I was invited to participate in an exhibition, “Three Printmakers” with two Oregon artists, Mike Baggetta and Frank Janzen, at the Riversea Gallery in Astoria, Oregon.
The show runs from August 8th through September.
I have not met the other two gentlemen and shall not be able to attend the show, but am always happy to be exposed. Excuse me, its my turn to flash the neighbors.
below and after the jump are the images I will be showing. All monotypes.
Lapin de Garenne, monotype
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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 »
I’ve been invited to participate in a small show of printmakers in a gallery out in Oregon, where my father is well known and loved. So I’m making more images of him to be possibly included. Here’s another stab at the old prince, fresh off the press. The paint and ink is still wetter than an otter in the Saugatuck Reservoir.
Oil paint, etching ink, lithography ink, turpentine, pencil, razor, knife, rag, et al on rives bfk.
Tom Bennett
Portrait of Harry Bennett, Sr. 2009, monotype, 12″ x 18″
Untitled by Bjorn Copeland
So there was this one time when this little girl’s brother decimated, by means of hanging and drowning, her entire stable of My Little Ponies. The post title is a partial quote from her apparently understated but slightly menacing reaction.
If the concept of a slew of modified My Little Ponies appeals to you, you may want to head over to Champion Coffee, 1108 Manhattan Avenue, Greenpoint, Brooklyn where there’s currently an exhibit of the altered equines. Participating artists are all local pals of Talitha Whidbee, cafe owner and show curator. The show ponies are being auctioned via ebay to benefit Just Food, a non-profit organization that works to develop a just and sustainable food system in the New York City region. There’s a Pony Party scheduled for this Friday May 29 from 7 – 10pm. Bidding ends at 9pm, an hour before party end.
Read more details at Brooklyn Based, the organization with whom Whidbee partnered to transform the Equine event into a charity benefit.
-Steph Gerolimatos
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.
If you’re a loyal d’Arte Board reader you may very well recognize the name Sarah Bliss from previous posts… ayep. Sarah is a fellow Western Mass artist who, you may recall, recently exhibited at the most fabulous Wunderarts Gallery in Amherst, MA. Sarah’s art ranges from lush painterliness to solid objectness, often within one piece. Her recent work is a complex and thoughtful look at the cycle of production, consumption and waste in contemporary society. Refreshingly, she avoids self-righteous proselytizing and manages to create a far reaching, critical dialog about the reality and the psychology of the issue. Sarah acknowledges art as commodity and the artist–herself–as a contributor in the cycle and even begins to lessen her role to a degree through the transformation of packing and shipping materials into beautiful art objects. We’re happy today to introduce Sarah Bliss as d’Arte Board’s first guest blogger.
-Steph Gerolimatos
The accusatory “thief”, spelled out by Wilcox in huge letters she poured from a sack of white flour, points to the spot where a developer abandoned plans to build housing, after using the claim of beneficial development to encourage the city to take the land by eminent domain.“Eminent Domain No. 5″ by Emma Wilcox
Silver gelatin print
2006
When’s the last time you heard from an artist who’s a living, breathing example of what it looks like to craft a life where artmaking, livelihood, and personal and political values are deeply intertwined, constantly tested, and pushed and stretched in all kinds of fascinating ways? And whose imagemaking is pretty pitch, too?
Lucky me. I was at Emma Wilcox’s artist talk on Thursday night, given in conjunction with her show of haunting black-and-white silver gelatin photography and video, “Salvage Rights”. It’s up at Real Artways in Hartford, CT through June 14. Definitely catch it before it comes down.
