Posts tagged with ‘exhibition’

  • Art Chicago 2010 Pictures Added

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    I’ve just added some photos from Art Chicago to the main part of the site
    (please go to PHOTOS and look under Art Chicago April 30-May 3, 2010).
    Andreas and Kevin from Aureus Contemporary along with their installation
    specialist  Christopher Faiss did a maximum job in hanging a great show at
    the booth. As I was looking forward to seeing, it was so satisfying that Karim‘s
    paintings and my sculptures interacted so nicely. Here are some for you to see.
    Please go to the main site for the complete set and the enlarged versions.

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  • Art Chicago 2010

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    It’s been fun and exciting exchanging emails with people at Aureus Contemporary
    for the past weeks setting up details for Art Chicago.  It all started when I spotted
    really nice paintings by Karim Hamid at BOOOOOOOM.  I was taken by them
    enough to contact the artist to tell him how much I enjoyed.  Karim kindly invited
    me to come see them in person at one of the art fairs in NYC last month.  I checked
    out some of his latest pieces there and we enjoyed chatting.

    One of Karim's paintingsOne of Karim’s paintings

    Shortly after that, I got an email from the director of Aureus Contemporary,
    Andreas Kuefer, asking me to team up for Art Chicago next month.  So there we go.
    Aureus Contemporary will have a 850 sf booth and it’ll put emphasis on three
    artists, Karim Hamid, Sara Carter, and myself.  There will be six pieces of mine on
    view.  And you get to see more from Karim also.

    Here is some info about Art Chicago taken from its site:

     

     

     

     

     

    Art Chicago® 2010, the annual international fair of contemporary and modern art, brings
    together the world’s leading emerging and established galleries. Art Chicago offers
    curators, collectors, artists and art enthusiasts a comprehensive survey of current and
    historic work, from cutting-edge to modern masters in a wide variety of media including:
    painting, photography, drawings, prints, sculpture, video and special installations.

    Art Chicago 2010 will take place April 30 – May 3, with an Opening Preview on April 29

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  • “My work in an art text book?”

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    A few years ago I had a great experience in working with people at the
    Swarthmore College, PA for their gallery show.  At the opening I met one of the
    art professors, Michael Cothren, who was working on a college art text book
    called “ART A Brief History”.  He was very generous in complimenting my work
    and I had a lot of fun talking to him.  A few weeks later, he emailed me saying that
    he was thinking about putting my work in the upcoming edition of the text book.
    Of course I didn’t have any problem with it…

    An image from the Swarthmore College show.  The full photo set can be seen at "PHOTOS" at the main part of the site.An image from the Swarthmore College show. The full photo set can be seen at “PHOTOS” at the main part of the site.

    So I’ve been wondering if that will actually happen.  And last week, the book
    came in the mail.  In it, I do see a picture of my work and very nice descriptions of
    the work by professor Cothren.

    The page at AmazonAmazon‘s got it.

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    It’s really exciting to reach out to people learning about art and to take
    a part in more fun in their lives.  As I wrote a few month ago, I myself
    got into art through community college education.

    Well, I know, it’s sort of weird and surreal.  Last time I felt like this
    was when my wife decided to go out with me ten years ago.  I was like,
    “wow, cute woman like that actually wants to be with me?”.  Good
    things do actually happen sometimes.

  • SCW Show Pictures Added

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    Images from Salomon Contemporary Warehouse exhibition (East Hampton, NY)
    which ran from Oct. 11 to Nov. 30, 2009, have been added to the site. The set has
    total of 28 images and it comes in two parts. To see them, go to
    the main part of the site and click “PHOTOS”. Hope you enjoy! Here are a few of
    them from the set. You can see bigger pictures at the site.

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    #54

    #54 detail

    #54 detail

    #59

    #59

    #59

    #59

    #59

    #59

    #52 and #59

    #52 and #59

    #52

    #52

  • Home Town Show

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    Ten years after moving to East Hampton, I am about to have my first solo
    show in the area.  My connection to East Hampton is merely coincidental.
    I invited myself over to live with my then girl friend (now my wife), a writer,
    Evan Harris, in 1999.  We met at one of the artist residencies (McDowell
    Colony) in 1998.  After the residency was over, Evan decided to move
    back to her home town, which was East Hampton, from New York City.
    I moved from Union City, New Jersey where I lived in one of the sweat
    shop buildings illegally (oh, the good old days…).

