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Library Science November 12 - January 28 |
Library Science Film Festival November 10 - January 28, |
Library Science Satellite Projects November 12 - January 28 |
Robert Brush : Crown Street Window Nov. 12 - Jan. 28 |
Norm Magnusson: HISTORICAL TENSE In the Lot
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PICK TWO Artspace Flat File Nov. 12 - Jan. 28 |
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Nyeema Morgan, You Are Here. This Is Now
Our Daily Rite (February 9, 2012-March 24, 2012) Our Daily Rite will examine work by local and international artists who engage in daily art making or explore the concept of ritual and marking time. Like Eleanor Antin’s photographic installation which documents her daily weight loss over thirty six days in 1972, artists have long been performing and documenting daily rituals. With the advent of social media, the daily art project has taken hold. Artists now upload and share their daily art projects instantaneously and hold themselves accountable to their social networks – to the perceived expectation and promise of one more day. This ritualistic aspect of daily art projects, whether a drawing, painting, or photo a day, reveals that the practice is in and of itself as vital to both the artist and the viewer as the resulting imagery. Artists include: Hillary Charnas (New York); Jamie Davis (Ohio); Matthew Feiner (Connecticut); Steve Giovinco (New York); Pia Linz (Germany); Beth Castle Lovell (Connecticut); Ken Lovell (Connecticut); Martyna Matusiak (Poland); Nyeema Morgan (New York); Karen Nangle (Connecticut); T. Willie Raney (Connecticut); and Rob Rocke (Connecticut).
Our Daily Rite is sponsored by the generous support of The Green Bride Guide
Delmar. Pine, nails, louver doors taken from kitchen in Delmar NY, red-rosin paper, wood glue, polyurethane. 2'x2'x4'. 2009
Chris Oliver (February 9, 2012-March 24, 2012)
Much of Oliver's recent work stems directly from his interest in domestic buildings and house carpentry. Having worked as a carpenter for several years he learned think of a building and its parts as a construction in time and environment, as more of an event than a static object. Outside weather slowly thwarts all of the clever systems that have been invented to slow its damage; inside layer upon layer of the latest decorating styles accrue. The pieces in this body of work are spawned from parts of buildings that the artist has removed from actual houses; a set of louver doors, a pile of molding, a window sill. These objects, basted with polyurethane and enamel paint, are incorporated into new structures framed using scale lumber and conventional house building methods. This work explores relationships between interior and exterior, concealed and revealed, full scale and model scale, lucid and liminal.
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Current Exhibitions:
Erica Baum http://www.libraryscienceexhibition.org/ Library Science (November 12, 2011 - January 28, 2012)
Artspace is pleased to announce the upcoming exhibition Library Science. Conceived of by New York based curator Rachel Gugelberger, the exhibition will feature 22 contemporary artists, both emerging and established, who are inspired by libraries in their drawing, photography, sculpture, installation, painting or web-based projects. The exhibition title references Eleanor Antin's artwork "Library Science" (1971), which appropriated libraries' classification methods to represent the identities of living women. The title also refers to Library and Information Science, a field that studies library resource usage, human interaction with library systems, and information organization. The show will investigate how our physical, intellectual and personal relationships with the library and its materials are changing as libraries adapt to the digital world. If the book dies, might the library survive? How can libraries evolve to keep pace with the 21st century? Featured works contemplate the emotional connections that tie the reader to the book, the book to the reader, and both to the libraries which define the space around them. Works include: Erica Baum (NY), Jorge Méndez Blake (Mexico), David Bunn (CA), Chris Coffin (NY),Madeline Djerejian (NY), Melissa Dubbin and Aaron S. Davidson (NY), Philippe Gronon (France), Jose Hernandez (NJ), Candida Höfer (Germany), Nina Katchadourian (NY),Reynard Loki (NY), Loren Madsen (CA), Allen Ruppersberg (NY), Mickey Smith (NY), Blane De St.Croix (NY), Xiaoze Xie(CA).
In conjunction with the exhibition at Artspace, Connecticut artists were invited to submit proposals for research residencies towards creating site and situation-specific projects at local libraries. Selected artists are: Colin Burke (The Whitney Library of the New Haven Museum), Heather Lawless (The New Haven Free Public Library), Andy Deck & Carol Padberg (Sterling Memorial Library at Yale University), and Tyler Starr (Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library at Yale). In addition, an exhibition at The Institute Library, timed to open with Library Science, will feature a series of new library-based portraits made by Meredith Miller andRob Rocke. All participating institutions are in walking distance from the gallery. Library Science seeks to encourage librarians to forge relationships with artists and support the creation and presentation of new artwork by providing assistance with research and access to information. The project will also reach out beyond New Haven to library patrons throughout Connecticut via an online exhibition catalogue, and an associated statewide film festival. Library Science is generously supported with funding from The Andy Warhol Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism.
