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Spotlight: Artadia Awards in Boston |
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Coast to Coast this Spring Spring came in like a lion with lots of activity for Artadia around the country -- Artadia celebrated our Awardees, colleagues and supporters at a well-attended benefit during Armory weekend in February. Artadia’s benefit was a huge success at the National Arts Club and we are indebted to our co-chairs Cristina Enriquez-Bocobo, Chrissie Iles, and Marie Samuels for their leadership and commitment to our program. That evening Jens Hoffman, Curator at the Wattis Institute gave an insider’s view into his recent exhibition Around the World in 80 Days at the ICA London. Jens’ talk was followed by a wonderful musical performance by Rachelle Garniez. In March, DiverseWorks in Houston hosted Artadia at DiverseWorks…Reprised. More than 300 people attended the opening on a beautiful Houston evening. Diane Barber, visual arts curator and Co-Executive Director at DiverseWorks conducted studio visits with the Houston Artadia Awardees from 2006 to develop the show. The accompanying publication has a wonderful essay by Diane and is available through Artadia. The exhibition closed in late April and received a lot of attention in the Houston press and several nationally prominent curators. Over the same weekend in late April, we hosted studio visits with Nick Cave, Gisela Insuaste and Marie Krane Bergman for VIP attendees of ArtChicago. During ArtChicago, Artadia had a presence at the fair showcasing our artists and programs. Board member Larry Fields and Marilyn Fields hosted a wonderful evening at their home and collection in honor of the C6 Symposium which was the same weekend. Several past Chicago Artadia and Driehaus Awardees attended including Dianna Frid, Nick Cave, Paola Cabal, Christine Tarkowski, and Gisela Insuaste. Most recently, we were gratified to receive a record number of applications from nearly 700 Boston-based artists. The diversity across the applicant pool both with regard to media, age, gender and race, was broad, and reflective of the wide range of artistic practice resident there. A full list of the ten Artadia Awardees is below. Our spring activities have lead to important new partnerships and connections for Artadia and our network. We look forward to seeing many of you in the months to come whether in New York City, San Francisco, Boston, Atlanta, Houston, Chicago, Miami, or beyond. We’ll be there!
Artadia in San Francisco Bay Area Application is web-based and remains open until July 31, 2007 (11:59:59 PM PST). Timeline: October 2007 November 7 - 10, 2007 November 2007 2008 TBA
Artadia in Boston The tremendous vibrancy of the Boston cultural community was evident as three nationally prominent curators selected the ten Artadia Awardees in Boston through studio visits last week. After the visits in Boston from May 10 – May 12, 2007 jurors Pieranna Cavalchini (Curator of Contemporary Art, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston), Michael Darling (Contemporary Curator, Seattle Art Museum), and Rene de Guzman (Visual Arts Curator, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco) named the ten awardees – 3 Artadia Awards of $15,000 and 7 Artadia Awards of $1,500. Applications for the Artadia Awards were open to visual artists in all media and at any stage of their career working and living in the metro Boston area. The application was available online for three months during the winter through January 31, 2007. A record number nearly 700 applications were received in response to the open call to metropolitan Boston artists. Among the applications received were also a record number of media applications in multimedia, sound art, video art, and experimental film. Artadia has partnered with local foundations and private patrons of the arts who recognize the importance of unrestricted funding to visual artists at the local level. Boston partners include an Anonymous family foundation, the LEF Foundation, and the NLT Foundation and the Mills Gallery at the Boston Center for the Arts (BCA). Boston is the fourth city in Artadia’s national awards program. The organization already administers successful programs and awards in Houston, San Francisco and Chicago. Laura Donaldson, Director of the Mills Gallery at the Boston Center for the Arts will curate the an exhibition of the Awardees’ work during the summer of 2008 and a fully-illustrated catalogue will be published to commemorate the inaugural Artadia Awards in Boston. Artadia congratulates the recipients of the Artadia Awards 2007 in Boston: Artadia Awards -- $15,000 Awardees Helen Mirra is a minimalist artist, best known as a sculptor and sound artist. Mirra lives and works in Cambridge, MA and holds her MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Structure and logic is made evident in her work in poetic and measured ways. Using ambiguous spaces, and lyrical texts, Mirra encourages the viewer to appreciate metered logic and simple elegance. The National Bitter Melon Council (Hiroko Kikuchi, Jeremy Chi-Ming Liu, Andi Sutton) is an artist collective that creates interactive public events that incorporate performance art and community development/activist practices. The NBMC was conceived in 2004, and stages events that use the foreignness of bitter melon and the concept of this flavor (that is also an emotion) of “bitter” to investigate situations that through bitterness create and promote an alternative basis for community and engagement. Mary Ellen Strom, a video installation artist who has exhibited in various sites including railroad