PRETEEN IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THE DRAWINGS OF OTHER MEN; A NEW SOLO EXHIBITION FEATURING COLLAGE AND SCULPTURE WORKS BY GERARDO CONTRERAS. ORIGINALLY TRAINED AS AN ARCHITECT, CONTRERAS'S WORK REVOLVES AROUND THE TRANSMUTATION OF EVERYDAY PHENOMENA AS IT RELATES TO CURRENT CONCEPTIONS OF TRHEE-DIMENSIONAL SPACE AND HUMAN LIFE. AS WELL, IT DESTABILIZES WIDESPREAD NOTIONS OF EMPTINESS AND MATTER THROUGH SPATIAL EXPERIMANTATION. THROUGH HIS COLLAGE PIECES AND PHOTOGRAPHIC APPROPIATIONS, HE DELVES INTO THE THEMES OF MEMORY, SICKNESS AND DEATH. THE DRAWINGS OF OTHER MEN IS AN ATTEMPT TO EXAMINE COMMON PATTERNS IN THE REPESENTATION OF ARCHITECTURAL SPACE AND STRUCTURE, AS WELL AS TO ASSUME A HUMOROUS TAKE ON THE SUBJECTS OF LOSS AND DEATH.

PRETEEN IS PROUD TO PRESENT TAKE ME IN YOUR ARMS AND FUCK ME; A NEW SOLO EXHIBITION BY ARTIST BEA FREMDERMAN. INFLUENCED BY THE FETISHIZED YOUTH PORTRAIT, FREMDERMAN JUXTAPOSES IMAGES OF TEENAGE CULTURE WITH ISOLATED OBJECTS INTO DIGITALLY MANIPULATED PHOTOGRAPHS REVOLVING AROUND CONCEPTS SUCH AS ALIENATION, IMMATURITY, SELF REFLECTION AND AGRESSION. THESE IMAGES BECOME MONUMENTAL TO YOUTH CULTURE THROUGH THE POWER OF COLLAGE OUTSIDE OF THE MODERNIST GESTURE. BEA FREMDERMAN (B. KISHINOV, MOLDOVA) LIVES AND WORKS IN CHICAGO, IL. RECENT EXHIBITIONS INCLUDE CAN'T STOP THINKING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO; THE YIELD AT HEAVEN GALLERY, CHICAGO AND YOUNGER THAN JESUS AT THE NEW MUSEUM, NEW YORK.

PRETEEN IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE PIE IN THE SKY YOU KNOW HOW I FEEL; A NEW SOLO SHOW BY NORTH CAROLINA-BASED ARTIST BRANDI STRICKLAND. STRICKLAND'S MINIMAL GRAPHIC ASSEMBLAGES RESEMBLE THOSE OF HANNAH HÖCH IN THAT THEY SERVE AS DOCUMENTS OF DAY TO DAY EPHEMERA AND THAT THEY PORE OVER FEMALE SUBJECTIVITY IN A SCANT AND DELICATE MANNER. ALSO, THEY SCRUTINIZE THE POWER STRUCTURES THAT SHAPE THE VISUAL OUTCOMES OF GEOGRAPHY, TOPOGRAPHY AND MATHEMATICS. THE HUMAN BODY AND NATURE ARE REPRESENTED IN AN OFTEN FRAGMENTED, NEBULOUS AND NOSTALGIC WAY. TEXT BECOMES A MERE ORNAMENTAL COMPONENT MORE THAN A LINGUISTIC OR POETIC SIGNIFIER. HER METHOD OF WORK ALLOWS HER COLLAGE PIECES TO DEVELOP INTO AN ODDLY APOLITICAL ACCOUNT OF QUOTIDIAN LIFE.

PRETEEN PRESENTS UP THE YING YANG!; A NEW VIDEO AND ANIMATION SHOW BY LA-BASED ARTIST HAZEL HILL. HILL BEGAN CREATING VIDEOS AS HOMAGE TO HER MUSE, HER PUG ROCKIT (B. 2003). ASSUMING A DECONSTRUCTIVE TAKE ON PROPRIETY, SHE CREATES VIDEOS AS A LOS ANGELES NATIVE. HER WORK FOCUSES ON HER FAMILIARITY WITH THE CITY'S TIMELESS ABSURDITIES AND HER RELENTLESS DEDICATION TO FAME AND FORTUNE. BY RE-EDITING IMAGES DERIVED FROM A WIDE VARIETY OF SOURCES, SHE CREATES RECONDITIONED OBSERVATIONS OF HER OBSESSION FOR LEADING MALE ROLES PLAYED BY THE LIKES OF MICHAEL DOUGLAS, TOM CRUISE AND MARTIN LAWRENCE.

