Steve Lambert

The Hunterdon Museum of Art in Clinton, New Jersey has put together a group show that examines how contemporary artists respond to suburban sub-division houses. My work is featured in the show along side nine other artists. The opening is on Sunday, June 4th from 2-4 pm with a panel discussion at 4 pm. Hope to see you there!

This weekend Eyebeam is having it’s Open Studios event.

June 21, 2008
3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
540 W. 21st St. NYC

Visit Eyebeam for the biannual Open Studios, showcasing ongoing projects by current fellows, residents, and student residents.

Get a behind-the-scenes peek at Eyebeam’s state-of-the-art labs, and talk with artists and technologists about their current work.

The June 21 Open Studios will feature work by fellows, student residents, and outgoing Winter 2008 residents, including: Read on…

The Anti-Advertising Agency with Dara Greenwald and Josh MacPhee are in an exhibition this weekend in New York. The group show includes the AAA’s Samaras Project.

“The Audacity of Desperation”
Presented by PS 122 Gallery at DEMO Space 122
150 1st Avenue, enter on 1st Avenue, take stairs to second floor
June 19 – June 22, 2008

The Audacity of Desperation is an art exhibition expressing and unraveling states of political desperation. Activists, artists and very concerned people have created posters, manifestos, DIY kits, postcards, stickers, buttons and multi-media projects for free distribution.

DEMO Space 122 is pleased to present the NYC stop of “The Audacity of Desperation,” a 3-day nomadic exhibition of take-away projects (initiated and curated by Jessica Lawless and Sarah Ross and organized by Steven Lam) in conjunction with a series of performances and workshops responding to the spin of the upcoming election.

see my Black Market Posters from the show.

23 MAI – 22 JUIN 2008
THE BLACK MARKET TYPE & PRINT SHOP
Commissaire: JOSEPH DEL PESCO (San Francisco)

Discussion/table ronde : samedi 31 mai à 15h
Vernissage : samedi 31 mai à 17h

With posters by: A Constructed World, Brad Adkins, Amy Balkin, Paul Butler, Harrell Fletcher, Amy Franceschini, Jaime Gili, Sam Gould, Marc Horowitz, Marisa Jahn, Steve Lambert, New Beginnings, Giancarlo Norese, Derek Sullivan and window display by Jeff Ramsey

articule’s annual curatorial project The Black Market Type & Print Shop, organized by curator Joseph del Pesco, presents typography as a vehicle for the dissemination of art. The project involves an extensive archive, based on appropriated type samples culled from exhibition catalogues and artist publications. About twenty fonts have been created without the permission of the artists, and their use is limited to the exhibition. Picking up on the groundwork laid by appropriation art in the Eighties, these types are a byproduct of art production extracted for a second use, but without modification or addition. With an interest in functionalizing contemporary art history, del Pesco seeks to encourage the transmission of cultural production by embedding its histories in distributed media.

The types are appropriated from: Vito Acconci, John Baldessari, R. Crumb, Julie Doucet, Jimmie Durham, Marcel Dzama, General Idea, Thomas Hirschhorn, Chris Johanson, Jasper Johns, Ray Johnson, Mike Kelley, Margaret Kilgallen, Duane Michals, Chris Ofili, Raymond Pettibon, Adrian Piper, Richard Prince, Dieter Roth and David Shrigley.

Following the completion of the archive, a group of 15 international artists were invited to create a text-only poster using the fonts to be distributed around Montreal. Furthermore, articule’s space will be transformed into a full production environment with a computer and a photocopy machine. With the help of an in-house technician and graphic designer, visitors will be able to utilize the typefaces assembled in the archive to design and print their own posters in the gallery. The effect of which is a distribution of the aesthetics of contemporary art into the media stream of lost-dog announcements, rock show flyers, for-sale notices and other street-post ephemera. In this way The Black Market Type & Print Shop proposes an unusual inhabitation of preexisting modes of communication, mass production and distribution.

The Black Market Type & Print Shop is part of the 2008 edition of Viva! Art Action which focuses on, and celebrates performative and alternative practices that characterize the spring programming of La Centrale, Clark, DARE-DARE, Praxis, Skol and articule under the theme Performance, Activism and Everyday Life. http://www.vivamontreal.org

Title Type by Ray Johnson

The Graffiti Research Lab’s Complete First Season is being screened at the Museum of Modern Art. The DVD includes our collaboration on Light Criticism and some interesting/hilarious back story on the Aqua-Teen Boston Terror Meltdown of 2007.

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Official Announcement: Read on…

The Show Starts at the Sidewalk; part of the Interrupt! Intervene! Art as Social Practice conference at UC Santa Cruz

• San Francisco (May 10, 8:30pm out-of-doors at 16th and Florida)
• San Jose

• Santa Cruz (May 14, downtown, with Grant Wilson & Santa Cruz Guerilla Drive-In)

  Read on…

Inside the Artists Studio with James Chimpton is a radio program/robotic chimp developed at Eyebeam by Jeff Crouse and Steve Lambert (with Alexander Reben) for Neighborhood Public Radio’s “___ American Life” at the 2008 Whitney Biennial.

I’ll be giving a short, and hopefully funny, talk as part of Gelf Magazine’s Non-Motivational Speaker series. From Gelf’s site:

Culture jammers and pranksters will be this month’s topic. Featured speakers are Alan Abel, perhaps the most infamous prankster in American prank history, subject of the recent award-winning documentary, Abel Raises Cain, and “founder” of mock citizens’ groups The Society for the Indecency to Naked Animals and Citizens Against Breastfeeding; Steve Lambert, guerrilla artist, founder of The Anti-Advertising Agency, and Senior Fellow at cutting-edge arts organization Eyebeam NYC; and Ron English, patriarch of the agit-pop art movement, corporate branding subversive, and subject of the documentary “POPaganda: The Art and Crimes of Ron English.”

The event will start at 8 pm at the Happy Ending Lounge, and is free.

Event Details:

Happy Ending Lounge (official site, CitySearch, MySpace)
302 Broome St.
(between Forsyth and Eldridge)
212-334-9676
J/M/Z/F to Delancey
B/D to Grand Street
Look for the hot-pink awning with the words “Health Club” on it.

Doors open at 7:30.
Readings start at 8 sharp.
FREE!

I’ll have some drawings with Glowlab at the upcoming Bridge Art Fair along with new works by artists including Tom Brauer, Jason Cantoro, Beka Goedde, Cathelijn van Goor, Alice Jarry, Heather L. Johnson, David Kesting, Roberto Mollá, Marisa Olson, Mark Price and Sal Randolph.

Glowlab will be located in Booth # 6B, near the 11th Avenue entrance. Read on…

Ronald’s Crisis will show at the Rotterdam VHS Festival on March 14th 2008. It’s an honor to be welcomed back after showing “The Best Use of an Art Magazine” at the festival a couple years ago.

Rotterdam VHS Festival
Het Wilde Weten
Robert Fruinstraat 35
3021 XB Rotterdam