Connected: Eject before disconnectingShih Chieh HuangRISD Museum of Art: Spalter New Media Gallery

Connected: Eject before disconnecting
RISD Museum of Art: Spalter New Media Gallery

Shih Chieh Huang
March 6- October 18, 2009

Thursday, March 05, 2009
Artist Lecture: Video in Person: Shih Chieh Huang
MICHAEL P. METCALF AUDITORIUM
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM

Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design
224 Benefit Street
Providence, RI 02903
http://www.risdmuseum.org/

Shih Chieh Huang
http://www.messymix.com/

Closing Reception for Free Store Exhibition Friday, March 20, 2009, 7-8pm Free Store at 99 Nassau Street in NYC

Closing Reception for Free Store Exhibition

FREE STORE is a project by
Double A Projects (Artists Athena Robles and Anna Stein)

Featuring Performances, 7-8pm, Friday, March 20, 2009

Miwa Koizumi NY Flavors Ice Cream 7-8pm

Min Oh - Two Performances, 7:15pm and 7:45pm

Performances as part of the curatorial project by Felicity Hogan, All is one, one is all, Miwa Koizumi returns with her NY Flavors Ice Cream. Miwa will be serving up neighborhood flavored ice-cream influenced by the "tastes and smells from New York City's different tribes." in conjunction with Min Oh's A dialog, an audience participatory performance combining live and recorded action, projection, graphics and video. Min Oh's piece will offer the audience an opportunity to direct the 'dialog' through collective participation in a unique, un-inhibiting and characteristically playful manner. Min Oh will perform the piece on two occasions, 7.15pm and 7. 45pm. Both artists embody the humanistic and egalitarian concepts of the Free Store.

In order to avoid disruption, if you arrive during Min Oh's performance, the front door will be closed (approx 10 mins) please be patient. Thank you.

Hours and Location
Free Store is located at 99 Nassau Street, New York, NY (between Fulton and Ann
Streets). The store will be open from February 19 to March 22, 2009 with a grand
opening reception on Thursday, February 19, from 6–9PM.

Exhibition hours are Thursday–Sunday 12–5PM and by
appointment.

To get there by subway, take the 4, 5, 6, J, M, Z to Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall or

Fulton/Broadway-Nassau Street; or A, C, 2, 3 to Broadway-Nassau Street.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=99+Nassau+Street,+New+York,+NY&ie=UTF8&ll=40.711532,-74.007726&spn=0.008458,0.016522&z=16&iwloc=addr

Visit FREE STORE page on Facebook for more information.

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/pages/Double-A-Projects-Presents-Free-Store/57088891257?ref=share

More Information about FREE STORE:
FREE STORE OPENS IN DOWNTOWN MANHATTAN AND OFFERS VISITORS A PRICELESS EXPERIENCE

Storefront Art Exhibition Created to Distribute and Collect Everyday Goods at No Cost in the Heart of New York City’s Financial District

NEW YORK, NY (January 27, 2009) – Artists Athena Robles and Anna Stein will present Free Store, an exhibition and non-commercial storefront installation, in lower Manhattan. Part cultural pop-up shop, part second hand boutique, the project is a networking model of economic sustenance that can be used in cities worldwide. This first Global Free Store will open on Thursday, February 19th and remain open until Sunday, March 22nd.

As evidenced by record lows in consumer confidence in January, consumers have had to curb spending habits, yet still find ways to maintain their lifestyle. Free Store demonstrates how community and mutual support can be used to fulfill some of these needs.

How Free Store Works: Free Shopping Using the donation and exchange system, visitors can give something useful or get something useful at Free Store. Located at 99 Nassau Street (between Fulton and Ann Streets), blocks away from Wall Street, Free Store will accept donations of items such as books,housewares and art supplies, offer these items for the taking, and stock a few items produced inhouse by the artists.

One World Currency Free Store will distribute World Bills, a global currency that potentially could be used at any free store in the Global Free Store chain.

Contributors to Free Store will receive World Bills for services donated to the store. They can then use these bills to trade with other participants or in future free stores in this series.

Events and Performances Free Store will host special events by invited curators Felicity Hogan, Edwin Ramoran, Julie Sengle and Herb Tam. These events include a curator’s talk, open office hours for artists to get feedback on their work, and interactive artist performances.

