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Upcoming Exhibitions
9/6/2010
drawing 102 (detail), 2010
CENTENARY EXHIBITION
USM Museum of Art
Hattiesburg, MS
Oct. 21 - Nov. 20, 2010
AQUA ART FAIR
with Horse Trader Projects
Miami
Dec. 1 - 5, 2010
THERELY BARE
traveling show
curated by John Tallman and Ron Buffington
Jan. 2011 -
POSTCONCEPTUALISM: THE MALLEABLE OBJECT University of Maryland Stamp Gallery curated by Mark Cameron Boyd
March - April 2011
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Exhibition
5/9/2010
PERFECT MISMATCH
Ken Weathersby solo show
Pierogi Gallery
May 28 - June 27, 2010
(reception May 28, 7 - 9 pm)
Pierogi is pleased to present the first New York exhibition of Ken Weathersby's paintings. These are paintings of intense, elegant grids of primary color that subtly invert expectations in a number of ways. While some of the carefully penciled and painted canvases simply display their colorful patterns, others, in whole or in part, are turned to face the wall. Several have cut-away sections, which have been replaced by fitted inset panels painted with grids that either mimic or contrast with the surrounding canvas. The exhibition also contains a number of two-sided paintings, which may be flipped and re-hung during the course of the show to expose a hidden view. Another painting is set flush within a carved-out hole and is situated within, rather than hung on, the surface of the gallery wall.
The paintings in the show are related in feeling to minimal and monochrome abstract painting, presenting color and materials matter-of-factly, but according to the artist they were also partly prompted by the work of 15th century Sienese painter Giovanni di Paolo: “Giovanni's works are full of contradictions, full of visual opulence but also of things withheld.”
Weathersby's paintings are simultaneously conceptual and visual. In his essay “Malleable Objects,” Washington DC area curator Mark Cameron Boyd has referred to Weathersby as a “post-conceptual artist”, one whose work “addresses missed theoretical opportunities inherent in object-making.” This exhibition as a whole and the individual works within it are oriented to create a visual play of optical experiences, but also a particular kind of mental or conceptual engagement. According to the artist, “Paintings are visual objects. Usually we think of the 'object' part as supporting the 'visual,' of the wooden stretcher and canvas as just being there to hold up the image that we are meant to see. But those two different aspects can play with or against each other to open other thoughts or yield different problems. When the painting not only presents, but also denies pleasure or information, it complicates things. It can require some deciphering. It must be held in the mind as well as seen.”
Ken Weathersby received an MFA in Painting from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Detroit. His work was recently included in The National Academy of Art Museum's 183rd Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art in New York and in Postconceptualism at Moderno in Washington, DC. His paintings were featured in the Mid-Atlantic edition of New American Paintings. He is the recipient of a Mid-Atlantic Arts / New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship in Painting.
PIEROGI
177 North 9th Street
Brooklyn, NY 11211
T. 718.599.2144
F. 718.599.1666
E. info@pierogi2000.com
www.pierogi2000.com
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Auction
5/9/2010
157(j) will be part of Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions' 2010 benefit auction, selected by David John Dick (of youhavebeenheresometime) along with art by these four other artists:
Matt Connors
Ian McDonald
William J. O'Brien
Ivan Terestchenko
Public viewing at LACE beginning May 7
Auction May 20, 2010
www.welcometolace.org/auction/
www.youhavebeenheresometime.blogspot.com
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Exhibition
3/22/2010
CONTINUING COLOR ABSTRACTION
A group show curated by Rella Stuart-Hunt.
Exhibition: April 13 - May 8, 2010.
Reception: Thursday, April 15, 6 - 8 pm.
