Save the Date: August 1st! National Night Out!
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The Path Leading to the Center
Meet our next S.T.A.R. Fellows!
We are very excited to welcome our next round of artists! Check out their work below!
Fall 2017 Residents:
- Dahlia Elsayed http://www.dahliaelsayed.com/
- Jessica Rohrer http://www.ppowgallery.com/artist/jessica-rohrer/work
- Alisha Wessler http://www.alishawessler.com/
Winter 2018 Residents:
- Golnar Adili : http://golnaradili.com/home.html
- Nataliya Slinko: http://nslinko.com/
- Angela Heisch: http://www.angelaheisch.com/
Meet our Fall 2017/Winter 2018 Jurors!
Sally Morgan Lehman is the founder and co-director of Morgan Lehman Gallery, which is based in New York, NY. Ms. Lehman has a diverse background in the visual arts, which includes museum education and exhibitions design, non-profit artist outreach programming, state and citywide percent for public art placement, and private and corporate collections management.
Barry Hoggard and James Wagner are small-scale but zealous patrons of all the arts, with particular devotion to the visual. They have served as members of boards attached to different non-profit institutions, have curated gallery and online exhibitions, and have been invited, separately or together, to advise non-profit visual and performing arts institutions in the areas of their experiences.
Austin Thomas is an artist, curator and community builder. Her work has been exhibited at The Drawing Center, Murray Guy, The Sculpture Center, Art in General and at White columns (all in NYC) and internationally in Singapore, Australia, and Hungary and at the Kunsthalle Exnergasse in Vienna. From 2007 to 2014, she directed the influential Pocket Utopia gallery. She is a graduate of NYU and in the Summer of 2016 her permanent public sculpture for a new park in Brooklyn was unveiled. She has also done public commissions for the Public Art Fund and Grinnell College. Thomas's work is featured in the book titled Living and Sustaining a Creative Life: Essays by 40 Working Artists and will also be featured in that book’s sequel The Artist as Culture Producer: Living and Sustaining a Creative Life, which were both edited by Sharon Louden.
Joanne Ross is an artist and educator based in New Jersey. Her work has been exhibited at the Arts Council of the Morris Area, Gallery at 14 Maple and the Visual Studies Workshop Gallery in Rochester NY.
Congrats Ryan Schroeder on winning the Fulbright Award~!
Save the Date: May 6th! BBQ & Open Studio at Guttenberg Arts
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Bet with your Heart: Photos from the First Annual Casino Night
Thank you to everyone who made our first annual Casino Night a success! We had such a blast and can't wait for next year! You won't want to miss it!
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Welcome Back Chris!
Past AIR & Critic Chris Bors stopped by this Monday to share his thoughts on the Winter 2017 Residents current work!
Chris Bors is a New York-based artist whose graphic, post-pop, conceptual works feature a mash-up of images, in which any visuals are fair game for repurposing. His recent paintings, which appropriate logos from hardcore punk bands, are meticulously painted to resemble silkscreen prints, political advertising, or t-shirt graphics. He coined the term "virtual dumpster diving" to describe the practice of taking images and videos from the web.
Bors was born in Ithaca, New York and received his MFA from School of Visual Arts. Solo shows include Randall Scott Projects in Washington, D.C. His art has also been exhibited at PS1 MoMA, White Columns, the Bronx Museum of the Arts and Kinz + Tillou Fine Art in New York, Casino Luxembourg in Luxembourg, Bahnwarterhaus in Esslingen, Germany and Bongout in Berlin. His work has been reviewed in the New York Times, Time Out New York, the Brooklyn Rail and featured in Vogue Italia, K48 and zingmagazine. He has written for Artforum.com, ArtReview, and Art in America, among many other publications.
MADE HERE WINTER 2017
Guttenberg NJ (March 28th), Guttenberg Arts Gallery is pleased to present “MADE HERE Winter 2017” a group exhibition of the current Artists in Residence; Milcah Bassel, Joseph Martin Gabriel, Ryan Schroeder and Jeremy Coleman Smith. On view April 7 - May 26, 2017. The works included in MADE HERE were created during the artist’s residences this past winter. The title “MADE HERE” carries not only multiple definitions, but multiple conceptual meanings ranging from location to identity, the politics of materials and the historical nature of place. All of these new works deeply considered many of these issues and are only just the beginning points for deeper reflection.
Milcah Bassel’s newest work incorporates traditional printmaking and ceramics, employing abstract geometric forms as compartments of body interiors and exploring the perpetual human need to measure and quantify the organic world. Like her previous performative time-lapse sequence “Grid Piece”, the work created at Guttenberg Arts continues to explore the phenomenology of spatial relations, questioning where experience and imagery converge and crossover. This new body of work continues to spins poetic, whimsical and philosophical perspectives on themes enhanced by Bassel’s intersection of clay and paper, which generates a complex dialogue between dimensions both literally and metaphorically.
Joseph Martin Gabriel’s current work draws upon the boundaries and subtle nuances between what we regard as natural and artificial. During his time at Guttenberg Arts, Gabriel experimented with collages, drawings, lithographs and ceramics resulting in numerous visual hybrids derived from contrasting urban horticultural elements and imagined natural forms. Gabriel’s works generate emphasis between fragile and rigid; familiar and uncanny; concrete and liminal. Most of his works reflect on this idea of existence and ephemerality where a simultaneous tension is created between something that exudes life and something that shows the lack or absence thereof.
Ryan Schroeder’s large scale oil paintings are relics that reflect reality. Through paint, Schroeder explores space as a phenomenological experience in that the subject matter is assembled through firsthand experience. His primary focus is finding a means to transmit the dominant psychological feeling of a place visually. His attraction to spaces that possess a residue of occupation and visceral sensation of human presence was amply met during his time at Guttenberg Arts. Working in New Jersey allowed Schroeder to continue his exploration of the historic significance of industry in terms of its impact on avant-garde culture. His latest work features the structures and framework of Guttenberg Arts studio space (formerly a textile factory then dental foundry turned artist space). Like previous paintings, this body of work evokes contemplation of the human factor and explores the aftermath of industrial developments.
Jeremy Coleman Smith’s work continues to investigate the relationship between people, objects of display and the interior spaces where they interact. Smith believes that in an effort to describe ourselves, we adorn our personal spaces and develop an image of self through the contents we choose to display in a room. The presentation of these objects helps fabricate an image of the occupant and becomes a depiction of self-narrative. Smith’s work questions what we cherish more, the image of the object, the idea of the experience or the object itself. In his recent work, Smith has been exploring textures of textiles and other materials within a domestic setting. He has recreated these scenes out of paper, cardboard and styrofoam in combination with various printmaking techniques. Throughlarge copper plate etching and photographic imagery, Smith used computer-generated, photographic patterning to create seamless images as it is printed onto long rolls of paper, ergo creating his own unique paper upholstery. Further exploration during his fellowship included the transfer of photographic images onto copper by silkscreening directly onto the plate with a sugar lift solution. In addition Smith enhanced these images with other aquatint techniques.