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SUMMER 2005 HIGHLIGHTS | Follow links for more information
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JAMES BIDGOOD is participating in Exit Art’s exhibition Homomuseum in
New York City, exhibiting five photographs. Bidgood was also the honored
artist at Exit Art’s Spring benefit, Gayla! On May 18th, in conjunction
with the exhibition. www.exitart.org.
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RED DIVE presents Peripheral
City in
the financial district as part of Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s
River to River Festival in New York City. The walking performance tours
meet at Chase Plaza under the DuBuffet sculpture. Call 212-615-6797 for
more time, date, and reservation information. www.reddive.org.
June 23 and 30, July 7 and 14, August 11 and 18 |
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AMELIA RUDOLPH'S vertical dance company Project Bandaloop will
be performing on tour starting on June 23 at the Utah Arts Festival in
Salt Lake City, UT and traveling through Nevada, Montana, Indiana and
Oregon through September 17. For date and time information, visit the
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KARYN OLIVIER, currently participating in PS1’s Greater
New York 2005 exhibition in Queens, New York City, will have a solo show
at Women and Their Work Gallery in Austin, Texas. Olivier was also featured
in the group show Double Unconsciousness: Black Conceptual Art since
1970 at the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston, Texas, this spring.
www.ps1.org, www.womenandtheirwork.org, www.camh.org.
June 30 – July 30 |
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LIZ COHEN AND TED PURVES (visual artists), and Caveh Zahedi, Ellen
Bruno, Sam Green and Bill Daniel (film/video artists)
will be participating in
the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Triennial Festival of Regional Visual
Art, Performance, and Film/Video in San Francisco. www.ybca.org.
July 16 – November 6 |
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More Highlights . . .
May 3 – July 5
Jennifer and Kevin McCoy have a solo exhibition at 1000eventi Gallery, Milan,
Italy entitled Image is a Projection, where they are presenting five new
sculptures. They have also been included in the group show Identità e
nomadismo (Identity and Nomadism) at Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy,
on view through September 18.
http://www.mccoyspace.com
http://www.1000eventi.com
May 5 – June 25
Jeffrey Gibson has two new paintings in the group show Le Desert de Retz at
Massimo Audiello Gallery in New York City.
www.massimoaudiello.com
May 14 – October 30
Nick Cave will have several works in the group show Artwear: Fashion
and Anti-fashion,
at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, in San Francisco, CA.
http://www.jackshainman.com
http://www.thinker.org/legion/exhibitions/index.asp
May 17 – July 1
Sam Easterson’s video and photography is featured in a solo show at Daniel
Cooney Fine Art, Insects, and several new works will also be included in the
gallery’s Summer Salon, July 7 through August 12. Easterson’s work
is also on view at Mass MOCA’s exhibition Becoming Animal. See the Museum
website for more information.
http://www.anivegvideo.com
http://www.danielcooneyfineart.com
http://www.massmoca.org
May 22 – July 31
Liz Cohen and Kerry Skarbakka have work featured in the group show Boost
in the Shell at De Bond in Brugge, Belgium. The exhibition is held in conjunction
with the Cultuurcentrum’s Corpus Festival.
http://www.aeroplastics/net/BITS/index.html
http://www.boostintheshell.be
June 2 – July 9
Sabrina Raaf presents various electronic, kinetic, and photographic works in
an exhibition at Stux Gallery in New York City.
http://www.raaf.org
http://www.stuxgallery.com
June 3 – July 31
Barbara Hammer will have a DVD installation of Vital Signs and several prints
from Sanctus at Maya Stendhal Gallery in New York. In addition, June 11 – 18th
Hammer will be participating in the Flaherty International Film Seminar at
Claremont College in Southern California, as Master Filmmaker, and will screen
Resisting Paradise, her Creative Capital project.
http://www.mayastendhalgallery.com
June 4 – September 5
Sam Easterson’s video footage Dogs: Wolf, Myth, Hero & Friend continues
touring at the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, PA. The project recently
was exhibited at Mesa Southwest Museum in Arizona, and will continue on to
the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Ohio in October through January 2006.
