weekly featured art

weekly featured art > 9.7.07

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Below are a few artists we'd like to call your attention to this week:


Jenny Hart	Gallery	Jenny Hart is an artist based in Austin, Texas whose works in embroidery have been published and exhibited internationally. She is also the founder Sublime Stitching, a design company launched to revitalize the craft of hand embroidery. Jenny's work has appeared in publications such as Spin, Nylon, Rolling Stone, Venus, The Face, Bust and Juxtapoz. She is the author of two books and her design work won PRINT Magazine's prestigious Regional Design Annual award. Jenny has collaborated with The Flaming Lips and The Decemberists, and her work is in the collections of Carrie Fisher, Tracey Ullman and Elizabeth Taylor. Jenny is a founding member of the Austin Craft Mafia, and was a featured panelist at the 2007 SXSW Interactive festival.

Heather Wilcoxon	Heater	Heather Wilcoxon was born in Los Angeles and currently lives in the San Francisco Bay area, where she received both her MFA and BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. Her work is exhibited internationally, including shows this year at the Miami Art Fair, the Bridge Art Fair in London, and a solo show titled "Off the Grid" at Brenda Taylor Gallery in New York City.

Laura Moriarty	Sculptural Paintings	Laura Moriarty's work has a global audience, having been exhibited in a number of solo shows in New York, Chicago, Dallas, and Germany, as well as a large number of groups shows. Her work has been reviewed extensively in print publications as well, including NY Arts Magazine, Chronogram Magazine, and the New York Times.

Zachary Royer Scholz	NY,NY	Zachary Royer Scholz was born in Washington DC, and currently lives and works in Berkeley, California. His extensive exhibition record, largely centered around the San Francisco Bay area, contains upcoming shows at Intersection for the Arts in San Francisco this September and the Kala Art Institute in Berkeley, CA in 2008.

Catherine Forster	NY,NY	Catherine Forster is a filmmaker, artist, curator and educator who received her MFA in Painting and Drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She exhibits internationally, recent screenings and exhibitions including the South Bend Regional Art Museum, Orange County Contemporary Art Center, and Exit Art NY. Forster is the founder and director of LiveBox Gallery, a non-for-profit focused on filmic and new media art. Curatorial projects in 2007 include programs for The Directors Lounge, Berlin; Three Walls, Chicago; and the Around the Coyote Art Festival, Chicago.

Naomi White	The Liberator	Naomi White moved to New York from California in 1998 to pursue an MFA at the School of Visual Arts. Since graduating in 2000 she has shown her work in several solo and group exhibitions and screenings. White's artwork is concerned with the construction of identity, how the self gets defined through the eyes of others. Her recent work, The Liberator, investigates the burdens of identity and the possibilities for freedom when identity is obscured.

Brian Sherwin, our senior blog editor has been continuing his interview series with artists. Below are a couple of recent highlights:

Pat Lipsky

"Pat Lipsky has dedicated herself to painting for several decades. Lipsky graduated from Cornell University with a BFA in 1963, following which she attended the graduate program in painting at Hunter College where she studied with the sculptor, Tony Smith. . . Her paintings are in twenty-four public collections: The Whitney, The Hirshhorn, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and she has had twenty-eight solo exhibits. . . "

Mie Olise Kjaergaard

"Mie Olise Kjaergaard is one of four artists who will be featured in Saatchi's 4 New Sensations exhibit-- a Channel 4 Prize for STUART 2007 graduates. The four were chosen from a selection of twenty finalists.
Mie's art is inspired by abandoned places and desolate spaces. She captures the essence of these spaces primarily through painting, but she also constructs models of wood and cardboard. Mie is trained as an architect and is interested in constructions, perspectives, and scales of places that have been left behind by human beings. . . "

Sotheby's Plans To Sell Looted Chinese Art Sotheby's says it will sell a Qing Dynasty horse head looted from China's imperial retreat. The piece is valued at $7.7 million. China is objecting. "This is stolen property. It should be returned to the Chinese people through the government, not sold.'' Bloomberg 09/05/07

In Tight Market, Museums Lose To Private Collectors "Public collecting is endangered by a shortfall of resources, a decline in political support and even a loss of nerve that could cut off the flow of masterworks for the people. It has always been hard for museums to compete with private collectors, but driven by the scarcity of great old works and an expanding class of wealthy buyers, the recent stratospheric rise of art prices has utterly outstripped most acquisitions budgets." Los Angeles Times 09/04/07

Sorting Out The Real Reasons Arts Eduction Matters "It's true that students involved in the arts do better in school and on their SATs than those who are not involved. However, correlation isn't causation, and an analysis we did several years ago showed no evidence that arts training actually causes scores to rise. There is, however, a very good reason to teach arts in schools, and it's not the one that arts supporters tend to fall back on." Boston Globe 09/02/07

Can Donations To The Arts Be Justified? Research shows that less than 10 percent of the money Americans give to charity addresses basic human needs, like sheltering the homeless, feeding the hungry and caring for the indigent sick, and that the wealthiest typically devote an even smaller portion of their giving to such causes than everyone else." So how do you justify giving money to the arts? And why should donors get tax breaks? The New York Times 09/06/07

Researchers Uncover Leonardo's Methods "Italian researchers say they have been able to reconstruct for the first time, stroke by stroke, how Renaissance master painter Leonardo da Vinci created his works of art." CBC 09/02/07

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