November 3, 2014
Greer Lankton, LOVE ME, at Participant Inc.
Eric Kroll, Greer Lankton Surrounded by her Sculpture, 1984, C-print, 19 1/2 x 15 1/2".
August 14, 2014
#THROWBACKTHURSDAYS ON @JELENABEHRENDSTUDIO SOCIAL MEDIA
As you probably already know Jelena's work has been featured in many publications, magazines, newspapers, editorials. Recently we have started using popular #tbt hashtag to introduce our newer social media followers to the amazing world of Jelena Behrend Studio press pages. It takes the whole big crew of people to take an amazing editorial photograph, so it would be way too sad to let these works sit on the shelf and collect the dust. Here are the few we have recently pulled out from the massive archive and shared with our ever growing social media lovers:
May 29, 2014
Hand-Carved Ring Stories
There are many ways to endow your wedding band with deep personal symbolism. The stones you choose, the metal, the finish – all this could speak for your feelings, sensibilities, and shared vision of the future. Jelena Behrend is always delighted to work on customizing rings to fashion them into magic objects, in which love stories and prefiguration of shared future are compressed into a work of art.
Carving initials or symbolic designs is yet another way to personalize your jewelry.
Here are the sample stories behind some of the rings that Jelena created in the past and named after the people who inspired them. She will be delighted to re-create the design or to adjust it to speak better to your love.
On Kristin’s request, Jelena incorporated the infinity sign into an organic ornament, to symbolize everlasting love that continuously renews and reinvents itself.
Another example of a floral hand-carved design are this beautiful pair of rings. The noble bay-leaf pattern on them is borrowed from Greek mythology, where wreath of bay laurels were given to honor the highest artistic achievement. It is also evocative of the verses of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, which describe the transformation of the beautiful nymph Daphne into a laurel tree that becomes a symbol of eternal Apollonian inspiration.
May 8, 2014
JBS Reliquarium: The Runner
A new rubric on Jelena Behrend Blog. Mummified memories and real-life magic objects from Jelena's life and Studio.
Floating over a devastated and scorched terrain of ashes and cigarette butts, focused like a brave arrow, always moving, this runner through smoke and fire has been Jelena's companion for the past two decades. Jelena found this mysterious figurine at a yard sale in Alphabet City, the corner of Avenue B and E6th Street, while searching for fine second-skin leather jackets. Like a Voodoo doll, this adopted amulet became a cross-dresser and has been changing clothes as well. Recently she lost her anklets, but is now sporting an exoskeleton of melted baroque rubber.
May 7, 2014
NYC celebrates Michel Auder this Weekend
This weekend NYC is celebrating the work of
Michel Auder, one of Jelena’s closest friends.
Anthology Film Archives, the Lower East Side stronghold fortress of the avantgarde, is offering a two-part program retrospective of Auder’s films from 1969 to 2014. A compulsive documentarian of himself and those around him (quite a notable group: Warhol, the Zanzibar group, his ex-wives Viva and Cindy Sherman, Alice Neel, and last but not least Jelena herself, and many others), Auder dandifies the everyday, paradoxically blending defensive narcissism and emotional depth.
And on Saturday,
Participant Inc will be hosting a launch of a new monograph on Auder: "Stories, myths, ironies, and other songs: conceived, directed, edited and produced by M. Auder."
Read more about
The Feature, Auder’s autobiographical opus, featuring Jelena, Zlato, and the
Studio.
Don't forget to ask Jelena to show you her collection of Michel's works gathered over the long years of their friendship the next time you come by the Studio.
April 30, 2014
ELIZABETH NEEL OPENING
ELIZABETH NEEL, a dear friend and a patron of Jelena Behrend Studio is having an opening today in London at
Pilar Corrias Gallery.
Brutal and beautiful, attentive to the chaotic textured complexity of organic world, and to the artistic discipline required to recognize and trace its grace, her work is an inspiration to us. We are proud to own one of her pieces here at the studio.
Opening: Wednesday, April, 30, 6-8
1 May - 21 June, 2014
March 7, 2014
FAT MAGAZINE ISSUE D. PHOTO BY HUGH LIPPE. STYLED BY KAREN KAISER.
Model Fei Fei Sun wearing Rope, Sterling Silver Bead and Lepa Charm
Necklace in FAT Magazine's Issue D Spring 2014 editorial . "Lepa" is one of the newest Jelena's collections.
See "Lepa" earrings up close.
February 22, 2014
MICHEL AUDER: VIDEO PIECES | OPENING TONIGHT IN MARLBOROUGH GALLERY CHELSEA | FEBRUARY 22 - MARCH 22, 2014 | JELENA BEHREND AND JELENA'S STUDIO ARE FEATURED | GO SEE
"I am leaving in Brooklyn its the end of the world..." (Michel Auder)
It’s nothing. It will never be here again. That thing that left the world.... That thing never came back again. It came back one time but it wasn’t the same thing. --Alex’s monologue in Michel Auder, Talking Head, 1981, Edited 2009 (1⁄2” reel to reel video to digital video SD, black and white, sound, 02:27 minutes)