I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
— George Bernard Shaw
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
— Voltaire
Moral indignation is, in most cases, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy.
— Vittorio de Sica
(image above by Amanda McKnight)
Who Reads This Anyway?
I can say with certainty that I personally know my entire 1% audience in Switzerland, likely the entire 2% in Canada, but regrettably, the free Site Meter service provides no further details on that 6% Unknown...the bushmen of the Kalahari could be reading up on Beyond/In as we speak...
Beyond/In Western New York 2007
Beyond/In Western New York Homepage
Toronto Star arts writer Peter Goddard mistakes AJ Fries' (who we've long suspected of being the Dark Sith Lord of Buffalo) self-portrait for one of Vice President Dick Cheney in "Buffalo Art Stampede"
Buff News Blog
Bruce Adams B/I Preview
Buffalo News writer Colin Dabkowski begins his review process of B/I with Going Regional
And finally, always a pleasure to see art on the cover of Artvoice, with Eric Jackson-Forsberg and Becky Moda surveying the biennial goods...
Artvoice
Albright-Knox Art Gallery (thru Oct 28)
LOIS ANDISON • JEREMY BAILEY • CHRIS BARR • AMANDA BESL • LYN CARTER • SHAYNE DARK • ARTEMIS HERBER • ANI HOOVER • KRISTAN HORTON • SIMONE MANTELLASI • NATHAN NAETZKER • KATHRYN RUPERT-DAZAI • MICHAEL SNOW • ALFONSO VOLO
At least one person told me that Amanda Besl was their favorite work installed at the Albright.
Big Orbit Gallery (thru Nov. 3)
SYLVIE BELANGER • DEIRDRE LOGUE
Deirdre Logue grid of lunatic obsessive counting at Big Orbit Gallery.
Buffalo Arts Studio (thru Nov 3)
SHAYNE DARK • KARA DAVING • LAURA GAROFALO & OMAR KAHN • BRYAN HOPKINS • OSVALDO RAMIREZ CASTILLO
Shayne Dark, who scored the Artvoice cover this week, also has an elegant cluster installed at Buffalo Arts Studio.
Burchfield-Penney Art Center (thru Dec 2)
CHRIS BARR • JAX DELUCA • JOHN DRUMMER • CARIANNE HENDRICKSON • PAUL NICHOLSON
Carianne Hendrickson's deceptively light but internally dark ceramic sculptures (foreground) and John Drummer's unabashedly dark and spectacular works (background) at the Burchfield Penney.
Carnegie Art Center (thru Oct. 27)
KATIE SEHR • JACQUELINE WELCH
Jacqueliine Welch's trippy dog-as-saints paintings at the Carnegie.
Castellani Art Museum (thru Feb 24)
JAY CARRIER • AJ FRIES • KURT VON VOETSCH
Kurt Von Voetsch is a drawing maniac, but a beautiful maniac, at the Castellani.
CEPA Gallery (thru Dec 21)
TAMMY RENEE BRACKETT • HANS GINDLESBERGER • WILKA ROIG
One small segment of a whopping long and lovely work by Hans Gindlesberger at CEPA.
Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center (thru Oct. 20)
ROBERLEY BELL • DAVID CLAYTON • ADAM WEEKLEY
Roberley Bell at Hallwalls.
STEPHANIE ROTHERNBERG (installation in Hallwalls'
cinema)
Squeaky Wheel (thru Nov. 3)
YVONNE BUCHANAN • JILL jOHNSTON-PRICE • DEIRDRE LOGUE • JULIE PERINI • RM VAUGHN
RM Vaugn's Walnut Grove Mon Amour at Squeaky Wheel.
El Museo Oller y Diego Rivera (thru Oct. 20)
XIAOWEN CHEN
UB Art Gallery, Center for the Arts, North Campus (thru Nov 10)
DOROTHEA BRAEMER • ALLYSON MITCHELL • SARAH PAUL • RICHARD PRICE • DIANE SCHAEFER • KATE WILSON
Dorothea Braemer at UB Art Gallery, the tiniest installation in Beyond/in.
UB Anderson Gallery (thru Nov 11)
BRANDAN FERNANDES • JASON LEE • PAUL WALDE
Paul Walde's projected abstractions at UB Anderson Gallery.
