Tiffany Calvert

I found Tiffany Calvert's work through the Lisa Boyle Gallery, which is a Chicago space that was at the NEXT art fair. Tiffany lives and works in New York. Her latest series of work, which was derived somewhat from photos of post-Katrina New Orleans mansions, combines the energy of abstraction with the charged imagery of representational environments that are abandoned and moody. The upturned furniture and contrast of gestural color against monotone backgrounds suggests struggle and disorder in a world that perhaps once seemed very normal and beautiful.

Ellie Curtis

Ellie Curtis is a printmaker who lives and works in East London. She has an Etsy shop and a website/blog, through which she sells her screenprints as well as hand-printed textiles and items made from them, such as the pillow pictured here. Her limited color palettes usually utilize strong blacks against highly saturated color, in detailed scribbly scrawls that depict unusual fauna, creatures, and the occasional "who-knows-what-that-is".

Dream + Reality Show, About Glamour Gallery

So- Sorry about my lax posting lately, I started a new job and I've been kind of distracted. I should have mentioned this last week, but I am in a group show that just opened in Brooklyn on Friday, and there are some awesome artists involved, so if you have a chance and you happen to be in Williamsburg, please stop in and check it out....

"Dream + Reality"
5/9 - 6/15/2008
Opening Reception: 5/9/2008, Friday, 7-10pm

Participating Artists:
Kiersten Essenpreis/ Lizz Hickey/ Ilana Kohn/ Amy Kligman/ Jessica Langley/ Sandy Litchfield/ Joel Morrison

Brooklyn - AG Gallery is pleased to present "Dream + Reality", a group exhibition of seven artists who express their own psychological dreamscapes and explore the moment between dream and reality. The exhibition will be comprised of paintings, drawings and several print works.

"Dream + Reality" will be on view at AG Gallery through June 15th, 2008.
The gallery is located at 103 North 3rd St. (between Berry and Wythe Ave.) Hours: Sun. 12-8pm Mon.-Fri. 12-9pm Sat. 12-10pm
For further information, please contact the gallery at 718-599-3044 or visit AboutGlamour.net

Juried Shows + Grant Opportunities..

JURIED EXHIBITION CALL FOR ENTRIES:

DEADLINE: MAY 21. NATIONAL JURIED MONOTYPE/MONOPRINT EXHIBITION. Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA. Sept 6 – Oct 3, 2008. Awards: $1,000.00 Open to US artists. Juror: Aprile Gallant, Curator, Smith College Museum of Art, MA. Prospectus: SASE to MGNE, c/o Alice Merlone, 154 Westminster St, Hamden, CT 06518, www.mgne.org or phone number on prospectus.

DEADLINE: JUNE 1. 4TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION. Soho20 Chelsea Gallery. July 17 – Aug 13, 2008. Open to artists worldwide. Juror:Chakaia Booker,sculptor. Prospectus: SASE to Soho20 Chelsea Gallery, 511 W.25th Street, New York, NY10001, http://soho20gallery.com/juried.htm, 212-367-8994.

DEADLINE JUNE 2. 17TH ANNUAL NATIONAL JURIED EXHIBITION. Art Institute and Gallery. Sept.14 – Oct 11, 2008. Awards: Best of Show- $1,000 plus 2009 solo exhibition in foyer gallery, 2 $500.00 awards of excellence, 3 honorable mentions. Juror: Ellen Harris, former Deputy Director of Museum of Modern Art. Prospectus: SASE to AI&G, Box 193,
Salisbury, MD 21801, www.artinstituteandgallery.org, 410-546-4748.

DEADLINE: JUNE 11. NATIONAL JURIED COMPETITION. Berkeley Art Center. Aug 24 – Oct. 12, 2008. $1,200 cash award and national recognition. Jurors: Catharine Clark, Catharine Clark Gallery SF, JoAnne Northrup, Senior Curator of San Jose Museum of Art. SASE to Berkeley Art Center, 1275 Walnut St, Berkeley, CA 94709 or info@berkeleyartcenter.org.

GRANTS:

DEADLINE: NOTSTATED. MONEY FOR WOMEN/BARBARA DEMING MEMORIAL FUND, INC. Up to $1,000 to individual feminist women artists whose work in some way focuses on women. Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Inc., P.O. Box 630125, Bronx, NY 10463.

DEADLINE: ONGOING (3/08). ARTISTS FELLOWSHIP, INC. A private, charitable foundation that assists professional fine artists and their families in times of emergency, disability or bereavement. Assistance given without expectation of repayment. Artists Fellowship, Inc., 47 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10003, 646-230-9833, http://ArtistsFellowship.org, info@ArtistsFellowship.org.

