I just wanted to let you know that I will be showing new work at this years Bushwick Open Studios— a three-day event in Bushwick showcasing the latest and greatest, and the best and the worst that the Brooklyn NYC has to offer.   BOS is this Friday  through Sunday.  My studio will be open from 7pm on Friday, also  during the day Saturday and Sunday.

405 Alive Page (my studio)  http://artsinbushwick.org/bos2012/directory/?listing=6978
The Bushwick Open Studios General Link, complete with phone app.  http://artsinbushwick.org/bos2012/


For my part, I will be showing five new paintings, two small sculptures, and one print that I have completed over the past few somewhat tumultuous months.  I am very excited to present this new body of work, and I sincerely hope you can make it out to see it. 

There will be many other shows in the area, so come to Bushwick Open Studios.   See what is good in the art world now, and also see the worst, because the only thing more fun than loving and praising  a great work of art is hating a work of art.

PS— I will be at the studio a great deal of the time, but you if are planning on coming out and want to see me specifically, just text me (804) 814-8728 and Ill come meet you. 

Cheers and Happy Arting…

Ella

 
Lily Cox-Richard has been awarded a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship. This summer, she will spend two months in Washington DC doing research at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and creating new work for her project The Stand/Possessing Powers.
 
Envisioned as a contemporary Hall of Plasters, the sculptures in this body of work depict tree stumps, wheat sheaves, and massive quartz crystals: props that were once used structurally and allegorically in American Neo-Classical figure sculpture. Each of Cox-Richard’s carved plasters is based on a marble sculpture by Hiram Powers (1805-1873), once known as The Father of American Sculpture. In Powers’ works, idealized female figures symbolize allegorical themes. Cox-Richard re-carves each sculpture in plaster at the same scale as Powers’ – but without the figure. By shifting the focus to the supporting elements and the contact points, Cox-Richard hopes to show a different allegory: “I aim to create a new whole, not a fragment or ruin. In condensing these sculptures down to their supports, figure and ground conflate into new forms, revealing latent content.”
 
Lily Cox-Richard has also been awarded a Faculty Seed Grant from the University of Michigan’s Institute for Research on Women and Gender to support this work. The Stand/Possessing Powers will be exhibited at Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, Virginia in March 2013.
 

Dear Friends,

Please come check out my performance this Saturday June 2nd where I will be presenting Nomadic Star Machine. Nomadic Star Machine is an intergalactic journey of light and sound. This work is constantly changing to adapt to its location and circumstance. In this installment Charlie Roberts the artist/creator of the Nomadic Star Machine with give a live musical performance at the Pine Box Rock Shop with all original music to accompany Jessica DiBattista’s live dance performance. Jessica will be wearing the The Star Suit an R.G.B. L.E.D. suit that puts double rainbows to shame. The Star Suit is a collaborative effort between Charlie Roberts, Jessica Dibattista and Matt Richard.


Pine Box Rock Shop
12 Grattan Street, Brooklyn, NY 11206
9pm Saturday June 2nd 2012
http://artsinbushwick.org/bos2012/directory/?listing=4542

Best,

Charlie

Artomatic: Some Early Reactions

Mason Thorpe Calhoun, Pixelation Installation

Barnstorming through Artomatic, it’s easier to react than reflect. This year’s artist headcount is more than 1,000, which means a two-hour dash through the 10 floors of artwork gives you about five seconds per artist—an overestimation that does not factor in the time to move between rooms, move between floors, or get lost.  That estimate also leaves no time to reflect on a single artwork.

The notion of creating a top 10 is a little preposterous, akin to flipping through a survey of art history text and picking out the top 10 artists of all time. That’s not what this post is. These are merely a few works for which I urge you to keep an eye out. Artomatic runs through June 23 at 1851 S. Bell Street, Crystal City.

David D’Orio

David D’Orio took his time in displaying his work, laying down a panel floor and bypassing Artomatic’s fluorescent lighting with a drop lamp. Even his vinyl lettering has the hint of a museum exhibition. His sculptural work, a bicycle with various glass beakers attached to it, feels like the hybrid of early aeronautics and Duchamp’s Bicycle Wheel. The radio atop is tuned to WMAL, a station that drones right-wing rhetoric through mouth-pieces like Chris Plante and (the syndicated shows of) Rush Limbaugh and Mark Levin. It’s reminiscent of the days leading up to World War 1, when the opinions of yellow journalist were mistaken for fact, when bicycle pedals could launch their riders into the skies, and when science was uncovering ingenious ways to kill thousands through chemistry.

Gloria Chapa

Gloria Chapa’s work centers on themes of early childhood. A large crocheted wreathe lays on the floor, covered in flour and baby powder, and you smell it as you approach the installation; encircling it is a swarm of white plastic soldiers, emerging from flour. These are things a parent might identify symbolically with the growth and development of a child: They’re borne from the womb and swaddled in lose-woven blankets. For a couple of months they chiefly smell of baby powder. And flour is something that occupies them: It’s tje mess they make in the pantry, a substance they learn to draw with, an essential ingredient of cookies. The floor installation is supported by the portraits of infants and toddlers that align in a chevron. The contrast between a predominantly white installation and six charcoal drawings is startling, which makes the presentation feel like two distinct works, related by theme, coming to a compromise in the space.

