Hearsay: Artists Reveal Urban Legends

Hearsay: Artists Reveal Urban Legends   March 29 - May 8, 2014 Opening Reception: Saturday, April 12, 2014, 5 - 8 pm Visual Arts Center California State University, Fullerton Begovich Gallery 800 North State College Blvd.,  Fullerton, CA 92831 www.fullerton.edu/arts/art/Begovich_current/Exhibit%20Detail_Hearsay.html  www.hearsayrevealed.com  Curated by Lauren Haisch and Wendy Sherman    Hearsay: Artists Reveal Urban Legends will include approximately 35 artists who will each create artwork based on an urban legend with special significance to them. Each work will be accompanied by text explaining the artist's personal connection to their chosen urban legend. Urban legends serve as our modern day mythology. Based on cultural traditions and morality tales, these stories prey upon our collective fears and provoke strong, emotional responses. Traditionally, in order for these legends to survive, a mix of text and imagery was used in storytelling, heightening the power of the legend as it passed down through generations. More recently, the Internet has encouraged the rapid dissemination of these modern legends, many of which can be traced back to the original folklore that inspired them. The purpose of the exhibition is not to illustrate urban legends, but to analyze them in conjunction with each artist's own subjective viewpoint resulting in a shared experience between artist and audience. The exhibition will incorporate a wide range of mediums, including painting, sculpture, photography and video, in order to capture the essence of each urban legend. A catalog will be published for this exhibition through Grand Central Press. Author and urban legends expert Jan Brunvand and art writers Tyler Stallings, Doug Harvey, and Mat Gleason will contribute essays. The catalog will also include essays by both curators as well as full color images of the artwork and short statements from each artist discussing their work in the exhibition.  A R T I S T S Dmitriy Astakhov  Clayton Bailey  Rex Barron  Stephen Berkman  Joe Biel  Kevin Bradley  Sarina Brewer  Hugh Brown  Mike Cockrill  Michael Criley  Lew Delport   Chris Farling  Llyn Foulkes  Gregg Gibbs  Jeff Gillette  Mark Gleason  Laurie Hassold  Tony Huynh  Hellen Jo  Laurie Lipton  Matjames Metson  Lauren Morrison  Adam Oehlers  Naida Osline  Burt Payne 3 and Stephen Hillenburg  Ransom & Mitchell  Victoria Reynolds  Jim Shaw  Christopher Ulrich  Jeffrey Vallance  Nicola Verlato  Marnie Weber  Chris Wilder  Robert Williams  Scott D. Wilson

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Toni Silber-Delerive Exhibitions

Toni Silber-Delerive Exhibitions "I am filled with gratitude for the ability to live the artist's life. In my studio. Being an artist. Everyday." Mickie Acierno National Arts Club Exhibiting Artist Members Show Reception and Awards Ceremony is Thursday, March 13th, 6-8pm Nysa City Suburb, acrylic on canvas, 36" x 36" This exhibition, an annual tradition, celebrates the diverse talents of the EAM and runs from March 10 to March 29 in the Grand Gallery of the National Arts Club located at 15 Gramercy Park South. Nysa City Suburb is in the show and was also a 2013 Showcase Winner in Art Slant's Juried Competition. The painting also received Special Recognition in the "Landscape" Juried Exhibition at Upstream People Gallery. Linus Galleries selected Sushi and Salmon Canape for their Fork and Knife Juried Art Exhibition. Looking Down is one of 4 selected for their Urban category. Sushi, 16" x 16" Salmon Canape, 16" x16" Looking Down, 36" x 36" Dusseldorf, oil on canvas, 36" x 48" Dusseldorf, Germany, received a Special Recognition award fromLight Space & Time Gallery in their "CityScapes" Exhibition. Dusseldorf, Germany was awarded Special Recognition last month in Art Quench Gallery's"Open Theme" Juried Art Competition and Exhibition. Seen from above, this government building becomes an abstract design and the key element of the painting. Reduced to circular elements details are softened and made somber by the use of gray. 'Til next time, Best wishes, Toni tonisart.com #fineartmagazine