THE PAINTING CENTER has moved into its new space:
547 West 27th Street, NY, NY.
www.thepaintingcenter.org
212-343-1060
director@thepaintingcenter.org
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Curating
2/16/2010
Crying (contemporary caveperson), Miyuki Tsushima, detail, overall 6” x 4”, 2008
SEE YOU THERE / Miyuki Tsushima at Kent Place Gallery
Summit,NJ -- The Kent Place Gallery will present an exhibition of art by Miyuki Tsushima from Friday, February 12 – Friday March 12, 2010. There will be a reception for the artist from 6-8 pm on Friday March 5.
Tsushima’s installation includes paintings, objects and printed images. The whole space of Kent Place gallery becomes the canvas for her work. Painted, drawn and found images of animals, shooting range targets, and humans, including Tsushima’s “contemporary caveperson” figures are placed together in scenes that suggest multiple stories and evoke emotion. The “contemporary caveperson” refers to an ongoing motif in Tsushima’s work, a set of fictional characters who struggle to come to terms with and survive the difficulties and complexities of the world.
According to Kent Place Gallery Director Ken Weathersby, Tsushima’s work is evocative on a number of levels. “In formal terms, her work ranges widely. One element of this is her very loose, gestural marking, which is expressive, and seems to describe a space or an atmosphere. At the same time and sometimes combined with this, there are beautiful, extremely delicately rendered small drawings and paintings, so sensitive, and also very controlled. And then there are found elements, including printed images like shooting range targets with the silhouettes of small animals. All of these elements work together. The installation as a whole raises thoughts about relationships and alienation, perspective and identity. The show makes room for emotional response and empathy, but in an open-ended way. This is a beautiful and thought-provoking exhibition.”
Miyuki Tsushima grew up in Tokyo and attended an all-girls high school. She currently lives and works in New York City. She holds an MFA in Fine Arts from The School of Visual Arts in New York, and a Bachelor of Law from Keio University in Tokyo. She is a recipient of the Aaron Siskind Memorial Award. She has exhibited her art in New York and internationally.
Kent Place Gallery is on the campus of Kent Place School, 42 Norwood Avenue, Summit, NJ. Gallery hours are Monday – Friday, 9:00 am to 4:00 pm. For more information call (908) 273-0900, or visit www.kentplace.org.
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Curating
10/14/2009
Familiar Faces, the month of january, 2009 (installation view at Kent Place Gallery), HTML drawings by Chris Ashley
courtesy of George Lawson Gallery
“A FEW MONTHS” CHRIS ASHLEY AT KENT PLACE GALLERY
Summit, NJ -- Kent Place Gallery will present "A Few Months" an exhibition of new art by Chris Ashley, from Monday October 19 to Friday November 20. There will be a reception from 6 to 8 pm on Friday October 23.
Chris Ashley produces beautiful, jewel-like colored drawings. He creates a fresh drawing, each one a new and unique idea, every single day. His medium for this daily discipline is HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language), a digital process not usually associated with fine art in the sense of traditional painting and drawing. Ashley’s work shows that it can be an ideal medium both for aesthetic delight as well as endless invention.
This ongoing string of artistic variations is made to exist primarily within a digital world, since HTML is native to the internet. For years now the drawings have been published daily on his blog, “Look, See—“ (http://looksee.chrisashley.net/), but for this exhibition at Kent Place Gallery, Ashley presents five months’ worth of carefully printed images of his HTML works, which will be displayed in the gallery grouped in five large blocks, one block on each wall of the gallery, like five calendars. This provides the chance to see the images simultaneously, note the evolution of Ashley’s ideas, and compare work produced at different times.
According to gallery director Ken Weathersby, “Ashley is also a fantastic abstract painter in the traditional sense (with paint on canvas), and knows art history and contemporary art. His work with HTML is so interesting and such a unique project. I’m very excited to have it here at Kent Place Gallery. He has been working with this somewhat unusual medium for many years now, and in a totally focused way. Even though one might think that HTML presents only certain limited variables, Chris produces seemingly infinite surprises. I began visiting his blog daily some time ago and was often moved to leave comments on particular works. When I selected the five months that appear here at Kent Place Gallery, I chose a range that I think displays that quality of the unexpected that I find in his art. For example, one of the months uses vintage photographs as a jumping-off point, bringing in an aspect of collage, and with a fantastic visual humor. Another one deals with invented caricatures of human faces in a way that touches on ideas of cartooning, of masks, of the grotesque, and also of Picasso and cubism. Chris is just very knowledgeable and wise about the history of image-making, of the long traditions of painting and drawing, and it shows in these witty and resonant digital pieces.”
