Future Retrieval: Permanent Spectacle April 15, 2017 – October 1, 2017 Permanent Spectacle features a fantastical world that reinterprets museum exhibition and display. The immersive tableau includes constructed landscapes, scenic hand-cut wallpaper, wildlife, and other objects that have been altered through the process of digital collection and material selection. Created by Guy Michael Davis and Katie Parker working collaborative under the name Future Retrieval, the site specific installation is informed by the duo’s extensive research of historical collections from the…Read More
Michael Mandiberg: Workflow at LACMA January 1, 2017 – January 1, 2018 Workflow is a project by Art + Technology Lab grant recipient Michael Mandiberg. The artist uses self-tracking technology to understand the changing definition of labor in the digital age. The endeavor has multiple components, including a one-year sonic installation, Quantified Self Portrait (Rhythms), in LACMA’s Pritzker Parking Garage elevators, and a three-channel video, Quantified Self Portrait (One Year Performance), which will begin at LACMA’s Ray’s & Stark Bar on…Read More
Current Rotherwas Room Artist Amanda Valdez Speaks About Ladies’ Night By Sophie Currin ’17 Posted: September 28, 2016 Read on The Amherst Student The Rotherwas Room in the Mead Art Museum is over 400 years old. According to the Mead, the intricate wood panels that constitute the room have meandered from an English castle to a New York City gallery to Amherst over the last few centuries. The panels were commissioned to be crafted in the early 1600s by English…Read More
Mead Art Museum Amherst College announces Rotherwas Project 1: Amanda Valdez, Ladies’ Night. On View September 8, 2016–January 2, 2017 Download exhibition brochure This fall, the historic Rotherwas Room meets contemporary art as the Mead inaugurates its biannual exhibition series, the Rotherwas Project. In “Rotherwas Project 1,” the works of Seattle-born artist Amanda Valdez bring a new palette and iconography to the historic oak-paneled room. Influenced by feminism, quilt design, and non-Western as well as Western art, Ms. Valdez combines paint,…Read More
Denny Gallery will be a neighorhood host of Assembly Required: A Wandering Sukkah created by Danielle Durchslag and Ryan Frank. On tour throughout New York City from September 27 – October 4, 2015 At Denny Gallery and the Tenement Museum Thursday, October 1, 4 to 6 p.m. To view a detailed tour route click here. New Yorkers famously approach commuting with fierce focus, staring straight ahead of them or at the ground as they pound the pavement from one location to another. Assembly Required:…Read More
Read on T’s. Multimedia Works That Explore the State of Nature By Nadia Vellam, March 12, 2015 In this weekly series, T’s photo editors share the most compelling visual projects they’ve discovered. Robert Heinecken famously said about his photography that it is “not a picture of, but an object about something.” For the artist Nadja Frank, her practice — which combines photography, silkscreening and sculpture — creates a larger conversation about the human desire not only to record experience, but…Read More
Exhibition runs March 29 – June 14, 2014 Link to Transformer Station website SUPERBLACK is the result of a two-year research project in collaboration with scientists at the University of Cincinnati. SUPERBLACK is a physical body designed to absorb nearly all electromagnetic radiation (visible light, infrared light, ultraviolet light, etc.) and offer the experience of a localized, contained, and absolute darkness. At its core, SUPERBLACK is an exploration of certain dualities – subject/object, void/full, black/white. Tate’s larger photo-based practice further…Read More
Read on the Huffington Post. “4 Contemporary Female Artists Who Are Shaping The Future of Painting” by Priscilla Frank. December 19, 2013. The year 1913 forever changed the trajectory of painting. Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque were spreading the Cubist gospel, transforming the public’s understanding of not only painting, but of seeing. In the same year, Marcel Duchamp’s “Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2” premiered at the Armory Show, taking abstraction to new heights. These artists did away with the…Read More
Lauren Seiden’s work will be exhibited in “Imago Mundi,” curated by Diego Cortez, works from the Luciano Benetton Collection. The exhibition coincides with the 55th Venice Biennale in Venice, Italy. Opening on August 27 at 7 p.m. Running from August 28 – October 27, 2013. Read more.
A selection of Nikolai Ishchuk’s recent works will be presented in the fourth and last installment of “The Studio Series” at the FoodFace space in Peckham, London. The program, curated by Louise Chignac of Goldsmiths MA Curating, is a testing ground to explore potential relationships between the two major places of art: the studio, where it is made, and the gallery, where it is displayed. Nikolai Ishchuk uses photography as his primary medium; it is both the source of his…Read More
Jackie Mock has three artworks on view in “CHICK LIT: Revised Summer Reading,” curated by Molly Rand and Pilar Vahey at Tracy Williams Ltd., located at 521 West 23rd Street in New York City. June 27 – August 9, 2013 Press Release: “Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul.”- Joyce Carol OatesTracy Williams, Ltd. is pleased to present Chick Lit: Revised Summer Reading, a group exhibition organized by Molly…Read More
BravinLee Programs, 511 West 26th Street #211, New York FLOATER Clint Jukkala, Alexander Kroll, Evan Nesbit, Erik Olson, Eric Sall, Amanda Valdez May 22 – June 28, 2013 Opening Wednesday, May 22, 6-8pm Floaters are deposits of various size, shape, and consistency that exist within the eye’s vitreous humor. They may appear as spots, webs, fragments, or threads that float slowly before the observer’s eyes. In this exhibition, BravinLee programs presents the work of six painters, whose abstracted imagery is…Read More
Photography’s Back to the Future at the Ohio Arts Council’s Riffe Gallery Curated by Catherine Evans, William and Sara Soter Curator of Photography, Columbus Museum of Art May 2 – July 7, 2013 Opening Reception on Thursday, May 2 from 5 to 7 p.m. Artists: Amanda H. Cook, Dennison W. Griffith, Lori Kella, Tracy Longley-Cook, Rachel Girard Reisert, Francis Schanberger, Jordan Tate, Garie Waltzer, Janelle Young, and Christine Zuercher.
Useful Pictures at Michael Matthews Gallery Opening Reception: Saturday, April 13, 6-9 p.m. April 13 – 26 by appointment only Artists: Ben Alper, Heather Cleary, Bobby Davidson, Carey Denniston, Dillon DeWaters, Jon Feinstein, Brian Patrick Franklin, Jeremy Haik, Curtis Hamilton, Diane Neumaier, Sarah Palmer, Jordan Tate, Penelope Umbrico Image: Jordan Tate, New Work #137 on view in the exhibition.
SAME SAME BUT DIFFERENT are an exhibition collective that work within a shared formal language, with each artist employing distinctive materials and subject matter that are true to their namesake. Jay Gaskill, Fabrian G. Tabibian, and Amanda Valdez with special guests Halsey Hathaway and Maya Hayuk. Guest Spot @ the Reinstitute Opening Reception: April 13, 7 – 10 p.m. Join the event on Facebook. Closing & Panel Discussion: May 25, 2 – 4 p.m.
