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“WALL 8”
Smallbany Gallery
May 9 -15, 2021, virtual
www.smallbanygallery.com IG: @smallbanygallery
Statement:
I am interested in examining the discomfort and tension that exists in navigating race and cultural identity. I seek to investigate these unintentional contradictions combining sculpture, drawing, and conceptual practice.
The work to be exhibited is the first room installation that I have made, based off of my “Walls” series. Formerly a painter, I began creating artwork with materials and imagery from my parents’ Chinese-American restaurant, the first of its kind in Scotia, NY. Materials and motifs can be transformed while almost falling apart. Information is diluted, interpreted, and reinterpreted for a new narrative.
About Smallbany Gallery:
Smallbany Gallery is a 1/12 scale gallery and installation space that is focused on Albany and Capital Region artists (with occasional guest artists from further afield).
It’s space to show work in a different way – and we hope it provides an opportunity for artists to work creatively without spending large amounts of money, time, and space on a life-scale installation. Work small, think big!
Shows in the gallery are about a week long, and are attended virtually through photographs and videos shared on the website and Instagram. The space was built by and is run by artist and art educator Katherine Chwazik.
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FOR JAMAICA
First Choice Caribbean Restaurant @firstchoicecarib
Collar City Cold Pressed WINTER / PAPEL PICADO PARA La Capital Tacos
@collarcitycoldpressed @la_capital_tacos
My Two Murals for @troymarket are Finished! They are free to view through March 2021:
Saturdays 9:00am-2:00pm (& Sundays 10:00am-2:00pm MakeIt UpState Market)
Troy Waterfront Farmer’s Market (Indoor)
865 2nd Ave.
Lansingburgh, NY 12182
68 -(4.5 Break) -(3 Laptop Work) -(2 Color Mixing)= 58.5 painting hrs. Thank You @troymarket @tap_inc @peter.hamlin
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PAINT BIG :: Request for your Support :: Joyce’s Mural Project
I have an opportunity to paint 2 murals at the new Indoor location of the Troy Waterfront Farmer’s Market in Troy, NY. (SEE Attached Photos) I’m excited for this airy space, friendly veggie-compost-forward community & the opportunity to pick up a brush again (it’s been maybe 10+ years??….it’s mostly exacto knives & pens recently).
The Troy Waterfront Farmers Market has exhausted its small funding for their murals. Paint has been donated by the local Arts Center, your contribution would support my tools and labor. To give an idea, the attached Proposal Designs took 2.5hours, including research & photo editing. The 2 Walls are expected to take 20+ hours to complete.
Your contribution, however small or large, would be greatly appreciated! If monetary contribution isn’t possible at this time, Please *reshare my social posts, call for donation, process shots & also LIKE and FOLLOW these amazing delicious small businesses at the Market as well. I never thought beet juice could taste so good.
Venmo: chanjoyces (note: ‘s’ at end)
PayPal: chanjoyces@gmail.com
About the TWFM Mural Project/Joyce: I consulted the Market Vendors and researched for imagery that would uplift their Businesses & Offerings. Mexican Papel Picado banners for La Capital Tacos, Images of Seasonal Winter Vegetables (elderberry, beet, turmeric) for Collar City Cold Pressed. Jamaica’s National Flower (lignum vitae) & Bird (swallow tail humming bird) for First Choice Caribbean‘s wall. The Troy Waterfront Farmer’s Market has moved to a new pandemic-regulated spacious location, a defunct Price Chopper Grocery Store, 15min north of Downtown Troy.
Thank you in advance, It’s truly appreciated!
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“What is that leaping in your chest?”
Susan Anthony, Fern T. Apfel, Simone Bailey, Joyce Chan, Ryan Chase Clow, Megan Galbraith, Alexandra Hammond, Tatana Kellner, Darian Longmire, Rob O’Neil, Fernando Orellana, Vincent Romaniello, Allie Wilkenson, Holly Wilson, Quay Quinn Wolf, and Mike Yood.
Guest Curated by Alexandra Foradas, Assistant Curator at Mass MOCA
November 10 – December 30, 2017
Opening Reception: Friday, November 10, 5-8pm
Collar Works /// 621 River Street /// Troy, NY 12180
Gallery Hours: Thursday + Friday, Noon -6pm. Saturday, Noon -4pm. Other times by appointment.
Image: Alexandra Hammond, Walliecamp: Modular Epic Landscape
Curatorial Statement
Why and by whose power were you sent?
What do you see that you may wish to steal?
Why all this dancing? Why do your dark bodies
Drink up the light? What are you demanding
That we feel? Have you stolen something? Then
What is that leaping in your chest? What is
The nature of your mission?
From Tracy K Smith, “The United States Welcomes You”
When he coined the term “American Dream” in 1931, historian James Truslow Adams described it as “a dream of social order in which each man and each woman shall be able to attain to the fullest stature of which they are innately capable, and be recognized by others for what they are, regardless of the fortuitous circumstances of birth or position.”
