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Non Native New York got coverage today on NY One. Take a look at the clip by clicking here.
Also, a little article on the NY1 website:
New Exhibition Showcases Works Of Non-Native New Yorkers
By: Shazia Khan
Taiwanese native Hai-Hsin Huang moved to New York three years ago to study art.
“I heard people say artists should be in New York, so I just came to New York,” says Huang.
Huang creates paintings filled with dark humor, based on public images found mostly on government websites. Her work is currently on view at de Castellane Gallery in Boerum Hill, as part of a new exhibition called “Non-Native New York.” Brian Bell and Linn Edwards co-curated the show.
“[Brian] is from Ohio and I’m from Pennsylvania and we’ve been in New York, we’ve seen tons of New York art, but we just really wanted to see art that was from a whole different perspective than our own,” Edwards says.
“With my work now, I’m actually going to India more often in my adult life and starting to think about being Indian again, or being India in general and what that might mean,” he says.
Works by 15 artists from countries like Japan, Iran, and Jamaica are on display. Submissions were only open to foreign-born artists living in Brooklyn, a request the curators say was received with some criticism.
“We got a lot of slack for that because some people were like I lived in New York all my life, why should I not be represented?” explains Bell. “But we felt that being a non native, you have a lot of difficulties; it’s hard for you to get into the art world.”
But some of the foreign-born artists actually hesitated to submit their work when the original outreach material used the word immigrant instead of non native.
“I’ve had conversations with some artists who said I didn’t initially want to apply to this because I didn’t feel like an immigrant, like the word immigrant might have sort of a negative weight to it these days, as if an immigrant might be more desperate or running away from political pressure,” says Edwards. “Whereas a lot of these artists, I say for the most part, these artists have chosen to come to America whether for a [Master of Fine Arts] program or just to further their study in creative inspiration in America.”
The artists who spoke with NY1 say there is no better place to do so than in New York.
“I feel more pressure to do something,” says Huang. “But, at the same time, I feel more comfortable to do whatever I want to do.”
In the ever-competitive New York art scene, an effort is underway to make sure non-native New Yorkers are also represented. NY1’s Shazia Khan filed the following report. They say they wanted perspective from artists like Gautam Kansara, who submitted a video installation. Kansara, who was born in England to Indian parents, moved to California at the age of five and recently found a home in Williamsburg. He says this confluence of cultures has seeped into his art, in which he often explores identity and relationships.
I’m pleased to announce my participation in the upcoming group exhibition Non-Native New York, curated by Linn Edwards & Brian Bell. I will be showing four collages from the Security Landscape series.
Non-Native New York will open on August 5th – August 22nd, 2010 at the de Castellane Gallery, located at 525 Atlantic Ave. Brooklyn, NY.
Opening: Thursday, August 5, 6-9pm.
The selected artists for the 2010 exhibition are:
• Mahtab Aslani
• Jaclyn Conley
• Francisco Correa-Cordero
• Emile H Dubuisson
• Yuhi Hasegawa
• Hai-Hsin Huang
• Jee Hwang
• Gautam Kansara
• Maria Kondratiev
• Olek
• Lothar Osterburg
• Jung Eun Park
• Sarah Nicole Phillips
• Minori Sanchiz-Fung
• Taganyahu Swao
Non-Native New York is organized and curated by Linn Edwards and Brian Bell, artists who have collaborated on art projects for over five years and lived in Brooklyn for a decade. They have been inspired by the many cultures that are Brooklyn’s signature as a borough and by the many artists who have moved here from other lands.
Non-Native New York is made possible by a Brooklyn Arts Council
2010 NYSCA Regrant and de Castellane Gallery, and is fiscally sponsored by South Of the Navy Yard Artists, (SONYA) a 501(c)3 non-profit organization.
 
 My piece at Jean Danet on 5th Ave in Bay Ridge.
Twenty invited artists working with a variety of visual media will present individual projects in different storefront windows along 5th Avenue, offering the diverse Bay Ridge community a unique platform for engagement and dialogue with the Visual Arts. The projects goal is to support and promote emerging Brooklyn artists while celebrating local Bay Ridge businesses and to broadly explore the interstices between commerce, art and community.
