Addressing the spatial tropes of domesticity and familial dynamics, WE-ARE-FAMILIA will transform Open Space into a “living room” of seamlessly integrated furniture, art and design including new works by Holly Stevenson, Yoh Nagao, Peter Kienzle for Superette, Jesse Brown, Marc McAndrews, Hisham Bharoocha, Amy Rupple, Chris Yormick, Nightwood and SEEE. WE-ARE-FAMILIA will also debut its Keepsake Box No. 5 of 25, entitled “Video Box” (designed by Fabian Bedolla and Jennifer Garcia), an elegant assembly of found objects and discarded furniture fragments retrofitted with a video touch screen to showcase films by Parisian director Olivier Babinet and Brooklyn, New York’s video artist Rashaad Newsome.
Opening night guests are invited to enjoy family style BBQ in the gallery’s front yard, refreshments by Beacon’s local micro-brewery, Keegan Ales, vintage 45’s played by DJ Cerock and street projections after dark.
Visitors from New York City can reserve a $45 all-inclusive day pass for 2-way transportation via school bus, a DIA Beacon tour and free BBQ. For more information and to reserve a pass e-mail rsvp@we-are-familia.com
Salon WE-ARE-FAMILIA runs July 11 to September 6
Opening July 11 6PM to 9PM
Open Space Gallery 510 Main Street, Beacon, 12508
TEL: 845-765-0731
E: openspacebeacon@thundercut.com
Inspired by the visionary artist Ray Johnson, we propose to take advantage of the postal system as a vehicle for connecting and extending our family of artists. The idea is simple; make something, mail something, add something, and mail it on. While we imagine our POST[ART] CLUB to literally cross lines, borders and nationalities; it will also function to combine various forms of style, technique and methodology. This clear, beautiful concept embodies the core identity of WE-ARE-FAMILIA. A tangible object will be traced from artist’s hand to artist’s hand, thereby creating an extensive, unified, community based body of work.
POST[ART] CLUB @
Atlantic Avenue Artwalk
June 6th (Saturday) 1 to 6PM
Nevins St. btw. Atlantic + Pacific
Brooklyn, New York
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The most recent SATURDAY @ PHILLIPS Sale in New York offered a comprehensive and curated selection of urban art from the past 25 years alongside examples of contemporary art, design, photographs and toy art. The sale included works by Barry McGee, Chris Johanson, Terry Richardson, Kaws and Shepard Fairey. It also introduced works by contemporary artists representing a parallel youth movement to urban art in America which formed in the late 1990s in Providence, Philadelphia and New York. Having been a part of this movement, We-Are-Familia contributor Hisham Akira Bharoocha was among the artists included and had four lots for sale, consisting of two collages and six photographs.
Other Artists in the April 25th sale included Assume Vivid Astro Focus, Brian Chippendale, Bjorn Copeland, Brian Degraw, A.J. Fosik, Jim Houser, Matt Leines, Taylor Mckimens, Tracy Nakayama, and Andrew Jeffrey Wright. Hisham and these artists frequently worked together in collaboration as part of art collectives and musical groups; overlapping disciplines that weave together various elements from punk rock to psychedelia; folk and tribal arts, electronic arts, comics and collage.
Bharoocha is currently based in Brooklyn, N.Y. and concentrates on creating music, visual art and photography. His newest works deal with melting together the medley of images and vibrations that happen moment by moment in the mind during meditation, dreaming, day dreaming and during acts of daily living. Recent exhibitions of Bharoocha’s work have been at D’Amelio Terras gallery in New York, Vleeshal, a state run space in The Netherlands, Deitch Projects, John Connelly Presents and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. His work has been published in Art Forum, V Magazine, i-D, Flaunt, Tokion and Blend.
