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Contemporary Art News:
September 02, 2010
Walter King : Midwest Dialog, A Retrospective of Works
Shot Tower Gallery at Fort Hayes -
Columbus, OH USA United States of America
 The Shot Tower Gallery at Fort Hayes announces a major
retrospective exhibition curated by Teresa Weidenbush.
Walter King: Midwest Dialog highlights 40 years of Mr.
Kings production much of which was created here in Columbus
Ohio. The exhibition is a major survey of
Walter’s work starting in the 70’s when the artist was just 18. The exhibition will reveal works never exhibited either in Columbus or anywhere Walter has shown. The list of
Walter’s exhibitions spirals out from Columbus to the region, the United States, Europe, Japan and Argentina. Walter King is one of the original Premiere Portfolio Members at absolutearts.com. Read Indepth Article
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Unnatural Order : James Aldridge
Galerie Gabriel Rolt -
Amsterdam, NL Netherlands
 GALERIE GABRIEL ROLT is proud to present UNNATURAL ORDER an exhibition of recent paintings, watercolors and three dimensional works by British artist James Aldridge. This will be Aldridge’s second solo exhibition in The Netherlands. James Aldridge takes on themes of nature, landscape and mortality in works that are simultaneously beautiful and disturbing, fascinating and repulsive. Aldridge’s work is inspired by his immediate environment, the forests of Smaland in Southern Sweden and the music he listens to - extreme Heavy Metal.
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Li Tian-Bing : Childhood Fantasy
Contrasts Gallery -
Shanghai, CN China
 Childhood Fantasy, the first solo exhibition of paintings by Li Tian-bing in China, will be on view at Contrasts Gallery, No 181 Middle Jiangxi Road, g/f, Shanghai, China September 5 - October 9, 2010. Li Tian-bing’s paintings are haunted by memory and an acute awareness of recent Chinese social history. The artist, who was born in Guilin, China in 1974, creates poetic images where, in his words, “reality and fiction are mixed together.” While Li uses old photographs as the source of his works, mimicking their blurred focus, subtle tonalities and surface blemishes, his work is not Photo-Realism. The work evokes both Li’s own childhood, as an only child, and the great changes, which China is currently undergoing. He paints fluidly, allowing the evidence of his hand to show, and transforms photographs by melding them with other images or new figures, painted in brighter monochrome colors. Oil painting, in the artist’s words, is the ideal medium to merge “privacy, intimacy, currency and memory all together, in the process of “gradually visualizing...personal phenomenon.”
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Passanten '10 PODS
Fundament Foundation -
Tilburg, NL Netherlands
 In addition to annual international exhibitions in public space (including Lustwarande), Fundament started Passanten in 2006, an ongoing series of individual commissions for short-term contemporary works of art in the public space of Tilburg, The Netherlands. Inspired by the Romantic notion of the flâneur and the related concept of the dérive, or drift, as put forward in the 1950s by Guy Debord and the Situationists, and going against the flow of contemporary processes of urban transformation, these artists from different parts of the world enter into the urban space. Through investigation and intervention, employing a variety of forms and strategies, they present proposals for temporary interventions that offer opposition to the prevailing canons and spatial limitations, thereby initiating new models of action and experimenting with new transdisciplinary forms of collaboration for the public space.
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Call for Artists - Creation; Juried Group Art Exhibition
Queen Gallery -
Toronto, ON CA Canada
 Call for Submission - Creation; Juried Group Art Exhibition, Curator: Oscar Wolfman. It doesn’t matter if you believe in God or how you believe in God, every culture finds some way to explain how we got here—even how here got here.
CREATION will exhibit various representations of Creation in the arts. Queen Gallery is asking artists to submit work that illustrates the creation of the universe/world/humans according to their belief system. All media are acceptable. Read Indepth Article
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David Buckingham : Don't Hate Me Because I Am Beautiful
Cain Schulte Contemporary Art -
San Francisco, CA USA United States of America
 Cain Schulte Contemporary Art San Francisco is pleased to present the newest metal sculptures by David Buckingham: Don't Hate Me Because I Am Beautiful. The exhibition opens on September 2 and runs through October 2, 2010. The artist's third solo exhibition at Cain Schulte Contemporary Art addresses a variety of issues found within American culture, from gun fascination, violence and rampant capitalism to current neuroses surrounding gender, sexuality, and the attainment of beauty through artificial means. Buckingham's deceptively simple sculptures made of found metal are stunningly direct in technique yet maintain a semiotic ambiguity that is cleverly disconcerting and dispassionately humorous. His varied but incredibly cohesive work often recalls the aesthetic principles of Pop Art, text-based Conceptual Art and the mischievous theories of the Situationist International; he melds and perverts the basic tenets of these movements in an exceptionally complex and daring pastiche. Read Indepth Article
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Counter Space : Design and the Modern Kitchen
Museum of Modern Art -
New York, NY USA
 The Museum of Modern Art presents Counter Space: Design and the Modern Kitchen, an exhibition that examines the kitchen and its continual redesign as a barometer of changing ideologies and technologies, and explores the twentieth-century transformation of the kitchen as a space of huge symbolic and practical significance. On view from September 15, 2010, through March 14, 2011, its centerpiece is MoMA's recent acquisition of an unusually complete example of the iconic "Frankfurt Kitchen." Designed in 1926-27 by Grete Schütte-Lihotzky, it is the earliest work by a female architect in the collection. Read Indepth Article
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Lorna Meaden : Habitual Rituals
Clay Art Center -
Port Chester, NY USA United States of America
 Clay Art Center is proud to present Habitual Rituals, a solo exhibition featuring functional pottery for life’s daily habits, such as caffeine, alcohol and sugar, by Colorado clay artist Lorna Meaden. The exhibit, held in the Choy Gallery, will run from September 2 - 25, 2010 with an reception on Saturday, September 11 from 6-8pm. Additionally, upstairs in the Henry’s Project space, we will be exhibiting vessels for flower arranging by seven current CAC artists. Admission is free.
