Critical Dialogues: Rashaad Newsome

Rashaad Newsome’s works dismantles power structures one shiny block at a time. Using the equalizing force of sampling, he crafts compositions that frequently surprise in their associative potential and walk the tightrope between identity politics and abstraction.  Rashaad Newsome was born in New Orleans, Louisiana where he received a B.A. in Art History at Tulane University before studying Film at Film Video Arts in New York City.  Newsome has exhibited nationally and internationally at such creditable institutions and galleries as: The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; PS1MoMA, New York, NY; Glassbox Gallery, Paris, France and ar/ge Kunst Galerie Museum, Bolzano, Italy.  Recent awards include: 2010 The Urban Artist Initiative individual Artist Grant, UAI, New York, NY; 2009 Rema Hort Mann Foundation, Visual Arts Grant, New York, NY and 2009 BAC Community Arts Regrant, New York, NY.

Professor Odili Donald Odita at Jack Shainman Gallery

 

 BODY & SPACE / NOVEMBER 18 - DECEMBER 23, 2010

Opening reception for the artist, Thursday, November 18th, 6 - 8 pm

Jack Shainman Gallery is pleased to announce Body & Space, the second solo exhibition at the gallery of new work by
Odili Donald Odita. The exhibition opens November 18th, and runs through December 23rd. A reception for the artist will take place on Thursday, November 18th. 

Valley Dwellers by Matt Kalasky; ONE NIGHT ONLY: Tuesday November 23

(VALLEY DWELLERS is a play in three acts based on the recent lives of Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt, the stars of MTV’s reality hit The Hills.)
 
“As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I take a look at my life and realize there's nothing left.”
--Coolio
The uncanny valley is a site of misfortune, a purgatory den where robots and CG animations fall desperately short. The population here is nearly human but completely and unfathomably monstrous. It is within this landscape that we find Heidi and Spencer. They are adventurers that explore with zeal and determination.
But their quest will not be easy.
Along the way they will encounter the hardships of a reality long abandoned and the condemnation of close friends.
But they are not alone.
You will be there to help these stars of reality find their constellation, find each other, and find out what matters most. This is a play in three acts that will chronicle an odyssey mired in disaster but breaching a horizon of discovery, hope, and acceptance.
The valley dwellers cometh, be there for them.

MORE INFO AT www.mattkalasky.com/valley

Painters do Pittsburgh.

Lindsay, Stuart, Dan at the Carnegie Museum of Art

Ryan and Young Do outside The Mattress Factory

Dona and Young Do in the Yayoi Kusama piece at the Mattress Factory

Painters walk in the park

Erica, Matthew, Elizabeth in Yayoi Kusama

Sarah Laing, Emily, Erica, and Ryan in the Warhol Museum's room of skull paintings

Brandon and Skull

Girls and Warhol

Spying through peepholes, outdoor installation at the Mattress Factory

Painters and Warhol

24-hour Blow-a-Thon

Please join us for Tyler’s first ever 24-hour Blow-a-thon from noon on Thursday November 18 until noon on Friday November 19. Artist friends, Tyler alums, students, and faculty will keep all four benches up and running for a full 24 hours. We will be hot casting from 3pm – 6pm. During the Blow-a-thon, there will be an exhibition of student work and a sale to benefit our Visiting Artists Program and Special Projects. 

Guest artists include : Jude Tallichet; Professor Emeritus and founder of the Tyler Glass Program Jon Clark with his team of alumni Zach Puchowitz,Patti Dougherty, Mark Ellis, and Jeff Frederick; Nikolaj Christensen joining us from East Fall Glassworks; Skitch Manion; Rika Hawes (alumnus); Penny Rakov (alumnus); Jenna Ephrain; Ben Wright, and Andrew Newbold (alumnus).

Tyler faculty Daniel Cutrone, Bohyun Yoon, Jessica Jane Julius, and Sharyn O’Mara will be working, along with our current graduate students Amber Cowan, David King, Daniel Petraitis, and Emma Salamon, and our undergraduate students.

We will have live-streaming video – check our blog www.glasstyler.blogspot.com for a link at noon on Thursday!

Joseph Havel has exhibited extensively throughout the U.S. and Europe including solo museum exhibitions at The Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead U.K., The Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, The Museum Of Fine Arts, Houston, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, The Center for Contemporary Art, Kiev, The Huntington Beach Art Center, California, The Bard Center for Contemporary Arts, New York, and The Dallas Contemporary. He has had recent gallery exhibitions at Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, and William Shearburn Gallery, St. Louis. In November 2011 he will have his first exhibition with Yvon Lambert Gallery, New York. He has been included in numerous group exhibitions including the 2000 Whitney Biennial of American Art.  His work is in public collections in the U.S. and abroad including The Whitney Museum, New York, The Modern Museum of Fort Worth, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium, The Ministry of Culture, Paris, The Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, The Menil Collection, Fundacion Rouge, Paris, The Portland Museum of Art, The Dallas Museum of Art and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. He is Director of the Glassell School of Art where he has directed the Core Program since 1991.

Dutch Umbrella Project at Paradigm Gallery

Come join me this Friday at the Paradigm Gallery at 2020 South Street for the "Dutch Umbrella Project" Charity Auction sponsored by HAHAMAG and the Dutch Umbrella Company. 6 Artists including myself (2012 Painting Grad Brandon Dean) created works on umbrellas that will be auctioned off to support local arts charities. The event begins at 7 with the auction starting at 8pm. www.hahamag.com www.dutchumbrella.com

November First Friday at Grizzly Grizzly

Please join me this Friday, November 5th from 6 - 10pm for the opening of Two Dozen, a show of new works on paper, through November 29th.