Louis Stern Fine Arts

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Blair Zaye

‘Bespoken’ Blair Zaye’s Solo Exhibition Wednesday 5th March, 2014 - Friday 7th March, 2014  Façade, 59 London Wall, City of London, London, EC2M 5TR  Blair Zaye in association with Moderna Art rounds off the 4 week programme of rolling exhibitions at Façade a rough-and-ready 1600sqft disused bank with his own solo show entitled ‘Bespoken’.  Bespoken is filled with a selection of paintings from Blair Zaye’s series of the same name. Each painting in ‘Bespoken’ is a collection of documented foretold ideas from everyday life. With frequent use of symbolism and diagrammatic drawings alluding to that of circuit boards or astronomic star maps. Challenging the viewer in an intellectual sense to stimulate internal confrontation and realisation. Located on London Wall, Façade is just 5 minutes walk from Bank and Liverpool Street Stations and is surrounded by several investment banks and companies in the financial epicentre of London. Key dates and times: Wednesday 5th March 2014 Opening 18:00 - 21:00 Thursday 6th March 2014 (First Thursday) Open 13:00 - 21:00 Friday 7th March 2014 Open 13:00 - 20:00 For more information on the ‘Bespoken’ exhibition please visit the events page  http://www.facebook.com/events/809804372368076/  and find and like Blair Zaye on facebook here http://www.facebook.com/BlairZayeArtist For more information on Blair Zaye please visit http://www.blairzaye.com/ Or contact Blair Zaye – 07503669277 - exhibitions@blairzaye.com Partners :

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MATTHEW STONE Unconditional Love

MATTHEW STONE Unconditional Love March 6th - April 6th, 2014OPENING: Thursday March 6th from 6-9PM The Hole is proud to present the third solo exhibition by London-based artist Matthew Stone. Using the entire gallery space, Stone will debut a new series of abstract artworks in the main rooms, and perform and display a new performance based piece in Gallery 3. The performance will take place at the opening March 6th and the artworks therein created will be on view in Gallery 3 following its completion. For his third solo exhibition Matthew continues to innovate in both concept and medium. His first exhibition Optimism as Cultural Rebellion in 2011 featured his photographs of entangled nude bodies and billowing colored fabrics printed onto wood, installed as wall-works and geometric hinged sculptures that spilled across the gallery floor. For the second show last November, Stone exhibited large-format wooden panels engraved with imagery derived from photographs of dancers taken in the pitch black and lit only with nightclub lasers. The hand-manipulated laser-beams were captured and accumulated via long exposures, resulting in spectacular and effervescent light-drawings. This mark-making process was defined by both artist and subject's movements, indicating their collaborative nature. The laser-lit photographs were then engraved into black painted wood, forming a second kind of ethereal and process-led image. Comprising photography, drawing, dance, performance and computer controlled engraving, these works were installed in a black, dimly lit and chapel-like room that was programmed to burst periodically into a laser-strewn, silent dance-floor.  Unconditional Love introduces lush digitally printed paintings. Stone hand-paints on glass and photographs the resulting compositions. These high-resolution details are then digitally intensified and retouched to remove subjective imperfections, such as dust and hairs. The paint is then printed onto veneered wooden panels, sheet acrylic and mirror. The resulting works employ photography and digital printing as part of an extended artistic process that furthers the visual and practical potential of paint, rather than as an objective or documentarian means to an end.  Almost offensively juicy and often steeped in visceral colour, the works upturn the holy status of art history’s worship of “paint handling” and “brushwork” as untouchable cosmic flesh, whilst simultaneously and sincerely reasserting its living legacy of visceral and emotionally manipulative power. Stone's paint gestures mimic the movements and colors of Renaissance painting and sculpture and suggest the punchy thrusts and flair of dancers in motion or joyful movement in general. Their genuine love of color and movement draw the viewer in and celebrate the eye and its joys in the realm of paint. While ostensibly resembling a scaling of the “masterful” brushwork of Motherwell or de Kooning, the final works, perhaps like Lichtenstein's spoofy quoted strokes, live as flattened snapshots of captured and ephemeral moments. They are digitally composed gestures, flat and practically inert but imaginatively ecstatic. The turns of the wrist that twist the paint into three dimensionality suggest the contrapposto twirl of a dancer or the circular helix of a Michelangelo marble, while the gush of color is un-gendered orgasm. In Gallery 3 Stone will enact Muse Control a new performance piece comprised of a dancer and a video camera operator. Performed amidst a bespoke sound-piece of Stone's creation, the dancer will be clad in black in the all-black gallery so the viewer's focus is pulled to the camera operator. The Steadicam, a counter-weighted rig, ensures that the camera floats fluidly around the body of the operator resulting in ultra-smooth footage and body space for dynamic movement of the operator. Closely following the dancers, the camera operator, now as an unconscious dancer himself, creates an incidental choreography whose movements are shaped by the creative and aesthetic decisions involved in image-making, and as a filtered response to the call of the professional dancer’s moves.  The performance purposely subverts the hierarchy of the traditional creative relationship between image-maker and model or muse, exposing the subtle social negotiations of collaboration crucial to all of Stone’s work.  For more information on the exhibition and available works or press requests please email krysta@theholenyc.com

