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Sunday, November 27, 2011
Sunday, January 9, 2011
25th anniversary of the destruction of The Garden of Eden
ADAM PURPLE AND THE GARDEN OF EDEN
PHOTOGRAPHS BY HARVEY WANG
FusionArts Museum (Gallery B)
February 2-20, 2011
Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday: 12-6 pm
Friday and Saturday: By appointment only
Opening Reception: Thursday, February 3 from 6-9 pm
57 Stanton Street, New York, NY 10002
NEW YORK, JANUARY 4, 2011 – January 8, 2011 marks the 25th anniversary of the destruction of The Garden of Eden, an earthwork created by Adam Purple that once spanned five city lots on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. This selection of Harvey Wang’s photographs, for the most part unpublished and on display for the first time, documents the expansion of the Garden from 1978 to 1985. Rare prints of a few of Adam’s 1975-76 negatives will also be shown.
In 1975, Adam Purple set out to plant a garden behind his tenement building at a time when the Lower East Side was a crime-ridden wasteland. It was a massive undertaking – the site had been buried in rubble from the demolition of two other tenements. While clearing nearly 5,000 cubic feet of debris using only simple tools and raw muscle power, Adam began to create his own topsoil from materials he found at the site and around the city. In addition to traditional composting, Adam made the seven-mile round trip to Central Park on his bicycle almost every day to bring carriage-horse manure back to the Garden, carrying about 60 pounds on each trip.
His circular design had mathematical and metaphysical meaning: The Garden of Eden grew exponentially with the addition of each new ring of plant beds, and at its center was a double Yin-Yang symbol. By 1986, his world famous eARThWORK had grown to 15,000 square feet. Among the many crops and flowers were 100 rose bushes and 45 fruit and nut trees.
Adam “zenvisioned” the Garden expanding until it replaced the skyscrapers of New York. For Adam Purple—social activist, philosopher, and urban gardener/revolutionary—the Garden was the medium of his political and artistic expression. When the Garden was slated for demolition to make way for a federally funded housing project, many prominent New Yorkers wrote letters and delivered statements of support for Adam and the Garden. Alternative designs that would have spared the Garden or incorporated it into the new structure were displayed in the 1984 exhibition “Adam’s House in Paradise” at the Storefront for Art and Architecture in SoHo. Nevertheless, The Garden of Eden was razed on January 8, 1986, and the new housing project did not include an apartment for Adam or space for a new garden.
In terms of his revolutionary ideas about sustainability and living as humble members of the natural world, Adam was ahead of his time. He has not yet been properly recognized as an important environmental artist. It has been 25 years since The Garden of Eden was destroyed, and this exhibition aims to ensure that Adam Purple and his unique, site-specific artwork are not forgotten.
FOR MORE INFORMATION
To hear an interview with Adam conducted by Amy Brost for the StoryCorps Oral History Project, visit http://www.harveywang.com/podcast.html or download the podcast from iTunes. For the interview transcript, contact Harvey Wang at (212) 777-5918 or hw@harveywang.com. A slide show of selected photographs along with audio excerpts from the StoryCorps interview is on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VfBvdzgQxY
TO HELP SUPPORT THE EXHIBITION, VISIT KICKSTARTER.COM BEFORE FEBRUARY 2. Search for Adam Purple on the site or go to:
http://kck.st/ejHJg6
ABOUT HARVEY WANG
In the 1970’s and ’80’s, Wang was a resident of Chinatown and the Lower East Side, an admirer of Adam Purple, and one of several photographers and journalists to visit The Garden of Eden periodically to document its expansion. His photography career has spanned more than 30 years. Wang’s books include the critically acclaimed "Flophouse: Life on the Bowery" and "Harvey Wang’s New York." His photographs have been exhibited in museums and galleries across the country, including the Museum of the City of New York, the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C., and the New-York Historical Society. In addition to his work as a photographer, Harvey Wang is a commercial director and a filmmaker. His short films, ranging in style and approach from documentary to experimental, have been seen in festivals all over the world. His film "Milton Rogovin: The Forgotten Ones" won the prize for Best Documentary Short at the 2003 Tribeca Film Festival, and "Triptych" was chosen as Best Experimental Film at the 2004 Rhode Island International Film Festival. He recently directed his first feature film, "The Last New Yorker," which had its theatrical release in 2010.
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www.harveywang.com
PHOTOGRAPHS BY HARVEY WANG
FusionArts Museum (Gallery B)
February 2-20, 2011
Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday: 12-6 pm
Friday and Saturday: By appointment only
Opening Reception: Thursday, February 3 from 6-9 pm
57 Stanton Street, New York, NY 10002
NEW YORK, JANUARY 4, 2011 – January 8, 2011 marks the 25th anniversary of the destruction of The Garden of Eden, an earthwork created by Adam Purple that once spanned five city lots on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. This selection of Harvey Wang’s photographs, for the most part unpublished and on display for the first time, documents the expansion of the Garden from 1978 to 1985. Rare prints of a few of Adam’s 1975-76 negatives will also be shown.
