2005-2006 Workspace Resident Ernest Concepcion is currently featured in a group show at M.Y. ArtProsects.
'Surreal Naivete'
June 19 - July 26
M.Y. ArtProspects
547 W. 27th Street, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10001
212-268-7132
The Rain, the Park and Other Things, curated by Renée Riccardo
Karen Azoulay, Megan Cump, Elizabeth Huey, Joyce Korotkin, Jason Middlebrook, Doug Morris, Jon Rosenbaum, and Victor Schrager
June 7 - July 12, 2008
Nicole Fiacco Gallery
506 Warren Street
Hudson, NY 12534
518-828-5090
Gallery Hours: Thursday - Monday, 12 - 6 p.m., Sunday 12 - 5 p.m.
2007-2008 Workspace Resident Brendan Fernandes will show work in an upcoming solo exhibition at Momenta Art.
May 30 - June 30, 2008
Opening Reception: Friday, May 30th, 7-9 pm
Momenta Art
359 Bedford Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11211
ph 718.218.8058
Past Workspace Artists Michael Bilsborough is featured in a group exhibition at Daniel Cooney Fine Art:
'The View From Here'
featuring Michael Bilsborough, Carrie Levy, and Dan Estabrook
May 8 - June 21, 2008
Daniel Cooney Fine Art
511 West 25th Street, Suite 506
New York City, New York 10001
tel: 212 255 8158
Past Swing Space Artist Gautam Kansara is featured in a solo exhibition at Real Art Ways in Hartford, CT:
Gautam Kansara
A 2007 Selectee of Real Art Ways'
GO! Open Call
in the main gallery
exhibition open through Sunday, June 22
Artist talk: Sunday, June 22, 1:00-3:00PM
Gautam Kansara's videos focus on his own family dynamic. Using candid footage of his family, and centering on their conversations, he offers an intimate look at their private lives, especially as their hierarchies change and roles reverse because of aging and caretaking needs.
Real Art Ways
56 Arbor St
Hartford, CT 06106
phone: 860.232.1006
Past Resident Lilah Freedland is to be featured in an exhibition in Berlin:
Spooky Action
May 25 - July 5, 2008
Opening Reception: May 25, 11 am -1 pm
Galerie Schuster Photo
Gartenstrasse 7
Berlin
+49/(0) 30 886773 - 15
Past Workspace Resident Jillian McDonald is currently featured in three exhibitions:
Third Avenue Gallery
solo show: Jillian Mcdonald: Superfan
1727 West Third Avenue
Vancouver, BC
opening May 1, '08
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Streetwise, curated by Elga Wimmer
Reina Sofia Museum
Madrid, Spain
May 18 - Jun 8, '08
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Plugged In
Hudson, NY
May 17 - 31, '08
Opening Reception: Saturday May 17 from 6 to 10 pm
"The public exhibition PLUGGED IN will highlight new media works being created by artists throughout the
Hudson Valley and beyond including sound, performance, digital and video art and interactive works."
Fire Walkers
Contemporary Artists from India, Pakistan and the Middle East
Jaishri Abichandani, Negar Ahkami, Lalla Essaydi, Chitra Ganesh, Sheela Gowda, Mona Hatoum, Mala Iqbal, Reena Saini Kallat, Rajul Mehta, Prema Murthy, Yamini Nayar, Sa'dia Rehman, Hema Upadhyay
May 1st through June 7th, 2008
STUX Gallery
530 West 25th Street
New York, NY
tel: 212.352.1600
La Sala Narañja
solo project
featuring videos Horror Make-up and The Screaming
Valencia, Spain
Apr 11 - 26, '08
http://lasalanaranja.com/agendas.htm
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ThreeWalls
solo show Jillian Mcdonald, Horror Stories
featuring new videos and interactive installation
119 Peoria Street, Chicago, IL
April 4 - May 10, '08
http://www.three-walls.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1&Itemid=14
Images from the show are here: http://jillianmcdonald.net/blog/2008/04/10/threewalls-show/
FreelanceTaxation.com is the website of Susan Lee, EA, CFP®, tax consultant and financial planner.
