Saturday, November 17, 2012

Mark Hogancamp: Crash Landing / "Guitar" up through 17th!

Mark Hogancamp: Crash Landing / "Guitar" up through 17th!
November 14, 2012
One Mile Gallery

Mark Hogancamp, Crash Landing!

  Opening Reception, Saturday, December 1, 2-7 pm



Opening Reception, Saturday, December 1, 2-7 pm

One Mile Gallery concludes its 2012 season with Crash Landing!, new and old works by Mark Hogancamp. This is the artist's first exhibition with the gallery. It continues through Saturday, January 5, 2013. 

Mark Hogancamp is a photographer who prefers to identify himself as a director, and with good reason. Mark is the creator of Marwencol, a 1/6 scale, WWII-era Belgian village in which he stages and photographs a complex narrative of Nazi intrigue, lesbian melodrama, and Sgt. Rock-style heroics. With his immense cast of dolls, Mark freely intermixes history and fantasy, allowing Kurt Russell to confront Goebbels, time-traveling witches to antagonize Hitler, and Mark himself to battle personal demons.

In 2000, Mark was the victim of an assault outside of a bar that left him with brain damage. Faced with significant memory loss, diminished hand-eye coordination, and crushing anxiety, Mark retreated from the real world into the imaginary one of Marwencol. Inclined to think of the project more as therapy than art, Mark worked for years in obscurity, accumulating thousands of photographs before his unique oeuvre was eventually discovered. A 2010 documentary, Jeff Malmberg's award-winning "Marwencol," earned Mark international attention and a significant new fan base. 

Works soon available for sale at www.onemilegallery.com


Closes This Saturday, November 17! 
My Other Guitar is a Paintbrush
  
Leavetaking, Tara Key
Leavetaking, Tara Key
My Other Guitar is a Paintbrush features work by seven visual artists who're more often recognized for their work as popular musicians: Sue Garner (Fish and Roses and Run On), Brian DewanGrasshopper (Mercury Rev), Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth), Georgia Hubley (Yo La Tengo), Tara Key (Antietam), Tara Jane O'Neil, and Rachel Blumberg (The Decemberists and M. Ward).  Works range from painting and photography to block prints and installations.

  

More information at www.onemilegallery.com


Directions to One Mile Gallery from NYC Take 87 (Major Deegan) to Kingston, NY (exit 19). Take exit 19 toward NY28 Kingston/Rhinecliff Bridge. At the traffic circle, take the 2nd exit onto Washington Ave and drive about a mile. Follow detour signs to Greenkill Ave and S. Wilbur Ave. Turn right onto S. Wilbur Ave. After about 1.3 miles, turn left onto Abeel St. Address is 475 Abeel. The gallery is a brick building with yellow trim. 


HOURS
One Mile Gallery is open weekends (Saturday 12-5 and Sunday 12-4) and by appointment. Contact the gallery at onemilegallery@gmail.com or telephone 845 338 2035 or 917 715 2877


One Mile Gallery
475 Abeel Street Kingston NY 12401
www.onemilegallery.com

onemilegallery@gmail.com

DEC 3 - MIAMI | Stellar Art Collection to Debut on Celebrity Reflection


“THE SECRET IS OUT!”
SINGULAR ART COLLECTION TO DEBUT ON CELEBRITY REFLECTION
IN THE PORT OF MIAMI DURING ART BASEL MIAMI BEACH 2012
 
MIAMI – On Monday, December 3, 2012, Celebrity Reflection, the newest ship in the Celebrity fleet, with an innovative, original art collection, will debut in Miami before the ship sets sail on its inaugural Stateside voyage. The collection is part of the fleetwide Celebrity Art Collection, representing a nearly $60-million investment across the fleet, showcasing conceptually strong, unique pieces and providing a rare opportunity to view art outside of conventional museum and gallery venues.
Julian Opie, 1958, England, FROM 13 OUTFITS SERIES, 2000. Vinyl and paint on wood
 
Since 2006, International Corporate Art (ICArt), the leading international art advisory group for the leisure industry, with offices in Miami, London, and Oslo, has curated the museum-quality art collection for Celebrity Cruises.
 
