February 21, 2011 at 2:05 pm
· Filed under Joya: art + ecology
New Haven, Connecticut: Artspace is pleased to announce SCRAWL, a seven week festival of site-specific drawing and related events. Beginning February 9, 2011, 48 artists will work individually and in teams to transform the landscape of Artspace with simple materials and their own ingenuity. SCRAWL’s major reception, with the work revealed in its entirety, will be at its end, March 25, 2011, from 6 pm – 8 pm.
Martha Lewis has curated an event where each participating artist or team of artists - all of the scrawlers - is assigned his or her own portion of wall or floor to work with, which will segue into other participants’ space within the main gallery at 50 Orange Street. The scrawlers will create their pieces without being able to to see what the other artists next to them are doing, ultimately collaborating on one giant collective work.
Inspired by the Surrealist’s exquisite corpse games, SCRAWL creates an exhibition in an experimental way with minimal means. We start with nothing but bare walls and some markers, which we give over to selected artists, without being able to control the exact outcome. Viewing the working process as it unfolds in real-time and exploring the experimental possibilities of large-scale drawing in a complex interior space are integral to SCRAWL’s methodology.
The 48 participating artists were selected by Martha Lewis, SCRAWL’s organizer, and include artists at various stages of their career, all unified in excellence of practice and a spirit of ingenuity. The SCRAWLers include:
Cat Balco • Anna Broell Bresnick • Alexis Brown • Francis Cooke • The Futurists: Karen Dow with a team of 12 students from Educational Center for the Arts • Laura Gardner • Zachary Keeting • Ken Lovell (and his drawing robot!) • Andres Madariaga •Melissa Marks • Maegen McElderry • Tim Nikiforuk • Kerry O’Grady • The Sausage Crew: Larissa Hall, Mike Pitassi, & Michael Riley (AKA Queen Larita, MC Sausage, & Dr. BOX) • Daniel Rios Rodriguez • James Rose • Jean Scott • Rashmi Talpade • Team Tele: Maria Lara-Whelpley, Sylvia Hierro, Laura Case, Eleanor Tamsky, and Susan Ferri • Traffic Lights & Warning Stripes: Vito Bonnano and Justin Crosby • Laura Watt •
We are happy to announce a partnership with the Yale Center for British Art:! artist Rebecca Salter will execute a work on the Artspace gallery walls in collaboration with students from Coop High School for the Arts and Humanities. The process will be documented and turned into a stop-motion animated film, shown in conjunction with her exhibit Into the Light of Things at the Yale Center for British Art.
SCRAWL is also being conducted in tandem with the Aldrich Museum’s Draw On! Festival. On Sunday, February 20, 2011, Artspace hosts one of two drawing workshops led by master artist James Esber, with the other workshop taking place at the Aldrich Museum in March. Esber has been called “an artist working at the top of his game” by the New York Times.
Artspace is a visionary and dynamic non-profit exhibition space in downtown New Haven supporting emerging artists and building new audiences for the contemporary visual arts. Artspace is grateful for the support it receives from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the City of New Haven Office of Economic Development, Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism, the Greater New Haven Community Foundation, New Alliance Foundation, TD Bank, Yale University and Yale/New Haven Hospital and from individual Friends of Artspace.
Artspace is open Wednesday and Thursday 12 pm – 6 pm, and Friday and Saturday 12 pm – 8 pm. For more information, visit us online at http://www.artspacenh.org
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