Banks Boys Gallery, a new gallery focusing on contemporary pop-up exhibitions and special projects is proud to announce a solo exhibition by artist Ray Geary. Featuring all new resin paintings and sculptures, "Summer's Over" will take place at Banks Boys located at 2 Rivington Street in New York City from 4-10 September 2018.
Opening Night Reception will take place on 5 September from 6pm-9pm. This will be Geary's first solo exhibition in New York.

Interested media who wish to interview the artist, please contact Workhouse, CEO Adam Nelson via email [email protected] or telephone +1 212. 645.8006
Ray Geary continues in the view of resin captures but on a much grander scale. While he enjoys the directness that comes from resin sculptures, he is also invested in the process of reinvention. By creating spill techniques that flow from the encapsulated, Geary has extended his body of work through reinvention and experience. 

Geary is drawn to the sort of sculptural impasse presented by the material and connotational conflicts utilizing pop items such as infalatibles and pills which blend lines and stretch agglomerations of form, while housing each in traslucent and suspended entropy. Geary's work is simultaneously pluralistic and conceptual, extending and interrupting modernist formalism while assimulating the ironies and contradictions of play. 

Geary showed no interest in art at an early age, yet was drawn to it post college as a way to create the things he wanted to see. Comprised mostly of cast resin sculpture, his work deals with encapsulation and unexpected elevation of commonplace items. A young New York talent, Geary's work has been feature at Scope NYC and Miami, Helium Cowboy in Hamburg and Shizaru Gallery in London. Works for sale are available through the Whitney Museum Shop, The Guggenheim Museum Shop, The New Museum Shop, Parlor Gallery in Absury Park and though his website. 

​SOLO EXHIBITIONS 
“Summers Over” - Upcoming September 4th - 10th - Banks Boys Gallery NYC

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018
Fog Fair - Fog Fair - Park Life Gallery / Shop - San Fransisco, CA

The Philip Johnson Glass House Summer Auction - New Canaan, CT

The Guggenheim Museum Shop - Work for sale, New York, NY 

The Whitney Museum Shop - Work for sale, New York, NY

The New Museum Shop - Work for sale, NewYork, NY

2017
Fog Fair - Park Life Gallery / Shop - San Fransisco, CA
Spring Break Art Show - Curated by Maureen Sullivan - New York, NY 

The Philip Johnson Glass House Summer Auction - New Canaan, CT 

2016
Fog Fair - Park Life Gallery/Shop - San Fransisco, CA 

2015
The Guggenheim Museum Shop - Work for sale, New York, NY 

The Whitney Museum Shop - Work for sale, New York, NY 

The Philip Johnson Glass House Summer Auction - New Canaan, CT 

The Eileen S. Kaminsky Family Foundation's AxA Fundraiser, Paddle 8 

Armory Show - Artmarkit Pop Up - New York, NY 

Spell Check - Parlor Gallery, Asbury Park, NJ 

2014
Bergdorf Goodman - Art Matters - curated items from Grey Area available at Bergdorf 

Goodman. 

Sacred - Parlor Gallery, Asbury Park, NJ

Scope Miami - Parlor Gallery, Miami, FL

Storage Wars - Eric Firestone Gallery / The Hole Gallery, East Hampton, NY

Art Southampton - Baker Sponder Gallery, South Hampton, NY

Gilded Holiday - Paul Kasmin Shop, New York, NY

Lightshop - Paul Kasmin Shop, Soho House, Miami, FL 

2013
Scope Miami - Showing with Parlor Gallery, Miami, FL

The Mandarin Oriental Suite 5000 - Curated by Katy Donoghue from Whitewall Magazine, New York, NY

The Guggenheim Museum Store - Items for sale through Grey Area,

The Collective Design Fair – Showing with Grey Area, New York, NY

Scope NYC – Showing with The Parlor Gallery, New York, NY

Old Friends New Work, Parlor Gallery, Asbury Park, NJ

2012
Ornamental curated by Joanne Cassulo, Kyle DeWoody, and Julia Speed at Coates Wyllie, New York, NY

Americana at Grey Area curated by Kyle DeWoody, New York, NY

Bad For You curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody, Shizaru Gallery London, UK

Bad For Me curated by Kyle DeWoody, Shizaru Gallery, London, UK

George Hearts Maria curated by Lori Zimmer at Helium Cowboy, Hamberg, Germany

Bunton's World Famous teases its opening with a quirky, suave-looking weather vane rooster placed about the city. Photo Credit: Claire de Lespinois 
If you’ve seen a tuxedo-wearing rooster weather vane around the city, you’re not alone. He’s the mascot of a forthcoming Bushwick bar that has been teasing its opening by placing him in different spots around New York City.