To mark the launch of Celebrity Reflection and its brilliant art collection, ICArt and Celebrity Cruises will host an exclusive press and VIP event onboard the ship December 3, coinciding with the start of Art Basel Miami Beach week. At the event on Celebrity Reflection, invited guests will view the unique collection, meet and mingle with contributing artists, and witness 2008 Whitney Biennale participant and conceptual artist Bert Rodriguez’s performance, “Everywhere I Look, I Only See Myself.”
 
Robert Rauschenberg 1925-2008, United States, INTERMISSION (GROUND RULES), 1996 Intaglio
“Celebrity Cruises’ commitment to fine art is unparalled in the maritime industry,” said Mariangela Capuzzo, ICArt Creative Director and Lead Curator. “Their ships have become a platform for a stellar art collection with work by important established, mid-career and emerging artists. ICArt’s relationship with Celebrity has been one of mutual appreciation and positive evolution culminating withCelebrity Reflection, the fifth in Celebrity’s stunning, five-ship Solstice Class series.”
 
The Celebrity Reflection Art Collection is comprised of approximately 136 new acquisitions, including original paintings, sculptures, photography, video, drawings, prints and site-specific, architecturally-integrated installations. In addition, there are 115 standout artworks selected from the Celebrity Art Collection on former ships, including works by Robert Rauschenberg, John Baldessari, Julian Opie, Kiki Smith and Richard Prince.
Bert Rodriguez 1975, Cuba REFLECTION, 2012 Steel, fiberglass and paint with LED lights
 
Each ship in Celebrity Cruises’ fleet reinvents itself through its art collection, which is inspired by the vessel’s name and essence.Celebrity Reflection’s curatorial theme, “The Seductiveness of a Reflection,” investigates the effect of art via the physical properties of reflective materials, as well as the subtler act of reflection. Examples include Mirror Flower by Jeff Koons, Ann Veronica Janssen’s gilded Venetian blinds called Store Dore, and Aziz & Cucher’s light boxes, Untitled (Reflection Series). Two prominent project spaces with site-specific commissions include Bert Rodriguez’s Reflection in the ship’s upper Grand Foyer, featuring a suspended, living tree reflecting upon itself, and Carlos Betancourt’s The Celestial Garden, an all-encompassing visual and sensory experience in the Ensemble vestibule.
 
Celebrity Cruises’ passion for creating timeless and memorable experiences is exemplified through the quality and breadth of its art collections. Challenging the assumption that viewers can only be moved by art in familiar, established venues, Celebrity Reflectioninspires both guests and artists through its greater creative possibilities.
 
About Celebrity Cruises:
Celebrity Cruises’ iconic “X” is the mark of modern luxury, with its cool, contemporary design and warm spaces; dining experiences where the design of the venues is as important as the cuisine; and the amazing service that only Celebrity can provide, all providing an unmatchable vacation experience. In addition to offering vacations visiting all continents, Celebrity also presents immersive cruisetour experiences in Alaska, Australia/New Zealand, Canada, Europe and South America. One of the fastest-growing major lines, with a fleet of 11 ships, Celebrity is one of five cruise brands operated by global cruise vacation company Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. (NYSE, OSE: RCL). For more information, dial 1-800-437-3111, visit www.celebritycruises.com, or call your travel agent. Follow the brand socially at www.facebook.com/celebritycruises.
 
About ICArt
Founded in 2004, International Corporate Art (ICArt) with more than 20 years of experience, has become the leading art advisory group worldwide for the leisure industry. ICArt works with clients to create unique and exciting art programs that begin with the concept and finish with on-site installation. ICArt curates cohesive collections sourced from artists and galleries worldwide to produce distinctive results for both intimate and monumental spaces. With expertise in maritime projects, ICArt has created art programs for over 130 ships, from “boutique” luxury vessels to large 6,000-passenger “Mega Ships.” Recently, ICArt curated Celebrity Cruises’ five ships in the Solstice Class series with museum-quality art collections, and manages the $60-million Celebrity Art Collection.  For more information, email mariangela@icartmiami.com, cristina@icartmiami.com.

Friday, November 16, 2012

Emerging Artists Converge at MAINSITE Contemporary Art for The Unexplored



EMERGING ARTISTS CONVERGE AT MAINSITE CONTEMPORARY ART FOR THE UNEXPLORED
Amy Coldren
NORMAN, OK - Fresh faces - all with unique spins on a variety of mediums - will showcase their latest works at The Unexplored: Emerging Artists Show at MAINSITE Contemporary Art, 122 E. Main, Norman, beginning with an opening reception from 6 to 10 p.m. on Friday, December 14 as a part of December's 2nd Friday Circuit of Art.

