Friday, 20 July 2012

SeBiArt News: Showtime Roster & Roll Call! :)

Thanks so much for the enthusiastic reception of my last news post guys!

So as promised here's the line up of current and upcoming shows/events in Kingston (Jamaica) and New York City. Bring friends and share the merriment!!

Not in either place? Then pass this along to those you know here and there!

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Please note - this blog post will be updated through the end of the year.

CURRENTLY SHOWING

SuperPlus Under 40 Artist of the Year Juried Exhibition

Curated by Artist Finalists:
Marvin Bartley, Leasho Johnson, Berette Macaulay, and Olivia McGilchrist

Mutual Gallery
Website: MutualGallery.com

2 Oxford Road

New Kingston, Jamaica 

Map

New Photo based mixed media Installation Project (currently in progress)

Opening November 1st, 2012 

Public VOTING  until Nov 18th

Winner Announcement Ceremony  Nov 19th 

Show Closes Nov 23rd

Gallery Hours:

Monday - Friday 10AM – 6PM 

Saturday 10:30AM – 3PM 

Sunday closed

Free Admission

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BOOK RELEASE News:

Remember that great photo exchange project I did last year, The Big Picture (MoP 2011) with Illiterate Media? 

[MoP - Month of Photography]

Reminder:  

Well the book just came out - The Big Picture 2011 (available in print from blurb and in the 
App Store for iPads).  It has an engaging layout documenting the worldwide
 wheat pasting photo exchange created by Mark Sink + Illiterate Media Gallery, and shows SeBiArt and Studio 174's 
student involvement in Jamaica.  Check it out and share!  

Order Book HERE - See pages 37, 40,41, and 74 for my work and the work with Studio 174 in Jamaica! :)

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Recent Events Passed

“Occupy!” Exhibition on Governor’s Island

Presented by the International Center of Photography (ICP)

Website: icp.org

The exhibition, titled “Occupy!” features photographs taken of or inspired by the movement, which began in New York on September 17, 2011.

"To mark the one-year anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, arguably the most inclusive and effective protest movement of the past decade, the International Center of Photography will stage a six-week exhibition of photographs on Governor’s Island. ..."

FIVE SeBiArt images from Occupy!Denver are on view in this show.

Governor’s Galleries, Governor's Island

Opening August 18, 2012
Closing September 30th, 2012

FREE Admission!

“You cannot evict an idea whose time has come.” ---Occupy Wall Street Media Team

Art Beast blurb on Daily Beast

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Annual Juried Photography Exhibition

Jurors: Elisabeth Biondi & Martine Fourgeron

Curated by CCNY

The Camera Club of New York (Founded 1884)
Website: cameraclubny.org
The Arts Building
336 West 37th Street, Suite 206
Nearest Trains: A,E,C,1,2,3 to 34th St Penn Station
B,D,F,V,N,R to 34th St Herald Square

Map

OPEN: August 16th - Sept 8th, 2012

Closing Reception Friday Sept 7th

Gallery Hours:

Monday - Friday 11AM - 6PM

Free Admission

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National Visual Arts Exhibition

National Gallery of Jamaica

Curated by NGJ

National Gallery of Jamaica

Website: NatGalJA.org

12 Ocean Blvd, Block C

Entrance on Orange Street

Kingston, Jamaica

Map

Opening - July 8th

Closing - EXTENDED til Aug 25th, 2012

Gallery Hours:

Tues - Thurs 10AM - 4:30PM

Friday 10AM - 4PM

Saturday 10AM - 3PM

Sun/Mon Closed

Free Admission

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Art From the Heart

Curated by Jennifer Kahrs

The Vanderbilt Republic GOWANUS Loft
Website: VanderbiltRepublic.com

61 9th Street

#C8

Brooklyn, NY

Nearest Trains: F, G

Map

Saturday July 28th, 2012

6 - 12pm

Get Tickets HERE

AFTH2012 @ Gowanus Loft from The Vanderbilt Republic on Vimeo.

