Pat Place

Jane Kim and 33 Orchard are pleased to present "Skies: 2008-2014," an exhibition of recent work by Pat Place. The opening reception is Friday, March 28th from 6 to 8 pm and the show will be on view until May 4, 2014. Place’s body of work is comprised of groupings from a personal archive of thousands of iPhone photographs of the sky. The colored lines of both the clouds and sky are used in the same manner as expressionist brushstrokes, creating flow and movement within the grid-like patterns of the work. Themes of impermanence and time within the pieces are made visible, while the compositions echo the sky’s constant change.

Pat Place, primarily known for her contributions to music and the New York No Wave scene, graduated from Northern Illinois University, IL with a BFA in Painting & Sculpture. Place moved to New York in 1975 and was a founding member and guitarist of The Contortions and Bush Tetras, whom she continues to tour with. Place has been showing her visual art in New York galleries since 1977.

Her work has been included in the recent group exhibitions at AI Earthling Gallery, Woodstock, New York (2013), Harper’s Bookstore, East Hampton, New York (2012), Julie Keyes Art Projects, New York (2011), and ILLE Arts, Amagansett, New York (2012). Her last one-person exhibition of photographs “The End, 1981 - Infinity” (2008) was at Jane Kim/Thrust Projects, NY. Place, who was born in Chicago in 1953, currently resides in New York and continues to work on her art and music.

About 33 Orchard:

33 Orchard is a new art gallery located at 33B Orchard Street between Hester and Canal Streets in Lower Manhattan. 33 Orchard invites gallerists and curators who have forgone their permanent spaces, are undergoing financial restructuring, or are located in different cities, to produce high-quality and exciting exhibitions. As a new business model of a commercial art space, 33 Orchard hopes to give dealers and curators flexibility and freedom, and at the same time, create a new community where art professionals can share resources and ideas. The gallery is directed by Jane Kim, who founded Thrust Projects on the Bowery from 2005 to 2010.