Thirty-Seven Artists are participating in the 2009 Whitney’s Biennial, opening at 70 Greenpoint Avenue (c.r.e.a.m. projects) on Friday August 28, 2009 from 7-11 PM, running through Sunday August 30, 2009. Gallery hours are 12-6 PM.

The 2009 Whitney’s Biennial is an interdisciplinary group exhibition, taking place in an unoccupied commercial space in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. The exhibition re-envisions the ubiquitous Biennial formula by personalizing the institution, paring it down to a single person. Whitney is the proverbial Every Artist, the flesh-and-bone actor laboring under the shadows of giants. This is her Biennial.

The exhibition explores the dubious notion of the comeback and opens days before the release of Whitney Houston’s new album. In a moment when the entire world is waiting to see if and when the economy will recover, the artist is in need of a new strategy.

The participating artists are widely diverse — from those who have exhibited in major museums such as the Whitney Museum of American Art, to the graffiti artist, to the underground filmmaker, to the recent MFA graduate. All have been asked to meet on common ground, outside of the white cube, to create new works for this show.

The 2009 Whitney’s Biennial is organized by MaryKate Maher, Martha Mysko, Elise Rasmussen and Davida Nemeroff.

These are the artists selected for the 2009 Whitney’s Biennial:

Anna Rosen, Austin Shull, Carrie Schneider, Chelsea Knight, Christine Sun Kim & Jacob Shamberg, Davida Nemeroff, Douglas Boatwright, Elise Rasmussen, Fia Backström, Jesse Harris, Joey Whiteley, Joshua von Brown, Julia Kennedy, Kara Walker, Kelli Thompson, Kotama Bouabane, Leidy Churchman, Martha Mysko, MaryKate Maher & Oliver Jones, Mauricio Salgado, Michael Berryhill, Michael Farmer, Mira Dancy, Paul Heyer, Per Billgren, Peter Harkawik, Roe Ethridge, Roshani Thakore, Samara Golden, Shawn Kuruneru, Tony Romano, Tuomas Korpijaakko, Valerie Piraino, Victoria Cheong, William Kidman

Opening August 28th, 7-11PM
Free Limo Rides, courtesy of Whitney
After Party: Coco66 (68 Greenpoint Avenue), 11PM – 4AM

Special performance by Castlemusic on Saturday August 29, 2009 at 8:00 PM

On Thursday, June 18, from 6-8pm,
please join IPCNY for the Opening Reception of:

New Prints 2009/Summer
Portraits - In Pursuit of Likeness

International Print Center New York presents New Prints 2009/Summer – Portraits: In Pursuit of Likeness in its gallery at 526 West 26th Street, Room 824, between 10th and 11th Avenues in Chelsea. On view from June 16 – July 31, the show consists of forty-seven pieces by thirty-six emerging to established artists, selected from a pool of nearly 1,200 submissions. A reception will be held at IPCNY on June 18, from 6-8 pm.

The Selections Committee for New Print 2009/Summer - Portraits included Monroe Denton, Critic; Valerie Hammond, Artist; Kate McCrickard, Director, David Krut Projects; Evan Mirapaul, Collector; Donna Moran, Chair of Fine Arts (Graduate Department), Pratt Institute; and Sue Scott, Sue Scott Gallery.

New Prints 2009/Summer - Portraits is the thirty-second presentation of IPCNY’s New Prints Program, a series of juried exhibitions organized by IPCNY four times each year, featuring prints made within the past twelve months by artists at all stages of their careers. The exhibition represents a cross-section of some of the most exceptional printmaking today while continuing IPCNY’s commitment to provide an ongoing exhibition venue for contemporary prints and a major source of information about artists working in the medium.

