#SAVEARTSPACE is bringing public art to Los Angeles, showcasing 10 local artists - Danielle Garza, Lois Keller, Jung Yun, Gaetanne Lavoie, Shark Toof, Pascaline Doucin-Dahlke, Lucinda Luvaas, Deborah Farnault, Shula Singer Arbel, and Frankie Carino - advertising spaces throughout the area beginning January 16, 2017. The event is organized and curated by #SAVEARTSPACE co-founders Travis Rix and Justin Aversano.
This exhibition is entitled, “We Only Have One Place To Live.” The artists responded to the most important global concern, which affects all of us—the current and changing state of our natural environment. Recently, scientists and researchers identified that we are now living in the first epoch in Earth’s history where our environment is being actively changed by human activity across our planet.
“We Only Have One Place to Live” aims to explore the tension between human society and the environment; between static and change. This exhibition asked local artists to voice their passionate concerns about how environmental change is affecting our globalized society and also the philosophical and existential questions that arise when we are both the problem, and the potential solution, to the crises our world faces.
Ashley Brossart, a Louisville native, has exhibited work in numerous solo and group exhibitions including; “Painted Portraits: City/Self” – Carnegie Center in New Albany, Indiana (2012), ‘New Evolution’ – Gallery at the Brown Hotel Louisville, Ky (2013), ‘Displacement’ a group exhibition curated by Stacey Reason featuring Brossart’s city installation entitled ‘Sobro Portrait’ – Spalding University Huff Gallery Louisville, Ky (2014), The Mayor's Gallery at Louisville Metro Hall (2014) and ‘Terminating Vistas; The Sequence Series’ at Crafts Gallery Louisville, Ky (2015).
Brooklyn-based nonprofit organization SaveArtSpace is proud to present its latest initiative "SaveArtSpace: The Future Is Female" an all-woman gallery & public art exhibition. Inspired by today's feminist rallying cry which was first coined by the lesbian separatists of the 1970s, the exhibition aims to explore and celebrate the ever-evolving intersectional feminist movement, while redefining and expanding upon the mainstream definition of "the female gaze".
The all-star curation panel of prominent visual art innovators -- Meryl Meisler, Marie Tomanova, Alyse Archer-Coité, Sandra Hong, and Brittany Natale (Learn more about the curators) -- selected works that reflect the multi-faceted reality of womanhood in the 21st century and expand upon society's traditional ideals of femininity. The exhibiting artists include Allie Kelley, Beth Brown, Elise Peterson, Fanny Allié, Jess Whittam, Julie Orlick, Lissa Rivera, Mónica Félix, Nina Summer, and Sara Meadows.
Ken Lavey is a lens based artist and technician in New York City. He holds a BFA from the School of Visual Arts and was a resident artist at the Royal College of Art in London. This work comes from the kind of ultra male spaces that I have been photographing for years. Hardware stores, garages, second-hand electronics stores, the ubiquitous junk drawer. These places are especially fertile ground. The primary decision in making these compositions is determining the object’s ideal view.
Special Guest Curator: Efrem Zelony-Mindell
Jessica Forrestal is a Denver-based artist. She holds an MFA in Fine Art from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. She has participated in group and solo shows in Brooklyn and the Denver area. Jessica recently concluded her summer-long artist residency at the Firehouse Art Center in Longmont, Colorado with a solo exhibition of her most recent work.
Artist Statement: Banal objects drift unnoticeably in and out of American consumer culture. User manuals and deconstructed parts refer to the consumer ritual that promises functionality and life improvement. Mimicking the ways in which we encounter these objects, I construct large hand-drawn diagrams. Intensive labor and crafting is essential to my creative process as I challenge concepts of quality, disposability and time. Using this format of production, objects are reimagined and recontextualized as artworks that challenge the economy of the art object.
Bushwick Street Art is a native run graffiti collective creating safe spaces for native and new artist to create while bridging the gap in the art scene in Bushwick. From BSA comes Invasion of the Stickers a worldwide sticker art collection and museum style exhibition. This medium of art is done on postal stickers.
Special Guest Curator: Color Scenes, a black and brown led visual arts and media collective creating resources in black and brown communities. We believe representation matters and believe in creating independent outlets to preserve cultural representation within our communities.
School of Visual Arts presents "Street Smart: The Intersection of Art and Design in the City," an exhibition that brings together a diverse group of alumni whose work is made for or about the urban environment.
Brooklyn-based nonprofit organization SaveArtSpace has partnered with the School of Visual Arts (SVA) to unveil their latest gallery show and public art initiative "Street Smart: The Intersection of Art and Design in the City". Curated by SaveArtSpace co-founders Travis Rix and Justin Aversano, the exhibition incorporates a diverse selection of SVA alumni whose work is inspired by the urban environment. Each of the artists -- Feifei Ruan, Sadie Starnes, and Meytar Moran -- will have their work featured on a new billboard installations and in the SVA Chelsea Gallery.
Though many SVA Alumni share the common experience of living and working in New York City, the artists that we selected spoke about a reintroduction of the natural environment back into the urban space. For this exhibition, we chose pieces that speak to the symbiotic relationship humans have with plant life. The show aims to communicate that in order to evolve with nature and survive in an urban environment filled with harmful gases and toxic radiation, it is vital to integrate the natural world into our daily lives.
This gallery and public art exhibition is made possible by School of Visual Arts.
SaveArtSpace: Fragments of Content aims to investigate the representative and interpretive nature of how the Internet has changed our perceptions of the world around us. Living in a digital age, we are faced with a constant interconnectivity, exposing us to an abundance of knowledge, imagery and stimuli. This experience of constant simulacra begs the question of all its participants: are we responsible for determining whether technology will enhance or destroy our society? While we simultaneously form new pathways and devise solutions to create progress using technology and connectivity, are we also alienating and disconnecting from our shared cultural values through our broadband connections?
Since its emergence as the key form of communication in the late 20th and early 21st century, the Internet has defined itself as both a tool and a weapon of Western Culture. It can concurrently deliver information at the speed of thought, but it can also use that information problematically, fashioning a cudgel that bludgeons nuance and depth just as quickly. Data mining, unwarranted mass surveillance, advertising, hacking, online warfare—all of these go hand in hand with the freedom of information and the ability and access to networks beyond our physical realms. The Internet has long been a space where artists have responded to these questions and engaged with it as medium and site of influence, creating new expressions and experiences that both question and inform us of how our IRL lives are now deeply intertwined with our URL existence. Fragments of Content seeks to use the digital medium of the Internet, manifest in the physical world, to explore this liminality in our shared experience online, examining the juxtaposition of how rich and valuable the Internet can be and how dangerous and deceptive it can become at the click of a link.
An qualified panel of curators considered each submission's pertinence to the theme of the exhibition, the context of the images and association to the public space. The curators are Devin Ohanian of The DNA Life; Alexandria Hodkins, & Joseph Meloy of The Living Gallery Outpost; and Independent Curator, Maggie Dunlap.