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August 17, 2016 — October 30, 2016
Exhibition features 30 inmate portraits and images by photographer Nick Vedros.
Salina Art Center programs, exhibitions and films are presented in part by Salina Art Center donors; the Horizons Grants Program of Salina Arts & Humanities and by the City of Salina.
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July 17—September 17, 2016
Guest Curator: Grace Aneiza Ali, Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
Un | Fixed Homeland brings together an inter-generational roster of thirteen emerging and established Guyanese artists who, via photography and photography-based art, examine the complex relationship to “homeland.” These artists explore how a “homeland” can be both fixed and unfixed, a constantly shifting idea and memory, and a physical place and a psychic space. The exhibition’s title reflects the emergence of the Caribbean diaspora in metropolitan cities around the world and speaks to what has become the defining global movement of the 21st century – migration.
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OPENING RECEPTION:
FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 2016
7:00PM–10:00PM
EXHIBIT:
JUNE 24–AUGUST 27, 2016
CEPA Gallery, in collaboration with Visual Studies Workshop (VSW) and Squeaky Wheel Film and Media Arts Center, is pleased to present Revisitations to a Vacuum’s Nest, a selection of vintage photographs from VSW’s archives by legendary Japanese avant-gardist Eikoh Hosoe. The exhibition will take place from June 24 — August 27, 2016 throughout CEPA’s Flux and Passageway galleries. An opening reception will take place on Friday, June 24 from 7-10pm.
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Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art is pleased to present Viewpoints 2016, a juried exhibition by Studio Montclair. The exhibit will featured the work of 100 American and international artists.
The opening reception and award ceremony on Saturday, June 11th from 6 to 9pm, is expected to welcome hundreds of art lovers, collectors, curators, and participating artists.
Exhibition juror Mary Birmingham, curator at the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, finds “ViewPoints” the perfect word to define this show, since artists offer “their unique perspectives on the world and on the art making process” and let us see through their eyes. “By switching up viewpoints, exploring different mediums and adopting distinctive styles, artists continually seek fresh ways of looking and seeing.”
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Weekends May 7 through June 12, Creative Time and the Brooklyn Navy Yard will present Fly By Night, artist Duke Riley’s public artwork of unprecedented scale and beauty.Fly By Night will be Riley’s largest project to date.
Friday through Sunday evenings at dusk, a massive flock of pigeons will elegantly twirl, swoop, and glide above the East River, as Riley orchestrates a series of performances occurring regularly throughout late spring. At the call of a whistle, thousands of birds will emerge from their home in a grand, converted historic boat docked at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The pigeons will circle above the river as the sun sets over Manhattan, and small leg bands, historically used to carry messages, will be replaced with tiny LED lights, illuminating the sky in a transcendent union of public art and nature.
Image courtesy of Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center
The Dapper Comes To The Walkers
May 19, 2016 – August 7, 2016
Press Review: May 19, 2016 at 6:00 pm
Dapper Bruce LaFitte, formerly Bruce Davenport, Jr. was born in 1972 and grew up in the Lafitte Housing Projects in the 6th Ward. With the encouragement of his grandparents who raised him, he began to draw at the age of five as a means to entertain himself and document the world around him. Following Hurricane Katrina and the devastation to New Orleans and its schools, LaFitte felt compelled to honor the past glory of this unique band culture and celebrate those who are able to continue it. In his words, “The marching bands are a passion to me. I love the history and culture… My work serves as an illustrative reminder of an activity that not only encourages creative thought processing but also engages youth with the community and with each other. Using photographic documentation of these bands in action, I recreate their vibrant pageantry… hopefully leaving behind a sacred reminder of a vibrant part of my hometown’s identity.” LaFitte’s vivid color marker drawings provide detailed reenactments – the bands in precise number and formation and the multitude of spectators surrounding them.
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Opening Reception:
Saturday April 23, 2016
8:00pm-11:00pm
Exhibit: April 23rd -May 29, 2016
CEPA Gallery’s Big Orbit Project Space is pleased to present Civics, an exhibition of sculpture and photographic work by Brooklyn-based artist Joseph Bochynski from April 23 — May 29, 2016. An opening reception with the artist will take place on Saturday, April 23 from 8-11pm at Big Orbit Project Space, located at the Essex Street Arts Complex.
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Leonardo Benzant: Afrosupernatural
Organized by Visiting Curator Dexter Wimberly
April 2 – April 30, 2016
Reception: Saturday, April 2, 2016, 5-8pm
Artist Talk: April 23, 2016. 2-4pm
Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art is pleased to present Leonardo Benzant: Afrosupernatural organized by Visiting Curator, Dexter Wimberly. Recognizing both his ties and disjunction from an ancestral past, Leonardo Benzant’s practice is driven by his connection to the trans African-Atlantic diaspora.
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Exhibit:
March 19–April 17, 2016
CEPA is pleased to present A Billion, an exhibition of sculpture, video, performance, and installation work by Buffalo-based artist Katherine Gaudy from March 19 — April 17, 2016. An opening reception with the artist will take place on Saturday, March 19 from 8-11pm at Big Orbit Project Space, located at the Essex Street Arts Complex.
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Visionary Artist: Teresita Fernández
Visionary Gallery: Marianne Boesky Gallery
Visionary Leader in the Arts: Ruby Lerner, President and Executive Director, Creative Capital
MONDAY, APRIL 11, 7PM-MIDNIGHT
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Feb 20 – Mar 26, 2016
LA><ART is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by Yaron Michael Hakim. Hovering between abstraction and figuration, Hakim’s latest body of work builds upon his ongoing interest in ritual, history, place, architecture, wanderlust, and the sublime. The artist’s work draws upon his personal history, namely his peripatetic rootlessness and interstitial experience of global culture. His new paintings incorporate elements drawn from the Los Angeles city scape, indigenous textiles and patterns, remote islands printed in an atlas, and figures in vintage Playboy magazines, among other sources. Painted on used Dacron polyester sailcloth and pinned directly on to the wall, these paintings use materials that subtly suggest a hidden narrative of movement and utility.
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Opening this week:
Invisible Presence: Bling Memories
February 17th, 2016-April 21, 2016
In her work, the Jamaica-born mixed-media artist Ebony G. Patterson recontextualizes gender norms and explores Jamaican dancehall culture. She creates highly entrancing, colorful pieces. Patterson represents the transformations of gender and body politics by blending tapestry, beading, sequins, crochet, and Internet-sourced images of violent murders. The resulting pieces seduce the viewer with mesmerizing, striking textures. “I’m hoping … to pull the viewer in to see further and raise questions about how we engage in the act of looking,” she has said. Patterson’s work thus elicits a civic awareness that raises the stakes for popular culture as a whole.
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Art in General
Ground Floor Gallery
145 Plymouth Street
Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY 11201
Art in General is pleased to announce the inaugural exhibition at its new ground floor gallery at 145 Plymouth Street in Dumbo, Brooklyn, opening on January 30th, 2016. The exhibition Beyond Credit is presented in partnership with the Center of Contemporary Art in Tbilisi, Georgia, as part of Art in General’s acclaimed International Collaborations Program.
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THE 5TH OF JULY
January 22, 2016 – May 1, 2016
Opening Reception: January 22, 2016 at 6:00 pm
Image courtesy of Lawndale Art Center
Read Me-Candace Hicks
Bread, Bath and Beyond-Emily Fleisher
A Library for Soft Rains-Jason Urban
Night Walk-The Center for Imaginative Cartography & Research
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Opening This Week:
SF Camerawork presents V+M, a multi-channel video and sound installation by renowned video artist John Sanborn with music composed by Theresa Wong. Organized by Joseph De Mario, V+M is the first San Francisco exhibition of the artist’s work in 25 years. V+M will be on view at SF Camerawork from November 13 through December 3, 2015.
V+M retells the myth of Venus and Mars. Their story has fascinated poets and philosophers as a mythic example of the balance between opposing energies — beauty and brutality, order and magic, grace and strength. V+M goes beyond the heteronormative code in order to get to the source material for the balance of power in relationships, the nature of myth making, and the origins of desire.
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Current Exhibition: Sacred Cartographies
The Art of Amalia Mesa-Bains
Mon 11/2 – Sun 12/20
Opening Reception & Artist Talk: November 2 | 8:00PM
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This Friday, October 30th, CEPA’s E. Huron Street studio loft, will feature current exhibiting artists Gregory Halpern, Ahndraya Parlato, and Nicholas Muellner.
This meet & greet will take place from 7-9:00 pm and will feature a parlor discussion on the intersections between visual language and written language, as well as the reemergence of the book as a primary vessel for the photographic image. CEPA Gallery will be hosting this unique event in conjunction with Gregory Halpern and Ahndraya Parlato’s exhibition East of the Sun, West of the Moon and Nicholas Muellner’s exhibition The Nautiloid Heart, at CEPA’s studio loft in the Burns Building located in downtown Buffalo. Unlike the standard auditorium style symposiums often conducted around exhibitions, this gathering will be more casual in nature. Guests and speakers will be seated amongst each other in the intimate setting of CEPA’s private space overlooking downtown Buffalo.
If you are interested in attending please RSVP to david@cepagallery.org with ‘INTERCHANGE’ in the subject line. Space is limited so RSVP’s will be honored on a first come/first served basis. E-mail confirmation will be provided by CEPA upon RSVP.
This event is free and open to the public. Complimentary beer, wine, and refreshments will be served.
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Celebrate the opening of Dis place, curated by Allison Davis and Ali Rosa-Salas, Selections from Revelations, a photography series by Kudzanai Chiurai, and HOW TO SUFFER POLITELY(And Other Etiquette), a print series by Kameelah Janan Rasheed. Sounds by DJK7, and beer lovingly provided by Brooklyn Brewery.
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Two Solo Exhibitions:
Honorem: Three Seasons at Black Forest Farm
Jeskyne
Exhibition Dates: September 26 – November 8, 2015
Smack Mellon presents Karin Giusti’s monumental installation Honorem: Three Seasons at Black Forest Farm and Michael Kukla’s first large scale site-specific project Jeskyne.
Karin Giusti’s installation Honorem: Three Seasons at Black Forest Farm addresses the emotions of grief and mourning in the public and private sphere. Using sculpture and photography, Giusti captures memories of her life at a remote farmhouse with her late partner Stephen G. Schwarz, a firefighter and 9/11 First Responder.
Michael Kukla’s installation, Jeskyne (Czech for “cave”), also takes cues from the formidable effects of time and nature. Exploring the elasticity and permeability of an object’s surface, Kukla creates an immersive web of cellular forms blended seamlessly into the gallery’s architecture. Like large fossils, these hand sculpted monochromatic façades compress time into positive and negative space.
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LAURA DAVIS: LEGACY OF LONELINESS
09/12/2015 – 10/24/2015
In Legacy of Loneliness Laura Davis responds to the history of female artists, herself included, working within the field of sculpture. The exhibit features a site-specific wall painting, two furniture based assemblage sculptures, a self portrait, and an installation of small wall works. Also shown for the first time are a series of Davis’ large graphite drawings on Stonehenge paper that layer the imagery found in such canon-establishing art anthologies such texts as Albert E. Elsen’s 1974 edition of Origins of Modern Sculpture, Pioneers and Premises.
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OPENING RECEPTION:
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2015
EXHIBIT:
SEPTEMBER 18–NOVEMBER 14, 2015
CEPA is pleased to present East of the Sun, West of the Moon, an exhibition of photographs by 2014 Guggenheim Fellow Gregory Halpern and Ahndraya Parlato.
The photographs in this series were made on the Solstices and Equinoxes of 2012 and 2013. They were made wherever the artists happened to be—their home, travelling, or wherever they found themselves on those four days of the year. The images in the project are inspired, on the one hand, by the idea of transition, and on the other, by the ideas of stillness and balance. While photographing, Halpern and Parlato also thought loosely about time, about how time looks and feels—time of day, time of year, time in the sense of a lifespan. Not surprisingly, certain themes recurred—birth and death, transition and renewal, lightness and darkness. East of the Sun, West of the Moon, the title of which is borrowed from a Norwegian folk tale, is anchored by the idea of trying to rely on two continually shifting landmarks as navigational guides, how disorienting that idea is, and how it creates an elusive or impossible place.
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Opening reception:
Saturday, September 12, 6–8pm
Art in General presents The Echoes, a New Commission by Nino Chubinishvili aka Chubika in the Storefront Project Space. The exhibition is presented as part of the International Collaborations program in partnership with the Center for Contemporary Art, Tbilisi, Georgia, and will mark the artist’s first institutional solo exhibition in the United States.
Integrating her diverse background in costuming and successful career as a fashion designer, Chubika’s artistic practice blends sculptural and theatrical elements with wearable utility. She maps the plasticity and expressive potentialities of unconventional materials onto familiar objects, distancing them from associations with passive consumption. The artist’s affective installations, sculptures, animations, and collaborative performances aim to transmit spiritual ideas at a subconscious level, where performative objects reveal hidden messages over time. Her work’s relationship to metaphor is an embodied and self-reflexive one, best absorbed subliminally by those who occupy the garments or installations.
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September 4, 2015 – October 17, 2015
Richmond-based, South African artist Siemon Allen studies the sustainability of the archive as a way to consider what the move towards digital music formats means for the accessibility of earlier analog forms, such as vinyl.
Second Street Gallery will host a large-scale installation of Allen’s extensive album curtain devoted to the history of South African music in the 20th and 21st centuries. This work is an extension of a project that Allen first installed in the Slave Lodge in Cape Town, and later presented in the Venice Biennial in 2011.This work has never been shown in the United States. It will have a sound component, project space, and reading room.
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LAURA DAVIS: LEGACY OF LONELINESS
09/12/2015 – 10/24/2015
Laura Davis is a Chicago based artist whose work examines the intersection of craft, design and art by using display structures to conflate notions of value and context through sculpture, drawing and installation. Davis’ most recent solo exhibition, Histrionic Renovation, was a site-specific installation created for the Mies van der Rohe designed McCormick house at the Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL. She has been featured in many group exhibitions including Homebodies at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and Two Histories of the World (Part 2) at Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago. Her work has been written about in Art in America, the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Art 21 Blog, Art Slant and in 2013 Jason Foumberg selected her as a “Breakout Artist” for Newcity. Davis received her MFA from the University of Chicago in 2004, her BFA from The Cleveland Institute of Art in 1996 and teaches in the department of Contemporary Practices at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
July 16 – August 22
MAP’s Program Advisory Committee (PAC) curates Young Blood, an annual exhibition of works by recent Baltimore-area Masters of Fine Art graduates. The exhibition includes emerging artists from area colleges such as Maryland Institute College of Art and The University of Maryland College Park. Since 2008 this program has continually brought recent graduates together to make new connections and present special selections from their graduate exhibitions. According to MAP’s former Program Advisory Chair, Cara Ober, “After achieving their Masters the next most important step for young artists is their professional debut in a reputable professional gallery.” Since 2008, Young Blood has provided a meritorious exhibition experience for over 45 artists.
This years Young Blood Artists are: Amanda Agricola , OluShola A. Cole, L. E. Doughtie, Alex Ebstein, Rob Hackett, Magali Hébert-Huot, Christine Wolfe Weller.
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Exhibition Dates: July 17 – September 13, 2015
Opening Reception: Friday, July 17, 5-8pm
Curated by Sarah Fritchey with Titus Kaphar & Leland Moore
The selected artworks use serial repetition as a strategy for showcasing how one action, repeated over time, may accumulate, spread, or evolve into another version of its original self. The show situates repetition as an aesthetic arena within which artists can show difference within a shared experience, or pursue its opposite, replicating an image in perpetuity until it is emptied of meaning. Read through this critical lens, the works produce a variety of affects– pacifying, enraging, seducing, neutralizing, and leaving the viewer on inconclusive ground. The show focuses on repetition and replication, and to recognize how a system might evolve into a new version of itself over time.
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As They Are: Portraits by Mel Leipzig
July 16–September 5, 2015
Opening Reception Thursday, July 16, 6–9pm
Mel Leipzig has been concerned with the figure, painted directly from life, for over 40 years. As They Are: Portraits by Mel Leipzig focuses on the characteristic informality of his subject against a backdrop of architectural detail and highly skewed perspective. The paintings are at once disconcertingly familiar and unfamiliar.
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CEPA Gallery, in partnership with Dean Brownrout Modern/Contemporary is presenting an exhibition and sale of photographic artwork by artist Hollis Frampton. The event takes place June 20-September 5, 2015 at CEPA Gallery, 617 Main Street, Buffalo, New York.
The exhibition and sale is the first comprehensive survey of the late artist’s print work in over 30 years. Many pieces in the exhibit have never been presented in a gallery setting.Hollis Frampton (1936-1984) is an avant-garde icon—a pioneering filmmaker, art theorist, and photographer. He was on the SUNY Buffalo Department of Media Study faculty from 1973-1984.
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Jun 20 – Aug 15, 2015
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Opening reception Jun 11, 6-8pm JUNE 11 – JULY 25
White Columns is proud to present a solo exhibition by the New York-based artist Kate Manheim. Best known for her work as an actress and performer, Manheim began her career as an artist. Manheim’s exhibition at White Columns features the complete cycle of more than 50 individual paintings produced in the mid 1990s made on found cardboard supports. Works from this series have been shown only once before at the Court House Gallery at Anthology Film Archives, New York in 1996.
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Curated by Shlomit Dror
Exhibition dates: June 13 – July 26, 2015
Artists’ reception: Saturday, June 13, 5-8pm
Gallery hours: Wed-Sun, 12-6pm
Storytelling is a universal desire of which sharing experiences, whether pertaining to heritage, traveling journeys, or day-to-day accounts, is a natural habit we communicate in many ways, including oral traditions, or more prominently today on social media. Personal and collective stories expressed through speech, text, objects and visual documentation, connect readers or listeners with places and moments that the author may present as fictional, real, or both.
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Contemporary Photography
Wednesday, May 27, 2015 – Sunday, July 5, 2015
Opening Reception: Friday, June 5, 6-10pm
Galería de la Raza is pleased to present The Q-Sides, an exhibition of photographs and film that challenge long-held assumptions regarding the traditional exclusivity of heterosexuality in lowrider culture. Artists Vero Majano, DJ Brown Amy (Amy Martinez), and Kari Orvik reinterpret the album covers of East Side Story, Volumes 1-12 through a re-staging and re-imagining of queer inclusion within the traditionally heterosexual public image of lowrider culture.
Image courtesy of Second Street Gallery
June 5, 2015 – May 30, 2015
First Friday opening Reception
June 5, 2015
Public Opening 6 – 7:30 pm
June 12, 2015
1:15 pm
Alec Soth is a photographer born and based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His photographs have been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including the 2004 Whitney and São Paulo Biennials. In 2008, a large survey exhibition of Alec’s work was exhibited at Jeu de Paume in Paris and Fotomuseum Winterthur in Switzerland. In 2010, the Walker Art Center produced a large survey exhibition of his work titled From Here To There. Alec’s first monograph, Sleeping by the Mississippi, was published by Steidl in 2004 to critical acclaim.
Image courtesy of Ajira, Inc.. “Lady Gaga” by Zeren Badar
Studio Montclair Presents Viewpoints 2015
June 4 – July 1, 2015
Studio Montclair’s 18th Annual Open Juried Exhibition, ViewPoints 2015, features the work of 100 artists from New Jersey and other states.
An opening reception and award ceremony will be held on Saturday, June 6, from 6-9pm.
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In celebration of annual Pride month and in honor of National HIV/AIDS Long-Term Survivor Day (June 5th), SF Camerawork is proud to present the Long-Term Survivor Project. Taking place from June 4 – July 18, 2015, this is an exhibition and public programing series addressing the experiences of HIV survivorship in our society.
Grahame Perry, Hunter Reynolds, Frank Yamrus
Opening Reception: Thursday, June 4, 2015, 6-8 PM
Image courtesy of San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art
Amy M. Ho will create a hyper-artificial environment that envelops the viewer and transforms the sense of space by projected light and shadows.
San Francisco-based artist Amy M. Ho uses video projections and/or architectural manipulations to explore light and spatial relationships. Red Rooms is an immersive, hyper-artificial environment that envelops the viewer and transforms the sense of space by projected light and shadows. Red Rooms is a two-channel video projection that was created by the artist photographing two views of a miniature architectural model lit in two different ways – one from in front and another from behind.
May. 23 – Sep. 12, 2015
Cardinale Project Room
Opening Reception
Sunday, May 31
1-4pm
Free and open to the public.
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Exhibition:
May 16, 2015 – June 27, 2015
Musée Minuscule
Art in General is pleased to present Myopia’s Toil with Katie Torn in the Musée Minuscule.
New York-based artist Katie Torn integrates animation, 3D computer graphics, and video to model virtually simulated scenes out of the detritus of internet and consumer culture. Collecting elements available online, Torn’s digital assemblages carry traces of web browsing histories. Referencing the Modernist traditions of Cubism and Futurism in her avatars and abstractions, fantasy worlds and sci-fi simulations are conflated with 20th century investigations into pictorial space.
Image courtesy of Midway Contemporary Arts Center
Image courtesy The Center For Women and Their Work
Olivia Martin Moore
Between Here and There
May 16 – July 2, 2015
Opening Reception
Saturday, May 16 at 7 PM
This exhibition culminates a body of work Olivia Martin Moore began in Berlin. Moore incorporates ephemera–such as poster advertisements and postcards collected while in Berlin–with traditional sculpture materials to create an immersive audio-visual installation. Moore collaborated with sound artist Zac Traeger to synthesize visual and aural colors and textures. The sculptures transform humble materials into an atmospheric portrait of two cities and the space between them and, at the same time, reflect on the history of the German Democratic Republic.
Image courtesy of Cepa Gallery
OPENING RECEPTION: FRIDAY, MAY 22, 2015 8:00PM–11:00PM
EXHIBIT: MAY 22–MAY 31, 2015
CEPA Gallery is pleased to present T-Shirt on TV an exhibition by John Overton Burns, Erich Haneberg, and Dan Carey at CEPA’s Big Orbit Project Space. T-shirt on TV depicts the influence of pop culture on the works of artists John Overton Burns, Dan Carey and Erich Haneberg. All three artists use 1980’s iconography as the subject matter in their vibrant, quirky and somewhat comical salutes to TV personalities, game shows and movies.
Image courtesy of Kansas City Artist Coalition
MAY 8 – JUNE 19, 2015
PATRICK SCHMIDT. A site-specific installation using digitally generated drawing on colored vinyl or cloth tape. Schmidt uses pattern as metaphor for economic, social, and ethnic identifiers. He explores the ideas of space by considering how we perceive, interact, and experience paintings and drawings within a specific context. The structure and format of the current works explore relationships in-between defined disciplines while creating a space in which to play. Digitalization adds a utilitarian element to his work, thus equalizing the existing classifications. Much of the work is interactive in that the viewer has to move around the work in some way to fully engage. For the drawing installation(s) as the viewer walks into the space they walk into the work itself by walking on the drawing. His primary research interests focus on juxtapositions, how color affects perception, material, patterns as cultural motifs, and how technology is changing visual culture.
