E.S.P. INAUGURAL ART SHOW @ BROOKLYN FIREPROOF TOMORROW

This is a killer poster by Leah Wishnia for E.S.P., a group show I'll be in, opening TOMORROW, JULY 6TH. All details are listed below. I'm showing this piece I made in honor of my Grandma.

»»» E.S.P OPENING NIGHT BENEFIT SHOW «««

FACEBOOK RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/events/171655132995164/
extrasensoryfeminist@gmail.com
ON TUMBLR

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JULY 6TH SATURDAY - Door at 8pm // Show at 9pm

@ BROOKLYN FIREPROOF
119 Ingraham St, New York, NY 11237 (Morgan Avenue stop L train)

$5 - $10 sliding scale cover (all proceeds will benefit Planned Parenthood and Womanspace)

(ages 21+)

with STAND-UP/STORY-TELLING/IMPROV/MUSICAL COMEDY PERFORMANCES BY:

Jessica Delfino (www.jessicadelfino.com)
Sasheer Zamata (sasheer.com)
SVCK MY D!CK II (suckmydickii.improvteams.com)
Aparna Nancherla (www.aparnacomedy.com)
Anna Drezen (annadrezen.com)
Bethany Hall
Emilie Parker Strange
Judith George 
LIVE MUSIC PERFORMANCE BY:

Tiny Teeth (tinyteethtunes.tumblr.com & http://tinyteethnj.bandcamp.com/)

and DANCE PARTY!! (with DJ DANNY BONADUCE, KAPERKOLATER, and DJ SOUR PUSS)

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FEATURING ART WORK BY:

Adriane Dalton
Alison Dubois
Amelia Box
Annmarie Burzachiello
Ara Aranguri
Cassandra Liuzzo
Christina Vines
Doris Yuan
Dragana Drobnjak
Elisabeth Arzt
Emily Lubanko
Jacqui Alexander
Jennifer Cabral
Jordan Alexander
Kara Frame
Kate Wadkins
Lisa A. Snyder
Manda Brezicky
Marissa Woodrow
Randi Wolfman
Sarah Farmer
Sophia Rosenthal
Stefanie Clerkin
Tara Perry
Tom McGill

**Art will be up for sale and displayed at Brooklyn Fire Proof from July 6th - 10th (ages 21+ after 8pm)

Percentage of art sales will be donated to Planned Parenthood / Womanspace!
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ANNOUNCING: MAIL ART SHOW AT HYPERALLERGIC

Photo courtesy of Hyperallergic

In tandem with Northside Open Studios, Hyperallergic will be curating a Mail Art show from June 16-19, 2011. Hyperallergic HQ will be in the midst of the action during the four-day event, and the Mail Art show will be displayed in our space.  We want YOU to submit your mail art to be featured in the show and of course, we will also be pulling from the submissions we have already received.

We are looking for a wide range of submissions, so be as creative as possible! Mail art as a medium has the potential to include layers of meaning and performance, due to its temporal qualities. Consider all the different piecesthat make up mail visually and manually: stamps, envelopes, paper, and/or non-traditional contents and containers; plus the acts of opening, unfolding and reading.

I will be curating this show at Hyperallergic HQ and can't think of a better way to kick off the summer! Submissions are due June 8th, read the full story here.

NOTE: To clarify, your piece becomes mail art as you submit it to Hyperallergic via the postal service. You do not need to dig up older mail art works / the work does not require having been sent to another recipient aside from Hyperallergic.

LAST WEEK'S INTERESTINGS #90

My lovely friend Nydia (super cool) has faithfully pointed me in the direction of her friends' blogs before. Nydia & said cool friends came out to the Pen 15 Press & Friends Open Studio last Friday night, which was a lovely surprise! One of those friends is Jelsen of Last Week's Interestings. To my excitement, Jelsen featured some images of my work & the Pen 15 show on Last Week's Interestings today:

This is a detail of my book, Visitor: A Collection, a work in progress.

This is a view from the wall I'm on, Andrew Bernero's work is in the foreground. Andrew, among nearly all the other artists in the show, was one of my co-conspirators in undergrad at SUNY Purchase. It was an honor to show with so many talented friends.

Thanks Jelsen! Thanks Pen 15! Thanks to all my friends who came out to the show!

Pen 15 Press & Friends at Bushwick Open Studios

It is official, I will be showing new work debuting at Bushwick Open Studios on June 4th. My good pals at Pen15 Press invited me and some great folks to show work at their home/headquarters.

All of the information is available here. The opening is Friday, June 4th at 7pm. Friday is unfortunately the only night I'll be there, as I will be helping Jason Andrew at Norte Maar / Storefront for the rest of the weekend. So please come by!

Note: RSVP to the Facebook invite here!

MORE LEAVE HOME PHOTOS

My work in "LEAVE HOME" being set-up. Picture from my phone.

Here's a better-lit image of the skyline drawing.

I included this so you can get a better idea of how big the silhouette paintings are. I think about 2' x 5'.