Madelyn Jordon Fine Art

JOIN US AT SCOPE NEW YORK   March 6-9, 2014 THIS WEEK We are delighted to be exhibiting at SCOPE NEW YORK BOOTH # D09 DJ Leon, Superman: It's a Bird, It's a Plane, 2014, 3-D print, 24 x 36 inches We'll be exhibiting new works by Lauren Greenfield, Akiko Ida & Pierre Javelle (Minimiam), Stanford Kay, DJ Leon, Stan  Munro, Susan Wides and others. SCOPE NEW YORK Pavilion: 33rd Street between 8th and 9th Avenue FREE Shuttle Service from The Armory Show provided Hours: Vernissage: Thursday, March 6: 6-9PM Friday, March 7: 11AM-8PM Saturday: March 8: 11AM-8PM Sunday: March 9:11AM-7PM CLICK HERE for futher information about the fair PREVIEW our booth on ARTSY Gallery Statement Founded in 1994, Madelyn Jordon Fine Art specializes in 20th century and contemporary art in all media. The gallery, located in Scarsdale, NY, in lower Westchester County, seeks to be a source for collectors (both experienced and new to the field) for quality works of art and unparalleled customer service. The gallery showcases the work of nationally prominent artists as well as those emerging. An eclectic sensibility is seen in the presentation of exhibitions in a wide variety of media, including painting, sculpture and printmaking.     Madelyn Jordon Fine Art 37 Popham Road Scarsdale, NY 10583 914-723-8738 P 914-723-2592 F VISIT OUR WEBSITE! Gallery Hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 10:00AM to 5:30PM

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The India Association of Greater Charleston presents Zakir Hussain & Masters of Percussion March 15, 2014

Photo by Jim McGuire  The India Association of Greater Charleston presents  Zakir Hussain & Masters of Percussion   March 15, 2014 Indian music will be played by the world's leading percussionist and Grammy Award-winning virtuoso, Zakir Hussain. The India Association of Greater Charleston (IAGC), will present the concert "Zakir Hussain & Masters of Percussion" featuring the internationally renowned tabla player. Zakir Hussain was a child prodigy on tabla, an Indian percussion instrument. He was touring at the age of 12, and along with his legendary father and teacher, Ustad Allarakha, he has elevated the status of the tabla, both in India and around the world. He has recorded and performed with artists as diverse as George Harrison, YoYo Ma, Joe Henderson, Van Morrison, Airto Moreira, Pharoah Sanders, Billy Cobham, Mark Morris, Rennie Harris and the Kodo drummers.  For a small taste of this rhythmic phenomenon, please view this clip with Hussain on the left (start at the 45-min. mark): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqQTOK3kh4E One of Hussain's regular collaborations is Masters of Percussion, an outgrowth of his early tours with his father. Since 1996, he has taken the best of India's percussionists (along with one or two melody players) around the U.S. and the world. Charleston residents will have the unique chance to witness Hussain¹s improvisational dexterity in addition to the skills of the Masters of Percussion: Selvaganesh Vinayakram (kanjira and ghatam), Steve Smith (Westerndrums), Niladri Kumar (sitar), Dilshad Khan (sarangi), Deepak Bhatt (dhol) and Vijay Chavan (dholki).  Saturday, March 15, 2014 Charleston Music Hall  37 John Street Admission: $20 Students/$30-$100 General Admission CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO AND ONLINE TICKETS  or call 843-853-2252 or ETIX at 800-514-3849 #fineartmagazine

