Another Top 10 List for Powhida in 2009!

Powhida makes another Top 10 list for 2009 achievements - this time Artnet's

Walter Robinson in Group Show @ Aeroplastics in Bruges, Belgium

Check out this lineup of terrific artists Jerome Jacobs put together for exhibition in Bruges, Belgium. Proud to see Walter Robinson among them...

Steve Lambert Solo Booth Chronicled at PULSE Miami

Read Whitewall Magazine's report on PULSE Miami, including a nice discussion of our booth down there at the fair

Powhida Drawing Ignites New Museum Controversy

Read Powhida's summary and have a look at the drawing that ignited considerable controversy regarding insider-curating and the New Museum - as published in the Brooklyn Rail

Jerry Saltz picks Powhida 2nd of 10 favorite artists of 2009

Fantastic news for Powhida collectors - in NY Magazine Jerry Saltz ranks Powhida 2nd among his top 10 artists/shows of 2009!

Read my interview with Rebecca Taylor in Fine Arts LA

Read my interview with Rebecca Taylor for Fine Arts LA, in which we discuss William Powhida and other topics...

BOMB Magazine Interviews William Powhida

Read this interview with William Powhida in Bomb Magazine

Powhida Featured in New York Times - Provides Commentary on Art Basel Miami Beach

Read the New York Times feature on William Powhida. In the article William walks the Miami NYT Bureau Chief through the big fair, providing commentary along the way. Of the two articles the Times did (that I saw) on the Miami fairs, the second of which, published right after the fairs' conclusions, was this one. Terrific exposure for William - we're very excited...

Powhida a Critics' Pick for LA on Artforum.com

Powhida strikes again! This time he's a Critics' Pick on Artforum.com

William Powhida Reviewed in the LA Times

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2009/11/william-powhida-at-the-charlie-james-gallery.html

Chinatown Open Sundays!

Chinatown Galleries now opening on Sundays. CJG will be open 12-6!

Ala Ebtekar Wins Visions From a New California Award

ALLIANCE OF
ARTISTS COMMUNITIES

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Alliance of Artists Communities announces recipients of the
2010 Visions from the New California Awards

August 18, 2009 – The Alliance of Artists Communities recently named visual artists Iris
Charabi-Berggren, Ala Ebtekar, Prajakti Jayavant, Rebecca Lowry, Ethan Turpin,
and Meeson Pae Yang as the 2010 recipients of the Visions from the New California
award.

A collaborative initiative of six California artists’ residency programs, funded by The
James Irvine Foundation, the award supports highly talented, yet under-recognized,
California visual artists who represent the new California demographic. The Alliance of
Artists Communities, the nation’s only service organization for artists’ communities and
residency programs, administers and directs the Visions from the New California project.

Selected from a pool of over 300 visual artists state-wide, the six award recipients will each
receive a one-month residency at one of the participating California programs next year,
and a $4000 unrestricted stipend. The artists and their work will also be featured in a
widely distributed publication documenting their residency experiences at the host
programs, and will be invited to participate in a group exhibition, featuring the work of a
number of Visions artists, at a later date.

Artists’ residency programs support working artists of all disciplines by providing them
with both time and space to create new work, and with opportunities for interaction and
collaboration with artistic peers and mentors.

The Visions from the New California project recognizes and supports six California visual
artists each year. The 2010 award recipients with their host residency programs are:

Iris Charabi-Berggren, Interdisciplinary Art, from San Francisco – Headlands
Center for the Arts in Sausalito
Ala Ebtekar, Painting, from Berkeley – 18th Street Arts Center in Santa Monica

- more -

2010 Visions from the New California Awards (page two)


Prajakti Jayavant, Painting, from San Francisco – Djerassi Resident Artists
Program in Woodside
Rebecca Lowry, Conceptual Art, from Los Angeles – Montalvo Arts Center in
Saratoga
Ethan Turpin, Mixed Media, from Santa Barbara – Kala Art Institute in Berkeley
Meeson Pae Yang, Installation Art, from Torrance – Exploratorium in San
Francisco

A record number of applicants this year submitted work samples which were reviewed by a
prestigious panel including: Kevin B. Chen, program director at Intersection for the Arts
in San Francisco; Meg Shiffler, gallery director at the San Francisco Arts Commission
Gallery; and Lava Thomas, an accomplished visual artist with studios in San Francisco
and Los Angeles.

