Camille Iemmolo's latest work, The Write Back Super Hero's Club, opens at The Proposition (2 Extra Place, NYC) on July 5 and runs until July 27, 2013. There will be an artist's reception from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday, July 13, 2013.

Iemmolo will appear at 8 p.m. (EST) Wednesday June 19, 2013 as a guest on our internet radio program, Constantly.Consuming.Culture with Patrick Ogle. You can tune in HERE.

Iemmolo, based in Chicago is a sculptor/installation artist. Her work always has a story behind it—personal but always something that is also universal. The Write Back Super Hero’s Club was inspired by the seeming death of letter writing.  Her own work began, in part, through written correspondence and this installation encourages those visiting to write down those unwritten words and include them in the piece (you will figure out how when you visit). Are words becoming extinct? Is communication? This piece poses those questions.

The Band Aid House At Play piece first appeared at Context/Art Miami in December 2012. It was one of the stand out installations at any fair during the week plus of exhibitions. Check out the video below for more on Band Aid House At Play.

Wayward Bound, a group show, runs from June 25 to August 8, 2013 at Rare Gallery (547 W. 27 St. #514 NYC). The show includes drawings by seven artists--all of whom are exhibiting at Rare for the first time. There will be an opening reception from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, June 25.

Artists include: Clint Colburn, Amanda Kates, Taylor Bowen, Aaron Skolnick, Letitia Quesenberry, Leah Tacha and Mark Stockton. Skolnick also curated the exhibit. While the works will all be drawing they, as you can see from the examples here, are all wildly different in style.

For more information head to www.rare-gallery.com.

The Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) opens Antonio Lopez and the World of Fashion Art July 4 at its Lacoste campus in Provence, France, 2013. The exhibit runs until August 24 and features thirty years of Lopez's creative output.

There will be an opening reception from 6 to 8 p.m. on July 3. The exhibit was previously shown at SCAD's Museum of Art’s André Leon Talley Gallery. The exhibit is curated by André Leon Talley, SCAD trustee.  

For more information head to scad.edu.

Motion at Rest is the new exhibit by Gretchen Hasse opening July 6 at Gallery B1e, 6902 North Glenwood Avenue, Chicago. There will be an opening from 6 to 10 p.m. July 6. The exhibit is of stills for Hasse's video work over the past decade and a half.

Hasse creates videos of a fantastic nature. She began as a graphic artist but then moved into animation, performance and video. She has also worked recently on collages of drawings and "trash."

Hasse has an MFA in film, video and new media from the School of the Art Institute of Chciago. She has been an instructor in video at Columbia College and SAIC. She has also worked extensively with social justice groups including Konbit Sante in Haiti and Tamms Year Ten in Chicago creating videos.

November 2013 sees the seventh edition of Pinta NY, a modern and contemporary art show focusing in art from Spain, Portugal and Latin America. The fair takes place at the same time as Sotheby's and Christie's Latin American art auctions in New York City. The fair takes place November 14 to 17, 2013 at 82 Mercer Street, NYC.

The art show was founded by Diego Costa Peuser. Costa Peuser has dedicated 30 years of his life to exposing Latin American art to the world.

With political and econommic stability in Latin America has come an art boom--both in terms of art created and in terms o demand for that art.

Pinta has changed some things for the 2013 fair. There will be five curatorial platforms: PINTA Galleries, PINTA Emerge, PINTA Centro, PINTA Video and PINTA Forum.

Patte Loper's latest exhibition, How To Stay Alive In The Woods, runs from June 20 to July 27, 2013 at Platform Gallery (114 Third Avenue South, Seattle). There will be an opening from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, June 20 which will include an artist's lecture.

This is Loper's fourth exhibition with Platform. The artist starts her paintings with found materials which she scraps together. Then she makes paintings of these images, portraits of them. There are references to classical portaits here as well as botanical studies. She is documenting these created images as painters documented plants and people in the past.

Loper has an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and has been exhibited around the USA.

Brittany Nelson, a graduate of Cranbrook Academy of Art, has a new exhibit opening at David Klein Gallery (163 Townsend, Birmingham, Michigan) on June 15 and running through July 20, 2013.

Nelson uses chemical reactions in her work. She used a process called Mordancage, a process that involves both digital and chemical reactions with the silver content of photographic paper. The result are abstract and beautiful optical illusions.

Word Play, curated by Stephanie Chefas, opens June 29, 2013 at Design Matters, 11527 West Pico Blvd, Los Angeles. There will be a reception from 7 to 10 pm on June 29.

The exhibition features seven conceptual artists working in a variety of media. The group of artists are all strongly influenced by the written word. Featured in this exhibition are: Greg Lamarche, Shawn Huckins, RERO, Gregory Siff, Ben Venom, Meryl Pataky and Meg Hitchcock.

Dying on Stage:New Painting in New York is a group exhibition of New York-based painters opening at Garis & Hahn (263 Bowery). It runs from June 20 through July 20, 2013. Painters featured include: Sarah Faux, Tatiana Berg, Ariel Dill, Kristina Lee and Clare Grill. The exhibit was curated by Kyle Chayka.

There will be an opening reception from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, June 20th.

The artists are all abstract painters who use a similar "approach" which has been termed "New Casualism." This is the first NYC show bringing together this new sort of abstract artist.

Packer Schopf Gallery, 942 W. Lake St., Chicago, presents an artist talk with Kathy Halper at 1 p.m., Saturday, June 15, 2013.

There will also be a screening of Kathy Halper/Artist in Residence Series, a short documentary from Joe Gallo Film. Following the film Halper will discuss the social commentary in her embroidery work.

For more on Halper and her work go HERE.