Daily Dose: Chicago July 14th, 2011

McCormick Gallery- Historical: Saltillo Sarape
June 11th through August 13th, 2011

Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art- Mark Bradford Survey
May 28th through September 18th, 2011

Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art- Here we are: Art and design out of context
July 5th through July 31st, 2011

Packer Schopf Gallery- Hank Feeley: Mixed Bag
July 8th through August 13th, 2011

Linda Warren Gallery- Conrad Freiburg: Burning Stars
July 8th through September 3rd,2011

A fun mix of contemporary art. Drop us a line on your thoughts, feelings or reactions.
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Daily Dose: Pacific Northwest July 12th, 2011

Seattle, Washington
Greg Kucera gallery- Deborah Butterfield: Seven Bronze Sculptures
June 2nd through July 30th, 2011
Bronze casts of wooden sculptures of horses. Butterfield states she is interested in internal gesture.

Seattle, Washington
Frye Art Museum- Gabriel von Max: Be-trailed Cousins and Phantasms of the Soul
July 9th through October 30th, 2011
This will be the controversial artist's first solo show in the US

Portland, Oregon
Blackfish Gallery- recent graduates: graduate Exposition 2011
July 5th through July30th, 2011
Roughly 30 graduates from local universities will receive their introduction to the Portland art scene.

Portland, Oregon
nw Film Center- The Best of the 2010 Ottawa International Animation festival
July 13th and 14th at 7pm
Screening of some of the nest work to emerge from the renowned festival. (mature audiences)

Eugene, Oregon
The Voyeur- A Silvery Ushering
June 24th through July 23rd, 2011
First solo show for Tilke Elkins. The works are permeated by the natural.

If you have a particular venue or artist you would like to hear about you can email: info@poorlittlepawns.com, tweet @PoorLittlePawns or comment on our Facebook page

Soo Visual Arts Center Presents Two New Exhibitions

Design & Architecture, Exhibitions, Media Arts, Openings, Visual Arts
July 9, 2011 through August 21, 2011
Soo Visual Arts Center, Minneapolis

Main Gallery: Untitled 8
Opening Reception: Saturday July 9, 6-9PM
July 9- August 21, 2011...
Whether it is the relationship between human and animal or between viewer and maker, this work provides a focus for exploration into of how we navigate the ever-increasing complexity and anxiety of our surroundings.

Friday, July 15, 5:45 – 8:15 pm at Philadelphia Museum of Art: Bastille Party. Art After 5 performances are free after Museum admission ($16 adults, $14 seniors, $12 youth and students with ID, free for members and children under 12). 26th Street and Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia.


July 16, 2011 - Jul 17, 2011

White Mountain Native American Art Festival 2011
Pinetop, AZ  USA

More than 50 of the Southwest's finest American Indian artists will display and sell their handmade jewelry, paintings, rugs and other authentic Indian artwork. This is a juried event.

Dreamscapes Exhibition

 

• Location:
• The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts
• 3716 Washington Boulevard
• St. Louis MO, 63108

 In this one of a kind art exhibition, you can explore your dreams and the physiological, psychological, cultural and spiritual experience that dreams offer. The works of art and Tadao Ando's architecture present questions about the content and purpose of dreams.

 

Daily Dose: International(Excluding Canada) July 10th, 2011

Madrid, Spain

Reina Sofia- Lili Dujourie: Nature is Wise

June 10^th through September 25^th, 2011

Paris, France

Louve- Michal Rovner: Fields of Fire

March 19^th through August 15^th, 2011

Sydney, Australia

Museum of Contemporary Art- Group Showing: Primavera 2011

September 8^th through November 13^th, 2011

Tokyo, Japan

The National Museum of Modern Art- From Collections: On the Road

March 17^th through July 31^st, 2011

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

XVA Gallery- Group Show: Position Velocity Acceleration

June 20^th through September 19^th, 2011

Daily Dose: New York July 9th, 2011

My fellow pawns, today we start giving you a daily dose. A daily dose of art that is! Every day we will be posting whats being exhibited in different geographic areas. We start today with the Big Apple:


MOMA- Francis Alÿs: A story of Deception
May 8th through August 1, 2011
A mix of photography, video, painting, performance, and drawing highlighting political and social realities, such as national borders, globalism, community and the pros and cons of progress. The museum recent acquired several new pieces, Re-enactments(2001), When Faith Moves Mountains(2002) and Rehearsal I (Ensanyo I) (1999-2001), which will be highlighted in the exhibition.

