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WINTER 2006 HIGHLIGHTS of Grantee Events | Follow links for
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CRITICAL ART ENSEMBLE, JOE GIBBONS, and LEWIS KLAHR have
been selected for inclusion in the 2006 Whitney Biennial: Day
for Night at the Whitney
Museum of American Art in New York City, which takes place March
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PAUL SHAMBROOM will debut his new series of photographs, Security,
in a solo show at Julie
Saul Gallery in New York City, March 30th–May 6th. For
this gallery exhibition Shambroom examines issues of fear, safety,
and liberty in post 9/11 America with images of training facilities,
equipment, and personnel involved with the massive government effort
to prepare for and respond to terrorist attacks within the country. |
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MARIA ELENA GONZÁLEZ is the subject of two solo
shows featuring new works inspired by her Rome Prize fellowship
at the American Academy in Rome: Supine Tendency at The
Project (January 11 – February 17), and Internal DupliCity at Knoedler & Company
Gallery (January 12 – March 4), both in New York City. Internal
DupliCity will be accompanied by a catalogue with an essay
by Eleanor Heartney.
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CAROLINE LATHAN-STIEFEL presents the latest installation
of her Creative Capital project Whorl, at Montreal's Galerie
Articule. On view until February 19th, the installation consists
of multiple connected forms made of fabric, pipe cleaners, yarn,
pins, thread, and wire, the immersive installation covers the ceiling,
walls, and part of the floor of the gallery room. Whorl was
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GEORGE LEGRADY presents work from three recent projects
in Algorithmic Visualizations at Telic
Arts Exchange in Los Angeles: Algorithmic Visualizations (2002–present), Making
Visible the Invisible (2005), and Kinetic Flow (2006).
The pieces on display are related to his recent commissions for the
Los Angeles MetroRail and Rem Koolhaas's Seattle Public Library.
The exhibition is on view through February 25th. |
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More Highlights . . .
Through February 5
Liz Cohen is featured in a solo show at Färgfabriken in Stockholm,
Sweden, presenting photographs, performance and a site-specific installation
and automotive
assembly of Bodywork, her Creative Capital project.
http://www.fargfabriken.se
Through February 5: ROTTERDAM FILM FESTIVAL
Vicky Funari and Sergio de la Torre premiere their Creative Capital project
film, Maquilapolis, at the Rotterdam Film Festival. The documentary
is about (and by) workers in Tijuana, Mexico’s assembly factories.
http://www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com
http://www.maquilapolis.com
Jake Mahaffy (Motion Studies #3: Gravity), Miranda July (Me
and You and Everyone We Know), Sam Green (lot 63, grave c), Bill
Morrison (Outerborough), Brent
Green (Hadacol Christmas), Kevin Everson (Cinnamon and
Blind Huber), Phil
Solomon (The Exquisite Hour), Joe Gibbons (Room 1040
San Francisco), and Bill
Daniel (Who is Bozo Texino?) have also been included in the 2006 Rotterdam Film Festival.
http://www.handcrankedfilms.com
http://www.meandyoumovie.com
http://www.nervousfilms.com
http://www.sunsetscavenger.net
http://www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com
Through February 5
Meredith Monk’s The Impermanence Project, a multimedia project, is premiering
at Arizona State University.
http://www.meredithmonk.org
Through February 11
Kerry Skarbakka and Jason Salavon are exhibiting in the group show Taking
Inventory: Transformation through Compilation at Mark Moore Gallery in
Los Angeles. Skarbakka is including several works from his Creative Capital
project
The Struggle to Right Oneself series. Curated by David Hilliard,
the timed exhibit will coincide with the L.A. Photo Expo.
http://www.markmooregallery.com
http://www.skarbakka.com
http://www.salavon.com
Through February 12
Sharon Lockhart’s Creative Capital film, Pine Flat, is the
subject of a solo exhibition at Bilbao’s Sala Rekalde, in Spain. The
four-part installation consists of a screening of the film and three rooms
featuring photographic
works including Pine Flat Portrait Studio, a collection of portraits, landscapes
and a sound work.
