Julia Schwadron

COPY JAM! 2: TEXT EDITION A Printeresting Curatorial Project

July 11, 2010

at The Printers’ Ball The Luddington Building 1104 S. Wabash Ave Chicago, IL

COPY JAM! 2: Text Edition

This Summer, PRINTERESTING wants to meet our readers in the Windy City! On Friday July 30, we will host an encore performance of our Copy Jam! at the Printers’ Ball at Luddington Building in beautiful, downtown Chicago, IL. The Ball is co-sponsored by Poetry magazine as well as the Center for Book and Paper Arts at Columbia College and the Student Affairs Offices at Columbia College. Because the Printers’ Ball has its roots in the literary world, we asked all participating artists to give us work that incorporates text in some way.

“COPY JAM!” will be an interactive print event. During the party, fifty works by fifty artists will be displayed in a grid on the wall. Upon arrival, each guest will be handed a complimentary ticket that can be exchanged for one black & white photocopy of any work the guest chooses. There will be no sales; one ticket equals one copy. Copies will be made LIVE in the gallery for one night only from 6-9PM!

Featured Artists:

Abra Ancliffe • Jesse Albrecht • Baltimore Print Studios • Christian Bok Glen Baldridge • Diana Behl • Kate Bingaman-Burt • Ingrid Burrington Allison Cole • Bill Donovan • Christa Donner • Johanna Drucker Friends Make Prints (Nic Annette Miller & Emily Bunnell) Tate Foley • FOUND Magazine • Kenneth Goldsmith Dusty Herbig • Adriane Herman • Dustin Amery Hostetler Holly Holly Hobby Hobby (Leah Mackin & Anni Altshuler) Rod Hunting • Dan Grzeca • JUDGE • Chad Kouri Emily Larned • Jimmy Luu • Sean Kuhnke • Robin McDowell Bill McRight • Leslie Mutchler • Matt Neff • Jena Osman Adam Pendleton • Mark Price • Justin Quinn • Favianna Rodriguez Erik Ruin & Cindy Milstein • Julia Schwadron • Jennifer Schmidt Scott Sherk • Esther K. Smith • Sonnenzimmer • Ryan Standfest Wendy Collin Sorin • Molly Springfield • SuperKonductor Temporary Services • Brad Vetter • Cardon Copy/Cardon Webb Brian Wiggins • Will Work for Good (Kevin O’ Neill & Karisa Senavitis)

Additional information on Printeresting’s Copy Jam! is available HERE and more information regarding The Printers’ Ball is available HERE.

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Photos from U-Turn Gallery’s “Palling around with Socialists”

July 10, 2010

Steve Lambert and I were asked to do a piece for this show – since we couldn’t go, we created instruction drawings for the folks at the gallery to execute themselves. Click HERE to see the photos of what they came up with…

Palling Around with Socialists: a group exhibition June 5th – 26th, 2010 Opening reception: Saturday, June 5th, 7:00 – 10:00 pm

Cincinnati, OH—Since its inception, U·turn Art Space has sought to facilitate discourse towards imagining questions about the methods and practices of a functional society. In Palling Around with Socialists, a number of artists and the gallery collective have come together to curate an exhibition that questions the nature of an individual as an autonomous being or as a component to an equitable community. Our nation presently finds itself in a culture war, where language is traversing outside the bounds of denoted definitions: words like socialist, fascism, tsar and terror are volleyed around public debates. While different parties and groups fear a loss of personal freedoms, we may be at greater risk of misarticulating the perceived conflicts with which we are faced. Concerns about the nature of private property, authorship and current intersections between economics, ethics and philosophy will be raised through the work of Shinsuke Aso, Gabriel Boyce and Preston Link, Alton Falcone, David Horvitz, Justin Kemp, Steve Kemple, Julia Schwadron and Steve Lambert. The presented works continue to exercise aesthetic sensitivity, demonstrating a belief in form contributing to the advancement of concepts. Critically playful and directly engaging our community with optimistic, activist strategies, U·turn and these artists seek to contribute to a larger dialogue with art that presents unexpected viewpoints and makes note of abstractions that may expand upon or resituate current discussions about social responsibility, power and control.

“The question of social change and art becomes then a problem of discovering the manner in which a new content modifies the conventional manner of expression: the manner in which purely aesthetic changes, occasioned by social changes, modify content to accord with newer forms. But insofar as the formal change may be socially conditioned, we must distinguish between those social changes that operate on the artist directly and those that operate indirectly.” –Meyer Schapiro in his essay “Art and Social Change”

Remnants, Group Show Curated by Michelle Doll and Lisa Lebofsky

June 22, 2010

Please join me for the opening of “Remnants”, at Fuse Gallery:

Tomorrow night, Wednesday June 23rd, 7-10pm

93 2nd Ave (between 5th & 6th Sts, 2nd Ave stop on the F), NYC, NY.

Wed-Sat 3-8pm, 212.777.7988

June 23rd – July 3rd, 2010

Opening Reception: Wednesday, June 23rd, 7 to 10pm

click here to see the show, or click here for the press release

Participating Artists: Katelyn Alain, Melissa Anderson, Carrie-Ann Bracco, Charis Carmichael Braun, Dina Brodsky, Maya Brodsky, Daniel Brusky, Lyndsea Cochrane, Tim Daly, Bonnie DeWitt, Michelle Doll, Peter Drake, Samuel Evensen, Debra Goertz, Kathy Goodell, Jane Hamill, Jim Harris, Paul Hazelton, Catherine Howe, Caitlin Hurd, John Jacobsmeyer, Alan Bur Johnson, Christian Johnson, Michael Kagan, Alex Kanevsky, Karl Koett, Bryan Leboeuf, Lisa Lebofsky, Amy Mahnick, Alyssa Monks, Cory Morgenstein, Tun Myaing, John Nickle, Linnea Paskow, Rafael Perez, Jennifer Presant, Jean Pierre Roy, Kristen Schiele, Charlotte Schulz, Julia Schwadron, Viviane Silvera, Damian Stamer, Melanie Vote, Mitra Walter, and Eric White

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Twin Twin III, Artists Edition

August 22, 2009

PLEASE JOIN IN THE FUN FOR:

First show at the Big & Small/Casual Gallery in L.I.C.!

Matt Freedman is curating: “Twin Twin III, Artists Edition”

Opening: Friday, September 11, 5-8pm

The gallery’s first show is the third incarnation of Matt Freedman’s evolving Twin Twin project, which was installed at Vertextlist in 2005 and Pierogi in 2006. So far, the project has consisted of hundreds of everyday objects that, to Freedman, bear ghostly resemblances to the two fallen towers of the World Trade Center. The collection includes everything from modeled objects, to furniture, toys, the grating on an air conditioner and the scar on a boy’s knee. For this installation Freedman has extended the scope of the experiment and invited artist friends who are familiar with this project and share his complicated relationship with that day to contribute a piece to the collection. In his invitation to the artists he wrote:

“I want work repurposed for this show, work that would mean something else in any other context, and only in this one would remind us of 9-11. I’m not asking you to make a piece for the show, but to find a piece for the show from your own body of work. If you find you have produced work in the last eight years that you feel was influenced by 9-11, or if you see in a work of yours the shadowy image of the towers themselves for reasons you cannot fathom at all, I hope you will consider sharing that work with us for the weekend.”