Guggenheim NY- Lee Ufan: Marking Infinity
June 24th through September 28, 2011
Simple gestural sculptures made from basic materials: rock, steel plates, rubber sheets and glass panes. The sculptures are simple and refreshing. Ufan is interested in the notion of encounter.

Knoedler and Company- Conrad Marca-Relli: City to Town
May 5th through July 29th, 2011
Painting and mixed media of abstract and minimal cityscapes. Paintings eerily representative of the urban, yet unidentifiable in terms of location.

Pleiades Gallery- Group Show: Fairly Small Works Show
July 26 through August 20, 2011
Participating artists: Ellen Bradshaw, Jean Bundy, Incha Choe, Jackie Etling, Barbara Fracchia, Janese Hexon, Bernice Leibowitz, Philip Levine, Arleen Mark, Lenore Fiore Mills, Trish Elwood O’day.

David Zwirner- Group Show: The House Without the Door
July 7th through August 5, 2011
Inspired by Emily Dickinson’s poem, Doom is the House without the Door, artists explored the psychological space of the home. The works possess some of the darkness of the Dickinson poem.

Dosage Calendar:

Thursday: Chicago

Friday: Los Angeles

Saturday: New York

Sunday: International: (Excluding Canada)

Monday: Canada

Tuesday: Pacific Northwest US

Wednesday: US Mixed Veggies

Self Esteem Machine 2.0

The second in a long line of dependable models. This one combines the feel good of the time honored happy face and an opportunity for eternal bliss in a single embossed print! Don't forget to comment, tweet, message or email us your opinion of the project sketches. Be sure to submit any art that you are working on. We may just feature it in the blog!

Prepping the Dough for the Oven

So me and my desk have been best buddies this week and I've decided its time to give the masses a taste of the next big project. So the unveiling: Self Esteem Machine. The sketches are of the first prototype. Self esteem has made its way into the heart of society as one of the most important characteristics for a person to maintain. It has come to a point where every one must feel good about themselves, in some cases maybe that shouldn't be so encouraged. Our machines are designed to freely dispense self esteem boosters like consolation prizes and participation ribbons. This is but the first of many so enjoy!


-Scotti

We've weathered the storm!

OK folks I know its been sometime but Poor Little Pawns exists not only in Riverside/LA but now in Eugene, Oregon! The blog has been quite because of the transfer but you can expect an inflow of material! For starters here are the photos of Scotti's last Install and the Culver Center Show. Coming up in the next few days are the drawings I promised a little while back and our online store.

ITS UP!

I know these photos are rough (cellphone) but here is a sneak peek at the Culver Center Show.

-Scotti

The Moment Before My Head Explodes

So today I’m going to rant about a lot of things, mainly pre-show stress, but some other things too. So for those of you who read the bios, you know I am graduating this year with my Bachelors in studio art. Yah! Hurray, blah blah. It’s not all it cracked up to be. One graduating means the senior show. For those of you local yokes who care, it opens 6pm June 4^th at the Culver Center in downtown Riverside. Anywho… I install this Tuesday and I have yet to finish building the frames and compiling the audio. Simultaneously I have an installation the goes up two days later. (Needs a lot of work too). Plus papers and what not. Now many of you are saying, “suck it up you’re a college student.” This is true but throw in the fact that I just had to take out a week to find an apartment in Oregon and for icing that I’m moving to Oregon. (Somehow I have come to the whacked out conclusion that moving to Oregon to get my masters in Journalism is my ticket into the L.A. arts sphere). Sooooo, why am I rambling on about my problems to you? Why should you read this crap? Well because somewhere out there in our small, ok, tiny, band of followers there has to be someone saying, “Hey! What the hell? Why aren’t there new posts, like, 3 times a day? You now have your answer and yes you are welcome.

