People of Amsterdam! Our dear friend, Ballroom alum, and board member Matthew Day Jackson is having an opening tomorrow, 6 October 2011, at both Grimm Galleries in Amsterdam.

At the Eerste Jacob van Campenstraat, Jackson will present one half of Heel Gezellig, in which he’s transformed the gallery into a living room, with a large Study Collection work, paintings and various sculptures on hand. The objects and works presented deal with notions of mortality, or the material of being. As Jackson says, “We are not simply flesh and bone, but also the materials through which we express ourselves to the world outside.”

The other half of Heel Gezellig, at the Keizersgracht gallery, was inspired by Andrew Guenther’s first New York solo show, where Guenther invited guests to exhibit work within his own exhibition. Jackson has invited artists Larry Bamburg, Sarah E. Wood, Erin Shirreff, Jonathan Marshall, Gretchen Bennett, Andrew Guenther, Adam Helms, Kris Kollmer and Maarten Baas — artists who have inspired Jackson himself — to contribute a piece relating to one of his “In Search of…” videos (based on the ’70s television show starring Leonard Nimoy). Jackson’s third and final “In search of…” video is also included: “In search of…Zombies.”

Heel Gezellig runs in both Grimm galleries from 6 October – 20 November 2011. The opening is 6 October 2011, from 4-6pm at Keizersgracht 82, and 6-8pm at Eerste Jacob van Campenstraat 23-25. Don’t miss it!

Our pals over at Marfa Book Company are having an opening this Saturday, October 1st at 6 pm, to celebrate Charles Mary Kubricht’s installation The Figure is Always Ground. As Tim Johnson, curator and owner of Marfa Book Company, explains: “The work, which covers four walls, the ceiling and the floor, features a painted dazzle, a form of nautical camouflage used, primarily, during the First World War” (Kubricht is also using this technique on storage containers at the High Line). The Figure is Always Ground runs through January 15, 2012 — be sure to check it out if you’re passing through Marfa.

Barbara Kasten

Studio Construct 125, 2011

Archival pigment print

53 15/16 x 43 1/2 inches

Edition of 5

We’re so happy to announce that Ballroom Marfa alum Barbara Kasten has a new exhibition of photographs, Ineluctable, at Tony Wight Gallery in Chicago. The exhibition showcases Kasten’s newest series of abstract photographs, which record the consequential traces of light upon large-scale assemblages composed for the camera. Instead of using photography as record or reference, the physical object, which is the transparent Plexiglas plane, becomes unimportant — and light and shadow become the subject (a technique she explored in the Studio Constructs from our 2010 show, Immaterial).

Most excitingly, the work in Ineluctable also includes Kasten’s works from the 1970s—cyanotypes, Polaroids, and drawings on photographic paper. Even in these early works, you can see Kasten challenging and experimenting with elements of transparency, color, light and structure.

Barbara Kasten’s Ineluctable runs from 9 September–15 October 2011 at the Tony Wight Gallery in Chicago.

Immaterial alum and great friend Rosy Keyser’s new exhibition, Promethean Dub, opens September 15 at Peter Blum Chelsea in New York. Loosely inspired by the first law of thermodynamics, Promethean Dub brings together a group of large-scale canvases and small works that relate themes of transmutation and rebirth to the concept that energy can neither be created nor destroyed (but can be recast).

The exhibition runs through November 12, 2011, and if you’re in New York, be sure to stop by the opening reception on Thursday, September 15, from 6 – 8 pm at Peter Blum Chelsea, 526 West 29th Street, New York. For additional information, please visit Peter Blum.

Be sure to check out the exhibition XXX Thirty Years Peter Blum Edition, at Peter Blum Soho, which features editions by Huma Bhabha and Matthew Day Jackson. On view September 10 through October 22, 2011.

Video of the Sonic Fabric studio, courtesy of Alyce Santoro.

Ballroom alumnus Alyce Santoro, who we presented in this year’s Texas Biennial, is the inventor of sonic fabric, an audible textile woven from cassette tape prerecorded with collages of sound. Alyce has been engaged in this project for over 10 years, which has evolved from a small-scale one-off conceptual art piece to a much larger-scale body of work that has been exhibited in museums and galleries internationally. To share this project with others,and to collaborate with fellow musicians and artists, architects, and designers, Alyce is gearing up to create a new batch of sonic fabric. To fund the process, she’s offering to weave small, custom-recorded batches of sonic fabric as a perk for contributors. There’s only two days left to donate, and she’s almost to her goal. Donate here.

