Local Artist Interviews - Pamela Valfer
http://www.local-artist-interviews.com/2012/04/pamela-valfer-drawing.html
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COMMON PLACE
ALLEN BREWER PAMELA VALFER
LOCATION: OCCUPY SPACE (ISTABRAQ HALL), LIMERICK CITY
DATES OF EXHIBITION: JUNE 14 - JULY 30
OPENING EVENT: JUNE 14TH 2012
Artists and spouses Pamela Valfer and Allen Brewer are pleased to announce their upcoming exhibition COMMON PLACE, to be held at Occupy Space (ISTABRAQ HALL), Limerick City Ireland. In January 2011 the couple spent 4 months in residence at the Burren College of Art, an experience that challenged their notion of “place”. The work in this exhibition seeks to explore this topic through questions of contemporary landscape, memory, beauty and overall questioning of one’s “authentic” experience.
Brewer’s work involves renderings and readymades based solely on other’s descriptions of an experienced place. His process is predicated on the use of language as the only formal cue for image making, thus abolishing traditional landscape tropes of romance and emotion. The work addresses our emotional attachment to objects and environments, highlighting awkward linguistic limitations attributed to memory and place.
While Brewer’s limitations affect the outcome, Valfer’s interests lie within possibility. This investigation is articulated through pinpoint accurate drawings and collages of constructed vistas, monuments, ruinous modernist inspired memorials and architectural models. These newly constructed forms are a clearer representation for Valfer, who acknowledges her distance to nature as dystopic yet nostalgic.
Coinciding with the exhibition COMMON PLACE at Occupy Space will be the Eva International Biennial of Visual Art, (19 May-12 Aug), curated by Annie Fletcher.
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ALLEN BREWER PAMELA VALFER
LOCATION: OCCUPY SPACE (ISTABRAQ HALL), LIMERICK CITY
DATES OF EXHIBITION: JUNE 14 - JULY 30
OPENING EVENT: JUNE 14TH 2012
Artists and spouses Pamela Valfer and Allen Brewer are pleased to announce their upcoming exhibition COMMON PLACE, to be held at Occupy Space (ISTABRAQ HALL), Limerick City Ireland. In January 2011 the couple spent 4 months in residence at the Burren College of Art, an experience that challenged their notion of “place”. The work in this exhibition seeks to explore this topic through questions of contemporary landscape, memory, beauty and overall questioning of one’s “authentic” experience.
Brewer’s work involves renderings and readymades based solely on other’s descriptions of an experienced place. His process is predicated on the use of language as the only formal cue for image making, thus abolishing traditional landscape tropes of romance and emotion. The work addresses our emotional attachment to objects and environments, highlighting awkward linguistic limitations attributed to memory and place.
While Brewer’s limitations affect the outcome, Valfer’s interests lie within possibility. This investigation is articulated through pinpoint accurate drawings and collages of constructed vistas, monuments, ruinous modernist inspired memorials and architectural models. These newly constructed forms are a clearer representation for Valfer, who acknowledges her distance to nature as dystopic yet nostalgic.
Coinciding with the exhibition COMMON PLACE at Occupy Space will be the Eva International Biennial of Visual Art, (19 May-12 Aug), curated by Annie Fletcher.
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The Critic's Show - Hopkin's Center for the Arts
Four Critics Highlight Their Picks for Emerging and Underexposed Artists
Redepenning Gallery, Hopkins Center for the Arts
April 19 – May 20, 2012
1111 Mainstreet, Hopkins MN 55343
Gallery hours: 8 am-8pm Monday-Friday, 10am-8 pm Saturday, noon-5pm Sunday
Opening reception Thursday, 4/26 6-8 pm, Panel discussion at 7 pm
What makes art compelling and who are some artists to watch over the next couple years? This is a question that “The Critics’ Show” strives to answer. Four critics, who are all local arts scene notables and practicing artists themselves-- Sean Smuda, Dan Noyes, Stephanie Xenos, and Andy DuCett, were asked to select artists who they felt are underexposed in the region and deserving of greater attention. The resulting exhibition will cover a wide range of genres and styles. The show is on view starting April 19th.
A reception on Thursday, April 26th will feature a panel discussion at 7:00 pm by the critics to explain the what moved them to select the artists on view. The artists will also be on hand at the reception, providing an opportunity for guests to discuss their work with them.
Andy DuCett teaches at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and the University of Wisconsin-Stout. His work has been shown in galleries in around the US, as well as many Twin Cities locations. He has been published in New American Paintings, Vita.mn, Paper Darts, The Portland Mercury, Illiterate Magazine, DailyServing.com, as well as internationally. He recently was commissioned by the Walker Art Center to make a drawing for their First Free Saturday Program, and is included in the curated registry of the Drawing Center in New York City.
DuCett’s selected artists are: Allen Brewer, Ryuta Nakajima, Pamela Valfer
Sean Smuda is an artist and curator living and working in Minneapolis. Last year he was appointed the Cultural Liaison to Minneapolis's sister city of Tours, France and Minnesota State Fair Photography Juror. He runs his non-profit gallery space The Shoebox Gallery, he has served on the Minnesota Artists Exhibition Program panel at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and has had over twenty published articles.
Sean’s selected artists are: Katelyn Farstad, Nate Young, and John Fleishcher
Dan Noyes is a professor and a practitioner of architecture. He is the founder and academic dean of Vesper College. He has been involved in teaching design for 15 years and is committed to bridging the gaps between design focuses. The title he is most proud of however, is that of sculptor.
