Lawrence WeinerJulie MehretuOlaf BreuningICI Summer Book SaleSelected Artists for People’s Biennial announced on the Blog!
Lawrence Weiner
Lawrence Weiner Studio
New York City
December 14, 2010
Join us on December 14th for a rare opportunity to visit with Lawrence Weiner in his Manhattan studio. ICI is proud to welcome our members into the workspace of one of the central figures of Conceptual Art. Lawrence will share his thoughts and ideas regarding his personal and long pursued inquiries into language and the art-making process.
Throughout Lawrence’s longstanding and prolific career, he has put forward a radical redefinition of the artist/viewer relationship and the very nature of the artwork; translating his investigations into linguistic structures and visual systems across varied formats and manifestations. Most famously the works take the form of large typographic wall texts, referred to by Lawrence as sculpture, and the words, phrases and statements he employs are often representative of states or processes grounded in materiality. His works exist simultaneously as instructions, propositions and evocations as well as the object itself.
Lawrence has received numerous grants and awards, and in 2007/08 was honored with a 40-year retrospective of his work, entitled Lawrence Weiner: AS FAR AS THE EYE CAN SEE at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Lawrence is represented in New York by Marian Goodman Gallery, in London by Lisson Gallery, in Paris by Yvon Lambert Gallery, in Los Angeles by Regen Projects, and in Tel Aviv by Dvir Gallery.
This event is for ICI Members only.
Julie Mehretu
Julie Mehretu Studio
New York City
September 29, 2010
On September 29th, join us at Julie Mehretu’s new Manhattan studio to visit with one of today’s most highly regarded abstract painters. Julie will share her own personal experience in creating her compelling large-scale, elaborate paintings, which are laboriously built up through layers of acrylic paint on canvas overlaid with mark-making in pencil, pen, ink and thick streams of paint.
In her paintings, Julie creates and communicates narratives using abstracted images of cities, histories, wars and geographies. As she suggests, these rich canvases act as “story maps of no location” enabling the viewer to interpret them as pictures into the imagined.
Julie is represented by Marian Goodman Gallery here in New York and shows at White Cube in London and Carlier Gebauer in Berlin. A solo exhibition of Julie’s work, Grey Area, is currently on view at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York (May 14th – October 6th).
This event is for ICI Members only.
Olaf Breuning
Olaf Breuning Studio
New York City
September 21, 2010
Our first Fall New York Studio Event offers ICI members the exciting opportunity to engage with experimental, cross-media artist Olaf Breuning. Olaf will welcome us into his Tribeca studio for an exclusive look into his playful working methods and his most recent body of work. The artist will share his own personal insight into his extraordinary labyrinth of inspiration stemming from Woody Allen to the World Wide Web.
In addition to working with Metro Pictures here in New York, Olaf also exhibits at: Nils Staerk in Copenhagen, Air de Paris in Paris, Kodama Gallery in Tokyo and Kyoto, Galerie Meyer Kainer in Vienna, Galerie Nicola von Senger in Zurich, and Michael Benevento in Los Angeles. Last Fall Olaf had his fifth solo show at Metro Pictures titled Small Brain Big Stomach. The exhibition included an array of comically mischievous wall-bound drawings and sculptures. Currently, you can find a solo exhibition of Olaf’s work at the Centre d’Art Contemporain at La Chapelle du Genêteil, France (July 3rd – August 29th).
*Please note: The visit will take place in the artist’s studio in a 5th floor walk up building; there is unfortunately no elevator available for use.
This event is for ICI Members only.
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ICI Summer Book Sale
ICI Offices, 799 Broadway #205,
New York, NY 10003
August 20, 2010
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, AUGUST 20 & 21, 2010
FRI: 10 – 7PM, SATURDAY 10-3PM
Our spring 2010 book sale was such a roaring success with art book enthusiasts, ICI presents its final publications event for the year back by popular demand, hosting a late summer book sale just in time for the start of a new semester.
During 35 years of operation ICI has produced and collaborated on hundreds of high-quality exhibition catalogues, many of which now constitute historic contextualizations of artists, institutions, and moments in art history. On August 20 & 21, ICI will open its offices to the public for a two-day “back-to-school” book sale featuring current and past titles at discounted prices.
Classics such as ICI’s compendium of artist’s interviews Inside the Studio and current exhibition titles such as Experimental Geography will be $10 each instead of the usual $29.95. All current exhibition titles will be generously discounted, with many older titles sold for $2, $5 and $10. Don’t miss this opportunity to browse ICI’s eminent inventory of old and new catalogues and essay collections.
If you can’t make it to our offices, ICI’s online bookstore (featuring current titles only) will also reflect our book sale prices for the whole week beginning August 16. Go to http://www.ici-exhibitions.org to access ICI’s online store.
Individuals or booksellers requiring further information should contact Michelle Jubin at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or 212 254 8200 x21.
Selected Artists for People’s Biennial announced on the Blog!
On ICI's Website
July 30, 2010
Check out the People’s Biennial blog, which follows and documents Harrell Fletcher and Jens Hoffmann’s visits to Portland (OR), Scottsdale (AZ), Rapid City (SD), Winston-Salem (NC), and Haverford (PA), as the curators explore each community to conduct research, participate in lectures and roundtable discussions, and ultimately select works by local, non-established artists for the two year touring exhibition.
Recent additions to the blog include the full list of selected artists, images from the Haverford, Pennsylvania visit and reflections by Steven Matijcio, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art.
