Applications for 2nd Kathmandu International Art Festival

 Call for applications for 2nd Kathmandu International Art Festival 2012: Earth|Body|Mind

 

Deadline
January 31, 2012: National artists
February 29, 2012: International artists

 

The Siddhartha Arts Foundation is pleased to announce that the 2nd Kathmandu International Art Festival will take place from November 25 to December 21, 2012. Titled ‘Earth|Body|Mind’, the Festival is dedicated to one of the most critical issues of the 21st century – climate change.

 

Climate change is not an isolated phenomenon. It is happening globally and similarly, action is needed globally, down from the grassroots level up to the policy makers of a nation. As a critical creative form, art provides a platform for the society to think, analyze and reason. Artists, therefore, are in a unique position to highlight problems of climate change, generate awareness and create dialogues in the public through their artworks.

 

We invite national and international artists and curators to partake in this event, to create and establish a much-needed global social change.

 

KIAF is now accepting applications from artists and curators through its website www.artmandu.org, under Participate. The deadline to file submissions is January 31, 2012 for national artists and February 29, 2012 for international artists. The International Selection Committee involves six people:

 

Dina Bangdel, PhD, Associate Professor of Art History, Virginia Commonwealth University; Jagath Weerasinghe, Artist, Art writer, Professor, Postgraduate Institute of Archeology, Colombo Sri Lanka; Joyce Toh, Senior Curator, Singapore Art Museum; Navin Khadka, BBC News Correspondent, Specializes on Climate Change; Rajeev Lochan, Director, National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi; Salima Hashimi, Curator, Contemporary Artist, Dean of the School of Visual Arts, Beaconhouse National University, Lahore, Pakistan.

 

Background

 

KIAF is the biggest art event held in Kathmandu, Nepal. Organized by Siddhartha Art Gallery, the first non-profit Festival was held from October 30 to November 10, 2009.
111 artists from 25 countries showcased their visual interpretations on the Festival’s theme ‘Separating Myth from Reality – Status of Women’. Attended by over 5000 visitors in 6 venues, the event was described by the Mondriaan Foundation ‘an extraordinary project’ and as ‘dawn of a new era’ by national daily The Himalayan Times.

 

KIAF’s mission is to firmly place Nepal on the global map as a venue for contemporary art, allow for artistic collaboration and exchange among international and local artists and use art as a platform for the society to think, analyze and reason.

 

Thank you very much for your support. Kindly visit our website www.artmandu.org for details regarding the Festival and circulate this information to your colleagues, friends and networks. For further queries and concerns please write to us at info@artmandu.org

 

email: info@artmandu.org
office: 977-1-4438979
website: www.artmandu.org

ANETA BARTOS & NICK WEBER in JACK & JILL

AMH Industries

Image: Aneta Bartos, Together, 2011 (Digital C-print from Polaroid)

ANETA BARTOS & NICK WEBER in JACK & JILL
Curated by ANNE HUNTINGTON

February 2 – 28 2012
Reception: February 2 from 6-9pm
144 Tenth Ave NYC

AMH is pleased to present Aneta Bartos and Nick Weber in JACK & JILL curated by Anne Huntington on display at 144 10^th Avenue (nr. 19^th st) in Chelsea, NYC.

Bartos and Weber fluidly breathe haunting life into two-dimensional photographs and paintings, respectively, with such essence that the works bring forth a universal force. There is a duality of existence that is simultaneously light and dark; modern and nostalgic; erotic and romantic that invites the viewer into specific, yet open-ended worlds. Powerfully reflecting on the human psyche, childhood lessons learned, and acceptance granted or denied. The images arouse dangerous emotion with a fantastical dreamlike tone. We encounter humanity at its core, portals into ecstasy, challenging the viewer to experience various states of grace, to break through life’s defined states of sexuality in beautiful, disturbing and organic mediums. Bartos and Weber continue the figurative tradition, following the paths of Mapplethorpe and Bacon.

JACK & JILL references the boys and girls in us, as Bartos and Weber play the roles of artistic brother and sister. Instinctive parallels marry the works and blur the culturally formed lines ingrained in our visible and invisible worlds. The show delves into roles imbued in life’s mores and taboos through gender, gender bending, innocence and existence, linking to life’s complicated watered crown. JACK & JILL is the first time the artists are exhibiting together.

BARTOS: I’m very intrigued by human bodies as a spiritual, magical and mysterious energy, that appear to us as thinking beings, yet we know nothing of what they might be in themselves. I try to capture the dark and blurred space between the conscious and the subconscious, where I create the visual equivalent of memory recalled 'reality' one feels when jolted awake in deep r.e.m. sleep. However, my process is not a snapshot in the time, it is an eerie reflection of the body's spirits in the moment. It's my journey into the psyche of the body, where my passions, fears and taboos find it's home.

WEBER: The physical impact of my figures is what I attempt to convey, harnessing the energy of paint to conjure an actual person, not just a painting of a person. I subject my work to random destructive forces, molding the figure through a journey of memory versus form, layered by the processes of sanding and scraping, til what survives is the essential. Time’s passage is depicted literally and figuratively. The past lives in the present. I am haunted by female beauty, and the human ambivalence towards love and destruction.

Aneta Bartos, born in Poland, based in New York City, attended The School of Visual Arts. Most recently, Bartos was commissioned to create an art installation at ACME, New York, curated by Neville Wakefield. 2010, Bartos’ internationally acclaimed collaboration 4 Sale exhibited in New York City, Moscow and Poznan. 2009, Bartos debuted a solo show at Artsource, NY. 2007, Photo District News awarded Bartos as the top choice for Emerging Photographers. Bartos’ work has been featured in W Magazine, Interview Magazine, Conde Nast Portfolios, ARTINFO, British GQ, Panorama Newsweek, Zoo Magazine, GUP, Blow Photo and New York Magazine.

