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A big thank you to Awagami Paper Company for donating their great bamboo paper for our Marbling workshop this past Saturday with resident artist Heidi Lau. You can check out their products here and while your at it, check out Heidi's work too!
http://www.awagami.com/
Learn more about them and our Key Holder Resident Sueng Jong Lee here:
http://guttenbergarts.org/current-artists
Casey Fremont graduated from Boston University in 2004 with a Bachelor of the Arts, major in Art History. She began working at Art Production Fund in the fall of 2004, and currently serves as APF's Executive Director. While studying Art History in Boston, Casey spent the summers of 2000 and 2002 working as an intern at Art Production Fund, and Paul Kasmin Gallery in 2003. In September 2009 Casey Co-curated "That Was Then" at Rush Arts in New York, and in January 2010 Co-curated "Look Again" at Marlborough Gallery, New York. Casey currently serves on the Times Square Alliance’s Midnight Moment Selection Committee, the Young Friends of Acria advisory board, and Co-Chairs the Coalition for the Homeless' annual Artwalk benefit. (Photo by Ellen Forbes Burnie)
Nora Lawrence is curator at Storm King Art Center, where she has organized and co-organized numerous exhibitions, including Lynda Benglis: Water Sources (2015), Outlooks: Luke Stettner (2015), Zhang Huan: Evoking Tradition (2014), Outlooks: Virginia Overton (2014), Thomas Houseago: As I Went Out One Morning (2013), David Brooks (2013), and Storm King’s 2012 exhibition, Light and Landscape, which was a finalist for the International Association of Art Critics award for Best Project in a Public Space. Prior to joining Storm King, Nora was a curatorial assistant in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art. She has also worked at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in New York City. Nora has co-authored several publications and also taught courses at MoMA, the School of Visual Arts, and the University of Southern California. A graduate of Pomona College, Nora Lawrence received her MA in art history from the University of Southern California, and a Master of Philosophy degree from The Graduate Center at CUNY.
Mary-Kay Lombino is The Emily Hargroves Fisher '57 and Richard B. Fisher Curator and Assistant Director of Strategic Planning at The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College where she oversees the contemporary art and photography collections, exhibitions, and publications. Prior to joining the staff at Vassar she served as Curator of Exhibitions at the University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach for six years and Assistant Curator at UCLA Hammer Museum for five years. Her exhibitions include The Polaroid Years: Instant Photography and Experimentation (2013), Utopian Mirage: Social Metaphors in Contemporary Photography and Film (2007); Off the Shelf: New Forms in Contemporary Artists’ Books (2006); Candida Höfer: The Architecture of Absence (2005); UnNaturally (2003), By Hand: Pattern Precision, and Repetition in Contemporary Drawing (2001). She has also organized solo shows for numerous artists including Marco Maggi, Eirik Johnson, Phil Collins, Ken Price, Euan Macdonald, Bob Knox, Alice Könitz, and Mungo Thomson. Lombino’s 2013 publication The Polaroid Years (DelMonico Books/Prestel) recently won first place for Outstanding Catalogue from the Association of Art Museum Curators. In 2009, she was selected as one of ten fellows for the prestigious Center for Curatorial Leadership program, a six-month fellowship designed to train and support talented curators in realizing their potential for leadership in the field. Also in 2009 she was one of two recipients of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Curatorial Research Fellowship. In 2006 she was one of ten recipients of the Getty Curatorial Research Fellowship. Lombino received a B.A. in Art History from University of Richmond, Virginia in 1989 and an M.A. in Art History and Museum Studies from University of Southern California in 1995.
Omar López-Chahoud has been the Artistic Director and Curator of UNTITLED. since its founding in 2012 and will lead the curatorial team of UNTITLED. 2015.As an independent curator, López-Chahoud has curated and co-curated numerous exhibitions in the United States and internationally. Most recently, he curated the Nicaraguan Biennial in March 2014. López-Chahoud has participated in curatorial panel discussions at Artists' Space, Art in General, MoMA PS1, and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. He is currently a member of the Bronx Museum Acquisitions Committee. López-Chahoud earned MFAs from Yale University School of Art, and the Royal Academy of Art in London.
Roberta Waddell was Curator of Prints at The New York Public Library, after serving as Curator of Graphic Arts at The Toledo Museum of Art and Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Worcester Art Museum. For all these institutions she organized exhibitions of Old Master prints, modern and contemporary prints, photographs, and illustrated books. Throughout her career and after her retirement from The New York Public Library in 2008, she has juried numerous contemporary print exhibitions and advised local artists.
Guttenberg Arts Gallery is pleased to present Lithos Sarkophagos a solo exhibition of works by Heidi Lau, currently an Artist in Residence, on view May 9 through June 1, 2015.
Heidi Lau’s work creates an alternate world through excavating fragmented narratives from personal and collective memories that highlight the archaic and invisible and recreate what has been lost to natural or human causes. Lau has worked exhaustively with a variety of traditional mediums including printmaking, ceramics and bookmaking, where printed works on paper function as proposition and contemplative manifestations of darkness and an invisible order of the universe. Lau’s geometric forms, inspired by magic charts and mandalas are juxtaposed with tusche renderings and acid washes resembling nebulas or alchemy. These created artifacts take the form of various objects of remembrance – towers, funeral monuments and fossilized creatures that are disintegrating or infested that compose the history of a mystical world by suggesting its existence and decline.
Being from Macau, a colony of Portugal during its transition into a Chinese province and then an immigrant in the United States, Heidi Lau’s work further examines the anomic nature of history and cultural migration. As well as delving into the nostalgia for collective memories that have inspired to recreate and highlight what she believe is crucial to her identity. In her ceramics works, the flexibility and strength of clay allows her to experiment and create pieces that are a surprise even to herself. Additional methods of scratching, scribbling and engraving the surface of pieces form works that are texturally rich in details, surfaces and that embody memories of many forces. These memories range from the observing colonial houses and monuments from her own childhood and their decay, while strange and wild plants began to take over.
Most of these structures are now demolished or unrecognizable, and thus recreating becomes the only way Lau is connecting to these structures, place and their history.
Heidi Lau grew up in Macau and currently lives and works in Ridgewood, NY. She received her BFA from New York University in 2008. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally; Macao Museum of Art (Macao, China), Wave Hill, Newhouse Center for Contemporary, TSA New York, Rush Corridor Gallery and Aljira Center for Contemporary Art, among others. She has participated in the Bronx Museum Artist In the Market Place Program, Center for Book Arts Workspace Residency, Snug Harbor Artist Residency Program and Emerging Artist Fellowship at Socrates Sculpture Park.