And last but not least, I think my favorite part. Some multimedia pieces I did of New York scenery and owls. They were set up in a little black room in between the main room and the back/bar area. The image is a little washed out because the light was shining directly on the pieces. I may try to shoot these again for my "professional" site... GASP! Summer project.

These photos are courtesy of Lauren Measure!

LEAVE HOME PHOTOS

Skyline

Silhouette

Paige & one of my owl prints in the background

Coffee cup cloud installation

Here are some photos of my work, taken by my good friend Orlando Perez at the LEAVE HOME show. Click to make 'em bigger.

EXCITING

LEAVE HOME GROUP SHOW FRIDAY! DETAILS HERE!

Check the official press release:

LEAVE HOME

Featuring Works By
LAUREN DENITZIO
CRISTY ROAD
KATE WADKINS
TAMARA WAITE-SANTIBANEZ

And MUSIC By
LITTLE LUNGS
LAURA STEVENSON
FATAL ERECTION

@ DEATH BY AUDIO
MAY 15TH, 2009 - 8PM - ALL AGES!
49 S. 2nd ST. BROOKLYN, NY

LEAVE HOME Binds varying linear structures with the sparkling connections between our souls and our soil. Home is dissected. As Brooklyn slowly transgresses into a development landmine, we hold on to the purity of bricks, concrete, our soil, our urban breeding ground, and the spurts of nature which trickle inbetween. Our identities, and our connections to our home, vary as much as our artistic renderings; but in the end converge into a collective act of visual chaos.

Originally from the concrete depths of New Jersey; Lauren Denitzio seems to have spent a lifetime fervently investing her creativity in punk rock. Aside from being the guitarist/vocalist for The Measure [sa] (New Brunswick, NJ), Denitzio has been creating artwork, of varying visual degrees under the moniker Black & Red Eye, using thoughtful linework, an eccentric and beautiful use of patterns, and textures foreign to atypical art supplies.

Through her art and writing, Cristy C. Road blends social principles, sexual deviance, mental inadequacies, and her Cuban, punk, and queer identities. Her preferred medium is Micron Ink pens, Sharpies, and Chartpak markers. Although, coloring techniques range from Markers, Fluid Acrylic, and occasional digital color for most commissioned work. Her obsession with making art accessible began when publishing GREEN’ZINE in 1996. This snowballed into years of illustrating for punk bands, magazines, non-profit organizations, and more. In the last five years Road has released Indestructible, an illustrated novel about adolescence, Distance Makes the Heart Grow Sick , a book of postcards, and Bad Habits, her most recent illustrated novel about healing, self-change, and irresponsibility, and partying hard.

Often blurring feminist theory and art practice, Kate Wadkins is interested in the historical connection between women and birds. When she’s not drawing, Kate plays bass in Cheeky and works with For the Birds, a feminist collective and distro, curating DIY music and art shows and other creative feminist cultural happenings. She also writes for Maximum Rock’n’roll and Feminist Review.

Creating work under the studio heading No Guts No Glory, Tamara Waite-Santibanez is a printmaker and illustrator. Rooted firmly in DIY ethics and aesthetics, her work is created with as little help from computers or electric presses as possible, in an effort to adhere to a traditional printmaking practice and printmaking's history as a democratic art form. When not creating gross-looking flatstock and other ephemera, Tamara spends her time at the Stolen Sleeves Collective and singing for an all-female hardcore band, Zombie Dogs.

Lauren, Cristy, Kate and Tamara all reside in Brooklyn, and tend to run into eachother every weekend.

For any requests or inquiries, please contact: LEAVEHOMESHOW@gmail.com

LAST NIGHT OUT-OF-TOWN

[image via chicago art source]

So The Sketchbook Project Volume 3 finally calls it quits tonight after a semi-national tour. Tonight is the opening party for FROM SCRATCH, which is a show I guess I'm technically in. Funny how that works. Here is the info from Shane and Steven of Art House Co-op:

The Sketchbook Project at Chicago Art Source Gallery Tonight

Friday, May 8th (tonight!)
6:00-9:00pm
Chicago Art Source Gallery
1871 N. Clybourn Ave
Chicago, IL 60614

Tonight is the final exhibition for The Sketchbook Project Volume 3. It is hosted at Chicago Art Source Gallery in Chicago, IL. The opening is from 6:00-9:00pm. The exhibition will be on display through June 20th.

As much as I was pretty removed from this project and its 2,784 other artists, I did get to check out the whole thing at 3rd Ward in Brooklyn and it was a pretty great event. If you're in Chicago, you should definitely check it out!

Another note: my dear friend Aimee Lusty - whom I used to live with and majorly helped smooth out my senior thesis ideas (all while laying down some serious Darger knowledge) - has JUST BEGUN blogging for the Marcel Duchamp World Community online. I think it's pretty rad. Congrats Aimee!

LEAVE HOME

IT IS TOTALLY OFFICIAL! PLEASE COME OUT TO THE ART SHOW.

