This composition is one of the new pieces in my "Further Abstration" exhibition to be shown at Heritage Hall during the Mid-Main ART FAIR. The fair is free and will be on Sunday June 9th, from 11am to 6pm, at 3102 Main Street (at 15th Avenue), Vancouver BC. The admission is free so you and your friends are invited.
It’s art residency season. Working in classrooms adds another layer to my artist practice: ideas spark when I share my ideas, techniques and suggestions. Curious minds ask provocative questions. Busy hands show me how my own practice transforms in a shared creative process. Ideas go places I never would have imagined. Exhibition and celebration brings new ideas to move forward.There’s always much to show for these joyful moments in the classroom, and I long for studio time so I can go forward with new ideas and new work.
The Sketchbook Project 2013 opens this Friday at the Brooklyn Art Library, beginning a seven city North American tour. Both artist books included in this tour reach deep into family history. My Brooklyn Childhood — a memoir is a compilation of my father’s memoirs and memory drawings. It brings together work that my father talked about but never achieved: illustrating the many stories he told. His memory drawings open a new understanding of his Brooklyn boyhood, and the Brooklyn Art Library is a fitting location for this first edition. On the Road Again — a family event photo log documents a five day roadtrip back to Bellville for a memorial service and affirmation of a new generation of elders. My drawings and photographs investigate permanence in the context of time and the river that seems to move forward and stand still. Selected images from both of these sketchbooks can be viewed on my Sketchbook Project Artwork page.
http://www.sketchbookproject.com/users/queenofmidnight/artwork
Touring Brooklyn, Austin, Atlanta, Toronto, Chicago, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles. More tour details
http://www.sketchbookproject.com/projects/sketchbookproject/tour/15
In Camera: the working dancer on show at the Mezzanine Gallery/Queen Elizabeth Theatre closes Saturday, 16 February but continues in print and on-line. Sassamatt Images has produced both print and iBook editions of an exhibition catalogue of paintings by Alison Keenan and photography by Phyllis Schwartz that portray moments of concentration, exploration, and collaboration observed in Ballet BC choreographic workshops during the 2011-2012 season. Both are available from Blurb. Preview and purchase information
http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/3953062#author-bookshelf
Check out my new work at two openings on Friday, 25 January. One of my New York street shots is in Bikes Inside, a group exhibition at Hot Art Wet City. Five of my abstracts are showing in Abstract Expressionism, a group exhibition at Photohaus Gallery.
Ninth Avenue Cyclist II is part of a series inspired by Diane Evans and Kristina Kreber; it is a photograph created across the street from B and H Photos in New York (Ninth Avenue and 34th Street). Current work showing in Abstract Expressionism is from a new series of work that continues my lumen printing experimentation; these hybrid prints made from handmade negatives on 4 x 5 sheet film that are digitized.
More exhibition and opening night details below.
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And, if you are at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre before 18 February 2013, check out In Camera: the working dancer, an exhibition of my photographs and Alison Keenan’s paintings, a body of work made in cooperation with Ballet BC. It is showing in the Mezzanine Gallery and my ceramic sculptures on the top floor. Let me know what you think.
Tuesday’s deadline for posting my two Brooklyn Art Library sketchbook projects has been using a lot of midnight oil. Soon they will arrive in Williamsburg where they will be scanned, put up on line and eventually go on tour as the weather becomes warmer. Both sketchooks reach deep into family history. On the Road Again — a family event photo log documents a five day roadtrip back to Bellville for a memorial service and affirmation of a new generation of elders. My drawings and photographs investigate permanence in the context of time and the river that seems to move forward and stand still. My Brooklyn Childhood — a memoir is a compilation of my father’s memoirs and memory drawings. It brings together work that my father talked about but never achieved: illustrating the many stories he told. His memory drawings open a new understanding of his Brooklyn boyhood, and the Brooklyn Art Library is a fitting location for this first edition. Selected images from both of these sketchbooks can be viewed on my Sketchbook Project Artwork page.
http://www.sketchbookproject.com/users/queenofmidnight/artwork
Announcing the publication of the print edition of In Camera: the working dancer. Sassamatt Images has produced an exhibition catalogue of paintings by Alison Keenan and photography by Phyllis Schwartz portraying moments of concentration, exploration, and collaboration observed in Ballet BC choreographic workshops during the 2011-2012 season. Now available from Blurb (with an iBook edition scheduled for 01 February 2013). Preview and purchase information
http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/3953062#author-bookshelf
Winter: a season to dream about what will take flight this spring. Keep warm.
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Learn more about Sassamatt Images http://about.me/phyllisSchwartz
And, if you are at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre before 18 February 2013, check out my photographs showing in the Mezzanine Gallery and my sculptures on the top floor. Let me know what you think.
In Camera: the working dancer, a collaborative exibition of painting, photography and sculpture by Alison Keenan and myself, opens Thursday, 22 November at the Mezzanine Gallery in the Queen Elizabeth Theatre. The exhibition run thruough 18 February 2013, and if you attend an event at the QE, the work is showing on the Mezzanine and the upper floor for your enjoymnet. This exhibition is the result of the season Alison Keenan and I spent documenting five Ballet BC chorographic workshops during 2011-2012. Our work is a response to our observations of working dancers confronting their own artistic boundaries. We are so appreciative of Artistic Director, Emily Molnar, and Ballet BC dancers and collaborators, Connie Sabo, exhibition coordinator for Emily Carr University Alumni Society and Stamatis Charalambidis at Bill’s Glass. Further information about our work can be found on our respective websites. http://sassamatt.com/sass/motion/index.html http://pscreates.com http://about.me/alisonkeenan
What Remains, a selection of Salton Sea lumen prints and digital photographs are on show in In the Earth, in the Sky, which Wednesday evening and runs until 04 November. More specifically, this exhibition shows the work of ten international artists dealing with the theme of death.
My work is a direct confrontation of death forces in the Salton Sea Region on the California-Mexican border where much of the North American produce is grown at great expense to the environment. While some efforts are in motion to reclaim areas of the Salton Sea and residents are expected to clean debris from the beaches, the salt sea continues to dehydrate causing the salinity level to rise which in turn challenges the Tilapia and other marine life to adapt or die. In the surrounding regions, residents have no choice but to purchase water that has been desalinated. My lumen prints record the traces and shadows of this dying seashore.
This exhibition is is presented by Äkkigalleria, a nomadic art gallery located in temporarily vacant storefronts in Jyväskylä, Finland. “Äkkigalleria was founded by visual artist Anna Ruth and graphic designer/photographer Juho Jäppinen, in 2009, out of the necessity to mobilize the visual arts in spur of the moment happenings. [They] strive to promote creative risk taking, to find new and imaginative ways of sharing art with the public and to bring art to different public spheres by recycling existing spaces.” https://www.facebook.com/pages/Äkkigalleria/144130014608?fref=ts
Salton Sea Beach Debris and Dessicated Tilapia (lumen print, 2011)
