CCMC Video of the Week is Wonder Women!
See a larger video at Cyprus Community Media Centre
“Dead Zone” Closing November, 25th 6-9pm
Please join us at the _gaia gallery for the last night of the November show!
Friday, November 25th, 2011 6-9pm
DEAD ZONE
New work by Christine DaCruz and Doris Caçoilo
The artists have created site specific installation and photography in response to a recent visit to the Buffer Zone in the city of Nicosia, Cyprus. The Dead Zone refers to the United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus which runs for more than 112 miles along what is known as the Green Line. The zone partitions the island of Cyprus into a southern area effectively controlled by the government of the Republic of Cyprus, and the northern area controlled by the Turkish army. Some 10,000 people live in the “Dead Zone.”
©Doris Cacoilo
©Christine DaCruz
©Christine DaCruz
©Christine DaCruz
Dynasty December for JC Fridays 12/2 – Come dressed to impress!
_gaia presents DYNASTY DECEMBER for JC Fridays at _gaia – Friday, 12/2 6-9pm
Ring in the joyous holiday season at _gaia this Dynasty December. While some battle over their fortunes this holiday season, _gaia friends will sip champagne, eat caviar and screen footage of Dynasty’s infamous catfights. Come for the art, hors d’oeuvres, and cocktails. Big hair, big shoulder pads, and power dress attire highly encouraged! Dress to impress!
New News is Old News Exhibition in Gowanus!
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!!
_gaia at WoolPunk Studios!!
©Doris Cacoilo
_gaia will be celebrating Thanksgiving at Woolpunk Studios! Please join us for autumnal favorites and great conversation! 2pm – See the invite here!
Woolpunk Studios has invited _gaia members past and present for a special exhibition at their amazing new gallery space in Jersey City. We are thrilled to be part of the growing community of artists. Come see the show Saturday 10/20 2-7pm!
Great article about the show here!
©Melissa MacAlpin
©Aileen Bassis
Artist Talk THURSDAY at NJCU Exhibition
Please join _gaia, the artists, curators and NJCU for an evening of informal conversations about media news effects on our lives and how artists can make art out of them. Artists and Curators of the 365 Days of Print exhibition, currently on view at NJCU’s Visual Arts Gallery, will be discussing their project’s concept, artistic processes, and challenges.
There have been two excellent reviews of the show published:
http://www.nj.com/jjournal-news/index.ssf/2011/09/newspapers_form_the_basis_of_n.html
http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2011/09/365_days_of_print_exhibit_at_n.html
We look forward to seeing you!
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NJCU Visual Arts Gallery presents:
365 Days of Print
AN EXHIBITION OF ARTISTS MINING MEDIA
Oct. 1 – Oct. 27
Artists’ Panel: Oct. 20, 5:30 p.m. at the auditorium (adjacent to the gallery)
Gallery Location: 100 Culver Avenue, Jersey City, NJ 07305
Gallery phone number: 201-200-2496
Comprised of works by over forty artists from the online project of the same name, “365 Days of Print: An Exhibition of Artists Mining Media” catalogues the struggle and challenge to process, respond to and engage with the evolving media landscape, its images and content. Artists have used audio, collage, photography, embroidery, and sculpture to comment on and critique press coverage of every major event – from protests in Tunisia and Egypt to the debt ceiling debate, from the Fukushima disaster to the arrest of Dominique Strauss-Kahn.
Since January 2011, 365 Days of Print has invited small groups of artists for one-month residencies to create work sourcing newspapers and various media outlets. Working under the same deadlines as journalists, artists created work every day that engaged and commented not only on the information and events covered by The New York Times and other newspapers, but on the medium itself and such concepts as bias, objectivity, sexism, consumerism and conflict of interest.
Organized by artists and curators Kenneth Pietrobono and Doris Caçoilo, the exhibition will feature over 120 works and will be installed at both the Dumbo Arts Festival and The Visual Arts Gallery at New Jersey City University. Using a loose chronological format, the exhibit will illustrate news events as they occurred, allowing pieces to engage in a visual dialogue of shared experience. In keeping with the pace of the media cycle, space will be left available for future works by contributing artists throughout the run of the exhibition.
Created by Maya Joseph-Goteiner, 365 Days of Print continues to enlist artists to make new work through 2011. For more information on the project, please visit http://www.365daysofprint.com/
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“Shorts Cuts” _gaia Members Exhibition and Open Studio
As part of the Jersey City Artist Studio Tour _gaia will be opening it’s studio as well as exhibiting “Short Cuts” a collection of works by members of _gaia.
Come out to see!
October 1st and 2nd, Saturday and Sunday, 12-6pm
_gaia studio
315 3rd Street
Jersey City, NJ 07302
See our Facebook invite here.
©Agnieszka Wszolkowska 2011
365 Days of Print Exhibition
_gaia is happy to announce that 365 Days of Print is leaving the web and creating an exhibition at the DUMBO Arts Festival and at NJCU as part of the Jersey City Studio Artist Tour!! Come out to see the tremendous list of artists! Further details on the invite here.
Marci Mathews: New Works Opening Reception, Sept. 09, 2011
Please join us in the _gaia gallery on September 9th, 2011 to celebrate the opening of Marci Mathews: New Works [Part of JC Fridays].
Marci Mathew is a local Jersey City artist and new member of Gaia. Friday’s show features Marci’s newest series of vibrantly colored paintings capturing different experiences of women from India to Africa as well evocative depictions of the feminine from her imagination.
Check out the Facebook Invite Here.
ENTER THE CAMERA OBSCURA by Roxana Marroquin
Join us at the _gaia gallery Friday August 5th for our monthly exhibition. This month we are featuring work by Roxana Marroquin in ENTER THE CAMERA OBSCURA
Long before the inception of photography, it was discovered that in a completely dark (obscura) room (camera) if there was a small hole on one one side, an inverted image would be projected on the opposite wall of the room. This led to the invention of the first camera, the pinhole camera. Taking this simple concept and origin of photography, Roxana Marroquin has turned the _gaia Gallery into a pinhole camera and will be exhibiting the photographs during _gaia’s first Friday of the month exhibit.
Enter The Camera Obscura
Friday, August 5th, 6-9pm
315 Third Street, JC, NJ 07302
We hope to see you!
