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NARS Foundation 2013 Season I International Artist Residency Exhibition


Dates:
Fri May 10, 2013 18:00 - Fri Jun 14, 2013

Location:
Brooklyn, New York
United States of America

NARS Foundation 2013 Season I International Artist Residency Exhibition
The Garden
May 10 – June 14, 2013

Opening Reception & Performance: Friday, May 10, 6 – 8pm
Artist Talk & Performance: Friday, May 31, 7pm

The NARS Foundation is delighted to present The Garden, a reflection on life’s cycles and our perception of inevitable transformation. The exhibition features selections from the work of the 2013 Season I Residency Artists: Erica Bailey, David Birkin, Katya Grokhovsky, Takeshi Ikeda, Taiyo Kimura, Thessia Machado, and Yoko Shimizu. Their practices encourage possibilities for growth, re-birth and renewal, but this is not Shangri-La. The artists are keenly aware of decay, impermanence and isolation. While they reap a harvest which is abundant and vital, their work simultaneously brushes up against the edge of macabre.
Yoko Shimizu and Taiyo Kimura use materiality that evokes the organic process of growth and decomposition. At once fragile and robust, their work seemingly and literally self-replicates. Thessia Machado embraces objects which have been deemed defunct, giving them a second chance at a life with new purpose. Katya Grokhovsky’s voluptuous sculptures are seedlings of feminine corporeal performances; a relentless search for a sense of place as she plants her feet in two worlds. Erica Bailey’s architectural rendering sinks us even deeper in; conveying an ineffable consternation, she disorients our sense of perspective, asking us to engage with her environment from below the ground, looking up. David Birkin and Takeshi Ikeda play with the implications of light and color, seeking to illuminate sociopolitical moments which remained in shadow. From their pieces, brightness emanates with fury, necessitating ideological, as well as visual, reorientation and restructuring.
The Garden is immersive and non-conclusive, an exploration of permutations, revelation and surrender in relationship to our natural and self-perpetuating systems.


EVENT

New Museum's Ideas City Festival / Perambulant


Dates:
Sat May 04, 2013 11:10 - Sat May 04, 2013

Location:
New York, New York
United States of America

The NARS Foundation is delighted to announce its participation in the New Museum's Ideas City Festival on Saturday, May 4. Perambulant, a series of live performances and workshops, invites the public to engage in spontaneous and guided interactions throughout the day. Performances by artists Nancy Nowacek, Katya Grokhovsky, twin brothers Alan and Michael Fleming, and choreographer Corinna Brown and the Dean Street FOO Dance will be interspersed with cross-disciplinary movement workshops for children and adults.

The artists will lead workshops that encourage the audience to explore the functional capacity of the body as an untapped resource. The performance project “Insourcing” by Nowacek will tap into the unused muscle power of New Yorkers by engaging a chain of sidewalk-bound citizens in the relay of an object across the IDEAS CITY territory. Starting at the festival’s perimeter, the artist will begin transport of a large object too unwieldy for her to move alone by enlisting the aid of those around her. Hitchhiking rides with various New Yorkers as far as they can go, the object will become flotsam in the tide of pedestrians, making its way to the festival center over the course of the afternoon. Grokhovsky will investigate the often untapped and ignored potential of touch and connection with strangers in her live durational performance, “Slow Dance.”

Alan and Michael Fleming will present a series of architectural interventions using artists’ bodies. Incorporating different bodily forms into the architectural facades of the Lower East Side, the artist duo will act as living ornaments on the surface of the building’s exterior. Through these various interventionist actions they hope to re-examine the body as object, structure, or support. Brown’s work will explore a psychotherapeutic awareness of the body in urban spaces. Brown’s Dean Street FOO Dance will perform a Butoh-inspired version of the classic children’s book Madeline. Brown will then invite the public/audience to participate in “Sidewalk Butoh” where she will psychotherapeutically guide participants on a journey of transformation from human body to elements of nature to man-made materials, internally juxtaposing natural and artificial worlds in an internal dance.

11am; 2pm; 5pm: Katya Grokhovsky's "Slow Dance"
12pm: Nancy Nowacek’s "Insourcing" (Grand Street)
12pm & 1pm: Alan and Michael Fleming's Architectural Interventions Performances
Each Performance to be followed by Movement Workshop

3pm & 4pm: Corinna Brown & Dean Street FOO Dance, "Madeline”
Each performance to be followed by "Sidewalk Butoh" workshop



OPPORTUNITY

Open Call: NARS Foundation International Artist Residency Program 2013-2014


Deadline:
Fri Apr 05, 2013 23:59

Location:
Brooklyn, New York
United States of America

The NARS Foundation International Artist Residency Program provides national and international artists with the advantage of creating 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, including studio visits, artist talks, and workshops, as well as opportunities to share their work through exhibitions and an open studios event.

Applications must be submitted by Friday, April 5, 2013. The 2013 Season II (US Based Applicants) and 2014 Season I (International Applicants) Applications and Guidelines are currently available through our website.

