Happening Around Town
Shinique Smith written up in New York Times
Smith participated in the 2003/2004 Workspace Residency
Read the article here: www.nytimes.com
April 1, 2013permalink
Current Workspace artist Liene Bosque solo show opening in Turkey
IMAGEABILITY
In her work, Liene Bosquê deals with the exploration of sensory experience within architectural, urban, and personal spaces emphasizing context, memory, and history. In this exhibition she explores the common preconceived images of a city and how it confronts its perception. Through the appropriation of cityscapes, silhouettes and miniature monuments of different cultures, she investigates ideas of representation of landmarks and the urban environment.
April 1, 2013permalink
CUE open call for curatorial proposals
CUE Curatorial Project Call for Proposals
This new program provides one deserving curator the necessary time and resources to realize an innovative project, with the aim of encouraging curatorial research in tandem with exhibition planning. CUE will provide institutional guidance and resources to the curator, who will produce a group exhibition in CUE's space with related public programming and an accompanying exhibition catalogue in July 2014.
DEADLINE: 11:59 EST ON APRIL 30, 2013
Proposals will be evaluated on merit of project, singularity of concept, and adherence to the application guidelines. Please note: applicant and all proposed artists must live or work in the United States. All applications submitted will be considered final and treated as such. You will not, under any circumstances, be permitted to add or edit your application once it has been submitted. All incomplete or duplicate applications will be immediately disqualified.
Please see website for guidelines and more information.
April 1, 2013permalink
THE FENCE open call for photography entries
THE FENCE is an annual summer-long outdoor photo exhibition that drew over 1 million visitors during its 10 week run at Brooklyn Bridge Park in 2012.
Photographers of all levels are invited to submit their best image series that capture the essence of “community” and fit into one or more of the competition categories: HOME, STREETS, PEOPLE, CREATURES, PLAY. Winning images will be presented in TWO summer-long outdoor photo exhibitions in NYC & Boston!
Eligibility: Open to all amateur and professional photographers over the age of 18
Entry Fee: $35 for a series of 6 images
Deadline: April 15, 2013
Prizes: - Featured Series on both FENCES along Brooklyn Bridge Park and the Rose F. Kennedy Greenway throughout the summer of 2013
- A solo exhibition at the United Photo Industries Gallery in DUMBO, NYC as part of their 2013/14 Season – including complimentary exhibition prints by Conveyor Arts.
- Full-page feature in PDN Magazine - Premium special edition camera package from Lomography
- B&H Gift Card - Recognition at the Photoville 2013 Opening Party slideshow
Contest page: http://fence.photovillenyc.org/
April 1, 2013permalink
Workspace alum and R2R 2013 artist Caraballo-Farman interview with BCAM
BCAM's Deborah Ostrovsky interviews Leonor Caraballo, an artist living in New York City and part of the artistic partnership caraballo-farman, whose projects include the path breaking Object Breast Cancer.
April 1, 2013permalink
Past Workspace artist LaToya Ruby Frazier featured on CNN.com
http://cnnphotos.blogs.cnn.com/2013/03/22/latoya-ruby-frazier/
Frazier's "Haunted Capital" exhibition is on view at the Brooklyn Museum through August 2013
April 1, 2013permalink
Former Swing Space artist Milka Djordjevich announces upcoming show at The Chocolate Factory
KINETIC MAKEOVER
April 10 - 13, 2013
Wednesday - Saturday 8PM
@ The Chocolate Factory Theater, New York City
www.chocolatefactorytheater.org
Choreography & performance by Milka Djordjevich.
Kinetic Makeover is a dance solo giving power and autonomy to one body. This body attempts to produce various images through the self-imposed task of repeatedly and compulsively moving. Perpetual action is a means for change in order to establish a new way of seeing and being. The various thresholds of the body are revealed through this self-directed persistence. Actions oscillate between being repetitive, mechanical, mundane, sustained, hypnotic, energetic, aggressive and euphoric. The act of doing is always in negotiation of the past, present and future. The dance is an attempt at the here-and-now, a never-ending effort that ceases to exist. The work is a reimagining of the body and its potential, what it represents and how it exists.
April 1, 2013permalink
Performance with seniors at Hudson Guild Movement Speaks
Join current SPARC artist Naomi Goldberg Haas for a culminating presentation on April 5th at 2:15pm
MOVEMENT SPEAKS & DANCES FOR A VARIABLE POPULATION
Hudson Guild Fulton Center
119 Ninth Ave, NY,NY
More info: www.naomigoldberghaas.com
April 1, 2013permalink
Current SPARC artist Riitta Ikonen at Recess’s Session
Eyes as Big as Plates: Riitta Ikonen and Karoline Hjorth
Show open until April 26, 2013
Performance & Reception: March 22, 6-8 pm
Closing Reception: April 24, 6-8pm
Recess in Red Hook The Intercourse, 159 Pioneer Street, Brooklyn, NY 11231
On February 15, Riitta Ikonen and Karoline Hjorth began new chapter in their series Eyes as Big as Plates as part of Recess’s signature program, Session. Session invites artists to use Recess’s public space as studio, exhibition venue, and grounds for experimentation. Over the course of their Session, Ikonen and Hjorth will create costumes, settings, and performance programs for senior residents of New York who show a marked connection to their national and cultural roots. The artists will explore their subjects’ mental landscapes by playing with personifications of nature, while developing a series of photographs and performances.