This will be the first look at this collection of local and regional talent descending upon the gallery for most patrons.

"The Unexplored refers, of course, to the idea that these artists have yet to be fully recognized for their outstanding work. But the underlying concept of this exhibit is to feature artists, at various stages of their young art careers, who are each approaching their successes via very divergent paths," said Erinn Gavaghan, curator of the show and Executive Director of Norman Arts Council. "I hope that other early career artists will come to this show and use these six as inspiration to find their own, unexplored paths to success." 

Zach Burns is a photographer and designer based out of Oklahoma City. He's legally blind in his left eye, and much of his work mimics this condition by pairing blurred and in-focus images side-by-side, giving people a new way of seeing.

Krystle Brewer is an Oklahoma-based artist who graduated from Oklahoma City University and is currently a graduate student at Oklahoma State University. She specializes in figurative sculpture, her current work focuses on human beings separated into boxes because of political, social, biological and cultural differences.

Christie Owen

Christie Owen is a New York native who currently resides in Edmond. Owen works in a variety of mediums, including graphic design, jewelry design, painting and sculpture, centering on the ideas of tranquility while repurposing materials to juxtapose modern living and nature.

Owen and Brewer are also part of an all female artist collective in Oklahoma City called Fringe.

Amy Coldren is an Oklahoma City-based, mixed media artist who works in collage and illustration. Her latest work is a series of layered, papercut pieces that recall inkblots and all the psychological implications that such creations imply.

Cindy Coleman is graphic designer and illustrator living in Colorado. Coleman, long fascinated by the animal kingdom, works to capture the personality of each species with painting styles that reflect their demeanor, appearance and movement.

Tim Kowalczyk is an Illinois-based sculptor who specializes in ceramics. Kowalczyk is enamored with familiar and overlooked items like cardboard, paper and nails that he recreates with innovative ceramic techniques.

"This is a group show that has something for everyone to enjoy," Gavaghan said. "These six artists, paired with performance artist Lindsey Allgood of Norman, offer a wide range of mediums and styles yet share the commonalities of emerging into very promising careers."

The first of six NAC Individual Artist Award winners also will appear at MAINSITE. Performance artist and University of Oklahoma graduate student Lindsey Allgood brings an interactive installation rooted in the ideas of synesthesia that will continuously evolve as visitors put their own touches on the work.

MAINSITE's Water Closet Gallery will feature the winning photos from the Norman Photo Month Contest held through October, National Arts & Humanities Month.

The Unexplored: Emerging Artists Show will run from Friday, December 14 through Saturday, January 19 with a closing reception scheduled for Friday, January 11 from 6 to 10 p.m. Norman Arts Council donors will get a sneak peak of the show on Donor Appreciation night planned for Thursday, December 13.

To arrange interviews with one of the artists or to request high-res images to use, contact Joshua Boydston at joshb@normanarts.org.

  MAINSITE home of the NAC

ESTEEMED ARTIST ELLEN DRISCOLL TO JOIN BARD COLLEGE FACULTY AS PROFESSOR OF STUDIO ARTS



ESTEEMED ARTIST ELLEN DRISCOLL TO JOIN BARD COLLEGE FACULTY AS PROFESSOR OF STUDIO ARTS

ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y.—Bard College announces the appointment of esteemed artist Ellen Driscoll as Professor of Studio Arts in the Division of the Arts. Driscoll, who joins the College in the fall semester of 2013, will codirect the Studio Arts Program with Judy Pfaff, Richard B. Fisher Professor in the Arts.

Ellen Driscoll’s teaching and artistic commitments include public art, sculpture and installation, drawing, environmental justice, and civil rights. Her works have had wide exposure through nearly 100 solo and group exhibitions of sculptures, drawings, and installations throughout the country and the world. They include Fastforwardfossil: Part 1 at Frederieke Taylor Gallery, New York; Fastforwardfossil: Part 2 at Smack Mellon, Brooklyn; Revenant and Phantom Limb for Nippon Ginko, Hiroshima, Japan; The Loophole of Retreat at the Whitney Museum at Phillip Morris; As Above, So Below for Grand Central Terminal (20 mosaic and glass images at 45th, 47th, and 48th Streets); Catching the Drift, a restroom for the Smith College Museum of Art; and Wingspun for the International Arrivals Terminal at Raleigh-Durham airport. The Massry Center for the Arts in Albany currently hosts an exhibition, Core Sample, featuring Driscoll's sculptures, drawings, and installations, which explore resource consumption and material lineage related to the controversial subject of global warming. For more information about this show, go to: http://www.strose.edu/about_saint_rose/massry_center_for_the_arts/esther_massry_gallery.

