Wednesday, March 14, 2018

CALL FOR ENTRY: RISE: Empower, Change and Action!

RISE: Empower, Change and Action!
Call for Art

WHITNEY MODERN GALLERY, Los Gatos, California
DEADLINE: April 21, 2018
ELIGIBILITY: Artists residing in the United States. 
DATES OF EXHIBITION: July 18 – August 31, 2018
RECEPTION:  Saturday, July 21, 2018 

​Imagine creating positive change through art!
 
How do we listen, speak our minds, and collaborate across the generations, race, identity and culture? How do we build and empower our future, both locally and globally?
 
RISE: Empower, Change and Action! seeks to bring artists into dialogue and to bring forth what is important to self, community, our nation and the world at large through art that reflects and addresses complex socio-cultural issues and focuses on a vision for a more positive, empowering future, particularly for self-identified women and girls as well as their families. It is underpinned by the feminist principle that believes in political, economic and social equality for all.
 
Manifestations of empowerment can include gender equality; economic independence, education, access to health care, reproductive rights, human rights, freedom of expression, changing gender roles, and breaking gender and race stereotypes. Art submissions can range from literal to poetic, abstract to representational, and include social and political commentary. The show looks to include the more abstract ideals and universal themes of peace, exploration of belief systems, universal responsibility, and the search for beauty, and transcendence. Artists may submit works that are a source of healing, hope and compassion or instruments of growth, self-discovery, and social or political transformation. We welcome art that reflects personal as well as observed stories, whether myth, fact or fiction.
 
RISE aims to emphasize the commonalities of our human experience.
 
Art can be a powerful, productive force and instrumental in sparking change or critical thinking. Through this exhibition, we are committed to promoting and supporting local, national, and global art activism and bring to light issues and concerns, art can effect change.



FROM THE ACCEPTED ARTISTS IN THIS EXHIBITION, ONE ARTIST WILL BE CHOSEN by Suzanne Whitney-Smedt, owner of Whitney Modern, TO HAVE A TWO-WEEK SHOW at Whitney Modern in the summer of 2019. All selections for RISE will be made by the exhibition curators. 

In addition, three SPECIAL AWARD JURORS will view the works and choose one piece each to receive acknowledgement, and prominent display in the catalog, website and social media sites of Whitney Modern and Gutfreund Cornett Art. 
This project will include a fundraiser for a nonprofit focused on women and girls empowerment focused on bringing awareness to issues of self-identified women and a variety of programming. Details will be provided as these are developed. 

[To enter, please go to: 
https://www. gutfreundcornettart.com/call- for-art-rise.html]

EXHIBITION CURATORS:
Works will be selected by the four curators for the exhibition. From this selection, the Special Award Jurors will each choose a piece they feel exemplifies the theme of this exhibition. All decisions are final. One artist will be chosen by the Whitney Modern Gallery for a two-week exhibition in the summer of 2019. 

Suzanne Whitney-Smedt is Owner and Director of Whitney Modern Contemporary Fine Art Gallery (see Venue information). She is past Vice President of the Whitney Foundation, which helps fund and supplement those educational, health and housing projects that bring about positive changes in peoples’ lives.

Marianne McGrath is Curator of Art at New Museum Los Gatos (NUMU). Her passion for art and art education motivates her work as a curator, consultant and art advisor. Prior to her position at NUMU, she served as Education Curator and Associate Art Curator at The Museums of Los Gatos. Her professional experience includes work as an independent curator, art historian, teacher and designer. Ms. McGrath has a Bachelor’s Degree in Art and holds a Master of Arts in Art History. 

Gutfreund Cornett Art is an independent curatorial partnership between 
Karen Gutfreund and Sherri Cornett which specializes in creating exhibitions on themes of “art as activism” to stimulate dialog, raise consciousness, encourage social change. Past exhibitions have focused on democracy, social justice, feminism and immigration issues. GutfreundCornettArt.com

SPECIAL AWARD JURORS: 
Joan McLoughlin
Owner, McLoughlin Gallery, San Francisco.
The McLoughlin Gallery is contemporary art gallery serving as a site for exhibitions and public programs working with established international and local mid-career and emerging contemporary artists. We represent and promote artists working in a wide array of media, including painting, sculpture, photography, video and installation. The mission for the gallery is to promote works and exhibitions with a social conscience and with plans to give back to the community. The gallery features established, European artists and emerging artists in the United States.