-Scotti

P.S. You can also see work by Christopher Scotti on June 2^nd at the University of California, Riverside screening room at 7pm (video) and the week starting June 6^th across the university campus (installation).

Questions? Comments? General blather? ‘comment’ on our posts or drop us a line at info@poorlittlepawns.com

Video Show!

Varnish King

I had a unique opportunity to work with LA artists Bari Ziperstien, Jill Newman, and Nathan Redwood. A lot of people don’t realize what goes into a piece. Often people assume an artists work is entirely creative in nature. There is a certain level of engineering involved with what we do. A perfect example is the glory of water-proofing work that will be displayed outdoors. Which is what I did pretty much the whole time. I like working with my hands so I actually enjoyed it, I know I’m weird like that, but I wonder how many people would really get into Art if they knew that’s what they would be doing a lot… The show, ‘This House has a Bright Future,’ opens tomorrow May 20^th and will be on display until June 24^th. Its in Pasadena, CA at 730 N. Fair Oaks Ave. You can check Bari Ziperstien’s website for more information: www.bariziperstein.com

What the Hell is a Poor Little Pawn?

We have come together as a group of talented artists that happened to meet by chance. We met while working together and came to find that the three of us had many of the same interests. As time went on, we all came to the conclusion that our skills would be put to better use if we got together and let our creative juices flow. So Poor Little Pawns was born........

Tired of being the pawns in the corporate world, this is an outlet for us to build upon each others talents, express our views and interpretations in an artistic way. We are embarking on some unknown territory that is very exciting and edgy.

Follow us as we post our current projects, aspirations and frustrations in this unknown artistic endeavor.

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Poor: To be pitied, broke, worthless
Little: Small in stature, of no consequence or limited value
Pawn: A chess piece that is often sacrificed to save other more 'important' pieces, a tool for more powerful authorities

-Scotti

Shit Happens… Again

It was a fateful day in May 2010. I had been warned of the dangers of installing art in a public venue. Vandalism, misuse and otherwise disdain for artistic endeavors always threatens the public art piece. I must have been half brain dead at the time because in my infinite wisdom I put money on the piece. Granted it was just pennies but hell this is a recession people! Sure enough two hours after installing someone had beat the crap out of my poor tiny sculptures. I was still an undergrad at the time and my critique was that evening. After fixing the piece (thank god for superglue and rubber cement) I explained to my professor what happened. He basically told me shit happens, perhaps kinder and more eloquent then that. Needless to say I was rather unhappy with having to re-do the whole sculpture. This year, almost exactly a year to the day, I installed another piece, this one much larger and much more expensive. It lasted two whole days. The third day the piece was wrecked. What started as a beautiful Zen garden inspired communion area ended with broken marble tiles, warped boards, and nasty pillows. This time however I was not disappointed but happy that during its short life it could service so many people. Below are some photos. I have not included any morgue photos out of respect for the dead. I commend this work to the grave for now.

P.S. If enough of you buy T-shirts I’ll be able to rebuild it!

-Scotti

No One Ever Tells You

When I stopped taking pictures and started making photographs four years ago I realized there are a few things people never tell you about photography. I bring this up four years later because I was solemnly reminded of the big one just recently. Are you ready for the big secret… Are you?

OK here it is: You are behind the camera only 20% of the time. The rest is spent in post-production, customer service, framing, paper work, showboating and depression induced comas. I have no doubt someone will say this is not the case in their studio but I am also willing to bet that they either have assistants, continually disappoint customers, or have books that would make their accountant have a heart attack. Ask Yvette she will you a healthy studio needs a good business man/woman at the helm.

But wait there is more, the 20% of the time you do get to be behind the camera you are only taking pictures half of that. WHY! I know your asking it. Because setting up a tripod, setting up lights, arranging elements, waiting for the right light, they all take up time.

So where does this leave us? Well there is only on obvious answer to all this. Throw away your thousands of dollars in camera equipment (don’t mind me rummaging through your trash the next day) and give up photography for good. Your spouse will probably thank me.

Of course I jest, photograph more! Then send in your favorite pictures to info@poorlittlepawns.com and if they are really good we will post them for all the pawns of the world to see!

-Scotti