Bunton’s World Famous, opening at 1005 Broadway in September, has placed the metal weather vane in neighborhoods from Harlem to Coney Island to Chinatown. Once he reaches Bushwick on opening day, he’ll live on the building’s rooftop, according to owner Kareem Bunton. WORKHOUSE viral marketing efforts tease the arrival of the dance and drink space, opening in September. 

The new bar and music venue already has its branding under control — Bunton is also curating merchandise that’ll be sold inside the venue, including a T-shirt with the dapper rooster and the bar’s logo, which is a Brooklyn Dodgers-like “B.”t.

“No one under 34 has been to CBGBs, but they all have a shirt,” he told amNewYork. “The cool part about it is that we’ll turn the brand over to other artists every three months. They’ll reinterpret the shirts, hats and tote bags.”

Local artists, big and small, will be considered as well as others from outside the city.

Bunton, who managed bars like Spoon, Bob, Pianos and Max Fish in the 1990s and 2000s, promises that the 1,000-square-foot bar with a large “jungle-y” garden will be a place for everybody to “lose their minds” on the dance floor.

Bunton’s already has a DJ lineup put together, including the likes of DJ Kaleem, Mikeflo from hip-hop duo Dead Prez, DJ Prolific and Kat Daddy Slim, he said.

With a few weeks left before its debut, Bunton said he is working overtime to make sure the venue’s “Memphis-Hollywood” vibe comes to fruition.

“I grew up in Louisville, which is known for gambling, horse racing and whiskey,” he said. “But I wanted something southern but not southern — a brand-new but beat up look — a sleazy southern vibe with classy feel.”

And while classic cocktails will be available, special drinks will be tropical and rum-based, like a “Jamaica vacation drink,” Bunton said. But don’t worry, you’ll still be able to just grab a beer.

“I don’t want to have a stuffy cocktail list,” he said. “I want to keep the price point down. I’d like to offer a $10 to $12 cocktail but also crack open a beer and lay a shot out at you and you’re on your way.”

Bunton said he was involved in “cocktail culture” for a couple of years and he doesn’t “enjoy the attitude.”

“I want you to get your drink quickly and have a smile on your face and share a joke with us,” he said. “I don’t want to lecture you on spirits.”

He plans to have $5 happy hour specials, too, because of his desire to include everyone, especially from the neighborhood, he said. It’s just about a five-minute walk from community favorites like Birdy’s and Lonewolf, he said.

Bushwick was perfect for the new space because it’s young, it’s growing and rents are still cheap, and it “still feels like how New York used to feel in the late 1980s and early 90s . . . for better or worse,” he said.

The venue will be “on the fancier side for Bushwick,” but he says he’s taking pains to make it welcoming to everyone.

“Why I fell in love with nightlife and stayed in New York City is because you couldn’t tell a gay bar, Asian, Dominican, stockbroker, hip-hop, fashion or music bar apart because everybody was hanging out,” he said. “Money wasn’t a factor and there was no class issue involved. Bars weren’t so compartmentalized 20 years ago. I want everybody up there dancing and losing their minds.”

Before launching his eponymous kayak-manufacturing company in 2003, Eric Jackson spent a day in California soaking up the wisdom of one of America's most revered entrepreneurs. Yvonne Chouinard, founder of Patagonia, had agreed to act as informal adviser to the startup, based in Rock Island, Tennessee. Jackson, a first-time founder, sought his advice on subjects like sustainability and leadership.

Chouinard and Jackson have much in common. Both started their careers as athletes (Chouinard scaled rocks; Jackson shot rapids); then designed equipment for their sports; and then created businesses to serve practitioners of those sports. A more profound similarity is their belief that fiercely protecting work-life balance benefits both company owner and company.

"Yvonne talked to me about MBA--management by absence," recalls Jackson. "You can either be a domineering leader who knows what is going on at all times and enforces how things are done, or you can step back and let people have the ball and do it their way."

