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Michele Saulson Designs Jewelry Show At Octavia Art Gallery In New Orleans

2/21/2012

Michele Saulson 'jewelry show takes place from March 16 - 17, 2012 at Octavia Art Gallery, 4532 Magazine Street, New Orleans. There is a reception with the designer from 5 to 8 p.m. with the designer.

Saulson has degrees in Historic Preservation and Interior design. She uses this background to create colorful jewelry with a vintage feel. All the pieces are handmade, have a unique story and many of them are one of a kind.

Ellen Miller Gallery In Boston Presents Three Muses--Closing February 29, 2012

2/16/2012

Ellen Miller Gallery presents Three Muses, a show featuring three artists; Whitney River, Joyce Roessler and Amy Gillespie. The exhibit opens runs until Februar 29 at 38 Newbury Street, 4th Floor Boston.

River draws moonshells, a series of 18 with each shell showing more decay in a contemplation of the degradation of time-- a sort of mandala. Roesler’s series, in glass and entitled Blue Wave, features 30 blue sculpture pieces, each plump at the base and getting smaller and more bowed at the top. Each sits atop a light box but as a series look like a living wave. Gillespie’s work employs painted felt inserted into channels made in wood panels. Anemone, one of the pieces has a turquoise center, braided with felt rising off like barnacles. Her work is the most abstract of the show.

For more information head to www.ellenmillergallery.com.

Asymmetrik At Scope Miami 2011 Featuring A Slew Of Wonderful Artists

2/15/2012

by Sara Carter

Asymmetrik are an online gallery that focuses on photography. Owner Jeremy Hu took some time to tell me the details of the artists shown at the Asymmetrik booth at Scope Miami 2011. Of course my notes were illegible. But I did take some pictures. Crappy pictures but pictures. AND you can go to asymmetrikinc.com and see good images! I encourage you to go there in fact.

Corriette Schoenaerts’ piece from her Passion = Violence collection was part of the exhibit.

“She made it she photographed it--happy pieces--tries to put fantasy into the reality, the scenes of dreams.” says Hu.

by Sara Carter

My notes didn't say a coherent thing about the wonderful pieces by Sara Carter. Some day I will post a handwriting sample so people can see my dilemma when I do not record interviews.

by Corriett Schoenaerts

by Matthew McMullen Smith

Matthew McMullen Smith was also featured prominently. His photos of women literally veiled in smoke are striking.

“By looking at the picture you wouldn’t know it but he is a skater boy.” says Hu.

by Mark Sobczak

Mark Sobczak's piece barely made it to the exhibit and was unframed. As usual my photo of a photo does not do this justice. It is remarkable work.

Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) Announces deFINE ART 2012, Feb. 21-25, 2012

2/14/2012

Fred Wilson

Savanah College of Art and Design have announced an expended list of exhibitions and programing for SCAD define Art 2012. This is the third annual showcase and it takes place Februar 21-25, 2012 at the SCAD Museum of Art in Savannah as well as the school’s international campuses in Hong Kong and Lacoste, France.

This year the show includes Life’s Link an exhibition by Fred Wilson (who is also being honored and is a keynote speaker). Other artists being exhibited include; Mohamed Bourouissa, Jane Alexander, Sigalit Landau, Zander Blom, Stephen Antonakos and others.

There are more programs and exhibits. For more information head to scad.edu/defineart or scadmoa.org.

Akiko Ban "Alive" Exhibit Opens At Bicha In London March 1, 2012

2/9/2012

Akiko Ban’s Alive opens At Bicha in London on March 1, 2012. They bill this exhibit by the Japanese artist as “An uplifting exhibition of cast sculpture and drawings.” There is an opening reception 6.30–8.30 pm March 1, 2012 at Bicha, 7 Gabriel's Wharf, South Bank, 56 Upper Ground in London.

The exhibit runs March 2–24, 2012.

Akiko Ban’s art owes much to her training as a master of Japanese calligraphy. She wants to give life to materials and create separate entities that exist on their own. She uses real time casting in her sculpture to capture reality—liquid and flexible materials such as plaster, fabric, in, water and rubber are integrated in her model making.

Her work reflects personal mythology—made of myths that make up her world in the here and now. Subjects range from films, music to social issues.

