A Little Woodblock Print From William Evertson [240]

William Evertson's woodblock print - 4 x 6" (for the exhibition A Book About Death, Australia)
http://abadaustralia.blogspot.com/
 
More from Bill Evertson: Here.http://www.williamevertson.net/

Besos de la Muerte (Kisses of Death) : Photographs By Rubén C. Córdova at Texas A&M University in San Antonio [239]

Besos de la Muerte (Kisses of Death) an exhibition of photographs from Mexico City by ABAD artist Rubén C. Córdova opened on 30 October and runs through  Feb. 1, 2015 at Texas A&M University in San Antonio, Texas. 

The exhibition features large and small scale photographs, both color and black-and-white, taken during Day of the Dead in and around Mexico City from 2001 to 2013.  The photographer and author will give a lecture at the gallery at 3:00 pm on November 15, 2014. All are welcome.

Córdova participated in several ABAD exhibitions including the most recent show at the Royal Cambrian Academy of Art, Wales, and the New South Wales, Australia as well as the Treviso, Italy show, and several exhibitions in the US.   

Rubén C. Córdova is an art historian, curator, and photographer. He holds a BA from Brown University and a PhD from UC Berkeley. He has taught at UC Berkeley, UT Pan American, UT San Antonio, Sarah Lawrence College, and the University of Houston. 

Córdova has written or contributed to 11 books and catalogs, as well as encyclopedia entries and journal articles. He has curated 18 exhibitions, including shows dedicated to Day of the Dead and he served as an advisor and on-air interviewee for the Travel Channel program on Day of the Dead in Mexico that first aired in 2007. 

Córdova travels widely and has taken 250,000 pictures in the last 5 years. His work has been featured in 38 exhibitions. Many of the photographs in this exhibition will be included in a book he is writing about Day of the Dead.  He is also the author of Con Safo: The Chicano Art Group and the Politics of South Texas.  Los Angeles: UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press, 2009, as well as Arte Caliente: Selections from the Joe A. Diaz Collection. Corpus Christi: South Texas Institute for the Arts, 2004.  Córdova's Amazon author page is here.

More information about the exhibition and lecture here.

FaceBook page for the event.    Photos from the exhibition and event.

A BOOK ABOUT DEATH WALES - PRESS RELEASE, POSTER & EXHIBITION LAUNCHES SATURDAY 18 OCT 2014 [238]

A Book About Death Wales launches 18 October 2014 at the Royal Cambrian Academy in Wales.

To help prepare, a press release in PDF is now available for download.  Please download the ABAD WALES PR HERE.

And please send it to a local journalist in your city.

UK artist and illustrator Rob White produced a poster for the exhibition.

Please use the Twitter and FB and other social media buttons below to send his poster across the planet and help generate interest and awareness of the exhibition, the 30th in the ABAD canon.  

To see the catalog and other details about ABAD Wales or to connect with curator Sonja Benskin Mesher please visit: http://abookaboutdeathwales.wordpress.com/

And while we have your attention, consider donating some money to support Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) in their front line efforts to fight ebola.  We are all together in this fight, pitch in... Donate here.

Gary A. Bibb's Prelude : Point Gallery, Denver - 4 April 2014 [234]

"Coup de Pinceau - Rouge"  (Red Brush Stroke)  mixed media w/ collage on canvas  20" x 16" © 2011 Gary A. Bibb 


A survey of nearly two dozen artworks by artist Gary A. Bibb are featured at POINT Gallery - Denver, Colorado - USA in the exhibit entitled: Prelude. Gary A. Bibb produced 500 numbered and signed drawings for the 2009 ABAD exhibition in New York City.  

See more of Gary's work here: Gary A. Bibb.

Exhibition from : April 4 - May 14, 2014

POINT Gallery  765 Santa Fe Drive   Denver, CO 80204 USA

Shirley Temple Black : April 23, 1928 - February 10, 2014 [233]

Shirley Temple : April 23, 1928 - February 10, 2014. 

Photo: Courtesy AP.  From November 1938.

The New York Times Obituary: Shirley Temple

Breaking The Frame: A film by Marielle Nitoslawska with Carolee Schneemann [232]

Carolee Schneeman, an artist who exhibited at the opening of A Book About Death at the Emily Harvey Foundation Gallery in NYC, in September 2009 is presenting Breaking the Frame, and will do so in person on Thurdsay 6 February 2014 in New York City.

