SAM Gallery & Oitzarisme

I'm excited to announce that 5 of my pieces will be part of an exhibition this summer at the Seattle Art Museum's SAM Gallery. Hooray!

Also, please take some time to visit my feature over at Oitzarisme!

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International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP)

	Jennifer Tee, "Gridding Sentences," 2011, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.
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	OPEN STUDIOSThree days of international contemporary artMay 11–13, 2012 OPENING RECEPTIONFriday, May 11, 7–9pm OPENING HOURSSaturday–Sunday, May 12–13, 1–7pm International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP)1040 Metropolitan Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11211 www.iscp-nyc.org Open StudiosPerformance, screenings, and lectures
	The International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) Spring Open Studios is a three-day exhibition of international contemporary art. The 35 artists, art collectives, and curators from 24 countries currently in residence at ISCP present work in their studios. Open Studios offers the public access to innovative contemporary art practices from across the globe, providing an exceptional opportunity to engage with the production, process, and archives of practitioners working with a diverse range of media, approaches, and concepts. Alongside Open Studios, ISCP's gallery is the site for a continuous program of time-based events including performances, screenings, and lectures that address how the concept of time is both constructed/deconstructed and employed through artistic production. Unfolding over the weekend, time is used as a material for eight separate events by ISCP residents and Brooklyn-based artists and their collaborators. The gallery, transformed by SLO Architecture (Amanda Schachter & Alexander Levi with Robert Wrazen), incorporates a specially designed platform for these events that functions alternately as a flowing canopy for presentation and communal tables for conversation. The lifting and lowering of the platform brings a spatial, performative, and temporal rhythm that mirrors the events taking place. Performances, screenings, and lecturesFriday, May 117pm Jennifer Tee, A woman's mind might resemble a room Saturday, May 122pm Eloise Fornieles, The Orbit3pm Rose Eken with Nikolaj Hess, Embroidered Songs4pm Michel Auder, Talk and screening5pm Leif Elggren with Andrea Beeman, Ken Montgomery, Fabio Roberti, Marja-leena Sillanpää and Lary Seven, The Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland Sunday, May 132pm Bertille Bak, Urban Chronicle3pm Orit Ben-Shitrit, (Time Mechanism) + Work = Auctioning Off the Greek Debt5pm Dan Levenson presented by Forever & Today, A Social History of the State Art Academy, Zurich Download Open Studios Publication PDF Participating ISCP artists and curatorsØystein Aasan (Norway), Hector Arce-Espasas (USA), Nanna Debois Buhl (Denmark), Francisco Montoya Cázarez (Germany), Meiya Cheng (Taiwan), Loredana Di Lillo (Italy), Akiko Diegel (New Zealand), Motoko Dobashi (Japan), Rose Eken (Denmark), Leif Elggren (Sweden), Eloise Fornieles (United Kingdom), Frances Goodman (South Africa), Nilbar Güres (Austria), Matthias Hamann (Germany), Takahiro Iwasaki (Japan), Steffani Jemison (USA), Alex Kershaw (Australia),Melissa Keys (Australia), Ledia Kostandini (Albania), Mu Li (China), Liisa Lounila (Finland), Simone Martinetto (Italy), Linarejos Moreno (Spain), Kate Newby (New Zealand), Hilario Ortega (Mexico),Vessna Perunovich (Canada), Ilija Prokopiev (Macedonia), Nicolas Provost (Belgium), Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay (Canada), Maaike Schoorel (The Netherlands), Su Yu-Hsien (Taiwan), Jennifer Tee (The Netherlands), Lotte Van den Audenaeren (Belgium), Brendan Van Hek (Australia), Juan Zamora (Spain) About ISCPThe International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) is a leading nonprofit, residency-based contemporary art institution for emerging to mid-career artists and curators from around the world. Founded in 1994, ISCP has hosted over 1,500 artists and curators from more than 55 countries. As the largest international visual arts residency program in the United States, ISCP acts as a catalyst for the research, production, and commissioning of contemporary art through three integrated areas: theResidency Program, Exhibition Program, and Participatory Projects.

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Magenta Foundation & Exhibitions

WHAT A WEEK!

Today I found out that I am a winner of this years Flash Forward 2012 competition for emerging photographers from Canada, the US and the UK. This is a huge honor, and to be honest, I had forgotten I applied so it caught me by surprise. I'm so honored to be on that list with some artists I really admire and know well. Results here.

