CORAL & ICE From the Ends of the Earth

The President & Board of Governors of the National Arts Club in Association

with Wings Worldquest present this exhibition

of photographs by WWQ Fellow and Board member Anne L. Doubilet.

March 31- April 14, 2008

Opening Reception: Tuesday, April 1, 2008 6-8 p.m.

Shapes and patterns and colors occurring in nature present designs that rival the imagination. The turquoise glow of melting ice in the Arctic combines with the vibrant pink of soft coral under the Red Sea. They are images from a journey with Alice into Wonderland. This Wonderland is our planet Earth and is being documented by Ms. Doubilet, underwater explorer, photographer and writer. For the past thirty years she has dived in almost all of the Earth's oceans and explored from Papua New Guinea to the Arctic. She is also a Board Member of Wings Worldquest and the Explorers Club.

New work by Tanya Bell

REGISTRATION DEADLINE EXTENSION TO MARCH 17

Guild Hall, East Hampton - 70TH ANNUAL MEMBERS EXHIBITION

MARCH 29 - APRIL 26 ARTIST MEMBERS EXHIBITION (LAST NAMES M – Z)

MAY 10- JUNE 7 ARTIST MEMBERS SHOW (LAST NAMES A – L)

Guild Hall’s 70th Artist Members Show is the oldest non-juried exhibition remaining on Long Island. This important exhibition allows Guild Hall to directly connect with the artistic community that support and inspire our arts institution all year long. Art critic Linda Yablonsky will be the 2008 Members Show Awards Judge. For 2008, the show has been organized into two parts due to the restoration of the John Drew Theater and less gallery space. However, it means more opportunity for artists since there will be two of every prize awarded. Exhibition organized by Michelle Vertucci, Curatorial Assistant/Registrar.

Linda Yablonsky is an art critic for Bloomberg News who also writes for The New York Times, Style Magazine, Art and Auction, ART News, Elle Décor. She also has a popular presence in the “Scene & Herd” column of Artforum.com. Yablonsky is the author of The Story of Junk: A Novel and she is at work on a second book. She lives in New York, where she teaches at School of Visual Arts.

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A new work in the recent small works series.

12" x 24" Acrylic, Venetian Plaster, cement and gold leaf on canvas.

Watch this

Mark Bradford Slide Show

for an inside look at the artist.

His ingenious manipulation of materials is a

feast for the eyes.

Mark Bradford was born in Los Angeles, California in 1961. He received a BFA (1995) and MFA (1997) from the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia. Bradford transforms materials scavenged from the street into wall-sized collages and installations that respond to the impromptu networks—underground economies, migrant communities, or popular appropriation of abandoned public space—that emerge within a city. Drawing from the diverse cultural and geographic makeup of his southern Californian community, Bradford’s work is as informed by his personal background as a third- generation merchant there as it is by the tradition of abstract painting developed worldwide in the 20th Century. Bradford’s videos and map-like, multilayered paper collages refer not only to the organization of streets and buildings in downtown Los Angeles, but also to images of crowds, ranging from civil rights demonstrations of the 1960s to contemporary protests concerning immigration issues

Mark Bradford has received many awards, including the Bucksbaum Award (2006); the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award (2003); and the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award (2002). He has been included in major exhibitions at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2006); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2003); REDCAT, Los Angeles (2004); and Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2001). He has participated in the XXVII São Paulo Bienal (2006); the Whitney Biennial (2006); and inSite: Art Practices in the Public Domain, San Diego, California and Tijuana, Mexico (2005). Bradford lives and works in Los Angeles.

He is represented by Sikkema Jenkins, NYC.

The exhibition at Sikkem Jenkins Featuring Bradford’s signature collage work has ended but you can see an online view of the show here. Click here for LA Times article on Bradford

Upstream People Gallery

www.upstreampeoplegallery.com

5607 Howard Street Omaha, NE 68106-1257 U.S.A.

is pleased to announce the

“10th Annual Contemporary Art International Juried Online Exhibiton”

May 1, 2008 - April 30, 2009

(12 month’s show and gallery representation;

artists may exhibit and sale in other venues at the same time)

click in the link for details

Upstream People Gallery Prospectus

Is it Trash or Is it Art?

