Sandow Birk

Critical praise for "Sandow Birk: The Depravities of War":

"...this show is more powerful than anything else we've seen about this war, with equal parts ironic criticism, tenderness and humor."

Farmer, Mary. "Sandow Birk." Steinberg Farmer Report, September 16, 2007.

www.steinbergfarmerreport.blogspot.com


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Public Speaking Engagements and "Divine Comedy" Film Screeenings:

Bowdoin College
Thursday, September 20
Brunswick, Maine

Cornell University
Monday, October 1
Ithaca, New York

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"Dante's Divine Comedy" Film Screenings:

Idaho Film Festival
September 28, 2007, 4:30pm
September, 30, 7pm
Boise, Idaho

Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival
Lausanne, Switzerland
October 10 - 14

BendFilm Festival
October 11 - 14
Bend, Oregon

New Hampshire Film Festival
October 12 - 15

Shoot Me Film Fest
October 25 - 26
The Hague, Netherlands

Center for Puppetry Arts
Dia de los Muertos, November 2
Atlanta, Georgia

The Horse Hospital
December 7
London, UK

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Group exhibition, including Masami Teraoka:
"Tradition/Collision"
curated by Glenn Macura, General Electric Art Program
Fosdick-Nelson Gallery
Alfred University
Alfred, New York
www.alfred.edu

Artist in Conversation and "Dante Divine Comedy" Film Screening:
Thursday, October 4

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Group exhibition, including CCG artists Jonathan Solo, Josephine Taylor, Sandow Birk, and Travis Somerville:
"The Diane and Sandy Besser Collection"
October 27, 2007 - January 13, 2008
de Young Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
http://www.thinker.org/deyoung/exhibitions/exhibition.asp?exhibitionkey=770

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Group exhibition:
"Ag2S"
Koplin Del Rio Gallery
Culver City, CA
www.koplindelrio.com

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Group exhibition, including CCG artists Jonathan Solo, Josephine Taylor, Sandow Birk, and Travis Somerville:
"The Diane and Sandy Besser Collection"
October 27, 2007 - January 13, 2008
de Young Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
http://www.thinker.org/deyoung/exhibitions/exhibition.asp?exhibitionkey=770

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Review of "Dante's Inferno"
www.dustbury.com/backlog/2007/06/a_success_out_here.i.html

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HuiPress announces Sandow Birk's The Depravities of War.

After the 2005 publication of his portfolio of etchings, The Leading of Causes of Death in America, Sandow Birk returned to HuiPress in the spring of 2006 and began a monumental print project inspired by a series of etchings called The Miseries and Disasters of War by Jacques Callot, printed in 1633. The project consists of 15 large-scale woodcut prints, each measuring 48 x 96 inches. Printed in collaboration with Master Printer Paul Mullowney, and assisted by HuiPress printer Casey Neumann, and Rhode Island School of Design interns Samuel Carr-Prindle and Nichol Markowitz, the images follow the course of the Iraq war.

All of the prints and new paintings will be presented in a solo exhibition at Catharine Clark Gallery September 6 - October 20, 2007.

To preview the prints, please visit www.huipress.com

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Group Exhibition:
The California Files: Re-Viewing Side Effects of Cultural Memory

April 19 - June 23, 2007
CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
1111 Eighth Street (at 16th and Wisconsin)
San Francisco, CA 94107

www.wattis.org

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Guest Artist/Lecturer at Cal Poly Pomona
Going Public: Architecture, Landscape, and the Emerging Field of Public Art
July 1 - 14, 2007
Deadline to apply: Monday, May 21, 2007

This course will examine the emerging field of public art as an opportunity for interdisciplinary studies between architects, designers, landscape architects, and fine artists. Student architects, artists, and designers will work together to create site-specific installations.Scholarship funds available.

For more information visit http://www.csusummerarts.org/courses_goingpublic.html

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Sandow Birk's "The Liberation of Baghdad" was recently featured in LA Weekly:
http://www.laweekly.com/art+books/art/the-liberation-of-baghdad/15888/

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"Dante's Divine Comedy" Film Screenings:

Philadelphia Film Festival
Saturday, April 14, 2007, 7pm
Sunday, April 15, 12pm
www.phillyfests.com

Calgary Underground Film Festival
Saturday, April 14, 3:30pm
www.calgaryundergroundfilm.org

Visit www.dantefilm.com for more information.