Exhibition: Ray Beldner

"The Seduction of Duchamp: Bay Area Artists' Response," featuring Ray Beldner.
ArtZone 461 Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Exhibition runs January 9 - February 14, 2010

CURATED BY: Hanna Regev & Steven Lopez

http://artzone461.com

Exhibition: Stephanie Syjuco

"Future Shock Nesting Boxes," by Stephanie Syjuco, is included in the ZER01 Wunderkammern exhibition at the San Jose Airport.

“Within the new terminal [at the San Jose Airport] the San José Office of Cultural Affairs Public Art Program (OCA) is managing a changing art and technology public art program to commission artwork that will reflect the character of the Silicon Valley and provide an engaging introduction to the region. As part of this program, ZER01 has been invited to curate two large display cabinets. We are treating these as “Cabinets of Curiosity” or wunderkammern, which will include “small wonders” at the intersection of art, technology and digital culture.”

http://blog.zero1.org

Press: Anthony Discenza

ArtSlant review of Anthony Discenza’s exhibition at Catharine Clark Gallery, “Everything Will Probably Work Out Ok.”

“Pretty Pictures Will Not Solve Anything: In Eight Parts” by Post Brothers.

“It’s Vito Acconci meets Penthouse Forum. It’s Marquis De Sade meets Benny Hill.
These pairings are culled from a massive list of similar statements organized by Oakland-based artist, Anthony Discenza. Affixed to a wall in vinyl, the list, entitled Sometimes a Great Notion (Part 1) (all works 2009), is a keystone work in Discenza’s Everything Will Probably Work Out OK, the artist’s second solo show at San Francisco’s Catharine Clark Gallery.”

http://www.artslant.com

Exhibition: Nina Katchadourian

“Sorted Books” exhibition at the Institute for the Creating and Performing Arts [ICPA] at Colgate University

“Nina Katchadourian's work exists in a wide variety of media including photography, sculpture, video and sound. This solo exhibition explores her ongoing Sorted Books project. Since 1993, the project has taken place in many different locations, ranging from private homes to specialized public book collections...Taken as a whole, the clusters from each sorting aim to examine that particular library's focus, idiosyncrasies, and inconsistencies — a cross-section of that library's holdings.”

http://merz.colgate.edu/

Exhibition: Stephanie Syjuco

"Never Can Say Goodbye/Never Records" exhibition at the Old
Tower Records store in Manhattan, featuring Stephanie Syjuco

January 16- February 13, 2010

"Spotlighting more than twenty artists working with sound, light, image and installation, Never Can Say Goodbye recreates a fantasy version of the now defunct Tower Records with Never Records complete with record bins, album covers, cash registers, music posters and a performance stage.
Interactive installations by artists and musicians celebrate the stores historic role as the locus of the community-- the old way to meet people face to face and share music and information."

Curated by Manon Slome

http://www.nolongerempty.com

Talk: Stephanie Syjuco

As part of SFMoMA’s “75 Reasons” series of mini-talks, Stephanie Syjuco will be discussing Sherry Levine’s table sculpture, “La Fortune (After Man Ray)" on Saturday January 19th.

Award: Stephanie Syjuco

Stephanie Syjuco has been awarded a spot in the 2010 Artadia Artists-in-Residence program.

The “New York Artist-in-Residence program for Artadia Award [is] in partnership with the International Studio and Curatorial Program in Brooklyn. The program brings one Artadia Awardee from each program city to New York for three-month residencies at the ISCP's Brooklyn studio building. This program is a groundbreaking addition in Artadia’s commitment to individual artists and is the first of its kind in New York for US-based visual artists. The Artadia Residencies are made possible with crucial funding from the National Endowment for the Arts.”
http://www.artadia.org

Award: Stephanie Syjuco

The Joan Mitchell Foundation has named artist Stephanie Syjuco as one of their :2009 Painters & Sculptors Grant Recipients.” This grant program annually awards twenty five recipients with $25,000 to further their artistic careers.

http://www.joanmitchellfoundation.org

Exhibition: Masami Teraoka

"Life After Life" exhibition at the College of the Canyons, featuring Masami Teraoka.

Exhibition runs February 16 - March 12, 2010
Artists' Reception: February 16th, 5:00 - 8:00pm; a Conversation With The Artists at 6:00pm

"This exhibition, featuring 12 well-known visual artists, is presented in collaboration with writers from College of the Canyons - faculty, staff and students. Artists and writers are being asked to create artworks or writings that explore the contemplation of the unknown, specifically, life and death."

http://www.canyons.edu

Exhibition: Masami Teraoka

Museum of Sex’s new exhibit: “RUBBERS: The Life, History & Struggle of the Condom,” featuring works by Masami Teraoka.
Opening February 4, 2010 from 8:00 until 11:00pm at the Museum of Sex.