http://www.salarekalde.net
Through February 17
Jeffrey Gibson will show new paintings as part of the group show, Brooklyn,
at the Westport Arts Center in Connecticut. The exhibition features new work
by contemporary artists living and working in the borough. There will be a
gallery tour and discussion with curator Amy Simon and exhibiting artists on
February 5 at 3pm.
http://www.westportartscenter.org
http://www.jeffreygibson.net
Through February 19
Caroline Lathan-Stiefel presents the latest installation of her Creative
Capital project, Whorl, at Montréal’s Galerie Articule.
Consisting of multiple, connected forms made of fabric, pipe cleaners,
yarn, pins, thread, and wire, the immersive installation covers the ceiling,
walls, and part of the floor of the gallery room. Whorl was last
exhibited at The Contemporary in Atlanta, Georgia.
http://www.articule.org
Through February 25
Gaye Chan is participating in Art and Activism, an exhibition at YYZ ARTISTS'
OUTLET, Toronto, organized by Kym Pruesse.
http://www.yyzartistsoutlet.org
Through February 25
George Legrady presents work from three recent projects in Algorithmic
Visualizations at Telic Arts Exchange in Los Angeles: Algorithmic Visualizations (2002 – present) Making Visible the Invisible (2005), and Kinetic Flow (2006).
The pieces on display are related to his recent commissions for the Los Angeles
MetroRail
and Rem Koolhaas’s Seattle Public Library.
http://www.telic.info
http://www.georgelegrady.com
Through February 26
Peggy Diggs is included in an exhibition called Nothing to Fear at The Arts
Center of the Capital Region, Troy, NY. The show will explore how fear, as
a powerful and visceral emotion, can be provoked by the mere suggestion of
something threatening.
http://www.artscenteronline.org
Through February 26
Mary Lucier's video projection, Arabesque, is on view at Nashville,
Tennessee’s
Cheekwood Museum of Art’s Installation Gallery in a show called Video
Spirit, Myths, Meditations, and the Moving Image.
http://www.cheekwood.org/art.html/installation
Through March 3
Conrad Bakker is participating in the group exhibition In the Eye of
the Beholder at the Elaine I. Jacobs Gallery at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan.
http://www.art.wayne.edu/jacob_gallery.php
http://www.untitledprojects.com
Through March 4
Roddy Bogawa has two sculptures on view at Plan-Eat Thai restaurant in Williamsburg,
Brooklyn: And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead and I Love Myself
More Than Anyone Else in the Entire Universe. A collaborative film piece with sculptor
Michael Joo is also on view at the Bohen Foundation in New York City.
Through March 4
Maria Elena González is the subject of two solo shows featuring new
works inspired by her Rome Prize fellowship at the American Academy in Rome:
Supine Tendency at The Project (January 11 – February 17), and Internal
DupliCity at Knoedler & Co. Gallery (January 12 – March 4), both
in New York City. Internal DupliCity will be accompanied by a catalogue with
an essay by Eleanor Heartney.
http://www.elproyecto.com
http://www.knoedlergallery.com
Through March 10
Dread Scott is showing work in the show Potentially Harmful: The Art
of American Censorship at Georgia State University in Atlanta. The exhibition examines
the role of provocative art in fostering and defining a distinct American culture.
Through two exhibitions, presentations by spoken-word and performance artists,
artists' talks, panel discussions, film screenings and legal seminars, this
project reflects on the environment that nurtures challenging art and the role
of artistic controversy in our society.
http://www2.gsu.edu/~wwwart/gallery/
Through March 12
Xenobia Bailey's Sistah Paradise Tent is installed on the 5th floor of the
Brooklyn Museum in New York, where she will be crocheting a carpet for the
tent in the museum during part of the installation. The installation has been
extended from January.
