Nocturnes VI: The Lost and Found @ The Projects of FAT Village

The Projects @ FAT VIllage

Opening Receptions: Sat, Oct 29, 6- 10pm

Day of the Dead Special Viewing: Nov 2nd, 8 – 10pm

2nd Receptions: Nov 26, 6-10 pm

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The Nocturnes series is an annual theme, where each October, FATVillage curators Leah Brown and Peter Symons bring together a group exhibition of contemporary artists in themes touching on the supernatural. Previous themes have included “Hyperstition”, in which artists explored notions of reality of the intangible, “Monstrous Strange”, in which the artists created renditions of the monsters they struggle with, from the personal to the societal and political, and most recently, “The Second Life of Trees”, where the exhibition was imagined as artworks made from the wood of an enchanted forest that had been cut down, resulting in a new kind of forest of powerful and strange, wooden sculptural installations. Now in their sixth year presenting the Nocturnes series, Brown and Symons are returning to one of the enduring original inspirations of traditional autumnal mythologies: Ofrendas. Ofrendas are the Dia de los Muertos tradition of creating temporary altars to honor departed loved ones.   

For Nocturnes VI: The Lost and Found, the artworks do not resemble traditional Ofrendas, but rather push their concepts and media to include performance, video, site specificity and interactivity.

Artists: 

Martin Casuso

Tricia Cooke

Giannina Dwin

Shannon Ellis

John English

Georgeta Fondos

Bonney Goldstein

Donna Haynes

Allison Kotzig

Tina La Porta

Anna Meier

The Glittering Macabre

Julia Oldham

Lisa Rockford

Tyler K. Smith

Chad Stayrook

and Karla Walter

Review of the Exhibition Program at the FAU Jupiter Library

This library has been hosting contemporary art exhibitions since 2005. It is easy to forget how many great artists we have worked with over the years. We decided to post a list by year, of everyone we have worked with. We would like to thank them for sharing their art and vision with us, and making the program successful.

Denise Moody-Tackley

Appendix I: Curatorial Inventory of the Exhibition Program at the John D. MacArthur Campus Library (at Florida Atlantic University).

2005-2006

Rosemarie Chiarlone

Katie Deits

Terryl Lawrence

Wendy DesChene

Ray Russotto

2006-2007

Sibel Kocabasi

Christopher Fay

Mathew Hyner

Denise Moody Tackley

2007-2008

Kyle Trowbridge

Nancy Nieves

Giannina Coppiano Dwin

Martin Casuso

Karen Chinander Dye

Patricia Roshaven

Jonathan Stein

John Sevigny

2008-2009

Billie Grace Lynn

Optic Nerve (MOCA North Miami)

Melissa McDowell

Luis Garcia Nerey

Jacklyn Brickman

Alejandro Leibovich (Aleloop)

Kelley McKee

Jacek Gancarz 

BA Bosaiya

Bill Keaggy

Tom Virgin

Wendy Allen

2009-2010

Brandon Boyd of Incubus: permanent exhibit

Karen Williams

Robert Farber

Jennifer Palmer

Mari Richards

Dante K Hayes

Jennifer Van Winkle

Mary Farmilant 

Cathy Breslaw

Tom Whitton

Jackie Kern

2010-2011

Jonathan Stein

Birds are Nice 

Derek Weisberg

Brian Reedy

Tom Virgin

Leah Brown

Adrienne Rose Gionta

Noah Z. Jones: permanent exhibition

Birds are Nice 

Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.

Jackie Kern
Z. Koppisch
Karen Leader

2011-2012

Kevin McDermott

Edward Gorey

Cheryll Tall

Peter Symons

Kristen Murtaugh

John McCoy and Amelia Costa

Chiura Obata

Karla Walter and Dennis Tishkowsky

Patricia Gutierrez

Josafat Miranda

Juan Carlos Zaldivar

Donatella Linari

2012-2013

Karla Walter

Dennis Tishkowsky

Peter Symons

Kristen Murtaugh

Patricia Guttierez

John McCoy

Amelia Costa

Films4peace

Peter Bui

Birds are Nice

TD Gillispie

Suzanne Duffy

Jackie Tufford

2013-2014

Anna Girgis

Maxine Spector

Scherer Ouporov

Mathew Falvey

Cara McKinley

Stephen Backhus

Rick Newton

2014-2015

Rolando Chang Barrero
Sarah Wetterer

2015-2016

T J Ahearn

Birds are Nice 

Francie Bishop Good 

Leah Brown

Giannina Copiana Dwin

Dana Donaty 

Raheleh Filsoofi

AdrienneRose Gionta

Carol Jazzar          

Jacqueline Kern

Sibel Kocabasi

Tina La Porta

Alette Simons-Jimenez

Appendix II (two) Exhibition Catalogs

(Available for purchase/preview on Blurb.com; listed on Worldcat; housed in the permanent collection of Florida Atlantic University Libraries; available through Interlibrary loan)

1.      Playing with food: Giannina Coppiano Dwin 2008

2.      The Self and the Other: Luis Garcia Nerey 2009

3.      Place to Place: Robert Farber 2010

4.      GingerBlack Man: Race and identity in the work of Donte K Hayes 2010

5.      Exploring Gender with Jonathan Stein 2010

6.      You were almost extinct too: Derek Weisberg 2010

7.      Shifting Nature: the artwork of Juan Carlos Zaldivar  2011

8.      Rick Newton: The Next Attempt for Life on Earth, 2013

9.      Rolando Chang Barrero: Mi Pajaro, 2014

10.  Artistically Speaking: Women’s Roles in Contemporary Art. 2015

Local exhibitions this week in Palm Beach County

Call to Install
Cultural Council of Palm Beach
601 Lake Ave
Lake Worth, FL 
RSVP here

