Biological Imperative at Gallery Aferro
Deadline:
Tue May 27, 2008 14:00
Location:
United States of America
Gallery Aferro
73 Market St Newark NJ 07102
www.aferro.org
Biological Imperative
Curated by Emma Wilcox
With full color catalog
June 14-May 17, 2008
Opening Reception June 14, 7-10 PM
Screening July 12, 3 PM
WAX, or the Discovery of Television Among the Bees
Structured around what the Tissue Culture and Art Project has called “cultural perceptions of life,” Biological Imperative freely mixes ideas of partial personhood, the possibilities of regeneration, multiples, fecundity, the semi-living, and the undead (things that just won’t die.) The exhibition posits linkage between disparate references such as (but not limited to) the undying popularity of the zombie genre, rabbit imagery, pirate radio and bioethical quandaries.
Elio Cacavalle’s MyBio Dolls are educational dolls informed by consultation with bioethicists, symbolizing possible biofutures, and allowing children to imagine narratives for scenarios such as human/animal organ transplants. Brandon Ballengee’s drawings of deformed frog specimens collected throughout the world also create a sense of the unfamiliar: some frogs have too many limbs, some too few.
In Jillian McDonald’s two-channel installation in the new media room, Zombie Loop, zombie and survivor are somehow the same, referencing the genre's implied life cycle. The endurance of radio signals in the atmosphere links Charlesworth, Lewandowski & Mann’s video work, Radio City to the theme of the undying. The piece is a record of journey via boat to an abandoned sea fort used by pirate radio transmissions in the 60’s. After an altercation that left one broadcaster dead, his wife rowed to sea and played “Strangers in the Night” as a memorial. CLM mimicked this action in 2006, playing the same song at high volume over the open water.
The fecundity or productivity of animals, namely rabbits and bees, inspired other works in the exhibition, such as those by Aganetha Dyck with Richard Dyck, and David Blair. Dyck’s Hive Scans are large-scale color prints made in collaboration with bees, via a scanner introduced into a beehive. David Blair’s full-length film WAX was created over 6 years with footage shot on site at actual nuclear testing facilities in the US, flight simulation software and archival footage. The convoluted story concerns a beekeeper’s transformation upon discovering that his bees communicate between the living and the dead, and raises questions as to the collective and individual value of life.
Artists: Andrea Aimi, Brandon Ballengée, Michael Betancourt, Ana Black, David Blair, William Brovelli, Charlesworth, Lewandowski & Mann, Elio Caccavale, Sean Capone, Steven Dressler, Eva Drangsholt, Tagny Duff, Aganetha & Richard Dyck, Lucia Fabio, Asha Ganpat, Daphne Gerou, Nora Herting,
Verena Kaminiarz, Jennifer Mazza, Jillian McDonald, Stephanie Metz, Lydia Moyer, Roger Sayre,
David Sherry, Laura Splan, Brian Spolans, Ajla R. Steinvåg, Naoe Suzuki, Delmira Valladares,
Maria Wallace
25% of artworks in the exhibition contain rabbit content.
For more information, please contact Emma Wilcox at ewilcox@aferro.org
73 Market St Newark NJ 07102
www.aferro.org
Biological Imperative
Curated by Emma Wilcox
With full color catalog
June 14-May 17, 2008
Opening Reception June 14, 7-10 PM
Screening July 12, 3 PM
WAX, or the Discovery of Television Among the Bees
Structured around what the Tissue Culture and Art Project has called “cultural perceptions of life,” Biological Imperative freely mixes ideas of partial personhood, the possibilities of regeneration, multiples, fecundity, the semi-living, and the undead (things that just won’t die.) The exhibition posits linkage between disparate references such as (but not limited to) the undying popularity of the zombie genre, rabbit imagery, pirate radio and bioethical quandaries.
Elio Cacavalle’s MyBio Dolls are educational dolls informed by consultation with bioethicists, symbolizing possible biofutures, and allowing children to imagine narratives for scenarios such as human/animal organ transplants. Brandon Ballengee’s drawings of deformed frog specimens collected throughout the world also create a sense of the unfamiliar: some frogs have too many limbs, some too few.
In Jillian McDonald’s two-channel installation in the new media room, Zombie Loop, zombie and survivor are somehow the same, referencing the genre's implied life cycle. The endurance of radio signals in the atmosphere links Charlesworth, Lewandowski & Mann’s video work, Radio City to the theme of the undying. The piece is a record of journey via boat to an abandoned sea fort used by pirate radio transmissions in the 60’s. After an altercation that left one broadcaster dead, his wife rowed to sea and played “Strangers in the Night” as a memorial. CLM mimicked this action in 2006, playing the same song at high volume over the open water.
