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The James New York in the NY Times

admin — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:42:34 +0000

The Hotel as Art Gallery

The New York Times
By DIANE CARDWELL
Published: August 29, 2010

The James, a sleekly designed hotel rising over Grand Street in SoHo, will open for business on Wednesday with all the support staff a guest could expect: a concierge, receptionists, bellhops, chambermaids, parking valets.

Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times - Matthew Jensen, the art curator of the James Hotel in SoHo, chose works from emerging artists for the hotel’s 14 floors of guest rooms.

“It was pretty exciting to me to see how many artists are working, just like I do, like obsessively hard, in their own studio tucked away, but nobody’s really paying attention to them yet,” he said. “There’s a lot more emerging than established in New York — once they’re established, then they all move upstate. So everyone who wants to do it is doing it here.”

Hotels have been hanging fine art on their walls for decades now. Ian Schrager commissioned a series of Robert Mapplethorpe prints for what is considered the original boutique hotel, the Morgans, in 1984; the Roger Smith, a small property in Midtown Manhattan, transformed its lobby into an art gallery and performance space as part of a 1991 renovation.

But few have gone so far as the James, which hired a young artist, Matthew Jensen, to select original artworks to adorn each of its 14 floors of guest rooms.

Mr. Jensen, 29, a photographer whose work was acquired this year by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, may have an unusual job description, but he is also part of a growing breed. As business and building owners look to inject their properties with a little artistic personality, a new class of curators — some of them contractors like Mr. Jensen and some of them staff members — has arisen to help.

“There’s all these empty walls and there are thousands of artists out there who are living in the city and have never had their art seen by anyone,” said Leah McCloskey, who places works by students at the Art Students League in restaurants and apartment and office buildings. “It’s about connecting to that generation of artists and to what’s going on out there.”

Employees installing art in the hallways of the James.

All that, and one helping hand a guest might not expect: a hotel art curator.

That connection has been particularly important in the past few years for hotels, which are increasingly seeking novel ways to distinguish themselves from a flood of competition. Responding to guests’ desire to have their lodgings project an image of who they are or aspire to be, hotels are taking their artistic endeavors more seriously, industry analysts say, using art to build an identity rather than just to make it look good.

“Hoteliers are not only trying to come up with a theme or a style that attracts customers, but they are approaching it in a much more professional and involved way,” said Sean Hennessey, chief executive of Lodging Investment Advisors, a consulting firm in Valhalla, N.Y.

“It used to be that you could get away with just slapping something up in the lobby,” he added, “but more and more customers are looking and evaluating it much more closely.”

For the James, meeting that demand has meant trying to reflect the artistic microclimate of SoHo. Though many of the artists who once made the area a creative mecca have fled, an emerging art scene is still represented through nonprofit institutions there that support artists and show their work.

Denihan Hospitality Group, which is developing the hotel, operates another James Hotel in Chicago that is also dedicated to emerging art. At the Surrey, one of its New York hotels, work by established names like Jenny Holzer, Claes Oldenburg and William Kentridge nods to its location on East 76th Street, near major art showcases like the Whitney Museum of American Art.

An installation by Sarah Frost of typewriter keys glued to a wall in the lobby of the James.

Mr. Jensen’s relationship with the hotel grew from a chance meeting last year with Brad Wilson, the chief operating officer at Denihan, at an exhibition for Mr. Jensen’s project “Nowhere in Manhattan,” featuring billboard-size photos of the borough’s remaining wildernesses that are meant to spur people to visit those places.

“It’s a way to remind people in a subtle way, if they complain, ‘Oh, I never get out into the woods,’ well, you can just get on the A train to Inwood, or you can go in the other direction to the Rockaways,” Mr. Jensen said.

The pictures appealed to Mr. Wilson — who hung three of them on the building facade when it was under construction — and Mr. Jensen’s job evolved from there. Once hired, he settled on the idea of using New York-based landscape artists working in different media, one per floor.

Using an online database, he amassed a list of about 1,000 artists, which he whittled to the final 14 in three months, creating something that “kind of feels like 14 solo shows stacked on top of each other.”

