Giovanni Francesco Costa
Veduta verso il Taglio (View beside the Taglio), from the series Delle delizie del fiume Brenta (Some delights of the Brenta river)
Etching
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Katonah Museum of Art: Pietro Costa: Conflicts & War
Contained within each cylinder is a single possessive noun in neon that emits a pulsating glow of color. Buried within the ground, these words suggest the motivation behind the artwork and its title. A mirror at the bottom of each cylinder reflect...
Galeria Centro: Metaphors: Enriquillo R. Amiama
Amiama was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic in 1962. His work his been exhibited in Santo Domingo, Montreal, Wsahington DC, Panama and Costa Rica, with work in corporate collections in Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Guadalupe, Honduras,...
Women in Textile Arts: Call for Artists: IV International Biennial - Man + Woman = Creation 2006
Being this the only Biennial of this nature to be held in Latin America – it is the specific aim of the Women in Textile Arts – WTA Organization to be an open window towards the Textile Art of the world. Pilar Tobón – a well known Colombian artis...
Queens Museum of Art: Investigations, an exhibition of photographs by Costa Picadas
Investigations is a unique compilation of photographs with an
unusual origin--their initial function was to assess and document
the legitimacy of insurance claims in...
Columbus Museum of Art: No Ordinary Land: Encounters in a Changing Environment
Photographs by Virginia Beahan and Laura McPhee
In their color pictures the photographers explore how people interact with the landscape in places as diverse as Sri Lanka,
Iceland, Costa Rica, and New York City. Approximately 50 photographs, which the photographers refer to as social geographi...
MAC 21: Call for Exhibitiors: International Contemporary Art Fair
Download the Contract of Exhibitor with prices and Rules for participation in MAC21
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And we would therefore advise you to send by e-mail or fax your app...
Galeria do Teatro Municipal Baltazar Nunes: Dialogues with Engravings: Angela Costa, Guilhrme Cardoso, Liliana Almeida, Margarida Ransy and Marina dos Santos
Each of the artists exhibiting have their preferences, their tendencies, their obstinacies, their materials of predilection. Each has their own personal quest, search, insistancies and hesitations.
Each wants always do the best work possible.
Hungarian Multicultural Center, Inc.: Call for Aritsts: A.I.R. International Artists Residencies and Seminar 07 - 08 Budapest, Hungary PRICE REDUCTION DEADLINE EXTENDED
The program is open to international artists working
in all disciplines who are
engaged in the research, development or creation of
work.
For application form or questions regarding the
International Artist Residency
please write to
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Alamo Spring Art & Fine Craft Festival: CALL FOR ARTISTS
Featuring the most desirable selections of contemporary arts and
crafts available in Northern California, the Alamo Spring Art & Fine
Craft Festival celebrates the creative spirit in action. The Mother's
Day weekend festival has long provided a...
MacKenzie Art Gallery: Ron Noganosh: It Take Time
Born in 1949 in Magnetawan, Ontario, Ron Noganosh is an Ojibway artist who lives and works
in Ottawa. Noganosh studied Graphic Design at George Brown College in Toronto, and Fine Arts
...
Gate Foundation: On(e)Line: On One Line
The global and the international are not opposed to the local or the
regional, there is no confrontation. It is just that the one cannot exist
without the other.
It is better to measure these terms with their own values. This will make
way for de...
Witte de With Center for Contemportary Art: Squatters 2: Space in Rotterdam and Porto
Runa Islam (UK) emphasizes the local differences
in a side by side screening of two films based on the same script but
shot in the resp...
San Bernardino County Museum, Fisk Gallery: Brian Prescott: Photographs from A Bird's Eye View
Prescott has been to five continents to see more than 1,500 species of birds, and he has photographed more than 1,000 of them. He has traveled to the four corners of North America, and into the Yukon and Northwest Territory of Canada. He has visit...
Hang Art: Katherine Valentine: Temperature
Katherine Valentine's figurative paintings flicker on the canvas, saturated with evanescent light, subtle movement, and palpable emotion. Her painting process mimics life itself, with its constant negotiation of boundaries, its cycles of dissoluti...