“Alternative and generous systems such as bartering have long been used in times of financial hardship,” said the artists Athena Robles and Anna Stein. “Artists, in particular, are familiar with having to be creative to make ends meet and have functioned on generous systems, especially artist-to-artist. Free Store aims to broaden this circle of trust and exchange by including the general public.”

About the Artists Artists Athena Robles and Anna Stein (aka Double A Projects) work in collaboration, bringing together their sculptural practices using historical and cultural references, public space and paper media. Their project Counter Culture Cash: Local Currency in Jamaica, NY examined counter culture systems and was featured on artnet.com. In addition, work by Robles and Stein was exhibited at Fountain Art Fair in Miami, Front Room Gallery in Brooklyn, and University of Massachusetts Gallery. Individually, they have shown at the Contemporary Museum in Honolulu, American Museum of Natural History, NY; NURTUREart, Brooklyn, NY; the New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY; and Residencia Corazón in La Plata, Buenos Aires, among other locations.

Hours and Location Free Store is located at 99 Nassau Street, New York, NY (between Fulton and Ann Streets). The store will be open from February 19 to March 22, 2009 with a grand opening reception on Thursday, February 19, from 6–9PM.

Exhibition hours are Thursday–Sunday, 12–5PM and by appointment.

To get there by subway, take the 4, 5, 6, J, M, Z to Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall or Fulton/Broadway-Nassau Street; or A, C, 2, 3 to Broadway-Nassau Street.

Free Store is sponsored in part by The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and The September 11th Fund.

Reviews:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/mar/16/new-york-free-store-retail

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2009/02/28/ny.free.store.wpix

http://wcbstv.com/topstories/the.free.store.2.946340.html

http://www.1010wins.com/pages/3931010.php

http://www.nypost.com/seven/02272009/news/regionalnews/this_stores_free_
for_all_157240.htm

http://www.stylelist.com/blog/2009/02/27/new-york-citys-free-store/

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/around_town/shopping/Shop-Lifting-Encouraged-a
t-One-Manhattan-Store.html

1 in 3 Art Exhibitat The Women's Building, San Francisco

1 in 3 Art Exhibit
In Solidarity with Every 1 of us who Experiences Violence, Amnesty International has teamed up with local and international artists to tell the stories of women facing and overcoming violence.

Exhibit opens: International Women's Day Celebration,
March 6, 7, 8
Friday and Saturday at 6PM; Sunday at Noon
The Women's Building
3543 18th Street, San Francisco

Travel Schedule:
Amnesty International and the 1 in 3 Art Exhibit in Northern California, our all volunteer-organized art and activism event to raise awareness about violence against women. The traveling exhibit previewed in Stanford this past weekend and will open in San Francisco March 6 and San Jose March 14. Other venues, Oakland and Davis, show dates to be determined.

Email svaw.norcal@gmail.com for more information.

LINKS TO AMNESTY
www.amnestyusa.org
http://www.amnestyusa.org/violence-against-women/stop-violence-against-women-svaw/page.do?id=1108417

Asian Pacific Roots in the Big Appleat 456 Gallery, NYC

Chinese American Arts Council presents
Asian Pacific Roots in the Big Apple
at Gallery 456 in NYC
March 20 - April 23, 2009
Opening reception:
Friday, March 20 | 6:00 - 9:00 pm
Curated by Corky Lee

Featuring artists:

Alan Chin
Corky Lee
Jeff Liao
Karen Zhou

Gallery 456:
456 Broadway, 3rd Floor
New York, NY
M-Fri 12-6PM
Sat 1-5PM
Gallery Hours:

http://caacarts.org/

Curator Statement

The collection of images by the photographers represents a pictorial and picturesque omission in America's discussion of what constitutes the American landscape and who belongs. In a city of immense and diverse peoples, Asians are not often seen because of generations of benign neglect and indifference. As a nation of immigrants, I'm fortunate that the city of my birth recognizes that my ginseng roots can be nurtured in America's soil. That's what I was taught, that's what I believe. Perhaps through the universal language of photography Asian and Pacific peoples will be less foreign and better understood.

