Mike Fleming, Hair Flip
I'm really excited to be included in two group shows this summer. This Friday, July 11th, opens Vox X: Present Tense at Vox Populi in Philadelphia. Juried by Matthew Brannon and Howie Chen, this show looks really interesting. It runs through August 1st.
In August I have a print included in Layers of Identity II at Arena 1 Gallery in Santa Monica, CA. The exhibition runs August 2 - August 30. In December the show travels to the Jerusalem Print Workshop.
Thanks Axis Gallery for including me in The Memory Pore! The show looked great, and pleased to be in such good company.
My curatorial project, Find & Form Space, now has a beautiful website, care of the talented folks at Find & Form. Check it out at www.findandformspace.com.
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The opening of Find & Form Space’s second show, My Soles Have These Stories, was this past Friday, and it looked great! Thanks to everyone who came out.
Check out the banner image on the IPCNY tumblr! Psyched to be in such good company, woodblock prints by Josh Dannin on the left and Yoonmi Nam on the right.
New Prints 2013/ Autumn opens on October 29th, with the reception on Thursday, November 7th. So if you’re in town for print week, stop by, I’ll be at the opening!
Upcoming Shows
I’m very excited to be participating in three shows opening in October!
New York
New Prints 2013/ Autumn at the International Print Center New York
October 29 - November 30, 2013.
Opening: Thursday, November 7.
Bay Area
The Making Is A Re-Making at Kala Gallery, Berkeley, CA.
October 17 – November 27, 2013.
Opening: Thursday, October 17, 6:00 - 8:00 pm
Los Angeles
October 26 – December 14.
Opening: Saturday, October 26 | 5-9 pm.
Some photos from Sideways, This Time, thanks to everyone who made it out!
New Prints 2013/Winter is on tour in Houston, Texas at Art League Houston in conjunction with PRINTHOUSTON 2013. The exhibition will be on display in the main gallery from June 28 - August 2, 2013. Visit www.artleaguehouston.org for more details. If you’re in the Houston area, stop on by and see the fabulous show!
You can see my print, Karen, in the first picture, next to Nicole Eisenman!
Next Thursday, June 27 6-8pm is the opening reception of Spring Chickens, Free Range, a show of the ten artists from RISD’s 2013 Printmaking MFA program! It will be at David Krut Projects in Chelsea.
It’s gonna be a blast, hope to see you there!
Details:
Directions:
Please enter via 516 W. 26th St. (near 10th ave) and take the freight elevator to the 8th floor.
David Krut Projects is excited to present Spring Chickens, Free Range, a group exhibition of the ten artists emerging from Rhode Island School of Design’s MFA in Printmaking. The works on display champion traditional print methods while engaging an advanced multimedia approach. These ten artists - Paloma Barhaugh-Bordas, Kevin Frances, Amanda Hu, Genevieve Lowe, Jonathan Palmer, Diego Rodriguez-Warner, Saman Sajasi, Justin Sorensen, Cole Swavely and Elisabeth Walden - bring a fresh and active chorus and invigorate the conversation of contemporary printmaking.
Because of its characteristic traits, namely reproducibility, variability and the camaraderie it creates among artists, printmaking lends itself to social engagement, as the work in this exhibition proves. Whether tackling identity politics, consumerism, environmental collapse, systemic violence or spirituality, these artists use the conventions of print to identify and wrestle with the issues and powers that shape our lives. Of course, these issues are not boxed off cleanly, but rather create a network of connective tissue that runs through the exhibition. These artists and works come together through a deep social engagement with the world, and the struggle to find a form that reflects it.
Frances, Sajasi, Swavely and Walden examine how identity is created through gender, body size, ethnicity or environment. Palmer, Lowe and Barhaugh-Bordas explore the boundaries between natural and man-made environments. Hu and Frances investigate how environment reflects human identity by examining living spaces. And Rodriguez-Warner combines images from art history and pop-culture through a sophisticated formal language strongly influenced by relief printing. The work in this show represents not only an engagement with printmaking, but also the ways in which the qualities of traditional print media allows for a flexibility of style, form and content.
Official site: http://www.davidkrut.com/upcoming.html
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/events/597861736912145/
This Thursday, May 16, is the opening of the RISD Thesis show! It’s going to be amazing. More photos to come!
opening reception: May 16, 6–8 pm
open Daily: 12–5 pm
RI Convention Center, Exhibition Hall A
One Sabin Street, Providence, RI
HOME SHOW
Gelman Gallery, RISD Museum, 20 Main Street, Providence, RI
Opening Thursday May 2nd, 6-8 pm
On View May 3-June 2
Gallery Hours: 10-5, Tue.- Sun.
I’ll have some work in Home Show at the Gelman Gallery in the RISD Museum in Providence, Rhode Island. The Opening is next Thursday, May 2nd, 6-8pm. Hope to see you there.
I have five prints included in Washington Printmakers Gallery’s 3rd Annual Excellence in Printmaking Exhibition, and my print Karen was awarded first place!
The show is up until February 24, if you’re in the D.C. area. The gallery is in Silver Spring, MD.
“Kevin Frances also embraces everyday objects as his subject. The purity of material and directness of process that woodcut offers is reflected in the quiet simplicity of Karen, which figures a stack of shelves holding an artist’s paints and brushes.”
Curatorial Essay for IPCNY’s New Prints 2013/Winter.
Co-Authored by Allison Rudnick and Chris Santa Maria.
This Thursday, January 31, is the opening of the RISD Graduate Printmaking Show OUT OF PRINT! The reception is from 7-9pm.
The show runs January 31 until February 24.
Sol Koffler Gallery, 169 Weybosset Street, 1st floor Providence, RI
Paloma Barhaugh-Bordas
Manuel Bova
Catherine Cole
Kevin Frances
Amanda Hu
Genevieve Lowe
Wangui Maina
Seojung Min
Roque Montez
Jessica Murray
Jonathan Palmer
Diego Rodriguez-Warner
Saman Sajasi
Justin Sorensen
Cole Swavely
Elisabeth Walden
Bye Upper Barn, bye Skowhegan.
(photo from first day, not last)
Appliances!
Outside the model looking in
The Useful Life of a Tube of Toothpaste: a Play in Ten Acts.
My contribution to the 2012 Skowhegan participant box set exchange.
Act 1, Scene 1
Scale model for a series of prints.
Off to Skowhegan!
This summer I’ll be attending the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Skowhegan, Maine. It’s pretty exciting. Stay tuned for photos and updates!