Roscommon Art Centre is proud to present “Fading not Ending” by Maggie Madden

The exhibition will run from July 9th through August 5th, 2010

Maggie Madden has a preference for time-consuming and intricate processes creating works that reflect on the relationships between urban and rural landscapes. The objects born of these processes are crafted out of discarded and humble materials and often have a fragility that teeters on the brink of collapse. These detailed constructions have the potential for endless expansion, to grow outward from densely ordered space and continue boundlessly.  In the works there are open ended references to our networked world, communication and transport systems, infrastructures of contemporary life in modern cities.  

A wide range of accumulated materials and fragments are transformed through simple yet careful tasks of cutting and gluing.  Scale plays an important role in the work in trying to capture vastness in the delicately minute.  A Lilliputian sense of scale sometimes brings a playful nature to the work.
 
Originally from Connemara, (b.1976) Maggie now lives and works in Dublin.  She studied Fine Art at Limerick School of Art and Design and received an MFA from NCAD in 2006.  Recent exhibitions include Light and Dark, Cake Contemporary Arts, 2010, Preponderance of the Small, Off Site Gallery 3 project, Douglas Hyde Gallery, 2009, Make, Shift and Bend, CGP London.  In 2008 she participated in Triangle Arts International Workshop, New York.  Fading not Ending is her first solo exhibition.

www.roscommonartscentre.ie 

Francine Tint is proud to announce her participation in the Hampton’s Art Fair Friday July 9th – Sunday July 11th Represented by Tria Gallery, The Suchman-Bart-Mentheny Gallery Booth 405.

ArtHamptons returns as one of the highlights of the Hamptons summer season. Now in its 3rd successful year, ArtHamptons has established itself as one of the top new art fairs in America. Expect to see a mesmerizing display of post-war and contemporary art, presented by a renowned lineup of international galleries. It’s all assembled in a museum-like setting. There’s important art pieces for every budget and level of art collector. It’s all here for you, from paintings, works on paper and printed editions to photography, art glass, ceramics and sculpture.

www.francinetint.com

www.arthamptons.com

What am I doing here? Ke dirang ha?
An exhibition of monoprints will run from July 6 through July 18, 2010

‘What am I Doing Here? Ke Dirang Ha?’ is an exhibition of paintings and monoprints by artist in Botswana, Ann Gollifer exploring the condition of being an exotic in the exotic. Ann’s work is inspired by issues of the human condition, history and identity, both personal and collective.

Several of the pieces include vignetted photographic self portraits of the artist wearing high heels, carefully holding personal objects and memorabilia such as a wine glass, cigarette, her grandmother’s hand mirror or a small ornamental windmill.

This concept of working with the female body was inspired by a second hand book of photographic nudes from the 1950s. These nudes are positioned under studio lights and shot as pin ups in random domestic poses. Thus the mundane is made strange by the photographer’s gaze. The distance from the ordinary or in this case the nudity is reminiscent of early social anthropological documentary photography.

Overprinted are images that represent Botswana for Ann – a line of village dogs, a Brahmin bull, a women collecting firweood or the statues of the three founding chiefs of Botswana; Khama, Sebele and Bathoen.

The resulting work addresses the relationships or lack of relationships we have with the world around us. As Ann puts it, ‘I am seen but not seen. I see but do not see’. Although the references are personal, the sense of wonder and feeling of displacement are universal.

“Ann Gollifer is an artist who, through her personal search, has cut a path
of innovation, technical and aesthetic excellence and ambitiousness which
has made many of us explore our own limitations with more skepticism.
Unsurprisingly, we are again subjected to a sensuous treat of the delicate
and powerful.” – STEVE JOBSON, EXHIBITION JUDGE, 2009 ARTISTS IN BOTSWANA EXHIBITION NATIONAL MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY, GABORONE

Ann Mary Gollifer is a permanent resident of Botswana since 1985 living and working in Gaborone. She was born in British Guiana, (Guyana), of an English father and an Amerindian mother. A member of the Thapong Visual Art centre, she was part of the executive committee responsible for the building of the centre. She has also helped run design, drawing and painting workshops for artists, fundraised for workshops and residencies and organized exhibitions and juried shows and awards.

www.anngollifer.com

Kai Schiemenz will be one of the many artists participating in “THE KNOT”.

