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Panel @ SECAC, Richmond, Virginia

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The Decorative Unconscious: Newman, Rothko, and Ledgerwood Natasha Kurchanova, Who Is Afraid of Ornament? Katherine Daniels, Cultivating Beauty Lauren Frances Adams, (Not Safe for Home): Politics and Domestic Decoration Ruth Bolduan, Rococo Pattern, Decorative Order, and Modern Oblivion]]>

I Know What You Did Last Summer @ St Cecilia, Brooklyn

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I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER: a multimedia exhibition of diverse works created by an international group of artists who met one year ago at the summer artist residency Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in rural Maine. Brooklyn, NY June 4, 2010

I Know What You Did Last Summer is a multimedia exhibition of diverse works created by an international group of artists who met one year ago at the summer artist residency Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in rural Maine. This July we reunite, transplanting our bodies, work, and ideas for five days to Brooklyn. With this exhibition we celebrate the creative exchange, transformation, experimentation, debate, and lack of self-restraint we experienced in the woods one year ago— as well as look to the future of the artistic community that continues to prosper. We combine our brains, talent, and guts in this ultimate collaboration, an exhibition of over fifty artists in a three-story former convent. I Know What You Did Last Summer presents work that is formal, theoretical, multicultural, multilingual, and raises relevant, contemporary questions. Don’t miss this opportunity to see this mass of fresh talent in one location this July.
I Know What You Did Last Summer will take place July 9 -14, 2010 at Saint Cecilia’s Convent in Brooklyn, New York. Schedule of Events Opening Reception & Performances, July 9th, 6 pm to 9 pm Video Screenings, July 10th, 3pm to 5 pm Guided Tours, July 11th & 12th, 2 pm & 5 pm About Skowhegan
Centered on a pristine, 300-acre forest and bordered by Lake Wesserunsett, Skowhegan is a ideal  community for creating  art.  Free from the demands of the art market and academia, the residency encourages risk taking, experimentation, and contemplation.  The Skowhegan experience, custom-made for each participating individual, is an intangible and mutable pastiche of influences, including, but not limited to, lectures from visiting artists, passionate group critiques, theoretical discussions and studio time, and local, small-town culture.  Ideas congeal serendipitously, ignited by meaningful concepts during formal discussions, strolls through the woods, swims in the lake with new friends, and an impromptu paganish dances around bonfires.  Skowhegan recreates its own community each summer through the contribution of each participating artist and their divergent viewpoints, virtuosity in their medium of choice, cultural backgrounds, and their unique experiences and personal histories.
Participating Artists Lauren F. Adams • Eduardo Tomás Basualdo • Keren Benbenisty • Ashley Blalock • Katherine Bradford • Heather Bursch • Maria Buyondo • Krista Caballero • Nayari Castillo • Caleb Charland • Colby Claycomb • Mary Coble • Brandon Cox • Rachel Fainter • Amy Feldman • José Joaquin Figueroa • The Friendly Falcons • Rosalinda González • Jacob Gossett • Jane Fox Hipple • Cooper Holoweski • Janelle Iglesias • Nova Jiang • Art Johnson • Kyoung Eun Kang • Devin Kenny • Ji Eun Kim • Avi Krispin • Anna Kunz • Eva La Cour • Jenny Lee • Dan Levenson • Gregg Louis • Matthew Mazzotta • Nat Meade • Matthew Metzger • Irvin Morazan • Nyeema Morgan • Rosalind Murray • Tameka Norris • Brandon Norsted • Mie Olise • Ann Oren • Ester Partegàs • Renata Poljak • Rit Premnath • Jaye Rhee • Blithe Riley • Christopher Robbins • Jacolby Satterwhite • Paul Stoelting • Clarissa Tossin • Niels Vis • Richard T. Walker • Ian Warren • Brindalyn Webster • Letha Wilson • Gregory Witt • Jayoung Yoon • Theodoros Zafeiropoulos]]>

Countertransference @ UNC-Wilmington

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Details: The Art Gallery at the Cultural Arts Building is located at UNCW, 601 S. College Road. For further information, call 910-962-3440. The exhibition will be run through August 6, Monday through Thursday, from 12 to 4pm.]]>

Needle Work Catalogue Released

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Allison Smith: Needle Work. With an essay by Wendy Vogel and interviews with Allison Smith and Lauren Adams. St. Louis: Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, 2010. 64 pp., soft. LCCN 2009942917. ISBN 978-0-936316-30-7. Distributed by University of Chicago Press. Contemporary artist Allison Smith’s diverse creative practice critically engages with popular forms of historical reenactment through a variety of mediums, including sculpture, textiles, ceramics, and photography. Focusing on the handmade and performative aspects of “living history” and material culture, Smith restages, refigures, and replays the role of traditional crafts in large-scale installations that reconsider the construction of collective memory and identity. For the core of Allison Smith: Needle Work, the artist created contemporary revisions of European and American gas masks dating from World War I and beyond. Conceiving these early, relatively simply made objects as remnants of an as-yet-unwritten history of needlework, Smith recreates and reenacts the notion of “authentic reproductions” using art supplies found at local fabric and craft retail stores. From there she explored a range of related masklike forms in which the ghoulish and the foolish, the horrific and the playful intertwine, drawing into question essential notions of camouflage and masquerade. The project also includes staged photographic portraits of the remade masks being worn, held, or positioned as props, and a set of silk parachutes printed with a pattern of research images the artist collected of early masks, further referencing the material culture of war. This color illustrated exhibition catalog includes an essay by Wendy Vogel in which she considers Smith’s project in relation to key notions put forth by Peter Sloterdijk in his Terror from the Air. The volume also features interviews with the artist about her creative practice and with exhibition curator Lauren Adams, assistant professor of art at the Washington University Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts]]>

Installation @ Cosign Projects

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Bitter Harvest is a new installation at Cosign Projects in St. Louis, Missouri,  March 28 – May 11, 2010. cosign projects by lauren adams The three flags on display for Cosign Projects appropriates images published in popular media over the past several years, reinscribing this disturbing narrative. The result is a series of textile paintings overwhelmed by poppy flowers and human figures. The pattern evident in the flags, inspired by traditional wallpaper and ornament design, visually seduces the viewer while simultaneously assaulting them with hallucinatory images of poppy cultivation and its relationship to the international drug trade, the American military incursion in Afghanistan, and the cycle of economic underdevelopment in rural farm areas of the Golden Crescent. To read a statement concerning the project and its relationship to my extra-artistic curatorial practice, click here.]]>