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EVENT

Interpreting Rituals: The Butterfly Effect


Dates:
Sat Sep 15, 2012 13:00 - Sat Sep 15, 2012

Location:
Brooklyn, New York
United States of America

The New York Art Residency & Studios (NARS) Foundation in Sunset Park, Brooklyn is delighted to present Interpreting Rituals: The Butterfly Effect, an exploration into sacredness in contemporary society. On view September 10 - September 23, in conjunction with the Asian American Arts Alliance’s Locating the Sacred Festival, the two-week exhibition considers the quiet reverberations caused by translating the sacred against the backdrop of today's global uncertainly and societal flux. By re-articulating collective memory and spiritual practices through the creative process, each showcased artist is able to subtly yet inevitably unveil the hope of mutual understanding intertwined with a basic human need to emotionally connect and respond to one’s surroundings.

Ranging from film screenings to ceramics, photography and print making, each work asks the viewer to reflect on the conceptual and experiential pluralism of sacredness. Guests will be invited into an interactive yet introspective space to reflect on spiritual vitality as it vibrates across cultures, time and generations.

On Saturday, September 15 from 1-6 PM, spend the afternoon at NARS for a full afternoon of community programs and events. Experience a Meditation Session, bring the whole family to an Artist Led Children’s Clay Workshop, and enjoy an interactive tea service and drinks from the exhibited ceramic vessels. Also, please join us for an Artist Talk and Reception. NARS will also host one of Eric Gamalinda's “QRoems” as a destination along the route of his interactive multi-venue project, Deep Splendor: The Way of the Bodhisattva.

1:00 - 3:00 : Interactive tea service with Ming Yuen-Schat
1:30 - 3:30 : Clay workshop for children and families led by Veronica Frenning
3:00 - 3:30: Meditation workshop guided by instructors from the Interdependence Project in collaboration with Yasuyo Tanaka
4:00 - 5:00 : Artist Talk
5:00 - 6:00 : Artist Reception
Exhibiting artists include Veronica Frenning, Lily & Honglei, Gautam Kansara, Ming Yuen-Schat, Yasuyo Tanaka and Eric K. Yue.

The Asian American Arts Alliance’s Locating the Sacred is a 25-event 12-day Festival which takes place from September 12 to September 23, 2012 across all five New York boroughs.


EVENT

Go Open Studio Project & NARS Community Programs


Dates:
Sat Sep 08, 2012 14:00 - Sat Sep 01, 2012

Location:
Brooklyn, New York
United States of America

On September 8 & 9, The NARS Foundation is teaming up with the Brooklyn Museum’s GO Project, a
community-curated open studio weekend event taking place in neighborhoods throughout Brooklyn. There are over 50 artist studios to visit at NARS! Explore Sunset Park and come check out one of Brooklyn’s most vibrant art scenes. Community members registered as voters can visit the NARS Studios and help decide who will be part of a group exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum in early December. For more information and learn how you can vote for your favorite artist, please visit: www.gobrooklynart.org.

On Saturday, September 8th from 2- 4 PM, in conjunction with the Go Project and our newest
exhibition Interpreting Rituals: The Butterfly Effect, an exploration into the notion of sacredness in
contemporary society, the NARS Foundation will offer an afternoon of community public programming. Join Ed Lin, Anelise Chen and Rahna Reiko Rizzuto of the Asian American Writers Workshop as they each present their readings and reflections on sacredness and spirituality. We will also host a performance by spoken word artists from Buendia, a local grassroots Sunset Park artist collective. Throughout the afternoon, a Clay Workshop for children and families will be offered by NARS studio artist Maria Hupfield, along with a chance to enjoy tea from a set of ceramic vessels created by exhibiting artist Ming Yuen-Schat.

2:00 PM : Reading by the Asian American Writers Workshop
3:00 PM : Spoken word Performance by Buendia
2:00 – 4:00 PM : Clay Workshop For Children and Families
2:00 – 4:00 PM : Interactive Tea Service


OPPORTUNITY

NARS Foundation 2013 International Artist Residency Program


Deadline:
Fri Oct 05, 2012 11:59

Location:
Brooklyn, New York
United States of America

The NARS Foundation International Artist Residency Program provides national and international artists with the opportunity to produce new work while engaging with the vibrant arts community in New York City. Artists-in-residence have access to an individual studio space and various professional development programs. Residents have an opportunity to share and present their work through artist talks, workshops, and lectures and receive studio visits by prominent New York City curators, critics and gallerists. The NARS Foundation seeks applications on two levels. The first level includes emerging and mid-career artists for whom appointments as residents may make a significant impact on their careers. The second level consists of artists with established national and/or international reputations for whom a change of environment may offer refreshment and inspiration.

