Verge Art Fair Miami - December 3-6, 2009

MIAMI'S NEWEST EMERGING ART SHOW IS VERGE PREMIERING DECEMBER 3-6 DURING ART BASEL MIAMI BEACH >> DOWNLOAD THE APPLICATION << Deadline: August 1, 2009 A NEW ERA, A FRESH ART APPROACH THIS December during Art Basel Miami Beach, the inaugural Verge Art Fair will premier at the Catalina Hotel and Beach Club on Collins Avenue. Verge will advance the tradition of the Catalina Hotel as an oasis only steps away from hustle and bustle of the ABMB art market trading floor. Verge offers collectors a place, cocktail in hand, to enjoy intimate encounters of thrilling new emerging art from an international roster of galleries. Valet parking service is available, and private tour requests are strongly encouraged. Unlike any other art show in Miami, Verge rejects the concept of fairs as glorified shopping malls and emerging art as the same work hanging on the walls for the last thirty years. Down the street from the Art Positions converted shipping containers, and on the strip with NADA at the Deauville Resort and Aqua at the Aqua Hotel, Verge will enjoy the central position to the main event. EVERYTHING PROVIDED OVER 12,000 visitors over the last three years have attended this must-see event destination on South Beach, where enterprising young galleries have raised the visibility and established the starting provenance of their artists over an intense four days of international attention by a never-ending stream of art lovers, curators, collectors, and press. As opposed to past years, Verge will strictly limit its selection to a group of no more than 30-50 exhibitors, each individually selected for only the highest quality roster. Membership is not required. Hotel rooms may be cleared of furniture, transforming each space into a readymade white cube where exhibitors can both show and stay the night. An unprecedented array of services are available to exhibitors, including custom lighting services, Valet service, room service from the on-site Kung Fu Sushi and the Maxine restaurants, masseuse on demand, and exclusive access to the Catalina's private beach club across the street. Adjorn after closing time to the Red Bar at the Catalina for a Happy Hour from 7pm for complimentary mixed drinks, to the rooftop pool, or cross the street for an evening at the scenic Delano. Verge is currently accepting inquiries for host committee membership. Please inquire by contacting us at info@vergeartfair.com. VERGE AT WILLIAMSURG WALKS THIS SATURDAY NOON-8PM AT BEDFORD AVE. BETWEEN NORTH 4TH & NORTH 6TH AFTER HOURS AT THE HOPE LOUNGE Saturday, July 11, 8-11PM Sponsored by Verge & the Williamsburg Gallery Association Verge will participate in the 2009 Williamsburg Walks, a pedestrian mall, re-creating events and happenings that were realized in the '60s and '70s, that will occupy Williamsburg's Bedford Avenue from North 4th to North 9th on Saturday, July 11, from noon to sunset. This exciting arts agenda will transform the block into an interactive arena, filled with creative interventions of the public space. The block will be populated with installations, music acts, gallery booths, and educational resources that will highlight some of the most engaging players in the Brooklyn arts scene. For more information visit the WGA online: http://www.rawmag.org/williamsburgwalks.html AFTERWARDS, join Verge and the WGA for two-for-one shots of Jim Beam, a free beer with a burger, and $3 PBRs at the Hope Lounge, 10 Hope Street in Williamsburg. http://www.hopelounge.com/ Visit us on Facebook

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Bridge Basel Announces Curatorial Team - Deadline April 15

BRIDGE ART FAIR BASEL ANNOUNCES CURATORIAL TEAM; EXHIBITION PROPOSAL NOW AVAILABLE; APPLICATION DEADLINE APRIL 15 June10-14, 2009

