Far Along Workshop

Cathy and I spent last week working with Pat Augsburger's fiber arts students at James Madison University on an installation called Far Along, Part I at the Smith House Gallery.  

Thanks to the students for all of their hard work and dedication to this project.

Participating student artists: Blakely Cohen, Tiara Lovelace, Evan Norris, Ciara Reid, Eliza Tuttle, Amanda Wesely, Shea Goitia and Morgan McDonald.

Far Along, Part I: ap-art-ment collaborates with students in James Madison University's Fibers Art Department

ap-art-ment has spent the last week working with JMU's Fiber Arts students to create vessels that have been piled into a large-scale cairn in the gallery of the Smith House in Harrisonburg, VA.  This project, titled Far Along, Part 1, is a part of a larger ongoing project about journeys and markers.

Salon Show, Pop Up Art House, opens this weekend

PUAH Gallery presents: Salon Show February 18th - March 24th, 2012 Salon reception for the artists & writers: Saturday, February 18th from 6-8pm

24 artists from as far wide as New York, San Francisco, Ohio, LA & LV will be exhibiting in PUAH Gallery's first group show. As in the tradition of the original salon shows, the invitation was spread to art school campuses throughout the southwest. The show will feature students, recent grads, emerging and established artists in a jostling of paintings, drawings and sculpture. Following the tradition that is credited with the inception of the modern art critic, a Gazette will be produced featuring musings by critics, writers, poets, editors and the artists themselves. To further our amusement with the theme of a gallery mocking a museum, the Salon Show will also feature a gift shop complete with artistic goods and merchandise. Following the poet Ezra Pound's 1934 injunction to "Make it new!", artists will be taking vintage objects and rendering them a twist. Expect the gallery acronym PUAH (meaning "splendid" in Hebrew) embellished on goods. Come join the fun at our Salon opening and gather in refined conversation, relish in floor to ceiling art, read all about it in the Gazette and take home a commemorative coffee mug!

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS: Jason Adkins, Mark Brandvick, Matthew Couper, Rory Devine, Catherine Fairbanks, Laura Boles Faw, Ellary Eddy, Jared Flores, Susanne Forestieri, Drina Fried, Wendy Kveck, Matthew Marchand, Jane Marquez, Mark Mellon, Ford Minton, Ann Mowry, Brent Payne, David Sanchez Burr, Jim Seely, Kathleen Strukoff, Markus Tracy, Jevijoe Vitug, Holly Vaughn and Greta Waller SELECTED WRITERS: Jay Burton (writer/Unnatural Light), Gregory Crosby (poet), Scott Dickensheets (editor/writer), Hugh Fogel (founder Unica Home), Mat Gleason (Coagula/Huffington Post), Danielle Kelly (critic), Andrew Kiraly (editor/writer), Jenesca Kenway (critic) and Kristen Peterson (arts writer)

ap--art-ment's show is a Top Pick!

Because we can't help ourselves and are so unbelievably flattered, here's a link to Las Vegas Weekly's top picks for 2011.  ap-art-ment's About the Thing and the Thing Itself at Pop Up Art House was their #1 pick for art exhibitions!!!  Thanks to Matthew Marchand and to Shannon Mc Mackin for giving us the opportunity to put this show together.  And thank you to all of our friends who travelled from San Francisco, LA, and Virginia to support us and see the show!

http://www.lasvegasweekly.com/news/2011/dec/29/2011-year-review-art-and-theater/

Myth, detail

Myth, detail
ap-art-ment
2011
pencil, paper

Myth is a set of limited edition drawings by ap-art-ment.
The artist not-so alone in her studio...

a moment of John Dewey

"Emotions are attached to events and objects in their movement (environment). They are not private."

-John Dewey, Art as Experience

ap-art-ment asks, are they social?

Collaborations within a Collaboration at SCOPE Miami 2011

ap-art-ment contributes three projects to the 2011 Skowhegan alumni project: Strength In Numbers at SCOPE Miami 2011

Strength In Numbers:
STRENGTH IN NUMBERS is an event, a sculpture, an installation, and a group of individual artists with extremely diverse practices laminated by a shared experience at the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, where they met and started working together during this past summer’s session. In proposing a project for SCOPE, this was their point of departure: what is an individual within the context of an organization? Using these constraints as a catalyst, the project has evolved into a collaborative effort to bridge the physical distance between each of them, and manage a condensed time of production and display. Featured in the Outside Lounge at SCOPE, the 2011 Skowhegan residents will reassemble, build, project, stage, and perform a space for collaboration, ambiguity, and flexibility. They will work on their monument “the group” during the course of the fair; side by side, but not necessarily together, like a ship’s crew trying to stay afloat. Their materials will consist primarily of the detritus of other participants at SCOPE and the contents of two crates, arriving from New York and London, respectively. The items inside the crates will be incorporated based on written instructions, telephone conversations, email correspondence, and hands on assistance from the artists. Ultimately and throughout, we will be arriving at a structure that is zoned for productivity and a vibe that overcomes the aspirations of any of us individually. During the week-long event and on a daily basis, the monument will evolve, grow, discharge, dissolve, take U-turns, make upgrades, flex and flux, purge and merge, expand and even collapse in a constantly-morphing building performance.