We were so saddened to hear that Jeanette Ingberman, director of the nonprofit gallery Exit Art, passed away last week. Our director, Fairfax Dorn, began her career at Exit Art, and Jeanette Ingberman was one of her mentors — she showed her “how to create an independent organization that’s not afraid to take risk and have big ideas.” Michael Kaiser, President of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, echoed this sentiment: “I have had many teachers over my career. Jeanette was one of the most potent. I hope that young people who wish to work in the arts will study her work for years to come. It is a lesson in creativity supported by discipline, in commitment supported by sacrifice, and, ultimately, of the joy of pursuing one’s own personal mission.” Our deepest condolences to Papo Colo, Ingberman’s friends and family, and everyone at Exit Art. Read more about Ingberman here.

Ballroom Marfa friend Patrick Keesey is participating in Works of Paper at ACME. in Los Angeles from July 9 – August 6, 2011. Keesey says, “The fundamental subject of my drawing practice is the tension between seeing and marking. This is the essence, or essential tension, found in the act of drawing, especially when drawing from life.”

Patrick Keesey participated in the Ballroom Marfa 2011 Benefit Auction in New York City this past spring.

More amazing Ballroom alumni doing amazing things: Lisa Cooley’s current show features Miriam Böhm and two of our Immaterial artists, Rosy Keyser and Erin Shirreff. The works of the three artists, while formally and visually distinct, share a nuanced exploration of visual perception and the subjective excesses it enables — a cohesion celebrated in Art in America‘s latest “The Lookout: A Weekly Guide to Shows You Won’t Want to Miss.” The show runs now through July 29. Don’t miss it!

Update: The show has been extended until August 12. Learn more.

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We’re delighted to announce Friedrich Petzel Gallery’s new show, Channel to the New Image, a group exhibition curated by Jason Murison opening tomorrow, June 30, which features two Ballroom alumni, Barbara Kasten (from our 2010 new show Immaterial) and Roger White (from 2006’s You Are Here). Channel to the New Image groups painters and photographers creating new work with regard to the reception of the image and the control of meaning. In most cases, the subject of the artwork is obscured through a clashing of representation, figuration, and abstraction (without a hierarchy) and/or deploying methods of production to subtly sabotage the readability of the picture as a whole. Each picture’s context becomes dissolved, re-organized, re-formatted or displaced, forcing both poetic and philosophical approaches to the reading of the artwork. The show also features Dana Hoey, Miranda Lichtenstein, Allison Katz, Alex Kwartler, Andrew Masullo, Rebecca Morris, Mariah Robertson, and Dan Torop.

Friedrich Petzel Gallery, Channel to the New Image, June 30 – August 5, 2011, 535 West 22nd Street, New York, NY 10011. Opening reception tomorrow, June 30, from 6-8 pm.

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The deluge of contemporary art that is the Venice Biennale is upon us and though we couldn’t feel farther from the canal laden city out here in drought ridden Marfa, our Ballroom alumni are proving us wrong. Barry X Ball, Matthew Day Jackson, Trisha Donnelly, Peter Fischli & David Weiss, Thomas Houseago, Japanther, Sigalit Landau, and Louise Lawler are all part of a strong showing at the 54th Venice Biennale.

Trisha Donnelly, Peter Fischli & David Weiss, and Japanther in ILLUMInations at The Arsenale

Curated by Bice Curiger, ILLUMInations emphasizes the intuitive insight and the illumination of thought that is fostered by an encounter with art and its ability to sharpen the tools of perception. While the last Biennale Making Worlds highlighted constructive creativity, ILLUMInations focuses on the “light” of the illuminating experience, on the epiphanies that come with intercommunicative, intellectual comprehension. The Age of Enlightenment also resonates in ILLUMInations, testifying to the enduring vibrancy of its legacy.

ILLUMInations is by far the youngest edition of the Venice Biennale to date.

Trisha Donnelly

Peter Fischli & David Weiss

Spazio numero 13, 2011, three tubes, standing corner and two walls, unfired clay, projection

Japanther

Over at the Gelitin Pavillion, which was co-commissioned by Thyssen-Bornemizsa Art Contemporary and Bice Curiger, NY-based punk band Japanther performed as part of the Austrian artists’ collective exhibit/performance, Some Like It Hot. Japanther was featured in Ballroom’s exhibition Deep Comedy.

