Events Around Town
Current Swing Space Resident More Art Produces Project by Justin Berry
More Art brings artists into the classroom to collaborate, work with, and learn from the students rather than to 'teach' them. Their latest project is “The Mysterious House of Colors” by Justin Berry and Clinton Middle School's students.
Justin Berry gave students a chance to curate and produce an art exhibition. After visiting galleries in their neighborhood the students were asked to think of objects and environments that could become part of a compelling art exhibition. Berry organized a mixture of commissioned and pre-existing works for this exhibition based on the drawings the children produced.
Justin Berry Then asked a second group of children to think of what the images of both the exhibition and the previous group’s drawings might represent. The goal is to present an art exhibit about the stories inspired by the art.
Visit the Waymaker Gallery to discover the exhibition. Reception October 31, 7-9 pm Open: Oct 31-Nov 22, 2009
October 30, 2009permalink
Current Workspace Resident Kenya (Robinson) at Capricious
NEFER/NFR Friends of Capricious for 2 Days Only!
Artists: Molly Surno, Kenya (Robinson), Sarah Frances Kuhn, Dave Shull, Olivia Wyatt and Shaun Kessler, Suzette Guy, and Leif Ritchey. Luiza Sa of CSS DJing during the opening.
Reception Date: Thursday, November 5th, 6pm-9pm Open: Friday, Nov. 6 & Saturday, Nov. 7, noon-6pm
Capricious Space, 103 Broadway
October 27, 2009permalink
Current Workspace Resident Becca Albee at P.P.O.W Gallery
Capricious @ P.P.O.W. Gallery
Looking Forward, Feeling Backwards
Curated by Capricious & Tammy Rae Carland
Arists: Becca Albee / Arielle Falk / Jason Hanasik / K8 Hardy / Desiree Holman / Whitney Hubbs / Ace Lehner Stephanie Leibowitz / Elizabeth Moy
October 29 – December 5, 2009
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 29, 6-8pm
511 West 25th Street, Room 301
October 27, 2009permalink
Past Workspace Residents Featured at Apexart
AVANT-GUIDE TO NYC: Discovering Absence curated by Sandra Skurvida
November 4 - December 19, 2009
Opening reception: November 4, 6-8 pm
Including work by: Julieta Aranda, caraballo-farman, Kabir Carter, Dexter Sinister, Eckhard Etzold, Andrea Geyer, Pablo Helguera, Nancy Hwang, Pia Lindman, Anna Lundh, Nina Katchadourian, Carlos Motta, Angel Nevarez & Valerie Tevere, Hatuey Ramos-Fermin, Katya Sander, Ward Shelley, Xaviera Simmons, and Alex Villar.
apexart 291 Church Street Contact 212.431.5270
October 27, 2009permalink
Halloween Art Party featuring Current Workspace Resident Paul Mpagi Sepuya
Starr Space invites you to experience CODEX GIGAS, the Ultimate Halloween Art Party.
Saturday, October 31
Doors open at 8:00 pm. Show starts at 9:00 pm – ends in the wee hours.
Cost $10.00 at the door, limited capacity.
A dark night of prose readings, exclusive screenings, live performances, and orgiastic sacrifice that will take place on Halloween
Organized by curator Joseph Whitt, this event will feature appearances and/or contributions by:
- Harmony Korine
- Terence Koh
- Disco Mayhem (Lizzi Bougatsos and Rita Ackermann)
- No Bra (Susanne Oberbeck)
- Kendell Geers and Ilse Ghekiere
- Amir Mogharabi and Jeffrey Perkins
- Paul Mpagi Sepuya
- DJs Patt Fink and SteFUN
Expect surprises.
October 27, 2009permalink
Current Workspace Resident Deana Lawson Shows at Light Work
Deana Lawson Corporeal
November 2-December 23, 2009
Reception: November 5, 5-8pm
Deana Lawson's photographs examine how the body informs personal, political, and historical identities. Her psychological portraits seem to start out in one shape before morphing into something unexpected. Their apparent transparency at first glance dissolves into a complex set of questions about the people who are imaged and the nature of photographing, questions that will never have clear and finite answers, no matter how hard and long we look. More here.
