Events Around Town
LMCC Swing Space Artist Katja Algert was Featured in Yesterday’s New York Times.
Swing Space artist Katja Aglert was featured in yesterday's New York Times about her light pollution project called A Starry Minute. Go to the article.
March 9, 2009permalink
LMCC Past Resident Artists in Global Fabrics Common Threads at the ISE Cultural Foundation
LMCC past resident artists will be featured in Global Fabrics, Common Threads, a group exhibition co-curated by Jeanne Gerrity and Melissa Levin, and featuring work by Scott Andresen, Andrea Dezso, Donna Huanca, Brece Honeycutt, Yoko Inoue, Nava Lubelski, Darrel Morris, and Shinique Smith.
Card Image: Scott Andresen, Sway Bar (detail), 2007, Quilt, 66 x 65 inches
The artists in this exhibition use clothing and fabric, as well as techniques such as embroidery and spinning, to explore the dichotomies of use and reuse, doing and undoing, importing and exporting, the global economy and personal politics. Through sewing, gluing, bundling, quilting, knitting, spinning, and tearing out, the eight artists choose enduring craftsmanship over new media technologies in their art-making practice. The works in Global Fabrics, Common Threads ask viewers to consider the lifecycle of basic materials – from needle and thread to image; and from thread to fabric to clothing and back again. By transforming these materials into works of art, the artists in this show question, sometimes deliberately and other times incidentally, commodity culture and/or acceptance of the status quo. Likewise, by appropriating traditional techniques they are able to tackle issues of excess production, global trade, eminent domain, gender stereotypes, and cultural differences. The works in the exhibition weave together traditional materials with complex ideas, exposing the subtle power of seemingly familiar household objects and materials. The artists exploit and transcend technical proficiency in their respective crafts, shifting the focus of their work to larger concerns about society, politics, and personal relationships in this contemporary globalized world.
Global Fabrics Common Threads March 6, 2009 - April 9, 2009 Opening Reception: Friday, March 6, 6-8PM Public Program: Wednesday, March 18, 6-8PM Make Something: A Participatory Artist Demonstration with Brece Honeycutt & Donna Huanca
ISE Cultural Foundation 555 Broadway New York, NY 10012 T:212-925-1649
March 5, 2009permalink
LMCC Artist Esperanza Mayobre is Included in a Group Exhibition at The Gallatin Galleries
Workspace Artists-in-Residence Esperanza Mayobre will be featured in the group show Moving Money : Art, Capital and the Dematerialization of Value at The Gallatin Galleries.
Moving Money, curated by Keith Miller, probes the questions on the minds of many in the midst of the market’s free fall and the ongoing economic uncertainty: Where did the money go? Was it ever there at all? The invisibility of today’s monetary world has become troublingly apparent. We do not “see” our money. It has been dematerialized and turned into an abstraction. While market makers have been using this abstraction to multiply profit, artists have been addressing these questions concretely by using money as both subject matter and raw material, literally and metaphorically, challenging its abstract value. Moving Money brings together artists whose work tries to make visible the abstracting tendencies of our monetary system and our relation to it.
The Gallatin Galleries is a multi floor gallery hosting shows of emerging and professional artists as well as students and faculty from the Gallatan and NYU Community.
Opening Reception: Friday, March 6, 2009 / 6:00 - 9:00 pm.
The Gallatin Galleries 715 Broadway @Washington Place New York, NY 10003
March 5, 2009permalink
LMCC Artist Jayson Keeling to Speak at Apexart
Jayson Keeling will be participating in series of conversations between apexart residents and Carlo McCormick.
Sofija Grandakovska (inbound from Macedonia), Jayson Keeling (outbound to Ethiopia), and Edwin Ramoran (outbound to Greece) in conversation with Carlo McCormick about their experiences as apexart residents.
Jayson Keeling was born in Brooklyn, NY and attended The Fashion Institute of Technology. He lives and works in Long Island City, Queens. For most of his career Keeling worked almost exclusively in the medium of photography but recently he has begun to explore painting, video, and sculpture as well. His work has been featured in many exhibitions including The Queens International 4, The Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY; Filmic, VideoStudio, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; Summer Mixtape Vol. 1, Exit Art, New York and The Wu-Tang googolplex Show (Congress), GBE@passerby, New York. Mr.Keeling participated in the apexart Outbound Residency to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in January 2009.9.
RESIDENT/ALIEN Wednesday, March 11, 6:30 pm
apexart 291 Church Street, NYC, 10013 t. 212 431 5270 www.apexart.org
March 5, 2009permalink
JooYoun Paek Inflatable Bicycle Cover to be Featured in Postmasters Gallery Group Show
Current LMCC Workspace Artist-in-Residence JooYoun Paek will be included in a group show opening this weekend at Postmasters Gallery. A bicycle cover from her series of inflatable devices will be included in the exhibition.
