 | May 21, 2010
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| | Surrounding environments play an important role to artists and audience alike. In a pair of new Exclusive videos, we watch Julie Mehretu at work as she adjusts her Mural painting to better suit the Goldman Sachs building that houses it, and Susan Rothenberg as she describes the ranch life that she and husband Bruce Nauman share in their New Mexico home and studio.
Art21 Blog writers, through the recently-launched Flash Points topic, Art & Experience, will explore how various types of surroundings--including lifestyle-based, educational, and geographical--influence the art-viewing experience. The Present Perfect, a forthcoming Art21-produced online public program, will feature artists discussing the role of collaborative environments on their work.
Read on for the latest from Art21, and please feel welcome to join or start a conversation on the Art21 Blog, on Facebook, or on Twitter.
In this issue: Exclusive Videos: Susan Rothenberg and Julie Mehretu
Support Art21--Join the 100 x 100 Exclusive Campaign Highlights from the Art21 Blog Save the Date: New Public Program, The Present Perfect
Tabaimo at 601Artspace, Curated by Susan Sollins Shop Art21
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Banner: Richard Serra's Charlie Brown sculpture at the Gap Inc. headquarters in San Francisco. Art in the Twenty-First Century, production still, 2001. Season 1, Episode: Place. Š Art21, Inc. 2001. Left: Maya Lin making atlas sculptures in her NYC studio. Art in the Twenty-First Century production still, 2001. Season 1, Episode: Identity. Š Art21, Inc. 2001. |
Exclusive Videos: Susan Rothenberg and Julie Mehretu
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Drawing inspiration from their surroundings, the latest Exclusive videos feature two painters whose ways of working are attentive to a sense of place, whether it's the quiet isolation of the New Mexico desert or the towering glass skyscrapers of Lower Manhattan.
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Episode #105: Susan Rothenberg describes the blend of studio time and ranch work that she shares with her husband, the artist Bruce Nauman, at their New Mexico home.
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Julie Mehretu: Mural
Episode #106: Julie Mehretu puts the finishing touches on her large-scale painting Mural at Goldman Sachs, adjusting shapes and colors in dialogue with the architecture and views from the street.
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Keep up with the Exclusive series on the Art21 Blog, or subscribe to the series via RSS or iTunes (note: link opens in iTunes). A blend of newly-shot original filming and previously unreleased archival footage, videos from the weekly Exclusive series focus on singular aspects of an artist's process, significant individual works and exhibitions, provocative ideas, and biographical anecdotes.
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Highlights from the Art21 Blog
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IMAGES (from top): Iņigo Manglano-Ovalle, Search (En Busquedad), 2001; Radio telescope installation at the Plaza Monumental Bullfight Ring, Tijuana, Mexico; Photo by Alfredo De Stefano; Courtesy the artist and Max Protetch, New York. Young Kim, Salt and Earth, 2009; Installaion view from ArtPrize 2009, Grand Rapids, MI; Salt, red clay dust, lightbulbs, and other materials; Photo courtesy of Brian Kelly. Album artwork for Eccentric Soul: The Tragar & Note Labels, courtesy of Numero Group.
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Save the Date: New Public Program, The Present Perfect
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Art21 is collaborating with PBS and the 92YTribeca to present an interactive online event with artists Oliver Herring (Season 3) and Laurie Simmons (Season 4) on Wednesday, June 23. Experimenting with social media and live-streaming video, Art21 will connect our national audience in real time with the artists featured in the Art:21--Art in the Twenty-First Century series. Everyone--from the northern tip of Maine to the western edge of Hawaii--is welcome join the online audience and be part of the conversation, share your ideas, and ask Laurie and Oliver questions! To all of Art21's international fans, you are invited too!
Mark your calendars and stay tuned for further details.
IMAGE: The set of Laurie Simmons's The Music of Regret, Act 1. Art in the Twenty-First Century production still, 2007. Season 4, Episode: Romance. Š Art21, Inc. 2007.
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Tabaimo at 601Artspace, Curated by Susan Sollins
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Now on view at 601Artspace in New York City is an exhibition of works by Japanese artist Tabaimo curated by Art21 Executive Director Susan Sollins.
The exhibition includes a large-scale video installation, dolefullhouse (2007), along with a selection of drawings from her Tawamushi (2008) series.
Utilizing sophisticated computer animation technology, thousands of drawings, and a palette that refers to the tradition of Japanese woodblock prints, Tabaimo's video installations, including dolefullhouse, are presented within and upon a constructed space that creates a sense of physical or psychological intimacy. About this work, Tabaimo says, "I want to create layers of worlds."
The exhibition is on view through July 9. Gallery hours are Tuesdays and Fridays, 2-6 p.m., or by appointment. Call 212-243-2735, email info@601artspace.org, or visit the 601Artspace Web site for more information.
IMAGE: Tabaimo, dolefullhouse, 2007. Still from the video installation. Courtesy of the artist and James Cohan Gallery, New York.
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