mercredi 9 septembre 2009

FAX ART - BALTIMORE

The Contemporary Museum invites you to FAX, an innovative exhibition that employs the technology of the facsimile machine as a drawing device for artists. With participating artists based around the globe, works will "arrive" via fax throughout the run of the exhibition as artists dial in to a fax machine installed in the Contemporary's galleries.

Drawing Center Invited Artists: / Partial list

  • John Armleder
  • Fia Backström
  • Barbara Bloom
  • Mel Bochner
  • Peter Coffin
  • Liam Gillick
  • Marissa Gonzalez
  • Joseph Grigely
  • Wade Guyton
  • Eduardo Kac
  • Glenn Ligon
  • Josephine Meckseper
  • Olivier Mosset
  • William Pope L.
  • Kay Rosen
  • Josh Smith
  • Christopher Williams

Contemporary Museum Invited Artists:/ Partial list

  • Alzaruba
  • Lee Boot
  • Lynn Cazabon
  • Leslie Furlong
  • Bernhard Hildebrandt
  • Gary Kachadourian
  • Nefeli Massia
  • Cara Ober
  • Hugh Pocock
  • John Ruppert
  • Soledad Salamé
  • Joyce Scott
  • Sofia Silva
  • Molly Springfield
  • R.L. Tillman
  • Calla Thompson


Date :
12 septembre 2009
Heure :
18:00 - 20:00
Lieu :
Adresse :
100 W. Centre Street
Ville :
Baltimore, MD

Téléphone :
4107835720
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NEOPRIEST & MEGHAN NIITTYNEN - THUNDER BAY

Definitely Superior Art Gallery presents:
the gala opening of two new exhibitions,

NEOPRIEST
14 INTERNATIONALLY KNOWN CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS from HEADBONES GALLERY-TORONTO

and

ROCK STAR PORTRAITS-DRAWING EXHIBITION-MEGHAN NIITTYNEN

GALA OPENING RECEPTION
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 18 @ 7:00 pm

featuring:
ARTISTS TALKS/MUSIC PERFORMANCES/REFRESHMENTS

SEPTEMBER 18-OCTOBER 24

You are cordially invited to NEOPRIEST-[New Pop Realists Intellectually Engaged in Story Telling]-a contemporary exhibition featuring 14 internationally known Canadian artists from Headbones Gallery-Toronto-which specialises in exciting contemporary artists and artforms of drawing, painting-sculpture and works on paper in order to introduce curators, collectors, art appreciators and the curious general to new works. A must see exhibition of vital contemporary artists in Canada.
Featuring:


Director Richard Fogarty of Headbones Gallery will be present and giving a talk-as they are always looking for cutting edge contemporary artists in Canada-see what he has to say-you may be one of those artists! Fogarty will also be bringing a few of the 14 artists to talk about their art as well. Join us for a Gala Opening Reception with Artists Talks/Music Performance/Refreshments
Gallery 1-2

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ROCK STAR PORTRAITS-DRAWING EXHIBITION-MEGHAN NIITTYNEN -GALA OPENING RECEPTION FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 18 @ 7PM-FEATURING ARTISTS TALKS/MUSIC PERFORMANCES/REFRESHMENTS-SEPTEMBER 18-OCTOBER 24

Definitely Superior wishes to emphasize to the arts community-at-large an awareness of the diverse nature of artists and an appreciation of the contemporary arts in the region of Northwestern ON, and allow access by members and collectives to develop shows and art production as well as a place to exhibit. This month features Meghan Niittynen, one of the premiere drawers in Northwestern Ontario in her first solo exhibition in gallery 3.
Niittynen depicts in her photo-realistic coloured pencil drawings, a record of events culminating towards a completed image/icon portraiture of individuals within the music subcultures of Metal and Rock. An important aspect is the subliminal element of visible tattoos in her portraiture, a mirror of our times capturing the zeitgeist of rock and culture today. Join us for a Gala Opening Reception with Art-Music Performance
Refreshments, Artist in attendance.
Gallery 3

Date :
18 septembre 2009
Heure :
19:00 - 22:30
Lieu :
Adresse :
250 Park Ave.
Ville :
Thunder Bay, ON

Téléphone :
3443814
Courriel :

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THE LAST THOUSAND YEARS - NEW YORK

45 BIS - ROUEN

Le Collectif DOP est heureux de vous présenter sa dernière création Folklore II visible à Rouen jusqu'au 18 septembre.

Installation "45 bis" - Galerie MAM
du 4 au 18 septembre 2009

Visible de l'extérieur tous les jours.

Le Collectif DOP, créé en 2005, réunit deux artistes issus de l’Ecole des Beaux Arts de Rouen. Le Collectif DOP est particulièrement attaché à l’exploration des lieux communs, ce fond courant d’idées à la disposition de tous. Jouant de leur valeur admise et persuasive, il opère détournements et décalages pour revitaliser, en se les appropriant, ces références adoptées par le plus grand nombre.

