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For Immediate Release

PosterBoy "AdBooster" presented by PublicAdCampaign

April 3rd - April 26th

Opening Reception 7-10pm Friday April 3rd 2009

43 Bogart Street, Brooklyn, NY

PosterBoy

www.publicadcampaign.com
Street Art and and vandalism have never been paired so eloquently as they are when PosterBoy gets out his razor. Through a simple act of civil disobedience, this work challenges our intense relationship with outdoor advertising in the city. It proposes new ways of interacting with your public environment and challenges notions of public and private space. Out of the work comes a dialogue which is sometimes political, sometimes humorous, and always a perspective shifting moment of communication.


By bringing outdoor advertising into the gallery, this installation will attempt to discuss the appropriation of public space by outdoor advertising from within the gallery walls. The artist, having more time to construct the imagery will engage a more intense dialogue with both the advertisement and the viewer. By physically altering the medium of outdoor media, the PosterBoy movement critiques both the content and the dissemination methods currently overwhelimg our collective consciousness. Ultimately what starts as an act of social unrest becomes a reimagination of the spaces we all occupy and a vision of a different shared public environment.



Over the past year PosterBoy has brought his critique of advertising and public space use to the streets of New York City with prolific force. Eastern-District is proud to bring you his first solo exhibition, including a large scale installation by the artist as well as prints of his now famous subway installations.




RSVP to Info@Eastern-District.com


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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

EASTERN DISTRICT PRESENTS AS THE GRAND OPENING ART EXHIBIT:

JUAN DOE
COLLATERAL MATERIAL
“MADE IN BROOKLYN”
A COLLECTION OF COMIC BOOK INSPIRED VISUAL RHETORIC
FEBRUARY 27TH – MARCH 22ND, 2009

OPENING RECEPTION FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27TH, 2009, 7 – 10
SPONSORED BY ASAHI BEER

"Made In Brooklyn", denotes the aboriginal, solitary, artistic representation of works and amalgamated concepts of visual retort for the artist and word-mongering engineer, Juan Doe. Created under the auspice of super-heroes, giant-bio-luminescent sea monsters and hydroponic chambers of restituted imaginations, the show collects a sampling of the deep and resonating influence of the comic book art form into the hybridized confluences of painting, writing and story telling.

Amidst the umbrella of the jazz-like-bebop-staccato-strains of the comic book art form, the works range from over-sized, narrative paintings, uprooted from the constraints of printed proportions and exorcised to life with enamel and hand skills, to conceptual constructs of systematic word play, to portraits of satirical messiahs, to a collection of printed comic book covers depicting the heroes of Marvel comics lore and short stories of wife-abusing robots and self-aggrandizing reflections of pure ego. The pieces are created from the recesses of the underground to the hysteria of the mainstream. A kaleidoscopic array of color, movement and heady stylings, made in a vestibule of secrecy... made in
a borough of a great city that never sleeps... made in a comic book panel named Brooklyn.

A Marvel comic artist and receiver of the BRIO Award on 2006 and again 2008, this is a rare opportunity to see Juan’s art in a gallery setting as a solo exhibition.

In the artist’s own words: Juan Doe is an idea freighted in a vessel of biological myth. A paramount investigator of life's encryption
and armed with an array of code-breaking assets, he exists as an artist with no supplication for
anything but his dreams, imaginations and rhetoric of experience emboldened through a hallucinatory
approach to image-making. He can be found in the catalogue of forgotten legacies, reflecting his inner
depth, and telling stories by the campfires of history using magical words as the bait of entrapment. He
is also a proponent of pints, painting, process and comic books.
He lives and works in NYC and loves punching the back of necks.

http://www.juandoe.com/

ABOUT EASTERN DISTRICT:

EASTERN DISTRICT is an exhibition space located at 43 Bogart Street in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Eastern District will present ongoing performance and event-based programming - monthly art exhibits and live music events. We will also feature our in house fashion and apparel line, “La Mode Noir”. Apparel designers include:
Orignal fake by Kaws
Kris Van Assche
Claw money
Public School
Manish Arora
Geoffrey B. Small (exclusive for Eastern District)

Under Eastern District’s art-direction, “La Mode Noir” is also collaborating to create apparel with such artists/designers as William Lemon III, Long Nguyen, and Jesus Saves. William, a Brooklyn based artist who has worked with both Marc Jacobs and Chloe Sevigny, has been featured in fashion editorials and worked with corporate companies such as Motorola. Long, a pioneer in fashion, known for his somewhat sinister graphic designs, has created graphics for some of fashion's favorite brands including Alexandre Plokhov's Cloak. And Jesus Saves, a graffiti artist born and raised in Bushwick, is considered one of New York's most consistent and active writers. Eastern District will also feature exclusive artist-designed sustainable furniture by Jason Horvath of Uhuru; as well as showcase art, design, and culture based books.