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/press
Through March 12
Karyn Olivier and Nick Cave are showing work in the group show, Frequency,
at The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York. The show features artwork by thirty
emerging black artists living and working in the United States. Organized by
Thelma Golden and Christine Y. Kim, the exhibition is accompanied by a full-color
catalogue.
http://www.studiomuseum.org
Through March 18
Jason Salavon is participating in Swarm, a group exhibition at the Fabric Workshop
and Museum in Philadelphia. The exhibition, accompanied by a catalogue, connects
the social life of bees, birds, crowds, and cities to contemporary art and
design.
http://www.fabricworkshopandmuseum.org
http://www.salavon.com
Through March 19
Liz Cohen’s work is included in Joint Venture: Selections from
the Dr. Barry S. Ramer Collection and Other Photographs, a group show at
Richard L. Nelson Gallery & Pence Gallery in Davis, California.
http://nelsongallery.ucdavis.edu/
Through April 9
Betty Beaumont's recent work, Camouflaged Cells, Azusa, CA (2004) is featured
in the group exhibition I Love the 'Burbs at the Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah,
NY. This exhibition of contemporary art investigates life in the American suburbs.
http://www.katonahmuseum.org
Through April 15
James Duesing’s work is featured in Oral Fixations, a seven-hour, single
channel computer animated installation produced by a team of artists and computer
scientists including Duesing, Jessica Hodgins, Mo Mahler, Bum Lee, Sang Il
Park and David Tinapple. The installation is presented at the Beecher Center
for Art and Technology at the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown,
OH. This project premiered in Los Angeles in the summer of 2005 at SIGGRAPH.
http://artscool.cfa.cmu.edu/~duesing/html/oral.html
Through April 22
Pablo Helguera is in the group exhibition Dark Places at the Santa Monica Museum
of Art in California. Dark Places explores interconnections between memory
and social space. A full-color catalogue will be published with the show.
http://www.smmoma.org
Through April 23
Marie Sester is featured in Lichtkunst aus Kunstlicht (Light from Artificial
Light) at the ZKM | Museum for Contemporary Art in Karlsruhe, Germany.
The exhibition is accompanied by an illustrated catalogue and the museum has
also
acquired and recently installed Sester’s Creative Capital piece, ACCESS
for the permanent collection.
http://on1.zkm.de/zkm/e/
Through May 7
John F. Simon, Jr. is represented in All Digital, a survey of digital art by
The Museum of Contemporary Art in Cleveland. The show presents seven software
artworks including the premiere of Fountain as a dual projection.
http://www.mocacleveland.org
February 1 – 28
Mark Newport's work will be featured in a solo exhibition entitled Super
Heroics,
at the San Diego State University Art Gallery. The exhibition was previously
shown at Arizona State University Art Museum in Tempe this past Fall.
http://art.sdsu.edu/
February 2
Conrad Bakker will take part in a panel discussion, Post Post-Studio:
Reconsidering Sites of Artistic Production and Intervention, at 5pm at the Mary and Leigh
Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. Bakker, along
with fellow artists Amy Adler, Michelle Grabner, Gareth James, and Dave McKenzie
and Northwestern art theory and practice professor Lane Relyea will discuss
the assumptions, implications, and future of post-studio, a wide range of contemporary
art practices involving the abandonment of traditional media and the production
of artworks in close collaboration with art institutions.
http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/
http://www.untitledprojects.com
February 4
Bill Morrison and composer Michael Gordon will present an evening-length program
at Merkin Concert Hall, 129 West 67th Street, New York City, featuring Morrison's
silent film paired with Gordon's symphonies.
http://www.kaufman-center.org
February 9 – 13
George Legrady will be showing his Creative Capital project Sensing
Speaking Space (motion sensing interactive artwork) and print media of
algorithmic works at this year’s ARCO Contemporary Art Fair in Madrid,
Spain.
http://www.arco.ifema.es/
http://www.georgelgrady.com
February 10, 11
Donna Uchizono’s dance company La Dona Dance is presenting their piece
Approaching Green at Diverseworks in Houston, TX.