All details: Breaking the Frame


U.S. Theatrical Premiere Run -- LAST NEW YORK SHOWINGS

Breaking The Frame  a film by Marielle Nitoslawska with Carolee Schneemann

*** **  *   * **  February 4, 5, 6 at 7:00P & 9:15P nightly ** *  * *  * ***

Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Ave., New York, NY 10003

Carolee Schneemann present on Thursday the 6th.

http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/programs/premieres

thanks to Madeleine Molyneaux, A Possible Movements Production

To learn more about the film, and to watch the trailer, please visit      

www.breakingtheframe.com

Bookings: btfscreenings@gmail.com


Tickets are available at Anthology's box office on the day of the show only. The box office opens 30 minutes before the first show of the day. There are no advance ticket sales. Reservations are available to Anthology members only.

Ray Johnson by Stephen Lack : January 13, 1995 [229]

Ray Johnson by Stephen Lack.  The artist produced a small, 9 x 9 inch painting about Ray Johnson's suicide drowning in Sag Harbor, New York in 1995 based upon a photograph in a newspaper.  Ray Johnson died on January 13, 1995.   The photograph was probably taken on Saturday January 14, 1995 after Ray's body had been recovered from the water in Sag Harbor.

More Stephen Lack art work here: http://www.stephenlackart.com/

BENOIT DAVID: SANS REPOS [228]

Montreal-based artist Benoît David launches his exhibition of people trying to get some sleep, one of the most surrealist artists working today.  Benoît was was of the New York ABAD arists.  See more for his opening in Montreal on 4  February by clicking the link below.

Infos: http://licencedartiste.com/2014/01/09/benoit-david-sans-repos/

Peter Schyuff, The Whitney & The Woodwards II - New Album [227]

Peter Schuyff, artist who exhibited in the New York ABAD exhibition, will release his second album, The Woodwards II.  And there is a tour to England as well.  See the whole set up, pick up his album and get a ticket, check out his "bail out" video, and give him a hand for the tour : http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-woodwards-european-tour

And Peter was just selected for inclusion in The Whitney Biennial.

Peter writes from Amsterdam: "hey matthew, how is everything? here all systems go. i heard yesterday that i'm going to be in the 2014 whitney biennial. that made me happy except they're showing my pencils instead of paintings. whatever.  this new album is getting a lot of attention. i think this dog might hunt. anyway, we're doing a crowd funding thing to finance the tour. the motivation was more just to get some attention and make a clever little video. we can use the money but we're going wether we get it or not. turns out to be a brilliant way to tell stories. and we have a funny new tour poster." 

Danielle Voirin: DesCollages In The Streets Of Paris [224]

ABAD SEATTLE - THE BOOK [221]

QUETZALCOATL GALLERY: A BOOK ABOUT DEATH by ALMENDRA SANDOVAL.

View, download, the book from ABAD Seattle, via the hp magcloud site:  ABAD SEATTLE.  

Specs:  Standard, 8.25" x 10.75"  - 230 pages; perfect bound.

Buy/print the book for $57.00; purchase a digital copy for $5.00 (download); the digital copy is free with purchase of the print copy. 

Mark Wiener (1951-2012) Double Retrospective [220]

Mark Wiener : Double Retrospective Cross Narratives

Mark Wiener, portrait by Giandomenica Becchio.
 
chashama is pleased to announce an exhibition of works by the late New York artist Mark Wiener (1951-2012), featuring two distinct groups of paintings representing new directions taken by Wiener in his last decade. Curated by Janusz Jaworski, the double retrospective in the Durst Organization’s lobbies at 1133 and 1155 Avenue of the Americas in Manhattan, runs through November 20th with viewing hours 8am - 7 pm, Monday through Friday.

Mark Wiener, who was remembered by Peter Frank in the Huffington Post following his death in 2012, was one of the artists who embraced A Book About Death in its initial exhibition in New York in 2009.  His ABAD piece, a collaborative work with Linda DiGusta, can be viewed here.  

“When I met Mark in 2003, it seemed as if years of painting had built-up within him, and during his residency at TIXE they exploded onto the canvas (and the surrounding walls, and floors).  It was as if he was painting an entire volume of space, and had placed his canvases at just the right place within the room to capture the very best parts of the three-dimensional vortex of energy and color, line and field, gesture and thought that surrounded him.” -- Janusz Jaworski, curator, “Double Retrospective.”

Left: Installation view at 1133 Avenue of the Americas, NYC; photo by David Manuel.

A block away from where they were created a decade ago, several of these vividly colored works, as well as examples from the artist’s year-long chashama residency in 2004, are on view in the “Times Square and Beyond” section of chashama’s presentation of “Mark Wiener – Double Retrospective." The second part of the exhibition, “Cross Narratives 2006-2012,” features paintings created after the artist limited his palette to black and white.

