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NEWS
KAKO UEDA's Eros & Thanatos will be included in "Animal Instinct: Allegory, Allusion, & Anthropomorphism" at John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. Click here to visit the Kohler Arts Center website.
DIANE EDISON will be part of a two-person exhibit entitled "The Mosaic Project: Diane Edison and Jerry Pinkney," which will open at Pennsylvania College of Art & Design, Lancaster, Pa., on Friday, October 1 with a reception from 5 - 8 p.m. To visit the Mosaic Project website click here.
Drawings by MICHAEL FERRIS, JR. are included in "StAGES of Transition" at the Northern Illinois University Art Museum in Dekalb, Illnois. For more information on this group exhibition, click here.
Work by ENRIQUE CHAGOYA is exhibited at the Bing Stanford in Washington Art Gallery through January 2011. Click here for more information.
A selection of RON NAGLE's sculptures and drawings are exhibited at James Kelly Contemporary in Santa Fe, New Mexico through September 25. To access the gallery's website, click here.
Work by KAKO UEDA was included in two exhibits this summer. Her work appeared at the Arario Gallery in New York as part of the exhibit "Irrelevant: Local Emerging Asian Artists Who Don't Make Work About Being Asian" July 1 - August 6, 2010 and at the Jennifer Kostuik Gallery in Vancouver in "Redefining Drawing" from July 15 - August 22, 2010.
Roberta Smith reviews our recent show of early work by ROBERT ARNESON. To read the review, click here.
TRAVELING EXHIBITIONS
"I Heard A Voice: The Art of Lesley Dill," a fifteen year survey of work by LESLEY DILL, opens at the Smith College Art Museum, Northampton, Massachusetts. Organized by Nandini Makrandi, curator of contemporary art at the Hunter Museum of American Art in Chattanooga, Tennessee, the exhibition features over 35 works in all media, including Dill's monumental sculptures Rise and Rush, first shown at the Neuberger Museum in 2007. A full-color catalogue documents the show (available through George Adams Gallery and the Hunter Museum of Art). The show began at the Hunter Museum of American Art and will travel to the St. Petersburg Museum of Art, Florida, the Palmer Museum, Pennsylvania Sate University, the Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas, and the Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, South Carolina.
We are pleased to announce that Susan Landauer, Curator of the Collection at the San Jose Museum of Art, is organizing a full-scale retrospective of ROY DE FOREST paintings and works on paper. The exhibition, which will travel, opens in the fall of 2013 and will be accompanied by a major monograph on the artist.
A solo exhibition of new drawings and sculpture by MICHAEL FERRIS opened August 21, 2009 at the DePree Art Center and Gallery at Hope College in Holland, MI. The show travels to Central Michigan University Art Gallery, Mt. Pleasant, MI and the Bruce Gallery at Edinboro University, Edinboro, PA.
MUSEUM ACQUISITIONS
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York has acquired a suite of prints by ENRIQUE CHAGOYA. The prints, titled "Return to Goya's Caprichos" is a suite of 8 etchings with aquatint made in 1999. Chagoya updates Goya's well known images with appropriate modern references including fighter planes, Teletubbies, Snow White, Ratfink and others.
The Whitney Museum, New York, has acquired from the gallery a trio of stencil prints by DAVID WOJNAROWICZ. "Burning House," "Red Plane and Soldier," and "Running Soldier," were made in 1982 with enamel spray paint.
The U.S. Department of State's Art in Embassies Program has acquired AMER KOBASLIJA's painting Florida Studio with Self-portrait, 2008, for the U.S. Embassy in Sarajevo.
Illegal Aliens Guide to the Concept of Relative Surplus Value, 2009, included in ENRIQUE CHAGOYA's recent exhibition at the gallery has been acquired by the Cantor Center at Stanford.
The New School University has acquired The Ghost of Liberty, 2004, a large color lithograph by ENRIQUE CHAGOYA.
The Greenville County Museum of Art, South Carolina has acquired CHARLES MARSH's collage on found canvas, Untitled (Landscape with Figure), from c.1990.
The Smithsonian American Museum of Art acquired an untitled drawing in crayon on paper from 1961 by PETER SAUL from the gallery's recent show "Peter Saul: Drawings and Prints 1960-1975."
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York has acquired a set of PETER SAUL's political prints made between 1966 and 1975.
The Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University has acquired JOAN BROWN's 1971 painting A Family Portrait which will be included in their forthcoming anniversary exhibition featuring major works acquired in the last ten years. Other gallery artists represented by works in the exhibition include ROBERT ARNESON, ELMER BISCHOFF and ROY DEFOREST.
The Weatherspoon Museum in Greensboro, NC has acquired a drawing by ROBERT ARNESON, J.B., 1980, a portrait of the artist Joan Brown. The piece will complement other holdings of Bay Area artists in the museum's collection including works by Roy De Forest and Joan Brown.
The New Orleans Museum of Art has recently acquired LESLEY DILL's bronze sculpture Standing Man with Radiating Words, 2006, for the museum's collection. The piece will be on view in the museum's outdoor sculpture garden.
GRANTS AND AWARDS
DIANE EDISON has been selected as a 2010 LECTURING/RESEARCH Fulbright Scholar Grantee to Bulgaria by The J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.
MICHAEL FERRIS was selected as one of 134 NYFA Fellows in 2009 chosen from among over 3,600 applicants in eight categories including Crafts, Digital/Electronic Arts, Film, Interdisciplinary Work, Nonfiction Literature, Poetry, Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts, and Sculpture. The Fellows were selected by peer panels, which were assembled with representatives from each artistic discipline. Read the press release.
MICHAEL FERRIS received a 2009 BRIO (Bronx Recognizes Its Own) Award at a ceremony on June 3rd, 2009 at the Longwood Art Gallery at Hostos Community College. Ferris was selected for the award by a panel of artist from the greater New York area.
DIANE EDISON was awarded the Paul C. and Margaret Beasley Broun Student Support Fund grant. This grant will give partial support to a Graduate student from the Lamar Dodd School of Art and an undergraduate From the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communications at the university of Georgia Athens. These students will accompany Diane Edison for a short summer study abroad semester in Ghana and Burkina Faso West Africa.
LESLEY DILL was one of ten artists to receive an Anonymous Was a Woman award for 2008. The "no strings" grant of $25,000 enables women over 35, at a critical juncture in their lives or careers, to continue to grow and pursue their work.
ANDREW LENAGHAN has been awarded a month long residency at the Richard Estes Artist in Residence program in Northeast Harbor, Maine for July 2008.
KAKO UEDA has been awarded a 2008 Urban Artist Initiative NYC Fellowship for Visual Arts. One of 50 recipients this year, the grant is awarded to artists in New York City through a consortium effort to strengthen the infrastructure and support for artists of color.
PUBLICATIONS
"I Heard a Voice: The Art of LESLEY DILL," an exhibition catalogue published by The Hunter Museum of American Art in Chattenooga, Tennessee, is available from George Adams Gallery and The Hunter Musem of Art.
LESLEY DILL's opera Divide Light is available on DVD in the gallery or though the website www.dividelight.com. The opera was commissioned by the Montalvo Arts Center with additional support from the Rockefeller Foundation MAP Fund, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.
DIANE EDISON'S Dynamic Color Painting for the Beginner was first published in the Spring of 2008 by Harry Abrams and with distribution in the United States, England, China and South Korea. The Spanish language edition comes out in March of 2009. For more information, please visit www.abramsbooks.com
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