Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Award Winning Timeline Surreal Tree Lessons from Tim Gagnon


Greetings!
Over the last 7 years I have developed a unique painting series that I call my Surreal Time Line Trees.  It is something I've worked very hard on to get just right.  These are the paintings that I am most well known for.  They have been collected around the world and won a variety of awards. 

I have often been asked if I'd do lessons on how to paint them, and I recently decided that I would share my secrets.  I've developed a method to painting these trees that is effective and easy to follow.  I have a 4 lesson series that will show you, step by step, how to paint these unique paintings. 

Click on the image to learn more!

Surreal Time Line Trees
4 Lesson Series

In this lesson series you will learn how to paint my award winning, Surreal Time Line Trees.

There are 4 lessons that will cover 4 different paintings from start to finish.

Each lesson is about 2 hours +.  The lessons are easy to follow and will really get your creative ideas flowing.  Once you learn the techniques you can create a large variety of paintings.  Your only limit will be how far your imagination will take you.



You can also find these original paintings for sale in my store.  Right now they are half priced until the end of October.  Check them out here!


Special Offer

Purchase the Surreal Time Line series and get any current individual lesson of your choice, for free!  Whether you purchase the set online or on DVD you are entitled to a free lesson (current individual lesson).  This offer is only available to those who are subscribed to my newsletter and will end on Nov. 1. 


Art Therapy Training 2013 in Thailand


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Our International Program of Art Therapy in Thailand is now accepting application for the year 2013. Read more information, go visit:  www.art4human.com/bcsat.html  or email us at art.as.therapy@gmail.com or call 085 - 113 1919.

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Affordable Art Fair Mexico presents its first edition in Latin America!


Anibal Catalan, Sin Titulo (Zona Morpho Series). Courtesy of YAUTEPEC Gallery.

Affordable Art Fair México presents its first edition in Latin America!

October 19 – 21, 2012

Expo Reforma

Ave. Morelos 67, Col. Juárez | Cuauhtémoc, 06700 | México D.F.

Affordable Art Fair, the leading showcase internationally for contemporary art, arrives for the first time to Mexico and Latin America. It will be held from October 19th to the 21st at Expo Reforma, located in the heart of Mexico City near the famous Reforma Avenue.

For three days, Mexico City´s residents aka Chilangos, will enjoy contemporary art from 40 galleries, mostly national but also a strong presence of international galleries, through paintings, graphics, sculptures, photographs and drawings. The relaxed format that has characterized AAF since its first edition in London over 10 years ago, invites attendees to browse freely not only the details of each work, but also its prices, which will be on display throughout the show.

Among the galleries that will take part on this first edition are Aldama Fine Art, Ethra, Terreno Baldío Arte, Garash, Altiplano, Yautepec, Fifty24mx, Jesús Villafán from Oaxaca, No Name Gallery from Guadalajara, and the Veracruz Institute of Culture featuring winning artists in last year´s Veracruz Biennale. Among them, countries such as Cuba with Galería Avistamientos and Guatemala with Arthis, will take part.


Reynerio Tamayo, La Ola. Courtesy of Avistamientos.

Affordable Art Fair México will present a Young Talent Show where people will have the chance to discover masterpieces by young artists who just started their careers. The exhibition is part of the Educational Program supported by AXA, and will be showing the work of new artists selected through an open call held during September by Cultura Colectiva, in order to encourage the career or these young artists and provide greater visibility for them in this field.

Another aspect of the Educational Program will be the print workshops in which the public can learn about the processes behind the different techniques and learn how to create their own works of art.
For the youngest there is also place inside Affordable Art Fair, an educational space that seeks to encourage and facilitate the creative development of children and youth through art.

This first edition will also have great allies to foster affordable contemporary art in Mexico in a fun way. There will be talks and lectures with renowned speakers and topics for both beginners and professionals in art. All these activities will be offered at no extra cost to the attendees.

Undoubtedly, Affordable Art Fair México will be a come to revolutionize not only the way we appreciate art, but also the way we enjoy it, live it and buy it.

