Monday, September 16, 2013

Mark Klett - Response To History: A 30 Year Retrospective September 12, 2013

Lisa Sette Gallery
 September 12, 2013
Mark Klett Response To History: A 30 Year Retrospective


Binh Danh - Yosemite
Mark Klett and Binh Danh
Top: Mark KlettContemplating the View at Muley Point, Utah, 5/13/94, 1994, gelatin silver print, 16" x 20", edition of 50
Bottom: Binh DanhBridalveil Fall, Yosemite, CA, May 04, 2012, Daguerreotype (in camera exposure), 6 1/2" x 8 1/2", unique


Exhibition Dates: November 7th - December 28th, 2013


Opening Reception with Mark Klett and Binh Danh
Thursday, November 7th, 2013 from 7 - 9pm


Lisa Sette Gallery presents two Arizona-based photographers whose works explore the sublime landscapes of the American West and the individual human narratives playing out within them.

A decades-long resident of Arizona, Mark Klett first came to the state as a geological researcher. He stayed on as a photographer, and for over three decades has documented the demanding environments and idiosyncrasies of life in the Southwest. Since his artistic project began in the 1970’s, Klett has received Guggenheim, NEA, and Governor’s Arts Awards, among many other accolades, and yet perhaps nothing is so indicative of his singular craft and aesthetic intention as his wide-ranging body of work, a selection of which will be included in an upcoming retrospective at Lisa Sette Gallery. From black and white photographs of discrete desert scenes, both alien and lovely, to the collage-like constructions of his “rephotographic panoramas” of the Grand Canyon, Klett’s works present the complicated attraction of the Western frontier and its enduring capacity for both inspiration and isolation.

Klett’s images are consummate depictions of the untamable, immeasurable Western horizon as it intersects with our human imagination and intervention. Often, Klett and his collaborators, chiefly Byron Wolfe, combine archival imagery, such as postcards or guidebooks, with new and original photographs, expanding well-known scenes of grandeur to even grander proportions, and compelling his viewers to risk massive and exhilarating perspectives. Humans become minor details in these scenes, silhouetted presences on the precipice of incomprehensibly vast landscapes. From this precarious vantage point, we may observe the inexorable series of deep-time geological changes and human involvements that define the American West.

As a child, Binh Danh examined photographs of National Parks as a way of escaping the boredom of working in his father’s television repair shop. Yet he had never visited his home state’s own inaugural park until he embarked on the series of exquisite daguerreotype images that make up the photographer’s Yosemite series. Danh, who grew up in suburban California after his family fled the turmoil in Vietnam in the 1970s, has commented that until recently, “Yosemite, like the Vietnam war, only existed in my imagination because I only saw the landscape in photographs.”

Lately that dream-like landscape has been threatened by wildfires and Binh Danh’s unique daguerreotypes remind us of the precious quality of a pristine wilderness that can be lost at any moment.

Danh is well known for his rigorous photographic experimentation, having previously innovated a method of printing images on living leaves in order to create a botanical archive of victims of the atrocities in Vietnam and Cambodia. Similarly, creation of the Yosemite series involved outfitting a specialized van for the on-site creation of large-scale daguerreotypes and spending many seasons camping and working from within the park.

An in-camera exposure that is chemically etched on silver-coated copper plates, the daguerreotype is a difficult and early photographic process resulting in photographic objects with mirror-like reflective surfaces. Danh’s images of well-known sites, such as Bridalveil Fall, are both transportingly gorgeous and eerily mutable, as we see our own faces, and the faces of people around us, reflected in their sublime surfaces. In Danh’s re-envisioning, these much-photographed scenes of American splendor become unique, individual representations of the multitude of experiences of the American West, from the vistas of Yosemite to the suburban daydreams of a young immigrant artist.
Lisa Sette Gallery maintains a very active exhibition schedule, mounting approximately 10 exhibitions a year ranging in theme and genre.  For nearly 30 years, the gallery has been committed to showcasing a range of contemporary photography, sculpture, painting, installation and performance art. 
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Susan Marx exhibits paintings of Israel at the A. Jain Marunouchi Gallery, 24 West 57 Street