Susan is also the host of the You And Your Money radio show on WBAI 99.5 FM radio in New York City.
About Susan
My name is Susan Lee. I have prepared taxes for freelancers and artists for over twenty years. I am a Certified Financial Planner™ as well as a Registered Investment Advisor.
My intention with this website is to give freelancers and artists basic information that will allow you to take advantage of your self-employed status and to meet the challenges inherent in freelancing.
I have written these articles for, as well as spoken to, freelancers and artist organizations including Graphic Artists Guild, National Writers Union, Editorial Freelancers Association, Music Cares, Artists in the Market Place, among others.
See what our 15 artists- and 5 writers-in-residence have been working on since the start of their Workspace residency in September 2007. Whether you are art-fair-hopping or not, join us for a sneak preview of their works-in-progress!
RSVP is required. Click here!
And Save the Date, Open Studio Weekend is right around the corner, April 26-27, 2008.
FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY: Step inside three books, drink free beer and wine, and experience the future of the book:
MBP, Hotel St. George Press, the Institute for the Future of the Book, and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Workspace Writers Residency program offer a night of multi-media readings that invite attendees to step inside books, celebrating how new media and traditional publishing fuse to create innovative projects that are more than “just books.” On this night, authors Garth Risk Hallberg, Alex Rose, and Alex Itin demonstrate how their stories rely on more than just words.
Hallberg’s illustrated novella, A Field Guide to the North American Family, documents two fictional families through 63 entries accompanied by evocative photographs contributed by some of today’s freshest photographic talents, as culled from the book’s ongoing companion website, afieldguide.com. Read from start to finish or in a “choose your own adventure” style, Hallberg’s attention to narrative detail makes clear why he was included in the 2008 Harcourt Best New American Voices anthology, and why Print called A Field Guide to the North American Family “a modern illuminated manuscript.” Hallberg will project photographs from the book.
The interwoven, post-modern folktales that comprise The Musical Illusionist by Alex Rose muse upon historical arcana, tethered together by music and topography. Drawing on his experience as a director whose films, videos, and animations have appeared on HBO, MTV, Comedy Central, Showtime, and the BBC, Rose conjures, in the words of the Village Voice, “the playful parables of Jorge Luis Borges . . . exotic maps and exquisite prints further suggest a volume passed down from an epoch much more enthralled with mystery than our own.” Rose will read from the title story of his collection, accompanied by a surround-sound score composed by David Little and recorded by the Formalist Quartet.
As an artist-in-residence at Brooklyn’s Institute for the Future of the Book, Alex Itin uses text, original illustrations and animations, and music to encourage readers to reconsider the definition of a book. Take for example Itin’s Orson Whales: Melville’s Moby Dick meets Orson Welles, and Led Zeppelin. Itin’s multi-media books will be screened.
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1999 LMCC resident Stephen Vitiello open a show at Museum 52 in London:
Also check out Museum 52's new space in New York: http://museum52.com/new_york/index2.php
2000-2001 LMCC resident Sanford Biggers lectures on the Subjective Histories of Sculpture:
Continue reading "Sanford Biggers: SculptureCenter Lectures at The New School" »
2004 artist-in-residence and Swing Space grantee Carlos Motta is currently showing at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) in Philadelphia.
Carlos Motta, The Good Life, video still
Tegucigalpa, Honduras, 2005-2008
CARLOS MOTTA: THE GOOD LIFE
January 18 - March 30, 2008
INSTITUTE OF
CONTEMPORARY ART
University of Pennsylvania
118 S. 36th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
From the Press Release:
The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) is pleased to present “Carlos Motta: The Good Life,” the first museum presentation of an ambitious work by Carlos Motta, on view January 18 - March 30, 2008. “The Good Life,” a long-term, in-progress, experimental documentary project, engages and critiques documentary practice itself. It is a relevant examination of the regional history, perception and effects of US interventionist policies in Latin America, at a time of global critical awareness of those politics.
