If You’re in Santa Fe!

Mounira Al Solh, The Sea Is a Stereo, Video number 2, Paris Without a Sea, 2007-2008. Courtesy of the artist.

If you are in the Santa Fe, NM area, a heads-up that the exhibition “I’m Keeping an Eye on You” is traveling to the Center for Contemporary Art December 4 -January 31!
http://ccasantafe.blogspot.com/2009/11/im-keeping-eye-on-you.html

- John

Jillian Mcdonald: Zombies vs. Vampires – Premiere Reception (Fri. 13th) @ ASU Art Museum

Friday, November 13, 2009

5-7pm

FREE Public Reception and World Premiere

Jillian Mcdonald: Zombies vs. Vampires

 

Please join us for the FREE Public Reception and World Premiere

of Jillian Mcdonald’s two channel video installation Zombies vs. Vampires,

a work created with the community during the artists six-week Social Studies

residency at the Arizona State University Art Museum

 

Image documentation of the six-week residency and creation of the work can be

found on the ASU Art Museum FaceBook page at:

Asuart Museumstaff

 

Commentary by the artist during the project can be found through postings

on the ASU Art Museum blog: http://asuartmuseum.wordpress.com/

 

Special thanks to all the volunteer community members who participated in the

project as Zombies, Vampires, Make-up Artists, Videographers, Still Camera

Photographer, Support Crew and Prof. Muriel Magenta.

Thank you to BlueMedia for their in-kind printing support for the installation:

http://www.bluemedia.com/

 

We look forward to having you join us!

Arizona State University Art Museum

Mill Avenue @ 10th Street

Tempe, AZ 85287-2911

t. 480.965.2787

f. 480.965.5254

e. asuartmuseum@asu.edu

w. http://asuartmuseum.asu.edu

blog. http://asuartmuseum.wordpress.com/

- John

Jillian Mcdonald – Vampire and Zombie Auditions #1

Click Here to WATCH VIDEO from Today’s Audition

More Auditions scheduled for tomorrow 2pm & 3:15pm! Make-up artists workshops today at 2pm and tomorrow at 11am.

Please sign up with Jillian directly if you are interested in participating in the project at 917.443.8107 or jmcdonald@jillianmcdonald.net – she will also answer any questions or concerns. Interested parties who cannot make the scheduled dates, please inquire about alternative times.

- John

Aqua Art Miami!

I recently returned from Miami and the amazing art fair week! Through the extreme generosity of Aqua Art Miami, the ASU Art Museum presented I’m Keeping an Eye on You, a curated Video Project Space at Aqua Wynwood, as part of the ASU Art Museum Moving Targets Initiative.

Thanks to Aqua’s Jaq Chartier, Dirk Park, Joshua Weinberg and Bhavin Patel for their incredible energy and support. Thanks as well to the Scenic Group’s Craig Hensala, Simon Watson and Molly Myer for all their promotional efforts and networking support.

A thank you must also go to Jenea Sanchez for assistance in creating program material for the presentation in Miami. Thank you as well to the ASU Art Museum Advisory Board, specifically Eddie and Ellyce Shea, for hosting a preview event of the project at their home in Phoenix.

I must thank Heather Lineberry, Interm Director at the ASU Art Museum for her support in the Museum’s participation.

Lastly, this project would not be possible with out the over 425 artists who submitted work for review and made recommendations of artists for consideration, most specifically the ten artists selected for the final project; Mounira Al Solh, Rachel Garfield, Charlotte Ginsborg, Pia Greschner, Myung-Soo Kim, Yaron Lapid, Jeff Luckey, Johnna MacArthur, Michael Mohan and Corinna Schnitt. The process has been extremely rewarding and through it I have discovered numerous artists that I look forward to working with and presenting their work in future exhibitions.

I’m Keeping an Eye on You travels to the ASU Art Museum, premiering as a full scale exhibition in fall of 2009, so make your plans now to pay us a visit.

Here are some images that will give you a feel of the overall presentation at Aqua Wynwood.

Hope you enjoy!

John Spiak
Curator
ASU Art Museum

Aqua Art Miami - I'm Keeping an Eye on You banner

Aqua Art Miami - I'm Keeping an Eye on You banner close-up

Text Panel and Notebooks with complete program information inside the exhibition space.

Rachel Garfield You're Joking! as it appeared in warm-up runs of the program

Individuals enjoying I'm Keeping an Eye on You, with Michael Mohan's The Interrogation at Aqua Wynwood.

Individuals enjoying I'm Keeping an Eye on You, with Michael Mohan's The Interrogation at Aqua Wynwood.

One Night Only by Anila Rubiku

Thank you to all that joined us at Taliesin West Friday evening for the amazing US premiere of Anila Rubiku’s video installation One Night Only.  It was a fanastic evening!  For those of you who couldn’t join us, here are a few images from the event…

installation in progress

Anila Rubiku One Night Only installation in progressDetail Installation View

detail installation view

Individuals viewing Anila Rubiku

Individuals enjoying the event of Anila Rubiku

Installation view of Anila Rubiku

Installation view of One Night Only, Anila Rubiku

Little update on artist Sean Duffy

If you visited the ASU Art Museum last summer you will definitely remember Sean Duffy’s turntable and sound installation The Grove.  If you missed it, or just want to experience it again, here is a link to a video created by KJZZ on the project for you.

I just received an email from Sean with information regarding his most recent project and thought I would share the following…

FROM ARTIST SEAN DUFFY:  

I’ve been going nuts with my latest project which has nothing and everything to do with art (I think).  I’m creating a racing team for the 24 hours of Lemons (24hoursoflemons.com) and have been bogged down in prepping our $500 car.  Here’s our site.

–Curator John

Anila Rubiku – Collaborative Project in Progress

Set-up Day 1

 

Day 2

A few progress report images as CEC ArtsLink Fellow Artist in Residence Anila Rubiku collaborates with members of the Arizona State University Art Museum community. 

- Curator John

Carpet Installation for Nadia Hironaka: The Late Show

Executive Flooring crew installs carpet in The Late Show

Executive Flooring crew installs carpet in The Late Show 2

As preparations continue for Nadia Hironaka’s video installation The Late Show, today an outstanding crew from Executive Flooring Systems, Inc, Phoenix is installing carpet throughout the space. 

 

See the full video installation for the first time as we invite you to join us for the FREE PUBLIC OPENING RECEPTION this Friday, October 17 from 7-9pm.  It also marks the opening of the ASU Faculty Exhibition and rumor has it that an ASU student or two may be organizing a guerrilla performance in front of the Museum that night!

– Curator John

Artist Stella Lai in Beijing

Stella Lai installation @ F2 Gallery, Beijing

Stella Lai installation @ F2 Gallery, Beijing

Stella Lai installation @ F2 Gallery, Beijing

In 2005, the ASU Art Museum presented the first solo museum exhibition of the work of artist Stella Lai, an exhibition titled Let’s Stop Pretending (http://asuartmuseum.asu.edu/lai).

Lai has a current solo exhibition which opened last weekend at F2 Gallery in Beijing, for which I was fortune to have been invited to write an essay for the exhibition catalogue – an 80 page publication that includes an interview conducted by Danielle Shang, with all text presented in English and translated into Chinese.  I thought I would share these installation images from the current exhibition which Lai shared with me.

In talking to Bradley McCallum last week during our installations, it turns out F2 Gallery is the same space that premiered Bradley McCallum and Jacqueline Tarry oil on canvas and toner on silk series, many of which are featured in the current ASU Art Museum exhibition of the Weithorn’s collection. (http://asuartmuseum.asu.edu/theothermainstreamII)

– Curator John

Jurying in Utah

Spiral Jetty, 2008

I have just returned from Salt Lake City where I was invited by the Utah Arts Council to be a juror for the Statewide Annual Competition and Exhibition, which is scheduled to open October 17 at the Rio Gallery.  The quality and number of works submitted to the call made the process extremely enjoyable.  I departed for Salt Lake City a few days early, making an extended weekend with my wife and two month old son.  On Sunday we ventured up to Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty, so I thought I would share the view.  Apparently, as you can see from the image, my wife and I enjoyed the experience a bit more than our son!

– Curator John