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Side Show! Freak Show! Creep Show!

We’ve all heard the terms. What does this mean to you? What comes to mind? What do YOU consider a ‘Freak of Nature”? What constitutes this label?

This is an open call to artists of all mediums to challenge themselves to respond to the title of this show.

Who can participate: Anyone in the world, all artists welcome, all mediums.

Is there a fee: NO. There is no entry fee.

How many submissions per artist: Multiple submissions are welcome.

When is the deadline: All art must be received by October 15, 2008. Send anytime prior to the deadline.

What dimensions are acceptable: Anything that will go through the postal mail. Be creative! Be weird! Be a freak! Small, large, anything goes!

Where will the art be exhibited: All art and imagery will appear online with a grand opening on October 31, 2008. HALLOWEEN! FREAKY!

Will the show travel to various venues? YES! We are working on a traveling exhibition with multiple venues. You will be notified of the exhibitions and we wish to receive your permission to possibly make a Freak-Zine (a visual catalog of the submissions) that will be distributed to all artists (online version will be sent via email) and to others who request it. The ‘Freak-Zine” will be a vital part of the traveling exhibition and its visual historical documentation.

Will my art be returned? No. The body of work in this show may possibly be accepted as part of a Permanent Collection of a museum. Therefore, it would NOT be returned to the artist.

Need inspiration? THINK: sword-swallowing, circus, fortune tellers, palm readers, voo-doo, Coney Island, NYC, sideshows, magic, freaks of nature, siamese twins, the bearded lady…see link below.

Send in your art to the address below with the following information:

Name of artist, Address of Artist, Email Address, Title of Work

NOTE: email addresses will NOT be shared! This is for communication with the Exhibition Manager. It will be kept private!

Send art submissions to:
GM DESIGN
c/o Exhibitions Manager
3826 STEVE IKERD DR NE,
HICKORY, NC ,28601-9733, USA

Email questions to: ginmitch@yahoo.com

INSPIRATION:
[www.coneyisland.com]

MARTINA NEHRLING “Wink” acrylic on canvas, 20″ x 20″, 2008 courtesy Zg Gallery, Chicago

Martina Nehrling’s paintings are abstract compositions inspired by the simplicity of everyday life, translated through the complex filter of human thought and emotion. Martina states, “My recent work begins with observing the dappled sunlight of the Midwestern summer in a 21 foot panoramic painting titled, Through a Purple Patch, and develops into a study of the lulling experience of being present to the richly textured cacophony of daily life in a series of paintings titled, In Waves.”

“Grouped or tangled together, I use distinct brushstrokes for their directness, but rich color in order to engage and explore its imprecise language. I revel in color’s complexity, noticing how the eye tracks patterns of value and intensity and can be interrupted by particular relationships or a shift in scale. When I paint I am sounding out elements of my everyday life and I am captivated by the pulsation of disparate events, information, things… at once the beauty, the horror, the weight of it all. And so my work consists largely of compositions of accumulation. These seem to me one of the most legitimate kinds of pictures to make in our cultural landscape of abundant consumer goods, the privilege/burden of access to information, and the general order and disorder, calm and panic, chaos and hope.”

Martina Nehrling received her rM.F.A. from the University of Chicago and her B.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. “Through a Purple Patch” will be her fourth solo show with Zg Gallery and will run through July 12, 2008.

View Paintings: www.zggallery.com/nehrling.htm

Full Sail a 4×5″ minature masterpiece by Regan Tausch

Meet the Artist and see her Art in person - the best way to see it! Saturday mornings thru Sept 7 2008 at the Bayville Commons. That’s in Bayville New York, Ludlum and Bayville Ave.
Regan Tausch has been delighting collectors with her unique folk Art for over ten years. Her larger paintings are available at the Nassau County Museum of Art.
She offers miniature works on ebay and Etsy also.
visit her website @ http://regantausch.com/calendar.html
for links to Regan’s Art on TV and other fun links.

