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The Red Head Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition by  

Margie Kelk 

TITLE: Beyond Absurd 

LOCATION: 401 Richmond St. West 

Toronto, Canada M5V 3A8

416 504 5654

http://www.redheadgallery.org

DATES OF EXHIBITION: May 26 - June 19

Opening Reception:  2-5pm, May 29, 2010

Beyond Absurd

With Beyond Absurd, Margie Kelk has created a mixed media installation that looks at past and present communication set in the context of a world grappling with the disastrous effects of climate change.  Kelk’s exhibition incorporates drawings, light box paintings, and ceramic and plastic sculptures.  The artist juxtaposes the historical with the contemporary.  She presents Aztec deities who look down upon a world engorged with vast amounts of information technology, technological innovations, and their obsolete by-products.  Aztec deities and altars stand on one side of the gallery; a contemporary ’glass’ house, empty and foreboding, stands on the other.  Both appear to be deprived of human presence, but remnants of technological communication devices endure.

www.margiekelk.com
May 29
The Red Head Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition by   Margie Kelk  TITLE: Beyond Absurd  LOCATION: 401 Richmond St. West  Toronto, Canada M5V 3A8 416 504 5654 http://www.redheadgallery.org DATES OF EXHIBITION: May 26 - June 19 Opening Reception:  2-5pm, May 29, 2010 Beyond Absurd With Beyond Absurd, Margie Kelk has created a mixed media installation that looks at past and present communication set in the context of a world grappling with the disastrous effects of climate change.  Kelk’s exhibition incorporates drawings, light box paintings, and ceramic and plastic sculptures.  The artist juxtaposes the historical with the contemporary.  She presents Aztec deities who look down upon a world engorged with vast amounts of information technology, technological innovations, and their obsolete by-products.  Aztec deities and altars stand on one side of the gallery; a contemporary ’glass’ house, empty and foreboding, stands on the other.  Both appear to be deprived of human presence, but remnants of technological communication devices endure. www.margiekelk.com

IN DIALOGUE EXHIBITION

 

West Harlem, NY …. The West Harlem Art Fund, Inc. and the City College of New York is hosting a daring exhibition in historic St. Nicholas Park — bringing contemporary art installations by new artists that mix history, community and landscape together for residents and New Yorkers alike this June.

 

As apart of a studio last fall, artists Scherezade Garcia, Brett Seamans, and Marcie Revens were chosen to participate in the exhibition “In Dialogue”.  Historic St. Nicholas Park which slopes below the neo-gothic campus of City College was designed by George Browne Post and overlooks both West and Central Harlem.

The college’s motto: Respice, Adspice, Prospice (Look back, look at, and look ahead) suits this exhibition especially well. For decades, there has been little communication between the college and its West Harlem neighbors. But like a sleeping giant in a fairy tale, the college was awaken by the idea of a collaboration that could bridge new attitudes, forge bold artistic expressions and an understanding of the past.

 

The MFA program at The City College provides an opportunity for students to study studio art in the heart of the art world — New York City. City College insures an intensive professional experience and affords students the opportunity to follow their creative vision in a collaborative environment. The MFA Program offers instruction in the theory, practice, and teaching of the visual arts through a required sequence of courses as well as in-depth training in one or more of the following areas of specialization: drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture, or ceramic design.

 

The West Harlem Art Fund, Inc. is a twelve year old, cultural arts and preservation organization. WHAF offers exhibition opportunities for artists and creative professionals wishing to share their talent with residents in Northern Manhattan and around the city. The West Harlem Art Fund, Inc. showcases art and culture in open, public spaces to add aesthetic interest to our part of the city; promote historical and cultural heritage; and support community involvement in local development. The organization’s African symbol is the double crocodile from West Africa. Funtunmmireku-Denkyemmirreku means unity in diversity.

Apr 26
IN DIALOGUE EXHIBITION   West Harlem, NY …. The West Harlem Art Fund, Inc. and the City College of New York is hosting a daring exhibition in historic St. Nicholas Park — bringing contemporary art installations by new artists that mix history, community and landscape together for residents and New Yorkers alike this June.   As apart of a studio last fall, artists Scherezade Garcia, Brett Seamans, and Marcie Revens were chosen to participate in the exhibition “In Dialogue”.  Historic St. Nicholas Park which slopes below the neo-gothic campus of City College was designed by George Browne Post and overlooks both West and Central Harlem. The college’s motto: Respice, Adspice, Prospice (Look back, look at, and look ahead) suits this exhibition especially well. For decades, there has been little communication between the college and its West Harlem neighbors. But like a sleeping giant in a fairy tale, the college was awaken by the idea of a collaboration that could bridge new attitudes, forge bold artistic expressions and an understanding of the past.   The MFA program at The City College provides an opportunity for students to study studio art in the heart of the art world — New York City. City College insures an intensive professional experience and affords students the opportunity to follow their creative vision in a collaborative environment. The MFA Program offers instruction in the theory, practice, and teaching of the visual arts through a required sequence of courses as well as in-depth training in one or more of the following areas of specialization: drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture, or ceramic design.   The West Harlem Art Fund, Inc. is a twelve year old, cultural arts and preservation organization. WHAF offers exhibition opportunities for artists and creative professionals wishing to share their talent with residents in Northern Manhattan and around the city. The West Harlem Art Fund, Inc. showcases art and culture in open, public spaces to add aesthetic interest to our part of the city; promote historical and cultural heritage; and support community involvement in local development. The organization’s African symbol is the double crocodile from West Africa. Funtunmmireku-Denkyemmirreku means unity in diversity.

Now open in Venice the long-awaited exhibition of the 195 finalists of the 4th International Prize Arte Laguna, which this year has established itself as a new benchmark for contemporary art around the world, thanks to the extraordinary quality of work received with an eye towards emerging art.

During the gala evening of the 6th  March, there was a significant participation of guests from the arts and culture but also public, in wich were awarded the winner of the three categories , Painting, Sculpture and art photography and communicated the winners of special prizes linked to the international exhibition circuit 21 galleries and art spaces, moreover it was also communicated winner of the Prize “Business for Art” Tenuta S. Anna.
The works of the 180 finalists, selected from over 5,500 artists entered, are displayed in the huge and fascinating location of Tese di San Cristoforo of the Venice Arsenale up to 27 March 2010, an important setting was designed to enhance more than 3,000 square meters of industrial heritage, thanks to clever use of lighting and photographic style.

At the same time, the selection of the 15 best artists under 25 is exhibited at the Romanian Institute of Culture and Humanistic Research in Venice, located in the historic Palazzo Correr in Campo Santa Fosca, a splendid example of Venetian architecture of the fifteenth century.
Mar 18
Now open in Venice the long-awaited exhibition of the 195 finalists of the 4th International Prize Arte Laguna, which this year has established itself as a new benchmark for contemporary art around the world, thanks to the extraordinary quality of work received with an eye towards emerging art. During the gala evening of the 6th  March, there was a significant participation of guests from the arts and culture but also public, in wich were awarded the winner of the three categories , Painting, Sculpture and art photography and communicated the winners of special prizes linked to the international exhibition circuit 21 galleries and art spaces, moreover it was also communicated winner of the Prize “Business for Art” Tenuta S. Anna.The works of the 180 finalists, selected from over 5,500 artists entered, are displayed in the huge and fascinating location of Tese di San Cristoforo of the Venice Arsenale up to 27 March 2010, an important setting was designed to enhance more than 3,000 square meters of industrial heritage, thanks to clever use of lighting and photographic style. At the same time, the selection of the 15 best artists under 25 is exhibited at the Romanian Institute of Culture and Humanistic Research in Venice, located in the historic Palazzo Correr in Campo Santa Fosca, a splendid example of Venetian architecture of the fifteenth century.

February 4-March 6,

547 W. 27th St, 5th Floor (suite 500)

Hrs: 1-6 pm

NY, NY 10001

Opening  Feb. 4  6-8 pm  

 What will you offer? 

 Participation Installation Project

“But, art as a practical precedent is forever young and physically here with us. Works of art, as theoretical constructs, hold their place in a field of knowledge. As historical artifacts, they speak of ancestry and parental origins. As practical precedents, works of art are orphans, ready to be adopted, nurtured and groomed to the needs to any astonishing new circumstances.”—Dave Hickey,  “Orphans,”  Art in America, January 2009

Orphans Offered Up is participation installation in a space that was formerly an art gallery that is now empty.  

Orphans that I’m offering up are a series of conceptual oil paintings that are very small, 4” x 4”, and intimate.  They are fragments that appear to be abstractions. They are offered up in several different ways.

Offer  is defined as: act of worship or devotion: sacrifice; to present for acceptance or rejection; to propose or suggest; to try or begin to resist; to threaten; to make available; to present in performance or exhibition; to propose as payment; to make an attempt; to present itself; to make a proposal.

        What will you offer me?  Offers will be document accepted.  Some will be accepted.  Suggestions:  Stocks, bonds, a house, another painting, a manuscript, or something else?  Something that is much less tangible?   What are you willing to sacrifice?  If you insistent on money, then the price will be determined by random walk, and that  price will be  a number between one and five hundred,  that will be generated randomly by RANDOM.ORG, Trinity College.  They provide a “random number service that generates randomness via atmospheric noise.”

          The inspirational sources for the paintings are the invisible engraving marks found in old postage stamps that belonged to my late father.  These painting were first started in 2002. They are not studies. They are not miniatures. They are finished paintings. I have completed more than fifty. 

        Or simply suggest a name. Come by and post it during the exhibition.   Names maybe also submitted by email. Peter Selz has already done just that.

I would like to thank the Pinetree Group for the offer of the space for this project.

Holly Crawford, NYC 2010  

h.c@earthlink.net 

www.art-poetry.info
Jan 29
Jan 29

Orphans Offered Up

OCCCA, Orange  County Center for Contemporary Art presents

The Inexpressible

Artists: Dalibor Polivka, Rob Mintz, Guillemette Buffault, Chau Thuy

April 3- May 1, 2010
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 3-2010, 5:00-11:00PM

at Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, 117 North Sycamore, Santa Ana, CA 92701
; 714.667.1517, www.occca.org

Inexpressible is an exhibition of works by the important French contemporary artist Guillemette Buffault, orchestrated in space brought to life by the graphic and installation interventions of Dalibor Polivka, with wall texts by Rob Mintz presented by master Vietnamese calligrapher Chau Thuy. In a spiritually-charged atmosphere, gallery-goers will discover the inexpressible within themselves. This exhibit seeks insight into the nature of a mysterious, shared universe described by mystics, philosophers and physicists.  A creative alliance between artists from different countries, it will be a model of contemporary practice, 
a hybrid with exalted aims.

