Marc Blumthal (MFA '10), Pernot Hudson (MFA '06), and Matt Neff (MFA '05) Exhibit at Projects Gallery, Philadelphia

Projects Gallery, Philadelphia

Marc Blumthal (MFA '10), Pernot Hudson (MFA '06), and Matt Neff (MFA '05), will exhibit work at Projects Gallery, Philadelphia.  Projects Gallery partnered with the Brandywine Workshop to present Fresh Impressions, which draws attention to the breadth and depth of printmaking talent and innovative, new approaches. The combined efforts of local institutions and artists demonstrate the prominence of Philadelphia in the global field of printmaking.

Guest jurors Raphael Damast, Exhibitions Director, Taller Puertorriqueño; Rick De Coyte, co-founder, Silicon Gallery; Shelley Langdale, Associate Curator of Prints, Philadelphia Museum of Art; and Elizabeth F. Spungen, Executive Director, The Print Center reviewed some 350 works from around the world.  They selected 31 artists and more than 40 works that encompass a wide range of styles and media. 

  Other selected artists include:  Audrey Anastasi, Jean Burdick, Victoria Burge, Caitlin Cass, Nick Cassway, Tiberiu Chelcea, Kip Deeds, Kay Healy, Virginia Holmes, Marcus Howell, June Julian, NFN Kalyan, Joanna Kidd, Louise Kohrman, Katie Murken, Alexis Nutini, José A. Ortiz Pagán, Serena Perrone, Johnny Plastini, Thomas Pontone, Jenny Robinson, Jason Scuilla, Sarah Smelser, Shirley Steele, Hester Stinnett, Lenore Thomas, Eli VandenBerg, and Manuel Vermeire.

Fresh Impressions will run 10.05 - 10.27.12 with a First Friday reception 10.05 from 6-9 PM. 

Projects Gallery
629 N. 2nd St.
Philadelphia
www.projectsgallery.com

Please visit www.marcblumthal.com, www.pernothudson.com, and mattneffonline.com for more information on their work.

mari jaye blanchard (MFA '05) Screens Animation at Philadelphia Film and Animation Festival

Bullets for Breakfast, mari jaye blanchard

mari jaye blanchard (MFA '05) will screen her animation Bullets for Breakfast at the Philadelphia Film and Animation Festival (PFAF).  Now in its seventh year, festival jurors received over 400 film entries from around the world. Bullets for Breakfast will be presented as part of the Shorts Showcase 6: Animation Apocalypse! beginning at 7:30 p.m. on 09.27.12.

PFAF runs from 09.27.12 --09.30.12. Bullets for Breakfast will be screening at:
International House Philadelphia Theater
3701 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia

Please visit http://www.projecttwenty1.com/festival/pfaf and www.marijayeblanchard.com for more information.

Kelsey Halliday Johnson (MFA '12) Exhibits at Dow Visual Arts Gallery, Interlochen, MI

Dow Visual Arts Gallery, Interlochen Center for the Arts

Kelsey Halliday Johnson (MFA '12) will show work in the Interlochen Faculty Exhibition in Interlochen, Michigan.  The exhibit is part of the Information, Space, and Time Symposium taking place at Interlochen. The show also features the work of Melinda Zacher Ronayne, Director of the Visual Art department, Amy Long, Patty Smith, Jenny Boudreault, and Diane Dorn. 

Interlochen Faculty Exhibition runs from 09.21.12 -- 10.19.12.

Dow Visual Arts Gallery 

Interlochen Center for the Arts

Interlochen, Michigan

For more information, please visit www.interlochen.org or www.kelseyhalliday.com

Ivanco Talevski (MFA '08) Exhibits Work at Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA

Ivanco Talevski (MFA '08) was selected to participate in the Printmaking Invitational at Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA.  The exhibition was curated by KU professor Evan Summer.
 
The show includes work by Michael Goro, Richard Hricko, Frances Jetter, Endi Poskovic, Rosalyn Richards, Rostislav Spitkovsky, Rochelle Toner and Bruce Waldman.