http://www.diverseworks.org
February 12
James Luna is performing at the Wharton Center for Performing Arts at Michigan
State University in East Lansing, Michigan. The performance is part of the
MSU Fringe Festival.
http://www.whartoncenter.com
February 16 – 22
Jane Comfort and Company will be performing their dance piece Fleeting
Thought on tour at SUNY Brockport, New York on February 16 and 17, and
at Hobart & William
Smith Colleges, Geneva, New York on February 22.
http://www.janecomfortandcompany.org
February 20
Barbara Hammer’s Lover Other, a new hybrid documentary about the artist
Claude Cahun, has been invited to the documentary competition section of Panorama,
at the Berlin International Film Festival. The film will also be competing
in the documentary category at the Miami International Film Festival in March.
http://www.berlinale.de
http://www.barbarahammerfilms.com
http://www.miamifilmfestival.com
February 21 – 25
Bill T. Jones / Arnie Zane Dane Company is showing a new work at the Skirball
Center for the Arts in New York, that will be an evening-length multimedia,
dance-theater work, told through movement, song, spoken text, film, and original
music that explores our perplexing modern times in war and peace.
http://www.skirballcenter.org
March 1 – 8
Natalia Almada’s film Al Otro Lado will begin its theatrical release
at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, through the Cinema Trópical film
screening series. Almada will be present for a Q&A session the night
of the opening. The Cinema Trópical Series will travel through New York
to Brooklyn and Ithaca to Miami, Houston, Columbus, and Tucson.
http://www.cinematropical.com
http://www.moma.org
http://www.altamurafilms.com
March 2 – May 28
Critical Art Ensemble, Joe Gibbons, and Lewis Klahr have been selected for
inclusion in the 2006 Whitney Biennial: Day for Night at the Whitney Museum
of American Art in New York City.
http://www.whitney.org
March 16 – 19
Jane Comfort and Company has been commissioned to create a new dance performance
to be premiered at Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church in New York.
The new evening-length work will employ the highly rhythmic approach to texts
of Comfort’s early work, and feature a music score by Joan La Barbara.
http://www.danspaceproject.org
http://www.janecomfortandcompany.org
March 18
Daniel Bernard Roumain and Philip Glass will be collaborating on a performance
at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark, NJ on March 18.
http://www.njpac.org
http://www.dbrmusic.com
March 28
Bill Morrison's Creative Capital project Decasia will be presented as a live
performance with a 55-piece orchestra at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los
Angeles as part of the Minimalist Jukebox program. The music was composed by
Michael Gordon.
http://wdch.laphil.com/tix/performance_detail.cfm?id=2377
March 30 – May 6
Paul Shambroom will debut his new series of photographs, Security, in a solo
show at Julie Saul Gallery in New York City. For his second main gallery exhibition
Shambroom examines issues of fear, safety and liberty in post 9/11 America
with images of training facilities, equipment, and personnel involved with
the massive government effort to prepare for and respond to terrorist attacks
within the country.
http://www.saulgallery.com
http://www.paulshambroomart.com
March 31 – April 8
Fred Curchack and Laura Jorgensen will premiere Curchack’s new play,
An American Dream Play at Cinnabar Theater, Petaluma, California.
http://www.cinnabartheater.org
In Other News...
Wendy Jacob, William Pope.L, Jane Marsching, Chris Doyle, and Lynne
Yamamoto were all recipients of 2005 Contemporary Work Fund Grants
from the LEF Foundation. Jacob, Marsching, Doyle and Yamamoto will be
pursuing new projects, and Pope.L will be touring his Creative Capital
project, The Black Factory.
http://www.lef-foundation.org
Natalia Almada was awarded a residency at the MacDowell Colony.
http://www.macdowellcolony.org
http://www.altamurafilms.com
Caveh Zahedi (I Am a Sex Addict) received the IFP Gotham
Award for Best Film Not Playing At A Theater Near You. Natalia Almada
(Al Otro Lado) was also nominated in the same category.
