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Scott Treleaven On the Edge of Drawing lecture at the MoMA

31 Jan

The MoMA’s Contemporary Drawing department hosted their annual lecture with guest speaker artist Scott Treleaven.  ArtJetSet first saw works by this talented Canadian artist at NADA Miami 2008, http://artjetset.com/2008/12/24/nada-fair-miami-2/

The lecture explored the direction of how the definition of drawing is evolving.  As a young artist Treleaven created zines – most notably Salivation Army, cut and pasted Xeroxes of photos and stories.  This greatly shaped his maturer works, as he evolved his practice towards collage, and most recently abstracted collaged paintings.

Another concept discussed was how drawings that was once considered preliminary works for performance art pieces are now being absorbed into the drawing realm as unique works on paper.

Myself, as a teenager growing up in Toronto I attended many zine fairs, and find it compelling to think how the zine has evolved into the new media blog.

Bridgeman Art at The HOW Conference

25 Jun

While attending the HOW Design Live conference, I came across the booth of Bridgeman Art, a fine art image licensing agency that work with over 8000 collections.   Bridgeman Art offered a fantastic booth give-away – they had a variety of famous painting cutouts that you posed in, and they offered you the Polaroid framed in a mouse pad.  See mine above as I pose in The Cheat with the Ace of Clubs, by Georges de La Tour.

Vito Acconci Artist Lecture at New York Studio School

9 Feb


Vito Acconci presented From Words Through Action to Architecture, a discussion on the evolution of his artistic career.

A compelling narration through his early performance and body work of the 1970s and how his desire to move his art beyond self reflective works into a greater reactive realm escalated his creative oeuvre towards architecture and public art.

He founded Acconci Studio, where he and his team have created some remarkable projects which resonante the ideas of the interjection of private within public space, the boundaries of the body, the fluid spaces that wave and ripple into one and other in this inverted möibus waves.


Favorites included Bad Drema House at MIT, and Mur Island in Graz, Austria.

Photograph of Vito Acconci by Paul Ott.

Heather Rowe talks about Trouble Everyday at D’Amelio Terras

10 May

One of the many New York Gallery Week events was artist Heather Rowe in conversation with Jacob Proctor, Associate Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art at the University of Michigan Museum of Art at D’Amelio Terras Gallery.


Rowe inverts the construction of the interior space using materials in house construction like drywall, carpet sponge, laminate, and ornamental cornices.

Rowe spoke about the structures calling to scaffolding, and the mirrors creating a disjuncture between the visual perception of the piece and how one moves through and around it.

POWarts Panel at Sotheby’s on Collecting

15 Nov

Last Monday, Sotheby’s Auction House hosted POWArts panel titled Visions For Collecting followed by a preview of the impending Contemporary sale.

On the panel, Nancy Spector, chief curator of the Guggenheim NY. Alison Gingeras, chief curator of the Palazzo Grassi, featuring the private collection of François Pinault. Lynne Cooke, curator at large of the Dia Art Foundation, deputy director of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia.

Three of the Art World’s most brilliant and insightful curators shared their impressions and experiences in shaping the collections and the future of collecting.
They discussed the goals of collecting and filling the “collection gaps” by maintaining the ethos of the collection goals of each of their institutions which vary from private collector, public museum, and a museum borne from a foundation.

POWarts is a great organization that supports the advancement of professional women (and men) in the art world.

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