BEYOND A MEMORABLE FANCY: PRINT, PERCEPTION, AND THE ARTIST'S INTERVENTION
Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, Project Space, New York, NY, October 30 - December 13, 2008
Curated by Michelle Levy http://efa1.org/gallery/beyond-a-memorable-fancy/

EFA Project Space presents Beyond A Memorable Fancy, an exhibition about print, perception, and artistic intervention. Focusing on the transformative aspects of printmaking, Beyond a Memorable Fancy explores the current trend of artists experimenting with print techniques in order to appropriate and manipulate information—be it from text or image sources, cultural symbols, or nature.

The art in the exhibition spans a range of unconventional formats, including experimental film, laser stencil graffiti, vinyl signage, cast shadows, and boat-making paraphernalia. Even the more common print techniques present are used to achieve an unexpected result.

Artists: Glen Baldridge, Robert Buck, Benjamin Cohen, Nayda Collazo-Llorens, Ian Cooper, Jenelle Covino, Alex Dodge, Rachel Foullon, David Gatten, Dylan Gauthier, Graffiti Research Lab, Lynne Harlow, Adam Helms, Wennie Huang, Matthew Day Jackson, Heidi Neilson, Evan Roth, Jennifer Schmidt, Peter Simensky, Mary Temple, and Stephan von Muehlen.

EFA Project Space, 323 W 39th Street, 2nd Fl, 212-563-5855, projectspace@efa1.org

PULSAR: "ABSTRACT WORLD" @ Museo Alejandro Otero + Complejo Cultural La Rinconada, CARACAS, VENEZUELA, OCT 8-15, 2006
Curated by Nathalie Henon and Jean-François Rettig / Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin
PULSAR Website , Program

CINEMA-SCOPE: "TOMMORROW WAS THE DAY BEFORE" @ THE SCOPE-LONDON ART FAIR, OCTOBER 21-24, 2005
Curated by Lee Wells (IFAC) < http://www.leewells.org/scopelondon/cinemascope-pr.htm >

"Tomorrow Was the Day Before" shows how contemporary artists are responding to the turbulent beginning of a new era. These timely artists show a strangely prophetic view of our ever-shrinking world, juxtaposing mundane, everyday existence
with a direct political commentary of contemporary life.
 
Curated Artists: Bani Abidi (Pakistan), Hackworth Ashley (US), Janet Biggs (US), Olga Chernysheva (Russia), Calin Dan (Romania), Raul Vincent Enriquez (US), Victor Escobar (Columbia), Davey Force (US), Tim Hailey (US), Dorrie Halliday (UK), Petra Lindholm (Sweden), Van Mc Elwee (US), Mac McKean (US), Motomichi Nakamura (Japan), Ned and Shiva Productions (US), Marisa S. Olson (US), Robert Petrick (US), Jean Poole (Australia), Zev Robinson (UK), Marco Roso (US), Amparo Sard (Spain), Annie Schap (US), Jennifer Schmidt (US), Stefanie Schneider (Germany), Raphaele Shirley (US), Nico Smith (US), Gaynor Sweeney (UK), Michael Szpakowski (UK), Lenara Verle (Brazil), Ana De Vicente (Costa Rica), Alison Ward (US), Marten Winters (Netherlands), Scott Wolniak (US)  

Curatorial Advisors: Rebecca Canon (Australia), Agricola de Cologne (DE), Rodney Dickson (US), Timo Mank (Netherlands), Ed Marszewski (US), Trong Nquyen (US), Christiane Paul (US), Laure Prouvost (UK), Juan Puentes (US), Miroslaw Rogala (US), M.J. Salema (Portugal), Melissa Schubeck (US)

Participating Galleries and Project Spaces: Galerie Caprice Horn (Berlin), Conner Contemporary (Washington DC), JJ Heckenhauer (Berlin), OHG Gallery (Berlin), IFAC (Brooklyn), Joymore (Brooklyn), Light Contemporary (London), Mirza|Raza (Fontainebleau), Red Dot Gallery (Miami), Galerie Parisud (Cachan), Galerie Trabant (Kitzbuel), White Box (NY) 

REVIEW OF VIDEO:SERIES 2005 @ GOLIATH VISUAL ARTS, BROOKLYN, NY
by Caroline Shepard, NY Press, Goliath 777

Goliath777 July 30-August 07, Sat. & Sun., 12-6 The Greenpoint artist collective, Goliath777, is currently hosting a video series curated by artists Madeleine Gallagher and Bettina Johae. This gathering of over 64 artists presents a meticulous and awesome look at contemporary video art. In putting out an open call, Gallagher and Johae wanted to show the degree to which video art transcends traditional genres; moreover, when grouped according to similarity of themes, the work is better able to define its own relevancy. Through austerely filmed observations, Mauricio Alejo slyly plays with our expectation of perception, while Jennifer Schmidt creates a hypnotic self-portrait out of the patterns that emerge from Scan-tron dots compiled from self-administered tests. Lydia Grey’s odd take on S&M relationships is a metaphor expressed through the image of two people taking turns slapping each other’s dead fish. Penny Lane creates a pseudo-documentary centered around a Lynchian letter exchange that speaks about the pitfalls of cinematic formula, and Sarah Hanssen’s look at the effect of marriage and divorce on identity is both clumsy and extraordinary. All 64 of these works are of merit. Only about half of the contributors have graduate degrees, and many hail from places other than the U.S.