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May 09-June 13 2015
Transformer presents Interspatial, a group show curated and organized by Quota. Artists Rachel Schmidt, Johab Silva, and Levester Williams explore the concept of space, real and imagined, and how it can define, confine or spark transformation. The works exhibited respond to changing or unfamiliar landscapes, restrictive environments, population density and adapting to multiple facets of modernity. Founded by Dawne Langford and Avi Gupta, Quota is a curatorial collaboration dedicated to broadening cultural diversity in public discourse around artistic creation and representation.
Image courtesy of Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center
Endless Road: A Look at Nexus Press May 1-July 25, 2015
Curated by Daniel Fuller
Press preview: Thursday April 30, 2-4pm
Member preview hour: Friday May 1, 6-7pm
Public opening: Friday May 1, 7-9pm
Books live their lives. They are pored over, discussed, exchanged, and marked up—each page striving to create a bond between the artist and the reader. Unlike the standard temporal exhibition, the artist book and its ideas are continuously producing direct experiences with new publics. For 26 years Nexus Press brought the world to the South and the South out to the world. The exhibition Endless Road: A Look at Nexus Press will be the first presentation at Atlanta Contemporary Art Center exploring Nexus Press’ innovative work producing artists’ books.
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OFF THE CHAIN: AMERICAN ART UNFETTERED
May 1, 2015 – May 30, 2015
Please join us at Amy Sherald’s First Friday Opening Reception on May 1, 2015
Artist/Curator Conversation with Amy Sherald, Dr. Arturo Lindsay, and Tosha Grantham on Saturday, May 2, 2015 2-3 pm
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May 2 – May 20 2015
Photo courtesy of Cepa Gallery
CEPA Gallery’s Big Orbit Project Space will present Felice Koenig: Drawing Together curated by CS1 Curatorial Projects.
An opening reception will take place at Big Orbit Project Space on Friday, April 24th from 7-10pm. The gallery will be open for drawing sessions during the day prior to the artist reception. Over three weekends in the spring, Koenig will draw in real time with a series of participants, using the simple tools of youth – paper and colored markers. Sitting opposite one another and working simultaneously on the same piece of paper, the goal is to play as a means of creating news bonds. In this way, drawing becomes social practice.
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Maryland Art Place’s Annual Spring Benefit, Silent Auction and Party!
APRIL 24, 2015 at 7PM
Maryland Art Place’s Annual Spring Benefit, Silent Auction and Party! Join us at this year’s Out of Order event on Friday, April 24, 2015 at 7PM to view and bid on works from a wide range of regional artists – from emerging and student artists to established professionals.
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Locust Projects is pleased to announce its third year of Locust Talks, a lecture series that hosts visiting directors and curators from innovative institutions across the country and internationally for public lectures at the gallery space followed by individual studio visits with local artists, fostering a rigorous critical dialogue about art in the community.
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Rachel Domm – Window Diary – Published by Nieves
April 17, 2015 6:00-8:00 PM
Rachel Domm’s Window Diary is a series of 365 drawings of windows for every day of 2014. Throughout the year, the artist drew the view from the window of her apartment in Brooklyn and from her numerous travels — from Sweden to Miami to Cameroon to The Åland Islands to India. In all, there are 15 different cities from 4 different continents chronicled in the book, making it a travel journal as well. It records the change in season from snowy days in January to rainy days in April and hot days in August. While the scenes are objective, the view is personal and contemplative, even though it looks outside instead of inside.
Image Courtesy of Space Gallery
American Greetings Fine Arts Show
Saturday, April 18, 2015, 12:00PM – 5:00PM
Enjoy the art and literary work created by the talented associates of American Greetings.
American Greetings 36th Fine Arts Show is a juried exhibition featuring the personal works of American Greetings artists and writers.
An annual Cleveland tradition, this show is a testament to the artistic and literary talent of one of the largest and most prolific creative studios in the world, headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio.
Works on view through April 18 – May 3, 2015.
Image courtesy of Charlotte Street
Yeah, No, I Mean It: Time, Situation, Dexterity is a three-day performance art symposium hosted at Charlotte Street’s la Esquina Gallery on the evenings of April 16th, 17th, and 18th from 7-9pm. Each night, local performance artists will generate live work within the gallery, alongside nationally recognized visiting performance artists. These performances will range in aesthetics, concepts, and duration: from the highly visual and loud, to the quiet and contemplative. This symposium is designed to highlight and expand the local and national conversation about contemporary performance art practice, through three days of making and discussing the local and national ecology of emerging performance art. Yeah, No, I Mean It: Time, Situation, Dexterity is curated by Kansas City-based artist Jessica Borusky.
Image courtesy of San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art
Talking Art: And the Beat Goes On…
Thursday, April 16
7pm
The exhibition includes nearly 100 prints and related ephemera, which Conner produced throughout his 60-year career. Characterized by experimentation and a healthy dose of subversion, Conner’s work with prints demonstrates his obsession with fully exploring and pushing the limits of an idea.
And the beat goes on… will be a conversation among today’s Bay Area artists who, continuing in the vein of Conner’s unconventional ideas, are taking a creative approach to printmaking. This new generation of artists incorporates printing and printmaking techniques in unexpected ways both conceptually and formally.
17th Latino Art Now! : April 3 – May 16, 2015
This long-running and popular exhibition, a survey of the best contemporary art from Bay Area, national, and international Latino artists, coincides with the celebration of MACLA’s 25th anniversary as one of the leading community arts centers in the West Coast.This year’s exhibition reflects the breadth of visual arts media for which MACLA is known. It includes New York-based photographers Remy Amezcua and Dulce Pinzón; multi-media/mixed-media artists Carmen Argote, Cristina Velásquez, Linda Vallejo, and Yvonne Escalante; muralists Juana Alicia and Wayne Alaniz Healy; Bay Area printmaker Melanie Cervantes; glass artist Jaime Guerrero, and much more.
Photo by Rachel Rampleman
Saturday April 11, 2015 from 7-10pm there is an artist reception at CEPA Gallery and Squeaky Wheel in the Market Arcade galleries. Related programming and screening schedules will be announced in the coming weeks.
Rampleman’s work frequently showcases strong female personalities—women who are simultaneously aberrant and superhuman—who challenge the common clichés of masculinity and femininity and who often assume roles typically associated with men. This is a landscape where sexual braggadocio, heavy-metal rock stardom, or muscularity have become characteristic of feminine prowess.
Gallery Margret: Chronicle of an Affair – May 1969 to December 1970
Organized in collaboration with Galerie Susanne Zander / Delmes & Zander, Cologne.
White Columns in collaboration with Galerie Susanne Zander / Delmes & Zander, Cologne + Berlin, presents the American debut of “Margret: Chronicle of an Affair – May 1969 to December 1970″, an extraordinary collection of found materials relating to a private affair conducted between a German businessman and his secretary in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
SF Camerawork and Galería de la Raza present Existe lo que tiene nombre: Contemporary Photography in Mexico. Organized by San Francisco-based curator Sergio De La Torre and Tijuana-based curator Javier Ramírez Limón, the exhibition will be on view at SF Camerawork from April 2 through May 23, 2015. A 200-page catalog will accompany the exhibition. Comprised of over 50 photographic and video works produced within the past decade, this is the US debut for many of the exhibiting artists.
Image courtesy of Mitchell Syrop and Midway Contemporary Art
Midway Contemporary Art presents an exhibition of Mitchell Syrop’s new work, It is better to shine than to reflect. The exhibition, as Midway Contemporary Art describes it, “brings together a new installation of his high school yearbook series from the 1970s with his photographic work from the early 1980s that was influenced by the advertising strategies and mechanisms of that period. Syrop began combining text and image in the mid-1970s following his move from New York to Los Angeles. His interest in public advertising developed as a young student in New York, and became an explicit focus in his work once he started graduate school at CalArts where he gained access to film and image reproduction technology. The availability of such technology, combined with the scale and breadth of LA’s advertising and television industries, was of particular importance to Syrop. In 1976 he created a short film, Watch It, Think It, that was 6 seconds long and was eventually edited for commercial broadcast on a local television station. The short sequence portrays a woman smiling and drinking from a glass of water within rapidly shifting graphic transitions. A voiceover repeats, “Watch it… Think It… Watch it… Think it”. Like some of the other works on view, the ambiguous nature of this pseudo commercial allows for numerous readings. Disconnected from any product, this work links itself to presentational modes at use in advertising.”
It is better to shine than to reflect is on view through October 25th.
Image courtesy of Mitchell Syrop and Midway Contemporary Art
Image courtesy of Mitchell Syrop and Midway Contemporary Art
Image courtesy of Mitchell Syrop and Midway Contemporary Art
Image courtesy of Mitchell Syrop and Midway Contemporary Art
Image courtesy of Bradford Young and Creative Time
Image courtesy of Otabenga Jones & Associates and Creative Time
Creative Time in partnership Weeksville Heritage Foundation in Brooklyn, New York has created a month long walkable exhibition entitled Funk, God, Jazz, and Medicine: Black Radical Brooklyn. The exhibition, which is comprised of four community-based commissions by artists Xenobia Bailey, Simone Leigh, Otabenga Jones & Associates, and Bradford Young will be closing on October 12th. From the Creative Time website: “Black Radical Brooklyn launched from the site of Weeksville, a Brooklyn community established by free and formerly enslaved Black citizens 11 years after abolition in New York State. Black Radical Brooklyn drew inspiration not only from this story- achieving self-determination through the claiming and holding of a neighborhood- but also from radical local battles for land and dignity from the 1960s to today.”
Image courtesy of Simone Leigh and Creative Time
Image courtesy of Printed Matter
Image courtesy of Printed Matter
Once again Printed Matter hosted the hugely successful NY Art Book Fair this weekend at MoMA PS1. The event boasted over 35,000 visitors in its four day run. This year the fair hosted NORWAY FOCUS: KUNSTNERBØKER, a curated selection of 23 Norwegian booksellers, institutions, artists and independent publishers. From the NY Art Book Fair website “This year’s NY Art Book Fair includes an ever-growing variety of exhibitors – from the zinesters in (XE)ROX & PAPER + SCISSORS and the Small Press Dome representing publishing at its most innovative and affordable, to rare and antiquarian dealers offering out-of-print books and ephemera from art and artist book history.” Beyond its numerous exhibitors, the fair also hosted a DJ set by JD Samson, and live sets by Thurston Moore & James Nares and Gang Gang Dance on the steps of PS1.
Image courtesy of Printed Matter
Image courtesy of Printed Matter
Image courtesy of Printed Matter
Mika Tajima, Total Body Conditioning, installation view, 2014. Photo: Charles Benton. Image courtesy of Art in General.
Now open at Art in General is Total Body Conditioning, an exhibition by Mika Tajima. As Art in General describes it, the exhibition is “comprised of three scenes—display, work, and fitness—that invoke technologies developed to control and affect the body. These are techniques that shape bodily experience of time and space, taking the human body as a target of power. The works in the exhibition include hot tub painting objects, a series of abstract woven textile portraits, and transparent paintings set to changing ambient lighting and sound sequences. Each scene in the exhibition traces the management of the body in different spaces and temporal contexts from factory assembly lines to therapeutic “after work” locations.”
http://www.artingeneral.org/exhibitions/576
Mika Tajima, Total Body Conditioning, installation view, 2014. Photo: Charles Benton. Image courtesy of Art in General.
Mika Tajima, Total Body Conditioning, installation view, 2014. Photo: Charles Benton. Image courtesy of Art in General.
image courtesy of Locust Projects
Locust Projects presents Sunday in the Park, featuring Sarah Crowner in collaboration with Sari Carel, and Exile Books, opening on Saturday, September 13th, in Miami, Florida. From the Locust Project website, “Hung with colorful voile curtains and painted backdrops alluding to park-like landscapes, the installation takes its cues from stage design. While the title refers to a fictional work of theater, Crowner’s work focuses on the material aspects of stagecraft rather than performance itself.”
Mika Tajima, Total Body Conditioning, digital rendering, 2014, image courtesy the artist and Eleven Rivington
On view from Saturday, September 13th, until Saturday, October 25th, 2014, is Total Body Conditioning, an exhibition featuring Mika Tajima at Art in General in New York City. The exhibition is composed of three scenes that explore the management of the body in “different spaces and temporal contexts from factory assembly lines to therapeutic ‘after work’ locations”. More from the Art in General website, “Total Body Conditioning refers to the complete investment of the body, taking the Greek practice ‘to care for oneself’ into the Foucauldian register of discipline and control exacted on the self—where individual practices of freedom are intertwined with modes of domination.”
Pepe Mar, The Nose, 2012, collage, paint, and glue in shadow box, 32.5 x 42 x 6.5 inches, courtesy of David Castillo Gallery
Opening on Saturday, September 6th at DiverseWorks in Houston, Texas, is Pepe Mar: Parco dei Mostri. Mar’s works draws from a collection of diverse cultures, having been born in Mexico and raised in border towns, to attending the California College of the Arts and Florida International University in Miami, where he’s currently based. For his project with DiverseWorks, Mar “will create a large-scale, immersive installation that brings his sculptures to life.” The exhibition will be on view until Saturday, October 25th, 2014.
Ala Ebtekar, Returning of the Sun, 2010, image courtesy of Southern Exposure and the artist
Azin Seraj, image courtesy of Southern Exposure and the artist
Theory of Survival: Fabrications will be on view from Friday, September 5th until Saturday, October 25th, 2014, at Southern Exposure in San Francisco, California. From the Southern Exposure website, “Fabrications is a pop-up bazaar drawing inspiration from a traditional Persian marketplace. Taraneh Hemami, in this latest iteration of her Theory of Survivalproject, invites twelve California-based Iranian artists to join her in engaging with Iranian political and cultural historical moments, exploring decades of collective activism and revolutionary actions inside Iran and in its larger diaspora.” Participating artists include Morehshin Allahyari, Ali Dadgar, Ala Ebtekar, Amir H. Fallah, Arash Fayez, Hushidar Mortezaie, Gelare Khoshgozaran, Sanaz Mazinani, Amitis Motevalli, Haleh Niazmand, Azin Seraj, and Taravat Talepasand.
image courtesy of Transformer gallery
Promised Land, an exhibition hosting twelve east-coast based artists responding to current national issues as inspired by Asbury Park, New Jersey, will come down on Sunday, September 7th. The exhibition, put on by Transformer, featured Jane Carver, Kevin Darmanie, Dahlia Elsayed, Alison Kuo, Mike Richison, Raul Romero, Jessica Segall, Crystal Stokowski, Scot Szegeski, Lisa Marie Thalhammer, Tang, and John Vigg.
Nick Kline, installation for Boys' Shirts, image courtesy of the artist and Printed Matter
Nick Kline, from the series Boys' Shirts, image courtesy of the artist and Printed Matter
On Friday, September 4th, Nick Kline will install a window presentation at Printed Matter, Inc. The installation, a combination of photographs and prints, as well as artist’ publications and a neon sign, will be on view until September 12th. The presentation “emerges out of two recent collaborative book projects – To Be Alive and Forget This and he – both of which engage themes around boyhood and loss.”
Joseph Hart, Untitled (06), 2014. Pigmented linen pulp on cotton base sheet, 40x30 inches. Image courtesy the artist and Dieu Donné.
Part 1 of an exhibition of the 2014 Workspace Program at Dieu Donné will open in New York on Tuesday, August 26th, with a reception on September 4th, from 6-8PM. The Workspace Program allows emerging New York state based artists to explore the art of papermaking and produce a body of work. Part 1 will feature artists Joseph Hart and Tamara Zahaykevich and will be on view until October 3rd. Part 2 will feature Emily Noelle Lambert and Lael Marshall, and will open on Monday, November 10th and close Saturday, January 10, 2015, with a reception on November 20th from 6-8PM.
Image for TAG: Round 2, 2014, by Jess Hirsch and Cassie Thornton, courtesy of the artists
PLF: Studio, 2014, photo by Jake Beckman, image courtesy of the artist
Horoscope, 2012, still from video by Zak Long, image courtesy of the artist
SPACES, the Cleveland-based contemporary art venue, will hold an opening reception on Friday, August 22nd, from 6 to 9PM. They are celebrating new projects by Cassie Thornton and Jess Hirsch (TAG: Round 2), Jake Beckman (The Production Language Factory), and Sarah and Paul (Immortal Kombat). Look forward to “an evening of unscripted collaboration, newly developed vocabularies, and lovable anti-heroes”.
image by Leslie Wayne, courtesy of the artist and Esopus
image by Stephen Eichhorn, courtesy of the artist and Esopus
Also check out these Artist’s Projects from Brooklyn-based publication Esopus in their 21st issue, available now. Leslie Wayne uses daily paintings of the Lingam motif, a Hindu symbol of fecundity, to explore the possibility of a single body of work with infinite permutations. Stephen Eichhorn layers hand-cut images of flowers and cats to create unique and elegant collages.
Kathleen White, image courtesy of the artist and Moment Art
Moment Art presents (A) Rake’s Progress, an exhibition of Kathleen White’s polymorphichrome drawings produced in the summer of 2009 in remembrance of her late brother, Chris White. Showing from Friday, August 8th to Sunday, August 31st, the exhibition also features Sound Texts, represented as recordings of their production on the typewriter, but performed on site by the readers on the last day of the show.
Hector Hernandez, Hyperbeast: Azules (2014), image courtesy the artist and MACLA
On view from Wednesday, August 27th to Saturday, November 15th, at Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana in San Jose, California, is Unmasked, work by Hector Hernandez, Dulce Pinzón, Carlos Donjuan and Rio Yañez, that “explores social and cultural issues of identity and otherness through the visual language of comic books, the notion of superheroes, and tropes of science fiction” (description from MACLA website).
Carving Through Borders, Galería de la Raza
Carving through Borders, an exhibition of 13 oversized woodblock prints will be on view at Galería de la Raza in San Francisco from Saturday, August 2nd to Friday, September 19th, 2014. The woodblocks, commissioned by CultureStrike, “illustrate various aspects of migration with a local, national, or worldwide scope”.
a/wake in the water, Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, image by Kevin Jerome Everson
a/wake in the water, a film, video, and new media exhibition, will be on view at the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts from Thursday, August 14th, to Sunday, November 9th, 2014. From the MoCADA website, the exhibition utilizes “found footage, staged reenactments, and performative paralysis to expose the systematic neglect and lingering repercussions Black communities face in the aftermath of disaster.” Additional narratives “explore impending dystopic and apocalyptic futures to further analyze the state of environmental justice as it functions within the Diaspora.”
"The Motherhood Archives", Irene Lusztig in Triple Canopy
On July 24th, Triple Canopy published “The Motherhood Archives” by Irene Lusztig, an interesting mediation on motherhood in America in the 1900’s, seen through a collection of ephemera found for sale online.
Still frame from "Air Up! Construction of the US Pavilion EXPO 70 Osaka", Storefront for Art and Architecture
On July 29th at 7PM, Storefront for Art and Architecture will present a screening of “Air Up! Construction of the US Pavilion EXPO 70 Osaka”. From the website, “Air Up! Construction of the US Pavilion at EXPO ’70 Osaka–a Japanese-language documentary film with English sub-titles–details the construction and inflation of the radically-engineered pneumatic dome designed for the US Pavilion at EXPO ’70 Osaka.”
Vagaries of the Commons, Artspace
Artspace, a gallery in downtown New Haven, opens “Vagaries of the Commons”, an exhibition curated by Sarah Fritchey. The exhibition will be on view from July 25th to September 13th, with a two-day conference on September 12th and 13th and with an accompanying performance series. The show reflects on four specific categories of human rights questions that artists address practicing in and around New Haven including: the material commons, the knowledge commons, the aesthetic commons, and the affective commons.
Pablo Helguera, Michael Mandiberg, William Powhida, Amy Whitaker, and Caroline Woolard in The Social Life of Artistic Property
Artists Michael Mandiberg, Amy Whitaker, and Caroline Woolard will be in conversation about their new volume The Social Life of Artistic Property on July 24th, from 6-8pm at Printed Matter. From their website: “What happens when twelve artists gather to discuss the relationship between art and property? In twenty meetings over two and a half years, the core group of Pablo Helguera, Michael Mandiberg, William Powhida, Amy Whitaker and Caroline Woolard birthed this provocative volume. The group produced three pieces of writing about experiments in group living and three proposals for the future of artistic property, including initiatives that reimagine studio space, living space, and artwork.”
E:11 CODA, Transformer's Exercises For Emerging Artists at Artisphere
E11: CODA, a collaborative exhibition between Alex Braden, Emily Francisco, E. Jane, Ian McDermott and lead mentor and curator Ryan Holladay, opens on July 24th from 7-9pm at Artisphere in Arlington, Virginia. The Washignton, DC based organization Transformer joins with Artisphere for an event that marks the culmination of the 11th season of Transformer’s Exercises for Emerging Artists program.
Zoe Beloff, The Days of the Commune
On view from July 20th to August 17th, 2014, Participant Inc presents Zoe Beloff with The Days of the Commune, an installation based on Beloff’s restaging of Bertolt Brecht’s eponymous play.
Image courtesy of Jennifer Nichols and White Columns
Image courtesy of Patrick Berran and White Columns
Image courtesy of Patrick Berran and White Columns
White Columns opens a series of exhibitions on June 1oth. The artists featured in the exhibition are Ray Hamilton, Daniel Heidkamp, Patrick Berran, Jennifer Nichols and Primary Information / ALBUM. The exhibition will be on view through July 26th:
Portrait of John Baldessari. Courtesy of the California Institute of the Arts Archive
Sigmar Polke, Socken, 1963 Courtesy the Estate of Sigmar Polke
Konrad Lueg, Boxer, 1964 (Boxers) © 2014 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn Photo: Daniela Steinfeld
Opening June 7th Artists Space will present Living with Pop. A Reproduction of Capitalist Realism. The exhibition includes Manfred Kuttner, Konrad Lueg, Sigmar Polke, and Gerhard Richter, with contributions by Christopher Williams. From the Artists Space website:
“Living with Pop. A Reproduction of Capitalist Realism documents the actions by Kuttner, Lueg, Polke and Richter that took place between 1963 and 1966 under the auspices of Capitalist Realism, and concludes with an account of the term’s strategic use by gallerist René Block in the late 1960s in Berlin. Further, sections of this exhibition are dedicated to the influence of Fluxus in the Rhineland as an important precursor to Capitalist Realism.”
On view through August 17th.
