Tra Bouscaren (UPenn MFA Alum) opens July 16, 2014 in Cabo Verde

Apresentação TRA BOUSCAREN, artista multimeios

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Convidamos aos artistas, designers, DJs, Vjs, professores e alunos de multimeios, jornalistas, produtores audiovisuais e pessoas interessadas, a assistir a uma palestra e demonstração, conduzidas por Tra Bouscaren, no auditório do Palácio da Cultura Ildo Lobo, dia 16 Julho 2014, às 18h. Durante a palestra os interessados poderão se inscrever para uma oficina intitulada “Tecnologias Creativas”, oferecida pelo artista.

Tra Bouscaren é um artista que usa multimeios para criar instalações físicas e digitais. Trabalha com recursos computacionais para coreografar objectos reciclados, que são modificados fisicamente e digitalmente, ganhando novas significações. Segue a descrição do seu trabalho em inglês

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Tra Bouscaren is a post-disciplinary artist, university lecturer, and freelance curator. He holds a BA in Philosophy from Yale University, an MFA in Interdisciplinary Fine Art from the University of Pennsylvania, and is working towards his PhD in the Department of Media Study at Buffalo. Currently he is the Artist-in-Residence of the IsolAIR Program in Cape Verde, with institutional support from the Ministry of Culture and the United States Embassy.

Bouscaren’s studio is a mixed-media recycling factory where he creates and then destroys physical and digital artifacts down into abstracted fragments, only then to re-mix those remains into the next generation of artworks. This progressive, anti-precious, and auto-cannibalistic approach builds his own artistic history back into the found material with which he works towards a post-dialectical end-game.

Featured in more than 60 exhibitions in Europe and America, his work has been shown at venues including the Lincoln Center in New York, the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia,, Hallwalls in Buffalo, The Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin, the Maud Piquion & Partner Galleries in Berlin and Weimar, Victor I Fils Gallery in Madrid, and the Centre Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona, where he has been represented by N2 Gallery since 2007.

Following his current commitment here in Cabo Verde, Bouscaren will be engaged as the Artist-in-Residence and Visiting Lecturer of Professional Practices and Critical Theory at the University of Texas, El Paso.

www.tra-boucaren.com

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Nathan Wasserbauer (Former UPenn MFA) at Lesley Heller Workspace

Hello friends,

I'm proud to be participating in this exciting group exhibition at Lesley Heller Workspace, opening Wednesday, July 23rd 6-8 pm at 54 Orchard Street NY, NY.

I hope to see you there, full details below.

http://nwasserbauer.com/

Lesley Heller Workspace        54 Orchard Street New York, NY 10002        t: 212 410 6120

Dark Map July 23 - August 16, 2014 Opening Reception: Wednesday, July 23, 6-8pm

Former MFA Demetrius Oliver at S|2 Gallery

S|2 Gallery Sotheby's  1334 York Ave. 2nd floor opening July 8th, 6-8pm In collaboration with curator Ryan Steadman, S|2 presents Save It For Later, a selling exhibition of paintings and sculpture created for this show by a group of young and emerging American artists working in a consumer environment of disposable goods. The exhibition features artists that work with salvaged materials and incorporate reuse and recycling in their practice. S|2 is proud to exhibit works by Brian Belott, Graham Collins, Rachel Foullon, Dave Hardy, Jo Nigoghossian, Demetrius Oliver, Borna Sammak, Hanna Sandin and Jack Siegel.

Kasey Short (MFA '15) at Big Medium, Austin, TX

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Media Contact: Jordan Gentry gentry@bigmedium.org (512) 939-6665

Big Medium Presents

Kasey Short: 5 Plus Hearts

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Exhibition dates: July 12 - August 8, 2014

Opening reception: Friday, July 12, 7-10pm

Address: 916 Springdale Rd, Bldg 2, #101

Gallery hours: Tue - Sat, 12-6pm and by appointment

5 Plus Hearts explores different approaches in encountering human behavior and survival. The perspective is built from underneath the bleachers to simulate an environment of the minds’ subconscious. The installation navigates through the brain activating seduction, confusion, and sensation. In the process of the installation, my work relies heavily on instinct and humor. 5 Plus Hearts is informed by the notion of Divine Sarcasm, which is a representation of good and evil within American Institutions.

Kasey Short is an American artist from Texas. Short’s artistic output stems from his background in painting, branching off into sculpture, installation, printmaking and video. Short's recent work examines the anti-heroic object, Americana, sporting events, and engages in a playful and at times irreverent dialogue with art historical icons. Rigorously casual and emphatically apathetic, Short's sculptural work presents familiar forms distorted and transformed through both intuitive and counter-intuitive processes involving word play, material shifts and purposefully failed likenesses. In his video works, the artist depicts the scenes adjacent to his other pieces, producing a haunting, comedic and disjointed reality in which clear narrative is disambiguated. The way in which he uses sound and performers invents a world where the behaviors and circumstances are at once familiar and mysterious, furthering the confusion of the artist’s intentions.

Kasey Short was included in the 2013 Texas Biennial, and has shown internationally at venues including Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Teal Art gallery in Breckenridge, CO and University of Texas at San Antonio taking part in the 2010 and 2012 New Art/Arte Nuevo Biennial. Kasey is a MFA candidate at the University of Pennsylvania.

www.kaseyshort.com

ABOUT BIG MEDIUM

Big Medium is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to supporting and promoting contemporary art in Texas. Big Medium produces the East Austin Studio Tour, the West Austin Studio Tour, the Texas Biennial, and present innovative exhibitions throughout the year. Big Medium provides affordable studio space to artists, and partners with various organizations in Texas to help foster the arts and facilitate an inclusive cultural dialogue between artists and their communities.

Further information is available at www.bigmedium.org or email info@bigmedium.org

Big Medium is supported by generous contributions from private donors and funded in part by the City of Austin through the Economic Growth & Redevelopment Services Office/Cultural Arts Division believing an investment in the Arts is an investment in Austin’s future.

Laura Bernstein (MFA'14) earns ISC award

Laura Bernstein was chosen from an exceptional number of nominees; 374 students from over 151 colleges and universities, world-wide. The jury, which included Kathryn Mikesell, Founder of the Fountainhead Residency and Studios, Miami, FL; Stefano Catalani, Director of Art, Craft & Design at the Bellevue Arts Museum in Bellevue, WA; and Donald Lipski, Sculptor, NY, reviewed more than 904 images of student art work to make their selections for this prestigious award.   

Bernstein has been named a 2014 Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Honorable Mention.

Laura will be recognized in the 2014 October issue of Sculpture magazine, as well as on the www.sculpture.orgwebsite. Please extend our congratulations to the entire art department of University of Pennsylvania.