LIGHT YEARS AWAY
SATURDAY, JUNE 24 – FRIDAY, JULY 21, 2017
OPENING RECEPTION: SATURDAY, JUNE 24 – 7 TO 10PM

Index Art Center is pleased to present “Light Years Away,” a group exhibition of artwork informed by celestial mapping including the themes of star navigation, star cartography, scale of the Universe, orbits of celestial bodies, the search for habitable planets and/or extraterrestrial life, time dilation, and other matters addressing the exploration of our universe via charts, maps, diagrams, and other visual documentation meant to interpret our understanding of the geography of space in the broadest interpretation of this subject matter. Curated by Wavelength, a collaborative project by Gianluca Bianchino and Jeanne Brasile, their curatorial model considers phenomenological art informed by scientific principles. They are interested in interpreting art as a metaphysical space to discuss ideas. The exhibition brings together multi-media installations, sculpture, drawing and paintings are sympathetic to their curatorial philosophy. Featured artists include Pasquale Cuppari, Dahlia Elsayed, Amber Heaton, Heejung Kim, Heather Merckle, Julia Oldham, Really Large Numbers and Chad Stayrook.

“Beyond creating imagery, the works are unified through the artists’ desire to visualize cosmological phenomena, depict quasi-diagrammatical explanations of scientific data, or present complex ideas in an easily understood format,” noted Wavelength’s curatorial team. Chad Stayrook’s Final Frontier playfully “explains” the making of a constellation, while Amber Heaton charts the natural light and movement of the sun and the moon for a year in her installation and Heejung Kim explores the spiritual aspects of the night sky. Viewers will be situated in a series of conversations about stellar wonders in an immersive environment.


Index Side Gallery:
Amanda Thackray: 'PORIFERA'
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Index Art Center was established in May 2009 with a mission to help strengthen and revitalize Newark’s emerging art scene. They wish to create an environment where the local community and artists of all media can come together and take part in a unique dialogue, one which affirms Newark as a center for contemporary art. Index Art Center is located at 237 Washington Street, Newark, New Jersey near the corner of Market Street. It is easily accessible by car, The PATH and NJ Transit. Hours are Thursdays 6 to 9pm, Fridays and Saturdays 1 – 4pm and by appointment. Admission is free and open to the public.

Join us for the opening reception of Surfaces! Featuring works by Pasquale Cuppari and Wayne Charles Roth.

SURFACES:
Seeing differences allows us to learn. Exploring differences shows us how to discover and experience more of ourselves and others. Two artistic voices expressed on contrasting surfaces. You can see differences and similarities. You can expand that awareness and share it with others.

Artist talk from 5:00 - 6:00 pm

https://www.cruzbajo.com/exposiciones

To quote the poet Phillip Ward in the original text written for this exhibition, "Each painting is like a transcendent portrait into a parallel reality where the subjects are reminiscent of wingles angels as seen under a gentle lens of an ethereal microscope..."                                                                                                                                                     Carlos Aquilino at Ateneo de Madrid               Carlos Aquilino catalog

The event is curated by Paolo Levi and Sandro Serradifalco, with the collaboration of professional figures in the field of art. Four works by Carlos Aquilino will be shown at the Triennale.

http://www.latriennale.it/it/artisti/artisti-triennale/item/aquilino-carlos.html

PointB is proud to announce the premiere of its’ Virtual Exhibition Space.

The project will be launched simultaneously on pointb.org and at The Last Hurray Closing / Opening Party at PointB’s physical home for the last 20 years, 71 North 7th Street, Williamsburg Brooklyn. With the building due for demolition to make way for condos in January 2016, this will be the last opportunity to come and celebrate our past, as well as to engage with plans for our future.

“As we use this opportunity to plan for an even more internationally networked model for PointB”, says PointB founder, Mark Parrish. “The Virtual Exhibition Space is our way to preserve the memory of the actual space that will shortly be lost, as we work towards our long-term dream of connecting the greater global art, design and technology communities to a network of worklodges all over the world. Exhibitions will showcase the work of our creative global ‘worktraveler’ community, inside the architectural space with which they became so creatively connected, now realized in virtual form.” PointB recently announced that plans are in the works to establish a new worklodge in Lisbon, Portugal, and plans are afoot to continue to develop new locations in and around New York, and in multiple cities across the world. Parrish adds: “Until 2015, our Brooklyn location was a little bit like a secret club behind a blank façade: not so well known to many New Yorkers but known to artists all over the world, the doors hadn’t been open to the public because until this year, the studios were not designed to show work, but to make it.”

