Posted: December 14th, 2018 | Author: Mary Jeys | Filed under: curating, drawings, exhibition, fall, installation, neighborhood, residency, to do, Updates, watercolor, winter, works in progress | No Comments »
The ReGeneration Exhibition is up from November 30th, 2018 to February 16th, 2019.
I created and co-curated this six week residency and exhibition. See below for detail photos and curatorial statement. Click “read more” to see postcard invitation and more installation photos.
Opening Reception: November 30th, 2018 6-9pm
Artist Talk: Saturday, January 26th, 2019 2-4pm
Closing Reception: February 16th, 2019 6-9pm
Tracey Rolandelli, Source (detail), Watercolor, Oil, and Pastel on Paper, 2018
Noga Wizansky, Recovery Still Life 4 (Support System (detail), Charcoal on Strathmore 400, 2018
Constance Moore, Inevitable Forms (detail), Felt, Glitter, Paper and Altered Table, 2018
Stephanie Potter Corwin, Circadian Echoes (detail), Dye-Sublimation Print on Aluminum, 2018
Kate Godfrey, Community (detail), Cotton Thread on Linen, 2018
Regeneration has an embedded notion of loss. Loss of limb, loss of life, loss of deadweight. In this residency, we considered the work of rebuilding artistic practice after having lost something. Many of us have experienced loss in our community, in our perception of safety, in political decency, and in our personal economics as independent creators. In this residency, we recombined our efforts, tackled our own challenges and met them with powerful regenerative forces.
For six Sundays in the fall, artists Autumn Bree, Kate Godfrey, Constance Moore, Stephanie Potter Corwin, Tracey Rolandelli and Noga Wizansky met as a group with curators Mary Jeys and Shoshana Zambryski Stachel to discuss topics brought forth in their proposed projects. Weekly discussions addressed issues of regeneration and process as they related to each artist’s practice.
Given the curators’ interests in artist/gift economies and community arts access, artists were also encouraged to create companion works available in the gift shop during the fall/winter season. All artworks are on sale — both gallery-installed and smaller companion works available in the shop.
ArtVale Gallery
3463 Champion St. Oakland, CA 94602
WEDS-FRI: 1-7PM SAT: 12-6PM
artvalegallery.com
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Posted: February 28th, 2015 | Author: Mary Jeys | Filed under: money, neighborhood, Updates | No Comments »
We revived the Brooklyn Torch Trade Store at Proteus Gowanus on February 21st. As part of their current exhibition on Labor in their series on Commerce, the Brooklyn Torch Project has been invited to tender a medium of exchange for the Diego de la Vega Coffee Co-op, selling Autonomous Zapatista Coffee in the gallery.
The Diego de la Vega Coffee Co-op is a project developed by Fran Ilich that offers organic coffee sourced locally in Chiapas, Mexico from Zapatista autonomous farms. Its goal is to connect social movements and geographical regions – Chiapas and New York City – and to create a horizontal financial flow between social movements.
Posted: November 3rd, 2014 | Author: Mary Jeys | Filed under: neighborhood, suburbs, Updates | No Comments »
Just moved to California. It has been a whirlwind and I’m excited to start a new journey on the left coast. Below are some things that have come through my inbox, all great:
Arts, Culture, Community, Love- give early and often to an emerging artist network
The Laundromat Project’s People Powered $10K Challenge
My friend Jesse’s Brother has an awesome idea:
Sam & Mattie’s Teen Zombie Movie + Making-Of Documentary Kickstarter
Dance, Action, Camera! Catherine Gund’s latest film is in Houston!
Born To Fly screening in Houston
Amanda Mae’s most recent short film
Now We Are Not
Whale Staplers!
a stapler that is a whale
Reverend Yolanda’sOld Time Gospel Hour, The Movie
Posted: September 27th, 2012 | Author: Mary Jeys | Filed under: money, neighborhood, to do, Updates | No Comments »
credit: Laundromat Project
Third Annual Public Art Potluck
Engage our Create Change artists in conversations about their projects and creative ideas set in communities across New York City and Philadelphia. You’ll hear about socially-engaged art projects ranging from yoga-based printmaking in Jackson Heights to envisioning a new waterfront for the South Bronx to a multimedia installation highlighting the history of garment workers in Sunset Park.
What Do We Bring? Yummy Food and Public Art!
What Do You Bring? An Open Mind and Creative Ideas!
Wednesday, October 3, 2012 | 7:00pm – 9:30p
Doors open at 6:30pm
University Settlement, 184 Eldridge Street, New York, NY 10002
Dinner will be prepared by Organic Soul Chef Madea Allen.
Get Tickets
Posted: August 2nd, 2011 | Author: Mary Jeys | Filed under: money, neighborhood, Updates | No Comments »
In 2011, Macktez granted me a Summer Stipend to document my monetary exchanges in North Brooklyn. The project was a piece of the overarching Brooklyn Torch Project, but was specifically designed to use special film and to follow my own spending habits. Thank you to Macktez, you can see the photos here.
Posted: October 1st, 2008 | Author: Mary Jeys | Filed under: aspirations, to do, Updates | No Comments »
Over the next weeks months I will be updating this wordpress site. Eventually it will take over the main site and not just live in a hidden wordpress folder.