Abstract Impressionist Susan Marx - The Israel Paintings
Paintings of Jerusalem and the Negev Desert
A. Jain Marunouchi Gallery
 24 West 57 Street, 6th floor, New York, NY 10019
October 1 – October 26, 2013
Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Sunday, 11:00 am – 5 pm.
 Opening reception, Thursday, October 10, 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm
 
Susan Marx exhibits paintings of Israel at the A. Jain Marunouchi Gallery, 24 West 57 Street, 6th floor, New York, NY 10019,October 1 -26, 2013. Opening Reception October 10.
On exhibit will be six paintings, scenes of Jerusalem and the Negev, painted en plein air, on site in Israel this past summer, July 2013. 
Marx is an Abstract Impressionist.  Her art comes from her radical amazement at the visual world around her, and her need to turn that visual experience into paint.  Israel is a place of great meaning for her.   The emotion of being in Israel comes through on each canvas.  They are a passionate depiction of Jerusalem and the Negev. The canvases are colorful emotional interpretations with paint-filled brushstrokes of a land that she loves.   
Speaking about her work, Marx says:  “I love color.  I see color everywhere.  I am drawn to a specific spot and look and look and look.  I load up my palette, pick up a brush, holding it as a conductor would hold his baton, and begin.  At that point, I don’t speak to the canvas, instead the canvas speaks to me.  I smell the air and the landscape in front of me.  I am transported.  I paint but lose the concept of time.  Fast, faster, passionately painting, furiously painting.  I cannot get the colors down fast enough.   Then suddenly I need air.   I stop and step back to look at my canvas one last time.  The painting is done. 
 
“I try to capture the essence in my painting, the color and the emotion, and leave the rest to the viewer’s imagination, to bring him into the painting.
“Someone once said I work to the muse of Monet, Van Gogh and Joan Mitchell; I was thrilled.  They helped guide me to develop my own personal visual expression and style to share with the world.”
Susan Marx is represented by and exhibits at the A. Jain Marunouchi Gallery, 24 West 57th Street, the Agora Gallery, 520 West 25th Street and the Amsterdam Whitney Gallery, 531 West 25th Street in New York City.  She has also exhibited at the Fox Gallery, the Keane Mason Gallery and The Emerging Collector in New York and in New Jersey at the Robin Hutchins Gallery, the Korby Gallery, the Hait Gallery, Nitsa Fine Arts, the Marino Gallery, The Art Gallery of South Orange, The Gaelen Gallery East, The Tenth Muse, and The Right Angle.  She exhibited in Paris at the Musée des Duncan.  In Israel, she showed her work at the Museum of Printing Art in Safed and at the Artist's House in Jerusalem. 
Marx's paintings are is in private collections in the United States and abroad. She lives in Orange, NJ and volunteers at the Montclair Art Museum and the Newark Museum.

Artist’s website: www.susanmarxartist.com

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Attention Artists: this looks good, Gallery Seba is pleased to announce the 3rd International Izmir Art Biennial, Turkey

   Gallery Seba is pleased to announce the3. International
Izmir Art Biennial, which will bring artists around the world and
their works together on 2015 in , Izmir, Turkey.

          We will be honored to see you as a part of International
Izmir Art Biennial, in which we aim to leverage the power of art to
bring different cultures together and provide people with contrasting
values a common ground for sharing.

          For artists who want to take place in 3. International Izmır
Art Biennial with their works of visual arts, necessary documents for
pre application are listed below. Pre applications must be submitted
both digitally and printed. Deadline for pre application is Aprıl
30th, 2014. Printed documents must have arrived to the addresses given
below until this date. Following the end of the pre application
period, the artists selected by the biennial committee will be
provided with the terms of contract, detailed information on
participation fees , shipping and other issues. The results of the
selection will also be announced on our website.

General Director
Seba UGURTAN

Documents for Pre Application
E-Mail Postal Mail
A photograph of the artist. 4 passport photos of the artist (4,5x6 cm)
3 images of artist's original artwork. Images must be no smaller than
1600 pixels wide in the long side. Printed images of artist's 3
original artworks (13x18 cm).
Biography: 150 words maximum, in English and Turkish if possible.
Digital images of artist's 3 original artworks:  minimum 300dpi
resolution, print quality, burned on a CD.
Contact information: Address, phone number, e-mail, fax. Biography
(150 words maximum, in English and Turkish if possible).
Contact information (Address, phone number, e-mail, fax).