Mark Wiener’s oft-stated goal was for his art to evoke positive energy, for people to engage, enjoy, and reflect. He embraced the participation of all to the point that he kept his Chelsea studio open to anyone who happened to be walking by, often initiating long discussions with strangers from all walks of life, many of whom became friends, and all of whom witnessed the crescendo of the craft and spirit of a visual alchemist who never stopped reaching for more.

Wiener studied under Bauhaus influences at Philadelphia College of Art, where he focused on painting and photography. Inspired by visionaries Alexi Brodivitch, Frank Zachry and Alexander Lieberman, he developed an open mind toward working simultaneously in several disciplines. While his abstract paintings have appeared in solo and group exhibitions worldwide since the 1980’s, and are found in public, private and corporate collections, he embraced conventional and digital techniques and was well known as a photographer, designer and illustrator and teacher.  Photo, right: Mark Wiener in his Chelsea Studio, photo by Giandomenica Becchio.

Never seeing art as a one-dimensional pursuit, Mark was always aware of the community as a whole. His profile as a “public character” was remembered in Peter Frank’s article for the Huffington Post. In addition to images and general information, his website, http://mwienerarts.com/, maintained as he left it last year, portrays his practice and philosophy in texts and videos (at one point there was a live feed from the studio’s webcam) by and about the artist – as it developed, his online “diary” became his true statement.

“I've been wanting to exhibit Mark's work for a while now, and finally have the opportunity with these two venues to show his work with the space and attention that suits his work well,” said curator Jaworski, who also serves as chashama’s program director. “ A part of it is a selfishness - I want to be able to go into one of the galleries and stand there and look at all the pieces.  To take my time with "old friends" I haven't seen in a while, and to dive into newer pieces to swim among the currents within them.”  Photo: left, Giandomenica Becchio.

He also explained that the larger reason for this exhibition, is “to share Mark's work with an audience that might never think of going to an art exhibit, yet is still moved by the skill, vision, and serious play that lives within each piece.  His works have a way of meeting the viewer wherever they are, and suggesting to that person that they ‘go for a walk.’  You never know where you'll end up during one of these "walks," but that's part of the fun, and part of the necessity of going on them.”

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Mark Wiener : Double Retrospective Cross Narratives
1155 Avenue of the Americas, NYC, New York

August 26 - November 20, 2013
Press Preview: Tuesday, September 17, 11am - 1 pm
RSVP - beauartsltd@gmail.com
Reception: Wednesday, September 18th, 6 - 8pm 
Gallery Hours: Monday - Friday, 8am - 7pm  

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Read the press release at: http://www.chashama.org/event/MarkWiener-1155

For more information about the artist please contact: beauartsltd@gmail.com

ABAD OZ at TWEED RIVER ART GALLERY OCT 2013 [217]

Read more here and find out how to contribute to the exhibition.  Please repost, tweet and blog this post.  

http://abadaustralia.blogspot.com.au/2013/07/friends-of-tweed-river-art-gallery.html

RAVENNA TAYLOR STUDIO [215]

RAVENNA TAYLOR: STUDIO VIEW

Ravenna Taylor, the American artist (Hunterdon County, NJ) is quietly working away in her studio on a series of abstract works and contemplating her upcoming exhibition, in which she has six new works to complete a suite of 12 paintings.  The artist, who contributed to the NYC ABAD exhibition is showing her work here: www.abartonline.com.
 
If you would like to see the full body of works up close, see: http://ravennataylorartlagoon.blogspot.com/

Eric Andersen : Liaison [213]

Eric Andersen, a contributor to the New York ABAD exhibition at The Emily Harvey Foundation, launches his Liaison at Nikolaj Kunsthal in Copenhagen, Denmark on Friday 15 March, 2013.

On each of the exhibition days Eric will invite everyone to a jam session (he will play an organ concert at the end of the day) beginning at 7:30 PM.

See more here: Nikolaj Kunsthal.

Seatle's ABAD : The Book [212]

ABOVE, ARTIST WILLIAM EVERTSON SHOWS OFF HIS COPY OF SEATTLE ABAD. EVERTSON HAS PARTICIPATED IN 20 OF THE 27 ABAD EXHBITIONS SINCE 2009.

If you are interested in obtaining a copy of the Seattle ABAD project, you can purchase one here: SEATTLE A BOOK ABOUT DEATH.  Printed book is $60 and a digital copy is only $5.  Get both for $60.  The monies earned help to defray the costs of production and benefit QUETZALCOATL GALLERY which went to great expense to launch the exhibition in 2012.

