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• Julie Heffernan Solos at The Catharine Clark Gallery
• The Oakland Museum to Show PIXAR-25 Years of Animation
• Selected Paintings 1969-2009 by Shirley Jaffe at Tibor de Nagy
• The Animazing Gallery Presents 'Dragons in the Dungeon' by Wayne Anderson
• 'Vee Speers: Immortal' On Exhibition at Jackson Fine Arts in Atlanta
• Krannert Art Museum to Present the Works of Reverend Howard Finster
• Elvis' Clashes with Media on View at Newseum in Washington
• Tibetan Buddhist Monks to Create a Mandala Sand Painting at JCSM
• Retrospective of Work by Camille Silvy at National Portrait Gallery
• The Getty Villa displays 'The Society of Dilettanti'
• Creative Time Partners with Art Basel Miami Beach to Redesign Oceanfront
• Whitney Museum of Art opens "A Few Frames: Photography and the Contact Sheet"
• Oscar-Nominated Costumes on View at Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising
• This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News

Julie Heffernan Solos at The Catharine Clark Gallery Posted: 19 Sep 2011 08:56 PM PDT San Francisco, CA.- The Catharine Clark Gallery is pleased to present "Boy, O Boy II", a solo exhibition of new paintings by Julie Heffernan, on view until October 29th. Julie Heffernan's third solo exhibition at Catharine Clark Gallery, "Boy, O Boy II", presents more than a dozen paintings that delve into those transitional periods of life that are exhilarating and petrifying. Lushly painted, Heffernan's canvases explore the macro and microcosms of change, from earthly shifts in climate and culture over hundreds and thousands of years, to role-changes in families as members grow older and move away. Heffernan's subjects are depicted in strained relationships with their environments. In "Self-Portrait with Falling Sky", for example, the protagonist is standing precariously in the midst of a volley of intricately-carved and bejeweled rocks and boulders tumbling down upon her head. The tenuous situation is visually frozen in time by the painting so that the falling rocks are forever suspended around her. A notably new central subject for the artist is the Boy archetype — arriving in the paintings as Heffernan's son is leaving home. Recognizing the importance of this period in her life, Heffernan patterns herself as a sort of artist-as-Polonius, imparting the physical and intellectual tools she feels her son will need on his journey—books, rope, keys. In paintings like "Self-Portrait Picking Up the Pieces", the Boy is carrying the burdens and detritus of old belief systems and idols that have lost their power or been deprived of currency. Saddled with gear in a forest of sign systems that point him in a host of different directions, he is effectively left make his own way. No longer feeling it appropriate to consider those of her son to be "self-portraits" — as her paintings have historically been considered — Heffernan's Boy archetype still reflects inward, as if her son were an avatar of herself. Julie Heffernan's series of works have an ever-present awareness of generational inheritance. Will we pass on enough wisdom and means to ensure a successful life on this earth, and what kind of earth will that be? Her luscious palette and skillful handling of materials compliment a rich subject matter that adeptly explores the fragility of human existence. Born in Peoria, Illinois Julie Heffernan received her Bachelors of Fine Arts in Painting and Printmaking from the University of California, Santa Cruz and her Masters of Fine Art in Painting from the Yale School of Art. Her work is included in many national and international collections, including the Columbia Museum of Art (Columbia, South Carolina), the Virginia Museum of Fine Art (Richmond, Virginia), Norton Museum of Art (West Palm Beach, Florida), The Contemporary Museum (Honlulu, Hawaii), The Mint Museums (Charlotte, North Carolina), and the Zabludowicz Art Trust (London, United Kingdom).  A traveling retrospective of her work, accompanied by the catalogue titled Everything that Rises, was organized by the University Art Museum, University of Albany (Albany, New York) in 2006.  Her paintings have been featured in solo exhibitions at institutions such as the Brooklyn Academy of Music (Brooklyn, New York), the Lux Art Institute (Encinitas,  California), the John Michael Kohler Art Center (Sheboygan, Wisconsin), the Mint Museum of Art (Charlotte, North Carolina), and University Art Gallery at CSU Stanislaus (Turlock, California). Her work has garnered critical attention in numerous publications including Artforum, Art in America, Artnews,  and  The New York Times.  Raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Heffernan now lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Established in 1991, Catharine Clark Gallery presents the work of contemporary artists. A wide range of media is represented in the gallery's program with an emphasis on content-driven work that challenges both the traditional use of materials and formal aesthetics. Catharine Clark Gallery was the first San Francisco gallery to create a dedicated media room, presenting new genres and experimental video art with each changing exhibition.  Exhibitions are hosted  on a six-week schedule and generally feature one or two solo presentations in addition to media room installations.  The gallery regularly participates in national and international art fairs. Housed in a former 1920s farming equipment warehouse, redesigned by Los Angeles-based architectural designer Tim Campbell, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, is situated among numerous arts-related landmark buildings in San Francisco's Yerba Buena Neighborhood; it is adjacent to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), the Museum of the African Diaspora (MOAD), near the Contemporary Jewish Museum, and the Museum of Craft and Folk Art, and is housed on the ground floor of the same historical building as SF Camerawork. In March of 2010, the gallery opened Catharine Clark Gallery, New York, a project space in a residential apartment in New York's Chelsea neighborhood. Installations of gallery artists' work are presented as "pop-up" exhibits at the New York location several times a year. Visit the gallery's website at ... www.cclarkgallery.com