Light Work Robert B Menschel Media Center 316 Waverly Ave, Syracuse NY 13244 315-443-1300
October 23, 2009permalink
Current Swing Space Resident Carrie Ahern performs SeNSATE
SeNSATE
Nov 18-22
Wed-Sat 7:30-10:30pm, Sunday 3-6pm
Brooklyn Lyceum 227 4th Avenue, Brooklyn. Atop R train station at Union Street.
Tickets $20 / $15 with student or performing arts ID Advance tickets
In Sensate, Carrie Ahern allows her audience to follow their whims and move throughout 4,000 square feet of the Brooklyn Lyceum. The audience is free to come and go within the performance spaces anytime between three designated hours, experiencing the dance from anywhere they choose in the space.
Dancers: Carrie Ahern, Donna Costello, David Figueroa, Kelly Hayes and Jillian Hollis.
Composer: Anne Hege (voice/electronic) performs live.
Costumes: Naoko Nagata.
Lighting: Jay Ryan.
Photo: Michael Faulkner
October 16, 2009permalink
Career Transition for Dancers Offers Professional Development Workshop
Career Conversations Prepare for your next career now while you are still dancing!
“Finding Off-Season & Survival Jobs” Learn how to make ends meet, get seasonal gigs, and be creative in your job search.
Moderated by Lauren Gordon, Career Transition For Dancers
Monday, October 26, 5:30-7:30PM
Actors’ Equity Building 14th Floor, Council Room 165 W. 46th Street
For more information Career Transition for Dancers 212-764-0172
October 16, 2009permalink
Art in Odd Places: SiGN 2009 - Opening Party Tonight!
OPENING PARTY TONIGHT: Thurs OCT 1 @ 6-9pm Theaterlab, 137 14th St Featuring AiOP artists on 14th St, musician Roland P. Young, and 3 floors of improvisational wonder!
Now in its fifth year, the annual Art in Odd Places festival brings 60+ artworks to 14th Street, all of which focus on the theme of signs. The mission of the festival is to "explore the odd, ordinary and ingenious in the spectacle of everyday life."
“It seemed that at this particular point in time, people are more attuned to signs and omens,” says Radhika Subramaniam, Director and Chief Curator for Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at Parsons The New School for Design, who, along with Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Artist Residencies Director Erin Donnelly, is guest-curating this year’s festival.
Officially on view today, October 1 thru 26, along 14th Street between Sixth & Seventh Avenues, the show will feature numerous past and current LMCC SwingSpace and Workspace artists including:
Christine Catsifas (Workspace) Cesar Cornejo (Workspace) Beth Dary and Christy Speakman (Workspace) Peggy Diggs (Workspace) Elaine Gan (Workspace and SwingSpace) Monika Goetz (Workspace) Yoko Inoue (Workspace) Olalekan Jeyifous (Workspace) McKendree Key (SwingSpace) Liz Magic Laser (Workspace) LuLu LoLo (Workspace) Laura Napier (SwingSpace) Laura Nova and Traci Talasco (Workspace) Jamie O'Shea (SwingSpace) Pam Payne (SwingSpace) Klaus Schafler (SwingSpace) Edward Schexnayder (SwingSpace) Oona Stern (Workspace) Ari Tabei (SwingSpace) Alex Villar (Workspace and SwingSpace)
Pick-up a map and explore the show!
(below: Full Service Island by LMCC Gulf Coast Workspace alums Beth Dary and Christy Speakman)
October 1, 2009permalink
Michael Paul Britto Receives Franklin Furnace Grant
For over twenty years, The Franklin Furnace Fund has awarded grants to emerging performance artists to allow them to do major work in New York. Events are presented in partnership with collegial venues, or, in the city environment.
Franklin Furnace has no curator; each year, a new panel of artists reviews all proposals. The peer panel system allows all kinds of artists from all over the world an equal shot at presenting their work in New York.
Eleven recipients will receive $5,818 grants this year, including current LMCC Workspace resident, Michael Paul Britto, a born and bred Brooklynite.
Britto graduated from the City College of New York. His works range from videos to digital photography, sculpture, and performance. He has participated in residencies at the New Museum for Contemporary Art, Smack Mellon, and The Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation. Britto was been featured in exhibitions at El Museo del Barrio, The Studio Museum of Harlem, The Zacheta National Gallery in Warsaw and the Victoria and Albert Museum in England.