Alan Chin

Alan Chin is from a Chinese-American immigrant family, born and raised in New York's Chinatown. Since 1996 he has covered conflicts in Iraq, the ex-Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Central Asia, and the Middle East. Alan has most recently documented the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in Louisiana and Mississippi, the 2008 Presidential Campaign, and followed the trail of the Civil Rights Movement in the South. He is a contributing photographer to Newsweek and The New York Times, exhibits at Sasha Wolf Gallery and the Asian-American Arts Center, and is in the collection of the Museum Of Modern Art. The New York Times nominated him for the Pulitzer Prize twice, in 1999 and 2000.

Artist Statement

GUNG HAY FAT CHOY: Photographs of the Chinese New Year in New York's Chinatown

Every year as I walk the streets of Chinatown during the New Year, families spanning the generations joyfully reunite. I run into old friends and relatives, many whom I see only this once each year, but I find myself thinking -- and by extension, photographing -- more nostalgic, melancholy feelings. Because the celebration has changed, just as New York has changed, and with it the Chinese immigrant community.

Most obviously, long gone are the firecrackers, rockets, and their attendant paper debris, their acrid smoke and smell. That chaos has been replaced with a few controlled explosions, managed displays. There's a formal parade, complete with bilingual announcements, when once it was rare to hear Mandarin, let alone English, in the Cantonese and Toishanese world of my childhood.

I find myself inadvertently scanning the faces in the crowds, absurdly hoping to recognize my near and dear people, my great-uncles, grandmother, father, and all the others now dead and gone. Of course I don't find my ghosts! But I see my fellow Chinese-Americans, young and old, dressed in their finest, replete with dignity, enjoying the moment, and although they are not my own family, they each have their own private dramas and histories that I can only begin to understand the faintest hint of as I photograph them.

And that's why there are no dragons in these photographs, or red envelopes, or the other symbols and colorful displays of our holiday. Rather, it is the individuals, the characters and personalities of the street, who interest me. Each of us with our own story, fresh-off-the-boat or American-born, gathered together once each year, to start it afresh.

Corky Lee

Corky Lee is the eldest son of four and one sister whose father was an "paper son" and entered the U.S. just before the Great Depression. He grew up above the family hand laundry business because his father could not find work as an arc welder, a trade he learned during his tenure with the 14th Army Air Corp./Flying Tigers in World War II.

Lee is a self taught, self appointed "unofficial, undisputed Asian American photographer laureate". He is considered the dean of Asian Pacific American community/documentary photographers prying his trade for the last 35 years. He calls his passion and activism "photographic justice", bringing to light the struggles and contributions of Asian Pacific Americans.

His journalist accolades have come from the NY Press Association, Asian American Journalist Association, elected officials from NY to California and has exhibited in major cities and campuses from Honolulu to Harvard University. He's been an artist-in-residence at Syracuse University and NYU. He's a widower and wants to publish his life's work "before he's six feet under pushing up daisies."

JEFF CHIEN-HSING LIAO

JEFF CHIEN-HSING LIAO (b. 1977 Taiwan) is a Taiwanese-born photographer now based in New York City, where he earned an MFA from the School of Visual Arts and a BFA from the Pratt Institute. He is the first prize winner of the New York Times "Capture the Times" photo contest. Liao's work has been featured in several solo and group exhibitions, and is represented by private and public collections, including JGS Inc. Foundation, Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Queens Museum of Art in New York, J. Paul Getty Museum, George Eastman House, Norton Museum of Art and Deutsche Bank. His photographs have been widely featured in publications, including Art in America, ArtNews, Camera Art, Photo District News, the New York Times Sunday Magazine, and the Village Voice. His new monograph, Habitat 7, is published by Nazraeli Press in 2007 and feature an essay by Ann W. Tucker. Liao is represented by Julie Saul Gallery in New York.

Artist Statement

Habitat 7
Four of the earliest major civilizations were formed in river valleys. The fertile lands provided surpluses of food that allowed for the growth of populations, development of cities, and thus civilizations were created.

Though we now live in an industrial and technological era, where the survival of our existence no longer simply depends on the availability of food, the pattern of our quest for living space still resembles that of the ancient river valley civilizations. Such is the premise of the 7 Train, the seven-mile-long subway line that connects New York City's Times Square with seven communities in northwest Queens, the most ethnically diverse county in the country.

