cecelia paredes

tutti frutti, 2009, photo performance with body paint, 47x47, nocturne, 2009, photo performance with body paint, 39x39, naturaleza urbana, 2008, photo performance with body paint, 42x47

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Call for Entries: LBIF's Small Works Exhibition, Deadline for submissions: November 1, 2011

Mermaid fabric by Heather Ross: http://heatherross.squarespace.com/fabrics/


The Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences (LBIF) on
Long Beach Island, NJ is seeking submissions for their annual Small
Works Exhibition. The exhibition runs from November 4 – December 19,
2011. All submitted work will be shown and juried for prizes. Work may
be in any chosen medium that fits the size requirement. All entries
must be original and must have been executed since 2008. Please
include a bio along with your submission for the gallery book.


Juror: Michael Cagno, Executive Director of the Noyes Museum of Art


Size: Two-dimensional work must not exceed 12"x12" square.
Three-dimensional work must not exceed 8"x8"x8".


Entry fee: $20.00 for up to four works. Works in series count as
separate works if they take up more than 12"x12" square.


Prospectus:
http://lbifoundation.org/programs/2011SmallWorksProspectus.pdf


Questions?
gallery@lbifoundation.org


Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences
http://www.lbifoundation.org/
120 Long Beach Blvd
Loveladies, NJ 08008
609.494.1241

NICK CAVE, Ever-Afterm September 8 – October 8, 2011, Jack Shainman Gallery, in collaboration with Mary Boone Gallery.

NICK CAVE
Ever-After
September 8 – October 8, 2011
In collaboration with Mary Boone Gallery

Opening reception for the artist at Jack Shainman Gallery: Thursday, September 8, from 6-8 PM
Opening reception for the artist at Mary Boone Gallery, Chelsea: Saturday, September 10, from 5-7 PM

Jack Shainman Gallery is pleased to announce Ever-After, a solo exhibition of new work by Nick Cave. Cave will present a group of ‘Soundsuits.’ This sculptural form based on the scale of the artist’s body is at the core of Cave’s practice. It camouflages the body, masking and creating a second skin that conceals race, gender, and class, forcing the viewer to look without judgment. However, Ever-After marks a noticeable shift in his approach. The ‘Soundsuits’ will interact within subtly narrative tableaux. These figurative landscapes connect the viewer to a social consciousness, summoning the echoes and voices which Cave believes have been paralyzed to silence and subjected to unfair altercations in an often hostile society.

‘Mating Season’ is an encounter of white-haired, boyish bunny figures suggesting a sublime play of fornication, placed in multiple positions. ‘Speak Louder’ comprises a group of figures that unite into one organism. Several of the figures gesture in a manner that reveals emotional references and together speaks of a multiplying figure that becomes an assemblage or a whole. The unifying surface of the piece is constructed from a surge of assorted black buttons. Each button offers the reflection of a memory, a thought, and the inheritance of personal identity. The accumulation of buttons invades a singular cloth producing a choir of voices. These tableaux will provoke new readings of Cave’s work, which in the past has been constructed around the individual figure.

The cumulative effect will be a black and white interior psychological world probing consciousness, contemplation and deep exploration. There is an ephemeral quality that articulates both absence and a transcendent yet dependent spirit. Ultimately Cave strips down to the bare essence in this exhibition, turning his back on the noise as he chooses to walk into what he pictures as an abyss of serenity. This experience is inextricably linked to Cave’s concurrent solo exhibition at Mary Boone Gallery, which is an open playground of ‘Soundsuits’ that celebrates exuberance, chaos, and color. The two exhibitions form one complete encounter. 

A solo traveling exhibition of Cave’s work entitled Meet Me at the Center of the Earth was organized by Yerba Buena Art Center, San Francisco, and was recently on view at the Seattle Art Museum. A major presentation of Cave’s work will be on view at the Tri Postal, Lille, France, in Fall 2012.

Cave has recently been included in group exhibitions at institutions including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 2011; Göteborgs Konsthall, Sweden, 2010; and Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany, 2011. He is also included in 30 Americans: Rubell Family Collection, which opens in October 2011 at the Corcoran Art Gallery in Washington, DC, and will be included in the Prospect.2 Biennial, taking place throughout New Orleans in Fall 2011.  

Public collections include the Brooklyn Museum, New York; Crystal Bridges, Bentonville; the Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit; the High Museum, Atlanta; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; the Museum of Art and Design, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; and the Seattle Art Museum, Seattle; among others.

Cave has received several prestigious awards including: the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award (2008), Artadia Award (2006), the Joyce Award (2006), Creative Capital Grants (2002, 2004 and 2005), and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award (2001). Cave, who received his MFA at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, is Professor and Chairman of the Fashion Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Upcoming exhibitions at the gallery include Anton Kannemeyer, opening October 13, 2011.

Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 am to 6 pm. For additional information and photographic material please contact Elisabeth Sann at Elisabeth@jackshainman.com.


513 West 20th Street, New York, NY 10011
tel. +1 212 645 1701 fax. +1 212 645 8316
email: info@jackshainman.com
hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 10am - 6 pm
http://www.jackshainman.com/exhibitions.html
http://www.jackshainman.com/artist-images9.html

Quirky Documentary on the Secret Life of Sewing Machines.

Secret Life Of Machines The Sewing Machine Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Jbk1uU_Jkk&feature=related
Secret Life Of Machines The Sewing Machine Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THNRuUr4hlo
Secret Life Of Machines The Sewing Machine Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=Yq9V8W6tV40
Educational series presented by Tim Hunkin and Rex Garrod.
Find out more here: http://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/SLOM/
Here:http://timhunkin.com/
And here: http://www.secretlifeofmachines.com/

melinda hackett

junebug, 2009, oil on canvas, 64x60, sea grape, 2009, oil on canvas, 50x68, madagascar, 2008, oil on canvas, 61x88

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Judith G Klausner's Toast Embroideries.

 Butter (To Go), 2010. Toast, thread, paper (structural), plastic knife, paper napkin, 1"x8"x6.25".

Egg on Toast, 2010. Toast, thread, paper (structural), dimensions variable.


Judith G. Klausner is a Somerville, MA artist with a love for small, intricate, and overlooked things. She received her degree in Studio Art from Wesleyan University in 2007 after constructing her thesis primarily out of insects, and has since continued to search the details of her surroundings for inspiration. She enjoys playing with her food, both recreationally and professionally.
From Scratch series: http://jgklausner.com/series/from-scratch
Judith G Klausner's website: http://jgklausner.com/

New York Fashion Week: Prabal Gurung spring/summer 2012.

Prabal Gurung's spring/summer 2012 show at New York Fashion Week. Photo: AP

New York Fashion Week: Prabal Gurung spring/summer 2012. Prabal Gurung's spring/summer 2012 collection was wonderfully made, spectacularly ambitious and dizzyingly complicated.

BY LUKE LEITCH | 10 SEPTEMBER 2011

From Andre Leon Talley sat hugely brooding to Nicky Minaj attired like something odd won at a fairground, a crowd packed with both power and pizazz turned out to support Prabal Gurung on Saturday.

And there was none of the usual fashion-angoisse here, but instead a genuine sense of anticipation. This was a room coursing in goodwill. At the finale the applause for Gurung was even peppered with uncharacteristic whoops. This suggests he's been pegged as New York's hottest young designer of the moment.

His collection was certainly wonderfully made, spectacularly ambitious and dizzyingly complicated. And Gurung managed to make purple lamé attractive in a series of psychedelic printed gowns and airbrush fade-effect skirts. He also cracked one of fashion's trickiest problems - how to wear a long hem and simultaneously show some leg - by presenting a gown transparent from mid-thigh to ankle.

There was "exploding tulle", "techno wool", and "recycled rubber paillettes" - sometimes seemingly all in the same outfit: Gurung is no minimalist. Even the models' lipstick was mind-boggling; a two-tone red on the outside, fading to blue at the lipline that made it look like they'd all been sucking the same leaky pen. So Gurung's technical virtuosity certainly merited that applause, but the whooping was a bit much.

See more at: http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/galleries/TMG8755123/New-York-Fashion-Week-Prabal-Gurung-springsummer-2012-in-pictures.html

heather patterson

Galactica, MM on drafting film, 24 x 24, Climate 1, 2008, MM on drafting film, 24 x 24, Afloat, 2008, MM on drafting film, 18 x 18

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Steam Valley Fiber Farm Internship written by Fibers and Material Studies major, Kristen Rosser.

From top: Kristen Rosser shearing an angora goat with the help of Tom (the man in the background). He is an expert shearer. Kristen Rosser milking Luna, the Nubian goat. Kira (the other intern) and Kristen Rosser spinning at the Williamsport Grower's Market where Phylleri sold her products each Saturday. Kira and Kristen Rosser indigo dyeing. The rainbow socks that Phylleri, Kira and Kristen Rosser had just handpainted which Phylleri sells.

Steam Valley Fiber Farm Internship written by Fibers and Material Studies major, Kristen Rosser.

This summer I had the opportunity to spend the summer working for Phylleri Ball of Steam Valley Fiber Farm in Trout Run, PA. It is a 14 acre farm where she raises colored angora goats and Border Leicester/ Corriedale cross sheep. The sheep get shorn once per year and the goats are shorn twice. Phylleri uses her fleeces and other fleece bought locally to product socks, roving, and yarn which are made at local mills. She does all the processing and dyeing of the fleeces herself before they are sent to the mill. She also dyes commercially produced yarn to sell. Phylleri sells her products at markets and festivals in the Northeast. She will be at Rhinebeck sheep and wool festival in October. (http://www.sheepandwool.com/)

 The farm is run as organically and sustainably as possible. The animals are fed grass as much as possible and the little bit of grain which is fed is organic. Whenever possible, Phylleri uses herbs or natural remedies for the animals and used antibiotics only as a last resort. Everything that can be composted is saved and is eventually spread back onto the fields. The farm has a garden and an orchard and most of the food which the family and I ate came from the farm. 

As an intern, I helped with all the daily workings of the farm. Chores started at 5:30am. After chores and breakfast, we would work on projects such as setting up fencing, cleaning barns, trimming hooves, or gardening. We would do evening chores at about 5:30 pm and after dinner have time for fiber work. The internship was unpaid, but in exchange for my work, Phylleri taught me spinning and felting techniques. If you are interested in applying, there is an application on her website (http://steamvalleyfiber.com/).

this is one busy kitty...

go here to watch this kitty sew!!

lenore thomas

thy muffin hath spillest over, 2007, intaglio, acrylic, lazertran, xerox tran, graphite, wax on panel, 13x13, i'm allergic to roofs, 2007, intaglio, screenprint, acrylic, graphite, collage, wax on panel, 11x18, it's gonna hurt really bad, but it's just loud, 2007, intaglio, litho, acrylic, lazertran, graphite, wax on panel, 13x13

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BFA Lottery - Thursday, September 8, 11 am, Exhibitions Conference Room (through Temple Gallery).

BFA Lottery - Thursday, September 8, 11 am, Exhibitions Conference Room (through Temple Gallery)If you are graduating with a BFA in December 2011 or May 2012, you are eligible to participate in the Fall BFA lottery for a space in Stella Elkins Tyler Gallery this fall (another lottery will be held in November for dates in the Spring of 2012--this lottery is just for dates in October, November and December).  You must be present or send a friend you trust to get a space.  If you send a friend, you must make an appointment with Kari Scott (miss.kari@temple.edu) or Adam Blumberg (ablumber@temple.edu) after the lottery to receive the information you missed at the meeting.