Dreispitzhalle, interior view Download Bridge Basel Application >> Download Basel Exhibition Proposal >> Dreispitzhalle information >> This June, Bridge will launch its inaugural Basel fair, already our most influential and international show to date, with galleries from Switzerland, Romania, Greece, Spain, Serbia, the Czech Republic, Italy, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Turkey and the United States, and from key cities including New York, Berlin and Paris. Unique to Bridge is our cooperative approach to the fair model of art exhibition, without any veto between economics and art. Art is not a luxury, but a necessity in our lives. Bridge is an independent organization, owned and operated by writers and artists keenly aware of the interdependency of artistic exchange in the process of art-making, and the way in which the benefits of this exchange are given freely as a spur to our economic needs. It is sustainable artistic progress that is the supreme need of both artists and the collectors who invest in them. In keeping with this spirit of organizing an art fair at eye-level with both, Bridge announces the curatorial team of Daniel Aycock, Co-Director, Front Room Gallery, New York, NY, Apama Mackey, Director, Apama Mackey Gallery, Houston, TX, Anne-Marie Melster, Curator and Co-Director ARTPORT_making waves of Valencia, Spain, Edouard Steinhauer, Artist, New York, NY, and Bridge Founder and Director Michael Workman, former Chicago correspondent for Flash Art magazine. Bridge and its galleries will present not only the highest possible quality exhibition, but realize that the merits of complementary commercial and art cultural concerns rest on the parts reflecting only the highest quality whole. This whole should be in engagement with and create dialogue on multiple levels relevant to the globalized art culture, working to nurture and sustain a cross-boundary marketplace of ideas as much as an art marketplace. Each individual participant in Bridge Basel will be distinct, presenting their own individual program and concept. Together, these individual exhibitions will form a larger whole. Exhibitors thus play a critical role in this cooperative approach, acting as experts in their own programs and making informed decisions about those programs in cooperation with Bridge curators to achieve the highest quality total exposition. Bridge is also able to offer galleries in New York city a round trip $500 gallery-to-booth consolidated shipping offer. Please inquire for details. Certain restrictions apply. THE INAUGURAL BRIDGE ART FAIR BASEL, SWITZERLAND Bridge Art Fair will stage the inaugural edition of Bridge Basel June 10-14, 2009, in Basel, Switzerland concurrent with the 40th Anniversary of Art Basel. Bridge Art Fair has been accepted to stage the Bridge Art Fair in a new facility, the Dreispitzhalle. Dreispitzhalle is the event facility centerpiece of the up and coming hot spot in Basel, Dreispitz. In the coming years, this area will host a design school and top-notch galleries. The Dreispitzhalle, the anchor of the neighborhood's future international art and cultural activities, will host Bridge as the first-ever art fair in the Dreispitz area of Basel during the Art Basel fair. Bridge Art Fair in the Dreispitzhalle will take place almost across the street from arguably the largest private art collection in the world, the Schaulager. Bridge will make itself highly visible from the street and surrounding area to visitors of the Schaulager open house, an important draw every year for major art collectors from around the world during Art Basel. In an uncertain marketplace, both artistically and economically, if there is anywhere in the world collectors, galleries and their artists look to as an oasis right now, it is Basel. Bridge will also present a superior degree of onsite services, PR and marketing. Dreispitzhalle, exterior view VERGE: AN EXCLUSIVE PLATFORM FOR ARTIST-RUN SPACES Essential to the philosophy of any commercial effort Bridge will make is the provision of a serious platform for artistic voices unrestricted by the self-interests of financial definitions, or the potential distortions of market influence. It is an accepted wisdom that there currently exists no platform for realizing this engagement in the environment of Art Basel, providing a much-needed artist-centric context exclusive of the material aspects of any current social, artistic or cultural good. There need not exist a strict barrier to amicable trade-off between the two, though it is clear that the integrity of separate space, within which the voices of each may retain their own authentic character, is an essential provision for nurturing differing points of view. It is for this reason that Bridge will also stage Verge in a 20,000 square