ART/WORK

I found the best book the other day..."ART/WORK". It is written by the power duo of Heather Darcy Bhandari (gallerist from Mixed Greens Gallery in New York) and Jonathan Melber (lawyer). It is an incredibly comprehensive, concise, clearly laid out guidebook to going about art professionally, containing an invaluable wealth of practical advice. It includes putting together CVs and grant proposals, shipping work, preparing paperwork for taxes, obtaining gallery representation, etc. Its designed simply, clearly, and is direct and to the point. If you are full of questions about "how to hack it in the art world" this book is full of answers. I think its the most helpful thing I've ever read in regards to fine art as a career.

Artists Opportunities

I haven't posted any in awhile, so I thought the time had come.....

DEADLINE: JUNE 1. :YEISER ART CENTER SEEKS PORTFOLIO SUBMISSIONS.
The Yeiser Art Center, a non-profit visual arts gallery, Paducah, KY is seeking proposals from artists in Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Indiana for solo/group exhibitions in 2010 season. Send CV, statement, CD/slide sheet twenty images, SASE, and support materials to: Exhibition Committee, Yeiser Art Center, 200 Broadway, Paducah, KY 42001. Must include SASE for return of materials. Visit website: www.theyeiser.org. Contact: Teri Moore, yaccenter@paducah.com.

NO DEADLINE POSTED.. SPACELAB: (Cleveland, OH, Nonprofit)
An environment for emerging and student artists to present work that challenges aesthetics and interacts physically/socially with the public. Two SPACELab projects are exhibited for three weeks. Site-specific work encouraged. Small honorarium. SPACELab Committee, SPACES, 2220 Superior Viaduct, Cleveland, OH 44113

DEADLINE: JULY 31. SANTO FOUNDATION INDIVIDUAL ARTIST GRANTS
$2500.00 individual visual artists grants in any area of expression. The juror is Paul Ha, Director of the Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis.
To apply, upload 10 jegs, and a current CV to callforentry.org. All national, international candidates are eligible as well as undergraduates, MA and MFA candidates, emerging artists and mid-career artists. Application fee of $25.00 is required for each applicationVideo/Performance artist may submit on CAFE with 10 pegs of still images but they will also need to mail a DVD (3 minutes max length) to The Santo Foundation, 5832 Macklind Ave, St. Louis, MO 63109. Please include a SASE for return of materials.

CALL FOR ARTISTS/CURATORS: PLAYHOUSE GALLERY
Playhouse gallery is a creative platform that is passionately dedicated to presenting the works of a diverse group of artists. The gallery's focus is to make art affordable and accessible to the experienced and evolving collector while providing a unique, welcoming, and encouraging space for guests to explore, and share in our love of art. We are looking for artists and curators from all levels of experience to submit artwork and exhibition proposals to fill its gallery space in 2009 and 2010. For more information please email playhouseinfo@optonline.net or call 845-548-5090

Ryan McGinnis @ Deitch Projects

Art star Ryan McGinnis has a show of new paintings, sclupture, and installation at Deitch Projects in Manhattan. Guests wishing to enter a world of intense layers of scrollwork, icons, and flat graphic imagery can stop in before April 18th, when the show comes down.

Sandra Scolnik

Sandra Scolnik's work always features self portraiture, often in multiples as if cloned. Her paintings are small in size, emphasizing a certain intimacy of subject matter, which seems to be deeply complicated, ongoing psycological drama. Her almost Bosch-like renderings employ great skill and detail, which lend interest to the themes present in her work, where her own image serves as every woman's image and societal role.

Phyllis Bramson

Phyllis Bramson's work is luxe and rich... somewhat nonsensical, and even hedonistic. She plays on ideas of fantasy and the fuzzy world of memory, her subjects living out narratives charged with mystery, desire, and distinct sense of unabashed indulgence in their smiling, flowery world. There is however always a sense of loss or damaged goods beneath every clown-like face. It leads the viewer lost in the intrigue of exactly what the hell is going on here.

Cecelia Phillips

Cecelia Phillips depicts strange vignettes of encounters between nature and man, like two alien cultures colliding. Her painting style is one I like to characterize as "juicy"- thick, meaty oil paint, with saturated (almost jarring) color that adds to the "unrealness" of her work.

Cecelia is a MFA candidate at the University of Texas at Austin, expecting to graduate this year from the painting program.

Joshua Allen Harris

This has apparently been totally blogged around. But I had never seen it until yesterday, and I just think its fan-freak-in-tastic. So I'm posting it again. Yay to New York Magazine for this interview.

SKETCHBOOK CALL FOR ENTRY!!!

HI all my artnick friends! I'm trying to get together a proposal for a show of artists books and sketchbooks. For those of you that obsessively keep and compile sketchbooks...I'd love, love, love to see them to consider for possible inclusion in the show. Please send low res jpegs to amathins@hotmail.com, along with your full name and contact info. Please be sure to put "SKETCHBOOKS" in the subject line, so I know its not junk mail!!!

The sketchbooks can be any size or shape or can even be artists books that are abstractly books at all. I will post books here on the blog as well.

Happy Sketchbooking!