The exhibits showcase the work of over thirty USA artists whose common interest is in clarifying artistic discourse through their blogs.
All of the exhibits will take place between November 3, 2007 and January 12, 2008.
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A number of artists have entered the blog arena, writing about art and the art world as they participate in it through their visual work. There have always been artists who write about art, and at times their writing has been highly influential; Donald Judd is one name that leaps to mind. As a new art narrative emerges, writers of all stripes – critics, historians, curators and even art bloggers -- will play a large part in shaping, interpreting and defining it.
This exhibition focuses on the work of artists who are active art blog writers. The work you see here emerged in the studio in near-simultaneity with the artist’s written expressions. These twin efforts – art making and blog writing -- sometimes appear to flow together and intertwine beautifully, and at other times almost seem to be in diametric opposition.
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All of the artists involved in the Blogger Show project will have a representative work at Agni Gallery. Links, provided below, are to the artists' blogs.
Nancy Baker (Raleigh, NC) - Tire Shop
Martin Bromirski – (Richmond VA) Anaba
Sharon Butler (Mystic, CT) – Two Coats of Paint
Lisa Call (Parker, CO) - New Work and Inspiration
F. Lennox Campello (Washington DC) Mid Atlantic Art News
Rose Clancy (Pittsburgh, PA) – paperWorks
Kevin Clancy (Boston MA and Pittsburgh PA) - soft soft pink pulls through the ivory void
Susan Constanse (Pittsburgh, PA) - Oranje
Warren Craghead - drawer
Mark Creegan (Jacksonville Florida) - JaxCal.org
Christiane D (Pittsburgh PA) - Christiane D
Roberta Fallon (Philadelphia PA) Fallon and Rosof’s Artblog
Ann Gordon (Detroit MI) - Detroitarts
Cable Griffith (Seattle WA) - Cable Griffith
David Grim (Pittsburgh, PA) - Serendipity
Bill Gusky (Canton, CT) - Artblog Comments
Tracy Helgeson - Works by Tracy Helgeson
Stephanie Lee Jackson (Brooklyn NY) - Pretty Lady
JT Kirkland (Washington, D.C.) - Thinking About Art
Mary Klein (Minneapolis, MN) - stillifes
Eva Lake (Portland, OR) -Eva Lake
Steven LaRose - (Ashland OR) Steven LaRose
Michael Lease (Richmond VA) - Annabelle’s Aspirin
Joanne Mattera (New York NY) Joanne Mattera Art Blog
Rob Matthews (Philadelphia PA) - Matthews The Younger
Jean McClung (Pittsburgh PA) - Urban Bytes
John Morris (Pittsburgh, PA) - Digging Pittsburgh Arts
Loren Munk (Brooklyn NY) - James Kalm
Elizabeth Perry (Pittsburgh, PA) - Woolgathering
David Pohl (Pittsburgh, PA) - find the time to rhyme
Libby Rosof (Philadelphia PA) Fallon and Rosof’s Artblog
Chris Rywalt - (Wood Ridge NJ) NYC Art
Marc Snyder (Pittsburgh, PA) - Fiji Island Mermaid Press
The overwhelming message here is that art blogging only occurs in the USA.
3 comments:
Hi bellebyrd,
I can't speak for the curator, John Morris of Digging Pitt, but I'm pretty certain that this show wasn't meant to be the definitive statement on the state of the blogosphere, but a demonstration of the fact that there are a growing number of artists who use blogs as a way to extend their studio practice, and an exploration of what that might mean when presenting their artwork. I'm fairly certain that financial constraints were in play when it came to including artists outside of the U.S.
While the internet makes the exhibition avaliable to the entire world, in terms of interacting with the artists and seeing at least pixellated versions of their work, the same old constraints and costs apply to the four "meatspace" exhibition spaces that exist in the "real world" as with any other show.
Maybe if the show were to happen again, it might be titled "A Blogger Show". . .
What would be magnificent would be "The Blogger Show" with a central web presence, and exhibition spaces on multiple continents, all coordinating exhibitions of artist-bloggers within their geographical region. Well beyond the scope of "The Blogger Show" in its present incarnation, but certainly a wonderful project for someone to take up. Something for the Blogger Biennial. . .
I can't speak for John either, but I can say that the show was put together in something of chain -- who knows who and down the line. Not only are we all U.S. artists, we're all really physically close, especially in a worldwide sense. It's mostly an East Coast show, too.
I've already found a few more artists who I'd like to have seen included, who I'd have mentioned to John if I'd thought of them. If there are any more Blogger Shows, I'd like to see it expand, too.
on the ninth of november I received a comment from someone who clearly had no real sense of what the site was about. I decided to stick my neck out and publically state for the first time that it was an art work rather than a conventional blog. I got a mixed reaction.
Coincidentally, a few days later I received an email about the javamuseum exhibition art + blog = blogart? which I posted on the 12th.
"The show a+b=ba? makes the attempt to present a variety of different aspects of how artists use a “blog” for artistic purposes, and it is up to the user to find out how to estimate it. "
I was very pleased to find that I was not alone in this approach. The exhibition has artists from around a dozen countries.
The following day I found the blogger show and compared them
Both exhibitions have similar descriptions - the primary difference being the nationalities. I found it interesting that the blogger show was not being described as a domestic exhibition, hence my comment.
It will also be interesting to see how quickly we are presented with a flurry of copycat shows.
It was a pleasure to have these shows to sustantiate my editorial.
byrd
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