Sunday, November 14th, 12-7PM

BETA Spaces (Bushwick Exhibition Triangle of Alternative Spaces) is a free one-day festival conceptualized and thematic group exhibitions. The festival focuses on curatorial experimentation and collaboration. There will be over 50 shows, including the work of over 250 individual artists, in spaces ranging from galleries to studios to apartments to mobile trucks to Smartphone apps!

My work Brooklyn: An Art Community, Bushwick will be featured in the show “Home Sweet?” curated by Nalani L Williams / NLW Arts.

• Space Name: Better Than Jam Handmade Co-op
• Address: 1095 Flushing Ave, Brooklyn, NY (at Porter Ave)

Brooklyn: An Art Community, Bushwick

Home Sweet? questions the romantic idea of the home by digging through the surface to reveal what lies beneath. This exhibition examines the concept of “Home” in several ways: Home as the hidden relationship one has with their personal space, Home as body with flesh and organs, Home as a psychological space, and the symbolism of the body as architecture.

Beta_Spaces_2010

Sponsored by NYCEDC and Full Spectrum from October 21-31, 2010, CURATE NYC will exhibit 5×6″ postcard reproductions of images by 150 artists selected from almost 1200 entries at three shows:

Recent Articles in the Huffington Post and NY Real Estate Lawyers Blog

Double Shift

Rush Arts Gallery & Resource Center

Exhibition Hours: Thursdays-Saturdays, 12:00-6:00 p.m.
Opening: Thursday, October 21, 5:30-9:00 p.m.

526 West 26th Street
[Between 10th & 11th Avenues, in Chelsea]
New York, NY 10001-5521

C/E train to 23rd Street

A program of Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation.

Essex Street Market

Exhibition Hours: Thursdays-Saturdays, 12:00-6:00 p.m

120 Essex Street
[at Delancey Street, on the Lower East Side]
New York, NY 10002

J & Z trains to Essex Street
F & M trains to Delancey Street

An NYCEDC-managed property.

Curate NYC Pop-Up Wall
Traveling on weekends between two locations:

La Marqueta Open Plaza

Saturdays, October 23 & 30
Exhibition Hours: 12:00-6:00 p.m.*

1607 Park Avenue
[between E. 115th & 116th Streets, in East Harlem]
New York, NY 10029

6 train to 116th Street
5 train to 125th Street

An NYCEDC-managed property.

St. George Yankees Minor League Stadium

Sundays, October 24 & 31
Exhibition Hours: 12:00-6:00 p.m.*

75 Richmond Terrace
Staten Island, NY 10314

Short walk from Staten Island Ferry Terminal.

An NYCEDC-managed property.

Friends of the Barnes Foundation is a citizens’ group dedicated to educating the public about the unique legacy and mission of the Barnes Foundation, and to supporting efforts to maintain the permanent collection and the educational programs in their original home.

The Friends believe that the proposed relocation of the Foundation would do irreparable harm, and that its present financial difficulties can be solved, its integrity preserved, and the public interest served, by available alternatives.

To find workable solutions, Friends of the Barnes Foundation members did extensive research, met with local public officials, neighbors of the Foundation, educators, and museum consultants. This resulted in a proposal for positive change at the Barnes Foundation that recommends increased access to visitors and increased revenues to support a secure financial base for the institution.

Artists for the Barnes: Christina Massey

Christina Massey has generously donated several works to the Friends of the Barnes for our legal campaign. Hailing from Brooklyn she exhibits widely in New York and Chicago. Re-using her own past work to create new pieces, she cuts, tears and recycles them into new works, which may again be reused into other work.

She has chosen to donate the series titled BUSINESS AND PLEASURE as it seems to fit with the situation the Barnes finds itself torn by.

Business & Pleasure 4

“Business & Pleasure 4″ – 20″ W x 20″ H – 2010 – Acrylic and Oil on Canvas with Collared Shirt – $1800

Business & Pleasure 7

“Business & Pleasure 7″ – 38″ W x 38″ H – 2010 – Acrylic and Oil on Canvas with Collared Shirt and Khakis – $4400

Please visit the site for more details

Email:  barnesfriends@comcast.net
Write: Post Office Box 35
Merion Station, PA  19066

As a part of the exhibit Globe Shaped at The St. Louis Artists’ Guild, I will have a work in the group exhibition Shifts in Perspective: Migrating Viewpoints.

Brooklyn: An Art Community, Prospect Heights

June 25 – Aug. 20, 2010
Opening Reception from 6-8 p.m., June 25, 2010

The Artists Guild, Two Oak Knoll Park, St. Louis, MO 63105 / 314-727-6266 / http://www.stlouisartistsguild.org/new/

Open Tues. – Sun., Noon – 4 p.m. / Closed Mondays & Holidays
Free and open to the public.
The exhibition series Globe Shaped brings five exhibitions together that explore the definition of diversity and how varying perspectives impact our decisions both as artists and people. The exhibit runs from June 25 through August 20, 2010 with an opening reception from 6-8 p.m. on Friday, June 25, 2010.

Shifts in Perspective: Migrating Viewpoints
A collaboration between Belas Artes founder Cileia Miranda Yuen, Shifts in Perspective: Migrating Viewpoints highlights the impact and effects that migration from one culture, or area, to another has had on one’s sense of identity, perception and emotion. Whether one’s movement is voluntary or involuntary, the experience is emotional and ultimately life-changing. The 15 artists selected by juror Cileia Miranda Yuen are international, national, regional and local and include Henryk Ptasiewicz of England, Marena Sierra of Columbia, Gabriela Toujas of Argentina, Grace Hong of St. Louis, Mo., Anne Wedler of Alabama, Monique Belitz of New Mexico and Christina Massey of New York.

Meat Market 2010

Exhibition Dates: May 28th, 2010 – July 31st, 2010

TALLER BORICUA / PUERTO RICAN WORKSHOP at The Julia De Burgos Latino Cultural Center
1680 Lexington Ave (Between 104th & 105th Streets), New York, NY.  212-831-4333

Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday 12PM – 6PM, Thursday 1PM- 7PM SUNDAY AND MONDAY closed

Admission: FREE

CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

Michael Paul Britto: THE COST OF FORGETTING
J Carpenter: LIVE WIRES
Jessica Lagunas: TRACING MEMORIES
Christina Massey: MEAT MARKET

As part of our anniversary celebration, the Taller Boricua presents the third and last in our series of multiple, solo exhibitions by artists who share facets of our mission: art and aesthetics, community, art activism as well as music and performance.

In her installation “Meat Market,” Christina Massey deconstructs and repurposes previous series of her own paintings, literally “butchering” them by cutting and tearing them apart and then rebuilding the pieces into three-dimensional flesh-like forms. Resembling animal carcasses and hung from chains and meat hooks, her pieces reflect the objectification and commoditization of art by both the viewer and the art market wherein commercial value competes with aesthetic experience. Her work also references these effects on artists’ work and their own desire and potential to be “marketable,” where the gallery world can at times project the superficial value judgments of singles bars, also referred to as “meat markets” in popular culture. Massey further explores the concepts of both ownership and authorship as her past works are the medium for future ones, rejecting a linear progression and classification of the traditional definition of a body of work as well as the finality of the finished object of art. “Meat Market” is in constant flux, suspended between painting and sculpture, abstraction and representation as well as the literal and conceptual.