This special screening event is a derivative of an ever evolving project by
Alaskan artist Jimmy Riordan. Last September, with the help of New York
curator Leslie Rosa Stumpf, Riordan organized an exhibition at
MTS Gallery in Anchorage which included work from 56 national and
international artists. This summer Riordan and Stumpf are traveling
across the country, meeting up with many of the artists involved in
the exhibition for a series of exhibition-related projects that will
draw tighter connections between various artistic practices.
As a contributing artist to the Le Roman du Lievre project,
I am organizing a special screening of a new french
film (not scheduled to release to the public in the U.S. until the end
of June!). Catherine Breillat’s La Barbe Bleu is a contemporary
interpretation of the popular French folktale, which has a significant
conceptual and narrative relationship to Francis Jammes’ 1903 novel
Le Roman de Lievre, the textual inspiration for Riordan’s entire project.
Riordan will also be doing
a DIY lithography demo at the event!
When: June 12, 2010
8:30pm DIY lithography demo
9:30pm screening of Catherine Breillat’s La Barbe Bleu (2010)
with special introduction by film studies
professor, Tami M. Williams
Where: The Green Gallery (West)
631 East Center Street 3B
Milwaukee, WI
The project has a great website too:
www.leromandulievre.com
For more information about this event, and to RSVP, you can email me directly:
leah@leahschreiber.com
The following text is from http://leromandulievre.com/news.html:
Return to Me…
On the 17th of May a van full of artwork will leave Anchorage and begin heading east. Around the 12th of June it will arrive in New York. Between these two dates, it will zigzag across Canada and the US, meeting up with all of the artists that participated in Marginalia (or at least those that are on this continent).
Marginalia is an exhibition, soon to open in Anchorage, Alaska. This group show features works from multiple international artists, and considers the individual responses to a French tale, Le Roman Du Lievre. I have two pieces in this exhibition: one video of a particular storm that occurred in June, that happened to cause great damage to my art studio while I was filming the storm from my home, and one enlarged print image of a hunter cleaning a hare by unexpected means.
In my work, I often consider the ways we gain knowledge about our selves, whether through subjective experience, or cultural influences. One of the things that I found most interesting in the Le Roman Du Lievre is the issue of threat. There are repeated moments of comfort and fear, safety and threat, all presented from the point of view of the hare. I wanted to consider how these moments perceived by the hare affected the way he understood his position.
In the story, the hare takes comfort in a storm, a common literary marker of looming danger. I also found it interesting that the author repeatedly uses a quote from another book, Bluebeard, in which a woman fears her ugly husband, and finds through her curiosity that he has murdered his former wives. The quote, “Sister, do you not see anything coming?” seems almost comical in its foreshadowing, and speaks to the narrative of the unknown.
My recent work is invested in the information imparted by scientific diagrams, and our reliance on these images as facts about our selves. In my research for this project, I was drawn to books containing ‘useful’ information about hares, including anatomical drawings and especially the how-to diagrams in game hunting books. The image in One Quick Motion refers back to the significant moment in the story where the hare concedes his life for the benefits of death in Hare Heaven. For our hare, the threat of missing out on Eternal Life persuades him to give up his earthly life and accept that death will bring true happiness. This process distorted photograph shows a field hunter completing a ‘knifeless cleaning method’, a more physical technique for bodily transformation.
To learn more, go to http://leromandulievre.com/home.html
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Rotatory, the latest exhibition of works by Leah Schreiber, includes a gallery-length suspended sculpture and interactive kinetic paintings inspired by an image of the hairs of the inner ear essential for balance. Incorporating new technologies with both traditional painting and found sculptural material, Rotatory presents a physical and fantastical reinterpretation of medical imagery. The exhibition, to be held at the INOVA Gallery at The Peck School of Arts, is for the completion of her MFA degree at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
“By engaging viewers on a physical level through movement of line, the mechanical and interactive movement of materials, and invented scale shifts, these works encourage a reconnection to the physical experience of our bodies as a source of self-knowledge”.
