Amze Emmons
February 4th – 25th, 2011
Opening Reception: Friday, February 4th, 7-11

With Special Guests:

Amze Emmons is a artist, illustrator, curator, living and working in Philadelphia, PA. Born in rural upstate New York. He received a BFA Ohio Wesleyan University. He went on to receive his MA and MFA from the University of Iowa. His work is exhibited both nationally and internationally.

SPACE 1026
1026 Arch St. 2nd Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19107

International Print Center New York presents New Prints 2011/Winter, on view January 13 -March 5, 2011 in its gallery at 508 West 26th Street, Room 5A. The show consists of fifty pieces by forty-eight emerging to established artists, selected from a pool of over 1,500 submissions. A reception with the artists will be held at IPCNY on Wednesday, January 12, from 6-8 pm.

The Selections Committee for New Prints 2011/Winter includes: Brad Ewing, Master Printer, Marginal Editions; Richard Gerrig, Collector, Professor, Stony Brook University; Diana Goldin, Collector; Lisa Hodermarsky, Associate Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, Yale University Art Gallery; Michelle Levy, Director, EFA Project Space; and Nicola Lopez, Artist.

New Prints 2011/Winter is the thirty-eighth presentation of IPCNY’s New Prints Program, a series of juried exhibitions organized quarterly by IPCNY, featuring prints made within the past twelve months by artists at all stages of their careers. The Exhibition represents a cross-section of some of the most exceptional printmaking today while continuing IPCNY’s commitment to provide an ongoing exhibition venue for contemporary prints and a major source of information about artists working in the medium.

The complete Artists’ List is as follows: Golnar Adili, Daniel Allegrucci, Rosaire Appel, Carla Aspenberg, Maya Malachowski Bajak, Glen Baldridge, Anders Bergstrom, Michael Bisbee, Kit Boyce, NoahBreuer, Nicholas Brown, Els Ceulemans, Deborah Chaney, Kyle Coniglio, Greg Daiker, Grainne Dowling, Stefanie Dykes, Yuko Fukuzumi, Stephen Funk, Laurent Gagnon, Tai Hwa Goh, Leslie A. Grossman, Erik Hougen, William R. Howard, Alysia Kaplan, Peter Kingstone and Daryl Vocat, Yunmee Kyong, Margaret Lanzetta, Vera Lutter, Edward Monovich, Shaun O’Dell, Dennis Olsen, Goedele Peeters, Sarah Nicole Phillips, Eleanore Rembaum, Ian Ruffino, Julia Samuels, Blake Sanders, Larry Schulte, Hilda Shen, Elisabeth Sommerville, Ella Weber, Jenny Wiener, John Willis, Steve Wiseman, Jing Yu, and Barbara Zucker.

In addition to the many independent artists included in this show, the presses, publishers and printshopsrepresented are: Dieu Donné, Dead End Press, Marginal Editions, Ningyo Editions, Carolina Nitsch, Paulson Bott Press, and SOLO Impression.

An illustrated brochure with a curatorial essay by Michelle Levy will accompany the Exhibition.

New Prints 2011/Winter includes several three-dimensional printed pieces, such as Tai Hwa Goh’s ethereal installation, LULL-4, made with intaglio on hand-waxed paper, collage and wood board; Steve Wiseman’s lithograph paper sculpture, Disguise Yourself; and Stephen Funk’s When We All Ride Together, a diorama withlinoleum cut and etching on craft foam, felt, and faux fur. A wide range of printmaking techniques are visible throughout this show, from Carla Aspenberg’s Untitled, a print of a shattered glass plate, to Maya Bajak’s Bridge, an ominous, floating landscape made with etching and aquatint, to Goedele Peeters’ masterful reduction linocut still life, Hold Me, to Barbara Zucker’s Animal Sightings, an inkjet-printed artist’s book.

With rare exceptions, prints included in IPCNY’s New Prints shows are for sale. IPCNY refers potential purchasers directly to the artist, publisher, or gallery supplying the print. IPCNY requires no commission on sales. New Prints 2011/Winter will be posted on www.ipcny.org, together with all prior exhibitions presented by IPCNY. For images or additional information about this show and IPCNY’s Exhibitions Touring Program, email Julia@ipcny.org.

Steve Wiseman, Disguise Yourself, 2010

International Print Center New York is a non-profit institution founded to promote the greater appreciation and understanding of the fine art print worldwide. Through innovative programming, it fosters a climate for the enjoyment, examination and serious study of artists’ prints – from the old master to the contemporary. IPCNY offers its members a program of workshop and gallery visits, and has established an informational website and Information Desk available to the public at the gallery. IPCNY depends upon public and private donations to support its programs.

The New Prints Program is funded in part with public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts—a state agency, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.

Sponsors of IPCNY’s 10^th Anniversary Season are The Edward John Noble Foundation, Lily Auchincloss Foundation, Deborah Loeb Brice Foundation, The Felicia Fund, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Hess Foundation, Charles S. Mott Foundation, Reed Foundation, Arthur Ross Foundation, Phillips de Pury and numerous individual donors.