cars, mountain faces, and more traditional museum venues. Strom chooses sites, and subject matter in order to investigate their meaning and potential for dialogue with the work. Her recent projects include, Future Memory (2006); The Nudes (2005-6); and she is currently working on Day Labor: a video installation made in collaboration with choreographer Ann Carlson and four men who work as day laborers. Artadia Awards -- $1,500 Awardees Hannah Barrett paints invented portraits and compelling composites of historical figures and contemporary characters. Barrett situates her androgynous creatures in subtly rendered environments which suggest nineteenth century radical gender switches and improbable characters in drag. Barrett received her MFA in painting from Boston University. Gerry Bergstein builds complex paintings and collages, his interest is “in illusion as content.” A recipient of numerous awards and honors in the Boston-area, Bergstein intricately weaves art historical referents, and scenarios with contemporary juxtapositions, with unlikely dark apocalyptic environments, and space-scapes. The resulting artworks are installations of collaged material, unique paintings, and editioned photographs of the collages. Xiaowei Chen studied Chinese art and folk culture as well as design and painting at the Institute of Graphic Communication, Beijing. She has exhibited her ink drawings, and film projects in both Bejing and the Boston area. Wei’s work is a subtle blend of traditional Chinese brush painting techniques with contemporary ideas of figuration, installation, and subtle shifts in scale. Jane Marsching is a photographer, sculptor, and video artist. A graduate of the School of Visual Arts in New York City, she collaborates with scientists from all over the world for her current project Arctic Listening Post. Pulling content from various sources including the internet, science fiction illustrations, and historical source material, she weaves the complexities of the “real” visions and representations of the North Pole and Arctic with artistic sense of imagination and “narrative wonder”. By engaging the discourse of both short-term and long-term survival, John Osorio-Buck encourages his audience to think outside the norms towards positive change. Osorio-Buck employs the complex concept of ‘utopia’ as the foil in his work. He has developed pirate radio stations, mobile urban shelters, rafts, and temporary structures to engage a broad audience and encourage dialogue about sustainable living and societal inequities. Photographer Vaughn Sills has been documenting African-Americans in the South and their backyard gardens for nearly twenty years. The gardens represent a distinctive aesthetic that was brought to America by African slaves and exhibit a deeply embedded tradition that has survived geographic and social transition, poverty, and time. The ‘yard’ serves many purposes to her subjects: it is functional (providing food); it is a place to socialize and be creative; and it is also mystical. Stephen Tourlentes teaches at the Massachusetts College of Art and the Isaldn Center for the Arts in Skopelos, Greece. His current series of black and white photographs explore the sites and geography of the prison industry in the United States. Tourlentes’ eerie nightscapes capture the light pollution and menacing aura of the penitentiaries.
Artadia in Chicago
Artadia was present at Art Chicago in the non-profit section of the fair. Artadia also partnered with the VIP Black Pass Program of Art Chicago to host three studio visits with past Chicago Artadia Awardees. Small groups visited the studios of Artadia Awardees Nick Cave (Chicago 2006); Marie Krane Bergman and Cream Co. (Chicago 2002); and Gisela Insuaste (Dreihaus Chicago Awardee 2004). (See Artist Spotlight)
Richard H. Driehaus 2007 Individual Artist Awards Twenty-two Chicago artists and arts professionals nominated and determined this year’s winners of what is becoming one of Chicago’s most prestigious arts awards. This year’s jury included James Rondeau, curator of contemporary art at the Art Institute of Chicago; Stephanie Smith, director of Collections and Exhibitions and curator of Contemporary Art at the Smart Museum; Sarah Herda, Director of the Graham Foundation; photographer Terry Evans, and artist McArthur Binion. Gaylen Gerber received an Artadia Award in Chicago, 2001. Judy Ledgerwood was named an Artadia Awardee in Chicago in 2004.
Artadia in Houston
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Michael Arcega John Arndt The Art Guys Rotem Balva John Bankston Marie Krane Bergman & Cream Co. Amy Blakemore, Jamal Cyrus, and Robert A. Pruitt – Houston Artadia Awardees 2004 Rebeca Bollinger Nick Cave Geoffrey Chadsey Liz Cohen Galeria Noua and MNAC National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania Jamal Cyrus Trenton Doyle Hancock Amy Ellingson Daniel Fabian Bill Fontana Tate Britain, London, UK Dianna Frid Francesca Fuchs Jim Goldberg Open Society Institute Documentary Photography Project Southbank Centre, London, UK The Kin Subscription Series: Jim Goldberg Angelina Gualdoni Carrie Gundersdorf Trenton Doyle Hancock Frederick Hayes Wesley Heiss Gisela Insuaste Jason Lazarus Bucket Rider Gallery, Chicago, IL Barry McGee John Neff Shaun O’Dell Nigel Poor Robert A. Pruitt Clare E. Rojas PIEROGI Leipzig Spinnereistrasse, Leipzig, Germany Melanie Schiff Soody Sharifi Sumakshi Singh Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL Jessica Snow Brent Steen Temporary Services Jason Villegas Heidi Zumbrun
Artist Spotlight
Studio Visits during Art Chicago 2007
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