Jessica Porter
Executive Director of NY Artists Equity Association and Owner, Porter Advisory, New York City
Jessica L. Porter is the Executive Director of New York Artists Equity Association, Inc (NYAEA) a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 1947 by artists and art patrons with the mission to promote opportunities for artists. It operates Equity Gallery, an art space located on the Lower East Side of New York City. Porter maintains her own consulting company since 2001, Porter Advisory, working with organizations and other galleries as an independent curator, creating exhibitions in alternative spaces and exposing emerging artists to unique opportunities. She advises emerging artists on career development, marketing and strategic growth and guides collectors and institutions through art selection processes and investment. From 2006 to 2017, Porter founded and directed Porter Contemporary, a Chelsea art gallery, where she was responsible for the overall strategy, business development and market growth, marketing and communications as well as talent acquisition and development of the gallery.

David Weinberg
Executive Director, Weinberg/Newton Gallery, Chicago.
David Weinberg is the Executive Director of a contemporary art gallery originally debuted in 2006 as David Weinberg Collection in Chicago’s River North neighborhood. In 2016, the space became Weinberg/Newton Gallery, having taken on a new mission focused on social justice issues. The change reflected and acknowledged the influence of attorney and philanthropist Jerry Newton on the gallery’s work, particularly in building relationships with partner non-profit organizations. Newton actively has been involved with organizations including the ACLU of Illinois, Human Rights Watch, and Personal PAC for more than four decades. Together, David Weinberg and Jerry Newton have guided the Weinberg/Newton Family Foundation since 2009. David’s commitment to educational reform and passion for social justice is at the core of the gallery's mission. Weinberg/Newton Gallery aims to create space for dialogue about the many social justice issues that concern our local Chicago community and beyond. In collaboration with artists and non-profit organizations, we work to cultivate a culture of consciousness and inspire change by way of exhibitions, panel discussions, film screenings, artist talks, and more.

NOTIFICATION OF SELECTIONS: May 18, 2018 

MEDIA ACCEPTED: Sculpture, painting, drawing, photo, video, printmaking, ceramics, assemblage, collage, mixed media, fiber art, glass art, performance, artist book. No giclees of original works are permitted. Giclees as part of a mixed-media work are acceptable. 
​Gallery will exercise the right to reject any work that does not accurately represent the submitted image. 

NONREFUNDABLE ENTRY FEES: $35/entry [students email us at GutfreundCornettArt@gmail.com for reduced $15/entry instructions]. Fee is per entry for up to three pieces of art per entry. Payments to be made through PayPal only. You do not need to have a PayPal account to pay through PayPal. No refunds will be made after the jurying process has begun. 

CATALOG: We will create both print and online catalogs. Print catalog will be available through Amazon.com 

SALES OF ART: All sales will be handled by Whitney Modern with 50% going to the artist and 50% to the gallery. 


Any questions? Email gutfreundcornettart@gmail.com


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Thursday, January 25, 2018

Beyond Borders: Stories of im/Migration

Beyond Borders: Stories of im/Migration
January 8 - April 6, 2018
Santa Clara University, Edward M. Dowd Art and Art History Building Gallery
755 Franklin Street, Santa Clara, CA
Community Conversation with the Artists Friday, February 2, 2018, 4-5 p.m. 
Gallery Reception: Friday, February 2, 2018, 5-8 p.m.
Music and refreshments!

Please join us for the artists conversation and the opening on Friday, February 2nd!


Participating Artists: Tessie Barrera-Scharaga, Carlos Cartagena, Rolando Chicas, Kathryn Clark, Judy Gelles, Taraneh Hemami, Diane Kahlo, Sana Krusoe, Erin McKeown/Stephen Brackett/Shawn King, Delilah Montoya and Sin Huella Collective, Julio Cesar Morales, Gala Narezo/Shamina de Gonzaga/Chantal Fischzang, Priscilla Otani, Judith Quax, Zahava Sherez, Doerte Weber, Shannon Wright, Yu-Wen Wu

Curated by: Karen Gutfreund and Sherri Cornett of Gutfreund Cornett Art
The exhibition Beyond Borders: Stories of im/Migration by the curatorial team Gutfreund Cornett Art and their group of international artists, sheds light on the personal and observed narratives surrounding the struggles of flight, immigration, assimilation, deportation, and the perception of being “other" in American society. The works acknowledge the dignity, dreams and sacrifices of these people and reflect on where we are going, individually and as community with shared desires for hope and home. 

Enter the new Edward M. Dowd Art and Art History Building at Santa Clara University and one is immediately confronted with a Trumpian-inspired barricade, Feral Fence, a monstrous twisting armature reaching skyward with formidable barbed wire.by artist Shannon Wright. Through this “border wall”, visitors gain access to powerful, multi-media works: horrific and impactful, hopeful and reverential, abstract and emphatic, poetic and conceptual, with a call for reflection and action. The multi-media works powerfully speak to current, hot button and polarizing topics ripped from the news headlines. 