The complete artists’ list is as follows: Amy Albracht and Cara Siik Benedetto, Joan Dix Blair, Claudio Bravo, Ellie Brown, Lauren Drescher, Benjamin Funke, Juan Garcia, Grace Graupe-Pillard, Red Grooms, Gary Groves, Joseph Hart, Daniel Heyman, Chika Ito, Amber Keig, Heather Kelly, Jon Kessler, Fawad Khan, Marc Lepson, Benjamin Levy, Mark Licari, Cynthia Lollis and Daniela Deeg, Rebecca Loyche, Barbara Madsen, Traci Molloy, Delilah Montoya, Portia Munson, ArdAn Özmenoglu, Christopher Rivera, Dora Rosenbaum, David Sandlin, Austin Shull, Rob Strati, Ivanco Talevski, and Blade Wynne.

Highlights of New Prints 2009/Summer - Portraits include: Claudio Bravo’s Cráneo de elefante, a lithograph of a giant elephant skull resting on a table; Lauren Drescher’s Still Life, a chine collé etching of a child’s momento-mori portrait printed on antique ledger paper; Daniel Heyman’s I Arrived at Nasour and I Stopped and I Left Yarmulk Hospital for Care, portraits of two men that incorporate narrative texts of how war touched and altered their lives; Jon Kessler’s Suicide Bomber #1 and Suicide Bomber #2, scarily fragmented faces composed of pigment, paper pulp, and digital printmaking on handmade paper; and ArdAn Özmenoglu’s Ottomans, an installation of many 3x3 inch screenprints of emperors on Post-it® notes.

In addition to the many independent artists included in this show, the presses, publishers and printshops represented are: Diane Villani Editions, Dieu Donné, ETC Press, Holding Her Shape Collects, Lower East Side Printshop, Marlborough Graphics, Serie Project, Inc., SOLO Impression, and Tamarind Institute.

With rare exceptions, prints included in IPCNY's New Prints shows are for sale. IPCNY refers potential purchasers directly to the artist, publisher, or gallery supplying the print. IPCNY requires no commission on sales.

The New Prints Program is the core of IPCNY’s exhibition programming. New Prints 2000 launched the program in September 2000. To date, these thirty-two exhibitions have included work from over 1100 artists and 200 presses across the country and abroad.

International Print Center New York is a non-profit institution founded to promote the greater appreciation and understanding of the fine art print worldwide. Through innovative programming, it fosters a climate for the enjoyment, examination and serious study of artists' prints – from the old master to the contemporary. IPCNY offers its members a program of workshop and gallery visits, and has established an informational website and Information Desk available to the public at the gallery. IPCNY depends upon public and private donations to support its programs.

The New Prints Program is funded in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Generous funding is provided by The Greenwall Foundation. A grant from the Robert Lehman Foundation supports IPCNY’s exhibitions programs.

IPCNY is grateful to the following foundations for their generous support which makes our programming possible: The Lily Auchincloss Foundation, Deborah Loeb Brice Foundation, The Carnegie Corporation of New York, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Porter Family Charitable Foundation, and The Reed Foundation.

Gallery hours through June are 11- 6 pm, Tuesday - Saturday. July hours are Monday – Friday, 11-6 pm. For additional information, call (212) 989-5090 or visit IPCNY's website www.ipcny.org. New Prints 2009/Summer – Portraits: In Pursuit of Likeness will be posted and documented on the site together with prior exhibitions presented by IPCNY. For further information regarding this exhibition, please contact Kendra Sullivan at kendra@ipcny.org.

March 15 – May 3, 2008
Opening Saturday March 15, 7-9pm

Exit Art is pleased to announce the opening of E.P.A. (Environmental Performance Actions), the first project of S.E.A, a large-scale program dealing with current environmental concerns and the way artists respond to them. E.P.A is a group exhibition surveying recent performance work from around the world that addresses current environmental crises. The exhibition will consist of videos, photographs, texts, related ephemera and a film program documenting recent performances. For this opening project we have invited Amy Lipton and Patricia Watts, co-curators and founders of ecoartspace, a leading international environmental arts organization, to collaborate with Exit Art on the organization and presentation of this material. E.P.A. will include performance documentation from more than 30 international artists. These works, created in the public sphere, draw attention to and engage the public in a dialogue about issues such as climate change, watersheds, urbanization and, ultimately, human survival. E.P.A. will set the precedence for future exhibitions of S.E.A. dealing with environmental issues including The End of Oil, about the global oil crisis and alternative energy, and Consume, about food production, agricultural and sustainable living practices. An exhibition of historical social-environmental art works is also planned to place this work in context.