For the launch party, PointB has developed three virtual exhibitions with the themes: Discovery, Network, Transcendence, which will run in thirty-minute increments throughout the evening on the walls at PointB Worklodge Brooklyn, playing with the ideas that it’s now possible to open three exhibitions in the one space over one evening. The shows will continue to exist online forever. “These thematic exhibitions are intended to both document work developed by PointB’s international community of artists while simultaneously providing a peer-to-peer platform to sustain this community into the future, by promoting the exchange of creative ideas, as has happened at PointB throughout its history.” says Amanda McDonald Crowley, curatorial advisor on the project. “It is the first step towards developing a dynamic platform of future online exhibitions: as PointB also develops new physical locations, it provides a way to showcase new works and to keep conversations alive.”

On December 19 at 6pm, PointB will continue its long tradition of celebrating the holiday season with the 20th Annual
Tree-trimming and ornament-making party over food and wine. In addition to showcasing the Virtual Exhibition Space (online and on the walls at PointB Brooklyn), the evening will include the release of the PointB Documentary and Q&A with filmmaker Sarah Tricker, virtual walking tours on Google Maps, music and dancing!

September 4 -28th, 2015

Carlos Aquilino work Drawing Five is part of the 365@Stour Space exhibition to celebrate Postcardwall, a Project by Sophie Hill, reaching 365 postcards ‘on the wall’ one for every day of the year. Aquilino’s work correspond to one hundred and seventy four. You can see it at: http://postcardwall.wordpress.com/2010/06/25/one-hundred-and-seventy-four/

September 2015

A group exhibition to celebrate Small Works and promote art collecting on the gallery Arte Mayor 44. Palencia. When you buy your first art work you become an art collector. A Project curated by Marietta Negueruela.

http://curiositadifirenze.blogspot.com.es/2014/10/8-30-novembre-multiverso-artcloud5.html

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Anya Rubin: About My Art and Me

Recently we followed up with one of our winners Anya Rubin to see what she is up to.
Check out Anya Rubin’s work http://www.anyarubin.com/  and get inspired!
We also asked Anya to reflect on the 2013 Art Competition. Here is what she shared with us.

ANYA RUBIN: I was born in St. Petersburg, Russia.  When I was six years old my mother and I immigrated to Israel leaving behind all our family.  Having spent two years in Israel we then moved to Germany, and after a year’s stay there we arrived in the US.  Going through such extensive immigration and three languages left a huge impression on me.  As a fellow immigrant once said, you lose more than half of your personality through this process. 

I learned to understand different cultures, rules, people and languages.  As I look back at that time I realize immigration had taught me how to use my senses.  Those indescribable, intuitive feelings; a way of looking not with your eyes.  Although I believe I was an artist from a young age, I didn’t start painting until after the birth of my triplets. I am a self-taught artist.

My goal is to explore the human condition through paint and technology.  I reflect upon the social, political, and spiritual conditions of contemporary culture as it is mediated by today’s fast-paced technology where information about the world is available at a moment’s notice. Working in paint and digital rendering, I try to create an expressionist record of this current zeitgeist, using figures, historical references, and fragments of everyday life and through them I try to reveal what could be called the collective consciousness of contemporary society. For me the human spirit is the key to making sense of society’s fractured world and noting that in reality everything is interconnected.

I have been showing my art for the past 11 years. It has been a grueling road and a lot of the time a lonely one.  Not only do artists need to create and consistently work on their skills, but in today’s market they also have to promote themselves.  I find that while artists are living it is not only their art that is scrutinized but also their persona.  This is a road one doesn’t choose -- it chooses you!

As an artist I try to find as many quality venues as possible to show my work.  I enjoy the idea of a competition because then the work is chosen out of many submitted works and that says something about the work selected.  I won the International Art Competition and was then invited to participate in The Art Festival.  The event was well organized and the large space was overflowing with people.  received a write-up in Fine Art  Magazine  on pp 14-15 (http://issuu.com/fineartmagazine/docs/winter_2013/1?e=1208886/5891660) , as well as receiving a lot of social media and on-line promotion. I met a wonderful array of artists and art lovers.  I was able to invite my own collectors as well, who in return had the chance to see my latest work. I would encourage emerging and mid-career artists to participate in the Festival because it is a great way to have your work introduced to many different people from varied backgrounds. My participation in the Festival was a wonderful experience because there were many people seeing my work and I was able to meet people from the press as well as artists from different countries. After the competition I was invited to show at Museum of Russian Art which was a great honor. 

Currently I have an opening at Alberto Liner Gallery in Miami (http://myemail.constantcontact.com/APPRAISAL---ANYA-RUBIN---FEBRUARY-15TH---28TH.html?soid=1104248386839&aid=kzjy1Y7qYBU)

I am continuing with my work exploring the human condition through technology and paint.

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Spinning Color Video from ARTIFACT, New York

Reception: March 7, 2014, 7–9 PM
Dates: March 7–30, 2014
Hours: Wednesday–Sunday, 12–6 PM

ARTIFACT is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of new work by a Madrid (Spain) based artist Carlos Aquilino. An opening reception for the artist will be held on Friday March 7, from 7 to 9 PM.
Carlos Aquilino’s paintings and sculptures announce themselves with a playful confidence and exuberance. At the heart of this artist's work is his evident impulse to offer the viewer an experience that is grounded in material reality (hence the strongly felt use of silhouette-like outlines that remind us of objects of cultic value) yet keenly aware of the need for an interplay of immateriality, and a reference to a transcendent reality to co-exist within each work.