I have been renovating a house and attempting to clear the clutter (see “Clearing Your Clutter with Feng Shui” below). It’s a great read for OCD hoarders to learn how to purge. Everytime I try to save another piece of debris because it intrigues me artistically, my husband sites excerpts from the book. Occassionally a piece of discarded roofing material, insulation or something which might resemble rebar gets salvaged and stored for a future project.

Maybe I am missing something in my life. According to the books I’ve posted below,
purging can be spiritual. At the Whitney Biennial, perhaps the artists using recycled materials (Sustainable Art) are seeking redemption of sorts. Rather than sending trash to the land fills, they are stacking it up and manipulating it into “art”. It’s ingenious really but the real creativity appears to be in the titles!

I was particularly moved by the work of Stephan Prina, The Second Sentence of Everthing I read is You: The Queen Mary (1979-2006). Someone explain this please. In the photo, notice the viewer has found something more compelling to ponder outside the window- enough said. I suppose this reaction of disdain for the art masterpiece could be exactly what the artist was hoping for. For more of a rant on the biennial from another artist, go to the blog section (right/scoll down) and go to “Brooklyn Days” blog.

Izzy Seltzer shot this at MOMA a few weeks ago, reveling at what's happening behind a Duchamp and in a Duchamp. Izzy has an uncanny nack of capturing magic through the lense. He looks beyond the obvious and takes the viewer into his world of reflections and distortions.

A few months ago the Golden Eagle Art Supply in East Hampton displayed in their front window, works by children from one of the art classes there. I was so taken by these images, I shot photos and here they are. Out of the innocence of children comes artistic genious!

Jet Rain Drill Rig, Truman Marquez

View more works at http://www.trumanmarquez.blogspot.com/or at http://www.trumanmarquez.com/
Place cursor over image and click to enlarge for detail.

Marquez makes a poignant visual commentary on the US dependency on foreign oil leading to an “in the red” budget crisis. On the surface of the poles which pierce the orb on the left of the composition is the face of a dollar bill and subliminally, in the poles’ shadows, an image of an oil rig representing a possible attribution for the unstable dollar. The orb encircled with war jets, casts a cornered shadow upward revealing the image of a dead American serviceman. The socio/political work represents the artist’s view of the financial devastation of the US caused by the dependency on foreign oil which lies beneath the war in Iraq. Despite the monumental size of this work, an intimacy is created by the cornered composition and confined space within which the elements are arranged.

Whitney Biennial 2008 March 6-June 1, 2008 http://www.whitney.org/



The Whitney Biennial 2008 opened yesterday and runs through June 1. For the first time the Biennial will extend beyond the Museum to Park Avenue Armory (at 67th Street) with installations and performances daily through March 23. A full schedule of events is available at whitney.org/biennial Featuring 81 visionary artists, with works ranging from a dance marathon to a man-made animal habitat in the Museum's sculpture court, the 2008 Biennial shows where American art stands today. The 2008 Biennial is curated by Henriette Huldisch, assistant curator at the Whitney, and Shamim M. Momin, associate curator at the Whitney and branch director and curator of the Whitney Museum at Altria, and overseen by Donna De Salvo, the Whitney’s chief curator and associate director for programs. Three advisors worked with the curatorial team throughout the process: Thelma Golden, director and chief curator of The Studio Museum in Harlem; Bill Horrigan, director of the media arts department at the Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University; and Linda Norden, independent curator and writer. Biennial events at Park Avenue Armory are organized by the Whitney and Art Production Fund in association with Park Avenue Armory. Donna De Salvo noted, “The Biennial is a laboratory, a way of ‘taking the temperature’ of what is happening now and putting it on view. It influences our thinking on multiple levels and, for the Whitney, translates directly into the choices we make about our exhibitions and collections. In dealing with the art of the present, there are no easy assessments, only multiple points of entry. For the Whitney, and for our public, we hope the Biennial is one way in.”Whitney Museum of American Art 945 Madison Avenue at 75th StreetNew York City

(212) 570-3600 http://www.whitney.org/ Park Avenue Armory643 Park Avenue at 67th Street New York City (212) 616-3930 http://www.armoryonpark.org/

The Joy Garnet Exhibit at the Winkleman Gallery

has been sited as Critics' Pick by the editors of Art Forum Magazine.