FACEWORK
Solo show at Luxe Gallery, 53 Stanton
February 15th - March 16th 2008
Opening February 14th, 7-9PM
SOAPBOX EVENT
A mass performance at the Federal Hall National Memorial
28 Wall Street
Workshops in February - March and final event on April 5th, 2-5PM
Come, see, and participate!
BOOK TALK
Pia Lindman: "Three Cities, Rivers, Monuments", 2007
panel talk with Giuliana Bruno, Christian Rattemeyer, Lisa Saltzman, and Michael Sorkin
Storefront for Art and Architecture Gallery, 97 Kenmare St
March 21st, 6.30PM
For more information, go to: http://web.mit.edu/pialindman/
Lilah Freedland, dream as though you'll live forever, live as though you'll die today (2003)
The New Authentics: Artists of the Post-Jewish Generation
The Spertus Museum, Chicago, USA
‘Jewish art does not exist,’ writes Margaret Olin, not inflammatorily but factually, referring to the Second Commandment that prohibits both the creation and idolizing of graven images. This prohibition is just one of at least 613 Halakha, the laws that guide Jewish life, both spiritual and practical, from kosher cooking to image-making. Click here to read the full review.
2006-2007 artist-in-residence Yasser Aggour is in a show opening Thursday, February 28, 6-8PM at carriage trade.
The Cult of Personality: Portraits and Mass Culture
carriage trade
94 Prince St. 2nd fl New York, NY 10012
open Thursday through Sunday, 1 pm - 6 pm
featuring work by:
Yasser Aggour
Jennifer Dalton
Vitaly Komar
Bill Owens
Sherrie Levine
Paul McCarthy
Ligorano/Reese
Muntadas and Reese
Karen Yama
Julia Wachtel
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Xaviera Simmons, a 2006-2007 LMCC Workspace resident artist, has been awarded the Driskell Prize!
From artnet magazine:
Brooklyn-based artist Xaviera Simmons (b. 1974) has won the 2008 David C. Driskell Prize, awarded by the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. The Driskell honors "a scholar or artist in the beginning or middle of his or her career whose work makes an original and important contribution to the field of African American art or art history," and comes with a purse of $25,000. Simmons is best known for a 2006 installation at Art in General in New York, for which she transformed the space into a salon with felted floors, a DJ booth and impromptu jazz performances (the piece, called "How to Break Your Own Heart: Visitors Welcome," traveled to the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston and the Zacheta National Art Gallery in Warsaw.) Past winners of the Driskell, which was established in 2005, are scholar Kellie Jones (2005), artist Willie Cole (2006) and scholar and curator Franklin Sirmans (2007).
The Keyholder Residency Program offers emerging artists free 24-hour access to professional printmaking facilities to develop new work and foster their artistic careers. Residencies are free and one year long, starting on April 1st and October 1st each year, and they take place in the Artists’ Studio, including the solvent/etching area and the darkroom.
Next deadline: March 1, 2008
Keyholders work independently, in a productive atmosphere alongside other contemporary artists. They are not required to have any printmaking experience; facilities can be used for creative work in various mediums. Basic instruction in printmaking is available for new Keyholders who are interested. Technical assistance is not included in the program, but is available at additional cost.
Participation is limited and competitive. Applications are evaluated by a committee of peers, based on the quality of submitted artwork. Artists without a studio space are encouraged to apply.
Keyholder Residency includes:
24-hour studio access
$500 stipend
storage space
basic supplies (newsprint, blotters, solvents, cleaners)
20% discount on all Printshop classes
free digital documentation of selected works produced during the residency
inclusion in the Printshop's permanent art and image collection
promotion in the Printshop's quarterly newsletter and website
opportunity to show new work in exhibitions, open studio events, and other public events presented by the Printshop
Next deadline: March 1, 2008
Drop off or postmark, no exceptions. The Printshop will be open on Saturday, March 1, 2008 until 10pm.