Dali Polivka 


No form an artist might use is equal to the unbounded void where the phantoms of memory arise. To represent the absolute in a manner that does not instantly betray its transcendental meaning is the challenge that motivates Dalibor Polivka. The beauty and depth of the historic cultural traditions of his native Slovakia inform a restless pursuit of the underpinnings of perception, across contemporary disciplines, in painting, sculpture, installation, performance, digital imaging and graphic design.

Rob Mintz

Rob Mintz’s writings are influenced by the history of the avant-garde in all its manifestations. Evolving spontaneously and organically with a series of decisions that embellish or obliterate each line, they exude subjectivity, authenticity, anxiety, and the drift of autonomous introspection, the philosopher’s first step.

Guillemette Buffault

The “fold” (le pli) is the structure at the center of Guillemette Buffault’s research, taking form in paper, cloth, metal, sheets of lead, woven polyester, graphite, bronze, and glass, depicted in prints, or captured in photographs. The fold is both an object and a means of investigation.  In her hands it becomes paradoxical, material and immaterial simultaneously.  The fold is a connective discontinuity. When multiplied, its implications become metaphysical. Like apparitions, Buffault’s art oscillates between the opaque and the transparent.

Châu Thuy

Inspired by the Vietnamese calligraphic tradition, Châu Thuy’s popular and widely-exhibited 
work incorporates stylized figurative elements to symbolically express personal, historical and spiritual themes.

More details about Inexpressible at www.daliborpolivka.com/inexpressible
Jan 28
Jan 28

The Inexpressible

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“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.” Oscar Wilde    Narrative / Identity – Open Call for group exhibition   As a means of grappling with the flux of identity, narratives are a necessary part of individual and social constructs. Whether internal or external, narratives define how we see ourselves and others. Which facts construct our identities? Do we have a variety of identities and what makes us change them? Is the identity we display in public different than our private one? What happens if we take an identity of another person? Does an ID or passport tell the most important things about us? If you don’t have one does it mean you are invisible? Does education and knowledge about society and politics change our identity?   For the first group show of 2011, February 3 – March 12, curated by Nicole Bebout and Sonja Hofstetter, The AC Institute seeks to investigate the ways in which narrative is used by contemporary artists to construct or demolish our ideas of self and other. Whether through guerrilla-like disruption, ambiguity or fantasy inspired story-telling, we are seeking artists who see narrative as essential to their artistic identity.   Focusing on experimental, installation, and new media work, AC seeks submissions from contemporary artists, and others, working in any medium. Artists are encouraged to submit work either already existing or as-yet unrealized that addresses the interlocking questions of narrative and identity; either at the level of social practice, contemporary representation, or both. Email submissions should be sent to submissions@artcurrents.org by Sept. 15th, 2010. Please include the following in the body of your message (not as attachments):   -A short description and/or images of the work you are proposing for our spaces   -Your standard CV and contact information   -Links to your website or other sites where materials could be viewed, if possible   NO ATTACHEMENTS PLEASE     About AC Institute: The AC Institute exists to advance art through investigation, research and practice. It is a lab for experimentation and a forum for critical discussion. Emphasizing emerging, international, and under-represented artists, the Institute develops projects across disciplines, exhibiting work deploying a variety of strategies for critical, experiential, and performative interventions in the field of contemporary art. In addition to publishing critical writing that pushes conventional expectations of meaning and objectivity, the AC Institute realizes off-site projects taking place at the edge of the art marketplace. Committed to an integrated vision of creative practice, Art Currents creates autonomous spaces to pursue experimental work. The AC institute is non-profit 501(c)3 under the Direction of Holly Crawford.   Since moving to Chelsea in September of 2008, AC has mounted numerous exhibitions and performances, participated in the 2009 Armory show with Critical Conversations in a Limo; collaborated with over 50 artists; and worked with various cultural organizations including Rhizome and Harvestworks to pursue its mission. We provide space, programming support, and certain A/V equipment. Please see our website for more information: www.artcurrents.org.    AC Institute [Direct] 547 West 27th street, # 610, 6th floor New York, NY 10001
“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.” Oscar Wilde    Narrative / Identity – Open Call for group exhibition   As a means of grappling with the flux of identity, narratives are a necessary part of individual and social constructs. Whether internal or external, narratives define how we see ourselves and others. Which facts construct our identities? Do we have a variety of identities and what makes us change them? Is the identity we display in public different than our private one? What happens if we take an identity of another person? Does an ID or passport tell the most important things about us? If you don’t have one does it mean you are invisible? Does education and knowledge about society and politics change our identity?   For the first group show of 2011, February 3 – March 12, curated by Nicole Bebout and Sonja Hofstetter, The AC Institute seeks to investigate the ways in which narrative is used by contemporary artists to construct or demolish our ideas of self and other. Whether through guerrilla-like disruption, ambiguity or fantasy inspired story-telling, we are seeking artists who see narrative as essential to their artistic identity.   Focusing on experimental, installation, and new media work, AC seeks submissions from contemporary artists, and others, working in any medium. Artists are encouraged to submit work either already existing or as-yet unrealized that addresses the interlocking questions of narrative and identity; either at the level of social practice, contemporary representation, or both. Email submissions should be sent to submissions@artcurrents.org by Sept. 15th, 2010. Please include the following in the body of your message (not as attachments):   -A short description and/or images of the work you are proposing for our spaces   -Your standard CV and contact information   -Links to your website or other sites where materials could be viewed, if possible   NO ATTACHEMENTS PLEASE     About AC Institute: The AC Institute exists to advance art through investigation, research and practice. It is a lab for experimentation and a forum for critical discussion. Emphasizing emerging, international, and under-represented artists, the Institute develops projects across disciplines, exhibiting work deploying a variety of strategies for critical, experiential, and performative interventions in the field of contemporary art. In addition to publishing critical writing that pushes conventional expectations of meaning and objectivity, the AC Institute realizes off-site projects taking place at the edge of the art marketplace. Committed to an integrated vision of creative practice, Art Currents creates autonomous spaces to pursue experimental work. The AC institute is non-profit 501(c)3 under the Direction of Holly Crawford.   Since moving to Chelsea in September of 2008, AC has mounted numerous exhibitions and performances, participated in the 2009 Armory show with Critical Conversations in a Limo; collaborated with over 50 artists; and worked with various cultural organizations including Rhizome and Harvestworks to pursue its mission. We provide space, programming support, and certain A/V equipment. Please see our website for more information: www.artcurrents.org.    AC Institute [Direct] 547 West 27th street, # 610, 6th floor New York, NY 10001

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”

Oscar Wilde

 

 Narrative / Identity – Open Call for group exhibition

 

As a means of grappling with the flux of identity, narratives are a necessary part of individual and social constructs. Whether internal or external, narratives define how we see ourselves and others.

Which facts construct our identities?

Do we have a variety of identities and what makes us change them?

Is the identity we display in public different than our private one?

What happens if we take an identity of another person?

Does an ID or passport tell the most important things about us? If you don’t have one does it mean you are invisible?

Does education and knowledge about society and politics change our identity?

 

For the first group show of 2011, February 3 – March 12, curated by Nicole Bebout and Sonja Hofstetter, The AC Institute seeks to investigate the ways in which narrative is used by contemporary artists to construct or demolish our ideas of self and other. Whether through guerrilla-like disruption, ambiguity or fantasy inspired story-telling, we are seeking artists who see narrative as essential to their artistic identity.

 

Focusing on experimental, installation, and new media work, AC seeks submissions from contemporary artists, and others, working in any medium. Artists are encouraged to submit work either already existing or as-yet unrealized that addresses the interlocking questions of narrative and identity; either at the level of social practice, contemporary representation, or both.

Email submissions should be sent to submissions@artcurrents.org by Sept. 15th, 2010. Please include the following in the body of your message (not as attachments):

 

-A short description and/or images of the work you are proposing for our spaces

 

-Your standard CV and contact information

 

-Links to your website or other sites where materials could be viewed, if possible

 

NO ATTACHEMENTS PLEASE

 

 

About AC Institute:

The AC Institute exists to advance art through investigation, research and practice. It is a lab for experimentation and a forum for critical discussion. Emphasizing emerging, international, and under-represented artists, the Institute develops projects across disciplines, exhibiting work deploying a variety of strategies for critical, experiential, and performative interventions in the field of contemporary art. In addition to publishing critical writing that pushes conventional expectations of meaning and objectivity, the AC Institute realizes off-site projects taking place at the edge of the art marketplace. Committed to an integrated vision of creative practice, Art Currents creates autonomous spaces to pursue experimental work. The AC institute is non-profit 501(c)3 under the Direction of Holly Crawford.

 

Since moving to Chelsea in September of 2008, AC has mounted numerous exhibitions and performances, participated in the 2009 Armory show with Critical Conversations in a Limo; collaborated with over 50 artists; and worked with various cultural organizations including Rhizome and Harvestworks to pursue its mission. We provide space, programming support, and certain A/V equipment. Please see our website for more information: www.artcurrents.org.