PRETEEN IS PROUD TO PRESENT SVART METALL; A NEW SOLO SHOW BY GRANT WILLING. THE EXHIBITION FEATURES SVART METALL WILLING'S LATEST PHOTOGRAPHIC SERIES. SVART METALL IS AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE THEMES AND IDEALS OF THE BLACK METAL MUSIC GENRE. BLACK METAL EXPLORES DE IDEAS OF ANCIENT PAGAN AND SATANIC VIEWS AND PRESENTS THESE FEELINGS IN A VIOLENT, OFTEN CACOPHONOUS MUSIC. PROGRESSING FROM THE THEMES OF THE MUSIC, A SUBCULTURE HAS DEVELOPED IN WHICH MURDERS, CHURCH BURNINGS, AND ANIMAL SACRIFICES, AND OTHER BARBARIC ACTS HAVE OCURRED. GRANT WILLING'S PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDY INTO THIS WORLD LOOKS AT CONSISTENT LYRICAL THEMES AND AN OVERALL CONSCIOUSNESS THAT IS PUT FORTH BY YHIS WAY OF LIFE. THE FOLKORE AND MYTHOLOGY ARE ACTING AS THE BASIS BEHIND THIS FANTASY AND THE DIRE ACTS OF VIOLENCE OCURRED BEING THE BASIS IN REALITY. BY CONTRASTING VARYING ELEMENTS THAT ARE ROOTED IN THESE CENTRAL THEMES, WILLING IS CREATING AN OVERALL FEELING OF THE INHERENT GRIMNESS AND MISANTHROPY THAT EXISTS IN BLACK METAL CULTURE.

PRETEEN IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE CHICAGO VS DENVER; A SOLO EXHIBITION BY NEW YORK BASED ARTIST COLLECTIVE CORNROW RIDER. THE COLLECTIVE WAS ESTABLISHED IN 2008 AS A PLATFORM FOR SEVERAL ARTISTS TO WORK COLLABORATIVELY CROSSBREEDING GENRES, BACKROUNDS, IDENTITIES AND WORK HABITS. THEIR LATEST WORK IS COMPOSED OF PROJECTING AN UNEDITED AMERICAN FOOTBALL GAME FROM THE 2009 NFL SEASON. WITH THE SEEMINGLY EFFORTLESS GESTURE OF SHIFTING THE CONTEXT FROM LIVING ROOM TO GALLERY, THE COLLECTIVE MINES CONVENTIONAL MEDIA TO WARHOLIAN PROPORTIONS. CHICAGO VS DENVER CONTINUES THE COLLECTIVE'S EXPLORATION OF CLASS, RACE, AND SEXUALITY NOT BY MANIPULATING THE SOURCE MATERIAL, BUT THE ACTUAL AUDIENCE WHOM CONSUMES IT.

PRETEEN IS PROUD TO PRESENT RICH MAN'S GURU, POOR MAN'S GURU; A NEW SOLO RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITION OF DRAWINGS BY ARTIST MIKE PARÉ. PARÉ HAS EXPLORED THE CULTURE OF YOUTH AND THE BIGGEST YOUTH MOVEMENT EVER, THAT OF THE 1960'S. HE HAS AS WELL TOUCHED THE SUBJECTS OF REBELLION, IDEALISIM, BROTHERHOOD AND THE MYTOLOGY OF YOUTH; ALSO THE TRASCENDENTAL IDEAS OF YOUTH COLLECTIVITIES. THE WORKS IN THIS SHOW ARE SMALL FIGURATIVE DRAWINGS FROM THE PAST TEN YEARS, SELECTED BASED ON THEIR SUBJECT MATTER: CROWDS OF ADVERNTURERS RANGING FROM WESTERN DEVOTEES OF EASTERN GURUS TO ROCK CONCERT CROWDS TO OUTLAW BIKERS. ALL OF THESE GROUPS ARE SEEKERS OF TRASCENDENCE IN ONE FORM OR ANOTHER. THE DRAWINGS ALSO EVOKE IDEAS OF SPIRITUAL MATERIALISM, CLASSISM, AUTHENTICITY AND THE SELF RIGHTEOUS SWAGGER OF A TRIBE THAT IS THE PRODUCT OF ITS OWN INVENTION.

