new summer paintings from Armas Design

There is so much goodness in this new batch of paintings. I have been inspired by summer time! Grilled peaches and mint juleps and mesquite bbq breezes...obsessed with food much? In any case, I hope you enjoy these paintings full of movement, and painted with love. Some are jubilant exclamations of color! Some are thoughtful and full of light and space. They are meant to be hung in any direction you like, and they look even better in groups. I would love to show you all my brand-spanking-new studio space, but it is still being gussied up, and would prefer to display only it's sexy pictures. Don't forget to check out the blog for all your voyeuring needs. If you make it this far down the newsletter, you deserve a treat. Hows about 10% off with coupon code TENFINGERDISCOUNT. Or maybe I just need another julep. A preview of pieces available right now in the shop! Looking for something specific? Contact me, we can work together to get you just the right look for your home. My latest commission is for a stately family living room. The client wanted a loose composition and bright colors to compliment her navy and slate blue color scheme. ©2011 Armas Design | 207 Warren st. NE Atlanta GA 30317

embroidery news from Iviva Olenick

Dear friends,

This September, I had the pleasure of participating in a one-night exhibit, "Sleeping with Strangers," sponsored by Salon Ciel. I exhibited embroideries from my Were I So Besotted series alongside the black and white photographs of Robert Gerhardt. While the show was fleeting, the experience was recorded in a video, where you can see and hear Robert and I talk about our work: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGEoPOtZqHk.

You can also read a review of "Sleeping with Strangers" here: http://gallerycrawl.typepad.com/gallery_crawl/2010/10/recent-fall-shows-in-brief.html. Thanks to James Kao for writing this article, and Salon Ciel for hosting the exhibit.

For those of you in the New York area, my latest installment of the Embroidered Art Journal class at Pratt CCPS in Manhattan is coming up very soon. The Embroidered Art Journal, PMDA-104-02, runs for 5 weeks on Friday evenings from 6:30-9:30 - November 5 - December 10th. $195/ 15 hours of workshop/studio time. This class is perfect for absolute beginners and more experienced embroiderers. With my guidance and input, each student crafts an art book incorporating embroidery and additional media of his/her choice. You can sign up via Pratt's web site, http://my.pratt.edu, or by calling 212-647-7199. I hope to see some of you there! Please feel free to share this information with friends.

Finally, if you live in Brooklyn, you can see my embroidered art work at Muriel Guepin Gallery on Bergen Street near Smith Street, steps away from the F/G to Bergen Street. The address is 47 Bergen Street, and the gallery sits beside the Invisible Dog, an event, performance, and exhibition space.

Thanks to all of you for your ongoing interest in my work.

with love,

Iviva

http://IvivaOlenick.neoimages.net

http://wereisobesotted.blogspot.com

http://www.IvivaOlenick.com

ed emberley group show in LA

i would SO love to go to this... if you are in LA go for me!

time tunnel

film still from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" by Pali Kashi

Charlie Horse Gallery presents:

Time Tunnel

Curated by Pali Kashi

Mira Billotte John Brattin Eric Copeland Jeff Davis Spencer Herbst

Pali Kashi James Kendi Adam Marnie Keith McCulloch Rich Porter

Leif Ritchey Arik Roper Francine Spiegel Ruby Sky Stiler

The Large Hadron Collider is the world's largest and highest energy particle accelerator, and lies in a tunnel 175 meters beneath the Franco-Swiss border. Physicists hope that the LHC will help answer the most fundamental questions in physics, concerning the basic laws governing the deep structure of space and time.
--Brian Greene reporting for The New York Times

"Time Tunnel" proposes a collision of art-making traditions with the uncertainty of time and space. The collective unconscious is infused with ritual and mysticism, and has become dislodged and reinterpreted. The reformed amalgam of paint, wax, clay, sand, and plaster that is presented here are artifacts of this convergence. Totem poles are now made of monster masks, images of prairie women have paint splattered on them, Roman relics are fractured, sand mandalas are blurred, and our spirit animals have been unleashed into the wild.