Lower East Side Printshop, Inc.
306 West 37th Street, 6th Floor
New York, NY 10018
t. 212 673 5390
f. 212 979 6493
e. info@printshop.org
Frere Independent's 5th edition of the PooL Art Fair in New York
Deadline: February 22nd, 2008
Frere Independent is proud to present its annual independent art fair, PooL. This the fifth edition of the PooL Art Fair in New York and is slated for March 28, 29, and 30th at the Hotel Chelsea. Focusing largely on artists that do not have representation in art galleries, the fair's ambition is to create a meeting ground for artists, art dealers, curators, and buyers. PooL is the successor to the acclaimed Independent Art Fair (November 2000), a groundbreaking exhibition that attracted thousands of US and international visitors. The simple, modest approach of the PooL Art Fair offers an exciting alternative to the "art fair" experience for dealers and collectors, as well as the general public. PooL was created by Frere Independent, a non-profit arts organization that also produces the DiVA Fair. The artists will use the Hotel Chelsea's rooms to show their works, creating an intimate setting. Each artist, or small group of artist will transform a hotel room into an exhibition space. The show will be comprised of artists, artists' collectives, curators. Hence, the fair will serve as an invaluable resource for the artistic community and the general public. Our goal with the PooL Art Fair is to provide the public with access to art and encourage them to support emerging artists.
Continue reading "Call for Artists: PooL Art Fair in New York" »
2 evenings of cinepoetry & performance, curated by Walter K. Lew.
Friday, Feb. 1, at Galapagos
and Saturday, Feb. 2, at Bowery Poetry Club
On both nights, current LMCC writer-in-residence, Paolo Javier be reading, while 2005-2006 LMCC resident, Ernest Concepcion and current LMCC artist-in-residence Mike Estabrook make art for an ongoing collaboration, the original brown boy.
DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: MONDAY FEBRUARY 11
ABC No Rio, the Lower East Side arts center, is now organizing its fifth biannual Ides of March building-wide exhibition, scheduled to open on Friday March 14. The exhibition will run through April 4. The 2008 Ides will be expressly focused on collaborative projects and artist groups and collectives. We are inviting proposals from 'teams' of collaborating artists, as well as from existing artist groups and collectives for proposals for 'mini' exhibitions or installations. As in the past, we are open to all media, but space considerations will dictate any proposal's feasibility.
Two meetings will be held at ABC No Rio to conduct walk-throughs of the building and talk about the particulars of the exhibition. At least two representatives from any collaborating 'team' orexisting artist group or collective must attend one of these meetings.
These meetings are scheduled for MONDAY JANUARY 28 at 7:00pm and TUESDAY JANUARY 29 at 7:00pm. Project proposal forms will be available at these meetings. Please RSVP to abc@abcnorio.org
Artists proposing collaborative projects will be asked to describe and characterize their collaborative process. Existing artist groups and collectives will be asked to describe how their proposed 'mini' exhibition or installation will achieve a sense of cohesion and unity or singleness of purpose. We have a special interest in proposals that address or incorporate work remaining on the walls from past Ides of March exhibitions. Finally, we're interested in proposals for performances, screenings and other public presentations that would occur on evenings during the run of the exhibition.
ABC No Rio is a non-profit arts space that was settled in 1980 as a squat by artists. If you want to know more about ABC No Rio, check out this recent article on the space at: http://www.wiretapmag.org/movement/43369/.
Congratulations to LMCC Residency Alumni Emily Jacir and Patty Change for being selected as finalists for the 2008 Hugo Boss prize!
Read more in the New York Sun at http://www.nysun.com/article/69237
The 2008 Triangle Workshop in New York City next fall is now open for applications.