Eastern District is a unique fusion of young creativity focusing on the New York City Area. Recognizing that art, culture and inspiration aren’t linear, the space provides a multi-faceted creative atmosphere that draws from and encourages the synergy that evolves from the merging of these different artistic avenues. Eastern District will feature highly creative and exciting young designers, rotating the apparel collection regularly as we present diverse music performances and monthly exhibits by some of the top young fine and graphic artists.

Eastern District is a project of Michael “Tido” Cabrera, Jordan Seiler, and Jesse Lee Denning. The creative forces behind Eastern District, each born and raised within the five boroughs, bring to this space their love of New York as well as their individual creative expertise.

Bushwick’s own Michael “Tido” Cabrera, an artistic visionary consultant, was the personal stylist and design assistant to Sean Combs. He has contributed to “The Fader” and “LVMH”, and was responsible for coordinating Paul Rowland’s first solo photography exhibit during Art Basel Miami ’08 as a satellite show for Eastern District. Tido currently styles a number of top pop stars.

Jordan Seiler, a native New Yorker, graduated from The Rhode Island School of Design and then returned to the city to pursue a career in the arts. He runs PublicAdCampaign, an art and activist project founded nine years ago. Dealing with public space and outdoor advertising issues in the city, PublicAdCampaign is responsible for hundreds of unauthorized public installations around the city. Jordan also works in the photography industry, creating and producing fashion as well as advertising content. Recently he has begun curating and producing gallery exhibitions, including the recent solo exhibition of Paul Rowland's photography at Art Basel Miami 2008, and its upcoming re-imagination in Chelsea.

Jesse Lee Denning was born, grew up and continues to live in NYC’s West Village. With undergraduate and Masters degrees in Art History and Video Art from New York University she has worked in high-profile galleries in mid-town, Chelsea, and Soho. Jesse co-founded and was creative director and manager of Invisible NYC, the highly rated art gallery and tattoo studio that for four years presented some of the finest, cutting edge urban art in New York. Shows that she curated have been praised in publications ranging from The New York Times to Time Out New York.

Eastern District will host the creation and the exhibition of art in its many forms including fashion, fine art and music, advancing new directions in the presentation of contemporary art. The space is simultaneously an extension and microcosm of the fusion of urban life and the artistic creativity that characterizes New York City. Eastern District and the City combine to form a unique setting for artists in all media to work and to show their work. Eastern District supports and participates in the creative process. Eastern District is a place for interaction among diverse artists and between artists and the public.


Eastern District
43 Bogart Street
Brooklyn, NY 11206
718-628-0400

www.eastern-district.com

Eastern District
DO NOT MISS THIS RARE OPPORTUNITY TO EXPERIENCE A GALLERY PRESENTATION OF PHOTOGRAPHY BY D-NICE!

THESE PHOTOS WERE THE FEATURED IMAGES FOR THE LAST TWO SEASONS OF PUBLIC SCHOOL CLOTHING CAMPAIGNS. ALONG WITH THE PHOTOS, THE NEWEST IN APPAREL FROM THE PUBLIC SCHOOL CLOTHING LINE WILL BE AVAILABLE.

EXHIBIT ON DISPLAY FEBRUARY 12TH – 20TH 2009.

OPENING RECEPTION THIS THURSDAY FEBRUARY, 12TH, 7 - 11PM.

EASTERN DISTRICT IS LOCATED AT 43 BOGART STREET IN BROOKLYN - TAKE THE L TRAIN TO MORGAN AVE.

