News, Shows, & Publicity
News: Michael Parker and the Ucross Foundation - Posted 3 months ago
Michael was recently selected to be a resident artist fellow at the Ucross Foundation in Wyoming. It is the mission of the Ucross Foundation Residency Program for the arts and literature to actively support and participate in the process by which a society is strengthened and emboldened by its most forward looking arts.
The residency program aims to encourage fresh and innovative thinking in the arts and literature by providing residencies and work space for individual artists and writers whose work indicates both involvement in individual creative exploration and significant future accomplishments.
News: Cosme Herrera at the Bronx Museum - Posted 3 months ago
June 1 – August 18, 2008
How Soon Is Now? features an array of work by 36 artists from Artist in the Marketplace (AIM), one of the most celebrated and competitive programs for emerging artists in the country.
Organized by Erin Riley-Lopez, Assistant Curator
Negar Ahkami • Blanka Amezkua • Keliy Anderson-Staley • Daniel Bejar • Charles Beronio • Matthew Burcaw • Si Jae Byun • Brendan Carroll • Vidal Centeno • Margarida Correia • Rä di Martino • Emcee C.M., Master of None • Jason Falchook • Michelle Frick • David Gilbert • Kyung Woo Han • Cosme Herrera • Catherine Kunkemueller • Luke Lamborn • Sujin Lee • Bill Lohre • Rebecca Loyche • Giuseppe Luciani • Brian Lund • Kelli Miller • Laura Napier • Dulce Pinzon • Christy Powers • Risa Puno • Ronny Quevedo • Sa’dia Rehman • John Richey • Irys Schenker • Mark Stafford • Jeanne Verdoux • Angie Waller
http://www.bronxmuseum.org/exhibitions/hsin.html
Shows: Street Art in Full Force in London - Posted 3 months ago
Pay a virtual visit to the Tate Museum in London and check out the major Street Art exhibition going on until August 25th, 2008. See it here:
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/streetart/default.shtm
News: Paula Ysom in the Tampa Tribune - Posted 3 months ago
Art Smart: Buying Local
A guide to collecting original works by local artists.
By SARAH HOYE | The Tampa Tribune
Published: June 19, 2008
TAMPA -- With spring cleaning out of the way, it's time to throw something up on your walls. Before you make a Target run, think about picking up a masterpiece instead.
Don't flip out — original art can be affordable, and local. First-time collectors and late bloomers with disposable income don't have to settle for walls covered in posters or stock art from Ikea.
"Everything is here in Tampa that makes for a strong art community [which] we have to support to keep the artists here," says Manuel Lopez, collector and director of the Tampa artists' collective Paula Ysom Group. "I started buying from artists I was meeting, and from there it's been a part of my life. This is my passion."
Read entire article here:
http://www2.tbo.com/content/2008/jun/19/art-smart/?entertainment
Publicity: Edgar Sanchez Cumbas at ArtHouse3 (from www.artsqueeze.com) - Posted 3 months ago
Sanchez is the featured artist this month at ArtHouse 3rd Thursday, an intimate rotating exhibition held at the private residence of art consultant Katherine Gibson. (Actually, he was last month’s artist, but he’s been held over for May due to demand.)
The paintings on view at Gibson’s home continue the gritty exploration taken up in the Sensory Overload project. For the first time in his career, Sanchez is working with a completely abstracted style. And though the paintings at ArtHouse are mostly small to medium in size, his latest paintings (seen behind him, in progress, in the photo above) are also bigger than ever. It’s as though Sanchez, who trained as an illustrator at Savannah College of Art and Design, has unlocked his inner Jackson Pollock (by way of Matthew Ritchie and Francis Bacon). Read entire interview here:
http://www.artsqueeze.com/2008/05/13/edgar-sanchez-cumbas-at-arthouse3/