Dalhousie Art Gallery, curated by Peter Dykhuis 16 March to 6 May 2012

Chapter 1
One of a Kind: Unique Artist’s Books
Curated by Heide Hatry

Chapter 2
Books as Visual Objects
Doug Buebe, Robert Kelly, Michael Maranda, Susan Mills
Curated by Peter Dykhuis

Chapter 3
John Murchie: see what you think

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Haciendo presión Using pressure is a group exhibition of contemporary Cuban printmaking at the 11th Havana Biennial organized and curated by the artists. It will take place in the Cabaña, at the K13 - K14 flags.

This exhibition looks at what is happening in current Cuban printmaking from artists who have matured in the past 15 years, a generation that gives continuity and vindication to Cuban printmaking. In recent decades, it shows greater changes and evolutionary development as the expressive media in Cuban art. Nelson Herrera Isla

Haciendo presión is the first exhibition of a more comprehensive project, under the same name that seeks to continuing the legacy of La huella multiple and promote contemporary printmaking Cuban art.

Participating artists: Osmeivy Ortega, Aliosky García, Octavio Irving, Orlando Montalván, Alejandro Sainz, Julio Cesar Peña, Anyelmaidelìn Calzadilla, Hanoi Pérez, Yamilis Brito, Dania Fleites, Liudmila Lopez, Norberto Marrero y  Janette Brossard.

Invited artists: Eduardo Hernàndez, Ibrahim Miranda y Sandra Ramos.

Haciendo Presión, serà una muestra colectiva colateral a la próxima Bienal Internacional de La Habana,organizada por los propios artistas. Tendrà lugar en la fortaleza de la cabaña, en los pabellones K13 y K14. Va a ser una exposición de grabado contemporàneo cubano, donde primarà la diversidad. Podrà constatarse la libertad con que se asume este medio en Cuba movièndose entre laexperimentación, la rigurosidad técnica, la estampa manipulada y la matriz como obra.

Es una mirada al acontecer del grabado cubano actual a partir de obras de artistas que han madurado  y alcanzado importantes logros en los últimos 15 años. Generaciòn que da continuidad a lo que se diò en llamar Vindicaciòn del grabado cubano y que evidencia lo que al decir de Nelson Herrera Isla: Constituye el proceso de màs cambios y desarrollo evolutivo dentro de los medios expresivos del arte cubano en las ùltimas dècadas.

Haciendo presión es la primera acción de un proyecto màs abarcador, que bajo el mismo nombre pretende realizar una cadena de acciones con el objetivo de mostrar el grabado como medio eficaz dentro del arte cubano y promover el quehacer grabado contemporáneo, dar continuidad al legado de La huella múltiple, incidir en los espacios de formación y crear espacios de confluencia.

Learning to draw is not limited to the mere reproduction of an image; learning to print is not limited to a technical process. Both capabilities are found to be a means to explore sensitivities of expression, experience, and play with the aesthetic consciousness.

This first work of the Project: La línea extendida (The extended line) is collaboration between youth in Venezuela and Cuba through children’s drawings. Children from the hills of Caracas, Venezuela first created drawings. These drawings were then reproduced and translated in Cuba using various printmaking techniques by young Cuban artists at the Academia de Bellas Artes San Alejandro.

This collaboration among people of diverse cultural backgrounds reverses the technical process usually seen children’s coloring books. This provokes the artists to exploit the process by changing the archived multiple image, one of the thousand of processes in which the reproduction of an image is inspired by a succession of creative acts.

Interview with Anyel

The Biennial is a wonderful experience to see Cuban art all over the city and often some of the best exhibitions receive little attention. I have asked my friends and collaborators to share their projects and exhibitions during the Havana Biennial. Suenos de la Biennial is a series of infrequent letters announcing these projects and exhibitions

Paulina Márquez sent me a recent email about Artistas por la Barrio, a 4-day action, May 17- 20 with 70 artists working in the neighborhood of the Municipio Plaza de la Revolución at Ermita y San Pedro streets. This community surrounds the Plaza of the Revolution. For those who have not been to been to Havana the Plaza of the Revolution is on a high hill over looking the city where all the major rallies take place. There is grand tower similar stature to the Washington Monument in DC in the center of the plaza.

Curated and organized by Paulina Márquez and Salomé Garcia, Artistas por la Barrio plans to bring art into the community through workshops in paper mache, digital photography, alternative printmaking techniques, creating murals and music and theater events.

Seventy artists working in a community far from the center of the biennial activities should be an event worth seeing.

Some of my friends involved with Artistas por la Barrio include: Luis Lamothe, Orlando Montalván, Julio Cesar Peña, Alejandro Saínz, Aliosky García, Jeannette Brossard, Norberto Marrero, Yamilis Brito. All these artists have  worked with on the RTP book collaborations and  you can see their art on the Mis Amigos page and RTP Flickr pages.

