Brent Sommerhauser: Pilchuck on Display 10/30/08

Brent Sommerhauser will have work in Pilchuck on Display: An exhibition of International Glass Art and the Pilchuck Glass School 30th Annual Auction, Thursday, October 30 at the Westin in Seattle, WA

Pilchuck's annual Glass Auction offers the best in contemporary glass art, showcasing works by internationally renowned masters as well as outstanding new talents. The black-tie gala includes a five-course dinner and live and silent auctions of over 350 works in glass.

Works by Xu Bing, Dale Chihuly, Ann Hamilton and Stephen Rolfe Powell are also included in the exhibition and the auction. Visit http://pilchuck.com for more details.

View Brent's contribution, Ghost, here.

EMU as MUSE: Telegraph at Eastern Michgian University

Oct. 14 - Nov. 24
EMU as Muse: A Project of the Telegraph Art Collective
University Art Gallery
Reception: Tuesday, Oct. 14, 5:00-7:00p.m.
Gallery Talk by the Telegraph artists at 5:00p.m.

Comprised of seven members with diverse disciplinary backgrounds, TELEGRAPH is an artist collective that originated in Detroit. Their members are now scattered across the country in Birmingham, Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Fort Collins, Las Vegas and Los Angeles. Thus, the name Telegraph describes both their long-distance method of collaboration and pays homage to Telegraph Road, the ubiquitous Detroit thoroughfare. In mid-October Eastern Michigan University will become the object of Telegraph’s artistic inquiry. The artists will not bring finished works to Ypsilanti, but with parts, pieces, sketches and notes in hand, they will descend on campus and spend three days creating site-specific work. The detritus, people and resources of EMU and vicinity will become both their subject and media as they engage with the area’s built and open spaces.

Tom Lauerman with Shannon Goff @ Clayarch Gimhae Museum, South Korea

Tom Lauerman, along with Shannon Goff took part in a 5 week residency at the Clayarch Gimhae Museum in South Korea. Ten artists took part in the residency which culminated in the current exhibition "Re-Defining Architectural Ceramics".

• A description of the show from the Korea Times is here.
• images of Tom and Shannon's project are here.

Hartmut Austen on Mark(s) and other news

Starting in July, Hartmut Austen will be one of the featured artists in mark(s), the online literary and visual arts zine, edited by Deb King.
There will be 15 new works, mostly from the past two years.

Hartmut is also part of "Moving Walls", a project organized by Jef Bourgeau, director of the Museum of New Art in Pontiac, Mich. and Galerie Eva Bracke in Berlin. Several Berlin artists selected by Eva Bracke currently show their work in MONA, while the Detroit artists will present new work in Berlin this November.
Artists from Berlin:

Olivia Berckemeyer
Christoph Dettmeier
Andrew Gilbert
Franziska Hufnagel
Florin Kompatscher
Alexej Koschkarow
Joe Neave
Max Schulze
Astrid Sourkova

Artists from Detroit:

Dietmar Krumrey

Rachel Hunt

Cyrus Karimipour

Alison Wong

Hartmut Austen

Stig Eklund

Mary Fortuna

Marla Karimipour

Kelly Frank

Jacque Liu

Vagner Whitehead

Kyohei Abe

Dates: July 5 - August 9, Museum of New Art, Pontiac (www.detroitmona.com)
November 29 - January 4, 2009, Galerie Eva Bracke, Berlin (www.evabracke.com)

Small Works on paper are now also available in Germany through Hubertus Hoffschild
contemporary art Kunsthandel Editionen in Lübeck (www.hoffschild.kunstmarkt.com)

Sculptures In Love With Architecture

Exhibition Opening: 
June 19, 2008 

images from the show

Sasaki Associates

64 Pleasant Street

Watertown, MA 02472

Fabio Fernandez and Tom Lauerman will take part in their first collaborative two-person show titled "Sculptures In Love With Architecture" at Sasaki Associates in Boston. The shows title references the book "Architectures In Love" by John Hejduk. Hejduk's enigmatic drawings and musings on the potential of Architecture have been a sustained influence on both artists.

