Back to the Future
Texas A&M International University
Laredo, TX
March 5th – April 6th 2012

Inventions, alchemy, robots, modernity, science fiction, artificial intelligence, undiscovered life forms. This juried exhibition aims to explore these topics and how they can be manifested through diverse artistic practices and materials.

JUROR
Bruce Helander, Fmr. provost of RISD, artist (in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan, Guggenheim, LACMA & 60 other museums) and critic/curator.

Bruce Helander is an artist whose specialty is collage and assemblage. He is also a well-known curator and art critic. He has a master’s degree in painting from the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design, where he later became the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs of the college. He is a fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts and recently won the South Florida Cultural Consortium fellowship for professional achievement in the visual arts.

Helander arrived in Palm Beach in 1982 from New York City, where he published Art Express magazine. He quickly established a cutting edge gallery on Worth Avenue that thrived for thirteen years. During that time he opened a second gallery on West Broadway in New York City. He was also a commissioner for ARCOM in Palm Beach and the vice-president of the Worth Avenue Association. He is active in the south Florida art scene and was on the board of directors at the Armory Art Center and later was the Director of Exhibitions there.

City Link magazine called Bruce Helander “Arguably the most recognized and successful collage artist in the country…” and Kenworth Moffett, former director, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale said in Gold Coast magazine that “If there was a Pulitzer Prize for collage, Helander would surely win it.”

His work is in over fifty museum collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the Smithsonian, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and most recently, the Whitney Museum of American Art and Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles.

His collages appear in Jazziz, The New Yorker and Palm Beach Illustrated magazines, among others.

He has written extensively on contemporary art and has written over 150 published reviews. He has an enthusiastic following for his monthly columns in Art of the Times magazine, Art and Living magazine (Los Angeles) and ARTnews. Star Group International just published his book of reviews, titled Learning to See—An Artist’s View on Contemporary Artists from Artschwager to Zakanitch, of forty of his favorite reviews.

As a curator, Helander has coordinated over eighty exhibitions of contemporary works. He has organized one-man shows for legendary artists such as Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist, John Chamberlain, Duane Hanson, Larry Poons, Jules Olitski, Dale Chihuly and Kenneth Noland, among others. Helander’s written observations about art are unusual in that very few art writers are also artists—in this case, with an academic background, extensive gallery and publishing experience and regular exhibit of his work.

Contain It!
Dunedin Fine Art Center
Dunedin, FL
Friday February 10th-Saturday, February 11, 2012

This spring I will be participating in Dunedin Fine Art Center’s annual invitational container show. This is a two day event where each artist creates an installation inside of a POD container. Should be really cool, so come out if you’re in the area!

For more info, check out the Dunedin Fine Art Center’s website.

Morlan Gallery
Transylvania University
300 North Broadway
Lexington, KY 40508

The Millennials
Jan. 17 – Feb. 10, 2012
Opening reception Tuesday, January 17, 5-7 p.m.

From the press release:

The Millennials is a juried exhibition that seeks to offer a visual entrée into the minds of America’s largest age group, nicknamed the millennial generation. The Pew Research Center has defined this group, ages 18 to 29, as “the American teens and twenty-somethings currently making the passage into adulthood–who have begun to forge theirs: confident, self-expressive, liberal, upbeat and receptive to new ideas and ways of living.” The twelve artists chosen for the exhibition hail from nine states, representing all the regions of the U.S., are primarily in their mid-twenties, and submitted work in a variety of two and three dimensional media.

For more information, check out Morlan Gallery’s website.

THE GALLERY AT BAG PRESENTS INTRODUCTIONS
On view Saturday, December 17th through Tuesday, January 3rd

Brooklyn Artists Gym
(Brooklyn, NY — December 1, 2011) The Gallery at BAG is proud to present
Introductions, an exhibition highlighting emerging artists in New York City.
The artists participating in Introductions have each received a BFA or MFA within the
past two years, and many are also participating in Brooklyn Artists Gym’s ‘Recent
Graduate’ program. For many of the artists, this is their first exhibition outside of an
academic setting. Because the artists work in a wide range of mediums and styles,
Introductions is a varied and dynamic show.

Please join The Gallery at BAG for the opening reception of Introductions on Saturday,
December 17th from 6pm – 9pm.

For a list of participating artists, images of the artwork, and information about BAG’s
‘Recent Graduate’ program, please visit www.brooklynartistsgym.com.

Hours:
Monday through Friday from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. and Saturdays by appointment.