For more information, please visit: www.affordableartfair.com/mexicocity

Monday, October 15, 2012

Whitney - The "Ingenious" Wade Guyton, plus Fireflies on the Water

Wade Guyton

Whitney Museum OCTOBER 10–23
See the exhibition heralded as "beautiful" (The New York Times) and "ingenious, and also moving" (The New Yorker). Wade Guyton OS is a striking installation of Guyton's innovative work that explores our changing relationship to images and art through the use of technology.
Yayoi Kusama’s Fireflies on the Water continues through October 28. Special timed tickets are required for Fireflies, so see our website for information before your visit.
We hope to see you at the Whitney!

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Exhibitions BACK TO TOP Signs & Symbols
"Works whose essentials anyone anywhere could relate to"—The New York Times
Through October 28

Adolph Gottlieb
Drawn from the Whitney’s collection, Signs & Symbols sheds new light on the developments of abstraction in American art during the 1940s and 1950s. Looking beyond Abstract Expressionism, toward the figurative and calligraphic “signs and symbols” present in much of the highly controlled work of this period, this exhibition features works by seminal artists including Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, and Adolph Gottlieb, among others.
Oskar Fischinger:
Space Light Art—A Film Environment

"At once relaxing and stimulating, and possibly hypnotic"—Artinfo
Through October 28

Oskar Fischinger
This exhibition presents one of the first multimedia projections ever made: Oskar Fischinger’s Raumlichtkunst (Space Light Art), a re-creation of his multiple-screen film events, first shown in Germany in 1926, and recently restored by the Center for Visual Music in Los Angeles. Radical in format, its display of abstract shapes and colors produces, according to Fischinger, “an intoxication by light from a thousand sources.”
Fireflies on the Water
Through October 28
Yayoi Kusama
Yayoi Kusama’s depictions of seemingly endless space have been a central focus of her artistic career. Kusama’s Fireflies on the Water (2002)—with its carefully constructed environment of lights, mirrors, and water—is one of the outstanding examples of this kind of installation, which creates a space in which individual viewers are invited to transcend their sense of self.
Special timed tickets are required for entry into Fireflies on the Water. Tickets are free with Museum admission and available day-of-visit on a first-come, first-served basis. We recommend you arrive early. Wade Guyton OS
"The Whitney Museum has a hit on its hands: a beautiful show organized by a young curator that makes a cogent case for the work of a young artist."The New York Times
Through January 13, 2013
Wade Guyton Over the past decade, New York–based artist Wade Guyton has pioneered a groundbreaking body of work that explores our changing relationships to images and artworks through the use of common digital technologies, such as the desktop computer, scanner, and inkjet printer. Guyton’s purposeful misuse of these tools to make paintings and drawings results in beautiful accidents that relate to the ways in which we haltingly navigate the visual and technological barrage of our time.
. . . as apple pie
On continuous view
Stow Wengenroth
Images, like words, can trigger a cultural or emotional response to a shared national ethos. Artists have employed images—sometimes straightforwardly, often obliquely—in order to comment on a country, its people, its political or social goals, and its self-image. This exhibition explores this phenomenon through a rotating installation, drawn from the Whitney’s collection, of works on paper by a diverse group of artists including Robert Bechtle, Enrique Chagoya, Howard Cook, William N. Copley, Edward Hopper, Willard Midgette, Joseph Pennell, Benton Spruance, and Stow Wengenroth.

Family Programs  BACK TO TOP Whitney Wees: Shapes, Lines, and Symbols
For families with kids age 4–5
October 13, 20, and 27
10:30–11:30 am

Whitney Wees From circles to squiggles, artists often develop their own special vocabulary to create their work! Families will explore sculptures, paintings, and more in Signs & Symbols and other exhibitions.
$10 per family. Admission to program includes Museum admission. Registration is recommended; drop-ins are welcome if space is available. Family Fun Art Workshop: Playing with Printmaking
For families with kids age 6–10
October 13, 20, and 27
10:30 am–12:30 pm

Family Fun Discover how Wade Guyton uses technology to print—and misprint—his breathtaking works. Families will try their own hands at printmaking.
$10 per family. Admission to program includes Museum admission. Registration is recommended; drop-ins are welcome if space is available.

Shop  BACK TO TOP Wade Guyton OS
$55 / $40 for members
Wade Guyton OS
This catalogue illuminates Wade Guyton's unconventional working methods and the development of his techniques, showcasing the visual flair and conceptual provocation inherent in his art. Wade Guyton: Drawings for a Small Picture
$65 / $58.50 for members
Wade Guyton: Drawings for a Small Picture
In conjunction with his exhibition at the Secession in Vienna, Guyton produced this artist’s book, which enacts his creative methods across more than sixty color pages.

