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October 22, 2021November 2, 2022, by Art Spiel

Hand Work and wear we are at ELM

Featured Project: with John Morton and Rahul Saggar

Installation in-process, Hand Work and wear we are. Photo by Yumiko Yamazaki

Composer John Morton and Artist/Engineer Rahul Saggar created an audience-activated environment at the boiler space in the ELM Foundation in Williamsburg, inviting visitors to experience a new appreciation of their sonic and spatial surroundings. Visitor’s movements activate a sensor that produces sounds, while their steps simultaneously wear away a walking path on a painted floor surface. The two inter-related installations explore both physical and sonic pathways, uncovering and revealing multiple layers of sound and color, mirroring our everyday meanderings and encounters.

October 18, 2021October 4, 2021, by Etty Yaniv

Rita Grendze: Material Exploration

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Description automatically generated — Rita Grendze installing “Susurrations” , 2013, Krasl Art Center, St. Joseph, MI

Chicago based artist Rita Grendze draws, sculpts and makes large scale installations that bring the two and three dimensional forms together in imaginative ways. She creates visceral environments utilizing mostly found materials, ranging from music sheets to textiles.

October 10, 2021November 2, 2022, by Art Spiel

Simonette Quamina – Canboulay at Smack Mellon

Featured Artist

The artist and her work, photo courtesy of Camille Thomas

Canboulay, Simonette Quamina’s solo exhibition at Smack Mellon, features a series of immersive wall-sized visual horizons which borrow the methodological framework of a caesura, a break in a poem. The notion of “break” exists within each work through cuts and rips as well as overall, separating elements of her continuous visual story into vignettes of individual works. Through her use of sophisticated variety of collage and printmaking techniques, Quamina integrates narratives referencing histories such as socioeconomic ramifications of sugarcane and familial subjugation, into complex, dark surfaces.

October 8, 2021November 2, 2022, by Art Spiel

The Factory Project during London Frieze Week

Featured Project: Nicholas Stavri and Eric Thorp – Answering collectively as THORP STAVRI

The Factory Project – Warehouse Internal – Thorp Stavri

Whilst The Factory Project runs through the most commercially driven week of the London art calendar, Frieze week, it is championed as a non-profit museum scale multi-disciplinary exhibition that has been produced by the duo Thorp Stavri with the aim of amplifying underrepresented voices of emerging to mid-career artists and curators, offering them the opportunity to exhibit new work without the constraints of commercial bias. It is set to open from October 9th to the 22nd, showcasing 10 exhibitions by 10 curators and over 110 artists within the former Tate & Lyle 67,640 sq ft warehouse and yard complex at Thameside Industrial Estate by City Airport. ” We’ve been thinking of the project as a sort of music festival, where you can travel from stage to stage (exhibition to exhibition), catching your favorite acts while discovering loads of new ones,” The Factory Project producers say.

October 5, 2021October 6, 2024, by Art Spiel

Christine Romanell : MVA Open Studios

Christine showing one of her prints in front of a wall in her studio. The drawing in this print was used for the laser cutting of the wall sculpture

Manufacturers Village Artist Studios, located in an 1880’s historic industrial complex at 356 Glenwood Avenue in East Orange, NJ, will feature the work of over 60 different artists at its annual open studios weekend, Friday 10/15 (VIP Preview) and Saturday thru Sunday from 11-5, 10/16 and 10/17.

October 4, 2021October 1, 2021, by Etty Yaniv

Maggie Nowinski -Drawing (un)limited

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Description automatically generated — Maggie Nowinski, Be Spilled, My Heart, 2021 detail installation view with artist for scale, wHoles are acrylic and India ink on canvas, double sided, installation approximately 20’x30’x10’

About a decade ago, Maggie Nowinski shifted her focus from site specific project-based installation to her studio as the primary site of her work. She made this shift after realizing that her connection to the work had become too fragmented. She needed her studio work to become more accessible and her creativity more meditative. Since drawing has always been at the core of her work, focusing on drawing with limited materials and themes, enabled her to process a lot of the ideas she had been working through in her large-scale installations. “I was craving a way to immediately access creativity, to be in a place where if I had an hour I could walk into my studio and pick up where I’d left off on a drawing,” she says.

September 30, 2021October 6, 2024, by Art Spiel

Jennifer T. Ley: MVA Open Studios

Jennifer T. Ley, work in progress in the studio, 2021, Paper, Anishinaabe Bimishimo tin jingles, watercolor, digital photos, Photo courtesy the artist

September 26, 2021November 2, 2022, by Art Spiel

Kate Dodd: MVA Open Studios

Adjusting “Sky Cache” on the Jersey City waterfront

September 24, 2021September 22, 2021, by Etty Yaniv

Tamara Kostianovsky – Between Wounds and Folds at Smack Mellon

Featured Artist

Between Wounds and Folds, Tamara Kostianovsky’s solo exhibition at Smack Mellon, features sculptures which link issues of gender-based violence, personal memory, and ecological destruction through consumption into a complex and speculative ecosystem. Her dimensional forms, both soft and brutal, combine discarded fabric with industrial materials, often drawing their shape from mutilated fauna and flora in various states of decay, including tree stumps, cow carcasses, and birds of prey.

September 22, 2021September 22, 2021, by Susan Hoffman Fishman

The Art of Transforming Polluted Water into Clean Water, Energy, and Sound

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Description automatically generated — Gilberto Esparza at work on Nomadic Plants

Mexican visual artist Gilberto Esparza works with technology, including electronics, robotics, and biotechnology, to develop innovative solutions to the detrimental impact that humans have had on the natural world, particularly on water. His overall goal is to rethink and redo the current relationship between human society and the environment by establishing collaborations between the two.