DEADLINE: FEB 15
Triangle Workshop is an international two-week workshop held in Dumbo, Brooklyn. 30 inventive artists from all over the world are selected to make art in an open studio setting, a setting that stimulates vigorous exchange and dialogue among the participants. Artists are housed and fed and excellent studio space is provided. Throughout the two weeks, two panel discussions and critical dialogues are held and prominent critics and artists visit the studios and make themselves available to the participants for conversation or critiques.
The two week Triangle Workshop is an intense, high-energy experience with artists renewing critical perspectives and stimulating their practice in the company of their peers from the world over. The Workshop concludes with a festive open-studio celebration which draws hundreds of visitors each year.
A limited number of travel grants can be arranged for foreign participants. 2008 workshop dates have not been solidified but IT will take place in the month of September. Application deadline is February 15th, 2008. Contact Sarah Walko at the address and phone number below for any additional questions.
Sarah Walko
Executive Director
Triangle Arts Association
20 Jay Street, Suite 318
Brooklyn, NY 11201
718 858 1260
www.triangleworkshop.org
Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies
610 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60605
telephone: 312.322.1700
“The New Authentics” are 21st-century American Jews. Free to choose their affiliations, they are Jewish culturally, religiously, spiritually, intellectually, emotionally, partially, biologically, or invisibly. The New Authentics: Artists of the Post-Jewish Generation, curated by Spertus Museum Senior Curator Staci Boris, explores contemporary notions of Jewish identity through the work of 16 artists living in the United States. Engaged in the global art community, these artists insert traces of, consciously draw from, or directly address their experiences as Jews, and they are brought together here for the first time in a Jewish context. Their work demonstrates how today, associations with Jewish culture intermingle with issues of gender, sexuality, ethnicity, class, politics, history, and nationality, posing questions, challenging boundaries, and defying easy definition.
Check out a review in Time Out at:
http://www.timeout.com/chicago/articles/art-design/24624/art-stars-of-david#articleAfterMpu
Kristen Schiele has new work with Eric of Bipolart at the Fountain Art Fair in Miami
http://www.bipolart.cc/
http://fountainexhibit.com/blog/
Shane McAdams from the gallery wrote this review of her work
for the Brooklyn Rail:
http://www.brooklynrail.org/2007/6/artseen/kristen-schiele-gothicolor
Michael Bilsborough’s new project is THE ETERNALLY OBVIOUS, a 10x20-foot MURAL commissioned and designed for SCOPE MIAMI!
The mural welcomes you to the fair, enriching the entrance, FREE to see!
The Eternally Obvious is an architectural and allegorical intervention of sex and commodity, a spectacle spanning five oversized wood panels. The site-atlantic project ushers fairweather fairgoers along a titanic tableaux in which Art and Man mingle in mysterious misadventure and sequential scandal.
SCOPE Miami is at:
Roberto Clemente Park
101 NW 34th St
Wynwood Art District, Miami
MICHAEL Bilsborough is at:
Nearest Open Bottle
1:01 AM 86'd Ok
Almost Anywhere, Miami
Come find us if you're there!
Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century
Lead sponsor BNP Paribas
Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century is the first exhibition in the Unmonumental cycle, and explores the reinvention of sculptural assemblage. Using found, fragmented, and discarded materials, the works of the artists on view make a case for modesty, informality, and improvisation.
The exhibition includes more than one hundred objects by thirty artists who represent a wide range of backgrounds and artistic strategies.
Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century is organized by the New Museum’s curatorial team of Richard Flood, Chief Curator; Laura Hoptman, Kraus Family Senior Curator; and Massimiliano Gioni, Director of Special Exhibitions
New Museum
235 Bowery
New York, NY 10002
212.219.1222
I march in the parade of liberty, but as long as I love you I'm not free
Generously supported by The Greenwall Foundation
New York-based artist Sharon Hayes works in performance, video, and installation, creating situations that expose dramatic frictions between collective activities and personal actions. With interventions that are inspired by the language of politics and the dramaturgy of theater, Hayes has staged protests, delivered speeches, and organized demonstrations in which crowds and individuals are invited to rethink their roles in the construction of public opinion. Hayes will create a site-specific performance piece for the New Museum, which will have both a live component and a recorded element that will be broadcast in an unusual interstitial space located between galleries. Continuing the artist’s interrogation of the infinitesimal distance that separates the public from the private, this new work will be a reflection on the difference between speaking and listening—a kind of confession combining the idiom of politics, the transmission of secrets, and the language of love.
