New Work at Editions/Artists' Books Fair

The E/AB Fair has been New York’s premier showcase for the discovery of new and contemporary prints, multiples and artists’ books for over 20 years. We will be featuring new editions and unique images by Peter Bregoli, Peter Cross, Louise Eastman, Molly Haynes, Kathleen Kucka and Janis Stemmermann. Come visit, booth #D8 at The Caldwell Factory (aka Cedar Lake) in the heart of New York’s Chelsea art district.

Louise Eastman and Janis Stemmermann
Daisy Dice, 2019
Relief, Stencil and Chine Collé, 39-1/2 x 46 inches
Edition of 5

Russell Janis at the Editions/Artists’ Books Fair
The Caldwell Factory
547 West 26th Street NYC
between 10th and 11th Ave

October 24 – 27, 2019

HANDOFF: WEAVING IN SPACE

This site-specific project, conceived by Christine Sciulli and Bastienne Schmidt, takes on the tradition of the Exquisite Corpse as a collaborative action drawing-in-space, constructed and manufactured in-situ with ropes, threads and textiles. Referencing the drawing-in-space tradition of Eva Hesse, Sheila Hicks, and Fred Sandback, invited artists will engage their own practice in a ricocheting handoff to create a three-dimensional drawing – weaving and subsuming their contributions during the seven weeks of the exhibition to generate a large-scale spatial installation completed by the show’s closing. This piece invites discussion of conventional notions of authorship to explore the contemporary necessity of collective making.

“Handoff” artists include Louise Eastman, Sabra Moon Elliot, Saskia Friedrich, LoVid, Toni Ross, Bastienne Schmidt, Christine Sciulli, Morgana Tetherow-Keller, Virva Hinnemo and Almond Zigmund.

Shown above on left Saskia Friedrich installing, on right installation view.

HANDOFF Completion Celebration

Join us along with the artists from HANDOFF: Weaving in Space as we celebrate the completion of this dynamic collaborative exercise. Refreshments will be provided.

SUNDAY, March 24, 4-6 PM - FREE
Southampton Arts Center
25 Jobs Lane
Southampton, NY 11968

Handoff will be on view through Sunday, April 14.
For more information go to www.southamptonartscenter.org

FLAT FILE at Planthouse

FLAT FILE featuring recent works by: Željka Blakšić, Ross Bleckner & Frederic Tuten, Victoria Burge, Anderson Ranch Editions/The Haas Brothers, Richard Dupont, Louise Eastman, Nick Lamia, Rachel Ostrow, Lanie McNulty, John Mitchell, Janis Stemmermann and the Victory Garden Collective. Victory Garden Collective is Louise Eastman, Jess Frost, Tara Geer, Katie Michel, Wendy Small, and Janis Stemmermann.

Exhibition Dates: March 12, 2019 – March 30, 2019

Shown above “Untitled,” Louise Eastman
2018
 Monoprint collage

Printed on Rives BFK

47 x 32.5 inches

For more information visit http://planthouse.net/

Planthouse Gallery
Open Tuesday to Saturday, 12–5pm, or Mondays by appointment
55 W 28th Street, New York, NY
212.564.5502

Action Potluck

Action Potluck is a grassroots community organization, in New York City, working to keep families together. In support of their efforts, Victory Garden presents: Potluck, 2019, a four-color silkscreen of a potholder woven in colors of the flags of Mexico, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador.

Proceeds from the sale of these prints will go directly to Action Potluck, where they will be used to support the legal efforts needed to keep families together.

Potluck, 2019
Silkscreen
11 x 11 inches
Edition: 100
Printed by Kingsland Printing, Brooklyn, NY
$100 (unframed), $150 (framed)

Victory Garden Collective is Louise Eastman, Jess Frost, Tara Geer, Katie Michel, Wendy Small, and Janis Stemmermann.

For more information or to purchase: https://planthouse.net/project_post/potluck-2019/

PRINT/WEAVE, at Russell Janis

Jamie Boyle
Molly Haynes
Louise Eastman 

Louise Eastman, Curator
Janis Stemmermann, Printmaker 

A field trip to the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation - seeing Anni Albers weavings and prints side by side - was the inspiration behind PRINT/WEAVE. Under Louise Eastman’s curatorial direction, Jamie Boyle, Molly Haynes, along with Louise herself, have been in residence this fall season making prints on the press at Russell Janis.

In this creative experiment, we wanted to let the sculptural act of the printmaking process embrace the materiality of weaving. Crossing over from loom to press, fabric to paper, the tactile functions of the cloth used are irrevocably changed and transformed, releasing new potential in the way a textile can be experienced.