Happy Summer !
~ Regan Tausch

Brush by Edgar Sanchez-Cumbas

For immediate release:

The well known artist collaborative, The Paula Ysom Group, has inaugurated it’s new virtual space. Working within the perspective of an artist “incubator” concept, we strive to develop great contemporary artists. By partnering with international curators, museums and other established professionals, we carefully select and promote those artists that have what it takes to succeed in the ever-evolving contemporary art market. This philosophy has positioned Paula Ysom Group as a valid resource for collectors, galleries and museums. Please visit our new space at www.paulaysom.com

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Detroit Dream Project- Temple to the American Dream

Groundbreaking for the “Detroit Dream Project”

Two grass-roots organizations from Detroit and one from San Francisco broke ground in Northwest Detroit on May 10th for a project, which will culminate in a large-scale art installation in June of this year. The Temple of the American Dream, designed by sculptor David Best, will serve as a testament to the positive impact of public art resulting from community collaborations.

NORTHWEST DETROIT. Over the next month, The Society to Promote Art and Recreation in the Community (SPARC) and Motor City Blight Busters, both local Detroit organizations, will work with renowned San Francisco sculptor David Best to transform an empty space in the Brightmoor neighborhood, known as Peace Park, into a unique community setting. The centerpiece of the park will be an ornate pavilion called The Temple of the American Dream.

Groundbreaking began Saturday, May 10th after a year-long grass roots fundraising and planning effort by local volunteers from both organizations. They began working with Best to design the pavilion in the hopes of demonstrating to other local groups how community organizations can work together to create civic spaces in neighborhoods that lack them.

SPARC, a burgeoning non-profit arts organization whose members have experience with large-scale art installations at various events in the city of Detroit and across the country is providing management and technical expertise to the project. They have teamed up with the Motor City Blight Busters, who donated the land for the project, located in the vicinity of Lahser and Grand River Avenue. David Best, in addition to his nationally acclaimed sculptural work, is a member of The Black Rock Arts Foundation (BRAF), a San Francisco-based organization with a mission to promote civic participation through the installation of public, interactive art projects. BRAF has contributed to the project’s planning, funding and design.

Best and volunteers will assemble the structure in one weeks time to be completed in time for 20th year anniversary celebration of Motor City Blight Busters, headed by John George, who have worked to turn despair-wrought neighborhoods into a vibrant, clean and well-organized community.

The collaborators hope their efforts will stimulate more civic-mindedness, economic growth and recovery as well as create a model for collaborations in other communities whose members hope to achieve similar results.

If you any questions I can be reached at 313.608.4580
Website: http://www.detroitdreamproject.org
Myspace.com/detroitdream

Sincerely,

Danielle L. Kaltz

If you believe in the magic that exists in an artist’s mind, then come with us and make it happen.

I thought you might like to know about this performance piece involving Visual Art, Dance, Music & Poetry, on stage LIVE @ Tilles Center.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE-

The Artists Group announces:
Upcoming Art Event -

Artmosphere at Tilles Center for the Performing Arts

On September 4, 5, 6, 7, 2008 at 8pm, “Artmosphere” will come to the stage at Tilles Center, a live piece of art, with the involvement of the visual arts in a dynamic way. The dancers will be “in the face” of the patrons, the music and sights will wash over them, stimulating their senses and drawing them into the performance. This showcase of Long Island talent consists of: Debra Ann Kasimakis, Immersion Dance Company, music director Matt Flood, lighting designer Tom Pascarella, Andrew Leipzig (planetzig.com) Visual Art Director, in addition, we are working with the unofficial Poet Laureate of Nassau County, Maxwell Corydon Wheat Jr., as our literary consultant and will have original music by Jay Jii and Jane Leslie as well as music composed by noted guitarist Joe Satriani.

The show is being presented with the support of the C.W. Post Department of Theater, Film and Dance.

This exciting project involves dance, music, visual artists and performance poetry with state of the art lighting and multi media technology.

Tickets are $30 and are available through -

http://www.ticketmaster.com

http://www.tillescenter.org

or at Tilles Charge 516-299-3100.

