Open Studio Prevue

DEWALT Today, Tomorrow Die Welt 2010 oil on printed paperboard.

A component of the Beacon Open Studios is an exhibit of all the BOS participating artists that runs through October 3 at Hudson Beach Glass.  The exhibit is an efficient way for studio visitors to sample work of the artists, then plan a more efficient studio visit itinerary by honing in on the artists they in which they are more interested.

My contribution to the show is the tiny painting above.  I'm rather tickled by it.  I debated as to whether or not this should have been my submission , but I'm glad it was, particularly since the exhibit is fairly dense and this piece puts no real strain on the linear foot capacity of the gallery.

Above: my piece sandwiched between works by Mario Rusich and Eric Wilkerson (neither of whom do I know, which is pretty much the story these days as there are so many new faces who have moved to Beacon recently, it's hard to keep up.)  Below: Angelika's contribution which is a call for collaborator bakers to alter or expand upon her chili bread recipe.

I didn't snap many photos at all, but there are some nice pieces in the show.  You'll just have to check it out for yourself.

A classic Iannarelli nest of plastic utensils.  This one has particularly anthropomorphic tines.

Down on the street, some literate soul has augmented this Collective 624713 poster.

Preparations for exhibition openings at CCS Bard | Hessel Museum, Saturday, June 26, 1-5pm

One my of recurring day jobs is installing exhibitions at the CCS Bard| Hessel Art Museum.  We're entering the final week of a month of preparations for two exhibits that will be opening Saturday, June 26.

Philippe Parreno has taken over the CCS galleries, converting the space into two screening rooms as part of a series of retrospectives that has been travelling around Europe.  Parreno's exhibit at CCS is curated by Maria Lind.  In addition to the two works, Jan 8, 1968 (2009) and Anywhere Out of the World, (2000) on exhibit at CCS, a special screening of Zidane: A XXIst Century Portrait (2006) will be held at Upstate Films in Rhinebeck on Sunday, June 27 at noon.
Vernissage TV has posted footage from a very different installation for the Zurich iteration of the retrospective.





Over in the Hessel Museum galleries, Matthew Higgs has curated selections from the Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg Collection in an exhibit called At Home/Not At Home.

More details of the exhibitions, the openings and transportation from NYC to the openings can be found in the press release.

Jan 29, 2010: Opening Reception of Harry Roseman's Hole in the Wall at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar

Harry Roseman gave a talk on Friday evening at Vassar on the occasion of the official opening of his installation, Hole in the Wall in the atrium of the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at the college. 
Roseman's talk, along with a screening of a video documenting his Woven Walls installation at the Kleinert Art Center in Woodstock in 2008 preceeded the opening.  The main lecture hall was filled to capacity, so a second hall was enlisted, offering a projection of a live online stream of the talk.  

Unfortunately, the webstream had some form of buffering issue and we weren't able to see the entire talk.  A recording of the talk is available for viewing here.
The upside to this technical glitch was that those of us in the second hall were able to go in and view the work before the crush of people filled the space...and fill the space they did.  It got claustrophobic quickly, so I bailed out prior to the performance by Adrienne Elisha of a composition she created which was inspired by the installation. 

It had been too long since I last visited the Loeb.  There's really no better place in the area in which to casually stop in and indulge in morsels sized portions of great work.  The small size of the temporary exhibition and permanent collection galleries offer a remarkable opportunity to get a fix without needing to devote a great chunk of time.