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My printstallation All She Ever Wanted Was Everything: Laura Berman’s Rock Collection will be included in this upcoming exhibition:
Wellington Gray Gallery
East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina
September 3 – October 3 2010
Co-Curators:
Bill Fick, Beth Grabowski, Rochelle Toner, R.L. Tillman, Matt Rebholz
in conjunction with:
Exciting events all!
Kansas City Art Institute is currently celebrating its 125th year anniversary.
Present Magazine wrote an article featuring me about the wonderful book Kansas City Art Institute at 125: A Book Tribute to Faculty.
It’s an honor for me to be part of such an amazing arts organization and community!
link to article
Printhesizer Letterpress print, edition of 100 signed and numbered. Originally published in Contemporary Impressions: Journal of the American Print Alliance, Spring 2009. Printed at Skylab Letterpress.
A facsimile of this print is featured at this one-night-only exhibition:
COPY JAM!
A Printeresting Curatorial Project
Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
116 North Third Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106
One Night Only: Thursday March 25, 2010, 6-9 PM
Black & Blue
Kansas City’s Grit and Grace
Curated by Michael Schonhoff
March 2-26
closing reception: March 26, 7-9pm
John A. Day Gallery
Warren M. Lee Center for the Fine Arts
The University of South Dakota
414 East Clark Street
Vermillion, SD
– excerpt from the Curator’s statement:
Historically, Kansas City is a turnstile for goods and travelers spanning the Coureur des Bois to SmartPort, with shadows of all sorts still spinning around. In artists’ terms, Kansas City is big enough to offer a diversity of creative approaches, small enough to share critical dialog, and affordable enough to allow for a high level of generativity. Uniquely, a certain quality of grit and fortitude is associated with many cultural producers operating throughout the city. Perhaps that’s growing pains of a Floridian (Richard) paradigm shift, or traits of a long established ‘grassroots’ landscape. Peter von Ziegesar describes the bohemian scene “as a kind of beaten down mulch, from which the younger shoots must gather nourishment.” It all feeds the art.
Black & Blue in no way attempts to totalize an organic and diverse arts community, rather, with an estimated 6,000 artists in the Kansas City region,2 it simply exists as one of many potential exhibitions revealing a diversity of practice, inspirations, and backgrounds, all of which Kansas City has inimitably and historically incubated. Black & Blue employs and illuminates polarities, opposition, multiplicities of meaning, diametricism, and difficult subject matter. Together, the works offer viewers reflexive interpretations and achieves visual resolution by the artists’ use of interior or internal spaces, text, landscape, figuration, and even abstraction or formalism.
All She Ever Wanted Was Everything: Laura Berman’s Rock Collection
hundreds of handcut-intaglio prints, 2007-2009.
Jan 29, 2010 – Apr 25, 2010
COCA
St. Louis, MO
Curated by Amanda Verbeck of Pele Prints, this exhibition will focus on several regional artists and their collaboration with Pele Prints. Using multiple print processes as a starting point, the collaborations produce experimental works that include three-dimensional components, collage, handwork, and/or various other elements. Artists will show work unique to this collaborative process as well as work from their own singular practice.
Exhibition images (courtesy of Amanda Verbeck)!