Chris Ashley lives, makes art and teaches in Oakland, California. He has exhibited widely and frequently—his recent and upcoming shows include exhibitions at George Lawson Gallery in San Francisco, Townsend Center for the Humanities at UC Berkeley, Rhizome at the New Museum, Semantics Gallery in Cincinnati and the Marx Gallery in Covington, Kentucky. His artwork appears here courtesy of George Lawson Gallery, San Francisco, California.
Kent Place Gallery is on the campus of Kent Place School, 42 Norwood Avenue, Summit, NJ. Gallery hours are Monday – Friday, 9:00 am to 4:00 pm. For more information call (908) 273-0900, or visit www.kentplace.org.
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Exhibition
8/19/2009
165 (wky - detail), 2009
THE REVERSE SIDE ALSO HAS A REVERSE SIDE
Ken Weathersby - Exhibition
Summit, NJ -- Kent Place Gallery will present an exhibition of new paintings by Ken Weathersby from Thursday, September 10, to Friday, October 9. There will be an artist’s reception from 6 to 8 pm on Thursday, September 10.
Kent Place Gallery
at Kent Place School
42 Norwood Avenue
Summit, NJ 07902 - 0308
Hours: Monday - Friday, 9am to 4pm
Phone: 908.273.0900
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Exhibition
7/6/2009
The Grid
August 19 - October 17, 2009
MP5³ - Milepost 5, 900 NE 81st Avenue, Portland, Oregon.
Opening reception: August 22, 7-9pm
Closing reception: October 17, 7-9pm
A group show curated by TJ Norris.
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Exhibition
4/8/2009
162(nfc - detail), 2008
Postconceptualism (curated by Mark Cameron Boyd and Fernando Batista), in connection with International Art Affairs.
Thursday April 30 through Saturday May 9, 2009 at Moderno, Washington, DC.
Reception: Friday, May 1 from 6-9pm.
“Postconceptualism” addresses art theory as posed by the original conceptual artists in a selection of contemporary works. Artists seen here approach significant issues of conceptualism through unique visions. Curators Boyd and Batista believe this exhibition presents individuals whose work extends conceptual art and continues its impact as Postconceptualism…
… Ken Weathersby’s paintings reveal the disregarded space behind a painting’s support in two-sided paintings which require a deciphering experience to perceive them…"
exhibition site:
Moderno
1939 12th Street NW,
Washington, DC, 20009.
Tel: 202.239.5819
Blog: www.theorynow.blogspot.com
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Exhibition
1/16/2009
157(J - detail, verso), 2008
New Jersey State Council on the Arts 2007-2008 Visual Arts Fellowship Exhibition.
April 10 through June 5, 2009 at Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ.
Reception: Friday, April 24 from 6-8pm.
There is a catalogue for this exhibition.
Visual Arts Center of New Jersey
68 Elm Street
Summit, NJ 07901
Tel: 908. 273.9121
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Dialogue
10/31/2008
160 (detail--160 is invisible in this view), 2008
"Giddy Construction"
Brent Hallard, an Australian artist who currently lives and works in Tokyo, prompted a discussion about paintings 147 and 160. Read it in full at Visual Discrepancies. Click the image above to go there.
Hallard: "...I wanted to know how these giddy surfaces were constructed. Plus I was interested in the cut-a-way, the replace, and the sometimes hidden—the strategies and things that muck with the head as much as they do with the work and the reading..."
