Press Clippings

1. ArtSlant Los Angeles, "Exhibition Detail", September 18, 2009, event listing for opening of SUPERFRONT LA with Perry Hall: Painting,
Time, and Material Intelligence, http://www.artslant.com/la/events/show/65099-painting-time-and-material-intelligence.

2. Architectural Record, "New Brooklyn Gallery Catalyzes Avant-Garde Architecture", profile of V. Mitch McEwen and SUPERFRONT on
architectural magazine, August 26, 2009, http://archrecord.construction.com/news/daily/archives/090826brooklyn.asp.

3. Examiner, "Design Loves Art at the Pacific Design Center", August 21, 2009, mention of SUPERFRONT as part of reprogramming of
Pacific Design Center after the recession, http://www.examiner.com/x-21201-LA-Contemporary-Art-
Examiner~y2009m8d21-Design-Loves-Art-at-the-Pacific-Design-Center.

4. Cohen Design Centers, "Fine Art & Architecture Programs: Summer-Fall 2009", Summer 2009, Programming bulletin for Cohen Design
Centers mentioning SUPERFRONT LA at Pacific Design Center.

5. Cohen Design Centers, "Archeography: Architecture Does Dance",Summer 2009, Programming bulletin for Cohen Design Centers about a
talk at Decoration & Design Building by Ms. McEwen.

6. Nostrand Park: Crown heights' Virtual Town Square, "The Other Line Opens at SUPERFRONT",July 10, 2009, event announcement on
community blog site, http://www.nostrandpark.com/home/2009/7/10/the-other-line-opens-at-superfront.html.

7. The Movement Research Spring Festival 2009: ROLL CALL, "Archeography IV: Biba Bell and Live Architecture Network",April 30, 2009,
announcement on website mentioning event at SUPERFRONT, http://movementresearch.org/rollcall/?p=1279.

8. NY Arts Magazine, "Short and Sweet", mention of SUPERFRONT as venue for work exhibition and discussion, July-August 2008,
http://www.nyartsmagazine.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=274341&Itemid=752.

9. DIVA Magazine, "Starchitect", September 2007, profile of V. Mitch McEwen and SUPERFRONT in Lesbian lifestyle magazine.

10. VelvetPark Magazine, "Curator's Corner: Mitch McEwen", Winter 2007, profile of V. Mitch McEwen.

11. New York Times, "Dept of Inspiration: Writers at Work",May 23, 2005, article on making spaces for writers including design by V. Mitch
McEwen.

Fliers and Exhibition Announcements

12. SUPERFRONT, "Perry Hall: Painting, Time, and Material intelligence", August 2009, trifold for SUPERFRONT LA show.

13. SUPERFRONT, "The Other Line", June 2009, flier for SUPERFRONT event

14. SUPERFRONT, "Recession Fair at SUPERFRONT", June 11, 2009, announcement on SUPERFRONT website

15. SUPERFRONT, "Cash + Carry Design Expo 2008",December 28, 2008, event announcement on SUPERFRONT website,
http://newyork.superfront.org/2008/12/cash-carry-design-expo-2008/.

16. SUPERFRONT, "Drawing Atmosphere", event announcement on SUPERFRONT website, December 28, 2008,
http://newyork.superfront.org/2008/12/drawing-atmosphere/.

17. SUPERFRONT, "Now You See It | Now You Dont", December 28, 2008, event announcement on SUPERFRONT website,
http://newyork.superfront.org/2008/12/nowyouseeit/.

18. SUPERFRONT, "Something About Rooms and Walls", December 28,2008, event announcement on SUPERFRONT website,
http://newyork.superfront.org/2008/12/something-about-rooms-and-walls/.

Publications
19.Amazon & Lulu, "The Archeography Project Series", SUPERFRONT Publication, http://www.amazon.com/ARCHEOGRAPHY-PROJECT-
SUPERFRONT/dp/B002AD2MGA/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1253599964&sr=8-2.

