No, not Kriston "Il Capo" Capps (who's instead Hirshhorning), but the other grammar police... see what I mean hear here... cough, cough.
Wednesday, June 05, 2013
The Batman in The Batcave... brooding over Robin
Newest piece... heading to Glenn Aber Contemporary Art in NY for the Hamptons art fairs... the work has a 6.5 minute loop of appropriated vintage Batman TV show video focusing on The Batman's relationship with The Boy Wonder.
Update: Thanks to FedEex, this piece arrived to the gallery with a large footprint on the box (packed by FedEx) and busted glass and frame, so it couldn't be exhibited at the fair by my NY dealer... luckily, when I got it back from him, all that it needed was reframing... so it is safe.
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| The Batman in The Batcave (Brooding Over Robin) Charcoal, conte and Embedded Appropriated Video. Circa 2013 Framed to 30x40 inches. |
Update: Thanks to FedEex, this piece arrived to the gallery with a large footprint on the box (packed by FedEx) and busted glass and frame, so it couldn't be exhibited at the fair by my NY dealer... luckily, when I got it back from him, all that it needed was reframing... so it is safe.
Tuesday, June 04, 2013
New doors for the Library of Congress
This is the culmination of a project that began 9 years ago where the Washington Glass School was tasked with replacing the doors in this most iconic of DC buildings.
The project has been ignored by the DC area media (what else is new?) but the doors were fortunate enough to receive a fantastic 4-page spread in American Craft Magazine, discussing a one-in-a-lifetime project that represents not only some of the best of what the DMV art scene has to offer, but also the perfect balance of craft and architecture.
Read the article here.
Monday, June 03, 2013
Pheo Para Alliance Fundraiser at the Katzen
The Pheo Para Alliance and
The Katzen Arts Center at The American University
cordially invite you to
THE HEALING ARTS
An Evening of Art, Discussion, Good Food, and
Live and Silent Auctions
Saturday, June 22 at 5:30pm
The American University Museum
The Katzen Arts Center at The American University
cordially invite you to
THE HEALING ARTS
An Evening of Art, Discussion, Good Food, and
Live and Silent Auctions
Saturday, June 22 at 5:30pm
The American University Museum
Sponsorship Levels:
The Andy Warhol Table For 10: $10,000
The Georgia O’Keefe Table For 8: $6,000
The Larry Rivers Table For 6: $4,500
The Sam Gilliam Table For 4: $3,000
$350/person
$175/person for patients and artists
FUNDS RAISED WILL GO TO RESEARCH FOR FINDING A CURE FOR PHEO PARA.
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:
5:30-6:30 - Cocktails and Art Exhibit of Prominent Washington Artists (and also by yours truly, easily the prominest of all prominent DC area artists... cough, cough... I will be donating this work) . Silent Auction Opens.
6:45-7:15 - Panel Discussion “The Healing Arts”
Dr. Frederick Ognibene, Deputy Director Of Clinical Research Training, National Institutes of Health, Moderator
PANELISTS:
Susan B. Magee – Author, INTO THE LIGHT The Healing Art of Kalmon Aron
Shanti Norris – Executive Director of Smith Center for Healing And The Arts
Jerzy Sapieyevski – Award Winning Composer, Pianist, and Educator
Tim Tate – Mixed Media Sculptor, Co-Founder of The Washington Glass School
Humanitarian Award Presentation to Dr. Antonio Tito Fojo (a fellow Cuban-American by the way).
7:30-9:30 – Dinner, Entertainment, Live Auction
9:30 – Grand Finale
PLEASE RSVP BY FRIDAY, JUNE 14
Checks payable to
Pheo Para Alliance can be sent to:
6111 Western Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20015
To register online, please visit
www.pheo-para-alliance.org
Checks payable to
Pheo Para Alliance can be sent to:
6111 Western Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20015
To register online, please visit
www.pheo-para-alliance.org
Red Handed at MFA
RED HANDED
A gallery installation experience by ROSEMARY FEIT COVEY
Rosemary Feit Covey's Red Handed is a complete gallery installation project which combines drawings printed on both hand and commercial printers. The prints are then made into paintings, or left rough on cheap paper. Covey's exploration in media and method has evolved and is comprised of wall-wrapped images and an all-encompassing floor piece - the major part of the installation - which forces the viewer to walk on the art. The image is meant to have no beginning and no end.
Red Handed began as a set of drawings and printed columns during Covey's 2012 residency at Spiro Arts in Utah. The initial drawing appeared as a steam of conscience image. It was at first unclear why red hands kept appearing on her running figures, Covey feels it is connected to guilt.
