Saturday, January 15, 2011

Please join me at the opening reception for CURIOUS SILENCE, curated by Renée Martin and Heather Rasmussen. I will be showing photographs and my new installation, SUSTAIN/APART.

Artists include:
Bijoux Altamirano, Jennifer Bastian, Bridget Carron, Siri Kaur, Renée Martin, Julia Paull, Heather Rasmussen, Fay Ray and Carly Steward

On view: January 15 - February 25, 2011
Reception: Saturday, January 15, 6-9 p.m.

Press Release

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Things that are Happening!!

November 2010
-If you seek out a copy of &Review magazine, you will find a postcard for SUSTAIN/APART within its pages!
-Check out the new online and paper art mag Fine Line from two lovely Milwaukee ladies, one of my images is included in their first issue.

January 2011
Research from SUSTAIN/APART will be compiled in the group exhibition Curious Silence at the Brand Library in Glendale, CA. Curious Silence was initially shown at SOIL Gallery in Seattle, WA, and was curated by Heather Rasmussen and Renee Martin. This incarnation of the exhibition will be on view in January 2011.

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OCTOBER 2010
You can currently view and participate in an ongoing online and physical exhibition of mine, SUSTAIN/APART, at CANAL, curated by artist Jess Minckley.

JANUARY 2011
Research from SUSTAIN/APART will be compiled in the group exhibition Curious Silence at the Brand Library in Glendale, CA. Curious Silence was initially shown at SOIL Gallery in Seattle, WA, and was curated by Heather Rasmussen and Renee Martin. This incarnation of the exhibition will be on view in January 2010.

APRIL 2011
I am overjoyed to announce that I will be an artist in residence at the Elsewhere Collective, in Greensboro, NC, a magical living museum.

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Cooking Residency @ JMOCA Los Angeles

OCTOBER 2009
I am happy to announce that I will be in residence for the weekend of October 16th at JMOCA, Justin's Museum of Contemporary Art (http://www.jmoca.info/). JMOCA is located in Los Angeles, in the lovely hills of Silver Lake. The purpose of my residency will be to attend to the culinary needs of the entire house and all of its guests for the duration of the weekend. The residency will culminate in an invite-only, several course dinner on Sunday the 18th.

Documentation to follow.

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Something exciting is about to happen. More on that soon.

The other good news is that the show at SOIL Seattle was terrific. The work was wonderful and the feedback was excellent all the way round. Installation views can be seen at:

http://curioussilenceshow.com/

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I will be installing work for the show "Curious Silence" in late June at SOIL, a collective and a nonprofit gallery in Seattle. The show opens during Seattle's Art Walk on July 1st.

You can view SOIL's website here:
http://soilart.org/

More info as I receive it!

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To extend Thanksgiving enjoyment throughout the weekend, please join Jennifer Bastian and Ashley Morgan for an afternoon dinner party this Sunday, November 30th.

InterContinental Hotel Gallery
139 East Kilbourn Avenue
Milwaukee, WI 53202

drinks 3:30
dinner 4pm

casual attire
bring your own fork

Please RSVP by November 28th
invitedtodinner@gmail.com
We look forward to seeing you there!
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2008 Wight Biennial
GROUP EFFORT: Collaboration as Process and Form

September 25-October 9, 2008
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 25 at 5-8pm

Featuring co-authored objects, public interventions and art collectives, Group Effort explores collaborative practices in the global art school. Fostering community and debate in a transnational context, the biennial addresses contemporary forms of collaboration in visual art schools with 18 projects by more than 30 artists.

The opening reception includes seven projects activated by the artists in the form of an interview, home-brewed beer, a performance, an interpretation of a map, a DJ set, an alternate news taping and a colossal piñata. As part of the biennial, several artists will continue participatory projects in the gallery throughout the first week of the show, and a seminar, "The Parallel Action," will be held on October 6 and 7.

Artists:
Mayen Alcantara + Yuka Otani (Rhode Island School of Design)
Ian Arenas + Justin Long (California Institute of the Arts)
Jennifer Bastian (Univ of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
Michael Bizon + Rosalind Murray (Rhode Island School of Design)
Kristen Botshekan + Maya Lujan (University of Southern California)
A.K. Burns (Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College, NY)
Leidy Churchman (Columbia University, NY)
Mariechen Danz + Alvaro Guillen (California Institute of the Arts)
Department of Ecological Authoring Tactics (University of Bologna, Italy)
The Parallel Action - Leander Djønne + Anders Dahl Monsen (Malmo Art Academy, Sweden)
Isil Egrikavuk (School of the Art Institute of Chicago)
Fine Art Union directed by Synnøve G. Wetten + Annette Stav Johanssen (Malmo Art Academy, Sweden)
Kate Hers (University of California, Irvine)
Szu-Han Ho + Steffani Jemison (School of the Art Institute of Chicago)
Arendse Krabbe + Nina Wengel (Goldsmiths College, London & Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen)
Daniel Lavitt + Becky Snodgrass (School of the Art Institute of Chicago)
Chuck Miller (University of California, San Diego)
Raphael Taylor + Austin Willis (Hunter College, NY)

Wight Biennial 2008 Curatorial Committee:
Jennifer Gradecki, Matthias Merkel Hess, Alexandro Segade, Wu Ingrid Tsang

UCLA New Wight Gallery
1100 Broad Art Center
Los Angeles, CA 90095

Gallery Hours: M–F, 9:00am–4:30pm

Admission is free

All day parking permits ($9) or short-term parking (payable at pay stations) available in Lot 3.

For further information, call (310) 825-0557
http://www.art.ucla.edu/gallery/2008-09/wight_biennial08.html

This exhibition was made possible with generous support from Dallas Price-Van Breda and the UCLA Art Council.