Susan Goldman At Ink Miami Art Fair Shown By The Old Print Shop

2/8/2012

These pieces (woodcuts) by Susan Goldman were shown at Ink Miami Art Fair in December 2011. The Old Print Shop, 150 Lexington Avenue at 30th Street in New York, showed these particular prints. They went for $900 each, which seems reasonable.

Goldman is an artist and teacher who, as you can notice in these pieces, explores ancient, traditional images in her work.

As far as process goes Goldman builds the surface of compositions by printing multiple layers of transparent inks onto paper. Then she wipes the plate to create luminous effects. The use of solvents breaks down and builds forms. Her work is in collections including the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian Museum of American Art and the Cincinnati Art Museum (as well as many private collections).

She teaches at George Mason University and runs a print atelier, Lily Press, in Rockville, Maryland.

Martyn Brewster "Coastal Light" Exhibit At Watterhouse & Dodd In London

2/6/2012

Waterhouse & Dodd present a new exhibition by painter/printmaker Martyn Brewster, Coastal Light. The exhibit takes place from February 22 to March 16, 2012 at Waterhouse & Dodd’s Cork Street gallery, 26 Cork Street, London There will be an opening from. There will be an opening 21st February from 6-8pm.

The exhibit includes paintings, pieces on paper and prints. Brewster is an abstract artist and his new work is of coastal light on the south coast of Dorset. Brewster lives in the area. In the past his work has consisted of panoramic landscapes (not exclusively so obviously). He uses a softer palette and square forms.

Brewster has had exhibitions at Russel Cotes Art Gallery and Museum, the Royal West England Academy and others. His work is in a number of private and public collections.

Prices for pieces in this exhibit range from £400 to £10,000.

Donovan Barrow’s Show, Gleaning, Opens At RARE in NYC February 9

2/6/2012

Found Object #1

Donovan Barrow’s latest show, Gleaning, runs from February 9 to March 8, 2012 at Rare Gallery, 547 W. 27th St. #514, New York. There is an opening reception on Thursday, February 9 from 6 to 8 p.m.

Barrow’s work uses different media and techniques in small-scale works. He uses debris and vintage items and puts them together with marbleized panels created via a process that is complex and painstaking (and mysterious to me since the press release didn’t detail it!)

Armin Boehm Signs On With Galerie Peter Kilchmann

2/3/2012

Zar-X, 2011, oil, metal, powder, textile, paper on wood

Galerie Peter Kilchmann this week announced a “collaboration” with German artist, Armin Boehm. I assume this means they are representing him. Boehm studied at the National Art Academy in Düsseldorf. In school he worked with both Konrad Klapheck and Jörg Immendorf.

Looking at the painting Zar-X, 2011 here. It illustrates how Boehm’s work incorporates Expressionism, French Existentialism, the philosophy of Martin Heidegger and Heisenberg’s quantum physics and questions about the human constitution in our technologically driven world.

His work may be landscape, cityscape or interiors but there is always an exploration of those areas on the edge of our perception; a sideways glance at something that exists between enlightenment and our daily consciousness.

David Shrigley "Arms Fayre" Solo Exhibition Opens Feb 8 At Stephen Friedman Gallery, London

2/3/2012

Arms Fayre is a solo exhibition of new work by British artist David Shrigley. The exhibit of ceramic sculptures, taxidermy curiosity and a new animation produced specifically for the exhibit which runs from February 8 through March 10, 2013 at Stephen Friedman Gallery, 25 - 28 Old Burlington Street, London. There will be a private view from 6-8 p.m. Tuesday, February 7, 2012.

In his over two decades of work, Shrigley had moved from his iconic and ironic drawings into sculpture, music, photography, animation and taxidermy. He brings his healthy love of the absurd and his humor to all these endeavors.

Three different aspects of the artist’s work are represented in this exhibition. A front gallery shows an installation of new ceramic sculptures titled, Bombs. Think of the bombs and missiles in every cartoon you saw as a child. These bombs are fragile, simple things and not the objects of war and destruction in the real world. Next is the new animation piece and then new taxidermy. If it sounds grim? It likely isn’t.

This exhibit coincides with another—a mid-career survey of the artist’s work running at the same time at the Hayward Gallery in London.