Design Museum, at University of California, Davis: Beyond the Rainbow: Maguey Textiles of Guatemala
Curator Kathy Rousso will hold a free hands-on workshop on Saturday July 23 from 9 am to 5 pm. She will be demonstrating how to create small net bags using similar techniques to those displayed in the exhibition. All ages are welcomed. Please call...
Museum of the Americas: 7 Women from 7 Countries
The MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAS (MoA) is one of the few art institutions in Florida to foster and promote both established and emerging contemporary artists of every origin. Located in the City of Doral (Miami-Dade County area), MoA serves as an import...
Air Gallery: Drawing on Uncertainty: Works by Jac Saorsa
Drawing is considered by the artist to be at least, and perhaps more communicative in terms of meaning as conventional language.
I think that at root, the difference between verbal and visual literacy is that the latter requires visual ac...
g-module: Maureen McQuillan: Mesmerizing Force
McQuillan’s drawings consist of wave-like strands of impossibly thin and vibrating lines, suggesting linear mappings, topologic forms or scientific monitoring. In this current series, she gives yet another dimension to her low-tech process, which ...
PS1 Contemporary Art Center: El real viaje Real / The Real Royal Trip
The contemporary artists in the exhibition are from Columbuss embarkation point, Spain, and the lands he explored, including Cuba, Costa Rica, and Brazil. El real viaje Real / The Real Royal Trip, which is accompanied by a bilingual catalogue, is...
Hudson River Museum: The Magic of Light: Artists Focusing on Non-Traditional Media
The Magic of Light displays the work of both established and emerging
American artists. James Turrell, part of the Light-and-Space movement of
the 1960s and 1970s along with Robert Irwin, works with pure light,
while his main goal is the viewer...
Museum of the Americas: Women in the Arts 2009
The Museum of the Americas (MoA) celebrates once again the International Women's Month by presenting its 16th annual exhibition of "Women in the Arts 2009" as a tribute to women artists all over the world. The Museum of the Americas has pioneer...
Witte de With Center for Contemportary Art: [based upon] TRUE STORIES
Participating filmmakers and artists: Chantal Akerman, Edgar Arceneaux, Pedro Costa, Maurício Dias & Walter Riedweg, Omer Fast, Peter Friedl, Mark Lewis, Jean-Luc Moulène, Ella Raidel & René Straub, Angela Ricci Lucchi & Yervant Gianikian, Alejand...
Gallery Sigvardson: Roger Cummiskey: Painter
Roger Cummiskey in terms of his ability is able to transform ordinary scenes of human life into moments ripe with dramatic possibility.
Roger, from Dublin in Ireland lives and works in Mijas Costa, Spain where he says he is able to find the ...
Michael Dunev Art Projects: Sculpture by Manuel Sola / 20th Century Avantgarde
Their strong verticality recall the totems and ceremonial figures of African and Oceanic cutlures, and like them, give material sense to a spiritual world shared by all humanity. They are prayers to a world that is unravelling, presented with humi...
Pan American Art Gallery: Solo Show of Work by Ronald Moran
Born in Chalchuapa, El Salvador in 1972, Morán studied art at Centro Nacional de Artes San Salvador and Universidad Dr. José Matías Delgado San Salvador. Morán has participated in twelve solo shows in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Mexic...
Arte Communications, Venice Council's Office for Culture and Entertainment, Lido-Malamocco-Alberoni District Council: OPEN'99 2nd International Exhibition of Sculptures and Installations
The participating artists have been selected by a committee of international critics presided over by the French art critic, Mr. Pierre Restany. The artists come from 20 different countries: China, Costa Rica, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ja...
Teylers Museum: ARTISTS IN THE ZOO: Drawings, paintings, sculptures of animals in ‘Artis’
Artis was founded in 1838, and ranks after those in London and Dublin as the third oldest zoo in Europe. From the very beginning, the Amsterdam zoological garden was an enormous stimulus for artists. Lured by a hitherto unparalleled variety of exo...