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Charity Event for Lovers of Life, Art, and Food

Spur Tree Restaurant
Website:SpurTreeLounge.com

76 Orchard Street

Bet Broome & Grand

New York, NY

Nearest Trains: F, D

Map

Tuesday July 24th, 20102

6:30 - 9:30pm

Suggested Donation: $25

Appearances:
Music by Crimson Heart Replica

Comedy Sketch - Lori Sommer (Comedian/Founder of Fine, Funny, & Female)

Spoken Word Poetry - LOVE POETRYSMOTION
plus Spur Tree DJs

SeBiArt News: from the Bat Cave :) (July 2012)

Appeals for the life of a friend (June 2012)

BIG PICTURE Fun on the Rock (March 2011)

Sunday, 15 July 2012

SeBiArt News: from the Bat Cave :)

Bursting at the seams so straight to it!

1)

A few weeks ago I was one of 4 artists* accepted by jury into the Annual Mutual Gallery 
SuperPlus Under 40 Artist of the Year competition in Kingston, Jamaica.  

I'm working in an entirely new image making process for a project titled:

ReKON: differenzierte Möglichkeit (trans. Reconstruction: Differentiated Possibility).
It is most arduous, frightening, and fullfilling process on a daily basis - and I'm quite certain the finish will be an unexpected aesthetic to us all. Such intensity requires I be quiet and staunchly disciplined to get through it...hence "Bat Cave".

here's a sneaky peek from the inside:

2)

Three images I shot earlier this year in downtown Kingston (Trench Town, Tivoli, and the Waterfront) were accepted for the annual JCDC/National Gallery of Jamaica competition.  I received the bronze prize for Waterfront Divers on Kingston's Edge this past Sunday.  Yayyyyyy!  This work will be up through August at the National Gallery of Jamaica - if you're on the island check us all out.

3)

In the last couple of weeks I was informed that my portrait work series Neue Rootz was selected as 2nd place winner in CCNY's 2012 National Annual Juried Photography Competition!!  I can hardly believe what I am typing - I'm still soaked in shock.   The jurors were Elisabeth Biondi - who over the last 20 years worked at The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Stern, and APERTURE as the Visuals Editor, Director of Photography, and contributor respectively, and in other distinguished roles in publishing and academia. And the other juror, Martine Fougeron - is an accomplished fine art and editorial photographer/contributor to the New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, and New York Magazine.  I'm completely elated to have them view my work - let alone select me for 2nd place. 
                             
Quote from the email notice:  

"We are happy to say the jurors, after many hours of carefully considering each entry, felt that your submission was particularly strong, and that you have been chosen as the second-place winner of this year’s competition. Congratulations on behalf of the entire CCNY board and staff!"

 OMG!!!

The winning spots are 1st, 2nd, and tie for 3rd place plus 12 honorable mentions.  Congrats to all the artists, who I'm sure are as excited as I am.  

See official announcement on the CCNY website.

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4)

I submitted work to the Vanderbilt Republic (whom I showed with last year at 25CPW Gallery) and made it through the curatorial and voting phases - yayyy - so I will show with them again this month in AFTH 2012 (Art From The Heart)show at their new Gowanus Loft Location in Brooklyn, New York.  

These folks are the most playful and sweetest group of seriously solid quality artists around - because the founder of VR, George del Barrio sets the energy that way.  Light light light! 

http://vanderbiltrepublic.com/

5)
Last but so not least - I just got back from Costa Rica. I went down to breathe sweet life into a new multidisciplinary project collaboration with local friend actor/artist Olger Ignacio Gonzalez and NYC friend/dancer/teacher/choreographer Roger C. Jeffrey.  It's a baby of a project now, but this was such a beautiful and INTENSE creative trip that it will have its own post later in the year after further development.  But for now - think dance/film/photography/social-art project.  Yummy-liciousness. 

