BLEU ACIER INC.
109 WEST COLUMBUS DRIVE TAMPA, FL 33602 TEL/FAX: 813 272 9746
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NEW EDITIONS
OPENING RECEPTION: FRIDAY DECEMBER 12, 2008, 7 - 10 PM
December 12 through February 14, 2009
OPEN STUDIO SATURDAY DECEMBER 13TH FROM 1-5PM
TECHNIQUES DEMONSTRATED AND QUESTIONS ANSWERED ABOUT PRINTMAKING TECHNIQUES.
Bleu Acier is proud to present their new fine art print editions published during 2007 and 2008 in celebration of our 5th anniversary here on Columbus Drive.
The artists in this exhibition have been working with Bleu Acier since the beginning. Several have been working with me for over 2 decades, each print becoming a new piece of a complex oeuvre in motion. The making of an original print is a collaborative alchemy of culture, character, talent, weakness, strength, understanding, accident, hazard, knowledge and questioning. The final goal being the arrival of the artist’s image on its desired support, with the least amount of compromise of the artists thought process. A print must have the same power as an original work of the same artist, printmaking techniques being just another option on the palette of image making. In contemporary creative methods the necessity of collaboration is very present. Whether it be the waterfalls of Olafur Eliasson, funded by the Public Art Fund in New York City, where there were a large number of collaborators to realize this project, an artist with an assistant in order to stretch a large canvas, or an artist desiring to make a print in need of a printer, the impact of collaboration in contemporary image making is important and more and more visible. Collaborative studios of all kinds have opened in recent years devoting themselves to the realization of image through a team effort.
The work exhibited in this exhibition travels through a range of techniques; lithography, etching, direct gravure, photogravure, woodcut and monotype.
The artists included in this show are: Hervé DiRosa, Sylvie Eyberg, Dominique Labauvie, Diana Leavengood, Steve McClure, Claudia Ryan, Peter Soriano, Bernar Venet, Theo Wujcik and Marie Yoho Dorsey.
My guests for this show are Regional Artists Debra Jo Radke and Judith Salmon who have been working at Bleu Acier, and the students from the Printmaking Studio class at The New College of Florida in Sarasota that I have been teaching this semester.
Please bring a bottle to share and come have a piece of cake.
Certain prints will be offered at a special pre publication price for the opening, and during the month of December.
BLEU ACIER INC. is an active fine art print publisher, print atelier, gallery and live-in loft that functions at the intersection of private and public space where art and the city keep company. Bleu Acier exhibits works in all disciplines by emerging, mid-career and established artists from the U.S. and Europe.
Gallery Hours: Saturdays 1 – 5 PM and by appointment For further information contact Erika Schneider 109 WEST COLUMBUS DRIVE TAMPA, FL 33602 TEL/FAX: 813 272 9746 BLEUACIER.COM
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Monday, December 08, 2008
Thursday, December 27, 2007
New Bleu Acier show
Opening Reception: Friday, December 28, 6-9pm
Bleu Acier is pleased to present The Greatest, three works by three New York-based artists – Ain Cocke, Chantel Foretich, and Trong G. Nguyen. The exhibition is guest-curated by Carrie Mackin, former director of Covivant Gallery, who chose simply to adorn two walls with a spare selection of small works that invite close engagement.
Ain Cocke’s paintings and drawings question the masculine mold that he and most men were socialized and assimilated into. Using the standard-bearer of testosterone, the military man as his model, Cocke romanticizes the soldier not as an aggressive combatant in the field of battle, but rather an effeminate figure who is seemingly in touch with other “natural orders” of the male mystique.
Chantel Foretich’s miniatures and dioramas recreate memories that, though they may not be so distant, exude the presence of a long, lost bygone era. Their intimate scale allows the viewer an opportunity to experience more fully with contemplation and nostalgia what might have escaped them in real scale and actual time.
Trong G. Nguyen’s contribution to the show is the complete text of Mallarme’s Igitur written word for word on individual grains of rice. The story itself opens with a pure encounter of the reader and his text, in which the mysteries of both open one another to revelation. Perhaps going against the grain of the digitized library, Nguyen’s “book” complicates the relationship of the book as object as knowledge.
Bleu Acier will also be closing Marie Yoho Dorsey’s show: Tales of Old Japan and Other Stories and will be presenting works by gallery artists in the main gallery.
