Taking a Break
Posted on | July 20, 2011 | No Comments
Site visitors will probably notice that I haven’t updated here frequently. I am taking a break from my site(s) for at least the summer. I’ve been working in this field for 25 years and I’m burned out on photography and art, the site(s) are in need of major updates/ revamping/ retooling, social media is exhausting, and I need some time to figure out how or if I want to continue with it. If you’re looking for information about artists/photography, I recommend these sites (though this is by no means comprehensive):
What if there were no more art galleries?
Posted on | June 5, 2011 | No Comments
6×6 – An Art Version of a Music Festival
What is 6×6?
Beginning on September 8, 2011, our roaming gallery Baang and Burne Contemporary will present 6×6, (six by six) a series of six, back to back, one week only art exhibitions in New York City. 6×6 was created by artists, for artists.
Essentially 6×6, is the art equivalent of a music festival, highlighting a line-up of twelve international artists, plus a host of events for art buyers, artists, and creative entrepreneurs.
To read more and to support this project at Kickstarter (deadline August 6), go here. I’m really interested in the questions—and solutions—that Kesha and Charlie are exploring with this project, so please support them!
(I can see this summer that I need to update this page so that I can embed iframe widgets.)
Tags: Baang and Burne Contemporary > Charlie Grosso > Kesha Bruce > Kickstarter
The Stoop Gallery Call for Submissions
Posted on | June 5, 2011 | No Comments
The Stoop Gallery is currently accepting submissions for the upcoming show date and theme:
Art. Science. Body: How art and science merge to create identity narratives. July 30, 2011
This week, Psychology Today published an article focusing on why African American women are less physically attractive than other women. The methodology of the research was not made completely clear, but there was attempt to support this racist notion through “science”. There has been a long history of the use of “science” to perpetuate racism globally and specifically within The United States. The book The Bell Curve, the eugenics movement and racism were used to justify scientific experimentation on people of colors bodies. Naturalism was also used as a scientific concept support the idea that there are biological and intellectual differences between People of Color and White people. These are just a few examples of this history. Science and race have a long standing relationship with one another.
Artists such as Carrie Mae Weems have used visual art to raise questions around this practice of using science to justify racism. In her 1995 series, From here I saw What happened and I cried, Carrie Mae Weems re-used Daguerreotype images of African descendent slaves which came out of a collaboration between naturalist scientists and photographers sought to support the notion that people of African descent were biologically inferior. Weems re-photographed these images and experimented with color and text to not only re – contextualize the images, but to offer a contemporary historical reading and to raise questions around this practice.
The Stoop Gallery is asking artist to consider how art and science have merged to create narratives of identity and how it has possibly merged in order to further perpetuate stereotypes. Also, how has art been used as a means to raise questions around and problematize racism within science. How can art serve as a tool to dismantle these racist notions perpetuated by science?
Deadlines for submissions: June 29, 2011
Notifications of acceptance: July 5, 2011
Deadline for receiving accepted works/ Drop off: July 23, 2011
Exhibition date: July 30, 2011 2pm – 7 pm
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Image Submission: • digital files in jpeg format at 72 dpi and 800 pixels • Up to 10 images per submission • Video work should be under 10 minutes , Quicktime movie, vimeo and youtube are accepted for video submission • Include an image list title, dimensions, media, and year. Spoken word, poetry and short stories (to be performed at the gallery opening) is welcome.
ALSO INCLUDE: • Bio: 100-words or less • Artist statement: 250-words or less Artist
Statement explaining how your work relates to The Stoop Gallery theme.
Please send submissions to: TheStoopGallery@gmail.com
PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!
The Stoop Gallery is a space where artists display works in public spaces throughout the borough of Brooklyn. Some neighborhoods include, Fort Greene, East New York, Crown Heights, Flatbush, Bedford Stuyvesant, and Brighton Beach. The Gallery will push the boundaries of fine art in a public art space and encourage community engagement with fine art in a neighborhood setting. The art shows will take place on stoops in Brooklyn where homeowners will volunteer their stoops and host the shows. The Stoop Gallery shows, will take place on Saturdays and/ or Sundays, once per month during the Summer and Fall and each show will feature three visual artists. There will also be opportunities to feature one installation artist, who will be able to transform an entire stoop with their installation piece.
Dark Girls preview
Posted on | June 5, 2011 | No Comments
Gutbox Collective exhibition: It Won’t Fit
Posted on | June 5, 2011 | No Comments
It Won’t Fit
June 3 – June 25, 2011
keep looking »Fullerton, California – June 3 thru June 25. Hibbleton Gallery will open an exhibition that introduces the New York based Gutbox Collective to the West Coast. This group’s mission is to create running narrative threads through collective participation. The members of Gutbox weave disjointed stories that don’t suffer the absolution of a beginning or an end. By incorporating panels that vary slightly in size and are under the influence of at least three members before completion, the group allows a film reel like format to take shape without giving way to a truly linear sequence. The result is a vivid display of painterly cooperation that meets naked trust and invention.
Gutbox debuted in New York City in the fall of 2010 at The Y Gallery. The incarnation that will take place at Hibbleton is a phase of Gutbox’s ongoing pursuit of constructivism within its own ranks and reaching outward to its audience from one location to the next, creating an ongoing narrative through its work that oscillates with those who participate.
Gutbox Collective is: Nick Dyball, John J. Hagan, Heather Hart, Jazz-minh Moore, Seth Mulvey, Ray Sell, Caroline Thaw, Ulrike Theusner, and Thomas Witte.
Hibbleton Gallery is open Friday 1-5 pm, Saturday 1-5 pm, Sunday 1-5 pm and by appointment.
HIBBLETON GALLERY
223 W SANTA FE AVE
FULLERTON, CA 92832
www.hibbleton.comFor more information please contact: Landon Lewis at 714.906.0490 or landon@hibbleton.com
To Contact Gutbox directly: info@gutboxnyc.com ; www.gutboxnyc.com
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