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Fellow MaryKate Maher | November 29 | Lecture + Workshop: LES Girls’ Club
MaryKate Maher, 2011 Crafts/Sculpture NYFA Fellow, will present a lecture and workshop, including a Q+A session about her methods of working and artistic experiences at the Lower East Side Girls’ Club.
About MaryKate Maher’s work: ”I work with motifs, building a vocabulary that describes my thought patterns. My work is heterogeneous, combining hyper-realistic and bare, structural elements. I want the viewer to feel pulled between familiarity and unease.The work is a play between the formal and the narrative. One informs the other, suggesting deeper meanings while obfuscating easy interpretation. It is an attempt to find explanations for my relationship to the world and the anxiety I feel by the shifting identities it demands. The most recent work addresses the image of ‘home’ through a reoccurring archetype of a house. The image of the ‘house’, smudgy and blackened, takes the place of the Void. The House-as-metaphor, though generic in its physical shape, addresses the universal home shaped void in every person. One we attempt to fill by recreating the familiar. But in the act of recreation its image becomes something strange and uncanny.” More about the artist.
DETAILS
Fellow: MaryKate Maher
Discipline: Crafts/Sculpture
When: Tuesday, November 29 2011, 4:00pm
Where: Lower East Side Girls’ Club
56 E. 1st street, NYC, NY 10003
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
This is an event for all ages.
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Ellen Grossman, 2011 Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts NYFA Fellow, will present a public lecture about her work and will facilitate a graduate student critique on November 26 from 11:00am to 6:00pm at the Staller Center for the Arts at SUNY Stonybrook.
About Ellen Grossman’s work: ”Drawings maping and telegraphing the sense of touch through the sense of sight. These drawings reference topography, fluidity and tactile associations. The flows, the folds, the ripples and the crosscurrents build up, suggesting that which is common to water currents, geologic change and the wind made visible. Time also flows. Originally I recorded, on the bottom edge of each drawing, each date that I worked on it, calling attention to the process and evolution of the image. This prompted questions about which section was drawn which day, usually accompanied by a laugh.
In 2005, taking up the challenge, I started to record date and time at the start of each line and again at line’s end. This provoked questions about how many hours the drawings took to make, so, pushing absurdity, the notations evolved to include running subtotals and totals up to that day. This can be daunting and that’s part of the point: written numbers build up, forcing the lines to fan out, reading at first glance as texture, radically affecting how the drawings evolve. As in science recording observations can alter results.” More about the artist.
DETAILS
Fellow: Ellen Grossman
Discipline: Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts
When: Saturday, November 26 2011, 11:00am-6:00pm
Where: SUNY Stonybrook.
Staller Center for the Arts, 100 Nicolls Road, Stony Brook, NY 11790
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
This is an event for all ages.
Geoffrey Chadsey, 2011 Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts NYFA Fellow, will present a public lecture about his work and will facilitate a graduate student critique on November 9 from 11:00am to 6:00pm at the Staller Center for the Arts at SUNY Stonybrook.
About Geoffrey Chadsey’s work: ”Working in watercolor pencil on Mylar, Chadsey’s twisted figures blend fashion (both high and hip-hop) and “representative” images of gay life (found via internet chat rooms) to create powerfully disconcerting and humorous images that are characterized by an off-putting sense of the familiar. Chadsey’s drawings present exotic images of half-dressed figures that…take on the form of comedic monsters. [-Jack Shainman Gallery] More about the artist.
DETAILS
Fellow: Geoffrey Chadsey
Discipline: Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts
When: Wednesday, November 9 2011, 11:00am-6:00pm
Where: SUNY Stonybrook.
Staller Center for the Arts, 100 Nicolls Road, Stony Brook, NY 11790
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
This is an event for all ages.
Bianca Stone, 2011 Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts NYFA Fellow, will present a multimedia reading series featuring projections of poems and images, or “poetry comics” on November 10 at 8:00pm at the Center for Performance Research .
The multimedia reading series plans to be a unique, sonic and visual experience of literary arts and visual arts.
