PORTALS / Spring Break Art Show
Opening March 5th from 4-8pm. Tickets available online.
866 United Nations Plaza
New York, NY 10017
IP FIRST LOOK
Tuesday, March 5th 11am - 4pm
VIP OPENING NIGHT
Tuesday, March 5th 4pm - 8pm
REGULAR SHOW DAYS
Wednesday - Monday, March 6th-11th, 11am - 7pm
Casting Shadows
CASTING SHADOWS
Mary Laube’s solo exhibition at California State University opens next week. The exhibition runs from March 4-30th 2019.
Art Space Gallery, 226 N. 1st St., Turlock
March 7th:
Opening Reception 6:00pm
Gallery Talk: 6:30pm
https://www.csustan.edu/event/art-gallery/mary-laube-art-exhibition
The exhibition catalog includes a Director’s Forward by Dean De Cocker and an essay by Ian Etter.
Catalog Images
Tiger Strikes Asteroid Closing
The Flat Files: Year Five
Closing reception and sale
Tuesday November 13, 2017, 6-8 PM
“Please join us for a closing reception and sale for our current flat file program. From 6-8 on Tuesday, November 13 we will feature works from our 2016-2017 flat file program. These pieces will be out and on display for easy perusal. Visitors who come during this time to this cash or card and carry event will receive a 10% discount on works in our flat file.
Our current flat file program features works by Paolo Arao, Carlos Beltran Arechiga, Caetlynn Booth,
Ellen Burchenal, Emily Burns, Eddie Chu, Andrea Sherrill Evans, Jacquelyn Gleisner, Rhia Hurt, Raymie Iadevaia, Vanessa Irzyk, Chris Joy, Tricia Keightley, Songyi Kim, Rachel Klinghoffer, Alison Kudlow, Vanessa Larsen, Mary Laube, Amanda Lechner, Tonya Lee, Greg Lindquist, Elizabeth Livingston, Leeza Meksin, Bridget Mullen, Ryan Sarah Murphy, Erin Murray, Justin Plakas, Keisha Prioleau-Martin, Lauren Rice, Kristen Schiele, Jennifer Shepard, Niki Singleton, Sarah Slappey, Melinda Steffy, Catalina Viejo Lopez de Roda, Bettina Weiß, and James Woodfill.”
Rhythm and Rush
Ground Floor Gallery is pleased to present our 6th Annual Juried Exhibition, Rhythm & Rush. This show comprises the work of 23 National and International Artists selected by our Juror, Catherine Haggarty, a painter and Co-Founder of Ortega y Gasset Projects.
Please join us for the artists’ reception, art book presentation (produced by R.D King and Extended Play) on September 8th 6-9 pm.
"The selection of these artists for Rhythm & Rush spans paintings, sculptures and mixed media. Each artist has such a unique and specific connection to their materials and subject that I felt strongly reflected the ethos of the show’s title. The most beautiful thing about the work and the diversity in the artists in this show is that it speaks to the very human element of language and of connection. Each artist is making work in very different regions and in very different ways. It makes perfect sense to me, that some pieces are figurative, some purely abstract and some hedging between these two spectrums. I envision this show and these pieces as championing a very personal perspective and steady pace. Rhythm and Rush shows us that in 2018, there is not one language in art making that triumphs - rather a multitude of efforts, of attention and of diverse formal solutions & reactions to the pace of the world today.” --Catherine Haggarty
SPRING/BREAK
I'm super excited to have three drawings included in the SPRING/BREAK Art Show this year. Curated by Ian Etter, Frontiers includes work by Pete Schulte, Kristy Luck, Matthew F. Fisher, Mike Nudelmam, and Ian Etter.
March 6 - 12, 2018
4 Times Square, NYC (Chashama)
Entrance at 140 West 43rd Street
Preview Day: March 6th
Collectors Preview 11am - 5pm
Press Preview 3pm - 5pm
Opening Night 5pm - 9pm
Regular Show Days: March 7 - 12
Daily Hours: 11am - 6pm
Nocturnal Suns
Nocturnal Suns is an exhibition of four faculty members from the UT School of Art.
UT Downtown Gallery
106 S. Gay Street
Knoxville, TN 37902
December 1, 2017 – January 6, 2018
The Warp Whistle Project is humbled to be in such good company!
