updates from the LAND/an art site



“Ollin Burial” by Yei Ehekatl is a long-term project that covers approximately 2 acres of the exhibition space at THE LAND/an art site in Mountainair, NM. “Ollin Burial” consists of 20 plots or “graves” arranged in a design that allows visitor to physically experience the various energies associated with each of the symbols of the Aztec Calendar by lying in the earth.

“Stone Score” by Lynne Hull blurs the boundary between conservation and art. Lynne has created a series of stone constructions based on the designs and research of Quivira Coalition hydrologist Bill Zeedyk. The purpose of these interventions is to restore the stability of incised stream channels or arroyos. By scientifically re-arranging the stones, the music of the arroyo is being re-written, creating a new stone score for the surrounding habitat.

“Dry River” by Basia Irland is about anticipating the flow of water in an arroyo that only runs a few times each year. Basia has created books from un-fired New Mexican clay and mud. The “texts” are written with seeds ready to be dispersed when the books dissolve. The books are on display in THE LAND/gallery, and will be strategically placed to sow their seeds into Lynne Hull’s “Stone Score”.




“October” by J.A. Lee is an environmental essay-installation at THE LAND/an art site in Mountainair, NM, which addresses ideas of “here” and “there” by way of a walk around the number 8. A related text piece brings a sampling of these ideas into the walled environment of THE LAND/gallery. And,




Reba Hasko and Joseph Angelo are presenting original recorded music and sound art at THE LAND/gallery constructed and influenced by sound at THE LAND.



Presented in conjunction with LAND/ART: A Collaborative Exploration of Land-Based Art in New Mexico


Albuquerque Now: Fall


Learn more: www.cabq.gov/museum/

Reception: Saturday, October 10th, 6-8pm

Albuquerque Now: Fall is the first of two installations of diverse work by artists of the metropolitan area and is organized by Andrew Connors, Curator of Art. Albuquerque Now celebrates the diversity of visual culture in all of its active manifestations, from traditional woodworking to digital video, from printmaking to installation art.
The exhibit will be on view October 11th, 2009 - January 3, 2010.

ECOARTSPACE EVENTS IN NYC


Please join ecoartspace and Solar One on Saturday Oct. 3rd for events with the Habitat for Artists Collective
and a performance piece Mothers and Daughters at Solar One by artist Chere Krakovsky from 1 – 4pm
Solar One -23rd Street and the East River, NYC

Followed by an opening at ecoartspace NYC, for Down to Earth from 6 – 8pm
ecoartspace - 53 Mercer St. between Broome and Grand, 3rd Fl, NYC

Down to Earth Artists:
Joan Bankemper, Knox Cummin, Stacy Levy, Ann Rosenthal/Steffi Domike, Susan Leibovitz Steinman, Simon Draper and the Habitat for Artists Collective, including Todd Sargood, Cathy Lebowitz,
E Odin Cathcart and Jeff Bailey.

Additional Contributing Artists:
Jacinto Astiazarán and Fritz Haeg, Lenore Malen & The New Society for Universal Harmony, Eve Mosher, Andrea Polli and Chuck Varga, Andrea Reynosa/Kevin Vertrees-SkyDog Projects and Christy Rupp

learn more on the ecoartspace site

UPDATES FROM THE RICHARD LEVY GALLERY

Erika Blumenfeld, Early Findings: Artifacts from the Polar Project at the gallery on October 3, from 6:00 - 8:00pm.

DJ Spooky - Terra Nova: Sinfonia Antarctica
Saturday, October 24, 2009 7:30pm
At The Kimo Theater
Post show reception for DJ Spooky is hosted by Richard Levy Gallery 9:00-10:30 pm

The city of Albuquerque's Public Art Program has partnered with Richard Levy Gallery to commission a LAND/ART project by Norwegian based artist Stuart Frost. The artist has created a small portable grove of trees using his signature pyrography technique.

