CS Magazine
I will be appearing in the December 2009 issue of Chicago Social Magazine along side close friends Justin Cooper and Adam Ekberg. You can view the article at CS Magazine you will find me on page 70.
Only Blue Dear Lonely American
Only Blue Dear Lonely American
March 7 to March 29th Alagon Gallery, Opening 6pm Friday March 7th
In September 2007 Benjamin Bellas, Justin Cooper, Stuart Keeler, Clinton King, Noelle Mason, Ross Moreno and Magdalen Wong were artists in residence at 1a space, Hong Kong. The subsequent exhibition was funded in part by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council, The Illinois Arts Council and private donors. Only Blue Dear Lonely American is an attempt to translate these Artists' experience. The original press release is as follows:
Namely, seven independent artist network work on international, explores the possible heaven and the inconceivable truth subject. The Only Blue Dear Lonely American illusion revealed which in theirs work surveys them by to hug performative, the experimental nature and the component extemporaneously is sceptical to society's Utopist ideal reality. The medium for example performance, the photography, the video recording and the sound use in individual who expresses the negotiations culture custom explicitly and the social history. Although their work discipline, they origin from the carving perspective. Namely. The faintly recognizable concept distilled entered the physical demonstration. The work adopts the form to be equally various frequently acts the witchcraft drum to wait for likely does not exist daughter in American girl position; From package design sound constitution to honest magic skill. Through respective esthetic and the conceptive strategy, the place reality is transformed indulgently, and was explained. Finally, the object and the experience cannot separate.
March 7 to March 29th Alagon Gallery, Opening 6pm Friday March 7th
In September 2007 Benjamin Bellas, Justin Cooper, Stuart Keeler, Clinton King, Noelle Mason, Ross Moreno and Magdalen Wong were artists in residence at 1a space, Hong Kong. The subsequent exhibition was funded in part by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council, The Illinois Arts Council and private donors. Only Blue Dear Lonely American is an attempt to translate these Artists' experience. The original press release is as follows:
Namely, seven independent artist network work on international, explores the possible heaven and the inconceivable truth subject. The Only Blue Dear Lonely American illusion revealed which in theirs work surveys them by to hug performative, the experimental nature and the component extemporaneously is sceptical to society's Utopist ideal reality. The medium for example performance, the photography, the video recording and the sound use in individual who expresses the negotiations culture custom explicitly and the social history. Although their work discipline, they origin from the carving perspective. Namely. The faintly recognizable concept distilled entered the physical demonstration. The work adopts the form to be equally various frequently acts the witchcraft drum to wait for likely does not exist daughter in American girl position; From package design sound constitution to honest magic skill. Through respective esthetic and the conceptive strategy, the place reality is transformed indulgently, and was explained. Finally, the object and the experience cannot separate.
IRRATIONAL EXHIBITS 6
Track 16 Gallery and Deborah Oliver present
IRRATIONAL EXHIBITS 6
Curated by Deborah Oliver
Saturday, November 3, 2007, 8:00 PM
17 Artists, One Night Only
Admission $12
RSVP: 310.264.4678
Pre-payment by credit card accepted
Returning to Track 16 Gallery for the sixth straight year is Irrational Exhibits, the experimental performance /installation show produced and curated by Deborah Oliver.
Irrational Exhibits is a one night only, once a year event that showcases the latest works and evolving forms of performance art and installation.
This year, a daring crop of artists will explore and confront the dangerous and disturbing landscape of the 21st century: an environment in which one treads the shifting terrain of catastrophe with delusions of safety, and where human relationships are subject to technological intervention and desensitizing media overload.
Through interactive installations, visceral performances, and kinetic media, the artists will examine the tenuous balance of power in personal, social, political and cultural environments. The audience will be free to roam and engage with a wide variety of works that range from eccentrically playful game referencing works to those that portray events of unnerving pathos.
Artists:
Gabriela Arreola, Benjamin Bellas & Justin Cooper, Brian Black & Ryan Bulis, Anne Bray & Deborah Oliver & Janice Gomez, Amanda Browder & Stuart Keeler, David Burns, Kent Anderson Butler & Andrew Buehler, Mariel Carranza, Kristina Faragher & Curt LeMieux, Tim Folland, Dave Ghilarducci, Cathalijne Kapteyn & Anastasia Yumeko Hill & Sean Best, Noelle Mason, Helia Rabie, Eusebio Travis Sevilla, Steve Shoffner, and Elizabeth Watkins.