Le Collectif DOP poursuit actuellement son nouveau projet intitulé Folklore, portant sur les codes architecturaux des façades. Eléments représentatifs immédiatement identifiables, elles ont été et sont encore au cœur d’enjeux ayant trait à l’identité patrimoniale dans de multiples contextes comme les pavillons nationaux des expositions universelles ou de la Biennale de Venise, comme la Main Street idéalisée par Walt Disney dans ses parcs à thèmes ou comme, plus récemment, la pratique urbanistique du façadisme.

Au sein du quartier des antiquaires de la ville de Rouen, la Galerie MAM est le second support sur lequel le Collectif DOP vient rejouer cette question identitaire. Pour cette nouvelle pièce, il transforme la façade de la galerie, le temps de sa fermeture, en un tombeau nabatéen à l'échelle 1/7.

Le Collectif DOP
collectifdop@hotmail.fr
www.collectifdop.fr

@ MAM Galerie
45 rue Damiette - 76 000 ROUEN

Sh CONTMEPORARY 09 - SHANGHAÏ


A FACE ON MARS - NEW YORK

Virginia Martinsen
Opening Thursday September 10th 6-8pm

September 10 – October 17, 2009

ATM Gallery is pleased to announce the first solo show of 28 year old, UCLA graduate, Virginia Martinsen. The title of this exhibition of paintings, A Face on Mars, reveals Martinsen’s fascination with the human need for companionship and search for a higher power. The fact that people find images of Jesus Christ on the side of a tree, on a piece of cloth or even a piece of toast alludes to the concept that people find references to human figures or images identifiable by our society in almost anything, and whether consciously or not we are searching for them.

Virginia’s paintings are created by pouring liquid paint and dry pigments onto canvases that are positioned flat on the floor. The paint is then left to settle onto the canvas, sometimes creating large pools of paint, and with no further manipulation they take on their own form. The resulting formations are the product of gravity on the canvas, which is forced to stretch accommodating the weight of the paint. As the paint travels over the surface of the canvas the pigments and oil separate from the varnish and mediums, streaks and clumps of paint are created, both solidifying and evaporating. Eventually, dried out circular forms, by-products of the painting process, become centers of some of the paintings.

Her painting process is informed by her many visits with Austrian Actionist Hermann Nitsch at his castle in Prinzendorf, Austria, where she was inspired by Nitsch’s concept of a pour or splatter of paint referencing a stab with a knife, or an extensive experience of existence.

Martinsen’s title “A Face on Mars” refers to the images brought back from Viking 1 taken in 1976, revealing an image that appeared to be a humanoid face on the surface of Mars. People believed that this was an indication of alien life; however latter pictures revealed that the original image of the face was simply the result of shadows and camera angle. Our reaction to those images reveals our desire to know that we are not alone and also to identify something familiar in the unknown. Martinsen’s abstract paintings are based on her fascination with the human need to identify with or find a familiarity in the unknown.

Virginia Martinsen lives and works in New York.

For more information please contact Bill Brady (212) 375-0349 or bill@atmgallery.com

ATM Gallery
621 West 27th Street
New York NY 10001
212.375.0349

***********************On September 21, 2009
Hi Friends, There's been a terrific response from the first few weeks of Virginia Martinsen's show. If you haven't had the chance to make it by the gallery yet to see the exhibition A Face on Mars, I hope to see you soon.
Bill Brady

ART MANET 09 - MONTIGNY-LE-BRETONNEUX

L’édition 2009 s’inscrit dans la continuité des manifestations précédentes qui ont assuré la fidélité des artistes et la reconnaissance du public (près de 2000 visiteurs en octobre 2008) avec:
-Un lieu magique
-Des artistes sélectionnés tels
-Des animations

Plus de 60 artistes de talents, peintres et sculpteurs, présenteront leurs oeuvres à un public averti. Un programme d’animations sera maintenu pendant tout le week-end avec des conférences, ateliers, performances publiques et les improvisations qui sont devenues, désormais, l’une des signatures du Lions Club de Montigny les 3 Villages.

Comme chaque année, la recette et les dons tirés de cette manifestation, seront intégralement consacrés à l’action « Alzheimer » du Lions Club de Montigny Les Trois Villages.

La générosité des artistes, l’action bénévole des membres du Lions Club et l’aide de la commune de Montigny-Le-Bretonneux ont permis, en 2008, de reverser 4.000 € à cette cause.

Heure de début :
17 octobre 2009 à 09:00
Heure de fin :
18 octobre 2009 à 19:00
Lieu :
Adresse :
61 avenue du Manet
Ville :
Montigny-le-Bretonneux, France

Courriel :

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