Thanks, Rolling Stone magazine for publishing my photo on your website. What a nice Christmas present! And double thanks for featuring it on the front of your Random Notes Hottest Rock Picks section (right next to Justin Beiber, Gaga and Katy Perry.) Happy Holidays everyone - the photo is of the band Tennis. Their new album releases spring 2012 but you can check out their new single “Deep In the Woods” in the meantime.
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Free Golden Girls Coloring Books! Along with other shenanigans at MCA Denver for Art Basel Miami Denver: Friday, Dec. 2, 7pm-9pm.
on my new Cargo Collective site. Lots of work from the past 3 years along with current projects:
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I’ve spent the past year working with Kelsey Dalton and Sandra Fettingis to create a show that investigates the dual roles we share as artists who also work at art museums. I have shared the roles of producer, writer, curator and exhibition designer with these 2 wonderful ladies, and I’m now completing my work for this show, which opens this Saturday.
If you’re in Denver, CO Saturday, Nov. 12, stop by our reception at RedLine, 6-10pm. Exhibiting artists include myself, Amelia Carley (MCA Denver), Dalton & McClellan (MCA Denver), Jon P. Geiger (Denver Art Museum), Harold (MCA Denver), Keith Jentzsch (University Museum), Jenny Pokorny (Center for Visual Arts), and Jen Schneider (Aspen Art Museum). Thank you to Tricia Robson and Derrick Velasquez for their curatorial advice and to Alex Stephens for graphic support.
Thank you Westword and Susan Froyd for this write-up!
By Susan Froyd
Erin Algiere, Sandra Fettingis and Kelsey Dalton worked together at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, but that’s not all they had in common: Like many people who labor behind the scenes at museums, they were all artists, aspiring or otherwise. And since they were far from alone in that respect, they realized it might be an interesting basis for an art exhibit — so they compiled a list of Colorado venues that fall under the Association of Art Museum guidelines for what constitutes an art museum and invited proposals from artists who also sat at reception desks, served the public behind cafe counters or installed artwork. “We’re around art all the time, and we’re all influenced by it in some way,” Algiere notes. “And we wanted to make sure we were representing a collective voice.”
The resulting show, So, I Work in an Art Museum, features everything from ceramic instructional manuals by Jenny Pokorny of Metro State’s Center for Visual Arts to CSU University Art Museum installer Keith Jenstzch’s assemblages of everyday materials that he uses in his job. Eight artists in all, including Algiere and Dalton (Fettingis chose to play a curatorial role), are showcased in the exhibit, which opens tonight with a reception from 6 to 10 p.m. at RedLine Gallery, 2350 Arapahoe Street.
The exhibit continues through December 4; for information, go to www.redlineart.org or call 303-296-4448.
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graphics by Alex Stephens
Artists who work in art museums explore their experiences in So, I Work in an Art Museum at RedLine, on view from November 12 through December 4, 2011. This group exhibition, featuring eight artists working in five art museums across the Front Range area, provides a critical look at the influence(s) that working at an art museum has had on their creative development and production of art. Various media are employed in an effort to address this complex relationship, including painting, photography, ceramics, animation and multimedia installations.
The works created for this show reflect personal experiences, yet when shown together, they form a collective and critical voice from artists who share an intimate connection with the formal art institution. “Each of the eight exhibiting artists address a shared aspect of what is like to be an artist working in art museum”, co-producer Sandra Fettingis explains. For example, ceramicist and Center for Visual Arts administrative assistant Jenny Pokorny reappropriates the mundane instructional manuals she routinely refers to for her job into high art objects; by slip-firing and displaying these manuals as a ceramic library, Pokorny’s work both friezes and marries the relationship between back-of-house production and front-of-house product. Alternatively, by drawing on his personal experience as Denver Art Museum employee, Jon Geiger explores the inspiration he found in the Alvise Vivarini painting of St. Jerome featured during the Cities of Splendor exhibition. Playing on the shifts of scale and structure in the Vivarini painting, Geiger’s large floor installation merges Renaissance vernaculars with contemporary art practices. Additionally, artists Erin Algiere, Amelia Carley, Dalton & McClellan, Harold, Keith Jenstzch and Jen Schneider present alternative perspectives on their experience working both inside – and outside – the institutional structure of the museum.
The exhibition was born out of a series of conversations between three local Denver artists, Erin Algiere, Kelsey Dalton and Sandra Fettingis, about the various influences that working in an art museum has had on their artistic careers. “We talked about large influences, like how I wouldn’t have become a photographer without having worked at MCA Denver, to the almost unnoticeable differences in a shifts in our vocabulary when talking about art and artistic processes,” comments co-producer Erin Algiere. Curious about other artists’ perspectives, the three approached over twenty local art museums, inviting artists to submit work that explored themes of personal influence, identity and observation. Creative Director Kelsey Dalton explains, “We designed So, I Work in an Art Museum to reveal a different type of artist working within the art world, one who has an intimate viewpoint of the art museum.”
RedLine hosts this show in their Community Gallery, which is free (donations welcomed), and open to the public Tuesday – Friday, 10am – 5pm and Saturdays and Sundays 11am – 5pm. RedLine: (303) 296-4448
Artists exhibiting include: Erin Algiere (MCA Denver/Denver Botanic Gardens), Amelia Carley (MCA Denver), Dalton & McClellan (Art Institute of Chicago/MCA Denver), Jon P. Geiger (Denver Art Museum), Harold (MCA Denver), Keith Jenstzch (University Art Museum at Colorado State University), Jennifer Pokorny (Center for Visual Arts) and Jen Schneider (Aspen Art Museum).
About the Co-Creators of So, I Work in an Art Museum:
Erin Algiere (Co-Producer/Exhibiting Artist) studied Philosophy and English Literature at Warren Wilson College in North Carolina and Photography at the Art Institute of Colorado. She has collaborated with a variety of local artists on projects for “Yes Please More” Pop Up Store, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (BMoCA), and Denver Handmade Alliance. Most recently she assisted with the Denver Botanic Gardens’ Native Roots Modern Form: Plants, People and the Art of Allan Houser exhibition and now works as the MCA Department of Edible Structures – Event and Rental Manager, co-producing programs such as Black Sheep Fridays.
Sandra Fettingis (Co-Producer/Curatorial Consultant) is the MCA Denver Shop Gift Buyer, and an active Denver artist, originally from Chicago. She studied at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA, ultimately earning a BA in Photography from Columbia College Chicago. Her work has lead to commissions, grants, public works and exhibits at such venues as Black Book Gallery, Illiterate Gallery, Emmanuel Gallery and The Bridge Art Fair Chicago. Sandra is also the founder and a producer of PROJECT HELLO.
Kelsey Dalton (Creative Director/Exhibiting Artist) formerly worked for the MCA Denver as the Special Events and Cafe Assistant Manager and is currently pursuing an MFA in Studio Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she works for the Visiting Artists program. As an artist, she makes works as part of the collaborative, Dalton & McClellan. Collaboration is fundamental and an inextricable element to the purpose, design and process of the works of Dalton & McClellan, expressed through the medium of painting.
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