The fecundity or productivity of animals, namely rabbits and bees, inspired other works in the exhibition, such as those by Aganetha Dyck with Richard Dyck, and David Blair. Dyck’s Hive Scans are large-scale color prints made in collaboration with bees, via a scanner introduced into a beehive. David Blair’s full-length film WAX was created over 6 years with footage shot on site at actual nuclear testing facilities in the US, flight simulation software and archival footage. The convoluted story concerns a beekeeper’s transformation upon discovering that his bees communicate between the living and the dead, and raises questions as to the collective and individual value of life.
Artists: Andrea Aimi, Brandon Ballengée, Michael Betancourt, Ana Black, David Blair, William Brovelli, Charlesworth, Lewandowski & Mann, Elio Caccavale, Sean Capone, Steven Dressler, Eva Drangsholt, Tagny Duff, Aganetha & Richard Dyck, Lucia Fabio, Asha Ganpat, Daphne Gerou, Nora Herting,
Verena Kaminiarz, Jennifer Mazza, Jillian McDonald, Stephanie Metz, Lydia Moyer, Roger Sayre,
David Sherry, Laura Splan, Brian Spolans, Ajla R. Steinvåg, Naoe Suzuki, Delmira Valladares,
Maria Wallace
25% of artworks in the exhibition contain rabbit content.
For more information, please contact Emma Wilcox at ewilcox@aferro.org
Open Call for Curatorial Proposals for Gallery Aferro
Deadline:
Wed Oct 15, 2008 00:00
Location:
United States of America
Gallery Aferro, Newark, NJ, USA
www.aferro.org
Open call for Curatorial Proposals for mid 2009
Main Gallery (ground floor)
New Media Room
Due October 15, 2008
NOT a postmark deadline
Proposals can be for either space, or for both.
Curators should email or mail the following:
1) A curatorial statement with a description of the new proposed
exhibition and an explanation of their idea.
2) Work samples for proposed artists: These could be Slides, DVD
(NTSC) CD (any form of digital file we can read from a Mac) VHS or
Digital Prints.
There is no minimum or maximum number of images to include. If new
work will be created for the exhibition, send images of their past
work.
3) Curator's CV/resume. Examples of past curated shows including
images and press if reviewed. Curator's statement about these past
exhibitions.
Please feel free to stop by the gallery during gallery hours to look
at the space. Main gallery is 19 x 200 feet. New Media room is 19 x
80 feet.
Gallery Aferro will send out show cards and press releases to its
mailing list. We expect a hands-on approach at the gallery. The
curator is expected to be in NYC/NJ area to make arrangements with the
artists prior to the installation week. The curator is expected to be
at the gallery throughout the full week of installation and the
curator and artists involved in the exhibition are responsible for
installation of the artwork.
We exhibit work we feel strongly about, regardless of your education
or exhibition history, but you must include this information. If we
select your work we will want this information right away for
promotional purposes.
Do Not refer us to your website without ALL the other required
material. We will review the listed material first, without it we will
not visit your site.
Please mail all submissions to:
Evonne M. Davis + Emma Wilcox
Gallery Aferro
248 Sherman Avenue #43
New York, N.Y. 10034
You may email your submission as well
Send to:
submit.aferro@gmail.com
www.aferro.org
Open call for Curatorial Proposals for mid 2009
Main Gallery (ground floor)
New Media Room
Due October 15, 2008
NOT a postmark deadline
Proposals can be for either space, or for both.
Curators should email or mail the following:
1) A curatorial statement with a description of the new proposed
exhibition and an explanation of their idea.
2) Work samples for proposed artists: These could be Slides, DVD
(NTSC) CD (any form of digital file we can read from a Mac) VHS or
Digital Prints.
There is no minimum or maximum number of images to include. If new
work will be created for the exhibition, send images of their past
work.
3) Curator's CV/resume. Examples of past curated shows including
images and press if reviewed. Curator's statement about these past
exhibitions.
Please feel free to stop by the gallery during gallery hours to look
at the space. Main gallery is 19 x 200 feet. New Media room is 19 x
80 feet.
Gallery Aferro will send out show cards and press releases to its
mailing list. We expect a hands-on approach at the gallery. The
curator is expected to be in NYC/NJ area to make arrangements with the
artists prior to the installation week. The curator is expected to be
at the gallery throughout the full week of installation and the
curator and artists involved in the exhibition are responsible for
installation of the artwork.
We exhibit work we feel strongly about, regardless of your education
or exhibition history, but you must include this information. If we
select your work we will want this information right away for
promotional purposes.
Do Not refer us to your website without ALL the other required
material. We will review the listed material first, without it we will
not visit your site.
Please mail all submissions to:
Evonne M. Davis + Emma Wilcox
Gallery Aferro
248 Sherman Avenue #43
New York, N.Y. 10034
You may email your submission as well
Send to:
submit.aferro@gmail.com
Open Call: Tabula Rasa
Deadline:
Tue Jul 15, 2008 00:00
Location:
United States of America
OPEN CALL Tabula Rasa
Gallery Aferro Newark NJ USA
www.aferro.org
Tabula Rasa on display September 6 - October 4, 2008 with full color catalog.
