Anna Kustera

Anna Kustera has provided us with some more updates on the smallest art fair show here and here.

Megan Hildebrandt

Megan Hildebrandt will be featured at a group show called Stars and Stripes: Pride or Despair taking place at Galerie Myrtis from August 30 to October 10. The gallery is in Baltimore and they will feature a painting with Francis Scott Key and Megan, both tear-filled, sitting inside the same boat moving towards the American flag. The show will be rather political and present various points of view.

Kay Tuttle

Kay Tuttle will be preparing for an interview in November 2008 at theDrawing Center in New York City. You can view her portfolio through theViewing Program amongst the Colorado artists.

Circlegal

Michelle Kurtz (Circlegal) has been accepted for additional representation at Ugallery, a gallery located in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Along with qi peng, she will be a featured artist there as well. Her work combines social awareness with wry, dark humor and sociological graffiti.

Amy Caron

Amy Caron will be participating in a performance with the Dance Theatre Coalition in the Field Showing.

Details include:

Monday, August 4th from 7:00 - 8:00pm
Rose Wagner Mezzanine Studio (located next to balcony of Jeanne Wagner
Theatre)

FREE admission

Participating artists:
Amy Caron, John deJong, Holly Fowers, Zelma Jensen, Zara Shallbetter, Larissa Trout, and Margaret Willis

This will be a casual open studio showing and we hope to see you there!

qi peng

Ugallery, an online gallery based in Scottsdale, AZ, is representing qi peng's work in addition to Iao PROJECTS. Founded in 2006, Ugallery is focused on presenting the work of art students and recent graduates from universities across the nation. With its aggressive marketing approach, this gallery has been featured in the 2008 Affordable Art Fair in New York and the 2008 Art Now Fair in New York. Iao PROJECTS would like to congratulate qi peng for his recent achievement.

RMAAS - 2008

Iao PROJECTS is proud to announce that it will have a booth at the upcoming2008 Rocky Mountain Art & Antiques Show taking place November 14th to November 16th at the Salt Palace Convention Center. As an iconoclast, the gallery will be featuring some rather cutting-edge contemporary works and some artist's booths for instruction. Barry Wolfryd, Brett Sykes, Kurtz + peng, and Sibyll Kalff will be our featured artists at the booth. Also we will be including our other artists. One of Barry Wolfryd's paintings will be featured in the auction at the show.

Megan Hildebrandt

Megan Hildebrandt, who is involved in the Saturday scrubbing of the marble steps in Baltimore, will be featured in the exhibition Beyond the Wall: Politic and Urban Stories taking place at the old North Avenue Market at 20 W. North Avenue in Baltimore. This show is curated by WESTNORTH Studio's Roy Crosse in conjunction with a satellite ARTSCAPE exhibition. Contributors include: Gard Jones, Steve Bradley, Megan Hildebrandt, Exit the Apple Collaborative : Jamyla & Pierre Benu, roycrosse and others.

The opening reception took place on Thursday, July 17th from 8-10 PM, including live music and refreshments.

In Memorum

Sibyll Kalff's close friend Robert Mitchell passed away on June 27, 2008. He was a fellow musician for Kalff's band as well as a remarkable poet. A slideshow of his life is featured here by Ms. Kalff as a heartfelt tribute to an underground giant who was the Robert Creeley of his time.

Jan Wurm

Jan Wurm will be featured in a group exhibition called BLACKLISTED at theCarl Cherry Center for the Arts from July 18th to August 25th. The opening reception will be on Friday, July 18th from 4:30 to 6:30 PM. The location of the exhibition is at 4th and Cherry in Carmel, California. Local artists explore the climate of fear and betrayal created by the HUAC.

Jan Wurm

Jan Wurm has published a monograph of her work through Lulu.com called Drawn in Dust. Covering a variety of her figurative and psychological imagery, this book is a profound examination of what it means to be human today. One can find the book located online here.

