Art exhibits/shows
Justseeds Show in Philly
Posted March 9, 2010 by colin_matthes in Art exhibits/shows
A few photos from a Justseeds show in Philadelphia. Justseeds shows opened last Friday at A Space and Studio 34 in Philly.
First Solo Show in East Coast for JS Artist, Favianna Rodriguez
Posted March 1, 2010 by Favianna_Rodriguez in Art exhibits/shows
I am very excited about this show which will feature a lot of my newest artwork around the themes of immigration reform, food security, climate justice and L-O-V-E. Been working round the clock for this exhibit. Please spread the word.
Exhibit Opening Night //
Friday, March 12, 2010, 7-11 PM
Global beats & local organic veggie refreshments
Closing Event //
Saturday, April 3, 2010, 7-11 PM
58 COLES STREET, JERSEY CITY, NJ 07302
DIRECTIONS: 58 Gallery is easily accessible from NYC by PATH train. Enter the PATH station on 6th Ave. at 33rd, 23rd, 14th, 9th, Christopher St., or World Trade in Manhattan and exit at Grove St. in Jersey City. Take a short walk up Newark Ave., make a right onto Coles St. The gallery is between 3rd and 4th. 58 Coles Street.
For more info, visit: Fifty8.com
About The Artist:
Favianna Rodriguez is an artist who has helped foster resurgence in political arts both locally and internationally. Named by UTNE Magazine as a leading visionary artist and changemaker,” Rodriguez is renown for her cultural media projects dealing with social issues such as war, immigration, and globalization, as well as for her leadership in establishing innovative institutions that promote and engage new audiences in the arts. Through her work we witness the changing U.S. metropolis and a new diaspora in the arts. In 2009, Rodriguez co-founded Presente.org, a national online organizing network dedicated to the political empowerment of Latino communities.
A dynamic month-long series of radical art exhibits and presentations in West Philadelphia!
Posted February 12, 2010 by k_c_ in Art exhibits/shows
Beginning March 5th, international artists’ cooperative Justseeds presents Bring Down the Walls!, a series of artistic exhibitions and educational events. The series celebrates radical movements that struggle to collapse the boundaries of class, race, gender and generation. The majority of events will take place at two locations, blocks apart on Baltimore Avenue in West Philadelphia. An Independent Project of Philagrafika 2010, Bring Down the Walls! is organized in collaboration with local activists.
Exhibitions-
At the A-Space (4722 Baltimore Ave.), there will be an exhibition of Justseeds' recent portfolio Voices From Outside: Artists Against the Prison-Industrial Complex and related materials. This project is a limited edition portfolio of original prints that either critique the prison industrial complex or address alternatives to incarceration. Twenty artists from the US, Canada, and Mexico contributed prints, which were then collated and presented to 50 different groups working on prison related issues. Many organizations have organized exhibits and have used the images as tools for educating and discussing incarceration.
At Studio 34 (4522 Baltimore Ave.) there will be a larger and more varied exhibition of prints from Justseeds members. This show will feature dozens of pieces from over 25 artists from across North America, with bold images addressing topics from personal inspiration to environmental devastation.
Justseeds Artists' Cooperative is a decentralized community of artists who have banded together to both sell their work online in a central location and to collaborate with and support each other and social movements.
More Events below!
Art and Politics Panel in San Francisco
Posted February 10, 2010 by Melanie_Cervantes in Art exhibits/shows
Date: Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Time:7:30pm - 10:00pm
Location: CounterPulse
Street:1310 Mission Street (at 9th)
City: San Francisco, CA
Favianna Rodriguez will host a panel with Bay Area artists:
Jesus Barraza, Melanie Cervantes and Zachary Karnazes
Collectivism After Collapse: Mess Hall show
Posted February 9, 2010 by nicolas_lampert in Art exhibits/shows
Collectivism After Collapse: Chicago Activist Art Spaces, Collectives, and Projects
The two-night event at Mess Hall is an open invitation to Collage Art Association conference attendees and the public to come to Mess Hall to informally gather, meet, and learn about Chicago art and activism, including an exhibition highlighting various Chicago-based collectives, collectively-run spaces, periodicals, campaigns, and activist art projects from 2000-2010. Come to Mess Hall and meet many of the people who are involved in this work!