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Artist Talk
10/26/2008
"Musical" Painting (detail), ca.1989, Ken Weathersby
Tuesday November 11, 6-7pm
101 Recitation Hall
University of Delaware Department of Art
A talk about painting by Ken Weathersby, showing images and mapping some preoccupations, including fields, mazes, minigrids, and turnarounds.
This presentation is free and open to the public.
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Exhibition
10/23/2008
147 (detail), 2006
Korus Project, A group exhibition.
November 7 through November 20, 2008 at Korus House in Washington, DC. Reception November 7, 6-8pm.
November 21 through December 3 at the Hun Gallery in New York. Reception November 21, 6-8pm.
The Hun Gallery is at 12 West 32nd St., 3rd Floor, NY, NY 10001
tel. 212.594.1312
hungallery.org
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Exhibition
8/26/2008
Maze 1 (detail), 1999, Ken Weathersby
Calculating Art: Mathematics in the Visual Field, on view from September 4 through October 8, 2008.
Therese A. Maloney Art Gallery at the College of Saint Elizabeth, 2 Convent Road, Morristown, NJ 07960
Opening reception: Thursday, September 4th, 4:30 to 7pm in the Maloney Art Gallery.
A group show curated by Dr. Virginia Butera.
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Art for Obama
8/17/2008
For All, transparent film, paint, wood, paper, available light, 2008, Michele Alpern (photo by kw)
MoveOn.org Political Action and Obey Giant are offering artists a chance to show at the Democratic National Convention in Denver. The call is for any 2D or 3D creation that exemplifies the positive vision of Obama's campaign. (Good luck competing with the beautiful entry above.) The deadline is 11:59 a.m. EDT on August 18, 2008. The top five pieces, as determined by MoveOn's independent panel of judges (Shepard Fairey, Moby, Thurston Moore, Nancy Spector, DJ Spooky, Cydney Payton, Ross Bleckner, April Gornik, Eric Fischl and Laura Dawn) will be shown at the Manifest Hope Gallery show at the Democratic National Convention in Denver. The top 30 pieces will be auctioned on eBay with proceeds going to progressive causes.
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Artist-on-Artist Action
7/2/2008
157(J - detail), 2008
J.T. Kirkland's new project at Thinking About Art.
Ken Weathersby (and a number of other artists) review each other's art. The works and and the words began posting the week of July 7. Click the image above to see the review of 157(J).
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Publication
3/26/2008
New American Paintings #75 2008 Mid-Atlantic Edition features KW paintings 150 and 153 (murder of abel).
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Exhibition
3/23/2008
The National Academy Museum's 183rd Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, on view from May 29 through September 7, 2008.
From the museum's press release:
"A two-sided painting construction by Ken Weathersby offers subtle changes in form, from one side to the other, as the hidden surface is revealed to the viewer."
"This Annual consists of exceptional contemporary works by newly emerging artists and established artists. The annual invitational exhibition offers an opportunity to the public to preview new artistic directions in contemporary American art. Included in this exhibition are artists Jose Bedia, Leonardo Drew, Ming Fay, Maria Elena Gonzalez, Steven Holl, Ben LaRocco, David Reed, David Row, Sean Scully, Barbara Takenaga, Don Voisine, James Wines, Betty Woodman and many others. Selections were made from over four-hundred recommended artists submitted for consideration and chosen by a curatorial committee comprised of a panel of seven prominent National Academicians.
A catalogue documenting trends, process, and media explored by the artists who are participating accompanies this exhibition. Written by art historian and Artist Membership Director, Nancy Malloy, this important resource includes an introduction by the Academy's President, Susan Shatter.
A separate awards committee of National Academician's will also give away over $100,000 in prizes."
The National Academy Museum: 1083 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10128, Tel: 212.369.4880
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Fellowship
2/15/2008
Ken Weathersby awarded 2008 Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation / NJ State Council on the Arts Fellowship in Painting.