To apply, please visit our website: http://narsfoundation.org/application.php


EVENT

NARS Studio Artists Group Exhibition: unfettered


Dates:
Fri Mar 15, 2013 18:00 - Sun Apr 28, 2013

Location:
Brooklyn, New York
United States of America


unfettered
March 15 – April 28, 2013

Opening Reception: Friday March 15, 6 – 8pm

Jaqueline Cedar
Ketta Ioannidou
Noah Landfield



NARS Studio Artists Group Exhibition: unfettered On view in the Parlor Room, and opening concurrently with the annual Juried Solo Exhibition, the New York Art Residency & Studios (NARS) Foundation is pleased to present unfettered, a group show featuring paintings by

Jaqueline Cedar, Ketta Ioannidou and Noah Landfield. Their works evoke metaphysical landscapes and traverse sensibilities while exploring the medium with a fresh and viscerally stimulating perspective. Each artist embraces the transformative tension between elements of color, structure, and form. Their pictorial fields create whole environments that are simultaneously immense and intimate; a final destination and a dynamic, directed action. Unhesitatingly emoting bold and rapturous energy, each piece offers viewers an opportunity to engage physically and undividedly.

Jaqueline Cedar is a Brooklyn-based artist. Her solo exhibitions include Pretend to lose your place, Wharton + Espinosa Gallery (2013) and Realm of Interaction, Yace Gallery (2012). Her group exhibitions include Four Artists, Fredericks and Freiser Gallery (2011) and I Am Who I Am: The Portrait Reconsidered, Steven Zevitas Gallery (2011). Cedar has been awarded a Three Arts Fellowship, Columbia University (2008) and a Regents Scholarship, UCLA (2007). Publications include The Huffington Post and New American Paintings. She received her M.F.A. from Columbia University and her B.A. from UCLA.

Ketta Ioannidou received a BA from Central Saint Martins in London and an MFA from School of Visual Arts. She represented Cyprus in the 9th International Cairo Biennale, the 24th Alexandria Biennale and Rome Biennale. Solo shows include chashama and PS122 Gallery in New York, Go North in Beacon, New York, and Diatopos Center of Contemporary Art in Cyprus. Group exhibitions include the Bronx Museum, the Carriage House at the Islip Art Museum, the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art. Awards and residencies include the AIM at the Bronx Museum, Emerge at Aljira and LMCC’s Swing Space.

Noah Landfield received his BFA with honors in painting and printmaking at the School of Visual Arts and his MFA in painting at Hunter College. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant for Painters and Sculptors in 2010, and the Tony Smith Award in 2009. He has exhibited his work in galleries and art spaces such as George and Jorgen Gallery, London, Sloan Fine Art, NY, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, and Nurture Art, Brooklyn, among others. He lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

Image: Jaqueline Cedar, Moonwalker (detail), 2012


EVENT

NARS Foundation Juried Solo Exhibition 2012 - Denis Beaubois


Dates:
Fri Mar 15, 2013 18:00 - Sun Apr 14, 2013

Location:
Brooklyn, New York
United States of America

NARS Foundation Juried Solo Exhibition 2012
Currency Denis Beaubois
March 15 – April 14, 2013

Opening Reception: Friday, March 15, 6 – 8 PM
Artist Talk: Friday, March 15, 7 PM

How much is an hour of your time worth and what is the worth of each dollar you make? In a period of financial flux, and in an economy that is arguably partial to a percentage of the work force, we are challenged to question how value and our values quantify and define one another.

In light of these questions, the NARS Foundation is delighted to announce its second annual Juried Solo Exhibition, Currency, featuring a multidisciplinary project by artist Denis Beaubois. Beaubois was selected by Benjamin Genocchio, Editor-in-Chief of Art + Auction Magazine and Artinfo.com. Reflecting on his work, Genocchio states:

I was struck immediately by the universal pertinence of this work-- it spoke to me, across borders, time, about the economic determinism of our age, maybe of all ages, but something that felt especially relevant given the global financial crisis and ensuing recession. I was curious to know more about the work which essentially involves a manipulation of registers of value for both art and money.

Currency is a piece with international roots that is presented at a poignant moment in the national dialogue about the weight of economy and labor. At the recent State of the Union address, Barack Obama’s proposed minimum wage increase initiated a shift in our iteration of employment exchange and worth. The initial conception of Currency hinged on a successful grant of $20,000 from the Australian Council for the Arts. New bills were sourced and the cash, in the amount of the grant funds, was then auctioned off at a fine art auction house. Proceeds from the sale were used to complete the Division of Labor series, a 35-hour recording of five participants maintaining a smile over the course of 7 hours. They were paid minimum wage for their efforts, and were not informed about the nature of the project beforehand. A new series in the project will be introduced at the exhibition’s Opening Reception.

Beaubois’ examination of the artistic practice in dialogue with our monetary system is a sobering play on the notion of creative stimulus. A government funded art project has generated an opaque product, and the outcome is, unto itself, an alternative economic narrative. It quietly experiments with a grassroots exchange system that is imbued with power and virtue to (re)produce the principles of commerce. In doing so, Currency redirects the intentional flow of money and brokers new socioeconomic engagements. Ultimately, our understanding of the value of a work of art, and the worth of a day’s work, is fractured with paradoxical and conceptually rigorous proficiency.

Denis Beaubois is a process-based artist living in Sydney, Australia. He has exhibited internationally, including at The TATE Modern, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and The Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney. He has received numerous awards, most notably the 1998 Bonn Videonale, and the Judges special prize for the Internationaler Medien kunst preis 2001, ZKM. He currently lectures in video art at the College of Fine Arts UNSW.

New York Art Residency and Studios Foundation is a non-profit arts organization committed to supporting emerging and underrepresented artists and curators. The annual Juried Solo Exhibition Program provides visual artists who have a strong body of work with the opportunity to present their work to a wider audience. The program aims to nurture creative inspiration and foster innovative cross-pollination of ideas by presenting the most thought provoking and visually compelling artwork being produced today. For more information about the exhibition or our programs please visit www.narsfoundation.org or email info@narsfoundation.org.