Category Archives: Art

E.K. Buckley

Freddy’s Bar is very proud to announce a show of recent work by Brooklyn artist E.K. Buckley, titled Crows and Nudes. Her focus is bold, eerie nudes. Her subject matter is often drawn from her early training in music and literature, and her love of dance is clear in her uncanny ability to capture the body in movement. Buckley’s work in ink includes an austere series of crows; simple gestures that show her reliance on the raw mark, at times describing the bird in just a few stark and fast pen strokes.

E.K. Buckley

www.ekbuckley.com

Opening Party: Thursday, May 10th, 7 to 9pm.

A special performance by New York soprano and Buckley’s cousin, Elizabeth Magnor will begin at 8pm.  She is recently back from Paris and will perform for the first time in Brooklyn. Magnor will sing a selection of Edith Piaf songs and Mozart arias, Freddy’s re-curring Opera on Tap, a lively night of opera and booze, will begin immediately following. http://www.operaontap.com/newyork/

NY Sun on Opera Night, “…raucous and sublime…un-elitist, imperfect, and fun…”

National Public Radio on Freddy’s & Opera Night, “the local watering hole for murderers and tyrants, adulterers and virgins, Don Juans and divas.”

Annie Belting it out!

E.K. Buckley is represented by Yes! Gallery in Greenpoint.  Show runs from May 10th through June 11th in the Silver Room at Freddy’s, open during bar hours noon – 4am (at least) daily.

For more information-http://freddysbar.com/events/2012-05-10/

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Freddy’s Bar is very proud to announce a show of recent work by Brooklyn artist Nancy Drew.

Cher. "The Look" by Nancy Drew

Nancy Drew’s mixed-media portrait paintings of Cher explore the realm of celebrity, beauty and aging in the 21st Century’s hyper-pop landscape. Employed as much as a stand-in for ‘everywoman’ as for her off-center iconic status, images of Cher from the 70′s are printed onto contemporary magazine pages, mounted to canvas and amplified with collage, glitter, beading and various forms of adornment and deconstruction.

To view the work on Line – http://nancydrewpaintings.com/DEAR_CHER.html

Also showing:  special Cher video mash-up by legendary video artist Donald O’Finn. http://www.donaldofinn.com/

For more event details - http://freddysbar.com/events/2012-04-07/

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Freddy’s Bar is very proud to announce it’s newest art show. This exhibition represents the latest issue of Vellum Art magazine and was designed by David Born and will travel to Art 43 Basel in June to participate in the prestigious art fair’s Magazine Collective.

http://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/351732      Vellum is an artzine for the masses. It exist to educate & inform the common man & woman. The goal is to get the masses interested in the fine arts (specifically emerging artists) which has been a closed and underserved community for too long.

http://www.magcloud.com/browse/tag/vellumonline.com

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Exhibiting Artists: Donald O’Finn-Nancy Drew-Marcy Brafman-Aaron Houser-Mathanki Kalapathy-Tom Kotik-David Moreno-Gabriel J. Shuldiner

"Man and woman" Donald O'Finn

The artists in “Sonic” demonstrate the ability to produce work that explores the idea of sound. Until recently, it was debatable whether sound art could be considered a fine art genre but after numerous artists took on the serious task of producing works that pushed the sound barrier it is now considered a fine art practice. However, “Sonic” is not just limited to those who consciously produce sound artworks. It is also an exploration of those whose projects have a lyrical quality which consciously or unconsciously take on sensibilities found in musical genres such as rock and roll. And how they use that imagery to ponder more social and political issues. It is also an examination of sound appropriated through different schematics of subject matter, mark-making and materials.

Opening reception Sat March 10th at 6pm. Exhibition runs until April 3rd & is on view 7 days a week from noon until 4am.

Bands: 8pm Sportsman’s Paradise & 9pm (E) motion Picture. plus Hydrogen Jukebox (Original Urban Blues with a theatrical edge) at 10pm. For additional Details http://freddysbar.com/events/2012-03-10/

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Freddy’s Bar is proud to announce the art show of VIDEO STILLS by co-owner/ bartender and video appropriation artist Donald O’Finn. Village Voice – BEST Of/2001-2008: “Donald O’Finn‘s feverishly edited encyclopedically strange video collages…”

Video Still from "Mandala" 2011, 24" x 18""The Last Day on Earth" 2011, 24" x 18"

"The Chicken or the Bottle" 2009, 24" x 18"

http://www.donaldofinn.com/        Since 1980 Mr O’Finn has re-purposed, re-contextualized, effected, and weaved appropriated media samples into “the dreams a television Might have”.  The work represents television both as a medium, message, and as a device of conscious and subconscious cultural significance. His work has screened on both coasts, including The Hirshhorn Museum of Art in Washington DC., as well as around the world; including The National Museum of Art in Poland, The Busan Film Festival in Korea, a Traveling Art project throughout Portugal, as well as a solo exhibition in Berlin Germany. http://www.youtube.com/user/prognosisgrim

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gallery.mac.com/stevepauley1

April 2nd thru March 28th 2011: Steve Pauley has had Solo exhibitions in New York, Maryland and West Virginia. His work has also been on view at the Carroll Mansion Museum in Baltimore, MD, The West Virginia Cultural Center, The Sunrise Museum, and The Museum in the Community in West Virginia. Holland Cotter of the NY Times calls Steve Pauley’s work
both “striking” and “unorthodox.”

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