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Interview (in Luna Park Review, archived winter 2008 issue)
1/16/2008
Hootenanny Number One, 1994-- cover by Ken Weathersby.
RE: HOOTENANNY
Founding editors David Keith and Ken Weathersby talk about the unique, handbound literary and artists' journal that brought together a large and strange assortment of visual artists, poets, cartoonists, scientists, novelists and others. In the mid-90's Hootenanny could be found in the Whitney and Guggenheim museum stores and bookstores around New York as well as stores in Paris, Boston and a few other cities. Luna Park's interview traces the short history of Hootenanny.
Published to coincide with the launch of Luna Park Review's new web site,
www.lunaparkreview.com
January 31, 2008.
Ken Weathersby is also the featured visual artist for this quarterly issue of Luna Park.
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Curating
12/13/2007
Installation view--three works by Jeremy Dyer.
AGAINST NATURE AT KENT PLACE GALLERY
Summit, NJ -- The Kent Place Gallery will exhibit recent art by ten professional artists whose works address aspects of conflict between humans and the rest of nature. The exhibition, titled "Against Nature," was curated by gallery director Ken Weathersby and will be on display from January 10 to February 6, 2008.
The works in the show range from photographs by Jeremy Dyer, which capture a dark, anxious sense of landscape, to paintings by Jonathan Allen that superimpose human interventions, adventures and errors in layers upon colorful fields.
Jesse Patrick Martin's drawings evoke dazzling and beautiful, but monstrously hybrid, forms. They seem to be composed of mineral, plant and possibly animal parts and imply our contemporary concerns with genetic engineering, as well as harking back to images in J. K. Huysmans' decadent French novel, Against Nature. Huysmans' literary work was one inspiration for the exhibition. According to Weathersby, "In the novel, the protagonist is in pursuit of the artificial in all experience. He is rebelling against everything that is considered natural. He develops a preference, which he avidly pursues, first for artificial flowers, and then, when that interest becomes exhausted, for real flowers that are so strange that they seem artificial. In all cases, he believes that ordinary nature is inferior. The horror of nature and the sentimental love of nature, both of which Huysmans' book address, run through modern culture and have surfaced in many forms. We find ourselves now in a time when, because of global warming and many other concerns, these issues emerge in a new way. This exhibition is intended to address that fact."
Delicate beauty is also represented in the exhibition in photographs by Miwa Koizumi. Her images of translucent, floating creatures become tempered with irony when one realizes that the "creatures" are fashioned from bits of plastic bottles and other litter.
Ernest Concepcion's large drawing "A Desire for Conflict (or how I managed to transform myself and stay the same)" evokes a frantic sense of conflict in a field populated with a multitude of clashing figures, while Peter Jacobs' richly textured painting "Marching to Extinction" gestures toward the final and only known evolutionary end-point for all species, including our own.
Both Adam Grossi and Amie Robinson locate a front line of conflict closer to home. Robinson's painting imagines animals mysteriously placed and acting within the space of an ordinary house in "Salvaging What Is Left". The houses and water symbols in Grossi's painting "Precipitation Zone" seem to raise issues of sprawl, the suburbs and ground water.
Michael Wyshock's video "Waterbang" is a poetic, psychedelically patterned, constantly looping work that layers real-world imagery and movement. It is a study in building intensity and complication.
Steve Jarvis' "Ark II Project" suggests (and plans for) a radical solution to our troubled relationship with our planet. The diagrams and documents he displays prepare for saving whatever animals survive our self-destruction as humans, and include drawings of protective suits tailored for chimpanzees and other creatures.
An artist's reception will be held Friday, January 18 from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. in the gallery. The exhibit and reception are free and open to the public. The Kent Place Gallery, located in Summit on the campus of Kent Place School, is open from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, or by appointment with Ken Weathersby, Director. For more information please visit www.kentplace.org. Jonathan Allen's work seen in this exhibition was supported by grants by the George Sugarman Foundation and the Puffin Foundation
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