Note: If you want to participate with a sponsor please include this
information in your documents.
http://youtu.be/lwCkv8QJrls
Contact
Seba Art Gallery
Addres: Mithatpasa Caddesi No: 464/A 35280 Asansor/Izmir/Turkey
Phone: +90 232 445 33 40  -  Fax: +90 232 445 33 40
E-Mail: biennial@galleryseba.com   Web: www.bienalizmir.org   -
www.galleryseba.com

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Patrick Mimran Actuality


"Billboard Project"
Istituto degli Innocenti
Mudi

















Piazza SS Annunziata 12
50122  Firenze Italy
September 2013
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Thursday, September 12, 2013

Reynolds Fine Art, Breaking Boundaries: The Art of Susan Weinreich


Reynolds Fine Art
Presents

Breaking Boundaries:
The Art of Susan Weinreich


 

Reynolds Fine Art is pleased to offer a hand picked selection of early Vintage Drawings executed by the artist, Susan Weinreich, in the 1970’s. Raw and Frenetic, these drawings were created on the cusp of the artist’s descent into schizophrenia.  Also included in this exhibition is a selection of signed Black and White Woodcut Prints, Powerfully Bold and Unique, produced from the 35 original blocks executed by Weinreich during the acute phase of her illness.  A corresponding selection of the original Blocks, themselves, will also be on display throughout the show. The exhibit concludes with significant and highly compelling Large Scale Pastels and Mixed Media works created during the early phase of Weinreich’s recovery.
 “Art is the noblest way to make a seeming tragedy into the occasion of triumph.  Susan Weinreich’s drawings and paintings have that redemptive quality: they reach unabashedly into darkness and thrust into shattering clarity, telling the story of their sometimes tortured inspiration from a hard-earned place of safety.  These brave pictures, suffused with intimacy, elaborate her unstinting gaze at both the smoothness of the world’s surfaces and the jagged turmoil of the human mind.  Susan Weinreich is remarkable for the art she has made in sickness and in health, for the profound emergence from schizophrenia she has achieved, and for the intense self-awareness that has marked her recovery.” -Andrew Solomon, PhD, is a writer and lecturer on politics, culture, psychology and the arts.
Susan Weinreich is a celebrated American Artist, Lecturer and Mental Health Advocate whose paintings and drawings have been exhibited across the nation. At the request of galleries, universities, public corporations and private non-profit organizations, Susan has spoken in the United States and Canada about her art and the impact of her past illness on her life. Her art and life story have been featured in the national press, including the New York Times.
Originally diagnosed in 1975 with paranoid schizophrenia while attending the Rhode Island School of Design. Weinreich’s recovery from her illness provides an important lesson for us all in the power of heroic commitment, perseverance and healing to affect change. Her work both as an advocate for those less fortunate and as an artist has made much impact on the lives of many people and their energy.
Ms. Weinreich’s artwork is in the collection of numerous individuals, public and private, including, The William Jefferson Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock, Arkansas, the World Corporate Headquarters of Eli Lilly in Indianapolis, Indiana, and the Four Winds Hospital, in Katonah, New York.
The Show will be on display from October 4th through the 29th at Reynolds Fine Art located in New Haven’s historic 9th square on 96 Orange St. The Shows opening reception will be held on Friday the 4th of October. Open Studio lectures scheduled for the 19thand 20th of October. For inquiries please contact us at 203.498.2200 or email us at info@reynoldsfineart.com.

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Alighiero Boetti The magic of words, works on paper 1964 - 1990

  
  

   
Alighiero Boetti
The magic of words, works on paper 1964 - 1990

  

Planes, 1980 black ballpoint pen on paper mounted on canvas, 26.5 x 58.5 cm
Opening Thursday, September 26 - 18 hours
September 27 to November 16, 2013, Tuesday - Friday Hours 11-19
Repetto Projects - Milan, Via Senato 24
 
Via Amendola 23, Acqui Terme
tel: +39 0144 3253518
info@galleriarepetto.com
2 4 Via Senato, Milan
tel: +39 02 339 4,492,555
info@repettoprojects.com 

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Art Allert!!Catch the Red Bull Canvas Cooler Project New York Looks intresting


