Visual Memphis: November 2017

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Apply for the summer/fall 2018 residency sessions here. Applications will be accepted through December 15, 2017.

The multidisciplinary artist residency program at Crosstown Arts in Memphis, Tennessee, offers residencies for visiting and Memphis-based visual and performing artists working in any creative discipline as well as musicians, filmmakers, and writers in all genres.

All residencies include a private studio workspace with meals provided six days a week. Live/work residencies also include a private bedroom/bathroom next to a common living area and a shared kitchen for all residents. A family housing option is available, as well as accessible housing for residents with disabilities. All residencies are offered at no cost to participants, who are responsible to cover their own studio materials and travel expenses to and from Memphis.

Three-month residency sessions are offered each year in the fall and spring. Shorter twenty-day sessions are available in the summer and can be attended consecutively. Studio-only residencies are available for up to ten months throughout the year.

In the summer and fall of 2018, Crosstown Arts offers a Withers Residency for an individual artist of color working in any discipline who ambitiously addresses the intersection of race and social inequality in their work. Also in the fall of 2018, Crosstown Arts is partnering with Indie Memphis to offer a three-month residency to an independent filmmaker working in any genre, with expanded opportunities for involvement in the annual Indie Memphis Film Festival.

Anyone 21 years of age or older is welcome to apply. There are no specific project requirements for accepted residents who are encouraged to experiment and explore new ideas or further develop current work already in process.

Residents are provided with on-site access to Crosstown Arts’ shared art-making workspace with a range of analog and digital fabrication and production resources, including a woodshop, multiple CNC/laser cutters, a Mac-based computer lab, a large-format digital printing service, a silkscreen/print shop, a small recording studio, and individual editing bays for video/audio production.

All residents are asked to participate in a limited number of public engagement activities while in Memphis such as an informal artist talk or public performance/project, open studio event, or exhibition.

Founded in 2010, Crosstown Arts (501c3) recently completed the renovation of Crosstown Concourse, a one-million-square-foot former Sears & Roebuck distribution warehouse. The Concourse building is now home to Crosstown Arts’ contemporary art center that includes the artist residency program, multiple galleries, large-scale exhibition/installation spaces, screening rooms, and a listening room dedicated to live music performance. Crosstown Arts also operates an after-school program, a community-organized exhibition/performance venue, a café, and bar. A 425-seat black box performing arts theater is currently under construction on-site and scheduled to open in the summer of 2018.

Crosstown Concourse is also home to a major health and wellness initiative, including a walk-in clinic for the uninsured and a fitness facility inside the building, both available to participants in Crosstown Arts’ residency program. A variety of restaurants are located in the Concourse building, as well as a grocery store, coffee shop, juice bar, pharmacy, and other commercial, retail, and residential tenants.

For more about the Crosstown Concourse, visit crosstownconcourse.com.

November 22, 2017 No comments

Josef Bull

Man Finsd Meteorites in His Yard (This Is Planet Earth)

Opening Saturday, November 25, 6-8pm

Tops Gallery @400 South Front Street

Opening continues November 25, 8-9pm

Tops Madison Avenue Park

Tops Gallery is pleased to announce Man Finds Meteorites in His Yard (This is Planet Earth), an exhibition of new works by Josef Bull at Tops Gallery and Tops at Madison Avenue Park.

Believing in meaningful coincidences and the mystical potential of all things, Josef Bull's work meditates on anomalous chains of interconnected information.

Here, in new two- and three-dimensional constellations, specific characters and phenomena from contemporary culture intermingle with objects and practices of everyday life. Corporate yoga logos unite with kindred crop circle formations; LOTR antagonist Saruman frames Bull's paintings of famed start-up garages of Silicon Valley; Danny from The Shining morphs with a real-life namesake doppelgänger whose life-saving "hunch" was noticed by local Michigan News. Layered on both photographic and sculptural surfaces, these blends of found and original materials lay out Bull's attempts to both make sense of and recreate the feeling of bewilderment induced by an evermore confounding world.

At Tops at Madison Avenue Park, Bull's video installation This is Planet Earth(2017) looks at domesticity with an astronomer's gaze. Housed within a suspended propane barbecue, a handheld video tour of a suburban yard loops to the sound of a cab-driving Youtube user's existential rant on the miracle of life. Surrounded by other icons of the American home, the piece becomes a reflection on the domestic landscape as a container for inner and outer space.

