ART SCHOOL DEMYSTIFIED
DECEMBER 2nd, 1-5 pm EST
Join Columbia University’s MFA faculty as they discuss the art school experience: what to expect in school, ways that it changes and challenges your studio practice, and your life afterward as a working artist.
1:00 pm Sound Art
2:00 pm Photography & Moving Image
3:00 pm Expanded Practice & Sculpture
4:00 pm Painting & Printmaking
RSVP:
https://apply.arts.columbia.edu/register/VisualArtsInfo
On Wednesday, September 10 join me and Robert Longo (@robert_longo_studio ) at Pace Gallery’s 540 West 25th Street location in New York for a special performance of G3 by Rhys Chatham (@rhysrhythmchatham ).
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The performance will occur during the opening reception of Robert Longo’s new solo exhibition, “The Weight of Hope,” on view from September 11–October 25, 2025
Featuring:
Ernie Brooks @erniebrooks1949
Knox Chandler @knoxchandler
Marc Glimcher @marcglimcher
Karen Haglof @karenhaglof
Jonathan Kane @jkanefeb
Jon Kessler @kessler_studio
Thomas Lail @thomaslailstudio
Robert Longo
and other special guests
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The performance will be held on the seventh floor, amidst the artist’s video works. RSVP is essential. Details:
Wednesday, Sep 10, 2025
7 – 8 PM
540 West 25th Street
New York
TODAY: Closing Reception of “The Fourth Bird” with Jon Kessler at The Mildred Complex(ity) 5PM - 7PM
The Mildred Complex(ity)
37B Main Street
Narrowsburg, NY
Saturday, August 2, 2025
5PM - 7PM
#mildredslane #jonkessler @kessler_studio
✨️ In the latest episode of ART MINUTE, Gabriela takes a closer look at the spectacular media installation "The Palace at 4 A.M." by the American artist Jon Kessler at the Falckenberg Collection.
📺️ In this work, Kessler brought together 60 mechanical sculptures, 300 video monitors and 6 miles of cable to make sense of the insanity of war and our insatiable appetite for mediated images.
➡️ "The Palace at 4 A.M." is permanently on view at the Falckenberg Collection. You can visit every Sunday, 12–5 p.m. or explore the collection (and Kessler's work) during guided tours.
#Deichtorhallen #SammlungFalckenberg #JonKessler
@gabrielabasso.design@kessler_studio
ON SHOW: Jon Kessler at The Mildred Complex(ity) | June 28 - August 2, 2025
The Fourth Bird, a selection of bronze and ceramic sculptures from a recent exhibited body of work by Jon Kessler. The works utilize upcycled bronze spills alongside other sourced and found materials while combining industrial debris, the residue of kitsch, and repurposed pieces of technology. The result is a series of dynamically whimsical constructions that speak to contemporary anxieties around climate and ecology while simultaneously evoking an alternative world of wonder.
The sculptures in The Fourth Bird draw on multiple influences, notably Alexander Calder’s “stabiles” and Japanese ikebana flower arrangements. In addition to their dynamic compositions, the sculptures imply movement or are otherwise kinetic. Small counterweights, and balancing parts fluidly react to a viewer’s presence in the room.
Kessler’s work has long straddled the boundary between speaking to modern anxieties and actively eliciting them in the viewer. Past projects have dealt with war, terrorism, surveillance, the military-industrial complex and global warming, often in confrontation and always intended to provoke powerful reactions from the viewer. In The Fourth Bird, Kessler has moved away from these aggressively confrontational works toward more subtle and mournful evocations of ecological fragility.
Utilizing many familiar tropes of the 20th century artist: the assemblage, the found object, the political affect–Kessler has opted for a series of surprisingly intimate and considered constructions. Expanding on his recent explorations in bronze and ceramics, these works conjure post-pastoral landscapes, where beauty and ecological collapse intertwine. Incorporating materials as varied as scavenged metal, glazed clay, and German porcelain figurines, these relics of the future balance elegance and entropy, offering a poignant commentary on reclamation and regeneration.
Mildred’s Lane Inc. Project Space
37B Main Street
Narrowsburg, NY
Open Thursday - Sunday, 12pm - 5pm
#mildredslane
OPENING TODAY: Jon Kessler at The Mildred Complex(ity) | June 28 - August 2, 2025
The Fourth Bird, a selection of bronze and ceramic sculptures from a recent exhibited body of work by Jon Kessler. The works utilize upcycled bronze spills alongside other sourced and found materials while combining industrial debris, the residue of kitsch, and repurposed pieces of technology. The result is a series of dynamically whimsical constructions that speak to contemporary anxieties around climate and ecology while simultaneously evoking an alternative world of wonder.
The sculptures in The Fourth Bird draw on multiple influences, notably Alexander Calder’s “stabiles” and Japanese ikebana flower arrangements. In addition to their dynamic compositions, the sculptures imply movement or are otherwise kinetic. Small counterweights, and balancing parts fluidly react to a viewer’s presence in the room.
Kessler’s work has long straddled the boundary between speaking to modern anxieties and actively eliciting them in the viewer. Past projects have dealt with war, terrorism, surveillance, the military-industrial complex and global warming, often in confrontation and always intended to provoke powerful reactions from the viewer. In The Fourth Bird, Kessler has moved away from these aggressively confrontational works toward more subtle and mournful evocations of ecological fragility.
Utilizing many familiar tropes of the 20th century artist: the assemblage, the found object, the political affect–Kessler has opted for a series of surprisingly intimate and considered constructions. Expanding on his recent explorations in bronze and ceramics, these works conjure post-pastoral landscapes, where beauty and ecological collapse intertwine. Incorporating materials as varied as scavenged metal, glazed clay, and German porcelain figurines, these relics of the future balance elegance and entropy, offering a poignant commentary on reclamation and regeneration.
Mildred’s Lane Inc. Project Space
37B Main Street
Narrowsburg, NY
Open Thursday - Sunday, 12pm - 5pm
#mildredslane