Taken as a whole, the installation, called “Stand Here and Listen,” is meant to play off the idea of travel, inspired by signs at revered destinations like the Grand Canyon that urge visitors to look out from a particular spot, Mr. Jensen said.

The owners of the James, which is scheduled to open on Wednesday, tried to reflect the artistic microclimate of SoHo.

One of the artists, Jessica Cannon, said the installation offered guests — perhaps more open to seeing things differently because they are removed from their everyday routines — the chance to experience art in a new way.

“You can have this encounter with work that’s very intimate, almost like it’s in a home or an empty gallery, but you can have it on your own time,” said Ms. Cannon, a painter whose work imbues landscapes with a sense of an impending event. “If someone’s got insomnia at 3 in the morning, they can pace the halls and have a really intimate and personal encounter.”

In addition to curating the hotel art, Mr. Jensen manages the studio of John-Paul Philippe, a painter and designer who created several decorative elements for the hotel, including the room numbers. Mr. Jensen has also been overseeing the installation of the collection — the hotel bought the works — and the text that goes with it, along with a potential catalog.

Mr. Jensen said the curatorial foray, his first, took him to studios all over the city, exposing him to a whole community of artists.

A version of this article appeared in print on August 30, 2010, on page A13 of the New York edition.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/30/nyregion/30hotelart.html?_r=1&ref=nyregion

TOSAT article in thestar.com

admin — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 01:14:26 +0000

Guerilla action aims to turn advertising space into public space

Toronto Star
Published On Mon Aug 23 2010
Liem Vu Staff Reporter

Video: Swapping ads for art

Is it vandalism? Vigilantism? Watch, as activists take down ads and replace them with art. (Aug. 22, 2010)

A lanky, 6-foot-tall New Yorker dressed in black, maneuvers through Toronto armed with an electric screwdriver, duct tape, a stepladder, and a doorknob. His target: A four-sided, Pattison ad pillar.

He removes a screw; inserts the doorknob and cranks open the frame as nearby sirens sound. Within minutes, he is gone, having replaced the ads with art.

One down, 41 to go.

His name is Jordan Seiler, the founder of the Public Ad Campaign, an initiative committed to reclaiming public space from what the campaign contends are illegal advertisers, and filling it with guerilla art.

On Sunday afternoon, Seiler led 15 activists into a war against Canadian billboard giant Pattison Outdoor by removing ads from 41 pillars and replacing them with 85 pieces of art.

“Public space should be a place for public communication,” said the 30-year-old. “I feel like I have a right to react against (advertisements) when, in particular, they’re done illegally.”

The Star was unable to confirm the legal status of the signs targeted by the group, and efforts to reach Pattison Outdoor for comment Sunday were not successful.

Dubbed the Toronto Street Advertising Takeover, TOSAT for short, six ground-level teams of two to three piled into four rental cars Sunday afternoon.

Around 5 p.m., the group left the ‘safehouse’ near Casa Loma with art submitted from around the world including Spain, Berlin, California and Canada.

According to local activist and co-organizer Vanessa Moraless, the action was prompted by what the group argues is Pattison’s non-compliance with Toronto’s billboard laws.

Last December, the city passed a billboard tax ranging from $850.68 to $24,000, which would contribute $10 million to city coffers.

On April 6, 2010, the new sign bylaw and tax went into effect — to the relief of anti-advertising advocates and to the dismay of billboard companies like Pattison, which filed an action against the city with the Ontario Superior Court of Justice to contest the law.

Local activists are concerned that the city is still being too lax with the enforcement of bylaws.

“Pattison built them without permits mostly in the middle of the night,” contends Rami Tabello, coordinator of IllegalSigns.ca.

Tabello has spent the past four years filing Freedom of Information requests to track down unauthorized ads for his website while working with the city to remove them.

He estimates around 30-40 Pattison pillars in the GTA are illegal, but added that he had no connection with Sunday’s guerilla action.