PRETEEN IS PROUD TO ANNOUNCE LOLITA; A NEW SOLO EXHIBITION BY VANCOUVER BASED ARTIST LUCAS SOI. SOI'S WORK DEALS WITH ADOLESCENCE AND FEMININITY AS THEY RELATE TO CURRENT WESTERN SOCIETY'S MODES OF CONSUMPTION AND EXPLOITATION. A PHOTO COLLAGE, A SCULPTURE AND A SINGLE CHANNEL VIDEO INSTALLATION ENTITLED IT'S MY BODY MAKE UP LOLITA. IT'S MY BODY IS SUCCESFUL IN USING SINGLE SHOT SCENES AS READYMADE NARRATIVE UNITS TO BUILD UP A SORT OF AN ESSAY ON HOW THE HETERESOXUAL MALE GAZE STRUCTURES ADOLESCENT FEMININITY'S VISUAL OUTPOURINGS OF PHYSICAL AND MENTAL EXPERIENCES.

PRETEEN IS PLEASED TO PRESENT BEYOND STONED, A SHOW FEATURING NEW YOGA'S DARK BONG, THE RESULT OF A SIX MONTH AUDIO-VISUAL COLLABORATION BETWEEN BOSTON BAND NEW YOGA (JEFFREY K. JOYAL) AND LOS ANGELES VIDEO ARTIST PIG EYE (CARLOS SAUL LASZLO). DARK BONG, SOAKED IN THE EIGHTIES' SPIRIT, DOCUMENTS THE NEW WAYS OF PHISYCAL AND MENTAL EASTERN TRANCE. THE TELEVISION CONTROL PRACTICES AND CURRENT TECHNOLOGIC TANTRAS. ALSO, THE ANGRY AND DIRTY FORMS OF VERBAL AND MENTAL LIBERATION. WITHOUT QUESTION DARK BONG IS A NOSTALGC CELEBRATION OF LIFE WITH A CHARACTERISTIC POSTCAPITALIST AND PREDECADENCE VISION.

PRETEEN IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE KÜCHENMUSIK, A SHOW FEATURING A PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLAGE AND A RETROSPECTIVE SCREENING OF THE FILM WORKS FROM LEGENDARY BERLIN BASED PUNK TRIO DIE TÖDLICHE DORIS. DIE TÖDLICHE DORIS, AS PART OF THE NEUE DEUTSCHE WELLE (THE GERMAN NEW WAVE) WAS ONE OF THE MOST PROLIFIC ART COLLECTIVES IN WEST BERLIN DURING THE 1980'S AND WERE A KEY FIGURE FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A UNIQUE INTERPRETATION OF PUNK AESTHETICS IN GERMANY. THEIR WORK MET NO BOUNDARIES IN TERMS OF MEANS OF EXPRESION: WRITING, FILM, PHOTOGRAPHY, PERFORMANCE, ART OBJECTS AND FASHION DESIGN. THEY WERE ACTIVE FROM 1980 TO 1987

PRETEEN IS PROUD TO PRESENT PSYCHOTROPIC HORIZONS, AN EXHIBITION FEAUTIRING PHOTOGRAPHY AND VIDEO WORKS BY LUKE BARBER-SMITH. HIS PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLAGES QUESTION OUR CURRENT GLOBAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL VIEWS WITH A DEEP PASSION FOR COLOR AND ATMOSPHERIC MIASMA, ESTABLISHING A LANGUAGE OF TIME FORMALLY OUT OF REACH. BUILDINGS BECOME CHARACTERS IN A DECAYING WORLD THAT IS BOTH ROMANTIC AND HAUNTING. LUKE BARBER-SMITH WAS BORN IN PHILADELPHIA, PA AND LIVES AND WORKS IN BROOKLYN, NY.

PRETEEN IS PLEASED TO PRESENT NOTHING IN PARTICULAR, A NEW SOLO EXHIBITION BY LONDON BASED, RUSSIAN PHOTOGRAPHER TANIA LESHKINA (B. 1990). HER WORK DEALS NOT SO MUCH WITH CAPTURING A “DECISIVE MOMENT” OR A “PRESENCE OF ABSENCE” AS IT DOES WITH SYNTHESIZING THE AMBIANCE OF A GIVEN SITUATION AND PRESENTING PICTURES AS PIECES OR HINTS FOR THE VIEWER TO CONSTRUCT A LARGER SETTING THAT MAY NOT BE STRCTLY IMAGE BOUND. THIS SELECTION OF PHOTOGRAPGS SHOT IN DOMESTIC INTERIORS EXPOSE TANIA’S APPROACH TO IMAGE MAKING AT ITS MOST BLURRY AND AMBIGUOUS, LEAVING A LOT OF ROOM FOR INTERPRETATION. TANIA HAS COLLABORATED TO NUMEROUS MAGAZINES LIKE VICE AND METAL. SHE HAS EXHIBITED IN PARIS, LONDON, MILAN, ROME, VENICE AND MALAGA.

