Future Fair + reception invite
A week after Future Fair NYC, we are still reeling, exhausted, but happy. Artillery Magazine’s round up of all of the Art Fairs in New York last week features our booth F2 as one of the highlights of the week, of all the fairs! Meer media group also featured us on their European Arts site.
Melhop Gallery º7077 partnered with Trotter & Sholer gallery NYC to co-curate a beautiful cohesive exhibition of work by Stewart Francis Easton and Alex Stern. We are so excited about the dialog created by the work of these two artists together and the collaboration between curators/directors Jenna Ferrey and Frances Melhop.
Both artists, Easton and Stern, treat their art practices as spiritual rituals, utilizing repetition, obsession and investigation of the world surrounding us - themes from pixels to pageantry, the Here:Now and even heaven - both explore realms we perhaps do not give enough attention to, with levity, playfulness, dedication and deep seriousness.
Thank you
to writer Annabel Keenan and Artillery Magazine for highlighting our curation at Future Fair! Thank you also to Meer for featuring Stewart Francis Easton on their arts site! A big thank you to all the new and old friends who visited us and made our fair experience a fun one!
Booth F2 installation image, embroideries by Stewart Francis Easton
Booth F2 installation image embroideries by Stewart Francis Easton, painting and resin cast journals by Alex Stern
Booth F2 installation image - embroidery and quilts by Stewart Francis Easton, paintings by Alex Stern
Booth F2 installation image - quilt by Stewart Francis Easton, painting by Alex Stern (private collection)
Booth F2 installation image - embroidery and quilt by Stewart Francis Easton, paintings by Alex Stern
Reception invite
TDRP + TPAC + Melhop Gallery and artists; Julia Schwadron Marianelli,
Megan Berner, and Jean Brennan invite you to join us for the reception and artist talks
for Field Notes exhibition!
Field Notes is a selection of work by 3 women artists, who respond and relate to our unusual and extreme environment in the high-altitude mountains and desert, through various mediums. Contemporary art and artists are like thermometers, sensitive beings that notice and initiate critical dialog on cultural, environmental and social issues. Field Notes is the start of a conversation with and about our complex environment. (Curator Frances Melhop)
Eco Exhibition 27 March - 23 June 2023
Truckee Donner Recreation Center Atrium
10981 Truckee Way, Truckee, CA 96161
RECEPTION: 2 June, 5 - 7pm
If you would like to visit the exhibition any other time for a private tour with the curator please email hello@melhopgallery.com to arrange a time. The public open hours of the exhibition are:
Monday - Friday 6am-8pm, Saturday 8am-1pm, Sunday 8am-12pm
Performing vowels in the note of blue, film still from performance by Jean Brennan
Who Speaks for You, acryic ink on paper mounted on board, 16 x 20in, 2022. Julia Schwadron Marianelli
Installation image of Fading Light / Shifting Landscapes series by Megan Berner
We look forward to seeing you at the reception!!! 2 June 5-7pm
Rec Center Atrium Gallery Visiting hours
Monday - Friday 6am-8pm, Saturday 8am-1pm, Sunday 8am-12pm
ARTIST NEWS
MIYA HANNAN
We are excited to announce that Miya Hannan was awarded a Fellowship from the Nevada Arts Council 2023! Big congratulations to her for all of her hard work and dedication!
GALEN BROWN
Brown has brand new work in the group exhibition at the Metro gallery at the City of Reno offices titled, "Between Earth & Sky: Exploring the Great Basin through the Eyes of Northern Nevada Artists" curated by 2022-23 Reno City Artist Rossitza Todorova
Exhibition dates: April 24 - June 9, 2023
Galen Brown's drawings capture the intricate textures of our complicated environment with obsessive mark-making. Through layers of black lines, his work evokes the waves of Lake Tahoe. While Brown invites us to contemplate the natural flow of water, he explores the physicality and repetitive insistence of human-made marks. The results are mesmerizing meditations on the intersection of nature and human intervention, inviting us to reflect on our environmental impact.