October 12th - November 10th, 2018 

Russell Janis
292 Manhattan Avenue, Brooklyn NY
on Devoe St. next to the church
Graham Avenue L stop

http://www.russelljanis.com/

VOTE, 2018

VOTE, 2018 is an 8-piece napkin set printed in shades of blue, newly released by Planthouse and the Victory Garden Collective. Designed to encourage awareness during some of the most challenging issues of our time, this set of silkscreened napkins is packed in an 8 inch box to take along to friends and family gatherings. The Victory Garden Collective is Louise Eastman, Jess Frost, Tara Geer, Katie Michel, Wendy Small, and Janis Stemmermann. For more information and to purchase, please click here.

Available at:

E/AB Fair, Planthouse booth
Saturday & Sunday October 27th/28th, 11-7pm
The Tunnel, 269 11th Avenue (bet. 27-28th Street)

Planthouse Gallery
Open Tuesday to Saturday, 12–5 pm, or Mondays by appointment
55 W 28th Street, New York, NY
212.564.5502

FROM THE GROUND UP at Russel Janis

For this year’s Brooklyn Clay Tour, Russell Janis will be hosting FROM THE GROUND UP, an installation of clay works and video documentation from a pit fire on Nantucket as well as recent print projects from the Russell Janis Studio.

Participating artists works by: Lauren Berodt, Maggie Cooley, Tara Douglas, Louise Eastman, Michael Gundlach, Monika Johnson, Kathleen Kucka, Danielle Pomorski, Pedro Ramirez, Wendy Small and Janis Stemmermann.

Saturday and Sunday
September 8th and 9th
12-7pm.

Russell Janis
292 Manhattan Avenue, Brooklyn NY
on Devoe St. next to the church
Graham Avenue L stop
http://www.russelljanis.com/

Open/Ended Identity at Pratt

A ceramics group show including Louise Eastman, organized by Jessica Perelman, exploring the decorative and the culture language to comment on conversations of power, identity and relationships to one another. 

Steuben Gallery
Pratt Institute (Brooklyn)
200 Willoughby Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11205 

Opening September 4th 6-9pm

Friday 7th, Saturday 8th and Sunday 9th
September, 2018

In partnership with Brooklyn Clay Tour
https://www.brooklynclaytour.com/

It’s All Political

The Victory Garden collective and Louise Eastmans' project “Say a Little Prayer for U.S.” was featured in a recent Art in Print article: It’s All Political, by Susan Tallman.

Excerpt:
“…Planthouse drew an enthusiastic response to Say a Little Prayer for U.S., a set of screenprinted linen prayer flags by the Victory Garden collective (Louise Eastment, Jess Frost, Tara Geer, Wendy Small, Janis Stemmermann and Katie Michel). The linen flags are a more permanent distillation of the hundreds of paper flags contributed by artists to a summer exhibition of the same name—both are meant to continue the momentum of the march, and bear messages ranging from “Save the EPA” to a mute portrait of Ruth Bader Ginsberg.”

Read the full article:
It’s All Political by Susan Tallman,
Art in Print, Volume 7, Number 6

+ ART OF COLLABORATION featured in the New Haven Register

Work by the Victory Gardens Collective is currently on show in + THE ART OF COLLABORATION at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University. The show has been reviewed in the New Haven Register by Joe Amarante.

Excerpt:

There’s an endless discussion on sports radio about the value of top football quarterbacks vs. the team around them: Tom Brady is supreme; Tom Brady needs the great coach and team around him. The answer, of course, is you need both.

Which brings us to the literary and artistic exhibit “+ The Art of Collaboration” at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University through April 15, curated by the Beinecke’s Melissa Barton, Elizabeth Frengel and Nancy Kuhl.

“I am a person deeply fascinated by creativity,” said Kuhl at a recent exhibit preview, “and I’m totally interested in ... how and why things ... are made the way they are.”
Kuhl produced the jewel-box vitrines (display boxes) on the long sides of the mezzanine that feature 18 instances of American literary and artistic collaboration spanning more than 100 years. These include vaudeville comedian Bert Williams and George Walker; Gertrude Stein and her partner/muse Alice B. Toklas; the Dada-movement parlor game “Exquisite Corpse”; August Wilson and Lloyd Richards; and the Victory Garden Collective, which made for the 2017 Women’s March cheeky sashes meant to evoke beauty queen and suffragette sashes (with sayings such as “Miss Governed” and “Miss Led”).

The vitrines, Kuhl said, “are all ways that I’m thinking about collaboration and how ideas come to take a form on a stage or in a book or in a piece of art.”

Read the full article by Joe Amarante

+ THE ART OF COLLABORATION is on display at The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, Through April 15, 2018