Curated by Evonne M. Davis
Deadline July 15, 2008
(This is NOT a postmark deadline.)
Artists working in any and all media are invited to submit existing
work, or propose new work, in response to the following:
#1-Tabula Rasa: |ˈtäbyoŏlə ˈräsə; ˈräzə|
an absence of preconceived ideas or predetermined goals; a clean slate.
The human mind at birth, viewed as having no innate ideas.
ORIGIN Latin, literally ‘scraped tablet,’ denoting a tablet with the writing erased.
#2- René Descartes, Aristotle, John Locke
#3- Denying what is obvious.
#4- Nothing is new, nothing is original.
#5 Existentialism and the nothingness of existence, ennui.
Notification of acceptance by August 1.
Delivery by August 16.
All exhibition submissions must include:
CV/Resume
Statement
Work Samples (digital file or print out)
CD/DVD or submission via email.
submit.aferro@gmail.com
Please put the exhibition title in the subject line.
Please review the full submission guidelines at www.aferro.org
Please mail your submissions to:
Gallery Aferro
c/o Evonne M. Davis + Emma Wilcox
248 Sherman Ave #43 NY NY 10034 USA
Gallery Aferro Newark NJ USA
www.aferro.org
Tabula Rasa on display September 6 - October 4, 2008 with full color catalog.
Curated by Evonne M. Davis
Deadline July 15, 2008
(This is NOT a postmark deadline.)
Artists working in any and all media are invited to submit existing
work, or propose new work, in response to the following:
#1-Tabula Rasa: |ˈtäbyoŏlə ˈräsə; ˈräzə|
an absence of preconceived ideas or predetermined goals; a clean slate.
The human mind at birth, viewed as having no innate ideas.
ORIGIN Latin, literally ‘scraped tablet,’ denoting a tablet with the writing erased.
#2- René Descartes, Aristotle, John Locke
#3- Denying what is obvious.
#4- Nothing is new, nothing is original.
#5 Existentialism and the nothingness of existence, ennui.
Notification of acceptance by August 1.
Delivery by August 16.
All exhibition submissions must include:
CV/Resume
Statement
Work Samples (digital file or print out)
CD/DVD or submission via email.
submit.aferro@gmail.com
Please put the exhibition title in the subject line.
Please review the full submission guidelines at www.aferro.org
Please mail your submissions to:
Gallery Aferro
c/o Evonne M. Davis + Emma Wilcox
248 Sherman Ave #43 NY NY 10034 USA
cWOW seeks curator for Democracy show
Deadline:
Fri May 30, 2008 00:00
Location:
United States of America
City Without Walls (cWOW) seeks a curator (or co-curators) for an
upcoming group exhibition dealing with issues and ideas about
democracy. The exhibition opens in September 2008, taking the pulse of
democracy in America and around the world just prior to the
Presidential election.
City Without Walls (cWOW) seeks artists and artwork for a group
exhibition dealing with issues and ideas about democracy, and
scheduled to open this fall just prior to the Presidential election.
The exhibition will take the pulse of the state of democracy in
America and around the world.
cWOW is a non-profit urban gallery for emerging art that advances the
careers of artists while building the audience for contemporary art.
cWOW's gallery in downtown Newark is a state-of-the-art facility with
over 1,600 square feet of exhibition space, including a main gallery,
a new-media project room, 9-foot screen, several flat-screen TVs, and
other video projection equipment (see attached floor plan). cWOW is
New Jersey's oldest not-for-profit alternative art space, founded in
1975, and a three-time recipient of the prestigious NJ State Council
on the Arts "Citation of Excellence."
For more details and full prospectus please visit: www.cwow.org
Call: Evonne M. Davis at 973.622.1188 with questions.
Email: info@cwow.org
upcoming group exhibition dealing with issues and ideas about
democracy. The exhibition opens in September 2008, taking the pulse of
democracy in America and around the world just prior to the
Presidential election.
City Without Walls (cWOW) seeks artists and artwork for a group
exhibition dealing with issues and ideas about democracy, and
scheduled to open this fall just prior to the Presidential election.
The exhibition will take the pulse of the state of democracy in
America and around the world.
cWOW is a non-profit urban gallery for emerging art that advances the
careers of artists while building the audience for contemporary art.
cWOW's gallery in downtown Newark is a state-of-the-art facility with
over 1,600 square feet of exhibition space, including a main gallery,
a new-media project room, 9-foot screen, several flat-screen TVs, and
other video projection equipment (see attached floor plan). cWOW is
New Jersey's oldest not-for-profit alternative art space, founded in
1975, and a three-time recipient of the prestigious NJ State Council
on the Arts "Citation of Excellence."
