Submitted by bonnie on Wed, 08/26/2009 - 00:10
 
Nautical Body
An Exhibition of Sculptures, Photographs & Drawings by Christy Georg
An Exhibition of Sculptures, Photographs & Drawings by Christy Georg
August 31 - September 30
BOSTON (August 5, 2009) — Simmons College presents "Nautical Body," an exhibition of sculptures, photographs, and drawings, August 31—September 30, at the Simmons College Trustman Art Gallery, fourth floor, Main College Building, 300 The Fenway, in Boston.
A reception with the artist Christy Georg will be held on Thursday, Sept. 10, from 5:00—7:00 p.m., preceded by an artist talk and performance of the popular sea chantey "Cape Cod Girls." The exhibit, performance, and reception are free and open to the public.
In "Nautical Body," created for the Trustman Gallery, Georg, who is known for kinetic sound sculptures and sculptural apparatuses, has launched a new series that links art to maritime culture. Using materials and techniques familiar to sailors of yesteryear, Georg painstakingly knots rope and fashions witty sculptural objects that evoke Boston's seafaring origins. Georg explains, "I make sculptural instruments and devices that function either actually, or metaphorically. Often created for use in a specific location or inspired by a particular historical account, their meticulous craftsmanship lends them authority as functional objects, but upon inspection may seem quite absurd, fetishistic, alchemical, or otherwise baffling."
Having spent two summers living and working on a large sailing schooner and her own sailboat, Georg's mixed media installation provides multiple perspectives on a subject she literally immersed herself in. Supplemented by exhaustive research, Georg has found a way to wed an experiential, frequently ironic contemporary art sensibility with traditional maritime crafts, revealing beauty in utilitarian objects typically associated with 19th-century sailing vessels. Her elegant ovoid sculptures, "Giant Becket-Brooches," employ the labor-intensive process sailors used to fashion knotted rope handles for their wooden sea chests, while also elevating craft to art.
Since completing her MFA at the Massachusetts College of Art in 2003, Georg has exhibited widely and has been awarded twelve residencies. Her Fine Arts Work Center fellowship in Provincetown and residencies at Ross Creek in Nova Scotia, the Contemporary Artists Center in Troy, New York and SculptureSpace in Utica, New York, have provided vital support to create work featured in this solo show at the Trustman Gallery. Most recently, Georg won the Mellon Foundation's Blanche E. Colman award.
Trustman Gallery hours are 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday. The gallery is free, open to the public and wheelchair accessible. For more information, contact Marcia Lomedico at 617-521-2268.
Christy Georg recently won a Blanche E Colman award, completed residencies at Sculpture Space and the Contemporary artists center at Woodside. Georg has upcoming residencies at I-Park, the Virginia Center for Creative arts, Pouch Cove in Newfoundland and the Wurlitzer Foundation in Taos, NM. Next year Georg has a two person show at Grimshaw-Gudewicz Art Gallery , Fall River and a solo show at Khyber Institute of Contemporary art, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Submitted by bonnie on Mon, 06/29/2009 - 13:25
The Berwick is seeking 2 creative and resourceful people to run the Artist in Research residency program. The ideal candidate will have a vested interest in concept-driven art processes and motivation to improve Boston as an art community. The selected applicants will produce all programming associated with the AIR program. This is a volunteer position with an honorarium awarded.
The Artist in Research (AIR) Program is a residency program created under the Berwick Research Institute's non-profit umbrella that provides emerging conceptual artists essential time, space, community and, most importantly, critical feedback. High value is placed on a sustained period of dialogue and critical analysis. There are no expectations for the completion of artwork. Instead we encourage the research and interrogation of an idea, and experimentation with the subsequent results. The AIR Program selects two to three artists each year for ten-week residencies with the following schedule:
Residency 1: April 1 - June 15
Residency 2: July 1 - September 15
Residency 3: October 1 - December 15.
Primary Responsibilities:
• Conduct application/jury process
• Facilitate/manage opening and closing artist events
• Build working relationship with AIR artist
• Follow program time line/create an effective pace for the residency with the artist
• Adapt the program (reasonably) to fit the artists working style and/or needs
• Build relationships with people outside of the Berwick to create a pool of resources
• Schedule and conduct weekly meetings/critiques
• Challenge and motivate the artist
• Provide conceptual or tangible resources for each artist based on research into the artist's topic (i.e. a suggestion of a certain artist or historical period to research)
• Outreach on the artist's behalf to a local art space as host for an AIR event.
• Document residency (events, works in progress, encourage blogging, etc)
• Manage AIR portion of Berwick website
• Keep press contacts current
• Develop press materials
• Manage program Budget
• Manage mailing list
• Write for organizational and programmatic grant funding
Application Deadline- July 15th 2009
Please send CV/Resume and coverletter to Bonnie Bastien
Submitted by bonnie on Thu, 04/30/2009 - 22:04
Artadia: The Fund for Art and Dialogue is now accepting applications for the Artadia Awards 2009 Boston from all visual artists living and working in metro Boston. Individual artists and collaboratives working in all media and at any point in their career are strongly encouraged to apply. Awardees will be selected in the summer of 2009 through Artadia’s two-tiered jury process.