Roger snappin' lights of inspiration - hahaha :)

Lft to Rt: Roger, Margarette, me, Olger. As you see we got to hang with my mama too!  

Roger and Olger: Plaza de la Democracia

More photos + show dates and gallery locations coming up in another post soon.

This year keeps slapping me and hugging me at the same time people! Happy Summer to you all - hope to see you at a couple shows - and live-life-live-life-live-life and lift someone in a hug too while you're at it!

*Other 3 artist in Mutual Gallery show in November:

Olivia McGilchrist, Leasho Johnson, and Marvin Bartley

RELATED POSTS:

Next SeBiArt Show - New York City/Central Park West (Nov 2011)
SeBiArt News: Running on Joy (July 2011)

SeBiArt Getting Award for LIQUID (July 2010)

Tuesday, 10 July 2012

How to Think...if we're still interested....

It's official - I'm cheating on my boyfriend Albert Einstein with Chris Hedges - hahahaha

It all started with the brilliant, direct, and accessible argument against fundamentalism in I Don't Believe In Atheists, 2008.  Now I own 3 more of his books and follow his writings on Truthdig.  We have few of these minds left people - I highly recommend taking in some of his jottings. 

Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize winning author with 20 years under his belt as a war correspondent for the New York Times,  Christian Science Monitor, and NPR (National Public Radio). This life experience is paired with an MA from the Harvard Divinity School - which I imagine broadens his analytical discourse exponentially.  He dissects all aspects of societies and troubles therein - pulling references from the humanities, science, and a profound facility for assertive reasoning. He minces nothing, spares nothing, and gives it straight - which is not only refreshing but so necessary for those of us who dare listen.  

Reality is more illusion than ever before where we willingly live entrenched in bullshit (aka overdose of mind-numbing distraction and impractical 'positive thinking') to the point of harmful asininity  which seems more now to paralyze our ability to think critically, to speak and act honestly, and to listen to our instincts.  All points he appeals in near desperation.  

I love this man's mind.  Lofty be his brilliance, but his rhetoric is more firmly footed than most of our intellectuals today. 

Here is his latest post on the survival and endurance of culture through and because of The Arts:  How to Think on Truthdig 

RELATED JOURNEY POSTS:

Why "i•ma•gine | e•volve" (April 2012)

Perceptions and People (February 2012)

My Lifetime Crush on a Quirky Scientist (January 2012)

The e-Con Highway (November 2010)

Saturday, 7 July 2012

Social Web Divisions???

I just love the endlessness of social studies on social website behaviours here in the US and around the world.  

Though I started my own work observations on this back in 2010 - I imagine that this work will continue on.  I try to read up on any new findings about how our online actions either mimic or override real life social mores and norms.

The BBC recently posted this on their site:  

Is the social web divided by race?

It's an interesting short read and video on how the different races appear to be statistically clustering to certain social sites on the internet. Twitter, Pinterest, and Tumblr are featured - making Facebook glaringly absent... Hmmm....

Check it out!

Next SeBiArt Show in Miami + first time Art Basel Visit (Nov 2011)

kWotes and Haikus

How do I know what I think until I see what I write.
~Unknown

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
James Baldwin

For an idea that does not at first seem insane; there is no hope.

Einstein

no one ever really criticizes those who live out their dreams. but some will curse the courage it displays that they have yet to adopt. share not only your dreams but your daring to realize them. go forth and inspire. build together.

~Scoop
i•ma•gine | e•volve

People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.

~James Baldwin~

The irony of commitment is that it's deeply liberating -- in work, in play, in love. The act frees you from the tyranny of your internal critic, from the fear that likes to dress itself up and parade around as rational hesitation. To commit is to remove your head as the barrier to your life.'

~ Anne Morriss

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

~Albert Einstein

When you stay awake, you see the sun. Anywhere you are, you have to make it your paradise.

