Sites Listed Under ‘Contemporary Art’ Category
drawing by Kevin Freitas Greg Boudreau nominated by Chris Martin, Project X: Art Kelsey Brookes nominated by Mark Quint, Quint Contemporary Art Stephen Curry nominated by Robin Bright, artist Steve Gibson nominated by Laurie Mitchell Brian Goeltzenleuchter nominated by Teri Sowell, Director of Exhibitions and Collections, Oceanside Museum of Art Wendell M. Kling nominated by Brian Dick, artist Heather Gwen Martin nominated by Kim MacConnel, artist and Ann Berchtold, director, Beyond the Borders International Art Fair Robert Nelson nominated by Tom Noel and Larry Baza, Noel-Baza Fine Art Julio Orozco nominated by Debra Poteet, collector Allison Renshaw nominated by Patricia Frischer, coordinator, SDVAN Lesha Maria Rodriguez nominated by Katherine Sweetman James Soe Nyun nominated by Tom Driscoll, artist Stephen Tompkins nominated by Robin Clark, PhD, Curator, The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego San Diego Art Prize New Contemporaries III
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"The World is Flat" OR The San Diego Art Prize Unveils its Nominations
from the press release How Many Billboards? Art In Stead February 5 – March 12, 2010 Reception: Saturday, February 27, 1-5 pm www.howmanybillboards.org The MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House is pleased to announce its most ambitious project to date: How Many Billboards? Art In Stead
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How Many Billboards?
by Richard Gleaves Fringe Theories (at Agitprop through January 9) is billed as “the work of five artists and scholars that thrive outside of traditional and accepted rules and boundaries.” What’s most striking about the show as a whole is not its fringiness but rather an odd formal emphasis on oldness : old newsprint, old photos, old paintings, old sculpture. The work itself is recent, but — with the exception of Keith Engeron’s modest deployment of corporate logos and Tony Allard’s use of layered space — otherwise avoids the look and feel of contemporary art. It’s interesting to contemplate just why this is
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Fringe Theories
from the press release The Art Street Journal is an international monthly art publication focused on the most exciting new voices in contemporary art. The November issue includes: – Interviews with Dan Witz, Hush and WK Interact – Features on Conor Harrington, JR, Chloe Early, Armsrock, M-City, Mark Whalen (Kill Pixie) and Candice Tripp – Previews and reviews of ARTotale, Untitled II: The Beautiful Renaissance, The Ghost Village Project, The Thousands, Represent, the Edinburgh Art Fair and SCOPE Miami – Images from some of the best of today’s street artists as curated by Unurth’s Sebastian Buck The Art Street Journal is distributed worldwide
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The Art Street Journal
from the press release ZOOM November 21 – December 19, 2009 Torrance Art Museum 3320 Civic Center Drive Torrance, CA 90503 310.618.6340 mpresneill@torrrnet.com www.torranceartmuseum.com Gallery hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 11am-5pm ZOOM artists: David Adey , Kelly Barrie, York Chang, Allison Cortson, Roni Feldman, Tony Maher, Daniel Nevers, Nobuhito Nishigawara, Andrew Schoultz, Christina Shurts, Ali Smith, Cheryl Sorg Augusta Wood, Eric Yahnker. The Torrance Art Museum is proud to present ZOOM , a juried survey of current developments in contemporary artistic practices from California, Arizona, Nevada, and Baja artists.
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David Adey – "ZOOM" – Torrance Art Museum
by Kevin Freitas and David Fobes Sitôt is an adverb in French that is generally used to designate a moment in time that has just passed — sitôt après – immediately after — or something that is about to happen as in the expression no sooner said than done . It implies a certain (physical) movement or action (trajectory) to be taken, a firm commitment that lies somewhere between the knowledge of the past and the unknown of the future. In other words, there’s no better time than the present.
