Brooklyn College Art MFA Blog

Occupy Wall Street Journal

2011-10-03T15:40:00.001-07:00

vizkult is heading up the initiative to publish The Occupy Wall Street Journal for the occupation of Wall Street. The idea was proposed to the NYC General Assembly Arts & Culture Committee meeting this past Monday Sept. 26th. Be on the look out for "The Occupy Wall Street Journal". If anyone wants to help out with future i issues contact x_vizkult.org The content will be along the same taste as the previous vizKult projects, Good Morning Baghdad and BCuz Newz.

www.vizKult.org

Index Festival - Aug 3-28

2011-07-15T11:22:00.000-07:00

The Index Festival August 3-28, 2011
http://indexfestival.com

The Index Festival will transpire in August 2011 in New York City. Our aim is to bring together individuals and groups who cognitively engage media culture. We welcome the interdisciplinary, shared and accessible culture we are coming to live in as a result of digital technology. Our mission is to focus on projects that blur the vocabulary of science and art, dissect the media that describes our culture today, and to disseminate out from the [cultural] institution, and further into the multi textural international landscape.

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INDEX FESTIVAL KICK-OFF
Wednesday, August 3rd
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6-7:30pm --> Opening "To Have and To Hold" @ Harvestworks
7-8:30pm --> Panel @ Harvestworks
9pm-2am: --> PARTY at M1-5, 52 Walker Street, NYC***

***Co-hosted by Helen Wu of Opalnest
DJ's (in order of appearance): Maria Chavez, Jon Santos, Matt Radune...
Visual: Sadek Bazaraa, Carrie Gates, special guests... and more!

Festival Organizers:
Kristin Trethewey, Victoria Keddie, Malcolm Levy, Cornelia Lund, Kellie Morgan, Helen Homan Wu

Festival Artists:
Ingo Gunther, Robert Pietrusco, Katja Loher, Jon Rafman, Dan Perrone, Jon Cohrs, Clive Murphy, Ava Jarden, Igal Nassima, Lary Seven, David First and Kid Millions, Paul Metzger, Maria Chavez, Twistycat, Byron Westbrook, MV Carbon, Liz Wendelbo, Future Archeology, Shelley Burgon, Kerry Downey, Andrew Graham, Janos Stone, Mathew Spiegelberg, Antonio Serna, Elias Melad, Ryan Brennan, Luna Maurer, Graw Bocklet, Robert Heel, Alyssa Wendt, Dana Bell, Tom Ruth, Michael Robinson, Kevin Lovelady, Sadek Bazaraa, Collin McKelvey and Kelly Lynn Jones, Jeremy Rotsztain, Goeffrey Pugen, Zach Layton, Carrie Gates, Jon Santos

Festival Panelists:
Cornelia Lund, Malcolm Levy, Ceci Moss, Nathalie Bachand, Robert Pietrusko, Katja Lohrer, Ingo Gunther, Jon Rafman, Maria Chavez, Byron Westbrook, Shelley Burgon, Future Archeology, Ed Beard and Lea Bertucci, MV Carbon, Peter Kirn, Chris Lacinak, Perry Garvin, Ryan Anthony Donaldson, Jane Park

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Performances
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Blues to Drone
August 18 6:00pm- 10pm
Clocktower Gallery/ Art on Air
108 Leonard Street, 13th Floor

[Mis] Adventures in Manipulation , Part 1 + 2
August 19-20th 7pm-2am
Millenium Film Workshop 66 E 4th Street, NY, NY

Workshop
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Media Literacy for a Critical Masswith Katherine Fry
--> August 20 / Daytime Workshop
Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center, 596 Broadway, #602

Exhibitions
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To Have and to Hold --> August 3-28
Harvestworks, 596 Broadway, #602

Landscapes Worlds Real --> Aug 8-28
INDEX HQ, 236 W 37th

Read the Rules Before You Use the Pool --> August 18-27
**OPENING Aug 18th 6-8PM**
CSV Center, 107 Suffolk Street

Fill the Barn --> August 19-28
Chashama Harlem Studio
461 W 126th Street, NY, NY

Screenings
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Animated Architectures, Part 1 + 2
August 9 7pm-2am
Millenium Film Workshop
66 E 4th Street

Colo(u)r Sound Culture Mash Up
August 27 7pm-2am
Millenium Film Workshop
66 E 4th Street

Panels
@ Harvestworks, 596 Broadway, #602
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The Festival Aug 3 at 7pm
Mediated Landscapes Aug 10 at 7pm
Make Read7 Aug 17 at 7pm
Digital Born and After Aug 24 at 7pm

2011-06-28T17:09:00.000-07:00

from the kids who brought you Pretty Vacant + some....

Incongruent Sum
curated by Astrid Honold

WED June 29th, 7-9pm

111 Leroy St, New York, NY
(between Hudson & Greenwich)

Eric Fertman
Carlos Little
Antonio Serna
Fendry Ekel
Kathryn Lynch
Yuri Masnyj
Anya Kielar

organized by Mathematics Collective

MEMORY PALACE: Brooklyn College 2011 Thesis Exhibition

2011-05-02T14:04:00.000-07:00

MEMORY PALACE
Brooklyn College MFA Thesis Exhibition 2011
MemoryPalace2011.com

Art by
Linda Bernal, Julia Cocuzza, Gregory Hayes, Megan Hays, Michele Liebler, Hector Madera-Gonzalez, Allison Merz, Madison Omahne, Ivan Rivera, Nooshin Rostami, Natalie Taylor, & Boris Torres

Curated by
Adam Thompson

Opening Reception: Friday May 20th, 6-10pm
RSVP via Facebook

May 20-June 5, 2011
Open Daily 1-6pm

Flux Factory
39-31 29th Street
Long Island City, Queens, New York
FluxFactory.org

Exhibition Statement (by Adam Thompson):

The ‘memory palace’ is an ancient memorization technique, one which exploits the fact that our visual/spatial memory far outperforms our verbal and numerical memory. To memorize a long text or string of numbers, you can use a remembered architectural space (like a childhood home) as a mental storehouse for the new information. You can transform each to-be-remembered item into a dramatic, eccentric, unforgettable image, mentally insert these images into specific locations within the remembered space, and later ‘find’ it right where you left it.

This show resembles a memory palace, in that it is idiosyncratic rather than unified, and endeavors to make a virtue of this heterogeneity. The differences between images, experiences, personalities are what make them visible, meaningful, and memorable. We can’t help but categorize artworks, but when we do we inevitably obscure what most compels us about them. It is particularity--not generality--that arrests our attention.

The idiosyncrasy of visual expression renders art a perpetually uneasy collaborator with academe, since schools necessarily prioritize rational, categorical thought. But the title of this exhibition provides an analogy for how this collaboration can function productively; the memory palace technique requires both wildly varied imagery and a framework to anchor and link that imagery. In an MFA program, the school supplies the quantitative structures that order the experience--the space, the time, the schedules, the deadlines--and the students furnish the bureaucratic boxes with color, with strangeness, with life.

When the palace fragments, when the menagerie vanishes and the walls of the studios are once again whitewashed clean, these sundry art practices will likely find themselves in more isolated rooms. But while at Brooklyn College, this group of artists built a home from their differences, a place to which they can always return in their mind's eye.

For more details visit MEMORYPALACE2011.COM

Julia Cocuzza: Auto-Reverse, Curated by David Gibson

2011-04-20T08:20:00.000-07:00

My first ever solo exhibition in Brooklyn. Artists Jennifer Baker and Fara'h Salehi will be showing in the front gallery, I'll be holding down the back.. Check it out!

Julia Cocuzza
AUTO-REVERSE
Curated by David Gibson
April 22-May 29, 2010
Opening Reception: Friday, April 22nd, 6-9pm
Art 101 Gallery
101 Grand Street, Brooklyn NY

For more info:
Real Form Independents
David Gibson, Article Projects
Art 101 Gallery

RSVP via Facebook

Brooklyn College Spring 2011 MFA Open Studios: April 8th & 9th

2011-03-16T11:11:00.000-07:00

Visit Visit BrooklynCollegeOpenStudios.com for more info.

Or RSVP via Facebook.

RE-INSCRIBING THE CITY: Unitary Urbanism today.

2011-03-15T22:53:00.000-07:00

"The crisis of urbanism is worsening. The construction of neighborhoods, old and new, is obviously at variance with established modes of behavior, and all the more so with the new ways of life we seek. As a result, we are surrounded by a dull and sterile environment."

"In old neighborhoods, the streets have degenerated into highways, and the leisure is commercialized and adulterated by tourism. Social relations there become impossible. Newly built neighborhoods have only two themes, which govern everything: traffic circulation and household comfort. They are the meager expressions of bourgeois happiness and lack any concern for play" - Constant Nieuwenhuis, International situationiste 3 (December 1959) pp. 37-40

RE-INSCRIBING THE CITY:
Unitary Urbanism today.

