Stella Exhibition October 15-16, 2011
Saturday, October 15th photographers Aimee Beaubien and Margaret Wright will be in-residence with the Stella Art Cart giving art advice from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m.
Group exhibition by members of the Stella Collective including Aimee Beaubien, Suzette Bross, Patty Carroll, Barbara Ciurej & Lindsay Lochman, Christine Di Thomas, Mary Farmilant, Alice Hargrave, Jean Sousa, and Margaret Wright.
Ponder Food As Love (#4 Cantaloupe)
Stella, a collective of Chicago photographers, will be in residence on the evening of Friday, October 14th from 7:00-8:00 p.m. and Saturday, October 15th from 1:00-4:00 p.m. Concurrently an exhibition of their work will be on view, and members of the group will be dispensing free art advice to aspiring photographers. A Friday evening panel discussion entitled Artful Networks will launch the weekend events.
Artful Networks / So You Want to be a Fine Art Photographer
Friday, October 14, 2011
7:00 - 8:00 p.m. (as part of our fall lecture series)
Advice is only good if someone listens. Members of Stella, a Chicago photography collective, will discuss issues, from the practical to the whimsical, related to being a photographer. They will touch on alternative ways to get your work out, the business of being an artist, the energy of a group, and opportunities provided by chance and good fortune. Panelists include Aimee Beaubien, Suzette Bross, Patty Carroll, Barbara Ciurej, and Mary Farmilant.
Stella Exhibition
October 15-16, 2011
Saturday, October 15th photographers Aimee Beaubien and Margaret Wright will be in-residence with the Stella Art Cart giving art advice from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m.
Group exhibition by members of the Stella Collective including Aimee Beaubien, Suzette Bross, Patty Carroll, Barbara Ciurej & Lindsay Lochman, Christine Di Thomas, Mary Farmilant, Alice Hargrave, Jean Sousa, and Margaret Wright.
Please note: The Art Cart will be at CPC during the day on Saturday, but not Sunday.
Blinded and Ridiculous, from the series, Ponder Food as Love
The transition from all-embracing life-giver at birthing to irrelevant, hovering thwarter of teenager freedom is startling....and the nurturer is always the last to know.
A General Confession *
ALMIGHTY and most merciful Child,
I have erred and strayed from your ways like a lost sheep,
I have followed too much the devices and desires of my own heart and brain,
I have offended against your sacred laws,
I have left undone those things which I ought to have done,
And I have done those things which I ought not to have done,
And there is no health in me, hope for me or cleanliness in me:
But you, O child, have mercy upon me, a miserable offender;
Spare me, O child, who confess my faults,
Restore me cuz I'm penitent,
According to your personal philosophy of "...it's all good."
And grant, O most merciful child,
That I may hereafter live a never-nagging life,
To the glory of your holy existence. Amen.
* taken, with alterations, from the Anglican Liturgy and DJL
Spare no Expense: Nourishing the AstronautsThe average shuttle meal is chosen six months in advance, specially packaged, weighs 3.4 pounds, is carefully tested for bacteria and microbes, and costs about $300. Currently, Boeing industries process and prepare the shuttle foods. With an average shuttle mission lasting seven days, a minimum of 147 meals must be chosen, tested and packaged for each flight.
Waste is a familiar problem to Quartermasters who have operated field ration break points. Dr. Bourland noted that "astronauts always choose more food than they can eat." The result is hundreds of food items returned from every flight. Most astronauts are too busy to eat and just do not get hungry. Senator Garn agreed, noting that if he flew on the shuttle again he would choose fewer items. The 90-day menu alone consists of over 14,000 separate items.
Burger King, Baghdad
Burger King, Baghdad
George Washington, b. 2/22/1732 Nourishing the Continental Army
The Continental Congress of 1775 attempted to standardize rations and the way units prepared them. The basic ration included 1 pound (lb.) of beef, or 3/4 lb. of pork, or 1 lb. of salt fish; 1 lb. of bread or flour; 1 pint (pt.) of milk, or payment of 1/72 dollars, and 1 quart of cider or spruce beer; 3 pts. of peas or beans per man per week. [Soldiers were required to cook their own meals, no private contractors.]
Nourishing our troops in Afganistan and Iraq
The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan has given the green light to bring fast food and other concessions back to Afghanistan. “These quality-of-life programs remain important to soldiers for stress relief and therefore enhancing military readiness,” Gen. David Petraeus wrote in an Oct. 4, 2010 order.