“My organization is not related to TOSAT. Our motto is ‘We fight illegal billboards with the rule of law.’ The rule of law, unfortunately, is not quite working at the moment,” he said.

When contacted Sunday evening, city councillor Adam Vaughan (Ward 20, Trinity-Spadina) expressed disapproval of the action, but noted that the city was on top of the issue.

“I can certainly recognize the frustration that the illegal billboards haven’t all been taken down, but it’s a big city and we’re getting to it,” he said.

Seiler’s installations went down Bathurst St., and seven of the Pattison Pillars he targeted are located inside Vaughan’s Ward 20.

An enforcement team for illegal billboards is currently being assembled, Vaughan added.

“The Pattison Pillars . . . were a hangover from a previous councillor,” Vaughan said. “It’s not clear as to how they were approved.

“I know its in contention with a lot of billboard activists but we’re trying to deal with it with the bylaw,” the councillor noted. “We should have an answer for those people who are concerned there are too many of them very shortly.”

Seiler finished his installations around 7 p.m. Sunday as teams around the city were also wrapping up.

Pedestrians marveled at the pieces of artwork and at times, engaged with Seiler and other installers.

“It’s a mental leap that most people don’t have a chance to engage in,” said Seiler. Ads, he added, “are improper mental stimulation. The idea that we feel like we don’t have ownership (of public space) becomes problematic.

“If these projects prove that we do have ownership, it also questions whether or not there’s a force preventing us access to that,” Seiler said.

See the original article here: http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/851126–guerilla-action-aims-to-turn-advertising-space-into-public-space

Non Native New York – group exhibition in Brooklyn, NY

admin — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 11:45:30 +0000

I’m pleased to announce my participation in the upcoming group exhibition Non-Native New York, curated by Linn Edwards & Brian Bell. I will be showing four collages from the Security Landscape series.

Non-Native New York will open on August 5th – August 22nd, 2010 at the de Castellane Gallery, located at 525 Atlantic Ave. Brooklyn, NY.
Opening: Thursday, August 5, 6-9pm.
The selected artists for the 2010 exhibition are:

• Mahtab Aslani
• Jaclyn Conley
• Francisco Correa-Cordero
• Emile H Dubuisson
• Yuhi Hasegawa
• Hai-Hsin Huang
• Jee Hwang
• Gautam Kansara
• Maria Kondratiev
• Olek
• Lothar Osterburg
• Jung Eun Park
• Sarah Nicole Phillips
• Minori Sanchiz-Fung
• Taganyahu Swao

Non-Native New York is organized and curated by Linn Edwards and Brian Bell, artists who have collaborated on art projects for over five years and lived in Brooklyn for a decade. They have been inspired by the many cultures that are Brooklyn’s signature as a borough and by the many artists who have moved here from other lands.

Non-Native New York is made possible by a Brooklyn Arts Council
2010 NYSCA Regrant and de Castellane Gallery, and is fiscally sponsored by South Of the Navy Yard Artists, (SONYA) a 501(c)3 non-profit organization.

Whole bunch of my art aquired by The James New York hotel

admin — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 21:48:39 +0000

I am pleased to announce that a new, luxury (aren’t they all) hotel in Soho called The James New York has acquired 11 of my works including a new 4′x4′ used envelope commission. They bought a mixture of my newer envelope pieces and some older rainbow-themed work. They could make a “haul” video and post it on youtube! The intention is for my work to fill the hallways of one floor.

The hotel is not complete yet but they should be opening in September at which point I’ll post opening reception deets and which floor you can see my work on.

VIVE LA CREPE, 2nd Silent Auction this Friday, nyc

admin — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 00:03:28 +0000

This event is organized by the wicked-awesome art space Eyelevel-BQE and is being hosted by La Crêpe on Bleeker Street. There will be drinks and fun folks so stop by after work (or whatever you do) on Friday to say hello. Visit Eyelevel-BQE’s website to read bios of the participating artists.

* The auction will open with a reception on

Friday June 18th from 6 – 9.

