Get Nailed at the New Museum

Continuing his investigation into Kustom Kulture and its relationship to art, sub cultures and self fashioning, Dzine will set up a mini-mobile nail salon in the New Museum Store lobby window, a project in collaboration with Salon94 and The Standard Hotel. Part sculpture, part performance, the nail salon will offer free nail designs to museum visitors on three consecutive Saturdays during the month of September. New York nail artists from different cultural backgrounds will be present to paint their unique style of designs on visitors’ fingers.

Due to the overwhelming response, we are fully booked for all nail sessions. We apologize for not being able to accommodate everyone.

During the launch event for Dzine’s Pinky Nail edition for the New Museum on Thursday September 8 from 7:30 p.m. – 9 p.m., we will be raffling off a SPECIAL nail session. Instead of just one nail being painted, the winner will have one entire hand painted by an artist from Valley Nails! Come to Dzine’s launch event to enter. You must be present to enter the raffle; one entry per person, please.

Dzine’s Pinky Nail edition for the New Museum, a limited edition of 40 unique 24kt gold-plated nails, will be sold in the New Museum Store. All proceeds from these sales will benefit the New Museum. On Thursday, September 8th from 7:30-9pm, we will be holding a launch event for Dzine’s Pinky Nail edition in the New Museum lobby.

For more information about Dzine’s Pinky Nail edition, contact store@newmuseum.org.

The New Museum Store has long been considered a premier destination for those seeking a unique and comprehensive selection of contemporary art books and gifts. From the eclectic to the popular, the New Museum Store stocks the most stimulating monographs, critical texts, and visual reference volumes from galleries, museums, small presses, artists, and commercial publishers throughout the world. True to the New Museum’s forward-looking mission, the Store procure and produces the most engaging and thought-provoking books, gifts, artist-designed limited editions, two- and three-dimensional art objects, art periodicals, and a cutting-edge selection of CDs and DVDs.

DZINE

DZINE (b. Carlos Rolon, 1970, Chicago, IL) is a recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation award for Painting and Sculpture. Recent museum exhibitions and projects include the Flint Institute of Arts, Michigan; the Bass Museum of Art, Miami; the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Contemporary Art Museum, St.Louis; the Museum Het Domein, Sittard, The Netherlands, The Busan Biennale, Korea; the Ukrainian Pavilion, 52nd Biennale di Venezia, Italy, among others. His work is the collections of the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York; the Collection Vanmoerkerke, Oostende, Belgium; the Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev, Ukraine; the Museo del Barrio, New York and Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico. He is the Kraus Visiting Professor of Art at Carnegie Mellon University, spring 2011.

A gallery space built within the family home of Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn, Salon 94 offers an alternative to conventional white box galleries and an opportunity for visitors to experience artworks and performances in a furnished, inhabited space. A satellite exhibition space on Freeman Alley debuted in September 2007 with sculptural work by Huma Bhabha. In 2010, a third exhibition space opened on the Bowery with a show of Richard Prince's T-Shirt paintings. Located steps from the New Museum in New York’s Lower East Side, both galleries strive to provide more accessibility to visitors to the developing downtown art scene. From September 7 through October 23, 2011, Dzine presents his new project, Imperial Nail Salon at Salon 94 Freemans featuring new paintings, nail sculpture and furniture.

Valley Nail Salon, located on Elizabeth Street, has been pushing the envelope in Nail Art since 2006. Get Nailed at the New Museum will feature Valley Manicurists who will offer free nail designs to visitors of the New Museum in a unique artist collaboration.

Get Nailed at the New Museum is co-sponsored by The Standard Hotel.