through June 23, 2008
Time: Gallery Hours
Retrospective Print Exhibition
A Canadian artist based in London, England, Hawrysio employs printmaking as a way of registering a range of chosen sites. Her etchings record certain actions and events (the movements of her bed during a dream-filled night, a wilderness hike on which she carries and repeatedly drops her etching plate), and are also the result of collaborations with randomly encountered people (strangers on a road trip, kitchen staff at the Banff Centre during a residency there). The Draw: Hawrysio invigorates traditional printmaking techniques by injecting them with conceptual energy and social consciousness.
Simon Fraser University Galley
8888 University Drive
Burnaby Campus
Vancouver, BC, V5A 1S6
Canada
www.sfu.ca/gallery10704Hawrysio.html
604 291 4266
through May 16, 2008
Time: Gallery Hours
Informed by Function
Informed by Function will explore sculptural objects influenced by the vocabulary of furniture, design, and architecture. Drawing on sources ranging from industrial design to the natural world, the artists in the exhibition will present hybrid objects, familiar yet displaced or transformed, that incorporate this duality. Artists included are Michelle Jaffe, Andrea Zittel, Francis Cape, Ivan Navarro, Carlos Bunga, Forrest Myers, and Jackie Ferrer, amongst others.
Lehman College Art Gallery
Bedford Park Boulevard West
Bronx, NY, 10468-1589
United States
www.lehman.cuny.edu/gallery
718-960-8731
through June 15, 2008
Time: Gallery Hours
Eating Wonderland
In her latest artwork, Maryland artist Sue Johnson addresses themes of food, consumption, marketing, and mass production in her ceramic castings of dinnerware and popular foodstuffs. Along with her paintings on paper and digital collages, the exhibition features work that explores the creation and use of imagery in popular culture, the influence of context on these images, and how simple manipulations can result in humor, aversion, and complex commentaries of comtemporary society.
Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature
University of Richmond Museums
28 Westhampton Way
Richmond, VA, 23173
United States
museums.richmond.edu
804-289-8276
through May 31, 2008
Time: Gallery Hours
The Oldest Living Things in the World
The Oldest Living Things in the World, Rachel Sussman's debut with the gallery, is simultaneously a photographic exhibition and an interdisciplinary study of the oldest continuously living organisms on the planet. Sussman's research ranges far afield from her training as a photographer, bringing her into dialogue with experts in mycology, dendrochronology, and microbiology, amongst others. At the completion of this project she will have traveled to over 20 countries and every continent to photograph and work with biologists. Her subjects, all a minimum of 2,000 years old, include such diverse life forms as trees, predatory fungus, and ancient bacteria. This exhibition includes works from Namibia, South Africa, Scotland, Japan, and the U.S.
Michael Steinberg Fine Arts
526 West 26th Street
Suite 215
New York, NY, 10001
United States
www.michaelsteinbergfineart.com/
212-924-5770
through August 16, 2008
Time: All Day
The 2008 DeCordova Annual Exhibition
This exhibition highlights the work of a limited number of contemporary artists from the six New England states and emphasizes the quality and variety of works rather than any single or overarching theme. Each year the DeCordova seeks to feature some of most innovative artists working in the region.
Decordova Museum and Sculpture Park
51 Sandy Pond Road
Lincoln, MA, 01773
United States
decordova.org
781-259-8355
through June 24, 2008
Time: 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Fantastic Planet
Exhibition of recent work by Jon Rappleye. The title is adapted form the 1973 animation film by French artist Rene Laloux. Rappleye's fantastical works explore an irrational nature, a place where animals live and thrive in an artificial environment. In a world where headline news warns us of impending global disasters and climate change, Rappleye's work reminds us of the fragility of nature and man's precarious relationship with it.
Richard Heller Gallery
Bergamot Station
2525 Michigan Ave. b-5a
Santa Monica, CA, 90404
United States
www.richardhellergallery.com
310-453-9191
through June 1, 2008
Time:
International Forum on the Novel 2008
Organized by the daily newspaper Le Monde and the Villa Gillet, the 2nd edition of The International Forum on the Novel will bring together 70 writers and critics from around the world.
Villa Gillet
25, Rue Chazière
Lyon
France
www.villagillet.net/
Time: 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Book Release Party
MacDowell alumni Shin Yu Pai and Tom Gilroy and the authors of Haiku Not Bombs celebrate the release of Brooklyn's newest title. Sponsored by The Pen and Cup Reading Series
Think Coffee
248 Mercer Street
New York, NY
United States
thinkcoffeenyc.com/cup-and-pen/
through September 28, 2008
Time:
Festival America
Three days of readings and panels, a “café littéraire,” and a book fair but also movies, concerts, and exhibitions celebrating the richness and diversity of fiction from an entire continent.
Vincennes
98 rue de Fontenay
Paris
France
www.festival-america.com/