On a smaller but equally complex scale, some of the distinctive characteristics of a civilization - an intricate and highly organized society with the development of elaborate forms of economic exchange, as well as the establishment of sophisticated, formal social institutions such as organized religion, education, and the arts - are evident in the communities that have developed along the tracks of the 7 Train.

While I've been living along these tracks for years, I am still constantly awed by the complexity of the communities formed alongside it as well as the harmony so many people of distinct backgrounds are able to live in. I set out to photograph the 'habitat' of the 7 Train as I came to see it, with a focus on not the individual but the people as a whole, as well as their relationship with their environment.

Karen Zhou

Karen Zhou is a self taught photographer who came to America at three from China. Her interest in photography was first piqued during college days backpacking throughout Europe. As an up and coming photographer, she has been published in National Geographics' book on Lunar New Year and has been a contributor of food photography to Time Out NY. Karen currently resides in Brooklyn, New York.

Artist Statement

As a young child growing up in Chinatown, my father would take endless pictures of my sister and I, documenting our childhood through his camera's len. When I went away to Europe to study abroad, he gave the camera to me with hopes that I would use it to see the world. In my travels, I rarely leave home without my camera. It has been a journey and a way of telling stories.

In documenting the APA communities, there is a richness to the diversity and flavor of each culture. I've tried to express each moment as intimately as if the viewer was there seeing the subject with me.

Art, Archives, and Activism: Martin Wong's Downtown CrossingsNYU A/P/A Institute 7th Floor Gallery

Art, Archives and Activism: Martin Wong's Downtown Crossings
Mar 06, 2009 - Dec 18, 2009

NYU A/P/A Institute, 7th Floor Gallery

The Asian/Pacific/American Institute at New York University is proud to present the exhibition “Art, Archives, and Activism: Martin Wong’s Downtown Crossings” from March 6-December 18, 2009. From the mid ’80s through the early ’90s, artist Martin Wong and other downtown New York artists were affected by an intersection of major historic events spanning the AIDS epidemic, urban renewal and attacks on graffiti in the city, to Tiananmen Square abroad. The exhibition explores artists who crossed paths during this particular time, influencing and inspiring discussions, art works, and activism.

The exhibition winds a story through the voices of his closest friends and peers during Wong’s time in New York City from the early 1980s through the mid-1990s. As Wong would come to portray his friends, fellow artists such as Miguel (Mikey) Pinero, Sharp, Chris “Daze” Ellis, among others within his paintings, bringing them into a world of a Lower East Side re-imagined with the fantasies of escapism and romanticism of a barren land amid towering walls of crumbling brick where they dwelt, in this exhibition, the archival materials and lasting influences of Wong’s legacy and his friendships in turn shape a portrait of the artist—re-imagined and remembered.

The artist’s work shown in “Art, Archives, and Activism” range from the early ’80s through the ’90s and have been loaned from his estate at PPOW Gallery and the collections of his closest friends. Some photos, paintings and drawings have never been shown to the public before. Working with and drawing materials from the Fales Library and Special Collections at New York University along with personal collections, “Art, Archives, and Activism” presents a story of a time and the interconnectedness of the artists with the world around them through the artwork, letters, photographs, videos, postcards, posters, and flyers of participant artists. The exhibition traverses the artificial borders of these two decades, and instead is spread through the moment delineated by artists’ lives and the issues that engulfed them — their personal influences, artistic production and activism that were catalyzed from these connections and overlapping paths. The opening reception is also the reception and book celebration for the Asian American Art Symposium 2009 at NYU presented by A/P/A Institute and co-sponsored by The Noguchi Museum; The Japan Foundation, New York; The Asia Society; NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development; and Museum of Chinese in America.

Curated by Alexandra Chang, Tomie Arai, and I-Ting Emily Chu
Associated curated by Mie Iwatsuki
Exhibition Design by Jonathan Lo
Special Thanks to:
Florence Wong Fie, Marvin Taylor, Lisa Darms, Paul Laster, PPOW, Jamie Stearns, Ruby Gómez.

