Wednesday, September 25, 2024

Art League of Long Island EXHIBITION OPENING THIS WEEKEND!

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EXHIBITION OPENING THIS WEEKEND!

Please join us this Sunday to celebrate Dr. Ron Israeli, Dr. Jonathan Bank, and Erez Sabag with their thought provoking exhibition to kick off Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

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Friday, September 20, 2024

The Seasons Bumin Kim OCTOBER 2 – NOVEMBER 23, 2024 OPENING: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2024, 6-8 PM ARTIST TALK AT 7:30 PM



Bumin Kim, Landscape 55, 2024, Thread and Acrylic on Wood Panel, 42 x 42 in. (107 x 107 cm)

The Seasons
Bumin Kim

OCTOBER 2 – NOVEMBER 23, 2024

OPENING: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2024, 6-8 PM
ARTIST TALK AT 7:30 PM


SWPK Gallery
THE SYLVIA WALD & PO KIM ART FOUNDATION
417 LAFAYETTE STREET, 2ND FLOOR, NYC

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SWPK Gallery is pleased to announce a solo exhibition, The Seasons, exhibiting works by Korean artist Bumin Kim (b. 1982). The exhibition will take place from October 2 to November 23, 2024 at the SWPK gallery. An opening reception with the artist will take place at 6:00 PM on Wednesday, October 2.

Bumin Kim explores the limits of her materials, employing thread and string in order to challenge the definition of painting. Through the act of stitching and weaving, Kim transforms two-dimensional surfaces into three-dimensional immersive experiences. Her works offer a recontextualization of thread and string, which emphasizes the energy and grace of drawing and painting.
 
The Seasons is the result of Kim's infatuation with nature's stubborn inconstancy. Each piece explores some of the profound transformations that our environment undergoes as well as the emotional depths which these changes unearth. Kim’s translation of seasonal changes also seeks to archive past experiences. The fluid changes in the weight of her lines, the subtle gradation of hues and the fluidity of her thread—especially prevalent in her Landscape series—invoke the transience of these memories, including the loss and potential recreation contained within. Also prevalent in these pieces is the dichotomy between light and dark, a juxtaposition which seeks to bring the capricious, outside world in communication with the internal.

Central to these works also is an emotional aporia. The workings of her thread embody a mood that is calm yet activated, restrained yet challenging, and simple yet complex. These dualities offer an unexpected sense of realism, as they mirror the frequent coexistence of seemingly opposed forces which exists both in the natural and our own internal worlds. Ultimately, The Seasons, in its exploration of temporality, paradoxically explores the timelessness of life’s journey, the cycles that connect us all, and the beauty found in the ever-shifting blow of existence. Kim, thus, invites her viewers to engage personally with the exhibition and discover their own reflections in the evocative threads which constitute her pieces.
Bumin Kim, Winter Night, 2024, Thread and Acrylic on Wood Panel, 35 x 35 in. (89 x 89 cm)

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Bumin Kim was born in South Korea and is currently based in Texas. She received her MFA in Drawing and Painting from the University of North Texas in 2015 and has since seen her work exhibited across the country and featured in various national publications. 

ABOUT SWPK GALLERY

SWPK Gallery — The Sylvia Wald & Po Kim Art Foundation — is a non-profit organization committed to promoting East-West cultural exchange through the arts by sponsoring and hosting art exhibitions of national and international artists. For more information, visit: swpk.org

The Seasons is produced in collaboration with the Donghwa Cultural Foundation.

Bumin Kim, Meadow 5, 2024, thread and acrylic on wood panel, 53 x 48 in. (135 x 122 cm)
For further information, please contact:
Odelette Cho
ocho@waldandkimgallery.org
212 598 1155

 

SWPK Gallery
417 Lafayette Street, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10003
Phone: 212.598.1155
Email: info@waldandkimgallery.org
For media inquiries: Odelette Cho ocho@waldandkimgallery.org
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Saturday, September 14, 2024

THe NCGR-NYC : Friday, September 27, 2024 at 7pm (Eastern Time) The Inner Life of the Astrological MandalaPresented by Claudia Bader - NCGR-PAA Level IV Counseling Astrologer, Licensed psychoanalyst and creative arts therapist!

