Constructive Spirit: Abstract Art in South and North America, 1920s-50s

above image from Newark Museum website

Constructive Spirit: Abstract Art in South and North America, 1920s-50s, investigates the formative geometric abstract art movements of Argentina, Brazil, the United States, Uruguay and Venezuela. On view from February 17 through May 23, 2010 at the Newark Museum, this exhibition is the first to explore the conceptual connections and exchanges that existed between artists in the Americas.

Featured are more than 90 paintings, sculptures, prints, photographs, drawings and films drawn from the collection of the Newark Museum, along with loans from public and private collections and galleries across both continents. Artists include Alexander Calder, Joaquín Torres-García, Jesús Rafael Soto, Gyula Kosice, Lygia Clark, Ellsworth Kelly, Geraldo de Barros and many others. Constructive Spirit is organized by Mary Kate OHare, Associate Curator of American Art at the Newark Museum.

Newark Museum – 49 Washington Street, Newark, NJ 07102-3176  -  www.newarkmuseum.org/
If you are unable to attend the exhibition, I highly recommend viewing their podcast which will give you a marvelous overview of this wonderful exhibition. – CLICK HERE

Link via: art agenda

Imprint – A Contemporary Printmaking Exhibition

Imprint  – A Contemporary Printmaking Exhibition
Exhibition Dates: January 21-February 21, 2010 • Reception: February 11, 6-8pm
Gallery Talk: 7pm with juror Jane Haslem • Printmaking Demonstration: 7:30-8pm
Target Gallery – Alexandria, VA, USA

Website:  www.torpedofactory.org -  CLICK HERE to view artwork in the exhibition

Image Credit: Artist – Meredith Setser (IN) – Angry Dragon II
Etching and Mixed Media – 26 x 25” from Target Gallery website

“Meredith Setser has two works in the show, one a magnificent combination of mixed media and etching, Angry Dragon II, and Crewel Wasting Disease, etching, resin polymer clay. Both colorful images seem to spring from an organic source. They appear to be something wonderful viewed through a microscope.”
Quote from Juror’s Statement by Jane Haslem

Works displayed in the IMPRINT Exhibition showcase the following printmaking processes (techniques):

• Etching and Mixed Media
• Mezzotint
• Monotype (Intaglio)
• Screen Print
• Collagraph
• Intaglio
• Cyanotype, Monoprint
• Softground etching
• Woodcut, Screenprint, Collage, Sewing
• Collograph with Oil Pastel detail
• Lithograph
• Monotype, Colored Pencil, Chine Colle, Thread, Ink on Paper
• Photoetching, Softground, Monoprint
• Monoprint
• Linocut, Hand Colored
• Multicolor Solar Intaglio with Drypoint
• Dry Point
• Lithograph, Guache
• Silkscreen, Collage
• Intaglio Etching, Relief, Mylar, Cut Paper, Grommets, Paint Markers
• Etching, Aquatint
• Serigraph, Mixed Media
• Soft-ground Etching
• Archival Ink on Paper
• Woodcut with Hand Coloring, Rice, Plastic Container
• Digigraph
• Archival Pigment Print, Screenprint
• Woodcut, Monotype on Kitakata, Stitching
• Etching, Resin, Polmer Clay
• Etching with Viscosity

Donnie 2010 Winners

First Prize – Artist: Vincenzo Corrado -Title: Upstream
Image credit/artist – displayed on MOCA Museum of Computer Art website

Donnie 2010 Contest and Exhibit
Tenth Annual International Digital Art Contest and Exhibit
MOCA – Museum of Computer Art

Donnie 2010 Winners

First Prize -Vincenzo Corrado – Upstream

Second Prize – Oliver Lehmann – Dead Souls

Third Prize – Jay Wilson – The River

Honorable Mention – alphabetical order
Bjoern Daempfling – The Abyss
Karin Kuhlmann – Utopia
Peter Mc Lane – Broadway
Helga Schmitt – Behind the Wall
Renata Spiazzi – Flower of the Night

Seventy artworks from 18 countries by 48 of the world’s most distinguished artists, including art by Pratt Institute students. Congratulations to all the winners!

EXHIBIT DATES
Tuesday, January 26 thru Friday, February 19, 2010

GALLERY LOCATION
Museum of Computer Art, 139 11th Street (between 2nd and 3rd Avenues)
Brooklyn, New York 11215

CLICK HERE to view all the amazing works!

Bau-Xi Photo

BAU-XI GALLERY OPENS NEW SPACE DEDICATED TO PHOTOGRAPHY

Image credit: Bau-Xi Photo – Artist / Photographer: Adam Makarenko, *
“Passing on a Curve”, edition of 10- chromogenic print – 32 x 24 in.

“BAU-XI PHOTO, opening in January 2010, exhibits photography by Canadian and International artists across from the AGO – (Toronto, Ontario, Canada).

As Bau-Xi maintains its commitment to showcasing contemporary artistic talent, it saw the need for a dedicated, separate gallery to exhibit photography. This is an exciting transition as Bau-Xi Gallery has been a presence in the Canadian art gallery scene for almost 45 years. The new contemporary 2400 square foot space sits across from the Art Gallery of Ontario in a renovated Victorian house, just steps away from Bau-Xi Gallery’s current location. Bau-Xi Photo is committed to showcasing fine art photography by emerging, mid-career, and established artists.

Eight Canadian and International photographers will kick-off the new artist stable, with an opening exhibition by Toronto artist Adam Makarenko. Adam’s exhibition, which features mystical photographs of hand-constructed dioramas, opens Saturday January 9th, from 2-4 PM.  Other gallery artists include Zoë Jaremus, Joshua Jensen-Nagle, Ferit Kuyas, Eamon MacMahon, Anthony Redpath, Chris Shepherd and Toby Smith.”

link via:  www.akimbo.ca

* – “Adam Makarenko grew up in a rural northern Ontario mining town called Atikokan. His artwork explores human influence on nature, a theme undoubtedly seeded by his upbringing in a town boasting two of the largest ore mines in the world. He constructs each photograph as a diorama, sculpting each element by hand and photographing the set. Makarenko uses these constructed realities to tell a story, otherwise impossible through conventional photography.  Makarenko has garnered incredible notoriety for an emerging photographer, including having won the coveted Bright Spark Award, published in The Magenta Foundations Flash Forward 2008 annual publication.”
snippet from Bau-Xi Photo website

see more, read more about the new gallery and upcoming exhibitions – www.bau-xiphoto.com

Art Gallery of Alberta – Grand Opening

image from Art Gallery of Alberta website – photo credit:  Robert Lememeyer

Grand Opening date: January 31, 2010 – Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Opening shows will include major works by the famous Edgar Degas and Francisco Goya, celebrated Canadian photographers Yousuf Karsh and Edward Burtynksy and the internationally renowned Canadian artists Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller.

You’ll find an outdoor sculpture terrace featuring work by Albertan Ken Macklin, as well as a new children’s gallery, named BMO World of Creativity, focusing on the theme of architecture for 2010.

Designed by Los Angeles architect Randall Stout, features of the 85,000 square foot AGA include:

• 30,000 sq ft of premiere exhibition space
• An outdoor sculpture terrace on the third floor
• Dedicated gallery space for the AGA permanent collection of nearly 6,000 works of art
• An expanded Education Centre, the Singhmar Centre for Art Education
• A restaurant, café, espresso bar, gallery shop, 150 seat theatre and an Art Rental and Sales Gallery
• Unique facility rental spaces such as an atrium for banquets, an outdoor sculpture terrace and a ‘floating’ private lounge

Click HERE to take a peek inside (video) – visit their website www.youraga.ca