** Bidding closes on Sunay June 20th at 2pm.

New Print – Phases of a Peanut Butter Cup Wrapper

admin — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 19:27:42 +0000

Phases of a Peanut Butter Cup Wrapper
2010
relief prints of peanut butter cup wrappers
edition size: 2
4.5″ x 19″

Monotype class @ LESP in nyc – spring ’10

admin — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 18:37:30 +0000

I’m currently teaching a Monotype class at the Lower East Side Printshop. Once again a wonderful group of artists is taking the class.

Carolyn Wong creating a color blend.

Elizabeth McAlpin using the 'viscosity' technique

Jeffrey Novick preparing an image to be printed.

Teresa Vazquez reveals a print.

Larry & Audrey checking out Larry's skulls.

Roz Rosenblum adding the finishing touches to an image.

by Larry Hoysic

Artichokes by Carolyn Wong, landscape by Teresa Vazquez

Audrey Cohn-Ganz with print.

Inaugural Bay Ridge 5th Ave Storefront Art Walk (SAW), Brooklyn, NY

admin — Tue, 18 May 2010 21:28:39 +0000

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My piece at Jean Danet on 5th Ave in Bay Ridge.

Twenty invited artists working with a variety of visual media will present individual projects in different storefront windows along 5th Avenue, offering the diverse Bay Ridge community a unique platform for engagement and dialogue with the Visual Arts. The projects goal is to support and promote emerging Brooklyn artists while celebrating local Bay Ridge businesses and to broadly explore the interstices between commerce, art and community.

Participating artists: Carla Aspenberg, Emily Bicht, Jean Boggs, Rachel Day, Jonny Farrow, David Gitt, Chris Hagerty, Karilyn Johanesen, Jill Magi, Chris Moss, Sarah Nicole Phillips, Megan Piontkowski, Sara Danielle Reiss, Carlos Rodriguez, Jennifer Tomaiolo, Eugenie Tung, Heather Willems, Josh Willis, Zane M Wilson.

Power to the People @ feature gallery nyc

admin — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 13:58:27 +0000

I have a piece in this show. If you want it, you can go get it.

saturday may 1, 2010 a may day celebration. one night only. 6-8 pm

"Free art, one piece per person. art donated by artists. unconditional love. anyone may give. anyone may have.
at a time when everything costs, this is free."

FEATURE INC. 131 ALLEN ST NY NY 10002 Between Delancey and Rivington Streets

Here are images of the event.
Here is the permanent link to the event listing on Feature's website.

Untitled (Lenses)
2010
lenses from B&H catalog
5" x 8"

The World is Not Enough: a web-based exhibition curated by Carl James Ferrero

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:17:28 +0000

Announcing the launch of The World is Not Enough, a web-based exhibition.
http://theworldisnotenough.info/

Curated and designed by Carl James Ferrero, the exhibition will be available from February 27, 2010 until February 12, 2011.

Featuring the work of Jill Auckenthaler, Selena Kimball, Jochen Klein, Cynthia Lin, Patte Loper,
Sarah Nicole Phillips, Jeffrey Pittu, Franklin Preston, Gina Ruggeri, Ryan Steadman, Jan Wandrag, and Mitchell Wright.

For more information, please contact cjferrero@gmail.com.

winter Monotype Workshop at LESP in nyc

admin — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:05:47 +0000

I recently taught a six-week monotyope printmaking workshop at the Lower East Side Printshop (in midtown). For the third class artists made images by putting found materials through the press…leaves, string, bits of plastic, lace, steel wool, sandpaper, paper cut outs; whatever can be run though an etching press without destroying it. This group of artists have been particularly interested in integrating non-traditional papers into their images.

Jeff running a bouquet of daffodils through the press.

Susan manipulating materials she will be running through the press.

Jason and his little pile of shapes.

Jeff about to run all kinds of stuff though the press.

Jeff showing his prints to fellow artists. He's used brown paper bags and posters torn off construction site hoarding.

Pat revealing a print she's just pulled, the moment of truth.

Pat's prints

Allison planning out an image.

