Heart to Heart

May 19th through 25th artist Karri Dieken and myself will be touring across the state of South Dakota, while creating a series of seismic drawings, a photographic journal, and video documentation, cycling for Art and Education. The work will then be on display at the South Dakota Art Museum the end of 2014, as part of the Heart to Heart exhibition at the South Dakota Museum Art Museum.

Karri Dieken will be completing floor piece for the exhibition made of bicycle tire tubes and fibers, a cozy for my cyclocross bike, cycling jerseys [pattern created from one of my seismic drawings, and a fibers wall hanging. more information will be posted the closer we get to the trip date.

Heart to Heart Exhibition at the South Dakota Art Museum in Brookings SD end of 2014

Collaborative between 10 artist couples from around the US. Featured artist include:

Karri Dieken and Michael Baum (Spearfish, SD)
Kristyn Weaver and Peter Reichardt (Brookings, SD)
Diana Behl and Andrew Kosten (Brookings, SD)
Patti Roberts-Pizzuto and Johntimothy Pizzuto (Burbank, SD)
Amy Fill and Mike Hill (Volin, SD)
Mary Selvig and Marty Wanserski (Sioux Falls, SD)
Julie Punt and Jerry Punt (Sioux Falls, SD)
Sara Christiansen-Blair and Greg Blair (Aberdeen, SD)
April Holder and Hoka Skenandore (Shawnee, OK)
Sara Woster and Rob Fischer (Brooklyn, NY)

Premise: include one work by each artist and then one collaborative piece per couple.

Jan Brandt Gallery
March 22, 2014 7-9PM

Atlas: Print Exchange, is a traveling exhibition featuring artists from across the country, who's work maps a topology of confluences and ranges across new thinking, traversing interim and alternate directions in print based media. 




Featuring the work of:
Dustin M. Price, Esq.
Javier Carrillo
Nicholas Flatley
Michael Baum
Karri A. Dieken
Hector Hernadez
Brett Lysne
Amy Nack
Cassandra Schiffler
Diane Gabriel
Mario Contreras
Tzvu Izaksonas
Adam Farcus
Allison Yasukawa
Terri Kralitsch

The jury is in. The catalogue is in production. Opening August 10. 2013. Jurors Justin Gibbens, artist and PUNCH Gallery founding member; and Linda Tesner, Director of the Ronna and Eric Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art, Lewis & Clark College.

Exhibition at the Ruddell Gallery, featuring artists originally from or currently working in the great state of South Dakota. According to Dustin M. Price, curator, the title of the exhibition, “History of Things to Come” refers to the artists’ history of living and working in South Dakota. The artists relationship with life in the region has informed and strengthened their evolving art practices. The exhibition acknowledges the influence of the geographical area, while looking toward to the possibilities inherent in their future practices. 

Two of the five works featured in the Ruddell Gallery Exhibition, currently on display on the campus of Black Hills State University. The exhibition “History of Things to Come” demonstrates that contemporary Post Modern art practices are alive and well in South Dakota. The selected artists; Michael Baum, Karri A Dieken, James Louks, Erica K Merchant, Mike Knuston, Dustin M Price, and Ann Porter, have attended and/or taught at BHSU within the past decade. While it may not be initially recognizable, the landscape and isolation of western South Dakota has informed the artists’ works in a conceptual manner. Stillness, contemplation, labor, meditation, rural lifestyles, heritage and the landscape are all reoccurring themes throughout the artwork.

Left, Water, lake and trees. Graphite, color pencil. 8 x 8 inches, 2012.
Right, A small boat on the big ocean. Graphite, color penicl. 8 x 8 inches, 2012.

Ritz Gallery
SDCAA Faculty Show
South Dakota State University
Sept. 17th - Oct.19th, 2012

South Dakota State University is hosting an exhibition of artwork by college art faculty members from across the state as part of the South Dakota College Art Association’s biennial meeting.

The exhibition is currently hanging in the Ritz Gallery in Grove Hall on campus and features nearly 50 works by faculty members from: Augustana College, Black Hills State, Dakota State, Northern State, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, SDSU, University of Sioux Falls and University of South Dakota.

Looking back a year ago this November, FICTILIS presented a gallery-wide installation/exhibition celebrating the art of xerography (photocopying). The FICTILIS space was transform into a pop-up copy shop that is pre-stocked with a wide selection of ready-to-copy artworks, by artists from Seattle and beyond, which will blanket the space’s 17-ft-high walls. Visitors can use on-site copy machines to interact with the collection in several ways and contribute to its evolution over the course of the exhibition.

New York City artist Raphael Griswold contributed a month-long edition of serial xerographs faxed each day to Pioneer Square from across the continent.

Los Angelest artist Danielle McCullough contributed a 105-sheet xerographic treatment of the Google “finger spam” phenomenon entitled “Ring out wild bells!!!/ Say unto others what you would have them/say unto you, only way louder!” (view her Kickstarter page to help fund the project further). From her statement:

In this book, I have memorialized the gestures of distracted clerical workers, myself included, who have inadvertently inserted ourselves into the historical archive as embodied mistakes –disrupting the seamless translation of public domain texts into digital commodities as we insert our fingers into the margins. During breaks in my work at a library I’ve scanned a 1901 version of Alfred Lord Tennyson’s poem “In Memoriam” and inserted a parallel message in American Sign Language. This finger spelling interprets notes of encouragement, taken from the Tennyson poem and Naomi Klein’s address to the Occupy Wall Street movement.

Participating artists include:

Aaron Khawaja / Ali Osborn / Amanda Schoofs / Anthony Balkan / Ashley Hagen / Barbara Ekstrom / Bill Dimichele / Blade Birch / Bradley Miller / Bren Munroe / Brian Nogues / Cara Levine / Carl Baker / Catherine Trapani / Chelsea Alvarez / Chelsea Kowitz / Cheryl Wormley / Chris Ando / Christopher Clark / Craig Latchaw Jr. / Danielle McCullough / Davis Liambac / Derek Dickey / Emily Wiseman / Fox Anthony Spears / Geronimo Legaspi / Graham Downing / Gregory Carlson / Heather Walters / Jamie Olmstead / Jason Byrnes / Jason T. Miles / Jay Passer / John M Bennett / Justin Mata / Katie Herzog / Katrina Castillo / Kelly Froh / Lauren Tyler Norby / Lilia Felipe / Lindsey St.Pierre / Lucy Morehouse & Scott Davis / Luke Munn / Lydia Frederick / Lyssa Barsda / Madeline Courtney / Marcy Gussenhofen / Mariangela Guatteri / Marisa Prefer / Max Clotfelter / Meadow Starts with P (Andrew, Vienne, and Raffi Peterson) / Michael B. Baum / Michael Blake / Michelle Rozic / Michelle Wakeland / Miles Lewis / Miles Mattison / Nick Wolf / Nico Vassilakis / Nicole Lavelle / Omar Cervantes / Rachel Chiodo / Raphael Griswold / Richard Wynne / Rosa Mcelheny / Sam Sheppard / Samantha Indrieri / Scott F. Hall / Shihori Nakayama / Steve Quenell / Teresa Grasseschi / Tim Miller / Toran Kotter / Valerie Nichols / Vinh Ho / Wayne Diem Kleppe / Wendy Ann Witsoe / Xavier Oden / Zeina Baltagi and FICTILIS: Timothy Furstnau / Andrea Steves / Isabel Blue / Rani Ban

FICTILIS
210 S Washington
Seattle, WA 98104