THIS LA is a gallery we like. We invited them to traverse the nation and a show in our gallery space at Ace Hotel New York, and they took us up on our dare. Enjoy some shots from opening night, and stop by to see the show — it’s up through the end of the month, and all prints are for sale. See more about taking the work home here.
Levi’s and Urban Outfitters present shorts from the Bicycle Film Festival, as curated by festival founder and director, Brendt Barbur, this Sunday at Ace Hotel New York. After being hit by a bus while riding his bike in NYC, Brendt felt compelled to start the festival as a platform to celebrate bicycles through music, art and film. He’ll be at the screening and staying after for a Q&A.
The screening is part of a whole weekend celebrating the saddle and wheel at Ace New York, and a larger cross-country tour with Levi’s beginning at Ace NYC and ending at Ace Portland, including a mobile, pop-up bike shop where you can tune up your bike with the best of them — the shop appears at Ace NYC this weekend on Friday and Sunday.
While you’re here, check out our gallery show with New York-based artist Michael Kim, Bicycles, up today through August 9, presented by Levi’s. For several years, Michael has collected photographs of bicycles from daily newspapers around the world being put to use for work and play by everybody under the sun. The images remind us that bicycles are inextricably part of our daily lives — pulled out of context, they’re highlighted as almost extra appendages in the machinations of our lives, and as a symbol of commonality among all people.
As part of the project, we’re happy to announce that Ace NYC and Ace PDX will be receiving four custom, hand-built bikes by Thomas Callahan of Brooklyn’s Horse Cycles and Jordan Hufnagel of Portland’s Hufnagel Cycles, respectively. These fine steeds are being crafted exclusively for Ace and will be available for guests to use. Stay tuned for more.
All images collected in Michael Kim’s Bicycles exhibition in our gallery.
A nice shot of Chase Jarvis in the Dasein : Invitation to Hang gallery at Ace New York. Be sure to visit his site to submit, or on Twitter with #Dasein. As you know, Mister Reggie Watts dropped in on our Live Music Series on Sunday night and Chase got some riveting footage of him in room 408.
Some images from the Exhibition A MONOCHROME SET show in the gallery space at Ace Hotel New York, up now through April 8. Special for St Paddy’s Day: a signed, limited edition of 10 prints by Leo Fitzpatrick’s “KILL ME I’M IRISH” for $250. Only available through today at the hotel and on Exhibition A.
Other prints in the show are by Terence Koh, Hanna Liden, Nate Lowman, Josephine Meckseper, Olympia Scarry, Peter Sutherland and Olivier Zahm. And go read about Exhibition A if you’re bored at work today — they’re awesome.
Ace Hotel New York is the official hotel partner of Armory Focus: Latin America, taking place Thursday through Sunday at Piers 92 & 94. We’re highlighting the exhibition by showcasing Brazilian Artist Thiago Rocha Pitta in our gallery from today through March 8, curated by Rita Pinto. His watercolor “Project for a pating with storm and urban (triptych),” 2009, is above.
Stop by and check it out, and stay tuned for more in the gallery space later this month.
A hand-selected collection of prints from Aperture Foundation’s reGeneration2 are up in our gallery at Ace Hotel New York (off the lobby, near Opening Ceremony). The reGeneration project supports emerging photographers at the beginning of their careers by including limited edition prints of their early work in a traveling international exhibition, giving collectors a chance to support the artists and own a bit of their earliest work.
The prints — all of which negotiate their (creative and physical) fields stunningly — were selected by The Musée de l’Elysée from the most promising candidates of some 700 entries submitted by 120 of the world’s top photography schools. The result is an inspiring and dynamic collection that includes documentary and fictive, film and digital mediums, and spontaneous and highly conceptual work work. Come have a look (and buy some art) — the installation is up through February 17.
Photos in order by C.R. Grana, Jacinthe Lessard, Margo Ovcharenko, Kristoffer Axen, Regine Petersen, Sophie Lvoff and Tereza Vlckova.
