Flowers Gallery Presents
NADAV KANDER:
Yangtze – The Long River
Chongqing VII (Washing Bike)
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Opening Reception: October 18, 6 - 8pm
Exhibition Dates: October 19 - November 24, 2012 NEW YORK, August 13, 2012 — Flowers Gallery is pleased to announce the New York debut of Nadav Kander’s Prix Pictet award-winning photographic series, Yangtze — The Long River. For this body of work, Kander traveled the nearly 4,000-mile long Yangtze River, from mouth to source, photographing the landscape and the people living along its shores. Yangtze — The Long River is a body of work that captures the dramatic effects of a nation at the precipice of enormous industrial and economic change and considers the history and folklore of the waterway that runs through the blood of the people. The exhibition will run from October 19th through November 24th, with a reception for the artist on October 18th, from 6-8pm. Flowing for a distance of 3,988 miles, the Yangtze is the longest river in Asia and the third longest river in the world. Roughly bisecting the country of China from West to East, the edges of this watercourse are home to a population larger than America’s. One in every eighteen people on the planet lives along its shores. Over a period of three years, Nadav Kander made five trips to the banks of the Yangtze, traveling up-stream from mouth to source. Using the river as a metaphor for a world in flux, Kander attempted to relate and reflect the implications of modern-day China’s incomprehensible and seemingly unnatural pace of development. Kander’s China is a country both at the beginning of a new era and at odds with itself. With the accelerated clip at which China’s economy continues to grow, this body of work examines how progress can dramatically affect the way the physical world shapes our perception of reality and our understanding of ourselves. Kander says in a statement about this body of work: “China is a nation that appears to be severing its roots by destroying its past. Demolition and construction were everywhere on such a scale that I was unsure if what I was seeing was being built or destroyed, destroyed or built.” Viewers of this exhibition are taken on a meditative and meandering path beginning at the river’s coastal estuary, where thousands of ships leave and enter each day. Imagery of man-made evolutionary progress abounds: the renowned suicide bridges, coalmines and the largest dam in the world – The Three Gorges Dam. Further inland we encounter Chongqing - the fastest-growing urban center on the planet. In the upper areas of the Yangtze, towards its source on the Tibetan Plane, the dense architecture gives way to the mountains—a sparsely populated area where the stream, in its most glacial form, is mostly broken ice. The human figures in these pictures are colorful wisps, often overshadowed by the monochromatic elements of industrial infrastructure and a climate that appears muted by humid weather and pollution. In his statement about the work, Kander draws references to John Martin’s and Caspar David Friedrich’s paintings “…where humans are dwarfed against the might of nature and God” and J.M.W. Turner's paintings, “…where tiny figures are lost in the seething violence of nature suggesting the ultimate defeat of all endeavor, the fallacy of hope.” Kander continues, “I felt the smallness of man pitted against huge ideas, the insignificance of man compared to the state." These bright figures, so stunted in size by their encroaching habitats still manage to anchor Kander’s compositions, and provoke the viewer’s imagination about what the flow of life must be like at a time of accelerated progression. In speaking about his work, Kander relates a friend’s personal narrative: A Chinese friend I made whilst working on the project reiterated what many Chinese people feel: “Why do we have to destroy to develop?”...many of us can revisit where we were brought up and it will be much the same—it will remind us of our families and upbringing. In China that is virtually impossible. The scale of development has left most places unrecognizable. “Nothing is the same. We can’t revisit where we came from because it no longer exists.” Born in Tel Aviv, Israel in 1961, Nadav Kander currently lives and works in London. His work forms part of some of the major collections in the world. In 2009, Kander received the prestigious Prix Pictet photographic award for a selection of photographs from Yangtze – The Long River. He is a regular contributor to many international publications, including The New York Times Magazine, for whom he photographed ‘Obama’s People’, a portfolio of 54 portraits of the Obama administration. 529 West 20th Street New York, NY 10011 + (1) 212-439-1700 www.flowersgallery.com |
Friday, October 12, 2012
Flowers Gallery Presents Nadav Kander - Yangtze - The Long River
Upcoming Exhibition - Shaka
Shaka
Human Behavior
Oil, foam and plaster on canvas
74 3/4 x 106 1/4 x 13 3/4 in |190 X 270 X 35 cm
Shaka
Street Allegory
Oil foam and plaster
118 x 236 1/4 x 23 1/2 in | 300 X 600 X 60 cm
Shaka
Exhibition: October 19 - November 9, 2012
Exhibition: October 19 - November 9, 2012
gallery nine5 is pleased to present a series of recent works by renowned French artist Shaka. Already an established name on the underground scene in Europe and South America, this will be the first time that Shaka will exhibit his bold style in North America.