The Printmaking Invitational runs from 09.06.12 -- 10.05.12 and can be viewed at:

Marlin and Regina Miller Art Gallery
Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
15200 Kutztown Road
Kutztown, PA
http://www.kutztown.edu/acad/artgallery

To view more of Talevski's work, please visit http://www.ivancotalevski.com.

Mohammadreza Mirzaei (MFA '14) Exhibits Work in Biel/Bienne Festival of Photography, Switzerland

Mohammadreza Mizaei, The Encounters, 2007–2008

Mohammadreza Mirzaei (MFA '14) has been selected to participate in the Biel/Bienne Festival of Photography in Switzerland.  The works that have been brought together under the theme of “see and be seen” explore photography’s ambivalent dialogue with the voyeuristic and exhibitionist gaze.This 16th edition of the festival shows various aspects of the intrusive gaze that is inherent to photography.

Biel/Bienne Festival of Photography runs from 09.07.12 --09.30.12.

Biel/Bienne Festival of Photography
Seevorstadt 71
2502 Biel
Switzerland

For more information on the show and Mirzaei, please visit
 http://2012.jouph.ch/en/exhibitions.178/se-and-be-seen.211.html  or www.mrmirzaei.com

Ceaphas Stubbs (MFA '13) in Group Show at Eponymy, Brooklyn

Ceaphas Stubbs, Apparition Reclined No. 2

Photographs by Ceaphas Stubbs (MFA '13) will be included in the group show Works at Eponymy in Brooklyn. Works presents various two-dimensional work from seven artists located throughout the country.  The exhibition explores the cross-section of experimentation, abstraction and a sensibility to move beyond conventions in both art and society.

Works was curated by Amani Olu and also includes the work of Conor Backman, Teresa Christiansen, Melanie Flood, Thomas Jackson, Anthony Smith, and Julia Staples.

Works opening reception will be on 09.12.12 from 7-9 pm.  The show runs through 08.31.13.

Eponymy
466 Bergen Street
Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY
http://www.shopeponymy.com

UPenn Professor Joshua Mosley to Lecture at Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ

Martha Colburn, Myth Labs (animation still)

UPenn Animation Professor and Department Chair Joshua Mosley will lecture on the history of animation and his own stop motion work on Thursday, September 13 at 5 pm in the Bozorth Hall Theatre at Rowan University.  

The lecture is part of the exhibition Harsh Realities which examines the resilience of the human spirit.  Professor Mosley co-curated  the show with Jenn Thwing, Associate Professor of Art at Rowan University and Mary Salvante, Gallery and Exhibitions Program Director at Rowan.  Artists included in Harsh Realities are Martha Colburn, Eric Dyer, Laura Heit, Jennifer Levonian, Mickey Please, Allison Schulnik, Stacey Steers, Christopher Sullivan, and Karen Yasinsky.

Harsh Realities runs from 09.04.12 -- 10.06.12. 



Rowan University Art Gallery
Lower level of Westby Hall 
Route 322 
Glassboro, NJ
www.rowan.edu/artgallery
 
 

MFA Class of 2013 Exhibition at Charles Addams Gallery, UPenn

The MFA class of 2013 will present new work in the exhibition I Don't Question the Things You Do Anymore. Included in the show will be works by:

Stephanie Cheng

Caroline Claflin

Orlando de la Garza

Mark Dilks

Tara Fadenrecht

Elisa Gabor

Laine Godsey

Zenas Hutcheson

Christina Kerns

Alex Nguyen

Daniel Oliva

Jacob Rivkin

Matthew Segotta

Minmin Shi

Ceaphas Stubbs

Sarah Tortora

Toisha Tucker

Cristina Tufino Palmer

Tara White

I Don't Question the Things You Do Anymore will be on view from 09.14 – 9.27.12.  An opening reception will be held 09.14.12 from 5 – 7 pm at

