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		On the face of it, Belfast artist Susan MacWilliam breathes life into the obscure history of research into paranormal perception. Straddling the roles of scientific investigator, documentarian and artist, she delivers hauntingly beautiful video-based installations of real case studies. On another level, MacWilliam unravels some of our most basic assumptions about art, authenticity and perception. March 21 - April 20, 2008 Read more

		Irvin Morazan's headdresses and horse sculptures commemorate the displaced and exterminated indigenous tribes of the Americas. March 21 - April 20, 2008 Read more

		Robin Williams paints red-blooded American children being adorably cute, and doubting it. February 15 - March 16, 2008 Read more

		Nathan Lewis is a history painter. His works are epic and his references very direct. February 15 - March 16, 2008 Read more

		Tom Bogaert documented genocide and human rights abuses in Africa and Asia for fourteen years as a lawyer for Amnesty International and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. Five years ago, he resigned to become an artist. January 11 - February 10, 2008 Read more

		"Just Cause It's Legal Doesn't Make It Right." --Michael Genovese paints out the message in Spanish, Polish and Hebrew (the ethnic languages of this area) with great exuberance across the back wall of the gallery. It's a grand, festive sign, zesty with decorative flourishes, like something you once saw painted on the window of a Rochester diner or an LA street vendor's cart. --A little bit of ethnic spice, maybe a whiff of nostalgia, earnestness instead of irony... But the resemblance ends there. This is the mother of all signs. A masterfully executed, conceptually and politically loaded firebomb of understatement. January 11 - February 10, 2008 Read more

		Guy Benfield exploded onto the Australian art scene in 1991 and ever since has been exporting his signature good-vibe brand of ritualized mumbo-jumbo performance-installation and video throughout South East Asia and Europe. November 17-December 23, 2007 Read more

		The dry wit of acclaimed British video pioneer George Barber reaches a new level of understatement in "The Long Commute." Projected onto a modernist sculptural form, a lone auto makes its way endlessly around and around. It moves as one drives on the way to work, with quiet resignation. November 17 - December 23, 2007 Read more

		In "Oh!," Elisheva Levy creates a swath of sweet blue graffiti sky on slippery, shiny panels across the gallery's floor. Viewers come upon a moment of mutual surprise, as the artist appears to have just suddenly fled upon discovery, leaving behind the spray-cans of her idling wonder. October 13 - November 11, 2007 Read more

Jack the Pelican is pleased to present stalwart of the revolution, Bruce Conkle. De facto king of the Pacific NW eco art geeks and self-styled "misfit at the crossroads," he creates "Lament for Middle Kingdom Earth," a quirky eco-absurd installation that restages contemporary ideas about nature and community in a pre-modern world of fairytale landscape.

October 13 - November 11, 2007

"The Fall Season" in the back room at Jack the Pelican is a show about (what else?) falling.

Featured artists from around the world include: Susan MacWilliam from Belfast, Li Wei from China, Robert Yarber from Sonnabend and Jerry Kearns, Robin Williams and Graham Guerra from Jack the Pelican.
Feeling groundless? Join the club.

September 7 - October 7, 2007

Matt Hansel unveils "Youth Is Wasted," his tour-de-force 'coming of age' solo debut at Jack the Pelican, featuring paintings and sculptures about teenage stoners.

September 7 - October 7, 2007

MAXIMON

This is the one-night-only performance spectacle of Kansas City legend David Ford.
Maximon is the patron saint of vices. Please bring a little bit of yours to share with him.
This is an all-out presentation of one of the most gorgeous and decadent, debaucherous spectacles to ever grow out of the American Midwest.

Upstairs 4 painters and 4 furries compete for porridge in Jay Van Burren's FurSuit Portrait Paint-Off.

September 14, 6.30 - 11pm , 2007

Meet the mad buoyant exuberance of Spanish Neo-Punk star Carlos Maciá He sprays his 75 feet of gorgeous retinal punch massively onto the gallery walls.

July 25 - August 25, 2007

Matthew Porter presents a tightly edited selection of five color photographs, in an exhibition entitled, "Somerset County."

July 25 - August 25, 2007

In "Haunted Trailer Park," Jesse Wiedel brings the trailer culture antics of Raising Arizona to a new pitch of comic demoralization. His hard-scrabble ne'er-do-wells just
can't get enough of beating themselves up.

