The DART Board: 12.14.2022
Through Saturday, December 17: MAYDAY EAARTH | Pop-Up exhibition at Ceres Gallery
In this exhibition 13 artists declare a climate emergency. “The whole world is now a flood zone. From Central Park and the basements of Brooklyn to the small towns of Pakistan in the Sindh Valley, we wait in fear of the next flood watch” writes curator and artist M. Annenberg. “Conversely, this was the summer that we witnessed the drying up of three major river systems – the Yangtze, the Rhine and the Colorado. China lost hydropower, Germany lost shipping routes and we lost our reservoirs. How did it come to this? How did we get to a place of uncertainty about the survival of our species and the flora and fauna who share the Earth with us? The Eaarth cries out for help. We reply with business as usual. Emissions are still rising.” Above: Curator M. Annenberg with Coralscapes: Memento Mori by Lois Bender
Participating artists in MAYDAY! EAARTH include M. Annenberg, who connects soy bean production and deforestation in a mixed media sculpture, Krisanne Baker investigates phytoplanktons, Lois Bender with endangered corals, Walter Brown and abstract plastic sculpture, Janet Culbertson envisions a warming Earth, Noreen Dean Dresser, portrays environmental grief, Danielle Eubank reveals our declining oceans, Kathy Levine highlights amphibian loss, Angela Manno creates icons of endangered species, Susan Hoffman Fishman examines methane explosions, Lisa Reindorf, depicts rising seas, Cristian Pietrapiana, our fragile human condition and Ann R. Shapiro, climate chaos.
Save the date: Is There a Climate Emergency? Saturday, December 17, 2022. 3:00 to 4:00 pm. Please RSVP to m.annenberg@att.net
Ceres Gallery, 547 West 27th Street, FL2, New York, NY
Through January 18: Christina Saj | PAUSE: LUCKY CHARMS at 81 Leonard
In the aftermath of the pandemic and amid both political divisions and one global atrocity after another, Ukranian-American artist Christina Saj has been drawn to images of the talisman which provide a source of hope through dark times. Seeing the resilience of the Ukrainian people in the current war with Russia and having grown up among immigrants who experienced unthinkable horrors during World War II, Saj has found herself immersed in an investigation of strength and spirit, manifested visually through symbol, pattern, and color. Whether one regards these symbols with sentimentality, blind faith, or sheer belief, there is an undeniable mysticism surrounding them.
Saj further investigates this enigma through references to Ukrainian folklore, such as in Forest Flower, which draws upon the traditional story by that same name (Tsvit Paporoti in Ukrainian). Legend has it that one who finds the flower that only blooms for the summer solstice on the longest night of the year will have happiness forever; though, the finder cannot tell anyone of their discovery. Thus begets the question, how will anyone know if the flower really exists?
81 Leonard Gallery, windows and online. 81 Leonard Street, New York, NY Info
Wednesday, December 14, 6-8 pm: High Resolution | Ukranian Culture and Art Now at the James Gallery
This collaborative project of Oleksiy Sai, Nikita Kadan and Ksenia Malykh brings the presence of Ukrainian art since the early 1990s to New York audiences, and simultaneously shows the real and present danger of the erasure and loss of this cultural production because of Putin’s war of aggression. The sheer abundance of artistic creation during the past three decades is shown through an immersive environment of art being produced in Ukraine. today
Every day Ukrainians act on their resolution to defend and keep Ukrainian culture flourishing, creating with every step the mutual support, social structures and art that make their culture prosperous and strong. Artists Oleksiy Sai, Nikita Kadan, and curator Ksenia Malykh have created this project at the James Gallery in collaboration with curators Katherine Carl and Inga Lace to support and spread this cultural courage.
The James Gallery at The Center for the Humanities, The Graduate Center CUNY, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY Register here
Through January 6: Eric Araujo | What’s he building in there? at ChaShaMa East 64
objectsLook into this gallery a few steps down from sidewalk and you’ll see a collection of sculptures made from highly machined wood and metal combined with metal objects that are also highly finished. In this solo exhibition the artist Eric Araujo presents sculptural objects that spring from the desire to make things that are not derivative or intentionally reference or conceptualize something other.
From the website: They are not topical and don’t speak to anything that is happening in the world now. In a time when the world is reeling back from a pandemic after taking stock of what matters most and attempting to maintain some semblance of sanity from the frequency of negative news it’s important to relearn how to feel, how to interpret, and to take a break. While art is a vital and valuable vehicle for the telling of the history of our time these works are not for that.
They are abstract, formal, reductive, elegant, taking cues from parametric architecture and biomorphic forms found in nature while hearkening to traditional furniture making processes but heed the unconventional for their outcome. More @ewaraujo
ChaShaMa, 340 East 64th Street, New York, NY Info
Continuing online: Seeing Music at NYArtists Circle
I am pleased to share the news that my watercolor painting, Blue Marble [left] is included in the exhibition Seeing Music, online at New York Artists Circle, curated by Yvonne Lamar-Rogers and Cheryl Aden.
With the NASAs Artemis program gaining momentum, I was taken back to the Apollo Moon Landing in 1969, Walking on the Moon by The Police, and how the first US space program inspired dreams of greatness in just about everyone–here and abroad.
Copeland’s guitar…Summer’s percussion…the tingle of summer romance…Sting’s vocals…Walking back from your house…Walking on, Walking on the Moon…Keep it up…keep it up…keep it up….
The shimmer of this Pop Reggae classic fills my inner space…it’s intricacies, modulations, delays express the pleasures of life—1979 and forever. See Listen
Continuing through the holidays: Barchitecture on Madison Avenue
SVA students studying 3D design with Kevin O’Callaghan (BFA 1980 Media Arts) created “Barkitecture,” a series of dog-house installations for Miracle on Madison Avenue, an annual event where over 70 stores located between East 57th and East 86th Streets give away 20% of their profits to the pediatric segment of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Organized by @madisonavebid