PRETEEN IS PROUD TO ANNOUNCE OMG AND WTF, A NEW EXHIBITION FEAUTIRNG VIDEO, ANIMATION, SOUND, IMAGES AND TEXT BY BERLIN BASED DUO AIDS-3D (DANIEL KELLER, NIK KOSMAS). AIDS-3D POSITION THEIR WORK OUTSIDE OF TRADITIONAL MEANS OF REPRESENTATION, CREATING PIECES THAT RELATE TO VIEWERS IN AN OFTEN DISTURBING MANNER. THEIR APPROACH TO ART MAKING ALLOW THEIR PERFORMATIVE PIECES, WHICH MERGE POLITICS, PAGAN RITUALS, RAVE CULTURE, COMPUTER KITSCH AESTHETICS, APOCALYPTIC VISIONS AND A PARTICULAR FUTURISTIC IDEAL OF HUMAN INTERRELATIONSHIP TO ENTER THE PUBLIC SPHERE THROUGH THE INTERNET LIKE A SLOW ACTING VIRUS LETTING THESE “POSSIBLE WORLDS” TO WORK BACK IN REAL LIFE.

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JOE GAGE’S FILMS BELONG TO THAT RAREFIED REALM OF EARLY, TRULY CINEMATOGRAPHIC, PIONEERING PORN ALSO OCCUPIED BY THE LIKES OF FRED HALSTED AND JACK DEVEAU.

JOE GAGE WAS BORN IN SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA AND RAISED ON CATALINA ISLAND. HE DIRECTED AND WROTE AN INFLUENTIAL TRILOGY OF GAY FILMS, COLLECTIVELY REFERRED TO AS "THE WOKING MAN TRILOGY" (1976-1979). THESE FILMS WERE PRAISED FOR THEIR CONSISTENT PORTRAYALS SEX OCCURRING BETWEEN RUGGED, MASCULINE MEN WHO CAME FROM BLUE-COLLAR AND SUBURBAN BACKROUNDS AND WHO RELATED AS EQUAL MALE PARTNERS. CHARACTERS IN THE GAGE FILMS OFTEN DISPLAYED BONDS OF MALE CAMARADERIE THAT WENT BEYOND MERE, EPHEMERAL SEXUAL INTERCOURSE.

FOR THIS SCREENING, WE’VE CHOSEN HANDSOME (1981), AS IT SYNTHESIZES GAGES’S PREVIOUS ACHIEVEMENTS IN CINEMATOGRAPHY, EDITING, MUSIC, SOUND DESIGN AND USE OF EERIE LOCATIONS TO STAGE SCENES. IT OFFERS AS WELL A MORE MATURE, SUBLIMATED AND EVEN MESMERIZING VISION OF MALE SEXUALITY, MAKING IT A SORT OF AN ESSAY ON THE AESTHETICS OF RURAL, AMERICAN WORKING CLASS MEN IN THE BEGINNING OF THE EIGHTIES, THROUGH DREAMLIKE, HYPNOTIC SEQUENCES OF HANDJOBS AND JACKOFFS OVER AN AMAZINGLY SEDUCTIVE SOUNDTRACK FROM MAN PARRISH, FEATURING VOCAL MONTAGES BASED ON THE AD BY RICK L. POLLACK.

PRETEEN IS PLEASED TO PRESENT NO NY, A NEW SOLO EXHIBITION BY THE NEW YORK BASED ARTIST PETER SUTHERLAND.

FOR PETER SUTHERLAND "GETTING OUT OF NEW YORK CITY IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING OF LIVING IN NEW YORK". THE COMMON DENOMINATOR OF THIS SELECTION OF PHOTOGRAPHS ARE THE PEOPLE AND PLACES OF EVERY DAY ANONIMITY.