The Oakland Museum to Show PIXAR-25 Years of Animation Posted: 19 Sep 2011 08:39 PM PDT OAKLAND, CA - The Oakland Museum of California (OMCA) will present PIXAR: 25 Years of Animation, a major exhibition of over 500 works by the artists at Pixar Animation Studios, including drawings, paintings, and sculptures that illustrate the creative process and craftsmanship behind Pixar's wildly successful computer-animated films. This will be a significantly enhanced presentation of the exhibition, which is returning home to Oakland after a successful worldwide tour that began at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2005. A number of significant works will be on public display for the first time, including art from Ratatouille, WALL•E, Up, and Pixar's latest feature film, Toy Story 3.   PIXAR will also include an updated, awe-inspiring version of the Pixar Artscape, a widescreen media installation. On view from July 31, 2010 through January 9, 2011, the exhibition will be accompanied by screenings of Pixar's feature and short films; a special program of lectures, talks and workshops with Pixar artists; and a new and expanded exhibition catalogue. "The Bay Area, has emerged as the global center for animation today, making OMCA an ideal venue for this comprehensive exhibition of Pixar's achievements," said Lori Fogarty, Executive Director of the Oakland Museum of California. "This Museum's mission is to connect communities to the natural and cultural heritage of California, and we believe that Pixar is in many ways a quintessential California enterprise. Not only does Pixar carry on the extraordinary legacy of animation in California-and particularly the pioneering creativity of the Walt Disney Studios-but it represents the dynamic marriage of art and technology that is a hallmark of California innovation." "We're thrilled to see this greatly enhanced version of the exhibition come to the newly reopened Oakland Museum of California, our hometown museum and practically a neighbor," adds John Lasseter, Chief Creative Officer, Pixar and Disney Animation Studios. "Most people don't realize that many Pixar artists work in traditional media-drawing, painting, pastels, and sculpture-as well as in digital media. This artwork plays a particularly important role in the process of concept design, story, and character development. OMCA celebrates the breadth of California creativity through its collections and it is wonderful to revisit the craftsmanship of Pixar artists in this context." About the Exhibition At the heart of PIXAR are the concept drawings, sketches, paintings, and maquettes created by Pixar artists over the past 25 years to bring to life the compelling characters and stories that have enchanted moviegoers of all ages around the world. Drawing on work from Pixar's eleven feature films and many of its short films, the exhibition spans some of the studio's first short films created in the 1980s; its first feature-length film, Toy Story, the first fully computer-animated feature film ever produced; Pixar's recent Academy Award-winning feature Up; and its latest film, Toy Story 3, to be released this summer. PIXARwill showcase more than 500 artifacts, including many of the pencil drawings; paintings in acrylic, gouache, and watercolor; and sculptures that form the backbone of the computer-generated images (CGIs) for which Pixar has become internationally recognized. The exhibition also includes video interviews with artists and behind-the-scenes footage of Pixar's creative process. Walt Disney's arrival in Los