Lisa Blas, Dawn Studio (palettes on the run), 2021. Installation street view. Windows on Latimer, The Print Center, Philadelphia.
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Opening: July 9, 2019 | Social Photography VII | Carriage Trade, NYC
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I’m thrilled to have contributed to Social Photography VII, brought to you by Peter Scott and the team at Carriage Trade!
Meet me tonight to see the work of many artists, friends, and support future programming for this non-profit gallery in the Lower East Side.
Opening: 6 - 8 pm | Tuesday, July 9, 2019
Carriage Trade, 277 Grand Street, 2nd floor, New York, NY 10002
Prints are available in the gallery and online:
socialphotography.carriagetrade.org
“First presented in 2011, carriage trade's Social Photography exhibitions have become both a tradition and an ongoing survey of cell phone camera use. What began as a novelty medium seven or eight years ago now provides currency for the $100 billion picture mill of Instagram, which funnels 95 million images a day through its social media network via opaque algorithms that determine the order and context of what we see.
Unlike social media formats on our phones which encourage endless scrolling through a "bottomless bowl" of images, Social Photography cell phone pictures exist both online and in the gallery. Faced with a group of photographs in the exhibition space, any of which can draw one's attention or focus, accidental associations present themselves through proximity (their order is based on when images are emailed to the gallery) underscoring the alternative of seeing cell phone images in a physical setting free of social media filters.”
Lisa Blas, detail, Autoportrait, VIVIIMMXVIII, 2018
Opening: November 30, 2018 | Flag Me Down, Pick Me Up | Marquee Projects, Bellport, NY
Many thanks to everyone who came out to support the exhibition Flag Me Down, Pick Me Up at Marquee Projects, what a celebratory night with like minds and hearts! At the end of the opening, Bob Morris read his poignant New York Times op-ed from 2016, entitled “From the Mountains, to the Prairies, to the Ocean to Vanuatu”, where the flag enters the frame at the other side of the world.
MARQUEE PROJECTS
presents
LISA BLAS
TYLER HEALY
PAUL WEINER
Flag Me Down, Pick Me Up
Opening Reception: Friday, November 30, 2018
6pm - 8pm
On View: November 30 - December 31, 2018
MARQUEE PROJECTS is pleased to present Flag Me Down, Pick Me Up, a group exhibition featuring recent artworks by Lisa Blas, Tyler Healy and Paul Weiner. A reception for the artists will be held on Friday, November 30th from 6pm to 8pm.
The artists brought together in this show will exhibit work that shares a common interest in the use of the American flag. Flags, in general, have much to do with traditional tribal tendencies and notions of identity: the idea of “us versus them.” But in today’s heated political climate it’s “us versus us,” with divided factions claiming that their allegiance to America is stronger than that of others. This exhibition hopes to bring about greater dialogue on what role the American flag, and what it signifies, now play. Can we pick up the pieces, strive to reduce conflict, and promote a greater sense of unity, peace and equality?
Contact: Mark Van Wagner and Tonja Pulfer:
INFO@MARQUEEPROJECTS.ORG
MARQUEE PROJECTS
14 Bellport Lane, Bellport NY 11713
(631) 803-2511
LISA BLAS, Enter Stage Left (Monday's image, v. 1), 2018
Broadsheet produced with Space Sisters Press / New York
Opening: October 20, 2018 / Spine / Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn
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Please join us Saturday, October 20th, for the opening of Spine, at Ortega y Gasset Projects, in Gowanus, Brooklyn!
Ortega y Gasset Projects
@ The Old American Can Factory
363 Third Ave, Brooklyn, New York 11215
NOTE: Enter at Third Avenue
Opening reception with the artists: Saturday, October 20, 6-9 pm
Gallery: Saturdays & Sundays 1-6 pm and by appointment
The opening coincides with the Gowanus Open Studios.
Spine is featured in the Hyperallergic Fall Art 2018 Guide.
SPINE
October 20 - December 2, 2018 | Curated by Suzanne McClelland and Leeza Meksin
Ortega y Gasset Projects is pleased to present SPINE, a group exhibition curated by artist Suzanne McClelland and OyG Co-Director and artist Leeza Meksin, featuring works by Cati Bestard, Lisa Blas, Sonia Louise Davis, Shoshana Dentz, Anne Eastman, Jenny Monick and Anne Vieux.