Shaka focuses on portraiture and figures in movement to reveal the emotional workings behind the façade of everyday human interactions. His figures twist and turn in an energetic color palette, the movement of their bodies representing the struggle for individuality in social power politics. Heightening the internal conflicts of each figure, the paintings feature bas-relief details that pop out from the two-dimensional plane, underscoring the sense of escape and emancipation.
The exhibition centers on an impressive triptych titled Street Allegory. Constructed from oil and plaster, the piece is a composition of impassioned figures charging out of the picture plane to fight against dominant classes and social structures. The high contrast of the piece is amplified by the influence of red on an otherwise achromatic canvas. The figures appear to be a mob in pursuit of the viewer; their faces contorted in acute anxiety. The cohesion of the mob is just an illusion though, as we are tricked by the balance of the composition into believing we see a single group when in fact each member is fending for himself. The piece is a commentary on the mirage of community experienced through political constructs, while also a nod to the stereotypes of the street art movement, which has gained recent mainstream exposure. Dominant language relegates “street artist” to a single category ignoring the diversity in style, motivation, and creative ambition of each individual.
Shaka has been practicing his unique method of sculpting right on the canvas since 2007 in the heart of Paris’s burgeoning contemporary art scene. He mixes technical elements and classical influences with new-age styles like tattoo design and graffiti culture. Shaka’s wide net of inspiration allows him to infuse his work with a commanding presence. Besides the large-scale format that is emblematic of his style, his work is known for a pulsating menagerie of polygons, lines, and angles infused with radiating colors. These elements reflect the inner conflicts of each of Shaka’s subjects who are searching, presumably like us, for individuality, while simultaneously living within communities organized by social norms. In Human Behavior, for example, two figures try to balance on top of two hills of empty drawers. The structure is unstable and ultimately both figures will fall. Shaka has painted a physical manifestation of the inner instability of his subjects.
Shaka (Marchal Mithouard) was born in Evry, France in 1975. He graduated with a BFA in Fine Art from the Sorbonne, where he graduated with a Masters in Multimedia Arts as well. Shaka has exhibited his work in galleries (and on the streets) all over Europe including Paris, Brussels, Berlin, London, and Rio de Janeiro.
Gallery nine5
24 Spring Street New York, NY 10012
(212) 965-9995
Thursday, October 11, 2012
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Call to Artists - Indian Wells Arts Festival
Indian Wells Arts Festival
Call to Artists
WHAT: The 11th Annual Indian Wells Arts Festival
WHERE: The Indian Wells Tennis Garden, Indian Wells, CA
WHEN: Friday, Saturday and Sunday
April 5 - 7, 2013
Show hours: 10:00 am to 5:00 pm (Gates close at 4:00 pm)
*Limited to 200 juried artists
*Wide variety of work within 13 categories
*Located in the heart of the Palm Springs Desert Resorts Communities; Estimated attendance: 10,000
*Spectacular venue surrounded by mountain vistas; on the grass and sidewalk lined plaza of the state-of-the art tennis stadium, home of the PNP Parribas Tennis Tournament
*Gated venue with overnight security
*Convenient on-site artist parking; convenient free and valet customer parking
*Spectacular cool and comfortable Artist Hospitality Suite in the stadium with TV, free Wi-Fi, private restrooms
*Complimentary coffee throughout the day plus fruit, veggies, pastries and snack time twice a day
*Booth sitters and volunteers available via cell phone request
*Drive-up registration (no need to get out of your vehicle)
*Scheduled and organized load-in the day before; convenient drive up to assigned area
*Ribbons awarded in over 20 Mediums
*Major advertising and promotion including billboards, newspapers, magazines, tv, radio, social media, direct mail, rack card distribution
*Artist discount offering customers a two-for-one admission via postcard and email blast
*Art show appropriate live music creating synergy and ambiance
*30-LUV Team (artists who have sales in the top 30%) and ribbon winners automatically accepted in the following festival
*Reduced hotel rates
The 11th Annual INDIAN WELLS ARTS FESTIVAL --- where Art is a Happening! - is a juried and judged event uniquely showcasing the fine art and quality craft of 200 contemporary and traditional artists. You will be provided the promotional opportunity to meet with an audience of serious buyers and collectors at a premier venue located in the heart of the Palm Springs Desert Resorts Communities.