Exhibit opens:
Friday, February 12th 7:00pm-on and Saturday, February, 13th 7:00pm-on.
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Mess Hall
6932 North Glenwood Ave.
Chicago, IL 60608
Medium Resistance
Posted February 2, 2010 by nicolas_lampert in Art exhibits/shows
Cut and Paint is included in Medium Resistance: Revolutionary Tendencies in Print and Craft - a group show that is part of Philagrafika.
Check out the website here and the show at the Ice Box in Philadelphia.
Opens March 3rd - runs to April 1
Inaguración de la Exposicón Grafica JUST SEEDS Cooperativa de Resistencia
Posted January 21, 2010 by thea in Art exhibits/shows
Inaguración de la Exposicón Grafica JUST SEEDS Cooperativa de Resistencia
Visual en la Z.A.M.
Con integrantes de Canada, Mexico y Estados Unidos.
Jueves 28 de Enero
7pm
Jan 15, Boston, Sailing the Barbarous Coast
Posted January 12, 2010 by colin_matthes in Art exhibits/shows
If you are in the Boston area come by to see the exhibition, “Sailing the Barbarous Coast.” It is a two-person show with Anthony Smith and myself. The show opens Jan 15 in Newton, MA (near Boston).
Details Below:
Who is Prester John 2, by Anthony Smith Jr
Detail of Staying Afloat, by Colin Matthes
Sailing the Barbarous Coast
Colin Matthes and Anthony Smith Jr.
January 15- February 24, 2010
Reception: Friday, January 15, 6-8pm
New Art Center
Newton, MA
www.newartcenter.org
"In the Shell of the Old" Exhibition in Chicago
Posted January 6, 2010 by dylan_miner in Art exhibits/shows
In case you are in Chicago this weekend, I have a solo exhibition at ARC Gallery, a feminist artist-run space founded in 1973. Hope to see you all in the Windy City. Brrrrrr!
ARC GALLERY | JANUARY 6-30, 2009
832 W. Superior Street # 204, Chicago, IL 60622
Reception: Friday, January 8 from 6:00-09:00pm
"In the Shell of the Old" | Dylan A.T. Miner
Print Media and Installation
ARC Gallery is pleased to present the exhibition In the Shell of the Old by Dylan A.T. Miner. Telling stories of the daily struggles faced by working in the building and dismantling of the rural and industrial Midwest, Dylan A.T. Miner's bold and unique vision valorizes the perseverance that contributes to the small victories of the everyday. Through the medium of politically charged relief prints and installation, Miner viscerally connects our daily concerns with those of the past by compelling us to act toward the building of “another,” possibly better world.
Justseeds Print Show and Paper Politics Book Release-NYC
Posted December 18, 2009 by k_c_ in Events
In case you're not on Facebook(contributing to the demise of flyer and poster promotion) the Justseeds Artists' Cooperative is having an art show and book release party for Paper Politics: Socially Engaged Printmaking Today- featuring political prints by over 200 international artists, edited by artist/activist Josh MacPhee. The event will be today 8-11pm
at Book Thug Nation
100 N.3rd St.
Brooklyn, NY
There will be new work by the Justseeds artists on display and for sale, free snacks and drinks.
So come out, wish us a happy solstice, congratulate Josh on another book, meet Icky who's visiting from PDX, buy all your holiday gifts, and check out the Book Thug Nation space so you know where to sell/buy your used books!
