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March 20 – April 18, Trustman Art Gallery at Simmons College
fourth floor, Main College Building, 300 The Fenway, Boston

Opening Reception March 25, 5 to 7 pm (Simmons Choir performs at 6pm)

In this mixed-media installation undertaken in collaboration with the Simmons community, artist Robyn Love seeks answers to the question, “Have you ever made a decision with an unconditional yes?” Combining her knitted and crocheted aphorisms with text, objects, and artwork contributed by faculty, staff, students, and alumnae, the exhibition is both inclusive and provocative. Transforming the gallery’s center into a temporary “living room,” Love will host periodic knit-togethers during the course of the installation. A knitted trail pieced together from communal donations leads visitors to the “living room.”

Love explains, “I am hoping to encourage people to look a little deeper at some of their ideas about themselves. I think if we really consider why we make our choices, we can take responsibility for them and that gives us a lot of freedom. Also I hope that the process of creating this exhibition together will generate a renewed sense of community at Simmons.”

Love will be in the gallery – in the living room – from Monday to Thursday, March 22 – 25th, working and talking with visitors about the idea of unconditional yes.

submitted by Robyn Love

Poplar Gallery.Online invites you to view Bridge Work, a recent public art commission conceived and hand-made by artists Marci Simkulet and Stefanie Wong. 150 banners utilizing a variety of textile media including knitting, weaving and felt-making have been created for seven urban bridges spanning the Bow River in Calgary, Alberta. In many of the banners recycled materials (including old bridge banners) are used. These are applied in a site-specific manner, addressing the particular history and context of individual bridges. A massive undertaking, Bridge Work presents a compelling intersection of the hand-made and the architectural. Designed to be viewed by both pedestrians and drivers who use these bridges every day, Wong and Simkulet’s bridge banners are at once a humane and thoughtful presence in an urban landscape.

The Art Gallery of Alberta is proud to present the North American premier of Janet Cardiff and George Bures Millers installation: The Murder of Crows, their largest sound installation to date. The work has been shown in Sydney, Berlin and Brazil, but comes to Canadian audiences for the first time as part of the AGA’s opening exhibitions.

The work will occupy the entire third floor of the new Art Gallery of Alberta. Consisting of 98 speakers, The Murder of Crows is a complex interweaving of voice, music and sound that have generated a profound physical impact on the listener. The work has been conceived in acts, but one whose images and narratives structures are created by sound alone. The three-part work, composed in collaboration with Freida Abtan, Tilman Ritter and Titus Maderlechner, is 30 minutes in duration.

Anne Wilson, “Rewinds” (detail), 2010 Photo: Surabhi Ghos

January 22 to April 25, 2010

The Knoxville Museum of Art is delighted to present Wind/Rewind/Weave, a major exhibition of work by visual artist Anne Wilson. For three decades, Wilson has been regarded as an innovative and remarkable voice in the visual arts. Her work rests at the forefront of artwork connecting conceptualism and handiwork, activism and aesthetics. Through a diverse range of source materials and production methods, Wilson’s practice extends the relational in terms of labor, collaboration, and identity construction.

Wind/Rewind/Weave investigates the global crisis of production and skill based textile labor through three major works: Rewinds, a new sculpture created entirely in glass; video documentation of Wind-Up: Walking the Warp, a 2008 performance in Chicago; and a large site-specific project, Local Industry, that takes the form of an active weaving/winding factory set up in the museum space.

Exhibition, Members Opening: January 21, 5:30pm

Meet the Artist for a public discussion, January 23, 3:00pm

Arron Lowe, Horizon

January 14 through April 11 2010

Presented with Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad.

Celebrate the exuberance, inventiveness and refinement of fine craft at this exhibition of work from Canada and the Republic of Korea.

Art of Craft showcases 173 spectacular fine craft works in three parts:

Unity & Diversity: Selected Works – 75 pieces from across Canada recently on display at the 2009 Cheongju International Craft Biennale in the Republic of Korea.

By Hand/BC and Yukon – 51 pieces from Canada’s West Coast with a focus on the artists’ creative processes and studio environments.

Craft from the Republic of Korea – 47 pieces demonstrating the excellence of traditional and contemporary crafts.

Presented by Museum of Vancouver in partnership with Craft Council of British Columbia, Canadian Craft Federation, Korean Craft Museum, and the 2009 Cheongju International Craft Biennale.

Shane Waltener’s exhibition at C4RD is an exploration of the practice of drawing through needlecraft and lace making.  The artist uses textile weaving techniques to create a new series of works. Musical and dance notation, architectural plans, and scientific graphs and models have been used as patterns for making lace.  These 2D images and resulting woven outcomes are shown together highlighting the process of reinterpretation of these coded visual languages, and a re-evaluation of the traditional craft of bobbin lace.

Alongside these works, a couple of Garland pieces will be shown in the exhibition.  These are interactive installations, a series started at Tate Britain in 2006, where visitors are invited to weave in space using yarn and various needlecraft techniques.  The outcome of two of these works will be shown in the exhibition, while a new piece, Garland #22, will be created over the course of the exhibition by members of the public.

Please join us for the reception for the reception for this exhibition 6 – 8pm Wednesday 20 January 2010 or during the exhibition 20 January – 26 February 2010. Centre for Recent Drawing is open during exhibitions 12 – 6pm from Wednesday to Friday at 2 – 4 Highbury Station Road, Highbury Islington, London. C4RD is a Registered UK Charity 1123530, and would particularly like to acknowledge the support for this exhibition of ARTUPDATE.COM/.

January 10 to 23, 2010, Marion Nicoll Gallery, Alberta College of Art + Design

Reception January 21, 5 to 6 pm

In Maternal Lineage artist Dana Buzzee stitches together the lives of the women in her genealogy. Using knit medium, Buzzee investigates their identities and histories. For each of the women in this lineage Buzzee designed and knit a baby dress.  The dresses stay true to the eras of the women represented through the selected styles and materials. Maternal Lineage is an installation that surveys Buzzee’s personal history and identity.

Pink Princess, 2009 Stoneware with under glaze 34 1/2" x 18" x 18"

James Harris Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new work by Akio Takamori.  The artist has been a seminal figure working in ceramics for more than twenty five years.  Takamori’s sculpture has always been figurative, based on the human body and expressive of human emotion and sensuality.  The show will consist of twelve small scale porcelain figures paired with an accompanying photograph and five large scale stoneware figures.  The porcelain works were conceived during a residency at the International Ceramic Research Center in Denmark.  Upon his return from Northern Europe, the artist created the stoneware pieces in his Seattle studio.   The exhibition explores both contemporary and Renaissance portraiture as a psychological crossroads between past and present.

Read a review of the exhibition by SLOG’s Jen Graves HERE.