The step-back option suited Jackson. By the time Jackson Kayak launched, he had been living with his family for six years in an RV, motoring from river to roiling river to challenge new waves and train for competitions. Resolutely he had resisted pleas from his employer, a midsize kayak manufacturer, to work from the confines of an office. Chouinard's experience encouraged Jackson to believe he could run his own business the same way.

Jackson Kayak employs 185 people and does $23 million in annual sales. Jackson says he expects to hit $100 million in a few years. The company competes aggressively on innovation. "For every new model our competitors make, we make three," says Jackson. "A lot of accountants would look at that and say, you need to slow that down. But it is our tool for growth.”
Eric Jackson's most important tool for growth -- personal as well as business -- is a lifestyle document concept he and his wife began developing in 1996, when they were questioning the traditional ways of going about achieving goals and living life. Titled Life Without Compromise, it ranks both spouses' priorities and states that all decisions will be based on those rankings. Jackson's top four priorities are 1) his wife 2) his kids 3) kayaking and 4) his company. Prioritizing in this way has freed him to spend at least 300 days each year chasing thrills on the water and developing ideas.
Prioritizing in this way has freed him to spend at least 300 days each year chasing thrills on the water and developing ideas. "You see on the list that my kayaking is more important than my business," Jackson says. "And that has been good for my business."
The beauty of Life Without Compromise, explains Jackson, is that "it guides you toward doing things that are mutually beneficial. So I find a way to do something that is good for both my kids and my kayaking, or for my kayaking and my business." Life becomes a series of "ands" instead of "ors."

The Jacksons still spend most of the spring and summer traveling together in their RV. The couple finally built a house in 2006, from which Jackson works much of the fall and winter, when kayaking falls off in other regions.

When Jackson is home he will pop into the factory once a week to check on things, particularly prototypes he's working on. True to form, he has no office there. "If I spend time at the factory I'm going to see things I want to do differently," says Jackson, echoing Patagonia's Chouinard. "Then I'm on the road and gone and the managers have to deal with it. Better if I'm not there much."

As for Jackson's kids (priority 2), they are deeply involved in priorities 3 and 4. Both Emily and Dane are professional kayakers. Dane, who is now 25 and travels on his own path around the world to events and expeditions, has won the freestyle world championship and the Whitewater Grand Prix twice. Emily also has dominated many tournaments, including the 2013 Payette River Games in Idaho, where she took first place while nine months pregnant. Both are influencers for the business and work on marketing and social media.

Jackson's competition schedule is no less grueling than it was 33 years ago. In November he competed with both his children and his son-in-law at the world kayaking championships in Argentina. He is on the fishing tour as well. Those commitments have not prevented him from opening a second $6.5 million manufacturing facility in Sparta, Tennessee.

Jackson has, on occasion, attended the Summit Series: an invitation-only event for creative people and business leaders that attracts the likes of Richard Branson and Ted Turner. "There are a lot of entrepreneurs there, and when you talk to these people you realize they know how to grow a business quickly and sell it," says Jackson. "But they seem most interested in talking to me about how they can redesign their life to be happy and successful in other areas."

Jackson believes he has life figured out, and it's simple. Decide what things matter most to you. Then design your world around them.  "I am free to change my priorities at any time," says Jackson. "I have never changed my priorities."

Jackson returned to an old love: bass fishing, which he learned as a kid from a neighbor in Florida. Now he is pursuing a national championship in that sport. To accompany his quest, Jackson in 2011 launched a line of fishing kayaks, which comprise the fastest-growing part of the business.

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SPONSORSHIP & MEDIA For sponsorship, interviews and event coverage requests, media please contact WORKHOUSE, Adam Nelson via [email protected] or by telephone +1 212. 645. 8006
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August 14-18  Film kayak fishing, camping, exploring for Dickies in Ontario 
August 20-31 Teach advanced Whitewater kayaking on Ottawa River in Canada
September 1-4 Ottawa River filming
September 6-13 Rock Island, TN. Fishing training & whitewater kayaking
September 14-17 Gauley River Festival
September 19-22 Filming TV Show (Fishing University)
September 24-27 JK Dealer Summit (House Party)
October Farewell trip to White Nile in Uganda (whitewater & environment trip)
October 21 Run Marine Corps Marathon with wife and daughter 
November/December Training for 2019 Fishing Season
January 5-13 FLW Tour Event #1- Brookland, TX
February 2-10 FLW #2. Kissimmee, Florida
March 2-10 FLW #3 Bainbridge, GA
March 16-17 USA Freestyle Kayak Team Trials- Rock Island, TN
March 23-31 FLW #4 Grove, OK
April 6-14  FLW #5 Jefferson City, TN
April 27-May 5 FLW #6  Dayton, TN
May 10-20 Training for World Freestyle Kayak Championships
June 22-30  FLW #7 Plattsburg, NY  
July 2-7 World Freestyle Kayak Championships- Sort, Spain

