Welcome to Our New Artists-in-Residence!
The Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts is pleased to welcome our newest artists-in-residence!
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Becky Alprin earned her MFA from MICA's Mount Royal School of Art. Her work has been shown at venues including the Baltimore Museum of Art, Arco International Contemporary Art Fair in Madrid, Art Chicago International Art Fair, and (e)merge Art Fair in Washington, DC. She has been an artist in residence at the Vermont Studio Center, Spiro Arts in Park City, Utah, and at the Kala Art Institute in Berkeley, CA. She is the recipient of a 2012 Chicago Cultural Grant, a Maryland State Arts Council Grant, and a Baker Artist Awards People's Choice Award.
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Current and former residents of the Bemis Center are in the news around the country and around the globe. Here are a few alumni projects that are receiving attention.
Damien Gilley (AIR'13) has a new installation of architectural drawings on display at Suyama Space, Portland, OR. Now through August 9, 2013.
Kevin Cooley + Phillip Andrew Lewis (both AIR'13) have collaborated on a video series and will compete at ArtPrize held at Ferris State University's Kendall Gallery, Grand Rapids, MI. September 3 - October 12, 2013.
Quynh Vantu (AIR'10) will also be entering ArtPrize at Kendall Gallery with her installation,Courtesy Hallway | Doors; a corridor of nine entry doors. September 3 - October 12, 2013.
Cybele Lyle (AIR'10) presented Untitled (Rolling Hills) 2, a video/spatial collage, bringing together photography, video and the architectural space of Disjecta, Portland, OR for a one night performance event. July 26, 2013.
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Intern Opportunities
Apply today to our Fall Internship Program! We have a number of positions available in our departments including: Administration, Artist Residency, Exhibitions, and Preparatorial/Facilities, as well as additional opportunities at our Carver Bank program.
Applications are due August 15th.
For questions regarding the program and application process, contact Corinne Wardian at (402) 341-7130 x24 or corinne@bemiscenter.org.
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Youth Voluntarily Extends Court-Ordered Referral In Order to Finish Ceramics Project with Bemis Artist
Nebraska artist Iggy Sumnik is making his mark at the Bemis Center Community Arts resident at the Youthlinks program for juvenile offenders at Heartland Family Services. Ordinarily, as soon as youth are cleared to leave the Youth Links program, they can't wait to get home and sleep in their own beds. One youth was so enamored of his experience working with Sumnik, however, that he asked for permission to voluntarily extend his stay at Youth Links over the weekend in order to attend one last class with Sumnik on Monday and complete the ceramics pieces on which he had been working: two very well-made ceramic flower sculptures.
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Joslyn Art Museum
A shout out to our friends over at the Joslyn, who next month will be opening Legacy: The Emily Fisher Landau Collection, organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art. Legacy features a selection of paintings, sculptures, and works on paper from a historic gift pledged to the Whitney in 2010 by Emily Fisher Landau, a preeminent collector of postwar art in the United States. Legacy's themes include the relevance of representation in the aftermath of Minimalism; gender and racial politics; and the "culture wars" of the 1980s. Featured artists Andy Warhol, Glenn Ligon, Sherrie Levine, Agnes Martin, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, John Baldessari, Kiki Smith, and Ed Ruscha.
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Not willing to stop with some of the most important practitioners in the world of contemporary art, the Joslyn also will soon open an exhibition of some of the most iconic images ever created--the original artwork from The Lorax, which Dr. Seuss considered his finest work. Joslyn will showcase a selection of Dr. Seuss' preliminary crayon drawings and final pen and ink line art for this unforgettable book.
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Public Events and Programs
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First Thursday Art Talk
Thursday, August 1 | 7:00 - 9:00 PM
Bemis Center Artists-in-Residence share their work at the leading edge of contemporary practice.
Ashley Lyon creates a dialectical relationship among space, viewer, image and the figurative object through hand built clay sculpture and photography.
George Charman builds sculptures from wood, porcelain, steel and Jesmonite that are linked to the domestic space and notions of dwelling through an engagement with the history of modernism and domestic objects. The work is also influenced by writer, Alain Robbe Grillet, in that it attempts to describe from multiple perspectives, through form, light and colour, moments in time that are filtered through objects.
