Sunday, September 27, 2009

Hanging in There

Travelling Blog Australia September 2009We arrived in Airlie beach in the middle of the biggest dust storm ever attributed to global warming, the sky filling with red dust from the countries huge interior where only wild camels roam.The first day I went with my brother, who is studying Buddhism, to a tree house set in the hillside. we were to learn about bells and their healing powers. An elderly woman with a german accent and a tea towel wrapped around her head led my brothers wife to a pile of cushions on which she lay and was surrounded by bells of all sizes. The small bells heal the head and the larger the lower chakras. After this peaceful ringing of chrystal bells we picked up pamphlets on how we could heal sessions and made our way to the tea house where, hanging from a rope by his neck was a teddy bear, supposedly a play mate for the dog. Well, My brother who travels everwhere with Black Bear, whose very scarf has been touched by the Dia Llama himself set to untie and free the bear.I guess a good title would be HANGING IN THERE....Take care people.love Jo Tuck

Friday, September 25, 2009

Jeff in Pittsburgh


Me at my group show at Sirani Gallery in Pittsburgh (one week before G20 protests)
photo courtesy of Rusty Zimmerman

Recent Holgas



2 recent Holga shots in Manhattan

Monday, April 6, 2009

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

Saturday, April 4, 2009

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

Monday, March 30, 2009

Sunday, March 29, 2009

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

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

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.

Friday, March 20, 2009

A new gallery is now online by qi peng

I have just created a new gallery in myartspace  <http://www.myartspace.com>.

It is called imaginary exhibitions.

Click on the image or the link to view.

http://www.myartspace.com/viewer/gallery/?subscriberid=49gxoptpv9ytvow1&gallery_id=ihuxwk3u6a8elg41.

Monday, March 16, 2009

Mindy Kober at Lawrence Procolator, Kansas, Sat. March 14, 6 pm

Mindy Kober will be participating this Saturday the Lawrence Percolator, a project Space in the Lawrence Corporation for the Advancement of Visual Arts, in Lawrence, Kansas.


Mindy Kober will be participating this Saturday the Lawrence Percolator, a project Space in the Lawrence Corporation for the Advancement of Visual Arts, in Lawrence, Kansas.


the Lawrence Percolator presents

TREES I HAVE KNOWN

OPENING RECEPTION 6PM SATURDAY MARCH 14

continues weekends Saturday March 14 – Sunday May 3

JAMISON SARTESCHI



JAMISON for Seasick Mama Apparel http://seasickmama.myshopify.com/products/banana

randee silv opening April 4

randee silvendangered
gestures

April 2 --
April 18, 2009Opening Reception:
April 4th 5-8pm

M55 Art is pleased to present
"endangered gestures", an exhibition of recent works by Randee Silv, on view
April 2 through April 18, 2009. An opening reception will be held on Saturday,
April 4th from 5 till 8 p.m. Gallery hours are Wednesday through Saturday, 12
till 6 p.m.

With this most recent group of paintings, Silv brings our attention back to the very origins of painting while exposing the roots of our visual culture. These pieces are distinct in that they consider the process of image-making in a way that is both current and extraordinarily old. In “The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art,” David Lewis-Williams compares the controversial abstract marks in Upper Paleolithic cave paintings with entoptic forms that have been documented during altered states of consciousness. These zig-zags, dots, meandering lines and nested curves are what we all see on the edge of our vision.

It is within these most primordial moments, before these flickering forms congeal into recognizable imagery, that Silv finds parallels with her own work. She asks us, in viewing these paintings, to consider whether the concept of art may have been initially triggered by abstract rather than iconic imagery. And if we acknowledge this, these endangered marks could widen our dialogue with the transitional potentiality of abstract gesture.

