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Question Bridge: Black Males opening in Sundance, Brooklyn, Oakland, Salt Lake City & Atlanta

cwongyap — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 01:25:25 +0000

Via Hank Willis Thomas, I’ve been helping out with this project for the past several weeks, though it’s been much longer in the making. Congratulations to the Question Bridge artists, producers and partners for their efforts finally coming to fruition.

Community Engagement Events

Question Bridge Blueprint Roundtables
A series of intergenerational community engagement events,
in partnership with various organizations:
Oakland · Saturday, February 11, 2012 · 1 – 3 pm
Brooklyn · Saturday, May 19, 2012 · gallery tour : 1 pm · community discussion & performance : 2 pm

Target First Saturdays at the Brooklyn Museum
Saturday, February 4, 2012 · 5 – 11 pm · Free

Free First Sundays at the Oakland Museum
Sunday, March 4, 2012 · 11 am – 5 pm · Free

Evening for Educators
Explore the exhibition and discover new ways to engage your students with art.
Brooklyn · Thursday, April 26, 2012 · 4–6:30 pm
more info: questionbridge.com

Question Bridge: Black Males was created by Chris Johnson and Hank Willis Thomas, in collaboration with Bayeté Ross Smith and Kamal Sinclair. The Executive Producers are Delroy Lindo, Deborah Willis, and Jesse Williams. Transmedia production by Innovent.

questionbridge.com

Your chance to support a brilliant young photographer at a critical juncture

cwongyap — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 03:23:18 +0000

I met Gina Osterloh just before she moved away from San Francisco. So it’s only been through chance encounters, organized exchanges, and art opportunities in Los Angeles, Manila, New York, and recently, Woodstock, that I’ve had the pleasure of being impressed by her work and her intellect. She’s the real deal: a strong photographer with a compelling body of work and thoughtful ideas.

Gina is about to make a big leap—developing three new bodies of work in 2012. And if that’s not ambitious enough, the process will be in the public eye, when she sets up her photography studio in the non-profit LACE gallery, open to visitors.

In the past when sought contributions to fund new projects, I had to gather the nerve to ask. Knowing Gina’s humble demeanor, this is a big deal to create and commit to such an ambitious Kickstarter campaign. If you are able, show your support for this talented, hardworking artist.

Visit the Kickstarter campaign for Group Dynamics and Improper Light: new work by Gina Osterloh.

See more of Gina’s eerie photos.

Residency Projects II reviewed on Art Practical

cwongyap — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 22:28:19 +0000

My review of Residency Projects II, a group show at Kala Art Institute Gallery featuring Elisheva Biernoff, Zachary Royer Scholz, Renée Gertler, Jennie Ottinger, and Jessica Ingram, is now online on Art Practical.

Gratitude Project: Tell me what you’re grateful for

cwongyap — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 02:36:39 +0000

Gratitude Project > Call for Submissions

WHAT:

I need your help! Tell me what you’re grateful for.

WHY: I’m an artist whose projects examine positive emotions, optimism, and pessimism.

My next installation—to be exhibited in the UK—will be a collective gratitude journal of sorts.

Gratitude journals are often cited by psychologists as first step towards increasing subjective well-being (happiness). Psychologists Bob Emmons and Mike McCullough found that people who wrote down five things they were grateful for each week for nine weeks had more positive emotion overall than other groups in the study. In a study that replicated the results, the gratitude journal-keepers “reported greater satisfaction with their lives, more optimism regarding the upcoming week, and greater connection with others.” (Philip Zimbardo and John Boyd, The Time Paradox, 2008)

HOW: Write your first responses, or mull it over and submit a list. Submit as often as you like. Submit by:

Comment below

or

Send me an email: gratitudeproject (at) christinewongyap.com.

WHEN:

Submit now. I’ll accept submissions through ~~September~~ early October. Keep ‘em coming, please!

The text you submit (edited for brevity or clarity) may appear in an installation. I’ll post documentation by the end of November on my website. Your name will not appear with the work, but if you include your name/contact info, I would be happy to acknowledge your contribution on the project web page, and send you a note when the documentation is posted.

Thank you for your help. I will be very grateful for your submissions.

See: Alicia Eggert and Caleb Charland

cwongyap — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 13:30:02 +0000

Beautiful, thought-provoking textual and kinetic installations by a Maine-based young artist, Alicia Eggert.

Gorgeously physical photos of light-based interventions by Caleb Charland.

See: Paintings by Jane Corrigan

cwongyap — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 13:15:16 +0000

I like these paintings by Jane Corrigan, an NYC-based painter and fellow artist in residence at Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild.

Two Girls Reading (by day), 2011

Two Girls Reading (by night), 2011

You can see Jane’s work in person in Brooklyn now.

Through August 19
Goodbye, Space Shuttle
Curbs & Stoops Active Space
566 Johnson Ave, Brooklyn, NY
Tues—Sat 1—6pm

New works by a diverse group of contemporary artists, including: Taylor Baldwin, John Bianchi, Matthew Capezzuto, Jane Corrigan, Bill Donovan, Jen Durbin, Sue Havens, Alexis Knowlton, Andy Lane, Beth Livensperger, Sakura Maku, Brian Maller, Vasken Mardikian, Jason Mones, Wilfredo Ortega, Jen Schwarting, John Silvis, Lee Vanderpool, Peonia Vázquez-D’Amico and Letha Wilson.

Take the L train to Jefferson stop. Walk north by north west.