RED BULL CURATES:  THE CANVAS COOLER PROJECT
ART EXHIBITION & COMPETITION SHINES A LIGHT ON 
NEW YORK’S EMERGING ARTISTS

National Tour Gives Artists Unique Exhibition, Career Boosting Opportunities & 



WHAT:
Red Bull Curates: The Canvas Cooler Project New York is pairing 20 handpicked New York-based artists with venue owners from some of the city’s hottest local bars, lounges and restaurants.  Selected artists will be given a one-day challenge to transform a blank, canvas-wrapped Red Bull Cooler into an inspired work of art customized for permanent display at each venue.  The art created will be exhibited in a one-night only public showcase on Thursday, September 19 at The 1896 in Brooklyn.  Attending guests and a panel of curatorial judges will vote on each piece, sending two artists, and possibly a third, to SCOPE Miami Beach in December, where they will show and sell a collection of their work during the world's premier international art show for modern and contemporary works, Art Basel.
In addition to the two New York artists selected by the luminary panel of judges the night of the showcase, two additional artists will be entered into the People’s Choice Award pool, which gives one more artist the opportunity to join the group show at SCOPE Miami Beach.  The two artists will be chosen based upon the number of social media mentions using their custom hashtag on Twitter the night of the event, and the People’s Choice Award will be announced in November.
The New York exhibition is the fifth in this national art tour of six cities.  The Canvas Cooler Project 2013 launched in San Francisco in January, with additional exhibitions in Los Angeles, Chicago and Dallas, honoring a diverse group of artists from mixed disciplines including fine art, street art, graphic design and more.  By combining social media, local industry and a no-boundaries stance on art style, this forward-thinking art tour has set a new tone for taking local artists communities and placing them on a global platform.  The final exhibition and competition before the group show at SCOPE Miami Beach will be hosted in Atlanta on October 17.
WHO:
Selected New York Artists:
Michael Anderson - David M. Cook - Cope2 - Hanksy - ICY and SOT - Indie 184 - Jerkface - Brian Kirhagis - Sofia Maldonado -MRS - Phetus - Beau Stanton - Toofly - Tanja Vulin - Twerps! - UR New York - Col Wallnuts - Steve Wasterval - WhisBe - Zimad

Participating Venues:
Full Circle - Paperbox - South 4th - Knitting Factory - SRB - Glasslands Green Room - Brooklyn Fireproof East - Alligator Lounge - Muchmore’s - Leftfield - Fontanas - Cakeshop - Forgtmenot - The Delancey - Arlene’s Grocery - The Woods
Judges:
-Jaime Rojo (Editor in Chief, BrooklynStreetArt.com)
-Steven P. Harrington (Editor of Photography, BrooklynStreetArt.com)
-Bill Carroll (Director, The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts; Teacher, Parsons School of Design)
-Bibbe Hansen

ABOUT CANVAS COOLER:
Red Bull Curates: The Canvas Cooler Project 2013 launched in San Francisco on January 31 and the winning artists were Akira Beard and Slvstr. The Los Angeles event was held on March 28 and the judges chose artists James Haunt and White Buffalo to move on to show at SCOPE Miami Beach. In Chicago on May 16 artists Jason Brammer and Ian Ferguson were selected and in Dallas on July 25 the judges named artists Jody Pham and SopaGrapes the winners. After New York on September 19, the final competition in this national art tour will be held in Atlanta on October 17, where two more artists will be invited to show and sell a collection of their work at SCOPE Miami Beach in December.
Last year, Red Bull Curates: The Canvas Cooler Project was hosted in four cities, included nearly 100 artists, and was curated by luminaries in the art world including pop artist Ron English, acclaimed director and author Jon Reiss, Carlo McCormick (Paper Magazine) and Daria Britt Shapiro (SCOPE) among others.   Ultimately, 10 artists were awarded the opportunity to show and sell collections at SCOPE Miami during Art Basel.  Featured artists representing New York were: Gerardo CidL’Amour Supreme,CLAWMONEY and Cosbe.  GOONSHebru Brantley and Don’t Fret represented Chicago alongside Los Angeles artists Gregory SiffLydia Emily and Hans Haveron
ABOUT ARTS FUND:
Arts Fund produces and invests in independent music, art, and film initiatives and their connections to the audience.  To learn more, please visit http://facebook.com/ArtsFund and http://facebook.com/TermOfArt.
ABOUT SCOPE:
With over 65 art fairs spanning more than a decade, SCOPE is the largest and most global art fair in the world, celebrated as the premier showcase for international emerging contemporary art and multi-disciplinary creative programming. Renowned for its uncanny ability to forecast new visual trends that are embraced globally, SCOPE Art Shows in Miami, Basel, New York, London and the Hamptons have garnered extensive critical acclaim, with sales of over $500 million and attendance of over 700,000 visitors. Learn more at www.scope-art.com.
Through the Red Bull network, hi-res video and still images are captured and made immediately available for editorial use for all media channels including television, film, print, mobile and digital.  The content is centrally located in the Red Bull Content Pool for media partners at www.redbullcontentpool.com.

