Demonstration

There is an open call for participants in Registry Artist’s Lisa Kirk’s Performa project.

http://performa-arts.org/blog/lisa-kirk/

• Seward Park
• Sunday, November 8 3:00pm

Inspired by Valentine de Saint Point’s manifestos and William Henry Seward’s ardent anti-slavery position, people will be invited to march through the streets of the Lower East Side with picket signs that proclaim their own intention.

Lisa Kirk (b. New York City, 1967) makes work that investigates the contradictions of consumerism and the aestheticization of formerly politically radical signifiers. She has exhibited throughout the United States and internationally. In 2007, a solo exhibition of her work, REVOLUTION!, traveled from PS1 Contemporary Art Center, to Galeria Comercial, San Juan Puerto Rico, and Steven Wolf Fine Art, San Francisco, CA.

Please go to here to join. Presented by Invisible-Exports. Part of Lust Weekend.

FREE

ProArts Member Show / Below the Surface / Family Ties

Registry Artist Aileen Bassis will be in the following shows:

The Jersey City Studio Tour is Sat. and Sun. Oct. 3 & 4, 12 – 6
in Jersey City at 27 McWilliams Place –across from Hamilton Park

“ProArts Member Show” at Grace Church, 21 Erie
St. in Jersey City.  The opening reception and Studio Tour kick off party
is there from 6 – 10 pm on Friday, Oct. 2. All are welcome.

“Below the Surface” at the Printmaking Council of NJ
is a cooperative book arts exhibition between The Book Arts Roundtable
and The Printmaking Council of NJ
opening Saturday October 10 1 – 4 pm through Dec. 5, 2009
showing 2 artists books about slavery

“Family Ties” The First Wave, curated by Ellie Brown will have some altered books about her mother.
SPEC Fox Art Gallery at UPenn
Tuesday, October 6, 2009 to Sunday, November 1, 2009 at 5:00pm
Location: UPenn SPEC Fox Art Gallery   249 South  36th St. in
Logan Hall
Closing Reception October 29th, 7-9pm*
Fox Art Gallery at UPenn
249 E. 36th Street, Philadelphia PA
use entrance on the east side of Logan Hall at the second set of doors

Gallery Hours: Monday-Saturday 9-5  Wednesdays 9-9
Artists Include:Aileen Bassis, Alison Altergott,Brenna K. Murphy,Carmen
Kolodzey,Cathy Gontarek,Ellie Brown,Erin M. Riley,Jessica Hendrix
Karen Beall,Kerry Kolenut,Rozalind Bloom,Sarah Moore

SEVENTH ANNUAL CURATORS’ INCUBATOR PROGRAM EXHIBITION

Maryland Art Place Announces:
SEVENTH ANNUAL CURATORS’ INCUBATOR PROGRAM EXHIBITION

September 15-October 24, 2009

Including Registry Artist: Janell Olah
Featured Curators:
Shelly Blake-Plock: Art of the Set-Up: Sound Objects as Artifacts
Artists: Peter Blasser. Alessandro Bosetti. Andy Hayleck. Bonnie Jones. Melissa Moore. Mike Muniak.

Rachel Sitkin: In Our Nature: Artists Reflect on the Manmade Landscape
Artists: Kim Beck. Laura Cooperman. Michelle Hagewood. Alex Lukas. Igor Pasternak.

Margaret Winslow: Soft Space: Architecture in Contemporary Art
Artists: Ronald Longsdorf. Janell Olah. Stephen Ruszkowki.