20. Amazon & Lulu, "Something About Rooms and Walls", SUPERFRONT Publication, http://www.amazon.com/Something-about-Rooms-
Walls-SUPERFRONT/dp/B002ACZN4E/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1253600017&sr=8-1.

RESUME
V.Mitch McEwen
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Painting, Time and Material
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SUPERFRONT LA
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West Hollywood, CA 90069

September 18th - December 18th

Perry Hall
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September 24th 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM

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SUPERFRONT LA, a new offshoot of the Brooklyn-based experimental architecture gallery, is proud to present the work of
experimental artist PERRY HALL.

Perry Hall, a multi-disciplinary artist experimenting with analog materials to produce groundbreaking results, shows work made
of paint and sound. The project is exhibited as both physical paintings and filmic works that Hall refers to as “sound drawings”.
Hall’s work has been shown in exhibitions at the Williams College Museum of Art, The Smithsonian's Cooper Hewitt (National
Design Museum) in New York, and internationally.

Re-envisioning paint as a material that holds the capacity to self-organize, Hall has developed a set of techniques where paint
is pressurized, vibrated with sound, or chemically enhanced in order to improvise with the inherent material intelligence of
paint, itself. Questioning the traditional pictorial authority as painter, Hall's process presents paint as a body of emergent,
unexpected forms that change over time. The results take the form of physical paintings and digital films, which are striking and
confounding in their rich complexity.

Rivaling the digital experimentation of hyper-formalist contemporary architecture, his work has found resonance with architects

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internationally, with Hall lecturing both at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture Planning & Preservation
(GSAPP) and the Southern California Institute of Architecture (Sci-Arc) where he has taught young architects the concepts
behind his unique approach.

The exhibit will be paired with a panel featuring architecture and media theorists from the Los Angeles area on October 29th.
Please reference losangeles.superfront.org for further information.

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New Brooklyn Gallery Catalyzes Avant-Garde

Architecture | News | Architectural Record
August 26, 2009

By Sebastian Howard

Correction appended August 27, 2009

V. Mitch McEwen earned an M. Arch from Columbia’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and
Preservation in 2006, and scored a job at the Manhattan office of Bernard Tschumi Architects. As an
architectural planner for the firm, she has worked on master plans in Singapore and Abu Dhabi, as well as a
museum in Maryland. Her day job keeps her plenty busy. But several years ago, the 31-year old started
conjuring up visions of her own project: a “laboratory to experiment” with the intersection of architecture
and other art forms.

So in the spring of 2007, she rented a 950-square-foot storefront in Brooklyn’s Bed-Stuy neighborhood—a
location chosen for its dear place in McEwen’s heart (“I love Brooklyn,” she professes), and for its
relatively affordable $1,700-per-month rent, which was reduced to $1,400 after McEwen and an intern
renovated the space. After months of work, the shell was transformed into the SUPERFRONT gallery. It
opened in January 2008 and has continued to gain traction—and grow. A second gallery, SUPERFRONT
LA, will open on September 18 in West Hollywood.

Photo © Jesse Anders (above);courtesy SUPERFRONT (top).

In May, the Brooklyn gallery presented an installation executed in conjunction with the contemporary dance
group, Movement Research, where dancers interacted with temporary, architectonic forms designed by Live
Architecture Network and curated by McEwen.
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creative mediums. She’s observed that lately—and increasingly—visual “artists have become obsessed with
program and space. It seemed like a weird reversal, and I wanted to play with that.” A recent show in the
Whitney’s satellite gallery, the Park Avenue Armory, confirms her analysis—a massive biomorphic
installation by Ernesto Neto bridged the gap between architecture and art, and received rave reviews.

