Tuesday, April 07, 2009

rough drafts from my residency at Pyramid Atlantic

These are new works that are a start of a new body of work that I am producing. It is part of the key-holder residency that I am working on at Pyramid Atlantic Art Studios in Silver Spring, Md.


Adam's Rib - Monotype 20" x 10"



consumption - monotype - 20" x 10"




Tuesday, February 17, 2009

WPA Auction Preview Night RSVP- NEXT THURSDAY, 6:30pm

WPA Auction Preview night is almost here!
FREE and Open to the Public

February 26th 6:30-9pm

Abramson Family Recital Hall
Katzen Art Museum
4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20016

If you plan on coming please RSVP to reserve a seat
 for the talks by Monday, February 23rd!

You can RSVP to

aatkinson@wpadc.org
 or call 202.234.7103x4



Come see some great art from DC artists including ME!
Kimberly Gladfelter Graham curated my painting "Surge" into the show. 

Surge
latex and ink on mylar - 12" x 40"



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Monday, February 09, 2009

Please act now. Senate Cuts Arts From Economic Stimulus Bill

All

Please take a few moments to read this important information and write your representatives.

There are approximately 100,000 nonprofit arts organizations, which spend $63.1 billion annually. Without an economic stimulus for the nonprofit arts industry, experts expect about 10% of these organizations (ranging from large arts institutions like museums and orchestras to small community-based organizations in suburban, urban and rural areas) to shut their doors in 2009 – a loss of 260,000 jobs.

According to the Americans for the Arts, a $50 million investment to the National Endowment for the Arts will provide critical funding to save 14,422 jobs from being lost in the U.S. economy. This is based on the ability of the NEA to leverage $7 in additional support through local, state and private donations, for every $1 in NEA support.

To write your representative, please click HERE. Also of note personalizing each letter more than 50% will get them read.


Thursday, January 29, 2009

January update

I hope 2009 is treating you well!

My work will be shown in the Washington Project for the Arts Auction and Show as well as the AU Arts Management MFA auction. Both open Saturday, January 31 at the Katzen Art Museum. The MFA auction is for one night only.

I will also be starting my Keyholder Residency at Pyramid Atlantic Art Center on February 1, so look for new work soon!
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Artists' Reception
THIS Saturday, January 31st, 2009
6 pm to 9 pm
American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center
** FREE and OPEN to the Public

Auction Preview Night: Curators' Talks & the Alice Denny Award Presentation Thursday, February 26th, 2009
6:30 pm to 9 pm
Abramson Family Recital Hall at the, Katzen Arts Center
***FREE and OPEN to the Public

WPA Annual Auction Gala: Silent Auction Bidding & Party
Saturday, March 7th, 2009 8:30 pm to Midnight American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center
to purchase tickets to the dinner and auction visit auction.wpadc.org.

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The AU Arts Management students invite you to a Silent Auction on Saturday, January 31, 2009 from 6:00- 9:00 pm in the Katzen Arts Center at American University.

This year's silent auction will take place in conjunction with the American University Museum's reception for the following exhibitions: Carrie Moyer: Painting Propaganda; Evri Kwong: Just Pretend Everything Is OK; Paul Daniel: Kinetic Sculpture; and Kugach, Kugach, Kugach:Three Generations of Russian Artists.

All proceeds from the auction will support the second annual Emerging Arts Leaders Symposium, hosted by American University. This student-run event presents information on topics of leadership and career development for young arts professionals and provides them valuable networking opportunities as well as a free public forum.

Auction items include, but are not limited to:


Artworks by:
Brandon Hill,
Peter Chang,
Cory Obendorfer,
Susannah Parnin,
Jeff Pastorek (New Orleans)
Jenny Walton

And more...