Denatured at the Gershwin Hotel in nyc

admin — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 15:05:13 +0000

Denatured
Gershwin Hotel
7 East 27 Street
New York, NY 10016-8700
(212) 545-8000
www.gershwinhotel.com
Opening Reception: Friday, January 15, 7 pm onwards

The opening was great; lots of folks and tunes. The curator Emet did a wonderful job organizing this exhibition.

New Prints 2010/Winter @ IPCNY in nyc

admin — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 03:56:34 +0000

New Prints 2010/Winter
International Print Center New York (IPCNY)
526 West 26th Street, Room 824
New York, NY 10001
(212) 989-5090
contact@ipcny.org
www.ipcny.org
On View: January 12 – February 20, 2010
Opening Reception: Thursday, January 14, 6-8 pm

"The Selections Committee for New Prints 2010/Winter included Alexander Campos, Executive Director, The Center for Book Arts; Michele Oka Doner, Artist; Kathleen Flynn, Executive Director, Dieu Donné; Shelley Langdale, Associate Curator of Prints and Drawings, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Curatorial Team, Philagrafika 2010; Dwight E. Lee, Collector; and Leslie Miller, Founder, The Grenfell Press.

New Prints 2010/Winter is the thirty-third presentation of IPCNY’s New Prints Program, a series of juried exhibitions organized by IPCNY four times each year, featuring prints made within the past twelve months by artists at all stages of their careers. The exhibition represents a cross-section of some of the most exceptional printmaking today while continuing IPCNY’s commitment to provide an ongoing exhibition venue for contemporary prints and a major source of information about artists working in the medium.

New Prints 2010/Winter is the fiftieth exhibition presented by IPCNY in its Chelsea space since the opening of the gallery in September, 2000.

The complete artists’ list for New Prints 2010/Winter is as follows: Erika Adams, Roberta Allen, Felipe De Jesus Baeza, Karin Bos, Marisa Boullosa, Victoria Burge, Sophie Calle, Jonas Criscoe (in collaboration with writer Patrick Whitfill), Sage Dawson, E.V. Day, Hope Dector, Lesley Dill, Barbara Duval, Brad Ewing, Alejandro Garcia Restrepo, Klara Glosova, Tai Hwa Goh, William Howard, Richard Hricko, Anita S. Hunt, Nils Karsten, William Kentridge, Andrew Kozlowski, Yunmee Kyong, Karen Lederer, Whitfield Lovell, Franco Marinai, Michael Neff, Mark Parsons, Alyssa Pheobus, Ross Racine, Jenny Robinson, Zoë Sheehan Saldaña, David Sandlin, Ana Vivoda, April Vollmer, Tammy Wofsey, and Erin Woodbrey. Artists participating in the S.P. Weather Station collective are: Leah Beeferman, Natalie Campbell, Carrie Dashow, Neil Freeman, Richard Garrison, Michael Geminder, Katarina Jerinic, Daniel Larson, Bridget Lewis, Lize Mogel, Heidi Neilson, Chris Petrone, Sarah Nicole Phillips, Jing Yu, and Liz Zanis

A curatorial essay by Michele Oka Doner will accompany the exhibition.

Highlights from New Prints 2010/Winter include: Brad Ewing’s Trillion with a T, a three-dimensional stack of blindstamped gold bars; Alejandro Garcia Restrepo’s Estudios para una anatomía imaginaria, a lyrical etching of a butterfly hovering above broken bird wings; Sage Dawson’s Hair Maps, Studies of Albuquerque and Israel, a postcard-sized image that maps out each respective city with hair and gold leaf on collograph relief prints; Nils Karsten’s large-scale woodcuts of album cover art and rock lyrics, William Kentridge’s artist book of eighteen watermark drawings, Sheets of Evidence; Sophie Calle’s Address Book and accompanying text-based screenprints, and S.P. Weather Station, a twelve-month study of weather patterns as observed and documented from a homemade station situated on a rooftop in Queens.