In planning SUPERFRONT’s programming, McEwen aims for the unorthodox. In May, for instance, the
Brooklyn gallery presented an installation executed in conjunction with the contemporary dance group,
Movement Research, where dancers interacted with temporary, architectonic forms designed by Live
Architecture Network and curated by McEwen. Other events have included a June 11 presentation by local
high school students working in collaboration with Brooklyn’s storied Weeksville Heritage Center, and the
inauguration of SUPERFRONT’s first artist-in-residence, Sienna Shields, who is living and working in the
space from July 15 through September 12. Another exhibition, by French Architecture duo PLANDA, was
canceled due to problems with the neighbors who were wary about the proposed backyard installation.

SUPERFRONT is nothing if not lean. There are no paid staff members. Exhibitions are constructed largely
from donated materials, and a barbecue was held on Memorial Day to raise funds. McEwen is currently
applying for her “first big grant” of around $6,000 from the arts advocacy organization The Cowles
Charitable Trust; the money would cover two-thirds of the cost of a six-month architect-in-residence
program and three exhibitions produced in correlation with it.

While McEwen has no plans to leave her current job at Bernard Tschumi Architects, she hopes that
SUPERFRONT will eventually become big enough to merit a permanent curator. But, she adds, “that full-
time position wouldn’t be for me. I like to build things.”

Correction: V. Mitch McEwen earned an M.Arch from GSAPP, not a B.Arch as was originally stated. She
did not promptly get a job at Bernard Tschumi Architects after graduation; rather, she first worked at the
Department of City Planning in Queens. The gallery opened in January 2008, not the summer of 2008.

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This past Spring, the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood began accumulating far too many darkened storefront
spaces within its big blue building, thanks to the crash of the real estate market. The center – just two years ago a
buzzing behemoth where the world’s most heralded design retailers sat at the crux of the modern home furnishings
boom – had to rethink its place in the design community.

Thankfully, creative thinking prevailed amidst the long hot summer of the great recession at the Pacific Design Center
with the creation of the Design Loves Art project – an invitation for locally and nationally known galleries to use un-
leased spaces in the center to expand their art markets, remixing areas within the complex and spotlight young artists in
order to attract a new demographic of art and design lovers into the building. Playing off the presence of the Museum
of Contemporary Art’s branch gallery at the complex – which has featured emerging artists, designers and architects
there since 2001 – organizers and management at the PDC realized they could capitalize on the community already
there and continue to grow by embracing contemporary work too.

Carl Berg Projects, Kopeikin Gallery, Brooklyn N.Y.’s SUPERFRONT, Diana Thater Projects among others are
already setting up satellite branches inside the center and most will be open by September 24th – the Design Center’s
opening bash to celebrate its new, more arty (and edgy) temporary tenants. More opening receptions each month will
follow (on last Thursdays), including installations, artist talks sponsored by Art Catalogues, multimedia events,
screenings, and music.
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The Other Line Opens at SUPERFRONT

Friday, July 10, 2009 at 8:26AM
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Gallery

Continuing on in their efforts to showcase the dialectical relationship between design and art
SUPERFRONT gallery opens a new exhibit this saturday by Sienna Shields Horton. This
latest iteration of Shield Horton's, The Other Line, is a timely meditation on transportation and
streetscapes, two concepts at the forefront of many debates taking place in public policy circles
around New York. Opening a few short weeks after the MTA's recent fare hikes, Shields
Horton's work provides a unique opportunity to step back from some of the tedious aspects of
our city's transportation malaise in order to reconsider what precisely does it mean to toe or ride
the line in 21st Century New York? And most importantly if your line ain't enough, do you
have an other?

This second question is particularly relevant because The Other Line arrives only weeks after
the much celebrated arrival of the Highline. Manhattan's latest gem is a model design
alternative for unused rail space-and a stark contrast from the plight that has befallen Atlantic
Avenue's rail yards. While city residents gush over the wonder of the Highline, Atlantic's rail
yards remain a contested space in what has now become a long running battle between the city,
developers and area residents. While the highline reveals the magesty that is possible when
these constituents are in concert, Atlantic's rail yards-the other line-represents the torment that
conflicting fractions are engender.