http://www.anivegvideo.com
June 8 – June 22
Dread Scott is donating work to RAPSIDA (Rwandans and Americans in Partnership
Contre Le SIDA), for the group exhibition and Silent Auction benefiting AIDS
education in Rwanda. Held at Gallery 138 in New York City, the exhibition began
June 8 and the Silent Auction will be held on June 22. 100% of proceeds will
go to RAPSIDA’s programs.
http://www.gallery138.com
http://www.dreadscott.com
June 11 – August 28
Matthew Geller will be participating in the exhibition Meteorlogic
Phenomenae at Wave Hill in the Bronx, NY. Geller will present an outdoor installation,
Whether or not you love me.
http://www.wavehill.org
June 12 – October 1
Carrie Moyer’s work will be featured in a survey of contemporary abstract
painting, Around About Abstraction, at the Weatherspoon Museum in Greensboro,
NC. The exhibition is curated by Ron Platt. Moyer will also participate in
two other exhibitions: this summer at Galeria Marlborough in Madrid, Young
American Painters, and this fall, The Next Wave at Brooklyn Academy of Music.
http://weatherspoon.uncg.edu
http://www.galeriamarlborough.com
http://www.bam.org
June 12 – November 6
James Luna will be exhibiting at the Venice Biennale 05. He will be representing
the National Museum of the American Indian, which opened its doors this year
in Washington, D.C.
http://www.jamesluna.com
http://www.nmai.si.edu
June 15
Bill Daniel’s film Bozo Texino was screened at REDCAT in LA on June 15
as part of the Margaret Kilgallen retrospective. The film was screened at Deitch
Projects in New York City in conjunction with an exhibition of artist Barry
McGee’s work on May 28, and at the Ottawa Art Gallery in Ottowa, Canada.
Bozo Texino was also featured online through the Wexner Center in May.
http://www.billdaniel.net
http://www.deitch.com
http://www.redcat.org
http://www.wexarts.org
http://www.ottawaartgallery.ca
June 16 – 18
Pamela Z's music will be featured in an evening of dance. Jo Kreiter/Flyaway
Productions performs apparatus-based dance works to scores composed by Pamela
Z, including the premiere of Whose Seeds These Are at Zaccho Studio in San
Francisco.
http://www.pamelaz.com/upcoming.html
June 17
Miranda July’s latest film, Me And You And Everyone We Know opens at
the new IFC Film Center in New York City, and at selected theaters across the
US. At the 2005 Cannes Film Festival, the film won the prestigious Caméra
d’Or, the International Critics Week Grand Prize, the Regard Jeanne,
and The Very Young Critics Award. Other awards include the 2005 Sundance Special
Jury Prize for Originality of Vision and the 2005 Philadelphia Film Festival
Archie Award for Best First Time Director.
http://www.meandyoumovie.com
http://www.ifcfilms.com
June 17
Jem Cohen, Marina Zurkow, Edin Velez and Todd Downing will have their films
screened at the REEL NEW YORK X 10th Anniversary Film Series on New York’s
Channel Thirteen. Check the website for broadcast schedule.
http://www.thirteen.org/reelnewyork10/calendar.html
June 18 – July 21
SubRosa will be participating in 1-0-1 intersex in Berlin with a performance,
Yes Species, a collaboration with James Pei-Mun Tsang. The exhibition will
be accompanied by a program of events in June and July (films, workshops, readings,
lectures, performances). 1-0-1 intersex offers an open invitation to a debate
about gender borders and to further deliberations challenging the binary gender
grid.
http://www.101intersex.de
http://www.cyberfeminism.net
For other recent subRosa projects, visit http://www.canuseeusnow.refugia.net and http://www.refugia.net/celltrack/
June 19, 25 and July 24
Braden King’s music video for Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy (aka
Will Oldham) will be screened at the Los Angeles Film Festival Eclectic
Mix #2 in June, and the Rural Route Film Festival in NYC in July at Anthology Film
Archives. The video is for the song called Horses. For film times see the links
below.
http://www.lafilmfest.com/film_musicvideoshowcase.php
http://www.ruralroutefilms.com
June 21 and June 24
Leslie McCleave’s film Road, her first full-length feature, will have
its world premiere at the Los Angeles Film Festival. For film times see the
links below.
