Short-Term Deviation Opening Reception

EFA Project Space announces Short-Term Deviation, a month-long collaborative exhibition with ShowPaper.  The opening reception featured installations by artists Catharine Ahearn, David Berezin, Grayson Cox, Charles Harlan, Steve Lambert, Nadja Marcin, Francisco Marcial, Poster Company (Max Pitegoff and Travess Smalley), George Pfau, Chris Rice, and Borna Sammak to remain up for the duration of the show.  Special performances included "Love's Surrogates" by Nadja Marcin, music by Kyle Bobby Dunn and HAPPY NEW YEAR (of Adult Themes), and video screenings "Doppelganger" by Sharsten Plenge and "Conversation" by David Matorin.

Performance "Love's Surrogates" by Nadja Marcin 

 

Musical performances by Kyle Bobby Dunn and HAPPY NEW YEAR (of Adult Themes) (shown above)

 

Grayson Cox's "Hot Tubs" used by guests in the screening room

 

 The zine library

 

 

EFA Project Space will host special events every Thursday night for the exhibition's duration.  For a listing of special musical performances, video screenings, other performances, and gallery hours please refer to the events page found here.

Assembly Line kicks off in June with Hexayurts and a soft sculpture/public art project you can climb into!

The first two sessions of Assembly line on June 16th and 30th were productive, fun, and provided participants with an inside perspective of two local artist's unique practices and production techniques. The artists, Carla Aspenberg and Anne Percoco each led the teams in producing portions of their one of their current projects, gaining some much needed assistance and the opportunity to intimately share their work with the group.

To learn more about the first two Assembly Line workshops at EFA Project Space, as well as see the schedule for July, click here.

For Artists of the 21st Century

EFA Project Space is pleased to announce a pair of interactive panel discussions created in partnership with CUE Art Foundation. Inspired by the round table format of open conversation, these events will focus on creative survival skills in today's art community.

Click to read more ...

Chaperone with Beth Campbell

Altered States, Copyright Warner Bros. Pictures, 1980

Wednesday, July 29th, 7 pm

Altered States

(Ken Russell, 1980)

EFA Project Space presents Chaperone, a weekly screening series consisting of films handpicked by a group of artists, all whose work provocatively explores disparate aspects of our culture’s love affair with mediated reality.

EFA Project Space welcomes the artist Beth Campbell, as she chaperones the movie, Altered States (1980):

“I had many expectations while building my installation Following Room for the project space at The Whitney Museum. In short, I wanted to play on people’s perceptions and how we form our ideas about reality. Viewers assumed they were looking at mirrored reflections, but were actually looking at 12 individual rooms. Along with the multiplied realities, I implied the presence of the mirror’s planar surface with tubing and short false walls. Going in, I wanted to emphasize the perception of the physical space; what I didn’t anticipate was that the viewers would be compelled to reach out, to find out for themselves if a physical mirror was present. Over and over again, I learned how individuals would reach out to touch the solid surface of the mirror, only to penetrate right through the false membrane, “tearing” the whole piece wide open. I was instantly sent back to my memories of the movie Altered States released in 1980. I hadn’t seen it until it aired on HBO or Showtime, so I would have been about 10 or 11 — which can be a very transformative age — a time when consciousness of the self and a larger worldview start to emerge. I had been a good little Catholic, living in fear of Hell and all, until one day in CCD, I questioned the volunteer parent/teacher’s authority of faith. So began my intellectual life and pursuit into the experience of reality and the self. A few years later, I discovered my older brother was reading Carlos Castaneda’s The Journey to Ixtlan: The Lessons of Don Juan. I emulated my brother and clumsily tried to read this wild, peyote-induced journey into the inner self and the primal soup of consciousness. I was totally out of my league; what little I could grasp of Castaneda was similar to my thought process while watching Altered States and developing a respectful fright, not of God, or scary murderers and ghosts, but of consciousness itself. I think these trippy, sci-fi psychological adventures really opened up my young yearning mind. I haven’t seen Altered States since the early ‘80s, so my memory of it and of one scene in particular could be, well… way off.”