A vizKult panel discussion held In conjunction with The 5th Annual NYC Anarchist Book Fair

Saturday April 9th 4:15-5:45pm

Judson Memorial Church (balcony)
55 Washington Square South
New York City, NY

In the late 50s up until about the end of the 60s a group of artist known as the Lettrist/Situationist International (LI/SI) made a desperate attempt to re-inscribe the city so that it's inhabitants could break free from the bleak urban routine of work and consumption. During this period several strategies were developed under the name of Unitary Urbanism. This panel reflects on the historical importance of these strategies in order to critically examine how they relate to their own work and the possible uses within society today.

MODERATOR: Antonio Serna
PANELIST: Ethan Spiglan, Adeola Enigbokan, Dillon De Give, Blake Morris, The Walk Study Group, and Wilfried Hou Je Bek (via skype)

BIOGRAPHIES

Ethan Spigland received an M.F.A. from the Graduate Film Program at New York University, and a maitrise from the University of Paris VIII under the supervision of Jean-Francois Lyotard and Gilles Deleuze. He has made numerous films and media works including: Luminosity Porosity, based on the work of architect Steven Holl, Elevator Moods, featured in the Sundance Film Festival, and The Strange Case of Balthazar Hyppolite, which won the Gold Medal in the Student Academy Awards.

Adeola Enigbokan. Artist, researcher, writer and teacher based in New York City. Her work is about the experience of living in cities today. Her work has been presented in several diverse venues: at the ConfluxCity Festival, Anthology Film Archive in New York, The Royal Institute for British Architects, London and the Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem. She teaches courses in Urban Studies, Media Studies, Sociology and Anthropology at several universities in New York City. Currently she is completing a doctorate in Environmental Psychology at the City University of New York. Website: http://archivingthecity.com

Dillon de Give started Lah an annual walking project that commemorates the spirit of Hal, a coyote who appeared in Central Park in 2006 and died shortly after being captured by authorities. Lah illustrates how a coyote might find its way into Manhattan with a reverse human journey out of the city: a hike retracing a potential coyote-like path through greenspaces. Citing examples of juvenile coyotes that have made long dispersal trips, the walk averages around 50-60 miles. Website: implausibot.com

Blake Morris uses walking as a core way to engage ideas and space, and also to create community. His last project was a yearlong exploration of the public works of Robert Moses, called The [Robert Moses] Walk Project, which resulted in over 50 walks throughout the NYC area. He also created the [untitled] Walk Project, and is working on Walking up an Appetite, an exploration of walking, food and technology. Currently his work can be seen at the Superfront gallery in LA, as part of Detroit: A Brooklyn Case Study.

The Walk Study Group is New York City walking group formed by Blake Morris and Dillon De Give. Each week case studies of strategic walking practice and theory in art, politics, ecology, and philosophy, are combined with specific short walks. The course will result in an understanding both theoretical and practical and culminates with a group walk constructed by the class for the public. Website: http://www.implausibot.com/walkstudy

William Hou Je Bek Wilfried is a 'culture hacker' who develops generative psychogeography. Inspired by concepts of drift (dérive) from Romanticism and, later, the Situationists around Guy Debord, Wilfried uses algorithmic routes to explore a city in non-intuitive ways. Hou Je Bek organizes dérives, where people walk through a city by taking computer code as a guideline, using the body as a means to perform software. Website: http://cryptoforest.blogspot.com

Antonio Serna is an artist living and working in New York. With art as his tool, he is constantly comparing and contrasting the human construct of progress with the animal instinct of survival. The results of which have been exhibited in New York, Spain, Mexico, The Netherlands, and Texas. Antonio has also taught and lectured at Parsons School of Design, St. Johns University, and at Brooklyn College as a teaching fellow. Outside of his studio, Antonio Serna enjoys rummaging through the social anthropology of art and visual culture. Website: http://www.antonioserna.com

Optional Texts:

October issue 79: Guy Debord and the Internationale situationniste [PDF 7.8mb]
A Special Issue. Guest editor, Thomas F McDonough. Winter 1997
table of contents:
Rereading Debord, Rereading the Situationists - Thomas F. McDonough
Why Art Can't Kill the Situationist International - T.J. Clark and Donald Nicholson-Smith
AsgerJorn's Avant-Garde Archives - Claire Gilman
Angels of Purity - Vincent Kaufmann
Lefebvre on the Situationists: An Interview - Kristin Ross (1983)
Situationist Texts on Visual Culture and Urbanism: A Selection:
Guy Debord - One More Try If You Want to Be Situationists (The S.I. in and against Decomposition)
Guy Debord - Theses on the Cultural Revolution
Michèl Bernstein - In Praise of Pinot-Gallizio
Constant Nieuwenhuis - Extracts from Letters to the Situationist International
Editorial Notes: Absence and Its Costumers
Editorial Notes: The Sense of Decay in Art
Constant Nieuwenhuis - A Different City for a Different Life
Editorial Notes: Critique of Urbanism
Editorial Notes: Once Again, on Decomposition
Raoul Vaneigem - Comments Against Urbanism
Editorial Notes: The Avant-Garde of Presence
Théo Frey - Perspectives for a Generation

In Conversation Raoul Vaneigem - Hans Ulrich Obrist, e-flux article 62, 2009 [PDF 1.1]

About vizKlut: This panel is part of vizKult, a loose band of artist and writers exploring the 'cult of vision'. This group explores the ways in which the visual operates in our society and the mechanism which manufacture, shape, and control the world around us. In this sense VizKult's emphasis is on the process rather than the products of our contemporary visual condition. http://www.vizkult.org

Additionally, in conjunction with the 5th Annual NYC Anarchist Book Fair, vizKult is presenting DISCRETE POWER, a group exhibition on display during the book fair weekend. Opening reception April 9th, from 6-8pm on the Judson Church balcony. For more info visit: http://www.vizkult.org/propositions/discretepower and http://www.anarchistbookfair.net

2011-02-11T10:49:00.000-08:00

MFA Showcase 2011 - Opening Reception

2011-02-07T13:44:00.001-08:00

BROOKLYN COLLEGE MFA SHOWCASE 2011
Brooklyn College Student Center, 4th Floor
Campus Road & East 27th Street, Brooklyn

Opening Reception: Tuesday February 8th, 5-7pm

featuring all current MFA students at Brooklyn College

Bklyn College MFA Open Studios - Nov 19 & 20

2010-11-06T11:34:00.000-07:00

Less than two weeks away! Brooklyn goes hard - and we get open.

Visit Visit BrooklynCollegeOpenStudios.com for more info.

Or RSVP via Facebook.

Or download the press release.

BEDLAM Group show SAT Nov 13

2010-10-27T09:08:00.001-07:00

BEDLAM

SAT NOV 13TH
7PM - 10PM

113 LEROY ST NYC

anthony titus • eric fertman • david sena • john furgason • laura napier • nichole van beek • carlos little • cy amundson • boveda • jeremy williams • rebecca haskins • antonio serna (B.C. 2010) • patricia gaeta • philippe arman • max miller • jeremiah stewart • kim reinhart • serban ionescu • kathryn lynch • erin krause • kora manheimer • brent owens

BC Alum Night Take 2: Thurs Oct 28th 8-11PM

2010-10-18T10:43:00.000-07:00

From Jeff Frederick (BC MFA 2010)

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Dear Fellow Artists,

Thank you so much to those who came to the first Alum Night! More than 25 people stopped by over the course of the evening, including some delightful alumni significant others. Hare Field Road is a comfortable place, not too hipster, not too divey, and not too loud to talk.

We're going to try it again, this time on a Thursday, so that current first years may be able to attend. Please join us for Brooklyn College Alum Night, an unofficial, casual gathering of BC MFA Art alums. Drink and converse. Share tips and techniques. Network, or just gossip about the art world.

When: Next Thursday, October 28th, 8-11PM
Where: Hare Field Road
769 Metropolitan Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11211
(718) 388-6870

How: L Train to Graham Avenue (2 doors from White Castle)
Who: Brooklyn College Art MFA Alums! Current 1st and 2nd years are welcome, significant others are welcome, everyone is welcome.

Please pass this invitation along to any other BC alums you know. At the bottom of this note is a list of people for whom I am missing e-mails. If you have it, please let me know!

All the best,
Jeff Frederick
BC MFA 2010

http://www.jefffrederick.net

HELLO! My Name is CUNY, 2nd Annual CUNY MFA Meet-up

2010-04-24T11:53:00.000-07:00

HELLO! my name is CUNY 2010
2nd annual CUNY MFA Meet-Up & Slide-Showdown!

