Bateman: Exhibitions Summer 2023
108 Contemporary: Safekeeping, Juried by Anita Fields
Surface Design Association Exhibition June 2-July 23, 2023
June 2, 2023
108/Contemporary is excited to showcase Surface Design Association’s Member Exhibition: Safekeeping, on view from June 2 – July 23, 2023. Safekeeping celebrates diverse work from SDA members that push the evolution of textiles through the use of color, design, process, material, and concept. Juror Anita Fields, selected 42 artworks from more than 375 submissions. From zip ties to native prairie grasses, the exhibition incorporates a stunning range of materials to explore the concept of “safekeeping.” There are 40 artists included in the exhibition representing 26 states across the U.S. as well as three international artists. This exhibition is sure to provide a detailed look into surface design through many forms of media.
Born in Oklahoma, Juror Anita Fields is a contemporary Native American multi-disciplinary artist of Osage heritage. She is known for her works which combine clay and textile with Osage knowledge systems. Fields explores the intricacies of cultural influences at the intersection of balance and chaos found within our existence, explaining that: “The power of transformation is realized by creating various forms of clothing, coverings, landscapes, and figures. The works become indicators of how we understand our surroundings and visualize our place within the world.” In this way, the early Osage concepts of duality, such as earth and sky, male and female, are represented throughout her work.
Exhibition Opening
Friday, June 2, 2023
6:00 – 9:00 pm
Virtual Textile Talk Program
June 21, 2023
Time: 1:00 pm CT
108 Contemporary
108 E Reconciliation Way
Tulsa, OK 74103
Surface Design Association
8201 Golf Course Rd NW
Albuquerque, NM 87120-5841
Dreamsong Art: Groundwork
Minneapolis MN June 22-August 5, 2023
June 22, 2023
Dreamsong is pleased to present Groundwork, a group exhibition taking terra firma as both subject and medium. A wellspring of enlivening nutrients, a signifier of territory and identity and a site of conflict over indigenous rights and environmental protection, soil offers a rich prism through which the present may be both imagined and imaged. From a material standpoint, earth immediately invokes the monumental Land Art tradition of the 1960s and 1970s. Unlike Robert Smithson or Michael Heizer, however, the artists in Groundwork eschew the romanticized grandeur of ‘empty’ Western spaces in favor of considered excavations of locally embedded and lived histories. Adopting anticolonial, queer, feminist, environmentalist, and other critical lenses, they seek communion with the specificities and spiritual meanings of place, burrow into the legacies and experiences of their ancestors, and express concerns about our collective future. Their poetic interventions into land center diasporic experiences, treat the ground as a repository of ancestral time and memory, and lament the historically entwined damage wrought by colonialism and resource extraction. More attuned with the groundbreaking work of Ana Mendieta, whose film Untitled: Silueta Series (Gunpowder Works) (1980) is included in the exhibition, earth is treated in Groundwork as an invaluable storehouse of oft overlooked heritages.
Featured Artists: Sydney Acosta . Teresa Baker . Moira Bateman . Liz Ensz .Hannah Lee Hall . Alexa Horochowski . Kahlil Robert Irving . Seitu Jones . Stephanie Lindquist . Gudrun Lock . SaraNoa Mark . Ana Mendieta . Alva Mooses . Ryan Gerald Nelson . Nikki Praus . Ian Tweedy . Mathew Zefeldt
Dreamsong Art
1237 4th Street NE
Minneapolis, MN 55413
DeVos Art Museum: North of the 45th, Juror: Michael Andrews
University of Northern Michigan June 23-July 28, 2023
June 23, 2023
North of the 45th is an annual juried exhibition of artists living in the geographical area north of the 45th parallel in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. The exhibition highlights artists living in this upper Midwest region from rural and urban areas. Michael Andrews juried the 2023 North of the 45th exhibition.
The 2023 exhibition features the following artists –
MICHIGAN Crystal Falls – Kristin Underhill; Deerton – Ruby Miller; Escanaba – Carol Irving; Houghton – Terri Jo Frew; Iron River – Dustin Johnson; Maple City – Nik Burkhart; Marquette – Gabby Adams, John Beck, Joseph Calderon, Jamie Chandler, Kreg Greer, Niikah Lee Hatfield, Steven Hughes, Enola Jeevar, Francesca McGinley, Rob Mielke, Russell Prather, JoAnn Shelby, Cameron Wilcox, Ilah Wilson; Northport – Cynthia Greig, James Thatcher; Norway – David Livingston; Traverse City – Dorothy Anderson Grow, Kevin Summers; MINNESOTA Minneapolis – Miram Anglin, Moira Bateman, Savannah Bustillo, Marjorie Fedyszyn, Kendall Laurent, Curt Lund, Kim Matthews, Laura DuFrane Murphy, Melanie Pankau, Jayson Randall, Michelle Westmark Wingard; Robbinsdale – Lindsy Halleckson; St. Paul – Calee Cecconi, Jacob Docksey; WISCONSIN Appleton – Chloe Lamb, Elyssa Pfluger; Belleville – Emilie Schada; Green Bay- Lisa Wicka; Wausau – Elaina Johann
View images of the exhibition here.
Join us for the reception and juror’s talk on Friday, July 28 at 6:30 pm.
DeVos Art Museum
University of Northern Michigan
Marquette MI 49855