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Hi everyone, just wondering who is coming Fri-I think i can get there around 6:30ish. Are we still planning dinner after?
How do you all feel about your work now that it has “living” in the space for awhile? Do you revisit things in the studio? Move on? I often find that after a “short existence” say less than a year or 2, the critic comes out and i can dislike or hate the work. However, sometimes seeing something after a long period can return it to favor. Weird. Of course there are no absolutes, but i have noticed this pattern and was wondering how others feel about past projects.

Asha-where is the exhibit with the vaccuum art? and did Noelle end up publishing the interviews she had posted?

eileen

 

TRUE CHARACTER: Photographic Works by Laos Fois

@ the Lex Leonard Gallery – 143 Christopher Columbus (1 block west of the Grove St PATH) Jersey City, NJ

CLOSING PARTY, FRIDAY MARCH 23 from 7-9pm!!!

***all are welcome – bring a snak, some sweeet or your fav bottle o booze to share – enjoy with good company!***

Laos Fois’ recent photography describes the verse of kin and context. Laos’ work brings to light connections within our changing urban environment and the nature of familiar faces. Shots are taken dead on, subjects seen at face value. No fancy angles or manipulative perspective, just honesty. Laos’ work includes images of Jersey City – its current condition and its personality. What we see are the lines and cracks where things bend, fold and break, marks of frequent use and impressions made. His works are a testimony to true character.

Curated by Jasmine Graf

For more info:

http://www.laosfois.com/index-8.html
http://www.lexleonardgallery.com/index.htm

Hey, here are Noelle’s questions. Reply here.
Manipulating the body; the body manipulated.
This exhibition manipulates the body and its most intimate environments. In what ways does your work manipulate the viewer? In what ways is your work a manipulation of sight and touch? How do you manipulate the material to rework our understanding of history and contemporary culture? How do you create a conversation around the manipulation of women’s bodies?
Bonus Question:
How does a “shared dialogue” and collective art process effect what you create? How does it manipulate the idea of the ‘individual” art creativity? How did the process speak to or not of the theory of a “collective unconscious”?

(sorry for putting this on everyone’s category, thought it would be able to get your attention for this magazine entry so you may offer your input and responses too! RESPOND HERE, NOELLE WILL CHECK THE BLOG)
Dear Asha:
Thanks, so much for speaking with me at REDSAW about the Mother of God project and also about Shame!
I have the question (s) I would like to pose to the group. The theme of the first newsletter/magazine entry is I Am Home.
If you could post to the blog that would be great.
I need responses back by Friday afternoon at 3:00.
Please feel free to answer at any length or brevity words, drawings, poetry also welcome J.
Thanks, great work!
Noelle
www.rebornhome.com
Manipulating the body; the body manipulated.
This exhibition manipulates the body and its most intimate environments. In what ways does your work manipulate the viewer? In what ways is your work a manipulation of sight and touch? How do you manipulate the material to rework our understanding of history and contemporary culture? How do you create a conversation around the manipulation of women’s bodies?
Bonus Question:
How does a “shared dialogue” and collective art process effect what you create? How does it manipulate the idea of the ‘individual” art creativity? How did the process speak to or not of the theory of a “collective unconscious”?


Virginal Apparition

Spare the rod, spoil the child

The Bee Book

for more images check out: MOG on flickr

this is interesting

http://www.nyfa.org/level3.asp?id=541&fid=6&sid=17

Mother of God
Are gods and goddesses immune to the ravages of time or are they an intensified reflection of our own fears and frailties? For example, do we perceive Mary as an ageless, timeless virginal young mother who never ages, always chaste and pure, or a mother who must endure the persecution and death of her son endlessly throughout time? and as mother of god take on the world’s cycle of suffering and death?

The piece I have created for the Mother of God exhibit began as a printed book project. The story is a playful look at our obsession with beauty, youth and mortality-the ultimate anti aging product with powers that enable it to rejuvenate the dead. My piece for this exhibit is a cyclical story of death and resurrection that takes place in my version of ancient Egypt. In this story Anubis (usually a god but in this tale a goddess) prepares the miraculous formula that will restore the mummy queen’s beauty. The formula is made with honey, The other side of the book is a rebus puzzle for the viewer to “read”. I like to explore play in my work, and was happy to find that Egyptians also incorporated rebus puzzles on some of their tombs and statues. I have been exploring the world of bees in my work for a while, and this has been one of the inspirations for the work in this residency. The Queen bee takes on a godlike role of mother and creator for the hive-she lays all of the eggs. Worker bees feed the larvae in the hive; eggs that will become the next queen are fed royal jelly for their entire incubation, other larvae are fed royal jelly a few days and then switched to honey and pollen. Honey is a natural preservative, and the Egyptians used honey in the mummification process.

Participating in the Mother of God residency has been a wonderful opportunity to share the artistic process with a group of women artists, exchange ideas about feminism and art.
Over the course of the 6 weeks my book project grew to include a larger set of monotype prints. The small accordion books are printed using both linoleum block printing and silkscreen.

If you have not already sent me your materials please do so very soon!!

Again I need:
**blurb for the handout (in 3rd person)
**a pic for the handout (square no bigger than 300 x 300 pixels is fine)–i will crop to a square if you don’t.
**price of your piece
**information for the wall labels

**artist statement — i will review these and keep them on file. I will then ask that you print two of these and bring them for the binder
**other materials for the binder : resume, previous work images, postcards etc (please bring in duplicate as we will be compiling TWO binders)

ok see many of you this sunday…please remember to forward that press release and e-mail blast invitations to the opening (i will be sending this out very soon–with directions!)

Doris

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