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50 x 50 Art For Tibet Exhibit & Sale (NYC)

Posted in Art, events, exhibits, Stephanie Gerolimatos with tags , , , , , , , , , on July 12, 2009 by ssstephg

Thanks again to best pal Bruce the Mystical Goose for continuing to keep us abreast of such wonderful NY-based art events!  This one sounds fun as hell and it’s being held to benefit the non-profit Students for a Free Tibet.   Fun + a good cause = Yes!  If i can manage to be in the NYC area on August 1, you can bet I’ll be there enjoying art and downing drinks for freedom!

50 ARTISTS HONOR 50 YEARS OF TIBETAN RESISTANCE WITH NEW YORK SHOW AND AFFORDABLE ART SALE

Tibetan Contemporary Artists Joined by Diverse Group of International Peers

What: Art for Tibet fundraiser
Where: 79 Walker Street, New York, NY 10013
When: Saturday, August 1st, 5pm – 10pm

*details after the jump* Read more »

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Affordable Art

Posted in Art, current events, events, exhibits, Miscellaneous, recession, Tom Bennett with tags , , , on May 8, 2009 by Tom Bennett

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A Yellow House on the Main Street
Siddharth Parasnis
Courtesy of Hang Art Gallery

Recession hurtin’? Want good, reasonably priced art? Huh? well do ya? Check out theAffordable Art Fair in NYC going through Sunday the 10th.

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Yarn Theory Redux

Posted in Art, events, exhibits, mixed media, science with tags , , , , , , on April 14, 2009 by jdhastings


“Lorenz Manifold” by Hinke Osinga

In mid-January I posted about a recent trend of using fiber art to visualize certain scientific or methematical concepts.

As it turns out, I’m not the only one who’s been following the trend. The PS122 Gallery in New York is holding an exhibition this month titled “Yarn Theory”. As they state on that website, “Yarn Theory highlights the vibrant and deep interrelationship between the sciences, mathematics, crocheting and knitting.”

They go on to state:

Highlighting the work of some of today’s most interesting practitioners, Yarn theory juxtaposes installations and art objects made with a scientific or mathematical basis as a starting point, and with mathematical models and items made explicitly to explain or clarify abstract concepts, which end up being compelling aesthetic forms unto themselves. Because of their incremental structure, the crafted shapes often mimic growth systems found in nature. Such correlations are being explored by today’s needle workers, many of whom are also scientists and mathematicians professionally.

This sounds like an excellent show with any number of aesthetic, scientific and political issues to address and II encourage anybody who is able to attend to go. The exhibit will run from April 25 until May 17 and the gallery is located at 150 First Avenue, NY, NY 10009 (enter on 9th St. between First Ave. and Ave. A).

-JD

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Freaky, But is it Art?

Posted in "But Is It Art?", Art, current events, events, exhibits, Miscellaneous, science, Tom Bennett with tags , , , , , , , , on April 10, 2009 by Tom Bennett

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Ever since my father took me to Madison Square Garden, when I was 7, to see the Barnum and Baily circus I have been fascinated with it and the side show.
An artist and photographer, James Mundie, let me know about this.
There is an exhibition of human oddities and medical anomalies at a gallery in downtown Los angeles called the Todd Browning Gallery, named after the director of the classic horror film, “Freaks”. The gallery specializes in vintage and contemporary photography by international artists. The show is called Shock and Horror

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Jesus was a Generation Y.

Posted in Art, current events, events, exhibits, Miscellaneous, news, openings, Tom Bennett with tags , , , , , , , on April 8, 2009 by Tom Bennett

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from New Museum.org:

The New Museum’s current show “The Generational: Younger Than Jesus” will be the first major international museum exhibition devoted exclusively to the generation born around 1980, tapping into the different perspectives, shared preoccupations, and experiences of a constituency that is shaping the contemporary art discourse and prescribing the future of global culture. In the United States, this demographic group is the largest generation to emerge since the Baby Boomers, while in India half the population is less than twenty-five years old; the sheer size of this generation ensures its worldwide influence. By bringing together a wide variety of artists and contextualizing their different approaches, “Younger Than Jesus” will capture the signals of an imminent change, identify stylistic trends that are emerging among a diverse group of creators, and provide the general public with a first in-depth look at how the next generation conceives of our world. Revealing new languages and attitudes, the exhibition will comprise a portrait of the agents of change at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

It opens today in manhattan.

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Second Monthly Twitter Art Crawl

Posted in Art, events, exhibits with tags , , , , , on April 2, 2009 by jdhastings

Tonight is the monthly “First Thursday” art event in San Francisco, and I will be honoring it by running from gallery to gallery tweeting like an idiot. But this time I will be joined by likeminded d’Arte Boardist, Toni Tiller, who will be taking photographs for posterity and blackmail, if at all possible.

You can follow me at http://twitter.com/j_d_hastings. I don’t know if she’s set up to tweet mobiley (mobily?), but if so, Toni is at http://twitter.com/reverend_bunnie.