Patron Wanted Do artists need patrons to survive? Robert Brush, a nationally-exhibiting artist, creates conceptual work that reinterprets the familiar and assesses the metaphors and narratives of everyday life. Most recently, his work has questioned the importance of language in the public sphere and has sought to unveil the relationships between art, the individual, and the collective. Patron Wanted, a work of neon, has been shown in various forms in the past: on a pedestal in a pop-up gallery, displayed provocatively in a gift shop, and reinterpreted, in paper form, as an advertisement in an arts magazine. Artspace is thrilled to presentPatron Wanted in our Crown Street window and to join Robert in inviting the viewer to participate in his work and to grapple with the question: what is this?
William Downs, My Brother is My Hero, Charcoal and ink on paper, 2009 PICK TWO, a new show from the Artspace Flat File Gallery 5 at Artspace, Nov. 12 to Jan. 28 Take part in the curatorial process as Timothy Young, Curator of Modern Collections at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale, casts an eye over the Artspace Flat File with a mind to the core function of curating: selecting and bringing together. Works are presented in groups of three with the directive to the viewer to “pick two”—making the final curatorial decision in the mind’s eye. Artists include: Erin Anfinson, Alexis Brown, Hannah Cole, Claudia Cron, Karen Dow, William Downs, Joan Gardner, Elizabeth Gourlay, Jenny Herrick, Sasha Kopelowitz, E van Levine, Elizabeth Livingston, Stephen Locke, Marci MacGuffie, Sabrina Marques, Rhea Nowak, Carl Padberg, Amy Pryor, Lucy Sallick, Nomi Silverman, Thomas Stavovy, Rashmi Talpade, Paul Theriault, Rita Valley, Kevin Van Aelst, Mark Williams, and Aicha Woods.
Ongoing Programs: In The Lot
HISTORICAL TENSE in the Artspace Lot starting October 14 Artspace is honored to present Norm Magnusson’s “Historical Tense,” an installation of six “historical markers” in the Artspace Lot. Previously displayed along country roads and in small towns, Magnusson’s art invites his audience to engage intellectually with contemporary issues that often fall victim to our worst emotional instincts. Rather than presenting strident or maudlin political work, Magnusson provides food for thought, allowing each marker to tell its own story, gently assertive, firmly thought-provoking, and just a little bit subversive. The Artspace Lot provides the first urban home for Magnusson’s project, opening up new possibilities for social engagement.
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Calendar:
Full Plate 2012 Participate in Artspace's second annual Dinner series, Library Science edition! The evening begins at Artspace for a private viewing of Library Science. Enjoy an aperitif, with edible delights provided by Caseus Fromagerie & Bistro, in celebration of the release of their new cookbook. Then, head off to your selected dinner, held at fascinating locations around the city with an exciting array of hosts and special guests. (For example: nosh with internationally known Library Science artist Erica Baum!). Tickets start at $100, and all proceeds support Artspace. For details on the other fun and delicious dinners that are still available, and to purchase tickets, visit our events page. *Can't make this date? One dinner is scheduled for Saturday, January 28 - special guest is E.C. Schroeder, the new Director of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Calling all artists!
Submissions to our Flat File, to be reviewed by our Visual Arts Committee, are due February 1st. The Flat File is a dynamic collection of artist portfolios, available for purchase by patrons of the gallery and on display through curated monthly exhibitions at Artspace, with a dedicated space on our website. The collection consists largely of works on paper (from collage and drawings to lithographs and photographs) but may also include small books, digital prints, and video art.
Curators: share your vision. Every year, one 12-week show is organized by a guest curator - it could be you! We are looking for innovative and experimental exhibits for our spacious Gallery 1. For each accepted proposal, Artspace provides a brochure, promotional mailings, gallery signage, staff support, insurance, an artists’ reception, and access to our office facilities. Proposals (for projects to be mounted in 2013 and 2014) also due February 1st. To submit work to the Flat File or to submit curatorial proposals, visit our Opportunities page—here for artists, and here for curators.
Libraries on the big screen… in libraries! January also marks the final month of our Library Science Film Festival, which shows library-themed movies in libraries across Connecticut. For a full schedule of films (including everything from a Hepburn-Tracy romantic comedy to a documentary about the creator of the Universal Classification System), visit the Library Science website. Calendar available at artspacenh.org/galleries/films. Coming soon to New Haven... Look out for The Hollywood Librarian on Jan. 24, Storm Center (with Bette Davis) and Out of Obscurity on Jan. 25 and Desk Set on Jan. 26, all at the main branch of the New Haven Free Public Library!
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