About Brooklyn Artists Gym:
BAG is an artists’ studio and gallery space in the Park Slope/Gowanus area of Brooklyn,
NY. BAG’s mission is to make it possible for artists to further their careers at a
reasonable cost. Since 2006, BAG has offered classes, critiques, figure drawing, and an
in-house library in addition to studio and exhibition services. For more information,
please contact info@brooklynartistsgym.com.

UPDATE: Looks like Dream won the juror’s choice award!

This winter I will be participating in PUNCH Gallery’s Juried Exhibition, Acquiesce, then Silent.

From PUNCH Gallery’s website:

Acquiesce, Then Silent
2011 Juried Exhibition

December 1 – 30, 2011

Juried by Stefano Catalani
Director of Curatorial Affairs/Artistic Director
at the Bellevue Arts Museum

Opening Reception and Awards: 5-8pm
First Thursday, December 1, 2011
Awards at 7pm

About the Show
PUNCH enthusiastically presents our third International Juried Exhibition, Acquiesce, then Silent. Butterflies will dance and bees will sting. Yes, this year’s exhibition just might be the Bout of the Century. This round, more than 400 artists collectively submitted 1,461 entries from all (well, most) corners of the globe. From this, juror Stefano Catalani, Director of Curatorial Affairs/Artistic Director at the Bellevue Arts Museum, has pared it down to a dozen badass artists. The overwhelming response to this call was sensational and the work received was far-reaching in both its quality and innovation.

This year’s selection will feature tattoos, skulls, a dead bird, a dying dandelion, a bunch of tiny lawn chairs, a disemboweled horse in a clear cut, some hematite, and a giant glow worm. Come and witness the spectacle in its entire splendor. Trophies and awards will be announced at the opening reception on December 1 at 7 p.m. And remember to cast your vote for the people’s choice award when you visit the show. Stuff the ballot box if feel so inclined. We dare you.

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I will be participating in Verge Art Fair’s Tomorrow Stars at Art Basel Miami Beach this year. Check it:

VERGE ART MIAMI BEACH AT THE GREENVIEW HOTEL
1671 Washington Avenue @ 17th Street
December 1-4, 2011

PUBLIC HOURS
Thursday, Friday & Saturday, 2 – 3 December, Noon to 10 pm
Sunday, 4 December, Noon to 6 pm
OPENING NIGHT PARTY
Thursday, 1 December, 2011, 6:00 pm to 10pm

TOMORROW’S ART TODAY: THE THIRD ANNUAL VERGE ART MIAMI BEACH
Coming Thursday, December 1, Verge Art Miami Beach invites you to experience the finest, freshest work on display in Miami Beach by living artists. Unstunted by the blue-chip rehash of a stale market, VERGE breaks away from the false quality of name recognition art to reach for something new and cutting edge. Verge Art Miami Beach is proud to host a list of exhibitors that includes international and national gallery exhibitors, and more than fifty artists for “The Drawing Show” and “Tomorrow Stars.” Chosen by a distinguished panel of jurors, “Tomorrow Stars” represents the brightest and best by artists from around the globe, as selected by Meg Duguid, Clutch Gallery Director and Cultural Grants Coordinator for the Chicago Office of Tourism and Culture, Michael Thomas, Dogmatic Gallery co-founder and sitting member of the Visual Arts Committee for the Chicago Cultural Center, Patrick Collier, artist and critic for PortlandArt.net and ultraPDX.com, and VERGE owner Michael Workman. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to own the work of tomorrow’s stars today!

GALLERY EXHIBITORS
ANTIDOTE, Brooklyn, NY, and Chicago, IL, Astro Space Party, Chicago, IL, Visual Cocaine, Berlin, Germany, Friend Party Enterprises, Berlin, Germany, Antena Gallery, Chicago, IL, Van Brabson Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, Diane Birdsall Gallery, Old Lyme, CT, Byrne Art Portfolio, Merion Station, PA, McGowan Projects, London, UK, Peters Art Projects, Chicago, IL, Pure Luck, Brooklyn, NY, Vortex Enters Void, The Muldives, Dhivehi, Klaus Gerdes Projects, New York, NY.

