Richard Kroehling, May/June Exhibition 2024
The May/June Exhibition is a solo multimedia presentation featuring the work of Richard Kroehling.
The May/June 2024 Exhibition is a solo, multimedia presentation featuring the work of Richard Kroehling, a internationally established filmmaker, visual artist and poet. His films and video art installations have been exhibited at film festivals, television networks and art museums around the world including MOMA, WAAM, WAH, Brooklyn Museum, Art Basel Miami, the Jewish Museum in NYC, and the Lars Von Trier’s Gesamt project at the Kunsthalle in Gotenborg. Read more below
Opening party for his exhibition is on Saturday, May 11, 5-7 PM, The installation runs form Saturday, May11 to Saturday. June 29. Gallery hours are Saturday and Sunday 1-6 PM.
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About the Richard Kroehling’s Work
I am interested in transcending existing forms across artistic disciplines -- film, media art, sound design, poetry, and painting.
We live in a world inundated by an imagery riot. We are left with spectacles like Super Bowl Sunday, staggering millions of “selfies”, surveillance videos, 20-second self-promotion I phone clips, AI created imagery, streaming mass murder shooting and sweet cat moments. The image tsunami is crashing over us with a new reality all its own. We have made this feverish image-world and now it is re-making us in ways that are not yet clear.
I sometimes utilize appropriated imagery from advertising, historical archival, or naive You Tube videos (the powerful depersonalized “trash” imagery of the world) playing with the fetishism of image quality and contrasting it with sophisticated visual work, cinematography, ambitious sound design, calling into question notions of authorship and technical mastery. I am interested in the power of language and image joined together in an expansive way. In the larger pieces I want to create all-encompassing work of the provocateur, making spectacles out of modest means. Science has shown us that the observer and the subject are tied together in a fundamental way. The artist who describes is part of the description. I want to make this clear in the work, allowing the hand of authorship to not hide behind a wall of empty style.
The show will include video art, a projection installation, video art, photography and a collection of paintings
—Richard Kroehling
About Richard Kroehling
Richard Kroehling is a multifaceted artist, filmmaker and writer interested in transcending existing forms across artistic disciplines. His films and video art installations have been exhibited at film festivals, television networks and art museums around the world including MOMA, WAAM, WAH, Brooklyn Museum, Art Basel Miami, the Jewish Museum in NYC, and the Lars Von Trier’s Gesamt project at the Kunsthalle in Gotenborg. Of “Einstein” starring William Hurt the LA Times wrote, "the most astonishing, poetic compression of grand ideas ever achieved on film.” His controversial “Confessions” was called “repugnant” by the New York Times and “visionary” by an Italian critic and installed at the Palazzo della Triennale in Milan. Kroehling’s film, “World Without End’ a narrative hybrid straddling nonfiction and fiction was commissioned by England's Film4, one critic called it, “a movie making wild style that delivers you into a scorching world". Richard’s latest film, a marriage of cinema and poetry, “After – Bringing The Dead Back To Life”, features poets Yehuda Amichai, Edward Hirsch, Cornelius Eady, Alicia Ostriker actor-poets Geza Rohrig and Melissa Leo. New Yorker critic Mollie Haskell wrote, “the poets words are devastating, the cinema powerful!” Richard collaborated with cinematographer Lisa Rinzler (“Pollock”, “Don’t Blink, Robert Frank”) on the multi-screened installation “Dollarland”, exploring the hidden lives of an imagined American city. In 2023, Richard wrote and directed the fictional feature, “The Art Of Disappearing, a Woman’s Life in 31 Scenes”. In 2024, he will direct for the screen his adaptation of renowned Swedish playwright Lars Noren’s “War”. Richard won the World Peace Initiative from AFI presented at Cannes 2022 and has been awarded private foundation grants as well as the National Endowment For The Humanities and Arts and New York State Council on the Arts and two Emmy awards.