BLEU ACIER INC. is an active fine art print publisher, print atelier, gallery and live-in loft that functions at the intersection of private and public space where art and the city keep company. Bleu Acier exhibits works in all disciplines by emerging, mid-career and established artists from the U.S. and Europe.
BLEU ACIER
109 West Columbus Drive, Tampa, Florida 33602
813.272.9746 | erika@bleuacier.com | www.bleuacier.com
Gallery hours: by appointment.
Bleu Acier is pleased to present The Greatest, three works by three New York-based artists – Ain Cocke, Chantel Foretich, and Trong G. Nguyen. The exhibition is guest-curated by Carrie Mackin, former director of Covivant Gallery, who chose simply to adorn two walls with a spare selection of small works that invite close engagement.
Ain Cocke’s paintings and drawings question the masculine mold that he and most men were socialized and assimilated into. Using the standard-bearer of testosterone, the military man as his model, Cocke romanticizes the soldier not as an aggressive combatant in the field of battle, but rather an effeminate figure who is seemingly in touch with other “natural orders” of the male mystique.
Chantel Foretich’s miniatures and dioramas recreate memories that, though they may not be so distant, exude the presence of a long, lost bygone era. Their intimate scale allows the viewer an opportunity to experience more fully with contemplation and nostalgia what might have escaped them in real scale and actual time.
Trong G. Nguyen’s contribution to the show is the complete text of Mallarme’s Igitur written word for word on individual grains of rice. The story itself opens with a pure encounter of the reader and his text, in which the mysteries of both open one another to revelation. Perhaps going against the grain of the digitized library, Nguyen’s “book” complicates the relationship of the book as object as knowledge.
Bleu Acier will also be closing Marie Yoho Dorsey’s show: Tales of Old Japan and Other Stories and will be presenting works by gallery artists in the main gallery.
BLEU ACIER INC. is an active fine art print publisher, print atelier, gallery and live-in loft that functions at the intersection of private and public space where art and the city keep company. Bleu Acier exhibits works in all disciplines by emerging, mid-career and established artists from the U.S. and Europe.
BLEU ACIER
109 West Columbus Drive, Tampa, Florida 33602
813.272.9746 | erika@bleuacier.com | www.bleuacier.com
Gallery hours: by appointment.
Saturday, November 10, 2007
New Bleu Acier show
I'm a little late in getting this one up - it opened last night!!!
I'm regretful I didn't get it up sooner, I've known Elsa since I was in undergrad at USF. A great artist and a better soul. If you ever get the opportunity to check her work out - it's worth the trip.
I'm regretful I didn't get it up sooner, I've known Elsa since I was in undergrad at USF. A great artist and a better soul. If you ever get the opportunity to check her work out - it's worth the trip.
BLEU ACIER INC.
109 WEST COLUMBUS DRIVE TAMPA, FL 33602 TEL/FAX: 813 272 9746
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: BLEU ACIER IS PLEASED TO PRESENT
MARIE YOHO DORSEY
TALES FROM OLD JAPAN AND OTHER STORIES
NOVEMBER 9 THROUGH DECEMBER 29, 2007
CLAUDIA SCALISE
PETITS FOURS
NOVEMBER 9 THROUGH DECEMBER 29, 2007
ELSA VALBUENA and GAUDERE DANZA
8 PM Friday, November 9, 2007
OPENING RECEPTION: NOVEMBER 9, 2007, 6 –10 PM
IN PRESENCE OF THE ARTIST
Bleu Acier is pleased to present Tales From Old Japan and Other Stories, Marie Yoho Dorsey's first solo exhibition at Bleu Acier. Dorsey’s Japanese heritage is the primary stimulus of her work. A long time practitioner of Ikebana, she draws a continuous source of intellectual inspiration from this practice. Much like Ikebana whose exquisite forms are transient in nature, direct gravure has provided a sensitive tool with which to create the same fleeting forms in ink onto delicate Japanese paper. The elaboration of the image continues with the application of embroidery and sewing. As a result of this process the prints become sculptural images in nature and practice.
The three new direct gravures are images rooted in traditional Japanese folk tale. The Crane Wife, Love Echo and Stardust are tales constructed within a narrative landscape. There are references to the Japanese author Kenji Miyazawa and tales such as “The Crane Wife”, and “The Marriage Ceremony of Two Rocks on the Japanese Island of Saddo”.