Ever since, if not before, the status of the American Dream has been in question. Is it truly a promise offered to all? Or is it just that, a dream? To quote Malcolm X speaking in 1964 and, more recently, Bernie Sanders: was America always for some, or has it become, a nightmare?
Can we tell our children, in the words of the United States’ 44th president, that “America is big enough to accommodate all their dreams,” or is the American Dream, in the words of the 45th president, “dead”?
In a moment where the circumstances of individuals’ birth and position are increasingly the focus of scrutiny, the artists in this exhibition interrogate the uncertainty of access to the American Dream.
Alexandra Foradas, Curator
Alexandra Foradas is Assistant Curator of Visual Arts at MASS MoCA, where she has organized exhibitions including Bibliothecaphilia (2015), Janice Kerbel: Slip (2017), and Jenny Holzer (2017), and co-curated the exhibition Gunnar Schonbeck: No Experience Required (2017) with Mark Stewart. Her upcoming projects include exhibitions of work by Robert Rauschenberg and Taryn Simon. She holds an MA in Art History from Williams College.
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Nasty Women of the North Exhibition
October 26-29, 2017
Opening + Auction: FRIDAY, October 27th 5pm-9pm
Collar Works /// 621 River Street /// Troy, NY 12180
Gallery Hours: Thursday + Friday, Noon -6pm. Saturday, Noon -4pm. Other times by appointment.
The exhibition features local and international artists, Curated by Angel Bellaran, curator for “the original” Nasty Women NYC show at the Knockdown Center in Queens. 100% Proceeds benefit Upper Hudson Planned Parenthood, all artwork is priced between $25 and $100.
The Feminist Art Project of Upstate NY is excited to organize a group exhibition that serves to demonstrate solidarity among artists who identify with being a Nasty Woman in the face of threats to roll back women’s rights, individual rights, and abortion rights. It will also serve as a fundraiser to support The Upper Hudson Planned Parenthood during this uncertain time. 100% of sales from artwork will be donated to our local Planned Parenthood.
All events (films, performances, etc) are open to the public. Donations are greatly appreciated- give what you can.
More Information & EVENT SCHEDULE at http://collarworks.org/current/
Curated by Joaquin Goldstein
Opening reception: Thursday Oct 19, 6-9pm
On View through Nov 11, 2017
Gallery hours Wed- Sat 12-6pm
Music event Nov 4, 8-11pm
Closing potluck dinner, Nov 11 4pm
Adam Cable, Allen Zatko, Anderson Correa de Araujo, Beverly Boydston, Carter Thornton, Colleen Cunningham, Cristina Ferrigno, Dana Stirling, Deanna Lee, Deborah Wasserman, Elizabeth Bisbing, Erica Roe, Gayla Martin, Glen Goodenough, Hedwig Brouckaert, Ivan Sikic, Jana Astanov, Janice Quiles-Reyes, Jenny Kroik, Joanne agabs, John Baber, Joyce S Chan, Julianne Nash, June Kosloff, Keith Pavia, Kristen Bartley, Leslie Tucker, Lobina Kaniz Kalam, Maria Liebana, Margaret McCarthy, Margaux Panel, Mary Pinto, Mikiodo, Ming-Jer Kuo, Miriam Ancis, Nan Xu, Nina Dine, Patricia Iranzo, Patrick Neal, Paul Anagnostopoulos, Paul Nicholson, Rick Anthony Diaz, Rebecca Shavulsky, Robin Cole, Shannon McBride, Sheila Ross, Stephanie Pecora, Suzanne Pemberton, Taissia Basaria, Yael Dresdner, Zoa Martinez.
Local Project Art Space
11-27th 44th Rd
Long Island City, NY 11101
www.localproject.org
between 21st and 11th Street
take E,M,G or 7 train to Court Sq
“Apartment 2L” Debra Zechowski
Curated by: Joyce Chan
Room #2216
March 1 – 6, 2017 | Daily Hours
Proceeds from guest passes help support our initiative to offer free exhibition space to independent curators. We appreciate your continued support of our program!
Oscar Wilde famously suggested great art ‘reveal beauty and hide the artist’. Join us for the 2017 SPRING/BREAK Art Show exhibition of BLACK MIRROR , where more than 100 curators feature artworks that explore the dance of identity the artist undertakes — between showing what’s unseen and hiding in plain sight — especially in the face of modern technology, political unrest, and glimmers from ghosts of Art History’s past.
Fulfilling SPRING/BREAK’s mandate to roost art culture within atypical environments and underused spaces, you are invited to join us at 4 Times Square March 1-6, 2017.
‘Mirror’ by Aneta Bartos ‘Ma With Bart Simpson T-Shirt’by Debra Zechowski ‘Stuntin Like My Daddy’ by Alex Sewell