Wanna go to an artists' talk tomorrow?

Charlie Dale and Rosemary Luckett invite you to a free artist's talk about the creative processes and how they arrived at the works in their current solo exhibits.

The artist talk is Sunday, October 17, 2 pm at Touchstone Gallery.

RSVP to info@touchstonegallery.com

The Power 100

Art Review has their "Power 100" list up.

It would be fun to come up with a Power 100 list for the DMV.

I think I will start working on that just for fun and see what trouble I can get into.

Meanwhile here's the list and guess what? 3% of those on this list own one (or more) of my drawings!

Is that cool or what?

Now I need to work on the other 97.

1. Larry Gagosian
2. Hans Ulrich Obrist
3. Iwan Wirth
4. David Zwirner
5. Glenn D. Lowry
6. Bice Curiger
7. Sir Nicholas Serota
8. Eli Broad
9. RoseLee Goldberg
10. François Pinault
11. Adam D. Weinberg
12. Jeffrey Deitch
13. Ai Weiwei
14. Agnes Gund
15. Alfred Pacquement
16. Anton Vidokle, Julieta Aranda & Brian Kuan Wood
17. Bruce Nauman
18. Marc Glimcher
19. Beatrix Ruf
20. Dominique Lévy & Robert Mnuchin
21. Iwona Blazwick
22. Marian Goodman
23. Marc Spiegler & Annette Schönholzer
24. Barbara Gladstone
25. Jay Jopling
26. Mike Kelley
27. Cindy Sherman
28. Dakis Joannou
29. Franz West
30. Gavin Brown
31. Peter Fischli & David Weiss
32. Steven A. Cohen
33. Tim Blum & Jeff Poe
34. Anne Pasternak
35. Marina Abramovic
36. Bernard Arnault
37. Victor Pinchuk
38. Eugenio López
39. Takashi Murakami
40. Patricia Phelps de Cisneros
41. Matthew Slotover & Amanda Sharp
42. Okwui Enwezor
43. Matthew Higgs
44. Tino Sehgal
45. Maja Hoffmann
46. Monika Sprüth & Philomene Magers
47. Jeff Koons
48. Nicholas Logsdail
49. Sadie Coles
50. Brett Gorvy & Amy Cappellazzo
51. Tobias Meyer & Cheyenne Westphal
52. Ann Philbin
53. Damien Hirst
54. Emmanuel Perrotin
55. Gerhard Richter
56. Nicolas Bourriaud
57. Matthew Marks
58. Udo Kittelmann
59. Michael Ringier
60. Kasper König
61. Daniel Buchholz
62. Anish Kapoor
63. Daniel Birnbaum
64. Toby Webster
65. Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev
66. Christian Boros & Karen Lohmann
67. Germano Celant
68. Maurizio Cattelan
69. Neo Rauch
70. Boris Groys
71. Helga de Alvear
72. Thaddaeus Ropac
73. Ralph Rugoff
74. Victoria Miro
75. Jerry Saltz
76. Anita & Poju Zabludowicz
77. Massimo De Carlo
78. Maureen Paley
79. Yana Peel & Candida Gertler
80. Roberta Smith
81. Charles Saatchi
82. Tim Neuger & Burkhard Riemschneider
83. Mario Cristiani, Lorenzo Fiaschi & Maurizio Rigillo
84. Johann Konig
85. Caroline Schneider
86. Johnson Chang Tsong-zung & Claire Hsu
87. Dimitris Daskalopoulos
88. Rirkrit Tiravanija
89. Wolfgang Tillmans
90. H.H. Sheikha Hoor Al-Qasimi & Jack Persekian
91. Massimiliano Gioni
92. Magnus Renfrew
93. Nicolai Wallner
94. Stefan Kalmár
95. Christine Tohme
96. Gregor Podnar
97. Elizabeth Dee
98. Richard Chang
99. Bruce High Quality Foundation
100. Margot Heller

Opportunity for Artists

Deadline: November 12, 2010

Gallery West in Old Town Alexandria has a call for artists for their 14th Annual National Juried Show (Exhibit Dates: February 9–March 6, 2011).

The all media show will be juried by yours truly and awards to total $1,000. Click here to download the prospectus.

Easton and Cambridge

I'll be in Easton and also in Cambridge, Maryland this weekend, relaxing with the family and checking out some of the local art spots and galleries. Too bad I wasn't there on a Wednesday, otherwise I could have hung around the Wednesday Morning Artists:

Wednesday Morning Artists is a diverse group of local artists with a common desire to engage our community in experiencing the arts while cultivating the growing artist community in Cambridge, Maryland and surrounding areas.

Is that cool or what?

More later from Cambridge and Easton.

Another artist complaint against Klaudia Marr Gallery

Steven Kenny is an artist whose works are well-known to me; he's a former prizewinner at one of the Fraser Gallery's former competitions at the original Fraser location in Georgetown. He writes:

You can add my name to the list of artists who have been robbed by Klaudia Marr. In October of 2009 she returned my paintings to me after moving her gallery to a new location. One painting was missing and it took her a month to reveal that it had been sold although she claimed not to know when or to whom. She admits to owing me $2,475.00 but has continually claimed to be unable to make any payments.

After I learned of my undisclosed sale I decided to see how widespread the situation was. It seems I am one of the lucky ones. I contacted 10 artists who were represented by Klaudia Marr Gallery and five replied that they were owed money.

Regards,
Steven Kenny

Sandra Ramos' workshop

Havana-based Cuban artist Sandra Ramos is in many people's opinions, the leading contemporary Cuban artist in the world, and later this month, her solo exhibition titled Exodus, running from October 23 - December 27, opens in Norfolk's leading independently owned commercial fine arts gallery: Mayer Fine Art.

MFA, which also represents my work, is by far the top fine arts venue in the Tidewater area, and its hardworking owner, the talented Shiela Giolitti, daughter of the legendary comic book artist Alberto Giolitti has been preparing for this, Ramos' second ever solo show in the USA, for a long time.

Sandra Ramos. Flying to Miami. Charcoal and Acrylic on Digital Canvas Print. 130 x 90 cm. Circa 2010
The opening is Saturday, October 23rd from 6-9PM.

Additionally, Ramos will be leading a printmaking workshop at the Chrysler Museum on Oct 23 and 24th. You can register for that workshop here. Hurry! There are only three spots left!

Then, on October 26th at 7PM, Sandra Ramos will present a lecture on contemporary Cuban art at the Baron and Ellin Art Galleries of Old Dominion University in Norfolk. Free and open to the public.

Ramos is in the permanent collection of MoMa, MFA Boston, Dallas Museum, Miami Art Museum and many other US, European and Latin American art museums.

I'm driving down for this opening; see ya there!

Opportunity for Artists

Deadline: December 3, 2010

The Foundry Gallery has a "Call to Artists" for their January 2011 show which will have "Celebrate Gay Marriage" as its theme. The Foundry Gallery is located at 1314 18th Street, NW, 20036 near Dupont Circle. The deadline for entering is Friday, December 3, 2010, 5pm. To obtain the pospectus go to this website and click on the link to "Call to Artists".