Nick Weber received his BA in Studio Art from Stanford, studying with Nathan Oliveira. Recent exhibits include solo and group shows at John McWhinnie in New York City and East Hampton as well as exhibits at the Fireplace Project in East Hampton and Scope Hamptons Art Fair. Featured press includes ARTINFO, New York Post, NBC Nightly News, Time Out Magazine, The Village Voice and CBS Sunday Morning. Work is collected by Richard Prince, Lisa de Kooning, Phil Aarons and Glenn Horowitz. Portrait commissions include Betsy Johnson and Abercrombie and Fitch. Weber is based in Amagansett, NY.

AMH Industries is the creative agency for contemporary culture – a full service art advisory and curatorial company. AMH produces and curates exhibitions, non-profit and for-profit events, corporate and personal collections, panel discussions, dinners and more. Founded in 2010 by Anne Huntington.

Inquiries: info@amhindustries.com

Paul D'Agostino: Appearance Adrift in the Garden

Norte Maar is pleased to present Paul D’Agostino: Appearance Adrift in the Garden. This is the first one-person exhibition of the artist’s work and will feature new prints and collages in which color, time, and subject fade into and feed off of one another. New prints by Leslie Kerby and works on paper by Kai Vierstra will be featuring in the project room. The exhibition opens with a reception for the artists on February 3 from 6-9pm and will continue through March 4. The gallery at Norte Maar is open weekends 1-6pm and by appointment. For more information call 646-361-8512.

Paul D’Agostino is an artist who translates, severs, layers, wipes out and remakes images. His semantic abilities and linguistic fluidity are matched only by the variations in materials the artist uses to make work--work that is infused with an adrenaline, an intellectual rigor and a clarity that has made this artist an important one to watch. In this one-person show, the artist’s first, D’Agostino presents, along with new collage work, two recent sets of serialized monoprints in which image and repetition battle for recognition on a surface steadied by one’s ability to source a story and make sense in circumstance.

A new publication of writings by D’Agostino, printed as a literal and metaphorical appendage to the artwork and titled Bodies, Voids and a Tale of Seas, will accompany the exhibit. It features poetry in several languages, with translations provided, as well as a short story, Anchors. READ MORE =>

Three Receptions - Renovated Reputations

Three Receptions - "Renovated Reputations"

Gray Finder
Oil on Panel 16"x20"

Santa Clara University, California
January 9 - February 5th
Reception: Thursday February 2, 2012 
5PM-7PM

Unfortunately the art building does not have a physical street address.  It is located on the Alameda, at the intersection of Bellomy St, Park Ave, and the Alameda.  If you look on google maps, the building name is visible there.

Ginger Bread
10"x8" Oil paint on canvas panel

Elliott Fouts Gallery, Sacramento California 
February 4th - March 1st, 2012.
Reception: Saturday February 4th 
6PM-9PM

4749 J. Street Sacramento, CA 95819 Phone (916) 736-1429

Phil A. Buster
Oil on masonite panel 10"x8"

Ohlone College, Fremont California 
February 7th -  March 9th
Reception, Saturday, February 25, 2012 
6PM - 8PM

Louie Meager Art Gallery 
in the Smith Center at
Ohlone College, 43600 Mission Blvd.
Fremont, California 94539  

Check Out David Markovich

David Markovich

David Markovich was born and raised in New York City. Even in childhood he showed an entrepreneurial knack – from selling Yo-yos to the other kids at school to being a key sales player at multinational credit card processing company, MerchantPro Express, by age 18. Mr. Markovich began his online career at Kidssocks.com and Mensunglasses.com, two small startups, where his duties included: Brand development, web site traffic growth, internet and traditional media marketing, brand strategy and analytics systems in addition to being the sole customer service and public relations representative. As part of brand development he was tasked with finding new vendors that fit the company ideals and would be conducive to the company’s further growth.

In the course of business at Kidssocks.com David was introduced to Eli Feldblum, founder and CTO of RankAbove, when Eli was contracted to handle the SEO for the company. David was so astonished by the intelligence and knowledge Eli displayed in his field that he immediately asked to work with him. David worked with Eli at his company RankAbove, a major player in the SEO industry, until he recently left to begin his own internet marketing firm PromoteUsNow.

Mr. Markovich speaks at many events including Brooklyn borough hall and Microsoft.

ArtGate Gallery - Seong Kyung Hee Solo Exhibition

Call to Artists - ArtsQuest Fine Arts & Music Festival

A Cultural Arts Alliance production presented by  Seaside and Visit South Walton    ArtsQuest Fine Arts & Music Festival   Call to Artists What: 24th annual ArtsQuest Fine Arts & Music Festival Where: Set in the picturesque Gulf-front town of Seaside, FL When: Friday, May 11 - 4:00 - 7:00pm;           Saturday, May 12 - 10:00am - 7:00pm;           Sunday, May 13 - 10:00am - 5:00pm             NOTEWORTHY: *A juried fine arts show held in the South Walton beach town of Seaside, which is situated along the Gulf of Mexico in Northwest Florida.   *$10,000 in awards *7,000 in attendance *Application fee: $40 *Booth fee: $260/ $300 corner  Artist amenities include an artist hospitality room serving continental breakfast, light snacks and bottled water; artist parking; overnight security; booth sitting; dining and accommodation specials. Festival poster image chosen from among the juried artist images - winner receives complimentary booth and prime placement, along with national exposure  Admission is free; rain or shine. NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS: Application deadline: February 10, 2011 Jury date: February 21, 2011 Notification: March 5, 2011 For more information and to apply: http://www.artsquestflorida.com   You may also contact: Lee Greene, Administrator 850-622-5970  info@culturalartsalliance.com