Driscoll has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Bunting Institute at Harvard University, New York Foundation for the Arts, Massachusetts Council on the Arts, LEF Foundation, and Anonymous Was a Woman. Her works live in the private and public collections at venues such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Reviews of her work have appeared in publications such as the New York TimesSculpture MagazineArt in AmericaArt New England, and Interior Design. She comes to Bard from the Rhode Island School of Design, where she has been on the faculty for more than 20 years and serves as department head of sculpture. She has also been affiliated with the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Princeton University, and Parsons School of Design. Driscoll graduated with a B.A. from Wesleyan University and an M.F.A. in sculpture from Columbia University.

CAPTION INFO: Esteemed artist Ellen Driscoll has been appointed as Professor of Studio Arts in the Division of the Arts at Bard College.
PHOTO CREDIT: Steven Manning

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Call to Artists - The Rittenhouse Square Fine Art Shows


Rittenhouse Square Fine
Arts Association
presents:
 
The Rittenhouse Square Fine Art Shows
Call to Artists

WHAT: Fine Art Festivals 
 
WHERE: Beautiful & Historic Rittenhouse Square,  Philadelphia, PA
     
WHEN:   82nd Annual Spring Show: 
 June 7 - 9, 2013 
              Friday & Saturday: 11 - 7;  Sunday: 11:00 - 5:00.

9th Annual Fall Show: 
 September 20 - 22, 2013 
              Friday: 11 - 7; Saturday: 11 - 6;  Sunday: 11:00 - 5:00.
 
          
NOTEWORTHY:

*Original artwork only: drawings/pastels; oils/acrylics; printmaking; mixed media; sculpture; watercolors.

*No reproductions; No functional work. 

*143 artists from all over the United States & Canada.

*$35 application fee; $400 booth fee (due upon acceptance).

*10 X 10 spaces; all booths have use of one outside wall; no double spaces available.

*Attendance: 15-20,000; sophisticated, art-knowledgeable demographic.  

*Rain or shine.


NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS:  
 
For Artist Applications, visit: www.rittenhousesquareart.com/artist-application.html  

Deadline:  Must be postmarked no later than January 7, 2013

Notification will be sent via email no later than February 25, 2013
 
For more information please visit www.rittenhousesquareart.com

MCA Chicago: "Color Bind" Opens + Curator Announcement

COLOR BIND: THE MCA COLLECTION IN BLACK AND WHITE
  
November 10, 2012 - April 28, 2013
   
    

Marilyn and Larry Fields Endow MCA Curatorship

Madeleine Grynsztejn, Pritzker Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, announced a $2 million gift from Marilyn and Larry Fields to endow the MCA Curator position currently held by Naomi Beckwith. Color Bind: The MCA Collection in Black and White is the first collection-based exhibition curated by Naomi Beckwith, whose new title is Marilyn and Larry Fields Curator at the MCA Chicago.

Color Bind: The MCA Collection in Black and White

Works of art using a single color has been a major strategy for artists throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, from Ad Reinhardt's mid-century black paintings to Imi Knoebel's contemporary forms that attempt to imagine infinitude. Color Bind: The MCA Collection in Black and White, which runs from November 10, 2012 to April 28, 2013, investigates the museum's rich collection through one of art history's basic formal lenses: the use of the colors black and white.

Color Bind looks broadly at the MCA Collection to show how color can be used literally, formally, and metaphorically in art, and to reveal how formal considerations are often rooted in social issues. Many artists represented in the exhibition, such as Robert Ryman, significantly limit their palette or produce works of one color in order to explore and emphasize the most basic formal aspects of art making, such as line, color, and technique.

