October 17, 2011
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
For more information please contact Doris Cacoilo at 973-699-0399, or email at doris@gaiastudio.org

WONDER WOMEN RETELL THE NEWS

New News is Old News exhibition at The Gowanus Studio Space
November 11 – November 25, 2011
166 7th Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11215
Gallery hours: Thursday – Sunday 3pm-8pm and by appointment

Opening Reception: Friday November 11, 2011, 7pm – 10pm

((Brooklyn, 11/11/11): _gaia together with its collaborators in Cyprus: The Cyprus Community Media Centre (CCMC), the European Mediterranean Arts Association (EMAA) and Rooftop Theatre Group present the New News is Old News: A Wonder Women Project at The Gowanus Studio Space.

In January 2011, _gaia studio invited 10 New York & New Jersey based artists to participate in their residency program Wonder Women, exploring the changing media landscape in a project called ‘New News is Old News.’ The work was completed and exhibited at Gallery Aferro in Newark, NJ. Its curators Doris Cac?oilo and Maya Joseph-Goteiner along with three of the artists, Christine DaCruz, Sharon De La Cruz and Lindsey Muscato traveled to Cyprus upon invitation by the Cypriot organizers, Alana Kakoyiannis, on behalf of CCMC, Ozgul Ezgin on behalf of EMAA & Ellada Evangelou, on behalf of Rooftop to stage a similar program with artists in Nicosia and to present the culmination of the week-long process in an exhibition at the Peace Room in Nicosia.

On November 11, 2011 the work from both parts of the residency project will be exhibited at The Gowanus Studio Space. Artists and curators from Cyprus will travel to NYC to join the local artists for this special reunion of Wonder Women. During the residency, the curators and selected artists: US based Christine DaCruz, Mairikke Dau, Sharon de la Cruz, Melissa MacAlpin, Escobar-Morales, Lindsey Muscato, Larysa Myers, Cristine Posner, Sharone Vendriger, Nicole Wilson and Cyprus based Heleniq Argyrou, Kakia Catselli, Eser Kececi, Gokce Kececi Sekeroglu, Costantia Manoli, Maria Petrides and Julie Sandor met for critique sessions and discussions related to the media.

In their projects for the exhibition, the artists focus on communication and the content of news in US and Cypriot media, paying particular attention our changing relationship to news. Among the many collaborations and discussions the projects emerged as individual and collective experiments. Christine Da Cruz and Maria Petrides collaborate to collect oral histories and create embroidered portraits of women. Sharon de la Cruz uses the American cultural iconography of Aunt Jemima to present her vision of Crooked Images. Melissa MacAlpin illustrates love stories from the NY Times. Lindsey Muscato considers the physical experience of reading a broadsheet illuminating details from newspaper articles in her drawings of controlled coffee spills. Julie Sandor deconstructs TV media consumption using found video.

All 17 artists will show a selection of the work created in the US and Cyprus residencies in a group exhibition at The Gowanus Studio Space beginning Friday, November 11th at 7:00PM and will remain open until Friday, November 25th

The project is made possible through the generous support of the U.S. Embassy’s Bicommunal Support Program (BSP) as well as through a crowd sourcing initiative launched by _gaia studio using Kickstarter and our hosts Gowanus Studio Space.

Check out our flickr gallery of the show.

THE EVENT IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
For further details, please visit:
_gaia – http://www.gaiastudio.org/wonderwomen/
The Gowanus Studio Space – http://gowanusstudio.org/
See images from the previous exhibition in Newark: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gaiastudio/sets/72157626871563556/
and from the exhibition in Nicosia, Cyprus: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gaiastudio/sets/72157627066692200/

Then come out to see all of the artists and work united in the Gowanus show!!