  

AC Institute [Direct]

547 West 27th street, # 610, 6th floor

New York, NY 10001

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WORLD REFUGEE WEEK CELEBRATIONSFor Immediate Release | Contact Graham Thompson Email: refugeeweek2010@gmail.comWeb: www.refugeeweek.com WORLD REFUGEE WEEK 2010, A FESTIVAL OF THEATRE, DANCE, MEDIA AND MUSIC - FREE ADMISSION International NGOs and activists gather for a festival of theatre, dance, media and music from June 16-20 at Library and Archives Canada, 395 Wellington Street Ottawa. “Live performances start at 3PM daily within a theatrical backdrop of large scale portraits and video displays involving artists from Africa, Canada, Central Asia and the Americas,” says organizer Graham Thompson. “We have fashion from East Africa, folk music from Venezuela, belly dancing from Persia, spoken word from Darfur, revolutionary song writing from Guatemala, body painting from Sudan and feminist poetry from Afghanistan.”  Mixed with the installation of film loops and colourful banners, the paintings of Hawa Kaba, Hamid Ayoub, Sherry Tompalski, Martin Mbesha and Victor Fuentes will set the stage for talks by Hy Shelow of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Dr. Adnan Turegun of the Centre for International Migration and Settlement Studies, Dr. Susan Walsh of USC Canada, Philip Landon of the World University Service of Canada, JP Melville of the Coalition of New Canadians for Arts and Culture, Jayne Stoyles of the Canadian Centre for International Justice and Dr. Hamdi Mohamed of the Ottawa Community Immigrant Services Organization. As well, the multimedia event will feature readings by Dr. Monia Mazigh from her book Hope & Despair: My Struggle to Free My Husband, enactments by Sarah Mahoney from the classic drama Lemkin’s House, video testimonies by local refugees who have survived wars abroad and performances by lawyers of Peter Showler’s play Excluding Manuel.  The 3-year old collaborative project, which was exhibited last year at the Parliament of Canada, can be viewed on Youtube, FLICKr,  MySpace, FaceBook and Twitter. The detailed events schedule and the links to the social media sites are available through www.refugeeweek.com.” ### If you would like more information about this topic or to schedule an interview contact Graham Thompson at 613-253-7007 or refugeeweek2010@gmail.com 
WORLD REFUGEE WEEK CELEBRATIONSFor Immediate Release | Contact Graham Thompson Email: refugeeweek2010@gmail.comWeb: www.refugeeweek.com WORLD REFUGEE WEEK 2010, A FESTIVAL OF THEATRE, DANCE, MEDIA AND MUSIC - FREE ADMISSION International NGOs and activists gather for a festival of theatre, dance, media and music from June 16-20 at Library and Archives Canada, 395 Wellington Street Ottawa. “Live performances start at 3PM daily within a theatrical backdrop of large scale portraits and video displays involving artists from Africa, Canada, Central Asia and the Americas,” says organizer Graham Thompson. “We have fashion from East Africa, folk music from Venezuela, belly dancing from Persia, spoken word from Darfur, revolutionary song writing from Guatemala, body painting from Sudan and feminist poetry from Afghanistan.”  Mixed with the installation of film loops and colourful banners, the paintings of Hawa Kaba, Hamid Ayoub, Sherry Tompalski, Martin Mbesha and Victor Fuentes will set the stage for talks by Hy Shelow of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Dr. Adnan Turegun of the Centre for International Migration and Settlement Studies, Dr. Susan Walsh of USC Canada, Philip Landon of the World University Service of Canada, JP Melville of the Coalition of New Canadians for Arts and Culture, Jayne Stoyles of the Canadian Centre for International Justice and Dr. Hamdi Mohamed of the Ottawa Community Immigrant Services Organization. As well, the multimedia event will feature readings by Dr. Monia Mazigh from her book Hope & Despair: My Struggle to Free My Husband, enactments by Sarah Mahoney from the classic drama Lemkin’s House, video testimonies by local refugees who have survived wars abroad and performances by lawyers of Peter Showler’s play Excluding Manuel.  The 3-year old collaborative project, which was exhibited last year at the Parliament of Canada, can be viewed on Youtube, FLICKr,  MySpace, FaceBook and Twitter. The detailed events schedule and the links to the social media sites are available through www.refugeeweek.com.” ### If you would like more information about this topic or to schedule an interview contact Graham Thompson at 613-253-7007 or refugeeweek2010@gmail.com 

WORLD REFUGEE WEEK CELEBRATIONS
For Immediate Release | Contact Graham Thompson 
Email: refugeeweek2010@gmail.com
Web: www.refugeeweek.com

WORLD REFUGEE WEEK 2010, A FESTIVAL OF THEATRE, DANCE, MEDIA AND MUSIC - FREE ADMISSION

International NGOs and activists gather for a festival of theatre, dance, media and music from June 16-20 at Library and Archives Canada, 395 Wellington Street Ottawa. “Live performances start at 3PM daily within a theatrical backdrop of large scale portraits and video displays involving artists from Africa, Canada, Central Asia and the Americas,” says organizer Graham Thompson. “We have fashion from East Africa, folk music from Venezuela, belly dancing from Persia, spoken word from Darfur, revolutionary song writing from Guatemala, body painting from Sudan and feminist poetry from Afghanistan.” 

Mixed with the installation of film loops and colourful banners, the paintings of Hawa Kaba, Hamid Ayoub, Sherry Tompalski, Martin Mbesha and Victor Fuentes will set the stage for talks by Hy Shelow of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Dr. Adnan Turegun of the Centre for International Migration and Settlement Studies, Dr. Susan Walsh of USC Canada, Philip Landon of the World University Service of Canada, JP Melville of the Coalition of New Canadians for Arts and Culture, Jayne Stoyles of the Canadian Centre for International Justice and Dr. Hamdi Mohamed of the Ottawa Community Immigrant Services Organization.

As well, the multimedia event will feature readings by Dr. Monia Mazigh from her book Hope & Despair: My Struggle to Free My Husband, enactments by Sarah Mahoney from the classic drama Lemkin’s House, video testimonies by local refugees who have survived wars abroad and performances by lawyers of Peter Showler’s play Excluding Manuel. 

The 3-year old collaborative project, which was exhibited last year at the Parliament of Canada, can be viewed on Youtube, FLICKr,  MySpace, FaceBook and Twitter. The detailed events schedule and the links to the social media sites are available through www.refugeeweek.com.”

###

If you would like more information about this topic or to schedule an interview contact Graham Thompson at 613-253-7007 or refugeeweek2010@gmail.com 

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The Red Head Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition by   Margie Kelk  TITLE: Beyond Absurd  LOCATION: 401 Richmond St. West  Toronto, Canada M5V 3A8 416 504 5654 http://www.redheadgallery.org DATES OF EXHIBITION: May 26 - June 19 Opening Reception:  2-5pm, May 29, 2010 Beyond Absurd With Beyond Absurd, Margie Kelk has created a mixed media installation that looks at past and present communication set in the context of a world grappling with the disastrous effects of climate change.  Kelk’s exhibition incorporates drawings, light box paintings, and ceramic and plastic sculptures.  The artist juxtaposes the historical with the contemporary.  She presents Aztec deities who look down upon a world engorged with vast amounts of information technology, technological innovations, and their obsolete by-products.  Aztec deities and altars stand on one side of the gallery; a contemporary ’glass’ house, empty and foreboding, stands on the other.  Both appear to be deprived of human presence, but remnants of technological communication devices endure. www.margiekelk.com
The Red Head Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition by   Margie Kelk  TITLE: Beyond Absurd  LOCATION: 401 Richmond St. West  Toronto, Canada M5V 3A8 416 504 5654 http://www.redheadgallery.org DATES OF EXHIBITION: May 26 - June 19 Opening Reception:  2-5pm, May 29, 2010 Beyond Absurd With Beyond Absurd, Margie Kelk has created a mixed media installation that looks at past and present communication set in the context of a world grappling with the disastrous effects of climate change.  Kelk’s exhibition incorporates drawings, light box paintings, and ceramic and plastic sculptures.  The artist juxtaposes the historical with the contemporary.  She presents Aztec deities who look down upon a world engorged with vast amounts of information technology, technological innovations, and their obsolete by-products.  Aztec deities and altars stand on one side of the gallery; a contemporary ’glass’ house, empty and foreboding, stands on the other.  Both appear to be deprived of human presence, but remnants of technological communication devices endure. www.margiekelk.com

The Red Head Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition by  

Margie Kelk 

TITLE: Beyond Absurd 

LOCATION: 401 Richmond St. West 

Toronto, Canada M5V 3A8

416 504 5654

http://www.redheadgallery.org

DATES OF EXHIBITION: May 26 - June 19

Opening Reception:  2-5pm, May 29, 2010

Beyond Absurd

With Beyond Absurd, Margie Kelk has created a mixed media installation that looks at past and present communication set in the context of a world grappling with the disastrous effects of climate change.  Kelk’s exhibition incorporates drawings, light box paintings, and ceramic and plastic sculptures.  The artist juxtaposes the historical with the contemporary.  She presents Aztec deities who look down upon a world engorged with vast amounts of information technology, technological innovations, and their obsolete by-products.  Aztec deities and altars stand on one side of the gallery; a contemporary ’glass’ house, empty and foreboding, stands on the other.  Both appear to be deprived of human presence, but remnants of technological communication devices endure.

www.margiekelk.com

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Posted on Friday May 21st 2010 at 09:14am. It's tags are listed below.

THE COOPER UNION END OF YEAR SHOW  Students unveil pioneering work at architecture, art and engineering exhibition Opening night: Monday, May 24, 2010, 5–9 pm. With the 43rd annual End of Year Show, students at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art make the transition from the studios and classrooms to the gallery as they formally exhibit their works in the Foundation Building and 41 Cooper Square, the college’s state-of-the-art new academic building. The exhibition is free and open to the public. Irwin S. Chanin School of ArchitectureThrough June 26, 2010 Foundation Building, 7 East 7th St., b/w 3rd and 4th Aves. An exhibition of student works that explore the role of architecture in contemporary culture and society through conceptual and scaled drawings, detailed three dimensional models and digital renderings.  Proposals range from new projects in New York City to sites in Haiti, Israel, Iran and others. The Cooper Union End of Year Show has a rich tradition of showcasing projects by emerging architects that has helped launch the careers of such well-known alumni as Elizabeth Diller, Ricardo Scofidio, Shigeru Ban, Laurie Hawkinson, Diane Lewis, Stan Allen, Daniel Libeskind, Toshiko Mori and Rolf Ohlhausen.  The School of Art Through June 19, 2010Foundation Building, 7 East 7th St., b/w 3rd and 4th Aves. A display of compelling individual and collaborative projects, illustrating the school’s continuing role as an incubator of significant artists from historically influential artists such as Alex Katz and Lee Krasner to recent alumni including Leslie Hewitt, Piotr Uklanski and Matthew Monahan, to name a few. On multiple floors, a diverse array of sculpture, painting, graphic design and video installations will be on view in several gallery spaces Albert Nerken School of Engineering Through May 26, 2010 41 Cooper Square, 3rd Ave, b/w 6th and 7th Sts. An exciting variety of projects representing the different engineering disciplines ranging from a Formula 1 race car, battling robots, computer musical compositions, 3D printing, tissue engineering, stress distribution on a ballerina’s toe, electrical generating using waves and a steel bridge building. The installation in Cooper Union’s new academic building at 41 Cooper Square will showcase the inventive and important outcomes generated by the fields of mechanical, electrical, civil, and chemical engineering.   EXHIBITION HOURS:  Monday-Thursday 12 - 7 pm, Saturday 12 - 5 pm; Closed Fridays, Sundays and Memorial Day FOR MORE INFORMATION: Visit www.cooper.edu for a detailed schedule of events,Follow Cooper Union on Twitter at http://twitter.com/cooperunion. The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art is a distinguished private college of art, architecture and engineering founded in 1859 by Peter Cooper, an inventor, industrialist and philanthropist. Since its founding, all admitted students have received full-tuition scholarships.