Participating artists: Carla Aspenberg, Emily Bicht, Jean Boggs, Rachel Day, Jonny Farrow, David Gitt, Chris Hagerty, Karilyn Johanesen, Jill Magi, Chris Moss, Sarah Nicole Phillips, Megan Piontkowski, Sara Danielle Reiss, Carlos Rodriguez, Jennifer Tomaiolo, Eugenie Tung, Heather Willems, Josh Willis, Zane M Wilson.
I have a piece in this show. If you want it, you can go get it.
saturday may 1, 2010 a may day celebration. one night only. 6-8 pm
"Free art, one piece per person. art donated by artists. unconditional love. anyone may give. anyone may have.
at a time when everything costs, this is free."
FEATURE INC. 131 ALLEN ST NY NY 10002 Between Delancey and Rivington Streets
Here are images of the event.
Here is the permanent link to the event listing on Feature's website.
Untitled (Lenses)
2010
lenses from B&H catalog
5" x 8"
Announcing the launch of The World is Not Enough, a web-based exhibition.
http://theworldisnotenough.info/
Curated and designed by Carl James Ferrero, the exhibition will be available from February 27, 2010 until February 12, 2011.
Featuring the work of Jill Auckenthaler, Selena Kimball, Jochen Klein, Cynthia Lin, Patte Loper,
Sarah Nicole Phillips, Jeffrey Pittu, Franklin Preston, Gina Ruggeri, Ryan Steadman, Jan Wandrag, and Mitchell Wright.
For more information, please contact cjferrero@gmail.com.
New Prints Part II at the Southern Graphics Council Conference & Philigrafika 2010
Meyerson Gallery, University of Pennsylvania
March 8 – April 6
The University of Pennsylvania School of Design Dean Marilyn Jordan Taylor are proud to host New Prints, Part II, a juried exhibition with new works from over fifty artists at all stages of their careers. Organized by International Print Center New York, this show presents a wide array of exciting contemporary work that challenges our understanding of fine art printmaking. Like IPCNY and Philagrafika, the University of Pennsylvania School of Design is dedicated to highlighting and fostering excellence in art.
University of Pennsylvania School of Design
Meyerson Gallery
210 South 34th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Phone: (215) 898-8374
Web: www.design.upenn.edu
Hours: Monday – Friday 9am – 5pm.
Denatured
Gershwin Hotel
7 East 27 Street
New York, NY 10016-8700
(212) 545-8000
www.gershwinhotel.com
Opening Reception: Friday, January 15, 7 pm onwards
The opening was great; lots of folks and tunes. The curator Emet did a wonderful job organizing this exhibition.
New Prints 2010/Winter
International Print Center New York (IPCNY)
526 West 26th Street, Room 824
New York, NY 10001
(212) 989-5090
contact@ipcny.org
www.ipcny.org
On View: January 12 – February 20, 2010
Opening Reception: Thursday, January 14, 6-8 pm
"The Selections Committee for New Prints 2010/Winter included Alexander Campos, Executive Director, The Center for Book Arts; Michele Oka Doner, Artist; Kathleen Flynn, Executive Director, Dieu Donné; Shelley Langdale, Associate Curator of Prints and Drawings, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Curatorial Team, Philagrafika 2010; Dwight E. Lee, Collector; and Leslie Miller, Founder, The Grenfell Press.
New Prints 2010/Winter is the thirty-third presentation of IPCNY’s New Prints Program, a series of juried exhibitions organized by IPCNY four times each year, 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.
New Prints 2010/Winter is the fiftieth exhibition presented by IPCNY in its Chelsea space since the opening of the gallery in September, 2000.
The complete artists’ list for New Prints 2010/Winter is as follows: Erika Adams, Roberta Allen, Felipe De Jesus Baeza, Karin Bos, Marisa Boullosa, Victoria Burge, Sophie Calle, Jonas Criscoe (in collaboration with writer Patrick Whitfill), Sage Dawson, E.V. Day, Hope Dector, Lesley Dill, Barbara Duval, Brad Ewing, Alejandro Garcia Restrepo, Klara Glosova, Tai Hwa Goh, William Howard, Richard Hricko, Anita S. Hunt, Nils Karsten, William Kentridge, Andrew Kozlowski, Yunmee Kyong, Karen Lederer, Whitfield Lovell, Franco Marinai, Michael Neff, Mark Parsons, Alyssa Pheobus, Ross Racine, Jenny Robinson, Zoë Sheehan Saldaña, David Sandlin, Ana Vivoda, April Vollmer, Tammy Wofsey, and Erin Woodbrey. Artists participating in the S.P. Weather Station collective are: Leah Beeferman, Natalie Campbell, Carrie Dashow, Neil Freeman, Richard Garrison, Michael Geminder, Katarina Jerinic, Daniel Larson, Bridget Lewis, Lize Mogel, Heidi Neilson, Chris Petrone, Sarah Nicole Phillips, Jing Yu, and Liz Zanis
A curatorial essay by Michele Oka Doner will accompany the exhibition.