Featured Events:
Thurs Sept 24: Opening Event
5pm Rush Hour: Art Beats Traffic
6pm Gallery Talk and Sound Art Performance: Shelly Blake-Plock, John Berndt and Art     of the Set-Up artists

Thurs Oct 8
5pm Rush Hour: Art Beats Traffic
6pm Gallery Talk: Margaret Winslow, Soft Space artists, and George Holback of Cho, Benn, Holback + Associates

Thurs Oct 22
5pm Rush Hour: Art Beats Traffic
6pm Gallery Talk: Rachel Sitkin and In Our Nature artists

Sat October 24
2pm to 5pm: Curating 101 presented by Cathy Byrd, MAP Executive Director

This Fall, MAP offers a communal platform for three inventive projects, including our first-ever sound art exhibition—The Art of the Set Up: Sound Objects as Artifacts, curated by Shelly Blake-Plock. Rachel Sitkin conceived In Our Nature: Artists Reflect on the Altered Landscape to feature artists who mine the outfall of urban development. Margaret Winslow’s ideas materialize in Soft Space: Architecture in Contemporary Art, a set of drawings and installations that explore physical and psychological nuances in the built environment.

Each year, MAP’s Curators’ Incubator Program renews the opportunity for Maryland Art Place to become a working laboratory for aesthetic experiments. Curators’ Incubator provides a creative space for the region’s aspiring curators to develop and present their concepts. MAP guides the curatorial process, beginning with an open call that encourages proposals and ending in the presentation of selected projects. MAP’s Program Advisory Committee took on the review and selection of our 2009 curators and MAP staff facilitated the production of the exhibition and companion catalogue.

OF NOTE: Programs for our Seventh Annual Curators’ Incubator will be presented on scheduled Thursdays at 5:00 pm this fall for RUSH HOUR: Art Beats Traffic. RUSH HOUR is an invitation to those who work and live in the downtown neighborhood to visit MAP at the end of the workday.

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Maryland Art Place is a not-for-profit contemporary art center located in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, at 8 Market Place, Suite 100. Gallery hours: 11am to 5pm, Tuesday through Saturday. For further information, please visit mdartplace.org <http://mdartplace.org>  or call 410.962.8565. All programs and exhibitions are free and open to the public.

Slant Branch Souvenir (Thinkin’ on You)

Wave Hill
Sunroom Project Space
West 249th Street and Independence Avenue (front gate)
Bronx, NY 10471-2899
Telephone:718.549.3200

Audrey Hasen Russell takes a cue from the landscape visible from the Sunroom’s windows with Slant Branch Souvenir (Thinkin’ on You), a large-scale installation. Comprised of three sculptural components, these works combine to collectively register the rolling hillside and woodlands that make up the room’s distinctive views. In one corner, a leaning plywood structure upholstered in mustard-colored fleece that stands in for gently sloping wedge of topography is embedded with green glass and white twigs that resemble indeterminate organic growth. An arch made with sticks has the look of a young sapling, while a clutch of glasswork stationed nearby captures the microcosmic intimacy of a flower garden.

Russell’s work is also informed by childhood memories of a family farm in the Appalachian foothills of east Tennessee. Consequently, she chooses familiar materials that reference a distant nostalgic notion of the bygone, such as fleece and Depression-era glassware. At the same time, she resists a literal depiction of the imagery of her personal history. A heavy beam and an antique window pane possess a barn-like aesthetic, but they also suggest a tree trunk and a jutting precipice. By deftly navigating this boundary between representation and abstraction, Russell delves into the slippery nature of memory itself, and speaks to the persistent impulse to idealize days gone by. The resulting work is suffused with emotional resonance, provoking narratives of both comfort and loss.

GOO’z: Part 2

gallery onetwentyeight
128 Rivington Street
( between Essex Street & Norfolk Street )
New York, NY 10002
phone: 212 674 0244

Part 2: August 11 – August 29

Works by artists without or marginal political visa status.

Including Registry Artist: Jamison Sarleschi

ENTROPY

Lana Santorelli Gallery

110 W 26th St., Ground Floor

New York, NY 10001

(between 6th & 7th Avenues)

Summer hours (through Labor Day) are Monday through Friday 10 am to 6 pm

Entropy runs through September 12th, 2009

Including Registry Artist: Deborah Zlotsky

Breaking down form into abstraction can create a powerful paradigm shift. It necessitates a special eye and, when successfully done, opens an artwork to greater and more diverse interpretations. Distilling materiality to intangibility is the focus of Entropy, Lana Santorelli Gallery’s latest exhibition. Works range from enigmatic and ethereal, with drawings in smoke by Jagdish Prabhu and Heidi Thompson’s intensely intuitive paintings, to the more earthly visceral oils by Deborah Zlotsky and Elaine Lorenz’s anthropomorphic stoneware sculptures.