About Bianca Stone’s work: ”In my background as both a visual artist and a poet, I has always been interested in the comic book genre, as it is one of the few mediums where art and text are given the same space. Text pasted or written into my drawings has now become a very important part of my work as an artist. The movement of my work into incorporating language and devices used in comic books such as word bubbles and panels, was a natural one. But what I’m interested in is the drawing becoming part of the movement of the text rather than a literal translation of it. In essence, I want to deconstruct our ideas of the graphic novel and comic book, and explore how the confines of that field might be pushed against.
Once a word is placed beside an image, both change drastically. What I want in my drawings is for each element to work simultaneously, to create a moment where they are both informing the other, changing the other’s meaning. I have always loved the immediacy and movement in comic books. There is a sense of conversation, as in poetry, where the reader is required to interact with the work, becoming a vital part of its creation. In my drawings I mix cartoon with rich detail obtained with the fine line, and surrealism. My main medium is pen and ink, but there are also elements of collage and paint. I find myself most interested in juxtapositions of tone, often playing with the immediacy of human figures, the mysteriousness of poetic language, and abstract imagery.” More about the artist: http://www.nyfa.org/nyfa_artists_detail.asp?pid=6605
DETAILS
Fellow: Bianca Stone
Discipline: Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts
When: Thursday, November 10 2011, 8:00pm
Where: Center for Performance Research
361 Manhattan Avenue, Unit 1, Brooklyn NY 11211
More info here
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
This is an event for all ages
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Akiko Busch, 2011 Nonfiction Literature NYFA Fellow, will present a writing workshop titled “The Changing Place We Live” for children fourth grade and up on Thursday, October 20 at 6:30pm at the Beekman Library in Beekman, NY. Parents are welcome to attend and join in.
“The Changing Place We Live” workshop, composed of an artist talk and a writing workshop, will regard the changing landscape of the Hudson Valley, its growing population and evolving animal and plant species. The young participants will write and read short pieces about the local environment, aquatic life of the Hudson river, the orchards of the Hudson Valley, the winter storms of 2011 or the aftermath of Hurricane Irene. Discussion would consider questions about land use and how kids and adults can both participate in volunteer programs that promote land stewardship.
About Akiko Busch’s work: ”The introduction to my book, Nine Ways to Cross a River, describes a swim across the Hudson River in the summer of 2001. That morning swim was such a restorative and sustaining experience, and the Hudson River had such a particular taste and feel and texture, that it lead me to swim in and across other rivers as well-the Connecticut, the Delaware, Monongahela, Cheat, Susquehanna, Mississippi, and Current rivers. River swimming became a preoccupation, and then it became a kind of passion. Four summers and nine rivers later, I found that the sense of restoration was not simply personal. Since the passage of the Clean Water Act, many river communities in this country have become reconnected to their waterways. Traveling to these rivers and swimming across them also served to connect me to these communities; and becoming immersed in the water of these rivers also inevitably immersed me in their greater stories of transformation and revitalization. The nine essays in the book I subsequently wrote document both my own river crossings and personal sense of renewal, along with the greater sense of renewal so many American waterfronts are experiencing today.”
DETAILS
Fellow: Akiko Busch
Discipline: Nonfiction Literature
When: Thursday, October 20 2011, 6:30pm
Where: Beekman Library
11 Town Center Blvd. Hopewell Junction, N.Y
More info here
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
This is an event for kids (4th grade and up) and adults. Registration suggested, register here.
Allyson Strafella, 2011 Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts NYFA Fellow, will present an Artist Talk titled “Worksite” on Saturday, October 15 at 3:00pm at the Hudson Opera House at 338 Warren Street in Hudson NY.
Using visuals of her custom drawing tool, the typewriter, and the custom marks it creates, “Worksite” will be a public talk to introduce the audience to Strafella’s process of drawing. Strafella will share the sights and sounds of one of her drawings being made and will discuss the resources in her studio that inform her drawings.