Twenty-six of the artists produced their work independently. Presses and printshops represented include: Dieu Donné, Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Moisant Weyl, Marginal Editions, Plotzing Press, SOLO Impression, and S.P. Weather Station."

Security Landscapes at Eyelevel BQE in Brooklyn

admin — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 06:09:26 +0000

Trees I Have Known @ Lawrence Percolator in Lawrence, KS

admin — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:45:52 +0000

Trees I have Known
curated by John Reeves
Lawrence Percolator
March 14 – May 3, 2009
Lawrence, Kansas
http://lawrence-percolator.blogspot.com/

"Trees I Have Known is a juried exhibition featuring artwork and ephemera made by and collected by a diverse group of over thirty artists, thinkers, and neighbors who have created work that reflects upon the tree as subject, metaphor, and inspiration in many media." I showed a 5-image suite of photographs documenting an installation called Human Hugger. I couldn't make it to Kansas to see the show but it looked great from the images I saw online.

Running on Empty at ATHICA in Atlanta, GA

admin — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 15:06:21 +0000

Running on Empty: the fossil fuel addiction
curated by Bart King
opening reception: Saturday January 31, 7-9 pm.
January 31 – March 22 2009
Athens Institute for Contemporary Art (ATHICA)
160 Tracy Street, Unit 4
Athens, GA 30601
http://www.athica.org/

"The United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has said emissions of greenhouse gases–released when fossil fuels are burned–must peak and begin to decline within ten years if the planet is to avoid the worst effects of global climate change. The American public finally seems to be waking up to this global threat, as evidenced by the popularity of recent films such as An Inconvenient Truth and Wall-E.

This exhibit–our 30th–is designed to to raise awareness of this critical issue. From apocalyptic images of a drowned planet to the promise of future energy sources, these 17 artists address this pressing issue with passion, humor and urgency."

Media Coverage:
http://www.redandblack.com/2009/01/29/fossil-fuel-addiction-subject-of-new-exhibit/
http://flagpole.com/Weekly/Features/NotYourTypicalOilPaintings.3Mar09

Queens International 4 at the Queens Museum of Art

admin — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 15:11:03 +0000

Queens International 4 (QI4) (as a participating artist with the SP Weather Station)
opening reception: Saturday, January 24th, 6 pm – midnight
exhibition run: Jan 24 – April 26th, 2009
Queens Museum of Art
New York City Building
Flushing Meadows Corona Park
Queens, NY 11368
http://www.queensmuseum.org/qmail/2009_01/#ex1

http://spweatherstation.net/

"Queens International 4 (QI4), the fourth installment of this biennial, is a survey of new and on-going projects by 42 emerging and established artists, artist collaborations and artist collectives from 18 countries that now live and/or work within Queens. QI4 reflects the multiple influences, thematic breadth and broad range of traditional and experimental approaches employed by the vibrant and growing artist communities in Queens. By developing their own artistic perspective from a position on the art world periphery rather than at its center of influence, the QI4 artists explore the contradictions of the mainstream art world and the real world."

Ephemerality at The Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education in Philly

admin — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:21:49 +0000

The postcard for the show.

Ephemerality
opening reception: Saturday, January 17 2009, 4-7 pm.
exhibition run: January 12 – April 12, 2009
The Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education
8480 Hagy's Mill Rd
Philadelphia, PA 19128
215-482-7300
www.schuylkillcenter.org

"Ephemerality is an experimental gallery exhibition that explores ways in which art, communication, and technology can be used to create a greater sense of connection and meaning within reclaimed wild spaces, natural time, weather, and seasons. In this exhibition, artists will present works that directly reflect the impact that 24 hours on the land of the Schuylkill Center can have on their own awareness, creative process, and use of visual material.

Six artists and one artist team were selected to create temporary artworks with natural materials on the grounds of the Schuylkill Center, with the guidelines that the artworks created must last no more than 24 hours. The installations, sculptures, interventions, or events created were documented by the artists using photography, video, sound, and text. These documentations of the outdoor ephemeral artwork will comprise the gallery exhibition."

