Art exhibits/shows

Peter Kuper at MoCCA

Posted September 18, 2009 by k_c_ in Art exhibits/shows

I went to Peter Kuper's presentation of his recently published book Diario De Oaxaca: A Sketchbook Journal of Two Years in Mexico on PM Press. The event was an opening for Peter's current exhibit up at the MoCCA Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art, at 594 Broadway, Suite 401

"MoCCA is pleased to present Peter Kuper's Diario de Oaxaca: A Sketchbook Journal of Two Years in Mexico. This exhibition is in conjunction with the release of his book published in a bilingual edition from PM Press in the US and Sexto Piso in Mexico. Diario de Oaxaca is Kuper's chronicle of his experiences in Oaxaca, Mexico during the political uprising of 2006 and its aftermath. The exhibition includes sketches, illustrations and comics, capturing both the light and shadows that defined his time there."

The exhibit is really simple and stark. I started to notice how Peter was using the nationalistic colors of Mexico in the wall text. It then occurred to me that the wall to my right was painted red, to my left, green, and the wall in front of me had an eagle eating the serpent on the cactus. He incorporated simple elements like the Mexican flag along with stenciled slogans from the streets of Oaxaca on the walls amidst his journal sketches. There are two large screens in the gallery one, a multimedia collage of Peter's stenciled "Day of the Dead" self-portrait, and another displaying dozens of slides he took while living in Oaxaca. The images range from the immense amount of graffiti and visual culture produced in the streets as part of the uprising to buses, which were commandeered and burnt to provide barricades in street battles against the Federal Police, to snapshots of his daughter in front of a line of riot police.

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Pictures from Erik Ruin installation at the Dirt Palace

Posted September 12, 2009 by erik_ruin in Art exhibits/shows

The Dirt Palace site just posted some nice-looking pics from my installation in their window, which just came down. You can check it out in slideshow format on Flickr.
The focal point of my installation were the banners i had printing during my residency at AS220. I also created with my dear friend the amazing Andrew Oesch two life-size painted-and-cut-out figures on red rosin paper and scores of painted clouds (with additional help from Susan Sakash).
The Dirt Palace window is a great place to exhibit as it faces onto the main square of the Olneyville neighborhood in Providence, and thus attracts the attention of a great number of random passers-by. I even had one enthusiastic fellow step into the window with me to chat while I was installing!
Big thanks to everyone who made my time in Providence such a dream- including all of Building 16 and AS220, Meredith Stern, Jean Cozzens for print help, Xander Marro, Andrew, Susan and Walker Mettling for delicious opening food & beverages.

Snippets of Nuart on Brooklyn Street Art

Posted September 11, 2009 by k_c_ in Art exhibits/shows

Theres a handful of flicks of Justseeds members, Chris Stain & Swoon with friends at the Nuart Festival. The following links are from Brooklyn Street Art It begins here, continuing here, Swoon-ing here, growing here, to here with its most current post.
(photo by Logan Hicks)

Art Hazelwood at Inferno

Posted September 8, 2009 by jmacphee in Art exhibits/shows

Art Hazelwood
September 11 - November 13, 2009
Reception: Friday, September 11, 7 - 9 pm

INFERNO Gallery
4401 San Leandro Street
Oakland, CA 94601
510-798-7637

San Francisco Impresario, Artist, Instigator: Art Hazelwood brings us his recent works covering the issues in a Post-Bush world. Hazelwood has been creating paintings, prints and public art around the country as well as Germany and Japan since 1984. His work is in art collections from New York to California.

He has curated a multitude of art shows, written articles and engaged in creating art work that strikes at the very heart of political and social issues in our country. He is the co-founder of The Art of Democracy http://www.artofdemocracy.org which gathers together political artists and develops exhibitions across the country to speak out against injustice and motivate the populous through art.

EveryBody! Visual Resistance in Feminist Health Movements, 1969-2009

Posted September 8, 2009 by shaun in Art exhibits/shows

“Our feelings will lead us to our theory, our theory to our action, our feelings about that action to new theory and then to new action.”

Curated by our cohort Bonnie Fortune, and including Justseeds artists Favianna Rodriguez and Meredith Stern as well as Pittsburgher Hyla Willis (subRosa), "EveryBody!" opens this Friday at I Space Gallery in Chicago. For address, hours, images, and more info on the show including links to artists and organizations involved, head over to Bonnie's site!
Exhibit runs until October 10.