Mira Billotte is an artist and musician (White Magic) interested in the "Music of the Spheres"; the belief that the planets of the solar system and stars beyond each create a tone in perfect harmony. Mira's installations and sand mandalas reference transcendental rituals practiced throughout time. John Brattin is a multi-media artist who uses sculpture, drawing, and painting to further inform his personal stories and myths which are eventually made into short films. He is currently working on a western. Eric Copeland's collages are visual remnants of his pondering of the moon, phallices, faces, and piles of trash. His abstracted compositions use repetition and disjunction much like the music he is known for making. Jeff Davis's two-dimensional work usually takes on "mysteriously ceremonial and often orgiastic configurations". His totem-like structures are made from casting rubber halloween masks with multi-colored wax. Spencer Herbst's dadaist videos are a microscopic look into our everyday surroundings. His magnification of objects strewn about his apartment, salt crystals lying on a countertop, and wood grain in the floorboards are examined so closely that they take on an other-worldly reality. Pali Kashi's work presents the natural world through the power symbol of the triangle, which grants the viewer a new kind of portal into frozen moments of time. James Kendi's photographic process begins with asking people what their spirit animal is. He then creates a mask of that animal and photographs his subjects wearing the mask in the animal's natural environment. Adam Marnie is a mixed media artist interested in the sculptural presentation of images. By splicing traditional still life painting with pornography, he can sharply pierce us with flashes of flesh where we are expecting to see stems and roses. Keith McCulloch's watercolors meander through a maze-like interior filled with strange yet familiar apparitions. Rich Porter depicts an array of primordial figures, focusing on the unseen molecular network between our bodies and landscape. Leif Ritchey is an archaeologist of the sublime accumulations of his everyday surroundings. The objects he extracts from puddles near a sewer or broken glass hidden under a bush are taken back to his studio to be corralled into his futuristic vision. Arik Roper's work depicts a fantastical reality filled with mythical warriors, smoky terrain, and decaying skulls. His paintings breathe life into our uncharted history. Ruby Sky Stiler rummages the storage cellar of historical artifacts to incorporate classic iconography into the context of her own relics. Her fragmented reliefs of ancient Greek and Roman imagery question the potency of sculpting the human form. Francine Spiegel's performance, The Curse of the Century Old Egg, which took place at Deitch Projects this last fall, was a literal mish-mosh of the past and present. The eerie happening gathered six women together in a curious ritual of transformation. The repetition of slime-dumping and paint-slinging turned these prairie-esque women, in ruffled regalia, into monstrous beasts over the course of an hour.

Time Tunnel will be on display from March 5, 2010 - March 17, 2010
Opening reception will be from 7-9 pm on Friday, March 5, 2010

Live Performances by Mike Bones and Luke Roberts

Charlie Horse Gallery
28 Marcy Ave

between Metropolitan and Hope
Take L or G train to Union Ave stop, walk down Metropolitan Ave 3 blocks and make a right onto Marcy

embroidered love notes

Dear friends,

Hope you are enjoying the snow or are someplace warm and sunny.

In anticipation of Valentine's Day, and really, for any day, a new selection of more than a dozen of my hand-embroidered notes are available at Muriel Guepin Gallery in Cobble Hill Brooklyn. Stitched in my simple handwriting, these notes combine equal parts humour and desire. Phrases like "I carry you with me everywhere. You will always have a place inside me," adorn small pieces of antique lace and inherited textiles.

To visit Muriel Guepin Gallery:
F/G to Bergen Street
47 Bergen Street between Smith and Court Sts
Open Wednesday - Saturday 11-7pm
Sunday 12noon - 5pm
http://www.murielguepingallery.com

A happy Valentine's Day and all days to you all.

love,

Iviva


Iviva Olenick
http://IvivaOlenick.neoimages.net
http://wereisobesotted.blogspot.com

X O TRIANGLE SQUARE

Hi everyone.
So this is the other show that I curated that opens up this coming Wednesday evening. Krit is still really young but already has his own "thing" and is doing something exciting. You can also check out a video that shows him in his studio last year at RISD that Dell Computers made - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfGO89-RaJo

He's going to be doing a performance at some point during the opening. I hope you can come by and see it, me, Dave........

Wednesday between 6 am 8pm!!!
Love Hanna
(If you've never been to this space before, make sure not to mistake our "little west 12th street" with the regular "west 12th street" because they are not the same.)

hpgrp gallery NY presents "X.O.TRIANGLE.SQUARE" by Korakrit Arunanondchai;
a show curated by Hanna Fushihara Aron.

February 3rd, 2010 – February 27th
Opening reception – Wednesday, February 3rd from 6 to 8pm

Although "X.O.TRIANGLE.SQUARE" refers to the buttons on a Sony PlayStation
video game controller, the shapes themselves are the most basic abstract
forms used in the past and present as building blocks for creative,
industrious, and even spiritual invention. Korakrit Arunanondchai believes
in the mythic power of these forms and they are often found as focal points
in his work, but he uses his own vocabulary of abstracted shapes as the
cells to his psychedelic, celestial world. Having been raised in Thailand,
Arunanondchai grew up amongst ornate Buddhist temples. His fluid shapes
remind one of their decorative murals but also of Sanskrit or Pali that make
up his native Thai written language. His work evokes the feeling of a
connection between visible and invisible worlds and brings the viewer to a
kind of ceremonial experience with his large and enveloping pieces.

In contrast, Arunanondchai has also been influenced by his love of Japanese
Manga and video game culture. This is evident in the bright colors he
chooses to use as well as the rapid movement frozen in time on canvas or
paper instead of on a television screen. The silk screening process that he
uses also parallels these inspirations in that it creates a flat surface and
removes evidence of the use of hand in their making. The creation of
multiple layers by breaking down the overall image is yet another way for
Korakrit to abstract information and invents a whole new universe.

Korakrit Arunanondchai is a recent graduate of the Rhode Island School of
Design’s Printmaking Department and has worked for both Ryan McGinness
and Rirkrit Tiravanija. He has also worked with Dell Computers on
several Dell Design Studio notebook patterns and has been a featured artist
in the Dell Lounge with accompanying artist’s video which is available for
viewing online. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

Hanna Fushihara Aron is an independent curator and former owner of Little
Cakes Gallery in NYC. She has been featured in publications such as The New
York Times, Tokion, Paper Magazine, The Journal, and many others.

hpgrp gallery - 32-36 Little West 12th Street; New York, NY 10014 tel 212 727 2491
http://hpgrpgallery.com/
Hours - Tues - Sat 11-6 / Sun 12-6

love lies green @ mountain fold

http://www.mfoldgallery.com Mountain Fold is pleased to announce the opening of "Love-Lies-Green", a two person show by Rebeca Raney and Cristina Toro, guest curated by Hanna Fushihara Aron. The title for this show "Love-Lies-Green" comes from the name of a variety of amaranth; a plant grown for its high nutritional value as well as its ornamental value. The plants can be so heavily laden with its edible seed heads that they reproduce exponentially every year and in some gardens are considered to be weeds. The amaranth plant could be taken as a symbolic representation of the female, of the fertile mother, whose long cascading flowery arms beckon insects for pollination, who feeds her children with her leaves and grains, who scatters her seed every year, so that next spring she will arise from the ground again surrounded by sisters.

Both women in this show create work that exhibit female qualities of strength through fertility as well as conviction and point of view, connection to nature, a sense of magic, as well as through the power of sharing and giving. Cristina Toro's new work depicts female central figures surrounded by animal guardians within a world of colorful geometry and implied symmetry. We are shown a beautiful world of energy and order brought about not through harsh law or tight reign but birthed from love and compassion and a woman's intuition. Rebeca Raney's soft world features abstract beings with their feelings and emotions depicted in the lines of embroidery thread that adorn their faces. They show their strength and beauty not by hiding or conniving but by showing their emotions to the viewer and sharing parts of themselves. "Love-Lies-Green" is a show that hopes to scatter the seeds of love, empathy, and self empowerment in a time when even our greatest hopes for prosperity and peace are dwindling slowly like candle light at night.

Gallery hours: Wednesday through Saturday 1:00- 7:00pm or by appointment.

Contact Information ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ email: ask@mfoldgallery.com phone: 212.255.4304 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

erika somogyi @ vision quest

Hello Friends,

This Saturday I have a poster in a group show about neo shamanism. It's in gowanus at:
Observatory Room
543 Union St, Brooklyn, NY 11215
7-10pm

For directions look here:
http://observatoryroom.org/directions/

See you there!
Erika

http://www.throughthetrees.net

seedy art opening

i am really bummed that i won't be able to attend the unveiling of the new seed packet artwork for next year's hudson valley seed library packets. the put out a call for artists earlier this year and now the works have been chosen and will be shown at Roos Arts in Rosendale on november 14. sadly, i will be teaching that weekend down in the city...

the very talented and inspiring joetta maue is teaching an embroidery class in october! check out her website to see her amazing work. ---cal

I am teaching a 2 hour Intro to Embroidery Workshop at the the fabulous SPACECRAFT in Williamsburg Brooklyn.
If you are around please stop by to learn the basics of embroidery and create a simple one of a kind sampler.


SPACECRAFT
October 10, 1:30-3:30pm
$20- bring your own supplies or purchase before class.
Contact contact@spacecraftbrooklyn.com or 718.599.2718 to sign up.
Details are as follows:

In this Introduction to Embroidery workshop each student will begin an original custom sampler. Rather than following a pattern each student will design their sampler with a water soluble marker, using either their own unique handwriting or provided stencils. .
We will learn the most basic skills of preparing the fabric, using the hoop, and threading the needle to finishing the project for final display. 5 traditional embroidery stitches will be taught: the split stitch, stem stitch, back stitch, satin stitch, and the ever mysterious french knot. With the skills learned you will be able to continue making beautiful pieces of art or simply embellish items of your own. So bring your creativity and lets get stitching!

Students are encouraged to work with a found, inherited, or vintage linen as their base. If you choose to do so make sure that the linen is either 100% cotton or linen and washed. Students can also work with a raw piece of fabric.
Feel free to bring stencils and quotes that you would like to include in your sampler.

Supplies needed:
a variety of embroidery needles
100% cotton embroidery cloth- amount and color depends upon individual design.
water soluble marker
embroidery hoop
Found linen or 100% cotton/ linen fabric. Size is up to the students decision.
Scissors
Creativity

PASS THE WORD!!

art studio for rent

Available immediately, 24 hour access
In the mountains of monster island next to kayrock screenprinting, above secret project robot

210 kent ave, right off the bedford L train

500 square feet, wifi, communal sink, bathrooms and minimal woodshop
heat and electric included, $925 per month

+kayrock

--
Kayrock Screenprinting, Inc.
210 Kent Ave 2FL
Brooklyn, NY 11211
(718) 963-2020
www.kayrock.org

greenpoint open studios

shiny squirrel at williamsburg flea

I will be selling items from the Brooklyn Design Mart at the Williamsburg Flea Market this sunday on

July 19

12:00 to 6:00 pm

Artists include:

TAKE YOUR CLOTHES OFF

SCREECH OWL DESIGNS

BROOKLYN REHAB

KATE MISS - FOR ME, FOR YOU

call for seedy artists

Hudson Valley Seed Library: Pack Art 2010 Call for Art and Submission Guidelines Deadline: July 9, 2009

Hello from Seedy Farm! I'm excited to say that the Hudson Valley Seed Library is going to offer more Art Packs in our next seed catalog. Please help us in our search for new artists to design the covers of our seed packs. If you are an artist, consider sumbittiong your work; if you know any artists, feel free to forward this email to them. The deadline is soon as we need to move quickly in order to give enough time for each selected artist to create his or her work of art. The guidelines are included below and are now posted on the Seed Library website. Thanks for being part of our community effort to save seeds and support artists. Ken

Hudson Valley Seed Library Pack Art 2010: Submission Guidelines
Submission Deadline: July 9, 2009

The Hudson Valley Seed Library is looking for new artwork for the covers of its seed packs. Last year, eleven artists were commissioned to create original pieces for the Seed Library's Art Packs. Each artist brought his or her unique style to the image he or she designed. Mediums included drawing, painting, collage, cut paper, ceramics, and photography. Last year's artists received local and national exposure: on our website, in blogs, magazines, galleries, and in the homes of thousands of gardeners across the region and the country.

This year, HVSL co-founder Ken Greene will be looking for artwork that helps reflect the diversity of the heirloom seeds offered in the catalog. The Seed Library will be selecting up to 16 new artists for its 2010 seed packs. Please feel free to pass along the following guidelines, which describe eligibility and submission requirements and gives details of our selection process. To learn more about HVSL and see last year's artwork, visit www.seedlibrary.org. Thank you for participating; we look forward to seeing the creativity of the many seedy artists in and around the Hudson Valley.

Eligibility: Artists must be part of the greater Hudson Valley region. This includes most of eastern New York (including NYC), western Massachusetts, western Connecticut, and northern New Jersey. We're willing to stretch a little bit, but please have some connection to this region. There are no restrictions as to age, experience, gender, sexuality, nationality, race, physical ability, or education. This is all about diversity.

Media: We are accepting all media except photography. Photos are acceptable as an element in a piece. (We do accept photos for use on our website. If you have a photo of a variety in our catalog, please submit it to mail@seedlibrary.org. If we use it online you get free seeds!)

Timeline:
Submissions due July 9, 2009
32 Round 1 finalists contacted by July 10, 2009
Round 2 sketches due by July 17, 2009
16 Round 2 finalists contacted by July 19, 2009
Final artwork due by August 10, 2009

Awards:
Up to 16 artists may be selected to create artwork for seed packs. Artists whose work is accepted will be paid $100 each for their work. They will also be given credit on the printed packs as well as a bio and link on seedlibrary.org.

INTERESTED? HERE'S HOW TO SUBMIT ARTWORK:
Please email the following to mail@seedlibrary.org.
1. Name, Address, Email, Phone
2. Short one paragraph artist statement.
3. One image that you feel best represents your style (250KB or less in size).
4. Link to your website, blog, or other online sources related to your artwork. (Only if you have such links; otherwise these are not required.)
Note: The piece you select does not need to be plant related. It is more important for us to see the quality and personality in your work. Please keep your email 250KB or less. Do not mail large or multiple images. We have very limited bandwidth and will not be able to open your email.

Thanks!

Ken Greene
Hudson Valley Seed Library

vegetables for breakfast

Dear Friends,

I'm happy to let you know that I'm in a group exhibition opening this Saturday at Mountain Fold Gallery in Manhattan. I'll be premiering my first ceramic sculptures, and I'm in the great company of three other wonderful artists, so it should be an exciting show. If you're around, come check it out!

Best,

Shabd

shabd simon-alexander www.shabdismyname.com

Vegetables for Breakfast

Antoine Catala

Margaret Lee

Joshua Nathanson

Shabd Simon-Alexander

curated by Antoine Catala

mountain fold

55 Fifth Avenue, 18th Floor

(between 12th and 13th )

212 225 4304

Opening reception Saturday, June 20, 2009, 7-10pm Still life. Everyday. Color. Morning. Life. Art. Vegetables. Armchairs. TVs. Newspapers. Vase. Home. Wallpaper. Breakfast. Joy. Craft. Summer. Friends. Hot. Cityscape. Mountain Fold is pleased to announce the opening of "Vegetables for Breakfast," a group show of mutated art objects. It is about summer in the city and joyful subversion. The pieces in the show are hybrids. Some are artworks that serve as decoration or furniture, while others began as daily objects, but have been deprived of utility and turned into works of art. The pieces all retain some element of shape or function, but have mutated from their original purpose. The artwork becomes companion. Like living in a colorful, lucid, daydream.

Margaret Lee will display ultra realistic vegetables, cakes and candles on the wall. Joshua Nathanson presents a custom-made chair, specially designed wallpaper and 3D wall sculptures. Shabd Simon-Alexander will exhibit a ceramic vase and stones on tiled pedestals, all equally covered in blotches of color, blurring object and function. Antoine Catala organized this exhibition; he will present a series of painted TVs switched on to your favorite channels; paintings with an ever changing background.

Gallery hours: Wednesday through Saturday 1:00- 7:00pm or by appointment. June 20 - July 18, 2009

http://www.mfoldgallery.com

TONIGHT in red hook

denise carbonell

opening show of a selection of blues

hope and anchor

347 van brunt street

red hook

monday march 23rd

6:00 to 8:00

drinks + snacks

metalthread.com

directions below

718.414.9651

http://hopeandanchordiner.com/

http://hopeandanchordiner.com/directions.html

make a plush ornament

the lovely and legendary monster-maker jenny harada is teaching a class this saturday at Gallery Hanahou, in conjunction with the Luv-able + Hug-able show, which is a group plush show including jenny's work. check it out; apparently it's almost full but you might get the last spot!

Make an ornament-size plush with the amazing Jenny using hand-sewing techniques!
December 13, 1-4 pm at gallery hanahou
611 Broadway, Suite 730, NYC
Cost: $20 (includes materials)
Space is limited, so sign up ASAP by emailing us here!

88s and good numbers

Cinders Gallery presents
Unsung: new work by George Ferrandi and John Orth
November 14 - December 28, 2008
Opening Reception: Friday November 14, 7-10 pm

We invite you to come see Unsung. This installation is the first official endeavor of the collective known as "88's" – short for "88's and good numbers" which is CB lingo for "Best Wishes and Regards."

The work in Unsung started with conversations concerning the current presidential campaign. Our plea for a massive paradigm shift had 88's collective members George Ferrandi and John Orth contemplating what parts of their own psyches could use some serious shifting. They started with the imagery they associated with grassroots revolution – daggers, dynamite, pistols, the felled heads of toppled statues, and the closed eyes of innocents. Then they created painted, cast plaster and carved wooden forms that relegate the physical violence of uprising safely to the realm of metaphor, but still speak to a simmering volatility and to the potential for cataclysmic change.

Their latest collaboration, the 88's collective, is a celebration of their complimentary sensibilities and shared interest in delicately adorned pathos, B-movie violence, and small, hyper-sexualized animals.

The two met in Gainesville, Florida where George was a professor at the University of Florida. Soon after meeting, they organized an exhibit at an old train depot. This was the beginning of over a decade of collaborations that have included several national shows, a traveling circus (Cloudseeding Circus of the Performative Object), a comic strip, and an unfortunate summer haircut.

Cinders Gallery
103 Havemeyer St. (btwn. Hope and Grand)
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
718.388.2311
gallery hours: Wed-Sun 1-7 pm
http://www.cindersgallery.com
http://www.88sandgoodnumbers.blogspot.com