In addition to these works on paper several new installations will be presented,
as well as the first sculpture edition realized and published by Bleu Acier.
In conjunction with ARTE 2007, The Festival of the Latin Americas, Bleu Acier is pleased to present the paintings of Miami based artist Claudia Scalise. Claudia Scalise is represented by the Dorsch Gallery of Miami.
The work featured is from her ongoing series, “Petits Fours”, which in French is the name given to small beautifully decorated puffed pastries. Claudia Scalise paints the people she knows and the things that she collects. She chose this title as she seeks to share through her painting the richness of the lives and histories of the people and objects she portrays. The images are an inventory of her environment. The paint is used as a tool to describe the natural atmosphere of the subject. Scalise is interested in “the intangible qualities and personal history of the figure or object and its universal aspects”. The suggested intimacy of the images allows a very personal relationship of the viewer to the image. The small scale also evokes the Mexican Milagros tradition. Milagros, which means magical, are small religious charms that help bring about well-being and equilibrium in the lives of those who use them for prayer and to the lives of those who are prayed for.
The artist when finished with an image allows the image to also do it’s magic when presented to the public thus bringing to the viewer an object (the work of art) which carries within itself a message for the viewer to share, reconstruct or disregard. Magic works in many ways, as does the artist’s image.
Especially for the evening of ARTE, Bleu Acier has invited Columbian Choreographer, Elsa Valbuena and her company Gaudere Danza for a one evening performance November 9th at 8 PM.
Gaudere Danza derives its name from the Latin word meaning to rejoice as it is in the process of the work that I : We, find special joy. Gaudere’s objective is creation, collaboration and communication through the language of the human body. It is a constantly changing organism. Each project begins with its own particular concept and inquiry. The outcome reveals itself unfolding in layers of movement, images that send us to the interior of our being towards a unique vision of time and undoubtedly to the human condition. The plasticity, sensual precise physicality and poetry contained in each piece show an esthetic vision, which is imprinted by its founder Elsa Valbuena.
BLEU ACIER INC. is an active fine art print publisher, print atelier, gallery and live-in loft that functions at the intersection of private and public space where art and the city keep company. Bleu Acier exhibits works in all disciplines by emerging, mid-career and established artists from the U.S. and Europe.
Gallery Hours: by appointment
For further information contact Erika Schneider 109 WEST COLUMBUS DRIVE TAMPA, FL 33602 TEL/FAX: 813 272 9746 BLEUACIER.COM
Friday, September 07, 2007
New Bleu Acier show
BLEU ACIER INC.
109 WEST COLUMBUS DRIVE TAMPA, FL 33602
TEL/FAX: 813 272 9746
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
STEVE McCLURE
RECENT WORK
OPENING RECEPTION: FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 14, 2007, 6-9 PM The Artist will be present.
SEPTEMBER 14 through OCTOBER 27, 2007
Bleu Acier is proud to present an exhibition of new paintings by New York based artist Steve McCLURE.
For the past year McClure has been living and working in Provincetown Massachusetts as a recipient of the prized Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship. McClure paints light; the way it draws and reveals form within a given space; the active white space of the image defines the positive space of action. His ink and watercolor images on paper mix precision and atmosphere as if you were a voyeur into another’s song.
McClure borrows from the artifice of drama and uses these elements to secure a visual narrative that combines different elements from different historical and political eras into one frame. It is here where we can understand his admiration of obsolete photographic treatises and their historical conflicts with painting. He calls his work camera-less photographs and explains that “like photography they use a simple process (ink absorbed into paper) and are informed by chance events like gravity and evaporation.” McClure works often in series and sticks close to the photographic format of 4 X 5 inches. His use of historical and political metaphor combined with a brilliant contemporary abstract use of paint introduces the viewer into a mixed ambiance of déja vu and right now.
BLEU ACIER INC. is an active fine art print publisher, print atelier, gallery and live-in loft that functions at the intersection of private and public space where art and the city keep company. Bleu Acier exhibits works in all disciplines by emerging, mid-career and established artists from the U.S. and Europe.