Other Events  BACK TO TOP Film Forum Presents: Bel Borba Aqui
Through October 16
Film Forum
West Houston Street (West of 6th Avenue)

Bel Borba Aqui
For the past thirty-five years, Bel Borba has been transforming his hometown of Salvador, Brazil with an amazing array of works of public art. Using paint, sand, tiles, clay, metal, wood, and just about anything else he comes across, Bel Borba makes art that is a natural extension of his exuberant personality. Set to the rhythms of Brazil, Bel Borba Aqui introduces a one-man life-force who proves that his country is a lot more than favelas, soccer, and drugs.
For more information and to buy tickets, visit filmforum.org.

Just for Members:
Preview Day: Richard Artschwager!

October 24
12–6 pm
This major retrospective surveys nearly five decades of the work of Richard Artschwager and explores his relationship to major movements in American art.
Open to all members, plus one guest. JOIN NOW
For further information, please email memberinfo@whitney.org or call (212) 570-3641. Thank you for supporting the Whitney!

IMAGE CREDITS Wade Guyton (b. 1973), Untitled, 2006 (detail). Epson UltraChrome inkjet on linen, 89 × 54 in. (226.1 × 137.2 cm). Private collection. © Wade Guyton. Photograph by Lamay Photo
Adolph Gottlieb (1903–1974), Vigil, 1948. Oil on canvas, 36 × 48 in. (91.4 × 121.9 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase 49.2. Art © Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation / Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY
Oskar Fischinger (1900–1967), still of Raumlichtkunst, 1926/2012. Three screen projection: three 35mm films transferred to high-definition video, black-and-white and color, sound; 10 minutes, looped. © Center for Visual Music Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929), Fireflies on the Water, 2002. Mirror, plexiglass, lights and water, 111 × 144 1/2 × 144 1/2 in. (281.9 × 367 × 367 cm) overall. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Postwar Committee and the Contemporary Painting and Sculpture Committee and partial gift of Betsy Wittenborn Miller  2003.322. © Yayoi Kusama. Photograph courtesy Robert Miller Gallery, New York
Wade Guyton (b. 1973), Untitled, 2006. Epson UltraChrome inkjet on linen, 89 × 54 in. (226.1 × 137.2 cm). Private collection. © Wade Guyton. Photograph by Lamay Photo Stow Wengenroth (1907–1978), Bird of Freedom, 1942. Lithograph, 21 9/16 × 15 1/16 in. (54.8 × 38.3 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, purchase  42.13. Digital image © Whitney Museum of American Art
In the sculpture court, families design their own comic strip, 2011. Photograph by Sean Carroll Family Fun participants create wacky installations, 2012. Photograph by Sean Carroll
Still from Bel Borba Aqui, directed by Burt Sun and André Costantini

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Call for Artists: ID / Identities - Istanbul . November 22 - December 02, 2012



Call for Artists: ID / Identities - Istanbul (Turkey) . November 22 - December 02, 2012
Video art / Photography / Computer graphics / Installation / Performing art
 
Deadline: November 05, 2012
 
Prizes
. a Solo Exhibition in Venice
. 1 Year of participation to International Art Festivals organized by International ArtExpo
. 1 Week of luxury accommodation in an exclusive Art Residence in Italy
 
International ArtExpo is selecting artworks to include in the next 2012 events:
 
ID / Identities - International Art Festival at Koza Visual Culture and Arts Association / Istanbul, Turkey (November 22 - December 02, 2012)
 
organizer: International ArtExpo
curators: Ramuntcho Robles Quevedo & Marta Stella (Spain)
 
opening: November 22, 2012 at 6 pm at Koza Visual Culture and Arts Association
venue: Koza Visual Culture and Arts Association, Istiklal Str. No: 116 Danisman Gecidi Han Cikmazi Str. No: 1 F:3, Beyoglu-Istanbul (Turkey)
 
dates: Istanbul . November 22 - December 02, 2012 | 10 am - 7 pm
 
The deadline for applications is November 05, 2012
 
The selections will be based on the main concept of “Identities” and on all its reflections on cities, bodies, society and cultures, mixing borders between them. Everyday we deal with a multitude of different identities and roles: we face the public life creating and adapting our social identities; our body and aesthetic tastes modify and are modified by our physical and sexual identities; our whole being evolves as well as contemporary cultures and modern cities do. People, environments, societies, progress and all their inputs shape and regenerate our individualities; they shift and overlap with our selves creating a new stimulating world.
 