Decaydence tonight

Posted September 3, 2009 by jmacphee in Art exhibits/shows

My friend Shawn Gilheeney and friends have a show opening tonight, a big installation show out of found materials, at Unsmoke Systems in Braddock, PA.

Decaydence
Friday, Sept. 4, 7-11pm
UnSmoke Artspace
1137 Braddock Ave.
Braddock, PA 15104

Paper Politics: Without Bureaucracy

Posted August 21, 2009 by jmacphee in Art exhibits/shows

There's a really nice write up on the Richmond, VA Paper Politics show on the RVA Magazine website. RVA Mag is a cool art and culture publication focusing on Richmond. I did an interview with RVA's Preston while installing and this is what came out of it, read it HERE.

(image: Refugio Solis, La Otra Campaña, screen print, 2005)

First you build The Foundation...

Posted August 18, 2009 by bec_young in Events

Detroit has a hot new hip hop spot known as the 5E Gallery. Started by DJ Sicari to provide a space for young people who are into hip hop and graffiti, the 5E functions as a music venue (with shows that are often free or for donation), art gallery, and cyber cafe. The outside walls are decorated by the work of Sintex, Sest and others; the inside has paintings by Shades and his contemporaries. Every Tuesday night 5E Gallery hosts a show called The Foundation, which highlights the incredible talents of women in hip hop. If you're not in Detroit, this show streams live on Ustream, but you'll miss the b-girls, and more importantly, the awesome vibe. Here's a description of the thinking behind The Foundation: "The social impact of Hip Hop is a cultural revolution which crosses borders, inspires ideas & influences behaviors. Encouraging freedom of expression, healthy competition, independent thought, & positive self-identity, this weekly event as a movement focuses on redefining the vital role of Women in Hip Hop. Our mission is to educate and empower the community through sharing our love of the arts, while inspiring change and growth."

28th Biennial of Graphic Arts

Posted August 17, 2009 by jmacphee in Justseeds/Member Projects

Justseeds is really excited to be included in the 28th Biennial of Graphic Arts in Ljubljana, Slovenia!!!

28th Biennial of Graphic Arts
September 4-October 24,

International Centre of Graphic Arts (MGLC)
Grad Tivoli, Pod turnom 3
1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
telephone: (+386) (0)1 241 38 00
fax: (+386) (0)1 241 38 21
e-mail: lili.sturm@mglc-lj.si

image: Moises Yagües, Enter if You Can & Go Out if You Can, 2007, woodcut

The 28th Biennial of Graphic Arts is a multifaceted event with a long tradition; it consists of a number of exhibitions as well as other happenings. Once again, the Biennial's central exhibition, The Matrix: An Unstable Reality, on view for two months in Ljubljana galleries, will focus on contemporary graphic art in the broadest sense of the term.

At the invitation of the International Centre of Graphic Arts, which proposed the theme of the main show, this idea was further developed and shaped by Galerija Alkatraz, Galerija Ganes Pratt, Galerija Jakopič, Galerija Kapsula, and Galerija Škuc, which are also serving as venues for the Biennial. Alongside the central exhibition, the 28th Biennial of Graphic Arts includes as well the Artist's Book Salon, the traditional exhibition for the winner of the Grand Prize from the previous Biennial, and a number of accompanying exhibitions.

The Matrix: An Unstable Reality
The exhibition responds to certain vital questions for society and art raised by the cult movie trilogy The Matrix. Does a medium stay the same once it incorporates new technologies in its discourse? Does this increase the audience for art? What is the social power of those who possess the matrix? Is the possession of the matrix enough to also justify exclusive reproduction rights? Can we create a perfect world, whether real or virtual? The exhibition offers a selection of more than eighty internationally established and emerging artists. Their work extends from traditional and contemporary printmaking to artist's books and interventions in the public space, in the mass media, and on computers.

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Confronting the Capitalist Crisis, University of Arizona

Posted August 12, 2009 by dylan_miner in Justseeds/Member Projects

The Justseeds show just opened in Tucson and it looks fresh! Quite a solid representation of the collective's working practices. It is up through the fall, so stop by! It's at the Joseph Gross Gallery of the School of Art at the University of Arizona, corner of Park and Speedway, open Monday to Friday 10-5.

Thanks to Brooke Grucella for organizing!

