Thursday April 9, 2009
TONIGHT! Mechanisms for Validation with Duncan Mackenzie
Mechanisms for Validation (Please, please just love me, or at least tell me I’m pretty, but I’ll settle for confirmation that I’m smart)
April 9th, 7pm
Moderated by Duncan Mackenzie
Join us for this threewallsSALON to discuss the means by which artists and practices are validated in the contemporary art world, where that validation comes from and how it is bestowed. Moderated by Duncan Mackenzie, founder and commentator on Bad at Sports, Mechanisms for Validation will look at the mechanisms of validation imposed on the art world content providers, and the means by which artists create their own systems of validation both personally and professionally, and the way, by extension, social status, money and cachet are assigned to them.
threewallsSALONS are open engagements where the public is invited to participate in a moderated conversation around current issues in contemporary art practice. For these open-forum discussions, threewalls invites a group of respondents to be on hand and part of the discussion, but everyone is welcome to come and participate of the dialog.
Thursday April 30, 2009
NEXT Art Fair: Christy Matson & Jon Brumit
Visit our booth at NEXT: The Invitational Exhibition of Emerging Art May 1-4, 2009 at Chicago's Merchandise Mart, 7th floor. We will be presenting a special installation/collaboration between Chicago based artists Christy Matson and Jon Brumit
ATTENTION Star People * Light Workers * Indigo, Crystal & Rainbow Children
Help Christy and Jon out with supplies
Christy Matson, a recent left-coast transplant to Chicago, weaves cloth on both hand operated Jacquard looms and industrial Jacquard looms. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Fiber and Material Studies Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She received her B.F.A in Studio Art from the University of Washington in 2001 and her M.F.A. in Textiles from CCA in 2005. She exhibits her work primarily in public and non-profit spaces and in University art galleries. Recent solo and group exhibitions include: Heaven Gallery, 2007 Kaunas Biennial, The Evanston Art Center, The Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago, the FAB Gallery at Virginia Commonwealth University, the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, The San Francisco Museum of Craft+Design, and The San Francisco Museum of Craft and Folk Art. In recent years Matson was awarded recent artist residencies at the Experimental Sound Studio in Chicago, Harvestworks Digital Media Arts in New York City.
Jon Brumit, Adjunct Faculty, FMS (2009). BFA 1995, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga; MFA 1999, Cranbrook Academy of Art. Exhibitions: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Chelsea Art Museum, New York; DeYoung Museum, San Francisco; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; Novi Sad Contemporary Museum, Serbia; Radio Web MACBA, Barcelona; Steven Wolf Fine Arts, San Francisco; Fringe Exhibitions, Los Angeles; 0047, Berlin; In-F, Tokyo; Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago. Publications: Associated Press, Penthouse, Punk Planet, Artforum, Wired, Readymade, 7x7, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Women's Wear Daily. Broadcast Media: ABC's 20/20, MSNBC's Today Show, NBC's Tech Now, KQED's Spark, Canal Plus, Discovery Channel International, NPR's Weekend Edition and All Things Considered. Collections: PG&E, Venables Bell & Partners, San Francisco Recycling and Disposal, San Jose Office of Cultural Affairs. Awards: Creative Work Fund, CEC ArtsLink, San Jose Public Arts Commission, Oakland Arts Commission, Meet the Composer. Festivals: ISEA / 01, San Jose; Version 05, Chicago; Sonic Fragments, Princeton. Residencies: Headlands Center for the Arts, Kuda.org, San Francisco Recycling and Disposal AIR, City of Hamburg International Residency Program, Southern Exposure. Online: www.jonbrumit.com.