THE COOPER UNION END OF YEAR SHOW
  Students unveil pioneering work at architecture, art and engineering exhibition

Opening night: Monday, May 24, 2010, 5–9 pm.

With the 43rd annual End of Year Show, students at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art make the transition from the studios and classrooms to the gallery as they formally exhibit their works in the Foundation Building and 41 Cooper Square, the college’s state-of-the-art new academic building. The exhibition is free and open to the public.

Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture
Through June 26, 2010 
Foundation Building, 7 East 7th St., b/w 3rd and 4th Aves.

An exhibition of student works that explore the role of architecture in contemporary culture and society through conceptual and scaled drawings, detailed three dimensional models and digital renderings.  Proposals range from new projects in New York City to sites in Haiti, Israel, Iran and others. The Cooper Union End of Year Show has a rich tradition of showcasing projects by emerging architects that has helped launch the careers of such well-known alumni as Elizabeth Diller, Ricardo Scofidio, Shigeru Ban, Laurie Hawkinson, Diane Lewis, Stan Allen, Daniel Libeskind, Toshiko Mori and Rolf Ohlhausen. 

The School of Art
Through June 19, 2010
Foundation Building, 7 East 7th St., b/w 3rd and 4th Aves.

A display of compelling individual and collaborative projects, illustrating the school’s continuing role as an incubator of significant artists from historically influential artists such as Alex Katz and Lee Krasner to recent alumni including Leslie Hewitt, Piotr Uklanski and Matthew Monahan, to name a few. On multiple floors, a diverse array of sculpture, painting, graphic design and video installations will be on view in several gallery spaces

Albert Nerken School of Engineering 
Through May 26, 2010 
41 Cooper Square, 3rd Ave, b/w 6th and 7th Sts.

An exciting variety of projects representing the different engineering disciplines ranging from a Formula 1 race car, battling robots, computer musical compositions, 3D printing, tissue engineering, stress distribution on a ballerina’s toe, electrical generating using waves and a steel bridge building. The installation in Cooper Union’s new academic building at 41 Cooper Square will showcase the inventive and important outcomes generated by the fields of mechanical, electrical, civil, and chemical engineering.  

EXHIBITION HOURS:  Monday-Thursday 12 - 7 pm, Saturday 12 - 5 pm; Closed Fridays, Sundays and Memorial Day

FOR MORE INFORMATION: Visit www.cooper.edu for a detailed schedule of events,
Follow Cooper Union on Twitter at http://twitter.com/cooperunion.

The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art is a distinguished private college of art, architecture and engineering founded in 1859 by Peter Cooper, an inventor, industrialist and philanthropist. Since its founding, all admitted students have received full-tuition scholarships.

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Posted on Monday May 17th 2010 at 02:50pm. It's tags are listed below.

SILVERMAN & GOLDMAN FRANCO FERRARI - http://www.flickr.com/drxero/EMI GARCIA - http://www.flickr.com/emiteodia/drawings, collages, video instalationW/ love and care of Claudia Reali __________________________________________________________________MusicROQUEFELLER - little beatmakerALTA JOYA - cooliado love LA ELECTRONICA EXPERIMENTAL SILVER&GOLD CLASH - futuristic dance squad__________________________________________________________________http://www.rayolazer.com.ar
SILVERMAN & GOLDMAN FRANCO FERRARI - http://www.flickr.com/drxero/EMI GARCIA - http://www.flickr.com/emiteodia/drawings, collages, video instalationW/ love and care of Claudia Reali __________________________________________________________________MusicROQUEFELLER - little beatmakerALTA JOYA - cooliado love LA ELECTRONICA EXPERIMENTAL SILVER&GOLD CLASH - futuristic dance squad__________________________________________________________________http://www.rayolazer.com.ar

SILVERMAN & GOLDMAN

FRANCO FERRARI - http://www.flickr.com/drxero/

EMI GARCIA - http://www.flickr.com/emiteodia/

drawings, collages, video instalation

W/ love and care of Claudia Reali

__________________________________________________________________
Music

ROQUEFELLER - little beatmaker

ALTA JOYA - cooliado love 

LA ELECTRONICA EXPERIMENTAL SILVER&GOLD CLASH - futuristic dance squad
__________________________________________________________________

http://www.rayolazer.com.ar

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Posted on Sunday May 16th 2010 at 03:24pm. It's tags are listed below.

SNOWBALL GALLERY& WORKSHOPMAY 2010 EVENTS Fuller Terrace Show and Tell Me Lecture Series:  The American DreamWith series coordinators Ella Tetrault & Bethany Riordan-ButterworthAlso featuring live musical performances by Seeing Other People, Kyle Peters, and Kira Sheppard.Sunday May 23, 7-10PM[FREE]Photo Silk Screen Printing WorkshopLed by Ari PottensSaturday May 29, 12-5PM w/ break for lunch[$40 materials fee]Limited to 8 participants, advanced registration required.Please call 416 456 4966 or email info@snowballgallery.com to register.Stillness & Motion featuring photographs by Nadia Cheema & Rob Davidson continues its run in the gallery until May 30.Looking ahead to July – the gallery will be putting on ABC: ANYTHING BUT CANVAS, a group painting show on any material other than canvas. The full call for submissions is posted here.  The deadline is May 30, 2010.SNOWBALL GALLERY & WORKSHOP1690 QUEEN STREET W.416 456 4966www.snowballgallery.comTHURSDAY & FRIDAY 1-7PMSATURDAY & SUNDAY 12-6PMOR BY APPOINTMENT
SNOWBALL GALLERY& WORKSHOPMAY 2010 EVENTS Fuller Terrace Show and Tell Me Lecture Series:  The American DreamWith series coordinators Ella Tetrault & Bethany Riordan-ButterworthAlso featuring live musical performances by Seeing Other People, Kyle Peters, and Kira Sheppard.Sunday May 23, 7-10PM[FREE]Photo Silk Screen Printing WorkshopLed by Ari PottensSaturday May 29, 12-5PM w/ break for lunch[$40 materials fee]Limited to 8 participants, advanced registration required.Please call 416 456 4966 or email info@snowballgallery.com to register.Stillness & Motion featuring photographs by Nadia Cheema & Rob Davidson continues its run in the gallery until May 30.Looking ahead to July – the gallery will be putting on ABC: ANYTHING BUT CANVAS, a group painting show on any material other than canvas. The full call for submissions is posted here.  The deadline is May 30, 2010.SNOWBALL GALLERY & WORKSHOP1690 QUEEN STREET W.416 456 4966www.snowballgallery.comTHURSDAY & FRIDAY 1-7PMSATURDAY & SUNDAY 12-6PMOR BY APPOINTMENT

SNOWBALL GALLERY& WORKSHOP
MAY 2010 EVENTS 
Fuller Terrace Show and Tell Me Lecture Series:  The American Dream
With series coordinators Ella Tetrault & Bethany Riordan-ButterworthAlso featuring live musical performances by Seeing Other People, Kyle Peters, and Kira Sheppard.
Sunday May 23, 7-10PM
[FREE]

Photo Silk Screen Printing Workshop
Led by Ari Pottens
Saturday May 29, 12-5PM w/ break for lunch
[$40 materials fee]
Limited to 8 participants, advanced registration required.Please call 416 456 4966 or email info@snowballgallery.com to register.
Stillness & Motion featuring photographs by Nadia Cheema & Rob Davidson continues its run in the gallery until May 30.
Looking ahead to July – the gallery will be putting on ABC: ANYTHING BUT CANVAS, a group painting show on any material other than canvas. The full call for submissions is posted here.  The deadline is May 30, 2010.
SNOWBALL GALLERY & WORKSHOP1690 QUEEN STREET W.416 456 4966www.snowballgallery.com
THURSDAY & FRIDAY 1-7PMSATURDAY & SUNDAY 12-6PMOR BY APPOINTMENT

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Posted on Saturday May 15th 2010 at 10:37am. It's tags are listed below.