Poem
by Yuko Otomo:
A new breath tapsInto the vast
ocean Of unforgotten gesturesIn order to dictate a drama on Art’s
OriginWithout dense plots nor anagrams
Yellow yellowing;Black
blacking;Void voiding;Line lining;Dot dotting;
In these (re)discovered Memories
of my being
Air is light
Without shadow shadowing
Stretching fullyTo
declare
The sacredness of
Color

For further information please
contact: Edward Yelonek M55 Art

44-02 23rd Street, Long
Island City, NY 11101 (718)
729-2988
eyelonek@m55art.org http://www.m55art.org
http://www.randeesilv.com

Subways to M55 Art:

E or V train to 23rd
Street/Ely Avenue
7 train to 45th Road/Court
Square
G train to Long Island
City/Court Square

Art Opening this Saturday afternoon


Hello peoples, This Saturday (March 7) I shall be in a two person show in lovely Park Slope Brooklyn. All the details are here:
http://jefffaer.blogspot.com/2009/02/brooklyn-show-030709.htmlplease

Swing on by with your checkbook and have some food/art/fun.

Jeff Faerber

Eric Osborne aka art by e

Marnie and I hung my show last night (Thank you baby) and I must say it looks pretty good.

Please come see for yourself, TOMORROW NIGHT (March 12) at Blaubak Gallery133 Lake St S
Kirlland WA 98033 7pm-9pm

Show runs all month but private viewings are Tue-Fri 10am-8pm and are by appointment only by calling (425) 822-2313.

My next Seattle show will be in June at Blaubak Gallery again for there Urban art show which opens on June 11th.Then in Aug I will be in Tucson Az at Bohemia http://www.bohemiatucson.com/ for a very VERY special show along with the work I already have there, more details to follow. As always, thanks for your support. http://www.artbye.com/

Amy Caron's WAVES OF MU Salt Lake City Premiere

Dance Theatre Coalition Presents: Amy Caron's WAVES OF MU Salt Lake City Premiere, April 3 & 4

Waves of Mu installation at Bunnell Street Gallery, April 2008, Homer, Alaska

WAVES OF MU
Rose Wagner Black Box Theater April 3 & 4, 8:00pm
Tickets: $20, $15 Students www.artTix.org 355-6819
LINK TO TICKETS: http://www.arttix.org/tickets/production.aspx?performanceNumber=3826

*Seating for shows is very limited, reservations recommended*
In addition to evening performances, the installation portion of Waves of Mu will be open to the public free of
charge from noon – 5:00 pm on Saturday, April 4th.
www.wavesofmu.com
www.amycaron.com
www.dancetheatrecoalition.org


Artist representation:

Albert Wang, Iao Projects Gallery
albert@iao-gallery.com 801-879-1971
Dance Theatre Coalition
info@dancetheatrecoalition.org 801-860-4474
recent press: **NEW PRESS IN MARCH CATALYST** http://catalystmagazine.net/component/content/article/126-art-a-science/798-waves-of-mu

Amy Caron’s
WAVES OF MU
tickets: http://www.arttix.org/tickets/production.aspx?performanceNumber=3826
information: http://wavesofmu.com/

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Wurm in "Recovered Memory" at Eddie Rhodes Gallery

RECOVERED MEMORY
drawings from jan wurm's closet

February 20 - March 27, 2009


Opening Reception:
Tuesday, March 3 4 pm - 7 pm

Eddie Rhodes Gallery
Contra Costa College
2600 Mission Bell Drive
San Pablo, CA 94806

Tues & Thurs 9 am - 5 pm
Weds 9 am - 9 pm
Fri 9 am - 2 pm

Osborne Featured in Solo Show within Portland's Nebula Gallery

Palmer at Group Show in Kayo Gallery

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Kober Featured at Studio 27.28

Come check out her show in Philly:
Mindy Kober at Studio 27.28
2728 Girard Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19130
reception: Saturday, Feb. 7th, 6-9pm
show runs until March 7th
Also, this is the last week to see her show "Politics and the Weather" at ArtStorm, Houston. ArtStorm is open Saturdays and Sundays 12-6pm. Show ends Sunday, Feb. 8th.