Sigmar Polke, Das Palmen Bild, 1964 (Boxers) © 2014 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn Photo: Daniela Steinfeld
Konrad Lueg with Balloons, July 1962 Zero Festival, Rhine Meadows, Düsseldorf-Over-Kassel Courtesy Archiv Reiner Ruthenbeck, Ratingen © 2014 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn Photo: Reiner Ruthenbeck
Image courtesy of Simone Leigh and Atlanta Contemporary Art Center
On view through May 31st Atlanta Contemporary Art Center presents Simone Leigh: Gone South, the first major solo exhibition of artist in the context of the South. The New York-based artist is adept at forming and firing ceramics to create singular objects and assemblages that range from the ornamental to the ominous. She consistently investigates the female body as a repository of lived experiences: pleasure and pain, motherhood, and various contributions to domestic life and cultural agency. Gone South combines previously exhibited site-specific installations and performance-based video alongside new sculptures that take advantage of the proportions of the galleries:
http://www.thecontemporary.org/exhibitions/simone-leigh-gone-south/
Image courtesy of Deborah Stratman and Hallwalls
Hallwalls will present Deborah Stratman: Swallows on view May 16th through June 27th. The artist will employ multiple media in the exhibition, transforming the gallery into a temporary sinkhole museum complete with diagrams, wall texts, dioramas, videos and sculptural elements gathered in an exploration of both naturally occurring and man-made chasms:
http://www.hallwalls.org/visual/5447.html
Image courtesy of Marlo Pasqual and Printed Matter
Printed Matter will host a Launch and Book Signing on May 15th for Marlo Pascual by Hassla Books. From Printed Matter’s website, “Marlo Pascual’s interest lies in the construction of the image. For the foundation of her first book, Pascual uses repetition to trace an image’s transformation between mediums as it moves from found image, to collage, to object, to installation, and then back into a book form.” :
http://printedmatter.org/events/198
Opening May 24th, MOCA Tucson will welcome IUD: Bakerman. Individually, Lizzi Bougatos, Sadie Laska, and Spencer Sweeney operate as visual artists and musicians. All three are painters who have shown at various New York and international galleries and museums, and all are involved with experimental musical projects. Bougatos is notable as the leader of the long-running electronic neo-psychedelic band Gang Gang Dance, and Sweeney is a DJ and part-owner of Santos Party House in New York. Laska is gaining significant critical attention for her paintings and works on paper, shown recently at NADA and Kerry Schuss. At MOCA Tucson, IUD will occupy the East Wing galleries and turn them into temporary experimental studio space where they will produce installations and paintings from both traditional and scavenged materials that have become IUD’s hallmark production M.O.:
Image courtesy of Wyatt Kahn and LA><ART
May 17th, LA><ART will open two new exhibitions, Wyatt Kahn and Jennifer Guidi Field Paintings. Both exhibitions will be on view through June 28th:
http://laxart.org/exhibitions/current/
Opening on May 10th, Artspace in New Haven presents Forced Collaboration II. Curated by Jacob Rhodes, this exhibition pairs 12 artists (6 collaborations) with wildly different practices. The artists are strangers to each other; selected by the curator to exchange a finished work and to re-create that work by forcing themselves on it in any way they please. On view May 10 – June 28, 2014:
http://artspacenh.org/include/404.asp?404;https://artspacenh.org:443/galleries/gallery2/forced
Image courtesy of Kara Walker and Creative Time
Opening May 10th Creative Time will present a newly commissioned monumental sculptural work of Kara Walker. The installation is housed within the Domino Sugar Factory in Brooklyn and will be on view through July 6th:
http://creativetime.org/projects/karawalker/
From May 14th to the 18th, Artists Space will host a Book Launch and Series of Readings for Semiotext(e):The Return of Schizo- Culture. The publication features contributions from Penny Arcade, Jim Fletcher, Gary Indiana, John Kelsey, Sylvère Lotringer, David Morris, Mary Patten, Lodovico Pignatti Morano, John Rajchman and Walter Steding:
http://artistsspace.org/programs/schizo-culture
Image courtesy of A. Laurie Palmer and Headlands Center for the Arts
On May 4th Headlands Center for the Arts and Artist in Residence A. Laurie Palmer (AIR ’14) will host an uphill walk in the company of California Lichen Society President Shelly Benson, and other distinguished guests. The excursion serves as an informal introduction to some of the many species of lichen thriving in the Marin Headlands sun and mist:
http://www.headlands.org/event/lichen-walk/
On Thursday, April 24th at 3:00pm, Women and Their Work will welcome Miwa Matreyek for an artist’s talk. The Los Angeles based animator, designer and multimedia artist will speak about her unique process and body of work that fuses animation with live performance. Matreyek creates short films and live works that integrate animation, performance, and theatrical video installation:
http://www.womenandtheirwork.org/upcoming_exhibitions.html?itemid=1239
Image courtesy of Clive Hodgson and White Columns
Image courtesy of Clive Hodgson and White Columns
On view March 4- April 19th, White Columns in New York presents the work of Clive Hodgson. The exhibition of this British painter features works produced over the past five years:
http://www.whitecolumns.org/sections/exhibition.php?id=1308
Also on view at White Columns is an exhibition of the work of Robert Kitchen(1949-2009). Organized by writer and curator Vince Aletti, the solo exhibition features works on paper by the artist. About the exhibition Aletti has said: “Robert was a painter who also collaborated with his twin brother, Richard, on designs for linens, fine china, and other household products… Although he had solo shows at Daniel Reich and Kagan Martos, much of the work he did after the turn of the new century was never exhibited, and his last solo outing, at Jeffrey Deitch in 2004, could only hint at the range of the paintings and drawings stacked up in his studio. At White Columns we will present a small sampling of that sprawling body of work – a group of paintings and drawings whose subjects were drawn from film, storybook illustration, a vivid imagination, and life.”:
http://www.whitecolumns.org/sections/exhibition.php?id=1310
Image courtesy of Robert Kitchen and White Columns
Image courtesy of Robert Kitchen and White Columns
Image courtesy of Artists Space
Opening April 11th at Artists Space Books and Talks is The Issues of our Time, curated by castillo/corrales. This project follows two previous iterations at castillo/corrales, a co-operatively run non-profit art space in Paris. The project will involve contributions from artists, writers and curators including Valentin Boure, Thomas Boutoux, Antonia Carrara, Joachim Hamou, Egija Inzule, Morag Keil, Hans-Christian Lotz, Mélanie Matranga, Lili Reynaud Dewar, Kari Rittenbach, and Benjamin Thorel:
http://artistsspace.org/exhibitions/the-issues-of-our-time
Tacita Dean, JG, 2013. Anamorphic 35mm film, color and black and white, optical sound. 26 1/2 min. Courtesy of the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York/Paris, and Frith Street Gallery, London
Tacita Dean, JG, 2013. Anamorphic 35mm film, color and black and white, optical sound. 26 1/2 min. Courtesy of the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York/Paris, and Frith Street Gallery, London.
Interesting article on East of Borneo addressing Tacita Dean’s most recent work JG. Recently exhibited at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, the 26-1/2 minute, 35mm film named after the iconic science fiction writer J.G. Ballard, takes as its subject Robert Smithson’s monumental earthwork, Spiral Jetty (1970):
Image courtesy of Athena Tacha and Printed Matter
Image courtesy of Triple Canopy and the Whitney Museum of American Art
On view from March 24th- April 19th, Printed Matter presents an exhibition of artists’ books by Athena Tacha. The presentation features the complete run of publications by the artist, including long out-of-stock titles new to Printed Matter as well as items that have been distributed by the organization since the 1970s:
https://printedmatter.org/events/192
Triple Canopy is included in this year’s Whitney Biennial on view from March 7th to May 25th. The organization’s contribution entitled Pointing Machines is an installation titled after the simple eighteenth-century measuring tool for reproducing sculpture in stone or wood with a system of adjustable rods and needles. For this project Triple Canopy asks how the meaning of artworks shifts as they are commissioned, made, collected, disowned, replicated, photographed, exhibited, and published, taking into account the role of circulation systems as varied as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and eBay:
http://www.canopycanopycanopy.com/contents/pointing_machines_whitney_biennial
Image courtesy of Aurora Picture Show
Image courtesy of Patricia Fernández and LAXART
On March 28th Aurora Picture Show will present Surreal/Reel. Friends and family are encouraged to bring blankets and picnics to a free outdoor screening co-presented with the Menil Collection. Curated by Aurora Picture Show’s Mary Magsamen, this special screening presents Surrealist works from artists such as Hans Richter, Man Ray, Maya Deren, and Magritte:
http://aurorapictureshow.org/calendar.asp?pageid=83&calid=881
On March 15th LAXART opened Patricia Fernández: Paseo de los Melancólicos. “Spanning woodwork and artist books, painting, research, writing and recorded family folklore, Spanish-born, LA-based Fernández’s Paseo de los Melancólicos retraces the trail of Republicans that fled as the Spanish Civil War came to a close”:
http://laxart.org/exhibitions/view/patricia-fernandez-ipaseo-de-los-melancolicosi/
On Wednesday April 2nd, Machine Project in Los Angeles will be hosting a Textile Design Workshop from 7-10pm. Led by graphic designer Gail Swanlund, attendees will be able to learn the basics of designing print patterns for textiles:
Image courtesy of the Otolith Group and Smack Mellon
Opening on March 15th, Smack Mellon presents In Plain Sight, an exhibition curated by Sarah Lookofsky. The exhibition will feature Bani Abidi, Khaled Barakeh, Carla Herrera-Prats, Alfredo Jaar, Pia Lindman, The Otolith Group, Maria D. Rapicavoli, Bruno Serralongue and Liselot van der Heijden:
http://smackmellon.org/index.php/exhibitions/upcoming/
Closing on March 22nd, Artspace in New Haven welcomes Catalina Barroso Luque:
http://artspacenh.org/include/404.asp?404;https://artspacenh.org:443/galleries/window
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Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) announced the appointment of Sarah Russin as its next Executive Director, effective February 24, 2014:
http://www.welcometolace.org/pages/view/news/
Image courtesy of E.B. Itso and Printed Matter
Opening on Saturday March 29th, Project Row Houses will host the organizations 40th Round of Artist Interventions. Round 40: Monuments: Right Beyond the Site will feature installations by Otabenga Jones & Associates, the Houston-based artist collective consisting of Dawolu Jabari Anderson, Jamal Cyrus, Kenya Evans, and Robert A. Pruitt. The collective will take a different approach to previous Rounds at PRH and utilize all seven of the Art Houses for Round 40 through installations that happen on and off-site:
http://projectrowhouses.org/2014/02/round-40-monuments-right-beyond-the-site/
March 15th Printed Matter will present IN BETWEEN SPACES, the first solo show in the US by Danish artist E.B. Itso. The exhibition presents more than 40 titles produced by the artist over the last decade, including self-published booklets, zines, posters, and pamphlets, as well as experimental artists’ books and book works. To coincide with the opening of the show, Itso will release a new photographic zine published with Printed Matter. The exhibition will be on view March 15 – April 12, with an opening reception Saturday, March 15, 5-7 PM:
https://printedmatter.org/events/187
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MOCA Tucson will be holding their annual Benefit on April 11th honoring Janaina Tschäpe on the occasion of her first video retrospective:
https://www.moca-tucson.org/gala-2014/
Image courtesy of Artists Space
Image courtesy of Wu Tsang, Jesus Torres Torres and DiverseWorks
Sam Pulitzer, A Colony for “Them” will open on March 15th at Artists Space in New York:
http://artistsspace.org/exhibitions/sam-pulitzer
Also at Artists Space’s Books & Talks location on February 28th, HOROLOGICS, A Countdown with Mark von Schlegell. The event marks the launch of The Fainnie Azul Horologe by Mark von Schlegell, published by Halmos, the second in a series of non-print publications exploring time as syntactic medium:
http://artistsspace.org/programs/horologics
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Opening on March 15th at DiverseWorks in Houston, TX is Wu Tsang: Moved by the Motion. For the exhibition DiverseWorks commissioned Los Angeles-based artist Wu Tsang to create a multi-media installation and performance that inhabits a space between fiction and documentary:
http://www.diverseworks.org/in-the-works/exhibtion-performance/wu-tsang
Image courtesy of Math Bass, Overduin & Co. and LACE
Image courtesy of A.K. Burns, Callicoon Fine Arts and LACE
Opening on March 14th at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) is Drowning and swallowing this text. The exhibition curated by Shoghig Halajian and Suzy M. Halajian, features artists Math Bass, A.K. Burns, Ana Hoffner, Joan Jonas, Tala Madani, MPA, Virginia Poundstone, Laure Prouvost, Mounira Al Solh, Jill Spector, Lawrence Weiner, and The–family (with Sjoerd Dijk and Wojciech Kosma). From the LACE website :
Image courtesy of Trevor Paglen and Creative Time
Image courtesy of Derek Farkas and CEPA Gallery
Opening on February 15th, Women and Their Work in Austin, TX presents Adela Andea, Lux, Lumens and Candelas on view through March 20th:
http://www.womenandtheirwork.org/upcoming_exhibitions.html?itemid=1191
Creative Time Reports is featuring an interesting story by Trevor Paglen, Watching the Watchers: Trevor Paglen Photographs US Surveillance Infrastructure. Read the story here:
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Derek Farkas: A Vacuous Veneer opened at CEPA Gallery in Buffalo, NY on February 8th. The exhibition will be on view through March 16th:
http://www.cepagallery.org/portfolio/derek-farkas-vacuous-veneer/
Image courtesy of Institutions by Artists and Fillip
The LA Art Book Fair had over 25,000 visitors! See some highlights here:
http://laartbookfair.net/about
An older but interesting interview between Mark Allen of Machine Project and artist Brody Condon:
http://theconversant.org/?p=4006
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Fillip has up a new podcast Institutions by Artists: Session Two on its website. The project discusses artist-run initiatives in North America of the 1960s and 1970s, which provided a space for the presentation and legitimization of experimental work and for the assertion of socially progressive and politically radical ideas and questions. The podcast involves Marie-Josee Jean and Walter Benjamin, Slavs and Tatars, Eva Weinmayr and is moderated by Amy Zion:
http://fillip.ca/podcast/2014-01-06
Image courtesy of Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler and Ballroom Marfa
Storefront for Art and Architecture will be holding its Annual Spring Benefit on March 11th. This year’s festivities will be honoring Meredith Monk and Olafur Eliasson:
http://storefrontnews.org/programming/events?c=&p=1&e=599
Space One Eleven in Birmingham, will be hosting a Lithography Workshop Feb 7-9th. The workshop will be led by Master Printer, Darin Forehand, of Houston and participants will print on a circa 1860 French Star Wheel lithography press:
http://hosted.verticalresponse.com/433065/5f004de94d/1482500913/8f1655219a/
Ballroom Marfa will present Sound Speed Marker opening on Feb 28th. The exhibition by Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler will host three video installations and related photographs, covering a span of five years of work, which explore film’s relationship to place and the traces that movie making leaves behind:
https://www.ballroommarfa.org/archive/event/soundspeedmarker/#event-release
Image courtesy of White Columns
White Columns, in New York presents its Eighth annual Looking Back which opened on Jan 16th. This year’s exhibition was selected by Pati Hertling. Participating artists include:
Ei Arakawa, Malin Arnell, Gregg Bordowitz, Ellen Cantor, MV Carbon, Maria Chavez, Tony Conrad, Moyra Davey, Lucy Dodd, Mary Beth Edelson, Scott Ewalt, Loretta Fahrenholz, Lesley Flanigan, Brendan Fowler, K8 Hardy, Lonnie Holley, Karl Holmqvist, Juliana Huxtable, Marie Karlberg, Dawn Kasper, Andrei Koschmieder, Konrad Lueg, Alicia McCarthy, Marisa Merz, Ulrike Muller, New Humans, NNCK, Senga Nengudi, Raha Raissnia, James Richards, Carissa Rodriguez, Zilia Sanchez, Colin Self, Alina Szapocnikow, Jason Simon, Barbara T. Smith, Emily Sundblad, Sergei Tcherepnin, Stefan Tcherepnin, Rosemarie Trockel, Danh Vo, Hannah Wilke, Amy Yao, and Lionel Ziprin.
White Columns will be hosting a large list of programming in association with the exhibition:
Wednesday, January 15 – 9pm at Julius
Colin Self sings Joan Armatrading
Saturday, January 25 – 7pm at White Columns
Ei Arakawa / Marie Karlberg / Andrei Koschmieder
Dawn Kasper
Friday, February 7 – 7pm at White Columns
Brendan Fowler
Monday, February 10 – 7pm at Anthology Film Archives
Loretta Fahrenholz – ‘Ditch Plains’ screening
Thursday, February 13 – 7pm at White Columns
Gregg Bordowitz and guests
Saturday, 15 February – 7pm at White Columns
New Humans
MV Carbon / Lesley Flanigan / Maria Chavez
Stefan Tcherepnin
Saturday, February 22 – time and off-site venue to be announced
Colin Self
Juliana Huxtable & guests
Occasionally during the exhibition’s run – at White Columns
Malin Arnell
Image courtesy of White Columns
Image courtesy of Artists Space
In conjunction with Artists Space’s current exhibition Macho Man, Tell It To My Heart: Collected by Julie Ault (on view through Feb20th) the organization has a full line of film programming. The next program on Jan 16th at 7pm will feature interviews of Lucy Lippard, Nancy Spero, Lyn Blumenthal and Kate Horsfield. From Artists Space’s website:
“Lyn Blumenthal and Kate Horsfield, in their founding Video Data Bank series, interviewed writer, critic, feminist, and art historian Lucy Lippard soon after the publication of her essential book on conceptual art, Six Years: the dematerialization of the art object from 1966 to 1972. The book remains a touchstone of extraordinary scope, while these videos, keeping with the medium’s purpose-driven roots, concentrate on Lippard’s politics. Blumenthal and Horsfield were art students themselves when they founded VDB with this interview series, and were fierce fans in their deployment of voices to create a validating discourse of women practitioners. Blumenthal and Horsfield’s 1982 interview with Nancy Spero begins with her decision to allow political events to determine what she chose to paint, and why. Spero, along with her partner Leon Golub, whose work appears in the exhibition, had a unique place in the factionalized 1980s New York art world, sustaining vibrantly engaged practices in a scene riven with competing agendas and freighted with political, philosophical, and market stakes.”
Image courtesy of Sarah Christianson and SF Camerawork
SF Camerawork in San Francisco recently announced the appointment of Heather Snider as its new Executive Director. Heather comes to the organization with a wide range of expertise and experiences in the photography and art community. She has held director positions at Vision Gallery and Scott Nichols Gallery. Recently, her work has been devoted to freelance writing, curating, and consulting on contemporary photography. She is very familiar with SF Camerawork as she served on the organization’s Board from 2005 to 2010.
During the month of January, Heather will be working closely with Chuck Mobley, the organization’s current Director to ensure a smooth transition, taking full charge on February 1st. They would like to express thanks to Chuck and Gallery Manager Brent Nuñez for the amount of work they have accomplished in the last six months readying the gallery, the archives, and the organization’s daily systems for the transition.
Image courtesy of Anne Lindberg and Atlanta Contemporary Art Center
Coloring, an exhibition curated by Stuart Horodner will open on Jan 10th at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center. The exhibition features the work of Bill Adams, Paul Stephen Benjamin, Rutherford Chang, Anne Lindberg, and Kate Shepherd. An exhibition opening reception will be held on Fri, Jan 10, 2014, 7pm:
http://thecontemporary.org/exhibitions/coloring/
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Image courtesy of Sam Falls and LA><ART
Sam Falls exhibition will be closing on Dec 21st at LA><ART:
http://laxart.org/exhibitions/view/sam-falls/#images
The Warhol Initiative Blog will take a brief hiatus and will return on Jan 6th, 2014 with a new blog entry. Happy Holidays everyone!
Image courtesy of The Coleman Center for the Arts
Image courtesy of Julia Rometti and Victor Costales
Opening on December 13th Midway Contemporary Art presents:
http://www.midwayart.org/exhibitions/upcoming.php
CEPA Gallery has been selected to receive a 2013 National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award. CEPA Gallery received the award from First Lady Michelle Obama during a White House ceremony on Friday, November 22, 2013:
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On view now, Diverseworks commissioned artists Heather and Ivan Morison to create their first major institutional project in the United States:
Image fragment courtesy of Jill Magid and Art in General
Interesting exhibition on view now at Art in General featuring the work of artist Jill Magid. Quoted from Art in General’s website:
“What does it mean for a corporation to own an artist’s legacy? This question forms the core of Jill Magid’s latest work Woman With Sombrero, the first part of an ongoing multi-media project entitled The Barragán Archives, which examines the legacy of Mexican architect and Pritzker Prize-winner Luis Barragán (1902–1988).
For Art in General’s exhibition, based on Barragán’s personal archive and library that Magid studied in Mexico City, complex personal and historical situations are explored through furniture, sculpture, photographs, and film referencing the architect’s home and life – as well as an audio recording with slides relating to the architect’s intimate correspondence with numerous women. Refused access at this time to the professional archive, now owned by Vitra and located in Switzerland, the artist instead inserts gestures and invitations to make space for that which she does not know and cannot see. Taking the law as a raw material of the work, Magid frames books as readymades, avoiding copy infringement. Ideas of obsession and ownership, versus authorship and preserving legacy, collide in this investigation.
Along with the vast majority of his architecture, Barragán’s personal archive remains in Mexico under the guardianship of the Fundación de Arquitectura Tapatía Luis Barragán. His professional archive—including the rights to the architect’s name and work—was acquired in 1995 by Swiss furniture company Vitra under the auspices of the newly founded Barragan Foundation located in Birsfelden, Switzerland. The foundation is directed by Federica Zanco, architect, author, and the wife of Rolf Fehlbaum, Chairman of the Board of Vitra.
In this project, Magid examines what it means for a major part of Barragán’s heritage to be outside of Mexico and to have limited access. Exploring the intersection of the psychological and the judicial, national identity and repatriation, international property rights and copyright law, Magid re-imagines and re-presents material from the archives based on its legal status. In the process, she explores her role as an artist and a researcher in relation to the roles of Barragán and Zanco.”
This exhibition was curated by Anne Barlow and will be on view through December 21st.
For more information:
http://www.artingeneral.org/exhibitions/554
Image courtesy of Brent Birnbaum and SPACE Gallery
Triple Canopy in Brooklyn was chosen as a participant for the 2014 Whitney Biennial:
http://whitney.org/file_columns/0004/4016/2014_biennial_release.pdf
Up now through November 3oth, Transformer in Washington, DC presents Protosystems, a site-specific storefront installation by DC based artist Chris Rackley:
http://www.transformerdc.org/exhibitions/overview/chris-rackley-protosystems
SPACE Gallery in Maine presents IIIX9MEOW an installation by artist Brent Birnbaum:
http://www.space538.org/exhibitions/iiix9meow
Interesting Creative Time interview between Nato Thompson and writer Rebecca Solnit addressing issues of gentrification and demographics in cities:
http://creativetimereports.org/2013/10/21/rebecca-solnit-with-nato-thompson/
Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (Last Light), 1993. Image courtesy of Julie Ault and Artists Space.