In 1975, Adam Purple set out to plant a garden behind his tenement building at a time when the Lower East Side was a crime-ridden wasteland. It was a massive undertaking – the site had been buried in rubble from the demolition of two other tenements. While clearing nearly 5,000 cubic feet of debris using only simple tools and raw muscle power, Adam began to create his own topsoil from materials he found at the site and around the city. In addition to traditional composting, Adam made the seven-mile round trip to Central Park on his bicycle almost every day to bring carriage-horse manure back to the Garden, carrying about 60 pounds on each trip.
His circular design had mathematical and metaphysical meaning: The Garden of Eden grew exponentially with the addition of each new ring of plant beds, and at its center was a double Yin-Yang symbol. By 1986, his world famous eARThWORK had grown to 15,000 square feet. Among the many crops and flowers were 100 rose bushes and 45 fruit and nut trees.
Adam “zenvisioned” the Garden expanding until it replaced the skyscrapers of New York. For Adam Purple—social activist, philosopher, and urban gardener/revolutionary—the Garden was the medium of his political and artistic expression. When the Garden was slated for demolition to make way for a federally funded housing project, many prominent New Yorkers wrote letters and delivered statements of support for Adam and the Garden. Alternative designs that would have spared the Garden or incorporated it into the new structure were displayed in the 1984 exhibition “Adam’s House in Paradise” at the Storefront for Art and Architecture in SoHo. Nevertheless, The Garden of Eden was razed on January 8, 1986, and the new housing project did not include an apartment for Adam or space for a new garden.
In terms of his revolutionary ideas about sustainability and living as humble members of the natural world, Adam was ahead of his time. He has not yet been properly recognized as an important environmental artist. It has been 25 years since The Garden of Eden was destroyed, and this exhibition aims to ensure that Adam Purple and his unique, site-specific artwork are not forgotten.
FOR MORE INFORMATION
To hear an interview with Adam conducted by Amy Brost for the StoryCorps Oral History Project, visit http://www.harveywang.com/podcast.html or download the podcast from iTunes. For the interview transcript, contact Harvey Wang at (212) 777-5918 or hw@harveywang.com. A slide show of selected photographs along with audio excerpts from the StoryCorps interview is on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VfBvdzgQxY
TO HELP SUPPORT THE EXHIBITION, VISIT KICKSTARTER.COM BEFORE FEBRUARY 2. Search for Adam Purple on the site or go to:
http://kck.st/ejHJg6
ABOUT HARVEY WANG
In the 1970’s and ’80’s, Wang was a resident of Chinatown and the Lower East Side, an admirer of Adam Purple, and one of several photographers and journalists to visit The Garden of Eden periodically to document its expansion. His photography career has spanned more than 30 years. Wang’s books include the critically acclaimed "Flophouse: Life on the Bowery" and "Harvey Wang’s New York." His photographs have been exhibited in museums and galleries across the country, including the Museum of the City of New York, the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C., and the New-York Historical Society. In addition to his work as a photographer, Harvey Wang is a commercial director and a filmmaker. His short films, ranging in style and approach from documentary to experimental, have been seen in festivals all over the world. His film "Milton Rogovin: The Forgotten Ones" won the prize for Best Documentary Short at the 2003 Tribeca Film Festival, and "Triptych" was chosen as Best Experimental Film at the 2004 Rhode Island International Film Festival. He recently directed his first feature film, "The Last New Yorker," which had its theatrical release in 2010.
# # #
www.harveywang.com
Sunday, July 4, 2010
Andreas Laszlo Konrath: My Generation
Sunday, January 3, 2010
Bill Cunningham, my guilty pleasure
In 2002 Bill wrote this piece for the Times, Bill on Bill (archived without the photos, damn). When you read this little bio, you think the same thing that you think when you listen to him narrate his photo essays: What a nice man!
Sunday, December 27, 2009
Who shot rock and roll
The show is winding into its last 4 weeks and we finally got there to see it: Who Shot Rock and Roll, and the Brooklyn Museum. Quick like a bunny, get there if you can. Great fun. NYT article.And hey, hey, hey, do yourself a favor and jump over to the David LaChapelle site and watch his video of The Vines performing Outtathaway. It was also in the show at the BM, and I watched it there three times. It was never my scene, but, really, if something doesn't stir in you while you watch it, I dunno.
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Sunday, September 27, 2009
The oldest living things in the world: benefit party
THE OLDEST LIVING THINGS IN THE WORLD:Galapagos.
ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION BENEFIT PARTY
Tickets: $25
Available Here
Come out for an evening of music, trapeze, and entertainment featuring New York's indie-rock vaudevillians The LISPS, Dance performances by Jenny Rocha and her Painted Ladies, an Art Auction featuring works by the MacDowell Colony Felllows plus free Vodka Cocktails, Haircuts and free GRIMALDI'S Pizza. Hosted by Galapago's resident artist Olga of Olga and Bjorn!
Join us for this amazing evening of art and entertainment benefiting The Oldest Living Things in the World project. Internationally acclaimed artist Rachel Sussman has been researching, working with biologists, and traveling all over the world to find and photograph continuously living organisms 2,000 years old and older. Sussman, who is fiscally sponsored by the Brooklyn Arts Council, is endeavoring to raise funds for an expedition to the Antarctic Peninsula to photograph 5,000-year-old moss this winter.