Exhibition runs through July 30





















All Florida Exhibition
The Box Gallery
811 Belvedere Rd
West Palm Beach, FL

Read about the three day event opening here
Exhibition Dates June 3-26, 2016

http://palmbeachfineartgallery.blogspot.com/2016/05/congratulations-to-artists-of-all.html

Photos from the Peace Cylinder Event

The Peace Cylinder Project with Raheleh Filsoofi and Linda Behar

The Peace Cylinder is a project that brings together two important stories from antiquity that have great relevance today – the Declaration of King Cyrus of Persia and the Book of Esther from the Bible. The Cyrus Cylinder is a clay cylinder that was discovered in the ancient city of Babylon in Mesopotamia, and it dates to the sixth century B.C. On it is a text in Akkadian cuneiform script issued by the King of Persia, which is regarded as the first declaration of human rights for the way in which it promotes religious tolerance and freedom. The Book of Esther is a section of The Hebrew Bible that relates the story of a Jewish girl named Esther, who became the queen of Persia and used her position to intercede with the king in order to prevent a genocidal plan against her people. The Biblical text teaches that individuals should act with the knowledge of God’s love according to the situations in which they find themselves and with respect for God’s sovereignty in all circumstances.

In this project, a ceramic replica of the cylinder with the original declaration engraved on the surface and a wooden roller covered by a polymer plate that holds the last chapter of the Book of Esther in Hebrew are used in performance to create prints on clay and paper. The ritual rolling of each device underscores the importance of the message that each text bears, and the similarity of each act of printing reflects the common themes and the universal significance that each text tells in its own way. At the end of the performance the clay and paper prints are given as gifts to members of the audience.

At all times peace is a fragile idea, but especially now as the potential for conflict between Israel and Iran intensifies. The artists, Linda Behar, a Jewish immigrant, and Raheleh T. Filsoofi, an Iranian immigrant, intend to bring diverse communities together for conversation and to send a message of tolerance and acceptance throughout the world.

You can see the artist's video of the performance here:
http://www.rahelehfilsoofi.com/#!the-peace-cylinder/k3xgy 

We had a great turnout of community and student participants. Here are some of the photos from the event. Thanks to both artists for their hard work and great project. Both are MFA graduates from the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Florida Atlantic University.

Artist spotlight-Allison Kotzig

Allison Kotzig is an international conceptual, installation, mixed-media and video artist. Her challenging and often amusing 3-d pieces highlight misogynistic undercurrents in culture. Her video work addresses the dreamy interface between reality and trance and our individual connection to Infinity and the Universe. She is involved with the nomadic Public Art projects NestGen and Giants in the City, which brings monumental inflatable sculpture to cities around the world. As well, she is a co-founder of the collective Artists for Black Lives Matter. She currently splits her time between Miami and a small village in the foothills of the Slovak Carpathian Mountains, where she helps to run an Inn and organic slow food restaurant dedicated to local produce, ethical practices and DIY products

Link to artist page here

Photo by Leo di Tomaso for Irreversible Magazine

Follow this link for an in depth feature article of Allison in Art Habens Contemporary Art Review

Much more to discover here: Simons Gallery info here and Miami NewTimes Article  and Masterminds

Local exhibition

Artist spotlight: Karla Walter

Local artist, Karla Walter focuses on animal messengers. Taken from her artist statement; "As an artist, it is important to recognize a message and seize that moment. Crows are messengers, omens for change. Several personal encounters with crows have compelled me to express my personal creativity through this messenger. This body of work explores the similarities between the social interactions among crows and that of humans. To know the crow is to know ourselves. This is the journey I have taken with this body of work".

You can read her full statement and see many more works of art by going to her website here.

Karla is also the gallery coordinator for the Eissey Art Gallery at Palm Beach State College. Here are some of her sculptures. (Copyright Karla Walter)

AdrienneRose Gionta

The above article is via Colleen M. Dougher

http://artmurmurartguide.wordpress.com/

PRESS RELEASE

‘A Style for Every Story: sur-vey 1,’ an Exhibition collection of donated jeans at FAU’s Jupiter Campus Library

The free exhibition runs through Friday, August 12 at FAU’s John D. MacArthur Campus Library Gallery, 5353 Parkside Drive, Jupiter. For more information on the exhibition, go towww.library.fau.edu/npb/npb.htm or call 561-799-8530.

The exhibition of 77 pairs of jeans, five pairs of jean shorts and a jean jacket is a collaboration between the general public and AdrienneRose Gionta, an interdisciplinary artist and curator. The exhibition includes a five-minute video about body image and the psychology of jeans video titled “Do These Make Me Look Fat?” and an installation of her jeans titled “4XL.” Jeans contributed and used in the exhibition will be donated to a good cause after it closes. Gionta, an FAU alumna, also is an assistant director a the University Galleries at FAU. The library’s hours are Sundays from 12:30 to 9 p.m.; Monday through Thursday from 8:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Fridays from 8:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Saturdays from noon to 6 p.m.