✨ 2024 Annual Membership Meeting ✨

 

✨ 2024 Annual Membership Meeting ✨

 

Friday, September 27, 2024 at 7pm (Eastern Time)


The Inner Life of the Astrological Mandala


Presented by Claudia Bader - NCGR-PAA  Level IV Counseling Astrologer, Licensed psychoanalyst and creative arts therapist


Each year, the New York Chapter of NCGR kicks off the new season with a presentation on topical issues in astrology and in the world and about the future. And so, we have asked Claudia Bader to share her knowledge on The Inner Life of the Astrological Mandala. 


What makes the mandala form so powerful in the human psyche and how is it key how we help/are helped through astrology. What unites astrologers , no matter our orientation? Using the prism of Jung, attachment theory, psychoanalysis and art therapy, explore our divine science through the mandala archetype.  


Join us for this Zoom event, plus a chance for Q&A between Claudia Bader and attendees!  


This event is free for members, but a donation is suggested.  

Non-member fee is $10.  

Make a donation: https://www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/M79K8M5N7729C             


Use the link below to join the Zoom meeting:

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Passcode: 434731


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We look forward to seeing you on the 27th!


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Each year, the New York Chapter of NCGR kicks off the new season with a presentation on topical issues in astrology and in the world and about the future. And so, we have asked Claudia Bader to share her knowledge on The Inner Life of the Astrological Mandala. 

What makes the mandala form so powerful in the human psyche and how is it key how we help/are helped through astrology. What unites astrologers , no matter our orientation? Using the prism of Jung, attachment theory, psychoanalysis and art therapy, explore our divine science through the mandala archetype.  

Join us for this Zoom event, plus a chance for Q&A between Claudia Bader and attendees!  

This event is free for members, but a donation is suggested.  
Non-member fee is $10.  
Make a donation: https://www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/M79K8M5N7729C             

Use the link below to join the Zoom meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89049072441?pwd=XbB2nfNaDUOEKC2LmJoZv6nlUWGfWE.1
Passcode: 434731

Note: You may need to download the Zoom application.

We look forward to seeing you on the 27th!

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Thursday, September 12, 2024

Michael Stipe, Angela West, John Chiara at Jackson Gallery, Atlanta

 

Jackson Fine Art is delighted to announce our Fall 2024 exhibitions with Michael Stipe, Angela West, and John Chiara opening on Tuesday, Oct. 1 at 6 p.m. with a reception celebrating the artists. Even the birds gave pause features work of artist and former R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe and presents a sampling of the breadth of Stipe’s creativity - photographs of family and friends, an installation of folded portraits printed on delicate rice paper, brightly painted bronze fox sculptures, and book art portraits of his muses. In Conversation is an inspired pairing of JohnChiara’s dreamy, richly colored camera obscura photographs with Angela West’s painterly mixed media works. Both West and Chiara play with reflection, light and abstraction to create deeply evocative landscapes that are less about depiction of place but rather the memory of it. Stipe, West, and Chiara each embody a contemporary sensibility that addresses memory, identity, and the evolving relationship between people and nature.
Photo of Stipe with Bronze Fox Sculpture, credit: David Belisle
Michael Stipe, Megan & Lucy (Homage to Lee Friedlander), 2020
Stipe’s exhibition, Even the birds gave pause, takes imagery from his most recent book published by Damiani of the same name as the foundation and expands from there. The artist’s continual exploration of portraiture is the show’s central theme. Stipe’s portraits reflect a variety of different approaches - candid, conceptual, and classical – but always with a poignant sensitivity to the vulnerability of his subjects. The curation of images and objects presents a view into how the artist sees and interprets the world around him. This is Stipe’s first exhibition with the gallery.
Angela West, Facing another way, where I am, 2024
West’s work reimagines her earlier series of photographs of Dahlonega, GA (the artist’s hometown) through a reorientation of format and painting layers of impressionistic brushstrokes. The interplay of the glossy photograph and texture of paint creates a wholly new experience of subject and ground, and results in fantastical compositions that blur distinction between photography and painting. 
John Chiara, Avenue of the Palms facing Coit Tower, Treasure Island, 2023
Utilizing inventive cameras he designed and built himself, Chiara shoots directly onto positive color photographic paper, leaving behind visible traces of his process. The artist was invited by the San Francisco Arts Commission in 2022 to document the redevelopment taking shape on nearby Treasure and Yerba Buena Islands, and the exhibition focuses on works from this new series. His images draw our attention to shifting elements of the landscape and tell a thoughtful, complex story about the changing urban terrain.
About Michael Stipe
Michael Stipe (American, born 1960) is an artist, producer and singer/songwriter.  He fronted the band R.E.M. for 31 years, selling over 100 million records and touring the world. As film producer he made over 25 feature films, including Spike Jonze's Being John Malkovich, Jim McKay’s En El Septimo Dia, Chris Smith’s American Movie, and Todd Haynes' Velvet Goldmine.  For the past decade his personal focus has been cross-medium work, incorporating video,soundscape, sculpture, and photographic and digital imagery.  Recent photobooks include Volume 1 (with Jonathan Berger, 2018), Our Interference Times: A Visual Record (with Douglas Coupland, 2019) a third volume of portraits (2021), and the current Even the Birds Gave Pause (2023), all released through Damiani out of Bologna, Italy.  His first institution show was at ICA Milan in December 2023.  He is currently completing his first solo album to be released this year.  Michael lives in New York City and Berlin.
About Angela West
Angela West (born 1971, Dahlonega, GA) creates series of varied photographic projects relating to her hometown and the chronology of its inhabitants. Employing the traditional academic genres of art to explore the nature and place of community, Angela West’s series include portrait studies of small-town teenage girls, landscape explorations of neighborhoods, and still life’s that represent the passing of time. In each genre, her richly realized color photographs balance affection for her subjects with precise and unsentimental observation. Angela West's photography has been exhibited at the Pinchuk Art Centre, Kieve, Ukraine, the Modern ­­­­07, Munich, Germany, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, and the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia. Her work is included in the collections of the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, Louisiana, The Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C. and the Sir Elton John Collection. She was the recipient of a 2009 Artadia Award. West received a BFA from University of Georgia in 1995, and an MFA from Yale University in 2000 where she was the recipient of the George Sakier Memorial Award for Excellence in Photography. She lives and works in Atlanta, GA.
About John Chiara
John Chiara (born 1971, San Francisco) has developed a process that is part photography, part sculpture, and part event. It is an undertaking requiring invention in his tools, and patience in using them. He creates one-of-a-kind photographs in a variety of hand-built cameras, the largest of which is a 50 x 80-inch field camera that he transports on a flatbed trailer. Once he selects a location, he situates, and then physically enters, the camera, and maneuvers in near total darkness a sheet of positive color photographic paper onto the camera's back wall.  Throughout each exposure, his instinctive control limits the light entering the lens. He uses his hands to burn and dodge the large-scale images and develops them in a spinning dr­­um by agitating the chemistry over photographic paper lining the interior of the drum. Chiara’s photographs are perceptive eliciting a visceral response, yet they are rendered in soft hues that exude a strong sense of the viscosity of material and the ephemerality of presence. He received his B.F.A. in Photography from the University of Utah in 1995, and his M.F.A. in Photography from the California College of the Arts in 2004. Chiara’s work is included in numerous institutional including the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, CA; George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA; and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, among others. The artist currently divides his time between San Francisco and New York City.
About Jackson Fine Art
Jackson Fine Art is a world-renowned gallery with a 34-year history of supporting artists and collectors. The gallery cultivates and guides both emerging and established collectors to the best fine art photography of the 20th and 21st century, across both traditional and innovative photo-based mediums. Working closely with collectors, curators, consultants, and designers, JFA provides expertise in a warm, welcoming space in the Buckhead neighborhood of Atlanta, GA. The gallery is led by Co-Owner & Creative Director, Anna Walker Skillman, and Co-Owner Andy Heyman, Founder, ASH IP& ASH Atlanta. In the spring of 2023, Jackson Fine Art expanded into a custom-built, 4000 square-foot gallery  with expanded exhibition, office, inventory, library and meeting spaces to keep pace with the growing clientele and opportunity to exhibit large-scale works. In addition to 9-12 exhibitions annually, Jackson Fine Art participates in international art fairs including Paris Photo; The Photography Show (AIPAD) in New York; Art Miami; and Intersect Aspen. The gallery is a member of the Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD) and Ms. Skillman is a former member of the board of directors. Jackson Fine Art has placed work in numerous important private and public collections such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art; High Museum of Art; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; The Art Institute of Chicago; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris to name a few.