Gallery Hours: Saturdays 12 – 5 PM and by appointment For further information contact Erika Schneider
109 WEST COLUMBUS DRIVE TAMPA, FL 33602 TEL/FAX: 813 272 9746 BLEUACIER.COM
Steve McCLURE, NJ Dance, 2006 5 X 6 in. ink/paper
109 WEST COLUMBUS DRIVE TAMPA, FL 33602
TEL/FAX: 813 272 9746
_____________________________________________________________
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
STEVE McCLURE
RECENT WORK
OPENING RECEPTION: FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 14, 2007, 6-9 PM The Artist will be present.
SEPTEMBER 14 through OCTOBER 27, 2007
Bleu Acier is proud to present an exhibition of new paintings by New York based artist Steve McCLURE.
For the past year McClure has been living and working in Provincetown Massachusetts as a recipient of the prized Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship. McClure paints light; the way it draws and reveals form within a given space; the active white space of the image defines the positive space of action. His ink and watercolor images on paper mix precision and atmosphere as if you were a voyeur into another’s song.
McClure borrows from the artifice of drama and uses these elements to secure a visual narrative that combines different elements from different historical and political eras into one frame. It is here where we can understand his admiration of obsolete photographic treatises and their historical conflicts with painting. He calls his work camera-less photographs and explains that “like photography they use a simple process (ink absorbed into paper) and are informed by chance events like gravity and evaporation.” McClure works often in series and sticks close to the photographic format of 4 X 5 inches. His use of historical and political metaphor combined with a brilliant contemporary abstract use of paint introduces the viewer into a mixed ambiance of déja vu and right now.
BLEU ACIER INC. is an active fine art print publisher, print atelier, gallery and live-in loft that functions at the intersection of private and public space where art and the city keep company. Bleu Acier exhibits works in all disciplines by emerging, mid-career and established artists from the U.S. and Europe.
Gallery Hours: Saturdays 12 – 5 PM and by appointment For further information contact Erika Schneider
109 WEST COLUMBUS DRIVE TAMPA, FL 33602 TEL/FAX: 813 272 9746 BLEUACIER.COM
Steve McCLURE, NJ Dance, 2006 5 X 6 in. ink/paper
Thursday, June 07, 2007
Bleu Acier opening: New Editions
NEW EDITIONS
OPENING RECEPTION: FRIDAY JUNE 15, 2007, 6-9 PM
June 15 through July 31, 2007
INTRODUCTION BY ERIKA SCHNEIDER AT 7PM
OPEN ATELIER VISIT WITH PRINTMAKING DEMONSTRATIONS:
Saturdays June 16th and 30th at 2 PM
June 16th Relief Printing with Dominique Labauvie
June 30th Monotype with Debra Jo Radke
Reservations required 813. 272. 9746/ each will be limited to 15 visitors
Bleu Acier is proud to present their new fine art print editions published during 2006 and 2007. For many of the artists - accustomed to working in other media from painting to video - this was their first print project, and first invitation to work on prints at a professional press. This collaborative exploration of new materials combined with the experience of a master printmaker produced a striking range of works.The painters Neil Bender, Elisabeth Condon, Kim Curtis, Pierre Mabille, Steve McClure, and Judith Sturm each worked on their first series of monotypes. Monotype, which signifies a unique work (not an edition or a multiple) is a combination of painting or drawing and printing. The artist works directly on the surface with printing inks. When the image is built to desired effect, it is run through the press as either a single pass, or a series of "built" layers or multiple passes. Printmaking allows a quality of layers, surfaces and color combinations not found in painting.Neil Bender works on one-run images and then manipulates them after printing. Elisabeth Condon transforms space and the surfaces of her landscapes and abstract compositions through her intense layering technique. Kim Curtis found equivalents to the editing process she uses in her oil paintings, and Judith Sturm developed a much freer manner of image making through the monotype. Pierre Mabille's conceptually minimal approach to building space grew even more refined within the monotype process.For the artists Hervé DiRosa, Steve McClure and Vicky Colombet, the idea of collaborating remotely from their respective locales in Miami and New York generated an interest in direct gravure. Direct gravure uses a drawing on mylar made by the artist which is then transferred to a copper plate using the photogravure process. This process generates images that utilize similar marking techniques found within other aspects of the artists' work. The advantage of direct gravure is it allows artists to work wherever they are and send the mylar to the shop to be processed. Often the plates are continued by hand when the artist can visit the shop.
