The ALVENDIA studios is presenting new work with Waymaker Gallery at NEXT: The Invitational Exhibition of Emerging Art, come see May 1st - 4th in Chicago , USA

The ALVENDIA studios is also presenting new work with Track House, Toronto at the DARK FAIR organized by the Milwaukee International and hosted by the Kolnischer Kunstverein, Cologne.  Catch the 4-day event April 23-26.

Looking ahead to August, the ALVENDIA Studios is working on a project for i-cabin, UK for the SUBVISION festival in Hamburg.  More info to follow.

Opening today!  Featuring new work from the Alvendia studio. Images to follow soon.

THE END OF ANALOG    

The conclusion of analog television broadcasting in the U.S. can be understood as heralding the arrival of the digital era.  The End of Analog is an exhibition that marks this historic transition with an exploration of technology's shifting significance on our culture, as well as on individuals. The move from analog to digital opens up a space of uncertainty regarding the status of physical objects and bodies, leading us to ask: What is materiality in the digital age?  The artists in this show prefigure the post-analog landscape, creating objects and images that explore this looming question from multiple angles.

Featuring Alexander Stewart + George Monteleone, Robert Snowden + Carson Salter, Todd Simeone, Jon Satrom, Rebecca Gordon, Brandon Alvendia

Curated by Eric Fleischauer

An online publication will accompany the exhibition:   www.endofanalog.blogspot.com
With contributions from Anthony Elms, Teresa Foley, Jonathan Miller, Jennifer Montgomery, Steve Reinke, and Ben Russell

Opening Friday February 20th   6 - 9pm
on view through March 21st
Gallery Hours Thu + Fri  4 - 7pm, Sat 12 - 6pm

Roots & Culture
1043 N Milwaukee Ave.
Chicago, IL 60622
773-235-8874

Take a look inside.

50 copies of this publication were distributed at the base of the Eros monument in Piccadilly Square, London on the occasion of the 2008 Autumnal Equinox.  Produced in conjunction with the 2008 London Biennale, organized by David Medalla.

Participating artists:

Isak Berbic
Dana Carter
Frank van Duerm
Eric Fleischauer
Ben Gill
Rick Gribenas
Joe Hardesty
Josh Ippel
Caleb Lyons
Harold Mendez
Kirsten Leenaars
Colin Reaney

Closing at Locust Projects December 6, 2008.

10 Years of Locust Projects, curated by Gean Moreno and Claire Breukel

The swallows return every year to their nest under the highway overpass. (part of JMOCA totem, by Justin Hansch.)

Collection of 4x6" photographs, custom accordion photo album.

Collected from artists:
Isak Berbic
Dana Carter
Frank van Duerm
Eric Fleishchauer
Rick Gribenas
Joe Hardesty
Josh Ippel
Kirsten Leenars
Colin Reany
2008

Images to follow soon.

Opening November 23, 2008

"Lost In Your Eyes" - Curated by Dominic Mangila and Jon Cuyson
Le Roy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York.

Exhibiting the drawing "Ghost" (collaboration with Paul Pfeiffer.)

The exhibition opens November 23 and runs until December 13,2008, and travels to London and Manila in 2009.

As October 2008 InCUBATE City resident, the Silver Galleon Press successfully launches into regular operations.  

Images can be found here

The residency saw a small number of public and private events including:

"The Silver Galleon Salon" is an informal social gathering intended to engage textual material and the communities they enliven through lively conversations and readings.  The event is inspired by the French literary and philosophical salons of the 17th century and 18th century and the 21st century custom of music listening parties. 

Visitors are encouraged to bring their own texts to share in physical or electronic forms and will have the opportunity to construct their own custom text compilation to take home. A scanning and printing station will be provided for visitors to share excerpts of their texts with others, as well as a finishing station complete with binding and cover making supplies. 

Silver Galleon Press at InCUBATE was a vehicle to experiment with various production and distribution models.  Part work-site part platform for discussion, the residency utilizes InCUBATE to house the Press before moving on to a more mobile practice. 

A screening presenting the work of a number of video artists engaging the notion of text and printed matter as a physical and structural material.  Deconstructing this material the artists explore textual form in a variety of ways, exhibiting the malleable nature of language and meaning.  Forcing a connection from Gutenberg to Lumiere, the works explore the possibilities of video to complicate the division between the solidity of books and ephemeral nature of the moving image.
Featuring the works of: Basma Al-Sharif, Eric Fleischauer, Drew Pavelchak, Steve Reinke, Michael Robinson and Todd Simeone.

Installation at the Arts Club of Chicago 2008

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