Charles Addams Fine Arts Gallery
200 South 36th Street

Philadelphia, PA 19104

For more information, contact fine-art@design.upenn.edu or visit www.pennexhibitions.com

Sarah Tortora (MFA '13) and Heather Ramsdale (MFA '10) Exhibit at DCCC, Marple Campus, DE

Sarah Tortora's (MFA'13) and Heather Ramsdale (MFA '10) sculptures have been juried into 215/610 Sculpture Exhibition at the Delaware County Community College.  Sid Sachs, Director of Exhibitions at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, was invited to be the guest juror for this year's exhibition.  Other selected artists include: Jim Biglan, Piper Brett, Robin Brewer, Jackie Brown, Sarah Gersbach, Elizabeth Hamilton, Corrina Mehiel, Nathaniel Mell, and Ashley Rodriguez Reed.

215/610 Juried Sculpture Exhibition runs from 8.30.12 – 9.21.12.

DCCC, Marple Campus
Building: Academic Bldg
Room Number: Art Gallery | Room 2305

For more information, please visit http://www.dccc.edu/about-us/events/2012/08/30/215610-juried-sculpture-exhibition-opening-reception and www.heatherramsdale.com, www.sarahtortora.com

Sarah Tortora (MFA '13) Participating in Summer Photography Show at The Lunch Box, Miami, FL

The work of Sarah Tortora (MFA '13) will be included in the Summer Photography Show at The Lunch Box in Miami, Florida.

Fourteen artists are featured in this exhibition, where forms of conceptual, fine art, documentary and mixed media photography are subjects of exploration.  

 

The show opens from 5pm-11pm on 08.11.12 and runs through 10.6.12.

Lunch Box Gallery 

Wynwood Art District of Miami at 

310 NW 24th Street

Miaim, FL.

For more information please visit http://www.thelunchboxgallery.com/ and http://www.sarahtortora.com.

Micah Danges Releases Art Book at Aux Space, Philadelphia

Micah Danges and Faryal Maroof have collaborated on the making of the handmade art book Irene for the past 2.5 years.  They've printed a 100 copies and are excited to share it with the viewing audience.  DJ Nag Champa and Joe Lentini will be playing records while Dan Murphy of Megawords will provide visuals.

The book release of Irene will take place on 7.26.12 from 7-10 p.m. at 

Aux Space 

319 N. 11th St.

Philadelphia, PA
auxperformancespace.blogspot

For more information about the release and Micah's work, please visit ireneirene.net or http://www.micahdanges.com

Alumnea Shanti Grumbine and Naomi Reis (MFA '05) New Works at Lower East Side Printshop, NY

Everything Is Not All There Is consists of recent prints and drawings by Lower East Side Printshop residents Shanti Grumbine (MFA '05), Naomi Reis (MFA '05) and Julian Wellisz. Collectively, they explore newspapers, blogs, software, and structural designs. They trace flows of data, unveil unseen narratives, decode systems, and sift cultural memes. Their works speak to the vitality of the print medium (the analog) alongside newer modes of communication.  Everything Is Not All There Is was curated by Nicole Caruth.

Everything Is Not All There Is on view 7.11.12 -- 9.09.12

Lower East Side Printshop

306 W. 37th Street, 6th Floor

New York, NY 10018

http://printshop.org

For more information on Reis and Grumbine's work, please visit http://www.naomireis.com and http://shantigrumbine.com 

Linnea Paskow (MFA '03) Exhibition at John Davis Gallery, Hudson, NY

 

 

Linnea Paskow (MFA '03) will be exhibiting new paintings at the John Davis Gallery in Hudson, NY.

 

The exhibition runs from 7.19.12 -- 8.12.12.  The opening reception is 7.21.12 from 6-8 p.m.

