http://www.akrylic.com en-us http://www.akrylic.com N/A stuart@newbox.ca Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:14:04 -0400 20 http://www.akrylic.com/articles/61/1/INVENTIONSINTERRUPTIONS--May-2----June-22-2008.html   Ula Einstein,  Lori HepnerCraddock Terry Gallery, Riverviews Artspace, Lynchburg Virginia I created new works using tyvek, and duralar. Tyvek, an industrial housing material used as a protective layer, and duralar are materials traditionally used as packaging materials.  Using materials and tools in ways other than originally intended, my process which hosts what i originally intend and then surrendering, incorporates drawing with fire, blades, and thread, and various forms of heat to further perforate, collapse, melt and alter the material.  I'm interested in the tension and space between the formal and the familiar, fine art and craft, the synthethic and the natural, destruction and creation. ula@artula.com (ULA EINSTEIN) Mon, 05 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.akrylic.com/articles/60/1/Womens-VoicesWomens-Visions.html MUSIQUE A LA MODEPRESENTS MUSIC BY WOMEN  throughout the ages together with a juried EXHIBIT OF ART BY CONTEMPORARY WOMEN ARTISTSSunday, April 13 at 7:30pm at St. Mark's Church in the Bowery (131 E. 10th St. at Second Ave.)   NYC Tickets: $10 / $5 students and seniors (available at the door or online at www.musiquealamode.com/calendar)  or http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/30797 Concert to Feature New Music and Appearance by Renowned Composer Gabriela Lena Frank and the World Premiere of   “Albedo .12” by Margaret Anne Schedel, in a Program of Music by Women from the Baroque to the PresentThe featured visual artists, who were selected by jury, represent a wide range of media and perspectives.NEW YORK-April 7, 2008 - Musique a la Mode, a contemporary chamber music ensemble, today announced a mixed-media exhibit by contemporary women visual artists, to be displayed in connection with Women's Voices/Women's Visions, a concert of music by women composers from the baroque era to the present. ABOUT THE EXHIBIT  - The featured visual artists, who were selected by jury, represent a wide range of media and perspectives.   Many featured works evoke strong feminist themes and imagery, including the poster Artsy Girl Quiz by the anonymous feminist art collective Guerrilla Girls on Tour, which has been hailed by Gloria Steinem for their use of humor as a tool to fight sexism. The exhibit also includes a provocative self-portrait by the photographer Mare Vaccaro, who has a rare genetic condition called alopecia universalis that renders her body completely hairless and who explores the deconstructed female form and its relationship to femininity; entitled Marital Hiss, the portrait depicts the artist as a “blank canvas,” adorned with an antique lace collar from 1880. Gaze, an interactive video installation by Aichen Lin, recreates the experience of being stared at by male figures, who appear to follow the viewer, gazing at them for the duration of their engagement.  Coralina Meyer’s photograph Equator provides a confrontational, distorted perspective on the nude, pregnant female body. Additional perspectives on femininity and depictions of the female are expressed in pieces by paintings and drawings by Lydia Conklin, Ayakoh Furukawa, Laura Napier, and Natasha Turovsky.  Closely related to issues of feminism are the deeply ecological themes and natural imagery expressed in pieces by Barbara Roux, and Linda Byrne’s work explores New York’s abandoned and decaying infrastructure, as in her painting of the defunct lighterage pier along the Hudson River.Mixed and unconventional media pieces include Ula Einstein’s evocative Imprint (which depicts cryptic messages meticulously tattooed onto broken eggshells), and Olek’s installaton Text Message: Sep 7, 3:55 by Olek, which combines crocheted ribbons and video tape in a commentary on, in the artist’s words, “the short existence of text message as a form of communication in contrast to the labor-intensive crocheted sculptures.” Erin Partridge’s describes her All Is Flux, her mixed-media artist’s book, as being “both the container and the contained”; a partly interactive piece, it invites the reader to hold and touch the book, and even