~Joseph Buchanan

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

~Albert Einstein

Tomorrow will bring different questions and answers. OWN NOW.

~Scoop

A government which robs Peter to
pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. 

~ George Bernard Shaw

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.

~Martin Luther King, Jr.~

Live with your toes digging into the earth, with your eyes open wide, and your heart warm. This way you won't miss a thing little one. :)

~Scoop

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

~Daniel J. Boorstin

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

~Steve Jobs

Art is a microscope which the artist fixes on the secrets of his soul, and shows to people these secrets which are common to all.

~Leo Tolstoy

I'd rather be busy than bored;
I'd rather burn out than rust out.

~Johnny Mandolin

We are all we are all the time.

~Karin Wilson of YardEdge.net

Whatever you ardently desire,
Sincerely believe in,
Vividly imagine, and
Enthusiastically act upon,
Must inevitably come to pass.

- Sybil Leek, Diary of a Witch

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning
of the people by the people for the people.

~Oscar Wilde

For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.

Ivan Panin

Remember to play after every storm.

~Mattie Stepanek~

The most original thing you've ever come across is actually yourself.

~Saul Williams~

Why fight it?
Be seduced by your purpose.

~Scoop~

The light at the end of the tunnel
is not an illusion. The tunnel is.

~unknown~

Fear is just another word for ignorance
...
Freedom is something that dies unless it's used

~Hunter S. Thompson~

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

~Marcel Proust~

Unexpected beauty in life shatters our monument to suffering.

~Scoop 2001~

Once you label me, you negate me.

~Kierkegard~

The worst realities of our age are manufactured realities. It is therefore our task, as creative participants in the universe, to re dream our world. The fact of possessing imagination means that everything can be re dreamed. Each reality can have it.

~Ben Okri~

Cautionary actions to prevent future pain or loss may also function as obstacles to any happiness you could have presently.

~Berette Macaulay~

Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.

~unknown~

We shall not cease from exploration, but at the end of all of our exploring will be to return to the place from which we originated and to know it for the first time.

~T.S. Elliot~

Isn't it funny how the word 'politics' is made up of the words 'poli' meaning 'many' in Latin, and 'tics' as in 'bloodsucking creatures’?

~Anonymous~

"You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he, "it makes you quite invaluable as a companion."

~Sir Arthur Conan Doyle~

Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.

~Ben Okri~

[I am] not so interested in the length of the road so much as the width.

~A. Regsmith~

Losers fold; winners take hits.

Forget the odds; draw, raise, bluff, call, stand.

~unknown~

Great ideas are no different from useless thoughts until they are put to use.

~Kynan Cooke, 1994~

In life you don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.

~anonymous~

It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before, to test your limits, to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

~Anais Nin~

Choosing to live in narrow spaces leads to a form of mental agoraphobia, and that brings its own terrors. …the willfully unimaginative see more monsters, they are often more afraid.

~JK Rowling~

Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people.

~Marcus Garvey~

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

~Elbert Hubbard~

a simple guide:
no NOW...no JOY...no LIFE.

~Robert Holden~

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.

~Bertrand Russell~

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.

~John Lennon~

Being proactive instead of reactive always lessens the pressures of adversity.

~Kevin C. Robinson~

There are times, however, and this is one of them, when even being right feels wrong. What do you say, for instance, about a generation that has been taught that rain is poison and sex is death? If making love might be fatal and if a cool spring breeze on any summer afternoon can turn a crystal blue lake into a puddle of black poison right in front of your eyes, there is not much left except TV and relentless masturbation. It's a strange world. Some people get rich and others eat shit and die.

~Hunter S. Thompson, 1988~

The minute you try to prove yourself is the moment you've lost the point. 'Doing it' moves you forward, 'proving it' takes you back.

~Berette Macaulay~

I want death to find me planting my cabbages.