Prior to February 2010, the Army and Air Force Exchange Service operated 141 eateries and shops in Afghanistan. After the May closures, 84 remained. Among the 57 closed were Burger King, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and Popeyes restaurants, as well as new-car sales offices, jewelry, perfume and souvenir shops.
As a civilian, I don't know if I am as comforted by this comfort food for our troops.....
from Ponder Food as Love, 2011There is historical and botanical evidence that cabbage has been cultivated for more than 4,000 years and domesticated for over 2,500 years. Although they look very different, cabbage, kale, broccoli, kohlrabi, cauliflower, and Brussels sprouts are all the same species of plant.
With it's ancient and distinguished heritage, Cabbage may be viewed as a symbol of the natural order of life. Its authority can be seen in the fairy tale of Little Otik, where those who wreck havoc by thwarting mother nature are punished by the crone who patiently nurtures her cabbage patch.
This fairy tale is realized in film by the brilliant animator Jan Svankmayer.
"As we know, folktales are old myths retold. What myth is hidden in the tale of Little Otik? A childless couple rebels against fate and creates, from nature, a child. They literally extract the secret of creation. For this rebellion against the natural order they suffer a bitter punishment, directed not only against themselves, but against those around them. As we can see, we have touched on one of the basic myths of this civilization: the myth of Adam and Eve, or, if you wish, a myth analogous to that of Faust. I think that now, after the mapping of the human genome, such myths are becoming increasingly relevant."
J. Svankmeyer
Jean Dunning, Still Life with Grapes, 2010
Jean Dunning, Still Life with Green Apples, 2010
Jean Dunning, Marble Cake with Creme Fraise, 2010
"These [new] images serve as a far more extreme reminder of our own mortality than even the traditional still life. More time has passed, the decomposition is more advanced, and it has taken on a life of its own."
Reception for the artist, Friday, February 18, 2011
5:00 to 7:00 PM
269, 270, or 273 AD Various dates are given for the martyrdoms of men named Valentine whose acts are known only to God.
496 AD The feast of St. Valentine was first established in by Pope Gelasius I
before 1400 AD Geoffrey Chaucer and his circle associate the feast day of February 14 with romantic love.
Titian, Adam and Eve, ca 1550
Regarding the Fig
758-728 BCE Romulus and Remus, the founders of Rome,were suckled by a she-wolf beneath a fig tree.
100,000 BCE Adam and Eve ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and "the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons" Genesis 3:7
1557 AD Fig leaves were instituted by the bull of Pope Paul IV to reduce the amount of nudity in the Vatican art collection.
Original Three Sisters
Ponder Food As Love (the new working title)
We have stood at the kitchen sink and performed the delicate and demanding task of nourishing our families for the last 20 years. Every day that we have engaged in these rituals, we felt the intense immersion, the consuming compulsion and the exquisite pleasures of offering nourishment. Our flesh is a terrain of give-and-take, where emotional and physical necessities meet. The line between serving and self dissolve as duties of mother, housekeeper, homemaker have transformed us into platter, altar, banquet and booty.
We offer you this intimate fare; our exploration of the convoluted act of nurture where need, ritual, offering, celebration, promise and debt all share the table.
In developing this body of work, Ciurej and Lochman were inspired by the words of John Ruskin, who recognized the mythic dimensions of their chores:
Cookery means the knowledge of Medea and of Circe and of Helen and of the Queen of Sheba. It means the knowledge of all herbs and fruits and balms and spices, and all this is healing and sweet in the fields and groves and savory in meats. It means carefulness and inventiveness and willingness and readiness of appliances. It means the economy of your grandmothers and the science of the modern chemist; it means testing and no wasting; it means English thoroughness and French and Arabian hospitality; and, in fine, it means that you are to be perfectly and always ladies -- loaf givers.
Barbara Ciurej and Lindsay Lochman have been collaborating on photographic projects for the past 30 years. In their work, they reconfigure the familiar in order to express the timelessness, magical and mythical that they feel in their bones.
elBulli__Flowers
elBulli-caramel
elBulli__Foam
Consuming Passion is a journey through time and emotional space traversing the changing terrain of nurture. We became conscious of the trek as we scaled the pinnacles of our breasts, through the swamplands of osterized fruits and vegetables, around lunch boxes and snacks, now muddling through a vast plain dotted by meals on the fly and holiday rituals. Along the nurture road the landscape of the kitchen, our bodies and the emotional landscape of loving, procuring, offering and growth observed is in constant flux.