Boy in Suitcase, a video by Julio Cesar Morales, shows the alarming lengths to which people go to bring in their children to safety. The video The Jailer, Part 2, by Erin McKeown, Stephen Brackett and Shawn King, is a call to action to defeat hatred. Diane Kahlo has created a reverential altar to those who lost their lives in transit through the desert. The tender voices of youth as they assimilate are captured by Judy Gelles in a series of fourth graders’ portraits. Carlos Cartagena’s diptych speaks to overcoming fear of the unknown, because the alternative is worse. In large banner portraits, Gala Narezo, Shamina de Gonzaga and Chantal Fischzang challenge preconceptions of immigrants propagated by media and politicians. Delicate ceramic sculptures by Sana Krouse and a butterfly installation by Priscilla Otani speak beautifully and conceptually to im/Migration issues, while Daniela Ortiz’s video brutally sheds light on procedures used during forced deportation. These detail just a few of 24 artists in the exhibition that candidly, poetically and conceptually speak to these issues, highlighting universal, shared human experiences.

Gutfreund Cornett Art is committed to promoting and supporting local, national, and global art activism. Art can produce a visceral response and can provoke, inspire, or disturb, and opens one’s eyes to worlds other than your own. Art can transcend language barriers, strengthen understanding, stimulate greater compassion between displaced people and the communities that receive them, move us to action and advocacy and create visions for a new, more inclusive society.

Karen Gutfreund and Sherri Cornett
Curators

Tuesday, August 8, 2017

Peninsula Women’s Caucus for Art Exhibit - NEW WORK

August 4, 2017 - August 27, 2017

Coastal Arts League Gallery
300 Main St Half Moon Bay, CA

Thursday - Monday 12 - 5pm


NEW art WORK is a significant part of an artist’s growth. Artists are continually transforming, finding new inspiration and experimenting with a variety of techniques, forms, mediums and palettes; whether it is testing their own abilities, challenging the conventions of art, or just having fun with experimentation. Producing NEW WORK is a manifestation of the artist’s current perspective and self.  Peninsula Women’s Caucus artists Lorraine Capparell, Cosette Dudley, Lisa Evens, Carol Golemme, Kris Idarius, Pat Keefe, Rebecca Lambing, Tanya Lin, Yvonne Newhouse, Irene Schlesinger, Francine Survillo, Deanna Taubman, Rachel Tirosh, Leigh Toldi, Ruth Waters and Marian Yap will debut their NEW art WORK in this exhibit.

For additional information visit www.wcapeninsula.org.




Tuesday, July 18, 2017

YVONNE NEWHOUSE - Portola Art Gallery "Along the Nakasendo"



EXHIBITION: “Along the Nakasendo” — Watercolor Paintings by Yvonne Newhouse 
DATES: August 1 - 31, 2017                    
RECEPTION: Saturday, August 12, 1:00 - 4:00 P.M

LOCATION:    
Portola Art Gallery at Allied Arts Guild
75 Arbor Road, Menlo Park, CA  94025, 
650.321.0220www.portolaartgallery.com

HOURS: Monday – Saturday, 10:30 A.M. - 4:30 P.M.    

FOR MORE INFORMATION: Yvonne Newhouse yvonne.newhouse@icloud.comhttps://yvonnenewhouse.fineart studioonline.com

MENLO PARK, Calif. -- The Portola Art Gallery presents “Along the Nakasendo” — an exhibition of watercolor paintings by Yvonne Newhouse of San Mateo. The exhibit highlights scenes from her hiking and sketching trip to Japan last October. Although the paintings were completed in the studio, the essence of the trip was retained — moving slowly on foot, observing daily life and small gardens.

The Nakasendo is an ancient route the samurai and other people used to travel between Tokyo and Kyoto. While much of the original 300+-mile trail no longer exists in its historic form, some of the 69 “post towns” and sections of road have been beautifully preserved or restored for travelers on foot.

About Portola Art Gallery
Portola Art Gallery exhibits high quality, representational art by 17 award-winning Bay Area artists. Painting, pastel, photography and ceramics can be viewed at the gallery, located at the Historic Allied Arts Guild in Menlo Park, CA.

Photos: High-resolution scans (JPEGs) of the artists’ work are available. For more information, please contact Yvonne Newhouse at yvonne.newhouse@icloud.com.


Tuesday, June 20, 2017

Peninsula Women’s Caucus for Art Exhibit – Visions



June 2, 2017 - July 31, 2017
Milton Marks Conference Center Galleries


The Hiram W. Johnson State Office Building 
455 Golden Gate Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94102
Gallery hours are during business hours.

Art is not always about representing the world as it exists. In this exhibition we explore unseen forces of the unconscious mind for inspiration. “Visions” allows us to record inner visions, ephemeral feelings and fantasies toward creating art works guided by these dreams and visions. It is an opportunity for our group to try experimental art or record these visions hidden in representational work. Peninsula Women’s Caucus artists Lorraine Capparell, Cosette Dudley, Kris Idarius, Pat E. Keefe, Rebecca Lambing, Tanya Lin, Yvonne Newhouse, Deanna Taubman, Rachel Tirosh, Leigh Toldi, and Marian Yap have shared their visions to create art for this exhibit.