Referencing Dore, Modigliani and Picasso's Guernica - Red Handed raises issue of collective versus personal guilt.
"Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of the culprit, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing."
-Hannah Arendt
"For all survivors of suicide the question of guilt opens a maw that fills and envelopes adding to the pain, shock and sorrow. A murder has been committed where the murderer can not be blamed. The past becomes the framework for constant reexamination. I had to ask myself - why did this image spring whole from my imagination? I had to wait and allow my thoughts to unearth the past. Guilt is the most personal of emotions and universal only when we take it on ourselves before we look at the rest." -Rosemary Feit Covey
Select collections include the Corcoran Gallery of Art; the New York Public Library Collection of Prints and Drawings; the Papyrus Institute, Cairo, Egypt; the National Library of Australia, Canberra; The National Museum of American History; Georgetown University Library Print Collection; Harvard University Library; and Princeton University Library.
Georgetown University Library currently houses 512 of her wood engravings in their permanent collection. She has an upcoming solo exhibition at the Evergreen Museum at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore in 2014.
Red Handed marks Covey's third annual exhibition at Morton Fine Art.
A gallery installation experience by ROSEMARY FEIT COVEY
June 21st, 2013 - June 5th, 2013
EXHIBITION LOCATION
Morton Fine Art (MFA)
1781 Florida Ave NW (at 18th & U Sts)
Washington, DC 20009
HOURS
Tuesday - Saturday 11am - 6pm
Sunday 12pm-5pm
OPENING RECEPTION
Friday, June 21st from 6pm-8pm
The artist will be in attendance.
About Red Handed:
Rosemary Feit Covey's Red Handed is a complete gallery installation project which combines drawings printed on both hand and commercial printers. The prints are then made into paintings, or left rough on cheap paper. Covey's exploration in media and method has evolved and is comprised of wall-wrapped images and an all-encompassing floor piece - the major part of the installation - which forces the viewer to walk on the art. The image is meant to have no beginning and no end.
Red Handed began as a set of drawings and printed columns during Covey's 2012 residency at Spiro Arts in Utah. The initial drawing appeared as a steam of conscience image. It was at first unclear why red hands kept appearing on her running figures, Covey feels it is connected to guilt.
Inspiration for Red Handed:
Referencing Dore, Modigliani and Picasso's Guernica - Red Handed raises issue of collective versus personal guilt.
"Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of the culprit, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing."
-Hannah Arendt
"For all survivors of suicide the question of guilt opens a maw that fills and envelopes adding to the pain, shock and sorrow. A murder has been committed where the murderer can not be blamed. The past becomes the framework for constant reexamination. I had to ask myself - why did this image spring whole from my imagination? I had to wait and allow my thoughts to unearth the past. Guilt is the most personal of emotions and universal only when we take it on ourselves before we look at the rest." -Rosemary Feit Covey
About ROSEMARY FEIT COVEY:
Rosemary Feit Covey was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. In a career
spanning three decades she has exhibited internationally and received
countless awards. Covey's work is in numerous national and international
museum and library collections.Select collections include the Corcoran Gallery of Art; the New York Public Library Collection of Prints and Drawings; the Papyrus Institute, Cairo, Egypt; the National Library of Australia, Canberra; The National Museum of American History; Georgetown University Library Print Collection; Harvard University Library; and Princeton University Library.
Georgetown University Library currently houses 512 of her wood engravings in their permanent collection. She has an upcoming solo exhibition at the Evergreen Museum at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore in 2014.
Red Handed marks Covey's third annual exhibition at Morton Fine Art.
Sunday, June 02, 2013
Jackie and Marilyn find a home together
Both these pieces are now in the collection of a well-known DMV collector. In my opinion this couple has the largest (I'm talking in the thousand plus) collection of DMV area artists.
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| Ave Jacquelinas ER Charcoal and Conte with Embedded electronics 20x16 inches, circa 2012 |
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| Ave Marylinas Charcoal and Conte with Embedded Electronics 20x16 inches, circa 2012 |
Saturday, June 01, 2013
Next Saturday at Blackrock
Anne Marchand, Mike Schaffer, Mark Sharp
acrylics, wood sculpture, mixed media
Exhibit: June 5-28, 2013
Location: Main Gallery
Reception: Saturday, June 8 5:30-7:30
Free!