From Recess’s project room at The Intercourse, Ikonen will create a series of personalized costumes using organic scavenged materials, and developed from interviews and activities with the senior participants. Working with residents from the Hamilton-Madison House – City Hall Senior Center in Manhattan, participants are encouraged to contribute ideas and stories for the photographs and to lend their own personality to Ikonen’s costumes. Hiorth will shoot selected stories in locations around New York, particularly amongst Red Hook’s waterways.
More information here
March 15, 2013permalink
Past Workspace artist Mike Estabrook opens new installation
Mike Estabrook has an opening reception for his new installation he is creating at Bliss on Bliss Art Projects.
Sunday March 17th from 2-6p
The installation is entitled N.e.m.e.s.i.s., and is "a full room installation of Estabrook's larger than life homicidal paper puppets, as well as the stop motion animations showcasing these selfsame puppets commiting the foul acts for which they've been created."
In addition to N.e.m.e.s.i.s., there will be an accompanying group show featuring the work of Jane Ebarte, Johann Bitancor, and Flexi Casero, as well as live music by the James Hall Duo and the Douglas Detrick Trio.
Bliss on Bliss is in Sunnyside Queens at 4149 A, 45th St., ground floor. Take the 7 train to the 46th/ bliss stop and walk one block north on 46th street, make a left onto 43rd avenue, and a right on 45th street.
March 15, 2013permalink
Two Swing Space Alums Awarded Wave Hill Sunroom Project Space
Alan Ruiz & Matthew Jensen, both former Swing Space artists-in-residence, have been selected to create solo exhibitions at the Wave Hill Sunroom Project Space.
WAVE HILL SUNROOM PROJECT SPACE 2013 SEASON OPENS APRIL 2
Solo Shows Feature Installations Created by New York-area Emerging Artists Now for the seventh season, Wave Hill, a public garden and cultural center in the Bronx, commissions a diverse set of emerging New York-area artists to create a new body of work or site- specific project for a solo exhibition in Glyndor Gallery’s Sunroom Project Space. For 2013, a jury reviewed 125 applications, ultimately selecting Jarrod Beck, Terri Chiao & Adam Frezza, Matthew Jensen, Lynn Koble and Alan Ruiz as this year’s Sunroom artists. In addition, two Van Lier Visual Artist Fellows, Onyedika Chuke and Francisco Donoso, were chosen by Wave Hill’s Curators and will exhibit in the Sunroom Project Space. These seven join the growing list of artists who have found inspiration in Wave Hill’s breathtaking gardens, sweeping vistas and rich history, creating and exhibiting new work in a context unique to New York City. This year’s Sunroom artists are engaging architecture and space, transforming the rooms in exciting ways using various materials and techniques. They are looking at the ways that we interact with nature and how we observe it, understand it, and attempt to organize it.
See the press release
March 15, 2013permalink
Rehearsal Residency Opportunities at The Field
The Field announces two subsidized rehearsal opportunities at their studio in Chelsea. Including a 40 x 26 foot space with chairs, a table, and a piano.
See their website for more information: The Field
March 15, 2013permalink
Past Workspace artist Jayson Keeling on view at ICA’s Project Space
Glitter and Folds
On view through March 31, 2013
The Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania campus at 118 South 36th Street (at Sansom), Philadelphia, PA 19104-3289.
What do we know to be true? That the earth rotates, time moves forward, gravity pulls, and mirrors reflect light. A swinging pendulum traces seismic patterning on a gallery floor, concentric circles that reveal the invisible forces of their making. A single-channel video pulsates kaleidoscopic rhythms against a wall, the multiple reflections of conjoined mirrors echoed by a synthetic soundtrack of needles dropping. But as we move closer, reality seems to shift, and the certainties of perception and experience start to fold. A series of photographs embed the by-products of revelry—glitter, shattered mirrors, glass, and pearls—in soiled wastelands of an uncertain ground, asking us to reconsider seemingly inalienable laws of physics and faith. Elsewhere, the artist's body becomes a litmus test for the violence of social breakdown, a glittering reflection caught in a site of urban neglect.
Glitter and Folds, on view February 6 through March 31, 2013 in ICA's Project Space, presents photography, video, and site-specific installation by four contemporary artists, in whose works glitter appears to reveal a folding of invisible phenomena into material reality. As much as these actions divine the physical forces that structure the tangible fabric of everyday experience, they also reveal breaks in an urban and social landscape increasingly marked by precariousness, fear, and a gamble for redemption in the face of collapse.
http://www.icaphila.org/exhibitions/glitter-and-folds.php
March 11, 2013permalink
Current SPARC artist chronicling her experiences in blog
Riitta Ikonen, a current SPARC artist-in-residence, is chronicling her experiences in a personal blog. See images and read stories about her various works in progress.
Access her blog here
March 11, 2013permalink
Tamar Ettun’s “One Thing Leads To Another” travels to Indianapolis Museum of Art
Tamar Ettun is a current Swing Space artist-in-residence working on Governors Island. The performance/installation One Thing Leads To Another is traveling to the Indianapolis Museum of Art. She will have six performances inside the inflated balloon installation.
Indianapolis Museum of Art
March 23: 11am- 5pm
March 24: noon – 5pm
Performers: Ben Walker, Corinne Maloof and Yonatan Gutfeld, Amelia Smith, Kimmie Icenogle, Tommy Lewey, Tamar Ettun.