TODAY


If you are out and about please stop by Idea Odyssey and check out the show IDxID: New Identities. It's a really great exhibition and I'm honored to have some work in it. Idea Odyssey is a wonderful gallery that sprouted out the Seattle Storefronts project, where vacant storefronts were awarded to artists interested in activating them. idea Odyssey exists in the historic International District and is a collective and nonprofit gallery dedicated to nurturing and supporting visual artists of diverse cultures, primarily those of Asian, African, Caribbean, Latino, Native American and Pacific Islander heritage, and artists who explore culture, diversity and identity in their work.

IDxID: New Identities
Idea Odyssey
May 3 – June 28, 2012

Opening: May 3,  5 -8 p.m.

Address:

666 S Jackson St
Seattle, WA 98104

NEXT WEEKEND

I'm very excited about next weekend because of the Queering The Museum Symposium. This two-day event will include lectures, community discussions, panels, art and a dinner! I also have three pieces in the Hide/Seek/Difference//Desire//NW so try to stop by and check out the show, get some food, enjoy music and celebrate queer art. Go to the website to learn more about the schedule and to buy tickets click here.  

These are the images I have been asked to exhibit:

Rafael Soldi

Here's what the programming looks like:

Friday evening, May 11th, features keynote presentations from Jonathan Katz, co-curator ofHide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture, Rock Hushka and Stephanie Stebichfrom the Tacoma Art Museum, where Hide/Seek is currently on display.

On Saturday, a panel will discuss the state of queer in museums in what promises to be a lively conversation titled “Where Do We Go from Here?”

Then Katz will lead a tour of Hide/Seek at the Tacoma Art Museum

The day concludes with the opening of local queer art show Hide/Seek/Difference//Desire//NWand a fabulous free party featuring the music of Tender Forever at The Space in Tacoma.

More details here. Reserve your tickets here.

See you there!

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ON RESEARCH at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin

Haus der Kulturen der Welt
	Xavier Le Roy, "Product of Circumstances," 1999. Photo copyright Katrin Schoof.
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	ON RESEARCHLecture Performances + Discussion with Rabih Mroué + Hito Steyerl Ina Wudtke + Dieter Lesage Xavier Le Roy and others 4 and 5 May 2012 Haus der Kulturen der WeltJohn-Foster-Dulles Allee 10 10577 Berlin www.hkw.de
	The debates about new models in science, art, and education have drawn additional attention to the topic of "artistic research." What scientific strategies do artists use and what artistic processes do scientists avail of? "These questions underlie our current program," points out Bernd M. Scherer, director of Haus der Kulturen der Welt. "The exhibition Animism exposes the complexity of distinctions in the modern world-view. The biennial Berlin Documentary Forum questions how media, art, and photography construct and reshape reality and history. The international network SYNAPSE brings together young curators working at the interface of art and science. Global prayers explores how new religious movements are changing the metropolis. In 2013/2014, a long-term project sets out to understand the new paradigm called anthropocene from the point of view of culture." On May 4 and 5, ON RESEARCH will explore artists' and scientists' strategies through lecture performances and discussions. Hito Steyerl and Rabih Mroué launch the proceedings on Friday by premiering their work entitled "Probable title: zero probability." In this new joint production, the film-maker and the theater director enter into a dialogue about the (im-)probability of events. The lecture performance weaves a poetic-fictional web of relationships between Mroué's father, a mathematician by profession, his favorite subject, the calculation of probabilities, and his experiences in the Lebanese civil war. Excerpt from a dialogue between Rabih Mroué and Hito Steyerl: "Probability zero means that an event is absolutely not possible. …We are calculating these impossible events. They happen within a space in which, on the contrary, everything is possible. This space is accessible through art." On Saturday, scholars and artists address current forms of exchange processes between sciences and art. Beatrice von Bismarck, Gabriele Brandstetter, Tom Holert, Kirsten M. Langkilde, and Bernd M. Scherer will discuss the potential of an alternative understanding of research and the production of knowledge. This panel discussion brings together the results of the previous interdisciplinary workshop, kindly supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). On the same evening, two further artistic performances address the problem of the status of knowledge as a product. In Kuhle Wampe Remix, oder Wem gehört die Stadt?, artist Ina Wudtke and philosopher Dieter Lesage examine contemporary gentrification debates in the context of academic studies. Dancer and choreographer Xavier Le Roy stages his life story in a lecture performance: in Product of Circumstances (1999), he analyzes how he went from being a doctor of molecular biology to a performance artist. ON RESEARCH is a cooperation between the Schering Stiftung, the Freie Universität Berlin, and the Zentrum für Bewegungsforschung. A program conceived by Gabriele Brandstetter (Freie Universität Berlin), Sigrid Gareis (Akademie der Künste der Welt, Cologne), Heike Catherina Mertens (Schering Stiftung), and Bernd M. Scherer (Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin). ON RESEARCH is taking place in conjunction with the workshop Forschung in Kunst und Wissenschaft. Herausforderungen an Diskurse und Systeme des Wissens, funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). Haus der Kulturen der Welt is supported by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as well as by the Federal Foreign Office. Press contact Anne Maier T +49.30.39787.153 anne.maier@hkw.de