Jack Rutberg Fine Art: Francisco Zuniga: Rare Paintings on Canvas and A Survey of Original Graphics
This museum quality exhibition is accompanied by the new publication of "Francisco Zuniga, Catalogue Raisonne: Volume II, Oil Paintings & Original Prints, 1927-1986." This beautifully printed and definitive hardcover book contains 375 illustratio...
Karpio Facchini Gallery: Reality: Francis Acea, Solo Show
A
well known work for this period is "taxi-limosina"
(1998), a stretched 10 meters long car, made out of
three Lada cars welded together, or "Antennas: network
transmission" (1998), a hundred and forty four
antennas installed upside down. Aft...
Subject Matter Gallery: Collabro: Collaborations by over 68 Artists
The "Collabro" artists have teamed up in groups of two or more to create work all captured and connected in one gallery. Collaborative art pieces will have their artists revealed at the show opening. The show was curated by Poor Al and includes Jo...
Fundacao Arpad Szenes - Vieira da Silva: Carlos Scliar: Painting from 1948 to 1983
Carlos Scliar was born in Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, in 1921.
He gave the first individual show of his paintings in 1940 in São Paulo.
His participation in the war from 1944 as a member of the Brazilian Expeditionary Force in Italy (where h...
Oakland Museum of California: After the Storm: Bob Walker and the Art of Environmental Photography
The exhibition places Walkers work in the context of the history of photography in the environmental movement, demonstrating its relationship to the work of such artist/activists as Ansel Adams, Phillip Hyde, Eliot Porter, the Mono Lake Committee ...
Galeria Lucia: Tripping the Light Fantastic: Work by Roger Cummiskey and Jane Gomis
View more of Roger Cummiskeys work at
absolutearts.com/portfolios/a/artroger.>Artist Jane Gomis creates images that sprawl across decades. Like Cezanne before her, she chooses ...
Carengie Museum of Natural History: The Art of Nature Photography Symposium
The speakers are:
Anthony E. Cook. Cook is a naturalist, artist and author of The Cook Forest, An Island in
Time. He has attained international recognition in the wo...
Carnegie Museum of Natural History: NO ORDINARY LAND: ENCOUNTERS IN A CHANGING ENVIRONMENT
Beahan and McPhee share a unique eye for the paradoxes inherent in the social landscape. In Italy, a hillside of prehistoric cave dwellings is being converted to modern apartments; in
Hawaii, a garden of mangos and oranges are protected against i...
Michael Dunev Art Projects: Estiu 2001, Two Exhibitions: Lluis Vila and Copper, Ink, Paper and Pressure
Born and raised in the province of Girona, Lluís Vilà is a native upon whom the Ampurdanese landscape has left but little impact. His paintings on paper reflect a personal vision imbued with a private language that generates the amorphous shapes h...
Biennial of Ceramics in Contemporary Art: The Happy Face of Globalization
In an homage to the twentieth-century avantgarde tradition, some of the
prime examples of which found an outlet in Albisola, the exhibition
presents, along with the works of the invited artists, a selection of works
in ceramics produced by ...
Trygve Lie Gallery: NANY II: Norwegian Artists in New York
Irene Christensen's art is about painting as a magical act. She has had one person exhibitions at Elverum Skogs Museum, Norway, E.F.T.A., Brussels, Belgium, Bergen Museum & Paterson Museum, New Jersey as well as many cultural centers and galleries...
Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art: Recycled Revisited: Artistic Responses to the Earth Charter
The twelve artists selected by Mr. Dahlsen and Dr. Wexler in this
exhibition, weave together environmental, social, and political
concerns, to which all must be attended for a sustainable future. By
employing a variety of media that range from ...
Gallery C: LA Woman: Lisa Adams, Kim McCarty, Meg Cranston, Jill Giegerich and Becky Guttin
As visual thinkers that truly provoke compelling dialogues, these women
epitomize what it means to be an artist. By pushing the boundaries,
creating controversy and inspiring thought, discussion and change, seek to
awaken the consciousness of ...
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