Learn more on the Richard Levy site

CALL FOR SAN JOSE PUBLIC ART

City of San Jose
Environmental Innovation Center
Public Art Project
APPLICATION DEADLINE: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2009, MIDNIGHT (MDT)

GENERAL INFORMATION

The City of San Jose’s Office of Cultural Affairs (OCA) and Environmental Services Department (ESD) are seeking an artist to create an artwork for the new Environmental Innovation Center (EIC). As part of the City of San Jose's Green Vision implementation, the City is renovating a 4.2 acre site with an existing 46,000 square foot warehouse into a unique facility called the Environmental Innovation Center. The EIC will be a premier location for the development, demonstration, training, and display of Clean Tech innovations. The facility will be staffed to provide commercialization, incubation, and prototype manufacturing services to assist emerging clean technology companies.

PROJECT BUDGET

Design: $25,000
Estimated Fabrication: $110,000

ARTIST ELIGIBILITY

This opportunity is open to individual artists working or living in California, Washington, Oregon, Nevada, New Mexico, or Arizona. The selected artist or team must have all necessary documentation and permits to work in the United States at the time of submittal of qualifications.

More information on this RFQ can be found at: www.callforentry.org. Applications will only be accepted through this website (CaFE).

Michael Belmore and Frank Shebageget at the Institute of American Indian Arts


"In August 2006, artists Michael Belmore and Frank Shebageget set out on an expedition to explore the social, environmental and cultural landscape of Northern Ontario. The artists embarked to analyze and unravel their interrelated histories within this traditional Anishnaabe (Ojibwe) territory. They observed many changes to the land: some lake levels were a great deal lower, fields had grown in, forests were lost either to fire or clear cutting, while others were thick with new growth. On their journey, they collected materials and documented sites using digital photography, sketches, notes and video" - from the IAIA's site

Patrick Dougherty at the Bosque School



Patrick Dougherty
October 5 - 25, 2009


Combining his carpentry skills with his love for nature, Patrick Dougherty began to learn more about primitive techniques of building and to experiment with tree saplings as construction material. In 1982 his first work, MapleBodyWrap was included in the North Carolina Biennial Artists' Exhibition sponsored by the North Carolina Museum of Art. In the following year, he had his first one person show entitled, Waiting It Out In Maple at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. His work quickly evolved from single pieces on conventional pedestals to monumental scale environments which required saplings by the truckloads. During the last two decades, he has built over 150 works throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. -from the LAND/ART website


Patrick Dougherty's artist statement for the work at the Bosque School:
One of the hallmarks of my installation work is finding the saplings for construction in the vicinity of the site where the sculpture will be built. So when I arrived at the Bosque school in Albuquerque for a site visit, I was thrilled to see the groves of willow, tamarisk and cottonwood saplings growing along a waterway right behind the school. As it turns out, a Bosque is a forest confined to a flood plain in an arid landscape, and the Bosque adjacent to the school serves as an excellent outdoor classroom. Not only will the students at the school help with the sculpture's construction, but the finished work will entwine with a huge cottonwood tree already central to campus life. This tree provides the shade for outdoor lunch and sits as the gateway between civilization and the untamed natural world only a few hundred yards away. I look forward to working with the Bosque school to create a compelling sapling sculpture in October 2009.

View a french video of the work here.

Read about Patrick's work at the Morris Arboretum of the University of Pennsylvania.

Learn more at stickwork.net

LAND/ART in Art Ltd.


excerpt from "Down to Earth", published in art ltd. magazine, Sept. 2009, by marin sardy

"On June 27, a small non-profit contemporary art space in Albuquerque, New Mexico, quietly launched a six-months-long series of exhibitions examining human relationships to the land. Three years in the making, the LAND/ART projects organizers were depending on cooperative ties established among the city's various arts institutions to create a larger impact than would usually be possible in a town not known as an arts center. The nebulous network of groups, each linked to curators who in turn selected artists and specific proposals, would support an appropriately wide range of work attacking the ever-expanding category of "land art."

Read the complete story here.

