Maybe the Busiest Three Days of Art Ever in Memphis...

maybe.

here's the rundown, if someone is left out, i apologize.

Thursday night is the MCA grad studios open studios from 6-9.

Thursday through Saturday is the Provo/Athens Italian Renaissance Sculpture Conference at the Brooks Museum.

Friday night is the opening reception for Tommy Kha at VINI from 5-?

Friday there is also the photography conference hosted by MCA and U of M.

Saturday night there is the show at Medicine Factory (see below), Show and Tell at the Cove from 6-8 (bring your cigarettes), the closing reception for Tommy Kha's show at VINI.

And the Botero show at the Brooks has some pretty great paintings in it as does Jed Jackson's show at the Dixon which comes down November 16, so be sure to catch that if you can.

goodness.

the return of the Medicine Factory

Medicine Factory presents 3 Exhibitions:

Saturday NOV 1, 6-9pm (one night only)

Video Installations:

Magsamen+Hillerbrand "Suspect"
Michael Sherwin "Relative Positions"


Photographic Installation:

"They Are Us, We Are Them"
Everyone who attends is invited to bring a photograph ready to be pinned to a wall inside the main gallery at Medicine Factory. Medicine Factory staff will install the work as it enters the building. Prints only, no framed work. This is a unique opportunity to collaborate with your community by contributing an image to this photographic installation.


Please see the attached invitation and visit http://www.medicinefactory.org/ for more information.

More Shameless Self Promotion

Hamlett Dobbins lecture at Rhodes College

As a part of a new initative by the Art Department at Rhodes College, a different member of the faculty will present a lecture on their recent research/studio work each term. I have been asked to give a talk on my work on Thursday, November 6th at 7 pm in Blount Auditorium in Buckman Hall. The talk should last around forty five minutes with some time for questions at the end. Come visit.

Local Color at Biggs Powell Interior Design

Local Color Group Exhibition featuring: Elizabeth Alley, Jimmy Haygood, Christian Patterson, Chandler Pritchett, and Susan Maakestad.

Biggs Powell Interior Design is at 1698 Monroe.

Opening Cocktail Reception: Friday, October 24th from 6-8:30


Open House Saturday, October 25th from 10-4
After Church Viewing Sunday, October 26th 1-4

Shameless Self Promotion

Updates have been made to the www.hamlettdobbins.com site. Some images of studio visits with Dannielle Tegeder, Michelle Grabner and Peter Williams have been added to the studio visits page; lots of new links, images from Charles Bopp, Carrie Pollack, and Melissa Farris & Niki Johnson shows at material, as well as some new paintings on the paintings page.

Many thanks to webmaster Clay Combs for his efforts.

Come visit.

Tonight

Don't forget about the Faith Ringgold lecture tonight (Friday, October 17th) at MCA starting at 6 pm in Callicott Auditorium and the Beth Edwards, Kristen Myers, Lurlynn Franklin, & Don Du Mont show at Askew Nixon Ferguson Architects at 1500 Union Avenue from 5:30 to 7:30 pm.

Show and Tell Night

UrbanArt 'Show and Tell' Night

The UrbanArt Commission is looking for recent college grads, grandmothers, artists, accountants, truck drivers, tattooed ladies, executive chefs, gypsies, tramps, thieves - anyone in Memphis who is creative, interesting, and a little bit obsessed - to participate in a new event called simply UrbanArt 'Show and Tell.'

Do you have a great collection of garden statues? A new body of paintings you've never shown anyone? A secret obsession? A strange hobby? We want you to share your passion with us and the creative community at large.

The format is simple - each person gets to show 20 slides, and each slide plays for 20 seconds for a total of 6 minutes and 40 seconds of showing and telling per person. The content is up to you, but we're not kidding about the time limit!

We'll have 20 rapid-fire presentations (with a break in the middle to reload at the bar) for a total of about 2.5 action-packed hours. It'll be a time to get to know other interesting people in Memphis, and to let them know what you or your organization is doing!

If you want to participate, send your contact information, two jpeg images, and no more than 20 words describing who you are and what you want to present to showandtellmemphis@gmail.com.