Up now at Space One Eleven is INTERCHANGE an exhibition exchange between Space One Eleven in Alabama and Project Row Houses in Texas. This iteration features exhibiting artists from Alabama Derek Cracco and Jürgen Tarrasch, and Texas artists Darin Forehand, and M’Kina Tapscott:
Opening November 24th Artists Space will present Macho Man, Tell It To My Heart: Collected by Julie Ault. From Artists Space’ website “an exhibition of works selected and extended from the collection of Julie Ault. As a founding member of the artists’ collaborative Group Material (1979 –1996), and as artist, curator, writer and editor, Ault’s dense practice and its roots in long-standing engagements with artists are reflected in the unique nature of her collection. Its multiplicity is indicative of an organic process of accumulation, foregrounding the ways in which the gifting and exchange of artworks cements both intellectual and emotional affinities” :
Image courtesy of Stephen Prina and LACMA
A little bit older but—- a really nice East of Borneo article written by Thomas Lawson in regards Stephen Prina’s 2011 project As He Remembered It at LACMA:
http://www.eastofborneo.org/articles/rhapsody-in-pink-stephen-prina-paints
Sam Falls and Sean Shim-Boyle just opened new exhibitions at LA><ART:
http://laxart.org/exhibitions/
On view now at Momenta Art, Nu Age Hustle an exhibition organized by Katie Cercone. Artists in the exhibition include: Sanford Biggers, Katie Cercone, Lainie Love Dalby, Vaginal Davis, Elisa Garcia de la Huerta, Greem Jellyfish, Jacolby Satterwhite, Tobaron Waxman and Saya Woolfalk:
http://www.momentaart.org/momenta-art-nu-age-hustle.html
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Beginning November 15th Japanese artist Yuka Oyama and German artist Axel Ruoff will collaborate on a multi-media installation at SPACES in Cleveland, OH:
http://www.spacesgallery.org/project/faces-to-hide
Image courtesy of Aaron Curry and Ballroom Marfa
Opening on November 9th, Locust Projects will present Nicholas Hlobo’s INTETHE (A SKETCH FOR AN OPERA):
http://www.locustprojects.org/exhibitions/index.shtml
Ongoing exhibition Comic Future at Ballroom Marfa. On view through February 2nd 2014:
https://www.ballroommarfa.org/art/#event-release
Presentations of this weekend’s 2013 Creative Time Summit are available to view online now:
http://creativetime.org/summit/presentations/
The Coleman Center for the Arts (CCA), in York, Alabama will be hosting Pop Up Pop Start on November 5th, an informational exhibition that investigates innovative business and kitchen incubators, social spaces, think tanks, artist spaces and storefronts for entrepreneurial and creative experimentation across the nation:
http://colemanarts.org/2013/10/pop-up-pop-start-2/
Image courtesy of Tobias Kaspar and Midway Contemporary Art
Image courtesy of Creative Time
The 2013 Creative Time Summit Art, Place & Dislocation in the 21st Century with be held October 25-26 at the NYU Skirball Center. You can also view most of the summit by streaming online:
http://creativetime.org/summit/
Heather and Ivan Morison: Slyk Chaynjis opens at DiverseWorks Nov 2nd:
http://www.diverseworks.org/in-the-works/upcoming
Also, DiverseWorks will be hosting Chus Martinez on Nov 13th as part of their Diverse Discourse Lecture Series:
http://www.diverseworks.org/in-the-works/diverse-discourse/about-the-lecture-series
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Tobias Kasper’s HOLIDAY on view now at Midway Contemporary Art:
http://www.midwayart.org/exhibitions/13_03_tobias_kaspar/images.php
Image courtesy of Common Practice New York
Warhol Initiative Grantees Artists Space, Participant Inc, Printed Matter, Triple Canopy, and White Columns in partnership with The Kitchen, and Light Industry, have developed Common Practice New York, a recently formed advocacy group that fosters research and discussions on the role of small-scale arts institutions in New York City.
Common Practice New York draws inspiration from Common Practice, London, an affiliated advocacy group working for the recognition and fostering of the small-scale contemporary visual arts sector in England, and founder of the Common Practice Network.
Founded over the course of several meetings beginning in 2012, Common Practice New York aims to collectively embody the question What is our common practice and why do we value it? Each group claims certain benefits to its small scale: sustainability not at the expense of quality; long-term relationships with artists and publics; less compromised access to artwork; and horizontal networks and collaboration. Yet factors such as the embrace of larger institutions to new art, ever-adapting commercial environments, novel forms of social interaction, and the rising costs of living in New York have all created unprecedented challenges for small-scale institutions.
Find out more about this important new organization here.
Courtesy of Jedediah Caesar and LA><ART
Courtesy of Chris Lipomi and LA><ART
Chris Lipomi and Jedediah Caesar exhibitions on view now at LA><ART in Los Angeles:
http://laxart.org/exhibitions/
Lourdes Correa-Carlo’s Systemic Relation opens on Oct 10th at Real Art Ways in Hartford, CT:
http://www.realartways.org/visualarts.htm
Smack Mellon presents Shana Moulton’s Morphing Essence Syndrome:
http://smackmellon.org/index.php/exhibitions/current/
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The Soap Factory’s Haunted Basement 2013:
http://www.soapfactory.org/exhibit.php?content_id=136
Image courtesy of Aaron Flint Jamison and Artists Space
Image courtesy of Aaron Flint Jamison and Artists Space
Aaron Flint Jamison on view now at Artists Space:
http://artistsspace.org/exhibitions/aaron-flint-jamison/
Florian & Michel Quistrebert, The 8th Sphere, double channel video installation, 2010
LACE in Los Angeles presents The End of the Night, organized by curator Martha Kirszenbaum, a group exhibition exploring the impact of French filmmaker, Henri-Georges Clouzot and his unfinished 1963-1964 film, L’Enfer, on notions of abstraction, the kinetic, and optical illusions in contemporary French art:
http://www.welcometolace.org/exhibitions/view/the-end-of-the-night/
The Work of Art: Business Skills for Artists, a 10-session course hosted at Legion Arts in Cedar Rapids is going on now:
http://legionarts.org/events/the-work-of-art-business-skills-for-artists
Threewalls in Chicago will be moving to a new renovated space in January of 2014:
Image courtesy of Duff Hendrickson and 911 Media Arts Center
Comic Future opens this week at Ballroom Marfa, an exhibition curated by Fairfax Dorn which features the work of Walead Beshty, Liz Craft, Aaron Curry, Carroll Dunham, Arturo Herrera, Mike Kelley, Paul McCarthy, Erik Parker, Sigmar Polke, Peter Saul, Dana Schutz, Michael Williams and Sue Williams:
https://www.ballroommarfa.org/art/#event-release
911 Media Arts Center presented on Sept 2nd, Move It! #3 featuring the work of Duff Hendrickson an eccentric media-artist, who has been making film-video-art and animation art since 1970:
http://www.911media.org/news-item/move-it-3.html
Artspace in New Haven, CT will be hosting its 16th annual City-Wide Open Studios this October:
Opening on Sept 29th Center for Women and Their Work in Austin, TX presents THIRST on Lady Bird Lake:
http://www.womenandtheirwork.org/current_exhibition.html
HIMAA (Masanao Hirayama) for Nieves (2012) Image courtesy of Printed Matter
Malcolm Mooney for White Columns (2012). Image courtesy of Printed Matter.
Crowd on the front steps of PS1 (2012). Image courtesy of Printed Matter.
Mark Hundley, "Dictionary" (2011). Image courtesy of Printed Matter.
Kodoji Press (2011). Image courtesy of Printed Matter.
NY ART BOOK FAIR this weekend presented by Printed Matter at MoMA PS1:
Image courtesy of the artist and Locust Projects
Grid’s World a collaborative exhibition by Alexandra Hopf (Berlin), Odalis Valdivieso (Miami), Marcos Valella (Miami), Siebren Versteeg (New York), Gabriel Vormstein (Berlin) opens at Locust Projects in Miami on Sept 19. There will be a conversation with the artists moderated by Zachary Cahill at 7pm immediately followed by an opening reception from 8-10pm:
http://www.locustprojects.org/exhibitions/
Interesting article about De Esperanza y De Locura/Of Hope and Madness, the current exhibition at MACLA/Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana in San Jose, CA. The exhibitionexplores issues of migration and immigration through the work of Latino artists:
The Luggage Store Gallery will publicly unveil a newly commissioned public work by Osgemeos on Sept 28th:
http://www.luggagestoregallery.org/2013/09/3005/
The Still House Group opens +1 this month, a new artist run space in the heart of Chinatown as part of Art In General‘s New Commissions program:
http://www.artingeneral.org/exhibitions/551
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Eva Franch i Gilabert, executive director and chief curator of the Storefront for Art and Architecture has been chosen as one of the curators for the United States Pavilion at the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale. Eva will be working alongside Ana Miljački, an architecture professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Ashley Schafer, editor of the architecture journal Praxis:
Eric Fleischauer, Universal Paramount. Image courtesy of the artist and Transformer.
A Modest Occupation opens at Transformer in DC on September 14th:
http://www.transformerdc.org/exhibitions/overview/a-modest-occupation
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The Soap Factory presents the 3rd Minnesota Biennial, guest curated by John Marks and David Petersen. Opening reception Sept 7th, the exhibition runs from Sept 7th through Nov 3rd:
Stephen H. Willard, Bill Pester with his Guitar, ca. 1917. Collection Palm Springs Art Museum. Courtesy of East of Borneo.
Opening on September 8th, PARTICIPANT INC presents The LunarLanding, a site-specific installation by Helen Oliver Adelson (HOA), who is well-known as a portrait painter and set designer integral to art and theater of the ‘80s East Village/Lower East Side:
http://participantinc.org/wp-content/uploads-new/HOA_PR.pdf
Later in September Ballroom Marfa will host Comic Future, an exhibition curated by Fairfax Dorn. Artists include: Walead Beshty, Liz Craft, Aaron Curry, Carroll Dunham, Arturo Herrera, Mike Kelley, Paul McCarthy, Erik Parker, Sigmar Polke, Peter Saul, Dana Schutz, Michael Williams, Sue Williams:
http://www.e-flux.com/announcements/comic-future/
East of Borneo hosts a nice article written by Adam Overton which explores three characters indicative of mystical-musical experimentation over the last century:
http://www.eastofborneo.org/articles/new-music-for-a-new-age-return-to-nature
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Dates were announced for Printed Matter‘s 2nd Annual LA Art Book Fair at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. The fair will be held January 31 – February 2, 2014:
http://printedmatter.org/news/news.cfm?article_id=1030
Wu Tsang and Alexandro Segade, Mishima in Mexico, 2012. Image courtesy of the artists.
Wu Tsang and Alexandro Segade perform Guilt for Shame at Artists Space Thursday, August 22nd at 7pm:
http://artistsspace.org/programs/guilt-for-shame/
Project Row Houses Summer Artist Studios 2013 installations on view through Sept 8th:
http://blogs.houstonpress.com/artattack/2013/08/project_row_houses_summer_stud.php
Space One Eleven in Birmingham, Al holds an art summer camp:
http://www.cbs42.com/2013/06/12/space-one-eleven-holds-art-camp/
Nice article regarding Self Help Graphics’ role in the neighborhood of Boyle Heights in Los Angeles:
Image courtesy of Machine Project
Hosted by Erin Schneider, Machine Project is currently collecting research which will culminate in a group sourced map and tour of the current echo locations of Echo Park in Los Angeles:
http://machineproject.com/echo-locations/
Charlotte Street Foundation has named Julie Gordon Dalgleish as its new director:
http://www.kansascity.com/2013/08/14/4409597/charlotte-street-foundation-names.html
Peter Wächtler will be reading at Artists Space Thursday, August 15th at 7pm:
http://artistsspace.org/programs/peter-wachtler/
Maryland Art Place (MAP) will be hosting its first ever Regional Juried Exhibition on display from September 19 through October 26, 2013. The exhibition will explore the contemporary, cultural climate of Maryland, Delaware and Pennsylvania and was juried by Kristen Hileman:
http://www.mdartplace.org/news/press-releases/2013/08/09/regional-juried-exhibition
SPACE Gallery in Portland, Maine hosts a Last Dats of Summer House Party on Saturday, August 17th:
http://www.space538.org/events/last-days-summer-house-party
Image courtesy of Participant Inc. and Ron Athey
Living Arts Tulsa in Ohio presents OH, Tulsa! Biennial opening on August 2nd. The Biennial will explore the city through the outstanding works of 100 of Tulsa’s finest artists. The event will be unique as it challenges Tulsa artists to present their very best artwork every two years:
http://www.livingarts.org/oh-tulsa-biennial
Lawndale Art Center‘s annual The Big Show opened on July 12th. This year a total of 83 works by 67 artists were selected by juror Duncan Mackenzie, Artist/Critic/Writer and Co-Founder of Bad at Sports. The exhibition is on view through August 10th:
http://lawndaleartcenter.org/events/bigshow/bigshow2013.shtml
Hallwalls 2013 Members Exhibition opens on July 19th:
http://www.hallwalls.org/visual/5361.html
Participant Inc. presents for three days only Ron Athey Gifts of the Spirit: Automatic Writing, July 23rd-27th:
At the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art exhibiting artist Mari Andrews, botanist Toni Corelli and geologist Forrest McFarland swap stories, ideas and opinions about the intersection of art, science and nature:
http://www.sjica.org/detail.html?eid=996
The ICA is also holding its annual Artist Portfolio Review Session on August 17th which has already sold out:
http://www.sjica.org/detail.html?eid=879
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The Warhol Initiative Blog will be going on a brief summer hiatus. We will be back on August 5th. Happy Summer!
Image courtesy of Béla Tarr
Midway Contemporary Art will be hosting a series of events exploring the work of Béla Tarr and Jacques Rancière. The events are free and open to the public :
http://www.midwayart.org/events/univocal_ranciere/
Summer exhibitions up now at Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art in Newark, NJ:
http://aljira.org/exhibitions/
MOCA Tucson presents Coke Wisdom O’Neal: Box opening July 13th. O’Neal’s Box is an interactive, theatrical sculpture designed for community performative engagement. His work employs photography, film and sculpture and investigates the everyday theatrics and movement of bodies in space:
A Q&A with Anne Pasternak, Creative Time’s president, on the artist’s role today:
Image courtesy of Rhizome and Hito Steyerl
The Best of Rhizome for May/June:
http://rhizome.org/editorial/2013/jul/1/best-rhizome-mayjune/
Out North in Alaska presents Aggravated Organisms, an exhibition of artists Drew Michael and Elizabeth Ellis which explores the possibilities of uniting art and science:
Franklin Artworks in Minneapolis has on view exhibitions of artists Njideka Akunyili and Demetrius Oliver:
http://www.franklinartworks.org/
Creative Time is partnering with MoMA PS1 to curate video programming on MTV called Art Breaks. Art Breaks aims to build on MTV’s rich legacy of introducing its audience to vanguard video art, including early work from Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Spike Jonze, Kenny Scharf and Doug Aitken, as well as Andy Warhol’s 15 Minutes. The videos in the series include works by Sema Bekirovic, Cody Critcheloe, Andrew Kuo, Mads Lynnerup, Tala Madani, Divya Mehra, Rashaad Newsome, Jani Ruscica, Mickalene Thomas, and Guido van der Werve:
Lawndale Art Center in Houston announces its 2013-14 Lawndale Artist Studio Program artists:
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East of Borneo presents SUMMER ISSUES COOPERATIVE, a two-week exhibition in the form of a pop-up newsstand at Greene Exhibitions in Culver City, CA. The generosity-based event will distribute current and archival art magazines contributed by over 20 nonprofit publishers from Los Angeles, New York, London, and Vancouver, all of which will be made available to take home free of charge. Visitors are also encouraged to bring in their own magazines to trade or donate, creating an exhibition will expand and contract each day as publications are removed from the newsstand and others are placed back into circulation. Opening reception June 29th 6-9pm:
http://www.eastofborneo.org/events
Image courtesy of Dashiell Manley and LA><ART
Dashiell Manley exhibition on view now at LA><ART in connection with two other spaces in the Los Angeles area:
Self Help Graphics in Los Angeles is having its Annual Print Fair & Exhibition on Sunday, June 30th:
http://www.boyleheightsbeat.com/event/self-help-graphics-annual-print-fair-exhibition
White Columns’ Cat Show, curated by Rhonda Lieberman and on view now is responsible for seven cat adoptions in its first days:
http://galleristny.com/2013/06/seven-adoptions-in-first-days-of-cat-show-at-white-columns/#slide13
Legion Arts in Cedar Rapids welcomes artist Steve Lambert and his project Capitalism Works for Me! True/False:
http://legionarts.org/events/steve-lambert-residency
Image courtesy of Jimmy Limit and Printed Matter
This week:
Artist Jimmy Limit will launch the “American” edition of JIMMY LIMIT SPRING/SUMMER 2012 and present an installation in the storefront window of Printed Matter in New York:
http://printedmatter.org/news/news.cfm?article_id=1007
Nice images and article about Letha Wilson’s Landmarks and Monuments at Art in General. The exhibition is part of the organization’s New Commissions program:
http://arrestedmotion.com/2013/06/showing-letha-wilson-landmarks-and-monuments-art-in-general-2/
Artists Space in New York announces newly commissioned Limited Editions by Seth Price, Joan Jonas, Rirkrit Tiravanija:
http://artistsspace.org/new-limited-editions/
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An interview with curator Rhonda Lieberman about The Cat Show which opens June 14th at White Columns:
http://shitmycatsread.com/post/52631584754/the-evening-interviews-rhonda-lieberman
Image courtesy of Ned Vena and Midway Contemporary Art
This week:
Machine Project is looking for an available Honda Odyssey in LA for a performance Of Homer’s Odyssey:
http://jalopnik.com/honda-odyssey-needed-in-la-for-performance-of-homers-o-510725780
Machine is also now offering a special club in an effort to fund raise for their organization called MACHINE PROJECT MEMBERSHIP with secret perks, invitations and benefits:
CEPA Gallery in Buffalo, NY opens on June 1st with a major solo exhibition by Marshall Scheuttle entitled Borderlands:
http://www.cepagallery.org/exhibitions/2013borderland/index.html
There was a nice mention of this exhibition in The Buffalo News:
http://www.buffalonews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20130530/GUSTO/130539951/1003
Image courtesy of Jem Cohen and SF Camerawork
This week:
A nice article about Jem Cohen and Dinh Q. Lê at SF Camerawork in San Francisco:
http://www.kqed.org/arts/visualarts/article.jsp?essid=121326
Midway Contemporary Art holds their Benefit and Art Auction this Friday May 30th at the Grain Belt Bottling House in Minneapolis:
https://www.midwayart.org/events/9/
As part of Artists Space’s survey exhibition Zilia Sánchez, Benigno Trigo, Professor of Latin American Literature at Vanderbilt University, presents a lecture on Puerto Rican literary journal Zona, and its relationship to Sánchez’s work. Tuesday, May 28, 7pm:
http://artistsspace.org/programs/future/#2013
On view now Needles & Pens 10 Year Anniversary Show at the Luggage Store Gallery in San Francisco:
http://www.luggagestoregallery.org/2013/04/needles-pens-10-year-anniversary-show/
Image courtesy of Jillian Mayer and Locust Projects
Charlotte Street Foundation announces its Rocket Grants Projects awarded for 2013-2014:
http://rocketgrants.org/rocket-grants-projects/the-projects-2013-2014/
For more information regarding the Rocket Grants program and The Warhol Foundation’s affiliation:
Momenta Art’s Director Eric Heist speaks about the history and mission of the institution in honor of its Spring Benefit and Auction:
http://paddle8.com/blog/2013/05/20/qa-momenta-arts-director-eric-heist/
Locust Projects will be hosting a conversation with the artist Jillian Mayer on June 8th in conjunction with her exhibition Precipice/PostModem which is on view now:
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A video speaking about Art(ists) On the Verge at The Soap Factory. AOV4 is an intensive, year-long, mentor-based fellowship program co-directed by Steve Dietz and Piotr Szyhalski. The AOV4 fellows are emerging artists working experimentally at the intersection of art, technology, and digital culture with a focus on network-based practices that are interactive and/or participatory:
Image courtesy of Charles Le Brun and Midway Contemporary Art Center
Midway Contemporary Art Center in Minneapolis presents Plaisance curated by Fionn Meade:
http://www.midwayart.org/exhibitions/13_02_plaisance/
Aljira, A Contemporary Art Center in Newark, NJ gears up for their 2013 Fine Art Auction on May 23rd:
http://www.aljirafineartauction.org/
Salina Art Center in Kansas opens their Call for Artists for their 2014 Artist-in-Residence Program:
http://www.salinaartcenter.org/templates/PageWithSideBar/call_for_artists/
Check out The Greatest Hits of Rhizome 2013:
http://rhizome.org/editorial/2013/may/8/greatest-hits-rhizome-april-2013/
and
The Bay Area Video Coalition received a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to offer subsidized video and audio preservation services to artists and small to mid-sized arts and cultural heritage organizations. The BAVC is already helping several Warhol Initiative organizations including Southern Exposure, Intersection for the Arts, The Headlands Center for the Arts. To find out more about this really important and much needed new program:
http://www.bavc.org/preservation-access-program
Image courtesy of Project Row Houses and Sean Shim-Boyle
Nice review of Project Row Houses’ Round 38:
http://artsandculturehouston.com/sean-shim-boyle-salt-house/
Article about Creative Time‘s gala held at the previous Domino Sugar Factory in Brooklyn:
http://art-nerd.com/newyork/creative-time-x-domino-sugar/
The Headlands Center for the Arts will be holding their benefit and auction on May 19th:
http://www.headlands.org/auction/2013-benefit-art-auction/
Image courtesy of Machine Project and East of Borneo
On May 1st Machine Project and East of Borneo will team up to present a special screening of Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe.