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Reviews for Kober's ArtStorm Show





Kober Teaches Political Cartoon Workshop at ArtStorm

Political Cartoon Workshop for Kids at ArtStorm

 
In conjunction with her show “Politics and the Weather” of new drawings and paintings, Houston based artist Mindy Kober will host a free children’s workshop exploring political cartoons and their historical impact. Children will be told a brief history of political cartoons, and will participate in several hands-on projects regarding the topic.
When: Saturday, January 31st 2009, 1 pm, sign-up at 12:45 pm
Where: ArtStorm, 4828 Caroline St., Houston, TX 77004
(In the Caroline Collective Building, Museum District)
What: Children ages 10-up, all materials will be provided, children will be
broken up in age groups, teenagers are encouraged to attend, prior
drawing knowledge not needed, limited to the first 25 to sign up.

Free !!

 

Questions? mek_sodapop@yahoo.com

Sunday, January 25, 2009

Faerber in "Dirty Show" Group Exhibition at Bert's Warehouse Theater

2 pieces in the Dirty show
www.dirtydetroit.com/

BERT'S WAREHOUSE THEATER
2727 Russell St. Detroit, MI 48207 (In Eastern Market)
February 6, Friday Evening “OPENING NIGHT” | 7:00pm - 2:00am | 21 & Over
February 7, Saturday Evening | 7:00pm - 2:00am | 21 & Over
February 8, Sunday “DAYTIME” Only | 12:00pm - 6:00pm | 18 & Over
February 13, Friday Evening | 7:00pm - 2:00am| 18 & Over
February 14, Saturday “Valentine’s Closing Celebration” | 7:00pm - 2:00am | 18 & Over

Thursday, January 22, 2009

Kober Featured in "Running on Empty" Group Show at ATHICA

Mindy Kober will participate in "Running on Empty" at ATHICA, the Athens Institute for Contemporary Art in Athens, Georgia, a group show about the oil industry curated by Bart King. The show runs from January 31st to March 22, 2009, and the opening repeption is Saturday, January 31st, 7-9pm.
ATHICA: Athens Institute for Contemporary Art, Inc.
160 Tracy Street, Unit 4
Athens, GA 30601 USA

Fetzer's "The Road Ahead" Featured in the Obama Art Report





Friday, January 16, 2009

Iao PROJECTS and The Conference Room Gallery at Meeting <2.2>

Iao PROJECTS and The Conference Room Gallery at Meeting <2.2>

Park City, UT. January 9, 2009 -- The Conference Room Gallery and Iao PROJECTS will be co-hosting the construction of an exhibition space built entirely out of snow called the Temporary Contemporary Snow Gallery. This will be the first time any attempt to construct a gallery out this particular molecular state rather than completely solid ice. The goal is to create negative space out of the positive using the physical snow that is abundant within the Utah area during the winter months.

Keeping within the spirit of the Sundance Film Festival, both galleries feel that exhibiting the works in such a way allows for a deeper interpretation as to how art relates to nature as well as its underlying process. Having such cutting-edge works displayed within the snow juxtaposes the idea of a spontaneously built environment while adapting to nontraditional architecture and materials.

Unlike an art fair setting where curated galleries obtain a pre-set amount of space and thus are confined to constraints or working within the allotted size, using snow enables flexibility and opportunity for changing the surroundings while retaining the integrity of the structure for this conceptual art project. Entire hotels, bars, and cafes have been constructed out of ice but never has a contemporary art gallery displayed works within the context of snow.

Both, The Conference Room Gallery and Iao PROJECTS, will be featuring artists’ works that are sustainable within these conditions and are constructed or created site-specific for the intent of exhibiting their work within such an unusual environment. This temporary installation will become the most provocative collaboration between landscape and traditional artworks, challenging the norms of the current art world.

Meeting <2.2> “In the Freezer” at the Temporary Contemporary Snow Gallery will be pushing the boundaries of the idea of a gallery as form of literal white cube.