DEADLINE: ONGOING (3/08). LUDWIG VOGELSTEIN FOUNDATION provides one-time grants to individuals working in fine arts and literary arts (no photo or film/video). Grants $1,000-$3,000 based on merit and need. Diana Braunschweig, Executive Director, Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, 4001 Inglewood Ave., #101-309, Redondo Beach, CA, 90278, lvf@earthlink.net.

DEADLINE: ONGOING. (11/06) THE ELIZABETH GREENSHIELDS FOUNDATION. Open to artists "in the early stages of their careers" working in painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture. "Applicants must have started or completed art school training or must demonstrate, through past work and future plans, a commitment to making art a lifetime career. Funds may be used for any art-related purpose: study, travel, studio rental, purchase of materials, etc." $12,500CAN award. The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, 1814 Sherbrooke St. West, Suite 1, Montreal, Quebec CANADA H3H 1E4, 514-937-9225.

DEADLINE: ONGOING (11/06). NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS. Offers several grants, fellowships, and other opportunities. A partial list follows. Grants for Arts Projects. Challenge America: Reaching Every Community Fast-Track Review Grants. Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth. Access to Artistic Excellence. Arts on Radio and Television. Contact: arts.endow.gov.

DEADLINE: ONGOING (11/06). POLLOCK-KRASNER FOUNDATION. The Foundation welcomes, throughout the year, applications from visual artists who are painters, sculptors and artists who work on paper, including printmakers. The Foundation encourages applications from artists who have genuine financial needs that are not necessarily catastrophic. Grants are intended for a one-year period of time. The Foundation will consider need on the part of an applicant for all legitimate expenditures relating to his or her professional work and personal living, including medical expenses. The size and length of the grant is determined by the individual circumstances of the artist. The Foundation does not accept applications from commercial artists, photographers, video artists, performance artists, filmmakers, crafts-makers or any artist whose work primarily falls into these categories. The Foundation does not make grants to students or fund academic study. The Foundation does not make grants to pay for past debts, legal fees, the purchase of real estate, moves to other cities, or to pay for the costs of installations, commissions or projects ordered by others. With very few exceptions, the Foundation will not fund travel expenses. Please do not send applications via fax or email, and do not call to request application. SASE to Pollock-Krasner Foundation, 863 Park Ave., New York, NY 10021, 212-517-5400, www.pkf.org.

Jess Langley

Jess Langley is currently finishing up her MFA at Virginia Commonwealth University. Jess uses a mix of abstraction and realism to morph elements of nature into narratives that depict very human emotions. She works in blurry watercolors, guache, and archival giclee prints.

Her thesis show is currently running at the Virgina Commenwealth's Anderson Gallery , and will be up until May 4th.

Art Chicago & Chicago NEXT artfairs

Art Chicago is happening this weekend. At Art Chicago, over 180 of "the worlds leading emerging and established galleries" will be showing the work of over 2,000 artists. The work will be in a variety of media; including painting, drawing, video,installation work, sculpture, and prints. There are also seminars, ranging in topic from "What gives Art Value"? to "Curators on Curating".

The hubub is taking place in the RIver North district, at the Merchandise Mart. Occuring alongside Art Chicago are several other fairs, all falling under the umbrella citywide celebration of "Artropolis"; including Intuit (Outsider art), and Chicago NEXT (focused on emerging artists). Purchasing a single $20 pass will get you into all of the exhibitions for a day.

Show hours:
Friday, April 25, 11 AM – 7 PM
Saturday, April 26, 11 AM – 7 PM
Sunday, April 27, 11 AM – 6 PM
Monday, April 28, 11 AM – 3 PM (Art Chicago's main exhibition will be open until four, most of the other shows close at 3)

You can find lists of exhibiting galleries, directions, and details at the following websites:
ArtChicago
NEXT artfair.com
INTUIT folk & outsider art fair
The Artist Project

Sandy Litchfield

Sandy Litchfield's approach to landscape painting is definately not what you would find hanging over your crusty aunt's fireplace. And that's exactly what I like about it. The organic nature of the paintings definately speaks to forms and textures found in nature, but in unpredictable compositions so that even familiar elements like twisted tree roots and mossy patches are fresh and put into new context. She juxtaposes complicated, detailed parts of the painting with stark white spaces and flat colored shapes, giving the viewer plenty to look at without overwhelming.

Sandy has an MFA from the University of Massachusetts in Amherts, and continues to live in the the area, bouncing between Massachusetts and New York. She has shown work mostly in the Northeast, in Massachusetts, New York, and New Jersey. She has a website, at Sandy Litchfield.com.