SUNDAY April 25th, 5-8PM
@Tom & Jerry's Bar 288 Elizabeth St, NYC (NoHo)

BROOKLYN COLLEGE • CITY COLLEGE • HUNTER COLLEGE • LEHMAN COLLEGE • QUEENS COLLEGE

Current CUNY MFA Students from the boroughs will project their work while knocking 'em back. Open to alumni, faculty, and friends of the CUNY MFA system. Unlike last years event where we hung our work, this year your work will be projected.**

THIS EVENT IS OPEN TO ALL CUNY MFA STUDENTS AND ALUMNI

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*PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO THE CUNY ART MFA GROUP FOR MORE INFO: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cunyartmfa/

**IF YOU ARE A CURRENT MFA STUDENT, PLS send 10 jpgs to brklynartmfa@gmail.com by SATURDAY MIDNIGHT - Deadline Extented!.

FORMAT:
* email subject line: "CUNY MFA Meet-up 2010 SLIDES"
* include first and last name & website URL if you have one.
* size: 1024px x 768px at 72dpi (we dont need super hi-rez)
* use this format for titling:

BC_LastF_01.jpg <-- where BC is School initials, BC, QC, CC, HC
BC_LastF_02.jpg <-- followed by LastnameFirstinitial & slide number

Projects in Bucharest

2010-04-23T19:16:00.000-07:00

June-July, Works From the Balcony, an alternative project space in Bucharest will be opening its doors to the public for the first time this June in parallel with the Bucharest Biennial 4. Located in district 2 of Bucharest the space is easily accessible sizing at 1000 square meters of raw space in an early 1900’s villa.

Here we will be hosting a series of events and exhibitions encouraging immediate public access to cross-cultural values in the contemporary arts and culture.

Participating artists:

Tudor Bratu (video & sculpture)
Lansing-Dreiden (video)
Nadja Verena Marcin (video)
Declan Rooney (video)
Ama Saru & Hsiao Chen (video and sculpture)
Antonio Serna (site specific installation with video and sculpture)
James Sham (video)
Layard Thompson (video performance)
Rancourt & Yatsuk (video performance)

Visiting Artist: Clements, Donegan, Treib

2010-04-20T05:52:00.000-07:00

Brooklyn College MFA Fine Arts
Graduate Studies Visiting Artist Lecture Series:

Art & Teaching Panel w/
DAWN CLEMENTS
CHERYL DONEGAN
PATRICIA TREIB

Thursday April 22nd, 2010, 10:00 a.m.
BC Library Woody Tanger Auditorium

DAWN CLEMENTS
Clements’ endeavor to draw what’s around her often draws her into very large-scale work; the first work I saw 10 years ago was a 78-foot long drawing done during a residency in Middlebury, VT. Her work usually develops in a serendipitous way—she responds to what she sees and doesn’t know the end point until she reaches it. She may begin working on a very modest scale but the work often ends up many times larger as she glues pieces of paper to the edges of the working drawing where she decides to continue drawing. The wrinkles and tears that develop as a result of her process are the record of a very active, performative drawing practice. (above: Boiler, ink on paper. 2010)

CHERYL DONEGAN
Cheryl Donegan defines a generation of artists, many of whom are women, who first engaged in a new conceptual art practice in the early 1990s. Her work integrates the time-based, gestural forms of performance and video with forms such as painting, drawing, and installation. Provocative and irreverent, her body-based, performative video works put a subversive spin on issues relating to sex, gender, art-making, art history, and pop culture. (above: Untitled, acrylic and spray paint on canvas, 2009)

PATRICIA TREIB
Patricia Treib’s works were recently exhibited in “Besides, With, Against, and Yet: Abstraction and The Ready-Made Gesture” at the Kitchen. A solo presentation of her work was exhibited at John Connelly Presents in 2008. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at Andrew Kreps and Guild & Greyshkul in New York, and Sutton Lane in Paris. She was awarded a studio residency through the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation in 2007. Treib lives and works in Brooklyn. (above: Icons, acrylic and spray paint on canvas, 2008)

MFA Showcase Opening Reception-- Tonight 4/13, 5:30 to 8PM, SUBO 4th Floor

2010-04-13T07:56:00.000-07:00

The Graduate Art Students Union (GASU), in collaboration with the Brooklyn College Student Center (SUBO) and the Art Galleries of Brooklyn College, presents MFA Showcase, a rotating exhibition now on display on the 4th Floor of the Student Center. The inaugural exhibition will be on view through October 2010.

An opening and reception for the artists will be held Tuesday, April 13th from 5:30 to 8:00 PM on the 4th floor of the Student Center (SUBO). Please join us for lots of food, drink and conviviality.

MFA Showcase is a group show featuring the work of 23 artists currently enrolled in the Brooklyn College Art MFA program. This new exhibition allows anyone in the Brooklyn College community to view, all in one place, a sampling of the world-class artwork that is being produced in the student studios of Boylan Hall. The artworks will visually enhance the fourth floor meeting and event spaces for the campus community.

Next fall, when a new group of Art MFA students arrives and has started working, the exhibition will be re-hung with all new work. In that way it will be regularly refreshed and will continue to represent the students currently in the program.

www.mfashowcase.blogspot.com

THIS FRIDAY & SAT: Open Studios at Brooklyn College

2010-04-12T12:18:00.000-07:00

Brooklyn College MFA
Open Studios Spring 2010

Boylan Hall, 4th, 5th, & 6th Floors
2900 Bedford Ave, Brooklyn NY (map)

2 or 5 train to Flatbush Ave.

FRI APRIL 16th 6-10 pm
SAT APRIL 17th 1-6 pm

Twenty-seven young artists from the Master of Fine Arts program at Brooklyn College (CUNY) will open their studios and invite the public to engage with their creative processes:

MFA Students: Linda Bernal • Julia Cocuzza • Jeff Frederick • David Friedman • Gregory Hayes • Megan Hays • John Keck • Luiza Kurzyna • Michele Liebler • David Loncle • Hector Madera-Gonzalez • Elias Melad • Allison Merz • JungHwa O'Connell • Madison Omahne • Juan Ortega • Marina Pavlutskaya • Ivan Rivera • Noosheen Roostami • Antonio Serna • Natalie Taylor • Miryana Todorova • Boris Torres • Matthew Wilson • Dominik Wyka • Erin Zelley • Jacob Zurilla

DOWNLOAD STUDIO FLOOR PLAN
2009/2010:
Brooklyn College Open Studios (pdf)

To See: Versus from the Abstract (FRI MAR 26th)

2010-03-23T22:10:00.000-07:00

VERSES FROM THE ABSTRACT
Selections from the Queens College MFA Studio Art Program

CURATED BY HERB TAM • MARCH 25th- APRIL 3rd, 2010
OPENING RECEPTION FRIDAY MARCH 26™ 5 - 8PM

Organized by the Queens College MFA Program in
cooperation with Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Program
11-03 45th Ave Long Island City, Ny 11101
718.937.6317 • www.dorsky.org

Lisa Candage, Jim Cass1dy, Joyce Chan. Pansum Cheng, Lacey
Fekishazy, Becky Franco, Justine Beih Gartner, Matthew F Greco,
Pahy Harris, Osaretin Ighile, Iris Jaffe, Kaitlin M. Kelty. Fran
Krause, Matthew Mahler. Matthew Palmer, Antonia A. Perez. Kim
Sheridan, William Ste1nman, Woody Williams And Debra Zechowski.

cunyqueenscollegemfa.blogspot.com

Directions: E or Vto 23rd St./Ely Ave or 7 to 45th Road/ Courthouse
Square or G To Court Square.

Funding provided by
Queens College, Office of
Institutional Advancement

To See: Boris at Bowman/Bloom

2010-03-15T09:15:00.000-07:00

Boris Torres will participating in KWAWRK, a groups show opening this Friday:

KWAWRK
Charles Lahti
Steven Salzman
Boris Torres

@ Bowman/Bloom Gallery
95 E. 7th St (b'teew 1st and A)
March 19-April 11

Opening: Friday, March 19th, 6-8 pm

Visiting Artist: Tehching Hsieh

2010-03-10T19:55:00.000-08:00

Please join us for a lecture by...

Tehching Hsieh
Thursday March 11, 12:30- 1:30
Brooklyn College Library Room 411

Pass it along to anyone who might be interested in attending.