March at Rogue Space | Chelsea

March at Rogue Space | Chelsea  Emerging Contemporary Artists from Japan   March 3-9 Opening Reception Thursday, March 6, 6-8pm.    curated by  Artrates Agency      Street Wall   March 3-9 Opening Reception Thursday, March 6, 6-9pm. NICK MANN a.k.a. DOODLES THE CRETIN OVERUNDER NDA  DENNIS MCNETT a.k.a. WOLFBAT PAT PERRY JUFE EIGHTY EIGHT KEVIN BURNEY a.k.a. WRETCHED BEAST GEOFF HARGADON   www.aethergallery.com                 Incomplete World-Gravitation -Calligraphy And Fresh Flowers -     March 10 (4pm)-16 Opening Reception Thursday, March 13, 6-8pm.   By Ms. Hisae Sasaki, the Japanese calligraphy / flower arrangement artist          The artist, Ms. Sasaki, will be displaying an unprecedented style of work which features the  mixture of calligraphy with the art of flower arrangement, ikebana.  This time, she will decorate her artwork, using camellia from the island of Ooshima, Japan. Last October, the island was hit by a typhoon, which triggered a mudslide that swept away many people and their houses. Ooshima has been known for its beautiful camellia flowers that grow everywhere in the island. Using camellias that survived the typhoon, the artist created her artwork, and asked a photographer to take pictures of her creations. Together with calligraphy and fresh flowers, she will decorate the pictures of her Ooshima camellia artwork.  Proceeds from the Ooshima camellia artwork will go to Ooshima survivors.  Presented by   Artrates Agency     DREAMS...According to Us   March 13 -18 Opening Reception Thursday, March 13, 6-9pm    Benefitting St. Judes Research Hospital                      "I Am Syria" Benefit Exhibition March 20-23   Opening Reception Thursday, March 20, 6-9pm          Continuing its mission working with children in conflict zones, Rogue Foundation completed an art project with Syrian refugee children in camps close to the Lebanese border in November.    Expanding on the "I Am Haiti", "I Am Cambodia" and "I Am Afghanistan" projects, the "I Am Syria" is a collaboration with and is in support of the NGO Relief and Reconciliation for Syria.     An exhibition of the children's paintings will be held at Rogue Space | Chelsea March 20-24 with all proceeds from art sales being returned to fund a program of trauma support for children who have been affected by the conflict.      Longue Journey    The children are survivors from a siege by government troops that leveled the city of Qusayr, 10 Km from the Lebanese border.  In addition to the casualties inflicted by the bombing, even more refugees were killed at they fled towards neighboring Lebanon, snipered continuously from the air and by ground troops.    The 10km journey to the border took 8 days, mostly by cover of dark, as refugees crawled through underbrush to avoid detection.  Few families survived without at least one fatality.  On arrival in Lebanon, families were then arrested and imprisoned by Lebanese authorities and held for weeks in overcrowded prisons before being released to build their own camps.  They are not recognized as refugees by Lebanon where they now number over a million in a country with a population of 3 million.  The conflict in Syria is now being recognized as the worst genocide of the 21st century since fighting began in Syria, April 2011.    Footprints     The key image of the show is a 12 foot long canvas depicting the children's footprints in paint, more dense at the beginning and thinning towards the end to reflect the loss of lives incurred in their migration.      The children were asked to paint memories of their life in Syria and of the life they hoped to live in Lebanon.    You are invited to an exhibition of their work.  Paintngs and drawings are priced between $100-$200 and all funds are returned directly to the children to further their education.      Rogue Foundation is socially conscious organization founded by Rogue Space | Chelsea gallery owner and documentary filmmaker Kevin O'Hanlon.  Its goal is to empower children in conflict zones and challenged environments around the world through creativity and creative solution finding.    Expanding is a collaboration with and is in support of the NGO Relief and Reconciliation for Syria.         CLEN GALLERY presents the harmony of contrasts THURSDAY MARCH 27, 6-9pm         A SPECIAL EXHIBITION   FEATURING    ART - FASHION - DESIGN        ALBERTO BACCARI - ALFREDO RAPETTI MOGOL ELISABETH CHRISTOPHER - ERIKA TROJER FRANCISCO UCEDA - GIUSY D'ARRIGO   MARISA NOTARIANNI - M.CHRISTOPHER ZACHAROW   PAOLA MARGHERITA LOPEZ - SCOTT CHRISTOPHER SCOTT WIXON - SILVIO FORMICHETTI       For information  - RSVP  cleliazolli@clengallery.com  + 15168840413    Rogue Foundation's trailer video for its upcoming documentary about the power of creativity in conflict zones around the world. Drawing Hope Documentary Series Promo As socially conscious enterprise, each show at Rogue Space | Chelsea supports our art programs and documentaries empowering children in need through our philanthropical wing Rogue Foundation.

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