http://www.lafilmfest.com
http://www.ghostrobot.com
June 21 – June 23, June 29
Vijay Iyer holds CD release shows for his Vijay Iyer Quartet project at the
Jazz Standard in New York City on June 21 through 23, and at the Regattabar
in Boston on June 29.
http://www.vijay-iyer.com
June 24 – September 3
Mark Newport will have the first exhibition of his Creative Capital project
in a solo show, Super Heroics, at the Arizona State University Art Museum in
Tempe, Arizona. Included will also be a survey of work from the past four years.
http://asuartmuseum.asu.edu
http://www.lyonswiergallery.com
http://www.gregkucera.com
June 30
Diane Nerwen’s film The Great Yiddish Love will be screened at the Pioneer
Theater in New York City in a program called Girls on Film. The film was also
recently screened at the Arsenal Theater in Berlin on June 10 in connection
with a DVD release program for recent DAAD artists-in-residence.
http://www.twoboots.com/pioneer/
http://www.daad-berlin.de
July – August
Erika Blumenfeld will be having a solo show, Light Phenomena, at the Center
for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe. Check the Center for exact dates.
http://www.ccasantafe.org
July 18
Vijay Iyer’s collaborative trio FIELDWORK, will have its
second album debut, titled Simulated Progress. The Trio played several
shows in NYC and Europe in May in support of the new album.
http://www.fieldworkmusic.info
http://www.vijay-iyer.com
July 27 & 30
Meredith Monk will perform in concert with her Vocal Ensemble,
a special performance at the New Horizons Film Fesetival in Cieszyn, Poland, and at Festival
MIMI in Marseilles, France. Monk will also be holding workshops for her 40th Anniversary
Season, with a schedule to be found on her website.
http://www.meredithmonk.org
http://www.cieszyn2005.eranowehoryzonty.pl
July 30 – December 5
Paul Shambroom’s solo exhibition, Face to Face with the Bomb, opens at
the Atomic Testing Museum in Las Vegas. Shambroom will also have another solo
show at Rocket Gallery in London, featuring his Creative Capital project, Meetings,
September 8 – October 16 . He will participate in a group show at Mass
MoCA this fall as well.
http://www.paulshambroomart.com
August 11
Pamela Z performs an evening of works for voice, electronics, and video at
BMOCA (Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art) in Boulder, Colorado. Pamela Z will
also be performing with Vijay Iyer as part of the Cooler in the Shade series
at Lotus Art in New York City.
http://www.pamelaz.com/upcoming.html
http://www.vijay-iyer.com
In other news . . .
Maria Elena González will join the faculty as a Resident Artist at Skowhegan
School of Art this Summer in Skowhegan, Maine.
http://www.skowheganart.org
Caveh Zahedi recently premiered his Creative Capital funded project, I
Am A Sex Addict, at the Tribeca Film Festival, which was followed by a retrospective
of his films at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. This summer,
the film will be playing at the Sydney Film Festival, the Taormina Film Festival,
the Munich Film Festival, the
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, the Brisbane Film Festival, and the
Manila Film Festival. He will be spending the month of August at the MacDowell
Colony.
http://www.cavehzahedi.com
Jennifer Fox currently has a retrospective of her work on view at the Prince
Music Theater in Philadelphia, which includes screenings of Beirut: The
Last Home Movie and An American Love Story. In conjunction with the screenings Jennifer
will teach a Master Class for area University students on documentary filmmaking.
http://www.princemusictheater.org
Bruce Chao, Sam Green, and Lisa Kron were all recipients of this year’s
fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
http://www.gf.org
Bill Daniel’s Selective Service System Story, originally produced for
John Pierson’s Split Screen, won the Special Juror’s Prize at the
Ann Arbor Film Festival, and will be playing at Peacock Visual Arts in Aberdeen,
Scotland as well as the Tekfestival in Rome.
http://www.sunsetscagvenger.net
http://www.aafilmfest.org
James Fotopoulos will have several releases from Neshui Publishing this summer:
a three-DVD set of video collaborations with the band Grandpa’s Ghost,
a DVD of his film Christabel, and a book, The Lime Book, of drawings, text
and interview by critic Ed Halter.
http://www.jamesfotopoulos.com
Braden King was one of Dusted Magazine's selected guests who recently contributed
to its online weekly series of music-related lists.
