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December’s Art Competition - Theme “Landscapes”

Light Space & Time – Online Art Gallery presents a Juried Competition, in which 2D artists from around the world are called upon to make online submissions for the theme “Landscapes” for inclusion into the January 2011 online group exhibition.

Light Space & Time encourages entries from all 2D artists regardless of where they reside and regardless of their experience or education in the art field.

A group exhibition of the top five finalists will be held online at the Light Space & Time Art Gallery during the month of January 2011. Awards will be for 1st, 2nd and 3rd places. In addition, 2 artists will recognized with Honorable Mention awards. Depending on the amount and the quality of the entries there may also be Special Recognition awards posted as well.  The theme for December is “Landscapes”.  The submission process for artists ends December 29, 2010.

All winners will be selected, announced and featured on the Light Space & Time website on January 1, 2011 and remain online in the gallery through January 31, 2011. Thereafter, the artworks will remain online in the Light Space & Time Archives with links to the artist’s websites.

Artists Apply Here: http://www.lightspacetime.com

By Light Space & Time Art Gallery on 2010 11 23

18 November – 23 December,  Opening 18 November, 6pm

Vin Ryan – Endless Days

With a new photographic series of dirty dishes used by himself and his family over period of three months, Vin Ryan presents us with a gritty rawness that defines his earlier work while stunning us with the versatility of his ever-evolving medium. Wiping the dishes of their evening meals clean, leaving nothing on his plates out of habit (he is one of nine children), Ryan takes us through the process and psychology of eating, making the remnants an art form. Ryan’s work has been described as an attempt at ‘charting his neighbourhood surrounds and airing some of our dirty laundry’ and in with this series he does so with a sensitivity and astuteness of a willing participant.

Endless Days continues this task from a fresh angle. As the artist says himself: “I’m sitting at the table one night after dinner, staring at the empty plate in front of me ... All that’s left is a thin film of pesto and a series of expressionistic scrapings left by my fork ... I was never one to leave food on my plate ... I’m fascinated by these simple gestures, these simple abstract impressions of modest, everyday gratification ... On one level they reveal almost nothing. They don’t necessarily tell you much about what any of us might have been thinking or feeling whilst eating these meals. They reveal almost nothing about the conversations that we might have had around the dinner table ... All that is left is aesthetic formalism – Abstraction if you like.”

About Vin Ryan

Ryan works in a variety of media including installation, photography, video and sculpture, and more recently has focused primarily on drawing, questioning and exploring the nature of the medium. He graduated with a Masters of Fine Art from the Victorian College of Art in 2002 and has participated in numerous group shows including The Mornington Peninsula and the Hazelhurst Regional Gallery’s Works on Paper prizes, I Walk the Line: New Australian Drawing at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney (2009), Flux Capacitor at Utopian Slumps (2008) and Someone Shows Something To Someone at Canberra Contemporary Art Space (2006). Recent solo shows include Tree Game at Monash Gallery of Art, Why Won’t You Talk To Me? at Platform and Re-Configured at the City Library, Melbourne. In September this year Ryan’s work was acquired by the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery for the Works on Paper Prize. His work is represented in the City of Melbourne collection as well as a number of private collections in Australia and New Zealand. He is represented by Anna Pappas Gallery.

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Michael Georgetti – Arena

Much like the Rubik’s cube he uses in his installations, the work of young and emerging artist Michael Georgetti requires us to pay attention to how forms and constructions interrelate simultaneously. By using constant motion of his kinetic installations and materials of questionable durability, such as hockey sticks distributing paint, melted birthday candles, chewing gum, straw dream-catchers and flimsy clothes racks, Georgetti encourages us to think about what we see as a plain image, a simple and innocent surface, and the feeling this same object would incite if it were a living object, complete with personality and feelings. Extending from the idea of play as well as mystic animism, his paintings and installations in Arena ‘celebrate the loss of trust that occurs when things fall apart’.

About Michael Georgetti

As well as drawing, painting and video, Michael Georgetti’s multi-disciplinary practice comprises kinetic sculpture and installation often made with every-day and somewhat absurd materials. Georgetti graduated from Masters of Fine Art Painting at RMIT in 2007 and has since held solo exhibitions at Spare Room RMIT, Rearview Gallery (Common Fiction, 2010), Kozminksy (Recent Paintings) and Blindside (Are We There Yet?). Georgetti has participated in group exhibitions including In Order Out at Anna Pappas Gallery, We Only Ever Meet On The Astral Plane at Michael Koro Gallery and Imaging The Apple, AC Institute, New York and his work is represented in a number of private collections in Australia. He is represented by Anna Pappas Gallery.

