Alumni painter Peter Fox at Nuartlink

UNRAVELING ABSTRACTION
Reception and exhibition opening on September 25, 6-8pm

Nuartlink

19B Post Road (entrance on Parker Harding Plaza @ river)

Westport, CT

Hours : Tuesday through Sunday, 11 am till 6 pm and by appointment. For more information please call 203-858-2067, or email info@nuartlink.com.

Mudslingers (Tyler's Ceramics Club) PRESENTS:

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Abby Donovan

Lecture and open forum

Donovan is coming to speak next Thursday the 14th at 1pm. The event is public and we're encouraging all departments to attend. She creates ceramic sculpture but many of her works are performance and video based. She is very versatile and we think her work appeals to everyone. We will meet in the Smart classroom in the green hallway and have an open forum after the lecture.

EVERYONE IS WELCOME!

Mark Shetabi at Jeff Bailey in NYC

Jeff Bailey Gallery is pleased to present Mark Shetabi: The Apparent Motion of Stationary Objects. In paintings and sculpture, Shetabi explores the grey area between representations of time, scale and space.

The small painting, My Favorite Year, depicts the earth in 1990 as seen from the Voyager 1 spacecraft. The photograph was taken at a distance of almost four billion miles. It is an image that the astronomer Carl Sagan made famous, characterizing the earth as "a pale blue dot". Sagan said, "Look again at the dot. That's here. That's home. That's us....all of human history has happened on that tiny pixel.”

Using this image as a point of departure, Shetabi presents the viewer with a variety of familiar objects, both large and small, seen from up close and from far away. A monochromatic palette in subdued tones links one image to the next.

A 1970s encyclopedia and old natural history catalogues served as source material for some of the works. Two paintings by Shetabi feature dinosaur skeletons presented in period museum settings. In Afterimage, Brontosaurus, the dinosaur stands on four legs with its tail dragging behind it. In reference books and memory, these creatures remain fixed in their time, even as our knowledge of them has changed. What were once accepted models take on new lives as relics.

Sculptures of slide projectors (now an obsolete technology), are simply constructed in painted wood with light beams forming a solid mass.

Two large paintings depict oil tankers from up close perspectives. In Tanker in Dry Dock, shipyard workers paint the hull of a massive vessel, their size trumped by the expansive scaffolding surrounding the ship. Tanker Adrift places the viewer on the wet and pitching deck of a huge oil tanker, seemingly adrift in a turbulent sea.

Other images for paintings are taken from internet surfing. Random car crashes are presented as distinct occurrences. As source material, the vastness of the web dwarfs what could once be found in an encyclopedia. By isolating events and objects, Shetabi invites the viewer to ruminate on history and time.

This is Shetabi's third solo exhibition with the gallery. His work has been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States. He is a 2002 recipient of a Pew Fellowship in the Arts. Shetabi lives and works in Philadelphia, where he is Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing at Tyler School of Art.

For further information or images, please contact the gallery at 212.989.0156 or info@baileygallery.com.

Siebren Versteeg writes computer programs that pull imagery from the Internet based upon subjects or criteria that he specifies. The images then appear on monitors within the gallery space. Although Versteeg determines the types of things that might appear on the monitors, the artwork—like the Internet it draws from—is constantly growing and changing. He has noted, “As the nature of the images presented by the work is random, the artist assumes both all and no responsibility for their presence and content.” This tension between creative control and the endless stream of images is of particular interest to the artist.

Siebren Versteeg was born in 1971 in New Haven, Connecticut. He received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago. He also studied at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine and the School of Visual Arts, New York. He has had solo exhibitions at the Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, Kansas; the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio; Max Protetch Gallery, New York; Bellwether Gallery, New York; Ten in One Gallery, New York; Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago; and 1R Gallery, Chicago. His work has been exhibited in group shows at the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC; Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, Maryland; Krannert Art Museum, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois; the Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia; the National Museum of Art, Czech Republic; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Versteeg lives and works in New York.

http://www.siebrenversteeg.com/

Come one, come all!

Free and open to the public

FREE FOR ALL

You’re invited to ICA FREE FOR ALL

Whenever Wednesday
September 29 @ 6:30pm

An expansive evening with art and music. Get a snapshot view of art today from ICA Senior Curator Ingrid Schaffner's annual lecture "What is Contemporary?" Bring a T-shirt to screenprint with designs by Philadelphia-based design company Print Liberation (who will also have their own T-shirts for sale).

Also featuring:

Music by guitar and drum duo Reading Rainbow

Cupcakes provided by Buttercream Philadelphia

Free Mexican fare

American Apparel tee-shirts on sale

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*Free admission to the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania for the public is sponsored by the Amanda (C95) and Glenn Fuhrman (W87/WG88) Fund.

Alumni Show: Vincent Strijkan