THE KNOT is mobile unit for artistic production and presentation in Berlin, Warsaw and Bucharest. The Knot is a temporary, mobile structure which is travelling to Berlin, Warsaw and Bucharest in the year of 2010, where it will constitute a micro-model for what could be a better city of the present.

The Knot is built to incorporate the different functions it has: production/manufacture workshop, classroom, kitchen, café, laboratory, stage, bedroom, disco, exhibition space, and archive. Throughout the weeks when it lands to the three cities, a wide array of activities, events and occurrences will be hosted by and within The Knot, inviting publics to try out various ways of interacting with each other and with the city, of participating in the creation of their own subjectivities. Working with artists, anthropologists, architects, poets or carpenters, the team of curators proposes a set of formats of approach rather than a prescribed content to be consumed.

The Knot is a project by the Temporary Curators Collective (Markus Bader, Oliver Baurhenn, Jakub Szreder, Raluca Voinea) in cooperation with Goethe-Institut Warsaw, Polnisches Institut Berlin, Raumlabor Berlin and E-cart.ro. The Knot is supported by EU Culture 2007-2013 Programme, Hauptstadtkulturfonds Berlin, Goethe Institut, Polnisches Institut.

Dana Levy, Kai Schiemenz and Iris Fluegel will be participating in the nine-gallery exhibition, inspired by the Richard Price’s novel “Lush Life”.
 
LUSH LIFE
INVISIBLE-EXPORTS
Chapter 3. First Bird (A Few Butterflies)
June 25 – July 31, 2010
Nicholas Di Genova, Christoph Draeger, Jeffrey Gibson,
Karen Heagle, Ezra Johnson, Wes Lang, Dana Levy,
Gina Magid, Jon Rappleye and Xaviera Simmons
 
Lehmann Maupin 201 Chrystie Street

Chapter Four: Let It Die

July 8 – August 13
Nina Lola Bachhuber
, Robert Beck
, Jessica Dickinson, 
Tommy Hartung, 
Rashid Johnson, 
Jose Lerma, 
Dani Leventhal
, Amy Longenecker-Brown
, Robert Melee
Jackie Saccoccio
, Kai Schiemenz / Iris Fluegel, 
Claudia Weber
Matthew Weinstein

Reception: Thursday, July 8: 6-9pm

LUSH LIFE is an exhibition curated by Franklin Evans and Omar Lopez-Chahoud which takes place at nine Lower East Side (LES) galleries: Collette Blanchard Gallery, Eleven Rivington, INVISIBLE-EXPORTS, Lehmann Maupin, On Stellar Rays, Salon 94, Scaramouche, Sue Scott Gallery, and Y Gallery. LUSH LIFE adopts Richard Price’s 2008 novel to title and organize the exhibition.  The novel is set in the contemporary LES and through a murder investigation exposes the dynamically changing community of the neighborhood, which despite its evolution retains a ghostly and vital link to its layered past. The deep and varied history of the LES now includes the LES galleries as new community members, and Price’s novel provides a potent vehicle for the consideration of community as voices compete for, ignore, and occasionally share the same physical and conceptual space.

The galleries will host concurrent exhibitions with each exhibition reflecting the idea of one of the nine chapters in the book. The curators selected one artist from each gallery to participate in the exhibition and solicited from each of them one additional artist recommendation of an artist not from one of the nine participating galleries (nine total recommendations). The curators then supplemented this base group of eighteen artists to complete nine exhibitions, ranging in size from three to twelve artists. LUSH LIFE will be the present for what will become a living ghost to the future form into which the LES will inevitably morph.

The exhibition schedule varies slightly at each gallery with the earliest installation being June 17 and the latest closing being August 13.  There will be a collective opening of all participating galleries on Thursday, July 8th from 6 – 9 pm.

INVISIBLE-EXPORTS is a gallery dedicated to superior conceptual work. IE is located in the Lower East Side, at 14A Orchard Street, just north of Canal. NOTE: The gallery will be closed on July 3-4. July hours are Wednesday through Saturday, 12pm – 6pm, and by appointment. For the month of August, we are by appointment only.

invisible-exports.com/exhibitions/19_lushlife/lushlife.html

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Red Face 2007 photo mosaic 40”X32”

‘Tremors’

Exhibition runs from June 23 through July 18, 2010

ARTIST’S STATEMENT
I believe that everything continuously changes, either being generated or destroyed. Presence is just a state of being and the reality of an object has ambiguity in this shifting. In my work, I intend to reflect upon the astatic character of existence in the flow of time as well as the opposite sides of nature – the negative and positive, the construction and destruction, the presence and absence, and life and death.