June 16 - July 14, 2007

Sarah Gamble makes meaty paintings of electromagnetic particles shimmering the spectrum of color and light through darkly brooding landscapes.

June 16 - July 14, 2007

Sarah Bereza paints "Good Girl." She is the privileged, daddy-bonding American in pearls.

May 12 - June 10, 2007

Walter Benjamin Smith curated this show highlighting four young artists, Justin Lieberman, Jina Valentine, Jason Loebs, and Matthew Siegle. Each presses fast forward on the Bowie button, shape-shifting their artistic identities with a new level of self-awareness and rapidity.

May 12 - June 10, 2007

In "Wallpaper" Natalie Lanese collides pop patterns with collage on a massive scale.

March 31 - April 31, 2007

Chris Domenick creates a contemporary Baroque from the humble stuff of ballpoint pen, carpet, contact paper and sawdust.

March 31 - April 31, 2007

"Tropical Punch" is a King Kong mixed drink of delicate, sculptural grace and dumb brute force. Tropical meets arctic in a fantasy land of hard-hitting adventure play. The strange electricity will set your heart to pounding.

Features Derek Larson, Marie Lorenz, Molly Larkey, Hubert Dobler, Michelle Handelman, Peter Kreider, Robert Ladislas Derr, Nicole Mayhew
Melissa Lundquist, Aaron Krach, Lara Kohl, Eric Doeringer, David Kennedy Cutler, Peter Kreider, Tim Folland & More

February 17 - March 18, 2007

A hot-tub installation by Zack Davis & Aaron Howe.
Smug, like smog, is everywhere. Hot tub as social
critique? Yes! as Howe & Davis see it, there's a war
going on, not to mention plague upon plague of other
social, economic and political evils.

February 17 - March 18, 2007

Caleb Weintraub

Profusions of cherub-sweet toddlers roam the streets like George Romero's undead, blasting your cherished icons to happy-delicious smithereens.

January 5 - February 4, 2007

An exhibition of ambitious works of art that would
be impossible to display in the confines of an art fair.
Grendel is the powerful beast in the Anglo-Saxon
epic Beowulf. He is of the wilderness... untamed,
ferocious and proud. And he is young. Maybe a
wee rash.

In "Snipe Hunt," George Jenne kills a mockingbird.

The artist, North Carolina born and bred, taunts us with the snippets of an elusive narrative, ducking and twirping through three cinematically-charged sculptural installations

November 17- December 17, 2006

Jean Seberg embodied a post-war American
sexuality of naive jouissance, virtuous but suggestively permissive.
That little cowboy of Benton-esque flourishes is artist
JAMIE ADAMS, so palpably eager to draw
the blossomed vixen, you can hear his whistle blow.

November 17 - December 17, 2006

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REDNECK GRAFFITI The South rises again in the Atlanta-based duo Tindelmichi. This is the Siamese-twin persona of Michi and John Tindel. Together, they create fixins of fresh contemporary Southern humor and hospitality, grace and charm, country and crunk, born of pride in southern roots and culture. October 13 - November 12, 2006 Read more

	PUS LUST Jack the Pelican is thrilled to introduce New York to the vulgar and disgusting videos of Paul Nudd. These are strangely intimate glimpses into unholy personal and private events. Child-birthing comes to mind. Vomiting. Horrific bowel movements. The fleshy forms appear to quiver with effort. And watching is stressful with suspense. October 13 - November 12, 2006 Read more
		PETER CAINE NEW WORKS Our heroes, villains and sacred cows mechanically come alive as Frankenstein robots, oozing pitch-dark schoolboy humor. The kids clamor at the door to get in, but clearly this is not suitable for family viewing. September 8 – October 8, 2006 Read more
		Assocreation Vienna, Austria Ondrej Brody & Kristofer Paetau Prague, Czech Republic The Fantastic Nobodies Brooklyn Parfyme Deluxe Copenhagen, Denmark + Brooklyn Hampus Pettersson Gothenburg, Sweden Marc Ganzglass Brooklyn July 7 - August 7, 2006 This is an exuberant laissez-faire summer curation of 95% famously unpredictable artists. What they will do is anybody's guess. Read more

Gasoline is volatile. This rowdy symbolic adventure is a timely meditation on the American romance with aggressive power.
In "Gasoline" Hubert Dobler assaults the polite electronic
facade of our postmodern service-industry landscape with his mean machine Honda CB550 Four, 1976. It is gasoline, the return of the repressed.