For more details and full prospectus please visit: www.cwow.org
Call: Evonne M. Davis at 973.622.1188 with questions.
Email: info@cwow.org
Theory + Practice, Networked
Dates:
Sat Apr 19, 2008 00:00 - Mon Apr 07, 2008
Location:
United States of America
Gallery Aferro 73 Market St Newark NJ www.aferro.org
Theory + Practice curated by Evonne M. Davis
Networked curated by Donna Kessinger, New Media Room
If So, Then So! New Work by Kevin Darmanie, Project Room
April 19 - May 17, 2008
Opening Reception Saturday April 19, 7-10 PM
“…There are no countries now….” From artist Alan Bigelow’s When I was President
Theory+ Practice is an acknowledgement, interrogation and fete of the void between what the world could be and what it is. Web artist and writer Alan Bigelow’s piece, When I was President is an interactive projection that details a presidency ended by a suicide bomber: “a high school teacher from Des Moines.” “She said it was the only way to make the world right again.” Site-specific sculptural works by Brian Wondergem include a 15-foot high Ferris wheel built exclusively out of ladders, suggestive of both an extreme pragmatism as well as yearning for escape.
Artists: Andrew Leo Baron, Alan Bigelow, Deric Carner, Robert Ladislas Derr, Nisha Drinkard, Katarina Jerinic, Darren Jones, Tracie Lee, Paula McCartney, Tori Purcell, Stephanie Standish, Alina Tenser, Matthew Verdon, Brian Wondergem
According to independent curator and video artist Donna Kessinger, the world of networked art is expansive and constantly evolving daily with new technology and applications. Networked is an effort to take into consideration both literal and physical interpretations based on an open call for networked art on a local and international level. This small group survey is an attempt to look at the manifestation of net-based interactive projects, and physical attempts to escape from virtual realities, resulting in work with a more personal connection - going back to an idea of networks having to do with people and the way we live and work, both alone and in community.
Artists: William Brovelli, Doris Caçoilo, Beatrice Coron, The Coalition for Daring Behavior, Sean Hovendick, Visakh Menon, William Oliwa, Gunter Puller, Katherine Sweetman, Amanda Thackray, Michelle Wilson, Jody Zellen
Kevin Darmanie’s oversized comic panels each function independently but can be read as part of an ongoing narrative. Set between Trinidad and a city not dissimilar to Newark, NJ, the series is notable for the humor, honesty and sly queries posed by Darmanie’s alter ego, Kedar. If So, Then So! is the culminating exhibition of Darmanie’s 07 studio residency at Aferro.
With full color catalog
Theory + Practice curated by Evonne M. Davis
Networked curated by Donna Kessinger, New Media Room
If So, Then So! New Work by Kevin Darmanie, Project Room
April 19 - May 17, 2008
Opening Reception Saturday April 19, 7-10 PM
“…There are no countries now….” From artist Alan Bigelow’s When I was President
Theory+ Practice is an acknowledgement, interrogation and fete of the void between what the world could be and what it is. Web artist and writer Alan Bigelow’s piece, When I was President is an interactive projection that details a presidency ended by a suicide bomber: “a high school teacher from Des Moines.” “She said it was the only way to make the world right again.” Site-specific sculptural works by Brian Wondergem include a 15-foot high Ferris wheel built exclusively out of ladders, suggestive of both an extreme pragmatism as well as yearning for escape.
Artists: Andrew Leo Baron, Alan Bigelow, Deric Carner, Robert Ladislas Derr, Nisha Drinkard, Katarina Jerinic, Darren Jones, Tracie Lee, Paula McCartney, Tori Purcell, Stephanie Standish, Alina Tenser, Matthew Verdon, Brian Wondergem
According to independent curator and video artist Donna Kessinger, the world of networked art is expansive and constantly evolving daily with new technology and applications. Networked is an effort to take into consideration both literal and physical interpretations based on an open call for networked art on a local and international level. This small group survey is an attempt to look at the manifestation of net-based interactive projects, and physical attempts to escape from virtual realities, resulting in work with a more personal connection - going back to an idea of networks having to do with people and the way we live and work, both alone and in community.
Artists: William Brovelli, Doris Caçoilo, Beatrice Coron, The Coalition for Daring Behavior, Sean Hovendick, Visakh Menon, William Oliwa, Gunter Puller, Katherine Sweetman, Amanda Thackray, Michelle Wilson, Jody Zellen
Kevin Darmanie’s oversized comic panels each function independently but can be read as part of an ongoing narrative. Set between Trinidad and a city not dissimilar to Newark, NJ, the series is notable for the humor, honesty and sly queries posed by Darmanie’s alter ego, Kedar. If So, Then So! is the culminating exhibition of Darmanie’s 07 studio residency at Aferro.
With full color catalog