“The Museum of Sex, in partnership with the makers of Trojan Brand Condoms is making safe sex sexy again with the launch of RUBBERS: the Life, History & Struggle of the Condom, a new exhibition detailing the provocative life of the condom. This exhibition takes a fun, functional, and fundamental look at the history and progression of the condom from a single object to its role a multidisciplinary artifact. Influencing everything from science to art to politics and religion, the condom, which has remained at the epicenter of debate since its inception, rose from its humble beginnings to become a barometer of morality and a savior in the fight against HIV/AIDS.”

http://www.museumofsex.com

Exhibition: Ray Beldner

“Photo Artillery: In the Realm of the Lenses” at the Stephen Cohen Gallery in Los Angeles, featuring Ray Beldner
Curated by Artillery’s Tulsa Kinney and Paige Wery
Exhibition runs: January 15th - February 13th

http://www.artslant.com

Press: Walter Robinson

ArtSlant review of Walter Robinson’s [sic] exhibition at Catharine Clark Gallery.

“A Candy Coated God and Other Strange Talismans,” by Jolene Torr:
“Myth, religion and advertising are all being used here to sell each other it seems. And the epic grandeur of America’s taste for objects and for packaging, for candy coating and glossiness is explored here.”

http://www.artslant.com

Exhibition: Masami Teraoka

“Off the Beaten Path” exhibition, featuring Masami Teraoka, is traveling from San Diego to its next host venue, EL CUBO, in Tijuana, Mexico. The exhibition will run from January 22 to April 4.
This exhibition is curated by Art Works For Change, an organization that “Curat[es] and produc[es] traveling exhibitions that engage talented artists from around the world, working in a variety of media and styles, to address critical issues of our time.”

Address: Centro Cultural Tijuana, Paseo de los Heroes, #9350, Zona Urbano Rio Tijuana
http://www.cecut.gob.mx/

More information available at:
http://www.artworksforchange.org/

Ray Beldner: Exhibition

Andy Diaz Hope: Review

Daily Serving

"Infinity, curated by Andrew Schoultz is a collection of 15 contemporary artists’ interpretations of a boundless theme. Scion Space in Los Angeles hosts the exhibit, which opened Saturday, October 10th, and will continue through November 7th, 2009. Prior to the opening, I chatted with some of the artists as well as the curator, who revealed how relative concepts are strategically woven into the pieces, whether through mathematics, metaphor, science, or technique."

Full Article

Nina Katchadourian: Exhibition

Colgate University

TheICPA at Colgate University presents Sorted Books an exhibition by Nina Katchadourian

January 18 - February 28, 2010

Artist Lecture, February 4, 4:30 pm, Golden Auditorium

Followed by an Opening Reception, Clifford Gallery, Little Hall

Web-site

Press: Charles Gute

Hate removed: White supremacist books transformed into art exhibit with positive messages

By JOE NICKELL of the Missoulian | Posted: Sunday, January 3, 2010

“When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. When life gives you 4,000 books full of racist aspersion, make art.
That’s the simple logic behind “Speaking Volumes: Transforming Hate,” one of the most ambitious, diverse – and unlikely – art projects in the modern history of Montana. A joint project of the Holter Museum of Art in Helena and the Montana Human Rights Network, the widely traveled exhibit arrives in Missoula this week – the closest it has yet come to where it all began, in a storage locker near Superior.”

Full Article

Exhibition: Charles Gute

Speaking Volumes: Transforming Hate

‘Speaking Volumes: Transforming Hate’ Open Jan. 7 at Montana Museum of Art and Culture at the Univ. of Montana

A traveling exhibition featuring artists from across the United States who used white supremacist propaganda to create thought-provoking works of art will open Thursday, Jan. 7, at the Montana Museum of Art & Culture.

"Speaking Volumes: Transforming Hate" will be at MMAC through Saturday, March 6. An opening reception will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. Jan. 7 in the museum’s Meloy and Paxson galleries, located in the Performing Arts and Radio/Television Center at The University of Montana.

Press Release

Exhibtion: Sandow Birk

The Brooklyn Rail
by Tessa DeCarlo

Exhibition: Christoph Draeger, Al Farrow

Press: Travis Somerville

ARTFORUM: Critics' Pick

Travis Somerville
BEN MALTZ GALLERY AT THE OTIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN
9045 Lincoln Boulevard
October 3–December 12

"Travis Somerville’s work addresses the tangled knot of issues surrounding the history of race in America. Using such loaded images as a noose, hooded clansmen, and the Confederate flag in a self-consciously liberal way is laced with difficulties, yet Somerville takes such challenges on with gusto in a new exhibition, “Dedicated to the Proposition.” Conceptualized as a contemporary response to Abraham Lincoln’s 1863 Gettysburg Address, the exhibition is fraught with aggressive images, including a sculpture of Lincoln’s head on a ball and chain, and assorted representations of people in blackface."