Our committee will choose the 20 most intriguing proposals to be presented at The Cove on the night of November 1st from 6 to 8 p.m. The Cove is located on 2559 Broad Avenue and is a 21 and over venue. Remember, we welcome entries from individuals with a genuine passion. No topic is too big or too small if it's what you're crazy about right now.


UrbanArt Commission
email: info@urbanartcommission.org
phone: 901. 545. 0474
web: http://www.urbanartcommission.org

Shambhala - Photographs from Tommy Kha at VINI

SHAMBHALA: FREEWAYS REVISITED AND OTHER
NEW PHOTOGRAPHS FROM TOMMY KHA

Shambhala - a place of peace, of tranquility.

October 31-November 1, 2008
Opening Reception October 31, 2008 5PM - Admission $2
Closing Reception/Shambhala Masquerade Ball November 1, 2008 – Admission $5 or free with validated ticket from Friday Reception.


Whether Kha captures his characters as they search for this place of tranquility or in fact, he has captured the moment of their arrival, the photographs in this new series, taken in the summer and fall of 2008, catch their subjects in an ephemeral state, illustrated by floating orbs, or ‘auras’ as Kha describes the hazy spherical shapes floating in his picture planes

Five in One (VINI) has taken cues from Kha’s narrative and designed a space around the suite of photographs reminiscent of the transit system stations carried on the titles of Kha’s photographs. The subject of transiency is key to Kha’s understanding of the mental and spiritual state of his subjects and his images depict the characters in varying states of their progress “along the path” to finding their own Shambhala.

Shambhala opens on October 31, 2008 at 5pm. Admission is $2.00.

The following evening, VINI hosts a Shambhala Masquerade Ball closing reception and after party for the Society for Photographic Education (SPE) South Central Regional Conference’s events in Memphis. Doors for the Shambhala Masquerade Ball open at 9pm. Memphis DJ MoSac (funk, r&b, soul) starts at 10pm. Admission is $5 or FREE with a validated ticket from the October 31 opening reception.

Five in One is located at 423 North Watkins, between Overton Park Avenue and North Parkway.

Five in One is an artist run space offering five services in one facility; art, design, events, social club, and consumables.

http://www.fiveinone.org

New shows at the Medicine Factory

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Video Art Works at Medicine Factory

OPENING RECEPTION:

Saturday, Nov 1st , 6-9pm, at Medicine Factory

ART EXHIBITIONS:

Michael Sherwin: Relative Positions

(video installation)

Mary Magsamen + Stephan Hillerbrand: Suspect

(video installation)

WHEN:

November 1st, 2008
6-9pm

(One night only)

Medicine Factory is excited to announce two separate video installations, one by West Virginia-based Michael Sherwin and the other by the Houston collaborative Mary Magsamen + Stephan Hillerbrand.

Michael Sherwin currently resides in Morgantown, West Virginia where he teaches and runs the photography program at West Virginia University. The artist creates photographic and video studies using a variety of scientific methods. Sherwin’s work employs controlled observation, repetitive analysis, and typological comparison to draw attention toward the interconnection between science and art. For the Medicine Factory exhibition, the Sherwin has created a twenty-five channel video installation entitled, Relative Positions, using a collection of videos featuring the most recent solar and lunar eclipses. The videos are appropriated from YouTube posts and collaged together into a bedlam of sound and imagery revealing our collective interest in the phenomenon of our universe.

Mary Magsmen & Stephan Hillerbrand live in Houston, Texas where they both teach photography and digital media at the University of Houston. This husband and wife collaborative create video, photography and installation works exploring ideas about relationships through daily interactions with one another. Magsmen & Hillerbrand use everyday items such as coffee, bubblegum and cheese puffs to interact with and build cinematic commentaries. For Medicine Factory, the artists’ will be exhibiting a new video piece entitled Suspect. This video finds the artists in a darkened space with a single glow stick as lighting. The sound is derived from suspense and thriller soundtracks completing both a mysterious and hilarious environment of surveillance.


