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| about us | |
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| MISSION STATEMENT |
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GAS was established in 2003 as a venue for the pursuit of cultural practices which fosters ideas and collaborations in multi-disciplinary contemporary art with a focus on the intersection between music, politics, pop and international cultures.
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| AIMS & OBJECTIVES |
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To extend the range of art experience. To encourage emerging artists to exhibit innovative work in a professional environment. To develop a gallery program which includes a wide range of disciplines and to facilitate and support varied curatorship, exhibition, and contemporary critique. To assist in catalogue essays and publication, promotional material and exhibition concepts. To promote artists and their practices. To foster an awareness within both the local downtown manhattan community and a wider international community of the cultural pursuits being explored at GAS. To raise the professional profile of the curators, writers, exhibitors and designers through exposure and sale of their work.
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| STAFF |
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LEA REKOW |
As founding director of GAS, Lea is active in all aspects of curating, publishing and programming. She works exhaustively in film, video and interactive multimedia, and for the last decade has lived and traveled extensively in over 50 developing countries, shooting film and still photography. From this material she has produced a number of ethnographic projects which have been shown internationally. Lea was previously director of Harmonic Ranch, a new media studio in TriBeCa, and director of media programs at the Center for Peace and Human Security. She has taught as a professor of video at Pratt Institute in Manhattan, performed with Emergency Broadcast Network, and was a producer of new media for Simon and Schuster Interactive. Lea holds a Masters degree in film and digital media.
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| DYLAN J. GAUTHIER Associate Director |
Dylan Gauthier is Associate Director of GAS. His responsibilities include: organizing and managing the gallery's exhibitions - coordinating special events, liaising with artists, arts institutions and members of the press - overseeing publications and recordings, managing gallery operations and maintaining the physical and virtual gallery presence. In addition, he coordinates the GAS internship program. Dylan studied Art History and Film at the Sorbonne in Paris and the University d'Aix-Marseille III, and graduated from the California State University with a B.A. in French Literature and Linguistics. He works independently as an artist and performer, and collaboratively with several NYC-based arts-activist collectives. |
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| ALICE ARNOLD Research Associate/ Design Consultant |
Alice Arnold is Research Associate and Design Consultant for GAS. Alice Arnold is a photographer whose images are regularly published in books, magazines and in cd packaging. In addition to working on commercial assignments, she is also actively photographing her own projects. Her photographic projects examine city life and explore urban cultural forms and experiences. This work has been exhibited in numerous group shows, has been published in books and magazines, and has been profiled in several articles. In 2002 she was awarded a NYFA Fellowship in Photography and currently she is pursuing an MFA degree in the Integrated Media Arts program at Hunter College.
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BRIAN DEVINE
| Gigantic ArtSpace was located at 59 Franklin St, New York, NY 10013 from December 2003 through March 2007. Gigantic NYC's other subsidiary companies included Giganitic Recording Company and Gigantic Pictures.Ê Prior to funding Gigantic NYC, Brian Devine worked for Stanley M. Brooks, a producer of movies and television. He then partnered with writer-director Steven Lisberger (Tron). Lisberger and Devine developed projects for Warner Brothers, Sony/Columbia, Francis Coppola and Kushner-Locke. Additionally, Mr. Devine is an accomplished singer-songwriter having recorded two albums with his band Spanish Speaking Psychics. | ||