John Davis Gallery

362 1/2 Warren Street

Hudson, NY

 

For more information about Paskow, please visit www.linneapaskow.com and

http://johndavisgallery.com/Linnea-Paskow

Julia Barbosa Landois (MFA '07) Exhibition at Box 13 ArtSpace, Houston

Landois' (MFA '07) installation, The more you honor Me, the more will I bless you, is inspired by the practice of slipping photographs and notes beneath the feet of sacred statues as a plea for assistance.  The installation centers on a pedestal topped by a teetering column of paper ephemera that threatens to grow beyond the confines of the exhibition space. At the apex, barely visible, are the feet of a saint or deity, pushed by the tower through the ceiling and beyond.  The more you honor Me, the more will I bless you is an ode to solace sought by ritual exchange, a gesture of control when control eludes us.  The piece is on view from the street 24 hours a day in Box 13's Window Box space.  

 

The more you honor Me, the more I will bless you

7.14.12 -- 8.18.12

Opening reception 7.14.12, 7-9:30 pm

 

Box 13 ArtSpace

 6700 Harrisburg

 Houston, TX 77011

 

For more information about the exhibition or Julia Barbosa Landois, please visit:

http://www.box13artspace.com/upcoming-shows/exhibitions-on-view-july-14-august-18-2012/

http://www.julialandois.com/

Sean Riley (MFA '04) Exhibits Work in Meet Me in the Middle of the Air, MCLA Gallery 51, North Adams, MA

Sean Riley's (MFA '04) works will be exhibited in Meet Me in the Middle of the Air at MCLA Gallery 51.  Riley's fabric works act as monuments and memorials, commemorating the passing of time that adds up to a life lived.

This exhibition includes recent quilts and embroidered works on denim alongside a series of drawings and paintings inspired by the tactile qualities of fabrics and textiles used. 

Meet Me in the Middle of the Air runs from 7.26.12 -- 8.26.12

Opening Reception: 7.26.12, 6-9 p.m.

 

MCLA Gallery 51

51 Main St

North Adams, MA 01247

To view Riley's latest works, please visit www.polaresolare.net

Chris Lawrence (MFA '10) Exhibits at the Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN

Chris Lawrence (MFA '10) will exhibit mixed media works in Hedge Magic at the Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN.  Hedge Magic is a group exhibition with artists examining issues of transformation, interpretation, reclamation and the super-natural. Other participating artists include: David Hamlow, Jess Hirsch, Amy Reckley, Meredith Foster, Peter Goché, and Keith Lemle.

 Hedge Magic runs from 6.2.12 -- 8.5.12

The Soap Factory
514 Second St SE
Minneapolis MN 55414

http://www.soapfactory.org

To view more of Lawrence's work, please visit http://www.chrislawrenceprojects.com

Marc Blumthal (MFA '10) Exhibition Finding Nemo at Napoleon, Philadelphia

Finding Nemo is an exhibition of the work of Marc Blumthal (MFA '10).  Through manipulation and obscuring his photographs, Blumthal explores the nature of the human experience and the pressure of the past.  The images, which reference personal experiences as well as America’s history, prompt the viewer to question the broader cultural arrangements that shape our lives.  To see more of Marc's work, please visit www.marcblumthal.com

Finding Nemo runs from 7.6.12 – 7.27.12. 

Opening First Friday, 7.6.12, 6pm – 10pm.

NAPOLEON
319 N 11th Street, 2L
Philadelphia, PA 19107

Gallery Hours:
Saturdays and Sundays 2pm – 6pm
or by appointment 

www.napoleonnapoleon.com

Sarah Tortora (MFA ’13) Exhibiting in VOX VIII, Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia

Sarah Tortora (MFA '13) will be exhibiting work in Vox Populi Gallery's eighth annual exhibition of emerging artists.  VOX VIII is curated by Ruba Katrib, curator at the Sculpture Center, New York, and Marlo Pascual, a New York based artist who has recently exhibited with White Columns and the Saatchi Gallery.  

VOX VIII is scheduled to open July 6^th at 6pm. Twenty-three artists were selected for inclusion in the show, which will run until July 29.