Libby Hague & Rochelle Rubinstein @ loop, May 22 - June 13, 2010.  RECEPTION:  Sunday May 23, 2-4 pm.   Libby Hague                                                     Rochelle Rubinstein   SAFETY NET                                                     SHAFT  May 22 – June 13, 2010Reception: Sunday, May 23, 2010, 2-4 PM  Question & Answer Session: Sunday, June 6, 3pm  at  loop with Libby Hague and Rochelle Rubinstein. Moderated by Pat Macaulay,  Head, Visual Art, Harbourfront Centre, followed by Afternoon Tea at 402 College Street.   loop Gallery is pleased to announce exhibitions by loop members Libby Hague entitled SAFETY NET and Rochelle Rubinstein entitled SHAFT.    Pushing her ideas further, Libby Hague shows results from some of this year’s experiments which have shifted her painting and prints into sculptural hybrids. This exhibition features The trans-atlantic shift of the Elliott plaid, a deconstructed riff on Hague’s ancestral tartan with an interjected grove of birch trees, Safety net, and a selection of  landscape paintings including Shotgun marriage, Abracadabra - and it did  and Heaven does a backbend.    Libby Hague (Toronto, Ontario) is a visual artist who works primarily in print installation.  She is featured in the British book, Installations & Experimental Printmaking by Alexia Tala and won the 2009 Open Studio National Printmaking Award. She is represented in many public collections including the Donovan Collection at U of T.  www.libbyhague.com    Rochelle Rubinstein’s exhibition SHAFT expands upon Rubinstein’s interest in strong narrative themes conveyed within an abstract, formal language.  These larger wood panels, printed, painted and carved with subtle detail in a bold manner, depict the shaft as a pit, a conduit, passageway, a well, but also as a barb, a blow, a wound, a dig.  A series of columns, sheathed in printed, painted and quilted fabric and paper, serve as counterpoints to the wood panels. These are at once shafts as spears or staffs, or shafts of light, beams, radiance and darkness, life and death, etc.    Rochelle Rubinstein is a Toronto-based artist whose work has been exhibited in diverse venues worldwide and can be found in public collections such as the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin.  As a community arts facilitator, her workshops and projects with groups such as battered women are based upon methods that are central to her own artistic practice.   SAFETY NET and SHAFT will be exhibited concurrently with STILL LIFE ON EARTH, a collaborative installation by Libby Hague and Rochelle Rubinstein, at Mon Ton Window at 402 College Street.                                         Please join the artists in celebrating the opening reception on Sunday, May 23rd from 2-4 pm. Learn more about Libby Hague and Rochelle Rubinstein’s work during a Question & Answer Session at loop on Sunday, June 6th at 3pm. Moderated by Pat Macaulay, Head, Visual Art, Harbourfront Centre, followed by Afternoon Tea at 402 College Street.   Find out more on the loop blog www.loopgallery.blogspot.com
Libby Hague & Rochelle Rubinstein @ loop, May 22 - June 13, 2010.  RECEPTION:  Sunday May 23, 2-4 pm.   Libby Hague                                                     Rochelle Rubinstein   SAFETY NET                                                     SHAFT  May 22 – June 13, 2010Reception: Sunday, May 23, 2010, 2-4 PM  Question & Answer Session: Sunday, June 6, 3pm  at  loop with Libby Hague and Rochelle Rubinstein. Moderated by Pat Macaulay,  Head, Visual Art, Harbourfront Centre, followed by Afternoon Tea at 402 College Street.   loop Gallery is pleased to announce exhibitions by loop members Libby Hague entitled SAFETY NET and Rochelle Rubinstein entitled SHAFT.    Pushing her ideas further, Libby Hague shows results from some of this year’s experiments which have shifted her painting and prints into sculptural hybrids. This exhibition features The trans-atlantic shift of the Elliott plaid, a deconstructed riff on Hague’s ancestral tartan with an interjected grove of birch trees, Safety net, and a selection of  landscape paintings including Shotgun marriage, Abracadabra - and it did  and Heaven does a backbend.    Libby Hague (Toronto, Ontario) is a visual artist who works primarily in print installation.  She is featured in the British book, Installations & Experimental Printmaking by Alexia Tala and won the 2009 Open Studio National Printmaking Award. She is represented in many public collections including the Donovan Collection at U of T.  www.libbyhague.com    Rochelle Rubinstein’s exhibition SHAFT expands upon Rubinstein’s interest in strong narrative themes conveyed within an abstract, formal language.  These larger wood panels, printed, painted and carved with subtle detail in a bold manner, depict the shaft as a pit, a conduit, passageway, a well, but also as a barb, a blow, a wound, a dig.  A series of columns, sheathed in printed, painted and quilted fabric and paper, serve as counterpoints to the wood panels. These are at once shafts as spears or staffs, or shafts of light, beams, radiance and darkness, life and death, etc.    Rochelle Rubinstein is a Toronto-based artist whose work has been exhibited in diverse venues worldwide and can be found in public collections such as the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin.  As a community arts facilitator, her workshops and projects with groups such as battered women are based upon methods that are central to her own artistic practice.   SAFETY NET and SHAFT will be exhibited concurrently with STILL LIFE ON EARTH, a collaborative installation by Libby Hague and Rochelle Rubinstein, at Mon Ton Window at 402 College Street.                                         Please join the artists in celebrating the opening reception on Sunday, May 23rd from 2-4 pm. Learn more about Libby Hague and Rochelle Rubinstein’s work during a Question & Answer Session at loop on Sunday, June 6th at 3pm. Moderated by Pat Macaulay, Head, Visual Art, Harbourfront Centre, followed by Afternoon Tea at 402 College Street.   Find out more on the loop blog www.loopgallery.blogspot.com

Libby Hague & Rochelle Rubinstein @ loop, May 22 - June 13, 2010. 

RECEPTION:  Sunday May 23, 2-4 pm.

 

Libby Hague                                                     Rochelle Rubinstein  
SAFETY NET                                                     SHAFT

 May 22 – June 13, 2010
Reception: Sunday, May 23, 2010, 2-4 PM

 Question & Answer Session: Sunday, June 6, 3pm

 at  loop with Libby Hague and Rochelle Rubinstein. Moderated by Pat Macaulay,

 Head, Visual Art, Harbourfront Centre, followed by Afternoon Tea at 402 College Street.

 

loop Gallery is pleased to announce exhibitions by loop members Libby Hague entitled SAFETY NET and Rochelle Rubinstein entitled SHAFT.

 

 Pushing her ideas further, Libby Hague shows results from some of this year’s experiments which have shifted her painting and prints into sculptural hybrids. This exhibition features The trans-atlantic shift of the Elliott plaid, a deconstructed riff on Hague’s ancestral tartan with an interjected grove of birch trees, Safety net, and a selection of  landscape paintings including Shotgun marriage, Abracadabra - and it did  and Heaven does a backbend. 

 

Libby Hague (Toronto, Ontario) is a visual artist who works primarily in print installation.  She is featured in the British book, Installations & Experimental Printmaking by Alexia Tala and won the 2009 Open Studio National Printmaking Award. She is represented in many public collections including the Donovan Collection at U of T.  www.libbyhague.com

 

 Rochelle Rubinstein’s exhibition SHAFT expands upon Rubinstein’s interest in strong narrative themes conveyed within an abstract, formal language.  These larger wood panels, printed, painted and carved with subtle detail in a bold manner, depict the shaft as a pit, a conduit, passageway, a well, but also as a barb, a blow, a wound, a dig.  A series of columns, sheathed in printed, painted and quilted fabric and paper, serve as counterpoints to the wood panels. These are at once shafts as spears or staffs, or shafts of light, beams, radiance and darkness, life and death, etc.

 

 Rochelle Rubinstein is a Toronto-based artist whose work has been exhibited in diverse venues worldwide and can be found in public collections such as the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin.  As a community arts facilitator, her workshops and projects with groups such as battered women are based upon methods that are central to her own artistic practice.

 

SAFETY NET and SHAFT will be exhibited concurrently with STILL LIFE ON EARTH, a collaborative installation by Libby Hague and Rochelle Rubinstein, at Mon Ton Window at 402 College Street. 

                                      

Please join the artists in celebrating the opening reception on Sunday, May 23rd from 2-4 pm.

Learn more about Libby Hague and Rochelle Rubinstein’s work during a Question & Answer Session at loop on Sunday, June 6th at 3pm. Moderated by Pat Macaulay, Head, Visual Art, Harbourfront Centre, followed by Afternoon Tea at 402 College Street. 
 
Find out more on the loop blog www.loopgallery.blogspot.com

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Posted on Thursday May 6th 2010 at 12:37am. It's tags are listed below.

Double Solo Exhibition Opportunity: Call to Artists + Designers   **submission receive deadline is June 3, 2010**   The BECA Foundation is pleased to present the following double solo exhibition opportunity to two artists, designers, duos, groups or collectives to exhibit new works of art or design at BECA ICAD (International Center for Art + Design) located at 527 St. Joseph Street, New Orleans, LA 70130, USA. This Call to Artists and Designers will remain open through June 3, 2010. Artists + designers at least 18 years of age from all countries are encouraged to submit their works for consideration according to the guidelines below. Two artists, designers, duos, groups or collectives will be selected by BECA Foundation directors + advisors to receive the double solo exhibition opportunity from July 3 – 31, 2010. Each of those two selected will be allocated either the front or rear gallery space for the exhibition of their work. Submitted works are not required to conform to any particular medium, style, theme or concept. Accepted works and mediums include but are not limited to: site-specific installations, painting, sculpture, mixed-media, drawing, printmaking, fiber, textiles, illustration, digital art, photography, video/new media, film, performance art, music and sound focused works, 3D animation, graphic design, product design, furniture design, haute couture fashion + accessories, architectural interventions/designs and functional art, etc.  In other words, all creative culminations are welcome.   With a growing international BECA network now approaching 30,000, it is more important than ever for BECA to ensure that in addition to hosting the physical exhibition at BECA ICAD, the exhibition also be made available online at www.BECAICAD.org for those who are unable to attend in person. A special edition e-publication covering the exhibition will be distributed to over 19,000 journalists, writers, curators, collectors, gallery and studio directors in the US and abroad.   BECA is an acronym for Bridge for Emerging Contemporary Art and the core belief system at The BECA Foundation is that “New art + new design fuels the best of what’s yet to come on this planet.” Some of you may know that The BECA Foundation is in the early development phase of BECA ICAD (International Center for Art + Design), the world’s first large scale exhibition facility dedicated to the exhibition of works by both emerging artists AND emerging designers.  In the meantime, exhibitions will continue to be held at the current exhibition space located at 527 St. Joseph Street, New Orleans, LA across from the Contemporary Arts Center where exhibitions have been held since January 2008. Gallery photos may be viewed at: http://www.becaicad.org/photos.php  Complete submission information may be downloaded from http://www.becaicad.org/artist-designer-solo-exhibition-opportunity.php

Double Solo Exhibition Opportunity: Call to Artists + Designers

 

**submission receive deadline is June 3, 2010**

 

The BECA Foundation is pleased to present the following double solo exhibition opportunity to two artists, designers, duos, groups or collectives to exhibit new works of art or design at BECA ICAD (International Center for Art + Design) located at 527 St. Joseph Street, New Orleans, LA 70130, USA. This Call to Artists and Designers will remain open through June 3, 2010. Artists + designers at least 18 years of age from all countries are encouraged to submit their works for consideration according to the guidelines below. Two artists, designers, duos, groups or collectives will be selected by BECA Foundation directors + advisors to receive the double solo exhibition opportunity from July 3 – 31, 2010. Each of those two selected will be allocated either the front or rear gallery space for the exhibition of their work. Submitted works are not required to conform to any particular medium, style, theme or concept. Accepted works and mediums include but are not limited to: site-specific installations, painting, sculpture, mixed-media, drawing, printmaking, fiber, textiles, illustration, digital art, photography, video/new media, film, performance art, music and sound focused works, 3D animation, graphic design, product design, furniture design, haute couture fashion + accessories, architectural interventions/designs and functional art, etc.  In other words, all creative culminations are welcome.

