Congratulations Strauss!

Congratulations to our very own Strauss Bourque-LaFrance for being part of the current exhibition at the Sculpture Center in Queens, New York

Leopards of the Temple,
January 10- March 30, 2010




http://sculpture-center.org/exhibitionsExhibition.htm?id=63345

DCCA Open Call for 2010 Members' Juried Exhibition.

Mark your calendar Apply today! Postmark deadline: January 22, 2010 Eligibility: Open to all DCCA artist members April 9 - July 25, 2010 The theme for the 2010 Members' Juried exhibition examines the possibilities of, experimentations on, and flirtations with what is NEW. What is NEW can be about testing the limits of known concepts and ideas or about works-in-progress that are still being tested. It can be about subverting conventions. It can be about expanding, mutating, or challenging the premise of what exists or engendering the existence of something that has yet to be. In flexing one's instincts to respond to all else that is new out there in the world, new form or language can also be created. Guest Juror Roberta Fallon writes, "The NEW signals something that is fresh and risk-taking, perhaps not completely worked out yet but forward-moving." In an art age rife with appropriation, references, as well as exploded and satirized notions of what is novel, the NEW is about fresh courage, bold analysis, burning curiosity, and stubborn will to chart new territory.

JUROR Roberta Fallon is an art reviewer for the Philadelphia Weekly and writes a weekly column of reviews and features about art and artists in Philadelphia. Fallon has published articles in numerous publications including Art on Paper, Artreview, Art and Auction, Artnet, and The Philadelphia Inquirer Sunday Magazine. In 2003, she and Libby Rosof launched the online art review publication, artblog(http://theartblog.org), twice hailed as one of the best art blogs by Art in America. Fallon and Rosof were each conferred an honorary doctorate of fine arts by the Moore College of Art and Design last year for their accomplishments and committed championing of contemporary art in Philadelphia. Click here for a printable PDF Application. For questions, please contact Samantha Fruchtman, Curatorial Coordinator, at sfruchtman@thedcca.org 302-656-6466 x 7112 Join or renew your DCCA membership Now!

HAPPY HOLIDAYS
EVERYONE

and

CONGRATS
ON BEING DONE WITH REVIEWS


SEE YOU IN 2010!

Collaborative Book Project

Category: Calls For Papers
Posted by: School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Deadline: 01/30/10

Visual Studies Reader

An international, collaborate anthology of art history, art theory, visual studies, visual communication, visual anthropology, and other fields, written entire by graduate students around the world.

All grad students are eligible.

The book is international and collaborative: at the moment it includes about thirty students from 20 institutions around the world.
Have a look at our Table of Contents to see how the book is developing:
http://visualreader.pbworks.com/Table-of-Contents

We are gathering a group of about 100 authors. The book will be published by Routledge, and advertised internationally. To apply, visit the wiki:

http://visualreader.pbworks.com

and then send us a two-page proposal. It will be read by the grad-student authors who are in the project (the editor, Jim Elkins, doesn't vote). Full instructions are on the wiki:

http://visualreader.pbworks.com/How-to-submit-a-proposal

Last Critical Dialogues of the Semester

GABRIEL MARTINEZ
11 AM, Auditorium B04
Monday, December 7th

be there or be square.


Untitled (Self-Portraits)
Part 1, installation of 50 solarized silver gelatin prints
54” x 89”, each- 10” x 8”
face-front plexiglass-mounted and framed, 2007


Gabriel Martinez, a Cuban-American native of Miami, Florida, works largely with photography, performance and installation. His conceptual concerns flow from one project to the next, while the methods and materials he employs constantly vary, and often fuse together. Martinez started out exclusively working in photography and gradually ventured into a more interdisciplinary/multidisciplinary mode and tends to be attracted to the potential & power of performance-oriented, site-specific installation. Although his work has been greatly motivated by the themes of loss, celebration, memorial, and cultural identity for many of his projects, the subject that is usually central to his exploration has been that of masculinity and its various intricacies, contradictions and complexities. Much of Martinez’s artistic career has been devoted to various topics related to maleness and to the further understanding his own queer identity and community, as well as an exploration of male heterosexuality. Martinez’s practice is primarily based in Philadelphia, PA, as well as Miami and New York.

Lectures are free and open to the public.