to write in their own comments and reactions to its contents. “The collection illustrates the extraordinary breadth of perspectives offered by women creating art today. It will be exciting to experience these works against the backdrop of five centuries of music by women composers,” said Jennifer Taira, clarinetist of Musique a la Mode and a member of the selection jury. The collection’s thirteen pieces were selected from over 100 submissions; most works will be available for sale at the event. ula@artula.com (ULA EINSTEIN) Mon, 07 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.akrylic.com/articles/59/1/LINE-GESTURE-SPACE-January-22---March-15--Therese-A-Maloney-Gallery-St-Elizabeth-College-NJ.html Opening Reception February 7th, 4:30-7:00pm St. Elizabeth College, Morristown, NJ3 Artists - ELAINE CHONG (NJ)- wire drawing with handmade paperULA EINSTEIN (NYC) - new installation work with wire, and various media, painting NAOMI GROSSMAN (NY) - wire drawing, sculpture ula@artula.com (ULA EINSTEIN) Sun, 20 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.akrylic.com/articles/58/1/DRAWING-REVEALED-Jan-19---Feb-17-2008-Garrison-Art-Center-NY.html Opening January 19, 5-8,  this exhibition of a broad range of drawing runs through February 17th.  Curated by Jaanika Peerna, Susan EnglishArtists Include: Laura Battle, Nancy Bauch, Jaq Belcher, Ula Einstein, Alexis Elton, Thomas Huber, Ken Landauer, Jessoo Lee, Charlotte Schulz, Craig Shannon, Stan Stroh ula@artula.com (ULA EINSTEIN) Sun, 20 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.akrylic.com/articles/54/1/Ouverture--Huma-Bhabha/Flash-Art-JanFeb-2007.html I think Jesus would be horrified at whats going on, Huma Bhabha quipped in front of J.C., her rendition of a shell-shocked son of God fashioned from scavenged wood and Styrofoam with clay accents.  Kerr@akrylic.com (Merrily Kerr) Mon, 22 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.akrylic.com/articles/53/1/A-Flood-of-Details--Digging-Into-Yun-Fei-Jis-Source-Material/Art-on-Paper-JanFeb-07.html Yun-Fei Jis monumental new landscape paintings, depicting scenes along the winding banks of the Yangtze River just prior to the areas flooding by the Three Gorges Dam, are composed of imagery sampled from a vast archive of photographs, notes and sketches he has developed on several trips to China over the past five years.  Kerr@akrylic.com (Merrily Kerr) Mon, 22 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.akrylic.com/articles/52/1/Force-Majeure/Time-Out-New-York-April-20---26-2006.html Kara Walker responds to Hurricane Katrina with a wake-up call of a show at the Met Kerr@akrylic.com (Merrily Kerr) Tue, 26 Dec 2006 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.akrylic.com/articles/51/1/Supernova-Stars-Deaths-and-Disasters-1962-1964-Andy-Warhol-at-the-Art-Gallery-of-Ontario/Supernova-Stars-Deaths-and-Disasters-1962-1964-Andy-Warhol-at-the-AGO.html Memo to the Art Gallery of Ontario: fire your marketing staff. Initially, we welcomed the news that the AGO would be hosting an Andy Warhol show.  Until, that is, we saw the ads.  Far from being clever and savvy, these ads actually raise the not-entirely-unrealistic prospect that the AGO had never ever heard of Warhol, nor had they any clue what he had ever done. artfag@akrylic.com (The Art Fag) Sat, 12 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.akrylic.com/articles/49/1/Myths-The-Paintings-of-Samuel-Gareginyan/Myths-The-Paintings-of-Samuel-Gareginyan.html None of this is real, said Samuel Gareginyan to a crowd of assembled students, faculty, and other curious onlookers in his warm Armenian accent. Its a different plane of reality. And it was impossible not to see what he meant, in a room full of windows called paintings. Delmar@akrylic.com (David Delmar-Senties) Thu, 13 Jul 2006 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.akrylic.com/articles/48/1/-The-AFC-Emerging-Artist-Summer-Series-The-Photographs-of-Rob-Carter/The-AFC-Emerging-Artist-Summer-Series-The-Photographs-of-Rob-Carter.html Like many contemporary artists, the philosophy that differentiates Carter’s work from this movement is one that subscribes to the belief that man’s most able self is his conscious self-his intending self. paddy@akrylic.com (Paddy Johnson) Sun, 09 Jul 2006 00:00:00 -0400