Upcoming 2013 Exhibits

My recent delivery to Atelier Gallery, Charleston, SC, has them with the following inventory shown: 
Atelier Gallery, Charleston 
PLUS this one:

Twisted Jimmies oil on linen  30" x 40"

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I will have two of my Donuts Behaving Badly series in the following exhibit: 

 

Arts & Culture Alliance National Juried Exhibition of 2013

(01/11/2013/Knoxville) – The Arts & Culture Alliance is pleased to present its National Juried Exhibition of 2013, a new exhibition featuring selected works from 24 artists in the Southeast region. The National Juried Exhibition was developed in 2006 to provide a forum for local artists to compete on a national scale and display their highest quality work. The exhibition encompasses all styles and genres from both emerging and established artists and will be displayed in the Emporium Center from February 1-22, 2013. A public reception will take place on Friday, February 1, from 5:00-9:00 PM with a brief awards ceremony at 6:00 PM in which $1,000 in cash awards will be announced.

Patrick DeGuira served as juror for the exhibition. He has exhibited his work at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Brooks Museum of Art, Hunter Museum of Art, Cheekwood Museum of Art, as well as numerous commercial, non-profit, University galleries, and is represented by Zeitgeist Gallery. In addition to his exhibition career, he has worked as a Museum Exhibit Designer, Educator, and Curator. In 2010, he curated the exhibition Aftermath, which included the work of Leigh Ledare, Harmony Korine, Kurt Wagner, Brent Stewart, and Chris Scarborough, among others. He has co-curated video exhibitions through Fugitive Projects, inviting such artists as Norberto Rodriguez, Luis Gispert, and Hernan Bas to participate. He has juried exhibitions at UT-Chattanooga and at Watkins College of Art, Design & Film. He just finished working on the Carrie Mae Weems exhibition (at the Frist in Nashville) and the exhibition the Rise and Fall of Apartheid: Photography and the Bureaucracy of Everyday Life at the International Center of Photography. His work has been reviewed and featured in numerous publications, including The Oxford American, New American Paintings, Art Papers, Number, and Art Daily. He is the recipient of a Tennessee Independent Artist Fellowship Grant, and multiple Tennessee Professional Development Support Grants: www.patrick-deguira.com

The following artists’ works will be shown:

+ Amanda Brazier and Michael Woods of Chattanooga
+ Trissa Gurney of Kingston
+ Lauren Coakley, Nathaniel Galka, Joyce Gralak, Kelly Hider, Andreas Koschan, Ashton Ludden, Kate McCullough, Roy McCullough, Chad Pelton, Denise Stewart-Sanabria, and Brandon Woods of Knoxville
+ Mark Gunnar Quist of Oak Ridge
+ EricBuechel of Pleasant Hill
+ Sher Fick of Spring Hill
+ Nofa Dixon of Jacksonville, FL
+ Jim Toub of Boone, NC
+ Cat Manolis of Graham, NC
+ Ken Van Dyne of Cincinatti, OH
+ Randy Jennings of Kettering, OH
+ Jenny Snead of Bristol, VA

A gallery of images may be viewed at:www.knoxalliance.com/album/juried_2013.html 

The reception on Friday, February 1, is free and open to the public, and complimentary hors d’oeuvres will be served. The National Juried Exhibition of 2013 is on display February 1-22, 2013 at the Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay Street, downtown Knoxville. Exhibition hours are Monday-Friday, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM with additional hours on Saturday, February 2, 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM. For more information, please contact the Arts & Culture Alliance at (865) 523-7543, or visit our Web site at www.knoxalliance.com. 

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Alter-Nate at The Arts Company, Nashville, TN

Altar-Nate, a contemporary altar series featuring drawings, cut paper, painting, and wood cabinetry combined with found objects will be at my Nashville gallery, The Arts Company this April, 2013 (re-scheduled from March). More details soon. The public reception is 1st Saturday, April.

Artemis Redux  Charcoal on plywood, white and copper BB pellets, pen nib, hand built wooden altar  : 38”W 40”H    

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Women Painting Women :Custom House Museum, Clarksville, TN 

March, 2013 Reception: Thurs., March 7th, 5-8 PM

More info on this when the press releases go out.

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"Alter-Nate" at The Arts Company, April 2013

Altar-Nate, a contemporary altar series featuring drawings, cut paper, painting, and wood cabinetry combined with found objects will be at my Nashville gallery, The Arts Company this April, 2013 (re-scheduled from March). More details soon. The public reception is 1st Saturday, April.

Artemis Redux  Charcoal on plywood, white and copper BB pellets, pen nib, hand built wooden altar  : 38”W 40”H    

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New Gallery representation in Asheville, NC

 As of December 31, 2012, my representation by 16 Patton Gallery came to an end when the gallery closed down. I'd been there since 2005, and had a great time and experience with the gallery, owner Danna Anderson, and Asheville.

I am now represented by a new gallery, Gallery Asheville,  http://www.galleryasheville.com/artists/ ,
that has just been opened as of January 2013 by Anna Parker-Barnett of Gallery Minerva. It is located at 8 Biltmore Ave., just around the corner from the Asheville Museum of Art.

American Art Collector Magazine Article

Steps of the Ryman  charcoal on plywood, gouache, hand-built altar

I will be having a four page article in the February 2013 edition of American Art Collector Magazine, where I'll be discussing both my paintings and my new work on wood that will be heading to The Arts Company in Nashville for Altar-nate, my March exhibit there!
American Art Collector Magazine

International Artist Magazine feature

I will have a one page feature in the upcoming International Artist magazine #89 February / March 2013 issue. It will focus on my Produce Paintings process.