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Visible - Is the Invisible to Include Setyo Mardiyantoro and Vincenzo Montella
Brooklyn Museum of Art Aquires Two Prints from Damian Wampler's Series, Darfur in Brooklyn
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3 - MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main - Cyprien Gaillard
3 - Cocoon Gallery - Jonah Criswell: Reside
3 - Traver Gallery-Seattle - Debora Moore, orchidaceae
3 - Vox Populi, Jamie Dillon, Pictures of Smoke
3 - La Luz De Jesus Gallery, Nathan Ota "An Unforeseen Homecoming"
3 - La Luz de Jesus Gallery II, Yumiko Kayukawa "49 Days"
3 - ACP - Dream Home
3 - La Petite Mort Gallery, TONY FOUHSE: USER MEN Photography
3 - CAIN SCHULTE CONTEMPORARY, Don Porcella and Susanne Ring
3 - Translations Gallery, Color Field Landscapes
3 -Image 17, The Walthamstow Tapestry (after Grayson Perry)
2 - karpeles museum - "slavery" manuscript exhibit
2 - Arin Contemporary Art - Bradley Corman and Cara Cole at ACA
2 - Art League Houston, Joseph Havel, Jillian Conrad and Jeff Forster
2 - Micaela Gallery, FELDMAN | OTTO | STEINER
2 - Dancing Elephant Projects, Forasteros
2 - Colour Factory Gallery - Wondrous Possessions
31 - MAD, The 2010 Abraaj Capital Art Prize
31 - David Richard Contemporary, Chris Kahler - "Bio-Dynamics"
31 - David Richard Contemporary, Framework
30 - Carpenter Center - New Visiting Faculty 2010-11
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Mexico Part II
Andrew Wielawski
So much time has passed. Mexico turned out to be less dangerous than New York is, at least for me. I returned to Italy after the trip was all over, and spent a few months digesting the things that I had experienced. Then, in October of 2009, I went to New York to visit my Alzheimer's afflicted mother for her 88th birthday. I was so sleepy after that long flight, and there I was at JFK once again. I threw my bags onto the bus, and headed for Grand Central. I caught a train almost immediately, and tried to stay awake so I wouldn't go past my stop, Bedford Hills.
Suddenly, at the Chappaqua station, one of my in laws walked determinedly into my car. This guy had written me threatening e-mails, and I was surprised to see him getting on a train in Chappaqua, since he worked in Manhattan. Then I realized. He'd waited for me in Grand Central, because he knew I'd be coming at around that time, on that day. He'd sat a few cars away, and at the Chappaqua station, had simply gotten out and walked the distance up to where he'd seen me get in.
He plopped down next to me, and offered me to drive me home if I got off in Mt. Kisco. But the e-mails kept coming back to me, and I thought, well he just wants me alone with him so he can do whatever. I said no, thank you.
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Walter King : Midwest Dialog, A Retrospective of Works - Shot Tower Gallery at Fort Hayes
Call for Artists - Creation; Juried Group Art Exhibition - Queen Gallery
David Buckingham : Don't Hate Me Because I Am Beautiful - Cain Schulte Contemporary Art
Lorna Meaden : Habitual Rituals - Clay Art Center
Passanten '10 PODS - Fundament Foundation
Unnatural Order : James Aldridge - Galerie Gabriel Rolt
Li Tian-Bing : Childhood Fantasy - Contrasts Gallery
Counter Space : Design and the Modern Kitchen - Museum of Modern Art
Mixed Media Artworks by Artist Ione Citrin - Talking Stick
Leaving My Mark to Feature Works by Doug Kinsey - fe Gallery
COLORFULLY BOLD : The Creative World of Synthia SAINT JAMES - African American Atelier
Where Is My Vote? Posters for the Green Movement in Iran - School of Visual Arts Museum
Caroline Walker - Winner of The Valerie Beston Artists' Trust Prize 2009 - Marlborough Gallery
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