Sofia Quirno uses collage as an underlying process, combnining mixed media, cut drawings and layered papers to draw and paint visual anecdotes referencing her own experiences of the human condition and the context that surrounds her without a preconceived narrative.
Jeremy Olson's recent paintings reference traditional still-life and portraiture genres, the ham-fisted visual puns and haphazard construction of the sets and arrangements belie a deeper interest in class-markers, systems of hierarchy and identification, as well as the constant pull of anthropomorphism.
Held the first Thursday of every month at 7:00 pm, current Artists-in-Residence give presentations or performances of their work and discuss their creative processes. Art Talks provide a rare opportunity to meet artists and learn first-hand about their inspirations, approaches and techniques.
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Contemporary Calligraphy Demonstration by Artist Yu Jihan
Saturday, August 3 | 3:00 - 4:30 PM
Join us for a unique opportunity to see a contemporary Chinese calligraphy demonstration. Shanghai artist Yu Jihan will demonstrate how he re-interprets this oldest of Chinese artistic traditions for the present day. Yu is a member of the Chinese Culture and Art Committee, Director of the Singapore Art Institute at Shenzhou, and studied calligraphy for over 40 years under famous masters such as Fuji Zhu, Haisu Liu, and Yong Pu. His work has received wide international acclaim with pieces held in the private collections of the Emperor of Japan and in other public and private collections in China and abroad.
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Third Thursday Exhibition Opening: Jarrod Beck's Strike Slip Enter Its Final Phase
May 16 - August 31, 2013
Artist Talk | August 15 | 7:00 PM
The process-based exhibition of work by Jarrod Beck, a recent Bemis Center resident, will enter its final phase with Beck's Art Talk on August 15 at 7:00 PM. Beck, whose sprawling, architectural-scale installations emerge from a highly physical, elegant drawing process, has created environments that entwine evocatively repurposed mass accumulations of building materials within the galleries. The installation process for this exhibition continues throughout its duration - a progression that forms a critical aspect of the work.
With materials including wood flooring, newsprint rolls, black rubber roofing, Hydrocal plaster, PVC pipe and rough framing lumber, Beck's process is a hybrid of his dual history working as an architect and a printmaker. Here, the intentional line holds equal weight to generative and accidental marks. Beck has both expanded the act of printmaking to the scale of the building, and broken architecture down to its core parts. There is rich detail in the layers of his work - gashed paper rolls, seared wood, charred and flayed skins, chalky strata and warbling light casts.
Beck's August 15 Art Talk marks the beginning of the final phase of the exhibition's evolution.
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Bemis Center Open Studios
Saturday, August 17 | 1:00 - 4:00 PM
Performance | August 17 | 3:45 PM | Okada Facility
Join us for Open Studios for an opportunity to meet our current resident artists and learn about their practice firsthand. Open Studios is a rare and intimate event in which the public is invited to see works in progress in the artists' normally private live/work studios.
Participating Artists include: Alice Miceli de Araujo,George Charman, Jeremy Olson, Ian McMahon, Sofia Quirno, Damien Gilley, Valentina Sarfeh, and Becky Alprin.
LIVE PERFORMANCE: A MOMENTARY EVENT WITH A SCULPTURE WHEN THE CURTAIN DROPS
Current artist-in-residence Ian McMahon's temporal sculptures imbed themselves within architecture, existing as moments defined between the actions of construction and destruction. McMahon invites the public to witness the demise of one of his sculptures, designed and built in the Okada building specifically with its destruction in mind. Please join us after open studios to participate in this explorative event at 3:45 PM in the Okada Sculpture Facility.
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Lauren Mabry: Running Through October 5
On elemental, stout ceramic cylinders and planes, Lauren Mabry builds a riot of color and timbre of magnetic dissonance. Her works capture space with a particular authority, yet together form not so much a wall of sound as a dynamic layering of distinct voices. For Mabry, the ceramic form is a sculptural support for highly expressive, yet versatile painting.