New Prints Autumn 2008 @ IPCNY in nyc

admin — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:46:22 +0000

New Prints Autumn 2008
International Print Center New York (IPCNY)
opening reception: Thursday October 23rd, 2008 6-8
October 23th – November 22nd, 2008
526 West 26th Street, room 824
New York, NY 10001
http://ipcny.org

"The Selections Committee for New Prints 2008/Autumn included Matthew Day Jackson, Artist; Jacob Lewis, Director, Pace Prints Chelsea; Barbara Sahlman, Collector and Artist; Julie Saul, Director, Julie Saul Gallery; James Stroud, Master Printer and Director, Center Street Studio; and Roberta Waddell, former Curator of Prints (1985-2008), New York Public Library.

New Prints 2008/Autumn is the twenty-ninth presentation of IPCNY’s New Prints Program, a series of juried exhibitions organized by IPCNY four times each year, featuring prints made within the past twelve months by artists at all stages of their careers. The exhibition represents a cross-section of some of the most exceptional printmaking today while continuing IPCNY’s commitment to provide an ongoing exhibition venue for contemporary prints and a major source of information about artists working in the medium.

The complete artists’ list for New Prints 2008/Autumn is as follows: Lauren Abshire, Glen Baldridge, J. Catherine Bebout, Marieke Bolhuis, Matthew Brannon, Nicholas Brown, Ryan Burkhart, Susan Goethel Campbell, Stacey Cann, Kerstin Cedell, Phillip Chen, Briar Craig, Luke Dorman, Rick Finn, Quintin Gonzalez, Valerie Hammond, Adriane Herman, Tatana Kellner, Damon Kowarsky, Janet Marcavage, Teresa Gomez Martorell, Jiha Moon, Yoko Motomiya, Ethan Murrow, Heidi Neilson, Tom Orr, Krista Peters, Raymond Pettibon, Sarah Nicole Phillips, Ron Rocco, Nick Satinover, Joyce J. Scott, Scott Stephens, Sarah Sze, Ivanco Talevski, Richard Tuttle and John Yau, Joe Waks, Allan Wexler, Wang Yuhui.

A curatorial essay by Matthew Day Jackson will accompany the exhibition.

New Prints 2008/Autumn includes three artists books and five three-dimensional objects. Highlights of the exhibition include: Lauren Abshire’s Spyglass, a telescope through which a digital print on transparency can be viewed; Glen Baldridge’s Here Come the Miracles, a sixty-four-block, seven-color intaglio wiped relief printed woodcut with two panels upon which “okay” and “fine” are written in a flourished, German-Gothic font; Phillip Chen’s Powhatan, a three panel, six-foot relief etching depicting an unlikely assembly of objects ranging from feathers to flying machines; Susan Goethel Campbell and Stacy Cann ‘s Natural Wonder: Old Faithful and Crowd, are grids exploring the serial nature of printmaking; Krista Peter’s Collapsible Home, a three-dimensional etching with hand coloring that actually lights its windows from within; Sarah Sze’s Notepad, a deconstructed notebook exploding into balconies, stairs, and ladders; and The Missing Portrait, a book designed by Richard Tuttle with text by poet John Yau.

Twenty of the forty-three works are by independent artists. Presses and printshops represented include: BBK Druckwekstatt (Germany), the Brodsky Center, Brooke Alexander Editions, Cirrus Editions, Ltd., Firsthand Editions, Flatbed Press, Flying Horse Editions, Forth Estate, Fresh Hot Press, Manneken Press, Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, Serie Project, Inc., Solo Impression, Tamarind Institute, University of Tampa Press, Wildwood Press and Women’s Studio Workshop. New Prints 2008/Autumn includes prints from coast to coast and abroad, including Australia, Canada, China, Germany and Sweden"

Green @ Haven Arts Gallery in the Bronx

admin — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:28:30 +0000

Green
opening reception: Friday October 17th, 5-9
exhibition run: October 17- October 25, 2008

Haven Arts Gallery
50 Bruckner Blvd
Building A
Bronx, NY, 10454