D-NICE - First known as hip-hop musician, he began his career in the mid-1980s and has long been associated with Boogie Down Productions. More recently, D-Nice has embarked on a successful and prolific career as a photographer. Whether it’s a hip-hop star surrounded by the movement and excitement of paparazzi, a stark and strangely intimate portrait, or a still life of delicate beauty and subtlety, his striking photos capture the essence of his subject, of time place and urban culture. These stunning iconic photos are not to be missed.

PUBLIC SCHOOL - "…one of the new conspirators in the wave of young designers who hang left of the rack. We look to find perfection in imperfection and unapologetically celebrate influences that span high, low, couture, culture, and big metros worldwide". Public School, created by Dao-Yi Chow who owns ARRIVE in Miami, is named after the NYC school public system. The overall aesthetic is street-chic using luxe materials and offering uncanny attention to detail.

ABOUT EASTERN DISTRICT:
EASTERN DISTRICT is an exhibition space located at 43 Bogart Street in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Eastern District will present ongoing performance and event-based programming - monthly art exhibits and live music events. We will also feature our in house fashion and apparel line, “La Mode Noir”. Apparel designers include:
Orignal fake by Kaws
Kris Van Assche
Claw money
Public School
Manish Arora
Under Eastern District’s art-direction, “La Mode Noir” is also collaborating to create apparel with such artists/designers as William Lemon III, Long Nguyen, and Jesus Saves. William, a Brooklyn based artist who has worked with both Marc Jacobs and Chloe Sevigny, has been featured in fashion editorials and worked with corporate companies such as Motorola. Long, a pioneer in fashion, known for his somewhat sinister graphic designs, has created graphics for some of fashion's favorite brands including Alexandre Plokhov's Cloak. And Jesus Saves, a graffiti artist born and raised in Bushwick, is considered one of New York's most consistent and active writers. Eastern District will also feature exclusive artist-designed sustainable furniture by Jason Horvath of Uhuru; as well as showcase art, design, and culture based books.

Eastern District is a unique fusion of young creativity focusing on the New York City Area. Recognizing that art, culture and inspiration aren’t linear, the space provides a multi-faceted creative atmosphere that draws from and encourages the synergy that evolves from the merging of these different artistic avenues. Eastern District will feature highly creative and exciting young designers, rotating the apparel collection regularly as we present diverse music performances and monthly exhibits by some of the top young fine and graphic artists.

Eastern District is a project of Michael “Tido” Cabrera, Jordan Seiler, and Jesse Lee Denning. The creative forces behind Eastern District, each born and raised within the five boroughs, bring to this space their love of New York as well as their individual creative expertise.

Bushwick’s own Michael “Tido” Cabrera, an artistic visionary consultant, was the personal stylist and design assistant to Sean Combs. He has contributed to “The Fader” and “LVMH”, and was responsible for coordinating Paul Rowland’s first solo photography exhibit during Art Basel Miami ’08 as a satellite show for Eastern District. Tido currently styles a number of top pop stars.

Jordan Seiler, a native New Yorker, graduated from The Rhode Island School of Design and then returned to the city to pursue a career in the arts. He runs PublicAdCampaign, an art and activist project founded nine years ago. Dealing with public space and outdoor advertising issues in the city, PublicAdCampaign is responsible for hundreds of unauthorized public installations around the city. Jordan also works in the photography industry, creating and producing fashion as well as advertising content. Recently he has begun curating and producing gallery exhibitions, including the recent solo exhibition of Paul Rowland's photography at Art Basel Miami 2008, and its upcoming re-imagination in Chelsea.

Jesse Lee Denning was born, grew up and continues to live in NYC’s West Village. With undergraduate and Masters degrees in Art History and Video Art from New York University she has worked in high-profile galleries in mid-town, Chelsea, and Soho. Jesse co-founded and was creative director and manager of Invisible NYC, the highly rated art gallery and tattoo studio that for four years presented some of the finest, cutting edge urban art in New York. Shows that she curated have been praised in publications ranging from The New York Times to Time Out New York.

