PHOTOS: The best of Fountain Art Fair 2013 – a showcase for NYC emerging artists

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PHOTOS: The best of Fountain Art Fair 2013 – a showcase for NYC emerging artists

#3. A Future Filled with DIY Breast Implants

Did you ever think about getting a nose job as a kid, but couldn’t afford one? In the future, children may be able to take matters into their own hands with DIY plastic surgery. Artist Nikki Schiro envisions a time when even breast implants are “do it at home” procedures.

Schiro takes the ‘ladies night out’ concept ten steps further by painting groups of women performing surgeries on one another. The depictions of semi-nude women are often quite explicit and draw spectators (especially men) to the work, the artist noted on Friday, but the issues she explores are ones that women can relate to: body insecurity, the promotion of plastic surgery to ‘improve self esteem’ and the rising popularity of these procedures. Schiro is a member of the tART Collective, a group of female artists founded in 2004 that organizes studio visits, stages fundraisers and provides resources for members who need help with their exhibits.

#10. An End to Green Spaces, Water and All That Good Stuff

Buying a home is a rite of passage for many Americans. But have you thought about who actually owns the natural resources on that land, like the precious water supply? It’s a question that New York artist Kathleen Vance explores in her series Traveling Landscapes, in which natural and artificial landscapes are created in partially opened containers like steamer trunks or cosmetic cases. Vance was inspired by her own experience growing up in Maryland, where her family had a farm and the water table was in jeopardy. The whole concept of owning land and natural resources is something of a contradiction, she explained at the Fountain Art Fair on Friday; “you can’t take it with you, [so] it’s not yours.”

tART Collective @ Fountain Art Fair, Curated by Krista Saunders--Armory Week 2013

The tART Collective @ Fountain Art Fair, Armory Week

tART Collective's Booth will be Curated by Krista Saunders

Booth # TBA

March 8-10, 2013

69th Regiment Armory, Lexington Ave @25th St NYC

Buy Tickets: fountainny2013.eventbrite.com

Featured Artists: 

Julia Whitney Barnes, Kathleen Vance, Petra Valentova

Nikki Schiro, Jess Levey, Katherine Keltner,  Elsie Kagen and Anna Lise Jensen

The booth will also include flatfiles from a greater range of members.*

tART Collective is a contemporary feminist artist collective in New York City.

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Friends Helping Friends, Boobs in a Box. "Do it Yourself" Series, 2012-13

Collectively Assembled: 28 Visits, One Show; 9th Annual tART Exhibition, Curated by Yulia Tikhonova

Collectively Assembled: 28 Visits, One Show

9th Annual tART Exhibition, Curated by Yulia Tikhonova
January 26 – March 16, 2013
Opening Reception, Saturday January 26, 5-7pm

Participating artists:

damali abrams, Liz Ainslie, Julia Whitney Barnes, Suzanne Bennett, Suzanne Broughel, Monica Carrier, Sydney Chastain-Chapman, Ann deVere, Georgia Elrod, MaDora Frey, Rachael Gorchov, Clarity Haynes, Anna Lise Jensen, Elsie Kagan, Katherine Keltner, Katerina Lanfranco, Jess Levey, Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow, Sandra Mack-Valencia, Deborah Pohl, Asya Reznikov, Susan Ross, Carrie Rubinstein, Nikki Schiro, Yasmin Spiro, Melissa Staiger, Aya Uekawa, Petra Valentova

Collectively Assembled: 28 Visits, One Show is rooted in the origins of tART: the studio-visit, and draws from the idea of the Surrealist game Exquisite Corpse. The studio visit was the original building block of tART and remains as an integral part of the collective. It acts as key to the communication, success and productivity of tART and our members. In the game Exquisite Corpse, a folded piece of paper is passed artist to artist for each to draw on, then fold and cover their work, and pass to the next artist. Unfolding the paper at the end reveals an unforeseen composition or Exquisite Corpse. Collectively Assembled is constructed in a similar manner to the game in which each creative decision sequentially influences the next.