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Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Casey Chalem Anderson “Atlantic Curl at Dune Beach” Catching the wave after Labor day

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Casey Chalem Anderson “Atlantic Curl at Dune Beach” 24 x 36 oil

























The change of season as if on cue after Labor Day startled me. Right away, I felt loss that somehow the summer got away.  As soon as I realized how futile a thought that was and how it didn’t serve me one bit, I shifted to appreciating what is here.  And it is glorious!
At the ocean the water is alive with very small white caps in the distance.  As the current rolls in and across eastward all is activated.  Yet the people at the beach seem calmer.  They certainly have more space for themselves than in the high season. The energy is no longer frenzied with the pressure of squeezing in a good time memory of the summer.
September at the beach is a bonus to enjoy.  People are simply happy to be here, right now in this very moment.   The relief is palpable.   I see it on people’s faces as they walk on to the beach and take in the vast ocean that is so much deeper, bigger and more powerful that we can imagine.
Here is my most recent Atlantic Ocean wave from Dune Beach in Southampton, a Peconic Land Trust conserved property.  I always find luxurious color in the diffused light and sparkling bursts of foam in the waves as they crash to shore.
To see more wave paintings click here : http://caseyart.com/portfolio-gallery/ocean-waves/
Until next time,
Casey
This month I will again be donating 10% of my sales to the Peconic Land Trust as our highly anticipated and always well attended early October annual exhibition opens October 4, 5, 6 at Ashawagh Hall in Springs – East Hampton
I am a founding member of Plein Air Peconic, the artist group dedicated to helping the Peconic Land Trust conserve the natural beauty of the East End of Long Island.

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Sunday, September 8, 2013

Premier selection of galleries to participate in Art Basel's 12th edition in Miami Beach

Premier selection of galleries to participate in Art Basel's 12th edition in Miami Beach 

In 2013 the Art Basel show in Miami Beach will feature 258 leading international galleries, drawn from 31 countries across North and South America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. The show presents artwork ranging from Modern masters to the latest contemporary works and includes, for the first time in Miami Beach, a sector dedicated to editioned works. Art Basel in Miami Beach, whose Lead Partner is UBS, will take place at the Miami Beach Convention Center from December 5 to December 8, 2013. 

The 2013 Miami Beach show asserts again its status as the premier destination for galleries from the United States and Latin America, with nearly half of this year’s exhibitors coming from those regions. Galleries with exhibition spaces in 31 countries across North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia and Africa, including Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Monaco, Norway, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, and Uruguay are participating at this year's show. For the full gallery list, please visit artbasel.com/miami-beach/exhibitors

A select group of younger American galleries are taking part in the show for the first time, including Elizabeth Dee and Corbett vs. Dempsey in the show’s Galleries sector, 47 Canal in Nova, and Bureau and Real Fine Arts in Positions. Reflecting the international show’s growing link to Asia, new galleries from the region include Tang Contemporary Art and One and J. Gallery, both in Positions, and Singapore Tyler Print Institute in Edition. 