Some might wonder how Dane and Emily Jackson became dominate forces in competition kayaking. The answer is simple: take the genes of kayaking legend Eric Jackson and add a lifetime of practice. Literally a lifetime. In 1998, when Dane was only around five years old, the family made a drastic change. Selling their house and all non-essential possessions, they bought an RV and began a non-stop road trip, traveling with EJ on the paddling competition circuit. Homeschooled by their mother Kristine, the children lived and breathed kayaking as they grew up driving from river to river. So this short video, narrated by the Jackson kids, may have a moral: If you want to dominate the kayaking world, try growing up in a kayak.
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With any cultural moment these days comes merch, and news, for better or worse, is having a moment.

​Sacai has a mini-collection of hoodies and Ts featuring The New York Times’ post-Trump election “Truth” campaign, which included a takeover of a Saks Fifth Avenue window. Then there’s the Newseum’s sale of shirts trying to make an ironic point of the “Fake News” rhetoric that’s somehow become a mainstay of public discourse.

Now, it’s a limited collaboration between the nonprofit Freedom of the Press Foundation and boutique public relations agency Workhouse, resulting in a “Free Press” T-shirt. A portion of the sales will be donated to the Press foundation, which was founded by a group of press advocates, including Daniel Ellsberg, of Pentagon Papers fame. Glenn Greenwald, founder of The Intercept; Laura Poitras, a journalist and the director behind the documentary “Citizenfour,” and Edward Snowden, the former intelligence officer who leaked information about government security programs, all count as board FPF board members.

Trevor Timm, a cofounder and a journalist, noted that the T-shirts come at a time when “one party controls three branches of government, so the fourth estate, the press, is really the last mechanism that the public has to force accountability on government.”

Of course, no T-shirt can actually do that, but by wearing them, Adam Nelson, founder and chief executive officer of Workhouse, thinks people won’t have to be silent about their beliefs. “In times of true cowardice, I think it’s important to wear your heart on your sleeve.”  

And as a branding expert, one that also works with the press as a matter of course, the collaboration with the FPF came about simply because he couldn’t stand to see the industry undermined so constantly. But his frustration with the relatively subdued and staid response by the journalism community to Trump’s furious and constant lambasting of all information he dislikes also seems to have played a part.

“What I find strange, from our community of wordsmiths and incredibly capable, probing investigative journalists, is the silence,” Nelson said. “Yes, there are some amazing docs like the ‘The Fourth Estate’ where you see how hard it is to wrestle with this time [in news], and yet everything we’ve been built upon [as a country] is the courage to stand and speak. Fear and anxiety and so many outside factors, corporate interests and relationships, have stood in the way of a kind of transparency to do just that.”

And part of him sees this as a pretty classic branding problem that hasn’t been combated aggressively enough, especially since Trump seems to be fluent in some classic advertising strategies.

“In a weird way, we must all take pages from the playbooks of the past if Trump’s point of view on this is repetition and couching terminology from the advertising industry,” Nelson added. “I think every journalist could embrace the idea that there is a branding crisis here, when the largest mic in the room is shouting down journalists, calling them fake and disgusting.”

Even though there are a lot of pins and stickers and shorts and hats on both sides of the political divide, Nelson hopes that that a simple message of “free press” will further concentrate a collaborative effort in the journalism community to not only defend their work but to push back against Trump’s “war” on the media. More than 100 U.S. newspapers are set on Thursday to publish editorials lambasting Trump. Maybe someone will send the newsrooms free T-shirts.

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WORKHOUSE is proud to support the independent voice of our national media. Through the creation of the #FreePress pullover, we underscore our firm commitment to journalists everywhere who should remain uncontrolled or restricted by government censorship or politics. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of the #FreePress Pullover will benefit Freedom of the Press Foundation, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization created to protect and defend adversarial journalism in the 21st century. Freedom of the Press uses crowdfunding, digital security, and internet advocacy to support journalists and whistleblowers worldwide. To learn more about the Freedom of the Press Foundation visit the organization here https://freedom.press 
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