The Billboard Art project is a nonprofit organization that acquires digital billboards normally used for advertising and repurposes them as roadside galleries. Projects are held in cities all over the country.

Francine LeClercq participated for the Chicago Billboard venue.

http://www.billboardartproject.org

Gifting Abstraction, curated by Mariángeles Soto-Díaz, is part of Abstraction at Work, a series dedicated to rethinking abstraction’s functions through projects ranging from installations to curatorial experiments.

Gifting Abstraction establishes an intimate economy within Soho20Chelsea gallery in which abstract objects have not yet turned into objectified commodities. The gift economy paradigm recognizes that there is value outside market forces, and that the gift renders forces and riches of its own. One of the perplexing aspects of the gift is that while its effect cannot be quantified, its intention is generally palpable: at its best, the gift generates a sense of interconnectedness. In this exhibition, artists’ labor stretches beyond the works themselves, as connective lines are symbolically rendered through the gifting process onto a relational dimension.

Throughout the course of the exhibition the artists participating in the show will come to the gallery and select one work by another participating artist.  They will trace the work they have chosen and then move the piece to the adjacent wall.  The names and selections will be recorded in a log in the gallery along with correspondence to each artist from the “giftee”.  Check the blog for documentation of the process as well as images from the exhibition and opening reception.

She works primarily in painting, and is a also practicing architect in New York City.

Carnation Thunder

Savoir Faire is a performance art series, featuring women artists, that Soho20 puts on annually. More information on Carnation Thunder and the rest of Savoir Faire is on our website.

Photographs by David Kimelman.

]]> http://soho20gallery.com/2011/08/10/karen-azoulay-carnation-thunder/feed/ 0 http://soho20gallery.com/2011/08/10/the-veil-visible-and-invisible-spaces/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-veil-visible-and-invisible-spaces http://soho20gallery.com/2011/08/10/the-veil-visible-and-invisible-spaces/#comments Wed, 10 Aug 2011 20:20:15 +0000 Soho20 Chelsea Gallery Blog http://soho20chelseagallery.wordpress.com/?p=98 Continue reading →]]> One of SOHO20′s member artists, Elizabeth Bisbing, is featured in “The Veil: Visible and Invisible Spaces,” currently up at the University of Kentucky Art Museum. The show is in its second week, and runs through October 9.

For more on Elizabeth, check out her website.

Suzanne Stroebe lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, and received her MFA at Parsons the New School for Design in 2009. She has exhibited throughout New York, and her recent Feminist Tea Party exhibition showed at the NYFA Gallery in Brooklyn, and is discussed on its website.

Gina Miccinilli was born and raised in Mahwah, NJ, though spent most of her summers in Italy. She earned an MFA at William Patterson University, where she now teaches sculpture. Her work explores our relationship with the natural world – even those parts of which we have yet to understand scientifically.

The blog seeks to modernize our conception of femininity, matching it with an edge befitting of the path-breaking work that women are doing in so many fields. Check them out using the link above, or by clicking the logo!

“This 10 year survey of Nakadate’s work had me laughing and squirming at the various predicaments she puts herself in. Rarely do I find it necessary to force myself to stand in front of a work of art, but on more than one occasion in this show I deliberately fought the urge to turn away from the awkward and confrontational feelings it evoked. Her work is trivial, sexy, exploitive, juicy, insensitive, naive, gross and unapologetic. I’ve since gone back to the show twice in an attempt to take it all in.”

-Jenn Dierdorf, Soho20 Gallery Director

The show fills the majority of the second floor of the museum and is paired with Modern Women: Single Channel, a group exhibition focusing on the work of eleven women artists in single-channel video. Jeffrey Kastner of the NYTimes has also reviewed the show, in which Nakadate encounters men in various, often awkward or even taboo, circumstances, and yet manages to capture respect and poignancy. The show combines Nakadate’s work over the last several years in both video, photography, and feature-length film.

Soho20′s 16th Annual Exhibition will run from July 26 – August 20, 2011, with an opening reception on Thursday, July 28 from 6 – 8 PM.

A guide to the Walk will be available in the next week, and we will post it here as well. In the meantime, visit the Chelsea Art Walk website for more information.

Soho20 will be hosting the Opening Reception for its 16th Annual International Exhibition (see show card below) during this time, and we hope you will stop by during the Art Walk. The exhibition features the work of Jesus Aguilar, Salwa Aleryani, Firelei Baez, Princess Dennis, Pamela Dodds, Ayana Evans, Sunhee Jung, Sofia Perez, Surabhi Saraf, Clifford Tisdell, Cullen Washington Jr. (best in show), Arin Yoon and Greta Young.

The juror is Dean Daderko, who was recently appointed Curator of the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH). He has taught and lectured at Yale University, Cooper Union, Centro de Investigaciones Artisticas and M.I.T.. Dean has curated shows around the world, and is the recipient of the 2008-09 Curatorial Research Fellowship from the French American Cultural Exchange. In his practice, he is dedicated to establishing productive opportunities for dialogue between art, artists and audiences.