Rashid Johnson - Message to Our Folks

Rashid Johnson: Message to Our Folks April 14 - August 5, 2012

This spring, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago presents Rashid Johnson: Message to Our Folks, the first major solo exhibition for Johnson, who is a preeminent artist in the post-media generation. A former Chicagoan and alumni of the MCA's UBS 12 x 12 exhibition series, Johnson explores the complexities and contradictions of black identity, rooted in his individual experience, through photographs, sculptures, videos, installations, and paintings. On view April 14 to August 5, 2012, this exhibition is organized by Julie Rodrigues Widholm, MCA Pamela Alper Associate Curator, and includes thirteen years of Johnson's work with an emphasis on major works from the last five years. Throughout his work, Johnson evokes shared cultural memories by referencing creative and intellectual black figures whose impact has transcended black communities. The exhibition fosters a dialogue by inviting viewers' free associations with familiar figures -- such as W.E.B. DuBois, Sun Ra, Miles Davis, and Public Enemy -- and everyday objects that appear in the work, including plants, mirrors, rugs, record albums, CB radios, shea butter, and books. The title of the exhibition is based on a 1969 album by the avant-garde group Art Ensemble of Chicago, who performed with a variety of found percussive objects and spanned musical styles to radically redefine the rules of jazz. The conceptually loaded and visually compelling works also allude to alchemy and transformation through different media that hold their own significance and symbolism. He prefers to create a sense of wonder in the unknown rather than present a concrete understanding of his art. The exhibition also presents examples from ongoing bodies of Johnson's work such as Cosmic Slops, abstract paintings made with melted black soap and wax; The New Negro Escapist Social and Athletic Club, portraits of members of a fictional black bourgeois secret society; recent "shelf sculptures" featuring found objects, such as The Shuttle (2010) and Triple Consciousness (2009); and early photographs of homeless men made using the nineteenth-century Vandyke brown printing process. Johnson was born in Chicago in 1977 and currently lives in New York. He has a BFA in photography from Columbia College and attended graduate school at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His work is in the collections of the MCA Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, Whitney Museum of American Art, Seattle Art Museum, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Detroit Institute of Art, and Los Angeles County Museum of Art. His work has been featured in major group exhibitions including 30 Americans: The Rubell Collection (2008); Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self at the International Center of Photography (2003); and Freestyle at the Studio Museum in Harlem (2001); and in 2011 was featured in the International Pavilion of the 54th Venice Biennale. He is one of the nominees for the Guggenheim's Hugo Boss Prize in 2012.

Catalogue A 96-page, fully illustrated hardcover catalogue provides new scholarship on the social, cultural, and artistic significance of Johnson's work. It includes an excerpt from Paul Beatty's The White Boy Shuffle, and essays by the exhibition curator Julie Rodrigues Widholm, University of Chicago PhD candidate Ian Bourland, and cultural critic and writer Touré. Rashid Johnson in Conversation with Julie Rodrigues Widholm Saturday, April 14, 2012, 10:30 am, Free with suggested museum admission Artist Rashid Johnson and Julie Rodrigues Widholm have a conversation in the gallery about Rashid's work and ideas. Curator Tour Tuesday, April 24, 2012, noon Tour of the exhibition led by Julie Rodrigues Widholm.

Call to Artists - Westmoreland Arts & Heritage Festival

Westmoreland Arts & Heritage Festival  

 

2012 Artists Market
Call to Artists

What: Art and Craft Market at the 38th Annual Westmoreland Arts & Heritage Festival

Where: Twin Lakes Park, near Greensburg, PA

When: Thursday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday,
           July 5, 6, 7 & 8,
           11 a.m. to 8 p.m. each day

Noteworthy:

*38th Annual event

*Attendance of over 160,000 visitors

*Jury/Booth Fees: $25/$375

*Designated artist parking area

*Promoted extensively through print, broadcast, television and social media.

*Performances on four stages and 40 food booths draw visitors from across the region

*Set up can begin as early as Monday

The Westmoreland Arts & Heritage Festival is located on eight beautiful acres of Westmoreland County's Twin Lakes Park, near Greensburg, PA. The Festival is just an hour's drive from Pittsburgh and attracts many tourists looking for a weekend escape to the country. The Festival has become a Fourth of July tradition for many families in the region and features a juried art show, live performances and heritage presentations in addition to the Artist Market, making the Festival the largest event of its kind in Westmoreland County.

NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS:

Deadline:  March 1, 2012

Notification: Before April 30, 2012

Booth Fee due:  With application. Check(s) are not cashed until acceptance is determined after March 1. If not accepted, check(s) will be returned.

For more details, artist's prospectus, and to apply, visit: www.ArtsAndHeritage.com

Direct link to prospectus: http://www.artsandheritage.com/Downloads/Artist%20Market%20App%202012.pdf

Email inquiries to:  info@artsandheritage.com 

You may also contact:
Adam J. Shaffer - Executive Director
adam@artsandheritage.com
724-834-7474 (phone)
724-850-7474 (FAX)

Stockholm Independent Art Fair

SUPERMARKET 2012 - Stockholm Independent Art Fair
Kulturhuset, Stockholm 17–19 February 2012

 

Press Preview
Performance Art Stage RED SPOT, 3rd floor (Hörsalen), Kulturhuset.
Thursday 16 February, 11 am–1 pm.
Accreditation: accred@supermarketartfair.com

 

The international art fair created and managed by artists where hundreds of artists from over 30 countries show the latest tendencies in contemporary art. Performance art, photography, painting, video and more. This year it again occupies Kulturhuset for a couple of rowdy days in mid-February, in the apocalyptic year 2012.

 

On the programme: Seminar Programme TALKS, Performance Art Stage RED SPOT, Special Exhibition “6 Euro Budget”, Network Meetings and much more. SUPERMARKET ART MAGAZINE 2nd issue is released including the catalogue. This year’s theme - The waiting room of Eternity - is dealing with the concept of how to value art and the apocalyptic concerns of our time.

 

Artist-run spaces from Albania, Australia, Austria, Bosnia, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK and USA.

 

Contact:
Pontus Raud, Project Manager

+46 73 999 34 29
pontus@supermarketartfair.com
Andreas Ribbung, Project Manager

+46 709 451724

RICHARD FRANKLIN Feb 16 - March 16

  RICHARD FRANKLIN 
Feb 16 - March 16

View the Amazing work by 

English Photographer 

 

Richard Franklin

 WHITE BOX CONTEMPORARY

1040 7th Avenue

San Diego, CA 92101

Meet the Artist

MARCH 10, 2012

7 pm

RSVP

619-531-8996 

AS@alexandersalazarfineart.com 

Korean Art Show 2012

K-Artists in New York is a great opportunity to see art created by Korean artists living and working in New York City. The exhibition provides a survey of the current practices seen in Korean contemporary art and allows us to contextualize Korean art within a larger global setting during Armory Week. For more information, please visit: www.koreanartshow.com or email koreanartshow@kiaf.org

Image: Changha Hwang, Same Same, 2010 (Acrylic paint on cotton canvas). 

K-Artists in New York

March 8-11, 2012
Preview: March 7, 2012, 3pm to 9pm
at Korean Art Show NY | 82 Mercer NYC
Korean Art Show (March 8-11) is proud to announce its special exhibition K-Artists in New York which presents the work of seven Korean contemporary artists who have had a foothold in New York City, the center and the hub of the contemporary art scene, for over a decade.

With South Korea’s recent economic growth and rise in international status, new artistic and cultural developments are taking place. These developments continue to draw attention and curiosity from international audiences and as a result, a new wave of Korean art and culture is developing abroad. Korean artists are beginning to make a name for themselves outside of their own country.

The seven-selected artists for K-Artists in New York (Buhm Hong, Changha Hwang, Haeri Yoo, Hyungsub Shin, Ok Hyun Ahn, Heesub Yoon, and Youngsuk Suh) are of Korean descent and have social and emotional ties to their home-land, but have instead chosen to build a unique artistic foundation here in New York City.

Bucharest Biennale 5

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The appointed curator of BB5 announced the list of the participant artists and the venues.