Noyes’ selected artists are: Shannyn Joy Potter, and Kevin Fitzke
Stephanie Xenos is a regular contributor to the arts section of Mpls/St Paul magazine. Stephanie has also written about visual arts for mnartists.org and the online journal Quodlibetica. In addition to arts writing, she is pursuing a master's degree in Arts and Cultural Leadership at the University of Minnesota and working on her first novel.
Xenos’s selected artists are: Chuck Avery and Jenn Ackerman
Redepenning Gallery, Hopkins Center for the Arts
April 19 – May 20, 2012
1111 Mainstreet, Hopkins MN 55343
Gallery hours: 8 am-8pm Monday-Friday, 10am-8 pm Saturday, noon-5pm Sunday
Opening reception Thursday, 4/26 6-8 pm, Panel discussion at 7 pm
What makes art compelling and who are some artists to watch over the next couple years? This is a question that “The Critics’ Show” strives to answer. Four critics, who are all local arts scene notables and practicing artists themselves-- Sean Smuda, Dan Noyes, Stephanie Xenos, and Andy DuCett, were asked to select artists who they felt are underexposed in the region and deserving of greater attention. The resulting exhibition will cover a wide range of genres and styles. The show is on view starting April 19th.
A reception on Thursday, April 26th will feature a panel discussion at 7:00 pm by the critics to explain the what moved them to select the artists on view. The artists will also be on hand at the reception, providing an opportunity for guests to discuss their work with them.
Andy DuCett teaches at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and the University of Wisconsin-Stout. His work has been shown in galleries in around the US, as well as many Twin Cities locations. He has been published in New American Paintings, Vita.mn, Paper Darts, The Portland Mercury, Illiterate Magazine, DailyServing.com, as well as internationally. He recently was commissioned by the Walker Art Center to make a drawing for their First Free Saturday Program, and is included in the curated registry of the Drawing Center in New York City.
DuCett’s selected artists are: Allen Brewer, Ryuta Nakajima, Pamela Valfer
Sean Smuda is an artist and curator living and working in Minneapolis. Last year he was appointed the Cultural Liaison to Minneapolis's sister city of Tours, France and Minnesota State Fair Photography Juror. He runs his non-profit gallery space The Shoebox Gallery, he has served on the Minnesota Artists Exhibition Program panel at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and has had over twenty published articles.
Sean’s selected artists are: Katelyn Farstad, Nate Young, and John Fleishcher
Dan Noyes is a professor and a practitioner of architecture. He is the founder and academic dean of Vesper College. He has been involved in teaching design for 15 years and is committed to bridging the gaps between design focuses. The title he is most proud of however, is that of sculptor.
Noyes’ selected artists are: Shannyn Joy Potter, and Kevin Fitzke
Stephanie Xenos is a regular contributor to the arts section of Mpls/St Paul magazine. Stephanie has also written about visual arts for mnartists.org and the online journal Quodlibetica. In addition to arts writing, she is pursuing a master's degree in Arts and Cultural Leadership at the University of Minnesota and working on her first novel.
Xenos’s selected artists are: Chuck Avery and Jenn Ackerman
CUBE Open 2011 Exhibition
CUBEOpen 2011 Exhibition
16 December 2011 - 4 February 2012
Preview: 15th December 2011 6-8pm
Exhibition runs: 16th December 2011 - 4th February 2012
The University of Salford's CUBE gallery is delighted to be announcing its annual CUBEOpen 2011.
Participating artists:
Andrew Brown, Samuel Capps, Mark Clare, Justine Cook, Aideen Doran and Fionnuala Doran, Kelda Free and David Brazier, Becky Gee, Isabelle Hayeur, Flis Holland, Philip Kennedy, Seulki Ki, Ian Kirkpatrick , Elizabeth Kwant, Hannah Leighton–Boyce, Manchester Modernist Society, Fabien Marques, , Katie McGown, Rosalie Monod de Froideville, Charlotte Mortensson, Lauren O'Grady, Simon Parish, Nathan Pendlebury, Kristin Posehn, Rosey Prince, Robin Pugh, Amanda Rice, Ailie Rutherford, Jennie Savage, Shift (from Shift//Delete), Jon Spencer, Jenny Steele, Matthew Thompson, Tristan Thomson, Pamela Valfer, Mary-Ruth Walsh, Peter Ward, Jiho Won.
16 December 2011 - 4 February 2012
Preview: 15th December 2011 6-8pm
Exhibition runs: 16th December 2011 - 4th February 2012
The University of Salford's CUBE gallery is delighted to be announcing its annual CUBEOpen 2011.
Participating artists:
Andrew Brown, Samuel Capps, Mark Clare, Justine Cook, Aideen Doran and Fionnuala Doran, Kelda Free and David Brazier, Becky Gee, Isabelle Hayeur, Flis Holland, Philip Kennedy, Seulki Ki, Ian Kirkpatrick , Elizabeth Kwant, Hannah Leighton–Boyce, Manchester Modernist Society, Fabien Marques, , Katie McGown, Rosalie Monod de Froideville, Charlotte Mortensson, Lauren O'Grady, Simon Parish, Nathan Pendlebury, Kristin Posehn, Rosey Prince, Robin Pugh, Amanda Rice, Ailie Rutherford, Jennie Savage, Shift (from Shift//Delete), Jon Spencer, Jenny Steele, Matthew Thompson, Tristan Thomson, Pamela Valfer, Mary-Ruth Walsh, Peter Ward, Jiho Won.