[click on postcard to make it bigger! designed by blackandredeye]

LEAVE HOME
a collaborative art installation

by artists:

LAUREN DENITZIO
CRISTY ROAD
KATE WADKINS
TAMARA WAITE-SANTIBANEZ

featuring bands:

LITTLE LUNGS
LAURA STEVENSON
FATAL ERECTION

ART! BANDS! BOOZE! FUN!

FRIDAY, MAY 15 - 8PM
@ DEATH BY AUDIO [ALL AGES]
49 S. 2nd St.
Brooklyn, NY

FEEL FREE TO REPOST!

[ I reposted with more bird-related info at: FOR THE BIRDS' blog ]

SAVE THE DATE

"LEAVE HOME," a collaborative installation by

Lauren Denitzio / BLACK AND RED EYE
Cristy C. Road / CROADCORE
Kate Wadkins / WISDOM TOOTH
Tamara Waite-Santibanez / NO GUTS NO GLORY

MAY 15TH at DEATH BY AUDIO
49 S. 2nd Street
[btwn Kent & Wythe]

Brooklyn, NY

THE OWLS ARE NOT WHAT THEY SEEM

A preview of some of the stuff I'm working on for the art installation-collaboration-bonanza with Cristy Road, Lauren Measure, and Tamara Waite-Santibanez. We think it's gonna be called "LEAVE HOME."

THE SKETCHBOOK PROJECT

[photo by Art House Coop]

Officially launched Friday night, 2/27. There was a live broadcast. You can check out photos over at the Art House Coop's flickr. My sketchbook is in there somewhere! Remember, it's coming to Brooklyn March 13th. Come see, before you go to the Propagandhi show.

THE SKETCHBOOK PROJECT / GHOSTS

Two things.

1. I entered The Sketchbook Project. It's going to be at 3rd Ward in Brooklyn on MARCH 13TH. Save the date, dudes! I am not the proudest of my creations but that's partially because I was working on a short time line / the wrong, sooner deadline. No apologies. You can find my entries here, on my flickr.

2. Marked Men "Ghosts" is ABSOLUTELY going to be on my tops for 2009. It has yet to leave my turntable, save for Neil Young at dinner.

2005

(click it!)

On the theme of old art stuff, I found this image from 2005. In July of 2005 we had an LIWC art show, and these were the prints I showed. They're collage, silkscreen, and various other mixed media. The silkscreen image is of my grandma.

pieces of mind

I was just scouring the internet looking at some projects I've been a part of, and discovered that someone had posted an image & my artists' statement from the Icarus Project's Pieces of Mind exhibit last year. Follow the link to check it out:

http://theicarusproject.net/fountain-gallery-nyc-2006-art-show/untitled-1

Also, come out to the Cheeky show tonight if you're on Long Island! It's the Down in the Dumps coming home show, you can find the info below this post!

Women Present

A lot of sweet Purchase alumna will be participating in this show. I will be showing some of my video work.

WOMEN PRESENT
A Feminist Art Show
Shinbone Alley, Presented by the Culture Project
Sept. 21, 6:30 p.m., 45 Bleecker Street, corner of Lafayette Street
www.IMPACTfestival.org

"Women Present" is part of the citywide, month-long Impact Festival, and the Culture Project's monthly UnfinishedWorks salon series.

'Women Present' is the second show by the Women's Art Collective, a group of emerging, NewYork-based artists who have come together as a community of feminists and friends to be a source of creative inspiration, to encourage one another's visions and to collectively negate the tendency to silence and second-guess ourselves. Personal and political are intertwined in this artistic event comprised of still image, film, performance and dance.

UnfinishedWorks regularly features the work of emerging artists across disciplines. In September and October, in concert with the IMPACT festival, UnfinishedWorks is curated by Zoeann Murphy of the Bread and Roses Cultural Arm of 1199SEIU, and artist Molly Stinchfield.

Bread & Roses (www.bread-and-roses.com) is the not-for-profit cultural arm of New York's Health and Human Service Union, 1199/SEIU. Bread and Roses was founded in 1979 as a cultural resource for union members and students in New York City who would otherwise have little access to the arts. Special emphasis is given to programs that signify and interpret their history while generating new artistic expression.

ABOUT IMPACT
IMPACT: Where Culture and Politics Collide brings to New York City national and international works in theater, film, dance, music, visual art, comedy and debates with partners as diverse as The New York Public Library and The Apollo Theater. Scheduled to open on September 12th the festival continues through October 22nd with works
by artists, scholars and children designed to provoke dialogue and action and encourage people to participate in the democratic process. Check out Broadcast Live, Chris Stain, Josh MacPhee and Billy Mode on October 10, 6pm at the Culture Project. www.impactfestival.org

press for "pieces of mind"

Here are links to press/reviews of the Pieces of Mind show at the Fountain Gallery:

1. new york non profit article (pp. 12 - 13)
2. new york daily news article
3. photos from the show, taken by the icarus project

[photo by The Icarus Project]

My aunt and cousin viewing my piece at the show.

art opening tonight!!

I'm in this group gallery show called Pieces of Mind curated by the Icarus Project tonight in New York City. If you're around, you should come to the opening! If not, the show will be up until August 31st.