This series proves that video has more democratic potential than other mediums; in so doing, it offers up a telling look at who we are—culturally and politically (though more abstractly)—today. That is, if you can make it through the whole seven hours. Goliath777, 117 Dobbin St. (betw. Meserole & Norman Aves), Bklyn, 718-389-0369; Sat. & Sun., 12-6, Free--- Caroline Shepard

DRAIN JOURNAL FOR CONTEMPORARY ART AND CULTURE
Featured Artist, Issue "Lost in Translation", http://www.drainmag.com

LETS GET TESTED: CURATED BY ASTRIA SUPARAK@ VIDEO POOL, WINNIPEG, CANADA
Poolside 2004, Program Notes and Review > Download PDF

AIM V: SYZYGY (THE HUMAN REMIX)- UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA'S FESTIVAL FOR TIME-BASED MEDIA
Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA, March 6- June 6, 2004 AIM

OCD @ THE MILLS GALLERY, BOSTON CENTER FOR THE ARTS, BOSTON, MA
March 19- May 7, 2004 Exhibition Website

LETS GET TESTED: CURATED BY ASTRIA SUPARAK < http://www.astriasuparak.com >
50th Anniversary of the Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Germany

With lovely things by Alex Villar, Jeff Chapman, Jennifer Schmidt, Jon Sasaki, Jim Munroe, Sandy Plotnikoff, Gabriel Fowler, Paper Rad, Jon Rubin, JoEllen Martinson and William Scott Rees, Patrick Martinez, Miranda July, Kon Petrochuk, Mike Olenick

Canadian and American videos, film and audio join (their nonexistent) hands and head over to your neck of the hood. Taking education, biology, architecture and history as starting points, these artists craft their own novel amusements. Hot on the Pursuit of the Trivial, their taste turns gamey, playful, and chummy. The coolest nerds hack up a 1980s iconic revelry/reverie; an American Midwesterner romanticizes 1970s German political terrorists; a Canadian snubs murder commands to peacefully stroll through Grand Theft Auto 3; a videomaker refashions his memory into a sweet and disturbing mélange of literature, pop songs, film and news reports- all trying to make the grade while honoring arbitrary rules. Sometimes spontaneous, sometimes laboriously schemed, sporting low-res Flash animation then slipping into silky digital video, this set of eclectic work reckons that life should be savored, wonder is a calculated state of mind, and love will survive... Program Notes > Download Press PDF

COLUMBUS ALIVE: "Astria Suparak: Let's Get Tested"< http://www.columbusalive.com/2004/20041103/110304/11030409.html >
by Melissa Starker, November 3, 2004 

Having traveled from Napoli, Italy to Normal, Illinois, independent film, video and audio curator Astria Suparak brings her well-chosen traveling program of experimental shorts by North American artists to Columbus College of Art and Design next week.

Included in the 14 featured pieces are an audio installation segment by Miranda July, and Jennifer Schmidt's Scan-Tron, which turns the worksheet from a standardized test into a shifting abstract field of circles and dots.

Gabriel Fowler creates a tightly edited explosion of explosions from Warner Bros. cartoons in Hit on the Head with 1000 Anvils. And in My Trip to Liberty City, Jim Munroe reconsiders the streetscape in Grand Theft Auto III as a nice place to vacation ("I never feel that getting in a car is the best way to see a city," he says in voiceover). Two locally based video artists are also represented: CCAD professor Kon Petrochuck, who builds on big ideas through simple images in Anabolite See, and the Wexner Center's Mike Olenick, who creates a goulash of strange settings, past tragedies, song lyrics and other pop culture snippets in the slightly humorous, surprisingly disconcerting short Son of Samsonite.

THE PHILADELPHIA WEEKLY: "The A-List"< http://philadelphiaweekly.com/view.php?id=7157 >
by J.G., April 21-27, 2004  

On 20th and Christian is one of Philly's best-kept secrets: the St. Charles Rollerskating Rink. Housed across the street from St. Charles Church, the rink is open every Friday and Saturday night, and for a nominal fee you can rent a pair of skates and ride the rink all night.

This Friday St. Charles hosts Let's get tested, a new program of short films curated by N.Y.C. filmmaker Astria Suparak. Suparak, who's made a name for herself on cross-country film tours, brings shorts from Jeff Chapman, Jennifer Schmidt, Alex Villar, Miranda July and several others. Originally curated for the 50th anniversary of Germany's Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, 'Let's get tested,' says Suparak, 'reckons that life should be savored, wonder is a calculated state of mind, and love will survive.' And after the screening, the rollerskating action begins."