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

Glint

The artist books are in!

Beautifully made and designed by David King of Extended Play, Glint features a selection of paintings made between 2015-2017 and an essay by artist/curator Ian Etter. This project was made possible by Locate Arts with support from the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation.

An excerpt from Ian Etter's essay:Executed prior to Laube’s time in Wales, the works comprising Glint investigate the theme of transformation. In Cormere, Laube only includes what is essential: A stoic radiator hovers above the floorboards and wall,… — An excerpt from Ian Etter's essay:
Executed prior to Laube’s time in Wales, the works comprising Glint investigate the theme of transformation. In Cormere, Laube only includes what is essential: A stoic radiator hovers above the floorboards and wall, fixed with a matching pair of rectangular vents. The viewer’s gaze circles a matrix of lines forming a mesh-like structure, without breaking past the picture plane. Absence of spatial depth keeps us on the painting’s surface. Embedded within the static, compressed perspective is a latent energy, capable of coalescing into three dimensions, like the closed pages of child’s pop-up book.

An apt cover choice: veneer with embossed title

Also, please check out a recent studio visit from Brian Jobe, Carrie Jobe, and Ashley Layendecker of Locate Arts: https://locatearts.org/the-focus/2017/studio-visit-mary-laube

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

Matthew F. Fisher

Mike Nudelman and Kristy Luck

Pete Schulte

Ian Etter

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.

Stiwdeo Maelor

Here are some photos from my recent residency at Stiwdeo Maelor in Wales. Thank you Veronica Calarco for creating such a wonderful gem!

Residency at Stiwdeo Maelor

I am excited to announce that I will be working at Stiwdeo Maelor this summer for two weeks. The residency is located in Corris, a small village in North Wales.

Stiwdio Maelor was established in July 2014 by Australian artist Veronica Calarco to provide residency opportunities for artists and writers from the UK and other parts of the world.

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

International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA)

The Warp Whistle Project was invited to present at this years International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) in Hong Kong. Paul Schuette will be presenting our most recent project Nightly Light from Suns, an installation piece developed during our collaborative residency at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts in 2015.

Abstract:

Nightly Light from Suns merges visual art and technology to explore the notion of Nostalgic Futurism, a yearning for a time when it was possible to imagine a corporeal, tangible technological future, uncomplicated by knowledge of the current moment. The handcrafted materials and antiquated electronic sounds are reminiscent of 1950’s science fiction, reigniting a promising dream of what lies ahead. Visions of the future cannot escape the ideologies of the present moment. Similar to the nature of memory, these projections are romanticized ideations, born from a longing to “be elsewhere.” To facilitate this unhinging from the present, we experiment with the relationship between sonic and visual information by staging various points of intersection. Nightly Light from Suns represents an otherworldly intelligence that implies an unknown and advanced functionality. These unmapped qualities of the work renew a positive sense of longing and wonder about the future that seems to be all but a memory of the past.

About ISEA:

Founded in the Netherlands in 1990, ISEA International (formerly Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts) is an international non-profit organisation fostering interdisciplinary academic discourse and exchange among culturally diverse organisations and individuals working with art, science and technology. The main activity of ISEA International is the annual International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA). The symposia began in 1988.

Watch: Nightly Light from Suns

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

More from Doha, Qatar

Photos courtesy of Zach Stenson

Fanoon Visiting Artist, VCU Qatar

In January I had the pleasure of traveling to Doha as the Fanoon Visiting Artist at Virginia Commonwealth University Qatar. Throughout the week, I made screen prints with the help of Assistant Professor, Zach Stenson and his painting and printmaking students.

Museum Misalignments

Every day we make countless attempts to memorialize our experiences. We snap photographs, collect objects from our travels, write journals, build shrines, and spend hours re-imagining past events. As a society, we hoard precious objects in museums, build altar pieces, share funerary rituals, and canonize stories in books and theater. Memorialization is a response to our daily confrontation with loss. As our experiences evaporate we seek to compensate through various forms of representation. Any attempt to depict history or illustrate our observations is a romanticized abstraction, disclosing a human longing to preserve…

Mary Laube at the Times Club in Prairie Lights

Brian Prugh

Iowa City Arts Review

January 11, 2014

NEW DAY

Consider the experience of an archaeologist: the sensation of being immersed in earthen substances and the ceaseless curiosity that keeps one searching. Imagine clay and grime under your fingernails, the damp smell of a cavernous hole in the ground, and the inexplicable wonder upon discovering a hidden mystery preserved in the earth. In addition to the associations we have with the physical acts of archaeological digging, think of what it means to be doing archaeology: to investigate and search for evidence of the past in order to learn more about ourselves in the present...