Exhibitions

Samsýning stórkostlegra listamanna sem enginn má láta framhjá sér fara.

Verðlaunaðir, viðurkenndir og nýuppgötvaðir listamenn sem sýna verk sín í gullfallegum sýningarsal félagsins Íslensk grafík. Fjölbreytt verk í hinum ýmsu miðlum en með áherslu á grafíkmiðilinn.

A fantastic exhibition that you can´t miss. Rewarded, recognized and newly descovered artist present their artworks and design at the beautiful gallery of the Icelandic Printmakers Association.

Þetta verður einn af mest spennandi listviðburðum ársins, ekki missa af þessari sýningu á Menningarnótt í Grafíksalnum, Islensk Grafik!
Sýningin er opin frá 17-19 á laugardaginn.

Laugardaginn 29.júlí opnar Björg Örvar sýningu á málverkum í sal Íslenskrar grafíkur, Tryggvagötu 17, hafnarmegin. Sýningin stendur til 13.ágúst. Opnunartími er kl.14 -17 frá fimmtudegi til sunnudags.

Allir velkomnir!

Laugardaginn 17. júní  kl. 16-18 opnar Laufey Vilhjálmsdóttir Bustany  málverkasýningu sína, Sögur í lit, í Grafíksalnum, Hafnarhúsinu Tryggvagötu 17, 101 Reykjavík.

Sýningin er opin fimmtudaga til sunnudaga kl. 14 – 18 og stendur til 2.júlí

Í Listasafni Árnesinga

rgbDrawing: Pigment on Paper

Creighton Michael and Ben Diep

Icelandic Print Association, Tryggvagata 17, 101 Reykjavík

Opening reception Friday 26^th of May at 5 pm

Artists will be in attendance

26.     May – 11 June 2017

rgbDrawing: Pigment on Paper is a unique collaboration between Creighton Michael and Ben Diep showcasing selections from recent series of digital drawings. This next generation of hybrid work was produced using a large digital format in a time capture process. Basically we were able to compress the extended activity of a drawing episode into a single image.

In this current work, which incorporates elements of drawing, photography and printmaking, corrupted image patterns are used as the drawing implements in a marking technique that combines some of the mechanics employed in puppetry to expand the possibilities of drawing and to initiate conversations regarding the relationships between process and product, documentation and depiction.

Creighton Michael
American: Knoxville, Tennessee; January 12, 1949 cm@creightonmichael.com

An alumnus of the University of Tennessee, Creighton Michael received his M.A. in art history from Vanderbilt University and a M.F.A. in painting and multimedia from Washington University in St. Louis. He is a recipient of a Pollack Krasner Foundation grant, a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship in sculpture and a Golden Foundation for the Arts award in painting. His work is in various public and private collections including the National Gallery of Art and The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.; Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Brooklyn Museum, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia; Denver Art Museum, Mint Museums of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina; Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York; The John and Maxine Belger Family Foundation, Kansas City, Missouri; The Ogden Museum of Southern Art; The McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas and Hafnarborg Museum, Iceland.

Michael has had solo exhibitions at the High Museum of Art; Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York; Vanderbilt University; the Queens Museum of Art at Bulova Corporate Center; Neuberger Museum of Art; Colgate University; University of Richmond Museums, Richmond, Virginia and The Mint Museums, as well as numerous galleries and art centers in New York City and throughout the United States. Abroad he has had solo exhibitions in Copenhagen, Montreal and Reykjavík.

He has been on the faculty at Rhode Island School of Design and the Pennsylvania Academy of Art, a visiting lecturer at Princeton University and a visiting artist at numerous colleges and universities including Albright College, Marshall University, Haverford College, Purchase College and University of Richmond. Michael has conducted studio workshops at Anderson Ranch Art Center, The Arts Center in St. Petersburg, Florida and Virginia Commonwealth University to mention a few. He was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Art at Hunter College in New York City from 2005-2013. Michael is a member of American Abstract Artists, has served on the Board of Directors for the International Sculpture Center from 2010-2013 and is currently on the Board of Overseers at Katonah Museum of Art.

The artist lives and works in New York.

Ben Diep

American: Saigon, Viet Nam; March 5, 1967

csinyc1@gmail.com

Ben Diep, founder and owner of Color Space Imaging, New York, and co-founder and co-director of Square Peg Gallery, is a master photographic printer who collaborates with renowned fine art photographers and artists, as well as those who are striving to find their voice and achieve acknowledgement.

In 1981, Diep, then a recent refugee from southern Viet Nam, set out on a life changing adventure when he was awarded a four-year scholarship to a prestigious New England prep school. At Suffield Academy Diep was free to explore his previously untapped interest in drawing and painting, and upon graduation he was awarded a full scholarship to study fine art at the Rhode Island School of Design.