For more information about the symposium please visit www.apa.nyu.edu

Asian American Art Symposium 2009 at NYU

March 6, 2009
Registration and Conference — Noon-6pm
Location: NYU Casa Italiana | 24 W. 12th Street
Between Fifth and Sixth Aves

Symposium schedule:
Location: Casa Italiana | 24 W. 12th Street
between Fifth and Sixth Avenues

Reception • 6PM-8PM

Location: 7th Floor Gallery | 41-51 E. 11th Street
between Broadway and University Place

This major Asian American Art Symposium recognizes the growth of the
emergent field in current years and the publication of Asian American Art: A
History, 1850-1970 (Stanford University Press) and resulting exhibition “Asian/
American/Modern Art: Shifting Currents, 1900-1970” at the de Young Museum
in San Francisco.

The symposium will explore the important art archive initiatives on both coasts
and include the participation of scholars, curators, archivists and artists at the
forefront, shaping key exhibitions, building archives, and creating documentation
on Asian American art.

A reception at the A/P/A Institute follows the symposium with the opening of
the A/P/A Institute exhibition “Art, Archives and Activism” and a joint book
celebration for several new publications on Asian American art including Asian
American Art: A History, 1850-1970 (Stanford University Press), Unsettled
Visions: Contemporary Asian American Artists and the Social Imaginary (Duke
University Press), and Envisioning Diaspora: Asian American Visual Arts
Collectives (Timezone 8 Editions).

Symposium Schedule
Asian American Art Symposium 2009
A Century of Asian American Art: Archives, Scholarship, and Curation

Location: Casa Italiana | 24 W. 12th Street
between Fifth and Sixth Avenues
12:00 pm — Noon Registration
12:30 — Welcome and Introductions: John Kuo Wei Tchen, Founding Director of A/P/A Institute at New York University

Keynote Opening and Q&A: Dr. Vishakha N. Desai, President of the Asia Society

Keynote presentation and Q&A: Mark Johnson, Professor of Art at San Francisco State University
Asian/American/Modern Art: Shifting Currents 1900-1970
Explores the model of the Asian American Art Project at Stanford University, where he is the co-director; the groundbreaking book 'Asian American Art: A History, 1850-1970' (Stanford University Press, 2008), on which he served as the Principal Editor, and the recent de Young Museum exhibition he co-curated 'Asian/American/Modern Art: Shifting Currents, 1900-1970.'

Q&As with Dr. Vishakha N. Desai and Mark Johnson will be moderated by Joan Kee, Assistant Professor in the History of Art, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor

15 minute break

2:45pm — Panel 1: Unearthing the Contemporary: Asian American Art Round Table
This panel explores the archives of living artists and the Asian American Movement and current situation of Asian American art in documentation, curation and scholarship
Panelists
Ann Butler, Director of the Library and Archives at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College
Karen Higa, Adjunct Senior Curator of Art, Japanese American National Museum
Margo Machida, Associate Professor of Art History and Asian American Studies at the University of Connecticut
Moderated by Alexandra Chang, Director of Public Programs and Research Manager at A/P/A Institute at NYU

4:15pm — Panel 2: Situating Asian American Art in the Museum
An art historical contextualization of the interconnections between artists in the U.S. and Asia in the museum setting
Panelists
Dr. Melissa Chiu, Museum Director and Vice President, Global Art Programs, Asia Society in New York
Jenny Dixon, Director of The Noguchi Museum
Dr. Alexandra Munroe, Senior Curator of Asian Art at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Moderated by Susette Min, Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies, UCDavis

Closing Remarks John Kuo Wei Tchen

6:00-8h30pm Symposium Reception and Books signing/sales at A/P/A Institute at NYU located at:
41-51 E. 11th Street, 7th Floor
7th Floor Gallery
Between Broadway and University Place

There will be a concurrent gallery reception for the exhibition opening of "Art, Archives, and Activism: Martin Wong's Downtown Crossings"
Books available for sales and signing:
Asian American Art: A History, 1850-1970 (Stanford University Press, 2008) Edited by Gordon Chang, Mark Johnson and Paul Karlstrom
Unsettled Visions : Contemporary Asian American Artists and the Social Imaginary(Duke University Press, 2009) by Margo Machida
Envisioning Diaspora: Asian American Visual Arts Collectives (Timezone 8 Limited, 2009) by Alexandra Chang

Co-sponsored by: The Noguchi Museum; The Japan Foundation; The Asia Society; NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development; and Museum of Chinese in America.