"the future is not what is used to be"
February 28 – April 4, 2009 Opening Reception: Saturday, February 28th, 6-8 pm
"the future is not what is used to be” brings together artists engaged in the Internet shaped culture. Through drawings, photographs, sculpture, video, and online projects they explore social interaction in a networked world, reflection in the times of speed, new communication tools and smart technologies affecting cultural and sociopolitical reality, sustainable strategies for contemporary life, connectivity and dis-connect, digital/analog divide, instantaneity and obsolescence, the web as the largest image depository ever, and new forms of appropriation, means of production, and modes of political engagement.
What we do today shapes our tomorrows.
Postmasters Gallery 459 W 19th Street New York, NY 212 727 3323
February 25, 2009permalink
French Exchange Artist Davide Balula Solo Exhibition Opens Tomorrow
Davide Balula, in residence with LMCC through our partnership with the Mayor's Office of the City of Paris, will be featured in a solo exhibition at Fake Estate.
Davide Balula: American Wall Nut Curated by Beatrice Gross
February 26 - April 4 Opening Reception: Thursday, February 26, 6-8 pm
Fake Estate 526 W. 26th Street, #502A New York, NY 917-499-9005
February 25, 2009permalink
Hilario Isola and Matteo Norzi Project To Be Shown At Italian Cultural Institute
Workspace Artists-in-Residence Hilario Isola and Matteo Norzi will be showcasing a small but ambitious project, Dust Jacket, at the Italian Cultural Institute. This project was curated by Marco Antonini and also features current Location One Resident Andrea Galvani.
March 5 - March 30, 2009. Opening Reception: Thursday, March 5, 6:00pm
Italian Cultural Institute in New York 686 Park Avenue at 69th Street New York, NY
February 25, 2009permalink
Past Workspace Artist Negar Ahkami Featured in Solo Exhibition
Past LMCC Workspace Resident Negar Ahkami will be featured in her first Manhattan solo exhibition.
Negar Ahkami: Pride and Fall
March 4 - March 28 Opening Reception: Wednesday, March 4th, 6-8 PM Leila Taghinia-Milani Heller Gallery 39 East 78th Street @ Madison Avenue, 3rd Floor New York, NY
Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday 11-6
February 25, 2009permalink
SP Potluck To Be Included in Exhibition at Islip Art Museum
Swing Space Grantee SP Potluck Project recently completed a residency at the 125 Maiden Lane Project Space. The work created while in residence will be featured in a group exhibition at the Islip Art Museum.
SP Potluck Project is Natalie Campbell, Liz Zanis, Carissa Carman, and Heidi Neilson.
SP Potluck Project is a working laboratory for video collaboration, the first phase of which was at Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's Swing Space Residency. The long term goal of this project is an investigation into the process and nature of collaboration itself. As former residents, fellows, and interns at the Women's Studio Workshop in Rosendale, NY, the group is interested in the utopian nature of artist communities. The communal meal is the premise for a video installation that documents and reflects the process of working together.
Out of the Incubator: Collaborations from Women's Studio Workshop curated by Ann Kalmbach & Tatana Kellner
February 11 - March 29, 2009 Opening Reception: Sunday, February 22 from 2-4 pm*
Out of the Incubator features new site-specific installations created by teams of artists who met at WSW during residencies and internships, and developed working bonds. These alumnae were commissioned to explore the creative possibilities engendered by the collaborative process.
Islip Art Museum 50 Irish Lane East Islip, NY Phone: (631) 224-5402
February 19, 2009permalink
Workspace Resident Elana Herzog Featured at The Drawing Center
LMCC Workspace Artist-in-Residence Elana Herzog will be featured in a new group exhibition at The Drawing Center.
Apparently Invisible: Selections Spring 2009
Apparently Invisible: Selections Spring 2009 presents work by nine artists selected from the Viewing Program. The pieces included in the exhibition skirt the edge of perception and cognition, requiring a recalibration of the visual and a momentary investment in a more quiet sublime. Apparently Invisible is curated by Nina Katchadourian, Joanna Kleinberg, and Rachel Liebowitz.
Susan Collis, Michaela Frühwirth, Elana Herzog, Marietta Hoferer, Sarah Kabot, Anne Lindberg, Janine Magelssen, Chris Nau, and Janet Passehl
February 20 – March 28, 2009 Opening Reception: Thursday, February 19, 6-8 pm
The Drawing Center 35 Wooster Street New York, NY, 10013 tel: 212-219-2166 email: info@drawingcenter.org