Eastern District will host the creation and the exhibition of art in its many forms including fashion, fine art and music, advancing new directions in the presentation of contemporary art. The space is simultaneously an extension and microcosm of the fusion of urban life and the artistic creativity that characterizes New York City. Eastern District and the City combine to form a unique setting for artists in all media to work and to show their work. Eastern District supports and participates in the creative process. Eastern District is a place for interaction among diverse artists and between artists and the public.

www.eastern-district.com

Website to be more fully developed, but please check it out in the mean time: http://www.eastern-district.com/


We will have an official opening reception and art exhibit on February 27th...please come out and support. It's going to be an amazing place....more details to come.

x

jesse lee



ARTIST: Juan Doe -

(FIRST
OFF I, JESSE LEE DENNING, WILL BE VENTURING OFF TO CURATE INDEPENDENTLY
FROM INVISIBLE NYC. INVISIBLE NYC TATTOO STUDIO WILL BE A FULL TIME
TATTOO SHOP AND WILL NO LONGER HAVE ART EXHIBITS. BUT DON'T WORRY,
THERE ARE EXCITING, NEW, AND BIGGER EXHIBITS AND EVENTS THAT I WILL BE
INVOLVED WITH. I WILL KEEP ALL OF YOU UPDATED ON THE GALLERY, EXHIBITS,
AND EVENTS/HAPPENINGS. INVISIBLE IS STILL A HAPPY FAMILY AND WE ALL
SUPPORT ONE ANOTHER BUT IT WAS TIME FOR THE GALLERY TO MOVE ON AND FOR
ME TO BE FREE TO CURATE IN DIFFERENT AND NEW SPACES).

sooo, for the last exhibit at 148 ORCHARD STREET:



AMY FINKBEINER
LEAVE ME, DESIRE


Invisible
NYC is proud to host “Leave Me, Desire”, a drawing installation by
multi-media artist, Amy Finkbeiner.

Ms.
Finkbeiner lives and works in Brooklyn. She has attended the Skowhegan
School of Painting and Sculpture and received an MFA from the School of
Visual Arts. She has exhibited widely in New York, around the U.S., and
internationally, including group shows at Good Children Gallery in New
Orleans, Smack Mellon Gallery in Brooklyn, and Galleri Niklas Belenius
in Stockholm, Sweden. This will be Ms. Finkbeiner’s first solo show in
New York.

Ms. Finkbeiner creates the icons of a cult of worship,
collecting together the entranced mystics and martyred saints of
medieval times, contemporary proto-feminist performance artists, and
women poets of the punk rock era--all of whom sought transcendent yet
very physical states of being, whether through music, creation of
visual arts, or religious ecstasy. Inherent to any “successful” cult,
Ms. Finkbeiner’s art and the environment created within the gallery
revolves around idolatrous objects, images, and texts, which are placed
in altar-like visual poems within a space.

Through
meticulously rendered walls drawings, multi-media installations, and
the interplay between these works, a home and breeding ground is
created and controlled consequently engaging the viewer through the
overall experience. The process of making the elements of these
shrines, and letting them cohabit and speak to each other in a defined
space, is a mode of exploration that closely mirrors the mystical
states of the artists, rock-star poets, and ecstatic saints who
populate Ms. Finkbeiner’s work. The viewer is coerced into experiencing
the hypnotic environment as a whole by the effects of the dizzying
vision and stunning, delicate details and miniature drawings that
pepper the
controlled gallery space.

The exhibition will be on view from January 29 - February 28, with an opening reception on Thursday, January 29, 7 - 9 p.m.


Invisible NYC 148 Orchard Street NYC 10002
www.invisiblenyc.com 212.228.1358

OPENING RECEPTION AND PARTY JANUARY 3RD, 7 - 10PM. SPONSORED BY ASAHI BEER
EXHIBIT JAN 3RD - JAN 24TH 2009 @ Invisible NYC 148 Orchard St. NY NY 10002

www.invisiblenyc.com
www.kenphillipsgroup.com/Phillips/kip.htm

Permanence
Tattoo Portraits
By Kip Fulbeck
Foreword by Horitaka

"Tattoos, for better or worse, reflect the human experience. Our successes, our joys, mistakes, and failures are all recorded on our skins. And just like life itself, sometimes they aren't perfect. Sometimes they're even tragic. But they are real. A tattoo is just ink in skin…it is up to the bearer to ascribe a meaning or value to it." - Horitaka

Once a fringe phenomenon, tattooing in now a full-blown cultural fact. More than 40 million people in the U.S. alone have tattoos, all with unique stories about why they chose to indelibly mark their bodies. PERMANENCE is the first book of its kind to combine photographic tattoo portraits with the stories behind them. Featuring people from all walks of life – from college students to rock stars, suburban moms to Hells Angels, gangbangers to CEO's to pornstars – their stories are told in the subjects' own words and handwriting.