    Ten years can be a while.  We now live in a semi-country setting with
    two dogs and a vegetable garden.  We have produced two small children
    (five and three year old boys).  And we have made many friends in the
    area.  This is our home that I feel to belong.  So having a show here is a
    very special event.

    The show will be at Salomon Contemporary Warehouse.  The opening
    is on Sunday 11 October 2009, 4 to 7 PM.  The show will be up though
    Sunday 15 November.  The gallery is open Saturday and Sunday noon to 4 and
    by appointment.

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  • BCC show is up

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    The exhibition at Berkshire Community College is up.  I selected five pieces for
    the Koussevitzky Art Gallery which is a narrow, sort of a cave like space
    located next to the theater in the arts building.  The plan below shows the
    unusual space (sorry for the small fonts.  The whole space is about 10 x 33 feet
    or so).

    newgallery floor plan

    Before I actually getting to the gallery, I tried laying out the pieces in my head
    aided by the pictures and the plan supplied by the gallery.  When I got there, I
    was quite confident in hanging and I actually put the pieces right up where I
    planed in my head.  After the long day of driving and hanging the show, the
    gallery director, Benigna Chilla, generously treated me with her cooking (sauted
    shrimps and clams in creamy sauce with little accents with lemon and rosemary
    served over rice.  Yes, it was good.).  I got to hear her talk about organizing
    a show of Cuban artists among other intriguing stories.  It was very cool evening.

    Next day I went back to document the show and it was all too clear that the
    installation was not working too well.  I spent extra a few hours making sure that
    the flow among the pieces are well coordinated.  I wanted to have a solid feeling
    of the show defined by the characters of the pieces speaking in harmony.  After
    spending all morning struggling, I finally got it right.  It was one of the toughest
    show to hang, but at the end, it turned out as one of my favorites.

    Here are some of the images in smaller versions.  The complete photo set with larger
    photos will be added at the “PHOTOS” section of the main part of the site later.
    I hope you enjoy.

    #50 and #45

    #50 and #45

    #50

    #50

    #50

    #50

    #45

    #45

    #45 (front), #61, #51, #64 and #50

    #45 (front), #61, #51, #64 and #50

    #45 and #61

    #45 and #61

    #61, #51 and #64

    #61, #51 and #64

    #51 and #64

    #51 and #64

    #51

    #51

    #51(detail)

    #51(detail)

    #64

    #64

    #64 (detail)

    #64 (detail)

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  • FAWC show pictures added

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    Images from Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown,
    MA exhibition from this May/June have been added to the PHOTOS section.
    To see them, go to main part of my site, click PHOTOS at the top bar and look
    for “FAWC May 29-June 16, 2009”.  Here are some of them in smaller sizes.

    #45

    #45
    #45 detail

    #45 detail

    #55 and #61

    #55 and #61

    #55 and #61

    #55 and #61

    #55 (detail)

    #55 (detail)

    #55, #45 and #61

    #55, #45 and #61

  • Berkshire Community College show

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    My show in Pittsfield, MA opens next week.  According to a friend sculptor
    Paul Bowen who’s had a couple of shows there, the space is “small but quite
    elegant”.  I’m looking forward to installing the show Monday.  There will be
    five pieces in the show and I will do a slide talk on the last day of the show.
    Here are images on the show announcement.

    #64, 1997-08, enamel, oil, plaster, tar and wax, 28 1/2 diameter x 4 1/2 inches

    #64, 1997-08, enamel, oil, plaster, tar and wax, 28 1/2 diameter x 4 1/2 inches

    #61(detail), 2006-08, enamel, oil, plaster, tar and wax, 38 x 30 x 16 inches

    #61(detail), 2006-08, enamel, oil, plaster, tar and wax, 38 x 30 x 16 inches

    #61, 2006-08, enamel, oil, plaster, tar and wax, 38 x 30 x 16 inches  #45, 2002-05, burlap, enamel, oil, plaster, tar and wax, 20 x 25 x 25 inches

    Left; #61, 2006-08, enamel, oil, plaster, tar and wax, 38 x 30 x 16 inches Right; #45, 2002-05, burlap, enamel, oil, plaster, tar and wax, 20 x 25 x 25 inches

    #51, 2005-08, enamel, oil, plaster, tar and wax, 36 x 21 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches

    #51, 2005-08, enamel, oil, plaster, tar and wax, 36 x 21 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches