I’ll be showing a large scale collaborative video installation & my video Colonial Glass & my website Comment Williamsburg at the 6th Annual Exhibit of the Hunter College Integrated Media Arts MFA Program. Join us for a weekend of provocative new socially engaged interdisciplinary and media art.
IMAterial
May 1 –3, 2008 (opening May 1)
THU & FRI 6 –9 PM / SAT 1-5 PM
The Black Box Gallery
5th Floor, Room 544HN
Hunter North Building
695 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10021
Enter on 69th Street between Park and Lexington
IMAterial
Noun, Adjective
1: The 6th annual exhibit from Hunter College’s Integrated Media Arts MFA program.
2. Lacking a material body or form; the physical intangibility of new media and digital work.
3: The challenge of new media and interdisciplinary media artists to make their artistic and political work both relevant and of substance.
4. Incorporeal; metaphysical forces; the underlying spirit that drives the artistic production and practice of the students and faculty in the IMA/MFA program.
Courtenay Morgan Redis did an extensive write-up of the WWIII show on her blog. Here’s the excerpt on my piece:
“Another artist hung a traditional wood medicine cabinet on the wall and on the rung below an army-green hand towel that reads look inside. Swinging the door open, which is lined on the inside with a mirror, shows a video projection of a green hill, the number 3009 on a large sign and row upon row of white crosses. Above the video stands a shelf filled with prescription pill bottles, face creams and toiletries. The common, everyday items we see and use juxtaposed with the death of soldiers that has become all too-common in our lives and the lives of people around the world. On the day in January when the film was shot in Lafayette, CA, 3009 Americans had lost their lives in Iraq. Today on public radio I heard that as we approach the five-year anniversary of this war we’ve lost over 3,700 American lives and anywhere from 40,000 to 100,000 Iraqis.”
Thanks to all who came! It was a great show.
WWIII, the gallery show in Jersey City featuring LOOK INSIDE, a video installation I developed in the Wonder Women residency at _gaia studio, has two last events before the show closes. The show includes installations from all ten of the women who were in the residency, on the theme of how we understand war.
The gallery is open M-F, 10a-6p or by appt on evenings and weekends:
(800) 330-9659
We are also having open hours next Saturday, April 5, from 12-5p. There will be a very special guest (my dad!) and all of the artists will be present.
…and the Closing Reception & Artist Talks, where you get to hear more about the artists and projects presentation style, will be the following Saturday:
April 12, 4-9p
@ Mana Fine Arts Exhibition Space
227 Coles Street
Jersey City, NJ
directions
Hope to see you at the gallery! If neither the 5th nor 12th works for you & you would like to see the show, email me at sarahnw att gmail dott com.
I will be showing my documentary short, FILLMORE PLACE, along with a selection from our work-in-progress on small businesses in South Williamsburg, as part of an event on displacement in Williamsburg tomorrow night. I invite NY-based folk to come to whatever portion they can make, especially if you have ever lived or worked in Williamsburg.
The films address all kinds of displacement. The panel will focus on artist displacement, and is part of the Displacement show at greenbelt. greenbelt is a new 8-unit green condo building in Williamsburg that will house Center for Performance Research, an affordable arts space. It should be a provocative and interesting evening on many levels.
Room For Creativity:
A Community Roundtable on Real Estate Strategies for the Arts
Thursday, March 27, 2008
6-9p (panel 6:30-8p, films 8-9p)
@ greenbelt 361 Manhattan Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11211 (L to Graham)
Free drinks and snacks
Panel
John Jaspers & Jonah Bokaer (Center for Performance Research)
Caron Atlas (Fractured Atlas)
Elizabeth Grady (curator of Displacement)
Guy Buckles (Art Building)
Luis Garden Acosta (El Puente)
Deborah Masters (475 Kent Artist’s Lofts)
Brad Lander (Pratt Center for Community Development)
Short Films
Fillmore Place (Sarah Nelson Wright)
Traverse the Fantasy (Not an Alternative)
Untitled (Francisca Caporali, Kym Chapman, Pilar Ortiz, Uni Park,
& Sarah Nelson Wright)
Lofty Pursuits (the Center for Urban Pedagogy)
475 Kent (Channel 12)
Los Sures (Diego Echeverria)
(apologies to those not in NYC/NJ area)
Here are directions to WWIII at Mana Fine Arts. Looking forward to the opening!