Angeles in the 1920s established California as a magnet and training ground for future generations of animation artists. Home to a number of leading studios, the San Francisco Bay Area has today emerged as a creative hub and global center for computer-animated film. PIXAR provides an unprecedented look at the artistry, creative process, and technical advances pioneered by the renowned Emeryville-based studio, located just a few miles from the Oakland Museum of California. From its founding in 1986, Pixar has been at the forefront of a revolution in animation by creating films that have pushed the limits of traditional animation artistry and groundbreaking computer applications. PIXAR invites visitors to trace different stages in animation production, from early concept design and character, scene, and story development to finished film sequences that transport the viewer into the world of the imagination. Pixar Animation Studios, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, A highlight of the exhibition will be two special media installations-Artscape, an immersive, wide-screen projection of digitally processed images that gives the viewer the sensation of entering into and exploring the exquisite details of the original artworks; and the Pixar Zoetrope, a three-dimensional device that displays a rapid succession of images, creating the illusion of motion. PIXAR will feature storyboards, a tool to guide scene-by-scene narrative progression, from several of the studio's short films. The exhibition will also showcase colorscripts created during the making of many Pixar feature films. Colorscripts are used to express the production designer's vision of the story through color and emotion. They can be produced in a variety of mediums, from marker to pastel to paint and collage. PIXAR will be installed in approximately 11,000 square feet of temporary exhibition galleries and expand into common spaces such as hallways and the museum store. Mural size graphics and video projections will be used throughout OMCA's newly renovated landmark facility-linking the exhibition to the Museum's collections and encouraging visitors to explore the work of Pixar artists as part of a continuum of creativity and innovation in California. "One of our goals is to connect PIXAR to the legacy of California's pioneering role in imaging technology, including early photography by artists such as Eadweard Muybridge, who was instrumental in developing the moving picture," says René de Guzman, senior curator of art at OMCA. "We also have amazing collections of daguerreotypes, albumen stereographs, nineteenth-century photographic panoramas, and new media that illustrate how California has been at the frontier of how images are created." A publication entitled Pixar: 25 Years of Animation, published by Chronicle Books for OMCA, will accompany the exhibition. The book greatly enhances and updates the original exhibition catalogue, featuring an additional 32 pages including art from Ratatouille, WALL•E, Up, and Pixar's latest film, Toy Story 3. Also included in the book is a conversation between Rene de Guzman, senior curator of art at the Oakland Museum of California, and Elyse Klaidman, director of the Pixar University and Archives, focusing on the creative process behind Pixar's computer-animated films and the making of this exhibition. The book will be released on June 18. It will be available for purchase exclusively at the new OMCA Store and through the Museum's website. Visit the  Oakland Museum of California (OMCA) at :   www.museumca.org

