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Access Gallery – Denver, CO

May 11, 2014 Kristi Leave a comment

The third leg of my National tour with the In/Finite Earth collection opened this month at the VSA Colorado chapter – Access Gallery. Previously it was installed at the Southern Kentucky Performing Arts Center in Bowling Green, Kentucky and Volkswagen Headquarters in Herndon, VA after finishing it’s three-month long exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution.

Denver,CO – In/Finite Earth is the 12th exhibition in VSA and Volkswagen Group of America’s annual Emerging Artists Program. This longtime collaboration provides 15 selected visual artists who are living with disabilities, ages 16 – 25, with an unprecedented opportunity to receive national recognition at the start of their careers. Culminating in a national tour of the winning artwork, including exhibitions at the Smithsonian Institution and other venues across the country.

This year’s theme asked the artists to showcase work that illuminates innovative viewpoints at the intersection of environmentalism, creativity and disability. The winning artwork presents each artist’s distinct and compelling responses to their environment, personal history, and, at times personal disability.

VSA Colorado/Access Gallery is proud to host this exhibit for the second time. This year we are also pleased to have a VSA Colorado/Access Gallery artist AJ Kiel in the show. AJ has worked at VSA Colorado/Access Gallery and by being one of the winners AJ was able to go to DC for the unveiling of this exhibit.

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Appearances ’14 – EcoFestival Recap

April 30, 2014 Kristi Leave a comment

This past weekend I participated in the Appearances ’14 EcoFestival in Provincetown, MA. I probably should’ve gone to the first weekend of the festival as it rained during the entire time I was there and the weather last weekend was perfect. Oh well, last weekend I had to do the Cambridge Science Festival. I had wanted to do a Nature Divination workshop but was directed to the wrong location… so I missed it. Anyway, I still got to see my artwork at the Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies and participate in the Art + Meditation workshop at Gallery Ehva.

Anyway, I enjoyed the Art + Meditation workshop at Gallery Ehva. The meditation was the growth of trees and we had to do a drawing of what first came to mind during each stage of the growth of a tree (i.e: roots, trunk, leaves, crown, environment, etc). I ended up talking a lot about how I’ve been wanting to live freely and live my life on my own but I keep facing setbacks and associated my growth as an artist to the growth of a tree…

Anyway, I’m glad I went as it was fun to see my artwork in Provincetown, I was also invited to show at Gallery Ehva in their June exhibition but I haven’t heard anything yet, they have my contact info, so we’ll see if that comes through, but I’m excited at the prospect of it. I did some shopping, I didn’t buy a whole lot, just incense and a quartz point.

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A Solo Exhibition: Electrolyte

April 27, 2014 Kristi Leave a comment

A Solo Exhibition: Electrolyte

For the month of July, the electrographer – Kristi Beisecker is coming to Florence, MA to exhibit new artwork as well as display previous collections. Electrolyte, is an exhibition that is a celebration of her progress as a fine art photographer. The show is hosted within a gallery space at a spiritual gift store, Groundings, LLC. The shop specializes in crystals, tarot cards, meditation tools, herbs and incense as well as spiritual readings from a variety of styles.

Electrography is produced by exposing organic materials with electricity on photo sensitive paper and developed normally in a darkroom. This photographic process is originally used as a scientific process, seeing its’ potential Kristi reinvigorated the process to make it compatible with traditional darkroom processing. As a result, her works are dramatic, auric, images that invoke all sorts of emotions. Kristi developed the process from taking an Alternative Photography course as part of her Graphic and Interactive Design degree. Electrography was originally thought to capture the life force energy of organic materials (flora, plant life) and was marketed as so, but science explains that you are conducting the water within the plant life and capturing the light that it emits onto the paper.

The reception for the exhibition will take place on July 19^th from 3pm – 5pm at Groundings, LLC – 7 Main St. Florence, MA. There, you will have a chance to talk to Kristi as well as look at her work up close in person and enjoy light refreshments.

You can find Kristi’s artwork on the following social media sites:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kglyphics

Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/kglyphics

WWW: http://www.kglyphics.com

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If you’d like more information about this topic, or to schedule an interview with Kristi Beisecker, please call her at 339-225-5885 or email her at info@kglyphics.com

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Spring into Festival Season!

