Heidi Kumao lecture and exhibition at VSW

Via VSW:

Current VSW Artist-in-Residence, Heidi Kumao, will be speaking about her most recent work on Wednesday, October 28 at 6PM in the Visual Studies Workshop Media Center.

“Timed Release,” an exhibition of Heidi’s work will open next Friday, November 6 at VSW.

Heidi Kumao is a 2009 Guggenheim fellow and an artist resident of Visual Studies Workshop this year. She is an interdisciplinary artist who creates video and machine art to explore ordinary social interactions and their psychological undercurrents. Emerging from the intersection of sculpture, theater and engineering, her “performative technologies” generate artistic spectacle in order to visualize the unseen: psychological states, emotions, compulsions, thinking patterns, and dreams. These works are designed to re-enact an event, perform a task for the viewer, or mediate her roles as a woman. Through the creation of kinetic and electronic sculpture, interactive installations and digital animations, she seeks to heighten awareness of our everyday experiences such as childhood play, family dynamics, television news, and even the wearing of clothes.

IN THE ARTIST'S STUDIO: AN EVENING WITH GREGORY CREWDSON

Via Albright-Knox


IN THE ARTIST'S STUDIO: AN EVENING WITH GREGORY CREWDSON
 
Friday, November 20, 2009
 
7 pm, Albright-Knox Art Gallery Auditorium, FREE

Beneath the unsettling stillness of Gregory Crewdson's dreamlike photographs reverberates the suggestion of mysterious and unimaginable narratives. Using sets of epic proportions and large-scale film crews that translate into pristine single-frame photographs, Crewdson (American, born 1962) conflates the worlds of cinematography and still photography, as well as the realms of fact and fiction, into an expanded field of production. Alluding to the artist's interest in Freud, the unconscious, and interior psychological landscape, the images themselves feature strange and inexplicable moments in natural, suburban, or domestic landscapes, often illuminated by light emanating from unseen sources or bathing its inhabitants in an eerie glow. Such subterranean narratives invoke suspension of time and disbelief, and cast the viewer in perpetual curiosity regarding the otherworldly happenings at hand. Crewdson's Untitled (boy with hand in drain), 2001-02, from the "Twilight" series, is part of the Permanent Collection of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery and was featured in the recent exhibition Bad Habits. Begun in 1998 and completed in 2002, this series examines the luminescent moment at twilight - "the magic hour" - where the transformation from day into night generates an unearthly setting privy to legend and strange happenings. At 7 pm on Friday, November 20, join us for a free event in the Gallery's auditorium featuring a conversation between the artist and Albright-Knox Curator Heather Pesanti. Gusto at the Gallery features free exhibition admission, art activities, tours, and live music from 3 to 10 pm on Fridays. For a full schedule of events, please visit www.albrightknox.org.

Carole Tanenbaum: Vintage Collection

Mark your calies for the Eastmanhouse exhibition and sale of jewelry and photographic items from the Carole Tanenbaum Vintage Collection.

From the website:

"An exhibition and sale of vintage jewelry — including 19th-century photographic items — highlight three days of events at Eastman House that offer you a chance to own a glamorous piece of history while supporting the Museum."

Kicks off December 3rd. 

"How Do We Look?"

The George Eastman House is exhibiting photographs of Rochester from three, internationally-acclaimed artists: Kristen Ashburn, Pep Bonet and Magnum photographer Eli Reed, in conjunction with their "Where We Live" series, going on until mid-January.

"How Do We Look," is going on now!

Home Movie Day at VSW--Deschamps

Via VSW:

"Bookworks in Space"
Francois Deschamps will attempt to present 20 years of bookwork’s as a topological space of images and concerns, in response to Tate Shaw’s forthcoming paper Blurring the Library, on October 15, 3 pm in VSW’s Screening Room.

Home Movie Day is an annual celebration of amateur films and filmmaking, co-sponsored by VSW and George Eastman House, in the VSW Auditorium on Saturday, October 17th from 1 to 5pm.