For more information on the artists and event, please visit our web site at http://www.track16.com.
Directions: http://www.track16.com/directions.html
IRRATIONAL EXHIBITS 6
Curated by Deborah Oliver
Saturday, November 3, 2007, 8:00 PM
17 Artists, One Night Only
Admission $12
RSVP: 310.264.4678
Pre-payment by credit card accepted
Returning to Track 16 Gallery for the sixth straight year is Irrational Exhibits, the experimental performance /installation show produced and curated by Deborah Oliver.
Irrational Exhibits is a one night only, once a year event that showcases the latest works and evolving forms of performance art and installation.
This year, a daring crop of artists will explore and confront the dangerous and disturbing landscape of the 21st century: an environment in which one treads the shifting terrain of catastrophe with delusions of safety, and where human relationships are subject to technological intervention and desensitizing media overload.
Through interactive installations, visceral performances, and kinetic media, the artists will examine the tenuous balance of power in personal, social, political and cultural environments. The audience will be free to roam and engage with a wide variety of works that range from eccentrically playful game referencing works to those that portray events of unnerving pathos.
Artists:
Gabriela Arreola, Benjamin Bellas & Justin Cooper, Brian Black & Ryan Bulis, Anne Bray & Deborah Oliver & Janice Gomez, Amanda Browder & Stuart Keeler, David Burns, Kent Anderson Butler & Andrew Buehler, Mariel Carranza, Kristina Faragher & Curt LeMieux, Tim Folland, Dave Ghilarducci, Cathalijne Kapteyn & Anastasia Yumeko Hill & Sean Best, Noelle Mason, Helia Rabie, Eusebio Travis Sevilla, Steve Shoffner, and Elizabeth Watkins.
For more information on the artists and event, please visit our web site at http://www.track16.com.
Directions: http://www.track16.com/directions.html
Concerning Tomorrow
ART EXHIBITION 'CONCERNING TOMORROW' OPENS SEPT 14TH
Sponsored by Harold Arts
"Concerning tomorrow…," an exhibition curated by Chicago artist Jason Lazarus, features an ambitious roster of 27 artists wrestling with the provocative exhibition title, "Concerning tomorrow…"
Working in a variety of media, the participating artists have created highly evocative, culturally aware, and bravely imaginative pieces. The result is a collection of work that directly involves the viewer in a complex dialogue about the notion of 'tomorrow,' while provoking audiences to consider their own tomorrows, real or imagined, without limit.
The exhibition opens on September 14th, 5-10pm at 303 W. Erie (basement gallery)
Harold Arts, a non profit arts organization based in Chicago, embarks with "Concerning tomorrow…" to advance recognition of its greater mission: to cultivate creative opportunities for emerging and mid-career artists and musicians through artist residencies, gallery showings, and concerts within the Chicago area. Learn more at HaroldArts.org.
Participating artists include:
Duncan Anderson
Hector Arce-Espasas
Melina Ausikaitis
Kelly Breslin
Amanda Browder
Benjamin Driggs
Stephen Eichhorn
Ken Fandell
Michelle Faust
Dolan Geiman
Jonathan Gitelson
Cody Hudson
Wyatt Kahn
Emily Konnerk
Phelan LaVelle
Curtis Mann
New Catalogue
Noelle Mason
John Opera
Chris Schedel
Matt Siber
Greg Stimac
Brian Ulrich
Elspeth Vance
Siebren Versteeg
Benjamin Walas
Sponsored by Harold Arts
"Concerning tomorrow…," an exhibition curated by Chicago artist Jason Lazarus, features an ambitious roster of 27 artists wrestling with the provocative exhibition title, "Concerning tomorrow…"
Working in a variety of media, the participating artists have created highly evocative, culturally aware, and bravely imaginative pieces. The result is a collection of work that directly involves the viewer in a complex dialogue about the notion of 'tomorrow,' while provoking audiences to consider their own tomorrows, real or imagined, without limit.