Emily Ward Bivens is an Associate Professor of 4D arts and Time-Based Art at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She received her MFA from The University of Colorado, Boulder in 2004. Bivens uses found and made objects to forge narratives, provoke or encourage interaction, and reveal fictional and non-fictional mysteries. These objects shift from prop to subject to evidence when used in performance, video, and installation. Characters or identities are created to act as subjects, authors, inventors, and curators of the work.
John C. Kelley is an Assistant Professor of 4D and Time-Based Arts at the University of Tennessee Knoxville. His video work has screened domestically at venues such as The Mid-America Arts Alliance (Kansas City, MO), the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (Bentonville, AR) the Arizona International Film Festival (Tucson, AZ), The Front (New Orleans, LA), the Index Art Center (Newark, NJ), Living Arts (Tulsa, OK), internationally in cities such as London, Moscow, Berlin, Sao Paolo, Mexico City, Edinburgh, Vienna, Prague, Amsterdam and others. Kelley has written original music for award winning feature length narrative and documentary films through Gray Picture in St. Louis, MO, released music as a solo artist through King Electric Records in Austin, TX, and has appeared on more than 25 recordings and albums
John Douglas Powers studied art history at Vanderbilt University and earned his MFA in sculpture, with distinction, at The University of Georgia. His work has been featured in The New York Times, World Sculpture News, Sculpture Magazine, Art Forum, The Huffington Post, Art in America, The Boston Globe and on CBS News Sunday Morning. He is the recipient of the 2013 Virginia A. Groot Foundation Award, a Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Grant as well as a Southeastern College Art Conference Individual Artist Fellowship, an Alabama State Council on the Arts Fellowship, and the Margaret Stonewall Wooldridge Hamblet Award. Powers currently lives and works in Knoxville, Tennessee and is Assistant Professor of Sculpture at The University of Tennessee.
TSA NY Flat File 2018
Two of the watercolor collages made during my summer residency in Corris are included in TSA NY's 2018 Flat File program.
The 2018 Flat File: Year Five
December 1 – December 17
Reception: Friday December 12, 6-9 PM
Tiger Strikes Asteroid New York is pleased to present an exhibition launching our 2018 Flat File program. Chosen from an open call that attracted a diverse range of artists, the 37 selected represent an array of approaches towards flat media: drawing, collage, printmaking, and photography. In many cases the selected works are emblematic of an artist’s core practice, while for some this work represents a departure from a larger body of work. The small-scale format presented in our program presents an elastic site for play and exploration.
During this exhibition, and throughout the year visitors are welcome to browse and acquire artworks from the flat file. Individual pieces from the program will be selectively highlighted throughout the year. All works can be viewed on our website and a catalog highlighting all artists in the 2018 program is available for purchase on our website and through MagCloud.
The 2018 Flat File features works by: Paolo Arao, Carlos Beltran Arechiga, Caetlynn Booth, Ellen Burchenal, Emily Burns, Eddie Chu, Andrea Sherrill Evans, Jacquelyn Gleisner, Rhia Hurt, Raymie Iadevaia, Vanessa Irzyk, Chris Joy, Tricia Keightley, Songyi Kim, Rachel Klinghoffer, Alison Kudlow, Vanessa Larsen, Mary Laube, Amanda Lechner, Tonya Lee, Greg Lindquist, Elizabeth Livingston, Leeza Meksin, Bridget Mullen, Ryan Sarah Murphy, Erin Murray, Justin Plakas, Keisha Prioleau-Martin, Lauren Rice, Kristen Schiele, Jennifer Shepard, Niki Singleton, Sarah Slappey, Melinda Steffy, Catalina Viejo Lopez de Roda, Bettina Weiß, and James Woodfill.
Great Lakes Drawing Biennial
I have three drawings from the Mythos series included in the 2017 Great Lakes Drawing Biennial at Eastern Michigan University. My work was also selected for the 2nd prize award.
This exhibition of artists nationwide highlights current artistic activity in contemporary drawing. Juried by Claire Gilman, Senior Curator at the Drawing Center, New York.
Piecing it Together
Curatorial statement by Georgia Erger:
Piecing It Together presents a selection of abstract paintings and drawings by Danielle Kimzey, Mary Laube, and Christopher Reno. These three artists explore the private world of the ‘home’ and seek to demystify, through their abstract works, this insular, domestic space. The artists’ subjects reveal both the contents of the ‘house’ (mundane objects encountered everyday) and associations of ‘home’ (deeply ingrained memories and constructed ideals). These artists draw from their experiences of parenthood and the home, and in doing so, bring to the forefront a view that is uniquely private, yet shared.
