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Contact Your Representatives And The FCC Today To Preserve Net Neutrality--It is Essential For Sites Like THIS, Find Out More Below

7/12/2017

Contact your representatives an the FCC to preserve Net Neutrality. Sites like this one depend on an open internet to reach you....

What is Net Neutrality? A good primer from the ACLU is HERE.

One of the best parts of the extensive ACLU piece is this; "Imagine if the phone company could mess with your calls — through bad connections or frequent dropped calls — when you tried to order pizza from Domino's, because Pizza Hut is paying them."

That is it in a nutshell...You think you get spied on and hit with ads now?....If this keeps moving along? You haven't seen a thing yet..

Look up your Senators and Representatives and contact them. Call the FCC at 1-888-CALL FCC (225-5322).

Seattle Art Fair 2017 Runs August 4 To 6 At CenturyLink Field Event Center

7/6/2017

Seattle Art Fair 2017 runs August 4 to 6 at CenturyLink Field Event Center (1000 Occidental Ave. S).

This year's festival features 88 exhibitors from 26 cities and nine countries. A large percentage of these galleries are from the Pacific Rim (not the monster movie...the area). This, to me, makes this fair distinct from what you see at many East Coast/Central USA fairs. There is a different flavor here when you look at the list of exhibitors (which you can do HERE).

There is also a slew of programming curated by artistic director, Laura Fried. You can see the programming HERE.

"Wood," An Exhibit By Bill Fultz And Will Mantor Runs July 1 To 15, 2017 At Hang Art (San Francisco)

6/27/2017

Wood, an exhibit of work by Bill Fultz and Will Mantor runs July 1 to 15, 2017 at Hang Art (567 Sutter St., San Francisco). There will be an artist reception from 3 to 5 p.m., Saturday, July 1, 2017.

Fultz and Mantor create works that challenge how the materials (in this case, wood) are used. They add softness to the rigid shapes. The audience is encouraged to put these materials in contexts outside the traditional uses.

"I Am," An Exhibit Featuring The Work Of 31 Middle Eastern Women Artists Takes Place July 2 To August 20, 2017 In London

6/27/2017

The Force is in the Hands of the Woman by Zena Assi

I Am is an exhibit featuring the work of 31 Middle Eastern women artists from 12 countries. The exhibit takes place July 2 to August 20. 2017 at
St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, London. Entry is free.

I Am premiered in May at the National Gallery of Fine Arts, Amman, Jordan. The exhibit will tour the USA stopping in Washington, D.C. at the Katzen Arts Center of American University September 5 to October 22, 2017. You can find out more about the artists and 2018 stops in Wyoming, Texas, Ohio and Vermont HERE.

The exhibit highlights the role of Middle Eastern women in creating a world that is a more peaceful and harmonious place. Pieces deal with culture, religion and social reality in our rapidly changing world. Sounds like a must see exhibit.

"Color People," An Exhibit Curated By Rashid Johnson, Runs At Rental Gallery (East Hampton, NY) July 1 To July 25, 2017

6/22/2017

The Golden Ass by Bob Thompson

Color People, an exhibit curated by Rashid Johnson, runs at Rental Gallery (East Hampton, NY) July 1 to July 25, 2017. There will be an opening reception 6 to 8 p.m., Saturday July 1.

The exhibit includes work by: Walter Price, Nathaniel Mary Quinn, Robert Colescott, Marina Adams, McArthur Binion, Sam Gilliam, Alteronce Gumby, Mary Heilmann, Loie Hollowell, Tony Lewis, Amy Sherald, Bob Thompson, Mary Weatherford and more.

The best description of the show is below from it's curator, Johnson. If you are the area be sure to check this out.

Color People is an exhibition I've long considered organizing. It's born of a twenty-year obsession with the work of the artist Bob Thompson. The artists included are a wide range of painters whose works perform differently but with a shared radicality in their employment and understanding of color. This exhibition doesn't speak to a time or place. The relationships formed here between works are often opaque and intentionally diverse. Some of these artists are heroes of mine, while others I've only recently been introduced to. They're bonded by my interest in their work. I've often found that artist organized exhibitions are most successful when the artist chooses to include works they wish they'd made themselves. This exhibition follows that philosophy. –Rashid Johnson

"Trove," A Collection Of Works By Perle Fine, Runs June 23 To August 12, 2017 At McCormick Gallery (Chicago)

6/21/2017

Creatures of the Summer Heat

Trove, a collection of works by Perle Fine, runs June 23 to August 12, 2017 at McCormick Gallery (Chicago). There will be a 50 page catalog.