foot office building next door to the Dreispitzhalle. Premiered as an alternative edition of the Bridge Art Fair in the former East Berlin neighborhood of Mitte during the 2008 installment of Art Forum Berlin, Verge Basel will be presented as a unique showcase with a family resemblance to the distinctly commercial Bridge: a showcase of only artist-run spaces and projects. Verge denotes not merely the concept of a fringe or marginalized culture, but also of the idea of a verge as beginning point, of a useful vacuum within which certain voices, otherwise absent, may also be heard. Verge will thus expand on the artistic and cultural force of Bridge by providing the only self-sustained non-commerical platform in Basel exclusively for artist-run spaces. Download Basel Verge Application >> Basel Verge Venue CURATORIAL TEAM BIOGRAPHIES Daniel Aycock Daniel Aycock was born in Lubbock, Texas. He received his BFA in Photography from Texas Tech University and his MFA in Photography from The School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York City. Aycock Founded the Front Room Gallery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, in 1999. In 2001 he founded WAGMAG, Brooklyn Monthly Art Guide. Aycock is a longtime member, and previous President of the Williamsburg Gallery Association, from 2005-2008. Aycock has been living and working in New York for the past 15 years. Apama Mackey Mackey grew up with a broad world view: Born in Iran, she immigrated to the United States as a child. When she founded Apama Mackey Gallery in 1997, she put a combined focus on international artists and emerging artistic voices from the U.S. Consistent among the diversity of talents she exhibits, however, is a shared emphasis on figuration. Mackey Gallery is a member of the Houston Art Dealers Association, has participated in Art Houston and Fotofest exhibitions and takes part in international art fairs; most noteworthy, Art Basel Miami. The gallery's ongoing initiative, OFFsite, is dedicated to progressive media that represents performance, video and installation artists. Additionally, Mackey plays a key role in fundraisers like Project Storm, which has benefited hurricane victims, and Security On Campus, a national organization geared toward raising awareness for security on college campuses. She even takes a world view with the very structure of her building: The new (2007) Apama Mackey Gallery in Houston's Heights district melds avant-garde design with eco-consciousness to proclaim a green, sustainable statement. In this exciting new space, where she "co-offices" with her children who are aged six and eight, Mackey continues to forge ahead to obtain exposure for emerging and established artists. Anne-Marie Melster Melster is the Co-Director of ARTPORT_making waves, an international arts exchange program, based in New York and Valencia, Spain. She is as well an art advisor, curator and producer of international art exhibitions with a focus on climate change. She is also a PR consultant and fundraiser. Since November 2007 she is an advisor for Carbon Challenge, an international organization that brings together business training expertise, environmental accountability, and high-level sports in order to provide companies with expertise and leadership in carbon reduction. With her own company, Art & Culture, she managed contemporary art spaces, developed artist residency programs in Hamburg and Dusseldorf (Germany), and organized the cultural program of the renowned Collection Falckenberg in Hamburg (2001-2004). She advised young collectors of contemporary art, organized tours to key events worldwide and developed communication strategies for her clients. She organized a successful artist exchange with two major exhibitions between Bozen (Italy) and Hamburg. She also developed the cultural program for the German Young Leaders Conference 2002 and was a member of the Cultural Committee of Hamburg for Olympia 2012 (2002-2003). From 1999-2000, she was the artistic assistant to Reinhold Würth, one of Europe's major art collectors and patrons. She holds a master's degree in art history, Spanish philology and political sciences of the University of Hamburg. She is fluent in German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Catalan. She has traveled worldwide and lives in Valencia, Spain, since 2004. Edouard Steinhauer Edouard Steinhauer was born in 1968 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. He was adopted at early infancy and relocated to the United States. Moving to the U.S. had a profound effect on his childhood which would later manifest itself in his work as an adult. Drawing from his experience as a black person living in a white environment his work metaphorically speaks to the issues of race, identity, representation