The short documentary features Herzog fulfilling the bet that if his friend Errol Morris completed his film on the subject of pet cemeteries—what would be Morris’s debut release “Gates of Heaven” (1979)—Herzog would eat his shoe. The film follows Herzog as he cooks his own Clarks boots in duck fat and garlic with the help of Alice Waters at Chez Panisse. Following the film, refreshments will be served:
http://machineproject.com/archive/events/2013/05/01/werner-herzog-eats-his-shoe/
As part of their Diverse Discourse Series, DiverseWorks welcomes Stacy Switzer, Artistic Director of Grand Arts in Kansas City on May 1st:
http://diverseworks.org/programs/diverse-discourse/
Franklin Artworks in Minneapolis with be holding their annual Benefit Auction on May 4th:
http://www.franklinartworks.org/
and
No Shame: Storefront for Sale opens April 30th at The Storefront for Art and Architecture in NY:
http://www.storefrontnews.org/programming/exhibitions
Image courtesy of Emily Roysdon and Art in General
Image courtesy of Letha Wilson and Art in General
Transformer in Washington DC will be partnering Norway based arts collective No Place to present Terminators, an exhibition of works in a variety of disciplines by Norwegian artists Jørgen van Eijk, Ole Martin Lund Bø, Donkey and Punch, Sebestian Helling, and Henrik Pask in their first DC exhibition:
http://www.transformerdc.org/documents/Transformer-Terminators.press.release.pdf
Book Launch at Artists Space Books & Talks on April 25th of Roman Catholic Jacuzzi by Michael Bullock with a performance by Lavender Light Gospel Choir:
http://artistsspace.org/programs/roman-catholic-jacuzzi/
Lawndale Art Center in Houston hosts its 2013 Design Fair:
http://www.chron.com/news/article/Lawndale-Art-Center-s-Design-Fair-kicks-off-this-4442739.php
Art in General hosts their New Commissions Book Launch for Emily Roysdon’s Positions and Letha Wilson’s Land Marks:
http://www.artingeneral.org/events/1143
Image courtesy of Locust Projects, Francesca DiMattio and photography by Chi Lam
Image courtesy of Locust Projects and Ed Young
This week:
Machine Project in Los Angeles is seeking to hire an Operations Manager:
http://machineproject.com/seeking-operations-manager/
Locust Projects in Miami celebrates 15 years by looking back at accomplishments:
http://oceandrive.com/channels/home-page/insights/15-years-of-locust-projects
Atlanta Contemporary Art Center is partnering with the Georgia Chapter of American Society of Landscape Architects to present The Contemporary Landscape, a competition designed to inspire creativity and innovation in the field of landscape architecture and to create a temporary outdoor installation:
http://atlantacontemporary.blogspot.com/2013/04/announcing-contemporary-landscape.html
and
CEPA Gallery will be hosting Designing to Live Sustainably which is an effort to promote community engagement in developing a vision for a more comprehensive and supportable future for Buffalo:
http://artvoice.com/issues/v12n15/art_scene/living_sustainably
Image courtesy of Jon Pack & Gary Hustwit and Atlanta Contemporary Art Center
Atlanta Contemporary Art Center opens Jon Pack & Gary Hustwit: The Olympic City on April 19th:
http://thecontemporary.org/exhibitions/jon-pack-gary-hustwit-the-olympic-city/
Rhizome joins with Tumblr to award a new internet art grant for Tumblr artists:
http://newmediarockstars.com/tag/rhizome/
Nice article about Locust Projects in the miamiartzine, Locust Project Gallery Celebrates Fifteen Years of Innovation:
and
Charlotte Street Foundation in Kansas City announces their new Visual Artist Fellows:
http://www.kcur.org/post/charlotte-street-announces-new-visual-artist-fellows
Image courtesy of Jessica Hyatt and threewalls
Southern Exposure in San Francisco will host Open House: Renny Pritikin and Friends on Saturday, April 6, 2013:
http://soex.org/Event/423.html
Closing on April 20th Jessica Hyatt at threewalls in Chicago:
http://three-walls.org/programs/threewallssolo/jessica-hyatt-main-space.php
From the Desert to the City Ballroom Marfa‘s Benefit Auction & Dinner on April 8th Celebrating 10 Years:
http://www.e-flux.com/announcements/celebrating-ten-years-with-benefit-auction-and-dinner/
and
A nice article about Andy Webster’s residence at Salina Art Center:
http://www.salina.com/news/Andy-Webster-4-1
Image courtesy of Sverre Bjertnes and White Columns
Video documentation of Sverre Bjertnes’ exhibition now up at White Columns in New York. The exhibition is in collaboration with Bjarne Melgaard, Randi Koren Bjertnes, and furniture dealer and artist Robert Loughlin:
Image courtesy of Andrea Grover and Aurora Picture Show
This week:
A nice interview with Andrea Grover regarding the history of Aurora Picture Show:
http://temporaryartreview.com/aurora-picture-show-an-interview-with-andrea-grover/
For the 9th year Living Arts Tulsa will sponsor the Tulsa ArtCar Weekend May 16-19, 2013:
http://www.livingarts.org/2013-03-13/call-artists-tulsa-artcar-weekend
Round 38 at Project Row House opens up on March 30th featuring M’kina Tapscott and Kenya Evans, Darin Forehand, Derek Cracco, Jürgen Tarrasch, Sean Shim-Boyle, Rahul Mitra and Thomas Sayers Ellis:
http://projectrowhouses.org/public-art/artist-rounds/round-38/
Artists Space’s Books & Talks venue, its Tribeca Outpost Will Host André Cadere Show:
http://galleristny.com/2013/03/artists-spaces-tribeca-outpost-will-host-andre-cadere-show/
and
Intermedia Arts calls for Minneapolis based artists:
http://www.intermediaarts.org/call-for-artists-554change
Image courtesy of Joey Fauerso and Second Street Gallery
Second Street Gallery, an established and well-regarded nonprofit contemporary art space in Charlottesville, Virginia, is seeking a new curator.
Second Street Gallery (SSG) was central Virginia’s first artist-run alternative arts space, and is today one of the longest established nonprofit organizations in the country focused solely on the art and ideas of our time. Since its founding in 1973, SSG has served the community with continuous exhibition programming, and is recognized as one of the leading nonprofit proponents of contemporary art in the Mid-Atlantic region. SSG is one of only 64 organizations to be included in The Warhol Initiative, an invitational program designed to bolster the organizational capacity of small and mid-sized, artist-centered organizations across the country. Established by a group of artists affiliated with the University of Virginia and the local community, SSG is committed to providing Charlottesville and central Virginia with access to the best in contemporary art and artists, and to fostering an active and open appreciation of this art by engaging, promoting and educating around the ideas and issues underlying it.
The gallery is located inside the City Center for Contemporary Arts (CCCA) building in downtown Charlottesville. Completed in 2003, the CCCA also houses two other non-profit groups, Live Arts (a community theater) and Light House (a youth media organization). Since its incorporation, SSG has been governed by a volunteer Board of Directors (12-20 individuals) and managed by a professional staff. SSG presents 10-12 separate exhibitions each year. In addition, SSG presents a full calendar of related educational and outreach activities that complement its exhibition season. The gallery is supported by memberships, donations from the local community, sponsorships, and grants from foundations and the state.
SSG’s mission is to enliven Virginia through access to the best in contemporary art and artists and to inspire new ways of thinking, seeing, and doing. To this end, SSG strategically promotes contemporary artists through the presentation of their work in a professional gallery setting, and encourages an appreciation of contemporary art and culture by educating the public through exhibitions, lectures, workshops, classes, tours, and publications.
The Position
The Curator is primarily responsible for leading the artistic programming with a clear sense of SSG’s history and mission to bring the best of contemporary art and artists to Central Virginia. The curator is also a passionate advocate for the contemporary arts in general, and the gallery in particular.
This is a part time position, 10 – 12 days per month. The Curator reports to the Gallery Director. Salary is negotiable based on experience, and the gallery has a flexible working environment.
Role and Responsibilities
Plan & Schedule Season
Exhibitions
Fundraising
Other
*SSG also promotes a national call for artist submissions via ads and its website, the curator is assisted in reviewing these proposals by an Artists Review Panel (ARP). The ARP consists of 8-10 artists and arts professionals representing the Central Virginia region, and also individuals who participate in the national contemporary art dialogue as exhibiting artists, critics, curators, and art historians.
Qualifications
I. A history of curatorial achievement within the museum and/or contemporary gallery world that matches the schedule, sensibility and mission of SSG
III. Experience creating and successfully managing exhibitions and budgets
Applications
Please send your application as a pdf attachment to: taylor@secondstreetgallery.org
Please include the following in your application
1) A letter stating your interest in the position, your passion for the contemporary arts and any relevant experience or skills you could bring to the job (fundraising, management etc.)
2) Résumé, detailing education, professional experience and accomplishments
3) List of at least three professional references we may contact
Photo courtesy of Julie Rodrigues Widholm, Rashid Johnson and Ballroom Marfa
OTTO Pizza Fundraiser for SPACE Gallery in Portland, ME June 04, 2013:
http://www.space538.org/event_details.php?id=1794
Frozen Lakes Exhibition at Artists Space in New York extended through March 31:
Creative Time’s 2013 Spring Gala honors legendary artist Julian Schnabel:
http://creativetime.org/events/event/gala-2013/
Link Editions publishes new book, Best of Rhizome 2012:
http://rhizome.org/editorial/2013/mar/11/announcing-best-rhizome-2012/
and
A nice article about Rashid Johnson’s New Growth at Ballroom Marfa until July 7, 2013:
http://blog.expositionchicago.com/art-seen-national/ballroom-marfa-rashid-johnson-new-growth/
Image courtesy of Kimberly Greene and The Soap Factory
The R.U.R Exhibition at The Soap Factory in Minneapolis
Image courtesy of Daniel Anguilu, Aaron Parazette and Lawndale Art Center
This week:
An artist talk with Anna Carina Sinocchi at Aljira in Newark, NJ March 16, 2013 from 3 – 4:30pm:
http://aljira.org/
On April 20th Rhizome will host its Seven on Seven Conference which pairs seven leading artists with seven influential technologists in teams of two, and challenges them to develop something new:
http://rhizome.org/events/rhizomes-seven-seven-conference/
A nice review for Intersection for the Arts‘ most recent exhibition By-product Becomes Product:
http://www.ptank.com/blog/2013/03/by-product-becomes-product-intersection-for-the-arts/
and
Lawndale Art Center prepares for a mural collaboration between graffiti artist Daniel Anguilu and noted Houston painter Aaron Parazette:
Image courtesy of Sverre Bjertnes, Bjarne Melgaard and White Columns
Save the date for Momenta Art‘s 2013 Spring Benefit:
http://www.momentaart.org/momenta-art-spring-benefit-2013.html
Sverre Bjertnes’ If you really loved me you would be able to admit that you’re ashamed of me opens at White Columns in New York:
http://whitecolumns.org/sections/exhibition.php?id=1280
Lawndale Art Center in Houston opens their annual Artist Studio Program Exhibition:
http://lawndaleartcenter.org/exhibitions/2013/may-shows.shtml
and
A nice article about the Soap Factory‘s newest Group Show R.U.R :
http://blogs.citypages.com/dressingroom/2013/02/the_soap_factory_explores_robots_as_metaphor.php
Image Courtesy of Joachim Koester and Headlands Center for the Arts
This week:
Headlands Center for the Arts in San Francisco welcomes Joachim Koester to their 2013 Artist in Residence Program:
http://www.headlands.org/artist/joachim-koester/
Peter Young gives on a guided tour of his exhibition, Capitalist Masterpieces at MOCA Tuscon:
Aurora Picture Show announces its call for entries for the 2013 Extremely Shorts Film Festival to be held in Houston:
and
Artists Space‘s Frozen Lakes Exhibition reviewed in the NY Times:
Installation View of "Frozen Lakes" 2013. Image courtesy of Artists Space.
This week:
A Complex Weave: Women and Identity in Contemporary Art opens on Feb 23rd at the Salina Art Center:
http://www.salinaartcenter.org/exhibitions/future/
Machine Project in Los Angeles offers Embroidery for Artists on March 3rd from noon-3pm:
http://machineproject.com/archive/classwork/2013/03/03/embroidery-for-artists/
Re: Re: Re: Homos and Light Conversation as part of Artists Space: Books and Talks, Thursday, February 21 at 7pm. In conjunction with the exhibition Frozen Lakes, artist Charlotte Prodger and writer and curator Isla Leaver-Yap present a scripted dialogue on the circuitous and incidental language of desire:
http://artistsspace.org/programs/future/#2013
On March 1st, Locust Projects in Miami will be celebrating their 15 year anniversary with a Block Party!:
http://www.locustprojects.org/events/event/one-night-stand-15-year-anniversary-block-party/
A nice article on Self-Help Graphics’ 40 years of working with their community:
http://la.remezcla.com/2013/latin/self-help-graphics-art-los-angeles-east-la/
and
Maryland Art Place is now accepting proposals for IMPRINT 2013:
http://www.mdartplace.org/artists/callforentries.html
Image Courtesy of Printed Matter and MOCA Los Angeles
The first annual LA Art Book Fair on Feb 1-3rd 2013, organized by Printed Matter Inc., and hosted by The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA proved to be a huge success. Free and open to the public, the LA Art Book Fair is a unique event featuring artists’ books, art catalogs, monographs, periodicals, and zines presented by presses, booksellers, antiquarians, artists, and independent publishers from twenty-one countries. Over 16,000 visitors came out to see the work of 220 publishers and individual artists. Exhibitors of the fair created installations, hosted performances, and many presented brand new publications which debuted at the fair. Exhibitors joined the fair from around the world, from Tokyo to Athens, from Oslo to Buenos Aires. Several Warhol Initiative Organizations were invited and participated as exhibitors in the fair including: Fillip, East of Borneo, LACE, X-Tra, Cabinet, Dieu Donne Press, Primary Information and of course Printed Matter.
Image Courtesy of Printed Matter and MOCA Los Angeles
Beyond the amazing number of books, the fair featured 4 exhibitions, including Zine Masters of the Universe a show of artist books by Raymond Pettibon, Dash Snow, Ari Marcopolous, and Marc Gonzales. The fair also had a number of programming events which complemented the fair, including; a guerrilla art radio station KCHUNG broadcasting interviews with artists and publishers through the fair, a Mike Kelley reading room, artists talks by Ben Jones, Dan Nadel, and a lecture by Chris Boot, Executive Director of the Aperture Foundation. Fritz Haeg also offered yoga classes and book club discussions at the Sundown Schoolhouse.
Image Courtesy of Printed Matter and MOCA Los Angeles
The LA Art Book Fair follows suit to Printed Matter’s NY Art Book Fair held at MoMA PS1. 25,000 visitors attended the past year’s NY Art Book Fair which hosted 283 exhibitors. Both fairs are offered free to the public, and the project’s growing success means that Printed Matter’s organizational mission of disseminating and fostering the appreciation of artist books is being realized to a bigger extent than it ever has before!
There was a great article by Carol Cheh regarding the fair on the Art:21 Blog, Here.
Image Courtesy of Printed Matter and MOCA Los Angeles
Image courtesy of Fillip and Artists Space
DiverseWorks turns 30!:
http://glasstire.com/2013/02/08/diverseworks-is-thirty-houston-art-space-keeps-on-keepin-on/
Art in General to Co-Curate Latvia’s Venice Biennale Pavilion:
Fillip launches Intangible Economies at Artist’s Space:
http://fillip.ca/events/intangible-economies-at-artists-space
Locust Projects Roundtables for February and March:
http://www.locustprojects.org/events/event/locust-roundtables-february-march/
Image courtesy of Printed Matter, LA Art Book Fair and The Geffen Contemporary
This week:
Printed Matter‘s LA Art Book Fair at The Geffen Contemporary:
http://www.openingceremony.us/entry.asp?pid=7297
Space One Eleven in Birmingham, Alabama will be hosting Fractured Atlas for a free panel discussion on Tuesday Feb 5th:
http://www.al.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2013/02/space_one_eleven_hosting_fract.html
“By-product Becomes Product” at Intersection for the Arts in San Francisco, CA:
http://www.7×7.com/arts-culture/applied-science-product-becomes-product-intersection-arts
and
Maryland Art Place kicks off a new program, THIRTY: 30 Creative Minds Under 30, a series of monthly talks featuring thirty emerging Baltimore artists under the age of thirty:
Image courtesy of Locust Projects and Carlos Rigau
This week:
Interesting Study Finds Nonprofits Poor at Fundraising:
http://www.giarts.org/blog/steve/study-finds-nonprofits-poor-fundraising
Lawndale Art Center announces their Hair Ball 2014:
http://lawndaleartcenter.org/events/hairball/hairball2014.shtml
Soap Factory announces their Open Call Submissions:
http://www.soapfactory.org/submissions.php
Interesting article: Locust Projects’ New Exhibits Force Viewers Outside Their Comfort Zones:
http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/cultist/2013/01/exhibit_at_locust_projects_cal.php
Image courtesy of Aude Moreau and Smack Mellon
Intermedia Arts in Minneapolis is teaming up with city planners in a Creative CityMaking partnership:
Legion Arts presents Photographs by Pieta Brown:
http://legionarts.org/events/photographs-by-pieta-brown
Smack Mellon, presents artist Aude Moreau’s Sugar Carpet, a large-scale installation comprised of 2 tons of refined white sugar that has been meticulously worked to look like a Persian rug:
http://brooklyn-artisan.net/tag/smack-mellon/
and
Storefront for Art and Architecture present The Competitive Hypothesis, an exhibition examining the politics behind the architecture competition:
http://www.storefrontnews.org/programming/events?preview=true&e=514
Image courtesy of Machine Project
This week:
40 Years of Artist Space exhibition opens at NYU’s Fales Library and Special Collections on January 30th:
Looking Back / The 7th White Columns Annual curator Richard Burkett interviewed about the exhibition:
Charlotte Street Foundation founder and co-director David Hughes is stepping down:
http://www.kansascity.com/2013/01/11/4004446/founder-prepares-to-step-down.html
and
Machine Project in Los Angeles is holding a Field Recording Workshop January 26th and 27th:
http://machineproject.com/archive/classwork/2013/01/26/field-recording-workshop-2/
Tony Feher, “Untitled,” 2011 (detail) Photography by G.R. Christmas, courtesy The Pace Gallery and Diverseworks
This week:
Tony Feher : Free Fall opens at DiverseWorks on January 18th:
http://diverseworks.org/2013/tony-feher-free-fall/
The Atlanta Contemporary Art Center has announced that Lucinda Bunnen is the winner of its fourth-annual Nexus Award:
http://atlantaplanit.com/announcements/announcement.php?aid=351
2013 Texas Biennial, of which several Warhol Initiative Grantees are apart have announced its Open Call For Art:
http://austinist.com/2013/01/02/2013_texas_biennial_open_call_for_a.php
and White Columns’ Looking Back / The 7th White Columns Annual selected by Richard Birkett opens Jan 10th:
http://www.whitecolumns.org/view.html?type=exhibitions&id=659
Image courtesy of Southern Exposure
Southern Exposure in San Francisco is holding a Bank Heist Contest which invites the public to imagine the possibility of a successful bank heist. $1000 will be given as a reward to the best proposal:
http://soex.org/Event/401.html
There was a big Holiday Bash at Santos Party House in Manhattan on Dec 16th to benefit Primary Information, Printed Matter and The Kitchen and assist in their Post-Sandy Recovery:
http://www.facebook.com/events/101069563395735/
Salina Art Center’s exhibition Image Transfer: Pictures in a Remix Culture on through January 18th. The exhibition features Sara Vanderbeek, Lisa Oppenheim, Erika Vogt, Karl Haendel, Amanda Ross-Ho and Matt Keegan among others:
http://www.salinaartcenter.org/exhibitions/
Artists Space has begun the Pre-Sale of The Artists Space Annual Edition Portfolio 2013 featuring Angela Bulloch, Richard Hawkins, Karl Holmqvist, Klara Liden, Nick Mauss and Collier Schorr:
http://artistsspace.org/2013-annual-edition-portfolio/
Aurora Picture Show calls for artists to Submit an Aurora Design:
http://aurorapictureshow.org/pages/call_for_designs_795.asp
Ballroom Marfa was at Hyde Beach to celebrate the new Drive-In in Marfa, which will, in fact, be a true drive-in, where the Marfa arts community can not only frequent to view films, but can also attend special concerts and performance art pieces:
http://societeperrier.com/miami/articles/event-recap-ballroom-marfa-at-hyde-beach-gallery/
The Luggage Store will present a solo exhibition, Resistance by artist Taraneh Hemami in January of 2013:
http://www.luggagestoregallery.org/2012/12/resistance-by-taraneh-hemami/
The Kansas City Arts Coalition will hold their 30th Annual Benefit Art Auction in February of 2013:
http://www.kansascityartistscoalition.org/auction/KCAC_auction-2013_pledge-form_web.pdf
Image courtesy of Tracy Block and Ballroom Marfa
This week:
The National Endowment for the Arts announced its 2013 awardees this week. Several Warhol Initiative Grantees have been awarded an NEA Grant for 2013:
http://www.nea.gov/grants/recent/13grants/13aae.php?CAT=Art+Works&DIS=Visual+Arts
PARTICIPANT INC will be at UNTITLED.art Miami from December 5 – 9, 2012. They will be featuring Ron Athey, Robert Boyd, John Brattin, Ellen Cantor, Johanna Constantine, Vaginal Davis, James Fotopoulos, Michelle Handelman, Lovett/Codagnone, Kembra Pfahler, Luther Price, Diana Puntar, Julie Tolentino, Conrad Ventur:
http://participantinc.org/frontpage_sidebar/news/dec-new/
An article speaking about Locust Projects’ Theaster Gates exhibition in the Miami Herald:
http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/12/01/3119042/kicking-it-up-a-notch.html
and
Creative Time and Trevor Paglen release a Time-Capsule into space:
Image credit: Migrants Seen by Predator Drone, U.S.-Mexico Border (public domain image, courtesy of Trevor Paglen and Creative Time)
Charlotte Street Foundation, based in Kansas City, MO announced that its Founder and Co-Director David Hughes will step down from his current position as Co-Director in mid-2013, following the hiring of a new Executive Director. Hughes will transition to the role of Director Emeritus, assisting in orientation of the new Executive Director, then continuing to serve as an ambassador and advocate for artists and the organization locally and nationally:
http://www.charlottestreet.org/2012/11/planned_transition/
The Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, in Atlanta, GA will be hosting a screening of Jack Smith’s films on November 30th at 8pm as a part of Andy Ditzler’s Film Love series. They will be screening a restored version of Jack Smith’s Normal Love (1963-1965, 120 mins). Smith was an artist who excelled in photography, filmmaking, performance art and general theatrical experiences:
http://thecontemporary.org/programming/2012-fall-programming/screening-jack-smith/
and Lawndale Art Center in Houston, TX opens their group exhibition Staring at the Wall: The Art of Boredom curated by Katia Zavistovski and featuring work of Chris Akin, Seth Alverson, Uta Barth, Jeremy DePrez, Clayton Porter and Jenny Schlief:
http://www.lawndaleartcenter.org/exhibitions/2012/november-shows.shtml
Image courtesy of Jack Smith and the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center
This week:
Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center in Buffalo, New York hosted Cynthia Carr to discuss her new critically acclaimed biography Fire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz:
http://www.ubspectrum.com/arts/fire-in-his-belly-1.2956288
As part of its New Commission series, Art in General presents robbinschilds’s I came here on my own, an experimental project in two parts: a four-channel video installation and six live performances:
http://www.e-flux.com/announcements/robbinschildss-new-commission/
San Francisco based Southern Exposure hosts Snapshot, an exhibition of their Youth Advisory Board:
http://soex.org/Exhibit/113.html
Self Help Graphics in Los Angeles hosts a new mural commission in Boyle Heights by Codak Smith , Isaias Crow, Dice, and Vyal One:
http://www.lataco.com/taco/codak-dice-crow-vyal-self-help-graphics
and Young Writers are hosted at Intermedia Arts in Minneapolis:
http://iayoungwriters.tumblr.com/
Image courtesy of robbinschilds and Art in General.
This week:
DiverseWorks says goodbye to their 2nd home at “The Docks”:
http://offcite.org/2012/11/06/diverseworks-is-dead-long-live-diverseworks
Locust Projects is celebrating its 15th year of exhibitions and is presenting a large installation by artist Theaster Gates titled Soul Manufacturing Corporation that will be up through December:
http://www.locustprojects.org/exhibitions/
Maryland Art Place Appoints Dawn Gavin as Board President:
http://www.mdartplace.org/about/news/2012/dawngavin.html
Aurora Picture Show is now accepting Submissions for Open Screen Night:
Image courtesy of Diverseworks.
This week – hard hit organizations cleanup after Sandy, 2013 Charlotte Street Visual Artist Awards call for applications, and DiverseWorks presents their first exhibition in their new downtown space.
Printed Matter and Smack Mellon among others scramble to piece things together in the aftermath of the storm:
https://www.facebook.com/printedmatter/photos_stream
http://printedmatter.org/news/news.cfm?article_id=969
http://www.flickr.com/photos/scottlynchnyc/8149666013/
Charlotte Street Foundation 2013 Visual Art Awards application closes December 10th:
http://pushingtheflywheel.com/charlotte-street-2013-visual-artist-awards-call-for-applications-deadline-december-10/#!prettyPhoto
DiverseWorks opens their inaugural exhibition in their new downtown space, Franklin Evans opening November 16th:
http://diverseworks.org/2012/franklin-evans-houstontohouston/
Image courtesy of Printed Matter.
Speed/Networking/Live! 2012 from Artspace New Haven on Vimeo.
This week a video from Artspace outlining their program Speed/ Networking/ Live! 2012 an artist networking program which they hosted for arts professionals and local artists.