In my recent work, the micro-collage or paper mosaic, I attempt to capture the tremor of unstable presence. To accomplish this work, I take pictures of parts of the body or face, change the color and saturation of those images by Photoshop and print them out on paper. Then, I tear the pictures and paste them piece-by-piece. Through this process of breaking down photo images and recomposing them, figures have thousands of tiny particles and textures that make the images look blurry and tremulous.

A.I.R. Gallery
111 Front street, #228, Brooklyn, NY 11201
Gallery Hours: Wed-Sun, 11am-6pm

www.airgallery.org

www.keunyoungpark.com

Outlet/Independent Art Space is proud to present Hamra Abbas ‘Cityscapes’.

The exhibtion will run from June 23 through July 17, 2010.

Cityscapes – seemingly an ordinary collection of touristy photographs of Istanbul, is made truly ordinary by removing one element that upon first glance generously gives away the city’s character and history. Each shot taken at the crack of dawn is embedded in a narrative that invites the audience to imagine waking up one morning to find the city changed overnight, literally. 

The work has been provoked by the recent minaret controversy in Europe, specifically Switzerland, where the city has unanimously called for a ban. Since a long time the minarets have been seen as symbols of political Islam in the Western imagination. In the Muslim world, minarets are part of the wider socio-cultural and aesthetic framework, standing above the winding alleys below, as they are, silent spectators to the bustling market places around, listening from the heights the daily conversations of the multitudes scattered on the ground. One may imagine that the minarets of Istanbul are its memory organs that allow the city to recognize itself at each sunrise.

www.hamraabbas.com

"Papillion", 50" x 32" x 10", Welded steel and paint

The Delaware Museum of Natural History is proud to present, ‘Steel Currents’, by Stan Smokler.

The exhibition will run from June 4 through July 18, 2010.

“Stan Smokler’s steel sculptures recall the visual wit and cunning assemblages of Picasso and Gonzalez, as well as the American voices of David Smith and Richard Stankiewicz. Out of these sources Stan has developed a unique palette, applying industrial cast-offs, “found objects” to create scuptures which deliberately deny their past history in order to serve a new formal purpose.”

Sculptor Stan Smokler exhibits metal works inspired by the sea are welded steel sculptures represent abstractions of a horseshoe crab, lobster, seaweed, nautilus and other marine life.

“Displaying these works within a museum of natural history emphasizes the reference to the natural world through form and texture,” Executive Director Halsey Spruance said. “This exhibition shows how art can be used to enrich and inspire our understanding of the natural world.”

Each piece is accompanied by the artist’s own interpretations and those of Elizabeth Shea, Ph.D., the Delaware Museum of Natural History’s Curator of Mollusks and specialist in the biodiversity of deep-sea cephalopods. Additional commentary is provided by Stephen Bruni, former Executive Director of the Delaware Art Museum.

Smokler maintains studios in New York City and Kennett Square, Penn., and teaches at the Delaware College of Art and Design while exhibiting regularly. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Pittsburgh and his Master of Fine Arts in sculpture from the Pratt Institute.

Prior exhibitions of Smokler’s work include “Spare Parts,” an exhibit at the Freedman Gallery at the Albright College Center for the Arts in Reading, Penn., and “Celestial Mapmaker” at the Kim Foster Gallery in New York, N.Y. Notable collections that include his work are the Dansko Shoe Company in Jennersville, Penn., and the Delaware Center for Horticulture in Wilmington, Del.

The Delaware Museum of Natural History
4840 Kennet Pike, Wilmington, DE 19807
Mon-Sat 9:30am – 4:30pm; Sun Noon-4:30pm
www.delmnh.org/special_exhibits_steelcurrents.php.php

www.stansmokler.com

Thupelo Cape Town – INTERVENTIONS, A site specific and live art workshop

INTERVENTIONS will be held between June 10 through June 26, 2010.

