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Haiti: Give $25, get Jeff Antebi photo

via Another Bouncing Ball:

Haiti: Give $25, get Jeff Antebi photo

Jeff Antebi in Haiti before the earthquake:

I was in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, wandering at the edge of a marketplace as the sun went down. Whole swaths of the city are without electricity, government services or security. Things become spectral, as areas heavily trafficked and lively by day transform into deserted, nightmarish landscapes. I navigated for several miles using distant bonfires like homing devices.

Cite Soleil, 8 x 10 inches

Antebi's  photo-portrait of Haiti here. All proceeds from the sale of Cite Soleil go to Doctors Without Borders and OxFam, earmarked for Haiti. To purchase photo, email Wall Space Gallery at gallery@wallspaceseattle.com

January 16, 2010 5:31 PM

Heroes for Haiti

via Techland:

Heroes 4 Haiti: Comic Creators Auction Art For Quake Relief

By Allie Townsend on January 19, 2010

In response to last week's devastating earthquake in Haiti, comic book artists, writers and creators have created fund raising campaign Heroes 4 Haiti.

Donations of original work have been put up for auction via eBay, with all of the proceeds going to Haitian earthquake victims. Currently up for bidding are items from the likes of Marvel's Greg Pak, cartoonist Paul Karasik (signed) and illustrator Dave McKean.

For more, check out heroes4haiti.com.

Read more: http://techland.com/2010/01/19/heroes-4-haiti-comic-creators-auction-art-for-quake-relief/#ixzz0d6BnO9I3

Artists Support Haiti

Chris Wilder
Untitled, 2008
Mixed media
11 x 8.5 in.
Value: $1000
Courtesy of KIM LIGHT / LIGHTBOX and the artist.

via PBS ArtBeat:

Artists Chip in for Haiti Relief

Posted by Alicia Lozano , January 19, 2010

Culture-makers across the country are banding together to raise money for the victims of last week's devastating earthquake in Haiti that leveled the country's capital.

On Friday, some big-name celebrities will lend their star power to a telethon organized by George Clooney and hosted by Wyclef Jean called Hope for Haiti, with performances from U2's Bono, Sting, Justin Timberlake, Christina Aguilera and Alicia Keys. The show will benefit the Red Cross, UNICEF, Oxfam America, Partners in Health and Jean's Yele Haiti Foundation.

But you don't have to be a pop star to contribute your creative energies to the cause. Here's a roundup of just a few of the charitable projects underway:

- In Los Angeles, 11 galleries will participate in a silent auction put together by Art for Haiti, an impromptu group of 38 emerging and mid-career artists.

Art lovers can gather at the Mandrake bar in Culver City on Tuesday evening to peruse pieces by artists such as Kim McCarty and James Welling. Bidding for some art works starts at $100 and all proceeds will go to benefit the Red Cross relief efforts.

- The City Winery in Manhattan will be hosting benefit concerts starting Wednesday and running through the weekend, featuring punk rock goddess Patti Smith and country songstress Rosanne Cash. Monday's show promises a selection of 20 local indie artists. All proceeds will be donated to Doctors Without Borders, Partners in Health and the Jewish Renaissance Medical Center.

Music website Pitchfork has a long list of other indie music benefits throughout the country.

- In Washington D.C., the National Symphony Orchestra will donate proceeds from their Friday, Jan. 22 performance to the Haiti Relief and Development Fund of the American Red Cross. The night will begin with a Haitian-theme performance at 6 p.m.

Many other D.C. area venues will be hosting events, running the gambit from an open mic night to a burlesque and sideshow.

Are there notable arts benefits for Haiti that we didn't mention? Leave us information in our comments section.

Open Call: Artists Unite for Haiti

Artists Unite for HAITI      

Call For Artists!

Help the Disaster Relief efforts in Haiti by donating artwork to the Artists Unite for Haiti art sale. Exhibition and sale of work will be on February 5th-7th at  the LoDi Project  1126 North Blount Street, Raleigh, NC.

Open to artists of any level- everyone is welcome to contribute.

 *Each artwork will be sold for $25.00
 *The artists will remain anonymous until after sale
 *All funds will be donated directly to Mercy Corps  (www.mercycorps.org) and designated to the immediate relief of the Haitian people

SPECIFICATIONS:
- Work on paper or light board no larger than 11 x 17 inches
- Any medium such as: drawing, painting, collage, photography
- Work must be unframed and unsigned- the work can be signed and numbered on the back
- Work will be hung using clips- avoid using heavy materials

SUBMISSIONS:
Multiple submissions are welcome
Work must arrive to gallery by Thursday, February 4th, 2010

Send work to:

The LoDi Project, Attn. Artists Unite for Haiti, 1126 North Blount Street, Raleigh  NC 27604

The organizers reserve the right to refuse any unsuitable work.
For more information please contact:
Peter Eversoll at peversoll@yahoo.com or Georges Le Chevallier at georges@thelodiproject.com

Postcards from the Edge, Jan 8-10... January Web Gallery: light itself

Postcards From the Edge

A Benefit for Visual AIDS

January 8-10, 2010


Hosted by ZieherSmith in their new location at 516 West 20th Street (btw 10th & 11th Avenues), NYC

Benefit Sale
Saturday, January 9, 2010 from 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Sunday, January 10, 2010 from 12:00 noon - 4:00 PM
First-come, first-served, with a suggested admission of $5 each day.
Over 1600 original postcard-size works of art. 