3 Worlds

Posted August 10, 2009 by jmacphee in Art exhibits/shows

3 Worlds
Myth, Bricks, Prints

Artists:
Luis Arias Vera — Juan R. Fuentes — Casper Banjo

Curators:
Art Hazelwood — Rene Yañez

Dates:
August 14 - September 19, 2009

Reception:
Friday, August, 14th, 7-10pm $5

Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
2868 Mission Street,
San Francisco, CA 94110
MCCLA is 1/2 block from the 24th Street BART Station
Entry fee $2

Gallery Hours:
Tuesday – Saturday 10am – 5pm
(415) 821-1155
www.missionculturalcenter.org

A series of videos created for the exhibition are available here
http://missionculturalcenter.org/gallery08.htm

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Paper Politics Richmond-Install Shots

Posted August 7, 2009 by jmacphee in Art exhibits/shows

Here's some photos from Paper Politics Richmond at the Ghostprint Gallery. It opens TONIGHT!

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Justseeds at Visionary Arts Festival

Posted August 6, 2009 by mary_tremonte in Art exhibits/shows

Justseeds will be displaying and selling prints at the Visionary Arts Festival this Weekend in Pittsburgh...this looks to be an interesting event! Justseeds friends and collaborators, including Ally Reeves, Ashley Brickman, and Etta Cetera are also creating booths for the event. Come say hello, get a brand new sticker or postcard, and peep some prints in real life.

When: August 7, 8 and 9, 2009, from 12pm to 9pm.
Where: Schenley Plaza, (directly in front of the Cathedral of Learning, in the heart of Oakland.) Pittsburgh, PA
What: The first Pittsburgh Visionary Arts Festival is bringing together more than 70 local visionary artists and art innovators into a single venue. For three full days, these artists will share their work, vision and unique ideas in a friendly outdoors festival setting. The VAF will feature a rich diversity of minds, covering the full spectrum of art mediums: from painting to mixed media, from digital media to sound art, through recycled and self-taught art… and beyond! Experience a slice of Pittsburgh’s greatest visionary art, in a festival that hopes to decorate your soul rather than your living room! Free and open to the public.
Who: Aimee Manion * Alberto J. Almarza * Ally Reeves * Amir Rashid * Ashley Brickman * Bob Ziller * Bill Davis * Bruce Brinker * Christina Martine * Connie Cantorm * Constance Merriman * Curt Sell * Deanna Mance * Elin Lennox * Encyclopedia Destructica * Etta cettera * Gabe Felice * Ian Green * James Gyre * Jay Del Greco * Jesse Riesmeyer * Jonathan Brodsky * Jude Vachon * Juliana Morris * Kyle Ethan Fischer * Laura Gyre * Laura Jean Mclaughin * Lowry Burgess * Mark Traughber * Matt Marino * Mike Budai * Morgan Cahn * Moshe Sherman * Philomena O'Dea * Pat McArdle * Randie snow * Rose Clancy * Ryder Henry * Sebastian Van Gorder * Sherry Rusinack * tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE * Tom Estlack * Troy Blum * Unicorn Mountain * Vanessa German * Robert Wright * Norman Scott * "Butch" Quinn * Jory Albright * Lena Gomane * Kathleen Serri * Dan Melandy * Andy Flannigan * Inez Hess * Mr. Imagination * Esther Phillips * John Graves * Devon Smith* Karl "The Master's Hand" Goodrich * Devia Davis * Marcus Brathwaite * Lori M. Johnston * Shervin Iranshahr * Vinny Corpuscle * Kate Wichmann Sherman * Ian Momyer * John Fox * “Cyberpunk Apocalypse” * Alicia Fronczek * Barbara Dahlberg * Agata Brunt * HiTEC

Paper Politics Richmond

Posted August 5, 2009 by jmacphee in Art exhibits/shows

Paper Politics, a show I curated of political prints from around the world, is opening on Friday in Richmond, VA. Please come by and check it out if you're in town!:

Paper Politics: Socially Engaged Printmaking Today
200 prints from 200 artists

Ghostprint Gallery
220 W. Broad St.
Richmond, VA 23220
www.ghostprintgallery.com

Opening Reception:
Friday, August 7th, 7-10 pm

show runs August 7th-August 29th, 2009
Wed-Sat, 1-7pm or by appointment

How Deep Is Your Love?

Posted August 4, 2009 by k_c_ in Justseeds/Member Projects

Chris Stain and Armsrock are pluggin away, with a a handful of breaks, over at the Ad-Hoc Art Gallery. They are making a collaborative installation in the gallery and hanging some original artworks. The show opens this Friday, August 7th

Ad Hoc Art
49 Bogart St
Brooklyn, NY

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Rachel Budde at Breeze Block

Posted August 2, 2009 by jmacphee in Art exhibits/shows

My friend Rachel Budde is having a solo show at Breeze Block in Portland, OR. It open Friday August 7th, if you are in or around PDX, check it out!

