WLKM BCK: September 1 – Saturday September 18 2010

WLKM BCK is an exhibition featuring the work of Faculty and 2nd yr MFA students in the Visual Arts program at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers. The exhibition runs from September 1st to September 18, 2010.

WLKM BCK, Mason Gross Galleries, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, USA

 

WLCM BCK, an exhibition featuring work by Mason Gross School of the Arts Visual Arts Department Faculty, Staff, and returning second-year M.F.A. students.

Liv Aanrud / John Almelchenko / Eileen Behnke / Caetlynn Booth / Anna Bushman / Damian Catera / Katherine DeGaetani / Erin Dunn / Megan Flaherty / Gabbe Grodin / Chris Guerra / Catherine Haggarty / Annie Hogan / Suzanne Joelson / Marketa Klicova / Gary Kuehn / Julie Langsam / Allison Lindblom / Ardele Lister / Toby MacLennan / Barb Madsen / Tony Masso / Anne McKeown / Traci Molloy / Diane Neumaier / Raphael Ortiz / Kate Pollard / Alan Prazniak / Tom Raggio / Martha Rosler / Erik Schoonebeek / Patrick Strzelec / Richard Tuttle / Betsy VanLangen / Timothy Warner / Tyson Washburn / Stephen Westfall / Shane Whilden / Wendy White / Bryan Whitney / John Yau

Marilyn Forbes: outsider artist: rest in peace.

Marilyn Forbes died suddenly in June. She was an artist at the beginning of her career. We shall miss her. 

Update on Monday, October 11, 2010 at 4:53PM by Annie

Marilyn Forbes was a special woman. Not afraid to embrace new thoughts, ideas and friends, she passed away suddenly. We were all in shock when we found out the news and she is missed by family, friends and colleagues. I came across this picture of Marilyn and Wafaa Bilal; the night we had an Art Happening in the Photo and Print area at the School of Art and Design, ECU, NC. Here they are: a modern day American Gothic. An African American Woman and an Iraqi Artist. Grant Woods would be proud!

Juror for the Colors of Life Photography Exhibition

The Colors of Life Photography Competition: Deadline is July 31st

I am one of the Jurors for this Photography Exhibition. 

Colors of Life 2010 International Photo Contest proudly supports the Neurological Institute of Guatemala (www.juannio.org) a non profit organization which provides care and education for 120 underprivileged children with severe neurological deficits.

Event Title: Colors of Life 2010 International Photo Contest Event Description: An International Photography Competition organized by The Gallery Art & Design, representing an opportunity for Photographers worldwide (professionals, students and amateurs) to submit and exhibit their work In United States and Europe.The work of the 35 final images selected by The Gallery will be submitted to a jury of leading international gallery owners, academics and artists in the field for the selection of the Competition winners:

First, second and third prize (US $ 1250, 900, 550 respectively)In addition, a collective exhibition of the 35 final selected photographs in the Competition will be held at:

The Embassy of Guatemala, Washington DC, November-December 2010

The Capital One Corporate Gallery, January, February, March 2011, Richmond, VA

Art Work, April-March 2011, Richmond, VANational Museum of Modern Art Carlos Merida, Guatemala City, Guatemala.

Entry Fee:  US$ 40 (forty) to submit up to three images

Theme: “A Dream in Color”

Call for entries: June1- July 31, 2010

Additional information and submission:  www.colorsoflife.org

Email: info@colorsoflife.org

Event Contact Information: Amalia Pizzardi (+1) 202 2578937

Event Web Page: www.colorsoflife.org  (apply online)

The Gallery Art & Design/Colors of Life  

1301 Old Logan rd

Manakin- Sabot  VA 23103 Tel:  +01 804 784 1243URL: www.the-gallery.it         www.colorsoflife.org

New Romantics: Darkness and Light in Australian Art

New Romantics: Darkness and Light in Australian Art is a book for lovers of art, atmosphere, ideas and beauty. I am excited for my work to be included in this new book which will come out in 2011. New Romantics : Darkness and Light in Australian Art is authored by Simon Gregg. 

Simon Gregg has spent a life in art. After a decade as a successful visual artist he turned to art history, and has since established a profile as one of Australia’s leading art curators. He has published widely on Australian art, through exhibition catalogues and national art journals. He is currently curator of the Gippsland Art Gallery. 

"Historians called it Romanticism; a disposition for melancholic yearning, for communion with nature, for the sublime. Australian artists, in countless numbers, are engaging with these themes today. We are witnessing a return to a time in art when truth and the individual experience counted for everything. Art today recognises that we have undergone a spiritual loss in recent times, and is summoning the courage to fill it. Its links to an art of two hundred years ago are profound and undeniable – yet strangely few artists are consciously aware of it.

Set against the dazzling backdrop of the Australian sublime, New Romantics charts the dynasties of Romantic art. From its nascent beginnings in European philosophy to a cause championed by Australian colonialists, this study seeks to understand how it has landed in the hands of a new generation of Australian artists. The swiftness and intensity of its return has been stunning, while the conditions that have heralded its sudden outbreak remain unexamined.

New Romantics surveys the work of thirty-six contemporary Australian artists who have reinvigorated this movement, and traces the influences that led them to this unlikely path. This is the first study that seeks to understand a paradigm shift that is shaping the course of Australian art in the twenty-first century.

This compelling study examines Post-Romanticism through eight primary aesthetic forms: the Grotesque; the Domestic; the Glacial; the Pastoral; the Void; Light; Disquiet and Darkness; and Decline. Lavishly illustrated, New Romantics is a compendium for the twenty-first century – a defining work on the return to beauty in Australian art. " from a synopsis of the book, by Simon Gregg.

Essence, 2002 is one of four works that will be included in the book. Other images include Comfort, Forgiveness and Dreamin'. 

Brainstorm: 2010 May 24 – June 24, 2010

A Whole New Mind 2010 – Brainstorm is a national juried art competition at The Visual Arts Gallery at Governors State University, Illinois.

May 24 – June 24, 2010

Jeff Stevenson is the Curator for Brainstorm 2010. Jeff Stevenson Jeff Stevenson is a professional artist and educator exhibiting award winning artwork, and teaching Creativity, Studio Art, and Art History.

For more information see the website here

The Jurors were Susan Aurinko from Flatfile Galleries in Chicago and Tricia Van Eck from the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. 

Susan Aurinko is a photographer, curator and gallerist for Coalition Gallery, Kemper Gallery IIT, and Prudential Plaza. In addition, Aurinko served as owner and curator of Chicago's FLATFILE galleries for ten years. 

Tricia Van Eck is Associate Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art. This past year she co-curated the Chicago presentation of Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe and coordinated the Jeff Koons retrospective. She has curated and coordinated numerous other exhibitions for the MCA including Mapping the Self and Kerry James Marshall: One True Thing - Meditations on Black Aesthetics.

Double Vision #4 is going to be in the exhibition Brainstorm. May 24 to June 24 at Governors State University, Illinois. 

A BIG thanks to Todd Cook for all your help on helping me make this happen.