Dumbo, Brooklyn, Artists’ Studio Tour May 15th
The second of our Spring series of artists’ studio tours on Sunday, May 15th!
We will be visiting the developing neighborhood of Dumbo, Brooklyn and visiting the studios of artists Andrea Loefke, Eric LoPresti, Marci MacGuffie, and Gary Petersen.
We will meet at 2 pm at Pub One at 5 Front Street (www.puboneny.com), near the corner of Old Fulton Street, in Dumbo and finish with post-tour drinks at long time local spot Pedro’s, (73 Jay St, between Water St & Front St), which will be featuring specials for our group, at around 5:15pm. Take the F train to York street or A/C to High street.
Tickets for the tour cost $75 and can be purchased from Brown Paper Tickets Buy tickets for InContext’s Dumbo, Artists’ Studio Tour here. Please inquire about our reduced rate for artists and for groups.
Andrea Loefke
Andrea Loefke is a German born artist with a Masters degree in art education from Leipzig, Germany and an MFA in sculpture from Ohio State University, Columbus. After moving to New York in 2003, she was awarded residencies at MacDowell Colony, NH, and Smack Mellon in Brooklyn, NY, and later at Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE, 2008. She has shown extensively at different venues in New York, as well as across the United States and Germany, including Michael Steinberg Gallery, NY, PH Gallery, NY, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY, Kasia Kay Art Projects, Chicago, the Sculpture Center, Cleveland, Ohio, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA and Galerie Schuster, Frankfurt, Germany. Her works have been reviewed in Artforum, Sculpture, Brooklyn Rail, and Frankfurter Allgemeine , and she was featured in Sculpture, May 2008. Loefke was commissioned to create a site-specific, permanent installation for the SØR Rusche Collection in Berlin, Germany. In March 2010 she received a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award. Currently Loefke is working as an adjunct professor in Sculpture at Pratt Institute and School of Visual Arts in New York.
Eric LoPresti
Eric LoPresti (b. 1971 Denver) grew up in the desert steppe of eastern Washington state, near the Hanford plutonium production site. A pursuant of both science and art, LoPresti holds a BA in Cognitive Science from the University of Rochester and an MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. LoPresti’s recent exhibitions include “Different Country” (Like the Spice Gallery, April 2011) and “Afterglow,” a multi-venue art exhibition and lecture series (Washington State University and Richland Public Library, 2010), “Fade” (Like the Spice Gallery, 2009), “Test Sites” (New York Public Library, 2008), and “New Thought New Work” (Miami University, 2006). A winner of the Faber Birren Foundation Award and the Miami Young Painters Award, his work has received mentions in, among other publications, The New York Times, Art in America, Artforum.com, NY Arts, ArtLog.com, The Seattle Times, and the Village Voice.
Marci MacGuffie
Marci MacGuffie was born in Chicago, IL. Her selected exhibitions include Singapore Science Center, Ars Electronica, iTokyo, Jason McCoy Gallery, Eighth Veil (LA), Goff and Rosenthal (Berlin), Weatherspoon Art Museum, among others. Her work has been reviewed in: NY Magazine, Time Out Singapore, Forbes Life, and New York Times. She studied at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2001), Rhode Island School of Design (MFA Painting 2000) and Cornell University 1995.
Gary Petersen
Gary Petersen is a native New Yorker. He holds a B.S. degree from Penn State University and an M.F.A. from The School of Visual Arts. He lives in Hoboken, NJ and was recently awarded a studio at The Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation in Brooklyn, New York. His work has been exhibited widely in New York City and throughout the United States. He has had solo exhibitions at Fusebox Gallery (D.C.), Genovese/ Sullivan(Boston) and at Michael Steinberg, NY. Past group shows have included Sue Scott Gallery, McKenzie Fine Art, Janet Kurnatowski, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Triple Candie, Plus/Ultra (Winkleman) Gallery, Nicole Klagsbrun, Frederieke Taylor, Diverse Works (TX), Newark Museum and The American Academy of Arts and Letters. His work has been reviewed in Art in America, The New York Sun, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, and The Partisan Review.