~Michel de Montaigne~

I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they go by.

~Douglas Adams~

In my sex fantasy, nobody ever loves me for my mind.

~Norah Ephron~

Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.

~Shakti Gawain~

Can you get over
Something you truly enjoy
And if indeed, why?

~Mystic Urchin~

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

~William Shakespeare, "Hamlet"~

There are indeed a thousand ways of acquiring an opinion that have nothing to do with rational thinking.

~R.J. Hollingdale~

There is need to sway
Naked Rhythm summons blues
Wind and Whispers dance.

~Mystic Urchin~

Chill out somewhere for a minute. Things get clearer when you get quiet.

~Scoop~

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

~Charles Peguy~

We are so accustomed
to disguising ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.

~Francois de La Rochefoucauld~

A man is not an orange. You can't eat the fruit and throw the peel away.

~Arthur Miller~

There is no truth; everything is permitted.

~William S. Burroughs~

Nothing is true or false but thinking makes it so. You believe you have appeased the thunder and lightening and the ground that grows your grain; you believe it, you have.
~Shakespeare~

Knowing how to see is much more important than what kind of camera or lights you have.

~ David Harry Stuart~

Every work comes into being in the same way as the cosmos – by means of catastrophes…

~Wassily Kandinsky~

Every man takes
The limits of his
Own field of vision
For the limits of the world.

~Arthure Schopenhauer~ 1788-1860, Studies in Pessimism

Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.

~Dorothea Lange~

Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind.

Catherine Drinker Bowen

Nature Will Hold You
Live within Integrity
Sweet Dew Forever

~Ku by Scoop~

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
~Hunter S. Thompson~

I refuse to lose my mind to the sadness locked in the illusion of my finitude.

~Chuma and Fiswe~

fear of mediocrity creates it by narrowing your vision of yourself. get as far away from fear as you can by daring your ass to face it everyday.

~Berette Macaulay~

Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, martini in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming -WOO HOO what a ride! ~JAH – E~

Kill the arrogance. It will never serve you in the long run - as ultimately it acts as an inhibitor.

~Berette Macaulay~

Desire is a magnificent nomadic energy.

~Scoop, inspired by Nietzche~

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

~Lou Holtz~

There’s no great genius without some touch of madness.

~Seneca~

Live for the truth or lie
What are the consequences?
RECIPROCITY

~Ku by Scoop~

The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

~Hunter S. Thompson~

Water marks the way,
We wander thru wet slipways,
Happy to be damp.

~ Ku by Steve Wilson, nee Mystic Urchin ~

“You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.”

MIND THE GAP

The delights of self-discovery are always available.

-Gail Sheehy

"Watch Your Thoughts, They Become Your Words,Watch Your Words, They Become Your Actions, Watch Your Actions, They Become Your Habits, Watch Your Habits, They Become Your Character, Watch Your Character For It Becomes Your Destiny"

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.

-Dorothea Lange-

“Fear is temporary. Regret lasts a lifetime.”

“Caution is the death of Creativity”

Let your deeds themselves praise you, for here I leave them
in all their glory, lacking words to extol them.

~Cervantes, Don Quixote de la Mancha~

Friday, 20 July 2012

SeBiArt News: Showtime Roster & Roll Call! :)

Sunday, 15 July 2012

SeBiArt News: from the Bat Cave :)

Tuesday, 10 July 2012

How to Think...if we're still interested....

Saturday, 7 July 2012

Social Web Divisions???

Is the social web divided by race?

It's an interesting short read and video on how the different races appear to be statistically clustering to certain social sites on the internet. Twitter, Pinterest, and Tumblr are featured - making Facebook glaringly absent... Hmmm....

Check it out!

RELATED JOURNEY POSTS:

Next SeBiArt Show in Miami + first time Art Basel Visit (Nov 2011)

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Lft to Rt: Roger, Margarette, me, Olger. As you see we got to hang with my mama too!