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During her 6 month residency at SUPERFRONT, SHIELDS HORTON - a

painter, multi-media artist and performance artist from Alaska - has
produced as series of photo collages that study and re-figure the
streetscape of Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, while also exploring work with furniture
and preparing for a land-based installation in Alaska.

In particular, Shields Horton has focused her process upon the railroad
viaduct that defines the industrial character of Atlantic Avenue, the broad
street that forms the border between Bed-Stuy and Crown Heights.
Studying this transportation infrastructure through her concerns for color
and collage, Shields Horton produces a reimagining of the streetscape. The
work provokes a reconsideration of architectural image-making, whether
in its striking contrast to conventional architectural photography or its
accidental relationship to collage as a design strategy.

SIENNA SHIELDS HORTON’s work will be on view at SUPERFRONT from

July 11 - September 12.

This exhibit is enabled partly by a generous donation from Nili

Gilbert.

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Mitch McEwen, Director of SUPERFRONT
Perry Hall: Painting, Time, and
Material Intelligence
Perry Hall: Painting, Time, and Material Intelligence pres-
ents the work of artist Perry Hall as an ongoing interdisciplin-
ary - perhaps, even, antidisciplinary - project. The exhibit col-
lects paintings and digital films produced from paint in order
to expose the artist’s exploratory process. Hall handles paint
like an alchemist, exploiting potentials of its liquidity, surface
tension, color and luminosity. Ironically, it is his fluency with
this process of material exploitation, the sophistication of his
material experiments, that has made his work relevant to a
generation of hyper-digital architects.
Educated at Berklee College of Music and the University
of California at Santa Cruz, Hall is both a visual artist and a
musician. Hall’s first experiments in films of live paint began
after his work in Hollywood for special effects in film (“What
Dreams May Come,” starring actor Robin Williams). From this
experience, Hall created his first Livepaintings. A selection
of this series is projected in this exhibit. Recorded in real
time and edited without digital manipulation, this series of
time-based paintings captures what the artist calls ‘the self-
organizing nature of paint.’
It is tempting to read Hall’s work as a cross-breeding of
multiple disciplines and multiple media. However, the com-
plexity in the work is not derived from cross-referencing fields
of practice. There is no ‘mash up’ here. Rather, Hall’s work is
rigorously agnostic with respect to discipline. It is all about
the paint. Paint dried on a panel, paint moving in response to
sound, paint mixing with other chemicals, paint bubbling up
in an experiment on photo-paper. Paint becomes not a me-
dium to depict something - a figure, a field of color, or even
a concept - but rather a medium deployed to investigate its
own behaviors. In the artist’s oeuvre, paint is both the labora-
tory and the experiment.
No wonder, then, that the most ardent practitioners of
21st century digital architecture have collaborated with Hall
in academia, exhibition, and design. Whether in appropriat-
ing animation software or adopting the tactics of software
programming for building design, architects at the forefront
of digital experimentation have explored the digital as mate-
rial. Until the advent of digital fabrication, this exploration
demanded that the subject of the investigation - digital pro-
cesses - also performed as the medium of presentation. Like
Hall, designers at the van-garde of this moment have worked
with digital matter as simultaneously system and subject.
The artist has taught architecture students in workshop
format at the Southern California Institute for Architecture
(SCI-Arc) and lectured at other architecture programs, includ-
ing the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture Planning
and Preservation (GSAPP). His collaborative work with archi-
tecture collective SERVO has been exhibited at the Cooper
Hewitt Design Museum.
The work included in this exhibit spans physical paintings
and filmic works that Hall has produced over the past 6 years.
The Decalcomania series of acrylic on board explores a range
of movements recorded in thick paint. Despite emerging in
the 18th century as a term for the ‘mania’ around the trend of
ceramic pattern transfer, the term and practice of Decalcoma-
nia was brought into the realm of conceptual art in the first
half of the 20th century. The surrealist artist Oscar Domín-
guez referred to his work as “decalcomania with no precon-
ceived object” - a material transfer with no prior form.
Hall’s series of Decalcomania takes this game of the decal
one step further, where the decal emerges as the material ef-
fects of the act of making the decal. This produces a decal of
force itself - of the gesture of twisting or pulling - and a decal
of the properties of paint - its stickiness and luminosity, color
and consistency.
Shown here:
Material Study, 2006
Paint and ferro fluid filmed live in High Definition Video
Aproximately 10:00
 Perry Hall:
Painting, Time, and
The groups of digital film pieces - Livepaintings and Material Intelligence
Sound Drawings - continue this concern for discerning the
properties of paint through movement. In the artist’s experi-
ments, certain behaviors of paint are prioritized and exam-
ined at close range. Liquidity and movement produce a kind 18 September - 18 December 2009
of special effects of surface tension. The high definition ren-
ders excessive details of surface effects, such that the digital Opening Reception:
camera acts as both microscope and aesthetic strategy. Thursday, September 24, 2009 5PM - 8PM