Installation view of the 25 new untitled small waves drawings, each 7” x 5” x 1.5” pen and ink on museum board on aluminum on wooden frames. Galen Brown 2022-2023
EUNKANG KOH
Koh has a solo exhibition at the Bristlecone gallery at Western Nevada College in Carson City through 14th September. Thank you to Capital City Arts Initiative for their support and work on this exhibition! The exhibit is open to the public May 15 – September 14, 2023, Monday through Friday, 8am – 7pm, in Western Nevada College’s Bristlecone Gallery, 2201 W College Parkway, Carson City. Visit the gallery over the summer and then return on Tuesday, September 5, 5pm – 6:30pm for the artist’s reception; the artist introduction is at 5:30pm.
Artist Statement
In my artwork, I draw from the human circumstances that flourish between reality and perception. Born and raised in the Korean myth culture and adopting Buddhist philosophy, I assume that the world we are living in is not real but is an illusion that we perceive. I doubt that there is anything like truth in a concrete sense. I aim to create my own illusion in my art. My images are my way of seeing the world without pretense.
I often use half animal and half human figures in my work. Those hybrid creatures represent the portrait of us, human as social animals and the society that we live in. They portray the society that we are living in through the creation of creature hybrids, which express the absurdity of the human world. They portray ironic gestures that create a mixture of humor and grotesqueness, reflecting life in our society. The creatures are symbolic of those humans who are dimwitted and un-knowing, or who choose not to see anything beyond the ‘Illusion’ that they are taught.
My recent work is responding to lifestyles and thinking processes that are often ruled by consumerism. I see about our contemporary society as new illusion that created by systemic world since the invention of internet and social media. Through the internet and social media, human lives are controlled and monitored and this new system that controls us consistently promotes consumerism as they get information from watching and monitoring us. Trying to fit into this consumer culture makes individuals loses the sense of their own identities and personalities while we follow and being followed. My creatures are a portrait of us, human who reside in this illusionary world that is created by the system we created ourselves.
To show the mass consumer culture where humans live in today’s contemporary society, my medium varies in different types of prints incorporating other media such as relief, intaglio, screen printing, as well as digital process, and new technology like laser cutter and 3D printer and combine them with sewing, ceramics, book binding etc. I also experiment with human-made materials such as plastic boxes, vinyl sheets, and paper bags, products that symbolize our micromanaged and controlled society through my project.
Watching, installation view, detail: 120″ x 120″ x 120″, relief printing and fabric, 2021. Eunkang Koh
Watching, installation view, detail: 120″ x 120″ x 120″, relief printing and fabric, 2021. Eunkang Koh
A native of South Korea, Eunkang Koh received a B.F.A. from Hong-Ik University in Seoul, South Korea, and an M.F.A. from California State University, Long Beach. Koh has also participated national and international group exhibitions in Canada, Spain, South Korea, China, and New York City. Koh has been invited to artist-in-residencies including Northern Ireland, Belgium, China, India, and Berkeley, California.
Koh is an Associate Professor in printmaking in the Art Department at the University of Nevada Reno.
Doughnut Dreams; 18″x 24″x 4″; screen printing, sewing, relief, aluminum tray; 2021
JULIA SCHWADRON MARIANELLI
Schwadron Marianelli is on an artist residency with the Great Basin Institute from May 20 - July 8th.
The Great Basin Institute is pleased to announce the return of artists-in-residence at the Tallac Historic Site! Art programs are an integral part of the site’s history, and GBI is honored to keep the tradition alive.
This program aims to serve dual purposes: to open a doorway to the artistic process and access to learning, while fostering appreciation and interest for cultural programs; and to support individual artists and the preservation of historic programming.
Our 2023 Artists in Residence will display their work on site, with certain pieces available for sale in the Tallac Gift Shop.
CLASSES
“Drawing in the Landscape” with Julia Schwadron Marianelli
Saturday, June 11 and Saturday, July 1 • 10am–11:30am
Join artist-in-residence Julia Schwadron Marianelli for a landscape drawing class at the Pope Estate. This program will take place outdoors within the environment and is best suited for teens and adults. Learn how to transform the beautiful scenery into a beautiful drawing!
Get Your Tickets Today!
Space is limited due to materials. Please visit Great Basin Website ticketing here to reserve seats. Or, call the Tallac Museum at 530-541-5227 to check availability.