I will also try to set up a temporary widget that updates this site with my tweets directly.

Hope you enjoy.
-JD

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Monotypes in Massachussetts

Posted in Art, art on paper, current events, events, exhibits, Miscellaneous, monotype, museum, openings, printmaking, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags , , , , , , , , , , on March 31, 2009 by Tom Bennett

This Saturday, April 4th is the opening for a group show of monotypes curated by the
Monotype Guild Of New England , an organization dedicated to the unique print, of which I have been a member for a few years. The guild boasts some very dedicated and talented printmakers. The show, Endless Possibilities , is at Lynn Arts, in Lynn, Massachussetts, and is one of several events being held throughout the Boston area in conjunction with the North American Print Biennial. So if anyone is in the neighborhood over the next month and likes free alcoholic grape drink and soft cheese-foods, check it out.

Tom Bennett

This is the monotype I have have represented in the exhibition:

boreas and orythia, after rubens

Borias and Orythia (after Rubens), 2008, monotype, 16 x 20

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Better Late Than Never…

Posted in "But Is It Art?", 1904 World's Fair, abstract, Art, art on paper, awareness, City Museum, collection, current events, digital, Drawing, exhibits, FREE ART, Jason Gray, Links, Miscellaneous, mixed media, museum, news, oil painting, Painting, Photography, portrait, Rust-Belt, St. Louis, St. Louis Art Museum, Uncategorized, Work in Progress on March 30, 2009 by Jason Gray

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O.k., so I’m posting late this week….In all earnestness, this is not going to be much of a post at all.  I spent this last weekend in St. Louis, which is to be my new home, come May 1st.  From all perspectives, this will be a good move, as it will allow my wife and I to save money, revolve around a smaller nucleus, have more space, do more things, etc.

Nonetheless, this post is centered around the photographs that I took while doing other things, this weekend.  It is image heavy, so be forewarned… Read more »

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Art Church! Inspiration Without The Preacher: A Talk With Sarah Bliss & Petula Bloomfield @ Wunderarts

Posted in Art, events, exhibits with tags , , , , , on March 27, 2009 by ssstephg

Art Church! my favorite kind!

Have you seen “Consumed” yet? As promised, it’s a show worth seeing! This Sunday will be a great opportunity to revisit (or visit for the first time) the work before, during and after a discussion with the artists. Sarah Bliss and Petula Bloomfield will sit down, talk about their work and answer questions in a friendly, casual gallery setting. Hope to see you there!

THIS Sunday March 29 from 12 – 1pm

Wunderarts Gallery
383 Main Street
Amherst, MA 01002
413-256-6699

-Steph Gerolimatos

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Links Du Lapin #19

Posted in Art, current events, exhibits, Toni Tiller with tags , , , , , on March 23, 2009 by Toni Tiller

This link combines my love of several things, art, subways, irreverence, and outlaw parties. Improv Everywhere is a group dedicated to causing “scenes of chaos and joy in public places”, and they decided to have a gallery opening in the 23rd street subway. Check it out.

An art collective I belonged to years ago, Blueprint, did something similar about 15 years ago, but instead of treating what was there as art we went down and hung our own. It took about a month of planning, measuring out and allocating billboard spaces to about 25 artists, who then had the rest of the month to make something according to size. Then on the appointed date we swarmed the station with a bucket of wheat paste and a makeshift bar. I can’t say any of the art hung was particularly good or groundbreaking, but we had a hell of a time. Considering the strict vandalism laws it was surprising only one person got arrested and they had to work really hard to get that to happen. I guess if you strip off all your clothes, wrap yourself in paper and paste and then roll around on the hood of a police car eventually they have to give in and arrest you.

-Toni “bunnie” Tiller

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Oh To Be Happy: Let’s Look To Wunderarts

Posted in Art, exhibits, Stephanie Gerolimatos with tags , , , on March 3, 2009 by ssstephg

I dunno about the rest of you in your various locales, but here in Western Mass we got dumped on over the weekend. Sunday brought nearly a foot of fluffy, puffy beautiful snow. In fact, I don’t truly know that it wasn’t a full foot or even over a foot as I didn’t measure. I was too busy shovelling and tromping around in the magical whiteness to care how much of it there was. Despite all my shovelling and then enjoying an afternoon of snowshoeing yesterday (snowshoeing for the very first time mind you, which, although not exactly the mystical Jesus walking on the water experience I’d expected, was, none the less, quite fun), I’m remarkably free of soreness! Oh happy day!