SUTHERLAND HAS SHOWN IN GROUP EXHIBITIONS AT RIVINGTON ARMS/NY, GUILD AND GREYSHKUL/NY, CIRCLECULTURE GALLERY/BERLIN, V1 GALLERY/COPENHAGEN AND THE TRAVELLING TINY VICES SHOW, CURATED BY TIM BARBER. HIS SOLO EXHIBITIONS HAVE BEEN ON VIEW AT SOMEDAY GALLERY/MELBOURNE, MU/EINDHOVEN AND GALLERY WHITE ROOM/TOKYO. RECENTLY, HE'S RELEASED BUCK SHOTS (POWERHOUSE BOOKS) AND THE FILM TIERNEY GEARON: THE MOTHER PROJECT (ZEITGEIST FILMS).

PRETEEN IS PROUD TO ANNOUNCE WONDERFUL SHIT, A SOLO EXHIBITION FEATURING DRAWINGS AND PAINTINGS BY MEXICAN BORN FASHION DESIGNER AND ILLUSTRATOR, ROBERTO SÁNCHEZ.

ROBERTO WAS BORN IN CUERNAVACA, MORELOS IN 1983. HE STUDIED DRAWING AND PAINTING FROM EARLY CHILDHOOD. HE LIVES AND WORKS IN MEXICO CITY, WHERE HE DESIGNS CLOTHES AND ACCESORIES FOR THE HIGH FASHION, CULT BRAND, TEAMO.

HIS WORK HAS BEEN PUBLISHED IN MAGAZINES SUCH AS CÓDIGO (MEXICO), AMELIA'S (LONDON), INDIE ROCKS! (MEXICO), HARPER'S BAZAAR (MEXICO), CELESTE (MEXICO) AND BABY, BABY, BABY (MEXICO).

PRETEEN PRESENTS 666!, A SOLO EXHIBITION BY ARTIST MANUEL MORALES. HIS WORK BRINGS TOGETHER A SERIES OF PHOTOGRAPHIC EXPERIMENTS THAT FOCUS ON THE STUDY OF THE MOST BASIC CIRCUMSTANCE: EXISTENCE. THE PIECES ATTEMPT TO DOCUMENT AND POINT OUT THE OBSCURE AND BIZARRE ASPECTS OF EVERYDAY LIFE WITHOUT OVERSEEING THE IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCE. THE TITLE OF THE SHOW SETS THE TONE FOR THE WORK EXHIBITED; UNIFYING A SPIRITUAL POSITION WITH A CASUAL EXPRESSION AND MAKING USE OF HUMOUR TO EMPHASIZE THAT, IN THE END, LIFE WITH ITS QUOTIDIANNESS OVERSHADOWS THE IDEA OF SPIRITUALITY AND THE REGIME OF THE SOUL AND TRASENDENCE.

'IF MAYA DEREN INVENTED THE AMERICAN AVANT-GARDE CINEMA, STAN BRAKHAGE REALIZED ITS POTENTIAL. BRAKHAGE SINGLE-HANDEDLY TRANSFORMED THE SCHISM SEPARATING THE AVANT-GARDE FROM CLASSICAL FILMMAKING INTO A CHASM. AND THE ULTIMATE CONSEQUENSES HAVE YET TO BE RESOLVED; HIS FILMS APPEAR NEARLY AS RADICAL TODAY AS THE DAY HE MADE THEM. DOG STAR MAN DEFINITIVELY MARKS THE TRANSITION FROM A LYRICAL STYLE, CENTERED ON INDIVIDUAL EXPERIENCE, TO A MORE EPIC STYLE, WITH A FOCUS ON BROAD METAPHYSICAL THEMES. ROUGHLY SPEAKING, THE FILM EXPRESSES A MYTHIC CONCEPTION OF THE STRUGGLE AND FALL OF MAN. MADE IN FOUR PARTS, WITH A PRELUDE, DOG STAR MAN INCORPORATES MANY LAYERS OF SUPERIMPOSITION AND A DENSE, RAPID EDITING PATTERN. AS THE ELEMENTS OF THE FILM GRADUALLY BUILD AND CASCADE INTO ONE ANOTHER, ONE BEGINS TO SEE THE CONNECTIONS BETWEEN THE ELEMENTS MORE AND MORE CLEARLY, HOW AND WHY CERTAIN THEMES ARE REPEATED, AND THE SIMULTANEOUSLY EPIC AND ANALYTIC QUALITY OF THE FILM ITSELF'. � BRIAN FRYE.

THE SCREENING OF DOG STAR MAN WAS A NON-PROFIT, PRIVATE EVENT. ALL IMAGES BY STAN BRAKHAGE.