Japanther says about the project: “In response to Gelitin’s furnace piece we will record and work with sounds captured underwater in the canals of Venice. Using a hydrophone to hear the man-made sounds of the city and introducing water into a very element based performance. Utilizing the cities [sic] unique surroundings as an audio glue for psychedelic Rock and Roll jams. Not unlike the analog tapes Japanther currently uses, the hydrophone provides an all encompassing backdrop of live improvisational noise to the performance. Inducing trance and allowing the viewer a total wash by wall of sound.”

Watch the Japanther performance on YouTube.

Sigalit Landau’s One Man’s Floor Is Another Man’s Feelings at the Israeli Pavilion

Israeli artist Sigalit Landau who was featured in Ballroom’s Treading Water was selected to represent her country’s pavilion at Venice this year by Jean de Loisy and Ilan Wizgan. One Man’s Floor Is Another Man’s Feelings is a poetic and political exploration of the theme of water. “It focuses on what we have to share all together,” Landau’s co-curator for the exhibition, Jean de Loisy says, “it refers to 3,000 years of Mediterranean complexity.” Water irrigates the five sections of the exhibition, which include installations of pipe, video, and salt, just as blood irrigates the body.

The artist has been working on another water-related project recently, collaborating with Jordanian companies to build a bridge of salt connecting Israel and Jordan across a narrow passage of the Dead Sea. However, she decided not to present this project at the Biennale, preferring to dwell, as she usually does, on poetic video imagery that elicits visceral responses from viewers. Indeed, for Jean de Loisy, the great strength of Landau’s work is its location “between collective consciousness and poetry.”

Barry X Ball’s Portraits and Masterpieces at Ca’Rezzonico

Installation view: Envy, 2008-2010 (Golden honeycomb calcite, 22 x 17.25 x 9.5 inches) and Purity, 2008-2009 (Golden honeycomb calcite, 24 x 16.5 x 11.25 inches) at Sala del Trono, Ca’ Rezzonico. Photo courtesy of Francesco Allegretto.

In conjunction with Biennale, presents Portraits and Masterpieces, a solo show of sculptor Barry X Ball, curated by Dr. Laura Mattioli. Ball’s work incorporates both the traditional and the contemporary, directly engaging the history of art while stretching the boundaries of technique.

In his recent work, Ball reinvigorates the age-old tradition of figurative stone sculpture through the use of unconventional stones and methods. He employs a complex array of equipment and procedures to realize his sculptures, ranging from the cutting edge to the traditional, from 3-dimensional scanning, virtual modeling, and computer-controlled milling to hyper detailed hand carving and polishing. Ball’s sculptures, although paying reverent homage to their historical antecedents, are completely new.

Portraits and Masterpieces is the largest exhibition of the artist’s work to date, with 24 sculptures loaned from collections in the U.S. and Europe installed in 19 rooms on three floors. The sculptures have been carefully selected to interact with particular Ca’ Rezzonico room environments, creating a lush progression of site-specific installations.

Matthew Day Jackson, Thomas Houseago, & Louise Lawler in The World Belongs to You at Palazzo Grassi

, François Pinault‘s foundation, has mounted the large group exhibition, The World Belongs to You. Eschewing nationality as organizing principle, curator Caroline Bourgeois presents works by artists of different generations and origins. By juxtaposing different ways of making art, disciplines, and personal backgrounds, the exhibition seeks to explore artists’ relationships to history, reality, and its own representation. In a world often threatened by tension and self-withdrawal, the exhibition aims to approach identity, not based upon an affirmation of nationality or origins, but rather upon the way that one constructs relations with “the other.” As Édouard Glissant, who recently passed away, said, “identity should not be seen as a single root
but as a root that stretches out towards other roots.”

Matthew Day Jackson

All in the Family, 2011, steel and glass, vitrine, plastic, ceramics, Lucite, rapid prototype material, plastic resin, wood, steel, lava, 46 x 14 x 141 inches

Thomas Houseago

L’Homme Pressé, 2010-2011, bronze on steel, 318 x 62 x 150 inches

Louise Lawler

Not Yet Titled, 2006-2007, laminated cibachrome on museum box, 26 x 26 inches