Young Space, no.17
Never odd or even.
Hello!
The other night, I was driving around with a really good friend of mine after we had been to a local art opening and grabbed some dinner. When I had met her an hour-or-so earlier, she had just woken up from a much-needed nap in her workshop—she’s an artist, picture framer, and a wiz at interior finishes (like plaster and gilding, that sort of thing)—and we were both yawning constantly all evening.
She had just had a super hectic, long, and laborious week working on a client’s new house, and her partner, who owns a shop adjacent to her workshop and had been helping her on the house project, too, was sick due to a probable combination of exhaustion and, well, February.
As we got ready to part for the evening, my friend was trying to decide whether she should open the shop the next day. She hadn’t had a proper day off since before Christmas, but there were some projects lining up. She said, “If I message the folks waiting for things, it’ll probably be fine.”
And it occurred to me then to say, “Yeah, people mostly just want to know what’s going on.” In the short-term (and of course the long-term), one’s health and wellbeing is 110% more important than a picture getting framed. But also it made me think about how, even if news is disappointing, sharing news is ultimately a deceptively simple way to show up—and show respect.
In the arts, where many things are “non-essential” and yet there is often a sense of urgency around certain events or an opaqueness to business, communication feels like one of the truest barometers of integrity and intent—sometimes even trustworthiness.
It’s the little things like not letting an uncomfortable email reply languish to the point no one knows what’s going on and an entire working relationship ends up on the rails. Or being the one to suggest an actual phone call to chat about something complex rather than relying on lengthy text messages. Or simply sending a quick, genuine “hello!” to someone you haven’t spoken to in a while but would like to stay connected with. It really is about being present, whether it’s a little thing like a minor delay or something much bigger—that could possibly have been much smaller.
In the end, my pal took the day off. The frames were still there, and it definitely created space to begin the next week fresh.
And wish that, see you next week, too!
—Kate
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What you’ll find below:
Featured artist: Daniel Gibson
Five exhibitions on view this week in Lisbon, Milan, Nashville, New York City, and Zurich
Fourteen opportunities for artists with deadlines coming up soon
Featured Artist: Daniel Gibson
“If someone wanted to describe my paintings quickly, it’s just a horizon, some rocks, dirt, and plants—and, of course, a sky,” says Daniel Gibson. Although such a facile summary wouldn’t encapsulate the richly layered symbolism, regional influences, and attention to detail in the artist’s dramatic landscapes. A deceptively simple begetter of wonder, our earthly atmosphere and the horizon provide the starting point for the artist’s new body of work on view in Big Sky, Gibson’s solo exhibition at Almine Rech.
Born in Yuma, Arizona, and raised in the southernmost region of California near Mexicali, Gibson grew up on the border. “I’ve been living surrounded by the Southwestern desert my whole life, and ever since I’ve started working, I’ve been painting my own version of how I see and experience the landscape that is so special to me,” he says. The theme of the sky began to emerge when he made trips to New Mexico over the past couple of years. He adds:
Every time I’m there, I think about the connection I feel between the sky and the Earth. Standing out there is different. You feel a part of the huge expanse of the sky when you’re high up in the mountains, or you feel small and grounded when you find yourself looking up at the giant cloud formations grazing above. I’m always drawn to nature and natural phenomena like that because there is so much that I feel and reflect on when I’m in it.
Gibson’s saturated landscapes observe the experience of the sublime, connecting one to their surroundings and at the same time sparking an awareness of the vastness of what lies both above and below. There is a heft to the solid clouds that roll across the vibrant blue skies characteristic of the Southwest, or the way the sky “opens up” and drifts across the distance. Gibson challenges our Western left-to-right “reading” of the works by reorienting the direction that figures face, weather moves, and the eye travels to a sinistrodextral, or right-to-left, inclination.
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Exhibitions
NASHVILLE | RED ARROW GALLERY
Emily Weiner: Never Odd or Even
One ticket to a very satisfying painting is symmetry and a glowing palette, and Emily Weiner embraces both in Never Odd or Even, focusing on timeless symbols of the sun and moon, human hands and faces, and references to art history and the theatre.
Runs through February 24
NEW YORK CITY | FORTNIGHT INSTITUTE
Katelyn Eichwald: Talisman
Paired with brass labels, Chicago-based Katelyn Eichwald’s paintings take on a museum artifact-like quality with metaphysical undercurrents. Each work is accompanied by a brief, enigmatic story. For Blood Magic (2024) above, the artist adds, “The back of the jewel has a small hole, almost invisible, that opens with a touch. One drop in a cup of tea is tasteless and quick.”
Runs through March 9
ZURICH | GALERIE EVA PRESENHUBER
Jean-Frédéric Schnyder: ŒL AUF LEINWAND
Sixty-seven paintings and Schnyder’s ongoing series Billige Bilder (“Cheap Pictures”), composed of 162 parts, survey the artist’s interest in seriality and his expansive approach to painting since 1982.
Runs through March 23
LISBON | ENCOUNTER
Alexi Tsioris: Trans Soleil
Paintings, sculptures, and works on paper made throughout the past decade fill all six of Encounter’s gallery spaces in this show collaboratively presented with Munich-based gallery Jahn and Jahn. Tsioris draws inspiration from ancient cave paintings and the fundamental act of mark-making, recording enigmatic, language-like systems.
Runs through March 23
MILAN | CIACCIA LEVI
David Horváth: Never ending light
Romanian artist David Horváth’s saturated oil paintings and drawings explore the human relationship to nature with an emphasis on the transition from adolescence and adulthood.
Runs through March 30
Artist Opportunities
Deadlines are coming up soon to apply for these grants, fellowships, residencies, and more.
