FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Uneasy Pleasure; a group show at the Red House

Opening: Friday, July 15th 2011 from 6 to 9 pm

Preview for journalists: Wednesday, July 13th 2011, from 6pm to 7pm

Exhibition open from July 15th to July 24th, 2011, from 12am to 7pm

RED HOUSE 317 East 5th Street New York, NY 10003 (212) 228-9434

The Red House is pleased to present a group show, Uneasy Pleasure. The works exhibited by five artists encompass a range of photographic imagery and video display, bringing together both emerging and established artists having national and international careers. Collectively, they work within common concepts that are aligned with the sublime. Each artist touches upon elements of awe and wonder, lightness and darkness, and the uneasy pleasure of transcendence. Equating emotion and aesthetics, this collection of work presents a contemporary appreciation of Romanticism. Featured artists: Brigitte Lustenberger, Sherry Griffin, Jim Ramer, William Lamson, and Meredith Allen.

The Red House is a pop-up gallery in the East Village. Supported by Swiss actress Linda Geiser for over 35 years, the Red House has hosted writers, visual artists, musicians, filmmakers, dancers and directors. As a “living studio”, the resident artists create, sleep, eat and play on the premises – bolstering a spirited environment for all who participate or visit. Today the Red House hosts three studios and apartments for Swiss artists. This unique place with a special history has inspired this exhibition curated by artists Sherry Griffin and Brigitte Lustenberger.

Brigitte Lustenberger is a Swiss born fine art photographer. She received a Master of Fine Arts degree in Photography and Related Media at Parsons School of Design in 2007. She had Solo Shows at the Museée de l’Elysée in Lausanne/Switzerland, at Scalo Gallery in Zurich and New York, at Le Maillon in Strasbourg/France, MadonnaFust Gallery in Bern, Photoforum PasquArt in Bienne. Her works have been shown in Europe and the US, including the Kunsthalle Bern, Kunsthalle Luzern, Art Cologne, Centro Internationale de Fotografia in Milan. She was awarded the Grand Prize Winner PDNedu, the Golden Light Award, Shots/Corbis Student Photographer of the Year, Prix de Photoforum PasquArt, The Photo Review Comeptition, Selection Voies Off at Arles, and others. She received fellwoships for Cairo and Maloja. She lives and works primarily in Switzerland but works also in New York. http://www.lufo.ch/

Sherry Griffin is a Brooklyn based artist who works in photography. She received a Master of Fine Arts degree in ‘Photography and Related Technologies’ from Parsons The New School For Design in 2006. Her work has been published through The Museum of Art and Design, New York 2011, The Arkitekturmuseet, Stockholm 2010 and others. Recently, she collaborated on a book project and poster series with Ryan McGinness Studios, Inc. Sherry has exhibited in a variety of group shows in the US and abroad – including “Critical Mass” at the 1708 Gallery, Richmond VA, 2004 (juried by Peter Schieldahl – Art Critic for The New Yorker) and “Amaranth” at the Collezione Maramotti Gallery, Reggio Emilia Italy, 2009. She received the Teresa Pollack Award for Emerging Artists 2006, and her work is in the corporate collections of Nike and MaxMara. Sherry lives and works as a photographer in New York City. http://www.sherrygriffin.com

Jim Ramer is an artist, educator and curator. His work spans photography, sculpture, and installation. Most recently, Professor Ramer’s work was featured in the 2010 International Festival of Photography, Photography Speaks in Soul, Korea and in 2009 at the at the Goeun Museum, Korea, and the 2010 Pingyao International Festival of Photography, CN. His work has been widely exhibited and published. Exhibitions include: David Lusk Gallery; Rupert Goldsworthy Gallery, NY; Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, Exit Art, New York, Contemporary Museum, MD; Art Workers Plan B Galery, Memphis, TN Ole Dominion University, VA; Southern Illinois University, IL. Collections: Asissi Foundation, Promus Corporation, Schering-Plough Inc. He has curated numerous exhibition and is the former Director of Delta Axis Contemporary Arts Center and a Co Founder of Art Workers Unions Plan be Gallery. In 2009 he served as Instructor in the IPO Collaborative Visual Research Project linking Parsons and Tsinghua Univeristy, Beijing, CN. In 2008 he was the Associate Director and Instructor of the Exquisite Corpse, A Visual Research Collaboration connecting Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney, NSW, AU, Parsons. He is also the founder of the Center for Photographic Media and Culture. He holds an M.F.A. from Memphis College of Art. http://www.jimramer.com

William Lamson is a Brooklyn based artist who works in video, photography, performance and sculpture. His work is in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston and a number of private collections. Since graduating from the Bard MFA program in 2006, his work has been shown at The Indianapolis Museum of Art, The Brooklyn Museum, Franklin Art Works in Minneapolis and the Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe, among others. http://www.williamlamson.com

Meredith Allen (1964-2011) was a New York based photographer. She studied art at the Hartford Art School in Connecticut and earned her MFA in photography at the University of Buffalo. She exhibited in numerous group shows including P.S.1/MoMa and White Box Gallery in New York City, and had solo shows in Manhattan at Edward Thorp (2008) and Gracie Mansion (2001), and in Brooklyn at Sarah Bowen (2005) and Flipside (2000), among others. As an artist and chronicler, Allen was a familiar face on the Williamsburg art scene in the 1990s Allen regularly photographed people at openings for the Art Seen column in the now defunct Waterfront Weekly. She amassed hundreds of photos, many of which have been published in 27 “visual diaries,” as she called them (available at blurb.com). http://www.meredithallen.com