Park-Art Gallery, Studio & Performance Space
435 Park Avenue South, 3rd Fl., NY, NY 10016
(Between 29th and 30th Streets in Mahattan)
(Between 29th and 30th Streets in Mahattan)
UP COMING EVENTS
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* Edited with Catherine McWeeney
WOODBRIDGE MAYOR, JOHN E. McCORMAC
will be a revolutionary Outdoor Sculpture Park
who's art embraces the power of nature
and represents a relationship that accepts change
in how we perceive a relationship with nature and the art we create.
@ Cooper Union's Great Hall 3/19/11
Composed and Conducted by, Christopher Kaufman
with a special TIME RELEASED PERFORMANCE by, Ken Cro-Ken
JUNE 25th, 2010 at N.Y.U. Loewe Theater, NYU15 East 4th Street, NY, NY 10013
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"COLLISIONS" 2010 (54" X 42")
VISIONS OF THE SACRED AND PROFANE
December 6th - 31st, 2010
More Info
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RECENT EVENTS
http://www.symphonyspace.org/event/6470-the-music-of-now
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ART-IN-PUBLIC PLACES
B.W.A.C. 27th ANNIVERSARY SUMMER SHOW 2009
"ABUNDANCE"
July to September 2009
Fulton-Ferry Park, D.U.M.B.O.
URSULA CLARK, TYROME TRIPOLI, KEN CRO-KEN, CORRINA SEPHORA & more...
* The new outdoor sculpture Cro-Ken is making, "Sonic Bloom II", will be influenced over time
Began on Saturday, May 16, 2009 AT DUARTE SQUARE, N.Y., N.Y.
for
X-Treme-X-Teriors-X-Change
One Day Outdoor Global Art Event,
"SONIC BLOOM II" was then moved to his East Village Outdoor Studio
and will be influenced by nature and Cro-Ken;
until it moves over to the other side of the East River for SUMMER 2009
at Fulton-Ferry Park with B.W.A.C.
at the base of the Brooklyn Bridge overlooking downtown Manhattan.
* THESE PIC ARE FROM B.W.A.C. 25th ANNIVERSARY SCULPTURE SHOW 2007 *
(ONE OF THREE INTERNATIONAL FLAGS ON DISPLAY)
(Shaped by the wind off the East River)
BY KEN CRO-KEN
-THIS NEW SCULPTURE, "SONIC BLOOM II" WILL EVOLVE OVER TIME-
Cro-Ken says he- "wants to capture more than a moment in time
because what choice do we really have? All art is non-frozen;
whether one wants to accept that fact or not.
I prefer to focus on the actual more than realism or abstraction.
Mine is a physical investigation of paint and other materials
as a result I learn more about them and nature simultaneously."
GO TO D.U.M.B.O. THIS SUMMER
and bring a friend or a dog!
To see more of Ken Cro-Ken's art
please click on the link below:
www.KenCroKen.com
Park-Art Gallery (at large)
Has joined forces with:
Gallery OneTwentyEight
128 Rivington St.
New York, N.Y. 10002
&
Adrian Howard Galleries
St. Petersburg, Florida
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U P C O M I N G E V E N T S 2012
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MULTIPLE ONENESS
T I M E R E L E A S E D P E R F O R M A N C ES
Matt Sullivan / Ken Cro-Ken
* THE NEW YORK TIMES - Music Review
By VIVIEN SCHWEITZER
(Published: February 22, 2011)
"The most unusual work I encountered was “Multiple Oneness,” an intriguing performance-art piece by the oboist Matt Sullivan and the painter Ken Cro-Ken. While Mr. Sullivan played a melancholy lament over recorded sounds, Mr. Cro-Ken poured liquids onto a canvas projected onto a video screen. The colorful liquids flowed through the painting’s raised surfaces like yellow lava, swirling in strange tandem with the oboe’s melancholy tunes."
U P C O M I N G T I M E R E L E A S E D SCHEDULE
Longboat Key Center for the Arts
RINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN
Durante Gallery, Sarasota, Florida
PERFORMANCE: Friday, January 6th, 2012 8pm
EXHIBITION: Jan. 5th - Feb 24th, 2012
E N C O R E P E R F O R M A N C E
Symphony Space, New York, N.Y.