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Sitôt — A new project launches. Become a part of it now.
from the press release 23 October > 12 December 2009 Opening Reception 22 October 6:00 > 8.30pm University Art Gallery, UCSD 9500 Gilman Drive Mandeville Center La Jolla, CA 92093 858.534.2107 uag.ucsd.edu With: Amnesty International, Laylah Ali, Maimuna Feroze-Nana, Mona Hatoum, Icelandic Love Corporation, Yoko Inoue, International Rescue Committee, Jung Jungyeob, Amal Kenawy, Lisa Bjørne Linert, Hung Liu, Gabriela Morawetz, Miri Nishri, Yoko Ono, Cecilia Paredes, Susan Plum, Cima Rahmankhah, Joyce J. Scott, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Masami Teroka, Hank Willis Thomas For the new exhibition season the University Art Gallery, UC San Diego presents an international exhibition entitled Off The Beaten Path: Violence, Women and Art
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OFF THE BEATEN PATH Violence, Women and Art
Text-Based September 18 – November 1, 2009 Reception: Friday September 25th 7 – 9 PM “Text-based” as a term is commonly associated with computer based applications where the primary input and outputs are text rather than graphics. Text-based applications are not void of graphics, but rather the graphics or images are typically secondary to the text. For the artists featured in this exhibit, text is an important element in their work
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New Exhibition at Brayham Contemporary Art — Text-Based: Brown, Campbell, Juliusson, Koester, Will & ArtEXCHANGE
As I was still installing the next exhibition in the gallery , I decided to take advantage of the fact that I was not open last Saturday and headed to the University of Toronto Art Centre to catch Fujiwara Takahiro’s artist talk. Fujiwara Takahiro attracted the attention and captured the imagination of thousands with his work Into the Blue exhibited in the Toronto Eaton Centre as one of the Scotia Bank Nuit Blanche Zone A exhibitions in 2008. Fujiwara Takahiro, Into the Blue , 2008 Acrylic polymer, helium Scotiabank Nuit Blanche Zone A Curated by Gordon Hatt Following the amazing audience response to Takahiro’s work last year at Nuit Blanche, and anticipating the installation of his new work Trance Veil for CAFKA which opens in Kitchener this Friday September 18th, I expected to find a packed house for the talk hosted jointly by the University of Toronto Art Centre, CAFKA (Contemporary Art Forum Kitchener & Area), and Gendai Gallery .
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Fujiwara Takahiro in Toronto & Kitchener
Behind the baggage carousel at Venice’s Marco Polo Airport was a large banner for Interior Landscapes an exhibit of the work of Mona Hatoum at the Palazzo Querini Stampalia . I will never forget the experience of seeing Mona Hatoum’s exhibition at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York in 1997 and was very excited that not only was I here in Venice for the 53rd Biennale de Venezia, but I would also be able to see the work by one of my favorite artists. I love the simplicity, the beauty, and the ephemeral quality of Hatoum’s work juxtaposed against the quiet, disturbing and often hidden symbolism.
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Mona Hatoum’s Interior Landscapes at Palazzo Querini Stampalia
While I should be focused on writing the paper I am presenting at the Arts in Society conference in Venice in exactly two weeks, I am continually side-tracked by what is becoming an all consuming concern of how does a relatively new small gallery survive in the new economy? I have watched three other galleries close in my east side neighbourhood over the past few months: Ninette Gyorody’s Studio Nine Gallery on Queen St East, Svava Juliusson’s LIST Gallery on the Danforth, and a gallery on Pape at Danforth
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Art Galleries in the New Economy
Back in April 2009 a reader of my Blogs for AbsoluteArts posted the following comment: “On the www.albertosughi.com website there is a very powerful painting called “Ruling class”. Would love to participate in a discussion on that piece.” Since then I committed myself to holding such a discussion and today I will try to maintain that promise. Possibly in order to understand The Ruling Class (“La Classe Dirigente, Oil on Canvas, 165×140cm, 1965) we need to place and read it in the context of another group of works also painted between 1964 and 1965
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The Ruling Class
For as long as I can remember I have been fascinated by architecture. However, it was in 1976 when Arthur Erickson ’s Museum of Anthropology opened on the University of British Columbia campus in Vancouver, that I first became aware of the integral relationship between the building form and the use of the space. Arthur Erickson, Simon Fraser University, 1963 Burnaby, BC http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/8880112.jpg I have to admit that I have had a long-standing love affair with Arthur Erickson’s work .
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Thoughts on Museum Architecture – Libeskind’s ROM and DAM
It began with a story in Sunset Magazine on a new style of modular home that is compact, energy efficient and eco-friendly. The story on homes built by Michelle Kaufmann Designs caught the eye of woman I know who lives with her husband in a suburban community in the San Francisco Bay area. For years they have enjoyed spending weekends on the coast of west Sonoma County, an area of sprawling ranches, picturesque towns, and gorgeous beaches on the Pacific coast
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Great view, great energy savings Sliding glass windows a plus for environmentally conscious modular home