and national displacement. Mr. Steinhauer’s life and work embody a continuous form of artistic expression reflecting life’s journey and it’s moments of transformation while also looking back at the origins and sources of inspiration. Mr. Steinhauer received his BA/MA from Central Washington University and his MFA from Yale School of Art and Architecture. Currently he is living and works in Brooklyn, New York as a visual and performing artist, independent curator, cafe proprietor, and professor of the arts. Michael Workman As Founder and Director of Bridge, Workman will serve as fair liaison and leader of Basel curatorial team members. Workman is the product of several generations of Midwest auto workers who went on to become a writer, curator and former Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Bridge Magazine, Chicago correspondent for Flash Art International and Contemporary magazine, an arts critic and commentator for Chicago's NPR affiliate, WBEZ-FM. In 2003, he pioneered the still-thriving Eye Exam, a column on visual art for the Chicago alt-weekly, New City. Workman has organized and curated exhibitions including the Nova Young Art Fair in Chicago in 2006, the emerging commercial precursor to the Bridge Art Fair. He received his Bachelor's from Northwestern University in 2001. In 2006, President Obama wrote of Bridge: "The commitment of the organizers to showcase the work of emerging artists is truly commendable. The benefits of expositions such as this to our culture and society are great." ABOUT BRIDGE ART FAIR Bridge Art Fair, the Independent International Exposition of Art and Visual Culture, is a transnational art fair organization, currently staging events in Berlin, Miami, New York, London and Basel, Switzerland. Bridge was founded in 2000 by Chicago artists, and the majority of its staff remain artists today. In its earliest incarnation, Bridge was a Pushcart Prize–winning publishing group, producing journals of artists' monograms, fiction, art criticism and theory, role-playing games, special projects, poetry, DVD collections of video art and cinema and CDs of original experimental music. Bridge editors soon began organizing exhibitions of the artists who appeared in the pages of the magazine, and these shows became the seeds for the eventual transition of the company into the art-fair model. Bridge began producing art fairs at its current scale in 2006, when it premiered in Miami concurrent with Art Basel Miami Beach, and its identity has been evolving ever since. Acclaimed for its use of non-traditional spaces, Bridge has held expositions in abandoned office buildings, a converted railway tunnel, elevated train cars, parking garages and aboard a private yacht. GALLERIES Bridge Art Fair currently presents a combined total of nearly 300 galleries and over 2,000 artists at four expositions throughout the year. Visitors will discover a truly global selection of contemporary work from every imaginable medium, including but not limited to painting, prints, photography, sculpture, installation, drawing, film, video, new media, and conceptual art. In the short time since the premier of Bridge Miami Beach in 2006, total sales of nearly $30 million and more than 100,000 visitors have confirmed Bridge as a leading voice in newly globalized art practices. BRIDGE: DEFINITION As a concept, Bridge Art Fair is, by preference, irreducible in its terms. Bridge views art as a shared cultural good. In recent decades, some art fairs have come to exist merely as vehicles for galleries to present their work as if it were stock in a supermarket. Historically, art fairs have been defined, in large measure, as serving a specific regional or even national interest, promoting the art and culture of that interest by means of presentation as a global trade export. We believe this root focus on regional and national interests has created art-cultural "bubbles" that restrict the traffic of new ideas and practices. Bridge Art Fair seeks to counteract this effect. We also strive to support new, emerging artists and help them become more established. To do so, we promote international cooperative efforts between art and cultural communities, and we extol innovation in partnerships between for-profit and nonprofit initiatives. We move artistic projects from idea to execution, and we seek to provide a platform for the cross-pollination of ideas between media and aesthetic modes. The art fair itself—as well as the Focus, Visual Culture and Effect components of the exposition (explained in depth in their respective sections on our website)—are conceptual tools for accomplishing our goals. It is a testament to the Bridge idea that its adaptability has allowed us to respond to diverse needs in the various cultures which we have served.