Wilcox’s images, devoid of humans, but redolent with the human impact upon the land, are Read more »
The gallery reception on Saturday night was lots of fun! The art, which was even more exciting than I’d expected, found a perfect setting in the refined but not overly slick space that is Wunderarts. The gallery, a beautifully transformed former auto parts shop, has a high-ceilinged, wide open interior that is partitioned by a simple configuration of low movable walls. The overall effect is neutral and elegant with definite spatial character–the sort of place you walk into and say, “What a great space!”. In Tulay’s series of charcoal, pastel and ink abstracted drawings he uses geometric forms suggestive of architectural elements against renderings of sky to define ambiguous moody spaces where form and formlessness shift seamlessly. The drawings, which were all cleanly floated on white mat backgrounds within narrow white shadowbox frames, manage to suggest both interior and exterior space within a single composition. Tulay stuck to a limited palette of black, grey, white and either warm or cool blue for every work. As I’m a sucker both for art that finds that sort of wonderfully tense balance between representation and abstraction and art that successfully uses a minimal color scheme, I found myself contemplating whether the soon to be new half a roof for my little old house could wait another few months so that I could hang this diptych in my living room:
charcoal/pastel diptych 22″ x 60″
Reality won so as of 9:00 Saturday night this gem was still available at a very reasonable price.
I didn’t manage to get many decent photos as my camera blows in anything but perfect light conditions. So in lieu of posting a bunch of dark, blurry pictures, I’m going to point you all to the artist’s site where you can see his work in as full glory as pixels on a monitor Read more »
I can’t believe I forgot to post an announcement about this show opening tonight. I’ll blame it on the Benadryl again. I’m headed out the door shortly to an opening reception at Wunderarts in Amherst. Read a bit about the artist, Scott Tulay, and see images of his work on the Wunderarts website. He’s showing a series of drawings done in charcoal, pastel and ink that reference landscape and architecture. Maybe I’ll be able to update with some pics tomorrow. For now, here’s the show info:
April 25 – June 3, 2009
reception TONIGHT 6-9 pm
works by Scott Tulay
Wunderarts
383 Main Street
Amherst, MA
413-356-6600
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
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.
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:
Borias and Orythia (after Rubens), 2008, monotype, 16 x 20
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
By Tom Bennett
The Center for Contemporary Printmaking, which whom I’ve shown with before, is having its 7th Biennial International Miniature Print Competition in Norwalk, Ct. The size requirement is no larger than a 4 square inch image area. I’m in the process of producing a measured quantity, out of which I will choose three. I decided to try using rice paper to print on; the fibers allow for fresh organic abstractions to reveal themselves. Of course, rice paper has been a staple support for ages with Chinese and Japanese relief printing.The first cutting of images into wood blocks took place during the Tang Dynasty (618-907 AD), China. The early emperors were enlightened patrons of the arts and literature and tolerated a variety of religious doctrines – Buddhist, Christian, and Confucian. Few of those prints have survived, since they were cheap and considered expendable, but they inspired in neighboring Japan the popular style of print known as Ukiyo-e.
Here are some of the monotypes i have been doing. I have also discovered that the reverse side of the print reveals more interesting textures and passages.
All monotypes on rice paper, 2″ x 2″
click on thumbnails for larger image.
gag
From Gawker.com:
Wow, this beats even the douchey memos or subject-only e-mail missives we’re used to receiving. Larry Gagosian, probably the richest gallerist in the world, sent this message to his staff in November: “If you would like to continue working for Gagosian I suggest you start to sell some art.” The memo originally appeared on Flash Art Online, but now we can’t find it—maybe because Gagosian is a big advertiser on that site?—and was also picked up by More Intelligent Life. The rest of the threatening memo—”If you are not willing to make that kind of commitment please let me know”—after the jump.
“If you would like to continue working for Gagosian I suggest you start to sell some art. Everything is going to be evaluated in this new climate based on performances I basically put in eighteen hours a day, which any number of people could verify. If you are not willing to make that kind of commitment please let me know. The general economy and also the art economy is clearly headed for some choppy waters; I want to make sure that we are the best swimmers on the block. The luxury of carrying under-performing employees is now a thing of the past.”
Hah. Don’t we know it.
I’m going to opt for a slew of pretty pictures. Here are a bunch of photos from the reception for the “Toys” exhibit.
a painting i like but cannot remember the artist’s name
painting by Betsy Stone
Agora Gallery - the proud sponsor of the Chelsea International Fine Art Competition, which offers contemporary artists the opportunity to show their original art at one the most acclaimed juried art shows in Chelsea, New York’s art galleries district.
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