Lindsey Meyers is a photographer & mixed media artist. Her work can been seen in the cutting edge publication RAW 2008 and is featured on www.saddercity.com. She'll be showing monthly at the Flat Iron Arts Building in Wicker Park, Chicago as part of the Flat Iron Artists' Association's "First Friday" and smart Show series. [Read our interview with Lindsey.]
Laura Prieto-Velasco has been working as a metalsmith for the past 10 years. Originally from Philadelphia, she spent some time in California, and is now trying on the Midwest for size. Laura's been focusing on jewlery/sculpture/installation) and living in Chicago (the Bucktown/Wicker Park area). Back in CA, Laura worked part-time as a 60's go-go dancer for "Rewind" and "Orange Kiss," but these days she's turned her attentions to learning how to flamenco dance and she's currently working at the Art Institute of Chicago as a Light Metals Technician for the Sculpture Department. She has taught workshops on a variety of topics such as casting natural materials and 3-D digital media. [Read more here.]
James Swanson is an artist from Chicago who has been working on a project with friends and strangers from around the world. His friends (both new and old) do the traveling and James paints and blogs about their travels. So far he's met a lot of different people: teachers from Portland, people who travel and live in RVs and UK Hillwalkers, to name but a few. [Read our interview with James.]
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NEXUS is pleased to present the work of new members Janell Olah, Damon Reaves, Kathryn TeBordo and Anastasia m.w. This new batch of artists from across the creative spectrum, expands the boundaries of experimental art and challenges easy categorization with work in installation, animation, performance, dance and dialog.
November 12—December 4, 2009
Opening Reception Thursday November 12, 6—9 pm
Installation artist Janell Olah's work explores place and circumstance through inherent and created systems.
Damon Reaves draws on a background in theatre and explores the ways in which we "perform" who we are.
Rather than making artifacts of current short works for ongoing display, Kathryn TeBordo will present work in a periodic performance and discussion series at NEXUS, developing a larger conversation about dance and performance art.
Anastasia's m. w.'s animated works explore different moments in life; focusing on individual vs. common, partiality vs. unity.
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The NEW MEMBERS EXHIBITION is accompanied by DANCE IS HARD TO SEE presented by Kathryn TeBordo and Workshop for Potential Movement.
8pm Friday – Sunday
November 13-15, 2009 FREE
Join us for the first edition of a quarterly performance + discussion series centered on topics that the WPM artistic team encounters during the DANCE IS HARD TO SEE choreography lab.
We have lots to talk about. Right now!
Each evening presents the same fresh material developed during the company's recent intensive at The Festival Studio, and is followed by a different conversation led by humanities experts and experimental artists across disciplines.
From the calibrated procedures of SUPERROGER, to the layers of memory and presence in THE SCORE OF THE FORGOTTEN DANCE, and the ditty to Passion Pit's "Little Secrets" that hints at Busby Berkeley style fantasias, these new works offer a lot of surprises for the most adventurous lovers of tiny, fans of Workshop for Potential Movement, and experimental artists looking for fresh blood.
Friday +split bill with Jen McGinn
Philadelphia-based art choreographer Jen McGinn tackles Les Sylphides in its centennial year. Watch as she expertly wrangles seven renegade dancers into the ballet's archetypal structure. Against a backdrop of iconic 1950's pop-rock, McGinn re-imagines the first major "plotless" ballet to help you consider your own lust for timelessness and uniformity. Learn more about Jenn at http://www.jenmcginn.org/Site/home.html
Saturday +listening party with Dustin Hurt
If you want to hear what DANCE IS HARD TO SEE might sound like if it were experimental music, then check us out Saturday. Composer and Bowerbird director Dustin Hurt throws a new music listening party-mixer for local dancer/ choreographers and musicians/ composers. And while it's true that we're dancing to Passion Pit – Mia – Lyle Lovett (!?) in the studio right now, we want to find music that is hard to hear. So Dustin Hurt is coming in to expose us to the bleeding edge. See what else Dustin Hurt brings to Philly at http://www.bowerbird.org/newsite/
Sunday +discussion with neurobiologist Dr. Paul Grobstein
"Dance is the purest form of knowledge" echoes through our minds after Paul visited the studio last week. Bryn Mawr College professor Paul Grobstein is equal parts neurobiologist and philosopher, and on Sunday he opens a conversation with you-we about the mind-body connection. Fierce! Preview the possibilities at Serendip
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NEXUS is located in the Crane Arts Building at 1400 N. American St, Suite 102.
2 blocks north of Girard Ave, between 2nd and 3rd streets.
Words can not describe how amusing and awesome this show was...I caught it randomly when I stopped in Kung Fu Necktie for a beer...
Michael Brucks is a 34-year-old artist from Chicago who, for the past year, has generated over 1,000 of his unique, origami-like sculptures. Brucks says they are a tribute to many of his favorite childhood icons. He names Darth Vader, Lo Pan, Medieval knights and even the Tin Man as some of his sources. We recently interviewed Michael, so check this out now!
"Fiber Of My Being" is a two person show featuring new paintings by Anne Canfield and site specific installations by Ana Hernandez.
Anne Canfields imagery is founded out of two worlds; one real and one imagined, meeting somewhere in between. In her paintings she uses representation and symbolism to voice a story or create a portrait. She explores a sense of being, time and of place as each piece is remnant from personal experiences, travels and daydreams.
For Ana Hernandez the female body interweaves with the environment around her to materialize ideas of transplantation and adaptation. These connections take form in a discipline of colors and simple materials which are recontextualized and brought to a greater importance through volume and the insistence of repetition.
We recently met up with Carolynne McNeel, lead singer of the Rarebirds. Read the interview.