Marie Yoho Dorsey uses direct gravure as a starting point for her unique images which she embellishes with drawing and embroidery.DiRosa's triptych of the Miami urbanscape has the rich qualities of his ink drawings. Colombet's landscape offers a different spatial reading than that of her suspended pigment paintings. In Steve McClure's monotypes and gravures we discover a different spatial spontaneity than in
the paintings.
Dominique Labauvie, who utilizes the relief process for its ability to negotiate positive and negative space in a manner similar to his sculpture, combines woodcut imagery with monotype. Using monotype as the image "ground" allows him a freedom of mark-making that generates very rich and sensual surfaces akin to his pastel drawings.Robyn Voshardt and Sven Humphrey chose to do a diptych of 3-color woodcuts based on their video "When I Look Up, I Fall Down," presented at the DiVA video fair in New York earlier this year. The artists interpreted video stills onto woodblocks, and ended up discarding the stills in order to be influenced by the direct marking possibilities on the wood. As with other parts of their oeuvre, their drawing space takes over the time-based space making for an interesting perception of movement.Bleu Acier is also pleased to include several guest artists in the show:
Tom Antista, a photographer and designer from Atlanta, Georgia, completed an impressive series of photogravures here at Bleu Acier. His boxed set of eleven portraits of New York is entitled "ELEVEN."Brian Reedy, an artist who lives and works in Miami and is represented by the Brook Dorsch Gallery of Miami will show his woodcut series entitled "Eleventh Hour." With these very stark linear woodcuts, each image is packed with social commentary and humor.Debra Radke, a painter and printmaker who lives and works in Tampa, has been working in monotype at Bleu Acier for the past year and has invented new layering systems for her work. The monotypes have a glowing quality that is very unique.
NEW EDITIONS:
Neil Bender
Vicky Colombet
Elisabeth Condon
Kim Curtis
Hervé DiRosa
Marie Yoho Dorsey
Rachel Hoffman
Dominique Labauvie
Pierre Mabille
Steve McClure
Judith Sturm
Robyn Voshardt/Sven Humphrey
Guests:
Tom Antista
Debra Radke
Brian Reedy courtesy of Brook Dorsch
BLEU ACIER INC. is an active fine art print publisher, print atelier, gallery and live-in loft that functions at the intersection of private and public space where art and the city keep company. Bleu Acier exhibits works in all disciplines by emerging, mid-career and established artists from the U.S. and Europe.
Gallery Hours: Saturdays 1 – 5 PM and by appointment
For further information contact Erika Schneider
109 WEST COLUMBUS DRIVE TAMPA, FL 33602
TEL/FAX: 813 272 9746 BLEUACIER.COM
OPENING RECEPTION: FRIDAY JUNE 15, 2007, 6-9 PM
June 15 through July 31, 2007
INTRODUCTION BY ERIKA SCHNEIDER AT 7PM
OPEN ATELIER VISIT WITH PRINTMAKING DEMONSTRATIONS:
Saturdays June 16th and 30th at 2 PM
June 16th Relief Printing with Dominique Labauvie
June 30th Monotype with Debra Jo Radke
Reservations required 813. 272. 9746/ each will be limited to 15 visitors
Bleu Acier is proud to present their new fine art print editions published during 2006 and 2007. For many of the artists - accustomed to working in other media from painting to video - this was their first print project, and first invitation to work on prints at a professional press. This collaborative exploration of new materials combined with the experience of a master printmaker produced a striking range of works.The painters Neil Bender, Elisabeth Condon, Kim Curtis, Pierre Mabille, Steve McClure, and Judith Sturm each worked on their first series of monotypes. Monotype, which signifies a unique work (not an edition or a multiple) is a combination of painting or drawing and printing. The artist works directly on the surface with printing inks. When the image is built to desired effect, it is run through the press as either a single pass, or a series of "built" layers or multiple passes. Printmaking allows a quality of layers, surfaces and color combinations not found in painting.Neil Bender works on one-run images and then manipulates them after printing. Elisabeth Condon transforms space and the surfaces of her landscapes and abstract compositions through her intense layering technique. Kim Curtis found equivalents to the editing process she uses in her oil paintings, and Judith Sturm developed a much freer manner of image making through the monotype. Pierre Mabille's conceptually minimal approach to building space grew even more refined within the monotype process.For the artists Hervé DiRosa, Steve McClure and Vicky Colombet, the idea of collaborating remotely from their respective locales in Miami and New York generated an interest in direct gravure. Direct gravure uses a drawing on mylar made by the artist which is then transferred to a copper plate using the photogravure process. This process generates images that utilize similar marking techniques found within other aspects of the artists' work. The advantage of direct gravure is it allows artists to work wherever they are and send the mylar to the shop to be processed. Often the plates are continued by hand when the artist can visit the shop.