David Loewentstein's Window Installation

Posted July 24, 2009 by jmacphee in Art exhibits/shows

Friend, Paper Politics contributor and Reproduce & Revolt artist David Loewenstein has just installed a cool series of window installations at the Power and Light Building in Kansas City. David has filled the 10 ground floor windows of the building with large scale black and white paintings of strong, stylized graphics, at least one of which is in Reproduce & Revolt.

BNIM Architecture (ground floor windows)
106 W. 14th Street (Power and Light Building)
Kansas City, MO

If you're in KC, check out the install, and here are some pics:

Evil Brothers at There Goes the Neighborhood

Posted July 16, 2009 by jmacphee in Art exhibits/shows

My friend Tom Civil and his brother Ned ("Evil Brothers") installed what looks to be an amazing cardboard ghost train at the There Goes the Neighbourhood exhibition at the Performance Space in Sydney back in May. The show looks like it was pretty interesting, and included other friends like Temporary Services, 16Beaver and Michael Rakowitz. Tom also designed the catalog, which looks great. You can buy one here, or download a pdf here.

Here are a bunch of photos of the Evil Brothers install. It's hard to see what the entire thing looked like, but it's a glance into another world:

Food Security show

Posted July 14, 2009 by bec_young in Art exhibits/shows

Here are a couple shots from the Food Security show at the Cass Cafe in Detroit. In the first couple pictures, giant papercut squash blossoms grow up the lattice on either side of the prints. The photo in the lower left hand corner shows the 14 foot tall papercut I made for the exhibit. Besides twenty Justseeds artists, the show also has work by six local artists: Stacey Malasky, Megan Heeres, Gerrick Reidenbach, J. Rae Warren, Jenna Lyn Utter and Nadia Abou-Karr. For more info on the show, please see the post below from earlier this week. Thanks to everyone who contributed!

Ink & Paper

Posted July 11, 2009 by jmacphee in Art exhibits/shows

Ink & Paper
The Biannual Studio Opening of the Taller Tupac Amaru
Jesus Barraza, Melanie Cervantes & Favianna Rodriguez

July 11 & 12, 2009. 11am-6pm
Radical Political Art | T-Shirts | Books
Printmaking Demos, Raffle, Youth Activities and More!

1505 33rd Ave. Oakland, CA 94601
(accessible via Fruitvale BART)

Join members of the Taller Tupac Amaru, a collective of Xicana/o artists and printmakers, at their biannual Open Studios. They will be showcasing their latest political and fine art prints. Self-guided studio tours will give visitors a unique opportunity to meet the artists and see their work in the place where it was created. This is a family friendly event.

Also The Great Tortilla Conspiracy will be joining us on Sunday at noon.
featuring: Rene Yañez, Rio Yañez, and Jos Sances

MUSIC by DJ Max Champ and DJ Quix

Food Security: a food-themed Justseeds show

Posted July 11, 2009 by bec_young in Art exhibits/shows

I'm setting up an intense and fun installation in conjunction with the Allied Media Conference in Detroit, called Food Security. The show starts Sunday, July 12th and ends Saturday, July 18th at the Cass Cafe, Detroit's hottest spot for contemporary art (...that also serves food). In this show, twenty Justseeds artists and seven local artist explore the issue of what we eat with a variety of media, tone and message. While some of the pieces question the the systems for making safe and healthy food available to everyone, others celebrate the creative work of many Detroiters who have taken this matter into their own hands and created an incredible network of urban agriculture. Among other wondrous works, I will be showing a 14 foot tall papercut that is so freshly cut it hurts. The opening reception is Wednesday, July 15th from 8pm - 1am with bands I, Crime, Blair and the Boyfriends, Noman, and General Population.

Andrés Ramírez y la Musica contra el Poder

Posted July 9, 2009 by dylan_miner in Art exhibits/shows

To be honest, I do not know that much about Andrés Ramírez, other than that he is a Mexican poster artist whose posters I've seen over the years and think that they're dope. This weekend, Sr. Ramírez has organized a conference in Oaxaca de Juárez, MX in conjunction with the Instituto de Artes Gráficas de Oaxaca (IAGO) and the Centro de las Artes de San Agustín (CASA). The conference addresses the theme of '10 Years of Music Against Power.' I'm sure it will prove an amazing event.

