The Women’s Caucus for the Arts is exhibiting “Plastic at the Plastic” @ The Plastic Club on Camac Street, a mixed media show of beautiful objects and images. Diana Riukas and Pam Flynn have special exhibits. The Women’s Caucus for Art is a National Organization of women artists, art historians, curators, collectors, art educators and museum professionals – the show runs through 3/29/09.
Virginia Maksymowicz, “Pane Trasparente“, installation of 30 small cast resin and photos.
Ponderings – Pam Flynn in the Tearoom @ The Plastic Club.
Art & artist. Neurotica – Works by Diana Riukas in the Main room of The Plastic Club.
An incredible thing has happened. The business community of South Street offered empty store fronts to artists rent free if they pay the utilities; DoN first heard of this from David Foss, director of the Da Vinci Art Alliance. The Dumpster Divers jumped at the chance and have installed an exciting mixed media art show of museum quality – a lot of the work has been exhibited in actual museums and are scheduled to show in upcoming museum shows. The Grand Opening is March 15th but there’s plenty to absorb now as the huge space at 723 South Street is transformed.
DoN says when the grid goes down the artists will become the tribal leaders: storytellers, image makers, re-purposers, builders, makers, artists, musicians and those able to carry the history forward and preserve culture.
Dumpster Divers on South Street.
Dumpster Diver outsider, couturier Shoshana Arons with Diver multimedia artist Alden Cole @ 723 South Street.
Burnell Yow!‘s “52 Collages in 52 Weeks” @ The Dumpster Divers installation on South Street.
The Pulsewave ROM invitations are an ongoing series of artistic collaboration created each month to promote Pulsewave, a New York City chip music event. Each month a uniquely designed and coded NES (Nintendo Entertainment System) or Commodore 64 program is released. These invitations can be played back on the classic consoles or viewed on modern computers via emulation. They serve as distinctive promotional material while paying homage to the classic invites created by demoscene programmers of the 1980s and 1990s.
The ROM invitations are the very essence of unintended use: commercial gaming and computer hardware subverted for DIY promotion of underground music events. The punk scene has its photocopied flyers attached to telephone polesand the chip music scene has its electronic flyers plastered on TV screens and computer monitors. www.no-carrier.com/
DoN lifted this info from the Nexus website which features an excellent survey of the exhibit.
Installation view of uniNtended Uses @ Nexus Gallery.
The LOVE- Armor project is a collaborative work describing the empathy felt for those existing in war torn Afghanistan and Iraq. The Icebox is in the Crane Art Center @ 1400 North American Street. Read the whole story here.
Sho & DoN were both drawn into the craftsmanship and thought utilized in the Hummer cozy including J. Crew style pockets, buttons and closures; the pictures of an actual Hummer covered in the crocheted cover reads like putting a daisy in the barrel of a gun. The space is divided in two with cloth banners separating the movie area documenting the creative process and collaboration involved in producing the huge piece and is an experience design in itself; the movie is heartening and hopeful considering the dire situation. No more War.