…..and the winner is…….Change Design! The Venice, Italy based agency’s v20 vase won the 2009 Red Dot Design award in the product design category. The Red Dot competition takes place every year in Essen, Germany and is one of the most prolific design competitions worldwide. An international design jury recognized the v20 for its innovative aesthetic features and ability to distinguish itself from masses of anonymous goods. The v20 is composed of fabric pieces, cut, sewn and taped, creating a completely water-resistant object. A strong creative collaboration was established between Changed and several international contemporary artists who were invited to decorate the vase in limited editions. The v20 will be on display at the Red Dot Design Museums in Germany and Singapore and will take part in the “Red Dot Design Tour”, traveling worldwide.
Exciting! We-Are-Familia has an upcoming exhibition this Fall at NYC’s Reed Space, community art centre and home of Staple Design. Past art shows at Reed include works by Faile, Andrew Sutherland, Peter Sutherland, Phunk Studio, Florencio Zavala, Kenji Hirata, Cody Hudson, Lomography and Parra. We are planning to showcase three new keepsake boxes and one We-Are-Familia artist will create a solo installation with individual pieces for sale. Featured artist’s name and opening date to be announced shortly!
Anything Can Happen, But It Probably Won’t, an exhibition opening this Saturday, features new paintings and paper sculptures by Jesse Brown alongside works by fellow Seattle based artist Aaron Harris. Jesse’s work is often an exploration in geometric forms, pattern and repetition which display a clean graphic quality. His work has been exhibited at galleries in Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, Chicago, New York, Tokyo, Berlin, London and Paris.
OPENING Saturday, March 21st 7-10 PM
Show runs through April 26th
Cairo
507 E Mercer Street Seattle, WA
206.453.4077
We-Are-Familia member Marc McAndrews is one of 163 emerging art photographers included in a brand new publication by Humble Arts Foundation, released March 3, 2009. The Collector’s Guide To Emerging Art Photography is an invite only, 180–page source book distributed to collectors, art dealers, gallery directors, photo editors, museum professionals, and independent curators. Published biennially, The Collector’s Guide aims to further Humble’s mission by bridging the gap between ambitious early-career photographers and often-unapproachable photography professionals and art institutions. The book features McAndrews’ long term project entitled Nevada Rose, which aims to document Nevada’s brothel industry honestly and objectively. The series of photographs are anthropological in nature and have the feel of a play, though set in real life featuring a fascinating cast of characters.
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Visual and performance artist Rashaad Newsome presents the premiere of Shade Compositions, a live performance featuring a a chorus of more than twenty black women. Influenced by improvisatory orchestral music and live video-mixing, Newsome divides his performers into groups akin to instrumental sections as they enact his choreographed sound score made up of repeated sequences of culturally specific or stereotypical gestures, movements, and vocalizations. Newsome simultaneously records, loops, edits, and remixes in real-time the audio and video documentation of the performers using a hacked Nintendo® Wii™ game controller. The resulting layers of real and projected imagery investigate assumptions and constructions of identity in mainstream media and popular culture.
Rashaad Newsome: Shade Compositions
Feb. 12TH & 13TH at 8 PM
The Kitchen 512 W19TH Street New York, NY 10010
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Illustrative is the leading European forum for contemporary illustration and graphic arts. This year’s exhibition includes over 400 works by 35 artists and gives an international overview representing the various facets of illustrative art. In addition, Illustrative 08 hosts conferences, a film program, multiple parties and an award contest. The main display features well-known artist such as German illustrators Olaf Hajek and Martin Haake, Spanish comic-artist Jorge Fabian Gonzales Varela, American illustrators Eric Sandberg, Vincent Hui and Edwin Ushiro, as well as Japanese artist and We-Are-Familia contributor Yoh Nagao. Illustrative 08 will exhibit the collage Nagao created for the We-Are-Familia project, pictured bottom left, alongside 14 other recent works.
Opening Reception October 17 2008
Until October 26 2008
Messehallen Zürich (Halle 9)
Thurgauerstr. 11
8050 Zürich-Oerlikon
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