About Allyson Strafella’s work: “I have worked with a typewriter, making drawings for 17 years. I developed marks that are my visual language: a drawing language ‘written’ by type, and a written language drawn as mark and form. Early in my practice, a question emerged: are these images details of something much larger than what is seen on the page or are they full-scale landscapes as seen from the sky above?
The theme of landscape has slowly seeped into my work, becoming central to my language. My chief considerations are not focused on capturing the appearance of the landscape, but rather to investigate the physical orientation to space, form, and placement. I use my drawing language as a map for the purpose of navigating mark and form.
There are no limitations to drawing in my mind. With this notion of the expanded field, literally and rhetorically, I continue exploring the drawn mark.”
DETAILS
Fellow: Allyson Strafella
Discipline: Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts
When: Saturday, October 15 2011, 3:00pm
Where: Hudson Opera House
338 Warren street, Hudson NY
More info here
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
This is an all-ages event. No RSVP required.
John Hampshire, 2011 Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts NYFA Fellow, will present a Artist Talk and Slide Lecture on Wednesday, October 12 at 6:00pm at the Lower Adirondack Regional Arts Council (LARAC) at 7 Laphan Place in Glens Falls, NY.
About John Hanmpshire’s work: “At the beginning, the lines or marks are very loosely responsive to the image I am building. As this progresses, the white spaces I have remaining to put lines in become smaller and smaller, and the information that gets built into the drawing becomes more and more specific. Edges of shapes are found rather than started with. This synthesis of process and image, while very time consuming, feels very fluent and natural to me. The act of making these, I imagine, is like jumping into a big vat of molasses; the initial descent in would be fast, but then the submergence would get progressively slower until movement stops, because of the viscosity of the medium.”
DETAILS
Fellow: John Hampshire
Discipline: Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts
When: Wednesday, October 12 2011, 6:00pm
Where: Lower Adirondack Regional Arts Council (LARAC)
7 Lapham Place, Glens Falls, NY 12801
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
This is an all-ages event. No RSVP required.
John Hampshire. Courtesy of the artist.
Dusty Herbig, 2011 Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts NYFA Fellow, will present a Public Lecture and Slide Presentation titled Talk Print: Dusty Herbig, Juror of Social Justice Exhibit on Thursday, September 15th at 7:00pm at The Ink Shop in Ithaca, NY.
From Dusty’s work statement: “Given the current socio-political conditions of our nation and world, I feel I have a responsibility to touch on some of the reasons humans gravitate towards a competitive discourse about power/energy. This leads to my excitement about my current media choice; relief printmaking. Using such a traditional method of working feels the most direct, democratic, environmentally friendly, and immediate way to bring the content of my work to increasingly expanding populations of energy consumers.”
DETAILS
Fellow: Dusty Herbig
Discipline: Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts
When: Thursday, September 15 2011, 7:00pm
Where: The Ink Shop
330 E. State Street | CSMA Building – 2nd Floor
Ithaca NY 14850
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
This is an all-ages event. No RSVP required.
Dusty Herbig Biography:
Dusty Herbig is an Assistant Professor of Art, and the Director of Lake Effect Editions at Syracuse University, where he teaches lithography, intaglio, serigraphy, relief, digital printmaking, letterpress, and all levels of advanced and graduate print courses. Herbig earned an MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2002, and his BFA from Fort Hays State University, in Hays, KS in 1996.
Herbig exhibits nationally, participating in juried exhibitions from Los Angeles to Miami to New York City, and internationally, including shows in Canada, Spain, Taiwan, Brazil, Germany, South Korea, Scotland, Pakistan, China, Argentina, Japan, and Poland. His socially provocative work is in the permanent collections of many institutions, including: The Minneapolis Institute of the Arts, KUMU: The Art Museum of Estonia, Spencer Museum of Art in Lawrence, KS, The Hunterdon Museum of Art, Hunterdon, NJ The Kala Art Institute in Berkeley, CA, Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, NYC, among others. He currently lives and works in Syracuse, NY.
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