Print Show & Sale at Encyclopedia Destructica
Posted December 17, 2009 by mary_tremonte in Art exhibits/shows
come check out a sweet lil JUSTSEEDS print show at Encyclopedia Destructica Studios in Lawrenceville, Pittsburgh.
free cider & tea & homemade cookies
cheap art>>>handmade prints on paper, t-shirts, totes, zines & books
free stickers, postcards, brand-new catalogs with full-color foldout poster
sweet jamz from me, DJ marymack, & DJ ja(m)(bo)x
thursday december 17th
7:00-11:00
encyclopedia destructica studios
156 41st street
(lawrenceville towards the river)
you can also peep my zine collection, on display for readin' now through the end of january in a cozy reading nook. zine clinics to come!!!
see our sweet shoutout in the city paper HERE
more info here:
www.encyclopediadestructica.com
Art as Action- 12/12/09- 2/20/10- at the Printmaking Council of New Jersey
Posted December 9, 2009 by erik_ruin in Art exhibits/shows
I'll be in a 5-person group show at the Printmaking Council of New Jersey & paticipating in a panel discussion at the opening this Saturday. please come by if you can.
Art as Action features works by five acclaimed printmakers whose passion for complex social, economic, political, and environmental issues spills over into their art.
Featured Artists - J. Catherine Bebout, Karen Guancione, Curlee Raven Holton,
Doris Nogueira-Rogers, and Erik Ruin.
December 12, 2009 through February 20, 2010.
Opening Reception & Panel Discussion moderated by educator, essayist, poet and photographer John Ripton will take place on Saturday, December 12, 1 - 4pm.
PCNJ
440 River Rd
Branchburg, NJ 08876
Zapata Portfolio Presentation and Show in Mexico City - Exposicion y Presentacion de Carpeta de Zapata en Mexico DF
Posted December 4, 2009 by santi in Art exhibits/shows
"Zapata Vive, la Grafica Sigue" Portfolio Show presentation by "Escuela de Cultura Popular Martires del 68" Thursday the 10th of December
The "ECPM68" School is presenting their new portfolio project entitled "Zapata Vive, La Grafica Sigue" and it compiles the work of 16 different artists from around Mexico on silk screened posters where each artist represented their version of the well-known revolutionary.
Come join us next week on!
WORK PROGRESS: Dill Pickle Club benefit this Thursday Dec 3rd.
Posted December 1, 2009 by pete in Art & Politics
If you are in Portland this Thursday Dec 3rd be sure to stop by this show. Alec Icky Dunn and Pete Yahnke from Justseeds both have some work in this benefit show. Here are the details from the Dill Pickle Club:
Join us at the Eyeful Gallery (NW 6th & Everett) Thursday, December 3 at 6PM, during the First Thursday art walk for the opening of WORK | PROGRESS, an art show, pop up bookshop and event series to benefit the Dill Pickle Club. Cape Perpetua and Niekrasz/ Jenkins Duet (of Why I Must Be Careful) provide live music, while Ninkasi Brewing generously serves libations.
WORK | PROGRESS features 24 socially-engaged artists creating replicated works, including:
Icky A, Brad Adkins, Moe Bowstern, Carye Bye, Bill Daniel, Dyslexxis, Harrell Fletcher, Sarah Gottesdiener, Sam Gould, Anna Gray, MK Guth, Ariana Jacob, Kendra Larson, Ian Lynam, Eric Mast, Justin Scrappers Morrison, Michael Parich, Ryan Wilson Paulsen, Brittany Powell, Khris Soden, Bwana Spoons, Matthew Stadler, Nim Wunnan, Pete Yahnke
Nuart looking for a few things
Posted December 1, 2009 by k_c_ in Film & Video
Justseeds members Chris Stain and Swoon recently traveled to Stavanger, Norway to participate in the Nuart Street Art Festival. The folks that organized the festival are creating a documentary and have posted this request, below, for some advice on distribution.