Thursday, October 4 • 8pm
Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center
STEPHANIE ROTHENBERG screening & performance
Saturday, October 13 • 8pm
Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center
MICHAEL SNOW screening
Saturday, October 20 • 8pm
Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center
JEREMY BAILEY screening & performance
Saturday, November 3 • 8pm
Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center
DOROTHEA BRAEMER screening
Matthew Barney: No Restraint
presented by Hallwalls at the Albright-Knox
Fri Sept 28 • 7pm • FREE
Matthew Barney No Restraint
BIO (Buffalo Improvisers Orchestra)
presented by Hallwalls at the Albright-Knox
Fri Sept 28 • 8:30pm • FREE
Jonathan Golove & Greg Piontek (strings+) Bill Sack & Tristan Trump (guitars+) Todd Whitman & Steve Baczkowski (woodwinds+) Gabe Gutierrez & Michael Hermanson (brass+) Ravi Padmanabha & Ringo Brill (drums+)
Paul Lytton/Nate Wooley Duo
@ HW • Wed Oct 3 • 8pm
$12 general admission, $8 members/students/seniors
Paul Lytton (drums, percussion, electronics) Nate Wooley (trumpet)
Nate Wooley
Paul Lytton
School of Perpetual Training Presents: Usernomics 1.0
Lead by Beyond/In Western New York
Media Artist Stephanie Rothenberg
Thurs Oct 4 • 5—7pm
Workshop located in the Lounge at Asbury Hall
341 Delaware Ave, Buffalo NY
School of Perpetual Training presents Usernomics 1.0, a hacktivist workshop employing models of waste reclamation, recycling and reuse. In this user-friendly workshop, participants learn how to creatively repurpose old keyboards to create unique external computer interfaces. We begin with an overview of ewaste (electronic waste) and it’s affect on the environment and outsourced, unskilled labor. You will then learn how to disassemble and “hack” USB keyboards to extend the circuitry and use various discarded goods, found objects and materials to create external controllers. We conclude with a competition using our new devices to control an onscreen “worker”. If interested, workshop participants will be able to demonstrate their controllers during the 8:00 pm performance that evening! Participants are encouraged to bring their own laptops for testing keyboards and any discarded/broken products, found objects and materials that can be used to create external controllers. Contact Stephanie at info@pan-o-matic.com for further information.
Opening Elsewhere
• Monica Angle, Susan Copley, Coni Minneci at Insite Gallery, reception Fri Sept 28, 7-9pm (thru Oct 14)
• Gilda Oliver and Bob Ratterman at Olean Public Library, oepning Sat Sept 29 5-8pm (thru Nov 3)
• Peter Dyett at Allen St. Hardware opening Fri Sept 28, 5-8pm (thru Oct 10)
• Michael Doig at Villa Maria College opening Fri Sept 28, 6-8pm (thru Oct 26)
• Kobie Barber and Edreys Wajed at Gallery 51 opening Sat Sept 29, 6-8pm
• Buffalo Society of Artists 111th Annual Juried Exhibition at Premier Annex Gallery (Clarence), opening Fri Oct 5, 6-9pm (thru Nov 3)
• Joan Linder: The Pink at Mixed Greens (NY) opening Thurs Oct 11, 6-8pm (thru Nov 10)
• Second Year MFA Exhibition at UB opening Thurs Oct 4, 5-7pm (thru Nov 2)
• Rumsey Winner Exhibition at UB opening Thurs Nov 8, 5-7pm (thru Dec 7)
• Jackie Felix at CG Jung Center (408 Franklin) opening Fri Jan 18/09, 7-9 pm
Workshop for artists: What they don’t teach you in Art School about the Art World
Presented by Claire Schneider, Associate Curator of Contemporary Art, Albright-Knox Art Gallery at the Carnegie Art Center, September 29, 2-4 pm, FREE
"As curators reviewing numerous submissions by artists annually, many discover a gap about artists learning to make their work and then how they will promote it. Promotion and presentation can get a bad wrap, but it’s as important as the work you are making. Sometimes, artists need to be encouraged to consider this stage of the project as its own “artistic project.” You can’t just make a movie and hope that people will see it; and you can’t just make art and hope you will be discovered." — CS
• How to create an effective and meaningful artist statement?