 

With a growing international BECA network now approaching 30,000, it is more important than ever for BECA to ensure that in addition to hosting the physical exhibition at BECA ICAD, the exhibition also be made available online at www.BECAICAD.org for those who are unable to attend in person. A special edition e-publication covering the exhibition will be distributed to over 19,000 journalists, writers, curators, collectors, gallery and studio directors in the US and abroad.

 

BECA is an acronym for Bridge for Emerging Contemporary Art and the core belief system at The BECA Foundation is that “New art + new design fuels the best of what’s yet to come on this planet.” Some of you may know that The BECA Foundation is in the early development phase of BECA ICAD (International Center for Art + Design), the world’s first large scale exhibition facility dedicated to the exhibition of works by both emerging artists AND emerging designers.  In the meantime, exhibitions will continue to be held at the current exhibition space located at 527 St. Joseph Street, New Orleans, LA across from the Contemporary Arts Center where exhibitions have been held since January 2008. Gallery photos may be viewed at: http://www.becaicad.org/photos.php  Complete submission information may be downloaded from http://www.becaicad.org/artist-designer-solo-exhibition-opportunity.php

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Posted on Monday April 26th 2010 at 09:15am. It's tags are listed below.

IN DIALOGUE EXHIBITION   West Harlem, NY …. The West Harlem Art Fund, Inc. and the City College of New York is hosting a daring exhibition in historic St. Nicholas Park — bringing contemporary art installations by new artists that mix history, community and landscape together for residents and New Yorkers alike this June.   As apart of a studio last fall, artists Scherezade Garcia, Brett Seamans, and Marcie Revens were chosen to participate in the exhibition “In Dialogue”.  Historic St. Nicholas Park which slopes below the neo-gothic campus of City College was designed by George Browne Post and overlooks both West and Central Harlem. The college’s motto: Respice, Adspice, Prospice (Look back, look at, and look ahead) suits this exhibition especially well. For decades, there has been little communication between the college and its West Harlem neighbors. But like a sleeping giant in a fairy tale, the college was awaken by the idea of a collaboration that could bridge new attitudes, forge bold artistic expressions and an understanding of the past.   The MFA program at The City College provides an opportunity for students to study studio art in the heart of the art world — New York City. City College insures an intensive professional experience and affords students the opportunity to follow their creative vision in a collaborative environment. The MFA Program offers instruction in the theory, practice, and teaching of the visual arts through a required sequence of courses as well as in-depth training in one or more of the following areas of specialization: drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture, or ceramic design.   The West Harlem Art Fund, Inc. is a twelve year old, cultural arts and preservation organization. WHAF offers exhibition opportunities for artists and creative professionals wishing to share their talent with residents in Northern Manhattan and around the city. The West Harlem Art Fund, Inc. showcases art and culture in open, public spaces to add aesthetic interest to our part of the city; promote historical and cultural heritage; and support community involvement in local development. The organization’s African symbol is the double crocodile from West Africa. Funtunmmireku-Denkyemmirreku means unity in diversity.
IN DIALOGUE EXHIBITION   West Harlem, NY …. The West Harlem Art Fund, Inc. and the City College of New York is hosting a daring exhibition in historic St. Nicholas Park — bringing contemporary art installations by new artists that mix history, community and landscape together for residents and New Yorkers alike this June.   As apart of a studio last fall, artists Scherezade Garcia, Brett Seamans, and Marcie Revens were chosen to participate in the exhibition “In Dialogue”.  Historic St. Nicholas Park which slopes below the neo-gothic campus of City College was designed by George Browne Post and overlooks both West and Central Harlem. The college’s motto: Respice, Adspice, Prospice (Look back, look at, and look ahead) suits this exhibition especially well. For decades, there has been little communication between the college and its West Harlem neighbors. But like a sleeping giant in a fairy tale, the college was awaken by the idea of a collaboration that could bridge new attitudes, forge bold artistic expressions and an understanding of the past.   The MFA program at The City College provides an opportunity for students to study studio art in the heart of the art world — New York City. City College insures an intensive professional experience and affords students the opportunity to follow their creative vision in a collaborative environment. The MFA Program offers instruction in the theory, practice, and teaching of the visual arts through a required sequence of courses as well as in-depth training in one or more of the following areas of specialization: drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture, or ceramic design.   The West Harlem Art Fund, Inc. is a twelve year old, cultural arts and preservation organization. WHAF offers exhibition opportunities for artists and creative professionals wishing to share their talent with residents in Northern Manhattan and around the city. The West Harlem Art Fund, Inc. showcases art and culture in open, public spaces to add aesthetic interest to our part of the city; promote historical and cultural heritage; and support community involvement in local development. The organization’s African symbol is the double crocodile from West Africa. Funtunmmireku-Denkyemmirreku means unity in diversity.

IN DIALOGUE EXHIBITION

 

West Harlem, NY …. The West Harlem Art Fund, Inc. and the City College of New York is hosting a daring exhibition in historic St. Nicholas Park — bringing contemporary art installations by new artists that mix history, community and landscape together for residents and New Yorkers alike this June.

 

As apart of a studio last fall, artists Scherezade Garcia, Brett Seamans, and Marcie Revens were chosen to participate in the exhibition “In Dialogue”.  Historic St. Nicholas Park which slopes below the neo-gothic campus of City College was designed by George Browne Post and overlooks both West and Central Harlem.

The college’s motto: Respice, Adspice, Prospice (Look back, look at, and look ahead) suits this exhibition especially well. For decades, there has been little communication between the college and its West Harlem neighbors. But like a sleeping giant in a fairy tale, the college was awaken by the idea of a collaboration that could bridge new attitudes, forge bold artistic expressions and an understanding of the past.

 

The MFA program at The City College provides an opportunity for students to study studio art in the heart of the art world — New York City. City College insures an intensive professional experience and affords students the opportunity to follow their creative vision in a collaborative environment. The MFA Program offers instruction in the theory, practice, and teaching of the visual arts through a required sequence of courses as well as in-depth training in one or more of the following areas of specialization: drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture, or ceramic design.

 

The West Harlem Art Fund, Inc. is a twelve year old, cultural arts and preservation organization. WHAF offers exhibition opportunities for artists and creative professionals wishing to share their talent with residents in Northern Manhattan and around the city. The West Harlem Art Fund, Inc. showcases art and culture in open, public spaces to add aesthetic interest to our part of the city; promote historical and cultural heritage; and support community involvement in local development. The organization’s African symbol is the double crocodile from West Africa. Funtunmmireku-Denkyemmirreku means unity in diversity.

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Posted on Friday April 23rd 2010 at 10:51am. It's tags are listed below.

May 1 - May 29, 2010. Lebanese-American artist Nabil Nahas, whose work has been exhibited all over the world, brings his striking, large-scale works—including a few new pieces—to FIAF’s Gallery. Nahas’s pieces reflect both western modernism and classic Islamic art, and explore the concept of order emerging from disorder through vibrant color, texture, patterns, and abstract images. Inspired by the beauty of nature and the rich complexity of Middle Eastern culture, Nahas uses natural elements such as trees—in particular the cedar, symbolizing Lebanon—to present his personal vision of his homeland. Gallery Hours Tue–Fri, 11am–6pm Sat, 11am–5pm Sun & Mon, closed Free and open to the public  World Nomads, FIAF’s annual exploration of transculturalism in the 21st century, is intended as a forum for dialogue between cultures. It returns this May for its third edition to focus on Lebanon, a country whose rich heritage has long captivated imaginations around the world. For a complete listing of the series’ events, please visit: http://www.fiaf.org/events/spring2010/2010-05-world-nomads-lebanon.shtml
May 1 - May 29, 2010. Lebanese-American artist Nabil Nahas, whose work has been exhibited all over the world, brings his striking, large-scale works—including a few new pieces—to FIAF’s Gallery. Nahas’s pieces reflect both western modernism and classic Islamic art, and explore the concept of order emerging from disorder through vibrant color, texture, patterns, and abstract images. Inspired by the beauty of nature and the rich complexity of Middle Eastern culture, Nahas uses natural elements such as trees—in particular the cedar, symbolizing Lebanon—to present his personal vision of his homeland. Gallery Hours Tue–Fri, 11am–6pm Sat, 11am–5pm Sun & Mon, closed Free and open to the public  World Nomads, FIAF’s annual exploration of transculturalism in the 21st century, is intended as a forum for dialogue between cultures. It returns this May for its third edition to focus on Lebanon, a country whose rich heritage has long captivated imaginations around the world. For a complete listing of the series’ events, please visit: http://www.fiaf.org/events/spring2010/2010-05-world-nomads-lebanon.shtml

May 1 - May 29, 2010.

Lebanese-American artist Nabil Nahas, whose work has been exhibited all over the world, brings his striking, large-scale works—including a few new pieces—to FIAF’s Gallery.

Nahas’s pieces reflect both western modernism and classic Islamic art, and explore the concept of order emerging from disorder through vibrant color, texture, patterns, and abstract images. Inspired by the beauty of nature and the rich complexity of Middle Eastern culture, Nahas uses natural elements such as trees—in particular the cedar, symbolizing Lebanon—to present his personal vision of his homeland.

Gallery Hours
Tue–Fri, 11am–6pm
Sat, 11am–5pm
Sun & Mon, closed

Free and open to the public 

World Nomads, FIAF’s annual exploration of transculturalism in the 21st century, is intended as a forum for dialogue between cultures. It returns this May for its third edition to focus on Lebanon, a country whose rich heritage has long captivated imaginations around the world.

For a complete listing of the series’ events, please visit:

http://www.fiaf.org/events/spring2010/2010-05-world-nomads-lebanon.shtml

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Posted on Saturday April 17th 2010 at 11:55am. It's tags are listed below.