Kimzey, Laube, and Reno work within modernist painting traditions, yet blur boundaries between the art world and the domestic sphere. Modernist abstraction in America was largely dominated by notions of the singular (male) genius and praised for its unbridled expression of freedom and lofty notions of artistic autonomy. The artists of Piecing It Together challenge this tradition of abstraction by exploring domesticity, a subject that is considered banal or sentimental. Kimzey reconfigures puzzles and employs the logic of Legos to explore formal concerns of color, composition, form, and gesture. Laube modifies and flattens perspective in depictions of her surroundings to complicate the intersection of constructed and idealized spaces. Textiles and fibers, foundational to Reno’s practice, reflect his experimental manipulation of materials most often associated with craft or the home.
The artists do not strive to monumentalize their experiences, but rather, make them accessible through the context of the practice of abstraction. The small scale of the paintings and drawings presented in this exhibition mimic the intimacy of the subject matter addressed by the artists. In piecing together their memories, from the idealized to the monotonous, and constructed imagery of the home, Kimzey, Laube, and Reno evocatively problematize the historical marginalization of the domestic to the periphery of art.
Danielle Kimzey is based in Dallas and studied Painting and Drawing at the University of Iowa and Southern Methodist University. Her work has been exhibited nationally in Dallas, Memphis, and Irvine, and internationally in Berlin.
Mary Laube is based in Cleveland and studied Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture at the University of Iowa and Illinois State University. Her work has been exhibited nationally in Dallas, New York, and Philadelphia, and internationally in Gimpo, South Korea.
Christopher Reno is based in Galesburg, IL and studied Painting, Drawing, and Printmaking at the University of Iowa, Knox College, and the New York Studio School. His work has been exhibited nationally in New York, Austin, and St. Louis.
Curated by Georgia Erger, Curatorial Fellow for the Hawn Gallery.
Off Kilter/In Time
The Fuel And Lumber Company Presents: Off Kilter / In Time
works by April Bachtel and Mary Laube
Opening reception, July 2nd, 6-9pm
COOP Gallery, 507 Hagan Street Nashville, TN 37203
Hours: Sat 11am-3pm and by appointment
The Fuel And Lumber Company presents Off Kilter / In Time, a two-person exhibition with works by April Bachtel and Mary Laube. April Bachtel’s sculptures are made from second-hand artifacts that she dismantles and reassembles with both a violent and tender hand. In contrast to Bachtel’s rough-hewn objects, Mary Laube’s austere paintings of imagined, flattened worlds are at once familiar but removed from a reality directly perceived. Bachtel’s assembly of fragmented parts and Laube’s sharply cropped scenes distort our perspective and alter our sense of body and space. --The Fuel and Lumber Company
The Fuel and Lumber Company was cofounded in 2013 by Amy Pleasant and Pete Schulte.
Czong Institute of Contemporary Art
The Warp Whistle Project has a piece in the Yellow Book International Exhibition at the Czong Institute of Art in Gimpo, South Korea.
CICA Museum’s art book project “Art Yellow Book” provides a unique art space for artists. Unlike gallery spaces, art books are portable and ubiquitous. Unlike online media, books are tactile and “real.” Art Yellow Book aims to create a space where individual artists can freely express themselves and become media themselves.
Art Yellow Book features artists from around the world. Each artist freely organize two facing pages in the book, using these pages as an exhibition form and an advertisement for themselves and their work. There are no rules or restrictions regarding the layout, design, or content. If you would like to know more about the artists, visit their websites by scanning their QR codes, or contact them directly by email.
The Art Yellow Book International Exhibition Summer 2016 features 32 international artists who participated in Art Yellow Book #2. The exhibition will be held from July 1st to 17th, 2016, featuring Photography, Video Art, and Digital Art. --CICA
Flowers
SIGNALING TO ^ THE CIPHER ^ TOWARDS A SEGWAY
CURATED BY JESSE DAVID PENRIDGE
Dates: May 5th - June 11th, 2016
526 W 26th st #807 New York, NY
Opening: May 5th, 6-8pm
Field Projects is pleased to present Signaling to ^ the Cipher ^ towards a Segway, curated by Jesse David Penridge, featuring the work of Austin Ballard, Rory Baron, Sarah E. Brook, Pat Byrne, Abigail Collins, Sean Dustan-Halliday, Carla Edwards, MaDora Frey, Tricia Keightley, Myeongsoo Kim, Alison Kudlow, Mary NaRee Laube, and Jessie Rose Vala.