Carlos Aquilino is a Madrid (Spain) based artist currently in residence at Point B Worklodge, Williamsburg, Brooklyn,NY.

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Interview with Ralph Ferraro

was conducted by Daria Gradusova, Board advisor, Museum of Russian Art (http://dariagradusova.wix.com/exhibit-design)

Ralph Michael Ferraro is the winner of 2013 International Art Festival competition in the photography category.

For Ralph Michael it is not just the art of photography, it is the art of capturing the moment. Ralph Michael’s photography goes hand in hand with poems. You can check out his great blog to inspire, observe, create: http://www.RmfTop.blogspot.com/

For Ralph Michael Ferraro photography started as a passion in high school. At one point in highschool he got a one page assignment to write about himself. All the students wrote an essay, but Ralph Michael presented a poem. However, that writing skill went back into the back burner at that point.

After college Ralph Michael went on a trip where he captured the moments of his travels. He said: “I was fascinated by the colors, by the shapes, and by the patterns that I saw, the experiences that I had when I traveled. So I organized them into the slideshows. And when I showed them to people, they really enjoyed it. They said: “ We have been there, but we did not see that!” or “We have never been there, but now we feel like we have been there”. So I did it as a passion.”
After college Ralph Michael worked as a social worker and helped people make changes. Then he gradually shifted from legal psychology to emotional-energy psychology - your thinking is energy, your feeling is energy. Currently Ralph Michael teaches psychology and creates award-winning photography.

Ralph Michael also shared his experience at the International Art Festival:

Daria Gradusova:    Was the IAF a good networking opportunity?
Ralgh Ferraro:    The IAF was a mixed experience in regard to networking. The opening night on Central Park West and the opening night in Jersey City were great opportunities to meet both talented artists and visitors to the exhibit who enjoyed the artwork. After the grand opening at each event, the visitors were few and far between. Even the artists were not around most of the day.
Daria Gradusova:    Indeed. However, the openings of exhibitions always get a big visitation due to reception and a limited time of event, while the rest of the days the galleries open regular hours and do not provide the social opportunity.

DG:    Did IAF in any way influence your career?
RF:    The IAF was an exciting experience for me. I was very grateful to have my photographs chosen for the exhibit. I enjoyed talking to the fellow artists that were on display. I also enjoyed taking visitors through the gallery to see my photographs and the work of the other artists.
The IAF experience definitely encouraged me to pursue my artistic passion without reservation.

DG:    Did you enjoy the vibe of the event?
RF:    The IAF produced two different types of vibes.  
The first vibration was the excitement of being chosen and on display for all to see. The ability to share my art, my photographs with other artists and with the public was truly a joy. This positive vibration was exhilarating.
The second vibration was the joy of showing visitors around the gallery and helping them to experience the various artists. It was a joy to see their attraction to the different works of art.

DG:   Would you recommend this competition for emerging artists?
RF:    I would definitely recommend this competition to any artist. When I submitted my works, I felt positive. I felt that I was offering works of value. I didn’t know for certainty that they would be chosen, but was very excited when I got the news that my photographs were chosen.

DG:   What advise would you give to those who are submitting their work?
RF:    Be playful
Be in touch with your inner spirit
Allow your unique qualities, your passion to emerge in each piece that you do.
Do not be concerned about whether someone else would like or value your work. A woman who came to the exhibit said, “there is a lot of shit masquerading as art, but if the work is truly art it will speak to the soul of those allowing themselves to experience the work of art.”
Do not attempt to imitate someone else (famous artist) or style (classic, avant-garde, etc.).

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Site-Specific Group Art Show / September, 2013

Aleksandr Razin / Site-Specific Installtions (SSI)
Dmitry Krasny / SSI, PHOTOGRAPHY
Emil Lansky / PHOTOGRAPHY
Emil Silberman / SSI, SCULPTURE
Ernie Sandidge / PAINTING
Ethan Abelev / SSI, VIDEO
Ginger Ando & Chuck Glicksman / VIDEO INSTALLATION
Margot Spindelman / SSI, PAINTING
Milosz Koziej / SSI, PAINTING
Naomi Cruz / SSI, PAINTING
Randi Nussbaum / SSI

Artists: Carlos Aquilino, José Bautista, J. Belmonte, Carlos Bloch, R. Caballero, A. García Andrés, Belén González, O. Herrán, A. Llabrés, N. Maffre, N. Mariette, M. Negueruela, J. Paniagua, C. Parellada, J.A. Quintana, E. Rodriguez, Paco Rossique, Patricia Ruiz de Navamuel, J. Sánchez Dato, B. Satrústegui, M. Tamariz.