Description of the magazine from Amazon.com:

"Product Description

In each 164 page bi-monthly issue of International Artist magazine we take you inside the studios of the world's best artists. They tell you the thought processes behind their creative methods and reveal their painting techniques. For beginners, intermediate & professionals as well."

This should be cool.

 

 

December Exhibit at Target Gallery: 5x5(x5)

Seed Pods: Optically Focused/ pigment inkjet print on rag paper, glass

 My triptych Seed Pods, Optically Focused will be going to Target Gallery's 5x5(x5) this December.

Target Gallery, Torpedo Art Center, Alexandria, VA

5x5(x5)
Exhibition Dates: December 8th - 30th, 2012
Reception: December 13, 2012Back by popular demand, this exhibition examines work on a very intimate scale. This juried exhibition includes 112 small works by 68 artists from around the country. This is an all-media exhibit that was open to all artists nationally and internationally. All work is under five inches in any direction.

Our juror, Stefanie Fedor, is the Executive Director of Arlington Arts Center. Before joining AAC, she served as the Assistant Director of the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center where she presented over 80 exhibitions of contemporary art featuring the work of both emerging and internationally renowned artists. She has additionally managed and directed exhibitions programs at the Maryland Institute College of Art and New York University. Before relocating to the Washington DC area, Ms. Fedor was the Membership and Regional Alliances Manager at ArtTable in New York, a national professional organization for women in the visual arts. In this role she advocated for and supported the leadership of women in the arts. She has remained active with the organization and was recently elected to serve on the Board of Directors as the VP of Membership.

http://www.torpedofactory.org/galleries/target.htm

Confrontations and Observations will be at Yeiser Art Center in Paducah, Kentucky until Oct. 30, 2012.

The exhibit features the work of Knoxville, TN artist Denise Stewart-Sanabria  www.stewart-sanabria.com, and West Lafayette, IN artist Christine Wuenschel www.christinewuenschel.com 

The Yeiser's new Yak sculpture has been Yarn Bombed!

Yeiser Art Center www.theyeiser.org is the principle art non-profit in Paducah, Kentucky, a city that was put on the arts map by a major urban renewal experiment driven by an artist relocation plan. People whom I've exhibited with in the past, Travis Graves and Anne Bagby had shown there, so I liked that. Also, Wuenschel and I are in a book together, INDA 6, produced by Manifest Gallery in Cincinatti, so I  knew her work and loved it. Local professor Randy Simmons, ironically also in that same book, was on the Yeiser board at the proposal submission time and pushed to have us exhibit together. It's interesting when you find out how the process works.

http://www.paducahalliance.org/artist-relocation-program

My installation piece, Quantum Confusion, filled the center of the gallery, while Wuenschel's drawings on paper covered the walls. My favorite aspect of the blending of our work was how her massive panoramic piece looked from the back of my piece. My people became silent observers.

Wuenschel, (left) and myself hit our gallery talks.

Wuenschel talks with Randy Simmons, local professor at WKCTC http://www.randysimmonsdrawings.com/Home.html

We appreciated a really decent article in the Paducah Sun. (Note to artists who do nudes; PG crop your 300 dpi's before submitting to papers-that way the other artist doesn't get handed all the image space and ends up feeling like a hog.)

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Walk Around Time

I had a whole day to wander around downtown. It is a really beautiful town with an interesting history. We ate in a bar that had these tiles on the floor. I like weird tiles.

The night before, we had been on the outside of town, which had a certain kultural authenticity that reminded me of Pigeon Forge, TN. So, we stuck to downtown.

Downtown has had tremendous renovation, with more to go. I think they are working on this beautiful old movie theater (above) and below, you can see one of the old brick streets and the side of the Yeiser, that connects to a small history museum.

There is a history of incredible floods in the city, as the marker on the side of a building on the 3rd block from the river attests. This portion of the Ohio River is just miles above where the Tennessee River joins it. The gallery is 2 blocks from the river.

The entire river side has lines of flood walls that now protect the city from disaster, painted with wonderful history murals.

The chair below is on the Kentucky side, the land on the other side is Illinois.

Farmer's Market: Stuff for sale above, extinct food supplies below.

Early settlers and Indians discover the National Quilt Museum.

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The neighborhoods downtown where the artist relocation program occurred have gone from ruins to gorgeous. Many of the artists who live there don't exhibit locally, but many have galleries in their studios. 2nd Saturdays are when they open for receptions to the public together, but many are open Sat. afternoons. When I went to William F. Renzulli's studio (he relocated from PA), he showed me something really cool I'd never heard of-clay slip printing. He has this huge clay tablet he uses as a base. The basic concept is mono-printing, but is done on the tablet with clay slip mixed with pigment and other materials. He has just smeared on a couple pigments here, and is grinding chalk dust into part of it, plus using a plastic circle as a stencil. After, he sprays it with water a bit, and then sprays his print surface, which is not paper, but commercial garment interfacing. It is the stuff used to stiffen lapels, waistbands, ect. It is white, and partially translucent. He does a series of prints using a roller for transfer. Each print is pulled from a sub-surface of the first, where years of previous slip and pigment reside, ready to be reactivated. It is kind of like an archeological dig.

This below shows the transitions from 1st pull, upper left, to last, lower right.

I went next to Keyth Kahrs' studio. He is mainly a landscape painter who does pop art also, like the multilayer plywood cutout corn dog painting. He's working on a hotdog now. I think they'd be cool in a restaurant.

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More wandering around:
See all the locations for Finkel's? I was excited to see Metropolis. I went on a search for Superman.

I found him!

I spent some time just wandering around playing Photo Shoot, and found more cool stuff.

Paducah School of Art, below.