For eligibility requirements, information session dates, and to access the web-based application, please visit our website.
All applications must be submitted online by Monday, June 15, 2009 at 11:59pm (EST).
Artadia’s mission is to encourage innovative practice and meaningful dialogue across the United States by providing visual artists in specific communities with unrestricted awards and a national network of support. Founded in 1997, Artadia is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Artadia Awards are determined through a jury process that employs nationally prominent curators, artists, and critics. Since its founding, Artadia has awarded over $2.0 million to more than 200 artists in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Houston, and the San Francisco Bay Area. Most recently Artadia launched an artist residency program, which brings Artadia Awardees from each of its program cities to New York for a three-month residency at the International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP), Brooklyn. The program is made possible with support from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Visionary support for Artadia in Boston is provided by the LEF Foundation, two anonymous family foundations, and many generous individuals.
Submitted by bonnie on Tue, 03/24/2009 - 19:54
The Berwick is very excited to bring you our two Artists in Research for the 2009 season. The first AIR artist starts April 1st - VERY soon. Keep an eye out for information on the opening.
Bonnie Bastien and Nova Benway
Co-Curators for the AIR Program
April 1st - June 15th
Joshua Pablo Rosenstock
Joshua Pablo Rosenstock is a multimedia artist, musician, and educator based in Boston. His work explores the process of remixing via the creation of new instruments, interactive interfaces, and multimedia installations. With the Berwick, Rosenstock will be working on "Shrine to the Funky Drummer", a multimedia installation that will seek to portray a specific instance of media sampling as an archetypal cultural moment and a lens through which to examine a multifaceted story of creative appropriation. The "Funky Drummer" is a five-second excerpt from a James Brown song that has been used as the foundation of hundreds of other musical compositions and is one of popular music's most famous samples.
During his project, he'll be gathering, creating, and presenting artifacts and "holy relics" that explore the early history of Hip Hop and the creative acts of sampling and remixing. Rosenstock will be investigating debates about copyright and fair use in relation to Afro-Diasporic musical notions of "versioning," the fetishistic culture of record-digging, and postmodern theoretical questions about authorship in the age of digital (re)production.
Check out his website for more of his work.
July 1st - September 15th
Eve Lynne Essex
Eve Essex is a Providence-based artist whose work suggests that history is as malleable as fiction. She attempts neutralize the authority of 'proper' history by suggesting a multiplicity of alternatives. In video, sculpture, photography and performance, she explores historical moments and figures as a site for active re-interpretation. With the Berwick she will be working on "How to Improve the World", a project that blurs the roles of artist and anthropologist. Her object of study will be the Marxist composer Cornelius Cardew and his avant-garde musical milieu of the 60s and 70s. Essex will adopt the political battles waged in Cardew's social and musical life as the subject for a historical archive and library.
Through video, interviews, writing, and collaborative performances in the guise of "historical reenactments" I will collect and fabricate a range of historical recordings and documents-a body of generated materials that make up the collection of this library. This factual, albeit highly subjective history will serve a theatrical framework for investigations of the artist's role as public intellectual, and the mythical status of canonical modern artists.
Submitted by bonnie on Fri, 02/13/2009 - 23:42
 We arre really excited to hear that 2008 AIR artist, Nathalie Miebach will be lecturing at the Boston Museum of Science for the "When Science Meets Art" lecture series. "When Science Meets Art examines the ingenuity of those who are shattering the boundaries between science, technology, engineering, and art." Sounds perfect!
Here's the info:
"Weaving Science into Sculpture", with Nathalie Miebach
March 11th @7pm in the Exhibit Hall @ the Museum of Science, free
"What do basket weaving, climate change, and sculpture have in common? Artist Nathalie Miebach literally weaves scientific data related to meteorology, climate change, and astronomy into brightly colored, three-dimensional sculptures. She describes how — and why — she creates these singular pieces that expand the boundaries of how scientific information can be represented and what art can mean."
See you there!!
Submitted by bonnie on Thu, 10/23/2008 - 23:38
We have received MANY MANY inquiries about the AIR application for 2009. When the heck will it be posted?! VERY SOON. We are drafting the document as you read this. It will be posted to this site as a downloadable PDF in early November. If you haven't already, join our mailing list. There will be a notice sent out as soon as it is posted.
The application period for the 2009 AIR season is between November 2008 and February 2009. We really look forward to the new proposals. Thanks!!
Submitted by bonnie on Thu, 10/23/2008 - 23:29
With the Berwick, Miebach will be working on a project called "Weather Suits for Cities". The project  is a continuation as well as a new stage in her ongoing project of building low-tech data-collecting devices that gather weather data from specific locations. This data is then translated into sculptures, using basket weaving as the grid, through which to translate the information into 3D space.
Visit her blog and photo gallery to follow her progress during her stay!
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