Fine was an Abstract Expressionist painter and like many women artists of her era was given less credit than she was due during her life.

MCCormick Gallery has worked with the artist's estate for 16 years which is admirable. Wouldn't it be neat if she had gotten her due within her lifetime? But we can say that about artists like Helen Frankethaler too. Sure they had the odd article praising them but compared to their male counterparts? Nothing. If you disagree with this? I would feel fine punching you in the face. Thank goodness galleries like McCormick are championing these women artists today.

My violent tendencies aside? Be sure to see this exhibit if you have a chance. If you shit money you can buy a piece or two.

Heather Kanazawa, "Investigations of Life," Runs At Boxheart Gallery (Pittsburgh) July 11 To August 11, 2017

6/21/2017

Heather Kanazawa, Investigations of Life, runs at Boxheart Gallery (4523 Liberty Ave. Pittsburgh) July 11 to August 11, 2017. There will be a reception with the artist from 5 to 8 p.m., Saturday July 15. The artist's recent abstract works are in oil and wax and are based on time spent in Japan (Kanazawa is from Pittsburgh).

Kanazawa has a BFA and MA (Art Education) from Edinboro University (Pennsylvania). She currently lives in Kennedy, New York, where she is an art instructor at Jamestown Community College.

Running at the same time is a group show, Group A, Now. The reception with the artists from the group takes place concurrently with Kanazawa's.

Shulamit Nazarian (Los Angeles) Presents A Conversation With Josh Faught And Kate McNamara, Saturday June 24, 2017

6/21/2017

Shulamit Nazarian (616 N. La Brea Ave., Los Angeles) presents a conversation with Josh Faught and Kate McNamara, Saturday June 24 at 4 p.m. The artist's work is on exhibit in Broken Language, a group exhibition also including Greg Ito, Takeshi Murata and Wendy White, until July 1, 2017.

Faught uses textiles, collage, sculpture and archival materials with an eye to collective and personal history. Novelty buttons mix with greeting card text and other sentimental ornamentation mix in the artist's handmade textiles. Faught holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and his work is in the collection of the Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston), the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Rubell Family Collection and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

McNamara is the Director of Galleries at Otis College of Art and Design (Los Angeles) and was previously Chief Curator at the Boston University Art Gallery. She is a co-founder of Cleopatra's (Brooklyn). She has also worked in curation at MoMa, PS1 (New York), AIR Anterpen (Belgium) and Participant Inc.

Andrew Rafacz (Chicago) Opens Two Exhibits, "Figured Out" And "Lullaby" Friday, June 23, 2017

6/21/2017

Andrew Rafacz (835 West Washington Blvd., Chicago) opens two exhibits, Figured Out!, Bodily Form in Contemporary Ceramics, a group exhibition and Lullaby, a solo exhibit by Greg Ito. Both run
June 23 to August 19, 2017.

The former features work by: Saul Alegria, Aubry Broquard, Lilli Carré, Alex Bradley Cohen, Manal Kara, James Kerley, Em Kettner, Katie Kimmel, Kate Klingbeil, David Leggett, Liz McCarthy, Jeffry Mitchell, William J. O'Brien, Jacob Raeder, Jennifer Rochlin, Julia Saldaña, Leon Sadler, Elisa Soliven, Cristina Tufiño, Mark Whalen, and Bari Ziperstein.

Lullaby features sculpture, new paintings and an environmental installation by Ito. Ito has a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. He has been exhibited widely around the world. He lives and works in Los Angeles.

Tsibi Geva, An Israeli Artist, Is Now Represented By Albertz Benda (New York)

6/20/2017

Untitled Acrylic and oil and wood shutter on canvas.

Tsibi Geva, an Israeli artist, is now represented by Albertz Benda (515 West 26th St., New York).

Geva lives and works in Tel Aviv and New York. He was born at Kibbutz Ein Shemer in 1951.

His work has been the subject of exhibits at the Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston), Haifa Museum, Tel Aviv Museum, The Israel Museum (Jerusalem), The American University at the Katzen Arts Center (Washington DC), MACRO Testaccio (Rome) and Mönchenhaus Museum of Modern Art (Goslar, Germany). He also represented Israel at the 56th Venice Biennale and has been the recipient of numerous awards in Israel.

He will be the subject of an show at Albertz Benda in October, 2017. This exhibit will be both new work and pieces from the Venice Biennale. There will
be a catalog accompanying the exhibit.

Untitled Acrylic on canvas.