OPEN STUDIOS
November 3–6, 2011
OPENING RECEPTION
Thursday, November 3, 7–9pm
OPENING HOURS
Friday–Sunday, November 4–6, 1–7pm
International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP)
1040 Metropolitan Avenue
Brooklyn, New York 11211
www.iscp-nyc.org
Travis Somerville
Places I've Never Been
Window Installation Site, 155 Grove Street
Viewable: 24/7
San Francisco Arts Commission
Places I've Never Been, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco California
Window Installation Site, 155 Grove Street
Viewable 24/7
September 16 through December 10, 2011
Opening Reception: Friday, September 16th, 6-8 pm
New York, NY - The Joan Mitchell Foundation is pleased to announce the twenty-five recipients of the 2010 Painters & Sculptors Grant Program in the amount of $25,000 each.
Congratulations Travis Somerville!!
“Collecting California Selections from Laguna Art Museum.” 2010
Travis Somerville
Reed-Davidson, Travis. “Renewing our Dedication to the Proposition.” ROMAG (Otis College of Art and Design – Magazine) Vol 8, 2010
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Reconsidering Regionalism: Images of the South 1951-
Jule Collins Smith Museum of Auburn University in Auburn, AL,
April 2-July 23, 2011.
Travis Somerville was recently featured in the arts section for the OC Weekly.
'Art Shack'-ing Up
Take a virtual tour of Laguna Art Museum's exhibition Art Shack, which includes the work of Travis Somerville and Sandow Birk
Also check out the video with interviews with the artists
http://www.mirino.com/hurley/
An image of Travis Somerville's piece for the Laguna Art Museum's exhibition Art Shack appeared on High Fructose Magazine's Blog on Sunday May 30, 2010
http://www.hifructose.com/the-blog/
Art Shack
June 13 - October 3, 2010
Opening Reception: June 12, 2010
Laguna Art Museum
307 Cliff Drive
Laguna Beach, CA 92651
Artists combine art and architecture in Laguna Art Museum's group exhibition Art Shack guest curated by Greg Escalante. Immerse yourself in 30 different worlds created by such artists as Don Ed Hardy, SHAG, George Herms, Paul Frank, Marion Peck, and Mark Ryden, among others. Explore surf shacks, tattoo huts, retro shanties and more--shack up at Laguna Art Museum this summer! Art Shack is presented by Hurley.
Many shacks will be enterable, and some will include interactive components such as music and film. Don Ed Hardy’s Tattoo Hut will feature an activated tattoo machine.
Abandoning the rules of the art market and pressure to create saleable work, art shacks allow the artists to create an experiential environment, narrowing the distinction between art and function, object and environment.
"Rapid Fire Reviews: Travis Somerville at Charlie James Gallery"
By James Scarborough
Artillery
Volume 4 Issue 5
May/June 2010
"'A Portion Of That Field…' could be one of two things: a painful reminder that an Obama presidency represents but a small step in the Sisyphean integration of race or else a glorious prism through which to view art's cannibalistic and self-reflexive tendency to devour and reconfigure popular culture. Though the show's walkaway impression is one of postponed "I have a dream" hope, it's obvious that the humorous sophistication of Somerville's compositions and the historical breadth and depth of his scope that the latter's the case."
Secret Drawings
June 19 - September 5, 2010
Palo Alto Art Center
1313 Newell Road
Palo Alto, CA
Inspired by a Surrealist strategy to create unexpected artworks, Secret Drawings features pieces created for the exhibition by invited artists who have been assigned a title and paired with a secret collaborator.
Travis Somerville’s exhibition “Rededicated to the Proposition...” was recommended on Visual Art Source:
“This work will make you uncomfortable, and probably sad. It'll make you curious and angry. It'll make you think, and even, as I did, stand there staring, dazed with frustration. There is a lot going on in the finely detailed and highly charged paintings, sculpture, drawings, and two large installations that make up Travis Somerville's current solo exhibition.”
http://www.visualartsource.com
http://artbeatbayarea.wordpress.com/
Book signing with Travis Somerville at Catharine Clark Gallery.
Saturday, March 27, 2-4pm, hope to see you there!
KQED Arts reviews Travis Somerville’s show, “Rededicated to the Proposition...”
“From the second you walk in the door at Catharine Clark Gallery, it's apparent that the title of Travis Somerville's newest body of work, Rededicated to the Proposition, a reference to the Gettysburg address, isn't meant as an activist's call so much as an ironic statement.”
http://www.kqed.org
Blog featuring work by Travis Somerville.
“Travis Somerville explicitly deals with race relations throughout the nation's history. Because of the time-specific imagery appropriated in his mixed media collages, he confronts the viewer with seemingly antiquated images and forces the viewer to consider them in the context of the contemporary moment.”
http://becausemyvoiceisntloudenough.blogspot.com
Blog featuring images of Travis Somerville's exhibition, "Rededicated to the Proposition..." at Catharine Clark Gallery.
http://ae.horriblog.com