The James Irvine Foundation is a private, nonprofit grantmaking foundation dedicated to
expanding opportunities for the people of California to participate in a vibrant, inclusive,
and successful society. The Foundation’s grantmaking is organized around three program
areas: Arts, Youth, and California Perspectives, which focuses on increasing public
understanding of critical issues facing the state. Since 1937, the Foundation has provided
over $1 billion in grants to more than 3000 nonprofit organizations throughout California.
For more information about The James Irvine Foundation, please visit their website at
www.irvine.org or call 415.777.2244.

Based in Providence, Rhode Island, the Alliance of Artists Communities is the only
national network of artists’ communities, colonies and residency programs, with more than
250 members worldwide. The Alliance contributes to the nation’s cultural vitality by giving
a collective voice to artists’ communities, promoting successful practices in the field, and
advocating for creative environments that support the work of today’s artists. The Alliance
represents programs that support artists in all disciplines, believing that collaboration and
exchange that cross traditional boundaries furthers our culture’s progress. For more
information on the Alliance and this project, please visit www.artistcommunities.org, or
contact the Alliance at 401.351.4320.

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Ray Beldner Lecture at the National Portrait Gallery

Ray Beldner discussion of Marcel Duchamp at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC - link to podcast also available.

Archival - Libby Black in Art in America

Archival - Libby Black in Artforum

Archival - Libby Black

Libby Black 7x7

Lucas Murgida Reviewed in Daily Serving

Lucas's performance at the gallery is reviewed in The Daily Serving.com

Lucas Murgida a Critics' Pick in Artforum!

Lucas Murgida's performance at the gallery July 25 is acknowledged by Annie Buckley's review in Artforum

Heidi Cody in Boing Boing

Heidi Cody's Mutiny on the Cutty Sark featured in Boing Boing

Walter Robinson in Artforum

Ala Ebtekar and Taravat Talepasand Reviewed in THE Mag LA!

Read this review of Hampah, our March Show with Ala Ebtekar and Taravat Talepasand in THE Mag LA....

Steve Lambert's "Self-Control" Covered by Bay Area NBC News

Enjoy this Bay Area NBC article and video piece about Steve's self-control web application.

Orly Cogan's Museum Show Schedule for 2009

Orly Cogan will be participating in the following museum exhibitions this year:

1. Exhibition title: "She Will Always Be Younger Than Us"
Textile Museum of Canada. On view now through September 7th 2009.

2. Exhibition Title: "It’s Not Us, It’s You"
The San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art.
This show will be on view through the end of June. It’s Not Us, It’s You is an exhibition that explores the inevitability of rejection in our lives – a timely topic in today’s woeful economic climate. Through a tragic and sometimes heartbreaking lens, the artists in this exhibition respond to the reality of rejection with subversion, self-reflection, humor and brutal honesty.

3. Exhibition Title: "Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling". At The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in CT. June 21, 2009, to January 3, 2010

The women in this exhibition, although formally distinct, all reclaim storytelling as a strategy to address contemporary discourses on warfare, the environment, and female struggles. The artists focus on narrative representation and figuration. Their fairytale-like depictions are in reality reflections on submerged violence, played out through refined, delicate, and meticulous work. The artists look back at traditional modes of expression, such as storytelling, as well as engaging traditional or vintage techniques that require a labor—intensive process—obsessive, elaborate, yet impeccable manufacture. This highly stylized work—pretty—offers profound assessments of our contemporary world—tough—by relying on storytelling as a subversive strategy that permeates the public sphere more efficiently than confrontational discourses.

4. Exhibition Title: "I Want Candy"
The Fresno Metropolitan Museum from June 26th - September 6th 09.
This installation will be traveling to various Museum exhibitions through out the US for one year following this show in Fresno.

Ala Ebtekar and Taravat Talepasand in new book on contemporary Iranian Art!

Congratulations to Ala Ebtekar and Taravat Talepasand on their mutual inclusion in the new book by Hossein Amirsadeghi titled Different Sames: New Perspectives in Contemporary Iranian Art. Here's a link to the book on Amazon.

Steve Lambert Wins Award of Distinction at Ars Electronica

Congratulations to Steve Lambert and the Yes Men for winning an Award of Distinction in Hybrid Arts for the New York Times Special Edition @ Ars Electronica this year!

