Antenna Gallery, Press Street
New Orleans, LA
September 14 – October 6, 2013
Process is an exhibition in Press Street’s Antenna Gallery featuring new work by Christopher McNulty, Angela Piehl, & Ying Zhu. These three artists were selected from the Antenna: Open Call because of their intriguing and varied artistic practices focused heavily on process.
Artist, curator and critic, Michelle Grabner recently asked me to contribute a brief essay addressing the problems of the intertwined careers of educators and actively engaged artists. The short piece is included in Issue 20 of Shifter Magazine, a topical magazine that aims to illuminate and broaden our understanding of the intersections between contemporary art, politics and philosophy.
Florida School of the Arts
St. Johns River State College
Palatka, FL
March 14-April 15, 2013
Co-curated by Sarah Alexander and Lauren Garber-Lake, this exhibition presents works on paper that employ alternative means of mark making and reference notions of growth or beginnings. Artists include Erin Curry, Scott Espeseth, Lauren Garber-Lake, Erika Mahr, Christopher McNulty, John Orth, Evie Woltil Richner, Sara Schneckloth and Kalina Winska.
Overture Center for the Arts
Madison, WI
Curated by Megan Katz & Marina Kelly
April 15-Jun 30, 2013
Farmwork is an art/life practice that focuses on living holistically and creatively. It includes an emphasis on local thinking and working, collaboration and community, and creative spiritual development. Summerwork is yearly workshop/retreat that takes place in rural Wisconsin at the home and studio of Douglas Rosenberg and Li Chiao-Ping. Much of the farmwork project springs from this week-long convergence of artists in the first week of August. The philosophical background of Farmwork is far-reaching, but is inspired by the work of artists such as Alan Kaprow and historical moments including Black Mountain College and other collaborative projects.
A Project by Laurie Beth Clark
Chazen Museum of Art
Madison, Wisconsin
1 February to 1 April 2012.
os·su·ar·y (osh-oo-er-ee)
noun: repository of bones
from Latin, first known use 1658
“For this project, hundreds of artists will create a single bone, a cluster of bones, or an art work that is inspired by, uses, or plays with the idea of bones. The works may be in any medium, in two, three, or four dimensions. The contributions may be political statements and personal elegies, memorials to individuals or statements about mortality. They may represent connections to our ancestors and/or to our descendants. Some will be serious and some will use bones in a completely playful manner.
Ossuary was inspired by the repositories of bones that have accrued in countries like Cambodia and Rwanda where mass violence has taken place. But Ossuary is not a project about those traumas. Rather, I believe that artists counter images of pain with hopeful or poignant rejoinders. Envisioning hope for the world is one of the things that art can do.” Laurie Beth Clark
Contemporary Mandala: New Audiences, New Forms
January 21-April 15
Emory Visual Arts Gallery
Curated by artist Julia Kjelgaard and Jacquelynn Baas, author of Smile of the Buddha: Eastern Philosophy and Western Art from Monet to Today, this exhibit brings together contemporary artists who explore the mandala form as artistic expression and as a tool for transformation and balance in our complex world. This exploration takes many forms, from redrafting traditional visual depictions to the use of new materials, to the performance body participating in the mandala form.
A mandala by New York artist and Morehouse College alumnus Sanford Biggers forms the centerpiece of the gallery, providing a dynamic space for music and dance. Surrounding this performance space are the works of artists Don Cooper, Faith McClure, Christopher McNulty, Andra Samelson, King Thackston, and Marcia Vaitsman. From transcendent abstracts to repetitive patterns, the multimedia works by these artists use the mandala and its residual power to address today’s physical, cultural, environmental, and cosmological issues.
Jerry Cullum reviewed the Contemporary Mandala Exhibition for ArtsATL.
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Mandala of the B-Bodhisattva II, 2001, Sanford Biggers with David Ellis, silkscreen on hand-carved colored rubber tiles, formica backing. 16ft x 16ft, courtesy of the artists
“It’s about to be over, the idea that a car runs free. Those days are about to close. It’s a little bit like… the turn of the last century and … horse buggies are everywhere and the automobile is about to arrive. Something else is about to arrive.”
—Chris Burden, discussing his sculpture, Metropolis II, currently on exhibit at The Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Drove(s)
January 12-February 12, 2012
Opening Reception January 11, 6-9p.m.
The Southeastern Railway Museum, Duluth, GA
The Southeastern Railway Museum is pleased to present Drove(s), an art exhibition that takes a look at the culture of automobiles, our dependence on them, and their environmental impact.
The culture of automobiles starts with America’s early love affair and the freedom that was promised. The ever-changing design and demands for improved technology in cars led to a relationship of disposability and a desire for the new. These desires and demands throughout the 20th century led to an over abundance of automobiles and a serious impact on the environment.
The automobile and the freedom it promised led to the construction and expansion of our urban centers. Unchecked suburban sprawl now stretches for many miles around every American city with the car being the only possible means of navigating these mazes. Public transportation has become meaningless in an environment designed and built with the automobile in mind. What was once freedom has now become massive traffic jams and a daily drudgery of commuting along parking-lot-highways.
Can this dependence on the automobile and fossil fuels be sustained? How do we change our environments to become more pedestrian and mass-transit friendly while maintaining the freedom of mobility to which we have grown accustomed?
This restored train depot that once sheltered passengers waiting for their train, now functions as an exhibition space, a space that we have driven in our cars to be here to see art. In this sense, the depot itself is as much a part of the exhibit as the art hanging on its walls.
Artists in the exhibition: Tim Barnwell, Andrew Bush, Bill Daniel, Veronica de Jesus, Brian Dettmer, John Duckworth, Peter Essick, Walker Evans, John Gutman, Brian Holcombe, Lauren Hughes, Michael Koehler, Joey Kotting, Christopher McNulty, Rondal Partridge, Ben Roosevelt, Brian St. Cyr, Chip Simone, Mark Steinmetz, Christian Tedeschi, Bruce Wrighton
Image: Brian Holcombe, Kudzu Camino (2006 – 2011)
18″ x 20″, Giclee print, Edition of 6 + 2 artist proofs
Courtesy of the artist and Saltworks Gallery
Several older works have been featured in the 9th issue of ITCH Magazine, a non-profit creative magazine based in South Africa. The theme of the issue is ∞ (the mathematical symbol for infinity) and includes MetaText (non-fiction, essays, polemic, book reviews and more), SubText (narrative, short stories, plays and more), PreText (poetry, experimental writing, sound art and more) and NonText (graphics, drawings, photography, film, animation and more).
The Stain Project has been featured in the sixth issue of the CSPA Quarterly, along with the work of Silke Walther & Thomas Rappaport, Jane D. Marsching, Marissa Prefer, and Norm Magnusson. The theme of the issue is art that allows what is typically invisible to the human eye to be visible, tangible, and understandable. The issue can be viewed here.
Gallery 31, Corcoran College of Art + Design
On View August 10–21
Reception August 11, 6-8 pm
Transient is an exhibition of video-based artworks focusing on themes of change. The works in this exhibit range from abstract to documentarian, from irreverent to deadly-serious, but all take advantage of the fleeting, temporal nature of video to illustrate transience in the human condition.
The exhibition will feature works by Forest Allread, Josh Bricker, William A. Brown, Alfred Dong, Brett Dougherty, Benjamin Funke, Jennifer Steensma Hoag, Whitney Lynn, Christopher McNulty, Peter Nelson, Chee Wang Ng, Mary Overman, Ruthless Animals (Lauren Ruth and Ann Gaziano), Jordan Swartz, Claudia X. Valdes, and Tucker Walsh.