Marie Yoho Dorsey uses direct gravure as a starting point for her unique images which she embellishes with drawing and embroidery.DiRosa's triptych of the Miami urbanscape has the rich qualities of his ink drawings. Colombet's landscape offers a different spatial reading than that of her suspended pigment paintings. In Steve McClure's monotypes and gravures we discover a different spatial spontaneity than in
the paintings.
Dominique Labauvie, who utilizes the relief process for its ability to negotiate positive and negative space in a manner similar to his sculpture, combines woodcut imagery with monotype. Using monotype as the image "ground" allows him a freedom of mark-making that generates very rich and sensual surfaces akin to his pastel drawings.Robyn Voshardt and Sven Humphrey chose to do a diptych of 3-color woodcuts based on their video "When I Look Up, I Fall Down," presented at the DiVA video fair in New York earlier this year. The artists interpreted video stills onto woodblocks, and ended up discarding the stills in order to be influenced by the direct marking possibilities on the wood. As with other parts of their oeuvre, their drawing space takes over the time-based space making for an interesting perception of movement.Bleu Acier is also pleased to include several guest artists in the show:
Tom Antista, a photographer and designer from Atlanta, Georgia, completed an impressive series of photogravures here at Bleu Acier. His boxed set of eleven portraits of New York is entitled "ELEVEN."Brian Reedy, an artist who lives and works in Miami and is represented by the Brook Dorsch Gallery of Miami will show his woodcut series entitled "Eleventh Hour." With these very stark linear woodcuts, each image is packed with social commentary and humor.Debra Radke, a painter and printmaker who lives and works in Tampa, has been working in monotype at Bleu Acier for the past year and has invented new layering systems for her work. The monotypes have a glowing quality that is very unique.
NEW EDITIONS:
Neil Bender
Vicky Colombet
Elisabeth Condon
Kim Curtis
Hervé DiRosa
Marie Yoho Dorsey
Rachel Hoffman
Dominique Labauvie
Pierre Mabille
Steve McClure
Judith Sturm
Robyn Voshardt/Sven Humphrey
Guests:
Tom Antista
Debra Radke
Brian Reedy courtesy of Brook Dorsch
BLEU ACIER INC. is an active fine art print publisher, print atelier, gallery and live-in loft that functions at the intersection of private and public space where art and the city keep company. Bleu Acier exhibits works in all disciplines by emerging, mid-career and established artists from the U.S. and Europe.
Gallery Hours: Saturdays 1 – 5 PM and by appointment
For further information contact Erika Schneider
109 WEST COLUMBUS DRIVE TAMPA, FL 33602
TEL/FAX: 813 272 9746 BLEUACIER.COM
Friday, April 20, 2007
Thursday, February 01, 2007
New Bleu Acier show
Bleu Acier is proud to open the winter season with CONTROLLED BURN, a solo exhibition of drawings and video by collaborative artists Robyn Voshardt / Sven Humphrey, formerly of Florida and now based in New York. In late 2005, the artists were awarded a Caldera Artist Residency in Oregon, where they made many of the works on view.
Controlled Burn refers to the forestry practice of eliminating undergrowth and invasive species, with the goal of mitigating disastrous fires in the future. The artists used this idea as a point of departure, inspired by a two week stay in a mountainside area decimated by a burn gone way out of control. The resulting large drawings use the the most basic materials derived from trees – paper and carbon-based ink – and the artists' own breath instead of a brush to make the mark.