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Bridge Basel Announces Curatorial Team - Deadline April 15

BRIDGE ART FAIR BASEL ANNOUNCES CURATORIAL TEAM; EXHIBITION PROPOSAL NOW AVAILABLE; APPLICATION DEADLINE APRIL 15 June10-14, 2009

Dreispitzhalle, interior view Download Bridge Basel Application >> Download Basel Exhibition Proposal >> Dreispitzhalle information >> This June, Bridge will launch its inaugural Basel fair, already our most influential and international show to date, with galleries from Switzerland, Romania, Greece, Spain, Serbia, the Czech Republic, Italy, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Turkey and the United States, and from key cities including New York, Berlin and Paris. Unique to Bridge is our cooperative approach to the fair model of art exhibition, without any veto between economics and art. Art is not a luxury, but a necessity in our lives. Bridge is an independent organization, owned and operated by writers and artists keenly aware of the interdependency of artistic exchange in the process of art-making, and the way in which the benefits of this exchange are given freely as a spur to our economic needs. It is sustainable artistic progress that is the supreme need of both artists and the collectors who invest in them. In keeping with this spirit of organizing an art fair at eye-level with both, Bridge announces the curatorial team of Daniel Aycock, Co-Director, Front Room Gallery, New York, NY, Apama Mackey, Director, Apama Mackey Gallery, Houston, TX, Anne-Marie Melster, Curator and Co-Director ARTPORT_making waves of Valencia, Spain, Edouard Steinhauer, Artist, New York, NY, and Bridge Founder and Director Michael Workman, former Chicago correspondent for Flash Art magazine. Bridge and its galleries will present not only the highest possible quality exhibition, but realize that the merits of complementary commercial and art cultural concerns rest on the parts reflecting only the highest quality whole. This whole should be in engagement with and create dialogue on multiple levels relevant to the globalized art culture, working to nurture and sustain a cross-boundary marketplace of ideas as much as an art marketplace. Each individual participant in Bridge Basel will be distinct, presenting their own individual program and concept. Together, these individual exhibitions will form a larger whole. Exhibitors thus play a critical role in this cooperative approach, acting as experts in their own programs and making informed decisions about those programs in cooperation with Bridge curators to achieve the highest quality total exposition. Bridge is also able to offer galleries in New York city a round trip $500 gallery-to-booth consolidated shipping offer. Please inquire for details. Certain restrictions apply. THE INAUGURAL BRIDGE ART FAIR BASEL, SWITZERLAND Bridge Art Fair will stage the inaugural edition of Bridge Basel June 10-14, 2009, in Basel, Switzerland concurrent with the 40th Anniversary of Art Basel. Bridge Art Fair has been accepted to stage the Bridge Art Fair in a new facility, the Dreispitzhalle. Dreispitzhalle is the event facility centerpiece of the up and coming hot spot in Basel, Dreispitz. In the coming years, this area will host a design school and top-notch galleries. The Dreispitzhalle, the anchor of the neighborhood's future international art and cultural activities, will host Bridge as the first-ever art fair in the Dreispitz area of Basel during the Art Basel fair. Bridge Art Fair in the Dreispitzhalle will take place almost across the street from arguably the largest private art collection in the world, the Schaulager. Bridge will make itself highly visible from the street and surrounding area to visitors of the Schaulager open house, an important draw every year for major art collectors from around the world during Art Basel. In an uncertain marketplace, both artistically and economically, if there is anywhere in the world collectors, galleries and their artists look to as an oasis right now, it is Basel. Bridge will also present a superior degree of onsite services, PR and marketing. Dreispitzhalle, exterior view VERGE: AN EXCLUSIVE PLATFORM FOR ARTIST-RUN SPACES Essential to the philosophy of any commercial effort Bridge will make is the provision of a serious platform for artistic voices unrestricted by the self-interests of financial definitions, or the potential distortions of market influence. It is an accepted wisdom that there currently exists no platform for realizing this engagement in the environment of Art Basel, providing a much-needed artist-centric context exclusive of the material aspects of any current social, artistic or cultural good. There need not exist a strict barrier to amicable trade-off between the two, though it is clear that the integrity of separate space, within which the voices of each may retain their