Anna Kustera

More information about the upcoming art fair at Anna Kustera can be found in their official press release from this link. Iao PROJECTS is proud to exhibit some of our selected artists for the art public out in Chelsea and the wider New York area.

Donald Fodness Interview

An interview with myartspace conducted earlier this year with one of our Flatfile artists, Donald Fodness, can be found here. Fodness is an incredible artist whose work exhibits the beautiful bipolarity of reality and illusion which captivates the audience of today's media-saturated world.

Megan Hildebrandt

Megan Hildebrandt's painting of Mary Pickersgill is being featured today at a group show called The Big Show at the Creative Alliance at the Patterson. More information about this exhibition which takes place from June 27 to July 26, 2008 can be found athttp://www.creativealliance.org/events/eventItem1427.html. She was featured also in an article in the Baltimore Sun.

Also Ms. Hildebrandt has garnered a good reputation as a performance artist earlier this year at the 5th Annual Transmodern Festival in Baltimore during April 2008. Her project entitled "Blue Light Special" was a live piece about the threats created by the increased surveillance in today's post-Patriot Act world. Her proposal went as follows: "Project Name: Blue Light Special Project Description:

"The Blinking Blue Light will make things better, not worse.
The Blinking Blue Light will know and see everything.
The Blinking Blue Light will show the pedestrians it is watching.
The Blinking Blue Light will be popular with many pedestrians.
The Blinking Blue Light will be a "top-of-the-line high-tech" blue beacon.
The Blinking Blue Light will capture pedestrians with its electric eyes.
The Blinking Blue Light will beautify and improve the neighborhood.

The Blinking Blue Light will keep the street awash with light and the pedestrians awake.
The Blinking Blue Light will blink in locations of "high activity" in the Transmodern Radius to assure pedestrians of their protection, and suspicious persons that they are on camera. The Blinking Blue light will create a feeling of safety, security, and warmth as it films and monitors Transmodern Tourists.

Please Note: In the long term, the Blinking Blue Light might not to engender a sense of safety."

A sketch for this project proposal can be found here. Apparently, the artist ended up with some press exposure through the Baltimore Sun and the resulting publicity can be found here.

Cat Palmer

Cat Palmer is interviewed by City Weekly newspaper on their online Salt Blog entry.

The artist will be featured at a booth in the upcoming Utah Arts Festivalthis weekend. She will have her mixed media pieces involving photographs and industrial metal. Also she was named in 2007 by City Weekly as Utah's best photographer.

qi peng

qi peng's website is being featured now at 15 Bytes' Artist Directory. This directory is an online encyclopedia of various professional artists who work and live in Utah.

qi peng

qi peng's third-place Exposure finish for the People's Choice Award has been featured in a blog article written up for JPG Magazine. The article, written by Christina McNeill is called "Five JPG members are Artists Wanted" and can be downloaded here.

qi peng

qi peng's Brooklyn photograph can be viewed online for an exhibition calledClick! A Crowd-Curated Exhibition. You can view his entry here.

qi peng

qi peng has won third place at Exposure: A Photography Competition for the People's Choice Award. A list of the top 20 winners can be found here and peng's winning portfolio can be found here.

This juried competition by judges Patrick Witty, David Kesting, and Tiiu Kuik along with the general public is sponsored by the Brooklyn organizationArtists Wanted located at the 3rd Ward building. Final results for the Grand Prize will be announced during early July 2008.

Cat Palmer

Cat Palmer will be featured in booth #101 from June 26, 2008 to June 29, 2008 at the Utah Arts Festival. This mixed media photographer will be featuring her large-scale art, prints, books, cards, and various small art pieces there.

Kay Tuttle

Kay Tuttle will be featuring two pieces at Roq La Rue Gallery in an upcoming group show called Roq La Rue 10th Anniversary Group Show which goes from July 11, 2008 to August 2, 2008.

Collaboration at Palmers Gallery

qi peng's collaboration painting entitled "Tryst" (measuing 30" by 40") withCary Griffiths is being shown at Palmers Gallery located at 378 West Broadway (300 South) in downtown Salt Lake City. This painting is part of a two-man exhibition with Zach Hixson and will go from June 20, 2008 to July 21, 2008.

Matt Glass

Matt Glass is working currently on his series titled "Apocrypha". This collection can be viewed online by going tohttp://www.glassbrain.com/photos/apocrypha/index.htm. Dealing with the current political situation in the context of the religious interpretation of the end of the world, Mr. Glass re-examines various concepts from the Bible in a new and fresh contemporary look which infuses the subject with the weight of a Caravaggio and the glossy brilliance of a Jeff Wall photograph.

Mr. Glass plans to graduate with his BFA from Weber State University located in Odgen, Utah.

Matt Glass

Matt Glass is working currently on his series titled "Apocrypha". This collection can be viewed online by going tohttp://www.glassbrain.com/photos/apocrypha/index.htm. Dealing with the current political situation in the context of the religious interpretation of the end of the world, Mr. Glass re-examines various concepts from the Bible in a new and fresh contemporary look which infuses the subject with the weight of a Caravaggio and the glossy brilliance of a Jeff Wall photograph.

Mr. Glass plans to graduate with his BFA from Weber State University located in Odgen, Utah.

qi peng

qi peng is being featured especially today for the online exhibition "Will Be Famous..." at ShaVis, which is one of the leading visual art newsletters. You can find more information about qi peng at:
http://www.shavis.com/wbflist.php.

Later on, after the exhibition, ShaVis will be publishing 200 of the submitted covers within an anthology to be published and sold through Amazon.com. More details on this design project are forthcoming.

Anna Kustera

We are proud to announce the participation of Iao PROJECTS in its first international art fair to be held at Anna Kustera Gallery located in Chelsea, New York. The location of the gallery will be at 520 West 21st Street and the exhibition will take place from July 10th to August 1st, 2008. More information about this art fair can be found by clicking here.

We will be featuring the artwork of selected artists from our roster such as Megan Hildebrandt, Michelle Kurtz (Circlegal), qi peng, Jordan Jensen, Joshua Luther, and others. This will showcase the fine work which has been completed by our represented artists.http://www.yessy.com/iaoprojects/smallfair.html

Megan Hildebrandt

Megan Hildebrandt will be featured in a show during 2009 at the Creative Alliance at the Patterson located in Baltimore. Her works from the series "The Rumors Are True" will be the focus of this particular exhibition.

Artist Show - Tanner Frames

qi peng and his artistic partner Michelle Kurtz (Circlegal) will be featured in a solo show at Tanner Frames during August 2008. Tanner Frames is a gallery/frame shop located at 230 South 500 West Suite 150 in downtown Salt Lake City. The website for the gallery can be found at:http://tannerframes.shawnrossiter.com/.

The exhibition will be entitled "qi peng's greatest misses" and will include his collaborative work executed with Ms. Kurtz as well as earlier collaborative pieces done with Ilse Murdock, a New York artist who is finishing her MFA degree at Mason Rogers School of the Arts at Rutgers.

15 bytes

We are proud to announce that the IAO PROJECTS are being featured within theJune 2008 issue of 15 BYTES, which is the online Utah newspaper for artists and collectors. Sue Martin has written up a good introduction to what our gallery is.

More information can be found here at:
http://www.artistsofutah.org/15bytes/08june/page6.html