Kay Tuttle

Kay Tuttle is being featured in a solo exhibition called Lost and Found atIronton Studios and Gallery. The press release states:

"Over the past few years Kay has been working on various found surfaces.  She finds these surfaces to be a puzzle that must be solved both visually and conceptually.  Also, the found imagery adds a layer of chance to the finished work as well as a sense of collaboration, either with persons unknown or her father. In this show at Ironton she will be showing three bodies of work.

Collection Amusette, the first body of work, is a series of paintings on wood with imagery found in popular culture.

The Victorian Drawing Series, the second body of work, consists of painted imagery on found Victorian prints.  The paintings have a fairy tale quality with imagery of spiders, birds and anatomical symbols.

The third body of work, the Dad/Daughter Drawings, are a collaborative series with her father.  Her father tends to draw very masculine things, such as tanks, soldiers, etc, while Kay works with more stereotypically female images."

Kay Tuttle is a Denver born artist with an MFA from Arizona State University in Painting. She lived abroad in Germany and France several years and now lives in Denver. This is her first show at Ironton." A copy of the press release can be found here.

The exhibition takes place from July 18th to August 16th at the gallery located in 3636 Chestnut Place in Denver, CO.

qi peng

qi peng has published the first volume of his artist's book series called THIS IS NEW YORK. It is available through blurb.com here. This is a completed three year documentary project where peng focuses on his hometown from a post 9/11 viewpoint and expressing humanity's brutal ability to survive the storm.

Flickr Site for PROJECTS

Iao PROJECTS has a new Flickr website available here. You can view photos of the gallery, people, and art fairs which Iao is involved in. Also there will be a major focus on producing both a print and online version of the catalogue raisonne for Michelle Kurtz (Circlegal) and Kurtz + peng's works. The strange admixture of conceptual art, graffiti, cave art, and Basquiat-like figuration celebrates the concept of the primitive. One can find the catalogue raisonne in progress here.

Jordan Jensen

Jordan Jensen, one of our Flatfiles artists, has been featured in a local paper about joining the Anna Kustera exhibition. Her photographic work is mentioned in this article.

Cat Palmer

Cat Palmer is being featured in a group show called Local Artist Open House at the (a)perture gallery. The new gallery is located at 1617 South 900 East in downtown Salt Lake City.

Brendan Rogers

One of our Flatfiles artists, Brendan Rogers will be featured in a solo show at Gallery Lounge located 510 Brannan St. in San Francisco, CA. The event will start on Friday, August 1st at 8:00 PM. Feel free to contact the venue at (415) 595-1540. You can view the exhibition flyer here.

Anna Kustera

More press coverage for The World's Smallest Art Fair at Anna Kustera can be found here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.

Also our fellow artist Jeff Faerber was able to capture some fabulous photographs of the opening party at the Chelsea gallery. Pictures can be found here.

Eric Osborne

Our Flatfiles artist Eric Osborne has been featured at an art show at ZERO ZERO Hair Salon located at 1525 Summit Ave. Seattle WA 98122. There was an reception on July 5th from 7 pm to 10 pm featuring cocktails and food and Osborne's work plus a set by DJ WD4D.

Barry Wolfryd

Barry Wolfryd will be featured at Catcus Gallery & Gifts located in Eagle Rock, CA. The group show is entitled Icons, Legends, & Notorious Figures. A copy of the exhibition postcard can be found here

Cat Palmer

Cat Palmer's works will be featured at two local venues: Addicted Cafe located at 511 West 200 South in downtown Salt Lake City for July 2008 andUCASA located at 404 North 300 West in downtown Salt Lake City.

Anna Kustera

Anna Kustera will be opening her smallest art fair this Thursday with some featured art from Iao PROJECTS. She now has gotten a new logo and the finalized list of galleries participating. Two articles at Artnet News andFlavorpill covers this innovative event in Chelsea.

Amy Caron

Amy Caron will be featuring her large-scale performance installation 'The Waves of Mu' at Performance Space 122. Also a modified version of this project is being featured currently at the Salt Lake Art Center in the group exhibition called Present Tense, which is a sequel to the 337 Project.