own authentic character, is an essential provision for nurturing differing points of view. It is for this reason that Bridge will also stage Verge in a 20,000 square foot office building next door to the Dreispitzhalle. Premiered as an alternative edition of the Bridge Art Fair in the former East Berlin neighborhood of Mitte during the 2008 installment of Art Forum Berlin, Verge Basel will be presented as a unique showcase with a family resemblance to the distinctly commercial Bridge: a showcase of only artist-run spaces and projects. Verge denotes not merely the concept of a fringe or marginalized culture, but also of the idea of a verge as beginning point, of a useful vacuum within which certain voices, otherwise absent, may also be heard. Verge will thus expand on the artistic and cultural force of Bridge by providing the only self-sustained non-commerical platform in Basel exclusively for artist-run spaces. Download Basel Verge Application >> Basel Verge Venue CURATORIAL TEAM BIOGRAPHIES Daniel Aycock Daniel Aycock was born in Lubbock, Texas. He received his BFA in Photography from Texas Tech University and his MFA in Photography from The School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York City. Aycock Founded the Front Room Gallery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, in 1999. In 2001 he founded WAGMAG, Brooklyn Monthly Art Guide. Aycock is a longtime member, and previous President of the Williamsburg Gallery Association, from 2005-2008. Aycock has been living and working in New York for the past 15 years. Apama Mackey Mackey grew up with a broad world view: Born in Iran, she immigrated to the United States as a child. When she founded Apama Mackey Gallery in 1997, she put a combined focus on international artists and emerging artistic voices from the U.S. Consistent among the diversity of talents she exhibits, however, is a shared emphasis on figuration. Mackey Gallery is a member of the Houston Art Dealers Association, has participated in Art Houston and Fotofest exhibitions and takes part in international art fairs; most noteworthy, Art Basel Miami. The gallery's ongoing initiative, OFFsite, is dedicated to progressive media that represents performance, video and installation artists. Additionally, Mackey plays a key role in fundraisers like Project Storm, which has benefited hurricane victims, and Security On Campus, a national organization geared toward raising awareness for security on college campuses. She even takes a world view with the very structure of her building: The new (2007) Apama Mackey Gallery in Houston's Heights district melds avant-garde design with eco-consciousness to proclaim a green, sustainable statement. In this exciting new space, where she "co-offices" with her children who are aged six and eight, Mackey continues to forge ahead to obtain exposure for emerging and established artists. Anne-Marie Melster Melster is the Co-Director of ARTPORT_making waves, an international arts exchange program, based in New York and Valencia, Spain. She is as well an art advisor, curator and producer of international art exhibitions with a focus on climate change. She is also a PR consultant and fundraiser. Since November 2007 she is an advisor for Carbon Challenge, an international organization that brings together business training expertise, environmental accountability, and high-level sports in order to provide companies with expertise and leadership in carbon reduction. With her own company, Art & Culture, she managed contemporary art spaces, developed artist residency programs in Hamburg and Dusseldorf (Germany), and organized the cultural program of the renowned Collection Falckenberg in Hamburg (2001-2004). She advised young collectors of contemporary art, organized tours to key events worldwide and developed communication strategies for her clients. She organized a successful artist exchange with two major exhibitions between Bozen (Italy) and Hamburg. She also developed the cultural program for the German Young Leaders Conference 2002 and was a member of the Cultural Committee of Hamburg for Olympia 2012 (2002-2003). From 1999-2000, she was the artistic assistant to Reinhold Würth, one of Europe's major art collectors and patrons. She holds a master's degree in art history, Spanish philology and political sciences of the University of Hamburg. She is fluent in German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Catalan. She has traveled worldwide and lives in Valencia, Spain, since 2004. Edouard Steinhauer Edouard Steinhauer was born in 1968 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. He was adopted at early infancy and relocated to the United States. Moving to the U.S. had a profound effect on his childhood which would later manifest itself in his work as an adult. Drawing from his experience as a black person living in a white