Vox Populi Gallery 

319 N 11th. 3rd Floor
Philadelphia, PA 
http://www.voxpopuligallery.org
To view more of Sarah's work, please visit www.sarahtortora.com

Brian Zegeer (MFA '05) Participates in Museum of the Mother Colony Lecture and Screening in Battery Park, 7/29 at 8pm

Brian Zegeer  (MFA '05) will participate in Museum of the Mother Colony a lecture and screening dedicated to Ameen Rihani's, Book of Khalid, which tells the story of two Lebanese immigrants in the Little Syria community. Todd Fine, Director of Project Khalid (who is responsible for getting this amazing visionary, first Arab-American novel back into print) will give a short lecture about the book.  Zegeer will present two stereoscopic 3-d animations inspired by it. The new edition of Book of Khalid, published by Melvillehouse, will be for sale on location.

The lecture will begin at 8 pm in Battery Park, State Street and Pearl, mere steps away from the Staten Island Ferry (R to Whitehall) Map: http://goo.gl/maps/UZWZ

For the full Little Syria experience, stop by at 6pm for a free tour of the old neighborhood by Joe Svehlak, professional tour guide and L.S. expert. 

For more information on Brian, visit http://www.brianzegeer.com

Laine Godsey (MFA '13) and Toisha Tucker (MFA '13) Participate in Sound Places, Philadelphia

Laine Godsey (MFA '13) and Toisha Tucker (MFA '13) are participating in the virtual festival, Sound Places, as part of Bowerbird's contribution to the Commotion Festival in Philadelphia. Sound Places, which was curated by Chris Forsyth and Dustin Hurt, is a series of short audio pieces, each of which are directly related to or inspired by a specific location or area in the Point Breeze, Gray’s Ferry, and South of South Street neighborhoods of Philadelphia. 

More information and downloads can be found on the festival's website: 

http://commotionphilly.org/sound-places

To learn more about Toisha and Laine's work, please visit http://toishatucker.weebly.com and http://www.lainegodsey.daportfolio.com

Andrew Graham (MFA '06) Recently Made Permanent Artist with Roy Boyd Gallery, in Chicago

Andrew Graham (MFA '06) was recently established as a permanent artist with Roy Boyd Gallery, in Chicago.  To view Graham's work, please visit Roy Boyd's website at: http://www.royboydgallery.com/Graham/Graham.htm.

Brent Wahl (MFA '06) Exhibiting at the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center

Brent Wahl (MFA '06) is participating in a group exhibition, Remainder, at the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center.  Remainder presents the work of Amy Beecher, Aspen Mays, Klea McKenna
and Brent Wahl. Remainder is a term residing within the language of art and science that implies the end of anequation. This translates well into both the photographyand broader art worlds as a metaphor for the processof creation. The exhibition presents a selection ofeach artist’s work that investigates the boundaries ofabstraction within photography and seeks to reveal the shifting connections between surface and image.


 For more information regarding Brent Wahl, please visit
http://brentwahl.com/home.html

Remainder
April 19th- June 10th, 2012
Artist Reception: May 10th 7-9pm

For hours and details about the artists or PPAC, link to: Philadelphia Photo Arts Gallery
1400 N. American Street #103, Philadelphia, PA 19122

Brent Wahl (MFA '06) Selected to Participate in Group Exhibition at the Arcadia University Art Gallery

Brent Wahl (MFA '06) selected to participate in a group exhibition at the Arcadia University Art Gallery.  The show, titled A Closer Look 8, Alone Together, was curated by Adelina Vlas, the Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and exhibits the work of five artists: Dechemia (Isobel Sollenberger & John Gibbons), Sebastien Leclercq, Josh Shaddock, and Brent Wahl.