Performance Schedule
Saturday, December 1, 2007, 12-2 PM, 5-7 PM, 10 PM-12 AM
Sunday, December 2, 2007, 12-2 PM, 4-6 PM
Saturday, December 8, 2007, 12-2 PM
Saturday, December 16, 2007, 12-2 PM
Saturday, January 12, 2008, 12-2 PM
New Museum
235 Bowery
New York, NY 10002
212.219.1222
I march in the parade of liberty, but as long as I love you I'm not free is organized by Massimiliano Gioni, Director of Special Exhibitions.
Banner image:
Sharon Hayes
In the Near Future, New York (detail), 2005
Slide installation
Courtesy the artist
7pm, Tuesday, December 11, 2007
L'Orange Bleu Restaurant
430 Broome Street (corner of Lafayette)
RSVP at (212) 226-4999 and be punctual.
If you love performance art and good food, Art Hijack and Dance Gang (Will Rawls/Kennis Hawkins) present a special project that is sure to fill you up with both. The artists have chosen four contestants from right here in New York City to play Romeo and Juliet in a unique performance that is a sincere, humorous blend of the original Dating Game television show, William Shakespeare, and The Da Vinci Code.
The drama starts at 8 p.m. at both restaurant L'Orange Bleu (430 Broome Street) and ISE Cultural Foundation. A live Internet feed links the two locations. Ideally, you want to be in the restaurant, where all the action is visible while you eat and drink. Intentionally complicating matters by communicating in many modes, artists and audience work to uncross the stars, and ultimately, make a love connection.
Other guest artists include Marci MacGuffie, musicians Jeremy Linzee (Summer Lawns) and Fred Thomas (Saturday Looks Good to Me); and a special death-defying appearance by Marcel Duchamp, as multiples of himself and his cross-dressing alter-ego Rose Selavy (a pun on the French phrase Eros, c est la vie).
For more information, please contact curator Margot Norton and the ISE Cultural Foundation at (212) 925-1649, or email margotnorton@hotmail.com.
William Cordova and Amie Siegel, former LMCC artists in residence, have been selected to be in the 2008 Whitney Biennial!
The curatorial team for the 2008 Whitney Biennial has selected 81 artists for the exhibition, which opens at the Whitney Museum of American Art, 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street, on March 6, and runs through June 1, 2008. Since its founding in 1932, the Biennial has evolved into the Whitney’s signature exhibition as well as the most important survey of the state of contemporary art in the United States today. The exhibition will occupy the entire Museum, with the exception of the fifth floor, which is devoted to the permanent collection. The 2008 Biennial is curated by Henriette Huldisch, Assistant Curator at the Whitney, and Shamim M. Momin, Associate Curator at the Whitney and Branch Director and Curator of the Whitney Museum at Altria, and overseen by Donna De Salvo, the Whitney’s Chief Curator and Associate Director for Programs. Three advisors worked with the curatorial team throughout the process: Thelma Golden, Director and Chief Curator of The Studio Museum in Harlem; Bill Horrigan, Director of the Media Arts department at the Wexner Center for the Arts at Ohio State University; and Linda Norden, independent curator and writer. For the first time, the Whitney is collaborating with the Park Avenue Armory and Art Production Fund (APF), to provide the Biennial with a second venue in the historic Seventh Regiment Armory building, at Park Avenue and 67th Street.
Continue reading "William Cordova and Amie Siegel will be in the 2008 Whitney Biennial" »
On view at 180 Maiden Lane
located in the Atrium Lobby
Hours are 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM, Monday through Friday.