And so I’m here to talk to you about good things–beautiful snow that doesn’t leave pain in it’s wake, shoes that elevate the wearer above the weather and a gallery that pleases all those who cross it’s threshold. Of course, I’m talking about none other than our favorite Western Mass art gallery–Wunderarts. After a brief winter hiatus, Wunderarts is back with an exciting new show. “Consumed”, an exhibition of the work of Petula Bloomfield and Sarah Bliss, is set to open with a reception this Friday, March 6, from 6 – 9 pm. Great art, great people, great space–you should come! Wunderarts always makes it worth your while, and besides, all the cool people will be there… peeeeerpressure!

here’s a l’il preview:

image courtesy wunderarts

petula bloomfield’s poetry of desire, 2008

9 x 7″ mounted digital print

image courtesy wunderarts

sarah bliss’ plexi 3, 2008

14″ x 11″, oil and enamel on plexiglass

“CONSUMED”

Opening Friday March 6, 6 – 9 pm

on view through April 12, 2009

ART CHURCH

an artist talk with Petula Bloomfield & Sarah Bliss

Sunday, March 29, 2009, 12 – 2 pm

WUNDERARTS
383 Main Street
Amherst, MA
413-256-660
Sat – Sun 12 – 5
Artwalk/First Thurs 5 – 8
and by appointment

Friday 6 – 9! be there or be square! which reminds me, hope you had a happy square root day!
-Steph Gerolimatos

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More Fun At Mass MoCA: Simon Starling, The Nanjing Particles

Posted in Art, exhibits, Stephanie Gerolimatos with tags , , , on February 28, 2009 by ssstephg

Simon Starling: The Nanjing Particles
Dec 13, 2008–Oct 31, 2009

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I don’t want to mislead you. Last weekend’s visit to Mass MoCA was not all about LeWitt, although LeWitt is certainly enough of a reason to make the trip. The museum’s vast gallery space is always home to a number of worthy exhibits. The museum complex is permanent host to Christina Kubisch’s Clocktower Project, Natalie Jeremijenko’s Tree Logic, Don Gummer’s Primary Separation and Bruce Odland & Sam Auinger’s Harmonic Bridge. The Kiefer show will be up through October. Even if there hadn’t been anything new, I’d have gone just to see Kiefer again. And the focus of this post, Simon Starling’s The Nanjing Particles is a wonderfully thoughtful, delightfully designed site specific installation that references the history and transformation of the Mass MoCA space from industrial complex to contemporary art museum.


Very briefly because I’m exhausted:

In the 1870s, North Adams’ Sampson Shoe Company, located on what is now the Mass MoCA complex, brought immigrant shoemakers from China Read more »

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LeWitt @ Mass MoCA

Posted in abstract, Art, Drawing, exhibits, Stephanie Gerolimatos with tags , , , on February 23, 2009 by ssstephg

Have you seen the Sol LeWitt Wall Drawing Retrospective at Mass MoCA yet? If not, you’d better hurry! It’s only up for another 25 years! HOO! HAH! You read right–25 years! That time frame seems more than reasonable to me considering that, A. number one, it took over 60 people about six months of labor to install the exhibit, and even more importantly it’s an enormously fun, unforgettable humdinger of a show! ayep.

I could spend some time here describing how impressive it is being in the space and feeling as if you’re walking through a giant art maze, or talking up the spectacularly planned and executed three-floor installation, but frankly, I don’t feel like it. So instead, all I’m going to do is offer an enthusiastic two thumbs up and urge you to make space on your quarter century calendar to squeeze in a Mass MoCA visit. Shift things around if you must.

more pics after the jump
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Opening

Posted in Art, exhibits, Toni Tiller with tags , , , , on February 17, 2009 by Toni Tiller

For those of you in the DC/Maryland area artist John Malloy is having an opening for his show “One Out of A Hundred” at Art Whino Gallery, Saturday Feb. 21

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“Beacons of Humanity”: Baghdad’s first Sadrist Art Exhibition

Posted in Art, current events, exhibits, Stephanie Gerolimatos with tags , , , , , , on February 14, 2009 by ssstephg

My pal Bruce was kind enough to pass this really great NY Times article on to me. I think you all will find it very interesting, too. Thanks Bruce!

INTERNATIONAL / MIDDLE EAST | February 14, 2009
A New Role for Iraqi Militants: Patrons of the Arts
By STEVEN LEE MYERS
Baghdad exhibition sponsored by followers of Moktada al-Sadr


photo by Stephen Farrell
borrowed from NY Times

brief excerpt from article:

“The goal was “to show the entire world that we are not as the media portrays us, a movement that believes only in bearing arms and knows no culture other than that of violence,” Sheik Mazin said of Mr. Sadr’s movement, which is widely blamed for its part in the violence that followed the American invasion in 2003.

“The Sadr movement,” he said, “is also one that believes in ideas and encourages and patronizes the arts.”

And so Baghdad’s first Sadrist art exhibition, titled “Beacons of Humanity,” collected 80 works of art by 39 Iraqi artists and displayed them for three days on the eve of a Shiite holiday commemorating the martyrdom of the Prophet Muhammad’s grandson, Imam Hussein, which culminates in Karbala on Monday.“

-Steph G

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