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PRESS CONTACT: Kathy MacPherson (310) 665.6909 kmacpherson@otis.edu
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Otis College of Art and Design to Present Exhibition
MAKE:CRAFT
A Group Exhibition Highlighting the Current DIY Spirit in Art and Craft
LOS ANGELES – July, 2010 – Otis College of Art and Design is pleased to present the exhibition MAKE:CRAFT, to be held October 2 through December 4, 2010 at Ben Maltz Gallery. A public opening reception takes place Saturday, October 2, 4-6pm, with a performance by Mark Newport and music by Crank Ensemble.
Artists in the exhibition: Kim Abeles, Jonah Brucker-Cohen, Frau Fiber, Garnet Hertz, Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative, Seth Kinmont, Liza Lou, David Prince, Mark Newport, Alyce Santoro, Shada/Jahn (Steve Shada and Marisa Jahn), Eddo Stern.
Inspired by the cultural currents represented in the popular magazines MAKE and CRAFT published out of Northern California, MAKE:CRAFT includes contemporary artists who combine handmaking and building techniques to create, engineer and hack unique, mostly functional devices, objects, machines and accessories; making either a sociopolitical statement, creating new markets for individual styled products, or creating inventive ways to experience the tactile world, non-virtual, the “real.”
The exhibition is guest curated by Patricia Watts, founder and west coast curator of ecoartspace, who feels that recent trends in the DIY (Do-It-Yourself) movement of making and crafting have empowered contemporary artists and designers to create more socially relevant work that supports sustainable communities.
Kim Abeles creates a new site-specific installation inspired by her ongoing project frugalworld, which includes one of her early projects completed while living in a converted silo in Ohio, a hand illustrated book entitled Crafts, Cookery, and Country Living (1976). Jonah Brucker-Cohen installs an updated version of Crank The Web (2001-), a hand powered Internet tool combining simple automation and current telecommunications technology that allows you to crank your own bandwidth. Frau Fiber itinerant textile worker and CEO of KO Enterprises: indefinitely young apparel production will present a participatory pedal powered sewing factory knocking off Forever 21 fashions in the Los Angeles area powered by
consumers. Garnet Hertz introduces OutRun, a video game concept car that renders the real world as a 1986 video game, which Hertz will personally demonstrate by driving outdoors on Saturday, November 6.
Object Description
| Exhibition | Make:Craft |
| Artist(s) |
Abeles, Kim Brucker-Cohen, Jonah Frau Fiber Hertz, Garnet Justseeds Artists' Cooperative Kinmont, Seth Lou, Liza Newport, Mark Prince, David Santor, Alyce Shada/Jahn (Steve Shada and Marisa Jahn) Stern, Eddo |
| Title | Press release for "Make:Craft" |
| Year | 2010 |
| Decade(s) | 2010s |
| Curator(s) | Watts, Patricia |
| Description | For immediate release: July 2010. |
| Gallery | Ben Maltz Gallery |
| ImageID | MakeCraft_release |
| Collection | Ben Maltz Gallery Exhibition Archive |
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| Title | Page 1 |
| Full Text of PDF | PRESS CONTACT: Kathy MacPherson (310) 665.6909 kmacpherson@otis.edu FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Otis College of Art and Design to Present Exhibition MAKE:CRAFT A Group Exhibition Highlighting the Current DIY Spirit in Art and Craft LOS ANGELES – July, 2010 – Otis College of Art and Design is pleased to present the exhibition MAKE:CRAFT, to be held October 2 through December 4, 2010 at Ben Maltz Gallery. A public opening reception takes place Saturday, October 2, 4-6pm, with a performance by Mark Newport and music by Crank Ensemble. Artists in the exhibition: Kim Abeles, Jonah Brucker-Cohen, Frau Fiber, Garnet Hertz, Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative, Seth Kinmont, Liza Lou, David Prince, Mark Newport, Alyce Santoro, Shada/Jahn (Steve Shada and Marisa Jahn), Eddo Stern. Inspired by the cultural currents represented in the popular magazines MAKE and CRAFT published out of Northern California, MAKE:CRAFT includes contemporary artists who combine handmaking and building techniques to create, engineer and hack unique, mostly functional devices, objects, machines and accessories; making either a sociopolitical statement, creating new markets for individual styled products, or creating inventive ways to experience the tactile world, non-virtual, the “real.” The exhibition is guest curated by Patricia Watts, founder and west coast curator of ecoartspace, who feels that recent trends in the DIY (Do-It-Yourself) movement of making and crafting have empowered contemporary artists and designers to create more socially relevant work that supports sustainable communities. Kim Abeles creates a new site-specific installation inspired by her ongoing project frugalworld, which includes one of her early projects completed while living in a converted silo in Ohio, a hand illustrated book entitled Crafts, Cookery, and Country Living (1976). Jonah Brucker-Cohen installs an updated version of Crank The Web (2001-), a hand powered Internet tool combining simple automation and current telecommunications technology that allows you to crank your own bandwidth. Frau Fiber itinerant textile worker and CEO of KO Enterprises: indefinitely young apparel production will present a participatory pedal powered sewing factory knocking off Forever 21 fashions in the Los Angeles area powered by consumers. Garnet Hertz introduces OutRun, a video game concept car that renders the real world as a 1986 video game, which Hertz will personally demonstrate by driving outdoors on Saturday, November 6. |