For more information about Brent Wahl, please visit
http://brentwahl.com/home.html


A Closer Look 8, Alone Together
Arcadia University Art Gallery
Through April 22, 2012

Kate Stewart (MFA '03) Recently Exhibited at the Schmucker Gallery, Gettysburg College

This past month Kate Stewart (MFA '03) exhibited work at the Schmucker Gallery, at Gettysburg College.  The show, titled heaven, ran from March 18 to today, April 2012.  For more information about Kate Stewart, please visit her website at: http://katestewartart.com/home.html. 

heaven

Schmucker Gallery

Gettysburg College

Gettysburg, PA 17325

Thomas Isaac (MFA '06) in Solo Exhibition, ISAAC, at Georgia State University

Thomas Isaac (MFA '06) is be exhibiting at Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, during the month of May.  The show, titled ISAAC, will include ISAAC's UNUMEXPLURIBUSUNUM, presented by DAEL lab.   ISAAC's UNUMEXPLURIBUSUNUM is a 7,680 by 720 pixels video wall, measuring approximately 6 feet high by 60 feet long.  In addition, Isaac will also be presenting a new animation painting, which will be on view for the entire month of the show, all night long, all night.  The painting's duration is 12 hours long.  There is a park nearby to view the piece.  Sleeping bags optional.  There is also this thing.

For more information regarding Thomas Isaac and ISAAC, please visit
http://www.isaaccaasi.com/

ISAAC
On View: May 1- May 31
Georgia State University, Atlanta Georgia

Tra Bouscaren (MFA '12) Exhibiting in a Group Show at Home Base Project in Berlin

Tra Bouscaren (MFA '11) is participating in a group exhibition, Friction,  at Home Base Project in Berlin.  The show, which was curated by Loudwig van Ludens, is an interdisciplinary event organized around the interaction between artists, their work and the space.

The participating artists are, as follows:

Adar Aviam
Adrian Brun
Alina Shmukler
Alejandro Vaquero
Merav Steinmetz
Loudwig van Ludens
Lior Vilenchik
Thomas Henriksson
Heather Allen
Tra Bouscaren
Heather Ann McKee
Scottie B.
Stonedrifters Sound Brigade
Billie Pistol 27
Daniel Kula
Jennifer Morone
Ulrika Segerberg
Marcos Covelo/M8K8
Miriam Cartagena
Tomoyo Urabe
Minoru Ashikari
Michal Rivlin
Miguel Rosas
Shony Rivnay
Slawjana Kola
Arnon Amitai
Roberto Equisoain
Rotonda Teatro
Angela Cory
Nilo Gallego
Aurora Costilla
Denise Baldauf
Renee Lamothe
Marika Zaghis

For more information regarding Friction and Tra Bouscaren, please visit
http://www.homebaseproject.org/friction/

http://www.tra-bouscaren.com/works.html

2012 MFA Candiate Tra Bouscaren and 2011 Alum John Schlesinger Exhibiting at the Annenberg Center for Perfoming Arts, in a Pilot Visual Arts Project Titled "Art in the House"

Tra Bouscaren (MFA '12) and John Schlesinger (MFA '11) are exhibiting a site specific installation at the Annenberg Center for Performing Arts, as part of a pilot visual arts project titled, Art in the House.  To read the full press release for the show, please visit: http://www.pennpresents.org/pdf/news/269.pdf.  For a write up of the show, please go to the Philadelphia Tribune's online new center: http://www.phillytrib.com/lifestylesarticles/item/3567-annenberg-exhibit-to-salute-visual-arts.html.

For more information regarding Tra Bousecaren and John Schlesinger, please visit

http://www.tra-bouscaren.com/works.html


Art in the House
On View: April 20th-June 30th, 2012
Opening Reception: Friday, April 20th, 5-7:30PM

Amy Archambault (MFA '11) Featured in The Pulse Magazine's Recent Aritcle on Up & Coming Local Artists

Amy Archambault (MFA '11) is featured in the April edition of The Pulse Magazine, in a section titled "Up & Coming Local Artists."  The article, written by Tine Roycroft, covers how Amy began her career as an installation artist, in addition to the projects she is working on presently.  To read the article, please visit: http://www.thepulsemag.com/wordpress/2012/04/04-12-up-coming-local-artists.