The apex of the exhibit is the digital film piece entitled

Material Study. Created as a teaching tool for a 2006 work-
shop with architecture students at SCI-Arc, this work casually
stages revelatory moments of the artist’s methods and
subjectivity. In the reflection of dark undulating surfaces and
bubbles, the viewer catches glimpses of the artist’s studio
space. Magnified and distorted, appearing at the center of
the frame and abruptly disappearing from view, the reflection
of the artist’s studio is revealed in the paint, itself. An image
of the artist appears - alone, looking into his camera, framed
by thedistorted backdrop of an indoor space with high SUPERFRONT LA
ceilings and generous windows. With this piece, the spell of Pacific Design Cente
perfection is broken. Here, the beautiful phenomenological 8687 Melrose Avenue # 208
study of paint bleeds into a more humanized possibility of West Hollywood, CA 90069
masterpiece-making.

If it is an epistemological position that affiliates the artist

with a certain generation of architect, then this exhibit might
offer a moment for reflection on the state of architecture, as
well. After at least a decade of studies in the powerful design
possibilities offered by the computer, architects find our-
selves in a moment of crisis. This may be true whether one
practices as an architect of buildings or of cities, of financial
systems, communities, or simply one’s own home. Perhaps,
we might find in Hall’s work a reflection of our own seduc-
tively beautiful and obsessive experiments, and the aperture
of self-awareness that emerges in moments of failure.

SUPERFRONT
promoting contemporary architecture
for an interdisciplinary world
SUPERFRONT gallery
is proud to present
THE OTHER LINE
a show of the
Artist-in-Residence
Sienna SHIELDS HORTON

SIENNA SHIELDS HORTON’s work will be on view at

SUPERFRONT from July 11 - September 12.
This exhibit is enabled partly by a generous donation from Nili Gilbert.

SUPERFRONT is located on 1432 Atlantic Avenue in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn.

Gallery hours: Sat & Sun 1-6 PM and by appointment.
Subway: A train to Nostrand Avenue. Walk 2 avenue blocks east to Brooklyn Avenue and
2 short blocks south to Atlantic Avenue.
For more information: info@superfront.org
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Expo 2008
SUPERFRONT PRESENTS CASH + CARRY DESIGN EXPO 2008
CLOTHING by BYHANDNYC
SKATE DECKS by TRICKY INK
HOUSEWARES by PROXY
JEWELRY by KIUNE
When: February 23, 2008
3pm to 8pm DESIGN EXPO SALE
8pm to midnight AFTER-PARTY
Where: SuperFront 1432 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn
Who: Half a dozen designers, skate decks to clothing to jewelry plus housewares
SUPERFRONT » Blog Archive » DRAWING
ATMOSPHERE
SUPERFRONT PRESENTS DRAWING ATMOSPHERE
VISITING CURATOR TOMASHI JACKSON, SELECTION OF ARCHITECTURE STUDENT DRAWINGS FROM
COOOPER UNION (TAUGHT BY PROFESSOR EMERITA SUE FERGUSON GUSSOW)
1 MARCH - 2 MARCH, 2008

