Thursday, October 7, 2010

The blogging intern is back!


Getting back in the swing of things...

I am back from being in the hospital for a regular stay where I received some IV antibiotic treatments. It is regular for me, considering I have Cystic Fibrosis. I had tried many different antibiotics by mouth, the only other way I can get better is with great airway clearance treatments and IV antibiotic therapy.

So now that is over and done with, I have been back in the printmaking studio, finishing up a an etching project. I will have some new art which you can take a peek at during the open studio of EFA, which is from October 14th – 16th.

Austin, me, and the 70 other artists in this building will have artwork up.

Yesterday, I went to about 14 galleries in Chelsea and saw some amazing art:



Dan Colen, Chewing gum on canvas, here he in front of his piece which is at the
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Inventions, sculptures, performances, small moments





Last week I had the honor of teaching alongside William Powhida ("MR. POWHIDA" if you are in his high school art class). Mr. Powhida has been instructing his students to make sketchbooks, use stencils, examine pattern, and draw in a silent, reflective, all over way.

I brought all my rulers to his class along with my favorite pencils, graph paper and thoughts on using drawing as a way to connect with the inner psyche and to allow for accidents. I told the students that I manipulate my straight edges so that they are crooked because "life is not a straight line." (This is a main tenant of my artistic belief system.) (I also believe that other artists should buy other artist's work but that lecture was given to another class taught be William Powhida with Jen Dalton!)

After I left the class in the skilled hands of Powhida, he was kind of enough to send me some feedback from my day of sketch-booking lessons. One student commented that "she made feel like I was making art." The students further discussed "life isn't a straight line," which Powhida felt was a good point of departure for his students. His students are currently making a collage a day. I'm looking forward to seeing what these high school artists came up.

After school, it was off to MoMA for the opening of the AB Ex show, amazingly reviewed by Roberta Smith. Pictures below from walking through the exhibit with art aficionado and viewing pal. Thanks Lyn and thanks Jason for getting me into the place!










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Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Drawing on the Utopic in Bushwick Sunday afternoon


In a short synopsis, written in the L Magazine, of my current show at Storefront, they write that "many credit (me) for sparking Bushwick's growing gallery scene," well on a recent Sunday afternoon I went looking:





and of course there's the beautiful Deborah Brown!

More assembling of fragments to come, thanks for looking!
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Sunday, October 3, 2010

My beautiful day in Wassaic with Audra Wolowiec

Between rain storms last week, I had the great pleasure of traveling up to Wassaic to pay a visit to Audra Wolowiec a fall artist-in-residence at the Wassaic Project. The Wassaic Project is an artist-run organization focusing on community engagement and with facilities to exhibit, discuss, make and connect with art, each other, a unique site, and the surrounding country side.

From their website: The Wassaic Project’s activities include an annual summer festival, a year-round artist residency, studio visits/critiques for artists involved with the organization by guest curators and visiting artists, artist workshops with community members, published catalogs, and fundraising exhibitions in Wassaic and New York City. Our programs intend to generate dialogue and collaboration across geographic, ideological and disciplinary boundaries.

Audra will be spending the fall up there and I will be visiting her again.


this way...



Audra casing out a possible installation site.
felting funnels...
sounding shapes.
see ya soon.
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Friday, October 1, 2010

Give and Listen. Support The Sound of Art



Please support The Sound of Art.

For the past five years Paddy Johnson has been looking at art and writing about what she has seen. Paddy wrote about Pocket Utopia on several occasions and most recently she wrote about Camp Pocket U.

In addition to looking, Johnson has been listening. She asks, "Does art have a distinctive sound?" Now, Johnson wants to produce an album full of the sounds art makes, remixing it, reusing it – sampling, mashing, and chopping it.

Her project titled The Sound of Art is guided by Jasper Johns’s description of the art-making process: "Do something, do something to that, and then do something to that." The Sound of Art will be a limited edition vinyl LP composed of sounds heard in New York galleries, museums, and project spaces. Inspired by classic DJ battle records, it will feature forty tracks of diverse sounds culled from art video, performance footage, and kinetic sculptures. It will be an audio document and a tool to create new sounds and new work.

WHAT WILL BE ON IT?
Work by artists well-known and not-so-well-known. Difficult electronics. Sounds of stampeding animals, Hebrew prayer, a transformer fire, a children's carousel. One hundred carpenters pounding 10,000 nails. Field recordings of recordings by guitar genius John Fahey, and archival sound pieces by the pioneering conceptualist Lawrence Weiner. An iPod drum circle and thoughts on nostalgia. Also, yes, a toy monkey with cymbals.

Sounds have been donated by a large spectrum of artists and venues throughout New York City – everywhere from big fancy museums to odd little project spaces. This is a collaborative project, with dozens of people donating their work and their services. Project Manager Michelle Halabura has been working from Art Fag City headquarters since last spring to make The Sound of Art a reality.

Fundraising consultant Sarah Landreth and BAM visual art curator David Harper have donated their time and skills advising on the campaign.

Matt Madly Azzarto at Think Tank Studio will be producing the record.

Now Johnson needs to make it happen and can do it for $10,000.

COMPLETE LIST OF ARTISTS

MANHATTAN
Petra Cortright (Internet), Jennie C. Jones, (Sikemma Jenkins) Moyra Davey, (Orchard47) Elias Hansen (Maccarone), Ted Riederer (Marianne Boesky), Cliff Evans (Luxe Gallery), LoVid, (LMCC), Marcin Ramocki (MOMA), Shannon Plumb (Sarah Melzer Gallery), Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, (Luhring Augustine), John Fahey (AVA), Miriam Stern (Yeshivah University), Jennifer Schmidt (Elizabeth Foundation Project Space), Carolina A. Miranda (Armory show), Tyler Jacobsen and Chris Anderson (Canada), Tom Thayor (White Columns), Luke Murphy (Canada), Joel Holmberg (New Museum), Lawrence Weiner (Whitney Museum), Laura Parnes, (Participant Inc), Brainstormers (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Center).

BROOKLYN
Andre Avelas (Abrons Art Center), Aron Namenwirth (artMovingProjects), Damien Catera (Hogar Collection), Andy Graydon (LMAK Projects), Sonny Smith (Cinders Gallery), Paul Slocum (artMovingProjects), Heidi Neubauer-Winterburn (Louis V. E.S.P.), Eric Laska (Diapason), Elena Wen (AIR Gallery), Joe McKay (Vertexlist), Heather Dewey-Hagborg (Issue Project Room), Peter Dobill (English Kills), Douglas Henderson (Pierogi), Robert McNeill (MonkeyTown), Erick Zuenskes (Real Fine Arts), Wayne Hodge (Fivemyles), Ranjit Bhatnagar and Nick Yulman (Coney Island Museum), Lara Kohl (PS.1), Mike Koller and MTAA (McCarren Park).

Give and Listen!
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