Ahmed Alsoudani in Artnet

Advance write up on show opening tonight by Charlie Finch:

What kind of art would you make if you were always on the run? If you lived in fear of arrest and were always moving across borders from one strange place to another? And how would your art practice change if you suddenly landed in the lap of luxury?

These questions arise from the life and work of Iraqi artist Ahmed Alsoudani, a man who defaced a poster of Saddam Hussein on a whim when he was a teenager and now, at 33, finds himself opening a solo show of new paintings at Chelsea's Goff + Rosenthal Gallery this weekend. After the minute Ahmed defaced Saddam, he was a marked man, who fled to Syria, living four dicey years there as a kind of non-person.

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Ahmed Alsoudani Opening at G+R

Pietsch Week

live Twitter feed from last night's event
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PIETSCH WEEK at G+R

Facebook event page

Update on Jeremy Earhart

Goff + Rosenthal artist Jeremy Earhart will be helping out friends FreeTime, the Brooklyn-based band, prepare for their upcoming show at MonkeyTown in Williamsburg. The show promises to be a great event; the band played at Goff + Rosenthal for the closing event of Jeremy's show The Thin Ice of Modern Life in February. For more info on the event, here's the page on MonkeyTown's site: FreeTime at MonkeyTown -- Saturday 4/18/09 @ 10:30 pm.

Scott Hunt in NY Arts Magazine

Scott Hunt discusses how he uses found photography as a part of his creative process in the current Spring 2009 issue of NY Arts Magazine. The full article is on the magazine's website: DRAWING, Lost and Found: Scott Hunt.

Seattle Times reviews Titus Kaphar's show at SAM

Photo Credit: Jim Bates, The Seattle Times
Article by Jerry Lange, Seattle Times Staff Columnist

PAINTER CHALLENGES HISTORY WITH SEATTLE ART MUSEUM EXHIBIT
Titus Kaphar gives history a chance to live in the present.

Titus Kaphar gives history a chance to live in the present.

He's a young painter who had turned his passion for history into a body of work that asks contemporary questions of historically significant paintings, mostly from the 18th and 19th centuries.

The question he asked George Washington drew me to a showing of Kaphar's work, which opened at the Seattle Art Museum Friday and runs through Sept. 6.

Kaspar copied part of that famous painting of George Washington crossing the Delaware, just showing Washington and two dark hands on an oar. He made it big, then he cut Washington out and turned him upside down, making the painting look like a giant playing card.

Washington gambled with the lives of an entire people by not trying to end slavery.

He called the painting "George, George, George." Kaphar told me it's meant to be said in exasperation. He knows the complex situation Washington faced and the turmoil that shows up in Washington's diaries, but still.

Kaspar said Washington's writings show he "clearly understood that this is a sin, that it is unjust, that it is evil," but he did nothing about it.

Those two black hands on the oars start to look like fists.

For the full article, please visit the website of the Seattle Times.

Ahmed Alsoudani in DER SPIEGEL and Titus Kaphar at SAM

Ahmed Alsoudani is the subject of a recent article in the German publication DER SPIEGEL entitled "Star of the Hour." To read the full article in German or the translated version in English, please navigate to the press section of Ahmed's artist page on the G+R website: http://www.goffandrosenthal.com/alsoudani_press/

Additionally, congratulations to Titus Kaphar for opening his solo show at the Seattle Art Museum today. The exhibit kicked off last evening with an opening reception. For more info on his show and to watch a video of the artist speaking about his work, please view the website of the Seattle Art Museum: http://www.seattleartmuseum.org/exhibit/exhibitDetail.asp?eventID=15647