Artist list available upon request.

No snow will be harmed in the construction of this innovative temporary gallery.

Fetzer at the MANIFEST HOPE Taking Place in Washington DC

Monday, January 12, 2009

Iao PROJECTS Now In the FREEZER... With The Conference Room Gallery

In the FREEZER...

MEETING <2.2>

Group Exhibition

Exhibition Reception:
Park City, UT

Exhibition Dates:
January 15 - 25, 2009

Sunday, January 11, 2009

Fetzer at the MANIFEST HOPE: DC Gallery

The MANIFEST HOPE: DC Gallery will be open to the public in Washington, DC for the days preceding the Presidential Inauguration, Saturday, January 17th, 2009 through Monday, January 19th, 2009 between the hours of 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM.

MANIFEST HOPE: DC
January 17th-19th, 2009
10:00am - 6:00pm 3333 M Street NW, Washington DC 20007

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS: (partial list)

Aaron Foster || Aaron Axelrod || Aaron Allen || Aaron and Ayumi Piland || Amy Martin || Andrew Bannecker || Andy Powell || Bask || Billi Kid || Billy Colbert || Blue Lucy || BOOKS IIII || Brian McCarty || Charlie Becker || Chris Stain || Chris Pastras || Cody Hudson || Damon Locks || Dan Monick || Dan Funderburgh || David Choe || Deroy Peraza || Eddie || El MAC || Estevan Oriol || Felix Jackson Jr. || Frederic Terral || Gary Baseman || George Vlosich || Ginger Che || Guillermo Bert || Herb Williams || House Industries || HVW8 || James Widener || Jason Hardy || Jason Dietrick || Jermaine Rogers || JK5 || Jon Wippich || Jovi Schnell || Julie Adler || Julianne Walther || Justin Bua || Justin Kleiner || Justin Hampton || Justin Kemerling || Justin "Demo" Fines || Karen Wippich || Kate Cosgrove || Katherine Kendall || Keetra Dean Dixon || Kelly Towles || Kelly Ording || Kenji Hirata || Kofie || Kwaku Alston || Larissa Marantz || Lisa Marie Thalhammer || Luba Lukova || Lukas Ketner || Margaret Coble || Margaret Cusack || Mark Jenkins || Matt Kleiner || Maya Hayuk || Mel Kadel || Michael Cuffe || Mike Murphy || Mike Jacob || Mike Perry || Munk One || Nick Dewar || Paul Roden & Valerie Lueth || Rafael Lopez || Ray Noland || Regan Rosburg || Robbie Conal || Ron English || Rostarr || Sage Vaughn || Sam Flores || Sarah Hoskins || Scot LeFavor || Scott Hansen || Shel Starkman || Sol Sender || Stenzskull || Tanya M Rodrigo || Tatyana Fazlalizadeh || Tes One || Tim Conlon || Tim Tate || Tina Rodas || Tom Slaughter || Travis Millard || Tristan Eaton || Van Taylor Monroe || Will Barras || Yvonne Boogaerts

Sykes Featured in Solo Show at gallery uaf


Kober at Artstorm in Houston, TX

Kober at 2009 Kentucky National Exhibition in the Clara Eagle Gallery

Kentucky National 2009
Murray State University, Murray, Kentucky
Clara Eagle Gallery
January 16th- February 18th
Juror: Mark Masuoka

Official Press Release For January-March 2009 Exhibition at Iao PROJECTS


Fetzer, peng, and Sarteschi at 2009 Visual AIDS Group Exhibition

Fetzer Completes 'The Road Ahead' Commission for Manifest Hope in Washington DC

Kober's Solo Show "Politics and the Weather" at ArtStorm

Mindy Kober will be having an artist's reception tonight (Saturday) from 7-11 pm at for her show Politics and the Weather:
ArtStorm
4828 Caroline St.
Houston, TX 77004

in the Museum District at the Caroline Collective Building
music by DJ P and friends
The show will be up Jan. 10th through Feb. 7th, and Artstorm is open Saturdays and Sundays.