For more INFO go to: http://www.debbydoll.com or call Pandagraphics @ 516-931-6849

Artists Featured (clockwise from top L) Tony Rosca, Joseph Fischer, Eric Edwards, Melissa Markowitz - Image Courtesy Of Albertini Arts Gallery

DECADENCE AND DECAY;
A Group Exhibition For The Marrow Minded

WHO:
Albertini Arts presents a group show featuring local artists: Eric Edwards, Fernando Ganas, Joseph Fischer, Kris Steffner, Laurie Vaughn, Melissa Markowitz and Tony Rosca.

WHAT:
Curated by resident artist Kris Steffner the group exhibition features various works which incorporate the human skeleton as subject.

Hidden but intrinsic to all living beings, the revealed skeleton has long been a subject of fascination often revealing itself in art, literature and philosophy. Exhibiting works range from classical to modern; while some focus on anatomy, others take a more humorous tone by poking fun at our ongoing obsession with our own beauty and mortality.

Highlights include: a collection of mixed medium paintings representing the artists inner struggle with the often paralyzing fear of what happens to ones art if your creativity ceases to flow, a group of mixed medium collages where the artist recycles found materials to create new images, a series of very intriguing mixed medium ceramic sculptures where the artist explores the theory that ‘ignorance is bliss’ as well as some graffiti style wearable art.

Active participants in The ‘Wynwood Art District Second Saturday Gallery Walk’ Albertini Arts host monthly cocktail receptions to allow patrons the opportunity to mingle with the featured artists & discuss their works. “Our primary goal as a gallery is to bring art to the public and make it more a part of daily life” states curator and resident artist Kris Steffner.

WHEN:
Opening reception Saturday, May 10th 2008 from 7-11pm, during ‘The Wynwood Art District Second Saturday Gallery Walk’, featuring live painting by Miami based graffiti artist Fernando Ganas and live jazz by Renee Fiallos & Mike Woods.

On view: May 10th - June 7th from 12-5pm Tuesday through Friday and 12-7pm on Saturdays.

WHERE:
Albertini Arts is located at 190 NW 36 Street in ‘The Wynwood Art District’ just south of ‘The Miami Design District’ and 2-blocks west of ‘The Midtown Mall’.

For more information call (305) 576-ART1, email AlbertiniArts@gmail.com or visit http://www.AlbertiniArts.com

Looking at Leaves: Photographs by Amanda Means, thru 2/8/2009 at Harvard Museum of Natural History

Looking at Leaves: Photographs by Amanda Means
Photography Exhibition opens May 9, 2008 at Harvard Museum of Natural History

Dramatic black & white images of single leaves by New York photographer Amanda Means are a monument to the remarkable diversity and beauty of nature’s botanical forms. These detailed blow-ups, some printed as large as 38 x 46 inches, were created by using the leaf itself in the same way as a photographic negative. The immediacy of the process gives the images an eerie intensity and adds to their compelling beauty.

“Means has the eye of both an artist and a scientist.” commented Elisabeth Werby, Executive Director of the Harvard Museum of Natural History. “These extraordinary photographs offer new ways to see and think about plants, raising intriguing questions about leaf form and function.” Looking at Leaves is the third in the museum’s series of photographic exhibitions which invite visitors to look closer at the world around them, to observe detail and pattern, and are designed to provoke inquiry.

Means’ fascination with botanical images over the last twenty years is, in part, scientific. The leaves she works with reflect lives lived in the wild, whether in the rain forest or in Central Park. Some show cracks. On others you can see pathways of insects as they ate their way across the surface. Some reflect the evolutionary history of plants, from the Peacock Plant’s more primitive pattern of parallel leaf veins to the leaves of later plants with branching veins – reflecting how the plants evolved a more efficient way to transport water and nutrients through the leaf’s surface.

Looking at Leaves will be on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural History through February 8, 2009. The photographer will offer gallery talks for the public on Friday, May 8 at 3:00 pm and Saturday, May 9th at 10:00 am, free with museum admission.