E.P.A. will include performance documentation from more than 30 international artists. These works, created in the public sphere, draw attention to and engage the public in a dialogue about issues such as climate change, watersheds, urbanization and, ultimately, human survival. E.P.A. will set the precedence for future exhibitions of S.E.A. dealing with environmental issues including The End of Oil, about the global oil crisis and alternative energy, and Consume, about food production, agricultural and sustainable living practices. An exhibition of historical social-environmental art works is also planned to place this work in context.

ARTISTS
Brandon Ballengee, Vaughn Bell, Sarah Kavage and Nicole Kistler, Mark Brest van Kempen, Carissa Carman and Joanna Lake, Susanne Cockrell, Xavier Cortada, Carrie Dashow, Erica Fielder, Ozzie Forbes, Amy Franceschini, Aaron Gach, Fritz Haeg, Amy Howden-Chapman, Basia Irland, Scot Kaplan, Carolyn Lambert, Robin Lasser, Bill Meyer, Kathryn Miller and Michael Honer, Miss Rockaway Armada, Matthew Moore, Eve Mosher, Cary Peppermint and Christine Nadir, Andrea Polli, James Reed, Austin Shull, Brooke Singer and Brian Rigney Hubbard, Chris Sollars

CURATORS
Jeanette Ingberman
Papo Colo
Amy Lipton
Patricia Watts

EXHIBITION SUPPORT
General exhibition support provided by Carnegie Corporation, Jerome Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, Starry Night Fund at The Tides Foundation, Exit Art’s Board of Trustees and our members. Public programs support provided by The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.

GENERAL INFORMATION
Exit Art is located at 475 Tenth Avenue at 36th Street. Exit Art is open each Tuesday through Thursday, 10 am – 6 pm; and LATE Friday, 10 am – 8 pm AND Saturday, noon – 8 pm Closed Sunday and Monday. There is a suggested donation of $5. For more information call 212-966-7745.

FLETCHER BOOTE + ALISHA KERLIN + AUSTIN SHULL + RACHAEL WREN
FEBRUARY 2-29, 2008 - OPENING NIGHT SATURDAY FEBRUARY 2nd 7-9PM

Long Island City, New York, January 15, 2008: Four rapidly emerging young artists present new work across a wide spectrum of media. Sound, sculpture, video, painting, and installation are explored, while a dialogue between the works, their creators, and the viewer gives form (and perhaps a title) to this project at Repetti.
Dialogical in nature, Austin Shull’s new videos document the artist performing various fundamental, yet rebellious chores. The Washington Monument serves as a backdrop for DC Fire, in which Shull makes a fire without matches as an act of protest and resistance. He says that while “late capitalism continues to increase
the distance between labor and sustenance, my actions in these videos address the relationship between human energy expenditure and elements such as water or fire, needed for survival.”

A strange sense of impending uncertainty is created by Cascading Brink of Upper Falls, a furniture and video installation that Alisha Kerlin describes as a “voyeuristic bedroom grouping.” Much of the video looks inward, through a Viewmaster, where scenes from reels like ‘Spectacular Waterfalls’ mingle between fiction and reality. Meanwhile, Rachael Wren’s paintings radiate light outwards, their forms slowly unfolding before the viewer. Like Shull’s videos, these easel paintings are made through an exploration of basic formal phenomena. Here they’re presented not only as documents of that journey, but also as invitations for viewer participation.