For more information regarding Amy Archambault, please visit
 AmyArchambault.com.

Alexis Granwell (MFA '07) Participating in Group Exhibition, Unbuilt, at the Delaware Center for Contemporary Art

Alexis Granwell (MFA '07) is participating in Unbuilt, a group exhibition at the Delaware Center for Contemporary Art.  The exhibit, curated by J Susan Isaacs, features artists who explore the intersection between construction, architecture, design, and sculpture. Utilizing ordinary building materials like cement, electrical tape and wire, plywood, drywall, PVC tubes, insulation, and fastenings, they are creating works that address issues related to the urban experience, rus in urbe, suburbia, consumption, liminality, memory and nostalgia, and states of reality.  The participating artists include: Alexis Granwell, Ron Longsdorf, Michael Jones McKean, and Yoonmi Nam.
 

For more information regarding Unbuilt, or Alexis Granwell, please visit

http://www.thedcca.org/exhibit/under-construction-part-ii

http://www.alexisgranwell.com

Unbuilt

On View: Feb 17 - Jun 10, 2012

Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts
200 South Madison Street | Wilmington, DE 19801 | 302.656.6466
Hours: Tue, Thu, Fri & Sat: 10 to 5 | Wed & Sun: 12 to 5 | Mon: Closed | Admission: Always Free

Alexis Granwell (MFA '07) is Participating in a Group Show, Titled Slow Release, at the Bryan Miller Gallery, Houston, TX

Alexis Granwell (MFA '07) is partcipating in a group exhibition at the Bryan Miller Gallery in Houston, Texas, with two other artists: Scott Everingham and Ken Millington.  The show, titled Slow Release, explores the visual ambiguity and overlap between natural landscape and the constructed.  Alexis Granwell's etchings evoke both topographic details from other-worldly landscapes and diagrams of ancient structures.

For more information about Slow Release, and about Alexis Granwell, please visit

http://www.bryanmillergallery.com/

http://www.alexisgranwell.com/ 

Slow Release

On View: March 2nd-April 7th, 2012

Opening Reception: Friday March 2nd, 6-8 pm

Bryan Miller Gallery 

3907 Main Street

Houston, TX

Tadashi Moriyama (MFA '06) in Two Person Show at Johansson Projects, Oakland, CA

Tadashi Moriyama (MFA '06) is exhibiting with Robert Minervin, in a show titled Hymns to the Moon, which is scheduled to open at Johansson Projects, in Oakland, CA, on April 6th.  Hymns to the Moon, where sublime omens haunt everyday spaces, both of the landscape and of the imagination, features work in which both artists depict visions of a timeless future.

Moriyama's works swarm with details in their depiction of the last judgment for the digital age. Weeds, wires, blood and guts coil around classical sculpture, original sin and corporate headquarters. At the crux of his painted paranoia, viewers are struck with, surprisingly, an overwhelming sense of euphoria. Even amidst all the anxiety and desire, in the heat of the moment there is a great togetherness. His animations follow un-phased individuals reacquainting themselves with the new landscape we have cultivated. The combination of lunar energy and digital power leads them to a strange state of enlightenment. 

Minervini sheds light on the aftermath of some unnatural disaster, presenting it in all of its jaded beauty. His apathetic dystopias are drenched in the washed-out neon hues of Sunset strip. He paints lo-fi Vanitas that reek of expired mortality while retaining a California cool. There is a hallucinatory quality to the works; they bridge the ancient past with a dystopian future while seeming to hover above the present as if in a ghostly dream.

For more information about Hymns to the Moon, as well as about Tadashi Moriyama, please visit
website link : http://johanssonprojects.com/phpflickr/hymns_show.php
http://tadashimoriyama.com/

Hymns to the Moon
On View: March 22 - May 5, 2012
Opening Reception: Friday April 6th, 5-8pm

JOHANSSON PROJECTS
2300 Telegraphy Ave
Oakland, CA 94612
510-444-9140