For more information on Hillerbrand & Magsmen: http://www.maryandstephan.com/

For more information on Michael Sherwin: http://www.michaelsherwin.com/



Medicine Factory
85 Virginia Ave W @ Kentucky, located in the South End District of downtown Memphis (map at www.medicinefactory.org)

For more information, please call Phillip Lewis at 901-581-5815 or
email us at http://uk.f267.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=info@medicinefactory.org&YY=84189&order=down&sort=date&pos=4&view=a&head=b

Super Secret Show

Opening this Friday is the super secret show at Power House Memphis. (I am only guessing it's a secret, no one has heard anything about it.) While you're there you should go see Richard Lou's great show in the Fuelroom. (It's also a super secret show.)

Guilding Light - A tribute to William Eggleston

October 10, 2008 - November 22, 2008

Power House Memphis Reception with the artist opening on Friday October 10th 6 - 8pm
Contemporary Artists' portraits and films devoted to, and influenced by, William Eggleston.
Eggleston, who lives and works in Memphis, is one of the world's most important and renowed photographers. He is the subject of major retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, this fall.

Niles Wallace at Clough-Hanson Gallery

September 29, 2008
Contact: Hamlett Dobbins, Director
Clough-Hanson Gallery, Rhodes College
(901) 843-3442

For Immediate Release:

Clough-Hanson Gallery at Rhodes College is very excited to announce its second show of the season: Niles Wallace: Nappy-Headed Stranger

Nappy-Headed Stranger will run from October 10 through December 10, 2008.

Please note: the gallery will be closed from October 17 through the 21st for Fall Break
& November 26 through the 30th for the Thanksgiving holiday.

The artist will present a lecture on his work in Blount Auditorium in Buckman Hall on Thursday, October 9th at 7 p.m.

The reception for the show will be held in the gallery from 6 - 8 p.m., Friday October 10, 2008.

Niles Wallace has been an artist in Memphis and has been a professor at the University of Memphis since 1976. Trained as a ceramicist at Alfred University, Wallace’s work in recent years finds the artist making primitive, simple structures from found materials like carpet and recycled wood. While the artist’s most recent work for the show at Clough-Hanson recalls his work from the past few years, this show features an altogether surprising, playful quirkiness the audience might not expect from Wallace.

Recently Wallace has been featured in a number of group shows locally. In 2002 he was paired with the painter Meikle Gardner in a two person show at Delta Axis @ Marshall Arts. He was included in the 2005 MAX at AMUM curated by David Moos, as well as Lantana Projects’ Class of 06. While he has continued to show regionally and nationally, Nappy-Headed Stranger is Niles Wallace’s first one person show in Memphis in over 15 years.

If you should have any questions please don’t hesitate to contact Gallery Director Hamlett Dobbins at Clough-Hanson Gallery (901) 843-3442, via email at dobbinsh@rhodes.edu.

Jpg information: “Wallace_roller.jpg” is Niles Wallace’s Roller, Carpet, wood, acrylic and metal, 30x31x7”, 2008. Image courtesy the artist.

Control and Collaboration

NEWS RELEASE
Contact: Michelle ByrdDirector of Public Relationsmbyrd@mca.edu (901) 272-5111

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 1, 2008

Memphis, TN–Memphis College of Art and Luna Nova present Control and Collaboration, a multimedia project presentation, Monday, October 6, 2008 at 12:00 noon in Callicott Auditorium.

The community is invited to join video artists, performers, and composers in Control and Collaboration, a discussion of the balance between individual control and group collaboration in the creation of new multimedia projects. Organized by Jill Wissmiller, Assistant Professor and Head of Digital Media at MCA, and Patricia Gray, President of Luna Nova, Control and Collaboration connects composers and performers in an educational dialogue to broaden exposure to new and collaborative genres.

Participants include John McMurtery, a section flutist of the New York City Opera Orchestra; James Carlson, a composer of works for dance, chorus, orchestra, voice and chamber ensembles; cellist Craig Hultgren, a long-time activist for new music, the newly creative arts, and the avant-garde; and composer and pianist Andrew Drannon who is currently finishing a M.M. degree in music composition under Kamran Ince at the University of Memphis.

The exhibition and reception are free and open to the public. For more information, visit mca.edu.