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Charley Friedman: Performance at Sheldon Museum of Art

intern — Fri, 17 May 2013 16:31:29 +0000

What: Charley Friedman will be performing as Bitzalel Friedemann. Bitzalel will give a tour of museum.

Where: Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln NE

Time: Friday, May 17, 7PM-8PM

Why: 50th Anniversary of iconic Phillip Johnson building

Event: The Naked Museum

Nina Johnson-Milewski named honorary trustee of MOCA

assistant — Thu, 16 May 2013 19:02:11 +0000

The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) is dedicated to making contemporary art accessible to diverse audiences – especially underserved populations – through the collection, preservation and exhibition of the best of contemporary art and its art historical influences.

Christy Gast’s ‘Barefoot Mailman’ Featured in Ocean Drive

assistant — Thu, 16 May 2013 18:38:51 +0000

This past weekend, artist Christy Gast unveiled her 12-foot, bronzed fiberglass Self Portrait As The Barefoot Mailman sculpture at Bal Harbour Founder’s Circle as part of the community’s “Unscripted” public art series. The piece nods South Florida’s legendary barefoot mailmen, who walked the route between Palm Beach and Miami in the 1880s, before there were roads and Henry Flagler’s famed railway.

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Christy Gast’s Self Portrait As the Barefoot Mailman Featured in SouthFlorida.com

assistant — Thu, 16 May 2013 18:21:45 +0000

Buried headfirst in a bed of flowers and mulch across the street from Bal Harbour Shops is a 12-foot-tall sculpture of the Barefoot Mailman, a historical figure who hand-delivered mail sans shoes along the beach between Lake Worth and Miami during the 1880s.

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Christy Gast Featured on Artsy Editorial

intern — Sat, 11 May 2013 20:55:22 +0000

Once upon a time—before electronic mail was even a twinkle in a programmer’s eye—correspondence was delivered by heroic means. As the legend goes: “Neither pirates, nor sharks, nor crocodiles shall keep these carriers from their appointed rounds.” In the case of the iconic seaside U.S Mail carriers in 19th-century South Florida, coined the Barefoot Mailmen, their routed course spanned a 68-mile stretch across the Florida coast—void of roads, railroads, or fresh water for horses. Aside from the 28 miles traversed by rowboat, the rest of the journey was taken with bare feet upon the sand.

Whisper this folklore to Christy Gast, an artist known to explore the history of man and landscape through folk performance, and what does she do? For her winning commission for the “Unscripted” public art program, Gast assumed the guise of the legendary shoe-less mail carrier to pose for a 3D scan of her likeness, soon to be installed as a public sculpture. (Catch a peek behind-the-scenes of the process, at right.)

Gast captured this moment with a limited edition black-and-white print inspired by the sculpture, where she’s depicted while walking in costume to recall—and canonize—the Barefoot legend.

Self Portrait as the Barefoot Mailman will be unveiled on May 16th, 2013 at the Village of Bal Harbour in Miami Beach, Florida.

Nicolas Lobo at Wharton + Espinosa

intern — Sat, 11 May 2013 17:14:58 +0000

Work by Nicolas Lobo will be displayed at Wharton + Espinosa in West Hollywood, California.

“Nicolas Lobo’s Grape Syrup Action for Paul Octavian Nazca’s “U Smile 800% Slower” cross-contaminates ascending mega-trends in a deadpan video documenting an enigmatic mark-making activity. The imagery captures a person, covered head to toe in protective painting gear, spraying purple fluid onto the large interior walls of a warehouse. This ambiguous action is set to the sounds of hypnotic distant howls surging in wavelike rhythms. The purple fluid sprayed from a hacked fire extinguisher is grape cough syrup, Screw music’s drug of choice. Lobo’s weaving line of oozy, evaporating purple syrup embodies a drawing practice he refers to as Palsy Drawing, which he explains as a technique derived from non-representational early childhood mark making that is directly tied to developing neurological patterns.”

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Christy Gast’s Source featured in JAB33

intern — Fri, 10 May 2013 17:38:19 +0000

Gast, Christy, Source. Miami: [NAME] Publications, 2012, (name publications.org & christygast.com) 9×6 in, 100 pages, $15. Source, the fifth volume in [NAME] Publications’ Miami Artists Series, features an archive of photographs by the sculptor and video artist Christ Gast. The full-bleed images in this collection focus on objects and assemblages that Gast describes as things that are like sculptures but aren’t sculptures. These “found sculptures” alternate between creations of nature (a beaver lodge) and humankind (an elderly woman quilting at a craft fair).

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Betty Woodman at Salon 94 Freemans

assistant — Tue, 07 May 2013 16:21:05 +0000

For more than 50 years, the work of Betty Woodman has pivoted around the subject of the vase like an axis. She once again returns to the use and representation of vessels in her hybrid painting-sculpture ceramic pieces.

With the splashy bright color and curvaceous line she is known for, Woodman presents a theatrical vision of home, courtyard and garden. Her installation at Salon 94 Freemans divides the gallery into ideas about “inside” and “outside”. One side of a wall contains vases, figures, shells and bouquets, where the flowers too are rendered in glazed ceramic. A small, flat silhouette in the shape of a vessel is painted on one side with a nude female Venus figure, and on the other side with abstract patterns in washy colors—a careful method with a quick look inherited from Modern painting masters. This is the home’s interior, defined here as a place for the presentation and display of objects and vessels.

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Christy Gast’s Barefoot Mailman featured in Whitewall

intern — Thu, 02 May 2013 15:51:04 +0000

Christy Gast’s Barefoot Mailman mentioned in Whitewall’s Spring Art Issue, front of book News section “Expressions”.

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Nicolas Lobo’s Timber, lakes featured in Miami Art Zine

intern — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 03:17:34 +0000

Gallery Diet and artist Nicolas Lobo invited guests to a unique one night only exhibition and experimental version of a listening party for Justin Timberlake’s album “The 20/20 Experience”

The exhibition, entitled “Timber, lakes” featured the artist’s collages and a sculpture in the main gallery and a video installation in the project room. The main focus however was the sound installation, even though this was not immediately obvious to the ears nor the eyes. No recognizable aspect of Justin Timberlake’s music remained in Lobo’s work as the artist used the original album as sound fodder for his deconstruction experiments to explore a void of meaning.

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