http://www.cavehzahedi.com
http://www.altamurafilms.com
http://market.ifp.org/newyork/gothams/gothams05/
Zoe Leonard was the recipient of a 2005 Anonymous Was A Woman Foundation
award of $25,000 and a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant of $20,000.
http://www.pkf.org
Ted Purves and Susanne Cockrell have been nominated for
a SECA (Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art) award from
the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art for the Fall of 2006.
http://www.sfmoma.org/info/insite.html
http://www.amityworks.org
Mark Newport received an Arizona Commission on the Arts Career
Development Grant. This grant will help to fund the production of an exhibition
catalogue for his solo exhibition Superheroics, which includes
work from his Creative Capital project, Ready for Action.
http://www.arizonaarts.org
http://www.gregkucera.com/newport.htm
Kerry Skabakka was awarded a one-month residency at Light Work
in Syracuse, New York for 2006. He will be printing images from his
Creative Capital project, Fluid during the residency.
http://www.lightwork.org
http://www.skarbakka.com
Marina Zurkow was awarded a 2005 NYSCA Individual Artists Grant
to develop a new installation project and comic book series entitled Funnelhead:
adventures in psychotropia.
http://www.o-matic.com
Jeffrey Gibson has been awarded a fellowship from the National
Museum of the American Indian, and is invited and sponsored by The Smithsonian
Institution to participate in the symposium Vision, Space, and Desire:
Global Perspectives and Cultural Hybridity, in Venice, Italy. The
Institute also recently purchased the first painting in the series of
Gibson’s Creative Capital project, Infinite Anomaly.
http://www.jeffreygibson.net
Spencer Nakasako released the Creative Capital funded film Refugee
on DVD. The film that won the Best Documentary at the 2003 Hawaii International
Film Festival and the Henry Hampton Award is now included in a new DVD
set along with a.k.a Don Bonus and Kelly Loves Tony.
http://vydc.org/dvd.html
Cristina Ibarra was awarded a $3,500 grant from the National Association
of Latino Arts and Culture (NALAC) for her Creative Capital film, Love
and Monster Trucks.
http://www.nalac.org
Annie Han and Daniel Mihalyo have been awarded a two-month
residency at the Headlands Center for the Arts at the Project Space during
March/April 2006. Han and Mihalyo will be developing a new series of drawings
titled Space for Nothing, fictional structures without program
or function. They will also be working on Snapshot 2006, informal
travel photographs that are digitally manipulated and formatted into a
DVD slideshow during their residency.
http://www.headlands.org
http://www.leadpencilstudio.com
subRosa was awarded a $5,000 grant from the Pennsylvania Council
on the Arts in New Genres for the continuation of their work.
http://www.cyberfeminism.net
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT…
Jason Salavon participated in the three-person show, On the
Scene: Jessica Rowe, Jason Salavon, Brian Ulrich, at the Art Institute
of Chicago.
http://www.artic.edu/aic/exhibitions/scene.html
http://www.salavon.com
Matthew Geller had a solo exhibition of his small-scale cement
building sculptures in Matthew Geller – Again. Almost. Again.
One more time. at Maiden Lane Exhibition Space, 125 Maiden Lane, in
New York City. The exhibition was in conjunction with A Cheap Publicity
Stunt at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Redhead Gallery
also located at 125 Maiden Lane.
Email: greenbergercollection@timeequities.com
Pamela Z created a commissioned multi-channel audio installation
for the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore
College, Saratoga Springs, NY. The piece, for the museum’s Fifth
Anniversary Fall Reception, combines segments of her new piece with previous
works.
http://www.skidmore.edu/tang
Deborah F. Lawrence’s project, Dee Dee Does Utopia: Propaganda
Art by Deborah Faye Lawrence, is on view at Provisions Library Resource
Center for Activism and the Arts, Washington, DC. The exhibition of 30
artworks is accompanied by an artist lecture and collage workshop.