Lanny Shereck  In Between                                                                                Yvonne Singer Gone Missing April 22 – May 16, 2010Reception: Thursday, April 22, 2010, 6-8 PM  Yvonne Singer will be present Saturday, April 24, 2-5 PM Question & Answer Session: Saturday, May 8, 3pm. loop Gallery is pleased to announce exhibitions by loop members Lanny Shereck entitled In Between and Yvonne Singer entitled Gone Missing. Lanny Shereck’s In Between is a new series started as a search for in between spaces where people don’t tend to look.  These spaces revealed a hidden world of garages, gardens, coach houses, fences and the flotsam of domestic life.  Some of Shereck’s early work dealt with the theme of documenting individuals as they went about their business on the streets of Toronto; this new work is also a bit intrusive and odd. Shereck walks close to private homes, and takes pictures of these less public spaces; often experiencing the same discomfort he did when taking people’s photographs on the street without permission.   Lanny Shereck is an artist and art teacher working in acrylic and oil paint and photographic collage to create images of urban life.  Shereck has been a member of Loop for 3 years and is represented by The Fran Hill Gallery in Toronto. Shereck has been an art educator for 30 years.   Yvonne Singer’s exhibition Gone Missing is an installation consisting of 2 elements; a series of neon sentences and a video travelogue with images from Paris, Venice, Berlin and London.   Through a series of sentence fragments produced in neon, and the flashing images of travel, Gone Missing suggests narratives of memory, loss and longing. The words produced in neon and the impressionistic wordless images of travel express the ephemeral and fragmented nature of memory. They allude to clues to an unrevealed mystery about personal identity. The use of neon to represent conversational language reflects Singer’s interest in language and subjectivity.  There is an inherent tension between the iconic postcard travel images, the familiarity of the neon sign as the language of advertising and the private thoughts suggested in Gone Missing.   Yvonne Singer is a practicing artist with an active national and international exhibition record.  Professor Singer is tenured faculty in the Department of Visual Arts, York University and was Graduate Program Director in Visual Arts from 2003-2009. She is currently on sabbatical.   Please join the artists in celebrating the opening reception on Thursday, April 22nd from 2-5 pm.  Yvonne Singer will be present on Saturday, April 24th from 2 – 5 pm.   Lanny Shereck and Yvonne Singer will speak about their work in a Question and Answer Session on Saturday, May 8th at 3pm.
Lanny Shereck  In Between                                                                                Yvonne Singer Gone Missing April 22 – May 16, 2010Reception: Thursday, April 22, 2010, 6-8 PM  Yvonne Singer will be present Saturday, April 24, 2-5 PM Question & Answer Session: Saturday, May 8, 3pm. loop Gallery is pleased to announce exhibitions by loop members Lanny Shereck entitled In Between and Yvonne Singer entitled Gone Missing. Lanny Shereck’s In Between is a new series started as a search for in between spaces where people don’t tend to look.  These spaces revealed a hidden world of garages, gardens, coach houses, fences and the flotsam of domestic life.  Some of Shereck’s early work dealt with the theme of documenting individuals as they went about their business on the streets of Toronto; this new work is also a bit intrusive and odd. Shereck walks close to private homes, and takes pictures of these less public spaces; often experiencing the same discomfort he did when taking people’s photographs on the street without permission.   Lanny Shereck is an artist and art teacher working in acrylic and oil paint and photographic collage to create images of urban life.  Shereck has been a member of Loop for 3 years and is represented by The Fran Hill Gallery in Toronto. Shereck has been an art educator for 30 years.   Yvonne Singer’s exhibition Gone Missing is an installation consisting of 2 elements; a series of neon sentences and a video travelogue with images from Paris, Venice, Berlin and London.   Through a series of sentence fragments produced in neon, and the flashing images of travel, Gone Missing suggests narratives of memory, loss and longing. The words produced in neon and the impressionistic wordless images of travel express the ephemeral and fragmented nature of memory. They allude to clues to an unrevealed mystery about personal identity. The use of neon to represent conversational language reflects Singer’s interest in language and subjectivity.  There is an inherent tension between the iconic postcard travel images, the familiarity of the neon sign as the language of advertising and the private thoughts suggested in Gone Missing.   Yvonne Singer is a practicing artist with an active national and international exhibition record.  Professor Singer is tenured faculty in the Department of Visual Arts, York University and was Graduate Program Director in Visual Arts from 2003-2009. She is currently on sabbatical.   Please join the artists in celebrating the opening reception on Thursday, April 22nd from 2-5 pm.  Yvonne Singer will be present on Saturday, April 24th from 2 – 5 pm.   Lanny Shereck and Yvonne Singer will speak about their work in a Question and Answer Session on Saturday, May 8th at 3pm.

Lanny Shereck  In Between                                                                               

Yvonne Singer Gone Missing

April 22 – May 16, 2010
Reception: Thursday, April 22, 2010, 6-8 PM  Yvonne Singer will be present Saturday, April 24, 2-5 PM

Question & Answer Session: Saturday, May 8, 3pm.

loop Gallery is pleased to announce exhibitions by loop members Lanny Shereck entitled In Between and Yvonne Singer entitled Gone Missing.


Lanny Shereck’s In Between is a new series started as a search for in between spaces where people don’t tend to look.  These spaces revealed a hidden world of garages, gardens, coach houses, fences and the flotsam of domestic life.  Some of Shereck’s early work dealt with the theme of documenting individuals as they went about their business on the streets of Toronto; this new work is also a bit intrusive and odd. Shereck walks close to private homes, and takes pictures of these less public spaces; often experiencing the same discomfort he did when taking people’s photographs on the street without permission.

 

Lanny Shereck is an artist and art teacher working in acrylic and oil paint and photographic collage to create images of urban life.  Shereck has been a member of Loop for 3 years and is represented by The Fran Hill Gallery in Toronto. Shereck has been an art educator for 30 years.

 

Yvonne Singer’s exhibition Gone Missing is an installation consisting of 2 elements; a series of neon sentences and a video travelogue with images from Paris, Venice, Berlin and London.

 

Through a series of sentence fragments produced in neon, and the flashing images of travel, Gone Missing suggests narratives of memory, loss and longing. The words produced in neon and the impressionistic wordless images of travel express the ephemeral and fragmented nature of memory. They allude to clues to an unrevealed mystery about personal identity. The use of neon to represent conversational language reflects Singer’s interest in language and subjectivity.  There is an inherent tension between the iconic postcard travel images, the familiarity of the neon sign as the language of advertising and the private thoughts suggested in Gone Missing.

 

Yvonne Singer is a practicing artist with an active national and international exhibition record.  Professor Singer is tenured faculty in the Department of Visual Arts, York University and was Graduate Program Director in Visual Arts from 2003-2009. She is currently on sabbatical.

 

Please join the artists in celebrating the opening reception on Thursday, April 22nd from 2-5 pm.  Yvonne Singer will be present on Saturday, April 24th from 2 – 5 pm.   Lanny Shereck and Yvonne Singer will speak about their work in a Question and Answer Session on Saturday, May 8th at 3pm.

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Posted on Tuesday March 23rd 2010 at 08:09pm. It's tags are listed below.

SNOWBALL GALLERY & WORKSHOP FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TORONTO [March 23, 2010]  PERSPECTIVE – featuring mixed media installations by Lubo Brezina with Scott Eunson, Shlomi Greenspan, Edward Lin & Kira Varvanina, and James Swain is on now at Snowball Gallery & Workshop.  The exhibition will run through Sunday, April 4 2010.   PERSPECTIVE derives its theme from the concept of perspective as a physical and mathematical construction, and/or a conceptual or perceptual experience.  Perspective organizes space using geometric principles, it projects three-dimensional space on a two-dimensional surface, and acts as a lens in which to view the world.  Perspective is usually gained through vision, as a view point, but it can also be engaged by subtle shifts in movement and deliberate actions that have the potential to render new perspectives.  Constructed out of maple and elm salvaged from a barn demolition and meticulously crafted using mortise and tenon joinery, Shrine Dedicated to the Memory of Demolished Barns and Fallen Trees [2010] sees Lubo Brezina in collaboration with Scott Eunson, address PERSPECTIVE in both physical and metaphysical space.  Shrine is a structural system, an example of the flexibility and scalability of this traditional building technique.  It draws the viewer into its space and focuses perspective on an invisible vanishing point. James Swain’s Untitled (Triptych) [2010] draws perspective from history.  Portraits of Charles Baudelaire, R. Buckminster Fuller, and Austin Osman Spare are layered with alchemical symbols meant to shed light on the magical nature of their contributions to, poetry, architecture and art, respectively.  The collages are inspired by the sigils of Spare who developed idiosyncratic magical techniques based on his theories of the relationship between the conscious and unconscious self.               Installed at street level, in the front window of the gallery, Edward Lin & Kira Varvanina’s A Piece of the Pi [2010] acts as a filter for deconstructing perception.  Paper tubes varying in diameter are stacked horizontally and at varying depths to interrupt and distort the peripheral view of the observer. The resulting pixelation creates a broken perspective and invites viewers to interact with the piece to see images beyond.  Shlomi Greenspan’s 561 Ephemeral Moments [2010] merges cinematic convention and the painted object to explore the perpetual cycle of destruction and recovery in financial markets.   Employing a car race as an equivalent representation for the movement of stock indices, Greenspan’s installation animates painting by tracing the additions and subtractions of marks made in the creation process.  The work as a totality is thereby able to contrast ephemeral and corporeal perspectives. Snowball Gallery & Workshop is located in Toronto’s Parkdale neighbourhood at 1690 Queen Street West.  The gallery is open Thursday & Friday from 1-7PM and Saturday & Sunday from 12-6PM.  More information about gallery programming and events can be found at www.snowballgallery.com or by calling 416.456.4966.

SNOWBALL GALLERY

& WORKSHOP

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

TORONTO [March 23, 2010]  PERSPECTIVE – featuring mixed media installations by Lubo Brezina with Scott Eunson, Shlomi Greenspan, Edward Lin & Kira Varvanina, and James Swain is on now at Snowball Gallery & Workshop.  The exhibition will run through Sunday, April 4 2010.  

