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Tuesday, May 22, 2012

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The show will feature twenty of America's most talented young artists selected from a pool of 7,500 applicants. It is the last show curated by the current team and will serve as a celebration of a new chapter for the organisation.

Bells & Whistles by Guy Goldstein

ROOSTER GALLERY, 190 ORCHARD STREET, NYC
OPENING RECEPTION: THURSDAY, MAY 31, 6 - 8PM
EXHIBITION DATES: MAY 31 - JULY 8, 2012

Rooster Gallery Contemporary Art and Residency Unlimited (RU) invite you to the opening of JARO 1 featuring 2 solo shows by RU artists in residency Guy Goldstein and Erin Dunn. JARO 1 is the first in a cycle of jointly organised exhibitions. Each year, Residency Unlimited and Rooster will offer the possibility to RU artists in residency to present new work at Rooster's premises in the Lower East side.. The term Jaro is a double reference to “year” in Esperanto and “caravan" in the Kichagga language. Time and displacement are integral to the concept of artists in residency.

On the ground level, Bells & Whistles by Guy Goldstein features a new sound piece alongside works on paper. Goldstein's investigates how to create meaning in a saturated consumer driven society. The process leading to the sound installation derives from a precise set of conditions. The artist enters printed material information in his computer that he collects from a wide range of sources in New York (e.g. restaurant menus, health leaflets, political flyers, fashion catalogs). He then reads this information out loud and records his voice on the computer. These spoken lists constitute the foundation of the multilayered sound piece that Goldstein will update continuously over the course of the exhibition.

The perception of the audience will be put to test by these surrounding sonic elements, which can be distorted and stretched, thus becoming either completely abstract at a given time, or clear and informative at another. The sound speakers are scattered on the gallery floor with the printed lists randomly displayed on top. The friction produced by the contact of the paper with the sound waves emanating from the speakers inevitably produce rustling effects. By incorporating an aleatory element into the rational world of ordering, the artist challenges the notion of narrative.

Working in tandem with the sonic installation, "Bells and Whistles" presents a series of drawings. Realized in graphite, they feature sonic elements and urban constructions that co-exist and collide thus providing the viewer with a similar sense of fast paced living.

In the lower level of the gallery, Rapture’s Adagio by Erin Dunn presents a complex installation of painting, sculpture and a stop motion animation that synthesizes techniques and materials employed with self-produced digital recordings. The starting point for Dunn is her readings about the life of Chiara de Montefalco (or ‘Saint Clare of the Cross’) who experienced ecstasies of ‘Jesus placing a cross in her heart.’ Upon her death, four nuns dissected her heart and were the first to discover the four chambered human heart - the cross is in quadrants.

Dunn is inspired to explore metaphysical and psychedelic divinity in relation to the body. Just like the Dervishes who get caught up in ecstatic raptures, the emotional intensity of the “sisters” in the animation is triggered by whirling dances and hallucinatory music, immersing the viewer in an alternative landscape for imagination.

The complexity of Dunn’s creative process bears similarities to fluxus solutions. The paintings are realized with precise airbrush draftsmanship combined with loose and wild encaustic marbleization. The result is a set of ambiguous mandalas and unnamable entities with many sets of eyes, simultaneously angelic and demonic that swim through sky, sea and beyond.

Likewise, the sculptures share a sense of extreme strangeness with the unusual combination of materials, such as foam, wire, plastic and human hair.

Call to Artists - San Anselmo Art & Wine Festival

California Artists
presents

Call to Artists

WHAT: 46th Annual Fine Arts and Crafts Festival

WHERE: Downtown San Anselmo, California
WHEN: June 23 & 24, 2012
            Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

NOTEWORTHY:

*Limited to 240 juried artists and craftspeople.

*NO JURY FEE: Booth Fee $275 (10' x 10') plus 10% commission.

*40,000 attendees.

This show is presented in the lovely downtown village of San Anselmo, a wealthy community of Marin County. The community prides itself on supporting the festival.

NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS:

NOTE: Deadline Extended to May 24th 2012

For more information and an application, please visit www.caartists.com

Email questions to caartists@earthlink.net

Call to Artists - St. Louis Bluesweek Festival

St. Louis Bluesweek Festival

Call to Artists

WHAT: Third Annual Art and Craft Festival at St. Louis Bluesweek

WHERE: Downtown St. Louis, MO at Soldier Memorial

WHEN: Friday May 25 4:30-11PM
Saturday May 26 11AM-11PM
Sunday May 27 11AM-11PM

NOTEWORTHY:

*Limited to 50 artists and crafters

*Expected attendance: 30,000

*Drive up to booth space for setup/teardown

*Complimentary artist goodybag daily

*No Jury Fee/Booth fee: $200 for 10x10 on 14' center

*Artist-only restrooms and wash stations

*Electricity provided at no charge

This famed celebration of performing and visual arts attracts huge, vibrant crowds. A fixture among the city's blues genre devotees, it draws knowledgeable, affluent festival attendees who are high-value candidates for artists' sales. Excellent in-town location.

NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS:

Deadline:
May 23, 2012

Notification:

Upon Acceptance

To apply, please visit: http://stlbluesweekartists.com

For More Information: 314-406-9112

Friday, May 18, 2012

Abstract Impressionist Susan Marx will exhibit paintings at the Agora Gallery

Abstract Impressionist Susan Marx

will exhibit paintings at the Agora Gallery

530 West 25 Street, New York, NY, June 12 - July 3, 2012

Opening Reception: June 14, 6 PM - 8 PM

Gallery Hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 11 AM - 5 PM

Vivid evocative color splashes throughout the transcendent planes of lush paint that characterize Susan Marx’s work. Spontaneous brushstrokes produce a playful sense of the organic and immediate. Her dedication to formalism, combined with her passionate reinterpretation of the world, results in paintings that are as breathtaking as they are compelling. “My art is a result of my radical amazement at the visual world around me and my need to turn that visual experience into paint. Nature may be my starting point, but it is not my end result,” she explains. Her paintings are in conversation with artists such as Monet, Van Gogh, and Joan Mitchell, yet she strikes a unique note, enlightened by her own visual impressions. Marx paints outside, en plein air, and is informed by direct experience of nature, inhaling natural beauty, and exhaling her sensations in a truly impassioned creation of color that epitomizes the current moment.

Exhibited widely throughout the United States, Marx’s work can be found in private collections in the United States and abroad. Susan Marx lives in Orange, New Jersey. She volunteers at the Montclair Art Museum and the Newark Museum

Scope Basel, 6/12-17/12 2012