Buy tickets for InContext’s Dumbo, Artists’ Studio Tour here.
Gowanus Tour Photos
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Sunday, April 17th Gowanus Tour
Kicking off our Spring series of artists’ studio tours! We are very excited to be visiting the much talked-about neighborhood of Gowanus on Sunday, April 17th, with artists Kellyann Burns, Lisa Sigal, Rob Fischer and Stephanie Snider.
We will meet at Four and Twenty Blackbirds, 439 Third Ave., Brooklyn, at 2pm with post-tour drinks at the new local bar Halyards at around 5pm. See map here.
Tickets for the tour cost $75 and can be purchased from Brown Paper Tickets. Please inquire about our reduced rate for artists and for groups.
InContext Tours brings you into each artist’s studio, where they will talk about their work and why they make it. You will have the opportunity to see new art works being created and also finished pieces. This is an insider’s opportunity to get a better understanding of the creative process and the inspiration behind the work, with different artists working in diverse manner.
Kellyann Burns has been living and working in Brooklyn NY since she received her BFA from the University of the Arts(1990). She is in many public and private collections and has exhibited in the US and abroad. She has been reviewed in major newspapers and magazines such as The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer and M -Magazine. Kellyann has a permanent wall installation at the Mitchell Museum @ Cedarhurst in Illinois, and is apart of the North Dakota Museum of Art permanent abstract art collection. She has received fellowships from Blue Mountain Art Center, the MacDowell Colony, and The Virginia Center for Creative Arts.
Rob Fischer currently has a show at Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles. He has had solo exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria, New York; The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, Cohan and Leslie, New York; Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara; Franklin Art Works, Minneapolis; Max Wigram Gallery, London; and Art in General, New York. His work has been included in numerous exhibitions, including the 2004 Whitney Biennial; Trials and Terrors, The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Sculpture on Site, Walker Art Center; 100 Years of Sculpture, Walker Art Center; Greater New York, P.S.1, New York; Open House: Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum of Art; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Interval, Sculpture Center, Long Island City. He has received, among other honors, the Bush Foundation Visual Arts Fellowship, Minneapolis, a residency from Art in General, New York, and the Minnesota State Arts Board Visual Arts Fellowship. He will be participating in the Chinati Foundation residency program in Marfa, TX in 2011 as well as a commissioned project by Los Angeles Nomadic Division.
Lisa Sigal was born 1962 in Philadelphia. She has an upcoming project commissioned by The Drawing Center and Wave Hill, ” The Discipline of Geometry”(2011) and an upcoming solo exhibition at LAX art, LA (2012). Recent exhibitions include: “Make Room,” Atlanta Contemporary Art Center (2009), “Six Degrees,” The New Museum, The Whitney Biennial (2008), “Tent Paintings,” Frederieke Taylor Gallery, New York (2007), “The Orpheus Selection,” P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City (2007), “Make It Now,” Sculpture Center, Long Island City, (2005) “A House of Many Mansions,” The Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, Conneticut (2005).
Stephanie Snider lives and works in New York. She received her MFA from the Yale School of Art, and her BFA from Rhode Island School of Design. She is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship for 2009-2010. She was a MacDowell Colony Fellow in 2009. In 2000-2001, she was the recipient of the Berlin Prize/Philip Morris Emerging Artist Prize in cooperation with the American Academy in Berlin. Her work has been exhibited widely, including exhibitions at the Bronx Museum, NY, Danese Gallery, New York, Sassa Trülzsch Berlin, Schmidt & Handrup, Cologne, Germany, Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin and others. Snider has been reviewed in major newspapers such as The New York Times, The Berliner Morgenpost, and Der Tagesspiegel, and has also received reviews in such publications as Art in America and B Magazine (berlin). She currently teaches in the Penn State School of Visual Arts, and she has taught at RISD, Cornell, Princeton, Maryland Institute College of Art, Ohio University and Yale.