environment his work metaphorically speaks to the issues of race, identity, representation and national displacement. Mr. Steinhauer’s life and work embody a continuous form of artistic expression reflecting life’s journey and it’s moments of transformation while also looking back at the origins and sources of inspiration. Mr. Steinhauer received his BA/MA from Central Washington University and his MFA from Yale School of Art and Architecture. Currently he is living and works in Brooklyn, New York as a visual and performing artist, independent curator, cafe proprietor, and professor of the arts. Michael Workman As Founder and Director of Bridge, Workman will serve as fair liaison and leader of Basel curatorial team members. Workman is the product of several generations of Midwest auto workers who went on to become a writer, curator and former Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Bridge Magazine, Chicago correspondent for Flash Art International and Contemporary magazine, an arts critic and commentator for Chicago's NPR affiliate, WBEZ-FM. In 2003, he pioneered the still-thriving Eye Exam, a column on visual art for the Chicago alt-weekly, New City. Workman has organized and curated exhibitions including the Nova Young Art Fair in Chicago in 2006, the emerging commercial precursor to the Bridge Art Fair. He received his Bachelor's from Northwestern University in 2001. In 2006, President Obama wrote of Bridge: "The commitment of the organizers to showcase the work of emerging artists is truly commendable. The benefits of expositions such as this to our culture and society are great." ABOUT BRIDGE ART FAIR Bridge Art Fair, the Independent International Exposition of Art and Visual Culture, is a transnational art fair organization, currently staging events in Berlin, Miami, New York, London and Basel, Switzerland. Bridge was founded in 2000 by Chicago artists, and the majority of its staff remain artists today. In its earliest incarnation, Bridge was a Pushcart Prize–winning publishing group, producing journals of artists' monograms, fiction, art criticism and theory, role-playing games, special projects, poetry, DVD collections of video art and cinema and CDs of original experimental music. Bridge editors soon began organizing exhibitions of the artists who appeared in the pages of the magazine, and these shows became the seeds for the eventual transition of the company into the art-fair model. Bridge began producing art fairs at its current scale in 2006, when it premiered in Miami concurrent with Art Basel Miami Beach, and its identity has been evolving ever since. Acclaimed for its use of non-traditional spaces, Bridge has held expositions in abandoned office buildings, a converted railway tunnel, elevated train cars, parking garages and aboard a private yacht. GALLERIES Bridge Art Fair currently presents a combined total of nearly 300 galleries and over 2,000 artists at four expositions throughout the year. Visitors will discover a truly global selection of contemporary work from every imaginable medium, including but not limited to painting, prints, photography, sculpture, installation, drawing, film, video, new media, and conceptual art. In the short time since the premier of Bridge Miami Beach in 2006, total sales of nearly $30 million and more than 100,000 visitors have confirmed Bridge as a leading voice in newly globalized art practices. BRIDGE: DEFINITION As a concept, Bridge Art Fair is, by preference, irreducible in its terms. Bridge views art as a shared cultural good. In recent decades, some art fairs have come to exist merely as vehicles for galleries to present their work as if it were stock in a supermarket. Historically, art fairs have been defined, in large measure, as serving a specific regional or even national interest, promoting the art and culture of that interest by means of presentation as a global trade export. We believe this root focus on regional and national interests has created art-cultural "bubbles" that restrict the traffic of new ideas and practices. Bridge Art Fair seeks to counteract this effect. We also strive to support new, emerging artists and help them become more established. To do so, we promote international cooperative efforts between art and cultural communities, and we extol innovation in partnerships between for-profit and nonprofit initiatives. We move artistic projects from idea to execution, and we seek to provide a platform for the cross-pollination of ideas between media and aesthetic modes. The art fair itself—as well as the Focus, Visual Culture and Effect components of the exposition (explained in depth in their respective sections on our website)—are conceptual tools for accomplishing our goals. It is a testament to the Bridge idea that its adaptability has allowed us to respond to diverse needs in the various cultures which we have served.

