The first iteration of my ongoing charcoal animation project, The Queen’s Mirror, will be on display at Space 711 at WCA as part of the group show Invisible Cities. I’m re-imagining Charlotte’s rise as a center for banking as the result of a strange and brutal series of encounters between financial entities as represented by their New York Stock Exchange ticker symbols. I’m thinking of Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom meets The Wall Street Journal in an oneiric back alley. The show’s title refers to Italo Calvino’s book by the same name in which Marco Polo gives fantastic and poetic accounts to Kublai Khan of the cities he has encountered in the emperor’s vast domain.

September 6 – October 12
Opening Reception: September 6, 6:30 – 8:30
Live music by Ghost Trees

711 Pressley Road
Charlotte, NC 28217

Situated in the middle of a vast verdant swath between the mountains and the sea, is Carlotta.  Artificial volcanoes above and below the city gush an endless supply of heat and light. The inhabitants are like those of any city… except for a creature that is the last of its kind. Feared and worshiped by the smaller denizens, the beast is the last survivor of an era that saw great battles between it and countless under matched rivals from lands near and far. These battles customarily ended with the victor consuming the vanquished. As a gesture of tribute, the people devoured their own history as the creature devoured its foes. This strange burg now exists as series of disconnected floating islands as its people look to the volcanoes for a sign of what the future will bring.

Press Release:

365 Days of Print is pleased to announce 365 Days of Print: An Exhibition of Artists Mining Media. Comprised of works by over forty artists from the online project of the same name, the exhibition catalogues the struggle and challenge to process, respond to and engage with the evolving media landscape, its images and content.  Artists have used audio, collage, photography, embroidery, and sculpture to comment on and critique press coverage of every major event – from protests in Tunisia and Egypt to the debt ceiling debate, from the Fukushima disaster to the arrest of Dominique Strauss-Kahn.

Since January 2011, 365 Days of Print has invited small groups of artists for one-month residencies to create work sourcing newspapers and various media outlets. Working under the same deadlines as journalists, artists created work every day that engaged and commented not only on the information and events covered by The New York Times and other newspapers, but on the medium itself and such concepts as bias, objectivity, sexism, consumerism and conflict of interest.

Organized by artists and curators Kenneth Pietrobono and Doris Caçoilo, the exhibition will feature over 120 works and will be installed at both the Dumbo Arts Festival and The Visual Arts Gallery at New Jersey City University. Using a loose chronological format, the exhibit will illustrate news events as they occurred, allowing pieces to engage in a visual dialogue of shared experience. In keeping with the pace of the media cycle, space will be left available for future works by contributing artists throughout the run of the exhibition.

Created by Maya Joseph-Goteiner, 365 Days of Print continues to enlist artists to make new work through 2011.

Sept. 23-25, 2011, Dumbo Arts Festival, 81 Front Street, Brooklyn, NY

Opening Friday, Sept. 23, 6-9 PM

Oct. 1-27, 2011, The Visual Arts Gallery, New Jersey City University, 100 Culver Avenue, Jersey City, NJ

Opening Saturday, Oct. 1, 5-8 PM

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In Black and White, an exhibition of black and white prints, opens at Artspace in Raleigh tomorrow. The thirty one 4″ x 4″ woodcuts I created as a guest artists at 365daysofprint.com this past March are installed as a calendar-like grid. Each image is a reaction to a particular headline or story in the corresponding day’s New York Times.

About 365 Days of Print:

a blog with the ultimate goal to remix the newspaper, to engage and create dialogue within all media of art regarding the news, literacy, and the experience of reading the paper. Over the course of 2011, 100+ artists will use the newspaper as fodder to illustrate, sew, draw, paint, sculpt, photograph…

I’ll be at Block Gallery in Raleigh tonight for the opening of INKED: Printmaking 2011. My 3 most recent explosion woodcuts are included. It looks a diverse and high quality group of work. I’m looking forward to meeting some of the artists I haven’t met and hope to see lots of familiar faces!

Explosion 16 BYPGG was recently selected for exhibition at the 16th Space International Print Biennial at OCI Museum of Art in Seoul, Korea.

Here’s a proof of a piece I’m doing for a print exchange and exhibition coming up this summer. It’s part of my ongoing series of “unfortunate fighters that just can’t seem to win” woodcuts.

I’m attempting a woodcut a day. At the end of the month I’ll assemble a single piece to represent all of March 2011.

Here is yesterday’s:

NPR Chief Resigns as Network’s Setbacks Mount

NPR Chief Resigns as Network’s Setbacks Mount