Jackson Fine Art is now located at 3122 East Shadowlawn Ave. NE.
Opening hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 10AM – 5PM.


Press contact: 
Alexa Rivera
alexa@jacksonfineart.com
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Wednesday, September 11, 2024

News you can use from NOAA Planet Stewards September 11, 2024

NOAA Planet Stewards The Watch Newsletter

 

News you can use from NOAA Planet Stewards 

September 11, 2024

 

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NOAA Planet Stewards October Book Club

October 15, 2024 I 7:00 p.m. ET

Cover for Book of Hope by Jane Goodall

At October’s meeting we’ll discuss Jane Goodall and Douglas Abrams’ The Book of Hope. All the meeting selections, dates, times, and log in information for all our events are posted on the Planet Stewards upcoming events page. All are Welcome!

Time: 7:00 PM Eastern Time
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In this book, Jane Goodall and Doug Abrams explore one of the most sought-after and least understood elements of human nature: hope. In The Book of Hope, Jane focuses on her "Four Reasons for Hope": The Amazing Human Intellect, The Resilience of Nature, The Power of Young People, and The Indomitable Human Spirit.

The Book of Hope touches on vital questions including: How do we stay hopeful when everything seems hopeless? How do we cultivate hope in our children? Filled with engaging dialogue and pictures from Jane's storied career, The Book of Hope is a deeply personal conversation with one of the most beloved figures in today's world.

There is still hope, and this book will help guide us to it.


Inspiration!: Restoring Native Ecosystems - One Plant at a time

text reading Scientific Greenhouse for Native Coastal Plants with an ocean view

Students in Laura Cummings sixth grade class are working to restore native plant species to a coastal area on the north shore of Oahu, HI. This is an important issue for their community as for many years people have impacted the natural areas of Oahu’s north shore, increasing erosion, as well as decreasing populations of endemic plant and animal species that used to thrive and keep the ecosystem in balance. Laura and her students are investigating and out planting native species that appear to be resilient in a changing climate, as well as those coastal plants that are best suited to coastal erosion prevention. As part of this process Laura’s students are working with community partners to learn and integrate traditional ecological knowledge.

Watch this short video that Laura’s students made and get inspired to make positive changes in your community.


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Helping protect Caribbean region’s coastal zones: An exciting adventure

Four persons planting coastal plants in mud

NOAA’s Office of Coastal Management (OCM) works with partners to rebuild and restore ecosystems’ natural capacities — supporting human communities in the process. 

Read about the work being done in the Caribbean region coastal zone to rebuild the mangroves in Jobos Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve in Puerto Rico after they were decimated by Hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017.


NOAA Ocean Podcasts:

Sanctuary Spotlight: Olympic Coast

Olympic Coast Marine Sanctuary National Park

In this episode, we travel to Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary. Boasting rugged coastlines and encompassing over 3,000 square miles, this special place is home to a rich abundance of marine mammals, seabirds, fish, and invertebrate communities. We explore this area’s origins, maritime culture, and historical legacy, as well as ways you can dive into all of the United States’ National Marine Sanctuaries. Listen to the Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary podcast


noaa webinars

September 12, 2024 I 1 p.m - 2 p.m. ET
How citizen science can support fish stock assessments
Tune into the "Fish Stock Assessment" webinar

 

September 12, 2024 I 2 p.m - 3 p.m. ET

The influence of the extreme warm Atlantic Ocean on the longest lasting North American heat wave event of 2023
Tune into the "North American Heat Wave" webinar


Educator opportunities

NautilusLIVE.org Ocean Exploration Trust

Bring the excitement of deep-sea exploration LIVE to your classroom, science center, museum, aquarium, or community event. Live ship-to-shore interactions can be scheduled until December 11, 2024. Live ship-to-shore interactions with E/V Nautilus allow students to engage in a unique two-way, live dialogue with the educators, scientists, and engineers of the Corps of Exploration. Live interactions are available free to classroom and community events audiences. All live interactions are pre-scheduled to match your teaching schedule.

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