Somewhere along the line I had a teacher that convinced me that, at their core, science and religion were ultimately the same things. They are systems for making sense of the human condition. They function as narratives; bedtime stories that ease the mind to sleep. They provide framework that give us purpose and keep us confident that we aren’t just hapless passengers, stuck on a rock hurtling through space, that truly, something bigger is at work.
On an individual level, we all write our own smaller narratives. It’s what we choose to wear and how we present ourselves socially to the world. They are where we come from and where we choose to go, how we interpret history, politics and evolution as they relate to us personally. Whether the stories are fact fiction or some blurred reality, they keep us sane and give us a place.
This show is a patchwork of strategies- works the artists are using to look both at the world and their self. They are analyzing systems, mythologies and environments that were presented to us as fact and comparing them to those that we craft ourselves everyday. These tools not only identify the artists’ points of departure from the world around them, but create new realities, new mythologies, new belief systems. --Jesse David Penridge
Paper Planes
Located in Southwest Detroit, Whitdel Arts is a members’ based contemporary art gallery run by a volunteer group of artists and creative individuals, serving the community through contemporary art exhibitions, arts-based activities, and professional development. Their main home is in Southwest Detroit’s historic Whitdel building on the corner of Hubbard and Porter.
Whitdel Arts serves artists and the community through its exhibitions and events, professional resources, and educational programs. The purpose of Whitdel Arts is to provide an environment centered around the creative process of the contemporary arts and the interaction and dialogue derived from it. Whitdel Arts is a center where the public can view and learn about the contemporary arts by local and national artists, while providing working artists with the resources needed for their artistic careers and studio practice.
UTC Biennial Faculty Exhibition
September 01, 2015 - October 10, 2015
2015 UTC Department of Art Faculty Exhibition. Opening Public Reception Tuesday September 01, 5:30pm – 7:30pm. A Film Screening in conjunction with the exhibition will precede the opening from 5:00pm – 5:30pm, and again on Tuesday, October 6, 5:00pm – 5:30pm, Room 356, Fine Arts Center.
Join us for a public reception at the Cress as the UTC Department of Art Faculty open their exhibition Tuesday, September 1, 5:30pm – 7:30 pm. Featuring a select sampling of the visual manifestation of research by the Department’s artist academicians, this exhibition explores a wide range of media and materials, and includes painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, printmaking, graphic design, video, and conceptual work. Evidence of process and innovative working strategies characterize this year’s lively edition inviting visitors to the Gallery into an open dialogue about contemporary practice in the visual arts as it relates to broader topics and issues of today.
The exhibition in the Cress includes both the Department’s longstanding members and its newest faces (in alphabetical order): Jordan Amirkhani, Ron Buffington, Mark Bradley-Shoup, Jennifer Danos, Matt Greenwell, Katie Hargrave, Mary Laube, Andrew O’Brien, Lauren Ruth, Aggie Toppins, Gavin Townsend, and Christina Renfer Vogel, and the Department’s contributing Adjunct Faculty, Carolann Haggard, Jennifer “Baggs” McKelvey, and Ken Page.
Reverb: Recent Abstraction in Painting: Part II
Reverb: Recent Abstraction in Painting is a traveling group exhibition curated by Kenneth Hall, Assistant Professor at the University of Northern Iowa. In 2013 I had the honor of exhibiting my work alongside Scott Anderson, Jimmy Baker, Christie Blizard, Angelina Gualdoni, Dana Saulnier, and Deborah Zlotsky. This exhibition also included paintings by the late Megan Dirks (1985-2010) whom I had the great pleasure of getting to know in graduate school over many studio dates and cups of coffee.
Megan Dirks:
The following are images from the exhibition held at Bowling Green State University in September 2014:
And finally, here are images of my installation process from the first exhibition at the University of Northern Iowa in 2013.
9/50 Summit at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center
Good Weather at the 9/50 Summit, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center
with Terry Conrad, Tony Garbarini, Talon Gustafson, and Harlan Mack
Review by James McNally