LAND/ART on NEW MEXICO IN FOCUS

"It's an art project of global proportion. This week on NEW MEXICO IN FOCUS, explore in-depth the months-long project called LAND/ART, where more than 60 artists and 25 arts organizations explore the relationships of land, art, and community" -from the New Mexico inFocus website

smudge studio's research trip to the American nuclear west makes the New York Times


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Last summer smudge's research road trip throughout the Southwest took us to sites that we learned about thanks to Matt Coolidge of The CLUI and Colin Robertson, Bill Fox, Ann Wolfe, Sara Frantz of the Nevada Museum of Art's Center for Art + Environment.

A small bit of the story of our trip made it into the New York Times today. Huge thanks to our colleagues for the invaluable residencies they made possible for us at the Nevada Museum of Art archives and The CLUI's Wendover base and Los Angeles archives.

Just sayin ...

... you gotta love the Land Arts of the American West field semester!



Spiral Jetty



Jason Fancher working in the Great Salt Lake, Utah

Chris Taylor sends a field report from Land Arts of the American West

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From this semester's program of the Lubbock-based Land Arts of the American West--a field report. At this moment, the field is the CLUI Wendover base. Chris Taylor sends images and links of the trip and projects, including an incredible laser scan of Double Negative.
Check out their amazing images and works in progress.

Chris writes:

"A brief update from the field. Land Arts from Lubbock is at CLUI Wendover and there was a bit of time online today to post some new images to the Field Reports http://landarts.org/index.php/site/field_reports/cat/field_reports/

Be sure to check out the images of the raw data of our laser scan of Double Negative----very excited about where that material will lead.... Those individual page links are:

Everyone is working away and in addition to our string of guests here we are looking forward to screening the eteam's new film "Truth in Transit" on Thursday night out in Montello, Nevada (poster below). More on the eteam at http://www.meineigenheim.org/"
Raw scan data from the first day of laser scanning Double Negative.

Raw scan data of Double Negative from day 2.

Raw scan data if Double Negative with van.

Mark Hensel's "Cryptostructure" in Dispersal/Return

Mark Hensel's Cryptostructure appears in the University of New Mexico Art Museum's Dispersal/Return exhibition. Part of New Mexico's current LAND/ART project, Dispersal/Return exhibits work from alumni of the Land Arts of the American West program.


"Cryptostructure" installation in progress


click on image to view Mark's blog and video

ARTISODE 2.2 BILL GILBERT's WALK TO WORK

The latest from KNME:

516 ARTS announces Grasslands/Separating Species two-part Exhibition

516 ARTS announces a two-part exhibition curated by Mary Anne Redding, Curator of Photography at the Palace of the Governors/New Mexico History Museum. This project is the culminating exhibition in the six-month series of programs presented by 516 ARTS for LAND/ART, a collaboration exploring land-based art (www.landartnm.org). The exhibition catalog is published by Radius Books, and features essays by William DeBuys and Rebecca Solnit and Mary Anne Redding (http://radiusbooks.org).

click image to view press release


click image to view press release

http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=04b3ee3b29&view=att&th=123c5429faaf989f&attid=0.1.3.1&disp=inline&zw

Jo Whaley

Parnassius Apollo

archival pigment print

featured in Separating Species

http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=04b3ee3b29&view=att&th=123c5429faaf989f&attid=0.1.1.1&disp=inline&zw

David Taylor

Border Monument 36

archival inkjet print

featured in Separating Species


Dana Fritz

Tethered Saguaros and Netted Magpies, Desert Dome, Henry Doorly Zoo

from the Terraria Gigantica: the World Under Glass series

archival inkjet print

featured in Separating Species

Krista Elrick

Chaos

archival inkjet print

featured in Separating Species

Michael P. Berman

Coyomito

archival inkjet print

featured in Grasslands

New York City's High Line project debuts "Hight Line Art"

photo from HIGH LINE

This week marks the launch of High Line Art, a new Friends of the High Line program. Through High Line Art, Friends of the High Line will commission works from contemporary artists, and partnership with other arts organizations to create works on, around, and inspired by the High Line.