We're currently looking for distribution and screenings of our fabulous up close and personal street art documentary, Eloquent Vandals. Get in touch if you have any smart ideas about how we can get it out there.
Nuart is an annual international street art festival based in Stavanger on the West Coast of Norway. From the first week of September an international team of street artists start to leave their mark on the city's walls as well as contribute to a one month long indoor exhibition.
JOSEP RENAU (1907-1982) COMPROMISO Y CULTURA Show in Mexico City
Posted November 21, 2009 by santi
JOSEP RENAU (1907-1982) COMPROMISO Y CULTURA
The museum Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco in Mexico City is hosting a show by Josep Renau's. Josep Renau was a political visual artist originally from Spain who was exiled in Mexico and in Germany due his involvement in the Spanish Civil War. His work ranged from photo montage, scratch-board, to huge murals in a variety of topics, most of them addressing social issues.
Portland Openings!
Posted November 8, 2009 by roger_peet in Art exhibits/shows
First Thursday in Portland, Oregon. It was a rainy, windy night, and still the people came out to partake of the smorgasbord of Justseeds art on display! Two shows opened, one at SEA Change gallery, operated by our friends Katherine and Alec, and the other at Reading Frenzy, run by Chloe! A fun night was had by all, it seems; some of Pete's teaching colleagues came out, the grumpy mid-30's punk echelon was in deep effect, and we even managed to sell Icky's painting, to his great chagrin and surprise! Here's some pictures:
Visible Memory in the Land of the Trees: An Ofrenda of Solidarity for the People of Guatemala
Posted November 6, 2009 by Jesus_Barraza in Art exhibits/shows
For the Day of the Dead exhibit Altars for the Spirits - Offerings for the Living at SOMArts this year Melanie and I collaborated to create an installation to honor the living, the people in Guatemala who continue fighting for all those people who have been disappeared.
When: Friday, October 16th through Saturday, November 7th, 2009 Where: SOMArts Cultural Center 934 Brannan Street San Francisco, CA 94103 Extended Gallery hours: Tuesday—Friday, 12:00pm—7:00pm; Saturday, from 12:00pm—5:00pm CLOSING RECEPTION Saturday, November 7th / 6:00PM / Free
Here is the statement for the installation:
We dedicate this altar as a reflection of the hope for the people of Guatemala who continue to live in the “Land of the Trees” as well as those that live in Diaspora due to displacement caused by civil war and the impact of Neoliberal policies like “free trade”. The altar is inspired by on our observations of the current political landscape and the climate of repression recent journey to Guatemala. We choose to honor individuals who have been disappeared as a result of their Leftist political activities as well as those who have been the targets of genocidal attacks on Indigenous communities through our altar. We believe both groups are targeted as enemies of the State due to their paradigmatic opposition those who embrace free market ideology and whose only allegiance is to multinational corporations.
Two Justseeds Group Shows opening Thursday night
Posted November 5, 2009 by icky in Art exhibits/shows
Justseeds has two art shows in Portland, OR this Thursday.
The first one is at Sea Change Gallery, which is in the Everett Street Lofts in Old Town. That show is called Opposable Thumb, has a good spread of Justseeds art and has three large sized painting installation by Roger, Pete, and I. There also will be a sculpture that Alex Luboff and I collaborated on out front (rain permitting).
The other show is at Reading Frenzy, and is titled "Charting Our Course", and is themed around literacy and education.
I'll be at Reading Frenzy, and Roger and Pete will be at Sea Change most of the night. Please come by and say hi.
--Icky
"Armed with the knowledge of our past, we can with confidence charter a course for our future. Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle. We must take hold of it and forge the future with the past."
-Malcolm X
Reading Frenzy
921 SW Oak
Sea Change Gallery
625 NW Everett
1st Thursday 11/5/09
6-9PMish
Supply & Demand: The Hollow Magic of Shepard Fairey
Posted October 27, 2009 by shaun in Art & Politics
[Full disclosure - the author of this article has been employed multiple times in the Education Department of the Andy Warhol Museum as recently as June 2009, teaching screen-printing to high school students.]