Tehching Hsieh is a legendary performance art pioneer. Born in Taiwan, he arrived in the United States in 1974, when he jumped ship from a merchant marine vessel in Philadelphia. He settled in New York, and in 1978 he created the first of a series of one-year performances: in the Cage Piece (1978–79) he lived in a cage inside a loft with a bed and refrained from speaking or reading. This was followed by performances in
which he punched a clock every hour for one year (Time Piece, 1980–81), lived outdoors with only a sleeping bag (Outdoor Piece, 1981–82), was tied to a fellow artist with an eight-foot rope (Rope Piece, 1983–84), and refrained from creating or talking about art (No Art Piece, 1985–86). From 1986 to 1999, in 13-Year Plan, he created art but refrained from showing it. In 2000 he stopped making art altogether. He has described his work as "about being human, how we explain time, how we measure our existence."- Samuel Hoi

THURSDAY FEB 25th_12.30PM::DANIEL BOZHKOV::Visiting Artist Spring 2010

2010-02-23T23:45:00.000-08:00

Brooklyn College MFA Fine Arts and Graduate Studies &
Meier Bernstein Visiting Artist Lecture Series Present:

DANIEL BOZHKOV
THURSDAY, February 25th - 12:30PM
MAROON ROOM, 6th floor SUBO building
(FREE & OPEN TO ALL CUNY STUDENTS)

Daniel Bozhkov, 'Training in Assertive Hospitality', 2002,
Intervention and mural Courtesy of the artist

Daniel Bozhkov is a Bulgarian-born conceptual artist based in New York City. He employs a variety of media, from fresco to performance and video, and works with professionals from different fields, using different strategies to activate public space. Bozhkov enters the worlds of genetic science, department mega-stores, and world-famous tourist sites as an amateur intruder/visitor who also functions as a producer of new strains of meaning into seemingly closed systems.

Bozhkov received the 2007 Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome, and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Andy Warhol Foundation, Art Matters, and Artslink. He has exhibited at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in New York, Santa Monica Museum of Art, IKON Gallery in Birmingham, United Kingdom, Skulpturenpark Berlin Zentrum, Contemporary Art Center in Cincinnati, Arthouse at Jones Center in Austin, Texas, and the Contemporary Art Center in Atlanta. His work has been presented in international exhibitions such as the 6th Mercosul Biennial in Porto Alegre, 9th Istanbul Biennale in Turkey, the 1st Moscow Biennial of Contemporary Art in Russia and the 9th Baltic Triennale in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Daniel Bozhkov is represented by Andrew Kreps Gallery in New York.

Two traps- Sterling Ruby

2010-02-21T23:25:00.000-08:00

The only show worth checking out in Chelsea right now. (pacewildenstein) I tried to get him to come to Brooklyn College as a Visiting Artist but he couldn't make it...

Trap for 2011-2012?

Curator Walk-Through: AMY MACKIE

2010-02-16T05:59:00.000-08:00

Brooklyn College MFA Fine Arts
GASU Critic & Curator Walk-Through Series:

LUNCH WITH CURATOR:
AMY MACKIE

Thursday Feb 18th - 12:30 p.m.
Boylan Hall, 5th Fl. Gallery, (east wing).

Amy Mackie is a curatorial assistant at the New Museum, New York where she curated The Deeper You Bury Me, The Louder My Voice Becomes, a site-specific installation by Rigo 23, C.L.U.E. (color location ultimate experience) a project by A.L. Steiner + robbinschilds, and co-curated Jeremy Deller’s It Is What It Is: Conversations About Iraq. In 2005 she curated Open, an exhibition in conjunction with Paul Ramirez Jonas’ public art commission, Taylor Square in Cambridge, MA. She has organized exhibitions or worked on projects with a number of mid-career and emerging artists including Ana Prvacki, Andrea Geyer, Mariam Ghani, and the New York-based collectives LTTR and Ridykeulous. She is the recipient of a 2009 CEC Artslink Grant.

www.newmuseum.org

C.L.U.E. (color location ultimate experience) at the New Museum October 2009.
Artist included: robbinschilds + A.L. Steiner with AJ Blandford

Visiting Artist: Fendry Ekel, Folkert De Jong, Astrid Honold

2010-01-30T11:38:00.000-08:00

Brooklyn College MFA Fine Arts - SPRING 2010
Graduate Studies Visiting Artist Lecture Series Presents:

OFFICE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART
/FENDRY EKEL
/ASTRID HONOLD
/FOLKERT DeJONG

Thursday Feb 4th - 12:30 p.m.
BC Library Woody Tanger Auditorium
(FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC)

OFFICE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART is a contemporary art management office which supports a select group of individual talented young artists working in The Netherlands. It is an initiative of managing director ASTRID HONOLD, painter FENDRY EKEL and sculptor FOLKERT De JONG. In addition, OFFICE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART also maintains a collection international contemporary art and tribal art from South East Asia.

Folkert De Jong is a critically acclaimed sculptor working and living in Amsterdam. His recent mini retrospective at the Groninger Museum garnered much attention from the press. Folkert De Jong currently exhibits at James Cohan Gallery and is a graduate of the RijksAkademie.

Originally trained as an architect in Stuttgart Germany, Astrid Honold has been working in the field of Art Management and Consulting since 2003 when she founded OFFICE. Since then Astrid has been curating exhibitions for galleries and museums internationally and publishing monographs and various exhibition catalogs.

Fendry Ekel is a painter working and living in Amsterdam. He has exhibited consistently in Amsterdam and internationally in Italy, Mexico, and the US. His first solo show in the US is currently on view at The Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art and has just been reviewed in the New York Times. Fendry is a graduate of RijksAkademie in Amsterdam.

NEXT EVENT: AMY MACKIE / THE NEW MUSEUM / THURSDAY FEB 18th.
Organized by BC MFA Visiting Artist

Colonizing History, Culture

2010-01-17T18:06:00.000-08:00

Kara Walker, An Army Train, 2005

The first task of the colonizer is to map out the land. To cut it up, make it easier to negotiate.

It's a curious thing that the idea of the colonizer popped into my head yet again at the New Museums' lecture series. The first time was when Kara Walker made a proposition about the painter as the colonizer, the painting the colonized. I didn't contribute to the discussion, but I had very strong feelings about her presentation, specifically because in evolving from the metaphor of a painting as being colonized, nobody brought up, or had the courage to bring up the idea of history, specifically in her work, as what is being colonized -the body that is bought and sold. This makes Walker the colonizer, claiming so boldly what is "hers". Why didn't anyone put this question forward?

And now today I am reminded again, of the colonizers and their "maps" when Hans Ulrich Obrist spoke about "Maps for the 21st Century", spoke about his latest project. Though the idea of the colonizer isn't as heavy and as direct as in Kara's predicament, it's still an interesting angle to see it from. First of all the "Maps" project is customary of Hans Ulrich's process, that is to say it has been mapped-out before, most recently with his "Formulas for Now" book. It all begins with one idea, a minimal idea, this sets off a whole chain of events: idea/minimal guideline -> a call to the top artist -> artist respond -> eventually a show -> then a book, next project. It's seems very complete and contained, which, despite the fact that he did mention some ideas never make it that far an others go on, has a life span and follows a well known route, it is mapped. But does it have to be? (...more on the map, what is a map and what is not, later)

The first map showing the Americas by Martin Waldseemuller, 1507

According to Hans Ulrich Obrist the initial idea for these projects does come from an unmapped terrain, in his introduction he spoke about the Oulipo Group and how their experiments in writing were an inspiration for the way he sets up his curatorial projects. And that he was also interested in this element chance, that sometimes these experiments can fail, see his "Experiment Marathons" project. So why is it starting to feel very mapped out? I wonder if it has anything to do with the "colonizer" aspect. That value is a big part of this picture, that creating culture, or converting culture to value has a lot to do with how far his projects get. So everything has to be mapped out, no unpredictable names in his books. Chance was a lie, it's getting harder for his projects to fail. Museums and publishers bank on this. It all get's checked off rather methodically.

Before I go on I have to say that -if you don't know this already- Hans Ulrich Obrist uber-prolific, it is beyond human the amount of books, projects, shows, events, that he has put-out or helped with or whatever. I heard a rumor that he only sleeps 4 hrs a night- yeah, that kind of a guy. And of this output, I really only know of about a sliver of it. I probably can't even imagine all that has worked on, both realized and unrealized, (see his "Unbuilt Roads" project). I can almost bet that there must be a handful of his projects that shatter my "colonizer/map" thesis here.

None the less, I have to say, that if a curator of the 21st century wants to take the role of the instigator -as if artists no longer have the capacity and power to do so- then he/she should be willing to go as far as an artist to see that these ideas get pushed beyond their expected life, beyond what is on the map. Just as the world asks the artist to be brave and stand outside of their comfort zone-even if it means starvation, so then too an artist can ask the same of curators, critics, and museums. Much like we found the work of Henry Darger - pages and pages of exploration into his world- so should we find of a curator of the 21st century.(Alright, I've already been getting comments that Darger isn't the best example for what I'm trying to say, if there is a better one let me know. Or if it comes to me later, I'll revise this post.)