Tyler School of Art
Temple University
2001 N. 13th St.
Philadelphia, PA 19122

Critical Dialogues Lecture Series

CRITICAL DIALOGUES presents:

LISA SIGAL
tomorrow November 30th
11 am, Auditorium B04


Born 1962 in Philadelphia/ lives and works in Brooklyn. Lisa Sigal's work lies at the intersection of painting, sculpture and architecture. Her constructions insinuate themselves into the fabric of the built environment.She will take a Sheetrock wall, cut into it, pull back sections, poke a sightline through to a false or a found wall on which she has exposed or composed a painted surface. Sigal's work frames a view which often blurs the distinction between what is found and what is made and ultimately what is real. The core of her work questions the formal and philosophical stability of structure. Recent exhibitions include: "Make Room," Atlanta Contemporary Art Center (2009), "Six Degrees," The New Museum, The Whitney Biennial (2008), "Tent Paintings," Frederieke Taylor Gallery, New York (2007), "The Orpheus Selection," P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City (2007), "Make It Now," Sculpture Center, Long Island City, (2005) "A House of Many Mansions," The Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, Conneticut (2005). Upcoming solo shows at LAX Art in Los Angelos, CA and Norma Gallery, San Francisco, CA.


“The Day Before Yesterday and The Day After Tomorrow,”
114” x 210,” paint, silk screen, joint compound, pencil on wood
panel, Whitney Biennial, 2008


Lectures are free and open to the public.

Tyler School of Art
Temple University
2001 N. 13th St.
Philadelphia, PA 19122

new moon day- kind of a bummer

comments? questions? GO TEAM JACOB!

The One Book, One Philadelphia Graphic Art Contest is a juried art competition designed around this year’s One Book, One Philadelphia selection, The Complete Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi, for students at Philadelphia’s art schools. This event gives students a chance to share their story as a narrative or memoir art piece. All winning submissions will be announced on February 12, 2010, during a reception at Moore College of Art & Design. They will be on display in a gallery at Moore through March 19.
Any questions please contact Cara Scudner at cscudner@moore.edu
For more information please visit onebookgraphicarts.blogspot.com
For more information about One Book, One Philadelphia visit freelibrary.org/onebook

Critical Dialogues 11/23

Critical Dialogues Lecture Series Presents:

Rashid Johnson
Monday, November 23rd
11am, Auditorium B04


http://www.moniquemeloche.com/html/artists/johnson/johnson.html




Tyler School of Art
Temple University
2001 N. 13th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19122

Lectures are free and open to the public.


Samuel the Escapist, 2009

Tyler Glass Guild HOLIDAY SALE!

Need an unique Holiday Gift? The Tyler Glass Guild has just what you need. Hand blown and colorful glass perfect for any Holiday needs! Plus you will help support the Tyler Glass Guild Visiting Artists Program! Come to the Atrium of the Tyler School of Art Building between 10 and 6 on Thursday Nov 19 and Friday Nov 20! Your family and friends will love the unique gifts handcrafted by your fellow students!
Get your Holiday Gifts EARLY this year! BE DONE BEFORE THANKSGIVING!

Brooklyn Performance at Hi Christina!

Hey Grads,

I created some dyed plastic garments for a performance tonight at an alt. space in Brooklyn. If you're in the area, come check it out!

-Sarah Muehlbauer

________________________

WHAT: Movement Mash Up

WHEN: Friday November 13th, 8:30 PM

WHERE: Hi Christina!

www.hichristina.com

632 Grand St. between Leonard St. and Manhattan Ave.

Brooklyn, NY

L or G train to Metropolitan/ Lorimer stop

HOW MUCH? $10 suggested contribution

ANYTHING ELSE? Please stick around after the show for drinks with the artists.

IN CASE YOU WERE WONDERING...

Alison D'Amato is presenting he who calls me distant

Hello my friends. Here you are and here I am. All the single ladies, all the single ladies, all the single ladies, all the single ladies. Tell me never to stop. Tell me I cannot be stopped. Look at these bodies over here!

S/he is an improv structure that De Facto Dance is adapting for the space at Hi Christina. In this version, s/he is always a she. She is not alone. She wishes to break away and then come right back.

Patrick Resing is performing with a drumming robot guy that might imitate what he does.

Call for Entries: Gesture

Seeking artists, writers, performers, scientists, humanists...whose works, in and of themselves, embody gesture or the notion of gesture either within the historical/traditional parameters of body-gesturemovement-mark or within gesture’s conceptually abstracted or philosophically linked or socially fused or semiotically connected or scientifically witnessed expanded definitions. Particularly interested in gesture’s transmutation/transliteration/transduction into sound, light, time, and other non-corporeal phenomena.

Gesture (inclusive) will be presented February 9–March 3, 2010 at the Hopkins Hall Gallery + Corridor in conjunction with the international conference Gesture at Large (February 25–27) at the Ohio State University–Columbus Campus. Portions of the exhibition will travel to the Kuhn Gallery of Art, OSU–Marion Campus for exhibition March 29–April 29, 2010.

Visit: www.gestureOSU.com for more info.