PAINTING & DRAWING FEBRUARY 2010

PAINTING & DRAWING JULY 2009

Post-Minimal to the Max

P.S.1 LAUNCHES “STUDIO VISIT” WEBSITE

Check this out! See inside the studios of New York artists:

The Museum of Modern Art, via its hip contemporary outpost in Queens, P.S.1, has entered the futuristic world of online cyber-communities with its new Studio Visit website. Described as a web initiative devoted -- like P.S.1’s forthcoming “Greater New York” exhibition -- to “emerging artists working in the five boroughs and the greater New York area,” the site invites artists to make a “virtual presentation of their studios” via uploaded jpgs and vids. As a result, many of the participants -- an incredible 460 artists are online already -- have posted images of their buildings and workspaces along with shots of their works. The site even includes a map of the city with all the studio locations marked.

$600,000 IN TIFFANY AWARDS

The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation has announced the 30 recipients for 2009 of its $20,000 awards to American contemporary artists in its biennial competition established 32 years ago (and now administered by Artists Space). The winners were selected from a list of more than 400 artists, gathered by nominations by art-world professionals. In addition to considerations of quality and promise of the work, candidates were also evaluated in terms of “timing,” e.g., “the amount of critical or commercial recognition” their careers have received.

Recipients are Derrick Adams (Brooklyn), Diana Al-Hadid (Brooklyn), Dawolu Jabari Anderson (Houston), Lisa Anne Auerbach (Los Angeles), Andrea Bowers (Los Angeles), Tania Bruguera (Chicago), Matthew Buckingham(Brooklyn), Beth Campbell (Brooklyn), David Colosi (Brooklyn), Kate Gilmore(New York), Josephine Halvorson (Brooklyn), Michael Hurwitz (Phialdelphia),Colter Jacobsen (San Francisco), An-My Lê (New York), Judy Linn (New York),Katherine Newbegin (Brooklyn), John Newman (New York), Sarah Oppenheimer (Brooklyn), Ann Pibal (North Bennington, Vt.), Matthias Pliessnig (Philadelphia), Julika Rudelius (Brooklyn), Matt Saunders(Baltimore), Joseph Scanlan (New York), Gedi Sibony (Brooklyn), Dean Snyder (Providence, R.I.), Alison Elizabeth Taylor (Brooklyn), Christopher Taylor (Central Falls, R.I.), Phoebe Washburn (New York), Suara Welitoff(Cambridge) and Joe Zane (Cambridge).

The members of the awards jury were United States Artist project directorAmada Cruz, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art assistant curatorApsara DiQuinzio, Cranbrook Academy director Gerhardt Knodel, Boston Museum of Fine Arts curator Jen Mergel, critic John Perreault, artist Martin Puryear and Yale University School of Art dean Robert Storr.

TWO PAGE ARTIST RESEARCH PAPER DUE MONDAY MAR. 29

Write a two-page double-spaced, detailed paper on a professional artist of your choice from one of the high-profile contemporary international galleries LISTED BELOW.

(Those of you in my Adv. Drawing class must choose a different artist than the artist done for that class...obviously.)

You must find an artist represented by one of these galleries that you are NOT familiar with. You must find an artist that has at least three reviews and one interview or feature article available online, all of which you must have read along with looking at every image possible of their work. From this research, write a thoughtful and insightful paper on how this artist thinks and works. Find an artist whose work either relates in some way to your own, or whose work you would like to influence your work. Discuss this connection in your paper.

If the paper is not well written you will receive an automatic F. (use the writing room) Remember, this is a research paper. Do the research, and make it thoughtful and insightful. Find an artist you will enjoy researching.

Gallery sites:

http://www.featureinc.com/
http://www.miandn.com/
http://www.pierogi2000.com/artists.html
http://www.lflgallery.com/
http://www.crggallery.com/
http://www.honorfraser.com/
http://www.davidzwirner.com/
http://www.johnconnellypresents.com/artist/
http://www.derekeller.com/
http://www.peresprojects.com/index.php
http://www.greenenaftaligallery.com/
http://www.luhringaugustine.com/
http://www.lissongallery.com/#/artists/
http://www.maxprotetch.com/
http://www.caseykaplangallery.com/index.html
http://www.tanyabonakdargallery.com/index.php
http://www.jamescohan.com/
http://hortongallery.com/
http://www.elizabethdeegallery.com/
http://www.jirisvestka.com/artists
http://www.crousel.com/artists/

READINGS FOR WRITING ASSIGNMENT DUE: MON. FEB. 15

Read both blog entries below this one: The ArtForum article, "MAN WITHOUT QUALITIES" and the essay on the current painting exhibition at EXIT ART in New York, "NEW MIRRORS". You MUST lookup online any artists mentioned in articles so you understand who/what is being discussed.

Write a TWO page paper that discusses both articles and shows your comprehension of the ideas expressed. Save room for your interpretations and positions. Be prepared with speaking notes for class discussion.

GO to the WRITING CENTER for help before handing in this paper. You will receive and auto F if your paper is poorly written.

ArtForum article on German Painter Michael Krebber

Man Without Qualities

ArtForum, Oct, 2005

The above article was written by:

Daniel Birnbaum, curator of recent Venice Biennale, and rector (Chair) of Staedelschule in Frankfurt Germany, and international contemporary art academy.

John Kelsey, member of artist collective Bernadette Corporation and co-founder (with Emily Sunblad) of Reena Spaulings, a fictional artist/dealer who began operating on New York's Lower East Side in 2004.

Jessica Morgan, curator Tate Modern.