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Mark Dion at University of South Florida’s Contemporary Art Museum.

admin — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 03:05:11 +0000

Mark Dion is my new hero. Last night Liz and I and our family went to the opening of his show Troubleshooting, and an amazing artists discussion at USF’s Contemporary Art Museum.

Curator Jane Simon did a great job presenting a collection of drawings, prints, sculpture, and artifacts that Dion has created over the last 10 years. Dion’s work comments on and questions the role people have have with their surrounding environment, teaching the viewer to appreciate everyday interactions as the fantastic. He blurs the boundaries between scientist, collector, conservationist and artist.

South Florida wildlife Rescue Unit, 2008 - "Informed citizens" acting as a "secret environmental army."

Concrete Jungle

"Humor can cut the voice of authority." - Mark Dion

Kate Hanrahan at the Aquarium Gallery

admin — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 05:50:10 +0000

Kate took me on a special late night outing to see her installation, I’ll Find You Again, at the Aquarium Gallery while I was visiting her in New Orleans this past week.

She has transformed the back room into a dream world where her beautifully delicate renderings sit perfectly with the found materials she works with. Accompanying the work is her own music, an intoxicating mix of Piano and Saw.

You can see more of Kate’s work here.

- Genevieve

Alyssa Dennis

Liz — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 19:45:07 +0000

We caught up with Alyssa Dennis at Parse in New Orleans. She showed us her sculpture in the back garden. Alyssa’s work deals with the modularity of architecture and the built environment. She is one to watch and represented by Christina Ray in NYC where she recently had a solo show.

Margot Walsh at Parse

Liz — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 19:46:58 +0000

Margot Walsh gave us a tour of her solo show at Parse gallery, an artist cooperative and residency program that she also happens to run. We were blown away by both her paintings and Parse’s space.

Poster Paper Opening at Gawker

Liz — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 00:14:26 +0000

Our latest Gawker Artists exhibition, Post Paper, opened last night. It was quite a party, we had fun celebrating with the artists and our friends. All the artists in Post Paper have works available for sale on Etta Place. Be sure to check out their collections!

Post Paper is a group show of collage works by Malado Baldwin, Molly George, Alison Mazur, Brian Stevenson and Stephen Zerbe, and the latest exhibition in the Art@Gawker series. Post Paper brings together a group of artists that combine and rework found materials to create new imagery with a broad range of themes including freedom, youth, beauty, consumption, sexuality, faith and identity. With their collection and reinterpretation of existing media, the artists present fresh and often humorous personal observations, commentaries on popular culture, and visual odes to memories and imaginary spaces

2 New Etta Place Collections

Liz — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 19:28:22 +0000

Check out our latest collections by Stephen Zerbe and B. Thom Stevenson.

Etta Place Presents Residents Artists

Liz — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:23:47 +0000

For our inaugural public exhibition, Etta Place presents Resident Artists, a group show of art, design and objects by Brooklyn based artists. We’re bring our eclectic vision to Truck Yeah with a salon style exhibition of art, design, jewelry, curiosities, and collectibles that celebrate the creative output of our local community.

Resident Artists features paintings by Malado Baldwin, Brooke David, Amy Lincoln and Heather Morgan; sculptures by Kenneth E. Parris III; jewelry by Alison Mazur, Emily Miranda and Shelby Lawson; textiles by Elizabeth Bergren; books and boom boxes by Ryan V. Brennan, wallpaper by Flat Vernacular; and vintage furniture and collectibles.

Truck Yeah: This Sunday in Williamsburg

Liz — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 15:39:06 +0000

Back Truck Yeah!

Liz — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 19:40:05 +0000

Truck Yeah Kickstarter

We are very excited to be about halfway towards our fundraising goal of $8,000! We appreciate all the support you have given us thus far, but we want to keep the momentum going these last two weeks. Please pass our project along to anyone that might be interested, and remember it only takes $1 to pledge!

This weekend our artists paid a visit to the Ryder truck facility to gear up for Truck Yeah. Take a look at some photos from our visit here. Don’t forget to check out Art Cart NYC™’s latest post about El Camino ARTRV artist Stephen Zerbe, and read the blog about us on Bowery Boogie!

We are also thrilled to announce that we have partnered with the incomparable public art organization Creative Time to celebrate and activate the Lower East Side community this fall.

Beginning September 24, Creative Time will present Living as Form, an unprecedented, international project featuring over twenty years of socially engaged projects in a large-scale archival survey exhibition at the historic Essex Street Market. The project brings together twenty-five curators, documents almost 100 artists’ projects, features nine new commissions onsite and in the surrounding neighborhood, and provides a dynamic online archive of over 350 socially engaged projects. Projects range from theater to activism, and urban planning to visual art, emphasizing participation, dialogue, and community engagement.

We at Etta Place and Truck Yeah have always admired Creative Time for its informed, adventurous, and effective programming, and are excited to host our event alongside their hub on the Lower East Side.

For more information about Living as Form, visit www.creativetime.org/livingasform, follow on Twitter @creativetimenyc, and visit from September 24–October 16, 12-8pm.

Keep following our participants and us on facebook, tweet @truck_yeah (using #truckyeah) to stay informed on the project’s development!