Heidi Kumao will give an artist talk on her current work and the exhibition “Timed Release,” video installations in VSW’s Bookstore and Gallery on October 28, 7 pm in VSW’s Screening Room.

Julie Perini will screen her recent work and answer questions for the general public on October 30, 7 pm in VSW’s Screening Room.

For more information call (585) 442-8676 or email info@vsw.org

Early Alert for "Paint Made Flesh"

Starts October 25th. Will remind you again before then, about Paint Made Flesh at the MAG :)

A Message From High Falls Art Gallery

Rochester Artists,

 

Thinking about submission to the "Upside Down" exhibit? There is an entry form below [not available here--ed.] (and similar form attached in easy to read table format.)

 

Drop off is next Wednesday through Sunday, October 14-18. I am now closed again Monday and Tuesday, so PLEASE wait until Wednesday to come down. The reception is tentatively scheduled for December 6 to avoid the Thanksgiving holiday and the RMSC Holiday Bazaar.  

 

If you have a representational work you'd like to exhibit but NOT show upside down, sideways is acceptable.

Also acceptable is work containing an upside down element (like reflections, acrobats or tumblers, Ferris wheels, etc.) This is the exhibit which will be on during the holiday buying period so I urge you to reflect on the phrase "PRICED TO SELL." Visitation will be UP UP UP.

 

If you are currently exhibiting in LOUD BRIGHT BOLD, pick up will be 11/8 and 11/9 a Saturday and Sunday, when parking at High Falls is EASY!

 

Happy Columbus Day!

 

Best Regards,

Sally

 

Upside Down November/December 2009

High Falls Art Gallery 60 Browns Race Rochester, NY 14614 325-2030 swinslow@frontiernet.net

Works in any medium, any size (Is your work over 4 feet? Please call first!)

Submit 1-3 pieces per artist, for one $15 entry fee. Exhibit runs during peak summer season for world & local visitors-- including Labor Day, and NEW Laser Show schedule.

 

 

Sally Wood Winslow, Director

Center at High Falls

Rochester Visitor Center & NYS Heritage Area

60 Browns Race, Rochester NY 14614

585.325.2030

www.centerathighfalls.org

 

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Artist NAME with EXACT spelling for tags

Artist address with zip (Where you want your checks sent when work is sold?)

Where can more work be seen currently?

Phone

Email address

Web site

Work Place and Address

Work phone number

 

Title, #1

Technique and/or materials

Price (including 25% gallery commission)

Short description of work

Frame type and finished size

 

Title, #2

Technique and/or materials

Price (including 25% gallery commission)

Short description of work

Frame type and finished size

 

Title, #3

Technique and/or materials

Price (including 25% gallery commission)

Short description of work

Frame type and finished size

 

Work displayed at the Center at High Falls, a City Visitor Center and NYS Heritage Area, is selected for enjoyment by all age groups. Acceptance of artwork is not a guarantee of its exhibition. I understand that High Falls Art Gallery carries no insurance on temporary exhibitions and is not liable for damage or loss during exhibition. I accept conditions of exhibition including adherence to drop off and pick up dates.

Your signature

I authorize the gallery to remove work from the show if the buyer is an out of town visitor.

Your signature

For Office Use Only Form Art Fee

Turner to Cezanne at the Everson

Masterpieces from the Davies Collection, National Museum Wales

October 9, 2009 - January 3, 2010 at the Everson Museum of Art. Syracuse, NY.

"Where We Live" is officially open!

In celebration of the 175th anniversary of the city of Rochester, "Where We Live" is kicking off today with "Picturing Rochester."

Via Eastmanhouse:

"George Eastman House presents this fall “Where We Live,” a series of exhibitions showcasing Rochester in photographs as the City of Rochester celebrates its 175^th anniversary in 2009. Featured will be photographs submitted by the community as well as Rochester through the lens of professional photographers and unique images from the Eastman House collections."

Opened today

Last few days to see "Arrogance of Power"

Robert Marx's "Arrogance of Power" show closes on the 5th. So if you haven't seen it, get over to the 1st Unitarian Church of Rochester before you miss it!