Monday, January 26, 2009

Opportunity - Plaza Artist Materials & Pyramid Atlantic residency

Plaza Artist Materials & Pyramid Atlantic
Artist-In-Residence Program
Opportunity
Plaza Artist Materials and Pyramid Atlantic are proud to offer a one-month residency opportunity for an artist from the Greater Metropolitan DC Area with an interest in printmaking, papermaking and book arts and whose talent deserves to be recognized.
The Plaza/Pyramid Atlantic Artist Residency is a unique opportunity for an artist to develop a multi-disciplinary arts approach by engaging in the mediums of papermaking, printmaking and bookmaking in the dynamic studios at Pyramid Atlantic. The emphasis at Pyramid Atlantic is on a collaborative approach. While in residence, the artist will receive expert assistance from a Master Printmaker, Papermaker and Book Artist within Pyramid Atlantic’s environment of neutrality, safety and support. At the residencies culmination, the artist will present a public talk about their residency experience and showcase one-of-a-kind works, or limited edition works in paper, print, or artist books created during the residency
Residency
The residency will occur in May of 2009. During their month long residency, the artist will receive:
• $1000 honorarium
• $500 Plaza Gift Card for supplies for their residency activities
• 24-hour access (key provided for duration of residency) and use of
fully equipped studios for papermaking, etching, lithography, relief,
screen-printing, letterpress, and digital printing,
• Storage space
• Basic supplies (solvents, cleaners)
• Inclusion in Pyramid Atlantic’s permanent collection
• Opportunity to show new work in exhibitions
• Public events promotion in the Pyramid Atlantic and Plaza Artist
Materials newsletter
• Opportunity to sell work at the Pyramid Atlantic store
• The opportunity to collaborate with other area artists
• Technical advice, assistance and full support by Pyramid staff and
associates
• Mentorship from professional artists
This residency opportunity does not provide housing or transportation assistance.
Application & Selection Process
The artist will be selected through an application process. Artist interested in being considered for the residency should submit the following before Monday April 6, 2009:
• Basic Information (name, address, city, state, phone, email)
• Artistic Statement
• Artistic Résumé - up to two pages. Bio is not acceptable
• Description of planned activities for the residency period (one month)
• Timeline of planned activities for the residency period (one month)
• Work sample, CD, DVD, slides, digital images
• Work Sample Description
• Support Materials – up to 2 items of additional material, e.g.,
newspaper articles, reviews, letters of support, programs, brochures,
etc.
Please send all applications to:
Pyramid Atlantic Art Center
Attn: Plaza Artist Residency
8230 Georgia Avenue
Silver Spring MD 20910
For more information, please contact Pyramid Atlantic at 301-608-9101 or jdominguez@pyramid-atlantic.org or www.pyramidatlanticartcenter.org.
An Advisory Panel consisting of representatives from Pyramid Atlantic Arts Center and Plaza Artist Materials will select one artist for the residency opportunity.
Employees of Pyramid Atlantic Art Center and Plaza Artist Materials are prohibited from applying.

Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Happy Holidays!


interrupted play © 2007


Happy Holidays and next year be even better than this one!

I hope this finds you all well and happy.


It's been a crazy awesome year and much more fruitful than expected. I was able to travel a little, mostly for exhibitions. I was fortunate enough to be curated into some pretty great shows from Cambridge, MA to DC and even celebrated my first New York show this fall at Daneyal Mahmood Gallery with an incredible group of artists. The studio continues to be a joy and I love that fact that its one place in the world where I'm the boss. I'm starting to make more friends in the DC area, though I still miss family and friends a great deal still in the Northwest. I even try to do non-art stuff once in a while, just to take a breather.

I'm looking forward to next year. Last week I received a letter informing me that I was selected as a Keyholder Resident at Pyramid Atlantic Art Center. (I get to use the studios and print facilities for 5 whole months without rental fees. I do have to come up with my own materials though.) They only select 4 artists per year. I continue to work with the collective of artists also known as Sparkplug sponsored through DCAC Gallery in DC and was also curated into the Washington Project for the Arts annual auction and gala, which is quite an honor. I'm hoping that these opportunities will take me one step further in the right direction.