Selasar Sunaryo Art Space in cooperation with Valentine Willie Fine Art cordially invite you to the opening of
 
STILL BUILDING
Contemporary Art from Singapore
curated by Jason Wee
 
 
OPENING:
Sunday, 27 May 2012, 4PM
at Amphitheater - Selasar Sunaryo Art Space
Officiated by H.E. Mr. Ashok Mirpuri (Singapore’s Ambassador for Indonesia)
Guest of Honor: H.E. Mr. Ashok Mirpuri and Mrs. Gouri Mirpuri
 
 
ARTIST TALK / DISCUSSION:
Monday, 28 May 2012, 2PM
at Seminar Room, Faculty of Art and Design,
Bandung Institute of Technology (FSRD-ITB), Jl. Ganesha 10 Bandung
Moderated by Jason Wee
Artists in attendance: Li Cassidy-Peet, Tay Wei Leng, Vivian Lee and Shubigi Rao
 
FILM SCREENING:
Saturday and Sunday, 2 & 3 June 2012, 2PM
at Bale Handap - Selasar Sunaryo Art Space
Video works by Royston Tan, Tan Pin Pin and Charles Lim
 
The exhibition takes its title from a much-acclaimed play by the Singapore playwright Haresh Sharma of the same name. In it, Sharma writes of Singapore as ‘a dangerously peaceful country’, a country that touts the ways its highly engineered development takes place through ordered urbanization and rapid capital accumulation. Yet the seeds of this peace have germinated other, more painful effects, its urbanization and ostentatious prosperity creating fatalism, resentment and melancholy in their wake.
 
Through the works of twenty artists, Still Building suggests that this island country remains a knotty conundrum. For all its slick sophistication, the city remains in many ways a place and a culture that is under construction. While the official state narrative of how the country is shaped remains a pervasive influence, these artists have shown how urbanity is lived differently, that the social life of the city takes flight on paths the country cannot plan for.

 
Some of these artists - Frayn Yong, Tay Wei Leng, Hong Sek Chern among them - explore the way the city is built and is still building, how its public housing programmes shape the visual representation of the city. Others such as Patrick Storey and Hazel Lim examine the marginal spaces in the city that escape the reach of the city planning. Our highly acclaimed cinematic artists, Charles Lim, Tan Pin Pin, and Royston Tan, take us along neglected infrastructures such as our canals and waterways, as well as places haunted by the ghosts of our past.
 
Other such as Godwin Koay, Heman Chong and Lucy Davis, look at Singapore within a network of other cities, and see how, far from an isolated red dot, it is enmeshed within a complex matrix of cross-border relationships. The exhibition Still Building will show how the story of urban life and urbanity in Singapore is one that is excitingly still under development, one that can still be told in a myriad different ways.
 
(Jason Wee, Exhibition curator)

Visiting Assistant Professor of Art / Ceramics & Sculpture Tech

Allegheny College in Meadville, PA

2 year position beginning Fall 2012

http://sites.allegheny.edu/art/

Please pass this on to anyone interested in teaching Metals and Sculpture for the summer. This is a great opportunity to build up the CV and alot of fun and experience. Interlochen is a world-famous  summer camp for the arts.  MFA’s are required for Instructors and even though its pre-college age kids, its run like a college.

Its room and board plus pay. Teachers usually find time to make their own work, attend concerts, and recreate in beautiful upstate Michigan.

They had a teacher drop out at the last minute. I’m teaching sculpture and being the studio tech so I’m already pretty busy.

http://www.interlochen.org/job/instructor-visual-arts-metalssculpture

If you apply for this you may mention in the email body that you actually did not go to the “Academy” but instead received this information through someone who did.

much love and light

Sculptor
Seeking detail-oriented individual to work full-time with leading contemporary artist Jeff Koons in a demanding studio atmosphere. Work entails finishing 3-dimensional metal sculptures with industrial paint systems. Must have realistic, figurative skills. Paint / surface prep or metal-finishing experience. Please send resume, as well as images of work specifically showing attention to detail, to jk92106@yahoo.com with “Sculpture - Academy” in subject line.
 
Sculpture-Painting Masker:
Seeking detail oriented studio assistant to work full time with leading contemporary artist Jeff Koons in a demanding atmosphere. Work entails finishing 3 dimensional aluminum sculptures with industrial paint systems. Position will focus specifically on intricate masking and surface preparation. Please send resume, as well as images of work specifically showing attention to detail, to hulkfriends@gmail.com with “Sculpture Painting Masker - Academy” in subject line.
 

Monumental Drift
Tim DeVoe
Mary Eisendrath
R Eric McMaster

June 2-22, 2012

opening reception: Saturday June 2  6-9pm
closing reception: Friday June 22 6-9pm

HIghpoint Gallery
3119 West Moore St.
Richmond, VA

gallery hours Tuesday-Saturday 11am - 5pm