Paulina Márquez can contacted by e-mail at  paulim3000@gmail.com or proyectospau@gmail.com and telephone  535 2581179

Here is 17 page pdf file from Paulina. ARTISTAS POR EL BARRIO

I have the installation photographs on the Red Trillium Press Flickr page of the exhibition Rare Beauty: Contemporary Visions in Book Arts, a group exhibition featuring the work of Steven Daiber, Pati Scobey, and Barb Tetenbaum, Julie Chen, Kathy Kuehn, and Wilber H. Schilling at the Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford.

Sadly some of the images for Kathy’s work had the worst color shifts imaginable due a combination of gallery lighting, natural lighting and a point & shoot camera so I did not include them. BUT there is a full-color catalog with a great essay by Ruth Rogers, curator of special collections at Wellesley College available for $25. Please contact the gallery for more information.

Enjoy!

Janette Brossard’s poignant 12 etchings Time is Caged give us an understanding of  la lucha (the struggle) for all Cubans.

TIME IS CAGED AND INDEFINITELY MOVING AMONG TWELVE WORDS defines a Cuban’s perception of time, a reality where past and present are juxtaposed. The year is presented as a constantly repeating unit, each month characterized by a specific situation. This work represents an insular chronicle, where human beings are immerse in a repetitive non-linear cycle. The calendar does not belong to a specific year, but to every and all years. That time does not move is a sensation permeating every person living on this stressful and oppressive island.

Janette  Brossard Duharte     Havana, Cuba

Los aguafuertes originales se imprimieron en 2001. El tamaño de edición es 10

76 x 56 cm, 30 x 22 pulgadas

Original etchings were printed in 2001. Edition size is 10

76 x 56 cm, 30 x 22 inches

The University of Hartford’s Joseloff Gallery at the Hartford Art School is proud to present the exhibition Rare Beauty: Contemporary Visions in Book Arts, a group exhibition featuring the work of six distinguished printmakers and book artists, in the gallery from January 17 through February 19, 2012.

Rare Beauty will showcase the work of the 2011/2012 Georgette and Richard Koopman  Distinguished Chairs in the printmaking department at the Hartford Art School: Steven Daiber,  Pati Scobey, and Barb Tetenbaum, as well as three invited guest artists: Julie Chen, Kathy Kuehn, and Wilber H. Schilling.

The exhibition comprises a diverse sampling of handmade books in all forms, demonstrating the
incredible scope of the craft. From traditional, recognizable book forms to interactive boxes, textwrapped jawbones, embroidered scrolls, and installations; the books in this exhibition stretch all familiar boundaries of what defines a “book”.

The title of the exhibition, Rare Beauty, was inspired by a quote from one of the artists included in
the exhibition, Wilber H. Schilling, who said, “In this increasingly digital age, a carefully  handmade, inspiringly clever and tactile book is a rare beauty.”

In addition to the exhibition, there will be a panel discussion held on Thursday, February 9, 2012  from 3:30-5:00pm in the Wilde Auditorium, directly followed by a public reception in the Joseloff  gallery from 5-7pm. The panel will include all six artists in the exhibition and will be moderated by Ruth Rogers, curator of special collections at Wellesley College.

Rare Beauty was organized by Lisa Gaumond, managing director of the Joseloff Gallery, with the help of the faculty of the Hartford Art School printmaking department: Jim Lee, Jenni Freidman, and John Willis.

A full-color catalog will be available for $25. Please contact the gallery for more information.

To read more about Rare Beauty, and see examples of the work, please visit the exhibition page.

EVENTS:
Panel Discussion

• February 9, 2012, 3:30-5pm, Wilde Auditorium featuring all six artists in the exhibition, moderated by Ruth R. Rogers, Curator of Special Collections at Wellesley College

Public Reception

• February 9, 2012, 5-7pm, Joseloff Gallery

University of Hartford/Joseloff Gallery, 200 Bloomfield Avenue, West Hartford, Connecticut 06117

http://offices.holycross.edu/cantorartgallery/exhibitions/current

The exhibition Rompecabezas: Identidad,  with Ibrahim Miranda is on display through November 30 at Galeria Servando, 23 y 10, Havana.

Ibrahim and I have started a collaboration using the 1979 Atlas de Cuba we are so fond of. I sent three altered atlases to him this fall and curious to see what returns. We are looking for people traveling to Cuba to help couriering the book between countries.

Open Forum on El muro Exhibition
4-6 PM
Carroll Room, Campus Center

Lester Tomé, Asst. Professor of Dance History and Theory, and Odette Casamayor-Cisneros, Assistant Professor of Spanish/Puerto Rican & Latino Studies, University of Connecticut-Storrs share their personal responses to El muro, photographs of gay and transgendered life in Cuba by Eduardo Hernández Santos with poetry by Virgilio Piñera. Join the discussion moderated by Patrick Connelly, Office of Student Engagement.

The Open Forum is presented by the Global Studies Center, Office of Student Engagement, Resource Center for Sexuality & Gender, and the Smith College Museum of Art

Book signing after the discussion.

El Muro: The Wall