About the Photographer:
Raised in rural upstate New York, Means has lived and worked in Manhattan and Woodstock, NY for 25 years. She’s a graduate of Cornell University with an MFA from SUNY Buffalo. Her work is held in the collections of numerous museums, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the MIT List Visual Arts Center, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the Whitney Museum of American Art in NYC. Her work has been exhibited widely in the US, as well as in London, Madrid and Jerusalem. She is represented in New York City by the Ricco/Maresca Gallery and by Gallery 339 in Philadelphia, and has been shown at the Yezerski Gallery in Boston.

Looking at Leaves continues a series of important photographic exhibitions at the Harvard Museum of Natural History. A 2006 exhibition, Looking at Landscape: Environmental Puzzles from Three Photographers, featured works by three acclaimed photographers— award winning aerial photographer Alex S. MacLean, MIT Professor of Landscape Architecture and Planning Anne Whiston Spirn, and MacArthur Fellow Camilo Jose Vergara. Looking at Landscape was subsequently exhibited at the New York Hall of Science in New York City. The second exhibition, Looking at Animals: Photographs by Henry Horenstein, which closed at the end of April, featured haunting close-ups of creatures from land and sea by the renowned Boston photographer and RISD professor.

The museum is located at 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, on the Harvard campus. With more than 150,000 visitors a year the museum is the University’s most visited attraction. For more information on exhibits, classes and events, explore www.hmnh.harvard.edu or call 617-495-3045.

Harvard Museum of Natural History: Open 9:00 am to 5:00 pm, except major holidays. Admission: $9.00; seniors and students $7.00; $6.00 ages 3-18; under 3 free. Free for Massachusetts residents Wednesdays, 3-5 p.m. (Sept-May) and every Sunday morning, 9:00 am –noon.

Images (clockwise from top L): ‘Can I Play Too’, ‘I Only Want To Dance’, ‘Fat, Ugly, Might as Well be Dead’, ‘Now You Know’ - image courtesy of Albertini Arts Gallery

My present body of work evolves around my social encounters. As a comedian extracts his content from his subject matter, he compiles a set of rivaling lyrics to metaphorically & humorously compare his personal life with the outside comparison.

The collection I am working on gravitates towards social abnormalities. I prefer to focus on characters that are oblivious to their surroundings, not paying attention to the opinion of another. Completely immersed in their own world, my passion is to conjure characters not outwardly realizing their friend or foe observation. These characters become a family of unknowns. The characters I create are totally submersed in their own world, something I truly desire to achieve. Each character & narrative is an anomaly of what I desire to become in some state. Every flaw I cautiously suppress finds itself veining through my characters -Melissa Markowitz

On view May 10 - June 7
Albertini Arts Gallery
190 NW 36th Street
Wynwood Art District
Miami, Fl 33127
Tues. - Sat. 12 - 5pm

For further information call: 1.305.576.2781 or visit http://www.AlbertiniArts.com

Greg Morgan, ‘Cube’, 2007, acrylic on canvas, 15′’ x 30′’ x 1.5′’

“What do I do for a living?” is the first question I’m asked. I work as a scenic artist, custom designer & fabricator, airbrush artist, body painter, custom & stock photographer and most importantly as a painter of acrylics. Out of all of those, painting is the most enjoyable. I really just want to paint, but I find great enjoyment from anything artistic as I AM AN ARTIST!

The second question most people ask me after I answer the 1st one is, “What do you paint?” I hate labels in life & art. Unfortunately most people associate paintings with some sort of label. So I would have to say that the words ‘Modern Abstract Expressionism’ would best describe my body of paintings on canvas. All of my artwork is an expression of me on some level. It doesn’t matter what you do artistically as it will always be an ‘abstraction’ of who you are. Call it a freedom of self expression, a labor of love, an escape from the day to day, or just a personal vacation. I CALL IT ART & I HOPE OTHERS DO AS WELL! -Greg Morgan

On view at:
Albertini Arts Gallery
190 NW 36th Street
Wynwood Art District
Miami, Fl 33127
Tues.-Sat. 12-5pm

For further information call: 1.305.576.2781 or visit http://www.AlbertiniArts.com