We have fabulous location surrounded by mountain vistas on the grass and sidewalk lined plaza of a $75 million dollar state-of-the-art stadium, home of the BNP Paribas Tennis Tournament. We boast convenient artist and customer parking, overnight security, artist hospitality and easy access. With both an aggressive online and traditional marketing campaign, professional experience and a strong reputation, the Indian Wells Arts Festival seeks out and brings together a wide variety of high quality artists to delight our audience of residents and tourists alike.
The creative synergy of working artists, local sponsors, exhibitors and non-profit partners creates a color-filled artisan village vibrant with activity. Everyone loves to watch the on-site demonstrations including glass blowing, painting, weaving, large scale stone sculpturing, larger-than-life mural painting, sand sculpture, wood carving and pottery throwing.
A Gourmet Market Place offers gourmet specialties, while sidewalk chalk drawing, children's activities, wine tasting, live musical entertainment and refreshment are ongoing throughout the day. "Sunday Eggs + Champagne in the Garden" brunch menu is available until noon.
With a celebrated reputation for its quality and wide variety of fine art and quality craft, artists travel from throughout the country to participate. The Indian Wells Arts Festival has been ranked one of the "100 Best Fine Art Shows in the country" by Sunshine Artist magazine and "Best of the Best" by Palm Springs Life magazine. Approximately 9,000 guests enjoyed the festival with reported art sales of $600,000.00.
Indian Wells is located 17 miles east of Palm Springs and is a two hour drive from the Los Angeles and San Diego areas. The City of Indian Wells is home to "internationally recognized sporting and cultural events, world-class resorts, restaurants, championship golf courses and tennis courts."
The Palm Springs Desert Resort Communities are constantly changing. Sleepy desert towns have become year round residential and tourist economies.
NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS:
First Deadline: October 13, 2012 ($35 Jury Fee)
Second Deadline: January 5, 2012 ($50 Jury Fee; 60 spaces reserved for this deadline)
Notification: November 13, 2012 (First Deadline Applicants); January 22, 2013 (Second Deadline Applicants)
Booth fee due: January 15, 2012
Apply at:
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Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Dellorco Fine Art - Beverly Hills Affaire in the Garden
Save the Date:
Oct. 20-21
Beverly Hills
Affaire in the Garden
Oct. 20-21
Beverly Hills
Affaire in the Garden
Santa Monica Blvd.
(between Crescent and Canon Dr.)
(between Crescent and Canon Dr.)
Dellorco Fine Art
1218A S. Westlake Blvd.