In his book, ‘Conversation Pieces,’ Grant Kester describes Dialogical work as, “unfolding through a process of performative interaction,” and standing in contrast to traditional art which is “produced entirely by the artist and only subsequently offered to the viewer.” Dealing with the very participatory medium of sound, Fletcher Boote
says she hopes to, “eradicate the boundaries that separate ‘one’ from the ‘other’. Presented here are single modules of sound, often her own voice, which build into a crescendo of information before again allowing quiet. Just as meaning is derived through the collaboration between Boote and her audience, we hope a project title is generated in the wake of the interaction between these four artists’ work.
Please contact sam@repetti.org for more information, or visit www.repetti.org. Repetti is open Friday to Sunday
from 12 to 5pm (or by appointment), and is located at 44-02 23rd St. Long Island City, NY, 11101. (718) 786-
8007. Subway: E, V to 23rd St. Ely. 7, G to Courthouse SQ.

This is Not a Self-Portrait
Gallery 2, Chicago, IL
September 21 - October 20, 2007
Opening reception: Friday, September 21, 5:00 - 8:00 pm

www.thisisnotaselfportrait.com

The Moss Growing Tumbleweed Experience

NICC has invited Hans Theys to lead a debate on the question: 'Should the NICC organize artistic activities?'

Come see and hear for yourself in the next ten months the continuing debate with six different participants who each come and present themselves and what they are working on.

See how around the sculpture 'Oak Rumble' by Leon Vranken, a changing, twisting and evolving exhibition takes form, with work from Boris Beaucarne, Geert Goiris, Koen Deprez, Damien De Lepeleire, Bernd Lohaus, Philip Janssens, Danny Devos, Fanny Zaman, Austin Shull, Yu-Sheng Ho, Tomas Boiy and many others .

The first participant is the famous guitarist Philip Catherine and it begins on Sunday 25th of February at 3.30 p.m.

The second contribution is from Walter Swennen on Sunday 25th of March.

See our double trailer on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gi8_XcmgmeA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa1qh8upZ24

See the link to Oak Rumble
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ya9Cev3ZNI

New International Cultural Center
Museumstraat 35/37
2000 Antwerpen
Belgium

5 X 5
ACARIGUA - NEW YORK
Curated by Juana Valdes
Opening Reception: Tuesday, March 1st 2007 from 6:00-9:00 PM

Participating artists from Venezuela and USA: Victor Asuaje, Benjamin Arenas, Tulio Diaz, Engelbert Peña, Gregson Zambrano, YaQin Betty Chou, Robert Gray, Jessica Hankey, Austin Shull, David Snyder

March 1, 2007 – April 5, 2007
Salon Abdres Bello
Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Vezezuela
1099 30th St., NW
Washington D.C. 20007
www.5x5web.com
www.csvcenter.com



The exhibition was organized by: Museo de Arte Acarigua-Araure, Venezuela.
Sponsored by: ACC Insurance Brokers Group and the Venezuelan American Endowment for the Arts

The "5 x 5" exhibition brings together artists working in Acarigua-Araure, Venezuela, New York City, and Berlin. This group of artists are challenging ideas in contemporary art, exploring the boundaries of painting, and bringing together different cultures and aesthetics. This is the second part of a cultural exchange which began with a February of 2004 exhibition, opening at the Museo de Arte Acarigua Araure, in Acarigua-Araure, Venezuela. This exhibition is the product of the dialogue that developed between Ali Cordero Casal and the curator of the exhibition, Juana Valdes, on issues of class/labor, cultural production, and art’s potential to cross geographical borders. This discussion, while informed by contemporary technological developments that transform our relationship to communication and geography, has a lengthy history: artists have long used new means of communication and technology to share their work and exchange ideas. While we are still separated by borders, language, and ideology, the aspiration to somehow create and share by passing over (or traveling over) these elusive markers of place and difference persists. For most artists, the initial method of making art is a personal experience but the final objective is one of interaction with the public. The exhibition will feature works from the previous exhibition as well as new work that is being exhibited for the first time.