{CTS} creative thriftshop is excited to announce our participation at PULSE New York (March 3-6, 2011 -booth C10). PULSE Contemporary Art Fair under the new directorship of Cornell DeWitt announced the fair will be held at Metropolitan Pavilion. Located in Manhattan’s Flatiron District, the centrally-located venue is a five minute walk from each of the major subway lines, and a fifteen minute walk from the Chelsea Gallery District.

With a roaster of over fifty leading national and international galleries CTS is excited to follow up our 2010 debut at the fair where we installed Jeremy Dean’s converted Hummer. In this presentation we will show a range of recent works from some of the most exciting and challenging emerging artist working in states, literally from coast to coast. Artist include Karim Hamid, Jeremy Dean, Eric Doeringer, Sara Carter, Amy Greenfield, and Jack Balas

New York snow bird Jeremy Dean, as it has been well documented, charged onto the art scene in 2010 with his larger than life converted “green” Hummer which he had trot through Central Park and than at the behest of the collector around town in Miami Beach during artBasel. In this presentation- he’s decided to tread lightly-but only slightly- with his most recent body of work that deals with the boom and bust of the American economic system. Mirroring trends, plotting points, and creating a visual questionnaire string by string as he dissects the nations flags and historic data. These labor-intensive new works emphasize the hand of the artist- the craft of constructing a narrative.

Karim Hamid, a New England painter and new to our roaster paints with a classic brush creating a visual dialogue of the female figure and the male gaze throughout art history. He distorts and transforms the human body creating a highly charged sexual tension but seemly through a hazy looking glass. His sitters are soft, blurred, tangled in each other, their settings are anywhere and nowhere. In their anonymity there seems to be a sexual freedom- an emotional rawness that pulls at the sexes creating a fascinating dynamic.

San Francisco based painter Sara Carter is our guest artist. Her works on canvas contrast between light and dark. Unlike much of what we traditionally show, her portfolio spoke to us in almost a whisper. A longing stare creates space in your mind’s eye. Loosing depth persecution, finding yourself lost in time. Her work seems to exists in that quiet, solitary place, where one feels both scared and safe.

Amy Greenfield a Boston native and early pioneer of experimental film and video graces our walls with two films that began at the hight of the fluxus movement and completed only in 2010 for her return to the art world in her solo show entitled Untitled Nude. Her experimental films sprout a medley of nerves; optic, poetic, kinetic... and exhibits that the human body is the best metaphor. She pulls deeply as a feminist, flirting with the abstract which enables the familiar, allowing reality to transcend perfectly through raw expressed movements.

Eric Doeringer a multimedia artist based in Brooklyn, NY. works addresses issues of illegality, the art market, and the intersection between subculture and popular culture in America. In this presentation we hang three works in a kind of “California Conceptualist” installation featuring works recreated after John Baldessari, Charles Ray, and Ed Ruscha. Here the artist has stretched the allowance of what perhaps the artist ideology intended when they said - anyone simply by following a set of written instruction could create said works.

Jack Balas a Chicago native currently living in Denver who also has an amazing love affair with Hawaii each summer- puts on view a selection of recent works that for a painter of twenty plus years departs from all the rules as he knew them. These vibrantly erotic men swirl around the canvas in vivid almost graphic colors. Each one seemingly exuding a small pulsation of movement both in form and in palette. These works represent a new direction for the artist where fact and fiction, abstraction and representation, visual and verbal, all come to collide.
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