CURRENT

-happening-

Constellations, Toilet Paper, and 16th Century High Society: Workshop with Karen Azoulay

Wednesday, May 12. 6:30 pm
EFA Project Space
323 West 39 Street, 2nd Floor

Join Common Jive artist Karen Azoulay in a collaborative workshop and toilet paper party! Azoulay will instruct participants in the craft of transforming the most disposable of all household products into a unique, everlasting work of art.Toilet paper will be hand-stitched into wrist cuffs reminiscent of the elaborate neck ruffs seen in 16th-century Dutch portrait paintings. Once each design is complete, the newly decorated hands of each participant will then be photographed wearing their creations. These hand portraits will later be compiled by Azoulay and used to create a new artwork in her ethereal series Constellation Leo.

As an extra bonus, Abby Walton will be bringing her notorious nail salon!


-on view-

Common Jive
curated by Saya Wolfalk and Julie Fishkin

Artists: Scott Andresen, Karen Azoulay, David Brooks, Milton Carter, Kate Gilmore, Nathaniel Kassel, Ai Kijima, Shana Moulton, Natsu, Brent Owens, Maria Pineres, Tanea Richardson, Whiting Tennis, Vadis Turner, Megan Whitmarsh, Saya Woolfalk

The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts
www.efanyc.org.
323 West 39th St. 2nd floor
New York, NY


-recent press-

Read about my experiences particpiating in Gelitin's Blind Sculpture exhibit at Greene Naftali:

TimeOut New York
Gelitin - Blind Sculpture
by Michael Wilson
www.newyork.timeout.com.


Read about The Banquet of Tigress and Plumes:

The New York Times
Bitten Blog - A Dinner to Make Even the Futurists Happy
by Mark Bittman
www.nytimes.com.

ReadyMade Magazine
Back to the Futurists
by Kate Bolick
6 page feature in the Dec. 09 issue - smaller online piece here:
www.readymade.com.

Slate
Optimism at the Table
by Kate Bolick
www.slate.com




-lecture-

Extra-Ordinary
A Lecture and Workshop
featuring Saya Woolfalk, Natsu, Vanis Turner, Karen Azoulay
Sunday, October 11, at 6 pm

Each of these four artists use laborious craft based methods to infuse everyday objects and materials with stories of magic and wonder. For the October 11th Sunday School the artists will show images and speak a little about their work. This will be followed by short demonstrations of methods anyone can use to fashion everyday spaces into alternative narrative places.

DEITCH STUDIOS
4-40 44TH DRIVE ON THE EAST RIVER
LONG ISLAND CITY, NY 11101
212 343 7300
www.deitch.com.