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BIO

Carla Gannis, originally from North Carolina, currently lives and works in New York. Trained as a painter and having received her BFA from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro and her MFA from Boston University, Gannis shifted to producing digital print and multi-media installation work in the late 1990's.

Gannis is the recipient of several awards, including a 2005 New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Grant in Computer Arts, an Emerge 7 Fellowship from the Aljira Art Center, and a Chashama AREA Visual Arts Studio Award in New York, NY. She has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions both nationally and internationally. Her most recent solo exhibitions include Jezebel at Claire Oliver Gallery in New York, Everything That Rises Must Converge at Kasia Kay Art Projects Gallery in Chicago, Il, Jezebel presented by Claire Oliver Gallery at Loop Video Art Fair, Barcelona, Spain; and I Dream of Jeannie Emerging from a Fresca Bottle at Christa Schuebbe Galerie, Dusseldorf, Germany.

Features on Gannis's work have appeared in Res Magazine, Animal Magazine, 11211, and Collezioni Edge, and her work has been reviewed in The New York Times, The LA Times, The Miami Herald, NY Arts Magazine, The Daily News, The Star Ledger, and The Village Voice. She is currently on the Digital Arts teaching faculty at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and The School of Visual Arts in New York.

RHIZOME ACTIVITIES

DISCUSSION

Posted on Mon Feb 13, 2006

Two Shows

Hi friends,
If you're in Rhode Island or Chicago please stop by to see these two shows
that I have work in. And hope you're not snowed in, or if you are, that
you're happy about it.

Cheers,
Carla

WHEELER GALLERY presents SECRETIVE, a group exhibition curated by ANNETTE
CYR,
from February 16 - March 8, 2006. SECRETIVE brings together intimate scale
paintings, prints and sculpture by artists from Providence, New York,
California and New Zealand: LINDA BENET,
JEAN BLACKBURN, ANNETTE CYR, DENNIS CONGDON, SUSANNA COFFEY, *CARLA GANNIS,
RYK EKEDAL, NANCY FRIESE, PAULA HEISEN, ELLINORE HOLLINSHEAD, SUSAN
LICHTMAN, MANUELA PAUL, ANDREW RAFTERY, JOANNE STRYKER, CAROLE SHEPHEARD,
GRIER TORRENCE, and RANDY WILLIER.
The OPENING RECEPTION for SECRETIVE is Thursday February 16, 5-7 pm.
WHEELER GALLERY is located at 228 Angell Street, Providence, RI 02906.
For more information contact: SUE CARROLL, Gallery Director and JEANIE CHU,
Assistant DIrector at 401.421.9230. Visit www.wheelergallery.org/secretive
for more information and to preview work in SECRETIVE.

KASIA KAY ART PROJECTS presents Atmospheric: Inaugural Group Exhibition at
new location
February 17

DISCUSSION

Posted on Wed Oct 05, 2005

Selective Affinities @ Pablo's Birthday, Oct 15, 4pm

Selective Affinities: a panel discussion, in conjunction with the group
exhibition Multiple Partners, about community, gender, and connectivities in
the New York art world.
Panelists include: Lilly Wei, Brian Sholis, Michael Sellinger, Lea Rekow,
Anat Ebgi, Phong Bui Moderated by: Carla Gannis.
Dialogue: Recently The New York art world has taken some harsh criticism
recently for being too market driven to represent the truly best-A mercenary
and soulless picture takes form, where money, conformity, and power
obfuscate conviction, originality, and integrity. It can be easy to overlook
the artists, writers, curators, and gallerists in New York whose
contributions help form a more inspiring and vital scenario. Many of these
individuals support the mutual success of their peers, sharing resources and
information; write insightful and judicious analysis; curate provocative and
challenging shows; and operate galleries and art spaces that provide
alternative perspectives to the status quo.
A Q&A open to panelists and participating artists of "Multiple Partners"
will follow the panel discussion Where & when: Pablo's Birthday, 84 Franklin
St, (between Church and Broadway), NYC, Free, 4:00 pm
*For further details:
http://www.carlagannis.com/MultiplePartners/SelectiveAffinities.html

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DISCUSSION

Posted on Wed Sep 07, 2005

MULTIPLE PARTNERS @ PABLO'S BIRTHDAY OPENING SEPT 17

MULTIPLE PARTNERS
September 17 - October 26, 2005
Opens: Saturday, September 17, 6 - 9 pm
@Pablo's Birthday 84 Franklin St New York, NY 10013
http://www.pablosbirthday.com

For immediate release

Pablo's Birthday is pleased to announce Multiple Partners, a group show
curated and organized by Carla Gannis, with selected co-curators Kristin
Anderson, Sandra Bermudez, Elizabeth Huey, Anna Pedersen, and Gae Savannah

Artists include: Kristin Anderson, Jeff Feld, Mike Rogers, Sandra Bermudez,
David Baskin, Jason Hackenwerth, Sean Mellyn, Carla Gannis, Michael
Anderson, Graham Guerra, Alexander Reyna, Elizabeth Huey, Joseph Hart, Wes
Lang, Eric White, Barnaby Whitfield, Anna Pedersen, Guillermo Creus, Dan
Zeller, Gae Savannah, Doug Morris, and Christopher Tanner

For the complete press release go to
http://www.carlagannis.com/MultiplePartners/Email/Invite.html

DISCUSSION

Posted on Wed Sep 07, 2005

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For immediate release 
Pablo's
Birthday is pleased to announce Multiple Partners, a group
show
curated and organized by Carla Gannis, with selected co-curators
Kristin
Anderson, Sandra Bermudez, Elizabeth Huey, Anna Pedersen, and Gae
Savannah 
 
Artists include: Kristin Anderson, Jeff Feld, Mike Rogers,
Sandra
Bermudez, David Baskin, Jason Hackenwerth, Sean Mellyn, Carla
Gannis,
Michael Anderson, Graham Guerra, Alexander Reyna, Elizabeth Huey,
Joseph
Hart, Wes Lang, Eric White, Barnaby Whitfield, Anna Pedersen,
Guillermo
Creus, Dan Zeller, Gae Savannah, Doug Morris, and Christopher
Tanner
 
                  
            "Women
can't add," he said jokingly. 
                  
 
           
When
I asked him what he meant, he said, 
                  
 

            "For
them, one and one and one and one don't make four." 
                  
 

            "What
do they make?" I said, expecting five or three. 
                  
 

            "Just
one and one and one and one," he said.  
 
                 
 
                
                   
           Margaret Atwood, The
Handmaid's
Tale 
Multiple
Partners is an exhibition that explores the range
of
connections a female artist can find with one and one and one and
one
of her male artist contemporaries. Sociological or biological
factors
may influence women to express themselves differently from men, but
other
far-ranging factors, from our shared humanity to similar tastes in
literature,
music, and science, produce commonalities and linkages in our
creative
output. Without expectations for a conclusive sum total, this show
explores
the possibility that artists of both genders can look to the same
influences
and belong to the same history. 
Starting
with this premise, Multiple Partners comprises six
female
artists

DISCUSSION

Posted on Tue Jul 12, 2005

OPEN STUDIOS THIS FRIDAY

As a participating artist in the Chashama Studio Program I'll be part of
their 40 Worth open studios this Friday, July 15th from 6-9 pm. If you do
not see text and images below, please go for further info to:
http://www.carlagannis.com/chashama/ChashamaInvite.jpg

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