Annette Messanger's work led us to the 18th century novelist and essayist of Mlle. Madeline de Scudery (1607-1701), who devised the Carte de Tendre (Land of Tender Friendships) where initiates to her literary salon traveled through emotion terrain toward de Scudery's affection. According to feminist historian, Gloria Feman Orenstein, women throughout history honored the absolute commitment of their friendships and viewed the literary salon as sacred space, matriarchal utopia and psychic self-portraiture.
The map of Tendre is a topographic allegory, representing the stations of love as if they were real paths and places. The country is bisected by the Inclination (Disposition), a river that runs south to north, joined by two smaller rivers, the Estime (Respect) and the Reconnaissance (Gratitude), before plunging ito La Mer Dangereus (The Dangerous Sea), which is separated from a reef-ridden narrows from Terres Inconnues (Unknown Lands). To the west are the decidedly choppy waters of the Mer d'Intimitie (Sea of Enmity).... -- Frank Jacobs
Time in the kitchen and in New Mexico made us aware of the three sisters.
Arriving at Plymouth, Massachusetts in December of 1620, the Pilgrims had little or no experience of farming. They brought no tools for fishing, nor did they have hunting skills or experience, which in Europe was restricted to the aristocracy. As religious and political immigrants, they embraced hard work and rejected any help from England. During their first winter, half of the 102 immigrants perished. Yet, within a generation, Pilgrims became a self-sustaining farming community.
Their salvation came from the Wampanoag Indians who taught them to hunt, fish and embraced the three sisters of nourishment: corn, beans and squash. These were the three crops that nourished all the Native Americans.
Potatoes and tomatoes were grown as ornamental plants in Europe in the 16th century and would not be adopted by the Americans until the 18th century. Two lesser vegetables were quickly adopted by the settlers as well as Europeans, sweet potatoes and Jerusalem artichokes.
-- Eating in America A History by Waverly Root & Richard de Rochemont
ACTIVITIES and PARTICIPATION 2010
begin shooting Consuming Passion and website renovation
October 14 launch
Raised $19,920 since its inception in December 2009
There are still six more prints from Consuming Passion available for sale at the Collectdotgive.org site. 100% of the proceeds from the sales go to The Voices and Faces Project. Take a look.
Word of the site is spreading through a recent mention in this month's Elle Decor website.
July
Studio Space 2007-2 N Prospect, Milwaukee
August
Exposure Benefit for the MAM Photography Council: donation of portrait and workshop
Stella Critique Group participation
September - October
Society of Photographic Educators - Midwest Regional Conference 2010
Archive for Artemisia Artists and B. Ciurej and L. Lochman Photographic Projects
October
Bon Vivant for the Museum of Wisconsin Art: donation of portrait
Portrait after 30 years it was time to update our website image by participating in the Real Photo Postcard Survey by J. Shimon and J. Lindeman
December
Mail Chimp greeting card
Mini Portfolio Reviews MoCP/March, CAR/May, MNMVS/July and Stella/August
Travel NYPhotofest, Minneapolis, A.I.R. Opening
EXHIBITIONS 2010
June
To See Ourselves as Others See Us:
Contemporary Wisconsin Portraits
About the Curators: Graeme Reid, Assistant Director at the museum of Wisconsin Art and Debra Brehmer, art historian and Director of Portrait Society Gallery
July 2 - 24
The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
Consumption is a complicated word with a myriad of meanings and usages.
About the Curator: Brian Paul Clamp working for nearly two decades as a curator, Clamp holds a MS degree in Critical Studies in Modern Art from Columbia University and is the author of thirty publications on American Art.
October
featured in Romania blog oitzarisme
About the Curator: Constantin Nimigean
December 1 - January 2
At Her Age Exhibition
For the inaugural CURRENTS exhibition series at A.I.R. gallery examines how women at any period in their life, old or young, view their changing bodies. The exhibition addresses the questions: "How does age affect experiencing one's sexual/sensual life?" and "How does age impact one's evolving personal and social relationships?"
About the Curator: Martha Wilson is an artist and Founding Director of Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc. Since its inception in 1976, Franklin Furnace has presented and preserved temporal art: artists’ books and other multiples produced internationally after 1960; temporary installations; and performance art.
About A.I.R. Gallery: Advocating for women in the arts since 1972. A.I.R. Gallery is located at 111 Front Street, #228, in the DUMBO neighborhood of Brooklyn. Kat Greifen, Director.
The Vegetable Museum - 07, Ju Duoqi, 2008 Napoleon on Potatoes
The Vegetable Museum - 03, Ju Duoqi, 2008 The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Pickled Cabbage
The Vegetable Museum - 19, Ju Duoqi, 2008 The Birth of the Radish
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