The focus of the show remains its Galleries sector, which includes 195 of the world’s best established galleries. Long-time exhibitors are joined by first-time participants such as Pace/MacGill Gallery, one of the leading international photography galleries. After a brief hiatus, Art Basel in Miami Beach also welcomes returning galleries Foksal Gallery Foundation, Galerie Jocelyn Wolff, P.P.O.W, and Timothy Taylor Gallery. Several galleries who previously exhibited as part of Nova or Positions have progressed to the main sector of the show, including Gavlak Gallery, Ingleby Gallery, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Galerie Mezzanin, Proyectos Monclova, Ratio 3, Reena Spaulings Fine Art, Galeria Nara Roesler, and Wentrup. For the full gallery list, please visit artbasel.com/miami-beach/galleries

This year’s Nova sector, which offers younger galleries a platform to present work made  in the last three years by one, two or three artists, offers a focused selection of 34 participants. Highlights include works by the artists Aaron Bobrow and David Diao (at Office Baroque Gallery); Deyson Gilbert and Marina Simão (at Mendes Wood); Pamela Rosenkranz and Keiichi Tanaami (at Karma International); Saâdane Afif and Karsten Födinger (at RaebervonStenglin); Oliver Laric and Aleksandra Domanović (at Tanya Leighton Gallery); Charles Atlas (at Vilma Gold); Bharti Kher, Sheela Gowda and Prabhavathi Meppayil (at GallerySKE); Sam Falls, Wyatt Kahn (at T293); Teresa Margolles, Pedro Reyes and Jill Magid (at Labor); Daniela Ortiz, Rita Ponce de León and David Zink Yi (at 80M2 Livia Benavides) and Matthew Chambers and Phil Wagner (at Untitled). For the full list of galleries and artists, please visit artbasel.com/miami-beach/nova

Positions focuses on curated booths presenting a single artist. In 2013, this sector comprises 16 artists, including Ulrik Heltoft (at Andersen`s Contemporary), Gabriel Acevedo Velarde (at Arratia Beer), Lourival Cuquinha (at Baró Galeria), Tom Holmes (at Bureau), Jorge Pedro Nuñez (at Galerie Crèvecoeur), Dove Allouche (at Gaudel de Stampa), Vijai Patchineelam (at Ignacio Liprandi Arte Contemporáneo), Stefanos Tsivopoulos (at Kalfayan Galleries), Nicolás Consuegra (at La Central), Juan López (at Nogueras Blanchard), Seung Yul Oh (at One and J. Gallery), Oriol Vilanova (at Parra & Romero), Nadira Husain (at PSM), Mathieu Malouf (at Real Fine Arts), Laercio Redondo (at Silvia Cintra + Box4), Wang Yuyang (at Tang Contemporary Art). For the full list of galleries and artists, please visit artbasel.com/miami-beach/positions

Following the long success of a dedicated sector for prints and limited-editioned works at Art Basel's show in Basel, the Edition sector premiers now in Miami Beach with 13 exhibitors, including first-time Miami Beach participants Alan Cristea Gallery, Crown Point Press, gdm, Pace Prints, Paul Stolper Gallery, and Singapore Tyler Print Institute. For the full list of galleries, please visit artbasel.com/miami-beach/edition

The Public sector will for the first time be curated by Nicholas Baume, Director and Chief Curator of New York City's Public Art Fund. Both the Public and Kabinett sectors will feature expanded significant offerings in 2013, with an increased number of participating artists and galleries. Further information on Public, the Kabinett and Film sectors and Art Basel's Conversations and Salon series will be released during the fall. 

For the past 11 years, Miami Beach’s leading museums and private collections have timed their strongest exhibitions of the year to coincide with Art Basel in Miami Beach, and 2013 is no different. Miami’s leading private collections – among them the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO), the de la Cruz Collection Contemporary Art Space, The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, the Rubell Family Collection and World Class Boxing – will be opening their exhibition spaces to guests of the international art show. The museums of South Florida will be staging important exhibitions to coincide with Art Basel. The Pérez Art Museum Miami will open its new Herzog & de Meuron designed building in December with exhibitions including 'Ai Weiwei: According to What?' and commissioned projects by Yael Bartana, Bouchra Khalili, Hew Locke and Monika Sosnowska. On display at the Bass Museum of Art will be 'Piotr Uklański: esl', while the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami will present 'Tracey Emin: Angel without You'. 'Phyllida Barlow: HOARD' will be on view at the Norton Museum of Art and the Wolfsonian-FIU will show 'The Birth of Rome' and 'Rendering War: The Murals of A. G. Santagata'. 

