Derivative Composition Premiered at the JFK Center
Derivative Composition presented work inspired by the performing arts across a broad array of media from time-based installation to painting, sculpture and digital art.
The exhibition was presented from June 16th through July 20th at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and will be presented at venues TBD in New York and Chicago in 2009.
Derivative Composition was juried by Astrid Persans, Director, PowerHouse Projects, Kristen Hilemann, Associate Curator, Hirshhorn Museum, Rody Douzoglou, Director, Douz & Mille and F. Lenox Campello, Independent Curator and Critic.
Karen Bausman included in Urban Visionaries Silent Auction
The work of PowerHouse Projects artist, Karen Bausman will be included in the sixth annual silent auction presented by The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in honor of distinguished figures who have made outstanding contributions to city life.
This year’s honorees include Annie Leibovitz and Wangechi Mutu among other others.
Raphaele Shirley: Sunken City Preludes
PowerHouse Projects is pleased to present SUNKEN CITY PRELUDES- an in situ rooftop installation which will be presented against the mid-Manhattan skyline in the evening at dusk and the following morning at dawn.
For Sunken City Preludes, Shirley has created an inspired visual lexicon of architectural forms, culled and refashioned from industrial refuse and cast in latex and ceramic. The works, which are evocative of cities from either an inscrutable past or an unforeseeable future, will be suspended in water, submerged in light and presented against the looming and luminescent mid-Manhattan skyline, offering a poignant meditation on the glory and ephemerality of civilization.
Raphaele Shirley has worked collaboratively across artistic disciplines to author significant, landmark projects such as the International Fringe Festival and most recently the Perpetual Art Machine—a growing compendium of video art by artists from around the world. She has worked with Nam June Paik, Brian Eno and Shimone Attie among others to execute their technically complex projects. Throughout her collaborations, Shirley has quietly developed her own, distinct body of work, arresting and meditative, which transcends artistic fashion.
Raphaele Shirley Speaks About Her Approach to D.I.Y. Art on A.I.R. Gallery Panel
DIY Panel: (Do It Yourself) Feminisms: from Pioneer to Punk to Post Digital
Moderators:
Judith K. Brodsky, national coordinator, The Feminist Art Project and co-director, Institute for Women and Art at Rutgers University and Kat Griefen, Director, A.I.R. Gallery, New York and Chair, New York City Chapter, The Feminist Art Project.
Panelists:
Daria Dorosh, artist and a founding member of A.I.R. Gallery; Kathleen Hanna, artist and founder of Riot Grrrl Movement; and Raphaele Shirley, video artist and founder of PAM (Perpetual Art Machine).
STUDIOcrawl with Kehinde Wiley, Guy Richards Smit and Raphaele Shirley
August 29th STUDIOcrawl with KEHINDE WILEY, GUY RICHARDS SMIT and RAPHAELE SHIRLEY
The winner of the New York Foundation for the Arts benefit auction, Bettina Prentice, Director of the Briggs Robinson Gallery, brought two guests for this evening of wine, conversation and a preview of new work in the artists’ studios.
Peripatetic artist, Kehinde Wiley treated the group to a look at new works in progress from his Africa and Fallen Heroes series; Guy Richards Smit presented excerpts from his new gambit—a large scale painted comic book– and shared the narrative details for the final work; Raphaele Shirley presented working models of the in situ installation– Sunken City