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Review in the Seattle Times!

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Currently Reading

Believing is Seeing by Errol Morris. In this wonderful book (designed by Pentagram), Academy Award winner Errol Morris questions the truth in photographs, making his way through different photographic mysteries and questioning the validity of certain decisions made by photographers in order to convey certain truths. I am not done with the book just yet, but his writing style is very intimate and I love the seriousness with which he has set out to get his answers.

Photographs Not Taken, by Will Steacy. This a great collection of essays by 60 photographers about photographs they never took. It's fascinating how each essay is unique, how personal each story is. Yet, no matter how different each essay is there are threads that connect every artist across the whole book;  at the core of every photograph not taken lays a technical hurdle, a logistical problem, an ethical dilemma, and more often than not a stroke of compassion masked as a question of "courage." More importantly, almost every photographer ends up drawing the conclusion that some things in life are so important that they must be experienced with our own eyes and must forever live in the most permanent photographic medium: our memory. I highly recommend it, my favorite essay was Amy Elkins', you can also listen to her read it on tape. Every photographer out there has a photograph not taken.

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Been busy

I am a bit speechless right now. It has been such a wonderful few months. Perhaps the busiest I've ever been in my career, but I'm loving it. The arrival of HIDE/SEEK: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture to the Tacoma Art Museum brought attention to queer photography in Seattle. This, in turn, has sparked an interest in my work and I feel blessed to have been given so many opportunities to share my work. Please allow me to share some of the great things that are currently happening and coming up.

For starters, I am proud to announce that I am the new Marketing Director at the Photo Center NW. This new post comes with it's own set of challenges but I am very excited nonetheless and feel very lucky to be part of this organization.


Author and Subject: Contemporary Queer Photography @ Photo Center NW / Seattle
April 6 - May 27, 2012
This exhibition focuses on ten contemporary queer photographers who explore ideas of identity, gender, courage, relationships, sexuality and the human form. I have four pieces in this show and I'm very happy with how this show came together, introducing video a wide range of interpretations.

Under the Rainbow @ Greg Kucera Gallery / Seattle

April 5 - June 2, 2012

 In a cooperative effort to support the Tacoma Art Museumʼs current exhibition HIDE/SEEK, four Seattle gallery owners have curated an exhibit from their own personal collections, gallery inventories, and the private collections of their clients. Gail Gibson (G. Gibson Gallery), James Harris (James Harris Gallery), Greg Kucera (Greg Kucera Gallery) and Stephen Lyons (Platform Gallery) bring together this complimentary exhibit of artwork by gay artists.

IDxID: New Identities @ Idea Odyssey / Seattle

Opening: May 3, 2012

This exhibition explores how our new IDs communicate our own and our communities’ personal, social, and cultural stories. Some IDs are public: birth certificates, state-issued ID cards, visas, green cards, along with their absence. Our IDs can also be personal, given to us by loved ones, childhood nicknames, pet names. Still others are more private – shared only with ourselves or in intimate circles. IDs overlap. They can also be wholly distinct and conflict with one another. 

Hide//Seek//Difference//Desire//Northwest Exhibition @ The Space / Tacoma

May 12 – June 12, 2012

This exhibition is organized in response to HIDE/SEEK by Erin Bailey, who has also organized the Queering The Museum symposium at the Henry Art Gallery. I am thrilled about this symposium taking place in Seattle and our community starting to get real about addressing the issues surrounding LGBTQ presence in the museum and the archives. The exhibition will take place at The Space in Tacoma.

Push @ G. Gibson Gallery
May 31 - July 7

Push is a group exhibition highlighting photographers who are affiliated with local schools, educational institutions and academia. 

Stay tuned for some more exciting stuff coming up!

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