The Washington Post published a piece I wrote, originally titled Fixing Humpty Dumpty. It was in the Health & Science Section of May 4, 2010. It can be found online here. Thank you to all those who responded. I am truly touched.
Revealing Culture - VSA
June 8 – August 29, 2010 *Note new end date*
The Smithsonian Institution’s International Gallery
An International Juried Exhibition by Artists with Disabilities. (I am exhibiting a small waiting room installation in the show.)
The Smithsonian Institution’s International Gallery
An International Juried Exhibition by Artists with Disabilities. (I am exhibiting a small waiting room installation in the show.)
VSA is an awesome organization. I am excited to be a part of this exhibition! There are all sorts of neat things happening around June 6-12, 2010 as part of the 2010 International VSA Festival. Check it out!
“Please Wait.” March 15-26
Opening Reception March 18, 6-8pm
Photo by Deborah Lash
Fine Arts Gallery
Art & Design Building (First Floor)
George Mason University
4400 University Drive Fairfax, VA 22030
For Gallery Info including gallery hours, call the Art Office (703) 993-8898.
Save the Date!
School of Art Graduate Thesis Show: Gwynneth VanLaven and Nelly Sarkissian
- March 15, 2010 - March 26, 2010
- Opening Reception: Thursday, March 18, 6 to 8 PM
Fine Arts Galleries A & B, School of Art, George Mason University
VanLaven:Please Wait.
Framed as a medical waiting room in the gallery, humorous and sincere, multimedia and installation works raise issues including the cultural conception of wellness, how we perform as patients, and how spaces intended to be innocuous become charged with memory and emotion.
Sarkissian: Across the Body
This autobiographical video documents the pilgrimage to the Holy city Jerusalem. By the end of the journey, the artist marks her body with a BADGE OF PRIDE called “HAJJI TATTOO,” an iconographic image tattooed on her right arm as her Armenian cultural religious heritage. And in contrast, this body project experience transcends from its traditional religiousness to become a pure form of self-narration, self-construction, and a live archive of her breathing identity.
A show including two of my book works for waiting rooms:
*MATERIAL WORLD*
*Gallery 123*
Fall for the Book, 2009
*Reception and Reading: *
*Wednesday, September 23 at 6 pm*
**Material Word* presents language as physical object, poetry as interactive, and visual art as a medium for entering text; included works have been produced by poets exploring the world of visual art and by artists using text as a medium or allowing text to be understood through the book as visual language. The results are varied and energetic: books that unfold or allow the reader to arrange the text, poems that hang on the wall, found text rearranged into visual art. Many of the works in the exhibit are collaborative efforts; others ask the reader to participate in the production of text… .*
The opening was great. If you missed it, or if you would like to come back to take it all in, the show will be up until July 10. The gallery will be staffed by fellow grad students. Hours are variable. Check the blog and feel free to contact me to confirm your visit. See you there!
Opening! Now through July 10…
“Gradations” at the Point in Space Gallery, Fairfax, VA
Opening Event - Friday May 29 6pm – 9pm
Lynette Lombard is a daring and inventive painter whose work is emotionally and physically felt and charged. She was my teacher at Knox College and continues to inspire me in life and creative endeavors. http://lynettelombard.com
Reve(a)ling: Feminist Art
March 2 through March 27, Gallery 123 Fairfax, VA
I have three pieces in this juried show, including How Are You Feeling Today? (book), awarded Best in Show. In the image is the book and projected video piece Of Two Minds.
March 2009: Point in Space Gallery in Fairfax VA just finished exhibiting a show including a waiting room sketch I constructed. There is a blog for the gallery- Check back for more! http://pointinspacegallery.blogspot.com
In the images: behind is a false wall panel with images from the Wellness series. On the table is a clipboard of my own wacky “Intake Forms,” an artist statement, and a glossy book of Wellness source material- images from eight different pharmaceutical advertisements.