If anyone happens to be in Oaxaca, check it out:
Thursday | 09 July 2009
08:00 PM

Patio of the Instituto de Artes Gráficas de Oaxaca
Macedonio Alcalá 507
Centro Histórico
Oaxaca, Oaxaca, México
FREE

http://biblioiago.blogspot.com/

Willoughby Windows

Posted July 9, 2009 by jmacphee in Events

So Chris and I recently took part in the Willoughby Windows project here in Brooklyn. Organized by Ad Hoc Art, the project is one of those strange hybrids between business interests, real estate and art entrepreneurship that rightfully make a lot of people uncomfortable. I'm still up in the air as to how to feel about it, but I'm definitely glad to have been invited to participate and struggle with the issues embedded in this.

Ad Hoc negotiated a deal with the Metrotech Business Improvement District (BID) in Downtown Brooklyn to temporarily turn a block of abandoned storefront windows into artist installation spaces. The trick is that the storefronts don't just happen to be abandoned. Awhile back the same developers behind the BID kicked everyone out of these buildings and basically leveled the existing community. These business luminaries then ran out of cash, and now are hoping artists will salvage the situation by bringing people back onto the block and keeping the buildings "safe" from vandalism and crime. So us artists aren't actually kicking anyone out, that dirty deed is long since done, we're sort of like mid-fielders, keeping the ball in play until the developers can siphon off enough bailout money to tear out the storefronts and start building another hideous glass tower for rich people.

Today's Daily News article about the windows makes it seem like I'm not the only skeptic. Former tenants and even passerby's argue that the art is no replacement for the former businesses and community. This is the type of tough situation all kinds of people in all kinds of fields find themselves in: inheriting situations and problems we had little role in creating. What to do? Because thousands of people are going to be looking at these installations for the rest of the year I decided to fill my windows with Celebrate People's History posters. Might as well use the space to advertise little known political histories....

But rather than just listen to my issues, definitely check it out yourself. The opening is this Friday, July 10th at 2pm. Here's the info:

Willoughby Windows
86 - 106 Willoughby Street, between Duffield and Bridge Streets
Downtown Brooklyn
July 10, 2-7pm

Willoughby Windows transforms 12 vacant storefronts into a street level gallery that brings art to the community. Over 12 well known artists, all with deep roots in the street art movement, have contributed to this project, many creating site specific works. This network of visual experiences can help redefine how people visiting, working and living in Downtown Brooklyn think about and interact with their environment during a time of transition. Artists include: Ad Hoc Art, John Ahearn, Tom Beale, John Breiner, Cannonball Press, Cycle, Michael De Feo, Ellis G, Gaia, Logan Hicks, Lady Pink, Greg Lamarche, Josh MacPhee, Dennis McNett, Morning Breath, Chris Stain and Werdink.

On display July 10 - Nov 5, 2009.

Emory Douglas: Black Panther

Posted July 6, 2009 by jmacphee in Events

For those in the NYC area, after 18 months of being open, the new New Museum is finally doing a show worth going to! They're mounting an exhibition of posters and artwork by Emory Douglas, former Black Panther Party Minister of Culture. Most of Douglas' work was originally published as graphics, covers, and centerfold posters in the Black Panther newspaper in the 1970s and early 80s, where he collaged together his drawings, found photographs, and ziptone patterns to create an amazing array of graphics in service to the Black Revolution in the US. For whatever reason (likely cannibalistic), a portion of the art world has recently taken a shine towards Emory, and I'm not going to complain, this promises to be a great opportunity to see a huge collection of difficult to find work from a political graphics master. Here's the details, and a link to more info and more images(!):

Emory Douglas: Black Panther
An Exhibition Curated by Sam Durant
7/22/09 - 10/18/09

New Museum
235 Bowery
New York, NY 10002
212.219.1222

Screen printing workshop at Galeria de la Raza

Posted June 29, 2009 by Jesus_Barraza in Art exhibits/shows

Screen printing workshop at Galeria de la Raza from Jesus Barraza on Vimeo.

This weekend Melanie and I taught a screen printing workshop at the Galeria de la Raza in the San Francisco Mission District where we have an exhibit up. We stayed in the gallery afterward to make some screen printed shirts and patches. This is an interview with a young man from the Mission who came into look at the exhibit, telling us what he liked about the t-shirt we gave him.

Contemporary Wisconsin Prints

Posted June 26, 2009 by colin_matthes in Art exhibits/shows

I will be participating in From One, Many: Contemporary Wisconsin Prints, an exhibition opening Sunday July 12, 1:30-4pm at the Museum of Wisconsin Art in West Bend, WI.