Selected Paintings 1969-2009 by Shirley Jaffe at Tibor de Nagy Posted: 19 Sep 2011 08:37 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- Tibor de Nagy presents a forty-year retrospective of works by Paris-based American abstract painter Shirley Jaffe. The exhibition is the artist's third with the gallery. Jaffe's large-scale geometric abstractions are inspired by what she sees day to day in the urban Paris landscape. This vision is translated ultimately into colorful shapes and scriptive lines, set against generous white grounds, creating playful and balanced compositions. On view through 24 April.

The Animazing Gallery Presents 'Dragons in the Dungeon' by Wayne Anderson Posted: 19 Sep 2011 08:36 PM PDT Aveyron, France.-  Over the decades, Wayne Anderson has become renowned for his playful imagination and fantastic imagery. The Animazing Gallery at the Chateau de Belcastel is proud to present 'Dragons in the Dungeon', a unique collection of the legendary beasts, inspired by medieval legends and fairie tales by British artist Wayne Anderson. The exhibition will be on view from April 1st unti; November 6th 2011.

'Vee Speers: Immortal' On Exhibition at Jackson Fine Arts in Atlanta Posted: 19 Sep 2011 08:34 PM PDT Atlanta, GA - Jackson Fine Arts in Atlanta, Georgia will be showing 'Vee Speers: Immortal" from April 15th until June 18th 2011, an exhibition of new works by Vee Speers. Vee Speers presents the viewer with a distinctly fascinating and highly personal body of work intent on exploring the friction between temporality and timelessness. Vee Speers earned international acclaim with her series The Birthday Party, a collection of portraits informed by the artist's observation of her daughter's eighth birthday. The children portrayed in these photographs were garbed in party dresses and animal masks, blowing facesized bubbles; or dressed in nurse uniforms and gas masks, their expressions steadily transfixing viewers from within timeless compositions awash in anachronistic elements. The Birthday Party found Speers and her subjects gracefully straddling the delicate divides between childhood and old age, past and present, solemnity and play.

Krannert Art Museum to Present the Works of Reverend Howard Finster Posted: 19 Sep 2011 08:32 PM PDT CHAMPAIGN, IL.- Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion will present Stranger in Paradise: The Works of Reverend Howard Finster. A self-proclaimed "Man of Visions," Finster was one of America's most widely known and prolific self-taught artists, producing over 46,000 pieces of art before his death in 2001. Born in rural Alabama in 1916, Finster went on to become a preacher, tent revivalist, and "master of 22 different trades" before building his roadside tribute to inventors, the Plant Farm Museum. Later dubbed "Paradise Garden" by Esquire magazine, this rock- and junk-encrusted wonderland was the focus of Finster's life work. On view 29 January through 28 March, 2010.

Elvis' Clashes with Media on View at Newseum in Washington Posted: 19 Sep 2011 08:30 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP).- A spark that helped ignite Elvis Presley's fame more than 50 years ago was lit by the newspaper editors and critics who hated him. They detested his voice and thought his moves were unfit for family publications, all while teenagers went wild. It's that shocking style and clash with the media that also will make Elvis the subject of a new exhibition at the Newseum, a history museum that celebrates the First Amendment in Washington. The exhibit opening March 19 traces Elvis' rise in the 1950s — in part a study in image management by his longtime manager, Col. Tom Parker — to his meeting with President Richard Nixon at the White House in 1970. It will include rare objects from Presley's life, some never before displayed outside of Graceland and others never before publicly displayed anywhere.

Tibetan Buddhist Monks to Create a Mandala Sand Painting at JCSM Posted: 19 Sep 2011 08:24 PM PDT AUBURN, AL - The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art announced the opening of a small exhibition of works from the Nelson and Joan Cousins Hartman Collection of Tibetan Bronzes. The exhibition, Aspects of Buddha, is open now and will be on display through the fall semester. On August 21-24 monks from the Drepung Loseling Monastery in Atlanta will create a sand mandala in the Grand Gallery of the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art. The public is invited to see the monks at work, and take part in the opening and closing ceremonies of the mandala making.

Retrospective of Work by Camille Silvy at National Portrait Gallery Posted: 19 Sep 2011 08:23 PM PDT LONDON.- The first retrospective exhibition of work by Camille Silvy, one of the greatest French photographers of the nineteenth century, will open at the National Portrait Gallery this summer. Marking the centenary of Silvy's death, Camille Silvy, Photographer of Modern Life, 1834 – 1910, includes over a hundred objects, many of which have not been exhibited since 1860. The portraits on display offer a unique glimpse into nineteenth-century Paris and Victorian London through the eyes of one of photography's greatest innovators.  On view 15 July through 24 October.