The premier destination for the world’s most prominent design galleries, DesignMiami/ runs from December 4 to December 8, 2013. For further information, please visit designmiami.com

Important Dates:

Opening Day (by invitation only):
Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Public Days: 
Thursday, December 5, to Sunday, December 8, 2013

Friday, August 30, 2013

OMAZ HIPOLITO | SQUAT THEATER ARCHIVE: 2013 MERGE_06 - Opens September 8


In “2013 merge_06” Tomaz Hipólito (b.1969, Lisbon) follows his obsession with notions of space, whether physical, personal or historical. With the concept of vital space as background, Hipólito’s work is an ongoing research, driven by what the artist called “mapping gesture.”

The title of the exhibition clearly indicates the artist’s need for mapping. By using preexistent coordinates, Hipólito creates a new territory, which situates itself between reality and experience. This so-called “interval” is where the artist’s core themes are exhaustively revisited, and begin with the staging and investigation, revealing methods through which we apprehend the relations between persona, object and space.

Archives have in recent years gained a privileged position as a point of access to previous artistic experiences. By delving into Squat Theatre’s Archive, the artist’s intent was not to rescue the artistic practice of this experimental theater group – whose actions have remained in New York’s underground mythology and in the memory of those who had the chance to see them live – but rather to reuse it according to his own needs. Thus, Hipólito brings light to their practice while using it as a means to his own researches, which encompass some of the group’s issues.

Squat Theatre can trace its origins to Budapest in the late 1960s. Initially known as Kassak Studio, its members renamed the group after being expelled from Hungary due to their avant-garde and radical practice. After creating and touring with their first storefront play in Western Europe for more than a year, they permanently relocated to New York City in 1977.

From then on and until 1985 their activity would take place at 256 West 23rd Street, between 7th and 8th Avenues. Its members lived and performed in a building on the same block with one of New York’s artistic Meccas, the Chelsea Hotel. Although the actual building no longer exists – having been replaced by a cinema complex – Squat Theatre’s plays and performances were intimately connected to the space where they were taking place. Playing with the inside and the outside or the public and the private sphere, Squat’s performances were able to blur several frontiers, namely the role of the intervening and the non-intervening parties and the perception of space. A storefront would never be a storefront again after being converted into the scenography of politically and poetically charged plays.

By comprising multiple media, such as photography, film, video, painting, drawing and performance, Tomaz Hipólito intervenes in the aforementioned “interval.” It is fair to believe that Rooster’s premises become a new territory, the interval itself, in an ambiguous game between past and present.

Therefore, in “2013 merge_06” Hipólito operates in and with Time and Space the same way Squat Theatre did, blurring frontiers and continuously challenging the viewer’s perceptions of lived-memory and built-memory.
 
Weekly performances will take place inside and outside Rooster Gallery.



TOMAZ HIPOLITO | SQUAT THEATER ARCHIVE: 2013 MERGE_06
ROOSTER GALLERY, 190 ORCHARD STREET, LOWER EAST SIDE, NYC
OPENING RECEPTION: SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 86–9PM
EXHIBITING FROM SEPTEMBER 8–OCTOBER 20



 
Alexander Slonevsky, Director                        Andre Escarameia, Curator
212.230.1370                                                    646.637.2097
alex@roostergallery.com                                andre@roostergallery.com
 

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Thursday, August 29, 2013

Call to Artists - A-RTS at Rockville Town Square

A-RTS
 at Rockville Town Square 
A Premier Event 
in a Spectacular Venue!
    
Call to Artists

WHAT: Juried Fine Art and Fine Crafts Festival 
  
WHERE: Rockville Town Square in Rockville, MD 
     
WHEN:  May 3 - 4, 2014
            Saturday: 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.Sunday: 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. 
          
NOTEWORTHY:

*Organized and managed by the Bethesda Row Arts Festival team
 
*Limited to 175 artists and crafters
 
*Estimated Attendance:  30,000
 
*Jury/Booth Fees:  $30/$345
 
*Ample Parking - Metro access

*Artist amenities include booth sitters, artist hospitality, ample free parking, overnight police security.
      