I'm headed for the snowbound Northwest for the Christmas holidays for much needed time with family and friends and hope you all have a wonderful and prosperous New Year!

Wishing you the best and the brightest,

Jenny

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I want to live my life not by the regret of "what if", but by its possibilities. -ME

What lies behind us and what lies before us are nothing compared to what lies within us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sunday, December 14, 2008

It's not Charlie Brown's


It's my Christmas Tree.
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Thursday, November 13, 2008

Adventures of Hoogrrl!: PixTour


Adventures of Hoogrrl!: PixTour

This is a great way to support local artists and maybe even have a little fun along the way! Check out my fellow Sparkplug member, Mark Planisek's work while you're at it.

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Something other than art....

While I am a nervous wreck and excited ball of goo about the shows this week, I have to say I'm even more excited at going home to the Northwest for a few days afterwards.

Its harvest season in wine country and I'm headed home after the show in New York to cook dinner for hungry harvesters at Waving Tree Winery (aka my best friend's winery.) Kimiko's Nebbiolo just got a mention as one of the best 100 wines in the Northwest, which is pretty stiff competition. It should be a great weekend to catch up with friends, get creative in something other than my studio, relax and enjoy a glass or two of that Nebbiolo!

I can't wait to wake up to the sound of the wind in the trees and deer in the pasture and art filled house from all of our friends. Good times. I'll see if I can sneak a few pics of the wide open spaces, unfortunately, I can't capture the fresh air that goes along with it.

Show updates for this week.

Hey all!

The New York show of Meat after Meat Joy opens in just a few days on Thursday night at Daneyal Mahmood Gallery! There will be some special pieces the night of the opening only. If you can make it for the opening, I highly encourage it. Also the essay for the catalog that will be available is now posted. It is a great essay which I think talks about the diverse amount of work eloquently. You can read it here...http://www.daneyalmahmood.com/meataftermeatjoy_text.html


Also, if you are in DC on Friday night, you can purchase my work in the Civilians for Obama fund raiser! See info below for full details.

Jenny

www.jennywaltonart.com
www.jennywalton.blogspot.com

Civilian Art Projects

406 7th Street NW, Third Floor,
Washington, DC 20004
p. 202.347.0022 / f. 202-280-1086

Please join Civilian Art Projects, DJs Will Eastman (Blisspop) and Jonathan Ackerman (the Moon Goons, Minneapolis) and over 40 artists from across the USA (and London!) as we dance, raise a drink, and work to get Barack Obama into the White House.
$25 at the door gets you in the door and one complimentary drink.All artwork is for sale at $500 (and below) with the majority of the proceeds going to the campaign.This show is ONE NIGHT ONLY so get there early!!


List of participating artists:

Deborah M. Carroll Anzinger
Matthew Best
Megan Blafas
Lisa Blas
Judy Byron
Lynn Cazabon
Natalie Cheung
Billy Colbert
Jeffry Cudlin
Kate Damon & John Beebe
Mary Early*
Steve Frost
Ana Elisa Fuentes
Lee Gainer
Victoria F. Gaitán
Pat Goslee
Jason Matthews Gottlieb
Pat Graham
Jeremy Haik
Jason Horowitz**
Mike Iacavone
David Ibata
Amanda Kleinman
Brian Knight
Joseph Lamour
Kate MacDonnell
Andrew McDermott
Kate McGraw
Sean Quinn
Rick Reinhard
Rachele Riley
Brady Robinson
Marc Roman
Melanie Standage
Sanjay Suchak
John Ulaszek***
Rachel Waldron
Jenny Walton
Joshua Yospyn

* Courtesy of HEMPHILL

**Courtesy of Curator's Office

*** Courtesy of Ten Miles Square




Duncan Phillips Lecture with Christo and Jeanne-Claude

FYI for those interested

 