Artist’s Reception for Benevolent New World

You are invited to join us for A.T. Kearney New York’s inaugural art exhibition and reception, Benevolent New World, on Friday, December 3^rd. The exhibit, which will run through January 7th, explores contemporary notions of sustainability and issues related to our relationship with nature — a theme that complements A.T. Kearney’s commitment to protect the environment.

Sustainability and community service are core A.T. Kearney values. In 2010, we became the first traditional high-value added consulting firm to become carbon neutral worldwide. Reaching this goal is part of a broader initiative to deliver sustainable, environmentally-sound results to a global client base and to spearhead local initiatives and drive cultural change.

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Location: A.T. Kearney, 7 Times Square, 36^th Floor

Date: Friday, 3 December 2010

Time: 4:30 – 7:30 p.m.
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The artists being featured in this exhibition represent the global presence that enriches New York. All live in the five boroughs of New York, yet their region of origin ranges from New Zealand to Wisconsin to Mexico and Canada. The mediums they use include recycled envelopes from bills and solicitations letters, eco-friendly paints, recycled materials, and even Google Earth scans.

The seven artists are: Diego Anaya, Jude Broughan, Jessica Cannon, Karen Fitzgerald, Matt Jensen, Graham MacBeth and Sarah Nicole Phillips. Heide Lee is the curator of this special exhibit. (www.HeidiLeeArtAdvisory.com).

To further extend AT Kearney’s commitment to sustainability and community service, extra food from this event will be donated to Common Ground, a pioneer in the development of supportive housing and other research-based practices that help fight homelessness. Common Ground has received The Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence, the Peter Drucker Award for Non-Profit Innovation, and the World Habitat Award through the United Nations and Building and Social Housing Foundation.

Please RSVP by Tuesday, November 30 to info@HeidiLeeArtAdvisory.com

The Gowanus Studio Space is pleased to announce a group exhibition curated by its three 2010 printmaking fellows: Johee Kim, Rachel Ostrow and Maggie Wright.

WITH PRINTS BY:

MARTIN BLAND, NOAH BREUER, CARDA BURKE, DEB CHANEY, BEN COHEN, ANGELA CONANT, EMILY ELSEN, BEKA GOEDDE, VALERIE HAMMOND, JOHEE KIM, ILIAS KOEN, MIRANDA LEIGHFIELD, GENEVIEVE LOWE, FRANK OLIVE, RACHEL OSTROW, KRISTA PETERS, SARAH NICOLE PHILLIPS, JULIA SAMUELS, FRANCESCO SIMETI, MICHAL SKIBA, KIKI SMITH, ERICA SVEC, MAGGIE TRAKAS, TOMAS VU, MAGGIE WRIGHT

Please join us at the reception on Friday, November 12th from 7pm-11pm.
DJ POLKADOT spins that old-time country vinyl. DJ CHEWROCKS later, when the night gets dancey.
E FOR EFFORT tees by Beka Goedde and Rachel Ostrow for sale!
FREE Kiss prints by Angela Conant

Selected from a pool of applicants in the New York City area, the artists were hired for one week, from September 13th–20th, to complete their response to a TWO assignment. The artist/employees’ assignments, such as documenting a need for repairs, making a regional travel guide for a block or neighborhood, reinterpreting a newspaper photograph, or giving a concert for a houseplant, will be on view at the TWO office during the Dumbo Arts Festival from September 24th–26th, and on the TWO website thereafter.

The Work Office (TWO) is a collaborative, multidisciplinary art project disguised as an employment agency. Informed by the WPA of the Great Depression in the 1930s, TWO is a gesture to “make work” for visual and performing artists, writers, and others by giving them simple, idea-based assignments that explore, document, and improve daily life in New York. From their temporary office at 45 Main Street in Brooklyn, >TWO’s administrators—Jerinic and Miller—manage all aspects of the project, including oversight of the office and website. As the project’s lead artists, they perform the dull bureaucratic work that ensures that their employees make artwork.

TWO is based on the idea of “making work” (WPA terminology) for artists to “make work” (artist terminology). The project was born of an appreciation for the WPA and recurring comparisons in the news media between that era and today. With the current economic recession in mind, TWO revisits the approach the 1930s federal government took to alleviate the effects of the Depression on daily life. Artists were employed to make art—alongside infrastructure and other projects to rebuild the country—and were seen as a valuable labor force. Despite recent wistful references to the WPA, it seems implausible in contemporary US culture that artists would be remunerated for their work in this way. TWO is a wry, contemporary realization of this model.

The TWO process requires artists to apply, interview, sign contracts, and work a full week to complete their assignment. Payday Parties are the culmination of the work week, where employees are paid for their labor and the public is invited to view the works and learn about the project. Payday Parties are inspired by the socializing that occurred between artists as they waited in line to collect their wages at their local WPA office. They also provide a forum for TWO artists and the general public to interact and exchange ideas. All completed assignments will be on view throughout the Dumbo Arts Festival and on the project’s website: www.theworkoffice.com.