• Making sure your images are the best they can be.
• How to prepare/present yourself at the studio visit?
• How to find ways for get people to collect your work?
• How to negotiate once you once you are invited to show your work?
• Documenting your exhibitions/projects.
• Staying abreast of the art world and where you fit into the conversation.
Continuing Elsewhere
(winding down/see em now)
• Luke Strosnider at Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, thru Sept 30
• second annual One Piece Wonder show at Cosmopolitan Gallery thru Oct 13
• 16th Annual Regional Artists Exhibition at Art Dialogue thru Oct 5
• Bob Schulman at Globe Market, Chateau Buffalo, Brodo Buffalo Rising
• Devora Primack at Artsphere thru Oct 6
• Dominic Gatti and Roberto Pacheco at NCCC thru Oct 12
• About Face: A National Portrait Exhibition at Impact Artsts' Gallery thru Sept 29
• Peter Stephens at Nina Freudenheim thru Nov 2
• Crossing Border: Works by Canadian Artists at the Kenan Center thru Oct 19
• Tim Raymond and Carol Joyce at College Street Gallery thru Sept 29
• Lauren Emmett at College Street Gallery thru Aug 31
• Douglas Bauer at Betty's thru Oct 14
• Emma Hollister Colby at Nichols School thru Sept 30
• Craig La Rotonda and Kim Maria at Nichols School thru Nov 1
• Diane Baker at The Mansion on Delaware (indefinitely)
Recent Stag-Free Acquisition by the Albright
Modern Art Notes
The Duchamp of the Muscle Car
NY Times
"Just as one cannot turn on a ballgame without hearing endless droning about salaries and steroids, one cannot go to a museum without wall texts, backstories and tales made of money. Single out that object, folks, instead, and look at it often."
artnet
"Perhaps he'll announce a Guggenheim Machu Picchu next, or a Guggenheim Great Wall..."
artnet
No Love Lost, No Love Found
NY Times
André Emmerich 1925—2007
NY Times
artnet
Buffalo ReUse Call for Artists
Deadline: Sept 29
BuffaloReUse
Burchfield Penney Outdoor Art Competition • Deadline Nov 2/07
Outdoor Art Competition
Burchfield Penney Art Center First Ever Members Exhibition
The Artists Among Us: The Burchfield-Penney's Members Exhibition
December 14, 2007 - March 2, 2008
Opening Reception: Friday, December 14 from 6:00 - 9:00 p.m In celebration and thanks to the artists of Western New York for their support of the Burchfield-Penney Art Center and for their contribution to our community, the museum is very pleased that the final exhibition in its Rockwell Hall location will be a Members Exhibition. All artists who are members of the Burchfield-Penney are encouraged to submit work for this very special event. To request an application form, email Scott Propeack at propeasf@buffalostate.edu or call 878-6011.
Buffalo Society of Artists Members' Show Deadline Sept. 28
Squeaky Wheel Fall Workshops
Squeaky Wheel
Something I listened to this week...
No full albums this week. Sometimes I just get into jags where I make mix tapes because...well, I guess curating just isn't enough curating for me. Okay, an iPod mix, but that doesn't sound right. "Mix tape" seems the only suitable designation. This one's named after the Bright Eyes tune We Are Nowhere And It's Now. This is the song listing:
1. Enon • Believo!
2. Modest Mouse • Missed the Boat
3. The Black Keys • Brooklyn Bound
4. Wolf Parade • Same Ghost Every Night
5. ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead • Life
6. Tortoise • Monica
7. Destroyer • Hey, Snow White
8. Dosh • Pink Floyd Cowboy Song
9. Panda Bear • Ponytail
10. Le Tigre • Cry for Everything Bad That's Ever Happened
11. The Apples in Stereo • Beautiful Machine Pts 3-4
12. Arctic Monkeys • Fluorescent Adolescent
13. Wilco • What Light
14. The Shins • A Comet Appears
15. Sonic Youth • Pink Steam
16. The Dears • You and I Are a Gang of Losers
17. Bright Eyes • We Are Nowhere And It's Now
(image above by Amanda McKnight)
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
— Dr. Seuss