April 13, 2014 Kristi Leave a comment

Spring weather is here (currently enjoying 73 degree weather and bright sun) and so is the festival season!

Since I don’t have a full time job anymore, I am focusing my energy on the festivals that I will be participating in at the end of April and May. It will help me move on from the experience and just process the emotions. I probably won’t be as active in the exhibition area though since I don’t have a steady income.

This week we have the Cambridge Science Festival that starts from April 18th – 27th. The purpose of my participating is to broaden my audience as an artist – so it is more of a marketing experience. I got really good news today in regards to funding and I don’t have to fund the rental space out of pocket! This weekend I created an informational brochure about my process and a brief explanation of the science behind it.

Next Festival will be happening during the same time, but it won’t be a workshop but an exhibition. It is the Appearances: Provincetown Green Arts Festival. My artwork is going to be displayed at Larkin Hall in the Center for Coastal Studies in Provincetown, MA. My family and I are planning on checking it out the last weekend in April.

Then in May we have the Mayfair Festival of the Arts in Allentown, PA. I am planning on attending, I just need to figure out sleeping arrangements. If I do go, it’ll definitely be weird coming back to the area just two years after I’ve graduated from Moravian! My artwork will be participating in an exhibition that is new to the Festival.

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A chapter has ended

April 11, 2014 Kristi Leave a comment

I am no longer going to be working at Minuteman Press New England.

A decision made by my boss because he couldn’t keep up with my mistakes – mistakes in the sense that when he saw the final product it was wrong. It was also a decision prompted by a series of events that I did not intend to have it perceived the way it did.

I am a little startled that it has ended the way it has and did not expect it to end so ‘soon’. I guess I was lucky that I even lasted this long and I don’t blame my boss because I see his perspective. But if you say you don’t care that I have mental issues that I can’t seem to change and that you can’t seem to learn and understand what I struggle with, then it wasn’t the right fit to begin with.

I should’ve known that when I started to heal and feel strong I knew I wouldn’t be working there much longer. I feel like the sole reason for me being there is to heal me because my working relationship with my boss certainly has helped me do so in a strange sort of way. I no longer feel confusion, no longer wish for second chances, no longer wonder about that relationship because I have fully moved on and healed. He has taught me what second chances felt like, because I haven’t had many in my life. I fully understand what it means and what it feels when being given a second chance and that I think is the biggest lesson I can take away from this chapter in my life.

The only thing I am suffering from all of this is the loss of closeness that I once felt. The closeness was something that kept me going because he was the only person I felt close to in my life at the time and the first person I felt closeness with since my heartbreak. But even then, as months wore on it started to pull at me because of the way I was being treated and the up-and-down of the working relationship. It caused me a different kind of confusion and I seriously did not like the way felt – it left me confused and defeated. One day we’d be working together fine, and then the next day he’d be screaming at me for doing something I did wrong. And yesterday all day I felt dread, a separation – like I never was really a part of the team. Seen as if I was a fly on the wall… and that hurt the most. Also to put all the time and energy and heart into something and to have it probably never noticed also hurts.

So now I’m at cross roads. I’ve been searching for another job so I can stay in this area, but I’ll have to think about the next chapter in my life and moving on from this. I will miss the Minuteman Press crew as they are a lovely bunch of people. But I won’t miss the emotional turmoil it has caused me over the past 6 months. I loved the work and the people I worked with, but the up-and-down is something I cannot handle. At this point in my life I am looking for some type of stability.

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Photos from the Arsenale of Venice Main Exhibition

April 6, 2014 Kristi Leave a comment

Post by K Glyphics – Studio 19.

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Gallery 263: Massachusetts!

March 29, 2014 Kristi Leave a comment

On Friday I left work early to go into Cambridge, MA for two receptions. The first one, at this year’s VSA competition (the one that accepted my works into the Smithsonian) from the Massachusetts chapter. I ran across the blog and am going to submit my story to it (when I have a chance to write it). I met the one of the members who connected me to this reception who happened to grow up in Longmeadow! Crazy. The reception was nice and the gallery was nice but small. Afterwords, I sent the executive director an email seeing if they’d let me do a solo show at the Open Doors Gallery (where it was held).

Then I went to the other side of the river for the reception at Gallery 263: Massachusetts! A former high school teacher of mine came to the reception as well as my uncle and my brother. As you can probably tell from my photos, it was PACKED. It was probably the most crowded reception I have been in! (This is the reception where I was mentioned in the press release). Overall fun night, despite battling Boston rush hour traffic. Ugh!

PS: If you click the photo about it’ll take you to the facebook photo gallery.

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Biennial Roadshow Marfa

March 22, 2014 Kristi Leave a comment

The results for the Biennial Roadshow Marfa!

Jurying was like choosing between candy and MORE candy.
THE WINNERS ARE:

Best in Show (what we like to call the Golden Armadillo):
Federico Delfrati & Ieva Jakusonoka

The sensibilities of Federico Delfrati and Ieva Jakusonoka are so well-matched that they seemed to be one person. Their installation “An uncertain map of the known universe made of wax, wood, clay, ropes and various paper.” was a universal hit with the judges, and we’re proud to be featuring them on the Roadshow.

Photography: Adamo Macri
Video: Luke Boggia
Performance: Christine Comeau
Painting: Hildy Maze
Sculpture: Artemis Herber
Digital Art: Nick Nazzaro
Mixed Media: Judith Kindler

Anna’s Choice Award: David Turner
Eric’s Choice Award: Katherine Sweetman
Lizzy’s Choice Award: Laura Krasnow
Sonia’s Choice Award: Dennis Miller
Stephanie’s Choice Award: Nicole Duennebier
Accepted Artists featured in the Biennial Roadshow Marfa exhibit:
(alphabetically by first name)
Adamo Macri
Adrienne Lichliter
Alan Lerner
Amy Butowicz
Anthony Astone
Anya Klepacki
Artemis Herber
Benjamin Phillips
Benjamin Phillips
Brandy-Michelle Byard
Brendan Mahoney
Calvin Pressley
Carol Stensrud
Charlene Liska
Charlie Lemay
Christina Macal
Christine Comeau
Christopher Deris
Ciara Duffy
Claudia Sbrissa
Claudio Scardino
David Turner
Dennis Miller
Elizabeth Harris
Eric Charlton
Federico Delfrati
Flair Robinson
Frances Berry
Ginny Barrett
Hildy Maze
Jenny Zoe Casey
John Lawson
Joshua Zerangue
Judith Kindler
Julie Weitz

Karen Rosenkrantz
Karina Bania
Kate Mackay
Katherine Sweetman
Kelly Jo Shows
Kristen Freitas
Kristi Beisecker
Larry Alford
Laura Krasnow
Laura Scandrett
Leigh Hall
Luke Boggia
Maggie Fishman
Marjorie Kaye
Matthew Mazzotta
Michael St.Germain
Mitchel Ahern
Molly Radecki
Nebras Hoveizavi
Nick Nazzaro
Nicole Duennebier
Nyssa Juneau
Paul Sisson
R. Prost
Renato Koledic
Robert Festa
Robyn Day
Stephanie Angelo
Stephanie Goode
Susan Fitzsimmons
Tom Estes
Tyler Beard
Vanessa Thompson
Walter Kopec
Yana Clark
Copyright © 2014 Biennial Roadshow, All rights reserved.

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Gallery 263 – Massachusetts!

March 20, 2014 Kristi Leave a comment

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 03.4.2014

Massachusetts

On view: March 20 – April 12, 2014
Gallery Hours: W-Sa/12-7pm; Su/event dependent Artists’ Reception: Friday March 28, 7-9pm

Cambridge, MA – Gallery 263 is pleased to present Massachusetts, a juried exhibition selected by Dina Deitsch (Curator of Contemporary Art, deCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA).

Massachusetts is the second part of a two-part juried exhibition series celebrating five years of art, music and people at Gallery 263. Turning our attention towards artists living and working in the Bay State, Massachusetts features 38 local artists and 41 contemporary artworks.

This diverse group of Massachusetts artwork is pertinent to contemporary American cultural topics and technical choices. Massachusetts artists McCool, Pattison and Thorne comment on the digitization and packaging of our experiences, while the work of Leone, Martini, Kim and Yeol relates to health, mutation and scientific experimentation. MA residents will surely resonate with representations of strong local individuals present and past, from McMahon’s personal story of recovery from the indelible Boston tragedy last April, to Cann’s depiction of Emily Dickenson and her parting words. A more macrocosmic look at American consciousness is made by Marcoux’s picture of pride in Provincetown, as well as by Crowell’s found object assemblage that investigates a “new American ethnic identity”. In terms of technique, the use of gold as a surface material is employed in several works, by Photopoulos, Brister and Layzer. Other unusual technical approaches include Beisecker’s electrically exposed parsley on photo paper, and Gregg’s fiber and acrylic piece, illustrating an entire text listing for a “Call for Art”. Massachusetts truly celebrates contemporary MA artists, who Gallery 263 is proud to represent. Thank you for taking a stake in our success, Massachusetts!

Guest juror, Dina Deitsch, pioneered the deCordova’s Biennial programming in 2010, and has organized numerous solo and large-scale group exhibitions since. Prior to working at the deCordova, Deitsch held curatorial positions at the Williams College Museum of Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. In addition to working as an independent curator locally and regionally, Deitsch served as the guest juror for the 2012 Northeast Issue of New American Painting. Gallery 263 appreciates Deitsch’s support in selecting the artwork for Massachusetts.

Works by the following artists are included in the show:
Freedom Baird / Jim Banks / Kristi Beisecker / Lauren Bennett / Kaca Bradonjic / Erik Brisson / Kathriel Brister / Connie Cann / Cyrille Conan / Charlie Crowell / Steven Duede / Claire Elliott / Arlene Fins / Tatiana Flis / Sharon Freed / Sandy Gregg / Lydia Harris / Helena Hsieh / Yeol Jung / Natanya Khashan / Sawool Kim / Molly Lamb / Jennifer Layzer / Lauren Leone / Brittany Marcoux / Julie Martini / Timothy McCool / Ryan McMahon / Noritaka Minami / Laura Miner / Yola Monakhov / Jeanette O’Connor / Todd Pattison / Alexandra Photopoulos / Alex Sewell / Kyle Thorne / Timothy Wilson / Mong-jane Wu

Gallery 263 is a nonprofit arts organization in Cambridge, MA. Our mission is to provide a place for local and regional artists of all media to exhibit work and engage the community. Gallery 263 exhibits are free and open to the public.

263 Pearl Street Cambridge, MA 02139 www.gallery263.com contact@gallery263.com

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Groundings, LLC

March 9, 2014 Kristi Leave a comment

A couple of weekends ago I took a drive up to Noho and met with Lauren, a new age gift shop owner in Florence, MA. On the way I noticed signs for an Orchid show sponsored by the Amherst Orchid Society. So grateful I brought my camera with me that day! I met Lauren to discuss a solo show that won’t be happening until July. I’m super excited about this! I need to figure out ideas for promotion, etc. and what to do in general. I’m excited to be possibly showing new work too. They do weekly meditations and I plan on being at the Sound Healing meditation this coming Friday. Can’t wait to check it out.

On the way back I stopped at the Orchid Show and glad I did. Got some really awesome abstract photos of Orchids. One of which I plan on putting in my bedroom here in Longmeadow. The red in one of the orchids (shown in above photo) goes really well with my walls in my bedroom.

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Starry Night and Art Laguna Prize

February 26, 2014 Kristi Leave a comment

If you haven’t been on social media, you haven’t heard my good news!!

On Tuesday I was notified that my artwork was accepted into a residency and an exposure program sponsored by Starry Night Retreat – a retreat center in Truth or Consequences, NM! The exposure program allows you to exhibit during Frieze Art week in New York City in May!!

Then I was notified that my artwork – Bluebells, was accepted into an international exhibition via Art Laguna Prize at the Romanian Institute of Culture and Humanistic Research of Venice! I am currently looking to attending the openings of this competition in Venice. I ran across a great deal online for a two night stay + flight.

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Exhibition News

February 22, 2014 Kristi Leave a comment

My work, Treeflowers, was accepted into an exhibition titled, Less is More! at the Blackboard Gallery in Camarillo, CA! The exhibition will run from March 1st – March 22nd. Super excited for this exhibition as it is my first one on the West Coast! Now my artwork is Bi-Coastal!

I am SUPER excited for this exhibition! This past week, my artwork, Parsley, was accepted into a Spring juried exhibition, Massachusetts!, at a local gallery in Cambridge, MA. I feel like this is my first “real” gallery exhibition. I don’t know why. The exhibition will run from March 20th – April 12th, 2014.