Threads

“Threads”: 2009 Artist Members Exhibition

July 8, 2009 – September 12, 2009
Opening reception:  Wednesday, July 8, 6-8pm

Location and directions:
Center for Book Arts
28 W 27th Street, 3rd Floor between Broadway and 6th Avenue
1 train to 28th St N, R, W to 28th St F, V to 23rd St

About the exhibit: This year’s Artist Members Exhibition brings together current members of the Center’s artistic community and invited artists who use actual thread as a design element to convey both content and form. Artworks featured in this exhibition represent a broad range of book and related arts, including prints, books, sculptures, and multi-media installation.

Participating registry artists include: Vandana Jain, Pamela Matsuda-Dunn, Heidi Neilson, Iviva Olenick, and Catya Plate

Living and Dreaming

THE BRONX MUSEUM OF THE ARTS

1040 GRAND CONCOURSE
AT 165TH STREET
BRONX, NEW YORK 10456
T: (718) 681-6000
F: (718) 681-6181

JUNE 21 – SEPTEMBER 13 2009

The Bronx Museum of the Arts proudly presents Living and Dreaming, an exhibition culminating the 29th annual Artist in the Marketplace (AIM) Program; one of the most celebrated and competitive programs for emerging artists in the country.

The exhibition, which features the works of 36 artists from throughout the New York metropolitan area, presents a broad view of contemporary processes and themes that together reveal an accurate depiction of this era – from cultural collisions to political changes to the unstable economy. The show’s title references both the similarities and disparities within the artists’ diverse practice. Through media including photography, video, installation, sculpture, painting, collage, and multi-media, the participants utilize personal narratives as a tool to address issues of identity, gender, culture and race; while also immersing the viewer in realms that conjure the fantastical, the ethereal, and the mythological.

Includes Registry Artists: Rahul Alexander, Jonathan Brand, Adam Brent, Heejung Cho, Clare Grill, Joshua Abram Howard, Ken Madore, and Travis LeRoy Southworth

SPARKPLUG: NEW WORK

Arlington Arts Center
3550 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington VA 22201
Phone 703.248.6800

June 19th – August 22
Artist’s talk: Wednesday, July 22, from 7:00 to 9:00

Including Registry Artist: Mark Planisek

A show by the DCAC arts collective; curated by Lea-Ann Bigelow and Blair Murphy. From the curators’ statement:
“Sparkplug is, at present, a spirited gathering of ten artists and curators who meet twice a month to discuss their work, explore the arts in the nation’s capital, grow their community, and dream up creative engagements in DC and around the globe. In the context of this closely-focused show, Sparkplug’s mission will be to testify to its own mutable now: the now of its production, the now of its collective exchanges, the now of individual stances outside of the collective, the now that will inevitably be then soon. For a collective whose very existence is based on a charter of becoming, of sharing, of transitions, of emergence, of change…the privileging of a specific Sparkplug moment presents a persistent (albeit purposeful) challenge.

Art works Attached (clockwise): Peter Gordon (collage), Mark Planisek (photo Box collage), Karen Joan-Topping (video), Deborah Carroll-Azinger (Painting collage)

Intersections

Includes Registry Artist: Sarah Trigg

MAY 4 – JULY 31

cWOW exhibition:

Intersections, curated by Tania Duvergne, explores the convergence of natural and man-made events, from cataclysmic collisions to serene cohabitations. The exhibition features 18 large paintings by artists Patty Cateura, Noah Landfield, Christopher Saunders, Sarah Trigg, Frank Webster. At Seton Hall University School of Law, One Newark Center, Newark, NJ 07102. Free and open to the public, daily 10am – 5pm. Directions.

Trigg, Lake Vostok with Two Olympias, acrylic on panel, 60 x 40 in