Westlake Village, CA 91361
chris@dellorcoart.com
chris@dellorcoart.com
to view art:
www.dellorcofineart.com
Opening Reception - Space Invaders
Please join us for the reception of
SPACE INVADERS
Wednesday, October 17, 6-8:00 pm
Kim
Beck, Diana Cooper, Abigail DeVille, Dahlia Elsayed, Franklin Evans,
Gandalf Gavan, DeWitt Godfrey, Rachel Hayes, Lisa Kellner, Nicola
Lopez,
Rita
MacDonald, Robert Melee and Erik Hanson, Sheila Pepe, Mariah Robertson,
Cordy Ryman, Carol Salmanson, Heeseop Yoon and Halley Zien
Space Invaders,
organized by guest curator Karin Bravin, features the work of eighteen
artists who make use of the unique spaces at Lehman College - both
inside the galleries and outside the building. Using the walls, the
ceiling, the floor, or the balcony above the atrium, works appear to
grow out of the structure, hang down, wrap around, or peer out from
under. Working with a specific location in mind, the space becomes the
artist's canvas. The outcome can be organic and free flowing, expressive
and thought provoking. These site-specific installations will include
floor-bound works arranged in sprawling configurations that appear to be
organically inspired. Some of the artists use large sculptures that
skillfully appropriate both indoor and outdoor spaces. Others use bits
of material that might have once intersected with someone's life
creating an expanding cultural collage, and some create installations
that cascade from a ceiling or stretch from inside to outside. Each
artist will inhabit the space differently, taking cues from the
distinctive architecture - Lehman College Art Gallery is located in a
building designed by Marcel Breuer in 1960.
Upon approaching the gallery from the center of the campus, the viewer will encounter Rachel Hayes' boldly
colored fabric installation. Light and wind affect the piece as it is
viewed from both indoors and outdoors. On the Goulden Avenue side of the
campus viewers will find Dahila Elsayed's series of
text-based flags. These festive, poetic, and suggestive visual markers
metaphorically call to attention aspects of the campus with which one
might not be familiar. DeWitt Godfrey's monumental steel tubes sit under an overpass, nestled between concrete walls. Kim Beck's work
will lead us from the outside to inside with vinyl decals of commonly
overlooked weeds that grow out of cracks and up walls.
Inside, in the gallery lobby, Sheila Pepe will dress the atrium with a degree of craft and decoration that likely was never intended for Marcel Breuer's cast concrete; Rita MacDonald's large-scale wall drawing plays up the roundness of the foyer's walls with an image of a pattern caught in a spinning motion. Carol Salmanson's Hercules Lite, made
of transparent green plexiglass, will mimic the shape of the building's
massive support columns, emphasizing contrasting feelings of
weightlessness and ephemerality.
In the galleries, Diana Cooper will
combine fragmented photographs with three-dimensional elements,
abstracted, but projecting an inherent sense of oppressive systems,
networks, circuitry and surveillance. Heeseop Yoon's installation
of black masking tape on Mylar will play with positive and negative
space, void and solid, transforming the space into a busy network of
lines that not only slows down the process of seeing and drawing but
also suspends the viewer's gaze. Franklin Evans' work
will explode the boundaries of painting with such disparate elements as
books, sound recordings, sculpture, painting, artist's materials,
digital images, drawing, and process residue. Abigail DeVille will
transform the small video room using found and inherited domestic
objects that make a connection to her personal universe and the one at
large. Cordy Ryman's Rafter Web Scrapwall will be a sprawling 30 foot wall installation of recycled remains from a previous installation of painted wood pieces; Mariah Robertson will create a cascading floor to ceiling installation of unique photographs that are the result of darkroom experimentation. Lisa Kellner uses
the language of diseased cellular activity to make large-scale
installations. She hand forms, paints and sews together thousands of
organic, bulbous shapes out of silk organza. Nicola Lopez will create an installation using woodblock printed Mylar that will transform a portion of the space's sloping ceiling. Robert Melee's
marbleized imitation wood and drop ceiling panels will cover a space
that channels and explores the distinct, yet inter-related psychologies
of the suburban home. His installation will include the paintings of
fellow artist Erik Hanson. Gandalf Gavan's neon and mirrored wall installation will alter the viewer's perception of the exhibition space, and Halley Zien will
make use of a hidden gallery kitchen that will be invaded by hundreds
of her collaged and psychologically expressive characters.
October 2, 2012 - January 9, 2013
Gallery Hours: Tuesday to Saturday from 10 am to 4 pm
For more Information about Lehman College Art Gallery
visit: www.lehman.edu/gallery
visit: www.lehman.edu/gallery
Our
exhibitions and programs are made possible with the generous support
from: The Institute of Museum and Library Services; The New York City
Council through G. Oliver Koppell, Joel Rivera, and the Bronx
Delegation; New York State Council on the Arts with the support of
Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; The New York
City Department of Cultural Affairs; Lily Auchincloss Foundation, Inc.;
The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation; The Cowles Charitable Trust;
Jarvis and Constance Doctorow Family Foundation; IBM; JDAF Arts
Foundation; Edith and Herbert Lehman Foundation; The New Yankee Stadium
Community Benefits Fund; and United Way of New York City.