The event is open to video art, photography, computer graphics, installations and performances.
 
International ArtExpo is opening a new division dedicated to the Computer Graphics. International talents are invited to present their artworks (images and animations) created with the computer graphics techniques to include in this event.
 
Send your works submission with a CV/biography, videography and some still images (only for video artists) via email to lucacurci@lucacurci.com or via mail to:
 
International ArtExpo
Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, 33
70122 Bari, Italy
 
The number of works you can submit is unlimited. The participation in the International Art Festival requires an entry fee only for selected artworks. Participation open to: artists, architects and designers, associate groups and studios.
 
After the event, our organization in collaboration with the curators, will select the winning artists of 1 Solo Exhibition in Venice, held in one of our exclusive venues between San Marco Square and the Arsenale or near the Ponte di Rialto on the Canal Grande; 1 year of participation to International Art Festivals organized by International ArtExpo and 1 week of luxury accommodation in an exclusive art residence in Italy.

International ArtExpo is a not for profit organization that provides a significant forum for cultural dialogue between all artists from different cultures and countries. ArtExpo is grateful to all of the institutions, corporations, and individuals who support our artistic projects. We work with a number of national and international galleries as well as publishers, museums, curators and critics from all over the world. We help artists through solo and group exhibitions, gallery representation, magazine reviews and advertisements, press releases, internet promotion, as well as various curatorial projects.
 
International ArtExpo
Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, 33
70122 Bari (Italy)
+39.0805234018
+39.3387574098
lucacurci@lucacurci.com

"I AM ANIMAL" HALLOWEEN NIGHT


  Dream Circus Theatre, the innovators of Performance Art Parties
...DCT Presents...

"I AM ANIMAL" HALLOWEEN NIGHT


"An Interactive Theatrical Dance Party"


A costume party which merges YOU, "The Participant" into the story, the music, and the theatrics. Be part of the performance art and dance with interactive stages that integrate YOU, "The Audience" as if YOU are part of the actual performance.

“Enter the Party and Live in the World of the Story”
YOU, "The Audience" member become one with the story and turn into living theatrical characters of the event.


HALLOWEEN NIGHT
WED. OCT. 31st 2012

8:00 PM - 2:00 AM

THE ANIMAL CAGE:

Theatrical Performance:
"ARE YOU OR AM I, ANIMAL" (Dream Circus Theatre)

Costumes designed by MKO (www.MKOCostumes.com)

MUSIC AREA: 

John Kelley (Moontribe, Ball of Waxx Music)  
Brian Seed (Moontribe)
Ben Annand  (Tropical, Moontribe)
Trevor Wyse & Travis Wyse (Greensector)


DE ARK: 
Human Petting Zoo by Dream Circus Theatre


THE HUMAN TROPHY LOUNGE: (Ambient/Chill/Downtempo)
Chill Zone - Special Live Performances by Dream Circus Theatre

THE BEAR CAVE:
Human holding area


AFRIKA MINING BAR: 
Must be 21 and over for Alcohol
STRICTLY ENFORCED - Must have valid ID


HUMAN BBQ MUSEUM: 
Watch and tantalize your SENSES

"ANNIE MULE" Costume Contest:
Hosted by PIGMAN


Multi Media Visual Imagery:
Mobile Projections

TURBO SOUND BY TheOhmGuru


Come in Costume as your favorite "ANIMAL"

HALLOWEEN NIGHT
Date: WEDS. 10.31.12
Time: 8:00 PM - 2:00 AM


Advanced online Tickets: www.groovetickets.com
$20 (Limited)

The Philanthropic Center for the Arts (Vortex LA)


This is a Non-Profit and All Ages Event

ALL PROCEEDS GO DIRECTLY TO NextAid and TWAF (501c3 Non-Profit Organizations)



If you are not able to attend HALLOWEEN NIGHT you may 

still come and join us at the Party for FREE via LIVE STREAMING at www STICKAM dot Com/dreamcircustheatre



Text & Info Line: 310.853.3075



VORTEX LA

2341 E. Olympic Blvd. Los Angeles CA, 90021

Mike Weiss Gallery

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Marc Séguin: My Century (An Illustrated Guide for Aliens)
Marc Séguin, whose show closes this Saturday, is not only garnering attention with his current exhibition at our gallery but also for his recently published second novel, Hollywood. Click below to read about Séguin's approach to both writing and painting!

