Studio snapshot: Ribbon Text specimen swatch wall.

I’ve just finished the latest Ribbon Text:

make space for unexpected positive revelations, 2012, ribbon, thread, pins, 59 × 39 in / 1.5 × 1 m.

It’s the first two-sided Ribbon Text thus far. There’s cream-colored ribbon for the front and fluorescent on the back.

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Soup’s On:

Voices of Home closes this Tuesday, February 28 at Jenkins Johnson Gallery.

In Other Words continues through March 24 at Intersection for the Arts.

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People art talking
Voices of Home was an NYC-Arts pick, in the February 16 episode (16:38).

From that pick, The preview image for Give Thanks, my installation of gratitude pennant flags, was re-blogged on this Tumblr featuring women artists. The unabashedly enthusiastic title is pretty awesome.

In Other Words has been reviewed in the S.F. Chronicle and the Zero1 blog, and reception photos are on ArtBusiness.com.

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I can’t stop thinking about this Terry Winters collage, featuring Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s Flow model (for more info, see prior blog post).

Terry Winters, Notebook 162 ,2003-2011, Collage 11 x 8 1/2 inches; 28 x 22 cm. Source: MatthewMarks.com

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Looking forward to the forthcoming art fairs coming to NYC in March, and especially Frieze on Randall’s Island in May.

Give Thanks, 2011 site-specific installation of 39 pennant flags: satin ribbon, linen, gratitude statements, dimensions site-variable.

Flag Snowflake series, 2010, stick-on flags on neon paper, 8.5 x 11 inches / 21.5 x 30 cm

Saturday, February 18, 2012, 3:00 pm
Voices of Home panel discussion with participating artists
Moderated by Kalia Brooks, curator
521 West 26th Street 5th Floor, NY 10001
Gallery hours : Tuesday – Saturday, 10–6

Positive Sign #59, 2011, glitter pen, gridded vellum, 8.5 × 11 in / 21.5 × 28 cm

February 1–March 24, 2012
In Other Words
Intersection for the Arts
925 Mission Street, San Francisco CA 94103

Members VIP Reception: Wed, February 1, 6-7pm
Opening Reception: Wed, February 1, 7-9pm
Gallery hours: Tue–Sat, 12–6pm
Free admission

In Other Words is a group exhibition that looks at language and its capacity to clarify and confuse, convene and separate, inspire and discourage. Language can excite our spirit, comfort our feelings, and inform our intellect; it can also extinguish desire, destroy confidence, and cloud perception. By exploring a range of areas concerning the influence and evolution of language in our lives — the impact of technology, the obscurity of industry-specific terminology, the psychological internalization of language, and the recontexutalization of language — the artists in this exhibition demonstrate through a diversity of media the many ways in which we strive to communicate to each other.

In Other Words features work by Katie Gilmartin, Julia Goodman, Emanuela Harris-Sintamarian, Susan O’Malley, Meryl Pataky, Alex Potts, Cassie Thornton, Annie Vought and Christine Wong Yap.

Related programs:

IN OTHER WORDS: SF LIBRARY READING LIST
February 1 | Free
In celebration of our new exhibit, the San Francisco Public Library will share a suggested reading list that reflects the power and diversity of language.

(By coincidence, James Geary’s I is an Other—a book on metaphors that inspired Positive Signs—is on the reading list!)

IN OTHER WORDS: BLOG CONTEST
February 1-March 24 | Free
Every couple weeks, we’ll have a new call out for fun images and stories! Participants email us their content. Top submissions will appear on our website and a handful of lucky contributors are chosen to receive special prizes!

IN OTHER WORDS: BALDERDASH
March 21 | 7PM | $10-$15
Do you like word games and team activities? Familiar and foreign terms from the arts, business, finance, and social service worlds set the stage for a game where YOU are the expert. Join us for an uncensored friendly competition where fictitious and honest definitions abound. Sign up as a team for a round of Balderdash hosted by author Michelle Tea to show off your smarts and win prizes!

IN OTHER WORDS: ARTISTS TALK
March 24 | 2PM | Free
The “In Other Words” exhibit comes to a close. Please join us in this candid talk to hear directly from the creative minds that graced our gallery with such fun and thought-provoking art.

theintersection.org

Give Thanks, 2011, site-specific installation of 39 pennant flags: satin ribbon, linen, gratitude statements, dimensions site-variable. Recently on view at Untitled Gallery @ Project Space Leeds, Leeds, UK.

Photos of my latest installation, Give Thanks, now posted. Sincere thanks to Katie Rutherford and Untitled Gallery for the photographs.

Give Thanks (studio view detail), 2011, installation of 39 flags: satin ribbon, linen, gratitude statements; dimensions site-variable; each flag 12 x 18 in / 30 x 45 cm.

I’m very excited to present a new text-based installation made of ribbon and fabric, and relating to gratitude, at this exhibition-within-an-exhibition.

Enter a Small Room Arranged for this Purpose is a series of three exhibitions in Project Space Leeds’ version of Untitled Gallery, created for Peering Sideways, a new exhibition and programme of events at PSL. This ambitious project brings together artists’ groups from around the UK (London, Manchester, Wakefield).

The project also aims to expand the networks of the participating artists and groups, sparking new relationships and collaborations. The project comprises three separate group shows running concurrently, with some of the work developing in the space over the course of the project.

November 16–December 10, 2011
Enter a Small Room Arranged for this Purpose: Part Three
[part of Peering Sideways, September 10 – December 10, 2011]
Untitled Gallery (Manchester) @ PSL [Project Space Leeds] 
Whitehall Waterfront, 2 Riverside Way, Leeds, LS1 4EH, UK