http://www.dustedmagazine.com/features/365
William Pope.L has created the first of the College Art Association Journal’s
special artists projects: The Looking for Miss Black Factory Contest. Pope.L’s
The Black Factory will be touring this summer across New England and the Midwest,
from Maine, New York and Pennsylvania through Kansas and Missouri. The travel
calendar can be found on the project website.
http://www.theblackfactory.com
Vijay Iyer joined the faculty at the Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada, from
May 23 through 28, along with Don Byron, Dave Douglas, Mark Dresser, and others
for the International Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music.
http://www.banffcentre.ca
Maya Churi’s Forest Grove is featured on the Sundance Online Film Festival
(SOFF), through June and is the first public presentation of this work.
http://www.sundance.org
Elisabeth Subrin has just been selected by the Sundance Institute for an Annenberg
Feature Film Fellowship for her film, Up. The fellowship includes both a preproduction
grant and a living stipend. Up is being produced by Scott Macaulay (Raising
Victor Vargas). Rachel Griffiths (Six Feet Under, Hilary and Jackie) is attached
to play the lead.
This year’s recipients of the CalArts Alpert Award in the Arts include
three Creative Capital grantees: Jem Cohen (film), Harrell Fletcher (visual
arts), and Donna Uchizono (dance).
http://www.alpertawards.org
Matthew Geller was awarded an Artists Fellowship in Sculpture from the New
York Foundation for the Arts.
Dread Scott was awarded an Artists Fellowship in Performance Art/Multidisciplinary
Work from the New York Foundation for the Arts.
Jake Mahaffy’s script for Free in Deed was accepted to participate in
the Sundance Filmmaker’s Lab this summer workshop program.
http://www.handcrankedfilm.com
Elena del Rivero has been awarded a residency at the Bellagio Study and Conference
Center through the Rockefeller Foundation, for her Creative Capital project
[Swi:t] Home: A CHANT.
http://bellagio.haifa.ac.il
Vicky Funari received a grant from the Sundance Documentary Fund to complete
her Creative Capital project, Maquilapolis, and recently previewed a rough
cut at Mass MoCA.
http://www.maquilapolis.com
Christine Tarkowski was the recipient of the 2005 Recipient of the Richard
H. Driehaus Foundation Individual Artist Award, as well as a commission to
create a permanent sculpture for the Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park, Governor's
State University, IL.
Kerry Skarbakka’s photography is featured on the cover of Aperture Magazine,
summer edition, with several images from the series and an essay by Wayne Koestenbaum
inside.
http://www.skarbakka.com
http://www.aperture.org
In case you missed it. . .
The Auction to Benefit CAE (Steve Kurtz’s Critical Art Ensemble) Defense
Fund was an overwhelming success. The April 17th event raised $167,000, and
was held at the Paula Cooper Gallery in New York City. More than 50 artists
donated works for the cause, including fellow Creative Capital grantees William
Pope.L, Zoe Leonard, and Sharon Lockhart.
http://www.artnet.com/gallery/264/paula-cooper-gallery.html
http://www.critical-art.net
http://www.caedefensefund.org
Pablo Helguera’s solo exhibition of sculptures, objects, and installations,
Swan Song, was presented at Julia Friedman Gallery in New York City. The exhibition
included an opening performance April 22nd of the artist’s compositions
performed by a full orchestra.
http://www.juliafriedman.com
Janie Geiser presented a slate of short experimental films, including Spiral
Vessel (2000), Immer Zu (1997) and Vapor Drama (2004), for the Jack Skirball
Screening Series at REDCAT in Los Angeles.
Lisa Kron co-hosted Live Onstage!, a party honoring theater producer David
Binder and Performance Space 122’s 25th season at Webster Hall in NYC
on May 2. Richard Maxwell was a featured performer.
Roddy Bogawa’s 2004 film I Was Born, But… was screened May 4 at
the Visual Communications Filmfest, Los Angeles’ Asian Pacific Film Festival,
held at REDCAT.
Patrick Clancy’s photography was featured in a solo exhibition entitled
Equilibrium and Flow at Dolphin Gallery in Kansas City, Missouri, from May
6 through the 27.