Last week, Shepard Fairey opened a massive retrospective exhibition at Pittsburgh's Andy Warhol Museum. "Supply and Demand" drew a sold-out opening night crowd that watched Fairey DJ alongside Z-Trip while sporting a swank three-piece suit. In the months prior, Fairey and his team toured around Pittsburgh wheat-pasting his familiar designs on building facades both permitted and not, and across from the museum he installed a temporary mural over top of a pre-existing mural by a younger local artist. The silent, creeping presence of Fairey's designs around the city felt eerily similar to the lead-up for the G20 summit this past September, in which faceless PR firms delivered meaningless graphics touting business and lifestyle opportunities to cover dozens of vacant storefronts in downtown in an attempt to scrub the visual landscape. All of this new wallpaper gave an impending and queasy feeling to anyone paying attention: Pittsburgh, once again and without consent, would play host as a playground for the powerful.
Rad Teen Print of the Week 3: Bike Power!
Posted October 20, 2009 by mary_tremonte
This week's rad teen print is another from the archives, by Hannah Thompson. Hannah created this two-color marmoleum-block print during RUST 2008, with the guidance of visiting Justseeds Artist Pete Yahnke. After hearing a presentation from Bike Pittsburgh about current bike advocacy issues, students created two-color block prints that were turned into vinyl stickers that can be stuck on bikes. This sticker in particular is the perfect size for a milk crate!
This is a timely sticker, as Bike Pittsburgh has recently been able to get an ordinance passed by the City Planning Commission to create more and safer bike parking in the City of Pittsburgh. They are now putting pressure on City Council to have it passed into law. You can check out their site to lend support.
Hurricane Season! TODAY in RI!!!
Posted September 30, 2009 by meredith_stern in Art exhibits/shows
Last night I saw the first performance of Hurricane Season (Alixa and Naima's current performance) at Mixed Magic Theater in Pawtucket RI (6:45pm doors, sliding scale $12-$25). Tonight is one last showing in town! They are travelling around the country, so they may also be hitting your town soon! The performance is transformative and addresses the current state of affairs in the world today (including the unnatural disaster that followed from Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans; global climate change, the war in Iraq, and worldwide water shortages). It also has a fabulous participatory nature where everyone begins by pouring water from a small wooden bowl into a large bowl onstage that is used throughout the performance. It's stunning. Emphasizes the power of love and community and togetherness, and the strength that exists within all of us to create the change we need to see around us. Also uses water as an amazing metaphor. They are also connecting local community groups in the performance to explain locally some tangible ways that people can get involved in the local community around them. Personal stories are woven throughout. You gotta go!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92z6Yx_27qs
http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs090/1101313484550/archive/1102672101539.html
http://www.hurricaneseasontour.com/html/about.php?psi=33
Bec Young's "Cuttin' Out"
Posted September 27, 2009 by bec_young in Art exhibits/shows
Clara Hardie and Jhon Clark of the Trumbullplex Theater organizing collective were kind enough to insist that I have a final art show in the theater before "cuttin' out" of Detroit. The show is about process; on display are very few final prints, but the actual stencils, papercuts, and lino blocks that I have used to create prints from. Also, there is a shadow puppet stage set up where you can play with some of the shadow puppets I've made over the last ten years.
Tonight, Sunday Sept. 27th, is the closing party along with a show, and there will be a table set up for you to create your own stencil. Music includes Matt Jones and Red Tail Ring of Michigan, and Palmyra of Brooklyn, NY.
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.
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.”- Kathie Sarachild of Redstockings Radical Feminist group, presented at the First National Women’s Liberation Conference, Chicago, November 27, 1968
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.
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
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!
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
Come out!
-Burt Reynolds
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
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.
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