Window Collections III is a new series of site-specific, mural-scale oil paintings and works on paper by Pamela Lawton. The current work is an outgrowth of her artist's residencies at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's (LMCC) World Views program at the World Trade Center as well as at the LMCC's Swing Space. While an Artist-in-Residence at the World Trade Center, Lawton became hypnotized by the wavering window reflections of Tower Two in the Deutche Bank Building across Liberty Street. Her new mural-scale work examines the same transient phenomenon from street level, focusing on the awe-inspiring architecture of a Lower Manhattan glass curtain, the building 180 Maiden Lane. Her work is based on observation, yet results in an intricate array of lines, color and pattern that compose fluid abstract paintings. She takes the contemporary vertical skyline of architecture and reinvents it through gridded, composite paintings, rendering ephemeral reflections with a sensitivity to time-based light that employs the technique of plein-air painting, or outdoor painting in the manner of the Impressionists, filtered through the lens of the 21st century urban landscape.
For more information, go to www.pamelalawton.com
Mathew Day Jackson, Marc Ganzglass, Jill Magid, Laurel Nakadate, Mika Rottenberg
OPENING SATURDAY NOV. 24 4-9PM
at
Galerie Michel Rein
42 rue de Turenne- F75003 Paris
tel 00 33 1 42 72 68 13
Ouvert du mardi au samedi, de 11h à 19h/ Open Tuesday-Saturday, 11am-7pm
October 28 to December 7, 2007
The Newark Council for the Arts is pleased to present "Red Badge of Courage" featuring new work by sixty-six artists from New Jersey, New York and abroad in a 13,000 square foot space in downtown Newark. Curated by Omar Lopez-Chahoud, the exhibition is based on the life and work of 19th- century writer/poet/journalist Stephen Crane, a native of Newark, NJ. Although he died young -- at age 28 -- Cranes work and life have inspired many artists throughout the years: His portrait was used by the Beatles on the cover of their album "St. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band". The 2001 film The Dark Riders was based on a Crane poem. And there have been a number of film versions of "The Red Badge of Courage," the most famous of which was directed by John Huston and released in 1951. "The Red Badge of Courage" tells the story of a young mans life as a soldier during the American Civil War.
More than a hundred years after Cranes death, the artists in “Red Badge of Courage” draw historical references as a tool to interpret and represent their concerns with contemporary society. Newark is a city rich in history, from the 19th century manufacturing boom through the depression years and past that to the infamous 1960's riots. But Newark is going through many changes and to become a major economic and cultural center again.
from October 26 to November 23, 2007. 6-8pm.
ISE Cultural Foundation, NY gallery
555 Broadway, New York, New York10012, USA
Phone: 212-925-1649
The Pearl originates its beauty and singularity by reacting to external interferences. Organic materials, parasites and even mantle tissue of the oyster itself are considered a threat, and covered in nacre. Also known as “mother of pearl”, nacre is composed of hexagonal platelets of a substance called aragonite.
Luca Bertini and Marco Antonini's NACRE is an ongoing project in which data inconsistencies retrieved from the net bloom into an ever-changing sprawling structure. Interferences and anomalies (the multi-faceted constituents of networks that are no longer able to produce a linear, unequivocal reality) are perceived as a hostile external body.
Continue reading "NACRE:A project by Luca Bertini and Marco Antonini" »
On The Third Day
12 Warren St. 5th floor
(between Broadway and Church)
New York, NY 10007
Sunday - Thursday, 10am-6pm
also by appointment, call 646.400.8474
www.the3bgroup.com
See Press Release for more information
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A GREAT DELICACY
Michael Bilsborough, McKendree Key, Danica Phelps, Gregory Parma Smith and Rebecca Veit + Kathryn Hillier
October 20 – December 1, 2007
Opening Reception: Saturday, October 20, 2007, 6-8PM
Taylor De Cordoba is pleased to present A Great Delicacy, a group show featuring 5 New York based artists, curated by Melissa Levin. A great delicacy can be an indulgence, but is also a way (with which) to render and create. The artists in this show are making work about food, sex, waste spills in the ocean, and the ways we digest or filter our own consumption. And there is an awareness in the work of the way we consume, a great delicacy in the treatment of the concepts and the rendering whether through photography, painting, drawing or collage. Generally it is more and more possible to become disconnected from what we eat, with whom we make love, where our waste goes after it leaves our cars, homes, and bodies. Each of the artists represented in this show are attentive to these things, if not in we of them.