http://www.provisionslibrary.org/deedee_site/deedee_entr.html
James Luna lectured in January at the University of Western Ontario
in London, Ontario, Canada, and at the University of California at Riverside,
California.
http://www.jamesluna.com
Pete Sillen’s short documentary film about one of 42nd Street’s
legendary hot dog counters, Grand Luncheonette, was screened at the Slamdance
Film Festival in Park City, Utah. The festival ran concurrently with Sundance.
http://www.slamdance.com
SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL
John Jota Leaños, Sharon Lockhart, Brent Green, Sam Green, Kevin
Everson, Pete Sillen, Steven Bognar, Shannon Kennedy, and Jennifer and
Kevin McCoy were invited to the Sundance Film Festival. Leaños
and Lockhart screened their Creative Capital projects: Leaños’s
Los ABCs: ¡Que Vivan los Muertos!, the first part of his
Internet opera, Imperial Silence; and Lockhart’s experimental
film portrait Pine Flat. Green’s Hadacol Christmas
screened as part of the Animation Spotlight program, and Everson’s
Cinnamon premiered. Sillen did the camerawork for Kelly Reichardt’s
Old Joy, starring Will Oldham and Daniel London. This was the world
premiere for both films. Bognar and Julia Reichert’s film A Lion
in the House premiered, and Kennedy was editor for The Trials of
Darryl Hunt, directed by Ricki Stern and Anni Sundberg. Jennifer and
Kevin McCoy showed their video installation Our Second Date at
the Sundance Film Festival’s Frontier Live. On view for the
run of the festival, it was the first time that Sundance has programmed
a sculptural work.
http://www.sundance.org
http://www.leanos.net
http://www.nervousfilms.com
http://www.pumpernickelinc.com
http://www.shannonkennedy.net
http://www.mccoyspace.com
Mel Chin premiered his new film 9-11/9-11, an animated short
film narrative centered around the events of September 11, 1973 in Santiago,
Chile and September 11, 2001 in New York City.
http://www.911-911movie.com
Pablo Helguera made the last stop on his performance book tour
at la Sala de Arte Publico Siquieros in Mexico City. The tour is part
of the launch of his Manual of Contemporary Art Style, an etiquette
manual for the contemporary art world, published by La Tumbona Ediciones.
Helguera has presented/performed his book previously at the Geffery Museum,
London and the Centre Culturel du Mexique in Paris. His work is also currently
being featured in the exhibitions Dark Places at the Santa Monica
Museum of Art, Database Imaginary at the University of Toronto,
at the Institute of Cultural Inquiry in Los Angeles, and the exhibition
Mirrors at the Mexican Cultural Institute in Washington, DC.
http://www.siqueiros.inba.gob.mx/
Craig Baldwin's Creative Capital project Spectres of the Spectrum
was screened at the Arisia Science Fiction Convention in Boston.
http://www.arisia.org
Sujata G. Bhatt's full-length play, Queen of the Remote Control,
had a ten-week run at the Sacramento Theatre Company in Sacramento, CA.
This is the play's third separate production in 2005.
http://www.sactheatre.org
Artemio Rodriguez’s American Dream, a hardback book
compiling ten years of his woodcut prints and drawings, was released.
A preview book signing was held on December 5, 2005 at the Lower East
Side Print Shop in New York City.
http://www.americandreamthebook.com
http://www.lamanopress.com
Cindy Bernard gave a public lecture at UCLA presented by UCLA
Design | Media Arts, Global Experimental SOUNDSCAPES Now, with David
Cotner. Bernard also spoke at the San Francisco Art Institute in pilot:
spheres of interest.
http://dma.ucla.edu/
http://www.sfai.edu/
Ruben Ochoa’s sculpture Borrowed Ladders was featured
in the group show, Happenstance, at Harris Lieberman Gallery in
New York City. This is LA-based Ochoa's first group show in New York.
http://www.harrislieberman.com
James Luna was a panelist at the Venice Biennale symposium Vision,
Space, Desire: Global Perspectives & Cultural Hybridity hosted
by the National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, DC.