The exhibition opens on September 14th, 5-10pm at 303 W. Erie (basement gallery)
Harold Arts, a non profit arts organization based in Chicago, embarks with "Concerning tomorrow…" to advance recognition of its greater mission: to cultivate creative opportunities for emerging and mid-career artists and musicians through artist residencies, gallery showings, and concerts within the Chicago area. Learn more at HaroldArts.org.
Participating artists include:
Duncan Anderson
Hector Arce-Espasas
Melina Ausikaitis
Kelly Breslin
Amanda Browder
Benjamin Driggs
Stephen Eichhorn
Ken Fandell
Michelle Faust
Dolan Geiman
Jonathan Gitelson
Cody Hudson
Wyatt Kahn
Emily Konnerk
Phelan LaVelle
Curtis Mann
New Catalogue
Noelle Mason
John Opera
Chris Schedel
Matt Siber
Greg Stimac
Brian Ulrich
Elspeth Vance
Siebren Versteeg
Benjamin Walas
Chicago Reader "Critics Choice"
http://www.chicagoreader.com/features/stories/art/070817/
Ground Control by Noelle Mason, Jose Antonio Flores, and Jonathan Samaniego
Ground Control (detail) by Noelle Mason, Jose Antonio Flores, and Jonathan Samaniego; click to enlarge
Critic's Choice: Echelon: Who Is Watching You? This show about surveillance opened the day before the U.S. House of Representatives approved expanded information-gathering powers for the executive branch. Among the sculptures, photos, drawings, and other works on exhibit is a beautiful, disturbing rug conceived by local artist Noelle Mason and woven by Mexican artists Jose Antonio Flores and Jonathan Samaniego. Made of red and green wool, Ground Control takes its dynamic pattern from a map of the U.S./Mexican border generated by Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer technology. The red denotes the patchwork of cultivated agricultural areas, most clustered in this country, while the green, mostly on the other side of the border, indicates arid, undeveloped land. Though the rug is lush, it depicts the site of much conflict and suffering based on economic inequality (Mason paid the two weavers the amount of money it would take for a Mexican family of four to cross the border illegally). This challenging work questions the boundaries between the aesthetic and the utilitarian, the decorative and the subversive. Another standout is a witty, engaging installation by Annette Barbier and Drew Browning in which the viewer is tracked by a motion-sensing camera while reading the titles of “suspicious” books projected on the floor. Among the other artists in the show are Elvia Rodriguez-Ochoa, Patrick Lichty, Gretel Garcia, and Finishing School. Through 9/1: Sat noon-5 PM or by appointment, Polvo, 1458 W. 18th, 773-344-1940. —Janina Ciezadlo
Ground Control by Noelle Mason, Jose Antonio Flores, and Jonathan Samaniego
Ground Control (detail) by Noelle Mason, Jose Antonio Flores, and Jonathan Samaniego; click to enlarge
Critic's Choice: Echelon: Who Is Watching You? This show about surveillance opened the day before the U.S. House of Representatives approved expanded information-gathering powers for the executive branch. Among the sculptures, photos, drawings, and other works on exhibit is a beautiful, disturbing rug conceived by local artist Noelle Mason and woven by Mexican artists Jose Antonio Flores and Jonathan Samaniego. Made of red and green wool, Ground Control takes its dynamic pattern from a map of the U.S./Mexican border generated by Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer technology. The red denotes the patchwork of cultivated agricultural areas, most clustered in this country, while the green, mostly on the other side of the border, indicates arid, undeveloped land. Though the rug is lush, it depicts the site of much conflict and suffering based on economic inequality (Mason paid the two weavers the amount of money it would take for a Mexican family of four to cross the border illegally). This challenging work questions the boundaries between the aesthetic and the utilitarian, the decorative and the subversive. Another standout is a witty, engaging installation by Annette Barbier and Drew Browning in which the viewer is tracked by a motion-sensing camera while reading the titles of “suspicious” books projected on the floor. Among the other artists in the show are Elvia Rodriguez-Ochoa, Patrick Lichty, Gretel Garcia, and Finishing School. Through 9/1: Sat noon-5 PM or by appointment, Polvo, 1458 W. 18th, 773-344-1940. —Janina Ciezadlo