Image courtesy the artist, Beth Campbell, and Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York

Beth Campbell is a New York-based artist originally from Dwight, Illinois. Her work explores the psychological and phenomenological conception of one’s surroundings through sculpture, installation, drawing, and video. Following Room, 2008, as exhibited in two variations at The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York and Manifesta 7, Trento, Italy, is an optically jarring large-scale sculpture, whose subtle internal variation establishes an uncanny sense that a small, banal living room is seemingly reflected and multiplied many times over. Campbell has also created projects for the Public Art Fund; the Biennale Cuvee 09 World Selection of Contemporary Art; OK Center for Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria; and the 6th Mercosul Biennial, in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Recent group exhibitions include shows at The Andy Warhol Museum, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Carnegie Museum of Art, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Andrea Rosen, White Columns, the Drawing Room (London), and the Tang Museum. Her work is included at the Whitney Museum, the MOMA, and in the New Museum’s Altoids Collections. She is represented in New York by Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery.

EFA Project Space is located at 323 West 39 Street, 2nd Floor.

The Chaperone program has been organized by Ian Cooper, artist, and Michelle Levy, Program Director, EFA Project Space.

Sponsorship provided by

To see complete description and schedule for the Chaperone series, please click here.

For more information on the event, contact projectspace@efanyc.org, or 212-563-5855 x 151

Chaperone with Kalup Linzy

Desperate Living, New Line Cinema, 1977

Wednesday, July 22nd, 7 pm

Desperate Living

(John Waters, 1977)

EFA Project Space presents Chaperone, a weekly screening series consisting of films handpicked by a group of artists, all whose work provocatively explores disparate aspects of our culture’s love affair with mediated reality.

EFA Project Space welcomes the artist Kalup Linzy, as he chaperones the movie, Desperate Living (1977):

“For a long time, I was a fan of John Waters’ film Serial Mom with no familiarity of his previous work. Shortly after beginning the Conversations Wit de Churen series, I was accepted into the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. There, the faculty and my mentors suggested I look at early John Waters films. One film in particular, Desperate Living (1977), captured my imagination the most. Having first viewed Desperate Living a quarter of a century after its release, this classic film gave me the courage to freely and subversively explore subjects of race, gender and sexuality in my own video work — in particular, Conversations Wit de Churen 4: Play Wit de Churen and KK Queen Survey. In these particular works, psycho-sexually charged domestic drama, bad nerves, irreverent relationships, and characters who often could care less about each other’s feelings all reflect Waters’ influence.”

Image courtesy the artist, Kalup Linzy

Kalup Linzy is a video and performance artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Born in Stuckey, Florida, Linzy received his MFA from the University of South Florida in 2003, and also attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Linzy’s best-known work is a series of politically charged videos that satirizes the conventions of the television soap opera. His works have been included in exhibitions as far-ranging as Black Alphabet at The Zacheta National Museum in Warsaw Poland, and Frequency, Thelma Golden’s survey of new art by emerging artists of color at the Studio Museum in Harlem. Recently, Linzy’s work was included in Prospect.1 New Orleans, curated by Dan Cameron; Modern Mondays: An Evening with Kalup Linzy at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Glasgow International: Festival of Contemporary Visual Art, Glasgow, Scotland; and 30 Americans, Rubell Family Collection, all in 2008. Linzy has been the recipient of numerous awards, including a grant from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation in 2005, a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2007, and, most recently, a 2008 Creative Capital Foundation grant, a Jerome Foundation Fellowship, and an Art Matters Grant.

EFA Project Space is located at 323 West 39 Street, 2nd Floor.

The Chaperone program has been organized by Ian Cooper, artist, and Michelle Levy, Program Director, EFA Project Space.

Sponsorship provided by

For more information on the event, contact projectspace@efanyc.org, or 212-563-5855 x 151