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Outside Looking In

Posted June 22, 2009 by jmacphee in Art exhibits/shows

Were coming up on the last week to see Ilke Hartmann's show Outside Looking In. Ilke is a Bay Area photographer who has captured some amazing historical moments. She was kind enough to allow me to borrow her images of the 1969 Native Occupation of Alcatraz for the Signs of Change exhibition.

Outside Looking In
Photographs of California Chinese Communities in the 1970s

May 1 - June 30

Sacramento City College
Learning Resource Center Library
3rd Floor
Open Monday - Thursday
8:30 am - 5:30 pm

"It is now almost 40 years since these photographs were taken. Waves of immigrants from many different countries have arrived since. We are living in a microcosm of the world, making our own communities here and keeping ties to our original countries.

I hope that these pictures will contribute to the memory of the Chinese people who came to the San Francisco Bay Area and made a life here, often under the most difficult conditions, a life of dignity and strength." -Ilka Hartmann

Sponsored by Sacramento City College's Cultural Awareness Center and the Library

Red Lines exhibition

Posted June 17, 2009 by jmacphee in Events

Red Lines
Housing Crisis Learning Center

Queens Museum of Art
New York City Building
Flushing Meadows Corona Park
Queens, NY
7 to Shea Stadium

opens Saturday, June 20

Red Lines is a large-scale installation that explores how we finance our living environments, and will remain on view through September 27, 2009. Opening day events include: a 3–5 pm screening and discussion of Primetime: Fighting Back Against Foreclosure, a documentary by Jennifer Fasulo and Manauvaskar Kublall looking at predatory loan practices and their aftermath, and a blow-out 5–7 pm reception. In conjunction with the exhibition, the Queens Museum Panorama of New York City has been used to map the pattern of 2008 foreclosures across the city. Red Lines is curated by Larissa Harris, and is a project of the MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies and the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP). More information at
http://www.queensmuseum.org/exhibitions/redlines.htm

Art, Archives and Activism: Martin Wong's Downtown Crossings

Posted June 16, 2009 by molly_fair in Art exhibits/shows

The Asian/Pacific/American Institute at New York University is proud to present the exhibition “Art, Archives, and Activism: Martin Wong’s Downtown Crossings” from March 6-December 18, 2009. From the mid ’80s through the early ’90s, artist Martin Wong and other downtown New York artists were affected by an intersection of major historic events spanning the AIDS epidemic, urban renewal and attacks on graffiti in the city, to Tiananmen Square abroad. The exhibition explores artists who crossed paths during this particular time, influencing and inspiring discussions, art works, and activism.

The exhibition winds a story through the voices of his closest friends and peers during Wong’s time in New York City from the early 1980s through the mid-1990s. As Wong would come to portray his friends, fellow artists such as Miguel (Mikey) Pinero, Sharp, Chris “Daze” Ellis, among others within his paintings, bringing them into a world of a Lower East Side re-imagined with the fantasies of escapism and romanticism of a barren land amid towering walls of crumbling brick where they dwelt, in this exhibition, the archival materials and lasting influences of Wong’s legacy and his friendships in turn shape a portrait of the artist—re-imagined and remembered.

The artist’s work shown in “Art, Archives, and Activism” range from the early ’80s through the ’90s and have been loaned from his estate at PPOW Gallery and the collections of his closest friends. Some photos, paintings and drawings have never been shown to the public before. Working with and drawing materials from the Fales Library and Special Collections at New York University along with personal collections, “Art, Archives, and Activism” presents a story of a time and the interconnectedness of the artists with the world around them through the artwork, letters, photographs, videos, postcards, posters, and flyers of participant artists. The exhibition traverses the artificial borders of these two decades, and instead is spread through the moment delineated by artists’ lives and the issues that engulfed them — their personal influences, artistic production and activism that were catalyzed from these connections and overlapping paths. The opening reception is also the reception and book celebration for the Asian American Art Symposium 2009 at NYU presented by A/P/A Institute and co-sponsored by The Noguchi Museum; The Japan Foundation, New York; The Asia Society; NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development; and Museum of Chinese in America.

Justseeds Print Show in Montreal Coming Down

Posted June 10, 2009 by Jesse_Purcell in Art exhibits/shows

Actually the show at the Cagibi came down this week.
But here is a review of the show in a local paper the Hour.
http://www.hour.ca/news/news.aspx?iIDArticle=17416


photos by Kevin Caplicki