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Time, Space, Infinity: An Evening with Zen Master and Artist Master Shen-Long @ The Loyola University Museum of Art
Time, Space, Infinity: An Evening with Zen Master and Artist Master Shen-Long Presented by The Loyola University Museum of Art in partnership with Art Founders. When: March 25, 2014, 6:00 PM Where: Loyola University Museum of Art (LUMA) 820 N. Michigan Avenue (across from the Historic Water Tower) Chicago, IL 60611 […]
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A Conversation with Master Shen-Long @ the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
A Conversation with Master Shen-Long at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago October 28, 2013 6-8PM Sharp Building, Room 327 37 S. Wabash Avenue Chicago, IL Art Founders is pleased to announce that AF Distinguished Artist Master Shen-Long (Master Sheng-Yao; zi 字 or courtesy name: Xiaoyao 逍遙), a Zen Buddhist master and […]
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The Encyclopedic Palace, 55th Venice Biennale
The Encyclopedic Palace 55th Venice Biennale Central Pavilion and Arsenale June 1 – November 24, 2013 Massimiliano Gioni, curator The encyclopedic impulse was a dream of knowledge and collection. An obsessive reverie of gathering and classifying that rejoiced on a sense of knowledge that, as Aristotle said, began with wonder. Side-stepping into the margins […]
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Artist Interview: Judith Kruger
Judith Kruger is an American abstract painter whose work focuses on the Human-Environment connection. She manipulates globally sourced natural matter “as paint”. Her contemporary practice re-contextualizes the ancient processes of Nihonga, traditional Japanese mineral pigment painting (Nihon translates as Japan, and ga as painting, literally “Japanese-style paintings”). She received her BFA from Syracuse University and […]
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Plural Awarded NEA Research Grant
Art Founders is a proud supporter and contributing sponsor of Plural, a study of the characteristics, needs, and support systems of ethnically and culturally specific organizations in the U.S. and Canada, which has just been awarded an NEA Research Grant! Plural is a collaborative research project that examines the situation of culturally specific arts organizations in the […]
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Above + Below The Clouds: Chen Xiaowei
The work of Boston-based Chinese artist Chen Xiaowei 陳篠薇 (b. 1978) encompasses a wide range of media, including video, painting and drawings on paper. Through her work, she explores and expresses the intersections between the natural environment, natural disasters and human emotion. Above + Below The Clouds 雲上雲下, a solo exhibition of […]
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Interview with Christopher D. M. Atkins, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Interview with Christopher D. M. Atkins, Associate Curator of European Painting and Sculpture at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and author of The Signature Style of Frans Hals: Painting, Subjectivity, and the Market in Early Modernity (Amsterdam University Press, 2012). Javier Berzal: What attracted you to Frans Hals [1580-1666] in the first place? Christopher […]
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Profile of the Artist Rodney Carswell
hither and yon (little prisons) i meander; escape the straight and narrow…only to be so; drift in a random circuit; stray, losing the path. i make geometric repetition; mark a border to enforce a limit; my enclosures dictate direction; my outside determines interior; i move: up/down, left/right, back/forth, to/fro, along plumb & plane. i […]
Editorial: Reminiscences of Expo Chicago
It’s been a while since the inaugural edition of Expo Chicago (September 20-23, 2012 at Navy Pier) came and went. Here are some of my reminiscences from my day at the fair: I began the day at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago and attended a tour of the museum with the […]
Interview with Grant Hamilton, Director of TIME ZERO
In February 2008, when Polaroid announced that it would cease production on all instant film, director Grant Hamilton chose to tell the story of this beloved photographic medium which resulted in his first ever feature length film, TIME ZERO: The Last Year of Polaroid Film (2012). Click here to read the AF Project’s first article […]