Monday, March 7, 2016

BONNIE J SMITH - United Nations European Headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland


Bonnie J. Smith's textile "Pescadero" will be exhibited United Nations European headquarters building in Geneva, Switzerland in March  & April of this year.  One of 41 artist chosen to participate in the exhibition “Water is Life: Clean Water and its Impact on the Lives of Women and Girls around the World,” will debut at the UN’s Palais des Nations under the auspices of the U.S. Diplomatic Mission to the United Nations in Geneva on March 22, 2016 World Water Day. 


Thursday, December 3, 2015

Peninsula Women’s Caucus for Art Exhibition – Identity













Identity is our self-portrait. What surroundings, what colors, what icons, what culture defines who we are? Peninsula Women’s Caucus for Art artists are taking this opportunity to explore aspects of their Identities by using a diversity of styles. Pat Keefe chose to create her personal Kachina representing art, imagination and creativity in her collage. Marian Yap introduces her self-portrait painting with a Haiku. Lorraine Capparell’s images hum with expectancy, meaning and symbolism. Her watercolors represent what the English novelist E.M. Forester once called the “significant moment”. Works by Kris Idarius, Rebecca Lambing, Tanya Lin, Alysanne McGaffey, Yvonne Newhouse, and Bonnie J.Smith are also included.

This exhibition will be on view:

January 5 – March 2, 2016 
Redwood Shores Library
399 Marine Parkway, Redwood City, CA

Gallery hours: 
Mon –Thurs: 10am – 8pm
Sat: 10am – 5pm
Sun: 12 – 5pm.

Artist’s reception: January 10 2016, 1 - 4 pm in the library Community Room.  

For additional information visit www.wcapeninsula.org.

Saturday, November 14, 2015

BONNIE J SMITH - featured in two publications

Bonnie J. Smith, textile artist, Indigo Installation was selected to be featured in The Craft Companion: The A - Z Guide to Modern Crafting, Thames & Hudson publishers, Australia. November 11, 2015 International publishing date.


A article about Bonnie and her life as an artist in San Jose, California was published in the online magazine BayAreaforSale  http://www.bayareaforsale.com/articles/bonniejofiberarts-an-artist-at-home-in-the-san-jose-community

Moss Beach 43"h X 39"w

Wednesday, November 11, 2015

MARIAN YAP Receives Special International Recognition

Male Figure

Artist Marian Yap of Pacifica, California has received two Special Recognition Awards in the "2015 Exposition of Awarded Artwork WWW International" hosted by Upstream People Gallery of Omaha Nebraska. This international exhibition received approximately 225 art entries from around the world and 24 artists were selected by the juror Lawrence Bradshaw, Professor Emeritus of Art at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, U.S.A.

Professor Bradshaw writes about this specially recognized work:

Marian Yap of Pacifica, CA has achieved a fresh abstract level of expression. Her "Float", "Going to the Gypsy" and "Strata" all show a kind of softness and sense of orchestration fine tuned. And her "Male Figure" and "Stillness" with figurative qualities are quite strong in the manner of her sensitive painting technique.

Following is an artist's statement about this specially recognized artwork:

"My monotype, MALE FIGURE, was created and printed at IL BISONTE STUDIO in Florence, Italy, using non toxic inks.  The figurative work of California artist, Manuel Neri, was inspiration for this piece and I am pleased with the recognition that MALE FIGURE has received.
 STILLNESS is a painting that evolved through several stages on the canvas before the final image emerged.  I hope that it conveys some mystery and fascination to the viewer."

Marian Yap
Visit my blog marianyap.wordpress.com


The exhibition will be featured online through November 2015 at Upstream People Gallery and continue indefinitely in the archives section of the website. 

Additional information may be downloaded from the virus-free links below:




Stillness

Friday, September 11, 2015

YVONNE NEWHOUSE - Seasons of Filoli, Woodside, CA

Come enjoy the artwork and grounds of Filoli where you can see two pieces of work by WCA Peninsula member Yvonne Newhouse. 

The show information is as follows:

Seasons of Filoli: A Multiple-Media Exhibition

Tuesday, September 1 through Sunday October 25
Tuesdays - Saturdays, 10:00 am  - 3:30 pm
Sundays, 11:00 am  - 3:30 pm

Meet the Artists Weekend:

Saturday September 19, 10:00 am - 3:00 pm
and
Sunday September 20, 11:00 am - 3:00 pm 

Admission is free with paid admission to Filoli.
Reservations not required.


Persimmon Scarf
Peach Magnolia