TOMORROW STARS
Chizuco Sophia Yw, “Propogate-G,” Brooklyn, NY, Emi Brady, “Convergence,” Brooklyn, NY, Fanny Allie, “My Town is Gone,” Brooklyn, NY, Jay Paavonpera, “Front St. / Gold St.,” Brooklyn, NY, Eve Lateiner, “Untitled,” New York, NY, George Goodridge, “Number Twenty, Vertebrate Companion Series,” Miami FL, Adrienne Outlaw, “How to Mistake Your ____ For a ____,” Nashville, TN, Michael Lauch, “Giving of Myself,” Brevard, NC, Jordi Williams, “Artificial Plantlet Array,” Richmond, VA, Josafat Miranda, “Lover,” Ft. Lauderdale, FL, Cindy Mason, “I will give you what you do(n’t) want,” St. Petersburg, FL, Alice Raymond, “Mise plat 5,” Biscayne Park, FL, Jovan Karlo Vilalba, “A Dawn Perched on Downbursts,” Miami, FL, Mare Vaccaro, “Valor,” Lexington, KY, Horst Josch, “Against the Odds #4,” Meerbusch, Germany, Francesco Vizzini, “On the Trunk,” Brooklyn, NY, Marita Contreras, “Death2,” St. Pete Beach, FL, Michael Harris, “Seven Island Way,” Weston, FL, Romy Maloon, “Birthing,” Marietta, GA, Melissa Maddonni Haims, “Hell,” Philadelphia, PA.

THE DRAWING SHOW
Monica Rezman, “Hairpiece 30,” Chicago, IL, Jordan West, “My Desires Are Not Easily Controlled,” Santa Fe, NM, Danielle Wyckoff, “Horizon (we are each others’ fates),” Athens, OH, Catherine Lane, “Figure With Guns,” and “Figure With Deer,” Toronto, Ontario, Canada, PST, “Rape Dream”, Chicago, IL, Alice Raymond, “Cloche,” Biscayne Park, FL, Charmaine Ortiz, “Graphite Spill (Aquatic),” Carolina Beach, NC, Erin Whitman, “Projections: Gojira,” Eureka, CA.

For more information, check out Verge’s website HERE.

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EDIT: Images of the piece made for this show, Good Clean Pure Fresh New, have been posted HERE.

UPDATE 12/17/11: Another article has been published about the show. Check it out HERE.

UPDATE 12/3/11: Good Clean Pure Fresh New was mentioned in this article about the show by Durham’s Herald-Sun.

Creative Dishonesty: Cheat Codes
Center for Advanced Hindsight
2024 W Main St, Bay C
Durham, NC

December 3, 2011 through January 31, 2012
Opening Reception December 16th 6PM – 10PM

I will be participating in the Center for Advanced Hindsight’s Creative Dishonesty: Cheat Codes, an exhibition based on Dan Ariely’s research (see his TED talk here) and intended “to spark dialogue about the relationship between creativity, ethics, dishonesty, cheating, illusions, and rationalization.”

PRESS RELEASE FOLLOWS:

For Immediate Release:
November 4, 2011

Dan Ariely & The Center for Advanced Hindsight
Duke University

Press Contact: Catherine Howard
Curator, “Creative Dishonesty”
creativedishonesty@gmail.com

The Center for Advanced Hindsight at Duke University is pleased to coordinate and host the exhibition Creative Dishonesty: Cheat Codes on display at 2024 W Main St, Bay C, Durham, NC from December 3, 2011 to January 31, 2012 with an opening reception on December 16th, 2011 6–10PM

As a magnanimous gesture of support for artistic ingenuity and creative perspectives, twenty artists were invited to create innovative and engaging artwork in response to research on behavioral economics, dishonesty, and cheating after attending an interactive forum at the Center for Advanced Hindsight.

With no limitation to the style or media of pieces created for “Creative Dishonesty: Cheat Codes,” a portion of the artists, which included sculptors, painters, and photographers, branched out stylistically from their normal medium, while others pushed conceptual boundaries.

Albert Gilewicz, a sculptor, utilized “Ethos” bottled water as the foundation for a sculpture exploring the truth behind branding and corporate marketing, compelling the viewer to confront the reality of selling their morality for the sum total of $0.05 donated to the development of drinkable water sources in Africa.

Artist Kerry Cox created an interactive installation that questions the nature of imagery as “moral” or “immoral” through audience participation. In a similar vein, Bruce Mitchell and Adrian Schlesinger created projects inquire how to classify an image as “art” after mechanical tools are used to enlarge, project, draft, and print.

Meet these artists and many others at the opening reception on December 16th from 6-10 PM! Pick their brains about the relationship between creativity, honesty, cheating, and the “fudge factor”. Join us on Third Friday for delicious food, wine, thoughtful artwork, and lively conversation at the Center for Advanced Hindsight, 2024 W Main St, Bay C, Durham, NC.



A comprehensive exhibit catalogue, including reflections by the artists alongside responses from the curator and the researchers at the Center for Advanced Hindsight, will be published and available for purchase.

For more information about the “Creative Dishonesty” project, contact curator Catherine Howard at creativedishonesty@gmail.com or check out www.danariely.com.