Thursday, January 8, 2009

Uglysheep and qi peng of Kurtz + peng to be Featured in "cult of the book" Group Show at Sam Weller's Gallery on the Mezzanine

Hildebrandt in "To the Teeth" Group Exhibition at the Amalie Rothschild Gallery

Opens Fri Feb 6 w/ CA Studios Open House, 6-9pm. On view Feb 5-21
Free.

Whether it’s with paint, pixels, or pointed humor, the artists gathered in this exhibition – CA Residents, along with colleagues they’ve invited - wield their instruments with tenacity, ferocity, and efficiency. Organized by current resident Lauren Boilini, with alum Erin Cluley, each artist submits a new piece on the theme.

Hildebrandt in The Rumors Are True Exhibition

Opens Sat Jan 17, 5-7pm. Performance 6pm. On view Jan 17-Feb 21
Free.

With paintings, performances, and other creative investigations, Resident Artists Christine Sajecki and Megan Hildebrandt decode the changing dynamics of their neighborhood habitat. Dressed like a 1940’s washer woman, Hildebrandt has spent months asking residents if she can polish their marble steps, gently shocking her “audience” into reevaluating their sense of community through a simple act of generosity and humor. With a cornucopia of sweetly irreverent paintings, Hildebrandt pays tribute to long gone local personalities – from the ship captain who slept in Patterson Park at night, to the brothers who founded Haussner’s restaurant. Christine Sajecki’s encaustic paintings reflect a more poetic sensibility. Hazy buildings with wire antennas loom behind layers of beeswax, while images of Peruvian and Mexican ruins, East European alphabets, and Catholic imagery are overlaid and assembled to evoke a community where the history of place and the histories of people are interwoven, and where generations of immigrants rub shoulders every day.

At the opening, Megan Hildebrandt serves up a tongue-in-cheek history lesson, via a power point stroll through Baltimore lore.

Hildebrandt in "Stars and Stripes" Group Exhibition at the Smith Farm Center's Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery

Iao PROJECTS to Present Sanza-Hanza in Conjunction with 2009 Slamdance Film Festival


Wurm in Two-Person Exhibition "The Art of Gaming" at The Carl Cherry Center for the Arts

Wurm in Two-Person Exhibition "The Art of Gaming" at The Carl Cherry Center for the Arts

THE ART OF GAMING
LISA ESHERICK and JAN WURM

THE CARL CHERRY CENTER FOR THE ARTS

January 17 - February 23

Reception for the Artists: Saturday, January 17 3 - 5 p.m.

The Carl Cherry Center for the Arts
4th & Guadalupe
Carmel, California
831 624-7491

Gallery Hours:
Monday - Friday 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Saturday 1 p.m. - 4 p.m.
or by appointment
cherry_center@yahoo.com

Dubicki Reviewed in New Haven Advocate

In the Abstract
Abstraction Distraction at A-Space

Thursday, January 08, 2009
By Stephen Vincent Kobasa


Dimensions multiply on a large scale in the exhibit of work by four artists entitled Abstraction Distraction, all illuminated by the winter light in the polished loft that is A-Space at West Cove Studios (30 Elm St., West Haven; 609-638-8501 or 203-627-8030) through Feb. 3. The gallery is open by appointment only; take the initiative and make one.


© 2009 New Haven Advocate

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Wurm at Group Show "Figurative Art" at the Louie Meager Smith Art Gallery

Figurative Art

January 5 - February 21
Reception: Saturday, February 7 7 - 8 PM

Louie Meager Smith Art Gallery
Ohlone College




Ohlone College
43600 Mission Blvd.
Fremont, California 94539
Phone: (510) 979-7916
Gallery Hours: Spring Semester Monday-Friday: 12:30pm - 3:00pm
The Gallery is located in the Gary Soren Smith Center for the Fine and Performing Arts
and is also open during most Smith Center Events