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Congratulations to Alumnus Andrew Brischler (MFA 12), recipient of the 2013 Rema Hort Foundation Visual Arts Grant

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chashama Open Studios 2013

chashama Studios @ The Brooklyn Army Terminal

140 58th Street Building A (Unit 3J) and Building B (Unit 4I) Brooklyn, NY 11220 Accessible by N, R train (to 59th Street stop in Brooklyn)

Open Studio Hours: Friday, September 20, 6-10PM Saturday, September 21, 12-6PM

Free and open to the public!

chashama and the NYC Economic Development Corporation invite the greater New York City area to visit chashama's largest subsidized studio program located at the historic Brooklyn Army Terminal. Spread across two adjacent buildings and situated along Brooklyn's waterfront in the Sunset Park neighborhood, the studios have been a work space for painters, sculptors, photographers, experimental mixed media artists, and even fire-breathing performers! The studio program is currently home to over 85 artists.

For one weekend only, guests can tour the studios, meet the artists, and experience the rich cultural history of the Brooklyn Army Terminal buildings. Guests also have the option to join a private, guided tour offered by the Municipal Art Society by pre-registering on their website.

In Building B, five studio artists (Alberte Bernier, Suyeon Na, Maia Cruz Palileo, Kristin Reed, and S Wrenn) will be featured in a pop-up show curated by Alicia DeBrincat in studio B23. Working across diverse mediums, these five artists all pursue their own unique and richly textured creative visions. The show is called Potluck Situation - a visual feast echoing the festive, impromptu, high energy nature of a potluck gathering.

In partnership with the NYC Economic Development Corporation, chashama has provided subsidized studios for hundreds of artists since 2005. The studio program expanded from 20,000 to 60,000 sq. ft. in 2009 to accommodate the growing needs of local artists. chashama plans to continue supporting communities of underserved, emerging and established artists in Sunset Park and beyond, for years to come.

See last year's highlighted artists in Hyperallergic and the Daily News. 

About chashama:

chashama, which means "to have vision" in Farsi, supports creativity and enlivens communities by transforming underutilized properties into affordable 'space to create'. We partner with artists, performers, and youth and community organizations in New York City to provide opportunities for creativity to flourish. Our programs strengthen both the communities that benefit from the influx of new ideas, and the artists whose work they support.

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ALEJANDRO GUZMAN (MFA 09) & ELAN JURADO (MFA 12)@ EL MUSEO DEL BARIO BIENNIAL

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El Museo’s Bienal 2013: HERE IS WHERE WE JUMP

beginsWednesday, June 12, 2013

endsSaturday, January 4, 2014

Las Galerías

Admission: Fees Vary

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La Bienal 2013, El Museo’s 7th biennial exhibition, features work by 37 emerging Latino and Latin American artists, from newly-minted to mid-career, who live and work in New York City metropolitan area. This installation of La Bienal is curated by El Museo Curator Rocío Aranda-Alvarado and Raúl Zamudio, an independent New York-based curator.

This year, La Bienal features Brazil as the special guest country. Our biennial guest country presents an opportunity for El Museo to remain in conversation with similar urban artistic landscapes throughout Latin American and the Caribbean, and expose our audiences to emerging artists in other locales.

The artists and works in the La Bienal are as diverse in their backgrounds as they are in their creative processes. From Chilean artist Julia San Martin, whose experimental expressionistic work reflects on the violence and persecution experienced by civilians living under a dictatorship, to Puerto Rican artist and Bronx native Manny Vega’s exploration and celebration of collective memory and the shared histories of the African diaspora in the Americas. Likewise, the methods and processes of the artists range from recycling materials to producing traditional objects, as is the case in Sean Paul Gallegos’s exploration of ethnography and sneakers, to Cuban artist Pavel Acosta’s exploration of art and scarcity through Wallscape,” an intervention into El Museo’s gallery walls using stolen paint. La Bienal 2013 showcases paintings, drawings, video, sculptures, installations, and performances.

Since its first edition in 1999, La Bienal – formerly known as The (S) Files – has been a significant means for creating ties between institutions and artists, while building networks and opportunities for a wide variety of talented Latino artists. La Bienal alumni include Firelei Baez, Allora & Calzadilla, Margarita Cabrera, Alejandro Cesarco, Richard Garett, Pablo Helguera, Tamara Kostianovsky, Carlos Motta, and Iván Navarro.

