Steve Lambert

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  • LES Printshop Catalog Essay
    August 2

    From the Lower East Side Printshop’s Special Edition Residency 2010 Catalog Essay by Sarah Hanley. Steve Lambert Many artists aspire to be revolutionary, but Steve Lambert is truly original and radical. To begin, it takes more than a few seconds of preemptory scanning of his webpage – the main hub for his action and web-based work – to fully understand what he is about.  Second, his intended audience is much larger than the art world.  Though he possesses traditional degrees [...]

  • Peformance/Lecture at Headlands Open House
    July 8

    Just added: Steve Lambert presents a live classroom-style video lecture exploring passages of historical inquiry through clips found on YouTube.  This presentation will be one of a series of thematic lectures comprising “The YouTube School of Social Politics,” a project conceived by Headlands Alumni Artist In Residence Sam Gould.  The lecture, entitled “Judo Practice”, explores creative activism, leveraging balance and the precise application of force to overcome a more powerful opponent.  Please Be Advised: This presentation contains mature and controversial [...]

  • Headlands Center for the Arts Open House
    July 2

    Headlands Center for the Arts Open House Summer Open House Sunday July 11, Noon – 5PM Headlands campus | Mess Hall Café Open | FREE Admission Open House provides a once-in-a-season opportunity to interact with Headlands’ Summer 2010 AIRs, Affiliates, and Graduate Fellows. View works-in-progress in artists’ studios, witness performances and readings, and explore Headlands’ campus situated in a National Park. Artists in Residence Katie Faulkner, Dance / Choreography, California Jeffrey Gibson, Painting, New York Kevin Haworth, Writing, Ohio Kühne [...]

  • Just Art 2010 – benefit for NYCLU
    June 14

    Twenty-two contemporary artists were chosen to participate in Just Art 2010. The Exhibit is curated in four clusters of work, each representing one of four issues central to the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU)’s work in 2010: Censorship, Privacy and Surveillance, Immigration Reform and Reproductive Rights. Each artist created artwork speaking to one of these four issues. While the show is eclectic in media and style to please almost any visitor, each cluster is cohesive; held together by a [...]

  • Cincinnati.Com » Arts: The nature of freedom examined
    June 11

    Group show Palling Around with Socialists questions the nature of an individual as an autonomous being or as a component to an equitable community. “Our nation presently finds itself in a culture war, where language is traversing outside the bounds of denoted definitions: words like socialist, fascism, czar and terror are volleyed around public debates,” the gallery said in a statement about the exhibit. “While different parties and groups fear a loss of personal freedoms, we may be at greater [...]

  • Hollywood MerchmART at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
    June 10

    PUBLIC INTEREST: THE SUMMER CYCLE Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions 21 June 2010 – 26 September 2010 EMMA GRAY: HollywoodMerchmART! Curator Emma Gray will transform LACE’s storefront space into an artist-created souvenir shop. HollywoodMerchmART! aims to engage, confuse, and delight summer tourists on Hollywood Boulevard with works by both local and international artists. Ranging from postcards and maps to t-shirt and mini-sculptures, the store inventory draws inspiration from social-media and internet trends, as well as local objects found in nearby souvenir [...]

  • Text Show opening at Park Life June 11th
    June 9

    this is the book I have written for you A text-themed group show at Park Life Gallery, San Francisco June 11, 2010 through July 18, 2010 Opening Reception Friday, June 11th 2010. 7 – 10 pm. This exhibition will showcase work by emerging and established artists who deal with semiotics and whose use of type and language is a reoccurring part of their artistic vernacular. The work in this exhibition will both conceptually driven, purely abstract, or may use type [...]

  • June 23rd Senior Fellows Farewell at Eyebeam
    June 7

    Senior Fellows Ayah Bdeir, Steve Lambert, Jeff Crouse, and Michael Mandiberg are moving on from Eyebeam: come join us for a bon voyage party! Note: Event requires RSVP, you can do so at this link. As a token of our appreciation for their time with us, we're planning to hold a farewell reception the evening of June 23, 6:30 – 9:00, including presentations of their work while at Eyebeam, and their exciting plans on the horizon. Come drink a toast [...]

  • Palling Around with Socialists at U.Turn Art Space
    June 4

    Palling Around with Socialists: a group exhibition June 5th – 26th, 2010 Opening reception: Saturday, June 5th, 7:00 – 10:00 pm Cincinnati, OH—Since its inception, U·turn Art Space has sought to facilitate discourse towards imagining questions about the methods and practices of a functional society. In Palling Around with Socialists, a number of artists and the gallery collective have come together to curate an exhibition that questions the nature of an individual as an autonomous being or as a component [...]

  • Re:Group: Beyond Models of Consensus
    May 31

    Thursday, June 10 – Saturday, August 7, 2010 Exhibition opening: Thursday, June 10 Curators Talk: 5PM | Reception: 6-8PM Breakfast with the Artists: Friday, June 11, 10AM-12PM Eyebeam 540 W. 21st St (btw 10th and 11th Aves.) Eyebeam Art & Technology Center, in collaboration with Upgrade! NY and Not An Alternative, is pleased to presentRe:Group: Beyond Models of Consensus, an exhibition which examines models of participation and participation as a model in art and activism. Re:Group proposes that with participation [...]

  • American Protest! Panel at HiA
    May 30

    Re:Action – A discussion series hosted by Humanity in Action American Protest! Thursday, June 3, 2010, 7:00pm – 10:00pm HIA Offices, 144 East 39th Street, New York, NY 10016 Featuring: Timothy McCarthy, Harvard Kennedy School, Program Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, award-winning lecturer and author of the new book Protest Nation: Words That Inspired a Century of American Radicalism Steve Lambert, internationally-recognized artist, Senior Fellow at the Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology, and faculty member [...]

  • Barbara Seiler Galerie, Zurich May 29-July 17
    May 26

    Subject sitting in darkened room is told to watch a dot of light and draw a record of its movement on paper. Dot is actually stationary. But to most normal people it seems to move around, describing a wandering, irregular track. Drawings curated by Marcel van Eeden, with Maria Forde, Johan Gustavsson, Steve Lambert, Charlie Roberts, Rebecca Shapiro, Nedko Solakov, Stephan van den Burg, Porous Walker May 29 – July 17, 2010 Opening Friday, May 28 from 6 – 8 [...]