  
Rockville Town Square - is a sensory delight. A popular dining and gathering place, Rockville Town Square covers four city blocks and features more than 30 fine shops, upscale boutiques, unique restaurants. Low-rise retail and modern residential buildings create a very pleasing, human-scale, town-center feel. The architecture is eclectic, ranging from art deco to southwest to postmodern in style.  Attractive brick sidewalks, wooden and wrought-iron benches, trees and shrubbery round out the welcoming atmosphere.

Cultural events are an important dynamic in this affluent community on the Rockville Pike corridor, which has the nation's highest per square foot retail sales.

Marketing through newspapers, magazines, television, radio, web and transit is directed to these individuals with high disposable income and interest in art.  

Now in its second year, A-RTS at Rockville Town Square promises to continue offering artists an excellent clientele in a spectacular setting!  
 

Deadline: January 20, 2014

Notification: February 8, 2014 via e-mail

Accepted Artist fees due: March 1, 2014

Email inquires to: Robin@A-RTS.org

You may also contact by telephone:
Robin Markowitz, Festival Director

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Warren James Returns as Architect for PINTA NY 2013


Warren James Returns as Architect for
PINTA NY 2013


August 28, 2013 (New York, NY) – PINTA NY is pleased to announce the selection of renowned architect Warren James to design the interior layout of the fair’s seventh edition, located at the historic 82MERCER building. This is James’s second appointment as the fair’s architect, the first being his design of the 15,000 square foot Metropolitan Pavilion in Chelsea for the fair’s 2007 inaugural edition. PINTA NY, the modern and contemporary Latin American art fair, will take place November 14-17, 2013 at 82MERCER in New York City.

Diego Costa Peuser, founder of PINTA NY, dubs James “an artist’s architect.” On his choice to reappoint James for this year’s interior space design, Costa Peuser had this to say:

Collaborating this year with Warren James’s architecture studio is closely linked to the choice of the new, unique exhibition space, 82MERCER – a very special location unlike the "white cubes" commonly used for these events. 82MERCER is a loft with its own identity closely tied to the spirit of New York's SoHo district. Therefore, we understood, for this seventh edition of Pinta NY, that we should pay close attention to the dialogue between the fair’s exhibition design and the fully curated content.

James has a reputation for site-specific designs and an aesthetic described by Spanish critic Antoni Bernat as "a sensual clarity and geometric interest...[with] a preference for built lucid forms,” which promises to deliver an elegant, dynamic art fair flavored by the architect’s distinct “glocal”—global and local—approach. In 2007 The New York Times art critic Holland Cotter praised James’s design for the inaugural edition of PINTA NY as “...stylish and airy. In general a less-is-more sensibility prevails. For once, a fair looks like an art exhibition, not a job-lot display.”

On the process of designing an art fair, James observes:

We strive for a memorable interior sequence—visually and spatially. Event architecture used to arrive, get installed, live for days, and then disappear. Art fairs are ephemeral, that's their nature. Architecture is the opposite. Now art fairs go on and on digitally, long after the event, rethinking their impermanence is made permanent.

PINTA NY’s redesign of a historic building for a four-day event underscores a larger architectural trend toward the design of temporary spaces or “ephemeral architecture.” The meticulous composition of a structural environment that can only be enjoyed within a certain span of time is in some ways counter to the architectural principle of building something to last. In this way, PINTA NY is excited to partner with Warren James to explore new frontiers in the way people experience new spaces and ephemeral architecture.

82MERCER boasts the industrial, rugged beauty of an iconic downtown New York loft-style building; a 50,000 square foot space, which maintains many original 19th century architectural features including cast-iron columns, 14-foot ceilings, hardwood floors, and brick archways. Located conveniently in SoHo, 82MERCER brings PINTA NY to the heart of the New York’s powerhouse retail and arts district.

Warren James is the celebrated architect and principal of Warren A. James Architecture + Planning. James received degrees from Cornell and Columbia Universities, going on to work in Puerto Rico, Spain, and finally returning to New York. His long and distinguished career is punctuated by numerous awards and grants including the A.I.A Unbuilt Awards, The Andrew Dickson White Prize/Cornell University, and The George W. Neikirk Prize / C.S.A.A., among others. His work has been shown in exhibitions and published internationally.

PINTA NY is a curated presentation of Modern and Contemporary art from Central and South America, Spain, Portugal, and The Caribbean, and a leading voice in the championing of Latin American art. It will take place 14-17 November 2013.


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