About Dan Ariely
Using simple experiments, Dan Ariely studies how people actually act in the marketplace, as opposed to how they should or would perform if they were completely rational. His interests span a wide range of daily behaviors, and his experiements are consistently interesting, amusing, and informative, demonstrating profound ideas that fly in the face of common wisdom.

Dan is the James B. Duke Professor of Psychology & Behavioral Economics at Duke University, where he holds appointments at the Fuqua School of Business, the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, the School of Medicine, and the department of Economics. He is also a founding member of the Center for Advanced Hindsight.

He is the author of the New York Times Bestseller Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces that Shape Our Decisions and The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Ways We Defy Logic at Work and at Home. His research has been published in leading psychology, economics, and business journals, and has been featured occasionally in the popular press. He is a regular contributor to Marketplace.

About the Center for Advanced Hindsight
The central goal of the Center for Advanced Hindsight is to develop great insights (in hindsight) about an extensive and diverse set of research projects. As a non-discriminating institution, its work examines published as well as unpublished work, and the work of researchers of all ranks. Of course, this involvement is restricted to work conducted by unaffiliated researchers, as this kind of intimate scientific inquiry by its members would be too dangerous. Needless to say, all aforementioned work is done retrospectively. One might even go as far as saying “in hindsight.” The sole responsibility of members is to critique the work of others and comment on the obvious intuitiveness and predictability of the results. In fact, there is no “ground-breaking” research that comes as a surprise to the brilliant minds of the Center. The initiation process to become an official member of the center requires an oath of commitment to apathy and absurdity.

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Specific Environments: Landscape As Metaphor
Fort Collins Lincoln Center
Fort Collins, CO

December 2, 2011-January 14, 2012

From the Fort Collins Lincoln Center website:

“This is not your typical landscape show, but is deeply tied to how we experience and interpret our relationship to the land, the environment, and our surroundings. The focus of the exhibition will center on work that stretches the idea of how we view our environment, surroundings and the ‘scape and scope’ of the land as metaphor for something else entirely. Award-winning art critic Leanne Goebel is our Guest Juror for the exhibition. [...] Don’t miss this intriguing exhibit that will have you thinking about landscape art in an entirely new way.”

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Cerebral Departure: Investigations in Contemporary Issues

SpaceCamp MicroGallery
Wheeler Arts Community
1035 Sanders St.
Indianapolis, IN 46203

November 15-30th, 2011
Opening Reception Friday, November 18th 6-9PM.

From SpaceCamp’s facebook event:

Unlike the currently ill-fated Phobos-Grunt mission, SpaceCamp blasts off in mid November to a temporary nearby satellite location!!

Come see the first multimedia exhibition experience solo-curated by Paul Bryan Miller, ’10 BFA Herron School of Art & Design. The show will take place in the large theatre space inside the heart of the Wheeler Arts Community in Fountain Square (right behind Bud’s Supermarket).

Hope to see you all there. It’s going to be spectacular!

Featuring work by:
Jakob Anckarsvard, Christophe Dillinger, Larry Caveney, Jeff Schmuki, Wendy DesChene, Jeffrey Beekman, Jordan Williams, Lena Kirk, Le Xi, Vincent Valerio, Catriona Faulkner, Alice Arisu, Michael Vincent Manalo, Suzanne Goldenberg, Brittany Vega, Fred L’Epee, and Michael Wyshock

Exhibition runs for 2 weeks (November 15th-30th). For more info, leave a comment or shoot us an e-mail: spacecampgallery@gmail.com

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I will be participating in 1708 Gallery’s 4th Annual InLight Richmond on Friday, October 21, 2011.

The following excerpt was taken from 1708 Gallery’s website:

“Organized by 1708 Gallery, InLight Richmond is a public exhibition of light-based art. InLight Richmond 2011 will take place along the James River, on a site that stretches from Dominion Resources to MeadWestvaco and the Federal Reserve, and that features the American Civil War Center at Tredegar Iron Works.

The James River runs through the heart of downtown Richmond and is truly a lifeline for the River City. Once a major avenue for commerce, the James is now a popular recreation destination. At the heart of the site is Historic Tredegar Iron Works, once one of the South’s largest producers of cannon and railroad rails, a fact that led to Richmond’s selection as the capital of the confederacy. Tredegar Iron Works is now home to the American Civil War Center, the nation’s first museum to interpret the Civil War from Union, Confederate, and African American perspectives. This site has particular resonance this year as it is the 150th anniversary of the Civil War.

The site of InLight Richmond 2011 will by transformed by art installations selected by Juror Matthew Lyons, Curator at The Kitchen, in NY, presenting a mix of visual, performance and interactive art installed along the river and beach, sidewalks, historic buildings, walls and the surrounding grounds, train trestles, pedestrian bridges and more.”

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