Friday, September 25, 2009
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
ahhhhhh.... the lads...
gosh, juju gettin' to be an ol' dog...
truth is, the largest influence on my life, particularly in those formative days of yesterday, were these young fellows, John in particular. Would never have picked up drumsticks or guitar if it hadn't been for the fab four.
truth is, the largest influence on my life, particularly in those formative days of yesterday, were these young fellows, John in particular. Would never have picked up drumsticks or guitar if it hadn't been for the fab four.
Friday, September 11, 2009
Happy Nine Eleven Day?
What's the possible greeting? Mostly folks do the knowing-look thing then ask each other how they are doing.
Nice photos at the NYTimes: The World as of 9/10/01.
Nice photos at the NYTimes: The World as of 9/10/01.
Monday, August 24, 2009
Wired Raw File: Rebels Without a Hog
The article is Rebels Without a Hog: Inside Brooklyn’s Moped Gang. Photos: Bryan Derballa/Wired.com. Weeee!
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Sunday, June 14, 2009
he say he makin' no promises...
and that is likely a good thing, as he ain't very good at keepin' 'em...
Mine doppelganger jehosaphat prayer appears to be resurrecting that odiferous, dust laden and cobwebbed old corpus of el chango tonto out here on the left coast, will wonders never cease. He make mention there of the work of a certain Clayton Call, Famous Rock and Roll Photographer (that few people have ever heard of...) and ju ju got to agree, katz und kitteez, check that site out...
Mine doppelganger jehosaphat prayer appears to be resurrecting that odiferous, dust laden and cobwebbed old corpus of el chango tonto out here on the left coast, will wonders never cease. He make mention there of the work of a certain Clayton Call, Famous Rock and Roll Photographer (that few people have ever heard of...) and ju ju got to agree, katz und kitteez, check that site out...
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Random catch-up
Our lovely house-guests have headed back to Atlanta, and it's time to hit the groove again. Many wonderful things that won't be posted. But, randomly: a neighbor's construction project - Silverback Perch (Juju is not the only senior gorilla in the crowd); a new cousin's legal project - peer to patent; local photographer we met in a bar - Alex Bershaw.
(The Bike Thang at JJ Byrne was fun, and there was an orange and green fixie that Lori and I both ogled. Coinky dink, walking in lower Manhattan later that afternoon, I saw what had to be the same bike. I stopped the rider & asked. Yup, and a really big grin on his face.)
(Photo by Alex Bershaw)
(The Bike Thang at JJ Byrne was fun, and there was an orange and green fixie that Lori and I both ogled. Coinky dink, walking in lower Manhattan later that afternoon, I saw what had to be the same bike. I stopped the rider & asked. Yup, and a really big grin on his face.)
(Photo by Alex Bershaw)Monday, May 4, 2009
Monday, April 13, 2009
Diorama Zen
web zen / diorama zen, from September, 2008.
Apropos the little contest we've been running, prizes have been selected, including Vladmaster's The Public Life of Jeremiah Barnes, and Slinkachu's Little People In The City.
Apropos the little contest we've been running, prizes have been selected, including Vladmaster's The Public Life of Jeremiah Barnes, and Slinkachu's Little People In The City.
Sunday, March 22, 2009
sunny hereabouts...
after a rainy night, astonishingly bright sunday morning sunshine flooding through the living room windows...
point ye in the direction of the clusterflockers, many good photos on display there (sequence of photos begins w/the seventh post of the 22rd...) in response to early post on the 21st...
point ye in the direction of the clusterflockers, many good photos on display there (sequence of photos begins w/the seventh post of the 22rd...) in response to early post on the 21st...
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Pablo y Dante
And the source images for Pablo y Dante are Picasso and the Loaves by Robert Doisneau, and Conductor Leonard Bernstein Smoking, at Corbis, by David Turnley.
Thursday, January 1, 2009
Lookie here, Mr. New Year
Two New Years pics from the LOC. Above, the full caption in the catalog reads, "New Year reception at the White House. Photo shows thousands of citizens waiting to be received", 1927. Below, kids blowing their horns on Bleeker Street, 1943.
Hope and horns both spring eternal.
Hope and horns both spring eternal.
Thursday, October 23, 2008
a handful of nuggets of linky goodness...
still enjoying my romance with NPR, this link from PRI's The World program broadcast today, and we want to point ye in the direction of the Global Hit piece;
courtesy that marvel that is MetaFilter: Buy-ology Blue;
Umbrella Today?, by way of Bifurcated Rivets;
lovely slideshow via flickr;
How to Make Fougasse, thanks to C. Corrigan & his Parking Lot;
two words: whiskey river
Otay Spanky!
dat be enuf fa now....
courtesy that marvel that is MetaFilter: Buy-ology Blue;
Umbrella Today?, by way of Bifurcated Rivets;
lovely slideshow via flickr;
How to Make Fougasse, thanks to C. Corrigan & his Parking Lot;
two words: whiskey river
Otay Spanky!
dat be enuf fa now....
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