When I Look Up, I Fall Down, 2006,
dvd video/sound projection, dim. variable, ed. 8
This series continues to influence Voshardt/Humphrey's current projects that explore issues of control and intent on an environmental and personal scale: such as controlled growth in urban planning, and the surrender of control over to chance in their selection of materials and process for making art. Also on view in the Project Room is their video projection entitled When I Look Up, I Fall Down, from footage gathered on location in an old-growth forest, with audio composed by the artists. Seen from a disorienting spin, the lush tree canopy no longer offers a sense of shelter, but creates a vortex suggestive of a larger ecological and personal conundrum.
Voshardt/Humphrey have been included in numerous museum exhibitions on the west coast of Florida and the Boston area. Their work is in the permanent collections of the John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Tampa Museum of Art, Gulf Coast Museum of Art, and Pinellas County Arts Council. In 2006 they were also awarded a Florida Individual Artist Grant and participated in the Bridge and Pool Art Fairs in Miami, as well as Perpetual Art Machine at CinemaScope New York and Miami.
The artists will be present for the opening reception.
For more info contact Erika Schneider at 813-272-9746
www.bleuacier.com | erika@bleuacier.com
or Robyn and Sven at 917-407-3824
www.voshardthumphrey.com | studio@voshardthumphrey.com
When I Look Up, I Fall Down, 2006,
dvd video/sound projection, dim. variable, ed. 8
VIDEO INSTALLATION
DiVA STREETS in conjunction with the DiVA FAIR, NEW YORK
February 17-24, 2007, 12pm to 8pm
8th Avenue @ 24th Street, Chelsea
Subway C,E to 23rd Street
Bleu Acier is proud to present Voshardt/Humphrey’s new video When I Look Up, I Fall Down in this video container project, one of eight in various locations throughout Chelsea.
Voshardt/Humphrey’s action of transplanting footage gathered from an old-growth heritage forest to a commercial shipping container in the midst of Manhattan reinforces the mental disconnect between nature and its conversion to consumables. Experienced in such a confined, temporal space, the disorienting spin amplifies the larger ecological as well as personal conundrum even more acutely than a white-box gallery context.
www.divafair.com
The Fall, 2006, dvd video/sound, 3 min 42 sec, variable dim., ed. 8
EXHIBITION & ARTISTS' LECTURE
SOLOS: 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Part II
February 9-March 7, 2007
Selby Gallery, Ringling School of Art & Design
Sarasota, Florida
Panel and preview: Thurs, Feb 8 at 7pm
Opening reception: Fri, Feb 9, 5-7pm
www.ringling.edu/selbygallery
Voshardt/Humphrey will show, The Fall, a new video from footage shot on location in Nova Scotia. This exhibition features artists who have had solo shows at the gallery, where in 2004 Voshardt/Humphrey presented six works in a video/sound installation. The artists will talk about their work on Thursday Feb. 8th at 7pm in Selby Lecture Hall on the Ringling campus, Sarasota.
Tangle 2, 2006, ink on mulberry paper, 16 x 12.25 in., Private Collection
UPCOMING SOLO EXHIBITION
Voshardt/Humphrey are now represented in Sarasota, FL by Greene Contemporary, where they will have a solo exhibition in May.
www.greenecontemporary.com
Controlled Burn refers to the forestry practice of eliminating undergrowth and invasive species, with the goal of mitigating disastrous fires in the future. The artists used this idea as a point of departure, inspired by a two week stay in a mountainside area decimated by a burn gone way out of control. The resulting large drawings use the the most basic materials derived from trees – paper and carbon-based ink – and the artists' own breath instead of a brush to make the mark.
When I Look Up, I Fall Down, 2006,
dvd video/sound projection, dim. variable, ed. 8
This series continues to influence Voshardt/Humphrey's current projects that explore issues of control and intent on an environmental and personal scale: such as controlled growth in urban planning, and the surrender of control over to chance in their selection of materials and process for making art. Also on view in the Project Room is their video projection entitled When I Look Up, I Fall Down, from footage gathered on location in an old-growth forest, with audio composed by the artists. Seen from a disorienting spin, the lush tree canopy no longer offers a sense of shelter, but creates a vortex suggestive of a larger ecological and personal conundrum.
Voshardt/Humphrey have been included in numerous museum exhibitions on the west coast of Florida and the Boston area. Their work is in the permanent collections of the John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Tampa Museum of Art, Gulf Coast Museum of Art, and Pinellas County Arts Council. In 2006 they were also awarded a Florida Individual Artist Grant and participated in the Bridge and Pool Art Fairs in Miami, as well as Perpetual Art Machine at CinemaScope New York and Miami.