WWIII
A Wonder Women Project presented by _gaia
Opening Reception
FRIDAY, March 14th, 6-9 pm
Artist Talk and Closing– April 12th 4-9pm
Gallery Hours March 14 – April 12, 2008
M-F 10-6 pm or by appointment
@ Mana Fine Arts Exhibition Space
227 Coles Street
Jersey City, NJ
(800) 330-9659 for appointments & info
by public transportation from Manhattan
Take the Path Train* from Christopher St., 9th St., 14th St., 23rd St. or 33rd St. towards Journal Square** (JSQ)
OR from World Trade Center station towards Newark (NWK)
PATH map
Exit at the Grove St. Station
Newark Ave. terminates across from the station
Walk down Newark Avenue to Coles St. (about 5 blocks)
Right on Coles
Walk down Coles to 12 street (about 12 blocks)
Gallery entrance is under the overpass, on Coles, past 12th St., on your left
You walk under the overpass
*the Path costs $1.75 and you can use an NYC metrocard, but not unlimited
**on weekends (Sat/Sun), this train stops in Hoboken and is HOB/JSQ
map of walk from Grove St.:
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driving from Manhattan
Go through the Holland Tunnel
Left on Jersey Ave.
Right on 10th St.
Pass Coles St.
(Coles is closed to cars)
Right on Monmouth
Monmouth ends at 13th St., you have to turn right
13th street ends at Coles St.
Turn right or left to park on Coles
Walk towards the overpass G
allery entrance is under the overpass, on your right
Map of drive from Holland Tunnel:
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I’m putting the finishing touches on my installation for _gaia studio’s WWIII show opening this Friday in Jersey City (closing April 12). My roommate Neil hooked me up with his carpentry skills & taught me how to plaster and paint. Check it out:
World War III, the exhibition that culminates the artist residency I participated in at _gaia studio in Hoboken, NJ, opens March 14 through April 12. I will be showing my installation along with work from nine incredible female artists. The residency has been inspiring and I’m thrilled to invite everyone to see our work, a provocative and diverse collection of installations about how we process war in our current era.
Curated by Doris Caçoilo and Joanna Rose White
Hosted by Ev Stone
Opening Reception - March 14th, 6-9 pm
Artist Talk and Closing - April 12th, 4-9pm
Gallery Hours M-F 10-6 pm or by appointment
Mana Fine Arts Exhibition Space
227 Coles Street, Jersey City, NJ 07310
(under the overpass at 12th Street between Monmouth and Coles)
800.330.9659
Wonder Women III are Pollie Barden, Jennifer Carpenter, Gwen Charles, Tamara Fitzpatrick, Maya Joseph-Goteiner, Mary Jeys, Melissa Macalpin, Gina Riano, Amanda Thackray, and Sarah Nelson Wright
I finally got my video portrait of Colonial Glass, one of the few remaining manufacturers thriving in Williamsburg, up on my site. It will also be on Comment Williamsburg shortly. I’m still working on a director’s statement, but would love to hear feedback or ideas for screenings. Thanks to Prof. Michael Gitlin for his feedback and also to the folks at Colonial for welcoming me into their workspace, especially Zach Weiner. I look forward to screening it for you all.
I am back in New York after three restful weeks in California, which included some really nice catch up time with family and friend, a trip to Napa and a quick and dirty case of stomach flu. For the month of January, I will be participating in Wonder Women III, a residency through _gaia studios in Hoboken, NJ. I am truly honored by this opportunity; we had our first meeting last Sunday and I am excited to work with the co-curators, Joanna Rose White and Doris Cacoilo.
The theme this year is World War III. We have a diverse and rich group of projects — look out for info on our gallery show this March.
I have a new project up (a miraculous development this late in the semester!). It’s an urban algorithm, or set of instructions about the city that others can follow.
While I will probably be in a cave doing schoolwork for the next few weeks, anyone who has an inkling to get outside despite the chilly weather can enjoy my urban algorithm (& please tell me about it!).
Daniel (my brother) and I tried it the day after Thanksgiving and had more fun than either of us expected was possible on a freezing day. If you’re still recovering from the Thanksgiving meal, this is a great way to get together with someone that doesn’t involve eating.
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