If you're in the area (Philadelphia) catch them live this Thursday, September 24th at JD McGillicuddy's Regina Spektor after-party featuring Rarebirds & Broken Prayers. Doors open 10:30pm, $5 admission, 421 N. 7th Street - between Spring Garden and Callowhill.
NEXUS/foundation for today's art
Call for members
NEXUS seeks experimental artists in ALL disciplines including but not limited to painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, installation, video, performance, electronics, digital media, audio, dance or curatorial practices. NEXUS values artist members who are dynamic, willing to take risks, dedicated to their work and enjoy being part of a community of artists. NEXUS members are given the opportunity to exhibit their work once every two years in solo exhibitions, participate in group exhibitions and curate large scale exhibitions. A complete breakdown of benefits, responsibilities and eligibility are here.
Our next review deadline is September 27, 2009.
SUPERGIRL! party !!!
Come out and support NEXUS's upcoming exhibition SUPERGIRL! at Kung Fu
Necktie on Sunday September 13 tickets $10
with performances by Gemini Wolf, Lillie Ruth Bussey and Goldiebox
Drink Specials,
Raffles and Fun Fun Fun!
SUPERGIRL! is an exhibition of female video artists who represent
themselves as superheroes, uber-women, meca-warriors and transforming
characters. SUPERGIRL! supports the idea that the female super hero is
elusive and constantly evolving. She battles her adversaries, her
environment, and her preconceptions as well as herself.
Upcoming Exhibitions
Join NEXUS for a pluralistically curated exhibition My Face in Your Space opening Thursday September 10, 2009. My Face in Your Space is the gallery equivalent of facebook: selected artists created portraits of friends and acquaintances with the agreement that their portraitees would reciprocate and create portraits of the artist. Once these portraitees are in the network, they may create portraits of whomever they like under the same agreement. Through October 2.
NEXUS/foundation for today's art
The NEXUS Summer Community Arts Series Presents...
August 13 - 22
Celebrate the powerful images of hope, peace, and perseverance created by the children enrolled in The Goodlands® Community Arts Program. The Goodlands® is a program of Centro Nueva Creación, a small grassroots community center in North Philadelphia. Who are we? This is ME! is the 6th annual summer exhibit to be hosted by Nexus Foundation for Today's Art. Please come and honor not only the poignant images created by the students of Centro Nueva Creación, but also this ongoing neighborhood partnership!
The Goodlands® Community Arts Program is part of the community strategy by Centro Nueva Creación to counter the negative image of the West Kensington and Fairhill neighborhoods as "The Badlands." Since the program's inception in 2000, the photographs by these young artists have been exhibited in countless locations, including galleries, universities, community art festivals, and other public venues.
This summer Goodlands students also participated in clay building classes with the Clay Mobile, puppet making with Spiral Q's puppet theater and Bomba y Plena classes with Maribel Lozada. All of the puppets and clay sculptures will be on display and there will also be a special bomba y plena performance.!
Come and experience one of our city's greatest strengths – children and their vision for the future. The artists, in grades k-5, will be present from 6pm to 8pm to discuss their work with those in attendance. Join us to celebrate the work and the mission and 15th anniversary of Centro Nueva Creación!
Open for Viewing
August 14th & 15th, 21nd & 22th 12-6pm
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Shawn Kilroy's newest album, Hessian Love Songs, recently came out on earSnake (Gemini Wolf's label). Now available on iTunes.
Read our interview with him...
Art of the Gecko
The Academy of Natural Sciences has partnered with NEXUS/Foundation for Today's Art to host an exhibition in conjunction with the Academy's newest exhibit "Geckos—Tails to Toepads." Nexus member artists Leah Reynolds, Rebecca Gilbert, Elaine M. Erne, Susan Abrams, Maureen Ciaccio, Tasha Doremus, Mira Gohel and Anastasia Wong will create experimental artwork inspired by these beautiful and unique creatures. The work will be on display at the Academy of Natural Sciences, 1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia.
July 25 through September 7, 2009 Opening Friday July 24
Tyme Gallery is calling for artists for their 12th Annual Juried Exhibition, "Inner Essence." Tyme Gallery continues to be the only for profit gallery in Bucks, Chester, Delaware and Montgomery County to offer a juried exhibition to the general public.
The gallery continues to accept 2d media and relief work. Due to a limitation in space, sculpture, while displayed and sold in the gallery, will not be accepted for this exhibition. Paintings, drawings, photography, hand pulled and digital prints are allowed, but please, no laser prints or studies. First prize is a solo exhibition at Tyme.
The jurors this year are award winning artists; Steve Oliver, Deena Ball, Kyle Margiotta and Theatre Critic Mark Cofta.
If you enter all artwork must be original (no studies) and never shown before at Tyme Gallery. The artwork is accepted on Friday, July 24th and Saturday, July 25th, between 10:30 AM and 3:00 PM. The jurying takes place on Sunday July 26th. The opening reception is on Friday, August 14th from 5:00 to 9:00 PM with the award ceremony taking place promptly at 7:00 PM. For a prospectus please send a SASE to Tyme Gallery at 17 W. Eagle Road, Havertown, PA 19083 or check out their web site at www.tymegallery.com/events.
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The work of David Phillips, David Jang, and Shon Kim not only overwhelms us with an immediate response to the forms and images that take us over, but keeps us there to examine its labored detail.
Downtown Art Center Gallery
828 S Main Street, LA, CA 90014
http://www.dacgallery.com/
Gallery Hours: M-F: 8am – 4pm
info@dacgallery.com
Some people say hindsight is 20/20. But for Caleb Stine, foresight is as well. And with this vision, he brought you his latest album "Eyes So Strong and Clean."
[Read our interview with Caleb.]
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