Seven Below Arts Initiative

ART HOP 2009

2009-09-12T12:04:00.000-07:00

LIFESTYLES

2009-07-04T12:41:00.000-07:00

I want this entry to shed more light on the day to day of artists at The Barn – we've endured some turbulent weather here on the mountain, and that means we've seen lots of clouds and lots of rain, but also the perks of this kind of weather: big fat rainbows and happy newts. It hasn't been a bad start for the garden either, and pretty soon we'll be rolling in tomatoes, squash, cucumbers and eggplant. When we harvest our own vegetables our legitimate country lives will begin. But for the time being we remain dependent on the grocery store, which isn't such a bad thing, considering the sandwich pictured below: it's called the Country Asian Rise & Shiner – Maple Walnut Oat bread from Klingers Bakery, melted Cabot cheddar cheese & McKenzie ham, onion, the special ingredient *kimchi*, two fried eggs from Lisa Ginnette, and some dijon mustard.

(Though not shown this week, there is lots of artwork being made up here too)

THANK YOU!

2009-06-26T11:52:00.000-07:00

Thank you all very much! It's exciting to have a lens to watch the things you do at The Barn, a living connection. Looking forward to what comes next...

Blog Initiation

2009-06-26T10:08:00.000-07:00

Seven Below would like to share the exciting new work taking place at The Barn, as we enter into the second half of our Session I Artist-In-Residence program. Take a look at recent photos of Maria Pithara making props, Lisa Iglesias making celebrations and Christine Gray making nests and natural phenomena happen:

Maria Pithara

2009-06-17T08:39:00.000-07:00

Maria Pithara was born in Limassol, Cyprus. In 2002, she received a Fulbright scholarship to study sculpture at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. She completed her studies there and went on to receive an MFA in Sculpture and Extended Media from Virginia Comonwealth University in 2009. While there, she received a Phi Kappa Phi scholarship, a Fellowship from the School of the Arts and a Thesis Award from the Graduate School. She also began incorporating performance and video into her work, which has been shown in various group exhibitions in Cyprus and the eastern U.S.

Lisa Iglesias

2009-06-17T08:35:00.000-07:00

Lisa Iglesias

Lisa Iglesias is a Norwegian-Dominican second-generation New Yorker who was raised with three sisters in Queens. After receiving her B.A. from the State University of New York at Binghamton (2001), she received her Master’s of Fine Arts from the University of Florida (2006). Attending such residencies as the Santa Fe Art Institute, the Hambidge Center, the Vermont Studio Center, Cité Internationale des Arts and the Seven Below Arts Initiative, she has been selected as an artist-in-residence at the Blue Mountain Center and the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts later this year and received an award from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation/VSC Fellowship Program toward a Vermont Studio residency in 2009 as well as fellowships from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and the Joan Mitchell Foundation. She has exhibited her individual work as well as work made with her sister, Janelle, as part of a collaborative they call Las Hermanas Iglesias, at the Queens Museum of Art and the Appleton Museum of Art as well as other national and international galleries and non-profits. This year, Lisa received a New York Foundation for the Arts 2009 Fellowship in Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts. To see more of her and sister’s work, visit www.LasHermanasIglesias.com

Christine Gray

2009-06-17T08:23:00.000-07:00

Christine Badollet Gray
12 West Clay Street, Apt. A
Richmond, VA 23220

\\ christinebadolletgray@hotmail.com \\ www.christinegray.com \\ (512) 923-9074 \\

Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions:
2010 Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, Virginia, March 2010. (upcoming)
2009 RARE Gallery, New York, New York, May 2009. (upcoming)
Depth of Field: Christine Gray and Terri Weifenbach, Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, Alfred University, Alfred, New York, January 2009. (upcoming)
2008 Spring Thaw, Project 4 Gallery, Washington, D.C., April 2008, essay by Kriston Capps.
2007 Mimeographic Spectrum, Okay Mountain, Austin, Texas, July 2007

Group Exhibitions:
2008 SCOPE Miami, RARE booth, Miami, Florida, December 2008.

Aqua Wynwood, Project 4 booth, Miami, Florida, December 2008.

Particularities and Abstractions, Center for the Arts Gallery, Towson University, Towson, Maryland, October 2008.

Ultrasonic International III: Elementary, My Dear Watson, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, California, September 2008. (catalog)

Almost Famous, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, Virginia, September 2008.

Works on Paper, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, Virginia, August 2008.

Small Claims, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, Virginia, August 2008.

SCOPE NY, Project 4 Booth, Lincoln Center, New York, New York, March 2008.

2, Project 4 Gallery, Washington, D.C., February 2008.

New Work, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, Virginia, January 2008.

2007 Aqua Art Fair, Project 4 Booth, Aqua Hotel, Miami, Florida, December 2007.

True Métier: Call For Entries 2006-2007, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, California, September 2007, Catalog with essays by Frederick Janka and Elizabeth Lovero; Juried by Laurel Beckman (UCSB), Aimee Chang (OCMA), Rita Gonzales (LACMA), Dane Goodman (SBCC), and Clara Kim (REDCAT).