Anna Pappas Gallery
2 - 4 Carlton Street
Prahran VIC 3181
Australia

Opening Hours Tue – Fri 10am–6pm, Sat 12–6pm

Ph: 03 8598 9915
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Web: http://www.annapappasgallery.com

By Anna Pappas Gallery on 2010 11 17

El Gallo Chantecler, The Gestural Charms of Kamyl Bullaudy Rodríguez at Queen Gallery

November 3, 2010
Toronto
 
Queen Gallery proudly presents Kamyl Bullaudy Rodriguez’s rooster paintings from November 11-30, 2010. Everyone is invited to attend the opening reception on Saturday, November 13, 2010 from 3:30 to 6:30 pm. Kamyl’s expressive roosters are fun for everyone.
A master of contemporary Cuban art, Bullaudy’s range of production is impressive, including charcoal murals, collages, paintings that incorporate coloured pulp made in a blender from discarded paper and egg cartons, and the lively run of roosters soon to be exhibited at Queen Gallery. One need not even witness the artist at work to sense the marvellous energy with which these pieces are executed.
Please visit http://www.QueenGallery.ca for more information.

By Queen Gallery on 2010 11 05

Light Space & Time – Online Art Gallery presents a Juried Competition, in which 2D artists from around the world are called upon to make online submissions for the theme “Figurative” for their December 2010 online group exhibition.

Light Space & Time encourages entries from all 2D artists regardless of where they reside and regardless of their experience or education in the art field. A group exhibition of the top five finalists will be held online at the Light Space & Time Art Gallery during the month of December 2010. Awards will be for 1st, 2nd and 3rd places. In addition, 2 artists will recognized with Honorable Mention awards.

The theme for November is “Figurative”. The submission process for artists ends November 29, 2010. All winners will be selected, announced and placed on the Light Space & Time website on December 1, 2010 and remain online in the gallery through December 31, 2010. Thereafter, the artworks will remain online in the Light Space & Time Archives with links to the artist’s websites. 

Artists Apply Here:  http://www.lightspacetime.com

By Light Space & Time Art Gallery on 2010 10 22

Elementary Devices by Savvas Christodoulides

26 November – 31 December

“We took great pleasure in hoarding meaningless items that we might only need once in a lifetime.” Coincidence, by Melpo Axioti

Omikron Gallery proudly presents Savvas Christodoulides solo exhibition, titled Elementary Devices.

As integral components of the works of art, objects – small utilitarian and decorative items and larger pieces such as furniture and boxes – attempt, by becoming part of the artwork, to erase their primary function. The objects, having become components of the artwork, define and simultaneously demarcate, a new conceptual platform alongside the idea of gathering objects (récupération) and of a notion of formalistic re-invention. In Denis Diderot’s Aesthetics, the author refers to the art of gathering, coining it as “a virtue of collecting forces and materials.” He himself understands the paradox that is given existence from the “marriage” of assorted items as a crease in reality, and by extension as an expression of generosity and faith towards the objects themselves.

The works examine the possibility of delineating another expression or “pronunciation”, if you may, of the familiar outside the tangible limits of utilitarian parameters, in other words outside of that which we refer to as foyer. Something that is familiar is but a transparent and liberating overlook of perception upon the broad scope of the poetics of everyday. Essentially – in reference to the artworks, of course – this is a process of reviewing and reinterpreting the familiar. “Illuminate your objects according to your own sun, which is not the sun of nature,” as Denis Diderot very poetically writes in Random Thoughts. The French philosopher’s powerful urging underlines his perception that familiarity results from each individual’s innermost enlightenment.

Each work comprises an essential twisting of memory recall. One may refer to unorthodox ways of this memory recollection – trick – bearing in mind the formalistic parameters that govern the very recollections themselves. The works entitled Kaktokypos (Cactus Garden), Finikokypos (Palm Tree Garden), Mnimeio gia Xylokopo (Monument to Woodcutter), Gevma gia Dio (Meal for Two) and O Teleftaios Episkeptis (The Last Guest), collectively symbolise mnemonic compositions. These are positioned, or rather re-disposed, on the ground in interlocking positions [one inside the other] or layered [one on top of the other], so as to create memorial tricks, or better yet, micro-monuments.

Opening: Friday 26th November 2010 at 8.00pm. The exhibition will be on until 31 December 2010.

Omikron Gallery
2 Vasileos Pavlou Street
1096 Nicosia
Cyprus
Tel. +357 22678240

Opening Hours: Monday-Friday 10.00-13.00 and 16.00-20.00, Saturday 10.00-14.00

For additional information, please contact Maria Stathi (tel. +357 22678240).

By omikron gallery on 2010 10 19

13 October – 13 November, Opening 13 October, 6pm

Gallery 1
Matt Coyle – The Shades: New Drawings and Prints

Matt Coyle’s signature use of black pen on white paper has evolved over many years, allowing him to explore the possibilities of line and the dramatic effects of light and shadow. Imbuing his images with dense pictorial narratives of disturbing and macabre scenes, he brings out what is hidden, murky or indistinct within the shadows, making The Shades horrifying yet strangely absorbing. The settings for these dramatic moments come from Coyle’s own surrounds: his house, his garden, his neighbourhood and Tasmanian urban landscapes in which he lives. Coyle photographs these settings and draws from the photographs, while generating his narratives from the repository of horror film themes and, most importantly, his own dreams. His impeccable draughtsmanship gives these works a cinematic aura that is both aesthetically fascinating and intensely bewitching, while the faceless characters and unknown events that lurk here give rise to infinite unfolding possibilities of past, present and future dialogue between the work and the viewer. 

