Arts News For: September 08, 2008   

Call for Artists: 2009 MASTER ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAM Atlantic Center for the Arts - New Smyrna Beach, FL USA United States of America   Since 1982, Atlantic Center's residency program has provided artists from all artistic disciplines with spaces to live, work, and collaborate during three-week residencies. Located just four miles from the east coast beaches of central Florida, the pine and palmetto wooded environment contains award-winning studios that include a resource library, painting studio, sculpture studio, music studio, dance studio, black box theater, writers' studio, and digital computer lab. Each residency session includes three master artists of different disciplines. The master artists each personally select a group of associates - talented, emerging artists - through an application process administered by ACA. Read Indepth Article

CHRISTIANE BAUMGARTNER: Screen Shot Alan Cristea Gallery - London, UK United Kingdom   ‘Christiane Baumgartner’s art is slow art, like slow cooking.  It takes time to produce and it demands to be savoured and in those characteristics it seems to protest at the speed of the world.  She may be fascinated by speed and enjoy the sense of liberation that accompanies it but she recognises its potential for destruction.  This ambivalence lies at the heart of her work.’ Jeremy Lewison, ‘At the Still Point of the Turning World’. The Prints of Christiane Baumgartner, 2007, published by Johan Deumens, Haarlem. Christiane Baumgartner is best known for her monumental woodcuts based on her own films and video stills. She first came to public attention in the UK in EAST international in 2004 and a year later with a major solo exhibition at the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham (with accompanying 80-page, fully illustrated hardback catalogue). Her work is held in over 30 public collections around the world including the Albertina, Vienna; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Bibliotheque nationale de France, Paris and the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. Read Indepth Article

St. Croix Artist John F. McCarthy to Be Exhibited Aldo Castillo Gallery - Chicago, IL USA United States of America   An eco-friendly painter? Are you kiddin’ me? Only in the eco-friendly United States Virgin Islands! Because where one of the best beaches is called “Chocolate Hole…” …we have a “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” kind of “twist". Using discarded Splenda bags to smear oil paint on canvas – abandoned kitchen utensils to “draw” lines in paint already there – and even his own fingers and hands to apply pigments – St. Croix artist John F. McCarthy is saving a tree by painting without brushes! “In my most successful paintings, the paintbrush never touches the canvas,” says the 45-year-old McCarthy. And he’s not joking, either, because his signature technique involves throwing the paint directly out of the tube – baseball-style – onto the canvas. And a baseball town turns out to be big fan of his work. Chicago’s Aldo Castillo Contemporary Art Gallery has contracted to show five of his “action-impact” paintings from September 5th to October 11th. Titles of the works to be displayed are: “Cow Skull Sunrise,” “Venus Fly Trap,” “Warhol Does Pollack,” “Yellow Stairs,” and “Syringe Effect: Death Throes.” John F. McCarthy promotes his work with a Premiere Portfolio at absolutearts.com. Read Indepth Article

When The Spirit Moves: Dance Inspired Works Ft. Hayes Shot Tower Gallery - Columbus, OH USA United States of America   Ft. Hayes Shot Tower Gallery Exhibitions Highlight African American Dance and Dance and Music Inspired Artwork from September 8th until October 9th, 2008. The Shot Tower Gallery at the Ft. Hayes Metropolitan Education Center will present artwork with a Dance and Music theme in the two-part exhibition “When The Spirit Moves” from September 8th until October 9th, 2008. This exhibit includes original art works and a poster exhibition showcasing the history of African American Dance. The art exhibition presents forty-nine art works by seven artists that share dance and music as inspiration for both figurative and metaphorical subject matter. Artists include absolutearts.com Premiere Portfolio artists Walter King and Ron Anderson, as well as, Pheoris West, Bruce Robinson, David Mihaly, Kojo Kamau, and Kevin Willis. The art exhibition includes work in the media of photography, oil and acrylic paintings, relief sculpture, drawings and mix media work. Read Indepth Article

Solo Show of Work by Ronald Moran Pan American Art Gallery - Dallas, TX USA United States of America   PanAmerican ArtProjects is pleased to present a solo show of work by Ronald Moran of El Salvador. Simulacrum is essential in the paintings and installations of Ronald Moran. Moran creates totally static environments, mise en scene void of human characters. Installations are often domestic or familiar spaces covered with white industrial cotton. The subjects for Moran’s soft and quiet paintings also depict domestic objects or objects of violence sheathed in this same white nebulous material. Moran’s goal is to neutralize his subject and represent the impact of contemporary society’s lack of sensitivity to violence and the definitions of our domestic roles. Read Indepth Article

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St. Croix Artist John F. McCarthy to Be Exhibited
When The Spirit Moves: Dance Inspired Works
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Variety of Digital Art 2008 Features Karin Kuhlmann
The Accessibility of Contemporary Art - New Book by Michael Corbin Helps “Everyday Joes” Become Art Collectors
Number Trance Face: Solo Exhibition by Rajinder Singh
Ilana Raviv Receives Women of the Year Award
A Wizard of Colours in the Istanbul Metro: Yucel Donmez
Synthia Saint James Receives Woman of the Year 2008 Award


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