Highlights from New Prints 2010/Winter include: Brad Ewing’s Trillion with a T, a three-dimensional stack of blindstamped gold bars; Alejandro Garcia Restrepo’s Estudios para una anatomía imaginaria, a lyrical etching of a butterfly hovering above broken bird wings; Sage Dawson’s Hair Maps, Studies of Albuquerque and Israel, a postcard-sized image that maps out each respective city with hair and gold leaf on collograph relief prints; Nils Karsten’s large-scale woodcuts of album cover art and rock lyrics, William Kentridge’s artist book of eighteen watermark drawings, Sheets of Evidence; Sophie Calle’s Address Book and accompanying text-based screenprints, and S.P. Weather Station, a twelve-month study of weather patterns as observed and documented from a homemade station situated on a rooftop in Queens.
Twenty-six of the artists produced their work independently. Presses and printshops represented include: Dieu Donné, Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Moisant Weyl, Marginal Editions, Plotzing Press, SOLO Impression, and S.P. Weather Station."
SP Weather Station; Weather Reports
ANH/VHS
319A North 11th Street, 4th Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19107
www.ahnvhs.com
exhibition dates:
August 7 – 30, 2009
Opening: Friday August 7th, 7-10pm
Philadelphia Weekly
ARTS AND CULTURE
Weather Reports : A new exhibit at AHN/VHS focuses on meteorological data.
By Roberta Fallon
Aug. 18, 2009
Cloud control: Luke Strosnider’s digital photography collage depicts the sky at various dates and times.
If there’s angst or hysteria about global warming, it’s hidden in the group show “Weather Reports.” Instead of melting ice caps and imperiled polar bears, AHN/VHS’ quiet, small works show—which features drawings, prints, video and mixed media—focuses on the daily weather data recorded at Long Island City’s artist-run SP Weather Station.
The SP Weather Station project was started by Natalie Campbell and Heidi Neilson in 2007 as a way for artists to study the weather and create art that reflects or chronicles it.
Some of the works stick a little too close to the data and actually look like charts you’d see in a science book. But several of the works are quite surprising with their visual or conceptual punch.
January 2009 by Mike Estabrook and Vandana Jain shows President Obama’s head as a burning yellow sun collaged on a grim black and white urban scene. Michael Geminder’s simple word piece CLEAR WARM AND STILL is lyrical with the words cut from a small piece of cardboard. It’s effective in conjuring up the conditions of a quiet summer night.
Mark Nystrom’s seven digital prints from June 21-27, 2009 transcend data through digital manipulation. Nystrom uses software programs in prints that are reminiscent of work by Francis Bacon—half clear and crisp, half rubbed out in what look like angry attempts to mask reality. Beautiful and frenzied, the prints capture the mystery of weather’s unpredictability.
“SP Weather Station: Weather Reports.” Through Aug. 30. AHN/VNS, 319A N. 11th St., fourth fl. ahnvhs.com.
Perhaps the most directly observational piece in the show is the photo documentation, April 2009 by Luke Strosnider. The digital photography collage shows long thin slices of sky seen at various dates and times. This manipulated documentation hearkens back to the time when the only tool for predicting the weather was the eyes. Here, the camera’s eye has captured what the physical eye saw and saved it for posterity.
Also featured are a selection of toy-like planetarium lamps collected by SP Weather Station co-founder Heidi Neilson. The light from the lamps projects stars onto the walls of a curio cabinet outside the gallery. The cabinet was recently created by AHN/VHS owners Julianne Ahn and Lauren van Haaften-Schick. The New York transplants focus on works on paper—drawings, prints and publications which they exhibit and sell online and through their flat file in the back studio. Ahn and Haaften-Schick are accepting proposals for an installation of Lilliputian dimensions for the tiny exhibition space. ■
http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/arts-and-culture/Weather–Reports.html
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