SPACES Call for Artists

SPACES is a well-established alternative art space in Cleveland, OH. Check out Spaces Website for details about their annual application process for both the regular gallery space and SPACELAB, which serves as a short term experimental installation space.

Engrave Your Moleskine

design by Dan Funderburgh
design by Alisha Wessler
Moleskines are everyone's favorite sketchbook. Now there's a website that will custom engrave them for you. At Engrave Your Book.com you can not only purchase copies of your own custom design, but you can submit your artwork to be chosen as a "featured artist" whose books will be sold on the site (and for which you would earn a 15% royalty). Also, you can engrave the spine of your book with a title and can do bulk runs. The site provides a design guide for best engraving results. Average turn around time is 7-12 business days.

Balint Zsako

Balint Zsako is a Hungarian-born, Canadian artist. His drawings, watercolors and sculptures have been exhibited widely in Canada, United States and abroad. Zsako's drawings have a folk-art quality with their stylized figures and hierarchical compositions. However, further investigation reveals a complex net of psychological narratives that has been woven around the smilingly naive imagery.












http://balintzsako.com/

Romo Gallery

Alex Kavares
Leslie Kneisel
Ryan Mrozowski
Romo Gallery in Atlanta, GA is known for fresh, "edgy" shows. It is part of the "4th Friday Art Stroll", in the Castleberry Hill area. The current show "The Boys Are Back In town" is a group show of art from a resoundingly male perspective. The next show, opening April 11th, will be called "Controlled Release". The gallery is open from Thursday to Saturday from 11-6 or by appointment, and is located at 309 Peters St SW, Atlanta, GA, 30313.

Betsy Timmer

Betsy Timmer is an artist working on her MFA at Kansas University in Lawrence, KS. Her MFA show is opening this weekend, and if you're anywhere near the vincinity you should really check it out. I've previewed the work for the show, and the pieces are grand in scale and ambitious, thematically and in sheer physical presence. I really wish that I had photos of the new work..I may take some and post them next week. The pictures here are of old work off her website, and they kind of give you an idea of her thing, which is to anthropomorphize domestic objects. I will say though, as fun as these pieces are, they really pale in comparison to the new work, which embodies so much character in the simpliest of materials: muslin, zippers, teabags, etc.

Many of the objects in the show are distinctly feminine, and a theme throughout is the perceived feminine roll in domestic life juxtaposed with other ambitions, goals, and ideas that a women might have to the contrary. There is also a subtle appreciation for certain elements of domesticity in Betsy's work, which might lead you to believe that even though she doesn't want her whole life to be about ironing, she might actually enjoy it, and appreciate the meditations that come from doing these kinds of jobs...sweeping, sewing, knitting...

The show opens on Sunday, in the gallery on the 1st floor of the art and design building on the KU Lawrence Campus. Betsy Timmer's website, for those of you who can't travel to see the show, is at Btimmer.com.

Wendell Gladstone

Wendell Gladstone's work has been popping up all over the country in group and solo shows. I caught it at both the Phantasmania show at the Kemper here in Kansas City, and then there were several pieces in the "The Incomplete" show in Chelsea when we visited New York. The paintings almost seem like mosaics, as they are built up in crisp tile-like sections of what I am assuming is acrylic paint. The subject matter is always jarring: horseheads and sculls and natives, things hanging from trees, all in happy technicolor. He also works in sculptures that often seem paired to the paintings. In both their seem to be a story...a myth, a legend, mixing elements of the past and present. But don't really expect that by looking at the painting you're going to find a clear allegory or moral or happy ending. You may pick up on themes, but the point of this work is obviously not to give you an answer, but mostly initiate the process of questioning.

You can find Wendell Gladstone's work online at:Kravets-Wehby Gallery (New York), or at the Witzenhausen Gallery (Amsterdam).

AmyK:new work

Ok, so far I've really refrained from posting my own work on the blog, because the point of this venue is really to highlight OTHER people's work...but I have some new pieces in the works for a show in October, and I could use a little feedback, as the only people seeing this stuff come along are my cats and the Misha. So please forgive this moment of self-indulgence and feel free to give some much-needed critique.

Taylor de Cordoba

RYAN CALLIS

JEANA SOHN

FROHAWK TWO FEATHERS

Taylor de Cordoba in opened in LA's Culver City art district in 2006. In addition to their "home court" exhibtions in LA, they have begun travelling the art fair scene, including Scope, NY; Aqua Miami; and the upcoming NEXT Art Fair in Chicago April 25th-28. The gallery and its stable of artists have been well represented in many national publications, including the LA Times, Juxtapoz, ArtForum, Elle, W, Beautiful Decay, Daily Candy, and Favorpill, among others.

