The postcard for the exhibition.

Sustainable Source
curated by Carol Pulin
opening reception: September 29th, 2008
September 29th – October 24th, 2008
Art Gallery at Longwood University
Longwood University
Bedford Building
201 High Street
Farmville, VA 23909

http://longwood.edu/art/

New Prints 2008/Summer: Artist's Commentary
opening reception: Tuesday July 8th, 2008 6-8
June 26th – August 1st, 2008
International Print Center New York (IPCNY)
526 West 26th Street, room 824
New York, NY 10001
http://ipcny.org
 

The Selections Committee for NEW PRINTS 2008/Summer: Artists’ Commentary included Nick Lamia, Artist and Instructor, Fordham University; Gary Simmons, Artist; Robin White Owen, Producer, MediaCombo; and Martha Wilson, Artist and Founding Director, Franklin Furnace Archive.

NEW PRINTS 2008/Summer: Artists’ Commentary is the twenty-eighth presentation of IPCNY’s New Prints Program, a series of juried exhibitions highlighting contemporary prints made within the past year 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.

For this presentation, IPCNY invited submissions loosely grouped around the theme of artists’ responses to the current social and political climate. Highlights include: Pterrorists (archetype feathorrorae), handmade paper grenades with silkscreen and hand-colored portraits by Ronna Lebo; an untitled photogravure etching by Glenn Ligon of a neon sign reading “negro sunshine”; Cheney’s Camouflage, a lithograph portrait of Vice President Cheney on an empty french fries container by Eileen M. Foti; a silkscreened box containing a print by Catherine LeCleire entitled A Home For Palestine, and EV [e-ve] III. History, pages from an Estonian history book by Eve Kask digitally printed to remove every letter but E and V from the text.

The complete artists’ list for NEW PRINTS 2008/Summer: Artists’ Commentary is as follows: Desirée Alvarez, Katie Baldwin, Kim Baranowski, Michael Barnes, Stephen Barnwell, Judy Bergman Hochberg, Randy Bolton, Liz Chalfin, Anne Chesnut, Leo Cunningham, Tallmadge Doyle, Eileen M. Foti, Leslie Golomb, Deborah Grant, Daniel Hauben, Sarah Hauser, Emily Henretta, Robin Holder, Cooper Holoweski, William Howard, Butt Johnson, Eve Kask, Michael Krueger, Ronna Lebo, Catherine LeCleire, Yvonne Leonard, Marc Lepson, Glenn Ligon, Joseph A. Lupo, Franco Marinai, Martin Mazorra, Traci Molloy, Nicholas Naughton, Leah Oates, Shani Peters, Sarah Nicole Phillips, Ross Racine, Christopher Rivera, Blake Sanders, Jonathan Thomas, Jeff Wetzig, Dan Wood, and Sang-Mi Yoo.

 

Emergence: Creative Pioneers in Uncharted Territory
opening reception: Saturday May 31st 2008
May 31th-July 26th 2008
Exhibition Hours: 11:00am – 6:00pm on Saturdays and Sundays only
Building 14 / Commander’s House (yellow house at the end of the path)
Governors Island (off the tip of Manhattan)
New York, NY
http://figmentnyc.org/emergence/index.html
 

"During a nine-week period, the historic "Building 14" (c.1900) on Governors Island in New York Harbor will be transformed from an abandoned outpost into an interactive, three-dimensional living exhibit, featuring contributions from more than 30 artists/art collectives working in a diverse range of media, including sculpture, installation art, aerial kinetic sculpture, photography, sound art, and interactive multimedia. Emergence will be a show characterized by transformation. Using the theme, "Creative Pioneers in Uncharted Territory," exhibitors will use the context, history, and recent steps towards revitalization, or "emergence," of Governors Island as the source of inspiration and departure for the creation of participatory art exploring the human condition. The installation, which places a strong emphasis on audience and artist interaction and civic/community participation, will change over the course of the summer as a result of the interactive elements and the engagement of visiting participants.