Brent Sommerhauser @ Contemporary Arts Collective

Table describing itself
Originally uploaded by TelegraphArt

"Table describing itself" is included in the Contemporary Arts Collective 19th Annual Juried Show, juried by Marjorie Vecchio - Director, Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery, University of Reno.

This exhibition will run March 14 - April 26 2008, with a reception Thursday April 3, 2008 6-10pm

The Contemporary Arts Collective
101 E. Charleston Suite 101
Las Vegas, NV 89104
(702) 382-3886
info@lasvegascac.org
www.lasvegascac.org

Tom Lauerman @ Columbia College of Chicago A+D Gallery

Capricious and Mercurial Systems
Curated by Joan Giroux and Whitney Huber Lazar January 17 - February 23, 2008

Opening reception: Thursday, January 31, 5-8 pm
Closing reception: Thursday, February 21, 5-7 pm with a
Gallery Talk by Ellen Driscoll at 6pm

This exhibition compiles works of art that reflect concepts of dynamic and open systems, while demonstrating the ability of spatial art forms to make physical such concepts. Bridging techniques and processes from multiple fields of art and design, the artwork consists of a wide variety of materials and forms, functioning as models of geometries, systems, and structures in flux and flow.

Capricious and Mercurial Systems will include works by Isidro Blasco, Diana Cooper, Ellen Driscoll, Kenji Fujita, Julia Klein, Tom Lauerman, William Niemeier, Margie Neuhaus and Scott Wolniak.

Hartmut Austen @ Three Walls Chicago

As part of a group show of artists from Detroit, Hartmut Austen will show new paintings and works on paper at Three Walls in Chicago. Also showing are Jef Bourgeau, Mary Fortuna, Cyrus Karimipour and Alison Wong.
The gallery is located at 119 N. Peoria. Website: www.three-walls.org
Vernissage: Friday, February 22, 2008
The show will run until March 22, 2008

Brent Sommerhauser @ Bridge gallery

Section 2007 Originally uploaded by TelegraphArt
The work Section will be included in an exhibition featuring adjunct art instructors from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and the College of Southern Nevada.

Exhibit runs from December 28 to March 7, 2008.

Reception: February 8, 2008 from 3-5

City Hall Bridge Gallery
Las Vegas City Hall
400 Stewart Ave.
Las Vegas, NV

Brent Sommerhauser at Contemporary Arts Collective

still can't keep at cac
Originally uploaded by TelegraphArt

The work "Still can't keep" is included in the 3Dementia sculpture exhibition, exploring the breath and variety of thirteen young Las Vegas artists representing an intriguing outlook into the future of Las Vegas sculpture. The show is curated by Miguel Rodriguez.

Dec 6th through Dec 29th @ C.A.C. Gallery in the Arts Factory

The Contemporary Arts Collective
101 E. Charleston Suite 101
Las Vegas, NV 89104
(702) 382-3886
info@lasvegascac.org
www.lasvegascac.org

Located inside the Historic Arts Factory
"In the Heart of 18b - The Las Vegas Arts District"

Hartmut Austen at Motor City Brewery

As part of the "This Week In Art" series, Hartmut Austen will present new works for one night at the Motor City Brewery on December 19, 2007 starting at 7 PM . Organized by Graem Whyte, the long-running series each week highlights the work by one Metro Detroit based artist. Hartmut will present recent works on canvas and paper. Come by, have a beer and enjoy the work.