Video courtesy of Artspace.
This week view the Creative Time Summit online, visit Bernadette Corporation’s first retrospective at Artists Space, Living Arts Tulsa holds a mural competition for The Day of the Dead, Locust Projects’ will have their Tenth Annual Smash and Grab Fundraiser, and Ballroom Marfa continues their partnership Vidas Perfectas: A new version of Robert Ashley’s opera Perfect Lives.
The Creative Time Summit 2012 is now online:
http://creativetime.org/summit/
See Bernadette Corporation’s first retrospective 2000 Wasted Years at Artists Space up until December 16th:
Living Arts Tulsa holds a mural competition for Dia de los Muertes:
http://www.newson6.com/story/19868434/murals-go-up-in-brady-district-for-day-of-the-dead
Locust Projects’ Tenth Annual Smash and Grab Fundraiser:
http://www.locustprojects.org/events/event/locust-projects-tenth-annual-smash-and-grab-fundraiser/
Ballroom Marfa partners to bring Vidas Perfectas: A new version of Robert Ashley’s opera Perfect Lives to a wider audience:
Image courtesy of Creative Time
Pausing for a moment as we prepare some new changes to the Initiative site. Enjoy the end of your summer!
Photo by Melissa Kaseman, from the Warhol Convening 2011.
This week, admire large scale murals, get involved with some artistic cooking and eating and participate in a range of workshops and events.
http://machineproject.com/archive/events/2012/08/09/giant-leaps-for-mankind-and-the-future-of-the-past/ – Machine Project
http://bayareaartgrind.com/2012/07/24/call-for-applicants-grant-opportunity-southern-exposures-2012-grant-program-alternative-exposure-round-6/ – Southern Exposure
http://www.ultimateheights.com/stories/400894-events-lawndale-art-center-to-present-collaborative-mural – Lawndale Art Center
http://www.strattonfaxon.com/blog/real-art-ways-creative-cocktail-hour/ – Real Art Ways
http://thepeoplescook.wordpress.com/2012/07/27/call-for-artists-for-feed-be-fed-due-august-12/ – Intermedia Arts
http://www.printeresting.org/tag/space-gallery/ – Space Gallery
http://fresharts.org/eventdetail.asp?eventid=2654 – Aurora Picture Show
http://pushingtheflywheel.com/non-profit-formation-workshop-with-the-kansas-city-artists-coalition/ – Kansas City Artists Coalition
Image courtesy of Alex Luster for Lawndale Art Center.
This week, admire large scale murals, get involved with some artistic cooking and eating and participate in a range of workshops and events.
http://machineproject.com/archive/events/2012/08/09/giant-leaps-for-mankind-and-the-future-of-the-past/ – Machine Project
http://bayareaartgrind.com/2012/07/24/call-for-applicants-grant-opportunity-southern-exposures-2012-grant-program-alternative-exposure-round-6/ – Southern Exposure
http://www.ultimateheights.com/stories/400894-events-lawndale-art-center-to-present-collaborative-mural – Lawndale Art Center
http://www.strattonfaxon.com/blog/real-art-ways-creative-cocktail-hour/ – Real Art Ways
http://thepeoplescook.wordpress.com/2012/07/27/call-for-artists-for-feed-be-fed-due-august-12/ – Intermedia Arts
http://www.printeresting.org/tag/space-gallery/ – Space Gallery
http://fresharts.org/eventdetail.asp?eventid=2654 – Aurora Picture Show
http://pushingtheflywheel.com/non-profit-formation-workshop-with-the-kansas-city-artists-coalition/ – Kansas City Artists Coalition
Image courtesy of Alex Luster for Lawndale Art Center.
A marathon reading event at Printed Matter, Powerpoint art at Artist’s Space and a musical at Out North – some great events for the summer…
http://galleristny.com/2012/07/rhizomes-new-executive-director-is-heather-corcoran/ – Rhizome
http://artistsspace.org/programs/powerpoint-and-the-perfume-of-reading/ – Artist’s Space
http://www.artist-at-large.com/2012/07/20/artists-film-international-at-ballroom-marfa/ – Ballroom Marfa
http://www.bentalaska.com/2012/07/spring-awakening-at-out-north/ – Out North
http://www.booklyn.org/news/000630.php – Printed Matter
http://sfbay.craigslist.org/nby/eve/3153807022.html – Headlands Center for the Arts
http://www.missiontix.com/events/product/14781_1/lux-maryland-art-places-2012-fall-benefit-and-juried-invitational-exhibition – Maryland Art Place
http://machineproject.com/seeking-assistant-director/ – Machine Project
Image courtesy of Marshall Weber (who will be performing a 48-hour-long marathon reading of appropriative texts at Printed Matter)
A marathon reading event at Printed Matter, Powerpoint art at Artist’s Space and a musical at Out North – some great events for the summer…
http://galleristny.com/2012/07/rhizomes-new-executive-director-is-heather-corcoran/ – Rhizome
http://artistsspace.org/programs/powerpoint-and-the-perfume-of-reading/ – Artist’s Space
http://www.artist-at-large.com/2012/07/20/artists-film-international-at-ballroom-marfa/ – Ballroom Marfa
http://www.bentalaska.com/2012/07/spring-awakening-at-out-north/ – Out North
http://www.booklyn.org/news/000630.php – Printed Matter
http://sfbay.craigslist.org/nby/eve/3153807022.html – Headlands Center for the Arts
http://www.missiontix.com/events/product/14781_1/lux-maryland-art-places-2012-fall-benefit-and-juried-invitational-exhibition – Maryland Art Place
http://machineproject.com/seeking-assistant-director/ – Machine Project
Image courtesy of Marshall Weber (who will be performing a 48-hour-long marathon reading of appropriative texts at Printed Matter)
Some great job opportunities this week and an upcoming art show which celebrates the humble bulletin board.
http://www.artsatl.com/2012/07/art-papers-announces-executive-editor/ – Art Papers Magazine
http://galleristny.com/2012/07/bulletin-boards-forever/ – White Columns
http://www.thecontemporary.org/assets/13361/ACAC_PR-Mkt_g_Coordinator_job_description.pdf – Atlanta Contemporary Art Center
http://www.realartways.org/opportunities.htm – Real Art Ways
Image Courtesy Venus Over Manhattan.
Some great job opportunities this week and an upcoming art show which celebrates the humble bulletin board.
http://www.artsatl.com/2012/07/art-papers-announces-executive-editor/ – Art Papers Magazine
http://galleristny.com/2012/07/bulletin-boards-forever/ – White Columns
http://www.thecontemporary.org/assets/13361/ACAC_PR-Mkt_g_Coordinator_job_description.pdf – Atlanta Contemporary Art Center
http://www.realartways.org/opportunities.htm – Real Art Ways
Image Courtesy Venus Over Manhattan.
Belatedly celebrate July 4th with a selection of events exploring outer space: The Institute of Extraterrestrial Sexuality presents a reading event at Printed Matter and Creative Time plans to send art into the great unknown.
http://extraterrestrialsexuality.org/tag/printed-matter/ – Printed Matter
http://galleristny.com/2012/07/creative-times-next-project-involves-real-space-travel/ – Creative Time
http://www.realartways.org/press/releases/2012/20120718-amadon-donnelly.html – Real Art Ways
http://www.pecha-kucha.org/night/san-jose-ca/7 – San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art
Still from Love Puddles by Michael Mallis and Mickey McParlane, courtesy of The Institute of Extraterrestrial Sexuality
Belatedly celebrate July 4th with a selection of events exploring outer space: The Institute of Extraterrestrial Sexuality presents a reading event at Printed Matter and Creative Time plans to send art into the great unknown.
http://extraterrestrialsexuality.org/tag/printed-matter/ – Printed Matter
http://galleristny.com/2012/07/creative-times-next-project-involves-real-space-travel/ – Creative Time
http://www.realartways.org/press/releases/2012/20120718-amadon-donnelly.html – Real Art Ways
http://www.pecha-kucha.org/night/san-jose-ca/7 – San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art
Still from Love Puddles by Michael Mallis and Mickey McParlane, courtesy of The Institute of Extraterrestrial Sexuality
Good news for a bunch of arts organizations with successful fundraising events, generous grants and various other examples of support coming their way.
http://www.sfgate.com/style/article/Headlands-auction-sees-100-pieces-fly-out-door-3653755.php – Headlands Center for the Arts
http://www.namelesssound.org/events/2012_09_22_text_of_light.html – Aurora Picture Show
http://www.laimyours.com/21026/laxart-garden-party/ – Laxart
http://www.bookcourt.com/events/bomb-magazine-0 – Bomb Magazine
http://www.sfgate.com/art/article/Boom-through-Dec-18-at-Southern-Exposure-3162801.php – Southern Exposure
http://bayareaartgrind.com/2012/06/30/job-san-jose-institute-of-contemporary-art-sjica-print-center-manager/ – San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art
http://diverseworks.org/about/employment-opportunities/ – DiverseWorks
Image of Randy Weston playing piano, courtesy of the Museum of Contemporary African Diaspora Arts (MOCADA).
Good news for a bunch of arts organizations with successful fundraising events, generous grants and various other examples of support coming their way.
http://www.sfgate.com/style/article/Headlands-auction-sees-100-pieces-fly-out-door-3653755.php – Headlands Center for the Arts
http://www.namelesssound.org/events/2012_09_22_text_of_light.html – Aurora Picture Show
http://www.laimyours.com/21026/laxart-garden-party/ – Laxart
http://www.bookcourt.com/events/bomb-magazine-0 – Bomb Magazine
http://www.sfgate.com/art/article/Boom-through-Dec-18-at-Southern-Exposure-3162801.php – Southern Exposure
http://bayareaartgrind.com/2012/06/30/job-san-jose-institute-of-contemporary-art-sjica-print-center-manager/ – San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art
http://diverseworks.org/about/employment-opportunities/ – DiverseWorks
Image of Randy Weston playing piano, courtesy of the Museum of Contemporary African Diaspora Arts (MOCADA).
Now that the summer has really started, try something new: become part of an interdisciplinary collective, check out some job opportunities or just take a neighborhood walking tour…
http://www.headlands.org/program/workshops/wkshp-futureheadlands/ – Headlands Center for the Arts
http://racc.org/resources/development-manager-special-events-major-gifts-sought-headlands-center-arts-ca – Headlands Center for the Arts
http://www.artplaceamerica.org/articles/the-5m-project-3/ – Intersection for the Arts
http://www.somarts.org/tag/sf-camerawork/ – SF Camerawork
http://houston.culturemap.com/newsdetail/06-19-12-moving-in-aurora-picture-shows-chic-new-digs-astroturf-courtyard-naughty-sculptures/ – Aurora Picture Show
http://houston.culturemap.com/eventdetail/aurora-picture-shows-15th-annual-extremely-shorts-/ – Aurora Picture Show
http://projectrowhouses.org/2012/06/job-posting-prh-individual-giving-manager/ – Project Row Houses
http://projectrowhouses.org/2012/06/job-posting-prh-seeking-bookkeeperadministrative-support/ – Project Row Houses
http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/arts/books/queer-voices-june-2012-pick – Intermedia Arts
http://www.bizjournals.com/triad/news/2012/06/22/elsewhere-collaborative-receives.html – Elsewhere Collaborative
http://www.chicagoartistsresource.org/literary/node/19158 – Creative Time
Image of Elsewhere Collaborative Library via Pachi Giustinian
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Print fairs, communal dining, open calls and a special lying down event; plenty of options to belatedly celebrate Father’s Day!
http://www.callforentry.org/festivals_unique_info.php?ID=1056&sortby=fair_name&apply – Charlotte Street Foundation
http://www.collegeart.org/opportunities/listing/7562/ – MoCADA
http://www.bentalaska.com/2012/06/out-north-receives-250000-grant/ – Out North
http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-opinion/finer-things/2012-06-12/triple-canopy-bosnia/ – Triple Canopy
http://www.projectsoundwave.com/5/2012/aug3/ – Intersection for the Arts
http://www.soulofmiami.org/2012/06/16/locust-projects-presents-one-night-stands-corzo-social-and-southernmost-situations-62112/ – Locust Projects
http://chicanoartmovement.tumblr.com/post/25055495479/self-help-graphics-art-annual-print-fair – Self Help Graphics
http://www.luggagestoregallery.org/2012/06/closing-weekend-streetopia/ – The Luggage Store
Image via Art in America.
The Foundation is pleased to report that three Initiative organizations have received funding through the collaborative grantmaking effort, ArtPlace. The full list of the Creative Placemaking grantees can be found online through the ArtPlace website.
“Across the country, cities and towns are using the arts to help shape their social, physical, and economic characters,” said NEA Chairman Rocco Landesman. “The arts are a part of everyday life, and I am thrilled to see yet another example of arts organizations working with city, state, and federal offices to help strengthen and revitalize their communities through the arts. It is wonderful that ArtPlace and its funders have recognized this work and invested in it so generously.”
Congratulations to Intermedia Arts, MoCADA, and Out North!
Creative Citymaking – $325,000 – Intermedia Arts – Minneapolis, MN
Creative Citymaking, a new program fostering long-term collaborations between artists and planners, will result in a new model for creative city planning with a goal of increasing participation of diverse communities in determining their futures.
The Soul of Brooklyn – $250,000 – Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA) – Brooklyn, NY
A collaborative effort between African Diaspora arts organizations and businesses, The Soul of Brooklyn will drive people and activity to its community through a curated monthly cultural series and intense summer series that presents arts programming in neighborhood businesses to bolster the local economy in Central Brooklyn.
The Art House Resident Program – $250,000 – Out North Contemporary Art House – Anchorage, AK
Out North will be a collaborative, dynamic community space where a dozen resident groups can create, present, produce, teach, and reach out through art, music, education and journalism to build community pride, resilience and resolve.
A great time to be had in the Hamptons, volunteer opportunities, and a leadership change at Out North.
http://www.artingeneral.org/events/1106 – Art In General
http://events.sfgate.com/san_francisco_ca/events/show/264333486-the-changemaker-social – Intersection for the Arts
http://slanguagestudio.com/slanguage-at-laxart-this-is-a-takeover-a-10-year-survey-of-slanguage/ – Laxart
http://www.ultimateheights.com/stories/379895-events-lawndale-art-center-in-need-of-volunteers – Lawndale Art Center
http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/after-long-wait-out-north-appoints-executive-director – Out North
Image from website: www.slanguagestudio.com
Plan ahead to draw some monsters with Southern Exposure, head to DiverseWorks to admire street art and get your Woody Guthrie fix at Legion Arts.
http://www.eadolife.com/locations/diverseworks-art-space/ – DiverseWorks
http://ultimatemontrose.com/stories/375242-events-lawndale-art-center-to-hold-billie-holiday-dinner – Lawndale Art Center
http://legionarts.org/events/woodyfest – Legion Arts
http://buffalo-energy.com/2012/05/31/green-building-101-event-june-18th-7pm-hallwalls-free/ – Hallwalls
http://www.pressherald.com/life/go/all-crank-ed-up-and-ready-to-make-art-at-space_2012-05-31.html – Space Gallery
http://www.absolutearts.com/artsnews/2012/05/30/artspublish/2348913774.html – Triple Canopy
http://www.knightarts.org/community/miami/a-sneak-peak-at-the-first-issue-of-miami-rail – Brooklyn Rail
http://www.me-di-ate.net/mediateWP/wp-content/uploads/2012FestCalendar.pdf – Intersection for the Arts
http://flavorpill.com/sanfrancisco/events/2012/6/8/southern-exposures-annual-monster-drawing-rally – Southern Exposure
Image from The Portland Press Herald website
Take part in some creative paper-folding, check out experimental music by dogs or just ogle the spectacular Ballroom Marfa drive-in proposal (picture above!)
http://www.nyfa.org/opp_detail.asp?type=Job&id=94&fid=1&sid=54&oppid=40057&print=true – Art in General
http://www.songkick.com/concerts/12452738-wye-oak-at-crowley-theatre-at-ballroom-marfa – Ballroom Marfa
http://bigbendnow.com/2012/05/county-enters-into-99-year-lease-for-ballroom-marfa-drive-in-project/ – Ballroom Marfa
http://www.chron.com/life/society/article/All-won-at-Luck-of-the-Draw-3576712.php – DiverseWorks
http://trendfactory2012.tumblr.com/ and http://blogs.houstonpress.com/artattack/2012/05/free_for_all_the_emotional_lif.php – Lawndale Art Center
http://thebolditalic.com/events/4752-southern-machine-exposure-project – Southern Exposure/Machine Project
http://artistsspace.org/programs/performing-institution-event/ – Artist’s Space
Image: Rendering of Ballroom Marfa drive-in, courtesy of MOS architects.
This week, a varied selection including fishing movies, puppetry workshops and artist-run centers in Canada…something for everyone!
http://www.ultimatemontrose.com/stories/365396-events-aurora-picture-show-offers-cyclists-front-row-seats – Aurora Picture Show
http://legionarts.org/events/sandglass-theater-workshop – Legion Arts
http://www.tulsaworld.com/scene/article.aspx?subjectid=455&articleid=20120517_272_WK25_CUTLIN650805&r=3214 – Living Arts Tulsa
http://www.pressherald.com/life/go/fishing-movie-thats-really-about-friendship-has-big-pull_2012-05-17.html – Space Gallery
http://smartready.wordpress.com/ – Smack Mellon
http://www.absolutearts.com/artsnews/2012/05/17/artspublish/2348913751.html – Triple Canopy
http://epculturebeat.com/2012/05/css-performing-in-marfa-the-capri/ – Ballroom Marfa
http://houston.culturemap.com/newsdetail/05-14-12-08-40-dancing-in-falling-water/ – DiverseWorks, Aurora Picture Show, Project Row Houses
http://www.lawndaleartcenter.org/documents/2012/2012bigshow_call_ws.pdf – Lawndale Art Center
Image of Stephan Koplowitz: TaskForce – Natural Acts in Artificial Water, courtesy of Lynn Lane Photography
Aurora has launched a new Kickstarter campaign to raise money for their relocation. Here’s the link for more information.
BYOB, Art Cars, and more in this edition. Happy belated Mother’s Day to all the Initiative moms out there.
http://rhizome.org/announce/opportunities/58504/view/ – Artspace
http://legionarts.org/legion-arts-to-host-vermont-theatre-company-residency – Legion Arts
http://www.pitchengine.com/www.vidalexus.com/lexus-moving-expressions – Self Help Graphics
http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/may/07/new-childrens-museum-birthday/ – Machine Project
http://www.pressherald.com/life/go/get-around_2012-05-10.html – Space Gallery
Image: From Lexus, Jamie “Vyal” Reyes and Patssi Valdez created work for this CT200h hybrid vehicle.
An opportunity to work in a Haunted Basement. Unless that’s how you already describe your current offices.
http://fiberartcalls.blogspot.com/2012/04/maryland-art-place-curators-incubator.html – Maryland Art Place
http://www.hallwalls.org/community/5245.html – Hallwalls
http://losangelesartresource.wordpress.com/2012/05/01/51-jobs/ – LACE: job opportunity
http://charlottesvillearts.org/blog/arts-education-workshop-with-second-street-gallery-and-vmfa/ – Second Street Gallery
http://rhizome.org/announce/jobs/56997/view/ – Rhizome: job opportunity
http://www.springboardforthearts.org/haunted-basement-company-and-stage-manager/ – The Soap Factory:job opportunity
http://cabinetmagazine.org/events/shell.php – Cabinet
http://www.fh-joanneum.at/aw/home/Studienangebot_Uebersicht/fachbereich_information_design_technologien/ind/News_Events/ind_events/~cjup/120515_allen/?lan=de – Machine Project
http://events.marinij.com/san_francisco_ca/events/show/258085724-southern-exposures-annual-monster-drawing-rally – Southern Exposure
Image of the Soap Factory’s Haunted Basement, via Lindsey Lyford.
Steal this painting stolen, Frieze Art fair, and opportunities for artists.
http://blogs.artinfo.com/artintheair/2012/04/24/steal-this-art-painting-stolen-from-bushwick-gallery-momenta-art/ – Momenta Art
http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/events/satz.php – Cabinet
http://downtown.wgrz.com/news/arts-culture/65463-cepa-gallery-offers-summer-photography-camps – CEPA Gallery
http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/arts-and-culture/148731875.html – Slought Foundation
http://www.asmk.ca/WP/?p=1044 – Exit Art
http://bayareaartgrind.com/2012/04/25/san-jose-institute-of-contemporary-art-ica-call-for-artists-sandbox-projects/ – San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art
http://blog.calarts.edu/2012/04/26/literary-la-east-of-borneo-black-clock-events-this-weekend/ – East of Borneo
http://artistsspace.org/programs/materials-money-crisis-2/ – Artists Space
http://www.galleristny.com/2012/04/artists-space-plans-frieze-week-club-nights/ – Artists Space and White Columns
http://urbanculturestudioresidents.wordpress.com/2012/04/27/ucp-open-studios-may-18-and-19/ – Charlotte Street Foundation
Image: Detail of a painting from Adam Simon’s “Steal This” series, stolen from Momenta.
Low Lives Festival, puzzle hunts, artist opportunities and job openings in this week’s roundup.
http://houston.culturemap.com/eventdetail/insightout-diverseworks-presents-stephan-koplowitz/ – DiverseWorks
http://www.sjica.org/uploaded/files/sandbox_application.pdf – San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art
http://bayareaartgrind.com/2012/04/15/headlands-center-for-the-arts-call-for-applications-affiliate-artists-program/ – Headlands Center for the Arts
http://legionarts.org/events/low-lives-festival – Legion Arts
http://www.clevescene.com/cleveland/downright-dotty/Content?oid=2949112 – Spaces Gallery
http://artistsspace.org/programs/w-a-g-e-survey-release/ – Artists Space
http://www.mitchellcenterforarts.org/resources/?p=2027 – Lawndale Art Center
http://bayareaartgrind.com/2012/04/18/job-associate-director-at-southern-exposure-soex-san-francsico-ca/ – Southern Exposure
http://dumbo.is/community/posts/you-will-go-home-a-winner-from-the-smack-mellon-derby-party – Smack Mellon
http://artvoice.com/issues/v11n16/art_scene/the_real_thing – Hallwalls
http://whatsupmiami.blogspot.com/ – Locust Projects
Image: Spaces artist Dott Schneider, via Cleveland’s Scene Magazine.
This week in Initiative organization news.
http://thinkplaycreate.org/news_releases/ncm_040512.html – Machine Project
http://www.knightarts.org/community/miami/a-first-look-at-the-miami-rail – Brooklyn Rail
http://www.sjica.org/uploaded/files/master_printer_job_description_april_2012.pdf – San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art
http://www.songkick.com/concerts/12452738-wye-oak-at-crowley-theatre-at-ballroom-marfa?utm_source=1471&utm_medium=partner – Ballroom Marfa
http://aurorapictureshow.org/calendar.asp?pageid=119&calid=749 – Aurora Picture Show
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/132795122/first-element-mobile-theater-project – Intersection for the Arts
http://www.saljournal.com/news/story/Art-center-director-leaving-5-12-12 – Salina Arts Center
http://www.three-walls.org/programs/csa/current/ – Threewalls
Image: Sneak peek at the Miami Rail, via the Brooklyn Rail.