Joy Garnett
New Paintings

February 15 – March 15, 2008
Opening: Thursday, February 21, 6-8 pm
Gallery Hours: Tues – Sat, 11 6 pm

www.winkleman.com

Winkleman Gallery is very pleased to present a solo exhibition of new paintings by New York artist Joy Garnett. In four large canvases Garnett continues her groundbreaking exploration of the malleability of instantly globalized images and how they have begun to replace written language as the markers of mankind's collective memory or consciousness.

By DAVID COHEN
March 5, 2008


Whitney Museum
Carol Bove’s ‘The Night Sky Over New York’ (2007) is part of the Whitney Museum’s 2008 Biennial, which starts on March 6 at the museum and the Park Avenue Armory.

If the Whitney Museum were a bar, the 2008 Biennial would be its happy hour. Social networking is of the essence at this biennial, a fraternal, anarchic gathering. Many of the artists know each other and work on collective, nonstudio-based projects — in addition, sometimes, to making their own objects.
But it is not a private drinking club — the public are welcome revelers, too. Anyone can sign up for the 24-hour dance marathon, attend the slumber party, or participate in the choreographed animal movement class for children and adults — all events staged as part of installations at the Park Avenue Armory, the biennial's second venue. And there is even a bar — organized by exhibiting artist Eduardo Sarabia.
This is a boho biennial, and a neo-hippy ethos is reflected as much in the finished objects as it is in the leisure-hour activities of the many of the 81 artists on display.
Indeed, the thirtysomething curators Shamim Momin and Henriette Huldisch have populated the exhibit with self-consciously scrappy, ephemeral, loose-at-the-edges art in their search to define the zeitgeist. By all accounts, that process was more an amble than a scramble. The number of artists included this year, 81, is down from the 106 of the jumbled, sprawling 2006 edition of the 77-year-old institutional fixture. Of the artists selected, 43 work in New York and 29 in Los Angeles or the Bay Area. Of the few working elsewhere in America, three are in Miami.
In keeping with youthful cool, the prevailing mood of the biennial is of casual idealism. Much of the work is politically or ecologically engaged, but in place of grand statements, anger, or urgency, there is a sense that gentle subversion will aid the revolution more than barricades; that sweet silliness, rather than heavy ideology, is the Molotov cocktail of choice. Ms. Huldisch used Samuel Beckett's notion of "lessness" to characterize the dissipatedness and ephemerality of the art selected. In harmony with the thesis of the New Museum's inaugural "Unmonumental" show, Ms. Huldisch stresses the keyword of "local." This is low-carbon-footprint art that is about little moves rather than big gestures. It favors recycled, or at least modest, materials, and minor efforts in transforming them. It embraces failure, not in a heavy old existentialist sense of radical doubt, but rather humorously and solipsistically: Think holy fool, not tortured genius.

Emerging Artist Show in Philadelphia

March EXHIBIT SCHEDULE:
March 5 to March 30, 2008
First Friday: March 7, 5 to 8:30 pm
Sunday Reception: March 9, 1 to 4 pm
Sunday Snow Date: March 16

Artists' House Gallery
57 N. Second Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106 map
(215) 923- 8440

Artists' House Gallery's annual Emerging Artists Exhibit presents an impressive variety of artworks by nineteen outstanding artists. Each artist brings his or her own unique artistic sensibility and perspective to this exhibit. It is filled with delightful portraits, still life, interiors, and landscapes, an array of fine art in a variety of media.

The artwork displayed below, and others by these artists, are available in the March Emerging Artists Exhibit.