The current exhibition features the work of Claire Oswalt, and will be on display until April 15. Claire creates paper puppets from wood, twine, and graphite on paper. In this series, titled "Trustfall", Oswalt uses the puppet metaphor to describe the lack of control one can have over their own emotions and environment.
CLAIRE OSWALT

The gallery is located at 2660 S. LA Cienga Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90034. It is open Tuesday-Saturday from 11-5:30pm or by appointment.

Beatriz Milhazes

Beatriz Milhazes lives and works in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This makes sense when one takes a look at her paintings and screenprints, which seemingly demonstrate the exbuberance of Carnivale. Wild patterns, spirals, and florals swirl on giant canvas, flushed with color:magentas, yellows, royal blue... her paintings are one big party on the wall. They speak of movement, dance, music, richness, and joie de vivre.

Beatriz's work is available through The James Cohan Gallery in New York (originals), and through Durham Press out of Pennsylvania (silkscreen prints).

The Drawing Center Viewing Program

The Drawing Center in Soho (NYC) is really something like a small museum space. In addition to its exhibition space, the Center also produces publications, supports educational programs and events, and has developed the "Viewing Program" Artist Registry for emerging artists.

The Viewing Program is juried. Submission guidelines dictate that applicants cannot be students and cannot have New York Gallery art representation. Both US and international artists are eligable. Twice a year, The Drawing Center presents a show of work curated from the Viewing Program, called "Selections", giving these artists exposure to the NYC scene.

Submission Guidelines and the entire online registry can be found and perused here.

Viewing Program Registrant Jim Gaylord

Viewing Program Registrant Anna Polashenski

Elizabeth Huey

There is an element of science vs theism in Elizabeth Huey's work. Nurses, Angels, and medical gadgetry appear in what might be emotional landscapes where the battle between innocence and so-called deviance takes place. Buildings in the landscape appear as institutions that may have contrary perspectives on the scene: traditional, almost fairy-tale like german homes, churches, university-like structures. The paintings seem to challenge ideals about "good and evil", and hint at the contemporary issue of "morality" in the context of the christian religion versus technology and "progressive" or liberal lifestyles.

Or maybe I'm just reading a lot into these paintings.

The technique Huey uses is also interesting, sometimes incorporating a collage element into the work, and using fairly textural painting styles. Like the characters in the painting, the technique itself comes off simultaniously naive and sophisticated.

Elizabeth Huey lives and works in Brooklyn, and has had solo shows in the past few years in Boston, NYC, and LA. You can check out more of her work at her website.

Arthouse co-op, (Atlanta, GA)

Arthouse in Atlanta, GA, develops various "projects" encouraging community and national envolvment in the arts. The following are some of the projects they are currently arranging, and there is plenty of room left if you're interested in signing up to participate. The projects are featured in their gallery space, and have sometimes become traveling shows that visit other galleries nationally.

The Sketchbook Project
Sign up to be one of 500 artists to fill moleskine sketchbooks for a show at the Arthouse Co-op's gallery space. The entry fee is $13, which covers the cost of your sketchbook plus shipping.

The Great Art House Print Exchange
Participants are asked to make 22 11x17"prints on the theme "I have never been in any of my neighbors houses". In exchange for the 22 prints you send to the co-op you will receive 20 prints from other artists. One of your prints will go to the ArtHouse Print Collection, and finally one will be entered into another juried print show at a later date.

Pen Pal Painting Exchange
Participants are put on a list of 10 people. One canvas is sent out to the first person on the list, and then they add to the piece and send it to the next person on the list, and so on. The final pieces will be on display at Arthouse and will be sold for $500, with the proceeds divided up amongst the participants.

Beautiful Losers Documentary

Beautiful Losers is a documentary film about the subculture of (mostly westcoast) "underground" artists that have emerged in recent years. This film celebrates the independant spirit and DIY attitudes that have roots in extreme sports and street art, and how connected this art has become to the art world as a whole, in addition to popular culture, music, and fashion. The film features artists Shepherd Fairey, Barry McGee, Margaret Kilgallen, and Chris Johnson (among others) who were a part of an NYC gallery exhibition of the same title curated by the film's director, Aaron Rose.

The film was selected for screening (appropriately) at the SXSW film festival in Austin, TX. It will world premier at the festival. It will release to select theatres in the spring of 2008.

Screening Times:
1:15 PM, Sunday March 9th - Paramount
4:00 PM, Thursday March 13th - Alamo Ritz 1

Check the trailer at BeautifulLosers.com