2.14.19 - New Work, Experiments, Shows, Friends
I've had a busy and eventful past few months and am excited by all the new experiences I have to look forward to in the New 2010 Year! Many friends and organizations have been gracious and wonderful to me recently and I thank them for all the goodness they have contributed to me and my artmaking. First off, I am currently showing new work in the 2010 RISCA Fellowship Exhibition at Imago Gallery in Warren, RI. The Rhode Island State Council for the Arts awarded me a grant for three dimensional/environmental art some months ago and I greatly appreciate their generous financial support for artists like myself who reside in lil' rhody. Taking part in the exhibition are a slew of talented artists from all over the state. Check out the show card:
I was also recently involved in a collaborative project for the storefront window at the Dirt Palace, a feminist artist collective residing here in Providence, RI. The ever involved Lauren Mackler asked Julia Gualtieri and I to join her in creating a large scale environment, called Hike Up the Perils of Night Flying, that was located in busy hub of Olneyville Square. I had a blast being involved in this! Big shout out to Li Pallas who organizes the month long exhibitions in their window and hand silkscreens all the show cards that are pieces of art in and of themselves.
I've begun some new work as well. This, I am very excited about and I have just begun to make some objects, images, and maybe some short videos. We shall see how this all comes together....Here is just a tiny piece of inspiration.
And speaking of being back in the studio more and more... I've been experimenting for awhile now and just find some of these little pieces of ideas laying around the studio inspiring. I sometimes enjoy the little raw works or serendipitious placements of objects more than the finished artwork! They can reveal so much more about what it's all about.
and then just a more recent shot of my workspace...
12.6.09 - Tokyo
The lovely Lauren Mackler invited me to be a part of a zine show she curated for the Ultra Art Fair in Toyko. She was invited to work with an up and coming gallery called Waiting Room, website here: www.waitingroom.jp. She also created a website featuring the artists in the show. Check it out here: famjams.org.
Some pictures from the show!!!!!
9.18.09 - Thought for the day
I think Carl Sagan famously said "We are a way for the Universe to know itself." If you google that, some very interesting quantum physics forums will keep you occupied for hours...
Oh, and a friend, Talia Chetrit, has some very new and exciting work in a show at the Renwick Gallery in New York. Definitely check it out for her own photographic renderings of perceptual illusions and color light mixing!
Renwick Gallery
45 Renwick Street
New York, NY 10013
t. 212-609-3535
f. 212-609-3533
info@renwickgallery.com
www.renwickgallery.com
7.22.09 - Three Things
1. Many of my friends are in a variety of upcoming shows/current shows. Check it out!!!!
Niki Kriese: Cast Shadows featuring performances by Yuka Otani and Audra Wolowiec
Dutch Kills Gallery
July 11 - August 2
ALSO Josephine Sittenfeld and Jesse Burke are in a juried show at the Griffin Photography Museum in Winchester, MA.
I don't have the dates for the show as of yet so check in with, well, here: http://www.griffinmuseum.org.
or here:
www.josittenfeld.com
www.jesseburke.com
ALSO Millee Tibbs has work featured in three shows at the same time!!! Not a surprise at all! She told me where they all were, but forgetful me has forgotten what she told me. ugh. Way cool in any case. Just check out her website for her insane ability to be showing everywhere at once!
2. I won an award! The 2010 RISCA Fellowship Grant for Three Dimensional Art.
RISCA is such an amazing state-run organization that supports the "much-in-need-of-support" arts programs, organizations and artists residing in Lil' Rhody. Super generous and full of amazing and talented people -THANK YOU!!!!
3. Just thinking about the copy, replica and artificial substitution for when the real "thing" no longer exists. An interesting find from P.T. Barnum on his 1889 Barnum and Bailey Circus where he states that it is "A Stupendous Mirror of Departed Empires". I guess I will be researching the history of the circus now.
5.20.09 - Present
I found this present for me one day as I went to studio. My studiomate, Derek Enos, had constructed a dual light controlled oscillator that makes a high pitch noise that changes in frequency as light gets darker or brighter. Super cool and I can plug it into an amp! I played with it for a long time to say the least. I really like the deep rumbling sound it makes in low light. Thanks D!
3.25.09 - Some Studio Pics!!!
It's been coming along sloooooowly, but what's to be expected when you're dealing with a couple of full-time worker bees!
3.17.09 - The Cutest and Most Talented-est Couple
Peter and Breanne have opened their printshop!!!! ...and I'm envious of their business's name, Forest Object Fabrication.
