SPACES, one of the nation’s oldest alternative art spaces, is accepting applications for its 2009/10 exhibition season. The Cleveland-based contemporary, alternative art gallery is seeking visual artists in all media, including video, installation, traditional media, web art, as well as proposals for curated exhibitions. All themes are welcome. All selected artists and curators are paid honoraria. Check back in March 2009 for updates the submission process..
The gallery is also accepting proposals for SPACELab, which focuses on smaller, experimental, and timely exhibitions or installations. Applications are accepted year-round and are reviewed biannually.
The application is available online. For more information on how to apply, please visit www.SPACESgallery.org.
If you know any artists, please feel free to tell them about this great opportunity!!!
About me:
("A Thousand Rainbows" Peter Philip Luckner, 2008 Painting and Film)
SPACES presents twelve artists who are in on a secret about the Rust Belt: It is a vibrant place for creative thinkers to work and live. Northeast Ohio offers rare opportunities for exposure; allows artists to play a direct role in the economic vitality of the community; and is an inexpensive alternative to major metropolises outside of Ohio.
SPACES recognizes the talents of artists in our backyard, side yard, front yard, and driveway in Flash Forward, an exhibition featuring Northeast Ohio college graduates who jump creative fences in the contemporary art scene while continuing to live and work in the region. The exhibition opens with a free public reception on January 30 from 6–9 p.m. and will be on view through April 3, 2009. Admission to the gallery during hours of operation is free and open to the public.
Artists include Jon Nathaniel Cotterman (Cleveland Institute of Art ‘07), Dragana Crnjak (Myers School of Art, University of Akron ’02), Yumiko Goto (Cleveland Institute of Art ’04), Ann Hanrahan (Kent State University ‘07), Mike Jones (Myers School of Art, University of Akron ’04), Jaime Kennedy (The Ohio State University ’06) & Kelly Urquhart (Miami University ’07), Amy Kreiger (Youngstown State University ’06), Peter Philip Luckner (University of Akron ’04), Lorri Ott (Kent State University ’04), Glenn Ratusnik (Kent State University ’03), and Jennifer Schulman (Kent State University ’06).
Flash Forward includes a full-color catalog featuring an essay by guest writer Kevin Concannon, Associate Professor of Art History at Myers School of Art, The University of Akron, Akron, Ohio. Funding for the catalog is provided by the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation.
Also on view:
("Fashion Victim", Leonardo Marz in collaboration with Bobabo, stuffed animal, 2007)
SWAP: Leonardo Marz (Monterrey, Mexico) joins SPACES as an artist-in-residence (December 17, 2008 through February 11, 2009) to create a new body of work and engage with the Cleveland community. Marz has worked with a number of professionals and specialists from diverse disciplines, including those outside of the arts field, his own audience, and other artists, to explore issues of production and consumption. Marz’s work is on view January 30 through April 3, 2009.
Marz has won numerous awards, including Young Creators Grants in 2006 and 2008 in Mexico. His work was recently included in the Istanbul Biennale, and he has exhibited all over Mexico. His art has also been shown at the Museo de Las Americas in Denver and Chelsea Gallery Space in New York.
SPACES gratefully acknowledges the National Endowment for the Arts and the Nimoy Foundation for their generous funding.
("Oblivion" Eileen Doktorski, mixed media installation, 2009)
SPACELab: Eileen Doktorski presents Oblivion (on view January 30 through February 27, 2009), an installation that examines the current state of consumer culture through juxtaposition of the forces of nature versus the will of man. Following Doktorski’s SPACELab exhibition, Yoshiko Kanai transforms the experimental project space into an installation that explores emotions connected to the familial archetype and the inevitability of change experienced in the life of an immigrant. Kanai’s installation, Listen to Utopia, is on view March 6 through April 3, 2009.
("Listen to Utopia" Yoshiko Kanai, mixed media installation, 2009)
SPACES is a not-for-profit alternative art space on the West Side of Cleveland, Ohio. SPACES was created in 1978 in order to advance the artist's vision. By providing freedom, resources and an audience, SPACES enables artists to engage the public in a vital dialogue about contemporary art.
Find us at:
www.SPACESgallery.org
2220 Superior Viaduct
Cleveland, Ohio 44113
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Hand to Hand - the coast to coast collaborative collage of Rebecca Trawick and David Wallace
Over the course of two years, Rebecca and I traded collages back and forth through the mail, adding to each work as it changed hands. Throughout this process, we never met in person - I live in Pittsburgh, and Rebecca lives in Southern CA. We found that working together was a way to communicate on a purely creative level. We weren’t interested in becoming “pen pals,” but rather in seeing how our two styles could combine to create work that was not completely me, not totally her, but something new and surprising to us both. The work debuted at Moxie Dada in Pittsburgh in January 2007 and has since been shown at Phd Gallery in St. Louis and Tangent Lab in Wichita, working its way across the U.S. in much the same way the pieces themselves traveled between the two of us.
"This beautiful collection of collages holds no specific thematic intentions; there are no hidden messages to interpret. Each piece offers its own vocabulary, images for which viewers can create their own meanings. Or one can simply appreciate the image for its aesthetic value as a beautiful work of art." - Janera Soloman, Pittsburgh City Paper
'Hand to Hand' February 11 – March 13, 2009 Presented by Hub-Bub at The Showroom 149 S.Daniel Morgan Ave. Suite 2 Spartanburg, SC 29306 864-582-0056
Opening reception Wednesday, February 11, 2009 7:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m.
SEX AND CONSPIRACY! Swedish punkrocker and painter Karl Backman talks about his art, and the reactions to it from right wing christians, pee fetish girls and conspiracy theorists.
MYTHOLOGIES AND LIFE! French graphic designer and writer Laurent Rivelaygue discuss nightmares and a road movie in bumper cars.
GRACE AND ELEGANCE! American artist Betsy Jones talks about geometric landscapes, happiness and the arts of the geisha.
Hello Spaces...it's modern music night this Friday at Now That's Class at 11213 Detroit Ave. Come hear the uncompromising virtuoso of Giant Tigers, (Atlanta), The Shut-ins (Pittsburgh), and Cleveland's own stylistically unique, Babylon A Go Go. www. myspace. com/babylonagogo