PERSPECTIVE derives its theme from the concept of perspective as a physical and mathematical construction, and/or a conceptual or perceptual experience.  Perspective organizes space using geometric principles, it projects three-dimensional space on a two-dimensional surface, and acts as a lens in which to view the world.  Perspective is usually gained through vision, as a view point, but it can also be engaged by subtle shifts in movement and deliberate actions that have the potential to render new perspectives. 

Constructed out of maple and elm salvaged from a barn demolition and meticulously crafted using mortise and tenon joinery, Shrine Dedicated to the Memory of Demolished Barns and Fallen Trees [2010] sees Lubo Brezina in collaboration with Scott Eunson, address PERSPECTIVE in both physical and metaphysical space.  Shrine is a structural system, an example of the flexibility and scalability of this traditional building technique.  It draws the viewer into its space and focuses perspective on an invisible vanishing point.

James Swain’s Untitled (Triptych) [2010] draws perspective from history.  Portraits of Charles Baudelaire, R. Buckminster Fuller, and Austin Osman Spare are layered with alchemical symbols meant to shed light on the magical nature of their contributions to, poetry, architecture and art, respectively.  The collages are inspired by the sigils of Spare who developed idiosyncratic magical techniques based on his theories of the relationship between the conscious and unconscious self.              

Installed at street level, in the front window of the gallery, Edward Lin & Kira Varvanina’s A Piece of the Pi [2010] acts as a filter for deconstructing perception.  Paper tubes varying in diameter are stacked horizontally and at varying depths to interrupt and distort the peripheral view of the observer. The resulting pixelation creates a broken perspective and invites viewers to interact with the piece to see images beyond. 

Shlomi Greenspan’s 561 Ephemeral Moments [2010] merges cinematic convention and the painted object to explore the perpetual cycle of destruction and recovery in financial markets.   Employing a car race as an equivalent representation for the movement of stock indices, Greenspan’s installation animates painting by tracing the additions and subtractions of marks made in the creation process.  The work as a totality is thereby able to contrast ephemeral and corporeal perspectives.

Snowball Gallery & Workshop is located in Toronto’s Parkdale neighbourhood at 1690 Queen Street West.  The gallery is open Thursday & Friday from 1-7PM and Saturday & Sunday from 12-6PM.  More information about gallery programming and events can be found at www.snowballgallery.com or by calling 416.456.4966.

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Posted on Thursday March 18th 2010 at 10:35am. It's tags are listed below.

Now open in Venice the long-awaited exhibition of the 195 finalists of the 4th International Prize Arte Laguna, which this year has established itself as a new benchmark for contemporary art around the world, thanks to the extraordinary quality of work received with an eye towards emerging art. During the gala evening of the 6th  March, there was a significant participation of guests from the arts and culture but also public, in wich were awarded the winner of the three categories , Painting, Sculpture and art photography and communicated the winners of special prizes linked to the international exhibition circuit 21 galleries and art spaces, moreover it was also communicated winner of the Prize “Business for Art” Tenuta S. Anna.The works of the 180 finalists, selected from over 5,500 artists entered, are displayed in the huge and fascinating location of Tese di San Cristoforo of the Venice Arsenale up to 27 March 2010, an important setting was designed to enhance more than 3,000 square meters of industrial heritage, thanks to clever use of lighting and photographic style. At the same time, the selection of the 15 best artists under 25 is exhibited at the Romanian Institute of Culture and Humanistic Research in Venice, located in the historic Palazzo Correr in Campo Santa Fosca, a splendid example of Venetian architecture of the fifteenth century.
Now open in Venice the long-awaited exhibition of the 195 finalists of the 4th International Prize Arte Laguna, which this year has established itself as a new benchmark for contemporary art around the world, thanks to the extraordinary quality of work received with an eye towards emerging art. During the gala evening of the 6th  March, there was a significant participation of guests from the arts and culture but also public, in wich were awarded the winner of the three categories , Painting, Sculpture and art photography and communicated the winners of special prizes linked to the international exhibition circuit 21 galleries and art spaces, moreover it was also communicated winner of the Prize “Business for Art” Tenuta S. Anna.The works of the 180 finalists, selected from over 5,500 artists entered, are displayed in the huge and fascinating location of Tese di San Cristoforo of the Venice Arsenale up to 27 March 2010, an important setting was designed to enhance more than 3,000 square meters of industrial heritage, thanks to clever use of lighting and photographic style. At the same time, the selection of the 15 best artists under 25 is exhibited at the Romanian Institute of Culture and Humanistic Research in Venice, located in the historic Palazzo Correr in Campo Santa Fosca, a splendid example of Venetian architecture of the fifteenth century.

Now open in Venice the long-awaited exhibition of the 195 finalists of the 4th International Prize Arte Laguna, which this year has established itself as a new benchmark for contemporary art around the world, thanks to the extraordinary quality of work received with an eye towards emerging art.

During the gala evening of the 6th  March, there was a significant participation of guests from the arts and culture but also public, in wich were awarded the winner of the three categories , Painting, Sculpture and art photography and communicated the winners of special prizes linked to the international exhibition circuit 21 galleries and art spaces, moreover it was also communicated winner of the Prize “Business for Art” Tenuta S. Anna.
The works of the 180 finalists, selected from over 5,500 artists entered, are displayed in the huge and fascinating location of Tese di San Cristoforo of the Venice Arsenale up to 27 March 2010, an important setting was designed to enhance more than 3,000 square meters of industrial heritage, thanks to clever use of lighting and photographic style.

At the same time, the selection of the 15 best artists under 25 is exhibited at the Romanian Institute of Culture and Humanistic Research in Venice, located in the historic Palazzo Correr in Campo Santa Fosca, a splendid example of Venetian architecture of the fifteenth century.

Orphans Offered Up

Posted on Friday January 29th 2010 at 06:53pm. It's tags are listed below.

Orphans Offered Up

February 4-March 6,

547 W. 27th St, 5th Floor (suite 500)

Hrs: 1-6 pm

NY, NY 10001

Opening  Feb. 4  6-8 pm  

 What will you offer? 

 Participation Installation Project

“But, art as a practical precedent is forever young and physically here with us. Works of art, as theoretical constructs, hold their place in a field of knowledge. As historical artifacts, they speak of ancestry and parental origins. As practical precedents, works of art are orphans, ready to be adopted, nurtured and groomed to the needs to any astonishing new circumstances.”—Dave Hickey,  “Orphans,”  Art in America, January 2009

Orphans Offered Up is participation installation in a space that was formerly an art gallery that is now empty.  

Orphans that I’m offering up are a series of conceptual oil paintings that are very small, 4” x 4”, and intimate.  They are fragments that appear to be abstractions. They are offered up in several different ways.

Offer  is defined as: act of worship or devotion: sacrifice; to present for acceptance or rejection; to propose or suggest; to try or begin to resist; to threaten; to make available; to present in performance or exhibition; to propose as payment; to make an attempt; to present itself; to make a proposal.

        What will you offer me?  Offers will be document accepted.  Some will be accepted.  Suggestions:  Stocks, bonds, a house, another painting, a manuscript, or something else?  Something that is much less tangible?   What are you willing to sacrifice?  If you insistent on money, then the price will be determined by random walk, and that  price will be  a number between one and five hundred,  that will be generated randomly by RANDOM.ORG, Trinity College.  They provide a “random number service that generates randomness via atmospheric noise.”

          The inspirational sources for the paintings are the invisible engraving marks found in old postage stamps that belonged to my late father.  These painting were first started in 2002. They are not studies. They are not miniatures. They are finished paintings. I have completed more than fifty. 

        Or simply suggest a name. Come by and post it during the exhibition.   Names maybe also submitted by email. Peter Selz has already done just that.

I would like to thank the Pinetree Group for the offer of the space for this project.

Holly Crawford, NYC 2010  

h.c@earthlink.net 

www.art-poetry.info

The Inexpressible

Posted on Thursday January 28th 2010 at 09:43pm. It's tags are listed below.

The Inexpressible

OCCCA, Orange  County Center for Contemporary Art presents

The Inexpressible

Artists: Dalibor Polivka, Rob Mintz, Guillemette Buffault, Chau Thuy

April 3- May 1, 2010
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 3-2010, 5:00-11:00PM

at Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, 117 North Sycamore, Santa Ana, CA 92701
; 714.667.1517, www.occca.org

Inexpressible is an exhibition of works by the important French contemporary artist Guillemette Buffault, orchestrated in space brought to life by the graphic and installation interventions of Dalibor Polivka, with wall texts by Rob Mintz presented by master Vietnamese calligrapher Chau Thuy. In a spiritually-charged atmosphere, gallery-goers will discover the inexpressible within themselves. This exhibit seeks insight into the nature of a mysterious, shared universe described by mystics, philosophers and physicists.  A creative alliance between artists from different countries, it will be a model of contemporary practice, 
a hybrid with exalted aims.

Dali Polivka 


No form an artist might use is equal to the unbounded void where the phantoms of memory arise. To represent the absolute in a manner that does not instantly betray its transcendental meaning is the challenge that motivates Dalibor Polivka. The beauty and depth of the historic cultural traditions of his native Slovakia inform a restless pursuit of the underpinnings of perception, across contemporary disciplines, in painting, sculpture, installation, performance, digital imaging and graphic design.

Rob Mintz

Rob Mintz’s writings are influenced by the history of the avant-garde in all its manifestations. Evolving spontaneously and organically with a series of decisions that embellish or obliterate each line, they exude subjectivity, authenticity, anxiety, and the drift of autonomous introspection, the philosopher’s first step.

Guillemette Buffault

The “fold” (le pli) is the structure at the center of Guillemette Buffault’s research, taking form in paper, cloth, metal, sheets of lead, woven polyester, graphite, bronze, and glass, depicted in prints, or captured in photographs. The fold is both an object and a means of investigation.  In her hands it becomes paradoxical, material and immaterial simultaneously.  The fold is a connective discontinuity. When multiplied, its implications become metaphysical. Like apparitions, Buffault’s art oscillates between the opaque and the transparent.

Châu Thuy

Inspired by the Vietnamese calligraphic tradition, Châu Thuy’s popular and widely-exhibited 
work incorporates stylized figurative elements to symbolically express personal, historical and spiritual themes.

More details about Inexpressible at www.daliborpolivka.com/inexpressible

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