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Scott avett will be opening at envoy gallery with crackerfarm at the end of july 2008...

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TWO PERSON EXHIBITION: SCOTT AVETT . CRACKERFARM
31 JULY — 29 AUGUST  2008 . WED – SAT . 12- 6

envoy is happy to announce a two person exhibition of the work by Scott Avett and Crackerfarm, which provides a unique dialogue between artists.

Scott Avett is one of the two brothers in The Avett Brothers, a folk-rock band that originated in Concord, North Carolina. Avett expresses his ideas through multiple artistic mediums. These mediums include printmaking, painting, sculpture, songwriting, recording, and performing. Musically, Scott explores his dark side with his multi-faceted voice and affecting lyrics. His visual art further exposes his sense of wandering and loneliness.  The paintings inform the music, but also transcend it with an intensity that is tougher and more arresting.

In the tradition of American realism, Crackerfarm continue their subversive inquest into the aesthetic and historical valuation of past and present cultures. Their traditional imagery is fused with the aggressiveness of a punk rock road movie. While touring with The Avett brothers for the past few years, Crackerfarm documented their friendship through photo and film. The work in the exhibition is a unique chronicle of this rapport. To highlight the similarities between both artists in the exhibition, the work focuses on Scott Avett. It shows a photographic production that remains consistent in an innate classicism, one that transforms routine appearances into something exceptional.

Scott Avett was born in Cheyenne Wyoming in 1976 and raised in the Piedmont of North Carolina. His painting career began in 1999 while attending East Carolina University.

Crackerfarm is an artist duo consisting of Lindsay Rome (º1982) and Mike Beyer (º1979). They both graduated from the School of Visual Arts in New York.

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THE NEW YORK TIMES
By MARY BILLARD
Published: June 22, 2008

From Pickles to Paintings in New York’s Lower East Side

The Lower East Side of Manhattan is being SoHo-fied. (Or is it Chelsea-fied?) Concrete floors are being poured next to Chinatown fish stalls. White walls are going up beside kitchen supply shops. And on-the-edge contemporary art is being sold in a neighborhood better known for peddling pickles and counterfeit Goyard bags.

In the past year, a torrent of galleries has landed in this historically immigrant area, carving out a pioneering district for emerging artists. Anchoring the new gallery scene is the New Museum (235 Bowery; 212-219-1222; www.newmuseum.org), which moved into a striking seven-floor home on the Bowery last December. Since then, nearby galleries seem to be opening every month.

Among the newest is the DCKT Contemporary (195 Bowery; 212-741-9955; www.dcktcontemporary.com), which relocated in March to a former lighting store down the street from the New Museum. Like many recent arrivals, the gallery had been in a smaller, more expensive space in Chelsea. “Chelsea had reached its saturation point,” said Dennis Christie, a director.

Part of the allure is the scrappy neighborhood itself. Unlike Chelsea, which can feel like a gallery ghetto, a Lower East Side gallery-hop weaves past landmark synagogues, hole-in-the-wall dumpling houses and grittier, un-hip slices of old New York. Read more...