The Getty Villa displays 'The Society of Dilettanti' Posted: 19 Sep 2011 08:21 PM PDT   Malibu, CA - This exhibition presents portraits, sculptures, drawings, and rare books that illuminate the first 100 years of the Society of Dilettanti. The society was founded in 1734 in London as a dining club for British gentlemen who had made the Grand Tour, an extended trip to Italy for cultural enrichment. The Dilettanti combined revelry and witty irreverence with serious study of antiquity. They sponsored archaeological expeditions, assembled celebrated antiquities collections, and elevated classical art and architecture as models of refined taste and style. On view at the Getty Villa through 27 October, 2008.

Creative Time Partners with Art Basel Miami Beach to Redesign Oceanfront Posted: 19 Sep 2011 08:19 PM PDT MIAMI, FL.- This year, the layout of Art Basel Miami Beach will be extensively redesigned, including larger spaces for many galleries, and an innovative floor plan to maximize the visitor experience inside the Miami Beach Convention Center. The Art Positions sector, focused on special projects by young artists and galleries, formerly situated at Collins Park, will now be sited in the center of the Miami Beach Convention Center. Art Galleries, the main section of the show, will again feature the Art Kabinett program, which spotlights curated presentations in the selected gallery's booth, while Art Nova will present new works by more than 170 artists.

Whitney Museum of Art opens "A Few Frames: Photography and the Contact Sheet" Posted: 19 Sep 2011 08:17 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- In this selection of works drawn principally from the Whitney Museum of Art's permanent collection, the repetitive image of the proof sheet is the leitmotif in a variety of works spanning the range of the museum's photography collection, including the works of Paul McCarthy, Robert Frank, Ed Ruscha, and Andy Warhol. The exhibition is co-curated by Elisabeth Sussman, Whitney Curator and Sondra Gilman Curator of Photography, and Tina Kukielski, Senior Curatorial Assistant. A Few Frames opens on September 25, 2009 in the Sondra Gilman Gallery and runs through January 3, 2010.

Oscar-Nominated Costumes on View at Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising Posted: 19 Sep 2011 08:04 PM PDT LOS ANGELES (AP).- Helen Mirren's Elizabethan dress from "The Tempest" is covered with gold and silver zippers, all the way up to its ruffled collar. The hat that made Johnny Depp the Mad Hatter in "Alice in Wonderland" was crafted from imported Italian leather woven with gold threads, and it was sized to fit the fluffy orange wig he wore beneath it. The costumes from "True Grit" were made new, then aged to look more than 100 years old, while much of the clothing from "The King's Speech" were original pieces from the 1930s. Other featured costumes include several dazzling (and bedazzled) outfits worn by Christina Aguilera in "Burlesque," Leonardo di Caprio and Ellen Page's clothes from "Inception" and an outfit for each character in "The Kids are All Right." Some of the most eye-catching costumes include those from "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time" and "Clash of the Titans".

This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News Posted: 19 Sep 2011 08:03 PM PDT This is a new feature for the subscribers and visitors to Art Knowledge News (AKN), that will enable you to see "thumbnail descriptions" of the last ninety (90) articles and art images that we published. This will allow you to visit any article that you may have missed ; or re-visit any article or image of particular interest. Every day the article "thumbnail images" will change. For you to see the entire last ninety images just click : here . When opened that also will allow you to change the language from English to anyone of 54 other languages, by clicking your language choice on the upper left corner of our Home Page.  You can share any article we publish with the eleven (11) social websites we offer like Twitter, Flicker, Linkedin, Facebook, etc. by one click on the image shown at the end of each opened article.  Last, but not least, you can email or print any entire article by using an icon visible to the right side of an article's headline.

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