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.





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.

New doors for the Library of Congress

In case you haven't noticed, all new doors on the east side of the Library of Congress Adams Building have been installed, with the new west side doors going in sometime in the next month. 

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.

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

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

Red Handed at MFA

RED HANDED

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.

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.

Ave Jacquelinas ER
Charcoal and Conte with Embedded electronics
20x16 inches, circa 2012

Ave Marylinas
Charcoal and Conte with Embedded Electronics
20x16 inches, circa 2012

Jenkins on Alchemical Vessels

Read the WaPo's Mark Jenkins review of this terrific fundraising exhibition.

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!

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...





The Batman in The Batcave (Brooding Over Robin)
Charcoal, conte and Embedded Appropriated Video. Circa 2013
Framed to 30x40 inches.

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.

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 21^st 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.

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. 

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

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

Congrats to DMV area artist Christopher Baer, whose recent work from the White on White series will be on display throughout the 2013 Venice Biennale at Ai Reali, located a few steps from the Rialto Bridge.

Opening Reception | Weds May 29th, 6 - 9pm | Venice, Italy

Hosted by Ai Reali, Castello, Campo della Fava 5527

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

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

D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities' FY 2014 grant guidelines

FY 2014 grants are now live!

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. Artist Fellowship Program Arts Education Program City Arts Projects  Cultural Facilities Projects East of the River Grants-In-Aid Public Art Building Communities UPSTART GRANT WRITING WORKSHOPS  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.

FY 2014 GRANTS KICKOFF

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; 

here's the presentation. 

Call for Manuscripts and Portfolio Proposals

From the VASA Journal on Images and Culture:

The advent of the Internet and digitization of the image has brought about what appears to be a debatable democratization of the medium of photography. The 'WWW' has expanded what images we experience and the way we experience them. It changed the avenues for the embodiment, dissemination and consumption of images, opening new channels for expression, participation and exchange.

The form and function of more traditional photography gatekeepers such as curators, book editors and publishers, museums and galleries, has been challenged by websites/galleries, blogs, and online publications as open platforms. As a result a serious viewer is now required to look harder and broader through the maze of images online.

1. The editors of VJIC are accepting proposals manuscript, for Issue #4 (September 2013) that address, but is not limited to, the following topics:

- The challenge to traditional institutions – what role for galleries and museums;
- The democratization of the medium of photography: implications for practice and access;
- The movement of marginalized or ghettoized voices towards visibility;
- Curators of / in the Internet era;
- Bloggers – voice or chaos;
- Erik Kessels – case study;
- Online communities – case studies: e.g. Flickr, Instagram, FlakPhoto;
- Snapshot as Art;
- Image search engines as gatekeepers; (ie: Taryn Simon and Aaron Swartz 'Image Atlas')

For proposal information refer to VJIC submissions or email issue editors, please include ' Your name + Issue #4 theme issue proposal manuscript' [see bellow].

2. The editors of VJIC are accepting Portfolio proposals for Issue #4 (to be published September 2013) that are:

- inspired by the Internet (e.g. found photography, gifs, video, online archives, Internet cameras, Google and other search engines, social media, etc.)
or
- created to be exhibited exclusively on the Internet

The proposal has to include:

- a 100 word description of the project
- a link to where it is accessible online (a blog, website, social media, tumblr, flickr etc.). Do not send attachments (no pdfs or jpegs).
- address on the email 'Subject' line 'Issue #4 PORTFOLIO PROPOSAL' followed by your name

Send the proposal to the issue editors:

Katarzyna Majak: majak.katarzyna [at] vasa-project.com
Rui G. Cepeda: cepeda.rui [at] vasa-project.com