$75 EACH. Buy four and get a fifth as our Thank You.
Proceeds benefit programs of Visual AIDS.
Forms of payment accepted are cash, check, MC/VISA/AMEX.

Preview Party
Friday, January 8, 2010 from 6:00 - 8:00 PM
$75 admission, payable at the door, includes a raffle ticket for the chance to win 1st choice of any postcard. Additional raffle tickets available at the door. Participating artists attend free.

A silent auction of original work by Jack Pierson, Marcus Linnenbrink and Aaron Cobbett will also be available during the Preview Party. Plus, the auction will include the choice of any postcard to the highest bidder! Click here for more details. No other artwork will be sold until the Benefit Sale on Saturday, Jan. 9 & Sunday, Jan. 10, 2010.

Hosted by ZieherSmith in their new location at 516 West 20th Street, NYC

More info and sneak peek!

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Visual AIDS January Web Gallery: 'light itself'

"What I Was Seeing," 1995
David Nelson

pencil and Conté on photograph, 80" x 64"

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Every month, Visual AIDS invites guest curators, drawn from both the arts and AIDS communities, to select several works from the Frank Moore Archive Project. This month, Joy Garnett curates the artwork of Archive Members; Stephen Andrews, Jimmy DeSana, John Dugdale, Per Eidspjed, Tony Feher, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Peter Madero III, Chuck Nanny, David Nelson and David Wojnarowicz.

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I have been thinking a lot lately about what the mind does when it is denied information. Does it plant meanings in the empty spaces? And if so, where do these surrogate meanings come from? I have been thinking especially about gaps of information in images: the empty spaces, the answers withheld or encrypted. The lengths we go to, unknowingly, in supplying a narrative or a pattern where none is offered. We know that the brain supplies perpetual visual experience even in the absence of stimuli -- visual input from within. The eye continuously wanders over life's glittering but impervious surfaces, seeking gratification -- does it give up once it has been satisfied? And if it is denied what it expects, will the mind's eye supply the missing meanings in lieu of the forms and phrases that would otherwise meet our expectations?

Of course, in the realm of art, the intentional agitation of the gaps between viewer and object is a given. An initial absence will reveal itself at any moment as full-to-bursting presence. We hardly know it's happening. Tony Feher's dangling, half-empty bottles twirl gently in space, to suddenly catch gulps of light and become, magically, half-full, enacting a cognitive leap from detritus to the sublime before we even register it. On the other hand, light itself obscures our vision as we search for the outline of a form or for a way out. While blinding us, Stephen Andrews' searchlight only enhances our understanding of night; we see figures in a lifeboat, impossible to get to, about to slip back into the abyss. In the same breath, Jimmy DeSana's spectral self-portrait in negative exposes the artist as incorporeal; did he just nod and tip his hat before dissolving into a puff of pale smoke, like a vampire in sunlight?

If seeing is possessing, this is especially frustrated here by the resolute back of a nude who wears her river of black hair like a veil in John Dugdale's Victorian inflected cyanotype, signaling seduction while denying our eyes access. Felix Gonzalez-Torres' Untitled (Last Letter) offers one small clue to desire deferred in the form of a jigsaw puzzle: a fragment of lovers' correspondence, otherwise lost and unknowable -- and yet all-too-well known.

In another twist, an intact human head is missing from David Wojnarowicz's cartoon corpse lying on the pebbled ground; a flare of transparent blood where the head once was offers a pattern, and through this absence emerges a presence that is strange and strangely more pleasing than the thought of crushed and ruined head. Chuck Nanney's Disappearance is a mask with a face -- not a face behind a mask. How much of this mask does the face reveal: the entire cosmos it embodies? At the very least, a stormy horizon line and a monstrous attitude. One's direct line of sight is likewise confounded in Per Eidspjeld's RNA, a pinwheeling collage of disembodied limbs, where full corporeal bloom is delivered through grotesquely abbreviated encoding.

Pattern recognition gives way to an all-too-familiar non-recognition in the systemic, abstract intricacies of David Nelson's What I Was Seeing, obscuring our vision through constant agitation in a warm, psychedelic bath of light waves, while Peter Madero III's La Corona offers us nothing less than heaven itself, and all the release and redemption it holds, if one could only leap over the impossibly high loops of razor wire up into the luminous grey sky.

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