Compass 2007, Sweeney Art Gallery, UC Riverside, Riverside, California, July 2007, Catalog with essays by Tyler Stallings and Ciara Ennis.

High 5: Emerging Art in America, CW Network Headquarters, Burbank, California, June 2007, Curated by Regine Basha, Ben Haywood, Matthew Higgs, Kathryn Kanjo, and Kristan Kennedy with catalog essay by David Pagel

Christine Badollet Gray
12 West Clay Street, Apt. A
Richmond, VA 23220

\\ christinebadolletgray@hotmail.com \\ www.christinegray.com \\ (512) 923-9074 \\
Elemental Tangents, The University Art Museum, California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo, California, February 2007

2006 Bright Young Things, The Arts Fund Gallery, Santa Barbara, California, August 2006

2005 2005 Texas Biennial, Bolm Studios, Austin, Texas, March 2005, Catalog with essay by Dana Friis-Hansen.

2004 Truffle Shuffle, Camp Fig, Austin, Texas, October 2004

Retreat!, Supplemen+ at Chruch of the Friendly Ghost, Austin, Texas, February 2004

Education:
2007 MFA, University of California, Santa Barbara, California
2003 BFA, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
1998 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

Publications and Selected Press:
2008 Bird Cox, “Spiritual Geometry: Christine Gray Sifts Through Layers of America,” Brick Weekly, September 4-10, 2008.

Heather Silva, “Ultrasonic International III: Elementary My Dear Watson,” Flavorpill, Issue 288, September 2, 2008.

J.W. Mahoney, “To a different drum: in the 50 years since the Color School drew international notice, D. C.'s artists have mostly worked at a slight remove from the contemporary art world at large, Art in America, May 2008.

Kriston Capps, “Spring Thaw” Exhibition essay, Project 4 Gallery.

Jessica Dawson, “Christine Gray’s Household Helpers,” The Washington Post, April 25, 2008.

Rachel Sitkin, “Spring Thaw Review”, B-more Art, April 29, 2008.

Maura Judkis, “Spring Thaw,” Washington City Paper, April 30, 2008.

2007 Tim Bowring, “Interview with Christine Gray,” Zero Hour, WRIR, Richmond, Virginia, November 20, 2007.

Melissa Seley, “CAF Celebrates Tri-County Artists with True Métier,” Santa Barbara Independent, September 20, 2007.

Josef Woodard, “Call for a Calling,” Santa Barbara News Press, September 14-20, 2007.

Christine Badollet Gray
12 West Clay Street, Apt. A
Richmond, VA 23220

\\ christinebadolletgray@hotmail.com \\ www.christinegray.com \\ (512) 923-9074 \\
“Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum: An Artist’s True Métier,” CASA Magazine, September 7, 2007.

Salvador Castillo, “Christine Gray: Mimeographic Spectrum,” Austin Chronicle, July 20, 2007

Josef Woodard, “Becoming Part of Art: UCSB grad students’ work reflects a more interactive reality,” Santa Barbara News Press, May 4, 2007

Colin Gardner, “The Mirror Crack’d: On the Uses and Abuses of Formalism for Life,” catalog essay from MFA Thesis Exhibition.

David Pagel, High Five: Emerging Art in America, catalog essay.

Ciara Ennis and Tyler Stallings, Compass 2007: New Art from the University of California’s MFA Programs, catalog essay.

Frederick Janka and Elizabeth Lovero, True Métier: Call For Entries 2006-2007, catalog essay.

2006 Josef Woodard, “Hidden in Plain Sight,” Santa Barbara News Press, September 1-7, 2006.

2005 Rebecca S. Cohen, “Texas Biennial 2005.” Artlies, Spring 2005, No. 46.

J R Compton, “The 2005 Texas Biennial: The Illusive 3rd Dimension.” Dallas Arts Revue, March, 2005.

Austin Chronicle, Volume 24, No. 30, March 25, 2005.

Elaine Wolff, “Digital-induced angst and sensory overload”. San Antonio Current, March, 10, 2005.

2004 New American Paintings, Number 54, 2004. (back cover image)

Awards:
2009 Bemis Center for Contemporary Art Residency Fellowship
2008 Dean’s Faculty Research Grant Recipient, Virginia Commonwealth University
2007 Dean’s Faculty Research Grant Recipient, Virginia Commonwealth University
Levitan Fellowship, University of California Santa Barbara

2005 Chancellor's Fellowship, University of California Santa Barbara.
Juror's Choice Award, 2005 Texas Biennial

Christine Badollet Gray
12 West Clay Street, Apt. A
Richmond, VA 23220

\\ christinebadolletgray@hotmail.com \\ www.christinegray.com \\ (512) 923-9074 \\
Professional Experience:
2009 Visiting Artist Lecture, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, Fall 2009 (Upcoming)
Visiting Artist Lecture, Alfred University, Alfred, New York, January 2009. (Upcoming)

2008 Visiting Artist Lecture, Summer Studio Program, VCU School of the Arts.

2007-present Assistant Professor, Painting and Printmaking Department, VCU School of the
Arts

2007 Visiting Artist Lecture, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia

2006 Panelist, 5 Artists, 5 Perspectives, The Women’s Center, University of California, Santa Barbara