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Curated by Robert Storr and Sam Messer
Oct 15–Nov 7
Kate Costello, Matt Johnson, Jurg Lehni, Demetrius Oliver, Traci Tullius
Reception 6–8 pm, Wed, Oct 24
Green Gallery, Yale University School of Art
1156 Chapel St. New Haven, CT
For much of the past two decades artists have luxuriated in an abundance of resources new and old, and in mixing and quite often deliberately mismatching them in exemplary ways. An alternative also exists. Neither a return to the purist traditional concept of "truth to materials" nor to the purist modernist one of "less is more," such an approach tends towards pragmatic invention with whatever may be at hand, and responds imaginatively to the relative quantity or scarcity of it. It can be an art of "muchness" or an "ultra povera" art of extreme spareness, it can be lasting or totally ephemeral. In essence, though, it consists of anything the artist chooses to do while making do with with a given material of their choice. Those anyway are the loosely conceived rules of the game we have asked five artists to play at the Green Hall Gallery where they will come to work in situ for a week. - Robert Storr, Dean Yale School of Art
Artist Bios
Kate Costello, born 1974 in Newfane, Vermont, received her MFA from the University of Southern California, her BFA in 1998 from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and her BA in 1997 from Tufts University. Costello participated in the THING show at UCLA's Hammer Museum in 2005. This summer, she was in a two-person show at Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska in Salzburg, Austria, and contributed to the Warhol and... exhibition at the Kantor/Feuer Gallery in Los Angeles. Next year, she will have solo exhibitions at the Wallspace Gallery in New York and the Redling Fine Art in Los Angeles. Costello currently lives in Los Angeles.
Matt Johnson, a native of New York City, received his MFA from UCLA and his BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. He's had one-person exhibitions at Taxter & Spengemann in New York and Blum & Poe in Los Angeles. He contributed to the group show, Uncertain States of America - American Art in the 3rd Millennium, which has been on view in Oslo and New York, and is currently at the Galerie Rudolfinum in Prague. In 2007, he participated in several shows, including all about laughter at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo and Makers and Modelers at the Gladstone Gallery in New York.
Jürg Lehni, born 1978 in Lucerne, Switzerland. Independent designer, artist and engineer, currently on an artist residency in NYC. Studied interaction design at ECAL, Lausanne. Produces self-initiated work that originates from reflections about tools, the computer and the way we work with and adapt to technology, such as Hektor (with Uli Franke), Scriptographer, http://Lineto.com/ (with Cornel Windlin and Stephan Müller), Rita, Vectorama.org (with Urs Lehni and Rafael Koch).
Demetrius Oliver received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and MFA from the University of Pennsylvania, and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. He has mounted solo shows at the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston, Atlanta Contemporary, P.S.1 MoMA, and Inman gallery, as well as group exhibitions at the Studio Museum in Harlem and Zacheta National Gallery of Art. He was also a Core Fellow at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston's Glassell School as well as an Artist in Residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem.
Traci Tullius, an Oklahoma native, received her BFA in painting from the University of Oklahoma in 1998 and an MFA in New Genres from the University of Kansas in 2001. After attending the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2002, Tullius relocated to New York City, where she is a participant in The Space Program of the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation. Tullius, a 2007 New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Fellow in Cross-Disciplinary/Performative Work, is currently Professor of Art at Stern College for Women/Yeshiva University in Manhattan.