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1.26.09 - Millee Tibbs at UMASS Lowell
My friend Millee has a solo exhibition going on right now at UMASS Lowell. She makes amazing work about the perception of self-identity. It's a bit of a trek from Providence, but a nice weekend day trip to a little old industrial town is just what one needs to ward off the hibernating inclinations. Here some info:
T H I S I S A P I C T U R E O F M E.
b y M i l l e e T i b b s
J a n u a r y 2 6 - F e b r u a r y 1 9
U M a s s, L o w e l l U n i v e r s i t y G a l l e r y
R e c e p t i o n s:
S a t u r d a y , J a n u a r y 3 1 , 5 - 7 p m
a s p a r t o f L o w e l l ‘ s P h o t o g r a p h y W e e k e nd E v e n t s
A N D
W e d n e s d a y , F e b r u a r y 4 , 3 - 5 p m
A r t i s t T a l k @ 3 o ‘ c l o c k i n O ‘ L e a r y 2 2 2
G a l l e r y R e c e p t i o n i m m e d i a t e l y f o l l o w s
u n t i l 5 o ‘ c l o c k
The University Gallery at UMass Lowell is located on the 1st Floor of the
McGauvran Student Union, 71 Wilder Street. Current Hours: Monday - Thursday
11a.m. - 4 p.m. and by appointment. Extended hours to be announced. Contact
Michele A. Gagnon,Gallery Coordinator, Michele_Gagnon@uml.edu, 978 934.3491.All UML Gallery events are free, open to all and wheelchair accessible. Free
parking in the Riverview Lot on Broadway Street. Handicapped parking
directly across from the McGauvran Student Union on Wilder Street.
Directions: www.uml.edu/maps
Check out her images at millleetibbs.com!
1.1.09 - New Studio!!!!!!
Yes, the time has come for more and more and more in this time of less and less and less. I have the best timing known to man...
Anyway, more space is exactly what I need for this inaugural year of hope. And the space is enormous! There is much work to be done with this blank slate of 2200 sqft including bigger and better art. I will post some pictures once my studiomates and I have done it up real pretty like...
12.12.08 - Mereology opening at Dead Cat Gallery (669 Elmwood Ave. Providence, RI), 6-8pm
I am in this show curated by my friend and former fellow RISDer, Shaun Bullens, and I must say I've been jostling his concept for the show around in my brain since I heard of it...and my brain quite likes the idea. It is called "Mereology", a branch of logic that deals with the relationship between the part and the whole. Many others are parts in this whole including, Shaun Bullens, Dan Semeraro, Steve Mykietyn, Robin Gawron, Ryan Pfrommer, Joel Green, Katie Elliott, Islay Taylor, Katherine Hughes, Sue Crawford, Seth Crawford, and Chloris Lowe.
12.05.08 - Opening for Lauren Mackler and Mary Banas, Talman + Monroe Gallery, Williamsburg, NYC
Luxe/Zeitgeist/Magpie!
curated by Sophia Macris
Opening: Friday, December 5th, 7-9pm
My friend Lauren asked me to contribute something broken and its story of brokeness for her installation at Talman + Monroe. Here is some more info and pics! You're rad, Lauren!!!
Presiding over the exhibition is a grand chandelier created by Mary Banas and Lauren Mackler, which, upon closer inspection, is composed of broken items and their stories. These are things that sparkle and shine, and the dissection of them mirrors our cultural milieu—in this sense, these artists are prescient arbiters of the moment. Mary Banas and Lauren Mackler are MELT. MELT is interested in collections, stories, and when other people come out and play; evidence of the human hand, slang, theme parties, and the thing that makes you feel like you belong. MELT can be reached at: www.youhavereachedmelt.com.
11.25.08 - Winner of MyArtSpace's Bridge Art Fair Competition
Whoa again! I was a runner-up winner in this competition where three artists were chosen to show at this year's Bridge Art Fair in Miami (in conjunction with Art Basel). The competition was juried by Elisabeth Sussman, Senior Curator, The Whitney Museum, Janet Bishop, Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), JoAnne Northrup, Senior Curator, San Jose Museum of Art, and Michael Workman, Founder, Bridge Art Fair. Quite an honor!
11.24.08 - Featured on Rhizome.org
Whoa! While I was showing this site to my friend, I was scrolling down and showing him the type of artworks that get featured on Rhizome, and there it was - The Setting Sun! I was so surprised and honored, of course! THANKS RHIZOME!!!
10.31.08 - Bloodcurdling Bushy Bear Bashing Many Moldy Macintosh Monitors in the Hellish Halloween Haunted Maze
This Halloween I found myself in quite a maze of spooks, surprises, and silliness which, in turn, provided me with some special opportunities for recording a thing or two. This was by far the creepiest thing I've ever made. Beware!