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Megan Hildebrandt: Vermont

Hey you guys,

Here in Vermont, I have been acting like a lumberjack and helping the snow melt.

Miss you!

Love,

Megan

Waves of Mu By Brian Staker- City Weeky

You’ve heard the saying, “Talking about music is like dancing about
architecture.” What about dancing about the architecture of the
brain? Former U.S. Ski Team member Amy Caron has plunged
headlong into the field of neuroscience, but from the point of view
of an artist, helping to initiate the emerging genre of “artscience,”
which merges the two disciplines to create fertile new
cross-pollinations.

From an art installation two years ago at the Women‘s Art Center
here, Caron’s project Waves of Mu—based on newly discovered
“mirror” neurons in the brain, cells that aid in social interaction—
has grown into a multimedia dance piece that places the audience
inside the workings of the cranium. Small groups of audience
members are first let into a room in their socks to explore the
interior environment physically. Then, in the theater proper,
Caron as mad scientist with lab coat and clipboard directs her
“research team” of performers.

The main stage extends into the audience, and the work is all about
connectivity. The mirror neurons appear to provide a neurological
basis for social connection and mirroring others’ behavior, and a
whole host of human interactions might be explained by this
burgeoning branch of brain-tacular barnstorming.

This Salt Lake City premiere takes the show full circle from a
sojourn to New York City beginning in August 2008, and it has been
commissioned by the Room Project of Performance Space 122, and
receives support from the National Performance Network.

Dance Theatre Coalition: Amy Caron’s Waves of Mu @ Rose Wagner Center,
138 W. 300 South, 801-355-2787, April 3-4, 8 p.m. AmyCaron.com

Mindy Kober and Ed Trask

Studio 27.28 presents:Ed Trask & Mindy Kober
The opening is on o4.o4.o9 from 6-9p and will
run till o4.26.o9.

More info can be found at:www.studio2728.com

Eric Osborne

Just a quick little update,

This is last weekend for my show at the

blaubak gallery

133 Lake Street South Ste B

Kirkland, Wa 98033

mobile: (206) 265-0401

office: (425) 822-2313

NEXT on tap...I'll be putting some BRAND NEW WORK at Twilight in there new market location!!! next to Seattle's best coffee, make sure to give then some love;) and a new line of Tee-shirts will be out VERY very soon, details to follow!

No Seattle show as of yet other then the usual spots, Twilight, Sweet spot, Funhouse, I'll be in Arizona in Aug at Bohemia, and then in Feb of 2010 MUTHA-FING CHAICAGO!!!! ohhhhhhhhhhhh yeah....again thanks for all you love and support...or lack there of;)
as always
e

Performance Art by Megan Hildebrandt

Performance artist Megan Hildebrandt will present her "alternative
history lesson" Port Townsend style while in residency at Centrum.
Megan's work brings communities in touch with some aspect of their
own history by reenacting a part of that community's forgotten life
and times. While we don't know the subject of her Port Townsend
piece, we can show you what she did in a Baltimore neighborhood by
simply scrubbing marble steps. She was later interviewed about the
experience on Baltimore Public Radio. Megan will be in residence in
March, and we'll keep you posted on the details of her Port Townsend
performance.

Although Centrum Residents are not required to interact with the
community while here, it's always great when one of our artists or
writers finds a way to engage the public in their New Work.
Readings, open studios, recitals, and performance pieces like Megan's
add to the vibrancy and fun of the Residency Program here at Centrum.

Megan Hildebrandt

Historian/performance artist Megan Hildebrandt is currently in
residence creating yet another of her entertaining and historically
accurate Performance Art pieces. This performance will be an
invigorated, interactive exploration via PowerPoint and performance
of both the history and contemporary culture of Fort Worden. The
“Alternative History Lesson” PPT will include projections of
historically based drawings and photographs, with a healthy dose of
humor and contemporary, everyday life references.

Says Hildebrandt of the new work:
“It will be a remarkable opportunity to enjoy both some local history
and contemporary art. The performance will explore Fort Worden’s
multiple identities over the past hundred years as an active military
base, a juvenile detention facility, and as a state park. How would
John Lorimer Worden, the USS Monitor Commander for whom the Fort
was named, relate to the park as a Juvenile Facility, or as a tourist
attraction? Who are the people Fort Worden’s batteries and buildings
are named for? What was life like here at the Fort during the various
periods in its history?

I will also include the past and present of the “City of Dreams”, Port
Townsend. What was the role of the railroad in the destiny of the
city, and what are the industries that have fed the citizens of Port
Townsend, such as the imports of lumber from the port and the local
paper mill?”

To get an idea of Megan’s unique style, take a look at this 3 part
video recording of "The Rumors Are True!”… a performance/exhibit
that just wrapped up in Baltimore, Maryland.

Part 1 "The Rumors are True" Part 2 Part 3

The Port Townsend performance date and location are not yet confirmed.
Please contact lisa@centrum.org for details.