http://www.nmai.si.edu
http://www.jamesluna.com
Fred Curchack performed his Creative Capital solo show, Gauguin's
Shadow, at the Kimbell Museum in Fort Worth, Texas in conjunction
with the Gauguin Impressionist exhibit.
http://www.kimbellart.org
Caveh Zahedi's Creative Capital film, I Am A Sex Addict,
began its national theatrical run on January 6th with a week-long screening
at the Northwest Film Forum in Seattle.
http://www.cavehzahedi.com
Amelia Rudolph’s Project Bandaloop presented several
shows of An Evening of Selected Works at Project Artaud Theater,
San Francisco.
http://www.projectbandaloop.org
James Bidgood was featured in PAPER magazine’s group exhibition
Manhattan! at 100 Lafayette Street in New York City. The exhibition
was in celebration of PAPERMAG.COM’s 10th anniversary and includes
work by seventy New York City-based artists.
http://www.papermag.com
Edgar Arceneaux had new work presented in a solo exhibition at
The Kitchen in New York City incorporating slide projection, large-scale
drawings, sculpture, and 16mm film, investigating his interest in open-ended
connections among words, places, figures, and ordinary circumstance.
http://www.thekitchen.org
Jessica Irish exhibited a new four-channel video installation Level
at the Davis Museum and Culture Center in Wellesley, MA, as part of their
Extended Boundaries exhibition. Level negotiates common spaces
between several domestic cities – below ground, street level, elevated
and sky space.
http://www.davismuseum.wellesly.edu
Mel Ziegler had a retrospective of his decade-long collaborative
work (1985 – 1995) with Kate Ericson. America Starts Here: Kate
Ericson and Mel Ziegler is a joint project of the MIT List Visual Art
Center and the Tang Museum, organized by Bill Arning and Ian Berry, their
respective curators. The exhibition included sculptures and installations,
as well as models and video documents of site-specific works, and was
accompanied by a comprehensive catalogue.
http://www.skidmore.edu/tang/
Dread Scott’s work was included in Relics & Remnants:
Contemporary Reinterpretation of African American Images at the Jamaica
Center for Arts & Learning, in Jamaica, Queens.
http://www.jcal.org
The late Homer Avila (1955– 2003) is the subject of Phoenix
Dance, a film documentary by Karina Epperlein. The film was screened at
the Dance Films Association’s Dance on Camera Festival 2006 at the
Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center, New York.
http://www.dancefilmsassn.org
Conrad Bakker presented Slacker Economy at Lora Reynolds
Gallery, Austin, Texas. The solo exhibition featured Untitled Project:
VHS/Rental (Slacker), a video rental station (a fabricated table,
wooden movie poster, and over 30 carved and painted VHS video tapes of
the 1991 film Slacker by Austin-based filmmaker Richard Linklater),
and several other of Bakker's Untitled Projects available for rental
during the exhibition.
http://www.lorareynolds.com
http://www.untitledprojects.com
Reynold Reynolds and Patrick Jolley presented sculpture,
photography and film in collaboration with artist Samara Golden in their
solo show, Sugar, at Roebling Hall gallery in New York.
http://www.roeblinghall.com
Joanna Priestley's new abstract, computer animated film, Dew
Line, was exhibited in the Best of the World Program at Fantoche
International Animation Festival in Baden, Switzerland, and was awarded
First Prize at the Big Muddy Film festival in Carbondale, Illinois.
http://www.fantoche.ch
http://www.bigmuddyfilm.com
Cindy Bernard had a solo exhibition of her photographs investigating
the social spaces involved in cinema, performance, and music at Tracy
Williams, Ltd. in New York City. In conjunction with the exhibition was
a premiere reading at Tonic in New York City of The Inquisitive Musician,
a translation and adaptation by Bernard and David Hatcher of a 17th century
German satire. The reading featured Shelley Hirsch and other artists.
