Press Release

Press Release

THE ANNEX
Presents @Free Wall Space

421 Broome Street, #5
New York, NY 10013
Tuesday-Saturday 12 noon – 6 pm
Or by appointment 212-925-5282 / 646-638-3785

JUNIA NEIVA- RECENT PAINTINGS + GRAPHIC WORKS
OPENING THURSDAY, MAY 12, 6 - 8 p.m.
From May 12 to May 26, 2005

JUNIA NEIVA’S new series of flower paintings are the result of coming to terms with the paradox of urban and natural landscapes. The artist taps into her personal inner landscapes and finds they are layered and populated with music and dance. She has stated "my idea of painting is to take color and shapes and transform these by scattering them onto the two-dimensionality of the canvas, as though listening to music that makes you pulsate, dance and come alive." In the art making process of the works, Ms. Neiva will use a body language all her own, stepping and dancing on the pigment, scratching it, splashing more paint, then using her toes, fingers and hands.

Her expressive colors are meant to produce and stimulate emotions that provoke the viewer to come full circle into being a part of nature: the core and essence of all things. Her organic forms and flowers remind us to look beyond the concrete – the cement of a busy urban life-and search and to reach beyond the struggle for survival. Overall, Ms. Neiva’s flower paintings are motivated by the artist’s humble and discreetly personal search for balance and harmony.

CHARLIE MORROW
SOUND ART: NEW OBJECTS AND INSTALLATION
OPENING THURSDAY, MAY 12, 6 - 8 p.m.
From May 12 to May 26, 2005

Thursday, May 12 Special Opening Performance by Charlie Morrow and violinist Yuval Waldman

Charlie Morrow is a pioneering sound artist, performer and composer whose works are concerned with the new and the old, technologies and shamanisms.
Audio-based art has recently appeared on the scene again thanks to a myriad of institutions both in New York and abroad. As a result, a new crop of younger sound artists have emerged, yet they owe their artistic thanks to trailblazers such as Charlie Morrow who has impeccable experimental credentials and pedigree. His entrance into a sound art came after his exploration in the visual performance arts, which was preceded by his training as a composer. All of these aspects converge in his new projects to be exhibited at the Free Wall Art Space. These works include the recent New York Historical Society installation titled Audubon Aviary. The latter work was simultaneously a collaboration with the famous corpus of watercolors housed in that institution, as well as being an audio interpretation of the exquisitely rendered birds. Other sound pieces to be exhibited include his Self- Portrait Sound Drawers, the Sound Reliquary and an experimental installation consisting of loudspeakers and sheets of glass. These works will augmented by the exhibition space designed by the Brazilian-born painter Junia Neiva.

Free Wall Space

421 Broome Street, #5
New York, NY 10013
Tuesday-Saturday 12 noon – 6 pm
Or by appointment 212-925-5282 / 646-638-3785

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