"Transgressive Architecture"
Alex Schweder and Ward Shelley
Thursday, April 24, 6:30 pm
Sert Gallery, 3rd floor
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
24 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
http://www.ves.fas.harvard.edu/BYO.html
Drinks and Dinner Provided
Darren Foote and Ali Smith are opening tonight at RHYS Gallery from 5-8pm.
RHYS Gallery
401 Harrison Avenue, Boston
Heide Fasnacht, Exploding Plane, 2000, Graphite Acrylic over Neoprene, Dimensions Variable (approx 20' sq), [source]
Styrofoam presents art made of the commonplace material known for its light weight quality and wide application. Opening to the public on Friday, March 14 (opening reception on March 19, see below) in the lower Farago Gallery, Styrofoam highlights both the earlier and current uses of this material by artists in a wide range of styles and approaches. Styrofoam (extruded or expanded polystyrene) is a material whose intended uses range from building insulation and construction models to product packaging and coffee cups. In recent years, artists have used styrofoam in a variety of new and ingenious ways. They carve into it, mold it, and assemble it into entirely new forms and images that often contrast with its original functions, at times implying environmental concerns about use and reuse. Artists represented are Folkert de Jong, Heide Fasnacht, Tony Feher, Tom Friedman, Steve Keister, Sol LeWitt, Bruce Pearson, Shirley Tse, Richard Tuttle, and B. Wurtz.
Opening Reception: Styrofoam
Wednesday, March 19
5:30 pm: View the exhibition
6:45 pm: Artist panel discussion with Heide Fasnacht, Steve Keister, Bruce Pearson, Richard Tuttle, and B. Wurtz. RISD Auditorium, Canal Way. Free and open to the public. More info here.
Megan and Murray McMillan, The Listening Array: Photograph, 2008, 25'' x 50'', ed. of 3
Our opening is tonight at Whittier College from 7-9pm (info).
Hope to see you there.
Hanging Drawings 1 (20 Successive Drawings, Unique and Unrehearsed), video still, 2007 [source]
"As part of the 20th Drawing Show/Drawing the Line currently on view at the Mills Gallery at The Boston Center for the Arts, Nancy Murphy Spicer is presenting her work Hanging Drawings 1 (20 Successive Drawings, Unique and Unrehearsed). The artist invites individuals to interact with her work by signing up to have their own drawing session in the gallery. No preparation is necessary and those signing up should allow approximately 30 minutes for the drawing session.
Drawing sessions can be scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, December 8 and 9 as well as Saturday, January 5, between 12-5. To sign up, please email (using the subject line: 'drawing session') with your choice of day and time (choose a time on the hour: noon, 1pm, 2pm etc.) and include your email and phone. The artist will contact you to confirm your session. Email: nancy@murphyspicer.com." [from the invitation]
Megan and Murray McMillan, Channelbone, 2007, single-channel video installation
Tonight Murray and I will be participating in a lecture at Roger Williams University, where he is a new media art professor. We'll be specifically addressing the interdisciplinary aspects of our work: how we use a variety of disciplines — dance, sculpture, performance, text, music, works on paper — to create a finished work on video, in photographs, or in a site-specific installation. Or often all of the above.
Lecture, October 2
Mutual Influence: SAAHP Community Forum
with Dean Stephen White, New Faculty & Students, featuring Richard Greenwood, Megan and Murray McMillan and Janet Pihlblad
All lectures are held at 6:00 PM in room CAS 157 in the Feinstein College of Arts and Sciences Building on Roger Williams University’s Bristol Campus (directions).
Nikki S. Lee [source]
This Friday, Nikki S. Lee will be in St Louis to introduce her film a.k.a. Nikki S. Lee for the St Louis Art Museum's series: Action/Reaction: Film and Video Artists Look at Their World.
"a.k.a. Nikki S. Lee," 2006 (60 minutes)
Friday, April 27 at 7 p.m.
Auditorium
$5 ($3 Members)
Brandon Anschultz, Jerald Ieans, Eva Lundsager and Daniel Raedeke spoke with moderator Jim Schmidt last night at White Flag Projects about their exhibition (quite good and closing Dec 16), working strategies and the current abstract painting sensibility. Anschultz and Lundsager stole the show with thoughtful and sincere responses. Among them: opposing strategies of keeping a studio stocked with inspirations or free from distractions, wondering when neon orange will loose its charm and Battlestar Galactica as inspiration.
One of the best questions asked all evening — "Which bodies of knowledge do you collect to inform your work?" — seemed to make the panelists nervous. Apparently this is either a trade secret or the artists are not considering non-painting issues. With abstract painting's history and conceptual restraints considered, the future of abstract painting will necessitate careful strategy.