Buy the book, click here: QUETZALCOATL GALLERYThe publication is 230 pages and perfect bound.  A Book About Death Seattle, exhibited at the Quetzalcoatl Gallery, Seattle WA. Nov 11-Dec 10, 2011, is being documented in a book that will archived in the Cornish College of the Arts library. http://www.cornish.edu/about/history/   ABAD Seattle, curated by Kathleen McHugh and Almandra Sandoval included an international exhibition of art and an interactive work by Matthew Rose. The wall of images created a rich cultural space for literary, social and music events by The Tangletown String Band, Choroloco, Jacque Larrainzar, Sin Fronteras, and readings by published authors. ABAD Seattle book are posted on the blog: http://abadseattle.blogspot.com   

RAY JOHNSON'S A BAD ARCHIVE AT CW POST [211]

CW Post College is archiving the ABAD collection along with two boxes of New York City catalogs, invitation and announcement cards from the 1980s donated to the college by Matthew Rose.

CW Post is located on Long Island in New York.

The Post librarians and specialists who have archived and stored the collections are : Top, Jarron Jewell, Senior library assistant; middle, Erin de Marco Library School Graduate student, Queens College and bottom, Bonnie Gallagher, Library School Graduate student, LIU Post.

Joan Harrison who helped with the entire effort of getting the works into the collections at CW Post, curated wide ranging exhibition documenting Ray Johnson & A Book About Death.  She writes: "Don't you love the signage?  A BAD Archive.  Ray would have loved that and would have had to make a 'Good' archive."

Speaking Muzzled Eurasion - dOCUMENTA - Caterina Verde & Pasha Radetzki [209]

Speaking Muzzled Eurasion, install-actions at dOCUMENTA by Caterina Verde and Pasha Radetzki takes place on August 26 (Sunday) in Kassel, Germany.  Caterina, who lives and works in Montauk, NY set up the project on her SPS (Strange Positioning Systems) platform. See information here: SPS.

The piece being performed is mafestOmarch.  MafestOmarch is a live install-action by New York artists, Pasha Radetzki  & Caterina Verde specifically conceived for Critical Art Ensemble’s curatorial programming at dOCUMENTA (13).  The work is part of a year-long mafestOmarch - art march for all -  initiatives launched by Radetzki on June 10, 2011 in Manhattan, New York.  Employing live intermedia installations, interventions, languages, and actions, mafestOmarch reworks our perceptions of continents’ past, present & future art - social developments by, SPEAKING MUZZLED EURASIAN.

To support the project Caterina and Pasha are offering inexpensive limited editions of their works. Above, right, Poverty is a luxury we can't afford, inkjet on archival paper, 24" x 17." $200.00.  To see more works and support the project, see: Speaking Muzzled Eurasian.

Robert Hughes 1938 - 2012 [208]

Photo: Tim Robinson/WNET13

Robert Hughes, art critic and author of the series on contemporary art, The Shock of the New, died yesterday.  He was 74.  Read more about the critic in the NYT obituary.

And some of Robert Hughes notable quotes, here.  Like the one below:

On the art market, in Time magazine, 1989:

If there were only one copy of each book in the world, fought over by multimillionaires and investment trusts, what would happen to one’s sense of literature – the tissue of its meanings that sustain a common discourse? What strip mining is to nature, the art market has become to culture.

Eline 'T Sant : At The Stedelijk Museum Aarschot, Flanders [207]

Eline ‘T Sant, contemporary Belgian artist, who frequently travels through Africa and Asia for her work, produced a very compelling work for the NYC A Book About Death exhibition – a photograph of a row of parrots wrapped in bandages called "Necropolis."

Eline is exhibiting her current work at the Stedlelijk Museum in Aarschot, Belgium (Flanders) through 19 August 2012.  (It is very close to Bruxelles).  For more information see Eline's website: www.elinetsant.be

Also her Saatchi site: http://saatchionline.com/profiles/index/
id/69655

Eline says about her work: "I’ve always been fascinated by anthropology and archaeology: The primitive state, the purity of materials, the essence of life. Throughout my many voyages I’ve been looking for new basic and raw materials. Elements out of the nomads’ daily life – red earth, blood, milk and cow dung – are either directly integrated into my works or hinted to by use of paint."

ABOUT HORNS, PARROTS AND COCKS
"…and many things related, as the title could go on, is a downright statement: there is something animistic about these works, a spell that lingers on and consumes itself, showing scars of a ritual past. I just initiate what the works have to finish off, bridging the relation between present and past, linking vital forces with the frailty of the objects I reanimate, using ancestral means of packing, and practicing wrapping and preserving as if meant for an afterlife."