Reception refreshments generously donated by Cabot Creamery.
Reminder: Deadline for Members' Exhibition 2012 is October 22!
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Call to Artists - Mount Dora Arts Festival
Mount Dora Arts Festival
Call to Artists
WHAT: The 38th Annual Mount Dora Arts Festival
WHERE: Historic Downtown, Mount Dora, Florida
WHEN: February 2nd and 3rd, 2013
Saturday and Sunday 10:00 am to 5:00 pm
*Limited to 295 juried artists
*Event is publicized on TV, radio, newspaper, magazines and social media with a package valued at $180,000
*Awards To
artists,$21,000 Total: Best of Show, $5,000; Judges Choice - 2D,
$1,500; Judges Choice - 3D, $1,500; Wendy Alderman Award, $250; Our
Community Award, $1,000; 12 Awards of Excellence - 2D, $500; 12 Awards
of Excellence - 3D, $500.
*Jury fee $30.
*Booth fees begin at $300.
*Artist amenities: Hospitality room with continental breakfast, drinks and snacks, booth sitting
*Reconfigured
categories this year: Clay, Digital Art, Fiber, Glass, Jewelry,
Metalwork, Mixed Media - 2D, Mixed Media- 3D, Painting, Photography,
Printmaking & Drawing, Sculpture, Watercolor, Wood
*Website: www.mountdoracenterforthearts.
Mount Dora Center for the Arts celebrates 38 years of bringing fine art and artists to historic Mount Dora Florida. This hugely popular show draws upwards of 250, 000 people to the scenic town located on Lake Dora in Central Florida, 40 minutes from downtown Orlando. Proceeds from this festival provide educational programs, exhibits and other activities produced by the Art Center
NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS:
Now Accepting Application
Deadline: October 22, 2012
Notification: November 9, 2012
Fees due: December 15, 2012
Apply at www.zapplication.org from July 1, 2012 to October 22, 2012
Call to Artists - Artisphere 2012
Artisphere
arts.culture.life
arts.culture.life
Artisphere 2013 Festival
Call to Artists
Call to Artists
WHAT: Fine Art and Fine Craft Event
WHERE: Downtown Greenville, SC
WHEN: Friday, May 10 - Sunday, May 12
WHERE: Downtown Greenville, SC
WHEN: Friday, May 10 - Sunday, May 12
NOTEWORTHY:
*120 participating artists
*Increased cash awards totaling $12,500
*Purchase Awards Program average of $15,000 each year
*Convenient set-up, free artist parking, and 24-hour security
*600 volunteers
*Booth sitters
*Complimentary food & beverages in conveniently located Artist Hospitality tent
*Reduced hotel rates
*Booth sitters
*Complimentary food & beverages in conveniently located Artist Hospitality tent
*Reduced hotel rates
Now
in its ninth year, the top ranking Artisphere festival is an annual
three-day event that gives arts patrons the rare opportunity to meet
exhibiting artists while purchasing original works of art. A
supportive, art-loving community, beautiful setting, and over 600
volunteers make the Artisphere festival an enjoyable experience for 120
exhibiting artists and the public alike. Renowned artist hospitality
includes complimentary food and beverages, convenient set up, parking,
security, booth sitters, and reduced hotel rates. Artisphere is a
501(c)(3) non-profit art organization. Proceeds are used to produce the
annual arts festival and are distributed back to local non-profit arts
organizations as part of Artisphere's Volunteer Arts Partnership
Program.
NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR THE 2013 FESTIVAL:
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION: October 18, 2012 on www.zapplication.org
For more information and a downloadable paper application visit: www.artisphere.us
CONTACT:
Liz Rundorff Smith
Program Director
Artisphere
liz@greenvillearts.com
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