June 2 - July 2, 2006

Chris Rush draws portraits of unusual children and adults, often with physical anomalies and disabilities. These individuals have rarely been included in our cultural record, and are nearly invisible in the everyday world. When we do happen upon them, we tend to avert our eyes.

April 28 - May 28, 2006

Lethe, 2006, watercolor on stretched paper, 42 x 66", detail

Russel Nachman paints a lucid dream. Where have all the hippies gone? ...They have abandoned their utopias.

April 28 - May 28, 2006

THE MATTHEW BARNEY SHOW, curated by Eric Doeringer.

It brings together the artwork of more than 30 emerging and established artists who have been inspired by video artist Matthew Barney. It includes drawings, paintings, photography, videos, fashion and Matthew Barney memorabilia.

Features Richard Albeda, Barry X Ball, Matthew Ray Barney, Stephen Beveridge, Roz Chast, Michael R. Crusoe, Ryan Dale, Rico Deerring, Alan Demille, Marta Edmisten, John Allen Gibel, Sean Grilling, Ryan Humphrey, J.T. Kirkland, Nathan Kukulski, Sarah Lamont, David Langly, Matthew Larkin, Liz Magic Laser, Dan Levenson , Scott Lipman, Robert Madrigal, Charles McAndrews, Aaron McDonald, Sean Meyer, Plasticgod, Bradley Rubenstein, Steve Silvers, Harry Smythe, Carolyn Sortor, Chris Spinelli, Gilad Stark, Kimberly Stubbins, Amanda Tamayo, Erik Tlaseca, Timothy Tupper, Odey Curbello Urquijo, Dax Van Aalten, Patrick Welch and more.

April 1 - April 23, 2006

Jillian McDonald awoke in the middle of a slow-motion kiss between Cate Blanchett and Billy Bob Thornton. "I knew immediately and irreversibly the I should be kissing him instead of her. I was in love."

March 24 - April 23, 2006

There is power in the photographs of Justin Reyes. Behind the veils, these women are hauntingly ancient and sexual. Pantyhose fetish takes on the proud, dark eroticism of Spanish Baroque.

March 24- April 23, 2006

The artist Rodney Dickson recreates a Saigon Snake Bar, circa 1975. Snake Bar is what the Vietnamese of that era called a watering hole where American GIs went for Vietnamese women. Upstairs at Jack the Pelican.

March 24, 7 pm - 1 pm

Guerra de la Paz is Cuban artists Alain Guerra and Neraldo de la Paz. This fortuitous marriage of their two last names points to the inextricable convergence of peace and war in the long dance of history. —And makes of the two artists a living allegory. War is everywhere, and, everywhere, shadowed by peace. And peace by war.

February 10 - March 20, 2006

The art-destroying stuntman hijinks of Tim Folland spring from the cartoon antics of Wile E. Coyote. At the center of his video installation, "Death-defying Dervish Gangbuster Rebel" is the stupendously resourceful, maniacal idiot Goldhead, who, in his oversized helmet mask with hooked little nose, bears a striking resemblance to Richard Nixon.

January 6 - February 5, 2006

Nell Stewart freshly plunges into the medium of video with disciplined abandon in the hypnotic feminist masterpiece, "To the Trees".
Prim hysterical nurses wiggle free of their uniforms and parade in crouch- walking dance, axes raised high. As freakish as the winged monkeys in The Wizard of Oz

January 6 - February 5, 2006

Caspar David Seance attempts to recover our naive and dark Romantic mysticism from the flat precociousness of the New Age. We want it back.

Features Jody Ake, Fia Backstrom, Olivia Barr, Mia Brownell, Andrea Cote, Matthew Fisher, JJ Garfinkel, Ann Hirsch, Lars Kremer, Adela Leibowitz, Anne Arden McDonald, Anja Mohn, Alexandra Newmark, Kelly Sturhahn and Ruth Waldman

November 18 - December 18, 2005

VIP EVENT

Seance by World-Renowned Psychic Medium Jackie Barrett to Conjure German Romantic Painter Casper David Friedrich.

This is not performance art. It is real.

December 8, 2005

Jack the Pelican presents the exhibition "Entry Island" by multi media artist Ianthe Jackson. This comprehensive exhibition explores the intersection of various contemporary social constructions and it's relationship to location. Ianthe Jackson presents a series of installations that include animation, kinetic sculpture and drawing.

November 18 - December 18, 2005