Thursday, February 16, 2012, Anne Barlow, the appointed curator of BUCHAREST BIENNALE 5, announced in a press conference the list of participating artists, the venues and new details about the concept of BUCHAREST BIENNALE 5 - Bucharest International Biennial for Contemporary Art.

BUCHAREST BIENNALE 5, May 25 - July 22, 2012
PREVIEW DAY: May 24, 2012

TACTICS FOR THE HERE AND NOW 

Within the current context of the shifting nature of politics, economics, and culture—conditions that are increasingly referred to as "precarious" times—artists often have to negotiate risky positions, contested territories, or situations in which cultural activity interacts with, or provides a counterpoint to, conditions of flux.  Bucharest Biennale 5 profiles the work of artists whose agency lies less in overt statements, but rather in investigative or informal strategies that possess their own kind of power.
For more details please visit: http://bucharestbiennale.org/concept.html

Scope New York 20 12 3/7-11

TEREZA VLČKOVÀ  From the series A Perfect Day, Elise...,2007 Photograph by Tereza Vlčkovà Courtesy of Aperture Foundation
DE BUCK GALLERY		THE NOOKE		SCOPE NEW YORK PAVILION Across from The Armory Show 57th St & 12th Ave (West Side Highway) New York, NY 10019
RUBY ANEMIC No Guts No Glory 2012, Sculpture, Neon, 19" x 48" Learn More		COLIN BEATTY & CRAIG SMITH FireSale2012 Performance Learn More
GOLDEN THREAD GALLERY		STEVEN HARVEY / SHFAP
KATHERINE NOLAN Surface Attention The Pool 2010, Performance Learn More		MEGHAN BRADY Blue + Black Woodcut #1 2011, Woodcut, 41" x 36" Learn More
DUBNER MODERNE		GALERIE E.G.P.
THOMAS DUDAN Entre Ciel et Terre  2011, Mobilographie, photography 31.5" x 23.6" Learn More		QUENTIN ARMAND La Lune 2009, Digital print, photography 42" x 29.7"  Learn More
SALON VERT		PATRAJDAS CONTEMPORARY
LUCY LIU Totem, 2011 Bronze, 100" x 33" x 25", Edition of 8 Learn More		KATE MACDOWELL Daphne Hand built porcelain, ceramics 53" x 17" x 40"  Learn More
BURN BEFORE READING: SCOPE FOUNDATION		THE CITY IS WILDER THAN YOU THINK: ROBERT MONTGOMERY
PRESENTED BY SCOPE FOUNDATION The Center, Cinders Projects, Lilah Freedland and The ProFailure Press collaborate on Burn Before Reading, a collection of small edition and handmade books, text based artworks and Oral Tradition, accompanied by a reading and performance series. Learn More		PRESENTED BY SCOPE FOUNDATION Positioned outside the SCOPE Pavilion walls and visible from the West Side Highway, Robert Montgomery's new work delves into our collective unconscious with his melancholic The City is Wilder Than You Think, 2012. This large, site-specific text work engages dialogue through the Situationist concept of detournement, which hijacks advertising space in the city, often illegally, and replaces the advertising with poetry. Learn More
THE DIAMOND DEN: LAINIE LOVE DALBY		FOCUS: PUERTO RICO SCOPE FOUNDATION
CURATED BY A.M.F. PROJECTS, NYC Referred to as "The Lady Gaga of Consciousness & Spirituality", artist & Interfaith Minister Rev. Lainie Love Dalby, presents The Diamond Den, curated by A.M.F. Projects, NYC. Viewers are invited into a fetishistic bricolage layered with pop culture references, melodic soundscapes, bold performance and intoxicating scents, where they may release suffering, self-examine, forgive and learn to 'live your best life' -- as the Minister Lainie Love listens and connects to visitors on a raw human level. Learn More		PRESENTED BY SCOPE FOUNDATION In an effort to uncover emerging trends and amplify groundswell in localized art communities around the globe, SCOPE Foundation is pleased to present Focus: Puerto Rico. A collection of five artists: Juan A Negroni, Martin Albarran, Omar Velazquez, Rogelio Baez Vega, Samuel Toro Rosa will exhibit works in varying media that engage the current socio-political climate of the art community in their native country. Learn More