AND
Robert O'Brien
oil paintings
Exhibit: June 5-July 26, 2013
Location: Terrace Gallery
BlackRock Center for the Arts
12901 Town Commons Drive
Germantown, Maryland 20874
301-528-2260 www.blackrockcenter.org
Arts Council of Fairfax County announces the 2013 Strauss Artist Awards
The
Arts Council awarded $5,000 each to these Fairfax County based artists:
Diane Coburn Bruning
Susan Eder and Craig Dennis
Rebecca Kamen
All Strauss artist awardees can be seen at http://artsfairfax.org/strauss-artist-awards/recipients.
Congrats!
Diane Coburn Bruning
Susan Eder and Craig Dennis
Rebecca Kamen
All Strauss artist awardees can be seen at http://artsfairfax.org/strauss-artist-awards/recipients.
Congrats!
The Batman in the Batcave
Newest piece that marries technology with contemporary drawing... heading to Glenn Aber Contemporary Art in NY for the Hamptons art fairs...
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| The Batman in The Batcave (Brooding Over Robin) Charcoal, conte and Embedded Appropriated Video. Circa 2013 Framed to 30x40 inches. |
Friday, May 31, 2013
Call to Artists: Art Bank 2013
Call to Artists: Art Bank 2013
The
D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities is seeking to purchase two
and three-dimensional works of art including prints, drawings, mixed
media compositions, paintings, photographs, ceramics, and moveable
sculptures. To expand the District's collection further into new media
forms of contemporary art, we strongly encourage video artists and other
technological innovators to submit as well. Submission of works in
series is strongly encouraged. Representational, conceptual, and
abstract works will be equally considered.
Each
artist is allowed to submit up to 10 images for consideration and all
artwork submitted must be available for purchase and review upon
submission (see calendar for dates). Artwork must be created with
archival materials and be no larger in size than 96" in any direction.
In addition to images of prospective artwork, a completed application must include:
- An Artist Statement
- A current CV or Resume
- An Image List, declaring the retail price of each piece of artwork listed
To Apply:
To submit prospective work for review during the Art Bank 2013 acquisition cycle, please visit http://dcarts.slideroom.com and
open an account. Your account will be assigned a login password, to
enable you to access Art Bank 2013 and any other open opportunities in
Public Art.
Artist Eligibility:
This
call is open to all artists who reside or maintain studio space in the
Washington Metropolitan Area. However, preference will be given to
District of Columbia residents.
For more information, contact Zoma Wallace, Art Bank Coordinator at zoma.wallace@dc.gov or (202) 724-5613.
For more information, contact Zoma Wallace, Art Bank Coordinator at zoma.wallace@dc.gov or (202) 724-5613.
Thursday, May 30, 2013
Opportunity for video artists
CALL FOR ENTRIES: EXPERIMENTAL MEDIA 2013 VIDEO SCREENING
JUROR: Jason Eppink, Associate Curator of Digital Media, Museum of the Moving Image, Astoria, New York
SCREENING DATES: Thursday, September 12, 2013, additional screening dates TBA
SCREENING LOCATION: The Phillips Collection, 1600 21st St, NW, Washington, DC 20009
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Friday, May 31, 2013, 5pm
DOWNLOAD THE FULL CALL
SUBMIT ONLINE
Washington Project for the Arts announces an open call for video-based artworks to be screened at The Phillips Collection on September 12, 2013 with additional screenings dates and locations TBA. The screening series is part of Experimental Media 2013, a broader WPA program that includes the exhibition Cyber In Securities at Pepco Edison Place Gallery and a series of discussions bringing together artists, technologists, and policy experts to discuss privacy, security, and surveillance.
WPA is particularly interested in works that explore and examine privacy and surveillance in contemporary society, from satellite surveillance down to patents on human genes, from government watch lists to exhibitionism in the age of social networking, from anonymity in Internet culture to the growth in corporate micro-targeting. As moving images play an integral role in our contemporary surveillance regimes – whether government-run, corporate, or self-inflicted – video provides an ideal medium to delve into the changing nature of privacy and surveillance in our digital age.
One artist whose work is chosen for the screening will be selected to win the Kraft Prize for New Media, a $500 cash prize.
Submission Guidelines
The call is open to all artists regardless of geographic location. Artists may submit up to three works of single-channel video, with a maximum duration of 5 minutes per video, along with a CV. The selected videos will be screened sequentially in an auditorium to a seated audience. It is recommended that artists consider the viewing context when selecting work to submit.