Henry Darger's Studio, photo by Lerner, 1972

An example of a Hans Ulrich Obrist project that I thought broke the mold was a project that sounded courageous, but not in an overly heroic way like his marathons, but rather courageous in it's simple gesture. His Brutally Early Club is a salon style event that happens all over London- simple as that, the brutal aspect is that it happens at 6:30AM -which I think is great, not because I'm a wanna be morning person, but because I think it's important to get that out of the way, just before going into the studio, not after. Night events have the tendency to drag on, or morph into some dunken dance party. So what of the night artist? Guston and all those Ab-Ex-Men? Simple, they can stay up working all night and come to The Brutally Early club afterward, go home sleep, repeat. Another big plus is the sunrise, when was the last time you saw the sun rise?

“I always have coffee and porridge for breakfast. My breakfast happens very early, at 6.30am, because I wake up early. I founded a club, which is called the Brutally Early Club. It’s basically a breakfast salon for the 21st century where art meets science meets architecture meets literature. The reason why I decided to do my club at 6.30am in different cafés, which are open so early, is because in 21st-century cities it’s become very difficult to improvise. Everybody has a schedule and it becomes really difficult to decide from one day to the next to gather for a meeting. You have to plan it weeks and weeks in advance. It’s so important to have improvisation in cities. Most people are free at 6.30, so that’s the idea of the Brutally Early Club and I have done it ever since I moved to London.”
-from The Q&A: Hans Urich Obrist at MoreIntelligentLife.com.

I noticed on The Brutally Early Club website that they have one in New York City. Anyone know where that is? Or want to establish a New York chapter with me?

Cosmonaut Polyakov or Avatar?

2010-01-17T08:14:00.000-08:00

Looking for an alternative to James Cameron's Avatar? I am. I haven't seen Avatar despite some of my closest friends demanding that I see it. I'm too much of a realist when it comes to films. When I see how fake the wigs or the lighting, especially the lighting- I'm reminded of the Hollywood machine with all it's formulas and tricks. I don't doubt I'll enjoy Avatar, it was engineered that way- it's a whole 2hrs of engineered cinematic experience- not one nostril hair left un-engineered. But that's really all it is, a formula.

I'm looking forward instead to watching Dana Ranga's Cosmonaut Polyakov, a film selected by Urs Fischer, that's being screened through-out the span his solo show at the New Museum. It's a documentary film about space and politics just like Avatar, that's why I thought it would make for a great alternative. But the reality might make for a better take-away, Polyakov holds the record for being in space for the longest span of time, one year and two months.. and "for the first time he speaks publicly about the KGB, being in exile, and the struggle of space travel."

Friday January, 22. At the New Museum Theater
5:00pm

Cosmonaut Polyakov(2007)
110 min, Russian language with English subtitles
Dir. Dana Ranga
This highly acclaimed 2007 documentary directed by Dana Ranga (East Side Story, and Story). Cosmonaut Polyakov follows Russian cosmonaut Valery Polyakov, who holds the record of the longest trip into space: one year and two months. For the first time he speaks publicly about the KGB, being in exile, and the struggle of space travel.

other films in Urs Fischers Film Selections:

January 22, Friday
5 p.m.: Cosmonaut Polyakov
7 p.m.: Up the Yangtze

February 5 Friday:
5 p.m.: Touki Bouki
7 p.m.: Yves Saint Laurent 5 avenue Marceau 75116 Paris

Artistic Automata

2010-01-10T20:31:00.000-08:00

Kristoffer Myskja built a machine to synthesize Cellular Automata rule No.# 30 among other things...

The Click Click machine below, is what I had in mind in Vito's Master Project studio review when I imagined Matthew Wilson building a machine that could in a second synthesize his work, only instead of clicks, I imagined it making several thousand strokes.

Afterwards I kept thinking about what it means to create and then synthesize that creativity mechanically. Reading Rosalind Krauss' The Optical Unconscious today I came across a a passage about a praying mantis, an insect that can play dead to fool it's pray. But more surprisingly, with it's head cut off it can play alive as well as play dead when it is in fact dead. Is that a twisted metonyn or metaphor? or simply rambling on my part?

(links by way of Social Fiction then Data is Nature, an endless source of inspiration... a true time killer.)

Flower, a New Game About Nature

2010-01-03T13:21:00.000-08:00

"Each level takes place in a different flower's dream as it sits on the windowsill of a dull city apartment. As the player progresses through the game, the apartment and city gradually becomes more vibrant and colourful, until it climaxes at the 100% completion mark and the cityscape is replaced by a vibrant field with mountains in the background. The player guides a petal through brightly coloured, abstract fields by tilting the motion-sensitive controller; pressing any button on the controller gives a speed boost. The aim is to guide the petal into other flowers in the field, triggering an explosion of colour that spreads through the game world." Wikipedia: Flower

Late 16th Century Collaborative Strategies

2009-11-18T15:56:00.000-08:00

So apparently Collaborative Strategies were big in Antwerp around the 16th & 17th centuries... I saw this painting "Battle of Amazons" a collaborative painting by Jan Bruegel and P.P. Rubens at the Rubenhuis, in downtown Antwerp.

Earlier this morning I came accross another Bruegel collaboration, a painting of the 9 muses meeting with Minerva, the Roman Goddess of War. This painting, which I didn't get then name of, was housed in the Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen.

Higher Ground in Low Lands (A-D)

2009-11-16T18:35:00.001-08:00

Please stop by, if you can,
To my group show in Amsterdam.

Higher Ground
Group show curated by Astrid Honold
14 November - 19 December

Gallery Metis-NL
http://www.metis-nl.com

2009-11-06T07:18:00.000-08:00

VISITING ARTIST: Inka Essenhigh

2009-11-05T09:45:00.000-08:00

THIS IS THE LAST VISITING ARTIST FOR THE FALL 2009 SEASON!!!
-->NEXT TUESDAY - NOV 10th!!!

Brooklyn College MFA Fine Arts
Graduate Studies & Meier Bernstein Visiting Artist Lecture Series:

INKA ESSENHIGH

TUESDAY, NOV 10th - 12:30 p.m.
Brooklyn College Library, Room #242
(FREE & OPEN TO ALL CUNY STUDENTS)

Inka Essenhigh's paintings redefine pop as the epitome of aesthetic hierarchy. Her ultra-slick surfaces operate as virtual fields, where estranged narratives play out in cross-wired systems of a reference and recognition. Influenced by 19th century caricatures, oriental art, Arabic miniatures, and contemporary comics, Inka Essenhigh's paintings are both exotic and operatic: envisioning futuristic mythologies frozen in dynamic moments of suspended animation. -PATRICIA ELLIS

http://www.303gallery.com
http://www.inka-essenhigh.com

ps. We are accepting nominations for new V.A. coordinators for 2010/2011.
Nominate yourself or others bcvisitingartist@gmail.com

Press Release

2009-10-31T13:32:00.001-07:00

For Immediate Release:

“Insanity in individuals is something rare, but in groups, parties, nations and epochs it is the rule”

...Nietzsche didn't mention MFA programs, but judge for yourself at the Brooklyn College MFA Open Studios. Fourteen first year and thirteen second year Masters candidates open their workspaces to the public and attempt to explain themselves. Come look at art (while it looks back at you).

4th Floor: Jacob Zurilla | Jeff Frederick | Elias Melad | Madison Omahne | Megan Hays | Luiza Kurzyna | David Friedman | Juan Ortega
5th Floor: Julia Cocuzza | Hector Madera | Allison Merz | John Keck | Gregory Hayes | Michelle Liebner | Linda Bernal
6th Floor: Matthew Wilson | Dominik Wyka | Erin Zelley | JungHwa O'Connell | Marina Pavlutskaya | Antonio Serna | David Loncle | Noosheen Roostami | Miryana Todorova | Natalie Taylor | Boris Torres | Ivan Rivera

Friday, November 13 6-10 p.m.
Saturday, November 14 12-6 p.m.

Take either the 2 or the 5 train
to Flatbush/Brooklyn College.

www.brooklynmfa.com
For more information contact us at brooklynart@gmail.com
or call 718.951.5588 ext. 5181

Opening Night Is Closing Night: A Brooklyn College Art MFA First and Second-Year group show

2009-10-29T08:52:00.000-07:00

Opening Night Is Closing Night
A Brooklyn College Art MFA First and Second-Year group show
and reception for the artists

Thursday, November 5th from 6 to 10PM
Brooklyn College Student Center
East 27th St. and Campus Rd.
6th Floor, Maroon Room

Presented by GASU: Graduate Art Students Union
All are welcome! CUNY ID required, or RSVP for the guest list

Rita Ackermann Oct 29th: Visiting Artist Fall 2009

2009-10-27T09:26:00.000-07:00

Brooklyn College MFA Fine Arts
Graduate Studies & Meier Bernstein Visiting Artist Lecture Series:

RITA ACKERMANN
Thursday OCT 29th - 12:30 p.m.
BC Library’s Group Viewing Room #242
(FREE & OPEN TO ALL CUNY STUDENTS)

Rita Ackermann is a painter who tends to put that talent in the service of a wider, more adventurous milieu-making activity, connecting with music, fashion, and other urban scenes in order to carry sensations from one place over into another, sometimes making us rediscover what painting is along the way.