The Emergence opening coincides with the grand opening of Governors Island to visitors for the 2008 season, demonstrating an ongoing partnership with the Governors Island Preservation and Education Corporation (www.govisland.com) in their efforts to engage the public in contributing to the island’s rebirth. Emergence will address the past, present, and future of this shared, public amenity, including the history of those who occupied the island and current economic, political, environmental and social concerns. These creative explorations will reveal new inventions, manifestos, and fantasies, which will assist in the ongoing transformation of our understanding of the uncharted theoretical territories of self, place, change and time.

The artists and art collectives who make Emergence possible include the following individuals and groups: Anne Arden McDonald, artcodex, Asha Ganpat, Avant Car Guard (South Africa), Chris Jordan, Christian Nerf/Barend de Wet/Douglas Gimberg (South Africa), Damon Hamm, Dana Salisbury, Erik Fabian, Eugenia Yu, Friendly Falcons & Their Friend the Snake, G-77, Jason Van Anden/Nate Hawks, John Krill (South Africa), John Walter, Michael Alan, Monica Muller (Switzerland), Peripheral Media Projects, Pornj Diamond Cell, Sarah N. Phillips, Saviour Scraps, Tara Parsons, Tim & Martin Dockery, Triangle Project (Denmark, Istanbul), and Urban Homesteading Project. Emergence is curated by Johan Kritzinger, Joyce Manalo, Elke Dehner, and Audrey Boguchwal.

Emergence is a project of FIGMENT 2008, held in partnership with the Governors Island Preservation and Education Corporation (GIPEC). FIGMENT is a 3-day participatory arts event on Governors Island in New York Harbor on June 27-29 (www.figmentnyc.org). FIGMENT is a project of Action Arts League, and is produced by a coalition of volunteers in partnership with The Pure Project. Emergence is supported by a grant from the Black Rock Arts Foundation."

Connected Unconscious
opening reception: Thursday April 17th 6-8
April 17 – May 11, 2008
Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM)
Peter Jay Sharp Building
30 Lafayette Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11217

http://www.bam.org/

Repeat After Me – Artists exploring notions of self replication
January 7 – 28, 2006
Opening Reception: Saturday January 7, 6-10pm

Repeat After Me will be on view at the non-profit arts organization
Flux Factory, 38-38 43rd Street, Long Island City, Queens, NY 11101
Gallery hours are Friday-Sunday, 12-6pm or by appointment
 

Self-replication is a process where something makes a copy of itself. It is a non-sexual form of reproduction, sometimes needing a host but never a partner. This can be seen in the most basic living cells that comprise our bodies to biological and digital viruses which replicate to create unseen predatory masses. Eric Drexler, an American engineer well known for his theories in the field of nanotechnology, feared the possible viral nature of microscopic machines. He coined the term “gray goo” to describe the condition of Earth after groups of molecular sized self-replicating machines were programmed to devour all carbon containing life forms (self-assembling robots do exist but they are helping NASA colonize the moon, not cause the  apocalypse).

What if languages, cultures and even desires could also be seen to act virally? The controversial field of memetics defines a meme as a piece of thought that replicates itself in the human mind by means of imitation. Memes are viewed as the evolution of human ideology and can be anything from fashion trends to popular concepts. But what happens when a dominant meme occupies many minds at once and what happens when beliefs are no longer seen as individual decisions but invasions by independently replicating units of culture?

Reproducing the self can be seen directly as a reproduction of one’s own identity. All self-replicating entities go through cycles of evolution and mutation; the artist who mutates their identity often creates disturbing and unsettling changes and effects. Replicating one’s own identity can parallel the idea of human cloning, seen by some to be an unnatural and even perverse act. Mutation leads to a shifting and changing of the identity where the humanness of the subject is often uncertain, leading to the ultimate question: if we are not human, then what are we?

Repeat After Me features the works of Jorann Abusland, Carla Aspenberg, Jill Auckenthaler, Jeremy Avnet, Zoë Cohen, Kerry Downey, Carl Ferrero, Carrie Fucile, David Gitt, Soren Goodman, Farley Gwazda, Shanan Kurtz, Meghan McKnight, Ian Montgomery, Brandon Neubauer and Sarah Nicole Phillips.