Kip Fulbeck brings together young and old of all races, religions, and political persuasions in this visually arresting and identity-exploring book. His work explores the power of individuality, utilizing tattoos as a starting point. "Tattooing is everywhere," Fulbeck says. "This book deals with all facets of it…from absolute masterpieces to drunken mistakes, rites of passage and celebration to horrors of war. This book is about who we are."

With a foreword by renowned tattooer Horitaka (senior apprentice to Horiyoshi III) and interviews with celebrity tattooers Kat Von D (LA Ink) and Oliver Peck (Elm Street Tattoo), and hardcore music legend Evan Seinfeld, PERMANENCE features images of:


Margaret Cho (Comedian, author)
Slash (Velvet Revolver, Guns N Roses)
Scott Ian (Anthrax)
Scott Weiland (Velvet Revolver, Stone Temple Pilots)
Paul Stanley (KISS)
Tera Patrick (Adult Film Star)
Chuck Liddell (UFC Hall of Fame Fighter
Johnny Winter (Blues legend)
Joan Jett (Joan Jett & the Blackhearts)
Nikole Lowe (London Ink)
Chris Garver (Miami Ink)
Jeffrey Sebelia (Project Runway)
and many others

From joyful to tragic, and impulsive to profound, PERMANENCE presents the myriad voices, emotions, and faces that make up the stories of the tattooed population today.

KIP FULBECK is the author of Part Asian, 100% Hapa (Chronicle Books) and Paper Bullets: A Fictional Autobiography. A professor of art at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Kip is deeply respectful of the artistry and ritual of tattooing and proudly wears the works of Horitaka, Horitomo, and Horiyoshi III. For more information go to www.redsushi.com.

HORITAKA (Takahiro Kitamura) is the author of several books on tattooing and is the owner of State of Grace Tattoo in San Jose, California. He is a senior apprentice of the world-renowned tattoo master Horiyoshi III – the master's first and only American apprentice. He is one of the most active and well-known contemporary American tattooists, and speaks and tattoos across the country.

Image and Interview Requests
Contact:
Patricia Quill: patti_quill@chroniclebooks.com; 415/537-4256
Ken Phillips: kpgroup@yahoo.com; www.kenphillipsgroup.com; 323/845-9997

OPENING RECEPTION: THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20TH, 7 - 9PM


ARTISTS:
C215 (France)
EPHAMERON (Belgium)
JOAD (Greece)

CURATED BY LOGAN HICKS:
LOGAN HICKS: Logan Hicks is a New York-based stencil artist. Originally a screen printer, Logan's work gained notoriety due to his ability to capture the sometimes mundane cycle of city life in refined way with his hand sprayed stencils.

ARTISTS:

C215: Stemming from his thesis in art history and research in German and Anglo-Saxon Civilizations, Classic Painters haunt his imagination and art. Within the past two years C215 has published two conceptual, illustrated poetry books and participated in fifteen group shows. Recently he has increasingly used and mastered stencil applications in his own art. C215 is one of the most active French stencil artists in the streets and his World Tour keeps going though 2009…

EPHAMERON: Belgium artist, Ephameron, combines lyrical imagery and text. Through her art she recreates everyday feelings and thoughts, capturing precious moments in life. Recurring themes like hands, birds and female figures live in her pastel colored backgrounds and huge black tape drawings. She is currently a freelance artist working for national and international magazines. Her award-winning website www.ephameron.com has been an ongoing art project since 2000, her second book Found+Lost will be published in January 2009 by Bries in Antwerp.

JOAD: Born and raised in Athens, Greece, she is currently studying in Amsterdam for her postgraduate degree in Urban Studies. JOAD has developed her skills on various media from a young age and recently focused specifically on spray paint and street art. Her unique style concentrates on the female form and typically female aesthetics. Her female figures create intimate stories between themselves and the viewer, revealing their disarming vulnerability, as if they are whispering a secret: their present, their past, their scars, dreams, and hopes.