Posts from ‘Sculpture’
Sue Sommers (sue@suesommers.com) has sent out an appeal to anyone able to assist arts advocate Gregory Gaylor, whose studio burned down about a month ago. The fire destroyed his life’s work–all his art–his records, materials and, horrifically, even took the life of his cat. It’s almost impossible to imagine Gaylor’s pain. If you can help Gaylor begin anew, please mail your contributions to this fund, established to help him do just that. Mail your check to: The Gregory Gaylor Art Fund, Rock Springs National Bank, PO Box 880, Rock Springs, WY 82902. You may also email Gaylor your good wishes: kgaylor@sweetwaterhsa.com. Snail mail: 628 B Street, Rock Springs, WY, 82901.
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The Tayloe Piggott Gallery welcomes contemporary artists Celia Gerard and Tadaaki Kuwayama. A reception for the artists takes place Friday, May 18, 5-8 pm. Works remain up through July 10, 2012.
Kuwayama’s work uses simple geometric structure and color–grey and yellow wall panels are juxtaposed against 
cylindrical forms arranged on the gallery floor. There’s a John Cage-like sense of open space and music, of the simple rearrangement and compression of air, made visible through color. “Kuwayama can focus on color, the subtle patina of a green or pink, or silver that emanate across the surface of the aluminum squares or rectangles. Each painting is a presence, a harmonized order of form and color,” says the gallery.
Guidelines for the Warhol Foundation’s Creative Capital Arts Writers Grant Programs are available. The program supports individual writers “whose work addresses contemporary visual art.” Grants range from $3,000 to $50,000. Says the Warhol Foundation, “The first program of its type, [Creative Capital] was founded in recognition of both the financially precarious situation of arts writers and their indispensable contribution to a vital artistic culture. The Arts Writers Grant Program aims to support the broad spectrum of writing on contemporary visual art, from general-audience criticism to academic scholarship.” The program is currently open for submissions. Submission deadline is Wednesday, June 6, 2012.
Writers may apply to these categories: Articles, Blogs, Books, New & Alternative Media, Short-Form Writing. For guidelines and a statement of the program’s mission, visit http://www.artswriters.org Additionally, an Art Writing Workshop program offers ”ten select applicants consultations with leading art critics.” For more information, visit http://www.aicausa.org.
Do you sense a plein air trend? It’s good.
This June, a time when our wildflowers should be popping, the National Museum of Wildlife Art (NMWA) will hold Plein Air Fest 2012 on museum grounds. A one-day event, the festival will feature approximately 40 artists painting from 10:00 am - 4:00 pm. Picture that!
It’s all part of NMWA’s opening week festivities that will celebrate the official opening of its new sculpture trail, designed by Oakland, California landscape architect Walter Hood. “Participating artists agree to arrive at the festival with an artwork no more than 25 percent completed, and the pressure is on as they must finish by 2 p.m.,” says the museum. “The Plein Air Festival’s fresh artworks will be sold by “intent to purchase” with potential buyers putting their name in a box next to the artist whose piece they’d like to own for a set price. The lucky purchaser for each piece will then be drawn at random.”
The public is invited to watch the artists work, and a BBQ cook-off, live music and kids creative activities are all scheduled. Artists will compete for a “Best in Show Award,” to be chosen by visitors. Tickets for the BBQ cook-off tasting/voting will be $10 for 10 tastes, $25 for unlimited tastes. The museum’s Rising Sage Café will also offer hamburgers, hot dogs and drinks for sale. www.wildlifeart.org
Helen Shirk’s Nothing Remains as It Was, is one of the juried works of art in University of Wyoming’s new Visual Arts Building gallery inaugural exhibition, “Metal Inkorporated.” The exhibition, currently on display, remains up through March 31. A reception will be held on Friday, March 23, 6-8:00 pm, at the gallery. The show is curated by metalsmithing professor Leah Hardy, who paired 30 artists from around the country. Each artist, says UW’s Art Department website, was given ” a few months to produce [their] half of the work before mailing it to [their] partner.”
“The process creates an informal dialogue between the two artists, initiating a fresh new approach to materials,” Hardy says.
For more information, email Diana Baumbach at dbaumbac@uwyo.edu.
A recent Wall Street Journal article tells the story of an artful marketing ploy in Aspen, Colorado. The Aspen Art Museum has arranged for a selection of artist Mark Grotjahn’s art work to be printed on ski lift tickets. It’s part of the museum’s initiative to “bring art to unlikely places,” and coincides with Grotjahn’s new show at the museum.
This image of Grotjahn’s ‘Untitled (Green Over Yellow Mask M18.a),’ depicts work similar to what will be printed on the Aspen lift tickets.
Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson, CEO and director at the Aspen Art Museum, is quoted as saying that “there were few guidelines for the project, other than to give the artist the size of the ticket and ask him to include the words “Aspen Snowmass.” The museum began putting art on lift tickets in 2005, featuring work by contemporary artists such as Peter Doig, Karen Kilimnik and Jim Hodges—the latter seeming to wink at the tony ski town by creating a lift ticket in multicolored block letters that read: “Give more than you take.”
Grotjahn, who is represented by the prestigious Gagosian Gallery, gets his art printed on 30,000 lift tickets, skis for free and the Aspen Art Museum gains a brilliant marketing vehicle.