VOLTA NY tour photos
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Hyperallergic Reviews Volta Tour
We shared a preview of the VOLTA NY 2011 tour with writer and artist Stephen Truax. Read his review at the link HERE.
http://hyperallergic.com/19980/volta-art-fair-2011/
Stay Tuned…Photos of yesterday’s tour will be posted soon!
Tour of the VOLTA NY show – March 5, 2011
Please join InContext Tours as we take you through a tour of the VOLTA art fair on Saturday, March 5th, at 11:15am with an exciting selection of galleries’ booths from all over the world.
We will visit 4 booths and one special project created especially for the VOLTA fair. You will meet artists and gallerists, where they will share their thoughts about the work exhibited. This is an insider’s opportunity to get a better understanding of the creative process and the inspiration behind the work. The tour will begin with a greeting from Amanda Coulson, art critic and fair director, who will let you in to one of the most vital art fairs in the world.
The VOLTA fair is one of the only fairs that specializes in showcasing one artist per booth. This enables the galleries to highlight a specific artist’s body of work, akin to a full exhibition or studio visit and allows galleries to create booths that are more seamless and curated than those in other fairs. This tour will help give you more of an understanding of the oeuvre of each artist.
The tour is $50, which can be purchased at Brown Paper Tickets and includes free entry into the fair, discussions with select artists and gallerists, and the “do-it-yourself” catalog including the pages for the galleries we will visit. Pages for other galleries are available for free at their booths.
The tour will commence from the entry of the fair at 7 West 34 Street between 5th and 6th avenues on the 11th floor at 11:15am. (VIEW MAP http://ny.voltashow.com/Visitor-Information.2767.0.html)
InContext Tours will visit the following:
Nettie Horn Gallery, London, showcasing Sinta Werner. Born in 1977 in Germany, she lives and works in Berlin. Werner’s works stem from a wish to shift and manipulate our perceptions through meticulously planned constructions or transformations. Misleadingly playing with the limits of our perception of reality and its grey areas, she exploits the interaction between what we see and what we imagine. Through her in-situ installations and “3-D constructions”, Werner aims to create illusions of flatness in space as well as illogical and dematerialized stage-sets or scenes in order to deceive and confuse the viewer’s senses. She establishes a room as something eminently pictorial, and as an image against which both reality and illusion can be measured, creating a stage for the act of observation itself.
New York-based artists Shiri Mordechay and David Tully collaborate and find middle ground in a special project for VOLTA NY. Mordechay’s world belongs to the past, to ancestors, to things dead. A childhood in Africa. Seeing reality’s rawness; of dense emotions; of gravity, of spirits. Having and using a very real clairvoyant ability. Tully is from Ireland originally and makes site specific work.
Breenspace, Waterloo, Australia presents Joyce Hinterding, born 1958 in Melbourne (AU) and lives and works in Blue Mountains, Sydney, Australia. Entitled Field and Loops: Drawing series 6, these graphite drawings take the form of fractal antennas. When connected to a sound system they make audible the critical mass of signals and energy emitted from the local environment. Formally the drawings operate as meditative fields that depict and compress time and space within distorted sound-scapes. With a nod to Fluxus art of the 1960s, Hinterding explores the world we occupy across media such as sound art and experimental drawing.
Darren Foote, Born 1978 in Idaho, is presented by DODGEgallery. Each of Foote’s sculptures live in the space between memory and material. In 2010, Foote received a grant to return to his childhood home in rural Idaho where he encountered the wear of time, finding both recognition and metamorphosis in the materiality of place. Barbed wire, a broken fence, hoof prints, bird shit, barn slats, and weathered doors are vestiges from his past that inspire relationships between materials and form. Wood is prevalent and partnered with other deliberate materials, including hand cut glass and cast concrete. Foote’s process mirrors the workings of memory, starting with a specific time, place or object, and then slowly breaking down, combining, and reshaping. Deeply personal and universal, emotive and formal, Foote’s work is a poignantly visceral interlacing of the immaterial and the material.