In his new exhibition, Coyle continues his pen and ink drawings in his familiar style reminiscent of film noir, graphic novels and the horror genre.

This exhibition includes prints of the first eight drawings of The Shades series commissioned by the Art and Australia art publication in 2009 as well as six new drawings.

About Matt Coyle

Matt Coyle is represented by Anna Pappas Gallery in Melbourne and Criterion Gallery in Hobart. Coyle studied painting at the Sydney School of Art and has held exhibitions at Damien Minton Gallery (Sydney), Criterion Gallery (Hobart) and Sanderson Contemporary Art Gallery (Auckland, New Zealand). He has exhibited at Chicago’s Next Art Fair in 2009 and at Hong Kong International Art Fair in 2008 with Anna Pappas Gallery. Most recently he has been selected as a finalist in the inaugural Paul Guest Drawing Prize at the Bendigo Art Gallery and was commissioned by Art and Australia magazine to produce a series of drawings, published in the magazine over four issues during 2009. He received a Screen Tasmania Grant in 2005 and an Arts Tasmania Grant in 2006. In 2007 Coyle’s graphic novel Worry Doll was published by MAM TOR publishing (UK). He was subsequently interviewed on ABC TV and his work was reviewed in the Telegraph (UK), the Sydney Morning Herald and the Weekend Australian. Coyle is represented in a number of collections including Queensland Art Gallery, Art and Australia collection and numerous private collections around Australia. He currently lives and works in Hobart.

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Gallery 2
Jayne Dyer – Talking In Tongues

In Talking In Tongues, Jayne Dyer posits the scenario of two people having a conversation. After the conversation each person recollects what was said and what was meant. Two people, two stories, common yet separate, simultaneously connected and disconnected. Dyer’s word-works forecast miscommunication in everyday, ordinary spoken and written language. Neon and LED words spell out possibilities – ‘softly screaming’, ‘and then’, ‘always ever’ – are undercut by an intimacy alluded to but never directly expressed.

Dyer’s practice has been an insistent fascination with the relationship between visual art and language. Found and made words, printed and imagined texts, constructed and borrowed messages formulate the core of Dyer’s opus. Her ambitious scale and concepts have resulted in installations where books spill from doorways, columns of books become architecture and identities of cities are mapped through individual stories. In this exhibition, for the first time, Dyer will be using neon signs as her preferred medium.

About Jayne Dyer

Jayne Dyer has held numerous exhibitions and partaken in various commissions and projects across Asia and Australia. She has exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally with the most recent solo shows including The Book Project: Spill Taiwan at the Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts in Taipei, Taiwan and The Book Project: Spill Korea at the Seoul International Print Photo Art Fair, Seoul, Korea. Dyer has been the recipient of various awards and grants, including artist residencies at the Kuandu Museum of Fine Art and Taipei National University of the Arts, Asialink and Australia Council Residency at the Taipei Artist Village, Taiwan, Australia Council for the Arts Established Artist New Work Grant and the Art Gallery of New South Wales Residency at the Moya Dyring Studio, Cite Internationale Des Arts, Paris among others. Regularly participating in curated exhibitions and projects in Asia and Australia, Dyer has also received commissions from various institutions including Crown Metropol Hotel (Melbourne) and the Sydney Writers Festival. In 2005 Dyer received Commonwealth of Australia Public Service Medal for Outstanding Service, Arts and Education. Her work is in various national and international corporate, public and private collections including Artbank, Melbourne University, Monash University and Macquarie Bank. Dyer currently lives and works in Beijing, China.

By Anna Pappas Gallery on 2010 10 13

CALL FOR ARTISTS: DEADLINE: 31 December 2010

The Art Interview - 23rd International Online Artist Competition is a quarterly, international, juried exhibition of paintings, drawings and sculptures in any medium. It is open to all living artists worldwide aged 16 and up. Participation in the Art Interview Biennale Exhibition and a total of € 17,000 in cash may be awarded each quarter to all winners. First place winners receive up to € 10,000 plus a featured interview in Art Interview Online Magazine. The competition is run completely over the Internet, which eliminates the need for you to send slides or arrange for physical transportation of your artworks. Gain international recognition for your artwork and be interviewed along with the world’s top artists, curators and gallery owners in Art Interview Online Magazine. Read more information on the competition and how to enter at http://www.art-interview.com.

By artinterview on 2010 10 04

YICCA 2010 – 2011 Young International Contest of Contemporary Art
A.p.s Moho Association is pleased to announce the official opening of the Yicca 2010 - 2011 contest.The selected by the jury artists will have the opportunity to exhibit their participating work
in Berlin, in “Factory-Art Gallery” in the period between 5 to 29 May 2011. They will be included in “Yicca 2010 - 2011” catalogue, as well, and finally the artists will
be invited to stay in Berlin on the opening day at the expense of A.p.s Moho Association.

By contest on 2010 09 30

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