At the behest of his father (who had been a portrait photographer in Viet Nam), Diep left RISD in 1986 and returned to New York City to open a very successful family-owned photographic lab, where he began collaborating with fine art photographers and artists. In 2003 Ben founded his own lab, Color Space Imaging, to focus on applying his painterly esthetic to fine art photography. Diep collaborates with renowned American and European artists on solo exhibitions at art museums and prestigious galleries in the US and Europe, including

New York City’s MoMA, the Royal Academy in London, and the Royal Museums of Fine Arts, Belgium. Joseph Bartscherer, Lothar Baumgarten, Anna Gaskill, Candida Hofer, Dana Lixenberg, Duane Michals and Richard Pare are examples of some of the many artists with whom Ben has collaborated.

In 2012, Diep moved his printing studio from New York City’s photo district to a beautiful federalist style 1920’s brick building overlooking the Hudson River and the Palisades, just twelve miles north of the city in Hastings-on-Hudson, NY. Diep and has wife spent several years renovating the building to create a live/work environment for their family; they put the final piece of the puzzle in place in October of 2015 when they opened Square Peg Gallery to create opportunities for discussion and exchange of ideas in the arts.

Laugardaginn 6. Maí kl. 16 opnar GUÐRÚN ÖYAHALS myndlistarmaður

sýningu í Grafíksalnum, Hafnarhúsinu Tryggvagötu 17, 101 Reykjavík

Sýningin er opin fimmtudaga til sunnudaga kl. 14 – 18 og stendur til 21. maí

—Með hvíta fætur í söltu vatni skelfur hún af kulda, hún skelfur af kulda og virðir fyrir sér fegurð marglita fjörugróðursins. Hún skelfur af hita, hún skelfur af reiði, hún skelfur af fegurð með svarta fætur í hvítu vatni. Skjálfnadi af hvítri fegurð hverfur hún í salt vatnið.—

Titill sýningarinnar er sóttur til Senegal en Gyðjan, Mame Coumba Bang er verndari vatnsins í Saint Louis, þar sem Guðrún dvaldi á vinnustofu um tveggja mánaða skeið. Húsnæðið sem hún dvaldi í er á eyju í Senegal ánni, en borgin skiptist í þrjá hluta þar sem áin klýfur hana á tveimur stöðum. Innblástur Guðrúnar að sýningunni er sprottinn af þessum framandi en þó kunnuglega stað og eru sum verkanna að hluta til unnin í Senegal, en eftirvinnsla og önnur verk unnin á Íslandi síðastliðna mánuði.

Sýningin samanstendur af innsetningu ásamt myndbandi og teikningum, þar sem Senegal áin, Atlants hafið, hvít fórn og bláar plastflöskur eru í öndvegi.

Guðrún Öyahals stundaði ná við Myndlista og Handíðaskóla Íslands og var um hríð gestanemandi við Burg Giebichenstein í Halle, Þýskalandi, hún útskrifaðist vorið 1997. Einnig nam hún Kennslufræði við Listaháskóla Íslands og lauk því námi vorið 2005. Guðrún starfar jöfnum höndum við myndlist og leikmyndahönnun og hefur komið að fjölmörgum sýningum hér heima og

erlendis.

Maja Siska verður með listamannaspjall sunnudaginn 9.apríl kl. 16.00
sem er síðasti sýningardagur sýningarinnar Óður til kindarinnar
Allir hjartanlega velkomnir

Óður til kindarinnar

Sýning Maju Sisku er tileinkuð hinni íslensku sauðkind. Verkin á sýningunni eru öll unnin úr ull eða gæru, ullin er ýmist þæfð eða ofnin. Hún er spunnin, toguð og mótuð en þannig er látið reyna á fjölbreytileika hennar. Með notkun forna hefða í handverkinu nær listamaðurinn að tengjast fórtíðinni, fjárbúskapnum og ekki síst þjóðarsálinni. Sýningin óður til kindarinnar miðlar þakklæti fyrir afurðir hennar, fegurð og hugrekki.

Maja´s installation of works are handmade from the sheep´s fleece using methods of spinning, felting, weaving and tanning. The wool is spun and formed and its characteristics tested. By using old craftsmanship the artist experiences a connection with the past, sheep husbandry and discovers the roots of Iceland´s national identity.

Maja Siska, born 1969 in Germany has been a resident of Iceland since 2000. She is a trained architect (M. Arch form ASU) and has worked creatively in several mediums like oil on canvas and oil on corrugated metal before turning her attention to wool. She lives in rural Southern Iceland in sheep country and is surrounded by wool, a highly underrated raw material in her opinion. By working with wool, employing age old techniques as well as developing new ones, she builds a deeper connection with the land and people, a connection that she hopes to convey to the onlooker.

More about Maja Siska:

www.skinnhufa.is

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Maja Siska, fædd 1969 í Þýskalandi hefur verið búsett á Íslandi frá árinu 2000. Hún er menntaður arkitekt og hefur unnið meðal annars með olíu á striga og bárujárn áður en hún sneri sér að ullinni. Hún býr í sveit á suðurlandi og ullin þar er auðfengið hráefni, en vanmetið að hennar áliti. Að vinna í ull með fornum sem nýjum aðferðum hjálpar henni að tengjast landi og þjóð. Það er þessi tenging sem hún vonast til að miðla til áhorfenda.

Meira um Maju Sisku:

www.skinnhufa.is

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