The artists will be present for the opening reception.
For more info contact Erika Schneider at 813-272-9746
www.bleuacier.com | erika@bleuacier.com
or Robyn and Sven at 917-407-3824
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When I Look Up, I Fall Down, 2006,
dvd video/sound projection, dim. variable, ed. 8
VIDEO INSTALLATION
DiVA STREETS in conjunction with the DiVA FAIR, NEW YORK
February 17-24, 2007, 12pm to 8pm
8th Avenue @ 24th Street, Chelsea
Subway C,E to 23rd Street
Bleu Acier is proud to present Voshardt/Humphrey’s new video When I Look Up, I Fall Down in this video container project, one of eight in various locations throughout Chelsea.
Voshardt/Humphrey’s action of transplanting footage gathered from an old-growth heritage forest to a commercial shipping container in the midst of Manhattan reinforces the mental disconnect between nature and its conversion to consumables. Experienced in such a confined, temporal space, the disorienting spin amplifies the larger ecological as well as personal conundrum even more acutely than a white-box gallery context.
www.divafair.com
The Fall, 2006, dvd video/sound, 3 min 42 sec, variable dim., ed. 8
EXHIBITION & ARTISTS' LECTURE
SOLOS: 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Part II
February 9-March 7, 2007
Selby Gallery, Ringling School of Art & Design
Sarasota, Florida
Panel and preview: Thurs, Feb 8 at 7pm
Opening reception: Fri, Feb 9, 5-7pm
www.ringling.edu/selbygallery
Voshardt/Humphrey will show, The Fall, a new video from footage shot on location in Nova Scotia. This exhibition features artists who have had solo shows at the gallery, where in 2004 Voshardt/Humphrey presented six works in a video/sound installation. The artists will talk about their work on Thursday Feb. 8th at 7pm in Selby Lecture Hall on the Ringling campus, Sarasota.
Tangle 2, 2006, ink on mulberry paper, 16 x 12.25 in., Private Collection
UPCOMING SOLO EXHIBITION
Voshardt/Humphrey are now represented in Sarasota, FL by Greene Contemporary, where they will have a solo exhibition in May.
www.greenecontemporary.com
Monday, November 27, 2006
Gallery closing: ENTRE CHIEN ET LOUP
From a release sent to me from Bleu Acier:
Saturday December 2, 2006 from 1 -5 PM we will have the closing for the show Entre Chien et Loup. We will celebrate the Gallery going to Miami for the Bridge Art Fair during Miami Basel (www.bridgeartfair.com) by offering special holiday prices.
Also there will be a sneak preview in the studio of Dominique Labauvie's new sculpture "From the Earth to the Moon" made especially for Art Complement at the Bridge Art Fair.
Bleu Acier is proud to open this season with ENTRE CHIEN ET LOUP, a group exhibition which brings together established, mid-career and emerging artists from Europe and the United States to explore different processes and propositions within contemporary painting.
Entre Chien et Loup is a French idiom - which in the literal sense means the difference between the dog and the wolf - and figuratively illustrates the precise moment of the day we call twilight when the sun has just set and the light is non-definitive. Forms, colors and shapes all melt together and the horizon presents new spatial perceptions. The emotional and intellectual limits between the familiar and the unknown are re-defined and the spectator’s visual intelligence is brought to another level. Entre Chien et Loup investigates contemporary artistic thinking and language through the act of painting.
The artists participating in the show are:
Joseph Arnegger, Neil Bender, Megan Bisbee-Durlam, David Brody,
Omar Chacon, Chalet, Vicky Colombet, Elisabeth Condon, Kim Curtis,
Herve DiRosa, Frederique Lucien, Pierre Mabille, Francois Martin,
Steve McClure, Max Neumann, Jovi Schnell, Joani Spadaro,
Judith Sturm, Keer Tanchak, Robyn Voshardt/Sven Humphrey
Stephen Westfall, Jeff Whipple, Theo Wujcik
For further information contact Erika Schneider
erika@bleuacier.com
109 WEST COLUMBUS DRIVE TAMPA, FL 33602 TEL/FAX: 813 272 9746 BLEUACIER.COM
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