The exhibition was designed to provide a platform for artists who may not be represented in larger artistic institutions, and who have never shown at El Museo. Through this survey, La Bienal hopes to bring visibility to their work and their creative process. La Bienal is interested in the conditions under which works of art are made and how they are received by the public. The artists’ methods and processes are of significance, as is the context in which they are created and interpreted. El Museo’s Bienal celebrates the experimental and experiential aspects of contemporary art, and supports the notion that this production is part of the history of contemporary American art. Artists featured in La Bienal 2013 are: damali abrams, Lucas Arruda, Pavel Acosta, Hector Arce Espasas, Ernesto Burgos, Miguel Cárdenas, Ernest Concepción, Matias Cuevas, 5ifty5ive & Les Carbonell, Jonathas de Andrade, Patricia Domínguez & Dominika Ksel, Becky Franco, Sean Paul Gallegos, Paula Garcia, Ignacio González-Lang, Kathleen Granados, Alejandro Guzmán, Pablo Jansana, Sara Jimenez & Kaitlynn Redell, Élan Jurado, Renata Lucas, Ramón Miranda Beltrán, Bernardo Navarro Tomás, Alex Nuñez, Giandomenico Tonatiuh Pellizzi, Risa Puno, Eric Ramos Guerrero, Christopher Rivera, Kenny Rivero, Julia San Martín, Gabriela Salazar, Gabriela Scopazzi, Edgar Serrano, Mel Xiloj, and Manuel Vega.

In conjunction with La Bienal 2013, El Museo is launching RADIANCE: After Hours at El Museo, lively evenings of music, gallery talks, special performances and programs, to be held every Wednesday from 6pm-9pm between June 19, 2013 and August 28, 2013.

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Amelia Midori Miller (MFA '12) shows at ArtBridge Drawing Room ,"Ramshackle Kaleidoscope" Opening 5/2

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Ramshackle Kaleidoscope

The ArtBridge Drawing Room 526 W. 26th Street

502a

New York, NY 10001 [phone] www.drawingroomgallery.org

curated by Jordana Zeldin

SARAH BEDNAREK

AMELIA MIDORI MILLER

CHRISTIAN SAMPSON

May 2 - August 1, 2013

Opening Reception: May 2 , 6 - 8PM

The ArtBridge Drawing Room is pleased to bring together Sarah Bednarek, Amelia Midori Miller (MFA 12 and Christian Sampson in its latest exhibition, Ramshackle Kaleidoscope. Working in a variety

of media from light to wood to paint, these artists’ geometric sculptures and paintings, carefully crafted with

moments of exacting perfection, deliberately retain the presence of the wayward human gesture and humble

hand-made mark, imbuing them with a quiet and understated transcendental beauty.

Sarah Bednarek is a 2005 MFA graduate of the Sculpture and Extended Media program at Virginia Commonwealth University. Her work has been internationally showcased in London, where she was also published in the art

magazine Miser and Now (2005). Her exhibition record includes solo shows, curated shows, and group shows,

both nationally and in New York. She has received numerous awards and scholarships in support of her art.

Currently a cancer survivor, she is focusing on her work.

Amelia Midori Miller was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1985. She received her B.F.A. with Honors from the School

of Visual Arts, NY in 2007, and an M.F.A in Fine Arts at the School of Visual Arts in 2012. She is a recipient of

the Paula Rhodes Memorial Award and has participated in several international group exhibitions including “239

Days” at Allegra LaViola Gallery in NY, “Octet” at the Pera Museum in Istanbul, and “Dürer war auch hier” at the PAN

Kunstform in Emmerich, Germany during her residency there in 2008. She works in Brooklyn, NY.

Christian Sampson Christian Sampson received a B.F.A from Ringling College of Art and Design in Sarasota, FL. and an M.F.A from Hunter College in New York City in 2006. His work has been exhibited in New York and Los Angeles at galleries such as Southfirst, Storefront, Bull and Ram, Shoot the Lobster/Martos, Dorsky Gallery, 247365, in New York, and LACE in LA. In 2012 he participated in the Nouveau Festival 3, at the Centre Pompidou in the exhibition “Les Mysteres de l’Ouest.” curated by Pascal Rousseau and Bernard Blistene. This Spring 2013, he will be included in “Variable Geometry” curated by Baron Osuna at Le Parc du Domaine Les Crayeres in Reims, France. He lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.