UPCOMING:



MAPPING: Memory and Motion in Contemporary Art
Curated by Sarah Tanguy
October 3, 2010 – January 9, 2011

One of the oldest forms of nonverbal communication, maps have been drawn since prehistoric times as a means of wayfinding and charting one’s place in the world. Today, with the advent of GPS and Google Maps, they have infiltrated our daily life more than ever before. In an era of global culture, artists are increasingly exploring maps as both image and cipher. This exhibition takes a look at current map-based works that represent actual locations – real and imagined. Encompassing the stars, the body, the land, and the built environment, it explores various strategies that artists are using to track their subjects, distilling them into art objects and activities that choreograph location through time and space. The exhibition will include paintings, works on paper, sculpture, video, and a live web broadcast.

http://www.katonahmuseum.org/exhibitions/upcoming/



RECENT:



MMX: Open Art Venue
Screening Program VI
August 27 · 6:00pm - 11:00pm

Linienstraße 142/143
Berlin, Germany

Show VI opens on August 27, 2010. A performative craze has landed at MMX bringing forth 30 artists and 14 performers in a 6-week span. Juan Arata brings his project “Out of Control”; every week one artist leaves after curating a replacement. Each new artist is welcomed into the gallery on Wednesday nights with a mini-opening and special performances.Bernd Bleffert’s klangkunst performs throughout the East wing along with Sarah Rechberger’s sublime work with oscillating light. Ivonne Dippmann unveils outdoor wall works and Kati Gausmann draws the subtle traces of Kleidung. Laura Napier’s public interventions and David Sherry’s cheeky performances counteract the blasé of daily life. Screening program VI is an eclectic mix of performance work.

The Opening on August 27; performances by AlteregoRelativamenteSensibili, Nadia Salom, David Sherry and Laura Napier. Tacos Berlin will be serving yummy Mexican food all night long.

http://mmx.mx/





DETOUR
May 14-July 16, 2010
Opening Reception: Friday, May 14, 6:00 – 9:00 p.m.

Detour is an exhibition of 5 artists’ practices rerouted by an obstruction. SPACES has created a framework for play wherein 5 selected artists meet to discuss their practices and address areas of comfort and discomfort. By the end of the evening each artist will be assigned an obstacle by his/her peers. One artist may rely very heavily on a specific media, but the other 4 artists may agree that it would be good to step out of that comfort zone. Another artist may be asked to utilize a certain subject matter while another may be asked to work collaboratively rather than as a solo artist. Each obstruction is assigned as a playful experiment and a tool for growth rather than a mean-spirited prank.
 
The artists will then have seven days before the opening of the exhibition to realize their project while skirting around their new obstacle. Each artist will also be paired with someone who will document their processes and decisions. Like announcers at a football game, these individuals will run color commentary to make the artists’ play accessible to the public. SPACES’ website will function as the hub of the color commentary, but the exact relationship of the artist to their documentarian will be negotiated by the pair. Commentary may manifest itself as text, audio, video or some other means.
 
These artists’ experiments may succeed, and they may fail. That is the nature of a detour. Sometimes a more scenic route is discovered off the beaten path, and sometimes you just get horribly lost. In the end, projects will be realized, but the artistic process will be brought to the forefront and privileged alongside the finished work.

Participating Artists:
Kristin Bly, T.R. Ericsson, Ben Kinsley, Arzu Ozkal, Lauren Yeager

Participating Commentators:
Lyz Bly, Bruce Edwards, Michael Gill, Brandon Juhasz, Eleanor LeBeau


http://www.spacesgallery.org






2010 HOT PICKS
Smack Mellon Studio Program

Selected Artists: Jane Benson, Suzanne Broughel, Laura Carton, Blane De St Croix, Jenn Figg, Colette Fu, Cooper Holoweski, Takahashi Horisaki, Ben Kinsley, Kristian Kozul, Matthew Mazzotta, Alison Owen, Anne Percoco, Letha Wilson, Seth Wulsin

The top artists, as selected from the Studio Program applicants by a panel of esteemed curators and arts professionals, are featured on the Smack Mellon website for one year. Only the top 15 artists have been selected to be a part of Smack Mellon Hot Picks this year.

The panelists this year were: Linda Earle, Executive Director of the New York Arts Program; Rachel Gugelberger, Director at Sara Meltzer Gallery; and Ellen Harvey, Artist.

http://smackmellon.org





BEMIS CENTER for Contemporary Arts
Podcast Interview

http://www.bemiscenter.org/residency/podcasts.html