CURRENT NEWS AND EVENTS 2009
Day Remembers Night/ Night Remembers Day, Iowa City, IA; collaboration with Kate Parry. Featured in the Works in Progress Festival, October 2009.
"South 3rd Street," Iowa City, IA; collaboration
with Jenny Assef (words by J.A. written directly on wall)
(s k i n of a w a v e)
Public Space 1 September 4, 2009, Iowa City, IA
Imagine the words and the page they are written upon as being separate. The
letters become a delicate lace, forming small windows within an a, or an o,
larger windows between each word and paragraph. The lace of the letters floats
over the white page like foam on the skin of a wave. The words are carrier
birds, charged with voice and meaning. But, what is the page?
Consider a line of poetry:
said the fish: lift me. fell me said the ash.
and the stars went suggestible to shape.
~Eleza Jaeger
To understand this poem, the reader must participate in visualizing the images
the words introduce. The reader must rummage through her own memory until
she finds a suitable likeness for the fish, the ash tree, a formation of stars
in the sky. This process benefits both the reader and the poet. Without the
exterior cues that the poet's words provide, the reader's memories would lie
sleeping, possibly fall away. Without a reader, the poet's words are equally
dormant. The white of the page isn't empty, it is full of all it allows us
to imagine. The page becomes a screen on which we can see the poet's thoughts
and the reader's memories collide. It's here, that an exchange takes place
and a new, collaborative image is formed. This exhibit is meant to explore
the possibilities of exchange that can take place in these blank spaces, between
artists and poets, artists and musicians, and artists and the public.
A r t i s t s a n d W r i t e r s: Emily Harris and Jenny Assef
Eleza Jaeger, Hil Jaeger, and Katie Parry Eva Wylie Julia Schwadron Eliza
Fernand Ben Estes
VISITING MINNESOTA
To see new work from 2009 residency, go to http://www.emilymharris.com/fabricsitespecific-1.html; http://www.emilymharris.com/fabricpatchwrksculpt-1.html
In Iowa City as a part of The Prairie Placard Project, curated and organized by Kate Parry, I accompanied Eliza Fernand in a rousing performance of "Weeds Are Wildflowers"
VISITING BERLIN
Visiting Berlin, the soviet architecture, history, and interactive nature
of visiting and discovering a new place have made me interested in pursuing
art in a public sense. I want to be making things that tell of a space and
rely on a space. In Berlin I began making short animations . . . to be added
to the website soon . . .
Windows Brooklyn 2009, June 6-13, 2009
in Cobble Hill and Carroll Gardens Neighborhoods of Brooklyn.
http://www.windowsbrooklyn.com
Day Remembers
Night/ Night Remembers Day
From a flock of starlings to the shape of bricks and the movement of shadow,
Kate Parry and Emily Harris loosely translate scenes in front of the window
at 315 Court Street. As if the window had an awareness, like the ocean in
the book Solaris by Ukrainian writer Stanislaw Lem, it absorbs images from
the day and night and incorporates this memory into dreams. Parry and Harris
use the window's reflective dreams to show the day images to the night, and
the night images to the day.
A conversation between "Night" and "Day" will accompany
the week-long project.
Come meet the
artists Saturday, June 13th, 2-4PM.
Thank you to Carla at Ola Baby and the curators of Windows Brooklyn.
2nd
Annual Represent Brooklyn exhibition
opens Saturday, April 11th at TRA Gallery
Show includes: Paintings, Photography, Mix Media & Sculptures by Artists
from Brooklyn whose artwork is inspired by Brooklyn. Runs from April 11th
- May 9th.
TRA GALLERY (The Rising Arts Gallery)
35 Claver Place loft #1
Brooklyn, NY 11238
http://www.tragallery.net/
Gallery Hours: Saturday and Sunday, 12 - 6 pm; Monday - Friday (by appointment)
2008
WILD COMBINATION
Sunday, December
7 - Christian DeFilippo, Emily Harris, and Daniel Peterson
Subletters Gallery is happy to invite you to their third show, a wild combination
of Christian DeFilippo, Emily Harris, and Daniel Peterson. These artists share
a commitment to subtle beauties, as well as life's mysterious intimacies.
DeFilippo saturates his collages with color, patterns and vibrant figures.
Harris seduces scraps and orphaned materials into lovely compositions and
sculptures. While Peterson extracts mood and personal instincts from both
his absorbing text drawings, and his naturalistic photographs. Subletters
Gallery is officially in high gear with shows every Sunday in December, before
x-mas. However, this is a show not to miss!
http://sublettersgallery.blogspot.com/
Review of the Show in Bushwick BK.com
For the month
of August, I am in Afton, MN for a residency. This picture is of the neighboring
meadow - with Bison! (not pictured)
Check back in the Fall for new work.
"Unbridled Dawn," by Susan Bee 
I curated the A.I.R. New York Gallery Artists' group show and a night of performance that included: Eliza Fernand, Ari Tabei, Erica Magrey and Rob Van Erve.
June
24 - July 19, SCENE CHANGE: The New York Gallery Artists,
curated by Emily Harris
Opening Reception: Thursday, June 26th, 6 - 8 pm. www.airgallery.org
Friday, July 18th at 6pm, A.I.R. Performance Night!
A.I.R. Gallery.
511 West 25th Street, #301
New York, NY 10001
April
4 - August 1, Your
Documents Please, international traveling exhibition: New York, NY; Bratislava,
Slovak Republic; The
Museum of Arts & Crafts, Itami-shi, Japan; Yokohama, Japan For online
catalog http://yourdocumentsplease.com/
http://yourdocumentsplease.com/pages/catalog/harris.html
PUBLIC DIALOGUES
REPRESENT:
Feminist Roundtables
Open to the public forums organized by Nancy Azara and myself as well as Nancy
Friedemann, Simone Meltesen,
Katherine Dolgy Ludwig and others. For more information contact: emily@emilymharris.com
Friday, May
2nd @ 6 pm, REPRESENT Feminist Roundtable. A.I.R. Gallery,
NYC, NY.
Topic: WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution at P.S.1
Friday, Jan.
18th @ 6 pm, REPRESENT Continues. A.I.R. Gallery, NYC, NY.
Topic: Artists talk on art- finding intergenerational commonalities and differences
in artistic process and product.
2007
Print Edition, Red Cloud at Sundown, 2007, Produced in conjunction with A Kind of Love, Ai Gallery, Chicago, IL For more information contact Kim Hoffman @ kim@allegoricspace.com
April 26 - 30, bridge ArtFair chicago07
April
20 - June 2, 4 person show curated by Erika Somogyi. We are flying
to Chicago to install the show and will be there during the VERSION07 Festival!
A Kind of Love,
Ai Gallery, Chicago, IL
Kelie Bowman
Erica Magrey www.ericamagrey.com
Erika Somogyi www.throughthetrees.net