Marc Séguin / Studio view / 2012 / Brooklyn, NY

La Presse - The American Dream of Marc Séguin - Yves Schaeffner FRENCH ENGLISH
Le Devoir - Hollywood Tragedies - Catherine Lalonde FRENCH ENGLISH
La Presse - The Art of Shoving - Josée LaPointe FRENCH ENGLISH


Kim Dorland at Angell Gallery

Kim Dorland's show, I'm An Adult Now is currently on view at Angell Gallery in Toronto and will be on view through October 27. Check out a video below of Dorland speaking about the influence that famed Canadian artist, Tom Thompson--who was also a major influence on the Canadian "Group of Seven"--had on his work.

Kim Dorland, Angell Gallery
Kim Dorland, Angell Gallery

Kim Dorland / Installation view / 2012 / Angell Gallery / Toronto, ON


Yigal Ozeri at Galerie Andreas Binder


Yigal Ozeri's solo exhibition The Boathouse at Galerie Andreas Binder in Munich is up through October 20. The works feature a new series of paintings centered around the iconic Loeb Boathouse in New York's Central Park.

Yigal Ozeri / Untitled; The Boathouse / 2012 / Oil on canvas / 10 x 15.5 inches


Will Kurtz Take Home a Nude

Gallery artist Will Kurtz, who meticulously constructs life-size figures out of everyday household materials such as glue, newspaper, masking tape, and wood--modeling them after acquaintances and those whose anonymous image he secretly captures with his iPhone on the streets of Brooklyn, has donated a sculpture to the New York Academy of Art's Take Home a Nude benefit auction. To preview the auction or learn more click HERE.


Will Kurtz
/ Chalkley on IKEA Chair / 2012 / Wood, metal wire, newspaper, glue, tape, matte medium, cardboard, and IKEA chair / 48 x 30 x 36 inches


Stefanie Gutheil and Kim Dorland at the Nerman Museum


On September 29, the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art in Overland Park, KS celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Tony and Marti Oppenheimer collection with a gala celebration. Kim Dorland and Stefanie Gutheil's works were prominently displayed in the permanent collection.

Kim Dorland / Tree on the Corner / Oil, acrylic, and spray paint on canvas / 72 x 60 inches


Stefanie Gutheil / Berg I / 2009 / Oil and mixed media on canvas / 98 x 79 inches


Stefanie Gutheil's upcoming group show

Stefanie Guthiel will take part in a group exhibition curated by Mika Hanulla called, Adelbergerstr. 9 + - Muscle Temple Painting Society at Helsinki Contemporary in Helsinki, Finland.

From the press release: "[It is] a very physical exhibition, focusing on our experience of being there, and being with the paintings...They create and generate confrontations and connections...These are works that shout at us. They challenge us, but they also caress us. They look back at us, and throw us off balance. The motto of the exhibition is borrowed from the American filmmaker John Waters, known for his more than usually experimental style. Out of all the possible candidates, he is the one who defines the task of art as being: to confuse us in a beautiful way."

The exhibition opens on November 2 and will be on view through November 25.


Stefanie Gutheil
/ Thank You For The Flowers / 2012 / Oil and fabric on canvas / 79 x 71 inches
 
Reminder: Liao Yibai  MADE IN CHINA
Liao Yibai's third solo show will open next Thursday, October 18 from 6-8pm.


Liao Yibai / Studio view / 2012 / Chongqing, China


If you have questions about any of our artists please contact Anna Ortt, Director, at anna@mikeweissgallery.com.

Mike Weiss Gallery
520 West 24th Street
New York, NY 10011
Tel: 212-691-6899
Hours: Tues-Sat 10am to 6pm
www.mikeweissgallery.com