February 4th, 2012 8 pm
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Mahaiwe Performing Art Center
Great Barrington, Mass.
February 5th, 2012 8pm
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* please click on this link to see
multiple oneness
live @ symphony space 02.21.11
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DETAILS for Longboat Key performance and exhibition:
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Longboat Key Center for the Arts
RINGLING COLLEGF ART AND DESIGN
SARASOTA, FLA
Friday, January 6th, 2012 8 pm
MULTIPLE ONENESS,
A TIME RELEASED PERFORMANCE
MATT SULLIVAN / KEN CRO-KEN
Longboat Key
Center for the Arts
SARASOTA, FLA
Friday, January 6th, 2012 8 pm
* World Premiere of composer, Laura Kaminsky's "HORIZON LINES"
performed by Matt Sullivan on oboe with bassoon and piano.
* Open Forum with Matt Sullivan, Laura Kaminsky, Rebecca Allan & Ken Cro-Ken
* To coincide with the PBS SPECIAL including Clyde Butcher's black & white photos of the Everglades.
Composer, Laura Kaminsky
Environmental artists, Rebecca Allan and Ken Cro-Ken
January 5th - February 24th, 2012
To see Rebecca's incredible Eco. Art, click on link below:
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CURRENT EVENTS
THE GREENABLE WOODBRIDGE MUSEUM
On continual display are many projects about the earth and recycling.
* Included, on extended loan, Six paintings by Ken Cro-Ken
(Museum hours below.)
WOODBRIDGE TOWNSHIP, NJ; WINNER OF - "ARTS AND SUSTAINABILITY" Award
and is leading the way to restoring the earth to a healthy balance
for our planet and for ourselves.
GREENABLE WOODBRIDGE MUSEUM @ WOODBRIDGE MALL
* If you are not on my e-mail / e-vite list for exhibitions,
TIME RELEASED PERFORMANCES,
lectures, and other events, please go the the "CONTACT US" tab
and give us your e-mail address
and we will let you know about summer events including more earthwork paintings at the Greenable Woodbridge Museum.
GREENABLE WOODBRIDGE MUSEUM HOURS:
Monday & Tuesday: CLOSED Wednesday – Friday: 2:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Saturday: 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Sunday: 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
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>>> THIS WINTER 2012 <<<
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A catalogue of Ken Cro-Ken art and writings,
"THE CONDUCT OF PAINT"
celebrating the 150th anniversary of Ralph Waldo Emerson's -
THE CONDUCT OF LIFE
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Emerson quotes are inserted throughout the gallery booklet
revealing the influence his writings have had on Cro-Ken for the last 20 years.
* Edited with Catherine McWeeney
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Here are just a few Emerson quotes that inspired Cro-Ken's work :
* "How something appears depends on how long one takes to observe."
* "When we decide to choose our own ways, as opposed to nature,
nature will not be slow in undeceiving us."
* "What doesn't have the power to create life
has the power to redistribute in space and time."
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GREEN TECH PARK 2012 -2015
WOODBRIDGE TOWNSHIP
WINNER OF THE N.J. ARTS & SUSTAINABILITY AWARD
For future generations to enjoy and celebrate our changing world.
Reclaiming 107 acres along the Raritan River.
WOODBRIDGE MAYOR, JOHN E. McCORMAC
will be a revolutionary Outdoor Sculpture Park
who's art embraces the power of nature
and represents a relationship that accepts change
in how we perceive a relationship with nature and the art we create.
GREEN TECH PARK welcomes nature as a partner to art and industry
FOR MORE INFORMATION CLICK ON THIS LINK BELOW:
http://kencroken.com/WOODBRIDGE_NJ_PARK.html
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RECENT EVENTS
HALF HOUR RADIO TALK SHOW
WITH MATT SULLIVAN & KEN CRO-KEN
ON WNYU, NY, NY
ON
CITYWIDE 89.1 WNYU, FEBRUARY 2011
CLICK ON THIS LINK TO HEAR THE HALF HOUR RADIO SHOW:
http://citywidewnyu.wordpress.com/2011/02/17/matt-sullivan-and-ken-cro-ken/
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Echosystem: Protecting Our Water
@ Cooper Union's Great Hall 3/19/11
New music collective Ensemble Pi is pleased to return
to The Cooper Union's Great Hall,
for its sixth annual Peace Project concert, Echosystem.