Sue Scott Gallery, NY presents Elisabeth Subrin, born 1965 in Boston. Her work in film, video, photography and installation mines the elusive intersections of history and female subjectivity in an effort to excavate and deconstruct both dominant and minor narratives. Investigating the residual impact of recent social movements, the nature of evidence, and the poetics of psychological “disorder,” her projects rarely take the same form or conceptual approaches. Revisiting or reconstructing abandoned or marginal stories, Subrin has sought to engage history not as evidence of truth but as evocations of absence, erasure and imagination. Who and what merits historical preservation obsesses her, as the nature and naming of history— what constitutes a significant event or story and who determines it—has such critical consequences.
Photos from Long Island City Tour
Here are some photos of our tour in Long Island City on November 14, 2010. We enjoyed a nice art filled afternoon with a gathering at LIC bar post tour. For more photos of each studio visit, click HERE
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Long Island City Tour on November 14th
Jump aboard our final Artists’ Studio tour of 2010 in Long Island City on Sunday, November 14th.
We will take you into each artist’s studio, where they will talk about their work and why they make it. You will have the opportunity to see new art works being created and also finished pieces. This is an insider’s opportunity to get a better understanding of the creative process and the inspiration behind the work, with different artists working in diverse manners.
The tour will commence from Manhattan’s Grand Central Station – at the four-sided clock (round Information Booth) on the Main Concourse at 2:00pm (with the option to meet in Long Island City at 2:30pm 45 Road-Court House Square 7, G, E, M train stop). The Tour ends at 5pm with a drink reception at The LIC Bar 45-58 Vernon Blvd, Long Island City, NY 11101.
The tour fee is $75, which is payable by cash, check or with credit card on brown paper tickets.
Buy tickets for InContext’s LIC, Artists’ Studio Tour ( http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/136380 ). The tour is limited to 20 spaces, so please hurry and email to reserve a space. Group and Artist/Student discounts are available.
Sharon M. Louden graduated with a B.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA from Yale University, School of Art. Her work has been exhibited in numerous venues including the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, the Drawing Center, Carnegie Mellon University and Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art. Louden’s work is held in major public and private collections throughout the United States, Asia and Europe, including the Neuberger Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, National Gallery of Art, Arkansas Arts Center, Yale University Art Gallery, Weatherspoon Art Museum, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, among others. Upcoming exhibitions include a premiere of a new animation at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, and a solo exhibition at the Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis, MN in 2011.
John J. O’Connor was born in Westfield, MA in 1972, and received an MFA and MS in Art History from Pratt Institute. He attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and was a recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Grant in Painting, and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant. He currently teaches drawing and painting at Princeton University. In 2008, Mr. O’Connor had a solo exhibition at Pierogi Gallery in Brooklyn, and another at Martin Asbaek Projects, in Copenhagen, Denmark. Mr. O’Connor’s work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Southern Methodist University, and New Museum of Contemporary Art.
Julian Pozzi was born in Houston, Texas and lives and works in Queens. He received his BFA from the University of Texas at Austin and his MFA at CalArts. He has had solo exhibitions at Jeff Bailey Gallery in New York and at 1234 in Los Angeles. He has also been included in group shows at White Columns, NY, Atelier Cardenas Bellanger in Paris, and Mandrake in Los Angeles. His most was most recently shown this year in “Gold in Braddock” which was curated by Elise Adibi at Unsmoke Systems Artspace in Braddock, PA. His work is included in various private collections and in the collection of the Progressive Corporation.
Rachel Urkowitz received an MFA from Hunter College and a BA from Brown University. She has had solo shows at White Columns and Michael Steinberg Fine Art, New York and Galerie Michael Neff, Frankfurt, and participated in group shows at Salon 94, NY, Josee Bienvenue Gallery, NY, Bravin Lee Projects, NY, The Islip Art Museum, Islip, Catherine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, Foundation Ricard, Paris, Antony Wilkinson, London, and the Oldenburger Kunsteverein, Germany, among others. She was the recipient of an Art Production Fund/ Rockefeller Foundation Artists at Giverny Grant and Residency in 2001 and a Foreign Artist’s Studio Residency at La General in Paris in 2007.
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