“Element” opens at Brick Row Gallery

Element Art Reception Post CardI have a piece tonight at “Element,” Brick Row Gallery’s latest show. It should be a fantastic mix of local artists and their works. I’d taken a bit of a sabbatical from showing, and I’m happy to be back!

There’s also an article in The Herald Weekly, where I was given a chance to talk about my work for the show.

If any of you live near the Charlotte/Lake Norman area, come say “hi!” I’d love to meet you!

“The Power of Labeling” exhibition

the incluseum emblem from FBThere are exciting and innovative things going on in the art world right now. The Incluseum is one of them. It’s a Seattle-based project that seeks social inclusion in museums. Part of that mission is to rethink how institutional cultural spaces operate in general. Recently they decided to play with a traditional museum function: the exhibition. They asked, “What would a digital exhibition look like and what would its process be if inclusion was THE central and driving value?” Working for months with community advisors, non-profits, artists, and other creatives, they decided to host an exhibition that addressed the power of labeling.

This is from the call for entries:

authenticity

authenticity

Museums are known for labeling. How does that impact our experience of objects and art? What happens when we label people? How have people labeled you and how do you label yourself?

I’m delighted to say that one of my digital works, “authenticity,” is in this exhibition. “authenticity” addresses the question of how we identify and label things—primarily people and their creations—as authentic Who has the authority to do that? How? What is authenticity anyway? Is it a projection of the viewer onto the other? How does one know when one is being authentic? “The Power of Labeling” began in May and runs through September 2, 2014. Check it out. There are some super cool provocative pieces there.

Zalop: Illusory Correspondence Art

by Cheryl Penn

Image by Cheryl Penn

If you happen to be in the Atlanta area this coming Saturday (February 15), stop by Eyedrum at the C4/Fuse Arts Center for the Zalop: Illusory Correspondence Art show. It will be quite an amazing night, filled with performance art, Fluxus, MailArt, mixed media, collage, and more. Free Poems on Demand will be there, filling words to order. I’ll have a new VisPo piece there as well. 🙂