Rita (b. 1968 Budapest) lives and works in New York. She exhibits at Andrea Rosen Gallery in NY and Peter Kilchmann Gallery in Zurich.

www.andrearosengallery.com

See This Other Sound

2009-10-24T21:51:00.001-07:00

In addition to Glenn Gould's diagrams in Jim Supanick's Critical Writing reader, here is a link to "Seen and Heard", a review on Rhizome of a recent show See this Sound at The Lentos Musuem with some curious 1950's clips of Normal McLaren and his visual sound.

SEE THIS SOUND. Promises in Sound and Vision
Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz - 28 August 2009 - 10 January 2010

Hello Elemental Chile

2009-10-24T20:40:00.000-07:00

Documentary of Quinta Monroy Project in Iquique, Chile from elementalchile on Vimeo.

This project by Elemental Architects (Chile) reminds me of Rural Studio/Samuel Mockbee (US) in that they involve the public in the design process. This project however goes a step further by adding the potential for expansion and further customization to be realized by the dweller after the design is complete.

RELATED: Rural Studio readings in Siebren Versteeg's Workshop in Design course.

Boylan Hall MFA Studio Floor Plan 2009/2010

2009-10-20T10:41:00.000-07:00

I've updated the studio map & will be putting these around too.
(The floorplan is an old floorplan I found online somewhere, we should eventually modernize it.)

The pdf version is here:
www.brooklynmfa.com/files/Boylan-MFAStudios20092010.pdf

Sarina Basta Oct 22nd: Fall 2009

2009-10-19T11:42:00.000-07:00

Brooklyn College MFA Fine Arts
GASU Critic & Curator Walk-Through Series:

Lunch with Critic & Curator
SARINA BASTA
October 22nd - 12:30 p.m.
Boylan Hall, 5th floor Gallery (lunch will be served)

Sarina Basta is an independant curator based in New York. She joined SculptureCenter as Curator from 2006 to 2009 where she also ran the organizations public program series. Previously, she was Manager and Designer at Acconci Studio in New York and Head of Communication at the Centre of Contemporary Art in Geneva, Switzerland, where she curated her first exhibitions. Since then she has worked with several hundred artists, on more than sixty exhibitions, worldwide. She has written for different art publications including Texte Zur Kunst and Flash Art International and compiled and edited Vito Acconci’s chronologie raisonnée published in Vito Hannibal Acconci Studio, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes and MACBA Barcelona (2004).

Sarina received her B.S. degree in Political Science from the University of Geneva (1996) and a M.A. in Post-War and Contemporary Art from the University of Manchester and Sotheby’s Institute, London (1998). She also participated to the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Studies Program (2005) in the Urban Studies and Architecture Department.

Latest Curatorial Project:

No Bees, No Blueberries
Curated by Sarina Basta and Tyler Coburn
Harris Lieberman Gallery (6/26/09-7/30/09)

Artists: John Baldessari, Andrea Blum, Douglas Boatwright, Kim Seob Boninsegni, The Bruce High Quality Foundation, Heman Chong, Martha Colburn, Ann Craven, Das Institut (Kerstin Braetsch & Adele Roeder), Nikolas Gambaroff, Nicolás Guagnini, Guyton/Walker, Karl Haendel, Gareth James (with Roe Ethridge), i-cabin, Haley Mellin, Olivier Mosset, Steven Parrino, Luciano Perna, Allen Ruppersberg, SALOON (with Debo Eilers, Jane Jo, Jason Loebs, Charles Mayton, Blake Rayne, Georgia Sagri, Thomas Torres Cordova, Viola Yesiltac), Karin Schneider, Peter Simensky (with Charlotte Beckett, Patty Chang, Jennifer Cohen, Rachel Foullon, JLefcourt, Michael Mahalchick, Ohad Meromi, Carter Mull, Adam Putnam, Allison Smith, Meredyth Sparks, Jane Virga)

BC MFA open studios fall '09

2009-10-16T19:00:00.000-07:00

Fall 2009 Open Studios Design by Miryana Todorova

2009-10-16T12:41:00.000-07:00

Here is my design for the card---the front side ...

and the back. All the best, Miryana xxx

Postcard Submission - Fall 2009 Open Studios

2009-10-16T07:30:00.001-07:00

Hi Guys,

Here is my design submission for the postcard. I hope you like it!

Jeff.

Koolhaas Kube

2009-10-12T18:05:00.001-07:00

Rem Koolhaas discusses his winning proposal for Taiwan's new Taipei Performing Arts Centre. The theater looks to bring with it his love of the generic bigness, as the cube is convertible to over 8 arrangements. The cube shape remains generic, it's the audience sections that reveal, conceal, expand and contract... Details in Chinese, sorry.

P.S. Let's hope the Taiwanese keep the ceremonial fireworks at a good distance from this one.

P.s. 2 This is for the 1st years, Acconci's Aesthetics of Information and Versteeg's Design Workshop contain readings by and about Koolhaas...

VISITING ARTIST: Gary Stephan

2009-10-03T09:49:00.000-07:00

Brooklyn College MFA Fine Arts
Graduate Studies & Meier Bernstein Visiting Artist Lecture Series:

GARY STEPHAN

WEDNESDAY, NOV 4th - 12:30 p.m.
Brooklyn College Library, Woody Tanger Auditorium
(FREE & OPEN TO ALL CUNY STUDENTS)

Gary Stephan has been showing his painting and sculpture since the late sixties in the United States and Europe. He has had solo shows in this country at Bykert Gallery, Mary Boone, Hirschl and Adler, Margo Leavin, Marlboro, and Daniel Weinberg among others. His work is in the collections of The Guggenheim, The Metropolitan and the Museum of Modern Art in NY, as well as museums nationwide. Recipient of awards from the National Endowment of the Arts, Guggenheim Fdtn and the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Currently he is teaching in the MFA program at School of Visual Arts in NYC and represented by Galerie Kienzle/Gmeiner, Berlin.
www.kienzle-gmeiner.deh
www.youtube.com/user/garystephan

HIlary Harkness Oct 1st: BC Visiting Artist Fall 2009

2009-09-28T11:37:00.000-07:00

The Meier Bernstein Visiting Artist & Lecture Series:Brooklyn College MFA Fine Arts

HILARY HARKNESS
Thursday OCT 1st - 12:30 p.m.
BC Library’s Woody Tanger Auditorium
(FREE & OPEN TO ALL CUNY STUDENTS)

"New York artist, Hilary Harkness, paints finely detailed scenes of off-duty sailors in submarine sleeping quarters, lederhosen-clad art thieves in a Swiss chalet, and Gallic warriors, [...] engaging in what you might expect them to engage in during their down time -sex, mischief, self-adoration, drive-thru fetus implantation [...] Of course, these are not conventional"
-Laura Smith fnewsmagazine.com

www.maryboonegallery.com

David Gibson Sept 24th: BC Critics & Curators Fall 2009

2009-09-23T07:30:00.000-07:00

Brooklyn College MFA Fine Arts
GASU Critic & Curator Walk-Through Series:

LUNCH WITH CRITIC & CURATOR
DAVID GIBSON
SEPT 24th - 12:30 p.m.
Boylan Hall, room # 5313 (lunch will be served)

David Gibson is a native-born New Yorker and art world denizen. He began his post-college career as a critic writing for Cover, NY ARTS, Zingmagazine, Flash Art, and Performing Arts Journal. After a period of three years, during which he also worked in galleries and museums in various capacities, he also started his freelance career as a curator.

articleprojects.blogspot.com

The Better Half - Sept. 10 to Oct. 29, 2009
An exhibit of artwork by artists married to artists

Curated by David Gibson and Jeffery Rakien Nomura
Ernest Rubenstein Gallery/The Educational
Alliance 197 East Broadway New York, NY 10002

Artists: Chris Bors and Ketta Ioannidou, Daniel Davidson and Tricia Keightley Jennifer Burbank and Chris Coffin, Linda Ganjian and Jesse Lambert, Liz-N-Val, Donald Porcaro and Leslie Wayne

Joe MacNamara Sept 17th: BC Visiting Artist Fall 2009

2009-09-23T07:18:00.000-07:00

The Meier Bernstein Visiting Artist & Lecture Series:Brooklyn College MFA Fine Arts

JOE McNAMARA
SEPT 17th - 12:30 p.m.
Boylan Hall, room # 5313

(FREE & OPEN TO ALL CUNY STUDENTS)

Joseph McNamara is an American-born painter and photographer known for his penetrating depictions of narratives portraying human industry’s engagement with the landscape and compositional diligence manifest in the balancing of structural abstraction and perspectival extension.

www.josephmcnamarastudio.com

Ward Shelley Sept 10th: BC Visiting Artist Fall 2009

2009-09-09T06:06:00.000-07:00

DON'T FORGET --> THIS THURSDAY!

