Joshua Ray Stephens will open his solo show next Thursday at the Smithy gallery in Cooperstown, NY. Home of the Baseball Hall of Fame. Simultaneously there will be a group show he is curating, Contrariety.
There will be a lot of really good work on display. If you are in the area between July 29th and August 26th check it out!
I’ve been tasked to put together a lecture series for the Undergrad Communications Design Department at Pratt for Fall/Spring. I’m fielding any suggestions for:
This may work in conjunction with the AIGA/Pratt chapter, which I’m the faculty advisor for, so the more suggestions the merrier. Thanks.
While I am currently reworking the larger of my two pieces which I supplied for, Choice Splints: muck, mire and sublimated desire, it remains a functional experiment; a cryptic image in need of unpacking. Created upon return from a honeymoon in Turkey, its imagery and subject are indebted to the trip, while its themes are another iteration of my fascination with myth and symbol. This is a partial statement I supplied to the gallery for my two prints:
The substrate of UV mesh vinyl, a material used for outdoor signage, allowed me to take a commercial outdoor media, inside and turn into a canvas for private mythologies. Second Half, was created for the Outside/In gallery show, focusing on the nature of dual-identities; using iconography, imagery and typography culled from Korean films and culture I was interested in exploring the longing for the ‘exotic.’ While, In which her eye-hair turned gold, is an early sketch that attempts to trace apocryphal rituals, rites and traditions as transmuted over time and culture; the piece centers around the concept of ‘nazr’ in Turkish (and neighboring regional countries) culture — the evil eye, and the charms used to ward against its effects.
detail: In which her eye-hair turned gold
Correction: Some lectures from Professor Langdon Hammer’s Modern Poetry class at Yale University on William Butler Yeats, see listing here.
This coming July the Smithy-Pioneer Gallery in Cooperstown, New York will host Contrariety, featuring the works of SCTY. Contrariety, a show of disparate minds curated by Joshua Ray Stephens, is a selection of art from a variety of viewpoints.
55 Pioneer Street
Cooperstown, NY 13326-1293
(607) 547-8671
We are pleased to present our upcoming group exhibition at Gallery 7444, Choice Splints: muck, mire and sublimated desire, opening June 3, 2010.
Gallery 7444
28 Depot Street
Saranac Lake, NY 12983
(518) 282-4743
In the year 2010 SCTY issues forth broken bits together to aid in healing. The alchemical exsanguination, Choice Splints, explores the trappings and travails of the creative process for this consortium. A fecund mass of fiction and artifice evoking a greater truth. Unveiled wickedness dripping with delight. A chance happening in an art gallery—as imagined by the doom of forgotten lore. Here product and consumption becomes less vital than process and creation.
Choice Splints features the works of Arden de Brun, Ryan Hobbs, Ali Madad and Joshua Ray Stephens. Exhibition catalogue and poster available upon request.
I’ll be blogging about iD Dunedin fashion week for Runway passport this week! Pop on over to peruse reviews of all the main shows, side events, and for one on one interviews with the designers, courtesy of myself and my friend Yeshe. Having popped down the to the judging today for the Emerging Designers competition, I can tell you that it’s going to be a stiff competition and a LOT of fun.