Online application forms must be submitted by Friday, October 5, 2012 before midnight. Please read the guidelines completely prior to beginning your application as our application format has changed. A non-refundable application fee of $35 (US) is required with each submission. To apply, please visit our website: www.narsfoundation.org


EVENT

Curator Talk with Tamara Johnson


Dates:
Sat Jul 14, 2012 16:00 - Sat Jul 14, 2012

Location:
Brooklyn, New York
United States of America

The New York Art Residency & Studios (NARS) Foundation is pleased to invite you to a Curator Talk on July 14 at 4:00 PM with Tamara Johnson, winner of the 2012 annual NARS Emerging Curator Program Open Call. Tamara will be joined by select participating artists to discuss her group exhibition, Show Me Your Glands, currently on view in the NARS Foundation Gallery, which ranges from sculpture and video to print and performance. She will offer her insight into the conceptual premise of our “inner ephemera” and share her curatorial exploration into the diverse visual representations of "the landscape of body, uncovering the existence of a corporeal gland residing below the surface of making."

Tamara Johnson is a 2012 sculpture MFA graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design. Her curatorial pursuits began with co-curating a show, INCIDENTAL/ESSENTIAL, at a non-profit space in Providence. She went on to curate On the Threshold of Something Else, Something Other, which included works from over 40 graduate students at RISD’s Sol Koffler Graduate Gallery as well as On View: A Performance Exhibition in the Gelman Gallery and a graduate selection exhibition for RISD’s Board of Trustees. She is the recent recipient of the Fine Arts Graduate Studies Grant, which helped provide additional financial support towards her exhibition at NARS. Show Me Your Glands is Tamara’s first curatorial project in New York. She is currently organizing a group show in the Rooster Gallery on the lower east side.

Please join the curator and artists for a q&a and a reception to follow.



EVENT

Show Me Your Glands - NARS 2012 Emerging Curator Exhibition


Dates:
Sat Jun 30, 2012 18:00 - Sun Jul 29, 2012

Location:
Brooklyn, New York
United States of America

The New York Art Residency and Studios (NARS) Foundation is delighted to announce the opening of Show Me Your Glands, a group exhibition curated by Tamara Johnson, winner of the 2012 annual NARS Emerging Curator Program Open Call.

The place where entities meet, bodies compress, muscles rip, and where soft insides are revealed on exteriors; where the ability to identify the self is dissolved and words and images transform into objects, architecture and orifices. These points of contact serve as anchors, stabilizing the moment when guts are drawn out and anthropomorphized as subtle gestures and confrontational situations. The works featured in this unique grouping of artists expands the landscape of body, uncovering the existence of a corporeal gland residing below the surface of making.

Through sculpture, performative language, image and video this exhibition makes physical inner ephemera. Alina Szapocznikow, a Polish Artist, speaks to the importance of the “material body” demonstrating the necessity for work to mine the absurd and convulsive existence of a bodily unknown. In this exhibition, Mimi Cabell and Catherine Siller use video to de-emphasize the function of word and phrase, focusing on language’s ability to take physical shape through active repetition. Lindsay Carone produces quilted patterns from recycled plastics, creating deflated and hollow feminine forms reminiscent of organs, aprons and skin. Kate Wignall creates structures that are intimate in proximity, yet overwhelming in scale and placement. Rachel Klinghoffer dips, ties, and knots her “paintings” suggesting the skeletal make-up of the body inside and out. Karen Lederer, Paloma Barhaugh-Bordas, Amber Heaton and Amanda Thackray use the printed image to evoke the insides of self, literally through drawing studies of muscle tissues to the overlaying of shapes and color, rigid and limp, grid-like and organic. Hayley Austin captures the dichotomy of male and female spaces through a practice that conveys identity in portraits and architecture. Collaborative duo Claudia Bitran and Quintin Rivera-Toro uncover a physical sense of connectivity with a performance allowing viewers to witness a confrontational and intimate moment of intimacy and physical force between two bodies.

The combinations of these works gnaw at a sensory affect, subtle and abrupt, visceral and factual, somatic and emotional. Exposing the desire to encounter something secret, something vulnerable and something intrinsically relatable –these haptic representations remind us of our own bodies and our relationship to them.
– Tamara Johnson

The New York Art Residency and Studios (NARS) Foundation is a 501c(3) not-for-profit arts organization committed to supporting emerging and underrepresented artists and curators on a local and international level. The annual Emerging Curator Program offers an opportunity for a young-in-career curator to present a group show and fresh curatorial ideas at the NARS Foundation Gallery. The aim of the program is to encourage new dialogue and to create a platform for curators and artists to experiment and exchange ideas. NARS provides an array of creative support services and professional development opportunities through short-term integrated residency programs, affordable long-term studio spaces, progressive exhibition programs, and engaging public programs that foster global understanding and nurture creative inspiration.

NARS Foundation Gallery
88 35th Street, 3rd Floor, Brooklyn, New York 11232
Gallery Hours: Monday – Friday 1:00PM - 5:00PM or by appointment