To kick off the BC Visiting Artist Series, Ward Shelley will be speaking
this Thursday.

---> I hope to see you ALL there, Your attendance will help the visiting artist series gain more support both internally and within the larger art community.

WARD SHELLEY
Thurs Sept 10, 2009 -> 12:30 PM
Woody Tanger Auditorium/ inside BC Library

Ward Shelley is a Brooklyn-based artist with 2 distinct bodies of work. He specializes in large projects that freely mix sculpture and performance. Shelley also works on a series of diagrammatic paintings, time-lines of art and culture related subjects that attempt to give shape to information and ideas.

More Info: http://www.wardshelley.com

**Studio visits to follow lecture. We will post the student list asap or
by the latest on the day of. If you have special engagements, email us
to arrange a time, from 1:30- 6:30ish. bcvisitingartist@gmail.com

Antonio, Luiza, Elias
BC Visiting Artist Coordinators

Brooklyn College Visiting Artist: Fall 2009

2009-09-08T06:13:00.000-07:00

Brooklyn College / MFA Fine Arts
The Meier Bernstein & Graduate Studies
Visiting Artist Program FALL 2009

The Visiting Lecture Series is open to the public and all Brooklyn College Students. Lectures are on Thursdays starting around noon in the Woody Tanger Auditorium BC Library unless otherwise noted. Visit the www.brooklynmfa.com for more updates or email bcvisitingartist@gmail.com with any questions you may have... (TBC = to be confirmed)

Sep 10 Ward Shelley artist, multimedia
http://www.wardshelley.com/

Sep 17 Joe MacNamara artist, painter

Sep 24 Critic/Curator: David Gibson
http://articleprojects.blogspot.com/

Oct 1 Hilary Harkness artist, painter
http://www.maryboonegallery.com/artists.html

Oct 8 Sterling Ruby artist, painter (TBC)
http://www.foxyproduction.com/artist/view/6

Oct 15 Inka Essenhigh artist, painter (TBC)
http://www.inka-essenhigh.com

Oct 19-24 Mid-terms

Oct 22 Critic/Curator: Sarina Basta (TBC)
http://www.harrislieberman.com/no_bees/NBNB.html

Oct 29 Rita Ackermann artist, painter
http://www.andrearosengallery.com/artists

Nov 4 (wed) Gary Stephan artist painter
http://cultureport.com/cultureport/artists/stephan/

Nov 12 Yael Bartana artist, video (TBC)
http://www.ps1.org/exhibitions/view/203/

Nov 12 Guy Ben-Ner artist, video/performance (TBC)
http://www.cca.org.il/guy-ben-ner/

Nov 19 Critic/Curator: TO BE DECIDED

Nov 26 Thanksgiving

Dec 7-12 Semester Reviews

Dec 15-21 Final Exams Week followed by winter recess

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The Visiting Lecture Series is open to the public and all Brooklyn College Students. Lectures are on Thursdays starting around noon in the Woody Tanger Auditorium BC Library unless otherwise noted. Visit the www.brooklynmfa.com for more info or email bcvisitingartist@gmail.com with any questions you may have. MFA students: Email your 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th picks to bcvisitingartist@gmail.com *Check for updates and unless noted lectures will begin at 12:30. V.A. Coordinators: Antonio, Elias, & Luiza w/ help from Miryana.

2009-09-04T10:36:00.000-07:00

2009-09-04T10:25:00.000-07:00

russian winnie the pooh or at least that is what it says..

2009-09-04T10:23:00.000-07:00

this could have been done better. But i think it is worth watching it

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2009-09-04T09:51:00.000-07:00

Making the Most of Left-over Bigness

2009-06-15T06:24:00.000-07:00

Consumed,Repurpose-Driven Life - NYTimes.com
America’s shopping infrastructure is vast and abundant. That’s the problem.

Article in the New York Times about the shopping mall crisis in the USA mentions the photography of Julia Christensen (above) which documents the conversions of big-box stores in the Big Box Reuse book and BigBoxReuse website and a new book “Retrofitting Suburbia,” by Ellen Dunham-Jones...

A similar book worth mentioning is Rem Koolhaas and his students work at Harvard called "The Harvard Guide to Shopping" .. if you can get your hands on a copy. $112 and up on Amazon. We happened to read the intro to Koolhass' "S, M, L, XL" in Vito Acconci's "Aesthetics of Information class" (Spring 08) and we also read a criticism of his books by Hal Foster in Siebren Versteeg's "Workshop in Design History" (Spring 08)

In regards to re-purposing and mix-use space, here is a film by an artist friend of mine Hatuey Ramos-Fermin, which documents a special mix-use space in Holland.

Coexistence: "Since the year 2000 this Latin American migrants pentecostal church shares their worship space with a ping pong club in Amsterdam. Each weekend they transform the space."

Finally, this is a great little guide book from architects(?) Atelier Bow-Wow in Japan called "Made in Tokyo"... It's an index of all the uniqueness of Tokyo's architectural condition, that is very little space...

Open Source Embroidery

2009-06-08T16:12:00.001-07:00

Since embroidery and needle work came up several times this past semester with several students at Brooklyn College doing projects with needle and thread I figure I share this group that I discovered called Open Source Embroidery.. They are having a show in Sweden, so make due with the website info.. http://www.open-source-embroidery.org.uk

Look closely, there are circuits in the embroidery to the left!!!

Radio Open Source with Christopher Lydon: "Knitting: Stitch 'n' Bitch" (July 28, 2005 - 52min)

B.C. Art MFA Student Meeting. (TOMORROW!)

2009-05-31T12:45:00.001-07:00

B.C. Art MFA Student Meeting. (TOMORROW!)

Monday June 1st, 2009
5pm.
Brooklyn College - Boylan Hall (west wing)
4th floor studios, common area (a.k.a granny's room)

Below is a tentative list of topics to be discussed. Following each
topic student request/concerns will be discussed. Bring your
questions, comments, concerns or email them to us in advance. Although
it is very last minute we feel it is a little overdue, we hope all of
you can attend. Please let us know if you can or cannot attend. We
will post and email the minutes for those who cannot attend but wish
to be informed.

GASU RELATED
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
- GASU Constitution
- Elections: procedures, elections, terms
- GASU Budget: figures, uses (current, future)
- Structure within Brooklyn College (see Student Affairs)
- GASU transitional elections
- GASU future: resources/contacts, budget templates, communications, etc.
*** Student inquiries for GASU.

VISITING ARTIST RELATED
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
- Visiting Artist responsibilities, cycle.
- Visiting Artist List 2009/2010: procedures, liaisons, payments, announcements.
- Visiting Artist transitional periods.
- Visiting Artist/ Lecture series future.
***Student inquiries for current Visiting Artist.

DIVISION OF STUDENT AFFAIRS RELATED
- - - - - - - - - - - - - -
- Student Center (SUBO)
- Graduate Student Organization (GSO)
- College Association
- Student Development Club Liaison.
- Starting a new club with art potentials.
***Student inquiries for Student Affairs

ART MFA DEPARTMENT RELATED
- - - - - - - - - - - - - -
- Internet in studios.
- Information resources, future resource repository.
- Streamlining BC Art MFA experience (student portal, identity)
- Studio move in times/dates, current petition to extended stay.
- Senior Thesis Show 2010. Responsibilities, deadlines.
***Student inquiries for MFA Art Department.

A Few Updates and Goings On...

2009-04-29T08:29:00.000-07:00

CUNY Meet-up photos posted on the blog by Jacob. Students from Queens and City College are interested in working together in doing some shows, more info coming soon. -Antonio

NOW: New Feeds & Links added to the Blog (right hand column).
-Hunter's visiting artist & lecture feeds
-Queens College's Blog
-ArtCat, opening and journal
-E-Flux, Journal and announcements

TONIGHT: 6:30-8:30 - Fred Tomaselli and Ken Johnson tream up for The Hunter/Zabar Visiting Artist Public Critique. Critique of student work from Lisa Davis' 2D-Seminar by Fred Tomaselli, Ken Johnson of the New York Times, and Professor Joachim Pissarro.

