Open Studios

There will be open studios this weekend coinciding with the exhibition opening and print symposium.

Interview with Jonathan Monaghan

Hey all! here is an interview with me done by Philadelphia-based art crtic Robert Fallon:

http://theartblog.org/2009/10/architecture-of-fantasy-an-interview-with-jonathan-monaghan/

Architecture of fantasy — an interview with Jonathan Monaghan
"Jonathan Monaghan’s animated video projection “Into Temptation (French Penguin)” stood out in the recent emerging artist show, Vox V, at Vox Populi. The competition to get into the show, which was juried by Ryan Trecartin and Larry Mangel, was fierce; and the immersive installation, which wonderful, made it hard for one work to speak louder than another. Nonetheless, Monaghan’s silent and eerie piece — a mash-up of a cathedral with a penguin — intrigued me. Reverberant of the age-old struggle between flesh and stone; man and animal; religion and the id, the piece has beauty, weirdness, exquisite craftsmanship and a kind of goth-cinematic style. In our era of vampire-obsession it is channeling ideas about “the other” in a way that doesn’t use vampires! Click for Full Interview...

Jonathan Monaghan at the 2009 Experimental Media Series

Juried by Kelly Gordon, associate curator at the Hirshhorn Museum, this year's Experimental Media Series, presented by the Washington Project for the Arts, looks like it will be great considering they are using my animation for the promo materials.






VENUE SCHEDULE:
September 24 and October 1, 2009, 6:30-8:15 pm
The Phillips Collection, 1600 21st Street, NW, Washington, DC, 20009

October 13 and 14, 2009, 7:00-9:00 pm
Maryland Institute College of Art, Falvey Hall, 1301 W. Mount Royal Ave, Baltimore, MD 21217

October 15, 2009, 8:00-9:30 pm at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 7th Street and Independence Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20013


http://www.wpadc.org/events/evnts_upcoming.html

somewhere in kansas (over the rainbow)

Rough Cut Nation at National Galleries of Scotland

Not UMD related, but my friend Fraser Gray is in a cool show at Scottish National Portrait Gallery which has been given over to Scottish Graffiti artists before being renovated:

http://www.nationalgalleries.org/whatson/calendar/5:367/7989/8571

photaes....

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalgalleriesphotos/3788640748/

Feeling Gravity's Pull: Invigorating group show explores buoyancy's physics and metaphysics | Baltimore City Paper

Feeling Gravity's Pull: Invigorating group show explores buoyancy's physics and metaphysics | Baltimore City Paper

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Mahwish Chisty at MoCADA, NY

THere is still a month left to see the work of UMD MFA 2009 grad. Mahwish Chisty at MoCADA in Brooklyn, NY. This exhibition of "Women, Art and Islam" ends on September 13th.


CURRENT EXHIBITION

PERSPECTIVES: WOMEN, ART and ISLAM
Curated by Kimberli Gant and Lisa Binder
Co-Presented by MoCADA and the Museum for African Art, New York
On View: June 4 - September 13, 2009
Opening Reception: June 4, 7-9 PM

BROOKLYN, NY - May 4, 2009 - The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA) and the Museum for African Art are proud to present Perspectives: Women, Art and Islam, an exhibition of five female artists whose major connection is their personal relationship with Islam. Perspectives, curated by Kimberli Gant and Lisa Binder, will be on view at MoCADA, 80 Hanson Place in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, from June 4 - September 13, 2009, and is presented in conjunction with Muslim Voices: Arts and Ideas, a multi-institutional celebration of the extraordinary range of artistic expression in the Muslim world.

Spanning three continents and the mediums of video, photography and installation, Perspectives features work by Fariba Alam (Bangladesh), Zoulikha Bouabdellah (Algeria), Mahwish Chisty (Pakistan), Safaa Erruas (Morocco), and Nsenga Knight (Brooklyn), who explore the connections, or lack thereof, between the practice of Islam and the various Muslim communities in their lives. Alam infuses ceramic tiles with personal archival photography of family in Bangladesh; Bouabdellah carves out space for gold high-heels in a series of prayer rugs, and takes self-portraits with couscous pots; Knight interviews Muslim women from her Brooklyn community for a video installation; Christy projects Kufic script into a pool of water; and Erruas uses multiple sections of soft white textiles to set out the gallery's walls as spaces of perceived femininity. Each work challenges preconceptions, defies categorization and raises timely questions about gender and the Islamic faith.

MoCADA and the Museum for African Art proudly join BAM, Asia Society, and New York University's Center for Dialogues as a part of Muslim Voices: Arts and Ideas. Muslim artists and speakers spanning the globe from as far away as Asia, Africa, the Middle East and as near as Brooklyn will gather for an unprecedented ten-day festival and conference. Through performances, films, exhibitions, talks, and other events—ranging from the traditional (calligraphy, storytelling, and Sufi chanting) to the contemporary (video installations and Arabic hip-hop)-the festival offers New York audiences the opportunity to experience and learn about the cultural diversity and multiple perspectives that represent the Muslim world.

Perspectives

is co-organized by MoCADA and the Museum for African Art, and is presented in conjunction with Muslim Voices: Arts and Ideas, a city-wide, multi-institutional celebration of the extraordinary range of artistic expression in the Muslim world. ALL PROGRAMS WILL TAKE PLACE AT MoCADA (80 Hanson Place).


www.africanart.org
www.musimvoicesfestival.org

Jack Henry- new website/ The Wassaic Project Summer Festival

Take a look at Jack's new website up and running: www.jackhenryartist.com



Jack is currently in NY state installing his work in a new group show organised by the Wassaic Project opening on August 5th:

The Wassaic Project Summer Festival

Jeremy Flick at WPA SynchroSwim

Here are some pictures taken by Meaghan Gay for DCist.com of Jeremy Flick's synchronized swim performance at Capital Skyline Hotel on 19th July:


"The Washington Project for the Arts held a synchronized swimming showcase and competition, dubbed WPA SynchroSwim, at the Capitol Skyline Hotel pool on Sunday, and DCist photographer Meaghan Gay stopped by to take in the action." Dcist

Jeremy Flick/Uprooted Dance at Capital Skyline Hotel