GRITTY, PRETTY, READY, STEADY

PURE LUCK
Contemporary Art
2 Great Jones Street
NY, NY 10009
For Immediate Release June 2010

GRITTY, PRETTY, READY, STEADY

An Exhibition of Installation, Drawing and Photography

by Beau Rhee

July 3 - 14, 2010

Tuesday - Saturday 11-6pm

Sunday and Monday by appointment

PURE LUCK
Contemporary Art
2 Great Jones Street
NY, NY 10009

As the Art season winds down with the Summer, PURE LUCK brings a motto to carry with you during your travels. GRITTY, PRETTY, READY, STEADY is a collection of recent works by Beau Rhee. This special exhibition will be on view for a short period of time at PURE LUCK in our new location at 2 Great Jones Street.

Ms. Rhee’s motto consistently runs through her artworks. Her performance pieces are powerfully beautiful, art historically informed and technically equipped masterpieces. Her concept of the New Baroque, which is a development of the idea of “the fold” (Deleuze), purity and the infinite/excess, runs mysteriously through her most recent performance works. Ms. Rhee conveys gestures through repetition and accumulation, thus creating a static art object that modulates through time.
 
While ideas of rhythm, beauty and mystery hide in gritty textures on paper and behind curtains, there runs a deeper meaning to all this. Cultural staticity has amassed into a charge, building and building. Eventually the charge archs or pops and releases all of its potential energy.  Beau Rhee’s works are just that. A positive charge that eliminates the excess and fires your neurons into a new mindset.

BEAU RHEE
The artist believes that true beauty has the power for criticality and to stimulate transformation. This is achieved in part through the emotional state pure beauty evokes when experienced. A theatrical inspiration injection into the stream of consciousness, this piece is certainly in part a reaction to the perceived catastrophes of our society. Feeding the machine with more of the same is no longer acceptable.

Beau Rhee lives and works in New York City. Drawing from her passion for performance, dance and visual art she creates a unique oeuvre that explores human movement, gesture, the intangible and the surreal. She received her B.A. Dance & B.A. Art History from Columbia University (cum laude). In 2008 she had the honor of training with the Bill T Jones Dance Company by invitation.

Her previous formal training includes: New York City Ballet, Boston Ballet, and A-Soon Dance Company in Seoul Korea. She has shown artwork and performed at The New Museum, X-Initiative, Exit Art, P.S.1/MoMA. Most recently Beau had been interviewed by Art International Radio (AIR), a new internet radio station & cultural archive directed by the founder of P.S.1. There she has been invited to rehearse and create new works.

GRITTY, PRETTY, READY, STEADY

PURE LUCK
Contemporary Art
2 Great Jones Street
NY, NY 10009
For Immediate Release June 2010

GRITTY, PRETTY, READY, STEADY

An Exhibition of Installation, Drawing and Photography

by Beau Rhee

July 3 - 14, 2010

Tuesday - Saturday 11-6pm

Sunday and Monday by appointment

PURE LUCK
Contemporary Art
2 Great Jones Street
NY, NY 10009

As the Art season winds down with the Summer, PURE LUCK brings a motto to carry with you during your travels. GRITTY, PRETTY, READY, STEADY is a collection of recent works by Beau Rhee. This special exhibition will be on view for a short period of time at PURE LUCK in our new location at 2 Great Jones Street.

Ms. Rhee’s motto consistently runs through her artworks. Her performance pieces are powerfully beautiful, art historically informed and technically equipped masterpieces. Her concept of the New Baroque, which is a development of the idea of “the fold” (Deleuze), purity and the infinite/excess, runs mysteriously through her most recent performance works. Ms. Rhee conveys gestures through repetition and accumulation, thus creating a static art object that modulates through time.
 
While ideas of rhythm, beauty and mystery hide in gritty textures on paper and behind curtains, there runs a deeper meaning to all this. Cultural staticity has amassed into a charge, building and building. Eventually the charge archs or pops and releases all of its potential energy.  Beau Rhee’s works are just that. A positive charge that eliminates the excess and fires your neurons into a new mindset.

BEAU RHEE
The artist believes that true beauty has the power for criticality and to stimulate transformation. This is achieved in part through the emotional state pure beauty evokes when experienced. A theatrical inspiration injection into the stream of consciousness, this piece is certainly in part a reaction to the perceived catastrophes of our society. Feeding the machine with more of the same is no longer acceptable.

Beau Rhee lives and works in New York City. Drawing from her passion for performance, dance and visual art she creates a unique oeuvre that explores human movement, gesture, the intangible and the surreal. She received her B.A. Dance & B.A. Art History from Columbia University (cum laude). In 2008 she had the honor of training with the Bill T Jones Dance Company by invitation.

Her previous formal training includes: New York City Ballet, Boston Ballet, and A-Soon Dance Company in Seoul Korea. She has shown artwork and performed at The New Museum, X-Initiative, Exit Art, P.S.1/MoMA. Most recently Beau had been interviewed by Art International Radio (AIR), a new internet radio station & cultural archive directed by the founder of P.S.1. There she has been invited to rehearse and create new works.

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About:

PURE LUCK is modeled after the House of Medici which began it’s artistic patronage under Cosimo de’ Medici in the late 14th century Italy. The dynasty continued for 3 centuries as one of the most prosperous and most respected institutions in Europe. PURE LUCK holds the same philanthropic policy as the House of Medici and advocates artistic expression as a means of innovation, unity and community. Moreover, as a means of creating historical value, while advancing society. PURE LUCK’s support is broad and covers an array of disciplines from traditional artistic mediums and culinary ideas, alternative energy sciences, to Earth cohesion systems and the hybridization that is art, architecture, technology and design today.

PURE LUCK’s inspiration began as a nickname for a woman who is overflowing with the joy of life, love and learning. Attracting countless admirers and acts of generosity this woman was a classicist and trained in the classical Arts. She is the embodiment of ‘pure luck’ and sits atop our crest.

Projects will vary greatly from traditional to non-traditional applications in food, architecture, design and technology. We aim to curate visionaries and tomorrows leaders today. We distribute PURE LUCK in the form of pointed, positive, substantial projects that pay inspiration, innovation and prosperity forward for future generations.

Our mission is to fund projects with exceptional historical value on scale and in formats that are bold and outstandingly conceptualized. These large, pointed projects will combine architecture, green technology and city planning elements tied into a conceptual package that are nascent homes, energy and food systems, buildings, cities, suburban developments and entirely new organic communities.

Our members take part in a cause that aims at a better quality of life for everyone. PURE LUCK curates innovation through creative application at a societal level.