A few items this week including some opps for filmmakers at Aurora Picture Show and a big project happening at Charlotte Street. Also be sure to look into NAMAC’s Leadership Institute. Information about that is here. Deadline is April 15th!
http://www.lavendermagazine.com/calendar/intermedia-arts-presents-open-kitchen-mero-cocineros-love-at-first-bite-friendly-dessert-contest/ – Intermedia Arts
http://machineproject.com/archive/events/2012/04/07/poetry-hike-with-eileen-myles/ – Machine Project
http://girlsclubcollection.org/locust-projects-looking-for-solo-exhibitions-from-south-florida-mfa-students – Locust Projects
http://www.ultimatemontrose.com/stories/323221-events-aurora-picture-show-film-festival-accepting-entries – Aurora Picture Show
http://www.charlottestreet.org/2012/04/ – Charlotte Street Foundation
Here’s a selection of Initiative links for the week. And congratulations to the Headlands on the launch of their new website, pictured above.
http://jobsplus.baltimoreculture.org/2012/03/23/maryland-art-place-map-announces-call-for-curators-to-participate-in-curators-incubator-exhibition-competition/ – Maryland Art Place
http://lawndaleartcenter.org/studio-program/application12-13.shtml – Lawndale Art Center
http://fuseboxfestival.com/ohana/aurora-picture-show-big-bad-wolf – Aurora Picture Show
http://houston.culturemap.com/newsdetail/03-29-12-aurora-new-home/ – Aurora Picture Show
http://www.forumartisti.altervista.org/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=179 – Charlotte Street Foundation
http://headlands.org/event_detail.asp?key=20&eventkey=1351 – Headlands Center for the Arts
http://www.artplaceamerica.org/articles/the-5m-project-2/ – Intersection for the Arts
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/30/mtv-revives-1985-art-brea_n_1391196.html – Creative Time
http://rhizome.org/editorial/2012/mar/27/rhizome-seven-seven-conference-earl-bird-tickets/ – Rhizome
Starting a trial project here on the blog. Each week we’ll round up some links from Initiative organizations around the country. These may be program updates, news coverage, or even the occasional Kickstarter project. We’ll keep it simple -just some links and the org they refer to.
http://soex.org/Event/345.html – Southern Exposure
http://structureandimagery.blogspot.com/2012/03/momenta-art-spring-benefit.html – Momenta
http://elpasotimes.typepad.com/pullen/2012/03/concert-update-feist-in-marfa-royalty-flaming-lips-beatles-randy-rogers-and-more.html – Ballroom Marfa
http://machineproject.com/archive/news/2012/03/20/aquacoustica-2/ – Machine Project
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/machineproject/transdimensional-hallway – Machine Project
http://rhizome.org/announce/jobs/56986/view/ – Rhizome
http://www.dallasartnews.com/2012/03/lawndale-art-center-announces-artist-opportunities/ – Lawndale
http://clatl.com/culturesurfing/archives/2012/03/22/stuart-horodner-pastes-together-scraps-of-the-art-life – Atlanta Contemporary Art Center
And don’t forget that we’ve launched the new travel grants as well. See previous blog post for information on applying.
Image: Ballroom Marfa.
We are happy to let you know about a new funding opportunity available to you through the Warhol Initiative. Although the foundation is not currently inviting new organizations to join the Initiative or planning any future convenings, we do still hope to foster and support meaningful connections among Initiative grantees and thereby continue to help build the capacity of individual organizations as well as the capacity of the network. After much thought and discussion with our advisors and with many of you, we determined that the most effective way to accomplish this goal at this time is to offer grants for staff travel.
Over the next year (from March 2012-April 2013), Warhol Initiative organizations and journals from the Arts Writing Initiative are eligible to apply for a one-time $5,000 travel grant. These grants are meant to enable executive directors, curators, key staff and/or board members to visit their peers across the country (or abroad) to experience programming first-hand, exchange information and expertise, establish collaborative relationships, investigate institutional models and research regional artistic communities and practices. We encourage but do not require grantees to visit fellow Initiative organizations with these funds. Grantees may pool their resources to organize group retreats or may use funds to attend conferences, festivals or other relevant events. Other possible uses of travel funds include study trips to strengthen the knowledge base or leadership potential of staff; travel to an organization for formal or informal coaching or mentoring; and exploratory visits to new spaces.
To apply for these grants, please send us a letter explaining where you would like to travel and why. You may apply for more than one trip involving more than one staff member, but please try to send just one letter detailing all requests and include a rough budget. We will ask you to report on the grant after the funds have been spent and encourage you to document your travels. We are hopeful that, taken together, these trips will strengthen and deepen the network that the Initiative has fostered over the past twelve years.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Rachel and James
Image: © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
Growing out of the 2011 Creative Time exhibition and summit sharing the same name, Living as Form the book is now out and available through MIT Press or other online and in person booksellers. Documenting artistic activity informed by social engagement around the globe, the publication includes essays by Claire Bishop, Carol Becker, Teddy Cruz, Brian Holmes, Shannon Jackson, Maria Lind, Anne Pasternak, and the project’s curator, Nato Thompson.
Media archiving need not be frustrating. Here’s a valuable resource in San Francisco that you may want to reach out to.
BAVC’s Preservation Department works with museums, artists and cultural institutions around the world to remaster, transfer, and archive seminal creative and historical works on video and audio tape. BAVC’s preservation team has provided services for renowned arts organizations such as The Kitchen, Video Data Bank, SF MoMA, BAM/PFA, Walker Arts Center, and SF Ballet among others.
BAVC is the nation’s largest non-profit preservation organization, and rigorously maintains endangered analog equipment in order to provide high quality transfers to preservation standard formats. BAVC leads the field in developing preservation standards for the future, and providing hands-on expertise to practitioners as they implement these new standards.
BAVC works with cultural, academic, and media organizations large and small to meet a range of needs for securing historically and artistically important materials.
BAVC’s Preservation services include:
Please contact moriah@bavc.org or call 415.558-2158 to determine if BAVC can help you preserve, protect and more widely share your media assets.
Image: Still from Media Burn by BAVC Client, Ant Farm (Lord, Michels, Schreier) 1975, copyright Ant Farm, Courtesy of BAVC.
Congratulations to two Warhol Initiative organizations, Intersection for the Arts and Watts House Project. They were both given substantial awards from the new collaborative funding effort, ArtPlace.
From SFGate:
“Intersection for the Arts, Berkeley Repertory Theatre and three other Bay Area arts groups have received grants totaling more than $2.7 million from ArtPlace. A new approach to arts funding as an engine of economic development, ArtPlace combines funding from 11 of America’s largest foundations in conjunction with the National Endowment for the Arts and seven other federal agencies.
The grants, part of $11.5 million funding 34 projects across the country in ArtPlace’s first round, reflect “a growing realization that art can take a broader and more integrated role in economic and community change,” said Intersection Executive Director Deborah Cullinan.
Intersection received $777,000 to help fund its ongoing 5M Project (in partnership with Forest City Development), a prototype community of 2,000 entrepreneurs, technology companies and artists headquartered in The Chronicle building. Programs include large-scale public art projects, artist residencies and engaging local youth with 5M partners to address neighborhood issues.”
Read the full article here.
From the LA Times Culture Blog:
“The Watts House Project, in which artists lend their talents to community improvement, has landed a $370,000 grant that will enable it to finish converting three houses across the street from the Watts Towers into a headquarters it has dubbed “The Platform.”
The money comes from ArtPlace, a new program in which federal agencies led by the National Endowment for the Arts are working with leading charitable foundations to funnel private funds to projects in which artistic creation isn’t strictly an end in itself, but a neighborhood development tool deployed to generate economic opportunities while making communities more vibrant.
The first round of $11.5 million, announced last week, will fund 34 projects nationwide. For the Watts House Project, launched in 2008, it means the money is now in hand to finish renovating three houses on a single lot that it bought two years ago to serve as its operations base.”
Read the full article about Watts House Project here.
It is with tremendous sadness that we mark the passing of Jeanette Ingberman, co-founder and Executive Director of New York’s Exit Art. Jeanette’s impact on the non-profit arts field was profound and her influence widespread. Over the course of nearly thirty years at Exit Art she provided opportunities to hundreds of artists early in their careers, nurtured a new generation of curators and inspired colleagues around the country with her bold and inventive programs. Her unyielding determination, her optimistic vision and her generous spirit will be greatly missed.
The New York Observer’s article on Jeanette’s life can be found here.
Image: Founders Papo Colo and Jeanette Ingberman at Exit Art, 578 Broadway, Manhattan, 1986 (via Exit Art)
Lots of familiar faces in the lineup for NAMAC’s 2011 Leadership Institute for Visual Arts Organizations. We’re pleased to continue to support this project, which has proven so valuable to so many in the Initiative. We wish all the participants well in the cell phone reception-free woods of Oregon.
The 2011 cohort is listed below, with full bios available as a pdf.
| Mark Allen, Executive Director Machine Project Los Angeles, CA Ashley Clemmer Hoffman, Public Art Manager Christopher Cook, Executive Director and Curator Chris Cowden, Executive Director Courtney Fink, Executive Director Felicity Hogan, Executive Director Emily Hopkins, Executive Director Steve Liggett, Executive and Artistic Director Nat May, Executive Director Mack McFarland, Curator |
Hesse McGraw, Chief Curator Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts Omaha, NE Cassandra Oliveras, Marketing Manager Jon Pounds, Executive Director Greg Sandoval, Manager of Adult Public Programs Scott Schofield, Executive Director Xochi Solis, Director of Public Programming Sarah Stauder, Executive Director Shannon Stratton, Executive and Creative Director Andrew Suggs, Executive Director Bryan Warren, Executive Director |
Registration is now open for the October 2011 Hand-in-Glove conference, organized by threewalls. The conference focuses on arts administration as creative practice.
From the official website: “Hand-in-Glove is a four day event featuring keynote speaker Nato Thompson, panels curated with guest respondents from artist-run culture around the nation, and artist-designed events, parties, food experiences and tours around the city of Chicago. In conjunction with the conference, threewalls will award the 2011 Propellor Fund awards as well as release the third edition of PHONEBOOK.”
Image via threewalls: Works Progress, Minneapolis-St.Paul, Minnesota
As discussed in the How Political Can We Be? session, there was a desire to set up a Joint Information page for the rapid sharing of and response to issues of political and social import. Where swift action if required, this should prove a useful tool. Thanks to Anne Pasternak at Creative Time for setting this up and to session co-leaders, Victoria Reis and Anne-Marie Russell for their contributions. Please check it out on Facebook, like it, and follow the latest updates. The page is found here.
Photo of the Headlands main building by Melissa Kaseman © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
Thanks to a number of you who have forwarded Size Matters, the recent position paper from the UK arts consortium, Common Practice. Well worth a read if you have the chance, as it speaks to the role and importance of small to mid-sized artist run spaces.
From the Common Practice website:
“Size Matters: Notes towards a Better Understanding of the Value, Operation and Potential of Small Visual Arts Organisations is written by Sarah Thelwall,commissioned by Common Practice, London with support from Arts Council England.The paper seeks to articulate the value of small visual arts organisations within the wider arts ecology. The paper explores the significant potential these organisations have in the present cultural landscape and economy,also detailing the operational and investment challenges they face in realising this. Finally, it advocates a reconsideration of present assessment and investment practices.Published in July 2011, this paper will be presented in a variety of forums to stimulate discussion around its core questions, the urgency of which has increased in recent months. If you are interested in learning more about this work, please visit www.commonpractice.org.uk or email Common Practice members via info@commonpractice.org.uk.”
A copy of the pdf version of the position paper can be read here.
Over the next week, we’ll be posting all the notes we have from the Convening sessions. Consider these both as a memory-jogging device and a way to continue the conversations initiated in San Francisco.
Special thanks to our Session Recorders: Susan Chen, Christian L. Frock, Genevieve Quick, Jayna Swartzman, Matthew Tedford, and Meredith Tromble. These talented Bay Area arts writers took copious notes and sat in on nearly every session in order to provide a lasting document of what was discussed. Putting the convening into words is no easy task and we’re deeply appreciative of their work.
If in the process of reading through these, you notice that something has been omitted or mischaracterized, we encourage you to contribute your own take on the events, adding your thoughts in the comments sections of the session pages.
Photo by Melissa Kaseman © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
Thanks to Dewey for leading an early morning breakfast roundtable at the Convening. In case you missed the discussion, or are interested in finding out more about the Leadership Institute, below is some information about the program and how to apply for the upcoming deadline.
Leadership Institute for Visual Arts Organizations Application Deadline: July 8, 2011
NAMAC is pleased to announce that through generous support from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and The National Endowment for the Arts we are accepting applications to our third Leadership Institute for Visual Arts Organizations. This unique opportunity will allow twenty outstanding leaders from nonprofit visual arts and interdisciplinary arts organizations to attend our 5-day experiential workshop September 19-23, 2011 in Oregon.
Who Is Eligible?
Eligible applicants:
*Are permanent employees of a nonprofit visual arts or interdisciplinary organization who hold administrative or creative positions at the executive, director, or managerial level.
* Are experienced or emerging leaders (the Institute emphasizes intergenerational, experiential learning) in executive, managerial, or creative positions.
* Are performing at or above performance expectations and who exhibit leadership potential.
* Have at least five years of experience working in arts organizations (this may include previous experience in other organizations).
What Are the Costs?
The Leadership Institute for Visual Arts Organizations is completely underwritten by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and The National Endowment for the Arts.
To Learn more about the Institute: Including what you will learn, how to apply, who attended in previous years, bios on the facilitators, and more, go to http://namac.org/programs/LIVAO
Application Deadline: July 8, 2011
For questions, please contact Dewey Schott, Senior Manager of Leadership Services at NAMAC, at dan@namac.org or 415-431-1391 ext. 302
A special thank you to the entire cast of characters that brought A Sors, the performance/dining experience at the Masonic Lodge at the Regency Center, to brilliant life. This magical evening represents a new chapter in an ongoing exploration of history and cuisine by artists Julio Cesar Morales and Max La Rivere-Hedrick and was executed in collaboration with Rebecca Jean and Natalia Bushyager of Seasonal Elegance, and the knowledgeable Norma Listman.
Special thanks to everyone involved, including Rocket Caleshu, Arpad Dobriban, Jennifer Frederiksen, Andria Lo, Paolo Salvagione, Brian Scott, Mark Weidenbaum, Miles Ake, Carmen Benavides, Tina Dang, Alexandra Franco, Conrad Meyers II, Jennifer McCabe, Bailey Nakano, Kim Silva, Ian Treasure, Erik Wilson, Jenifer Wofford, Jonathan Wong, Kathryn Williamson, and Danielle Cronis and the Regency staff.
For more on the project as it continues to develop please visit the Engine43 blog.
Image: Photo of the goat oven, by Andria Lo.
Nothing like a hot summer subway ride to remind you that the Convening is now a thing of the past. Thank you again to everyone who attended and who assisted in making for such a wonderful weekend. We hope everyone got home safely and without too much incident, given all the traffic and excitement at SFO.
This site will expand slightly as we begin to incorporate your suggestions and ideas about the Initiative going forward. We’ll add the Sessions section and populate that with notes from each discussion and photos taken during the events. Powerpoint presentations will be included where appropriate. If you have any suggestions or imagery that you’d like to share from your time in San Francisco, send them to James directly, or post a link in the comments below.
Images: Thanks to Tod Lippy for the bus picture and to David Hughes for the table image.
Second full day of sessions, and here are 10 Things We’ve Learned:
1) Goat is delicious.
2) It gets really cold at night. We can’t stress this enough. Dress in your warmest clothes tonight for the dinner at SOEX. We will be outdoors. It will be cold. We will not have heat lamps. Just each other and pork buns. So please please please, dress as warmly as you can for this evening.
3) 16 seconds is the new 20 seconds.
4) The Headlands is the most magical place ever. Thanks again to sharon maidenberg and the entire crew at the Headlands Center for the Arts. Especially to Katie Powers and her cooking team. Those were some tasty and good looking box lunches.
5) Divisidero and Lombard is a terrible place to train on the job.
6) Looking forward to a lot of gay weddings in NY.
7) 6:00am showers are the worst.
8) Julio and Max and Norma and Natalia and Rebecca and Jennifer really know how to make a night feel special. Thanks to everyone involved in the sensory overload that was A Sors, at the Regency Club. We’re ready to start smuggling honey on a regular basis.
9) Rock Band is harder than you think.
10) This is an endlessly inspiring group of people. (But we knew that already.)
Enjoy the day at SFAI.
“It is June 19, 1867. Summer has begun. With the change of seasons, the days will begin to get shorter as well as warmer. There is work to be done. There are fields to be tended, but today is a holiday. To the Catholics of Querétaro, Mexico, it is a religious festival, the Fête-Dieu. In a few hours, the date will become associated with another, more sorrowful occasion. For today, Maximilian will die: Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian Joseph of Austria, or, to the people of Mexico these past three eventful years, Emperor Maximilian. Today is a holiday, and it will henceforth be a mournful one….”
The latest blog entry is up on Engine43’s site, revealing more about the complicated history informing Friday night’s meal and event.
If so inclined, this would be a good evening to wear something on the dressier side. Not a problem to come as you are, but you have the option. The environment at the Regency is an evocative one.
Photo from the development dinner held on Monday, June 20, courtesy of Jesse Nichols.
PECHA KUCHA ORDER – SATURDAY AFTERNOON, SFAI LECTURE HALL
Below is the order for Saturday afternoon at SFAI. We will leave a few slots open in this session for those whose imagery was received after June 21.
Slides are pre-prepared and are automatically set to advance every 20 seconds. Please be ready as soon as you see the organization ahead of you begin their presentation. Presenters are asked to sit in the first row of the Lecture Hall.
1) Rhizome
2) SPACES
3) San Jose ICA
4) Lawndale Art Center
5) Midway Contemporary Art
6) Participant, Inc.
7) MOCA Tucson
8) LA><ART
9) Second Street Gallery
10) 911 Media Arts
11) Out North
12) Kansas City Arts Coalition
13) Franklin Art Works
14) SF Camerawork
Image: The quad at SFAI, outside the Lecture Hall.
Just a note to say that the Foundation staff is on the ground in SF, and we’re looking forward to your arrival. Jackie, Julie C., Julie E., Joyce, James, and (the curiously non-J named) Rachel are all enjoying the sunny temps and beautiful views of the city. We had a great morning at the Headlands today and a terrific in-process dinner last night with Max & Julio and their talented team.
The weather has been warm so far, but might get a little chilly as the week goes on. (Be sure and bring a scarf or sweater, especially to the outdoor evening event at Southern Exposure.) We’re trying to respond to as many emails as we can during our prep time, but if you don’t hear back right away – just know that we’re working hard somewhere and will get in touch as soon as possible.
One note about the schedule – we’ll have the most up to date version of the schedule printed and in your packets. If you’ve downloaded a pdf version via the site, just know that some details may have changed.
If just the past two days are any indication, this is going to be a fantastic Convening. Safe travels to everyone!
Image: A view from the Meridien.
Below is the order for Friday afternoon’s Pecha Kucha session at the Headlands. Building 961 is just a short walk up the hill from the main campus. Beer and light refreshments will be available.
Your slides have been prepared and are automatically set to advance every 20 seconds. Please be ready as soon as you see the organization ahead of you begin their presentation.
1) DiverseWorks
2) Intersection for the Arts
3) MoCADA
4) Maryland Art Place
5) Diaspora Vibe
6) Charlotte Street Foundation
7) East of Borneo
8) Slought Foundation
9) Provisions Library
10) Brooklyn Rail
11) Women and Their Work
12) Galería de la Raza
13) Artists Space
14) Legion Arts
15) Real Art Ways
16) Intermedia Arts
17) Momenta
18) White Columns
If your organization has not been listed on this or a previous Pecha Kucha Order post, that means you’re either presenting during one of the three day-time sessions that feature Pecha Kucha as part of its format, (Publishing 5 Models; Exhibition as Experience, 10 Models; or Supporting Artists, 5 Models*) or you’ll be presenting on the third day at the San Francisco Art Institute. An order for Saturday’s final session will be posted here soon and will be available at the registration desk of the hotel.
*If you’re in one of these three sessions, chances are that you have already spoken with your session leader about your participation. Please check the schedule page if you are unsure.
Thank you for submitting your Pecha Kucha images to us. If you have not yet submitted your images, there are still slots available on the third and final day-time Pecha Kucha session. Please follow the instructions as previously posted. We will finalize the order for the third day once we have everyone’s submissions in house.
Below is the order for the first night. Your slides have been prepared and are automatically set to advance every 20 seconds. Please be ready as soon as you see the organization ahead of you begin their presentation. The Pecha Kucha will begin immediately prior to the dessert course. Every one will have a little over 6 minutes to speak about their organization. We look forward to a fast-paced and informative evening.
1) Atlanta Contemporary Art Center
2) BOMB
3) Locust Projects
4) Exit Art
5) Salina Art Center
6) Aljira
7) Hallwalls
8) Aurora Picture Show
9) SPACE Gallery
10) Soap Factory
11) Artspace, New Haven
12) Smack Mellon
13) LACE
14) Storefront for Art & Architecture
As many of you know, I am leaving the foundation after 22 wonderful years. It has been my great fortune to have had such a challenging, stimulating job, working in the arts with the people I most admire. And you in the Initiative are at the top of that list. I know Rachel, who will lead the program, and James will carry on the work brilliantly, with the aid of Jackie and support of Joel and the foundation’s great board of directors and staff.
Enjoy San Francisco. I’ll miss being with you.
-Pamela
A Sors is a meal-as-art-project created by Julio César Morales and Max La Rivière-Hedrick, with Norma Listman. Taking place on Friday, June 24 in the Lodge at the Regency in San Francisco, the event employs food, libation, live music, and scent to tell a lost story of Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico. A Sors investigates Maximilian’s brief, tragic rule of Mexico, from 1864 to 1867, through the vantage of his most intimate and trusting relationship: the one with his imperial chef and confidant, a Hungarian known as Tudos.
A Sors translates from Hungarian as “destiny.” The bloody end of Maximilian’s reign yielded numerous conspiratorial recountings: he was ushered out of the country after his Freemasons brethren faked his death; he bribed the firing squad with gold to aim at his heart; he wore the 41.94-carat diamond that bears his name to tempt, or mock, his executioners. Maximilian today exists in the popular imagination primarily as a victim of Napoleon’s rule, and as the subject (mid-execution) of Manet’s famed painting. In the operatic version that informs this meal, Maximilian dies, but at the hands of his friend Tudos, who accompanies him by carriage to the execution site and, at Maximilian’s request, kills him before they reach their destination.
A Sors is a performance with four courses. The first three sum up the constituent parts of modern Mexican cooking: Spanish, French, and Mexican. The fourth and final course, a Hungarian dessert, acknowledges the bond between Maximilian and Tudos.
We’ll continue to add posts as this project develops, but you can also track it in words and pictures on the artists’ blog, Engine 43.
Since there are so many of you that reside in San Francisco, we realize that you may opt to get to SFAI on your own. You’re welcome to take public transport, bike, or walk, but should you choose to drive we’ve secured an Art Institute parking lot for your convenience. The lot is located on Jones (on the West side of street), between Chestnut and Francisco. We have the lot all day, which should mean that you can avoid a hefty parking fine and won’t have to worry about moving the car every hour.