Opening at OyG on Saturday, October 20, 2018, during the weekend of Gowanus Open Studios, SPINE explores the mental and physical structures of a book and questions what is legible, optical, physical, emotional or cerebral. Reading is viewing and occurs any time anyone engages with visual art but it also happens when we’re handling and engaging with books as objects. Printed media lives in the realm of the physical and the private with a spine functioning as an interruption, an intersection, a fulcrum and a central structure, often simultaneously. The work presented in the exhibition questions when does the private act of reading become public and what is shared.
SPINE brings together a wide range of media, including drawing, photography, sculpture, video, fiber, multiples and artist books. Please join us for the opening with the artists and curators on Saturday, October 20th, 6 - 9pm. The exhibition will be on view October 20 - December 2, 2018.
For press inquiries, please contact:
Leeza Meksin, Co-founder and Co-director, Ortega y Gasset Projects
leeza.meksin@gmail.com
Opening: July 10, 2018: Social Photography VI / Carriage Trade, NYC
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Social Photography VI is now open!
I have contributed a photograph to Carriage Trade's sixth benefit exhibition which meditates on the ubiquitous use of cell phone photography and its connection to the art community. Come view this immersive exhibition in situ, a precise grid of images installed on two facing walls in the gallery.
"While Instagram tends to emphasize the medium's social utility, carriage trade's Social Photography exhibitions have tracked an alternate course, inviting participants and viewers to encounter these images in a format free of peer-generated tallies, while offering the option of a sustained look afforded by a gallery setting."
All photographs can be viewed and purchased online:
https://socialphotography.carriagetrade.org/
carriage trade, 277 Grand St, 2nd Fl. , New York, NY 10002
Lisa Blas, Table(au), detail, 2018
Opening: June 15, 2018: Make The Wave / Swing Left
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Super excited to be a part of this Artist Print Sale benefiting Swing Left to effect change in the upcoming November 2018 midterm elections. Organized by the amazing Kim Schoen and Betsy Lin Seder, this is the definition of community in real time, grass roots organizing, artists participating outside of their studio.
View the incredible list of artists and available print editions: Make The Wave 2018
View, Share, Support, Vote!
June 15 - July 15, 2018
www.makethewave2018.com
Time eclipsed, Charlottesville: August 18, 2017
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Flashback Friday, or, into the future.
After the recent events in Charlottesville, I am posting a partial image from Meet Me at the Mason Dixon: A project in painting, photography and installation that I realized during the years 2003-2009, while living and teaching in Washington, D.C.
The project in its entirety was exhibited at Schmucker Art Gallery at Gettysburg College in 2011, with a catalog and accompanying texts by Shannon Egan and Miguel de Baca. In brief, this project examines the contested legacy of race and identity from the American Civil War onward, and the sign systems that point to those fraught subjectivities and histories. It is uncanny that my initial intuition about the repressed issue of race relations before and after 9/11 was confirmed by the growing civil unrest in American cities throughout these past years. 9/11 turned the collective consciousness elsewhere, namely to a foreign invader, becoming the country’s addressee in a long, protracted war while the social fabric of American society was itself coming undone. The ongoing dispute over heritage and removal of Confederate monuments from public space highlights that the familial and cultural attachments to history are ephemeral, and subject to change with each new generation. This is the space that Meet Me at the Mason Dixon occupies. As Erika Doss wrote in a special issue of Public Art Dialogue, The Dilemma of Public Art’s Permanence, 2016, “Public art is processual, dependent on various cultural and social relationships and subject to the volatile intangibles of multiple publics and their fluctuating interests and feelings”…“Public art is not, in other words, forever.”
Lisa Blas
Meet Me at the Mason Dixon
Installation view, Schmucker Art Gallery, Gettysburg College
Gettysburg, PA, 2011
Lisa Blas
Meet Me at the Mason Dixon
Installation view, Mixed-media, 9.5 x 15 feet approximately
Schmucker Art Gallery, Gettysburg College
Gettysburg, PA, 2011
Lisa Blas
(Day for night) Battle Scene, v. 11
Gettysburg Cyclorama, Gettysburg National Military Park, Pennsylvania
Archival pigment print, 2011
Opening July 11, 2017: Social Photography V / Carriage Trade, NYC
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