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Join us at the Green Room following the reception.
About “Indian Green”
“Indian Green” is a regional group exhibition featuring 2D and 3D works by artists living and working in Green Bay, Sheboygan, and Milwaukee. Participating artists are: Melissa Dorn Richards (Milwaukee), Dale Knaak (Sheboygan), Tiffany Knopow (Milwaukee), Dara Larson (Milwaukee), Leah Schreiber (Milwaukee), Dave Watkins (Milwaukee), Christine Style (Green Bay), Ariana Huggett (Milwaukee), Renee Staeck (Milwaukee), Chris Niver (Milwaukee), Shayna Illingworth (Sheboygan), Kendall Polster (Milwaukee), Eriks Johnson (Milwaukee), Rory Burke (Milwaukee), and Erica Becker (Green Bay).
Now is the time to be creative, proactive, and to take initiative to create a platform for networking, support and collaboration among artists, says Frank Juarez. Through the collaborative efforts of Juarez, Steve Bossler and Zack Pattison, co-owners of Greenseed Studios, this exhibition will not only introduce a diverse body of work by 15 artists ranging from paintings to needlework, jewelry to mixed media, and sculpture to printmaking, but also represent personal exploration of materials, media and ideas in a contemporary practice.
Click here to read an interview posted on October 21, 2009 to expressmilwaukee.com, a popular online entertainment magazine. The interview is a portion of a conversation I had with Peggy Sue Dunigan, when she visited my studio during the Kenilworth Open Studio on October 16th.
Marginalia is an exhibition, soon to open in Anchorage, Alaska. This group show features works from multiple international artists, and considers the individual responses to a French tale, Le Roman Du Lievre. I have two pieces in this exhibition: one video of a particular storm that occurred in June, that happened to cause great damage to my art studio while I was filming the storm from my home, and one enlarged print image of a hunter cleaning a hare by unexpected means.
In my work, I often consider the ways we gain knowledge about our selves, whether through subjective experience, or cultural influences. One of the things that I found most interesting in the Le Roman Du Lievre is the issue of threat. There are repeated moments of comfort and fear, safety and threat, all presented from the point of view of the hare. I wanted to consider how these moments perceived by the hare affected the way he understood his position. In the story, the hare takes comfort in a storm, a common literary marker of looming danger. I also found it interesting that the author repeatedly uses a quote from another book, Bluebeard, in which a woman fears her ugly husband, and finds through her curiosity that he has murdered his former wives. The quote, “Sister, do you not see anything coming?” seems almost comical in its foreshadowing, and speaks to the narrative of the unknown.
My recent work is invested in the information imparted by scientific diagrams, and our reliance on these images as facts about our selves. In my research for this project, I was drawn to books containing ‘useful’ information about hares, including anatomical drawings and especially the how-to diagrams in game hunting books. The image in One Quick Motion refers back to the significant moment in the story where the hare concedes his life for the benefits of death in Hare Heaven. For our hare, the threat of missing out on Eternal Life persuades him to give up his earthly life and accept that death will bring true happiness. This process distorted photograph shows a field hunter completing a ‘knifeless cleaning method’, a more physical technique for bodily transformation.
To learn more, go to http://leromandulievre.wordpress.com
My work has been posted on the “Engaging geography” seminar series website because its next event – in Falmouth, Cornwall, SW England on July 6-7, 2009 – is on the topic of ‘creative public geographies’.
According to an email I received, “The aim of the series is both to appreciate existing, and promote new, efforts academic and other geographers are making to engage publics in the kinds of work that geographers do. The aim of this seminar is to think through, and to promote, ways in which this can be achieved through various forms of creative practice (not that being an academic or other geographer isn’t ‘creative’, …).”
Earlier this year, an email was sent asking for examples of ‘Creative public geographies’ to a contact list called the Critical Geography Forum, and Daily Navigation (located on my Artist-In-Residence page) was recommended by the people who answered. Below is the full list of projects recommended:
I will be showing work at the Zhou B. Art Center in Chicago in the National Wet Paint Exhibition through February.