In this exhibition, her sculptures are granted an even field, arranged on a single long table or hung on the wall in a manner that that amplifies their distinctions. Here the searing, aggressive palette of Cracked Cylinder is countered by the verdant, open gestural invitation of Split Open Cylinder. The works' differences of palette, the grain of their marks, opacity of the underglaze, or simply the density of the color field provide tonal qualities that form shimmering personality within each work.
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Andrew Brehm: RATSS Extended by popular demand through September 7!
Artist Brehm is attracted to a type of art-making that finds its complexity through painstaking or bizarre methods of creation. His video projects often require many people's participation within a fabricated environment. Different from a typical film shoot, most of his characters, and scripts are developed through the process. The completed work should stand on its own, as well as provide a memorial to specific people, places and time.
The RATSS cast and crew is made up entirely of Omaha-based artists and Bemis Center residents in late 2012. Patrick Biggs, a semi-professional mime, informed much of the gesticulations that occurred on-screen in conjunction with Ecuadorian-inspired masks created by Brehm.
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Carver Bank Becomes Greener!
In the last month we planted one burr oak (Quercus macrocarpa) and six fragrant sumac (Rhus aromatica), as well as seeding the lawn in the garden behind Carver Bank. This makes our newest public space the ideal location to sit and relax while enjoying your sandwich from Big Mama's, or just to talk about the latest exhibition inside the Carver Bank gallery.
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Native Omaha Days
Memory Lane | Friday, August 2 | 4:00 - 8:00 PM
Open House | Saturday, August 3 | 1:00 - 4:00 PMOn Aug. 2 and 3, celebrate Native Omaha Days at Carver Bank and businesses along North 24th Street! This week-long homecoming celebration reunites former residents to a city they once called home. Carver's two-day celebration begins on Friday with a Stroll Down Memory Lane, featuring the opening of Celeste Pratt-Butler's 2-day exhibition Thread Painted Portrait Quilts, live poetry from our summer workshop participants, and live music from Transition. More >>
Return on Saturday afternoon for our open house featuring live performances from Carver AIR Shannon Marie, Jamarr The Starr, Transition, and visual artist Reginald LeFlore II. More >>
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America's Music: The History of Rock
Tuesday, August 20 | 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Omaha Public Library and Carver Bank presentAmerica's Music: The History of Rock, part of a three-week programming series.
Come watch The History of Rock n' Roll: Plugging Inand learn about performances at the Newport Folk Festival and the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 that changed the face of the genre, featuring amazing music from Bob Dylan, the Animals, Jimi Hendrix, the Beach Boys, and more. Viewing to be followed by a public discussion - let's talk about music!
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Young Professionals Wednesday: Meet, Eat & Enjoy
Wednesday, August 21 | 5:30 - 7:00 PM
Join us for an interactive panel discussion centered on the question "what is more important to you, being black or being a woman?" The panelist will explore race, gender and what it means to be a 21st century black woman. We invite men and women from all backgrounds to join us for this thought provoking discussion.
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North Omaha Play Streets at Carver Bank
Saturday, August 24 | 1:00 - 4:00 PM
Play Streets transforms space normally used by cars into a play space. Join us on Aug. 24 for a block party to encourage physical activity, healthy eating and wellness on 24th St. between Lake and Blondo.
From 1 - 4 pm Carver Bank, in partnership with the Common Soil Seed Library at OPL's Benson branch, will host ceramic pot painting and seed planting and live performances and hip hop dance clinics from Rubix Crew. Fun for all ages!
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Ongoing Exhibition:
LaMont Hamilton: Omaha Portraits
June 9 - August 24
Omaha Portraits is a portrait series of North Omaha, specifically the black community of Omaha by photographer LaMont Hamilton. Hamilton is a Chicago-based photographer and recent Bemis Center resident. The portraits are displayed both in the Carver Bank, and in storefront windows surrounding the intersection of 24th and Lake.
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Carver Bank | 2416 Lake St. | Omaha, NE
Mon - Thu: 10:30 AM - 4:00 PM
Fri: 10:30 AM - 8:30 PM
Sat: 11:00 AM - 8:30 PM
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