Image of SFAI via FoundSF.
Each morning, the Convening will begin with Breakfast Roundtables from 7-9am in Park Grill, the hotel’s third floor restaurant. Participation in the roundtables is optional and largely self organized.
For the breakfast itself, the hotel will give you vouchers when you check in. These vouchers must be given to the server when you sit down at a table. The breakfast is a hot buffet with a variety of the following options:
Freshly squeezed orange & grapefruit juices; hand cut seasonal fruits & berries; fresh baked morning pastries and sliced breakfast bread; fruit preserves & butter; low-fat yogurts; farm fresh scrambled eggs; applewood smoked bacon & chicken apple sausage; breakfast potatoes; and assorted cereals and milk.
At the entrance to the restaurant, we’ll have topic cards and pens available. You can write a topic on the card and set it visibly on your table, so that others may join you for a discussion.
In addition to your own conversations, our consultants Ben Aase and Nancy Lee, will also be available for one-on-one or small group sessions throughout the weekend. On Friday, June 24 Dewey Schott, Senior Manager of Leadership Services at NAMAC, will be on hand to discuss the Leadership Institute for Visual Arts Organizations. The institute has welcomed a number of Initiative organization leaders over the last couple of years and a select few alumni will join Dewey to talk about the program and its impact.
We hope you take advantage of these early sessions, just be sure to wrap things up and meet in the lobby for the buses, departing promptly at 9am.
This is the first in a series of posts highlighting organizations and journals that are new to the Initiative. Ballroom Marfa, Diaspora Vibe Gallery, Elsewhere, Filip, Maryland Art Place, Rhizome, Slought Foundation, Storefront for Art & Architecture, Triple Canopy, Watts House Project, and the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art were all welcomed into the Initiative in the years following the 2008 Convening in New Orleans. This year you’ll have the opportunity to hear from each of these organizations during the Pecha Kucha sessions. Please visit the Foundation’s main site for a list and links to all current Initiative organizations and the Arts Writing Initiative Page for links to the arts journals.
MoCADA
Located in Brooklyn, MoCADA is committed to fostering a greater awareness and appreciation of the arts and cultures of the African Diaspora as it relates to contemporary urban issues. The experiences and cultural contributions of people of African descent have been marginalized throughout history and MoCADA’s mission is to undertake the responsibility of rewriting that history in order to give a more accurate portrayal of the contributions of people of African descent to the artistic and global landscape.
Two programs that exemplify the activities of MoCADA are listed below:
From Africa to Brooklyn: From Great to Great
Through June 26, 2011 MoCADA presents the student exhibition From Africa to Brooklyn: From Great to Great, organized by Ruby Amanze, Director of Education. The exhibition showcases the work of students from six Brooklyn schools: P.S. 3/The Bedford Village School, M.S. 57/The Ron Brown Academy, M.S. 265/Dr. Susan S. McKinney School, Bedford Academy High School, Benjamin Banneker Academy and Brooklyn Community Arts and Media High School. This exhibition is created through MoCADA’s Artists-in-Schools (A-I-S) program where teaching artists work in K-12 schools throughout Brooklyn to initiate and blossom young student’s artistic talents. From Africa to Brooklyn culminates twenty-five weeks of hands on art explorations, field trips and presentations by visiting artists. The participating students created artwork as an interpretation of their African and Diasporan roots in connection to contemporary Brooklyn.
Soul of Brooklyn Week 2011
Soul of Brooklyn Week 2011 runs this summer from June 18 through June 25. Over 20 events in 8 days, from Fort Greene to Bed Stuy, Clinton Hill to Brownsville, Soul of Brooklyn Week 2011 highlights the arts and cultures of Brooklyn’s African Diaspora. Dance parties, fashion shows, concerts, outdoor film screenings. The Soul of Brooklyn is a quintessential resource for discovering the unique cultural and business renaissance currently taking place throughout Brooklyn’s African Diaspora. Soul of Brooklyn’s goal is to promote neighborhood businesses, cultural institutions, and special events that reflect the borough’s vibrant roots and contribute to the growth of stronger communities.
Attendees from MoCADA in San Francisco include Executive Director, Lauri Cumbo; Exhibitions Director, Kalia Brooks; and Board Chair, Kevin Johnson.
In 2007 Southern Exposure launched Alternative Exposure, the first iteration of a national, regional regranting program supported by the Foundation. These grants have reached more than 70 non-incorporated organizations and artist collectives in the Bay Area. During our closing night dinner a select number of recent grantees will be on hand during to present their activities. Many thanks to the staff of Southern Exposure and the participating artists for putting this together.
Here is an advance look at some of the projects that have been designed for this event:
ALULA EDITIONS (2009 Alternative Exposure Grantee)
Alula Editions works with artists to create hand silkscreened textiles, which are then made into an edition of objects. Much like a CSA (community support agriculture), subscribers provide the funds needed to make the editions and receive artworks in return for their investment.
Alula will lead an interactive screen-printing demonstration inviting participants to print with discharge paste. This activity will be a fun and easy way to learn through hands-on participation about the process of removing color from dyed fabric to unveil a repeating pattern.
ART PRACTICAL (2009 Alternative Exposure Grantee)
Art Practical is an online magazine that enriches critical dialogue for the Bay Area visual arts by providing comprehensive analysis of events and exhibitions. Since its launch in October 2009, Art Practical has worked with a network of partners to promote the Bay Area’s role in the international art scene, to create a historical record of contemporary artistic practices, and to foster artistic production through critical writing and public programming.
Art Practical is creating a fold-out poster that functions as a field guide to San Francisco. It will include descriptions of Art Practical contributors’ favorite places in San Francisco, and a map noting their locations.
CRITTER (2009 Alternative Exposure Grantee)
CRITTER presents cultural events that focus on the way science is practiced in everyday life, taking form as talks, classes, demonstrations and workshops.
CRITTER will present an abridged version of Clone-Home, which is an informal plant cloning and cultural drop-in center. People can partake in the joys of making many plants from one with hands-on demonstrations and activities. Friends of CRITTER will guide the curious through several related projects, including phyto-photographic prints, tisane tastings, succulent quilt making, and sounds from the secret life of plants.
INVISIBLE CITY AUDIO TOURS (2010 Alternative Exposure Grantee)
Invisible City Audio Tours is a fiscally sponsored community-arts non-profit that introduces new ways of experiencing literature, art, and geography by producing alternative self-guided walking audio tours. Each tour leads participants through liminal neighborhoods and forgotten or unknown histories, creating heretofore unseen realities through original works of fiction, poetry, music, sound, and visual art.
Invisible City Audio Tours offers two listening stations for their tours Heliography and The Armada of Golden Dreams. The Heliography station includes a display of the “souvenirs” designed by twelve Bay Area artists for the tour’s landmarks. The Armada station includes two 3×3 feet paintings by artist George Pfau, a container of edible gold coins designed by Rebecca Ebeling, and free maps of the route.
INVISIBLE VENUE (2008 Alternative Exposure Grantee)
Invisible Venue collaborates with artists to present art in unexpected settings. It is a one-person organization, founded and directed by Christian L. Frock since 2005, that supports artist’s ideas and explores alternative locations for the presentation of contemporary art, outside of conventional gallery and institutional settings.
Institutional Critique Flair Button (2011) by Charles Gute is a public art project in the form of a freely distributed button. A deceptively simple object, the text democratizes art discourse while playfully suggesting the co-optation of critique through scripted marketing. Originally presented as part of a series of conference badge interventions funded by an Alternative Exposure Grant at the College Art Association Conference (Chicago, 2010), this project will be distributed at Southern Exposure and on Invisible Venue’s website.
KROWSWORK (2010 Alternative Exposure Grantee)
Krowswork is a video and photography gallery in Oakland, California, founded by director Jasmine Moorhead in December 2009.
The program at Southern Exposure will include a cross-section of video work being made currently in the Bay Area by both emerging and established artists. The program can be loosely characterized as process-oriented work that avoids narrative and instead seeks transcendence through elliptical, humorous, and often dark means. The vision of Krowswork is to promote the specific power of video to get into the cracks of things, to flow between and beyond, in contrast to other mediums that rely on physical form. This program reflects Bay Area video makers who are realizing and acting on this potential.
RIBBONS (2009 Alternative Exposure Grantee)
David Wilson/Ribbons uncovers spaces of surprising inspiration and draws together a wide net of collaborators to craft spirited experiences of place, performance, and participation.
Ribbons will share a collection of maps, invitations, books, and other ephemera from past explorations and gatherings. The production and dissemination of this printed matter has been deeply supported by the Alternative Exposure grant. Wilson has also cooked up a small journey for the Warhol Foundation friends: look for the map and share in a group walk to a secret, wooded courtyard to hear the song of thirty voices.
ROYAL NONESUCH (2009 Alternative Exposure Grantee)
Royal NoneSuch Gallery is an artist-run alternative art and event space located in Oakland, California. It is dedicated to creating community around art-based experiences that are thought provoking and conceptually rigorous, while also being accessible and fun.
Royal NoneSuch Gallery and artist Matthew Cella will present Balloon D’Art! Originally presented as part of 21 Projects x 21 Hours x 21 Days, a community-based event series at Royal NoneSuch Gallery, Balloon D’Art is a re-envisioned version of the classic carnival game complete with a taunting dart carny, exploding black balloons, and of course, bizarre prizes. Participants will be encouraged, chided, and then rewarded after just three attempts.
SIGHT SCHOOL (2009 Alternative Exposure Grantee)
Sight School is an artist-run storefront in Oakland, California, that began in November 2009 from a desire to create dialogue around new modes of living and being in the world in order to reveal connections between art and life.
Sight School is organizing a small curated show, which will be displayed on a tabletop. The exhibition will focus on the theme of community and sight, and will feature artists who have previously exhibited at Sight School. Sight School publications and tote bags will also be available.
Image: Work by David Wilson/Ribbons.
Airport Shuttles: If you are arriving on June 23, free airport shuttles will run to the hotel approximately every half hour. A greeter will meet you at the bottom of the escalators – just look for a person holding a Warhol Initiative Convening Shuttle sign. If you fail to connect with a greeter, please collect your bags and wait near baggage claim. If need be, you can also call Mosaic Transportation directly at 1 (800) 398-7881, and anyone there can assist you.
Reimbursements: According to our flight list, around 35 of you are arriving in advance of June 23 and some of you are staying in the area post-Convening. The more time in San Francisco the better, and we hope you get around to see great work in the Bay Area, including some produced by your Initiative peers. We want to remind you that while we’re happy to cover the cost of getting you to and from the airport and the hotel on the day of your arrival and departure, we cannot cover any additional expenses (e.g. transportation, meals, admission) you may incur. The Foundation can only reimburse if given original receipts, so please save them and mail with a reimbursement form, (available here) attn: Jackie Farrell, at the Foundation.
UPDATED 6/10/11: Added reimbursement form as pdf.
Image: Artist Ned Kahn’s installation at SFO.
Southern Exposure, the site of our closing night dinner, recently launched a new project by artist Allison Smith entitled, The Cries of San Francisco. The installation will be up in the galleries, but if you plan on being in SF for an extended period of time, you may want to check out one of the numerous public events planned during the show’s run.
The following is from the SOEX website, where you can also find out more about this project: “The Cries of San Francisco is a project by Allison Smith in collaboration with Southern Exposure that invokes the historic tradition of street peddlers hawking their wares with melodic songs and calls as a means of offering up social revelations on the temporal employments, habits, and callings of nearly 70 Bay Area artists, craftspeople, and other urban workers. The Cries of San Francisco takes the form of a public art event centered around Mint Plaza, a sculptural installation and a series of events at Southern Exposure and a publication chronicling the project.
Allison Smith presents a sculptural installation at Southern Exposure that serves as a public house and market hall where participants gather to perform and record their cries and to trade and peddle their wares to the public. The exhibition includes sculptures, works on paper, and ambient sound, creating a tangible stage-set for social interaction, dialogue, events, and market days.”
Image: Allison Smith as the town crier, via SOEX.
An essential part of any Convening is the time spent out-of-sessions, breaking bread together or having a drink with fellow attendees. To ensure that this time is productive as well as delicious, we’ve partnered with the following restaurateurs, food truck purveyors, coffee devotees, and artisans to prepare meals at the Convening.
The first night’s dinner will be held at OSHA Thai, a successful chain of Thai restaurants founded by sisters, Wassana Korkhieola and Lalita Souksamlanel. The Embarcadero location is within walking distance to the hotel and comes fully prepared to host our opening Pecha Kucha session. The menu for this night includes passed hors d’oeuvres and wine at 7pm, followed by a four course dinner of Summer Salad with Tuna, Tom-Kha Soup, Pumpkin Curry, Grilled Sea Bass, and OSHA’s house specialty, Volcanic Beef.
During the first day’s activities at the Headlands, Katie Powers makes use of the Headlands Kitchen & Mess Hall, a relaxing and communal space designed by artist Ann Hamilton, to provide box lunches that can be enjoyed outside or in. Three boxes are available: The Free Range Box includes a chicken salad sandwich w/ tarragon, celery and apples on brick oven whole wheat, summer corn succotash, a short bread cookie, and fresh apricots; the Rodeo Box includes a sliced tri-tip and arugula sandwich with parley walnut pesto on rosemary bread, spicy Moroccan carrot salad, a double chocolate cookie, and fresh cherries; and the Veggie Box which will feature grilled and marinated eggplant and zucchini with roasted red pepper and goat cheese on olive bread, shaved fennel and pickled beet salad, and a chocolate almond bar with fresh berries.
After a brief break back at the hotel, our second dinner will be held Friday night the Regency Lodge, on Sutter and Van Ness. This former social hall with its vintage theatrical backdrops and enormous pipe organ will be the site for a project by artists and chefs, Julio César Morales and Max La Rivière-Hedrick. (More details about this event will be posted in a separate entry.)
The next day, at the San Francisco Art Institute, take in the sweeping views of Alcatraz and the Bay, while enjoying boxed lunches provided by Zella’s Soulful Kitchen. Click here for a recent profile of Zella’s owner and chef, Dionne Knox. We’re thrilled to work with Dionne and thankful to La Cocina for connecting us to her and for their ongoing efforts to support independent businesses. Lunches that day will include a choice of roasted lemon and herb chicken or tofu kebobs, meyer lemon and couscous salad, spinach salad, and assorted gourmet cookies. We’ll also have coffee set up to stave off that mid-afternoon slump.
Following the second full day of sessions, the group will head over to Southern Exposure for a casual closing night dinner and block party. There we’ll hear from a selection of those of who have received regional regranting funds through SOEX’s Alternative Exposure program and take in Allison Smith’s installation, The Cries of San Francisco. Throughout the evening food is available from a variety of fine food trucks including, Chairman Bao Bun, Let’s Be Frank, CurryUp Now, the Creme Brulee Cart, and Blue Bottle Coffee.
In general, each meal is being devised with a large amount of vegetarian options. If you have any extraordinary food allergies, let us know in advance and we’ll plan accordingly. While we might not be able to accommodate all requests at every event, please send any dietary restrictions to julie@warholfoundation.org.
As indicated on the schedule, in an effort for every organization to present an overview of their work, we’re holding three rounds of Pecha Kucha. If you’re not familiar with the format, it’s 20 images pre-set to advance every 20 seconds. This means that each organization has a little over 6 minutes to talk about their activities, programs, or concerns.
So how is this going to work?
We’re asking that everyone submit their 20 images to us by June 1.
We’ll drop the images in, set the timing, and have it cued up when your time is called. Once we have the submissions, we’ll put an order together and post here on the site and on the main notice board at the registration desk in the hotel. If you have a preferred time, let us know.
IMAGE SPECS
20 images (Horizontal images will read the best on the screen.)
Dimensions: 1,240 pixels x 1,240 pixels (maximum)
Resolution: 72 dpi
File size: No larger than 4.0 MB (each image)
File format: .JPG
Label with your organization’s name, and the sequence order number from 1 to 20. (orgname_1.jpg – orgname_20.jpg)
ZIP YOUR IMAGES
After you have sized and named your images, please put them in a folder labeled with your organization’s name.
Then you need to zip the images. (On a mac you can right-click and select COMPRESS “name of the folder”. It will make a file with .zip after it. That’s the file you want to upload. If you are on a PC or have questions about how to make a .zip file, please email us.
SEND US YOUR IMAGES
The easiest way to send your images to us is Stream File.
Go to this page: http://streamfile.com/
1. Enter this email in the first field (recipient’s email) : julie@artswriters.org. (This is the contact for Julie Evanoff, who is helping with tech issues for the Convening.)
2. Upload your .zip file (that has all 20 slides sized and labeled).
3. Click the STREAM NOW button.
If you run into trouble or have any questions, just ask Julie or post in the comments below.
The foundation is pleased to welcome the following board members who will be joining us in San Francisco: Mark Allen, J.K. Brown, Rick Lowe, Jock Reynolds, Larry Rinder, foundation president, Joel Wachs, and Patricia Williams.
Also joining in the weekend’s activities are Helen Brunner and Jennifer Dowley, who helped guide the initiative in its earliest days and remain valued advisors.
Longtime Initiative consultants Ben Aase and Nancy Lee will lead multiple sessions throughout the convening and will be available during breakfast roundtables and in the afternoons for one-on-one discussions.
Foundation staff on site who are working to ensure a smooth and beneficial experience for all attendees include Rachel Bers, James Bewley, Julie Cummings and Jackie Farrell. Additional support is provided by Creative Capital’s Julie Evanoff and San Francisco Convening Project Coordinator, Joyce Grimm.
We look forward to seeing everyone there.
The above video is from LA’s Machine Project and documents their recent event, Confuse-a-tron at the Berkeley Art Museum. In its Berkeley incarnation, the event included workshops in multiple, distinct, and previously unrelated areas of practice: Tranimal Makeup, Plant Cloning, Music from Melons, and Kimchi production.
As this represents an infinitely adaptable model, Machine is seeking partner organizations to host new iterations of the Confuse-a-tron project around the country. If interested in presenting Confuse-a-tron at your space please contact Machine’s director, Mark Allen to learn more.
For those of you planning on an extended stay in the Bay Area, we suggest you visit the Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, for Create, an exhibition co-curated by BAM Director Larry Rinder and White Columns’ Director, Matthew Higgs. Create presents work made at three leading centers for artists with developmental disabilities, Creative Growth Art Center in Oakland, San Francisco’s Creativity Explored, and NIAD Art Center in Richmond.
The exhibition runs May 11, 2011 – September 25, 2011.
Image: Evelyn Reyes, Carrots, 2007. Courtesy of Creativity Explored, San Francisco
Pecha Kucha, a presentation model devised by a group of innovative designers in Tokyo in 2003, factors heavily into the 2011 convening. Inspired by the Japanese term for conversation (“chit chat”), Pecha Kucha allows a large volume of information to be conveyed quickly and in a concise manner. The formula is 20 images x 20 seconds; twenty images that appear only once and advance at an automatic rate every twenty seconds.
By scheduling Pecha Kucha’s each night of the convening, the goal is to provide an opportunity for every organization to share information about their activities and programming with the entire group. Priority will be given on the first night to organizations new to the Initiative.
Some daytime sessions incorporate the Pecha Kucha format to present multiple perspectives on a single subject, from five models of publishing to ten alternative ways to support artists.
All the Pecha Kucha sessions are optional, but if you’re looking to hear about programs and events from all the organizations in the Initiative, this is a great way to do so.
Included in each of your convening packets will be a voucher to complete and send, in order to receive your very own pre-paid copy of the latest edition of Phonebook, a national guidebook to art spaces and projects, published by threewalls in Chicago.
From the threewalls website: “Phonebook 3 will be an essential guide for artists and arts administrators looking to connect with others in this ever-changing realm of independent artist-run culture, including everything from nonprofit and community institutions to flexible and self-organized art spaces. Each listing also includes the projects’ mission statement or organizing principles, so that curators and artists can easily find organizations with similar values. Phonebook 3 will be launched October 2011 at the Hand in Glove conference in Chicago, IL, hosted by threewalls and organized by the Alliance of Independent Arts Organizers, a professional organization that provides resources to independent, grass-roots organizers and facilitators who support creative practices that challenge traditional formats, and innovate new genres.”
And good news: they made their kickstarter goal. Be sure and fill out the voucher and send it in. A copy will be mailed directly to you, courtesy of the foundation.
We’re thrilled that the convening coincides with Pride Week in San Francisco, one of the largest celebrations of LGBT culture in the world. This week-long festival of parties and events is traditionally held the last week in June to commemorate the legacy of the Stonewall Riots.
In addition to the all-inclusive parade down Market street on Sunday morning, numerous activities will take place throughout the city. There is a Trans March on the Friday before the parade and the Dyke March on Saturday, both of which originate in the beautiful surroundings of Dolores Park. We suggest visiting SFPRIDE.org for more information and helpful tips should you plan on being in the city longer than the dates of the convening. Also worth a visit is the San Francisco Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Community Center. The Center holds regular performances and exhibitions throughout the year, and will no doubt be a busy hub for Pride activities.
This historic photo was taken by Alan Bistry, capturing the 1976 SF Pride Parade.
As the Brown Twins and other famous residents of the city know, the key to fickle San Francisco weather is layers, lots of layers. The average temperature in June can range from a high of about 66 degrees to a low of 53. Given the Bay Area’s unique landscape, that range can be experienced from one side of the street to the other. It’s also not factoring in the dampness that can make a relatively mild evening an especially chilly one.
Generally the marine layer can stick around for a bit in the morning, at which point a light sweater comes in handy. It can burn off by noon and you’ll probably want to shed a layer or two. By evening you’ll be reaching for a scarf and a light jacket. If we’re lucky there won’t be any rain, but we’ve got plans in case the skies do open up and you should, too. Our days are long and at least one dinner will be outdoors, so pack with this in mind.
Dress should be comfortable and casual. San Francisco is a terrific city to see on foot, and you may find yourself wanting to seek out some nature on a hike while at the spectacular Headlands Center for the Arts.
We wanted to introduce you to Joyce Grimm who is serving as San Francisco Project Coordinator for the Convening. We’re thrilled that Joyce is helping out (and more than a little jealous that she got to go and do all the food truck tastings). She is very familiar with the cultural and gastronomic terrain of SF, having been director and curator at the Mission District’s Triple Base Gallery from November 2005 – April 2011. Triple Base was a recipient of an Alternative Exposure grant, part of the Foundation’s Regional Regranting program and is well worth checking out, should you have some extra time in SF.
Joyce is a curator, educator and writer currently living in San Francisco. She teaches in the Graduate Program at California College of the Arts starting this Fall and has designed a curriculum that works with artists to build contextualizing programs and events for other artists. She has built educational programs for the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver, Habitot Children’s Museum in Berkeley, and the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery. In addition, she has curated programs for Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, designed the film and lecture programming for The Practice Space, and collaborated on events and exhibitions with the Independent School of Art where she developed the first Dinner Lecture Series with artist Jon Rubin. The Dinner Lecture program was a key component to Triple Base’s educational program (2006-2011). Grimm has conducted lectures and public programming for UCLA, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, LACMA, Arts Initiative Tokyo, and California College of the Arts. Joyce received her Masters in Curatorial Practice from California College of the Arts in 2006.