What are you reading

I thought it would be interesting to hear what you guys are currently reading. We have talked about the plan to share more of each others thinking and work process and for me it has become a nice routine to frequently check in with flickr to see if Tom or Brent or anybody else has uploaded new images from the studio. We also talked about exploring to do collaborative drawing. But how about words? Reading "Vermeer in Bosnia" by Lawrence Weschler, I want to say that this is an inspiring, thought provoking book, although I'm not even finished reading it. The first, title giving piece is an elegantly written essay mixing small observations in paintings by Johannes Vermeer with documentations of the brutal war raging in the middle of Europe in the mid-Nineties. The portrait of Roman Polanski, written for the "New Yorker" (where it first appeared together with a portrait image by Richard Avedon) , is a mesmerizing account of the wrestling Weschlers with Polanski about the question how e.g. horrific real life experiences in Polanski's life intersect with certain basic themes that seem to appear over and over again in his films (Polanski mostly denies it saying that he was always more influenced by films he saw as a young boy).
Hartmut

New Activity In This Space

in progress panel
Originally uploaded by TelegraphArt

This list of exhibitions will be gradually shifting into a arts blog with perhaps 7 (or more) authors. It might become a place to show images of works in progress, such as this image from Brent Sommerhauser's studio.

-Tom

Haley Bates @ The National Ornamental Metal Museum

National Ornamental Metal Museum, Memphis, Tennessee
Exhibition: February 2008

Recent work by Haley Bates will be featured in a solo exhibition at the National Ornamental Metal Museum.

Brent Sommerhauser @ Clark County Government Center

Clark County Government Center, Las Vegas, Nevada
Exhibition Dates: 12/17/2007 - 2/8/2008
Reception dates 1/4/2008 and 2/1/2008, 6 - 8 pm

ripple
Originally uploaded by TelegraphArt
Brent Sommerhauser's recent work will be featured in "Structuring the invisible", a solo show at The Clark County Government Center in Las Vegas, NV. This exhibition was supported by a Nevada Arts Council Jackpot Grant. Read more about the show here.

Hartmut Austen at Motor City Brewery Detroit

As part of the "This Week In Art" series, Hartmut Austen will present new works for one night at the Motor City Brewery on December 19, 2007 starting at 7 PM . Organized by Graem Whyte, the long-running series each week highlights the work by one Metro Detroit based artist.
Come by, have a beer and enjoy the work.

Brent Sommerhauser @ Pilchuck Auction

Pilchuck's 29th annual Glass Auction Gala Event

Friday, October 26th, 2007, beginning at 5 pm.
The Westin Seattle, Washington
Pilchuck's 29th annual Glass Auction offers the best in contemporary glass art, showcasing works by internationally renowned masters as well as outstanding new talents. The black-tie gala includes a five-course dinner and live and silent auctions of more than 360 works in glass.

auction overview
auction catalog item (photo by Claire Garoutte)

Brent Sommerhauser @ the Westin Seattle

Pilchuck on Display: An Exhibition of International Glass Art

Thursday, October 25th, 2007, 5:30 to 8 pm.
The Westin Seattle, Washington

One-Night Show Features Pilchuck Glass School’s Best

Pilchuck Glass School will host a one-night juried exhibition featuring over 250 original artworks in glass. Pilchuck on Display: An Exhibition of International Glass Art will be held Thursday, October 25th, 2007, from 5:30 to 8:00 p.m. in the Grand Ballroom of The Westin Seattle (1900 Fifth Avenue, Seattle) as part of the school’s annual auction celebration.

http://www.pilchuck.com/events/auction_preview.htm

Brent Sommerhauser @ The Boston Society of Arts and Crafts

The Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, MA
Architecture/Structure in Contemporary Craft
Exhibition Dates: 8/10/2007 - 10/28/2007
Reception 9/7/2007, 6 - 8 pm

into open
Originally uploaded by TelegraphArt
Brent Sommerhauser will show new work in this exhibition spotlighting architecture and structures in Contemporary craft practice.

Brent Sommerhauser @ SOIL

Soil, Seattle, Washington
Home Sweet Home
Exhibition Dates: 7/1/2007 - 7/30/2007
Opening Reception 7/5/2007, 6 - 9 pm
Brent Sommerhauser "Table Describing Itself", 2007
Brent Sommerhauser will be part of the group exhibition "Home Sweet Home" at Soil in Seattle, WA.