TONIGHT: Christian Jankowski/Public Art Fund April 29, 2009 6:30 p.m.
The second lecture in the series will be delivered by multimedia artist Christian Jankowski. At the New School.
http://www.newschool.edu/vlc/events.aspx?id=27196

THIS WEEKEND: Those who were fortunate to have Elana Herzog in your studio, she is participating in the LMCC Open Studio's this weekend, Friday-Sunday, You need to RSVP to enter the buildings:
http://www.lmcc.net/art/residencies/workspace/2008/openstudioweekend.html

NEXT WEEK: Queens College is hosting Curator Nato Thompson, MAY 5th at 4:30pm in Kiely Hall room 170 Refreshments to follow in Klapper Hall, 6th floor FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!
http://cunyqueenscollegemfa.blogspot.com/

NEXT WEEK: Finally, a 1998 Documentary on painter, fisherman, visionary, eccentric- Forrest Bess: Keys to the Riddle is screening at The Piloctetes Center May 5th (Directed by Ari Marcopoulos & Chuck Smith):
http://www.philoctetes.org/Calendar/Forrest_Bess_Keys_to_the_Riddle

NEXT WEEK: Cory Arcangel/Public Art Fund -> May 6, 2009 6:30 p.m.
The final lecture in the series by media artist Cory Arcangel at the New School
http://www.newschool.edu/vlc/events.aspx?id=27198

NEXT WEEK: ALfredo Jaar Lecture at Hunter/Zabar, Kossak Theatre HN 15th fl 68th st, Thu, May 7, 7:30pm – 9:00pm

Pictures from the Hello Cuny event

2009-04-18T12:20:00.000-07:00

Hello CUNY + Open Studios Spring 2009

2009-04-14T08:55:00.000-07:00

Are we ready? The websites are!!!, let me know if I misspelled anything or if you need me to add a URL here and there.

HELLO! my name is CUNY
Friday April 17th, 2009 6-9PM

Brooklyn College Open Studios
Spring 2009
Friday April 24th 6-10pm
Saturday April 25th 12-6PM

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2009-04-08T09:44:00.001-07:00

From Deb comes these images of a clever advertising campaign for a small Zimbabwean newspaper. They've printed all their advertising on actually money - which, unfortunately, has become completely worthless

Brookyln College Emailer Final

2009-04-02T22:03:00.000-07:00

click to download the full resolution version. Or right click + "save link as"

SPRING 2009
MFA OPEN STUDIOS

BROOKLYN COLLEGE
BOYLAN HALL: floors 4, 5, & 6
2900 Bedford Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11210

SUBWAY/BUS:
2 to Flatbush/Brooklyn College
Q to Avenue H
B6 or B11 to Bedford Ave at
Campus Rd

FOR A DETAILED MAP AND INFO:
www.brooklynmfa.com

brooklynart@gmail.com
tel: 718.951.5572

photo © Steve Baldwin
brooklynparrots.com

danish knitting artist isabel berglund

2009-04-01T19:28:00.000-07:00

WORKING THROUGH THE GREAT DEPRESSION

2009-03-30T08:56:00.000-07:00

Exhibition at Queens College.
Feb 9- June 9, 2009

GODWIN-TERNBACH MUSEUM
405 Klapper Hall
65-30 Kissena Blvd.
Flushing, NY 11367
Phone: 718.997.4747
Fax: 718.997.4734
Email: gtmuseum@qc.cuny.edu

Open Studios Post Card V2: More Color

2009-03-28T08:17:00.000-07:00

Hey All,
I tried out a new image, with more color and character(s). I located the image online and had received permission from the photographer Steve Baldwin (he is trying to get me a high resolution version fro printing as we speak). I can almost here the wild cackle of our feathered friends now....

Comments pls.

p.s. I'm liking this one.

Queens College Open Studios March 27, 2009

2009-03-27T15:06:00.000-07:00

Tonight 6-11pm.
The Master of Fine Arts program at CUNY Queens College is pleased to announce their Spring 2009 MFA Open Studios event. For one evening, FRIDAY, MARCH 27th 2009, 6:00pm - 11:00pm, approximately 20 current graduate art students will open their studios to the public to share works in progress and converse with visitors in an informal setting.
Free and open to the public
For more information, call 917-885-3492, email: lcandage@qc.cuny.edu or visit
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=70840105750

Press thing

2009-03-23T21:24:00.000-07:00

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Brooklyn College Master of Fine Arts Open Studios

4.24.09 6-10pm
4.25.09 12-6pm

I am a night painter, so when I come into the studio the next morning the delirium is over. I come into the studio very fearfully, I creep in to see what happened the night before. And the feeling is one of, "My God, did I do that?".
-Philip Guston

America's oldest M.F.A. program is holding its Spring Open Studios.
Twelve first year and eleven second year Masters candidates open their workspaces to the public, showing finished works and ideas in progress, fleeting successes and unmitigated disasters. What better time to support the arts than now, at the brink of our Nation's demise?

Artists: Dominik Wyka | Jacob Zurilla | Emily Bicht | Mark Bump | Juan Ortega | Lars Rassmusen | Susanne Cranston | Antonio Serna | Paul Gagner | David King | JungHwa O'Connell | Luiza Kurzyna | Nathaniel Lieb | Marina Pavlutskaya | Jeff Frederick | Erin Zelley | David Loncle | David Friedman | Matthew Wilson | Elias Melad | Emet Sosna | Sara Reiss | Maria Tasigiannis | Zane Wilson

Take either the 2 or the 5 train
to Flatbush/Brooklyn College.

http://www.brooklynmfa.com/
For more information contact us at brooklynart@gmail.com
or call 718.951.5588 ext. 5181

Edit as you will guys. Make sure I spelled your name right and didn't forget anybody.
Also I don't know that we've decided on these times. We should decide on the time before we tell people to come.

Spring Open Studios 2009

2009-03-22T09:52:00.000-07:00

Hey All,
Here is the Brooklyn College Open Studios card. Let me know what you all think.

Regarding Dates and times, I'm sort of for having it 2 weeks after spring break, May 1 and May 2, Instead of the week right after spring break. Also, I noticed a few people concerned about the Saturday hours.. I'm thinking maybe we should have it earlier 12-6 (instead of 2-8)? More brunch-style, bagels and coffee emphasis, plus the early light is nice!

Please comment and let us all know what you think.

Matthew will email/post the press release soon too so be on the look out.

Things remaining: Paul is gonna help us get the budget for the printing. I'll be in contact with him.

BACK:

It's Alive!! Brooklyn Art MFA's Brain...

2009-03-11T11:15:00.000-07:00

... well -sort of. I put up a mind map of potentials for the Brooklyn College Art MFA program. Seem like there are many potentials out there but they always fleeting. One way to catch them or start to is put them down and then work them out, slowly. So this is a start, have a look, explore. If you feel like getting in there and adding/arranging stuff let me know and I will send out an invite to share/edit the map. (but email me first, you have to be invited- as a matter of fact I should just invite everyone as soon as I have some time.)

The brain lives here without a frame, bookmark it:
Brooklyn Art MFA: Resource

P.S. It's great for spatial thinkers.

Wrong Angles

2009-03-09T21:33:00.000-07:00

Interesting article plus multimedia in the New York Times last month about a show of the Ceausescu Collection in Romania's Bucharest’s National Museum of Contemporary Art. The paintings were all hung at angles or low to the ground to so the show is not interpreted as a tribute.

Romania Shrugs Off Reminder of Its Past (article)
From the Ceausescu Collection (multimedia)

(repost from Bureaux)

** Oh, yeah, in case you don't remember the Ceausescu's... watch this clip of artist Harun Farocki's Videograms of A Revolution on you tube:

2009-03-09T12:15:00.000-07:00

the Black Heart Gang

2009-03-09T10:22:00.000-07:00

The Black Heart Gang (South Africa)

2009-03-09T10:20:00.000-07:00

italian artist blu....

2009-03-09T10:18:00.001-07:00

Dan Graham and his other peciliarities...

2009-03-05T10:26:00.000-08:00

Oh yeah, so if the reading about Dan Graham in Versteeg's History Workshop didn't clarify some of his intentions these links to other tangential work by Dan Graham won't help either. For some weird reason he is sort of famous for this video called "Rock My Religion", it's about rock and Shaker culture, bits of it are dry, or you got to be in the mood, here is a preview version of that video on youtube:

The entire video is available on Ubu Web is here, it's an hour long:
http://www.ubu.com/film/graham_rock.html
...apparently he made a film about the hard core band Minor Threat (ubu link)

If you are curious what's he like now, like how his personality developed, here is a Tate Short video of him discussing some paintings of John Martin:

WANTED: Art Gallery Templates/Plug-ins

2009-03-04T13:29:00.000-08:00

Hi,
Last night in Keith's MP1 class I mentioned a free flash image gallery that you can add to your site- I just checked -but I noticed they charge now....

...I'm starting a post for those types of resources. So anyone can reply with their finds and comments if you have used one and/or are using one already.

-Antonio

2009-02-27T13:50:00.000-08:00

hello

2009-02-27T13:42:00.000-08:00

Hello I am trying this blog, but i am not able to post a video. If anyone knows please let me know. Juan

Here is an artist I thought it was interesting.

http://www.jessicafortner.com/illustration/