PPP: Painters Painting on Paper at Schema Projects curated by Mary Judge

PPP: Painters Painting on Paper

May 27th - June 19th
opening reception May 27th, 6-9 pm

Our group exhibition features works on paper by a dozen painters many working in painterly ways. All the artists in group also make works on canvas, often larger but pursue their goals, kick up their heels, flesh out ideas or warm up, on paper.  Paper offers a direct, simple and un precious surface, an easy traveling companion, a malleable and noble material. Some work in diarist ways, others slather and scrape. Still others map out in painted or drawn line or carefully plan and juxtapose. These works on paper demonstrate the often dance-like playfulness of our featured painter-artists.

Included in the exhibition:

Harriet Bellows, Mark Joshua Epstein, Yifat Gat, Jenny Hankwitz, Mara Held, Julian Jackson, Matt Kleberg, Paul Pagk, Terri Rolland, Melissa Staiger, Andra Samelson, Jeanne Tremel
 

92 St Nicholas Ave
Brooklyn NY 11237
[email protected]
www.schemaprojects.com

"free play" curated by Melissa Staiger for Trestle Projects

Maria Hupfield and Jason Lujan are Artists-in-Residence in April-May and are showing their works in "free play" at Trestle Projects, May 20-June 10. 

"free play" was created to showcase how project spaces can facilitate an exploration of the creative process by allowing the gallery space to be used as a studio; the resulting output is then negotiated into a coherent gallery experience and exhibition.

Maria Hupfield creates handmade wearable art worn in her live performances. The viewer sees industrial gray felt and gets an optical hit of bright prismatic colored surveyor tape, satin ribbon, and repurposed metal cone-jingles worn by Native American women dancers today. Hupfield states: "My creations function as tools; jingles track body rhythms and modified industrial felt items are both shield and screen. These sculptures are carried on the body, recall everyday contemporary life, and reflect upon sight, and sound, often using the unexpected to shift experiences."

She is presenting new woven and stitched works. The bright satiny strands are sewn onto the soft felt and the outcome is a luxurious contrast. The eye bounces from one to the other striations with negative and positive contrasts on the surface.

Jason Lujan's dynamic patterns and arrangements are mastered on muted surfaces such as newsprint or plywood, and found materials, where he applies spray-paint or pigments using silkscreen and masking. His patterns are a reference to language, and are part of a process to imbuing contemporary Native American culture with an international sense of place. He states, "I use conventional painting and sculpture methods with common and ready-made materials, often combining Eastern and Western visualities; I want people to view my work and consider multiple meanings regarding cultural assumptions." 

He will be presenting work with patterning in black paint on wood and paper along with a series of collected and appropriated objects. The works are bold, hard edged and meticulous.

Jason Lujan and Maria Hupfield also work as Native Art Department International, a collaborative project focusing on international art contents, while functioning as emancipation from identity-based artwork. They are dedicated to the practice of responsible methodologies with indigenous knowledge across native, immigrant, and settler accomplices based in community building. 

www.nativeartdepartment.org

Sponsored by Brooklyn Brewery

Trestle Projects located at 400 Third Ave in Brooklyn is open on Saturday from 1-4pm. To make an appointment please email [email protected] or call/text 917-923-8096. 

"Art & Spirituality with Modern Oracles" from our panel discussion on March 5, 2016

Curator-in Residence: BASELINE Film

Saturday, January 30th, 2016 "Process & Progress" moderated by John Ros at Trestle Projects

Experience the Panel Discussion on YOUTUBE & SOUNDCLOUD

Watch my YOUTUBE Art Talk at Trestle Gallery

Here is the link to check out the Art TALK

Creative Salon Podcast Topic: Research at ABC No Rio

Contributors to the podcast: 

• Jason Baerg
• Dennis R Darkeem
• Jason Lujan
• Laura Ortman
• Melissa Staiger
• Maika'i Tubb
• Maria Hupfield

International Print Center New York, "Published by the Artist"

Very Happy to be part of the International Print Center's annual fundraiser "Published by the Artist". The opening reception: Thursday September 10, 2015, 6:00PM-8:00PM. The exhibit is up until Sept. 17th.  Image above "Seed II" an  intaglio print with chine colle, printed at the Lower East Side Print Shop by the artist, 15 x 11 inches, 2014.

Manifestation Mandala Workshop at Journee

Amethyst Vesica Piscis Meditation with Smudge at Manifestation Mandala Workshop at Journee sign up here for the mailing list.

Dream Your Life: Manifestation Mandala Workshop

Want to channel your life’s dreams using paint, collage and visualization? Then sign up for “Dream Your Life: Manifestation Mandala with Melissa Staiger. We are taking the regular vision board to a new dimension. Finding our power colors, sacred geometry as composition, intuitive text and images to bring forth new energy in a mandala to hang in your dwelling or office. A sacred blessing for our art will close our class.

Creative experts and novices welcome! Please bring printed images that you may want to collage into your work or any paint color calling you.

A $15.00 materials fee includes a circle stretched canvas, adhesives, scissors, paint brushes, acrylic paint, and some stencils.  

To register go to https://gumroad.com/l/IiexW