Videos can be submitted as links to work on file sharing websites (Vimeo, YouTube, etc) or on a personal website. Videos may be password protected and a password supplied in the submission form. The full length of each work submitted should be less than five minutes. Selected artists will be required to submit a file of the video to WPA so it may be included in the screening.
The final submission deadline is Friday, May 31, 2013 at 5pm. Work may be submitted through WPA’s website.
Artists with questions regarding the call or who prefer to submit their work via mail should contact Blair Murphy, WPA Program Director, at 202-234-7103 x 1 or bmurphy@wpadc.org. For more information, download the full call.
About the Juror
Jason Eppink curates events and exhibitions, creates interactive experiences, and throws raging art parties as the Associate Curator of Digital Media at Museum of the Moving Image in New York City. When he’s not doing that, Eppink teaches digital art at New York University and makes mischief in public space and online. GOOD Magazine proclaimed him one of the top 100 most important, exciting, and innovative people making our world better and changing the way we live.
JUROR: Jason Eppink, Associate Curator of Digital Media, Museum of the Moving Image, Astoria, New York
SCREENING DATES: Thursday, September 12, 2013, additional screening dates TBA
SCREENING LOCATION: The Phillips Collection, 1600 21st St, NW, Washington, DC 20009
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Friday, May 31, 2013, 5pm
DOWNLOAD THE FULL CALL
SUBMIT ONLINE
Washington Project for the Arts announces an open call for video-based artworks to be screened at The Phillips Collection on September 12, 2013 with additional screenings dates and locations TBA. The screening series is part of Experimental Media 2013, a broader WPA program that includes the exhibition Cyber In Securities at Pepco Edison Place Gallery and a series of discussions bringing together artists, technologists, and policy experts to discuss privacy, security, and surveillance.
WPA is particularly interested in works that explore and examine privacy and surveillance in contemporary society, from satellite surveillance down to patents on human genes, from government watch lists to exhibitionism in the age of social networking, from anonymity in Internet culture to the growth in corporate micro-targeting. As moving images play an integral role in our contemporary surveillance regimes – whether government-run, corporate, or self-inflicted – video provides an ideal medium to delve into the changing nature of privacy and surveillance in our digital age.
One artist whose work is chosen for the screening will be selected to win the Kraft Prize for New Media, a $500 cash prize.
Submission Guidelines
The call is open to all artists regardless of geographic location. Artists may submit up to three works of single-channel video, with a maximum duration of 5 minutes per video, along with a CV. The selected videos will be screened sequentially in an auditorium to a seated audience. It is recommended that artists consider the viewing context when selecting work to submit.
Videos can be submitted as links to work on file sharing websites (Vimeo, YouTube, etc) or on a personal website. Videos may be password protected and a password supplied in the submission form. The full length of each work submitted should be less than five minutes. Selected artists will be required to submit a file of the video to WPA so it may be included in the screening.
The final submission deadline is Friday, May 31, 2013 at 5pm. Work may be submitted through WPA’s website.
Artists with questions regarding the call or who prefer to submit their work via mail should contact Blair Murphy, WPA Program Director, at 202-234-7103 x 1 or bmurphy@wpadc.org. For more information, download the full call.
About the Juror
Jason Eppink curates events and exhibitions, creates interactive experiences, and throws raging art parties as the Associate Curator of Digital Media at Museum of the Moving Image in New York City. When he’s not doing that, Eppink teaches digital art at New York University and makes mischief in public space and online. GOOD Magazine proclaimed him one of the top 100 most important, exciting, and innovative people making our world better and changing the way we live.
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
What Does Copyright Protect?
Get it from the government office here.
How to Protect Your Work from Etsy’s Copyright Infringers from Art Law Journal here.
Great guide to the Copyright Act here.
How to Protect Your Work from Etsy’s Copyright Infringers from Art Law Journal here.
Great guide to the Copyright Act here.
Monday, May 27, 2013
Call for edgy, weird, unsettling and scary art
Deadline: August 1, 2013
BFSD (BIG FAT SCARY DEAL) Purdue University Galleries is curating exhibit of contemporary art that is edgy, weird, unsettling and scary, open to US artists. Oct 21 - Dec 8, 2013. Any media, limit 8 feet tall or 10 feet wide. Selections from jpeg or video files - no PowerPoints.
Artists responsible for shipping. No entry fee.
Details:
Craig Martin, Director 765-494-3061 http://cla.purdue.edu/galleries
cdmartin@purdue.edu
BFSD (BIG FAT SCARY DEAL) Purdue University Galleries is curating exhibit of contemporary art that is edgy, weird, unsettling and scary, open to US artists. Oct 21 - Dec 8, 2013. Any media, limit 8 feet tall or 10 feet wide. Selections from jpeg or video files - no PowerPoints.