Over one year, a chain of scheduled studio visits builds the exhibition. One member visits another’s studio and selects work for the show. The receiving member then interprets what she feels is central to her selected work. With that concept in mind, she goes on to visit another member’s studio to select work. The process continues until it circles through every member. The resulting exhibition features not only each member’s work, but also each member’s interpretation and response to another member’s choice of work, thus creating a gestalt – the show itself.

We have tracked the process via a blog, http://tartcollective.blogspot.com/. Each visiting member posts her selection and explains her selection process. The blog will complement the final show, giving the viewer intimate engagement with the process of creating the show. Consideration of the subjectivity of curating is witnessed through the roles of personal and collegial dynamics within the collective.
The final installation is overseen by visiting curator, Yulia Tikhonova, who will contribute to the aesthetic presentation of the show. This will be the final unfolding, the visiting curator’s presentation of the body of work selected from the studio visits.

tART Collective is a contemporary feminist artist collective in New York City. Members maintain their individual art practices and are committed to maintaining a close community through post-graduate studio visits and to offering support through the sharing of ideas, information and resources. In addition to an annual group exhibition, the collective also produces Zines, engages in collaborations and presents workshops and discussions. Recently, tART Collective has exhibited at the Verge Art Fair Miami Beach, and members have participated in the TINA B. Contemporary Art Festival in Prague and presented on the collective at the CAA conference in New York and at the Open Engagement conference in Portland.

Yulia Tikhonova is a Moscow-born, Brooklyn-based curator. A graduate of CCS, Bard College, she is the founder of the Brooklyn House of Kulture, a grass-roots, experimental curatorial model created to promote public awareness and practices that strengthen culture's central role in civic life.
Arts@Renaissance is an innovative 4,500 square foot arts space in the restored outpatient building of the Greenpoint Hospital that serves as a bridge between North Brooklyn’s vibrant long-term communities and the area’s emerging creative population through the development of new multi-disciplinary work, residencies, workshops, and collaborative neighborhood art projects.
St. Nicks Alliance is a nonprofit, nonsectarian community-based organization founded in 1975 with a mission to serve as a catalyst to improve the quality of life of Williamsburg-Greenpoint residents by addressing economic, educational, health, housing and social needs while preserving the vibrant and diverse character of the entire community, particularly for low- and moderate-income residents.
Further information: www.tartnyc.org, www.brooklynhouseofkulture.org or www.renaissancenbk.org; Questions: tartnewyork@gmail.com

The Ladies of tART will exhibit at JCAL

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Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning

Collectivity: Art-making in a Collective

Jamaica, New York, March 28, 2012 — Collectivity: Art-making in a Collective will open on April 4, 2012 at Jamaica center for Arts & Learning from 6—8pm. The exhibition featuring selected members of the tART Collective will run through June 6, 2012. The exhibition examines ways in which being a part of an artists’ collective influence their work individually. For example, what is the impact of peer studio visits, collaborations and the ongoing critiques by fellow artists have on a particular artist’s body of work.

Heng-Gil Han, curator at the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, will explore these issues and draw some conclusions through a curated exhibition of a select group of tART Collective members. The exhibition will examine work created prior to members’ inclusion in the collective alongside current work, looking at ways that an artist’s style and subject matter has changed and affected their aesthetic sensibility; thus providing an opportunity to appreciate the significance of collaboration and collective endeavors to individual artists’ aesthetic and conceptual shifts, constants, and changes.

Considering the recent proliferation of collaborative projects and collective groups of artists, we believe that this type of exhibition is appropriate, relevant, and lends itself to a better understanding of the current state of art.

The artists to be featured include: damali abrams, Liz Ainslie, Julia Whitney Barnes, Suzanne Bennett, Suzanne Broughel, Anna Lise Jensen, Katherine Keltner, Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow, Susan Ross, Nikki Schiro, Yasmin Spiro, Melissa Staiger, Rosemary Taylor, Petra Valentova.