The Phillips Collection

Center for the Study of Modern Art


Duncan Phillips Lecture

Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Two Works in Progress

Thursday, October 16, 5:45 pm

 

The artists highlight their upcoming works of art: Over the River, Project for the Arkansas River, State of Colorado; and The Mastaba, Project for the United Arab Emirates.  The Arkansas River project involves assembling and suspending 5.9 miles of fabric panels horizontally above a 40-mile stretch of the Arkansas River. The Mastaba will be larger than the great pyramid at Giza and will comprise 410,000 steel oil barrels, stacked on their sides and painted in bright colors for a mosaic-like effect in changing light. Following the lecture, Christo and Jeanne-Claude will sign copies of their book, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Over the River, Project for the Arkansas River, State of Colorado

 

Presented in the Sant Auditorium; included in museum admission.

Over the River catalogue will be available for purchase in the museum shop

Click here for more information (PDF)

 

Center for the Study of Modern Art lectures and symposia are funded by

The Brown Foundation, Inc., of Houston.

 

The Duncan Phillips Lecture is sponsored by Sotheby's

 


1600 Twenty-first Street, NW
Washington, DC 20009
www.phillipscollection.org

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Wednesday, October 08, 2008

















My work will part of this fund raiser! Come check it out!

Tuesday, October 07, 2008

Jenny Walton in Meat After Meat Joy, New York - Reception 16 October 5:30-8:30pm


This show opens Thursday, October 16th. For those who will be in the New York Area in the next month, please stop by and check out the show! I hope I can see many of you at the opening!

Jenny

www.jennywaltonart.com

Tamara Kostianovsky, Elegy,
clothing, meat hook, chain, 2008


Betty Hirst, Head II, Meat, 2008


Zhang Huan,
My
New York, Performance Whitney Biennial, 2002



Meat After Meat Joy, curated by Heide Hatry

16 October - 15 November

opening reception:

Thursday 16 October, 5:30 - 8:30 PM

Sheffy Bleier, Lauren Bockow, Adam Brandejs, Tania Bruguera, Nezaket Ekici,
Anthony Fisher, Betty Hirst, Zhang Huan, Tamara Kostianovsky, Simone Racheli, David Raymond, Dieter Roth, Carolee Schneemann, Stephen j Shanabrook, Jana Sterbak, Jenny Walton, Pina Yolacan

If the flesh disturbs you, then the reality behind the issue would disturb you far more if we opened our eyes long enough to see it. We live in a culture disconnected from what it is doing to itself and others, we choose to ignore rather than deal with the reality we have created for ourselves.

- Adam Brandejs

Meat After Meat Joy brings together the work of contemporary artists who use meat in their work (raw meat, the concept of meat, its symbolism and viscera) in order to investigate the paradoxical relationship meat has to the body. Meat combines flesh, skin, muscle, organs, blood - each with its own relationship to the body, yet meat's only reference to the body is as a once-upon-a-time living biological thing. By putting these artists together, the exhibition seeks to investigate the uncanny effect meat as a medium is for artist and viewer. This is not a show about meat as spectacle but about meat as signification, precisely because meat does not signify (a body) but its very annihilation...read more

- Heide Hatry

info@daneyalmahmood.com
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Saturday, September 27, 2008

Village Voice Review

Please note the new opening date is October 16th.

Fall Preview: Jesper Just's Schizo Enigma\

Four films at the Brooklyn Museum of Art

By Robert Shuster

Wednesday, September 3rd 2008

'The Meat Show'
This is what you call raw art: Heide Hatry, the daughter of a Bavarian pig farmer and an artist who once wallpapered a room with a porker's skin, has assembled a wild survey of the meanings of meat. Central to the show are Carolee Schneemann's notorious sex-with-chickens dance orgy from 1964,
Meat Joy, and Zhang Huan's stroll through Manhattan in a muscled costume of dark-red beef. Other trenchant works include Tamara Kostianovsky's sirloin mimicry with fabric, Jenny Walton's painting of an oozing wound, and Betty Hirst's figures carved from frozen roast, which bleed as they thaw. Be forewarned: After staging a similar show, Hatry became a committed vegetarian. Daneyal Mahmood Gallery, 511 West 25th Street, 212-675-2966.