Since it’s inception Triangle New York aimed to promote dialogue, experimentation, and critical discussion among practicing contemporary visual artists at various stages of their careers.

That same idea is governing the Thupelo workshops which are also not only a space for artists to make art; they are also a space for the exchange of ideas, experiences, techniques and disciplines, thereby creating the conditions for artists to experiment and find new or different forms of expression. In essence, it is the interaction between artists from diverse cultural, national and social backgrounds that provides the workshops with a creative energy that is more than likely to influence the work of participating artists. ‘Thupelo’ means ‘to teach by example’.

The Thupelo workshops are styled on the Triangle Arts Trust’s artists workshops, the first of which was held in New York in 1982. Since then, workshops based on the Triangle prototype have taken place on a regular basis in thirty-seven countries, with nearly 3000 artists participating in events.

All workshops are organized and convened by local artists and art administrators in the countries in which they are held. They are run for an uninterrupted period of ten days to two weeks and are attended by between twenty and twenty-five artists. In the case of international workshops, half the number of participants are from the host country.

A feature of each workshop is the Workshop Open Day, which provides a unique opportunity for the public to interact with the artists and to view the wide variety of vibrant and highly original artworks and works in progress created during the workshop.

The first Thupelo workshop held in Africa took place in 1985 in Johannesburg. At the end of the 1980s, Thupelo moved to Cape Town, where it held its first artists workshop in 1990. National and regional workshops are held annually – depending on funding – and are attended by artists from South Africa, Africa and abroad.

The first Thupelo International Artists Workshop in Cape Town was held in 1995. Subsequent workshops took place in 1996, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2004. Thus far, over 200 artists from different parts of the world have participated in these workshops. Workshops have been held in Cape Town, on Robben Island, and at the Goedgedacht Centre near Malmesbury.

Following the success of the Thupelo workshops, Thupelo Cape Town and the Triangle Arts Trust established Greatmore Studios, a facility that provides long-term studio space for local artists and three-month residencies for visiting artists from elsewhere in South Africa, Africa and abroad. It also offers exhibition space for resident artists and runs outreach programs.

Greatmore Studios is the third in a series of residency studios established with the support of the Triangle Arts Trust in different parts of the world. Similar initiatives include the Bag Factory in South Africa, Thapong in Botswana, Kuona Trust in Kenya, Gasworks in the United Kingdom, Caribbean Contemporary Arts in Trinidad and Tobago and Khoj in India.

List of Artists Participating in Workshop:
Dhepe, Akanksha – Mumbai, India
Dawkins, Femi – Holland
Radanovic, Maja – Serbia
Tehrani, Mohammad – Tehran-Iran
TAGOE-TURKS, Patrick- GHANA
Kayumba, Philippe – South Africa
Nakazibwe, Venny Mary – Uganda
Edward, Veryan – Botswana
Bult, Lea – USA
Castro, Kissiedu
Benn, Heidi – South Africa
Adams, Igshaan – South Africa
Parsons, Jenny – South Africa
Raynham, Julia – South Africa
Davis, Lionel – South Africa
Van Gass, Maria – South Africa
Gibson, Jade – South Africa
Masters, Roscoe – South Africa
Mzayiya, Dathini – South Africa
Trapper, Jill – South Africa
Chaudhuri, Bivas – USA (2004 Triangle New York Alumni)
Kamaldien, Yazeed – South Africa

“So Warmly", 036 70” x 50” Acrylic & gel medium on canvas

Roy Lerner is pleased to announce that he was represented at the San Francisco Fine Art Fair by Gallery Sam. The art fair opened on May 20th, and remained open for viewing until May 23rd.

” Avid collectors, art enthusiasts, galleries and the art press eagerly await the long overdue arrival of the San Francisco Fine Art Fair. Over $300 million in art representing 500 artists from 70+ worldwide renowned galleries will be available for viewing and purchase. Attendees can select from the finest collection of 6,000 significant artworks from the 20th and 21st century – focusing on 1950’s to present. Carefully vetted, the fair offers a spectacular selection of paintings, works on paper, drawings, printed editions, photography, and sculpture (both indoors and outdoors.) From the masters to important contemporary offerings, artworks range in price that fit into every collector’s budget.”

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