Spring is here and the Lenora has an open roof with city views to complement this ace duo show featuring ice cream and a special song or two by Sleepy Doug Shaw of White Magic n High Life, not to mention Animal Collective dj’s for the after party two blocks away at Trophy Bar.

Yui Kugimiya and Clare Churchouse are two artists with differing styles yet a common tactile mode of making work. The second Hooper Apartment Show presents a duo install: Yui Kugimiya’s heavily textured colorful abstract canvases and stop animation paintings on video. Clare Churchouse’s clear mylar architectural thread pieces and minimal on-the-wall installations composed of nails, thread, pencil and tiny splashes of color in two and three dimensions. Both artists are based in New York. Please join Bipolart for a special apartment show in Brooklyn with surprises in store such as a Van Leeuwen Artisan Ice Cream tasting and an after party two blocks away at Trophy Bar with music by Avey Tare of Animal Collective and special guests.

Curated by Eric Laine

Saturday March 13th 7 – 9pm Hooper Apartment Show II
Yui Kugimiya | Clare Churchouse
Presented by Bipolart
319 Hooper St. #6E
Brooklyn NY 11211

Here is the funeral song to the age of simplicity. White ghosts of ages past. White newspapers, stacked, on a front porch, the black ink smudging our fingertips. And the silver, no longer, of the silver screen. Here, today, is technicolor two thousand and nine. And as we wish away the romance of yesteryear, we can pause a moment to google search the phrase and watch Ozzy Osbourne performing a tribute “Goodbye to Romance” live, in 1997, on youtube.

Last Thursday, Carlos Valencia’s solo show “Goodbye to Romance” — curated by Eric Lane — opened at The Journal Gallery. The visual montage of his skillfully-rendered graphite drawings reads like an absurdest haiku. A TV still of a football victory, two finches on a branch, Charlie Brown at a picnic– these seemingly random, seemingly filter-less, media-heavy images are ironically rendered in shades of gray, colorless and inherently romantic. Like a zombie bride.