HOME

INNER SPACE/OUTER SPACE

METEORITES

EBAY
GOOGLE
GARAGES
CARS
CALIFORNIA
LORD OF THE RINGS

MAGIC WAND
MASTURBATION
TONY ROBBINS
BBQ
CLIMATE CHANGE
MUD
BACKYARD
BIRD BATH
EVOLUTION
JOEL OSTEEN
RED APPLE
ADDICTION
MOON LANDING
FRONT YARD
FIRE

BRENTWOOD

CAT
STEP COUNT
SURVEILLANCE

DIVINE LIGHT
UBER DRIVER
33

FRODO BAGGINS
42

OPRAH WINFREY
BLISTERS
RITE OF PASSAGE
BIRTHDAY
FALCON
RAT

YOUTUBE
1984

Josef Bull (b. 1984 in Huddinge, Sweden) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. His work has been exhibited at Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm; Museum of Ethnography, Stockholm; Situations, New York; and Tops Gallery, Memphis. In 2013, he was a recipient of the Maria Bonnier Dahlin Foundation Award, and in 2014 was the artist-in-residence on the scientific arctic expedition Swerus-C3. His work produced onboard was recently published by Solar Power Press as a set of books titled Arctic Mud (2017).

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Asian American Art, Activism, and the Turn to Transnationalism

Lecture by Dr. Margo Machida

Friday, November 10, 5:30-7:30pm

Reception 5:30pm, lecture at 6pm

University of Memphis Department of Art

Art and Communication Building Room 310

Art Historian Dr. Margo Machida will deliver a lecture titled "Asian American Art, Activism, and the Turn to Transnationalism." Primarily drawing examples from her experience in New York and San Francisco, she will examine how Asian American frameworks for thinking about identity, identity politics, and arts activism shifted between the 1960s and 1990s – and how the convergence of domestic activism, accelerating migration, and transnational circulation shaped emergent artistic, critical and curatorial practices.

Lecture will be held in Art and Communication Bldg. Room 310. Reception at 5:30 pm; lecture begins at 6 pm.

Dr. Machida is Professor Emerita of Art History and Asian American Studies at the University of Connecticut. Born and raised in Hawai’i, she is a scholar, independent curator, and cultural critic specializing in Asian American art and visual culture. Her most recent book, "Unsettled Visions: Contemporary Asian American Artists and the Social Imaginary" (Duke University Press, 2009) received the Cultural Studies Book Award from the Association for Asian American Studies. She is co-editor of the volume "Fresh Talk/Daring Gazes: Conversations on Asian American Art" (University of California Press, 2003). She is an Associate Editor for the "Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas" journal (Brill).

Dr. Machida has received numerous grants and fellowships including support from the Smithsonian Institution, Rockefeller Foundation, and National Endowment for the Humanities. She is co-organizer of the Diasporic Asian Art Network (DAAN) and the East Coast Asian American Art Project (ECAAAP), and a founding member of the International Network for Diasporic Asian Art Research (INDAAR). In 2009, she received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the national Women’s Caucus for Art.

November 07, 2017 No comments

Pop-up lecture alert!

When: Wednesday, November 8, noon-1pm

Where: Callicott Auditorium at MCA's Rust Hall in Overton Park

What: Tyler Hildebrand and Matthew Dayler are two of MCA's baddest alumni. Both now work at the Art Academy of Cincinnati, and they are coming back tell to you about their work and how their careers have evolved since their time at MCA. Learn more about each artist below.

Tyler Hildebrand: Artist Tyler Hildebrand works in Admissions and has taught analytical drawing and sculpture at the Art Academy ofCincinnati. He produces work in a wide range of media, from gifs and animations to paintings and environmental installation. According to his artist profile at David Lusk Gallery where Hildebrand is locally represented, he "does not shy away from the harsh realities of contemporary American culture... Hildebrand strives to represent grotesque elements of society, even if it means revealing an uncomfortable and oftentimes crude environment. By exposing the perverse, depraved and degenerate truths of the world around us, Hildebrand produces work that is often tough to look at, sometimes witty and always truthful." Since his time at MCA, Hildebrand has forged a vibrant career. His is owner and curator ofTastyKake Gallery in Baltimore, Maryland, the director of his own film studio, Mohawk Productions, and has exhibited widely from Memphis to New York. Learn more about his work here.

Matthew Dayler: Matthew Dayler was born and raised in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, and is Assistant Professor at the Art Academy ofCincinnati. Dayler’s interests draw from a wide variety of historical and contemporary imagery relating to identity in juxtaposition with street culture, music and sports. Dayler’s images are often presented in the form of murals, prints, drawings, and video. His work has been exhibited at the Telfair Museum of Art in Savannah, Georgia, The Brooks Museum in Memphis, Tennessee, and Galerie Edition Schedler in Zurich, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Australia, Miami, NYC and LA. He lives in Cincinnati, Ohio and is one of the founders of Xylene. Click here to check it out!

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