Design & Inspiration
I will be wrapping up my curatorial residency at the Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership with a Myrtle Windows Gallery show. If you’ve ever walked down Myrtle Avenue during one of their shows, you’ll know that stumbling upon artwork in an unexpected place makes your walk a little nicer.
Twelve artworks will be selected for display in shop windows along the avenue via an open call. See the call for proposals below, or click here.
The deadline is MAY 20.
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In February I’ll be adding art print publishing to the growing list of Random Number services. This new division, aptly titled Random Number Multiples, will offer a curated selection of limited edition artworks. Random Number Multiples will launch with two silk screen print editions by Jer Thorp and two by Marius Watz.
The exciting part about these prints is that Thorp and Watz, who mainly use software as their medium, are embracing a technique that allows their hand to be so evident. All of the images in this post come from a weekend of silk screening at the Bushwick Print Lab, under the guidance of founder Ray Cross.
The four different prints are editions of 50, and are available exclusively through Random Number for $100 each. The online store launches the first week of February and we will celebrate with an exhibition showcasing both artists’ work on February 11 in Brooklyn. It will be a great opportunity to see the screen prints framed and in person if you’re in the NY area.
Details to follow shortly, but pre-orders can be placed by contacting info@randomnumber.nu. Click here to see more artwork details and photos from the printing process.
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I am working on a new exhibition for Flux Factory and we are accepting proposals through an open call process. Send in your proposals no later than JANUARY 19 to my Flux Factory email address (posted below).
Flux Factory, an open art collective that provides contexts for artists to create new work and actively promotes a community of diverse cultural producers, is currently accepting proposals for an exhibition that focuses on objects of war and occupation.
Armed conflict leads to unique forms of expression that pervade contemporary culture in myriad ways both visible and invisible, tangible and abstract. For this exhibition we are inviting artists to respond to one of five cultural by-products or expressions of war that have been chosen for their symbolic value and relevance to daily life. They include: (1) Transcript of the Milosevic war crimes trial at The Hague, (2) the balaclava face mask, adopted as a symbol of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation, (3) US Army recruitment video game, (4) Save Darfur Coalition full-page ad in New York Times, and (5) North Korean Hell March video and the ensuing discussion posted on YouTube.
We invite you to respond to one of these objects or images in any way you wish. There is no limitation to medium, and a small honorarium will be available for selected proposals.
We will also feature a panel discussion and produce an accompanying catalogue of the exhibition. This show, organized by Douglas Paulson, Chen Tamir, Ginger Shulick, and Christina Vassallo, is an extension of a previous exhibition by Tamir, “One After Another,” in which 8 artists were asked to respond to a photojournalist’s image of Palestinian prisoners being led blindfolded and handcuffed to an Israeli military base near the Gaza Strip. You can read more about “One After Another,” which was presented in 2009 at the National Gallery of Saskatchewan, here.
Interested parties should submit:
The deadline for submissions is Wednesday, January 19. Please use “War Show Proposal” as the subject of your email, and remember to add your name to all materials. Do not send original material.
Send submissions to christina[at]fluxfactory[dot]org. If you have any questions, please email with “War Show Question” in the subject line.
We’re looking forward to your proposals!
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Participating in the Dumbo Arts Festival with the group exhibition Collective Consumption was a blast! The festival and the exhibition had a great turnout. The Collective Consumption opening was especially memorable–all due to milk & cookies, a live sound performance, and spilled paint. Thanks to all who stopped by 20 Jay Street #1019 to see the show.
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I couldn’t help but put together a stop-motion video of Jenifer Wightman installing her cookie piece, “Ephemeral Artist.” It was just so much fun watching the cookies pile up on the table and then get attached to the wall.
Collective Consumption: Jeni Wightman from Random Number on Vimeo.
Here is a photo of Jason Seder, from Agitators Collective (another group participating in Collective Consumption), sniffing the wall of scent.
You’ll have to come to the exhibition to see the entire installation and smell it, in all its sweet spicy glory. Opens tomorrow (9/24, 6 pm – 9 pm).
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