Steve Lambert's show on Eco Art Blog

Nice mention from our friends at Eco Art Blog after seeing Steve's show

William Powhida Piece in New York Magazine!

Have a look at this hilarious piece on William's "Post-Boom Odds" piece, wherein he lays odds on the relevance of his contemporaries in 10 years time...

William Powhida Reviewed in the NY Times

Read Holland Cotter's review of William Powhida's show at Schroeder-Romero in Chelsea

Steve Lambert in Citizen LA!

Read Annie Villafane's Around the Galleries piece on Steve...

Steve Lambert Reviewed in the LA Times

Read Christopher Knight of the LA Times on Steve Lambert @ CJG

Steve Lambert in Buzzine!

Enjoy this interview of Steve Lambert by Emberly Modine of Buzzine Magazine

Taravat Talepasand in Art Papers

Steve Lambert Show Video

Steve put this video together of his show at CJG

Steve Lambert in the Examiner!

A nice writeup for Steve in the online Examiner!

Lucas Murgida Video

Enjoy Lucas recounting his adventures in New York City as well as his past and future projects...

http://vimeo.com/4307652

LA Weekly Says "GO!" to Steve Lambert

Our friends at the LA Weekly say go go go to our Steve Lambert Show!

Ray Beldner at National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C.

Ray Beldner is included in the exhibition:

Inventing Marcel Duchamp: The Dynamics of Portraiture
Smithsonian Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture, National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C.
March 27 - August 2, 2009


http://americanart2.si.edu/reynolds_center/event.cfm?key=567&exhibit=3486

Steve Lambert's Self-Control Internet Gets Big Attention

Artist Steve Lambert has created an internet sensation in his new Self-Control Firefox application. The app prevents access to either email, facebook, twitter, etc based on user stipulation - for a user-defined amount of time. The hook is that if you change your mind, too bad! You must wait until the stipulated time expires. Rebooting or Shutting Down will not change anything. During the shutdown period the web remains otherwise accessible. Help for web and email junkies is here now - thanks to Steve...

http://db.tidbits.com/article/10192

Ala Ebtekar Stirs Controversy at Art Dubai

Ala Ebtekar has a wonderfully successful Art Dubai, but also stirs some controversy with one of his acrylic over book page pieces...

http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/30966/art-dubai-buoyant-despite-crash-and-clash/

Hampah

Flavorpill LA gives Hampah - Works by Ala Ebtekar and Taravat Talepasand the thumbs up!

Packard Jennings

Packard Jennings highlighted in the fall fashion edition of SOMA magazine! p. 20-21 for the story...

David E Stone

Yet another review of David E Stone's solo show at the gallery in January-February - this time for Art Ltd by Peter Frank.

David E Stone

Another fabulous review of David E Stone's solo exhibition Unanticipated Despair (Despite Prior Naive Optimism) in the new issue of Artillery magazine!

Lucas Murgida

Listen to Lucas's online radio interview. Follow this link and scroll down to find the "Play" button. Lucas's interview can be found in minutes 21:40 to 35:50.

Lucas Murgida

Read this feature piece on Lucas Murgida and his work in the French journal Nuke!

LA's Chung King Road Stands in for NYC in CSI:NY

Watch this hilarious scene as two strapping TV cops chase after people on our lovely gallery row!!!

Ray Beldner Reviewed in Art in America

Check out the Art in America review of Ray Beldner's 2008 show at Catharine Clark Gallery in San Francisco...

David E Stone

Read the LA Times review on David E Stone's solo show @ CJG

David E Stone

Flavorpill's Shana Dambrot on David E Stone's Unanticipated Despair (Despite Prior Naive Optimism) @ Charlie James Gallery...

http://flavorpill.com/losangeles/events/2009/1/10/david-e-stone

Chinatown Art Walk!

The Chinatown Arts District is kicking off its Art Walk this Saturday, January 24, with up to 20 openings and participating galleries. Come by and say hello!

Steve Lambert

Steve Lambert interviewed for Proximity Magazine

Chinatown Arts District Profiled

Molly Enholm profiles Chinatown for Art Ltd

Reviews of The Western Front: Inaugural Group Show

Read Jesi Khadivi's review of our debut show for Artnet Magazine:

Read Peter Frank's review of our debut show for The Magazine LA:

Read Andie Villafane's writeup of the gallery for Citizen LA: