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Art Laguna Prize Book
I don’t think I mentioned this, but last week my ALP book arrived from Venice, Italy! All the winners of this competition received a book. It was really cool to see my information written in another language. It does have an ISBN so it definitely isn’t a self-published book by the organization and could end up in a bookstore somewhere… But yay! My first official publication and art book!
Video from Mayfair Festival
Access Gallery – Denver, CO
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.
NM Rescinded
So I have really sad news. My Starry Night Retreat/Residency has been rescinded because the person handling the applications didn’t understand what “Photographic Chemicals” meant…. and quickly skimmed past the Materials section. This came up because I had asked if there was a room that I could occupy down there to setup as an impromptu darkroom and they said darkrooms weren’t covered in their insurance, so that is why that had to rescind it. I just can’t believe my luck lately.
So much bad happened this month:
– I lost my job and because of something out of my control.
– My Guggenheim Fellowship didn’t get accepted.
– ALL of the exhibitions I had applied to over the winter were rejected (about 5-6 and my rejection rate is usually 1 of 3).
– My festival workshops almost didn’t happen because the communication regarding funding wasn’t clear. I was able to fix that on the spot, but it just created a big mess.
– And now my Truth or Consequences Residency was rescinded because of a comprehension error.
ALL my plans that I had for the last half of this year have grumbled and fallen apart. I feel like I have nothing… and the only thing that is keeping me occupied right now is my artwork. Yesterday for example I was able to finish a song that I had been working on for the last month or so.
I just want my life again. I want to be working in my field again and do my art on the side again. I want that stability I worked so hard for even if it was rocky, it got me further than staying in Wellesley would’ve did.
A Solo Exhibition: Electrolyte
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 19th 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
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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
Spring into Festival Season!
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.
Biennial Roadshow Marfa
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.
Gallery 263 – Massachusetts!
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
Starry Night and Art Laguna Prize
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.
Exhibition News
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.
Change is in the air!