Barbara Hammer’s History Lesson was screened in Le Petit Versailles Garden’s
Season 2005, presented by Allied Productions, on May 7. Le Petit Versailles
is a community green thumb garden in New York City’s Lower East Side.
http://www.barbarahammerfilms.com
Marie Sester’s BE[AM] prototype preview was hosted by the Art Center
College of Design Hillside Campus, in Pasadena, CA on May 8.
www.sester.net/projects/beam/beam.html
Jeffrey Gibson’s paintings were included in Out of Bounds, a group show
at the Glyndor Gallery at Wave Hill in the Bronx. The exhibition ran from March
5 through May 30, and was reviewed in the NY Times Westchester Section.
Rafael Sanchez had several new paintings included in the group exhibition This
Hard, Gem-like Flame at Angstrom Gallery in Dallas from April to May.
www.angstromgallery.com
Daniel Mihalyo and Annie Han received two grants: the Seattle Monorail Project
Temporary Installation Grant in April, and the 4Culture Special Projects Grant
for Retail Space installation in May. Their work is also published/reviewed
in the Suyama Space Catalogue Linear Plenum: Lead Pencil Studio Art and Architecture
Journal “Archiobjects: Architects as Sculptors” and Architectural
Record “Emerging Architect: Lead Pencil Studio.”
http://www.leadpencilstudio.com
Paul Shambroom was a participant in Lifting the Shadow: Towards a
Nuclear Weapons-Free World on May 2nd at the CUNY Graduate Center in Manhattan, New York City. Shambroom
was a panelist on Writers and Artists on Life and Creativity in the Nuclear
Age with Eve Ensler, Amy Goodman, and Kurt Vonnegut.
http://www.paulshambroomart.com
Diane Nerwen’s film The Thief of Baghdad screened at Gallery NOASS in
Riga, Latvia on May 13 and 14, and at Occularis at Galapagos Art and Performance
Space in Brooklyn, New York City, for the Madcat Film Festival.
http://www.occularis.net
Jane Comfort and Company held two free performances in the 2005 River to River
Festival’s Art on the Beach Revisited, at Battery Park’s North
Meadow in New York City on June 2nd and 3rd.
http://www.rivertorivernyc.com
Ina Archer is a member of New York Women in Film, Women’s Film Preservation
Fund, and worked on the programming and production of the WWFPF tour, which
premiered at New York City’s Museum of Modern Art on June 3.
Meredith Monk has been holding various events in conjunction with her Meredith
Monk 40th Anniversary Season. Events have included a screening and discussion
Ellis Island at Museum of Modern Art on June 3 at New York City’s MoMA
and an exhibition presented by Dance Heritage Coalition, America’s Irreplaceable
Dance Treasures: the First 100 on June 6 at the New York Public Library for
the Performing Arts.
http://www.meredithmonk.org
http://www.moma.org
http://www.danceheritage.org
Headlong Dance Theater (Andrew Simonet, David Brick and Amy Smith) debuted
several new dances in this MiXeD TaPe FoR a bAd YeaR spring concert at the
NEW Festival at the Art Bank in Philadelphia on June 8 through the 11. The
program featured the premiers of Hippie Elegy, a comic, summer-of-love-inspired
duet, and Yonder, a haunting suite set to traditional music from the American
South.
http://www.newfestival.net
http://www.headlong.org
Usama Alshaibi won the Tribeca Film Festival’s All Access Creative Promise
Award for his film Nice Bombs. The Film took the award for documentary selection
prize.
http://www.dancehabibi.com
Upcoming . . .
September 17 – November 20
James Fotopoulos’s commission for the Mechelen “Contour” Biennial
of Video Art in Mechelen, Belgium, will be on exhibition. The Mirror Mask is
an installation comprised of a nine-channel video, 10 graphite drawings, and
three digital prints, and is complimented by a catalog and print editions.
http://www.mechelen2005.be/en/programma_contour.html
http://www.jamesfotopoulos.com
October 2005
Suzanne Lacy with the Beneath Land and Water Team will be represented in Groundworks:
Environmental Collaboration in Contemporary Art exhibition at the Regina Gouger
Miller Gallery, curated by Grant Kester and sponsored by the Studio for Creative
Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
http://www.suzannelacy.com
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