Thursday, September 18, 2008

E32 - A little late...but I heard it was a great presentation!

SEPTEMBER 16TH
7:30 - 10ish

E32 is pleased to present


IT'S STILL. IT MOVES. 2

VIDEO PHOTOGRAPHY PAINTING MIXED MEDIA PERFORMANCE DOCUMENTATION DRAWING

Present and speaking about their work will be several members of
The District of Columbia Arts Center
collective, SPARKPLUG


Kathryn McDonnell
, Karen Joan Topping site & blog, Mike Matason, Lisa McCarty, Jenny Walton site & blog, Mark Planisek site& site 2 Deborah Carroll Anzinger, Peter Gordon , Lea Ann Bigelow

and
New York's Own:
Serge J-F. Levy
, Alexander Skarlinski , Asya Geisberg, Tony Feyer & Dax Van Alten.

with
Video by Out of Town Guests:
Swedish artists, Jonas Nilsson and Eva Olsson


Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Vote smART: What Grade Did Your Member Receive?



From: Americans for the Arts Action Fund [mailto:advocacy@artsusa.org]

 

Arts Action Fund Home Page

September 17, 2008

Dear Katherine:

2008 Report CardThe Americans for the Arts Action Fund PAC has produced the 2008 Congressional Arts Report Card to help you make arts-informed decisions at the ballot box in November. The report contains carefully evaluated legislative benchmarks that form a detailed arts record, including a numerical score and letter grade, for each Member of the House based on numerous arts and arts education issues. All Arts Action Fund members will be receiving a paper copy of the report card in the mail. You can read additional analysis of Congressional arts-related votes, including state rankings and trends in our press release.

Advocates for the arts have a chance to Vote smART on November 4, when candidates for all 435 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives and one-third of the Senate will face the voters. This election season provides a watershed opportunity to send to Congress pro-arts lawmakers who realize the value of the arts in fueling creativity and innovation, educating our children, enriching lives and strengthening communities. Despite recent gains and steadfast support for cultural funding from committed legislators on both sides of the aisle, the challenge remains to help create a sustainable majority of cultural supporters who recognize the impact that relatively modest federal support has on their districts and the country at large.

Arts SurveyIn addition, to help guide voters in understanding the arts policy positions of those non-incumbent candidates running for election, Americans for the Arts Action Fund PAC has conducted candidate arts surveys across the country. The survey responses from those candidates who have replied are available for you to review.

 

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Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Please share: Call To Artists: Juried Exhibition, Honorarium, All Media



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Call to Artists
CALL FOR PROJECTS
Deadline: October 15, 2008
Exhibition Dates: December 4–27, 2008


Visual Arts, Installation, Performance, Music, Theatre, etc...
PUNCH Gallery presents an international call for artist projects. The winning project will be exhibited at PUNCH Gallery, located in the Pioneer Square area of downtown Seattle, during the month of December, 2008, and will provide an excellent opportunity to gain exposure within the Northwest regional art scene.

Artists from any country may submit a project proposal in any medium. In addition to solo or group exhibitions within the category of visual arts, artists are encouraged to submit project proposals in the fields of new media, video, sound, installation, theatre, music, or any other project appropriate for the gallery space.

Awards
The winning project will receive:
• Use of the gallery for the month of December, 2008
• An honorarium (determined by number of entries)
• Full-color printed announcement
• Vinyl lettering for front window
• Case of wine for the opening reception
• Gallery staff during regular business hours

Entry Requirements
• $20 Entry Fee
• 6-10 Images (JPEG Format)
• Written Proposal (300 words or less)
• Artist Resume

Details and Submission Info
Visit our website for complete details and a submission form.
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