For more information at http://www.jcal.org/visual/event.html and www.tartnyc.org/news

This exhibition is supported by individual donations.

About Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning (JCAL)

For almost 40 years, the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning (JCAL) has served as an arts oasis in a section of New York City where cultural opportunities are extremely limited. Created in 1972 as part of an effort to revitalize Jamaica, JCAL has earned a reputation for inspiring youth to take an interest in the arts, showcasing the talents of up-and-coming local artists and performers, and creating dynamic multicultural programs and workshops that have been embraced by the community. Each year, tens of thousands of visitors of all ages, backgrounds and skill sets pass through its doors to attend classes and workshops, view art exhibitions, attend performances or immerse themselves in an art residency.

For further information, visit www.jcal.org.

The Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning is housed in landmark buildings owned by the City of New York and are funded with public funds provided through the New York State Council on the Arts, celebrating 50 years of building strong, creative communities in New York State’s 62 counties; the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs with support from Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg; Cultural Affairs Commissioner Kate D. Levin; the New York City Council; Council Speaker Christine Quinn; the Queens Delegation of the Council; Deputy Majority Leader, Councilman Leroy Comrie; Councilman James F. Gennaro; Councilman James Sanders, Jr.; and Queens Borough President Helen M. Marshall.

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Armory Review

New York Armory Show Review, 2012

written by Nikki Schiro, New York

"I have always considered my relationship to the Armory show masochistically charged. And, like a beaten woman, I return every year, because I believe it is both my duty, and that it can change..."

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tART Year 8: A Self-Curated Show

Exhibition opens this Friday, September 9th, includes 11 artists that have shown at OZANEAUX Art Space.

tART Year 8: A Self-Curated Show

On view at Arts@Renaissance from September 9^th to October 14^th

New York City (August 16^th, 2011) – tART Year 8: A Self-Curated Show opens Friday, September 9^th, from 7-9pm, at Arts@Renaissance in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. The exhibition will run from September 9^th through October 14^th. The art will be chosen and installed by artists from the collective.

Entering it’s 8^th year, the tART collective presents new work by members - covering a wide cross-section of the current practices within the group. The show will be host to several events for residents of Greenpoint and the community at large. tART will engage at the site of Arts@Renaissance for hands-on workshops and discussions on art and social practice.

Featuring Artwork of tART Members: Amy Shapiro, Ann deVere, Anna Lise Jensen, Asya Reznikov, Carrie Rubinstein, Damali Abrams, Deborah Pohl, Elsie Kagan, Georgia Elrod, Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow, Julia Whitney Barnes, Katerina Lanfranco, Katherine Keltner, Laura Fayer, LIz Ainslie, MaDora Frey, Melissa Staiger, Monica Carrier, Nikki Schiro, Petra Valentova, Rachael Gorchov, Rosemary Taylor, Sandra Mack-Valencia, Susan Ross, Suzane Bennett, Suzanne Broughel and Yasmin Spiro.

The tART collective functions as a contemporary feminist support structure for a group of artists in New York City, who are committed to exploring the intersections of visual art and public engagement as well as participating in post-graduate studio visits. Since 2004, the collective has used its exhibitions as a platform - to fundraise for Doctors Without Borders and Creative Time, to launch 'zines and present workshops, panel discussions and collaborations. When the collective expanded to its current maximum size in terms of logistics, members began to facilitate workshops teaching other artists how to set up their own groups. In 2011, tART members presented on the collective at the College Art Association conference in NYC (February) and Open Engagement conference, Portland, OR, (May.)

Location: Arts@Renaissance, 2 Kingsland Ave., Garden Level (corner of Maspeth Ave.), Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY 11211

Opening Reception: Friday, September 9^th from 7-9pm

Gallery Hours: Fridays (1-7:30pm), Saturdays (1-7pm) and by appointment

Contact: tartnewyork@gmail.com For more information, follow these links:

www.tartnyc.org Facebook twitter.com/tartnyc www.flickr.com