“Winter Workspace 10 Year Anniversary: Returning to the Source,” Wave Hill, Bronx, NY /  by Sabrina Gschwandtner

Winter Workspace Artists: Returning to the Source

Wave Hill
4900 Independence Avenue
Bronx, NY 10471-2899 

January 19 - March 29, 2020

Since 2010, 111 artists have had studios at Wave Hill through the Winter Workspace residency program. This time of experimentation and reflection in the garden proved immensely influential to their practices, launching new and expanded directions. The work they created was often exhibited widely, finding new audiences, meanings and contexts. We are celebrating the 10th anniversary through the exhibition Winter Workspace Artists: Returning to the Source, on view in Wave Hill House from January 18 - March 29. This will include works inspired by Wave Hill during the residency or after, a video screening program, and a showcase of public programs that workspace artists have facilitated over the years. 

Ongoing permanent collection exhibition at the Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum /  by Sabrina Gschwandtner

Connections: Contemporary Craft at the Renwick Gallery

Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum
Pennsylvania Avenue at 17th Street NW
Washington, DC 20006

Ongoing

The installation highlights the evolution of the craft field as it transitions into a new phase at the hands of contemporary artists, showcasing the activist values, optimism, and uninhibited approach of today’s young artists, which in some way echoes the communal spirit and ideology of the pioneers of the American Studio Craft Movement in their heyday. The artworks range from the 1930s through today and span numerous media.

"Cloud Chamber" at the Zuckerman Museum of Art /  by Sabrina Gschwandtner

Cloud Chamber

Bernard A. Zuckerman Museum of Art
Kennesaw State University
Kennesaw, GA 30144

December 3 - December 15, 2019

Opening reception and tour: 5-7pm, December 5th. Artist Jess Jones and Stacy Ketler, Chair of Gender and Women's Studies, Kennesaw State University, will be present.

This exhibition includes the work of Libs Elliott, Sabrina Gschwandtner, Jess Jones, and Amanda Ross-Ho.

"Punctures: Textiles in Digital and Material Time /  by Sabrina Gschwandtner

Punctures: Textiles in Digital and Material Time

Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center
617 Main Street
Buffalo, NY, 14203

September 20, 2019–February 7, 2020

Squeaky Wheel is pleased to announce Punctures: Textiles in Digital and Material Time. Drawing from the little-known but expansive history connecting media arts and textile production, the exhibition features artists invested in the material, critical and liberatory politics of their intersections.

From the Lumière brothers taking the intermittent motion of a sewing machine to create the cinematograph, to the punch cards of the Jacquard loom forming the basis of modern computation, and the role of sewing and gendered labor in jobs like editing and dyeing in film production, textile production remains an essential, but insufficiently unacknowledged formal and social influence on media arts. These underpinnings aim to not only explicate an alternate history, but are meant to find ways to speculate new futures for media practice.

Consisting of three exhibitions and public programs that weave into each other, audiences will engage with artworks exploring a wide range of practices including, trans fashion and domesticity; gendered and immigrant labor under global racial capitalism; Gelede women’s commemoration, protest and power as represented in textile work; speculative future-casting through Oglala Lakota knowledge systems, and more.

The exhibition features installations by Betty Yu, Cecilia Vicuña, Charlie Best, Eniola Dawodu, Kite, and Sabrina Gschwandtner, performances by Charlie Best, Jodi Lynn Maracle, and Kite, screenings of work by Jodie Mack, Sabrina Gschwandtner, and Wang Bing, and guest speakers such as Jasmina Tumbas and Jolene Rickard.

COLA Award opening /  by Sabrina Gschwandtner

COLA 2019 exhibition May 23 – July 14, 2019
Opening reception: May 19, 2 – 5 PM

The Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery is pleased to present COLA 2019, an exhibition featuring new work by Enrique Castrejon, Juan Capistrán, Kim Fisher, Sabrina Gschwandtner, Katie Grinnan, Alice Könitz, Olga Koumoundouros, Sandy Rodriguez, Stephanie Taylor, Peter Wu and Jenny Yurshansky. These eleven artists are the recipients of the 2019 City of Los Angeles (COLA) Individual Artist Fellowship for visual arts. The Fellows were selected by a panel comprising curators, educators, museum directors and past COLA Fellows. The fellowship provides each artist with $10,000 to produce a new body of work, which will be premiered at the COLA 2019 exhibition. “COLA Fellows are the types of unique civic entrepreneurs that we need in this city,” said DCA General Manager Danielle Brazell. “DCA is proud to honor these creative visionaries and nurture their symbiotic relationships with LA and other artists and the city’s history and identity as an international arts capital.” The exhibition will be accompanied by a public program as well as a catalog.

Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery 4800 Hollywood Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90027