SUPERFRONT presents DRAWING ATMOSPHERE, curated by regular SUPERFRONT bartender (and Cooper
Union student), Tomashi Jackson. This show brings together some of the student work in Advanced Drawing at
Cooper’s architecture school. Opening Saturday March 1st 7-9pm with after party 9-midnight. Panel with Professor
Emerita Sue Ferguson Gussow Sunday March 2nd afternoon.
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You Don’t
SUPERFRONT PRESENTS… NOW YOU SEE IT | NOW YOU DON’T
VISITING CURATOR ETO ORO (ES ORO), OGECHI CHIEKE, GRISHNA COLEMAN, JUNG EUN KIM,
HARRY SANCHEZ
3 MAY - 4 MAY, 2008
SUPERFRONT, a storefront architecture gallery and project space, presents NOW YOU SEE IT | NOW YOU
DON’T, a one-weekend exhibit curated with visiting curator Eto Oro of es oro polymedia project space in Jersey City,
in conjunction with CityTech’s conference on Race and New Media. This exhibit consists entirely of projected works
and tangentially implies that digital media may constitute a material architecture of social identity (however fleeting).

Opening 5/3 with reception 7pm -9:30 (Following CityTech Conference 5/3 9am - 6pm)
Sunday 5/4 from 1pm - 6pm.
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Rooms and Walls

SUPERFRONT PRESENTS
SOMETHING ABOUT ROOMS AND WALLS (click for catalogue)
ANTHONY GROSS, FARRAH KARAPETIAN, ARIANE LOURIE, MITCH MCEWEN, PROXY, COKE
URBANO
7 MARCH - 25 APRIL, 2008

SUPERFRONT, a storefront architecture gallery and project space, presents SOMETHING ABOUT ROOMS AND
WALLS, an exhibition of recent work in various media by Anthony Gross (London), Farrah Karapetian (LA), Ariane
Lourie (New York), Mitch McEwen (SuperFront), Coke Urbano (Madrid), Proxy (New York). This group show of
built prototypes, works on paper, and architectural media is on view from March 7 through April 25 at Superfront in
Brooklyn, NY.

Can walls think? Are rooms obsolete? What can architecture and art teach each other about rooms and walls?

The subject of rooms and walls serves here to stake out a territory without disciplinary boundaries. In architecture, as
the formalism of the past 15 years has concerned itself primarily with topology and continuous space, rooms and walls
have become almost passé. Yet, in art’s return to installation and object-oriented work, we see the physical space of
the gallery revisited as a contemporary concern.

As contemporary currents in art revisit built architecture as a concern, echoing the 1960s and 1970s, young architects
look to theoretical unbuilt architecture of the same time period. These tensions - between built and unbuilt, material
and theoretical, art and architecture - underpin the works presented here. Proxy’s wall protoype, digitally generated
from New York City 311 complaint data, points to the capacity of building material to store and communicate
information. Farrah Karapetian’s photogram installation investigates a similar notion of storage and transfer with
entirely analog tactics.

Anthony Gross, an architect by training, founded the temporarycontemporary art space in London. This is his first
show in New York. Ariane Lourie teaches at Yale School of Architecture and is working on several publications with
Eisenman Architects. Mitch McEwen, curator of the group show, teaches Visual Studies at Columbia’s Graduate
School of Architecture, Preservation and Planning and practices urban design. Coke Urbano, an artist trained as an
interior designer and member of the Collectivo Casablanca in Madrid, converts the walls here into a child-like game of
interactivity.

Whether a game that becomes a wall or a computer script that becomes a tool of fabrication, these works develop
conceptual play that encounters and reconfigures the materials of building. Opens evening March 7, 2008 6pm - 8pm.
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