Open Call for Kulturverein Salettl Residency
Deadline: February 25
The Salettl Residency Program will take place for the third time in 2024 and aims to offer artists the opportunity to enter into direct dialogue with the community of the Kleine Stadt Farm in Wien, Austria, and the surrounding nature in order to develop a project on site. The one-month residency takes place from June 1 to 30, 2024, and participants receive living and working space and a stipend of €1,800.
Submission fee: none
Dovetail Open Call for Artists and Writers
Deadline: February 29
Dovetail launches Fields, a new zine project that aims to bring together, in a printed format, diverse perspectives around art and the spaces we traverse and inhabit. For the first issue, submissions are invited from artists and writers based in the Midwest or whose work focuses on locations, landscapes, the environment, social issues, migration, and other themes around the Midwest region. Pitches may include photo essays, artist profiles, interviews, critical reflections, and more. Dovetail would especially like to prominently feature and engage Native artists, the LGBTQ+ community, creatives of color, and individuals in the rural Midwest. Selected pieces will be provided with a $500 stipend.
Submission fee: none
Saguaro National Park Artist-in-Residence
Deadline: February 29
The National Parks Arts Foundation invites individual artists and/or couples/duos to apply to the 2024 residency, which runs from June 4 to 27, 2024. The participating resident receives a $2,000 stipend and housing just outside the park.
Submission fee: none
Second Shift Studio Space Residencies in St. Paul
Deadline: March 1
Second Shift Studio Space of Saint Paul offers rent-free non-living studio space to artists and creatives who are marginalized due to their gender identity. Four residencies are awarded each year.
Submission fee: none
Madison Bubbler Artist-in-Residence Opportunities
Deadline: March 4
Madison Public Library offers Wisconsin-based artists opportunities to participate in residencies at Central Library in downtown Madison, Pinney Library, and Thurber Park (a year-long commitment). Various monthly stipends apply, with access to additional stipends for public programming, collaborations, and library resources.
Submission fee: none
CONTEXTILE 2024 Exhibition Open Call
Deadline: March 8
Contextile invites all artists to present artworks to the competition for the international exhibition, as part of Contextile 2024 – Contemporary Textile Art Biennial, in Guimarães, Portugal, from the September 7 to the December 15, 2024. The jury will also award an Acquisition Prize of €7,000 and two Honourable Mentions with awards. The 50 works of the international exhibition may also be selected, during the biennial, for the ATP – Associação Têxtil e Vestuário de Portugal Acquisition prize, in the amount of €2,500.
Submission fee: €10
BronxArtSpace Summer Residencies on Governors Island
Deadline: March 10
This program responds to a crucial need for studio space and professional development opportunities for emerging Bronx artists. BronxArtSpace will give stipends of $400 to each artist and offers to collect the artist's materials in BronxArtSpace and transport them from there to the island at the start and back at the end of the residencies. Residency dates run May 1 to July 31, 2024, and August 1 to October 31, 2024.
Submission fee: none
Center for Craft Teaching Artist Cohort
Deadline: March 11
Twenty mid-career craft artists who teach will receive $10,000 grants and join a 6-month cohort experience that supports their artistic and teaching career development with programs, mentorship, and peer-to-peer learning.
Submission fee: none
BRIClab Residency
Deadline: March 14
BRIClab is a multi-disciplinary residency program in Brooklyn created to advance opportunities for visual artists and media makers. BRIClab offers emerging to mid-career artists essential support and opportunities to share their work. All residents receive a $2,500 stipend, mentorship, skills-based learning and professional development, and documentation of their work. Additional support, in the form of funding, space, access to equipment and media classes, and other resources vary according to tracks.
Submission fee: none
Derek Hill Foundation Scholarship for the British School at Rome
Deadline: March 15
This is an exceptional opportunity for an artist based in the U.K. or the Republic of Ireland whose practice centers on the use of paint and/or drawing, to spend two months in a purpose-designed residential studio at the British School in Rome beginning in January 2025.
Submission fee: none
Quarterly Artist Grants for Athens, GA-based Artists
Deadline: March 15 (next deadlines are June 15, September 15, and December 15)
Each fiscal quarter, the Athens Area Arts Council awards grants of $500 to organizations, artists, or events in Athens, Georgia.
Submission fee: none
Textile Arts Center Artist-in-Residence
Deadline: March 17
TAC AIR combines studio access with a rigorous interdisciplinary curriculum, regular critical dialogue and mentorship, providing residents an opportunity to learn and explore the textile medium, and an alternative to traditional higher education programs. The residency culminates in a group exhibition produced and hosted by TAC. The TAC Artist In Residence Scholarship Fund will support one artist or designer who identifies as part of a historically marginalized identity or community in the Arts, (i.e class, race, ethnicity, religion, gender, disability, sexuality, age, education) and state the need for financial assistance to participate in the program and advance their artistic practice.
Submission fee: none
New Contemporaries Open Call
Deadline: March 25
New Contemporaries welcomes submissions from emerging and early-career artists who are final year students, recent graduates, and post-graduate students from U.K. art schools and alternative learning programs. Being selected includes exhibiting as part of Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2024. Selected artists are offered an artist’s fee and reasonable travel and accommodation costs covered for the private view of both exhibitions. Selection also includes mentorship opportunities, digital programming, and eligibility for future Studio Bursaries, Residencies, Fellowships, Scholarships and other opportunities.
Submission fee: none
Museum of Fine Arts Houston Core Program Residency
Deadline: April 1
The Core Program awards residencies to exceptional, highly motivated visual artists and critical writers who have completed their undergraduate or graduate training and are working to develop a sustainable practice. The residency term is nine months, from September to May, and fellows may apply for a second term. Residents receive a $21,500 stipend, a private studio or office, and borrowing privileges at the MFAH Hirsch Library and Rice University Fondren Library.
Submission fee: none
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