Artists responsible for shipping. No entry fee.
Details:
Craig Martin, Director 765-494-3061 http://cla.purdue.edu/galleries
cdmartin@purdue.edu
Sunday, May 26, 2013
When art panels bite
And so they held an art panel in NYC to discuss "Gended Politics in the Arts"... this is what happened.
Opportunity for Artists
Deadline to apply: Tuesday, May 28, 2013
CALL FOR ENTRIES:
MiniSolos@Touchstone
are back in August 2013
Exhibition dates: August 2 - 29, 2013
Opening Reception: Friday, August 2, 6 - 8:30pm
Prospectus: (PDF download)
Artist Contract/Agreement: (PDF download)
Application form: (Excel download) OR (Word Document)
Labels sample: (Excel download)
Please contact them at info@touchstonegallery.com if you have any questions.
DMV Artist at the Venice Biennale
Opening Reception | Weds May 29th, 6 - 9pm | Venice, Italy
Hosted by Ai Reali, Castello, Campo della Fava 5527
Saturday, May 25, 2013
Opportunity for Artists
Deadline: June 1, 2013
FOUNDRY GALLERY AUGUST 2013 EXHIBITION.
This month-long juried show at historic Dupont Circle in Washington, D.C.
is open to painting, drawing and mixed media by artists in the greater Washington
area (D.C., N. Virginia, S. Maryland). Reception. Application fee.
Details here.
Pheo Para Alliance Fundraiser
The Pheo Para Alliance and
The Katzen Arts Center at The American University
cordially invite you to
THE HEALING ARTS
An Evening of Art, Discussion, Good Food, and
Live and Silent Auctions
Saturday, June 22 at 5:30pm
The American University Museum
The Katzen Arts Center at The American University
cordially invite you to
THE HEALING ARTS
An Evening of Art, Discussion, Good Food, and
Live and Silent Auctions
Saturday, June 22 at 5:30pm
The American University Museum
Sponsorship Levels:
The Andy Warhol Table For 10: $10,000
The Georgia O’Keefe Table For 8: $6,000
The Larry Rivers Table For 6: $4,500
The Sam Gilliam Table For 4: $3,000
$350/person
$175/person for patients and artists
FUNDS RAISED WILL GO TO RESEARCH FOR FINDING A CURE FOR PHEO PARA.
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:
5:30-6:30 - Cocktails and Art Exhibit of Prominent Washington Artists (and also by yours truly, easily the prominest of all prominent DC area artists... cough, cough... I will be donating this work) . Silent Auction Opens.
6:45-7:15 - Panel Discussion “The Healing Arts”
Dr. Frederick Ognibene, Deputy Director Of Clinical Research Training, National Institutes of Health, Moderator
PANELISTS:
Susan B. Magee – Author, INTO THE LIGHT The Healing Art of Kalmon Aron
Shanti Norris – Executive Director of Smith Center for Healing And The Arts
Jerzy Sapieyevski – Award Winning Composer, Pianist, and Educator
Tim Tate – Mixed Media Sculptor, Co-Founder of The Washington Glass School
Humanitarian Award Presentation to Dr. Antonio Tito Fojo (a fellow Cuban-American by the way).
7:30-9:30 – Dinner, Entertainment, Live Auction
9:30 – Grand Finale
PLEASE RSVP BY FRIDAY, JUNE 14
Checks payable to
Pheo Para Alliance can be sent to:
6111 Western Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20015
To register online, please visit
www.pheo-para-alliance.org
Checks payable to
Pheo Para Alliance can be sent to:
6111 Western Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20015
To register online, please visit
www.pheo-para-alliance.org
D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities' FY 2014 grant guidelines
FY 2014 grants are now live!
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The
D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities' FY 2014 grant guidelines
and applications are now live! Browse grant opportunities for individual
artists and arts organizations, set up an account on our new online grant application portal and begin the process of applying for funding.
Click on the grant program(s) that you are interested in to review the new guidelines.
Need
more information on the changes to our grant programs? Well, don't miss
our grant writing workshops. For a schedule of our upcoming workshops, click here.
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For those that were able to attend our FY 2014 Grants Kickoff at the Historic Lincoln Theatre, we would like your feedback.
CLICK HERE to take our short survey.
If you were unable to attend the FY 2014 Grants Kickoff, don't worry;
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