artLIFE at heavybubble

Welcome to artlife where we post a curated selection of events, exhibitions, workshops, and doings by heavybubble and artists that use our services. Check out the  artist opportunities and events that catch our eye.

artist opportunity
Call for Entries: Art for the Urban Collector

[An exhibit of local artists work]
December 2010

Highwire Gallery is pleased to invite all area artists to submit up to
3 works for this show.

Works should be no more than 30” in any direction. A 20% commission to the gallery will apply
to all works sold.

All techniques are welcomed, including video and performance.

Hand Deliver Work
to Highwire Gallery.
Friday November 26
from 12-4 pm
Saturday November 27
from 12-5 pm
Sunday November 28
from 12-5 pm

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exhibitions
A.K. Burns & Katherine Hubbard The Brown Bear: Neither Particular, Nor General

Check out this participatory, performance installation. An investigation of appearance and self.

In the artists words:
Leading with the question, what does it look like?, describing it is pivotal to formulating a response. It is The Brown Bear, a queer experience, the experience of ʻpacking vagʼ, of being hirsute. For us, it is personal. This kind of personal is political, and this salon provides a space for the political to be public.

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artist opportunity
Position Open : Is art education your thing?

The Asian Arts Initiative has an opening. Click here to see the full position description. Education Program Director / Asian Arts Initiative POSITION OVERVIEW The Education Program Director will be supervised by the Executive Director and will be responsible for the overall administration, coordination, and supervision of the Youth Arts Workshop Program at all three sites. The Education Program Director will supervise the Education Program Associate, Teaching Staff and Consultants hired for the program.

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newsy
Seen and Liked : Miriam Singer – Built Up

There's a lovely show of drawings nestled into the back room at l.g. tripp gallery on second street in Old City. We wandered in last week and found these gems of urban mapping.

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video
Lines which do not exist, Gerhard Richter at the Drawing Center

Interview with Gerhard Richter From ArtPatrolTV

We wanted to share this show with you. We love these drawings and you still have time to see them. The show runs through November 18th.

MAIN GALLERY
Gerhard Richter
Lines which do not exist
September 11 – November 18, 2010

from the Darwing Center Site:

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video
Scenic Jogging at the Guggenheim : YouTube Play

Scenic Jogging is being showcased in YouTube Play: A Creative Video Biennial, a special exhibit at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, which will also be seen at the Guggenheim museums in Bilbao, Berlin, and Venice.

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video
Words, 2010 : YouTube Play

We're posting some of the vids from YouTube Play Biennial, developed by YouTube and the Guggenheim in collaboration with HP and Intel. This was one of the finalists selected by the jury from more than 23,000 that were submitted. Yes, every video was viewed. The videos were presented at the Guggenheim Museums in New York, Bilbao, Berlin, and Venice on October 22–24, 2010.

Words, 2010
Everynone (Will Hoffman, Daniel Mercadante, and Julius Metoyer III)

bio:

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artist opportunity
Call for Entries : 85th Annual International Competition: Printmaking

Deadline
December 15, 2010

Jurors
Emi Eu, Director, Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore
Sarah Suzuki, The Sue and Eugene Mercy, Jr., Assistant Curator of Prints and Illustrated Books, Museum of Modern Art, New York

for complete information go here >

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video
Will Barnet, American painter: 99 years old paints everyday.

Today there was a piece in The New York Times about American artist Will Barnet. He is truly one of America’s finest. He continues to make art each day dispite his inability to stand. His age advances as his work does. Enjoy this interview from artbabble.

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artist opportunity
The Knight Arts Challenge – Philadelphia, $9 million initiative

It’s your turn to inspire Philadelphia’s growing local arts scene.

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exhibitions
Caroline Furr : Floating World reviewed in Philadelphia Inquirer

Heavybubble is thrilled that Caroline Furr's show Floating World at 110 CHURCH has been reviewed by Edith Newhall at the Philadelphia Inquirer.

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Afloat

by Edith Newhall, Philadelphia Inquirer

110 CHURCH | gallery >
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exhibitions
Found But No Less Valued, Grigonis and Kurtz at the Knapp Gallery
exhibition
Friday, November 5, 2010
Sunday, November 28, 2010

New work by Marjorie Grigonis and Katherine Kurtz at The Knapp Gallery.

Marjorie Grigonis presents her new mixed media work on found mylar, discarded by an architectural firm. The original drawings were varied and abstract, informing the finished pieces. She has allowed much of the underlying work remain.

Katherine Kurtz shows new paintings which continue an exploration of the process. Layers of paint applied, scratched, and manipulated with scratching tools.

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