Highlights include Christopher Kaufman's Hudson Valley (2010), capturing the world of the Hudson River Valley through music and film footage, including the dangers of natural gas drilling.
Including a video with the artwork of environmental painter Ken Cro-Ken
and fellow painter, Alice Cotton.
Hudson Valley, by Chris Kaufman, originally commissioned by Quintet of the Americas, will be performed in an arrangement for flute, violin, horn, clarinet, cello and piano. The work combines live performance, sound design, speech, and a film composed from both natural images and the art of Ken Cro-Ken and Alice Cotton. The composer gathered hundreds of natural sounds from the Hudson River Valley environment (ocean, whale, dolphin, wolf, coyote) to create backgrounds and musical textures against and with which these sounds are performed. The penultimate movement, which depicts the dangers of natural gas drilling, features metallic percussion and original instruments made of metal sounds as well as actual ambient pile-driver sounds.
Echosystem: Protecting Our Water is presented as part of the Ensemble Pi's Peace Project, which was launched
by the collective in 2005 with the goal of opening a dialogue between ideas and music on some of the world's current and critical issues.
Performers will include Kristin Norderval, voice and laptop; Airi Yoshioka, violin; Idith Meshulam, piano;
Clair Bryant, cello; Karl Kramer, French horn; Barry Crawford, flute; and Nick Gallas, clarinet.
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HUDSON VALLEY QUINTET
PERFORMED BY
QUINTET OF THE AMERICAS
Composed by Christopher Kaufman
PERFORMED BY
QUINTET OF THE AMERICAS
Composed by Christopher Kaufman
Composed and Conducted by, Christopher Kaufman
with a special TIME RELEASED PERFORMANCE by, Ken Cro-Ken
Music Commissioned And Performed By - Quintet of the Americas,
as they celebrate their 30th anniversary.
Clarinet - Nicholas Gallas, Flute - Sato Moughalian
Oboist - Matt Sullivan, Horn - Barbara Oldham
HUDSON VALLEY QUINTET
Music Composition by Christopher Kaufman
JUNE 25th, 2010 at N.Y.U. Loewe Theater, NYU15 East 4th Street, NY, NY 10013
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THREE GROUP EXHIBITIONS DECEMBER 2010:
(IN ORDER OF OPENING DATES)
(Greater Details below)
* WORLD MONUMENTS FUND GALLERY
Sunday, December 12th, 3-6 pm
LIVE CONTEMPORARY WOODWIND PERFORMANCE
NYU MUSIC PERFORMANCE AND MUSIC PROFESSIONALS
MUSIC CURATION BY:
Matt Sullivan, Director of Double Reed Studies at NYU, Steinhardt
"COLLISIONS" 2010 (54" X 42")
WORLD MONUMENTS FUND GALLERY PRESENTS:
VISIONS OF THE SACRED AND PROFANE
December 6th - 31st, 2010
Quintet Celebrates One Hundred Years of Solitude
| Time |
Wednesday, May 11 · 7:30pm - 10:30pm
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| Location |
Leonard Nimoy Thalia at Symphony Space
2537 Broadway at 95th Street
New York, NY
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Thalia Book Club: A Literary Celebration! Gabriel Garcia Marquez' One Hundred Years of Solitude
The Quintet will perform Judah Adashi's "Songs and Dances of Macondo" and Sonia Manzano will read selections from the book. Writers, including Oscar Hijuelos (Pulitzer Prize winner of The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love), Esmeralda Santiago (When I was Puerto Rican), and Kevin Brockmeier (The Illumination) will discuss Gabriel García Márquez' masterpiece-the gorgeous, moving, passionate story about the history of a family and a mythical Latin American country-which won the author the Nobel Prize in Literature. Tickets $25; Member $21; 30 & Under $15 at 212.864.5400 or http://www.symphonyspace.o |
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RECENT EVENTS
The Music of Now MUSIC MARATHON
@ symphonyspace
MULTIPLE ONENESS
A TIME RELEASED PERFORMANCE
MATT SULLIVAN, oboe
KEN CRO-KEN earthwork painter, videographer
Music and activated paints, set in motion
A TIME RELEASED PERFORMANCE
NEW YORK TIMES - Music Review (Published: February 22, 2011)
By VIVIEN SCHWEITZER"Eight Hours of Songs, and Uncounted Influences"
Ari Mintz for The New York Times
The painter Ken Cro-Ken, rear, and the
oboist Matt Sullivan
presented their performance-art piece “Multiple Oneness.”