Specials is a collaboration between artists Lisa Sigal and Paul Ramírez Jonas, launched in June 2009. For this ongoing, roving art project, the artists have constructed a mobile unit composed of vendor carts and a 10 x 4 foot wall. On one side of the wall, they hang artwork by a wide range of artists; on the flip side, they serve homemade tacos, free of charge. Each time Specials is presented, the artwork and the type of taco change, in the manner of restaurants’ daily menu specials or art galleries’ changing exhibition schedules. This project deliberately blurs the boundaries between visual art, performance, social gathering space, and festive event. As the artists have stated, "Specials will continue to evolve following a desire to go beyond tired dichotomies of inside/outside, art audience/non art audience, viewer versus participant. It is not This or That; it is This and That."

Specials will be presented on the High Line in the 14th Street Passage (between 13th and 14th Streets). The planned schedule is as follows (subject to change):

Thursday September 17, 4:00 - 8:00 PM
Featuring works by Fiona Tan and Regina Silveira, and a potato and corn croquette with red cabbage and avocado taco.

Thursday October 1, 4:00 - 8:00 PM
Featuring artists who participated in the 1993 Whitney Biennial, including Janine Antoni, Byron Kim, Simon Leung, Glenn Ligon, Suzanne McClelland, Kiki Smith and Fred Wilson, and a squash, mushroom, and homemade hot sauce taco.

For more information about Specials, see the artists' blog.
Specials was recently written up in Art in America.

Read More About High Line Art

An Atlas of Radical Cartography Event: San Francisco

An Atlas of Radical Cartography
news and events, Fall 2009
http://www.an-atlas.com

EXHIBITIONS
San Francisco State University, Fine Arts Gallery
September 19- October 15, 2009
http://creativearts.sfsu.edu/events/1126/cartographic-imaginationan-atlas

Artists: An Architektur with a42.org; the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP); Jacqueline Goss; Ashley Hunt; Institute for Applied Autonomy with Site-R; Invisible 5; Pedro Lasch; Lize Mogel; Trevor Paglen & John Emerson; Brooke Singer; Jane Tsong; Unnayan.
Exhibition Design: Andreas Müller

Opening reception:
Saturday September 19, 1-3pm
Also in the gallery: “Cartographic Imagination: Mapping in Contemporary California Art”

PRESS
Antipode, Vol. 41, Issue 3
Oyster Magazine (Australia):
http://www.oystermag.com/features/plotting-power-an-atlas-of-radical-cartography.html

Plataforma Arquitectura (blog, Spain): http://www.plataformaarquitectura.cl/2009/06/05/an-atlas-of-radical-cartography/

Molossus (blog): http://molossus.wordpress.com/2009/08/04/mapping-very-large-complicated-machines/

UPDATE FROM THE CENTER FOR ART + ENVIRONMENT




Take Back the Lawn: Fritz Haeg on Redesigning Landscape
Video from the Art + Environment Conference (watch the video here)



Art and Infrastructure: Patricia Johanson and Petaluma Wetlands Park
Opening September 19 (read more)



Black Rock Design Institute: E Cobb Architects
Thursday, September 24 / 6 pm (read more here)



Land Arts of the American West Archives

"The CA+E Archive has received the first materials from the Land Arts of the American West, an international field-studies program that takes students and artists across the region to study and create art. Participants work at sites ranging from the Anasazi ruins at Chaco Canyon to Michael Heizer's sculpture Double Negative. Started in 2000, Land Arts of the American West is the largest and most developed program of its kind in the United States, and we're gratified to add materials from the program to the archives." -
Link to the museum site for more info.


Call for participants, Ecoshack Design Lab, High Desert Test Sites, Joshua Tree, CA




COMING THIS FALL: Workshop "experiments" at Ecoshack's design lab in Joshua Tree.

3 days, 10 people, lots of creative ideas...

• Workshop #1: Oct 1 - 4, 2009
• Workshop #2: Oct 22 - 25, 2009

More info at http://ecoshack.com

Ansen Seale's "The Corn Crib" opens Sept. 20, San Antonio, TX



A chapel-like environment inside a small century-old, stacked-stone corn crib created by stringing thin self-luminous transparencies of magnified corn imagery from rafters, backlit by solar-powered LED technology providing continuous illumination. On the Land Heritage Institute property along the Medina River in the southernmost sector of San Antonio, TX.