http://www.tracywilliamsltd.com
http://www.sound2cb.com
Kerry Skarbakka participated in Aqua Art Miami during ArtBaselMiamiBeach
in Miami Beach, Florida, where he had work shown at the fair through Lawrimore
Project from Seattle. Skarbakka was also featured at Paris Photo,
where he was nominated for the BMW prize.
http://www.aquaartmiami.com
http://www.lawrimoreproject.com
http://www.skarbakka.com
Craig Baldwin’s Creative Capital project, Spectres of the
Spectrum, was in the group exhibition Resonances: The electromagnetic
bodies project, at ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany. Baldwin was also was
picked to be Featured Filmmaker for the Southside Film Festival in Bethlehem,
Pennsylvania.
http://www.southsidefilmfestival.com
Leslie McCleave’s Creative Capital feature film Road
premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival in June. The two principal
performers, Catherine Kellner and Ebon Moss-Bachrach, jointly received
the Jury Award for Outstanding Performance in a Feature Film.
http://www.ghostrobot.com/road/
Ted Purves and Susanne Cockrell’s social sculpture
Temescal Amity Works was presented in an exhibition in Tblisi,
Republic of Georgia, in October called Consume(d): Acts of Creative
and Critical Resistance in the San Francisco Bay Area. This exhibition
was part of the Art Caucasus 2005 International Exposition. They have
also just completed their Temescal Amity Works community map/resource
directory, which is a color map/poster with a bound 24-page booklet. Ted
Purves conducted the Momentary Academy, a free public education program
that ran for 10 weeks this July – September during Bay Area Now
4 at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco.
http://www.amityworks.org
Jeffrey Gibson's paintings were shown with Samson Projects as part
of the NADA Art Fair in Miami in December 2005.
http://www.newartdealers.org
http://www.jeffreygibson.net
Braden King and Laura Moya's film, Dutch Harbor: Where
the Sea Breaks its Back, opened theatrically in Paris in November
and throughout France and the Benelux. The film was also screened at the
Northwest Film Forum in Seattle as part of the Superhits program. King
also recently directed the video for the single Great Waves from
the new Dirty Three album Cinder. The video also features additional
footage shot by Matt Boyd and Jem Cohen.
http://www.truckstopmedia.com
Phil Solomon screened a selection of shorts at REDCAT at Cal Arts
in Los Angeles. The program included the first two installments of the
series The Twilight Psalms--The Lateness of the Hour and Walking
Distance. Also featured is Solomon’s last collaboration with
the late Stan Brakhage, a piece entitled Seasons... An additional
presentation of Solomon’s films was held at the UCLA Film and Television
Archive. Solomon was the subject of a New York Times Critic’s Notebook
article, “An Artist Who Inspires New Ways of Seeing,” by Manohla
Darges, who described the “stunningly beautiful” films as
loosening “the grip that narrative traditionally has on the medium,
inspiring different ways of seeing and feeling…”
http://redcat.org/season/0506/fv/solomon.php
http://cinema.ucla.edu
George Legrady’s Making Visible the Invisible, a commissioned
permanent installation work for the Seattle Public Library, was featured
as a net-art project for the Whitney Museum’s ARTPORT online exhibition
site, and was included in an exhibition on the theme of libraries at the
University of Connecticut, Storrs. Making Visible the Invisible visualizes
on LCD panels the hourly circulation of books leaving and returning to
the library for the next ten years.
http://artport.whitney.org
Jason Salavon had a solo show of photographic prints, video installation
and software at the Rockford Art Museum in Rockford, IL.
http://www.rockfordartmuseum.org
http://www.salavon.com
Upcoming...
Jessica Irish will produce a site-specific video installation in
early 2006 with the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's Swing Space program.
Bruce Chao will be working on site-specific tree sculptures in
Rehoboth, MA (near Providence, RI) throughout the spring and summer of
2006. A small number of extant sculptures and evolving projects are available
to visit by appointment, including AETHER (2003).
http://www.brucechao.net
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