — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 01:23:30 +0000

The galleries will host concurrent exhibitions with each exhibition reflecting the idea of one of the nine chapters in the book. The first installation opens on June 17th and the last closing date for the exhibition is August 13th. The curators selected one artist from each gallery to participate in the exhibition and solicited from [...]