Beyond these formal aspects, artists such as Richard Serra and Félix Gonzáles-Torres use minimal color tones as a critical take on art's representational role. Other artists intentionally use specific techniques combined with a black-and-white palette as a method of introducing social and ethical dimensions into art practice. For example, Raymond Pettibon, Marlene Dumas, and Howardena Pindell appropriate the inky form of newspapers and comic books as a way to comment on conflict and violence. Kara Walker adopts 19th-century silhouette forms to present racially exaggerated bodies, and Glenn Ligon, who does the same in his print series, also uses the monochrome canvas in his paintings as both a metaphor and a foil for depictions of race. Artists such as Bruce Nauman and Barbara Kruger use text to demonstrate how basic language can be co-opted into polemics, or "black-and-white" forms of discourse.

With a variety of works in all media, Color Bind considers the ways that the words 'black' and 'white' evoke both simple formal notions and metaphors for race, politics, and historical movements. Set to coincide with the US elections, this exhibition calls attention to the ways seemingly impartial formal terms assume moral dimensions that, in turn, complicate and politicize the very works assumed to be neutral.
 
Marilyn and Larry Fields Curator: Naomi Beckwith

Madeleine Grynsztejn, Pritzker Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago, has announced a $2 million gift from Marilyn and Larry Fields to endow the MCA Curator position currently held by Naomi Beckwith. In recognition of this significant gift, the MCA has established the "Marilyn and Larry Fields Curator" endowment, naming this curator's position.

"This tremendous gift is a tribute to the Fields and their extraordinary support for the MCA and their long demonstrated passion for curators and their work," said King Harris, Chair of the MCA Board of Trustees.

"What is most rewarding about this position being named by Marilyn and Larry Fields is that they both have had a significant history of supporting curatorial work," said Madeleine Grynsztejn. "Even prior to Larry's tenure as an MCA Trustee, he and Marilyn invested in our collection and in the work of our curators who are our thought leaders and creative engines of the museum. We are very honored by this generous gift from the Fields."

MCA Trustee Larry Fields said, "We are delighted to be able to make this gift to the MCA. It is very fitting that the first Marilyn and Larry Fields Curator is Naomi Beckwith, an incredibly intelligent and talented curator who is just beginning her career at the MCA, but has already shown remarkable scholarship as a curator who is energizing the museum."

"I am thrilled and grateful to Marilyn and Larry for their early and ongoing support, and for this gift, said Naomi Beckwith. "It's an amazing validation of the work that I do on a daily basis while also making an investment in the MCA's future programming. I'm so proud to carry their name into the art world."

Marilyn and Larry Fields are avid and knowledgeable art collectors who are very supportive of the MCA and Chicago's art community, as well as the national and international art world. At the MCA they've supported numerous exhibitions, most recently Phantom Limb: Approaches to Painting TodayRashid Johnson: Message to Our Folks, and This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s. The Fields have also given numerous significant works to the collection, including Alec Soth's Charles(from Along the Mississippi series), (2004) and Daniel, Niagara Falls, Ontario (2004); Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla's Ruin (2005); Thomas Ruff's zycles 3065 (2008); Rivane Neuenschwander'sFound Calendar (2002); Trisha Donnelly's Untitled (Leopard) (2005); Paul Pfeiffer's Study for the Morning After the Deluge (2001) and Memento Mori (2004); Eve Sussman's The Rape of the Sabine Women (2006); Yang Fudong's City Light (2003), and Leslie Hewitt's Untitled (2007) in honor of Naomi Beckwith.

Larry Fields has been a member of the MCA Board of Trustees since 2005 and serves on the Executive and Collection Committees. Marilyn has been involved with the MCA Chicago since 1999 when she became a member of the Woman's Board. She served as President of the Woman's Board from 2004-07, during which she spearheaded the Family Education Initiative that engages volunteers in the MCA's family education programs. She most recently co-chaired Vernissage, the MCA benefit that kicked off the EXPO Chicago art fair.
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Images: Luisa Lambri, Untitled (Barragan House, #08A), 2005. Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, restricted gift of Verge: The Emerging Artists Advisory Group of the MCA and Bernice and Kenneth Newberger Fund. © Barragan Foundation, Switzerland. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago.

Barbara Kruger, Untitled (We construct the chorus of missing persons), 1983. Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, restricted gift of Paul and Camille Oliver-Hoffmann. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago.

Marilyn Fields, Naomi Beckwith, and Larry Fields. © MCA Chicago.