"The most unusual work I encountered was
“Multiple Oneness,”
an intriguing performance-art piece by the oboist Matt
Sullivan and
the painter Ken Cro-Ken. While Mr. Sullivan played a melancholy
lament over recorded sounds, Mr. Cro-Ken poured liquids onto a
canvas projected
onto a video screen. The colorful liquids flowed
through the painting’s raised
surfaces like yellow lava, swirling
in strange tandem with the oboe’s
melancholy tunes."
FOR MORE INFO. PLEASE CLICK ON THIS LINK:
MATT SULLIVAN, oboe
KEN CRO-KEN earthwork painter, videographer
Music and activated paints, set in motion
Monday, Feb. 21st, 2011
9:00 pm
The second annual MUSIC OF NOW MARATHON features a special 85th birthday tribute to Gunther Schuller performed by Ensemble Pi, the US debut of Ireland's Fidelio Trio performing works by Charles Wuorinen and Evan Ziporyn, new songs from Errollyn Wallen, visual musical collaboration as performances by Matt Sullivan on oboe with live electronics are accompanied by live painting from artist Ken Cro-Ken, also jazz pianist Gustavo Casenave accompanied by Vicky Barrangue. Also featured is the Cassatt Quartet joined by Ursula Oppens, and appearances by composers Joan Tower, Huang Ruo, Tania Leon, David Del Tredici, and Amir El Saffar, among others. Lively conversation punctuates the day.
symphony space
(Broadway at 95th Street)
http://www.symphonyspace.org/event/6470-the-music-of-now
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ART-IN-PUBLIC PLACES
B.W.A.C. 27th ANNIVERSARY SUMMER SHOW 2009
"ABUNDANCE"
July to September 2009
Fulton-Ferry Park, D.U.M.B.O.
URSULA CLARK, TYROME TRIPOLI, KEN CRO-KEN, CORRINA SEPHORA & more...
* The new outdoor sculpture Cro-Ken is making, "Sonic Bloom II", will be influenced over time
and embrace the abundant powers of nature; and the abundant views
in this beautiful park that overlooks downtown Manhattan.
(You may want to visit over time.)
Began on Saturday, May 16, 2009 AT DUARTE SQUARE, N.Y., N.Y.
for
X-Treme-X-Teriors-X-Change
One Day Outdoor Global Art Event,
"SONIC BLOOM II" was then moved to his East Village Outdoor Studio
and will be influenced by nature and Cro-Ken;
until it moves over to the other side of the East River for SUMMER 2009
at Fulton-Ferry Park with B.W.A.C.
at the base of the Brooklyn Bridge overlooking downtown Manhattan.
* THESE PIC ARE FROM B.W.A.C. 25th ANNIVERSARY SCULPTURE SHOW 2007 *
(ONE OF THREE INTERNATIONAL FLAGS ON DISPLAY)
(Shaped by the wind off the East River)
BY KEN CRO-KEN
-THIS NEW SCULPTURE, "SONIC BLOOM II" WILL EVOLVE OVER TIME-
Cro-Ken says he- "wants to capture more than a moment in time
because what choice do we really have? All art is non-frozen;
whether one wants to accept that fact or not.
I prefer to focus on the actual more than realism or abstraction.
Mine is a physical investigation of paint and other materials
as a result I learn more about them and nature simultaneously."
GO TO D.U.M.B.O. THIS SUMMER
and bring a friend or a dog!
To see more of Ken Cro-Ken's art
please click on the link below:
www.KenCroKen.com
