Elyse Martin ‘s art will be part of Constantly.Consuming.Culture—The Art Show.  Martin is from Chicago and has been a teacher in the city since 1973. Her students have won the premiere student cover art competition sponsored by the Chicago Bulls Development Foundation for seven consecutive years. She attended Pratt Institute and Washington University (St. Louis).

The work is personal and inspired by those close to her—using paint, encaustic and photo transfer.

She teaches at the Jordan Community School in Chicago (named after the Jordan family, not Michael specifically). Martin has even done an encaustic piece for Michael’s mother, Deloris.

“Mrs. Jordan was involved in the school since its inception 20 years ago so I have known her that long.  Last year I had a student art show at the Black Cloud Gallery,” says Martin. “All donation names were put in a hat.  The one that got picked received an encaustic painting made from their photo.  Mrs. Jordan wanted one as well. I did a painting for her from an old photo. “

Martin as graciously agreed to do the same for mapanare.us.  As a new reward for our Kickstarter Martin will create a 12"x 12", 9" x 12" or 12"x 16" encaustic painting of a photo provided by YOU (just like she did for Michael’s mom).  Usually this would cost $500.

To see Martin’s encaustic pieces go HERE.

Mikey Peterson is a visual artist, writer, musician and art-educator based in Chicago. He will also be part of Constantly.Consuming.Culture-The Art Show in Chicago this fall.  Remember to go check out the KICKSTARTER TO FUND THIS SHOW!

Peterson's work has been shown at the StreeTVideoart exhibition in Paris, the Video Art And Experimental Film Festival at Tribeca in NYC, the Lucca Film Festival in Italy, the Performance Intermedia and DokumentART Fest in Poland, at the University of Chicago's Smart Museum and at the Chicago Cultural Center and at many other venues.

To see some of Peterson's work head HERE or HERE.

Or find out more about his videos, music and more at mikeypeterson.com

SITE Santa Fe recently announced the first edition of SITElines, titled Unsettled Landscapes. The biennial exhibition series opens July 13, 2014 and will be open through January, 2015.

SITElines: New Perspectives on Art of the Americas will encopass six years of linked exhibits. Cultural production and contemporary are are the focus of these exhibits which take place every other year beginning in 2014. Different groups and individuals will organize exhibits throughout the Western Hemisphere.

For more information and updates head to sitesantafe.org.

Galerie Peter Kilchmann (Zahnradstrasse 21 8005 Zurich) presents Los Carpinteros-Bola De Pelo June 8 to July 27, 2013. There will be an opening reception from 5 to 7 p.m. Saturday, June 8.

Find out more about Los Carpinteros at the Galerie Peter Kilchmann website.

If you are in Zurich this summer drop by to view the exhibit.

Julia Hamilton's skull sculptures first caught my eye when I saw a completely silver skull with silver flowers wound through the horns. I regret not having a photo of that piece (to say nothing of having the piece itself). Hamilton is the first confirmed artist for the Constantly.Consuming.Culture Art Show. You can check out the Kickstarter for the show HERE.

This is a smaller piece --and one of her only finished ones that hasn't been sold. Her work uses antlers skulls and other pieces of the once animate to create sculptures that make you forget about the what is used to create them. Hamilton makes them new.

Like many artists who will be part of the Constantly.Consuming.Culture. Art Show, Hamilton has a "real job." She has a degree in communications from DePaul University and, among many other things, runs www.prettywindycity.com.

Susanne Gottberg's You, the Living opens at Galerie Forsblom (Lönnrotinkatu 5
00100 Helsinki) May 17 and closes June 20, 2013. There will be an opening reception from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, May 16.

Gottberg uses motifs of quiet and tense moments--times when something is soon to happen or has just departed. Her work channels expectation that lingers through interiors--furniture, reflections, draped fabric. You the viewer, is required to loo at the paintings and experience this expectation.

Gottberg is a 1989 graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts. Her first solo exhibition in Helsinki was that same year.

Jacob Hashimoto's Armada & Recent Kite Works opens at Galerie Forsblom May 17 to June 20, 2013. There will be an opening reception from 5-7 p.m. on Thursday May 16.

This exhibition is of Hashimoto's new kit installations and another, distinct, installation, Armada. The latter consists of hundreds of boats. Hashimoto uses illustration, motion and space to captivate the audience and brings about a sort of dialogue between humanity an nature. His kite installations combine drawing, painting and reliefs.

Hashimoto is a graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has had exhibitions in Europe and the USA. In addition to this exhibit in Finland his work will shortly be shown in Germany, Sweden and Italy. He currently lives in New York City.    

Scott White Contemporary Art Presents:
Spiral: New Paintings by Gail Roberts opens at Scott White Gallery (7655 Girard Ave. Suite 101 La Jolla) June 8 and runs through July 27, 2013. There will be an opening reception from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday June 8.

The exhibit is of new nest and tree paintings by Roberts. You will notice that the artist's works are both realistic and surrealistic as she uses nature to make images that seem almost abstract. This exhibit is of larger works and is part of her reflection on the Fibonacci principle (each number is the sum of the previous two numbers).

Deborah Butterfield is showing new bronze pieces at Gallery Paule Anglim (14 Geary Street, San Francisco). The exhibit runs May 8 through June 15, 2013. There will be an artist's reception from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., Thursday, May 9.

The exhibit will include three large standing horse figures. You may notice these look as if they were made from sticks. In part they are--the pieces are made up of sticks and found wood and then caast in bronze. There will also be a group of smaller bronze horse sculptures.

This is Butterfield's tenth exhibition in the past 25 years. She has been represented by Gallery Paule Anglim all that time. Her work is in the collections of The Art Institute of Chicago, The Smithsonian Institution, the Whitney, the San Francisco Museum of Moder Art and many other notable institutions.
 

Butter Box and the Talking Piano is artist Camille Iemmolo’s latest art piece/installation. It will be held at Madame Zuzu’s (582 Roger Williams Ave) in Highland Park, Illinois from 6 to 9 p.m., Saturday May 11, 2013. The venue is owned by Smashing Pumpkins’ Billy Corgan (no he isn’t going to be performing so don’t think that).

Iemmolo continues, in this piece, to combine material culture and human interaction. In the cold months the artist found herself craving baked goods. The dark skies and snow led to eating cookies, cupcakes and other sweet, buttery treats. Naturally this led to guilt. We shy away from such sweets for our health but we still crave them.

Is this craving tied to love? Iemmolo wants to explore the link between food and psychology with a particular eye to butter which was once used as tribute and sacrifice.

When we are younger baked goods are treats and rewards for good behavior. Or these goods are just tied to good memories of our mothers giving treats after school. Iemmolo wonders what happens if this buttery, sweet fat is missing? Do we just crave it forever? She also wonders if instead of these sweets, these treats, shouldn’t we humans crave each other in this way?

Come see the artist’s Talking Piano and kids from CPS Jordan Community School. As with al Iemmolo’s events it will be magical fun.

Takuma Nakahira’s Circulation: Date, Place, Events opens at Yossi Milo Gallery (245 Tenth Ave, New York) May 23 through July 12, 2013. An opening reception and a book launch takes place from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, May 23.

Nakahira, a Japanese photographer, writer, critic and political activist shoots black and white images. These are blurry and grainy and bring uncertainty into photography. He was an early Japanese photographer who moved past a tradition of social realism. His work also brings language into photography as an integral part of his pieces.

Circulation: Date, Place, Events was initially exhibited as part of the Seventh Paris Biennale in 1971. This exhibition, inspired by that exhibition features 74 gelatin silver prints that come from the original 35 mm negatives.