Steve Lambert

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 common medium or theme.

Buy your Just Art 2010 tickets for the June 24 event here before they sell out!

via Tinca Art – Home.

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 shops, thus speaking the language that is Hollywood. Prices will range from $1 to $200!

Participating artists: Emily Joyce, Ashley McPeek, Collective Field, Richard Lidinsky, Brian Bress, Carolina Caycedo, Matthieu Laurette, Anthony James, Max Maslansky, Micol Hebron, PLUS the LA Vajazzlers, Kathryn Garcia, Kirsten Stoltman, John Kilduff, John Knuth, Steve Lambert, John Bucklin, and Zoe Crosher.

In a brave attempt to multitask outside HollywoodMerchmART! John Kilduff of Letspainttv.com will jog on his treadmill on the Walk of Fame, while performing various mundane and creative activities (from eating chicken and blending drinks to painting portraits) for a modest fee. Kilduff will be performing on various occasions throughout the summer.

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 expressionistically.

The Artists:

• Stephanie Brooks
• Dana Dart Mclean
• Michael Dumontier
• Karen Flatow
• Neil Farber
• Ed Fella
• Tom Friel
• Jeff Gabel
• Jason Jagel
• Steve Lambert
• Bob Linder
• Tucker Nichols
• Nigel Peake
• Mike Perry
• Jason Polan
• William Powhida
• Nathaniel Russell
• Michael Scoggins
• Josh Shaddock
• David Shrigley
• Zoe Strauss
• Wendy White

more at Park Life.

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 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, tsar and terror are volleyed around public debates. While different parties and groups fear a loss of personal freedoms, we may be at greater risk of misarticulating the perceived conflicts with which we are faced. Concerns about the nature of private property, authorship and current intersections between economics, ethics and philosophy will be raised through the work of Shinsuke Aso, Gabriel Boyce and Preston Link, Alton Falcone, David Horvitz, Justin Kemp, Steve Kemple, Julia Schwadron and Steve Lambert. The presented works continue to exercise aesthetic sensitivity, demonstrating a belief in form contributing to the advancement of concepts. Critically playful and directly engaging our community with optimistic, activist strategies, U·turn and these artists seek to contribute to a larger dialogue with art that presents unexpected viewpoints and makes note of abstractions that may expand upon or resituate current discussions about social responsibility, power and control.

“The question of social change and art becomes then a problem of discovering the manner in which a new content modifies the conventional manner of expression: the manner in which purely aesthetic changes, occasioned by social changes, modify content to accord with newer forms. But insofar as the formal change may be socially conditioned, we must distinguish between those social changes that operate on the artist directly and those that operate indirectly.” –Meyer Schapiro in his essay “Art and Social Change”

U·turn Art Space is located at 2159 Central Avenue in Brighton.
Gallery is free and open to the public, with street parking in front of the space and on nearby streets. Regular gallery hours are on Saturdays, 12-4 pm, and by appointment.

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 now a dominant paradigm, structuring social interaction, art, activism, the architecture of the city, and the economy, we are all integrated into participatory structures whether we want to be or not. The exhibition showcases work that subverts existing systems or envisions new alternatives to the ways in which individuals can take part, or choose not to take part, in social and cultural life.

Re:Group opens to the public on Thursday, June 10, 2010, with a curators talk at 5PM and a reception at 6-8PM. The curators talk will be moderated by Beryl Graham of UK-based new media curatorial research institute CRUMB.

Please note: The public opening is preceded by a benefit & private viewing on Tuesday, June 8, 6:30-9:30PM. For ticket information, visit eyebeam.org.

The opening week continues with a “Breakfast with the Artists” reception & talk on Friday, June 11, 10AM-12PM, moderated by Re:Group curators and featuring exhibiting artists Institute for Infinitely Small Things, Christopher Robbins, and Giana González.

Re:Group features work by thirteen artists, designers, hackers, activists, and collectives exploring both the potential and limitations of participation, networked collaboration, and distributed labor. From the “crowdsourced” projects Ten Thousand Cents and White Glove Tracking to the tactical media art of The Yes Men and Ubermorgen, from the urban interventions ofJohn Hawke and The Institute of Infinitely Small Things to the open platforms of Ushahidi and MakerBot – the exhibition represents a diverse range of critically and socially engaged work that rethinks the institutional practices within urban planning, civil engineering, transportation, industrial design and production, relief work, and the news media.

Re:Group will include a full complement of public programs, organized as part of Eyebeam’s annual Summer School program. Eyebeam Summer School offers a lively mix of master classes, free public lectures, hands-on workshops and skillshares, and youth programs. Visit eyebeam.org for a complete schedule of activities.

The exhibition not only presents completed work through gallery installations, but also functions as a platform for new collaborative work. Through workshops, master classes, and discussions led by the exhibiting artists, the processes and methodologies behind the work are opened up to gallery visitors and invited communities, providing an opportunity to extend and reinterpret the artists’ ideas in new and unexpected ways.

Re:Group: Beyond Models of Consensus is curated by Upgrade! NY, the New York node of the international network, Upgrade!, founded in 1999 by media artist Yael Kanarek. The curatorial team is Eyebeam program manager Paul Amitai,writer/activist, Marco Deseriis, Beka Economopoulos and Jason Jones of Not An Alternative, Eyebeam education coordinator Stephanie Pereira, and designer/educator Mushon Zer-Aviv.

Participating Artists:

John Ewing, Christopher Robbins & Carmen Montoya – Ghana Think Tank

Giana González – Hacking Couture

John Hawke – Mandatory Minimum: We Have Moved!

The Institute for Infinitely Small Things – Corporate Commands

Aaron Koblin and Takashi Kawashima -Ten Thousand Cents

Steve Lambert and Packard Jennings – Wish You Were Here: Postcards from our awesome future

MakerBot Industries – MakerBot

Christopher Robbins – Work Projects Administration 2010

Evan Roth and Ben Engebreth – White Glove Tracking

Ushahidi – Crisis Map of Haiti

Ubermorgen.com – [V]ote-Auction

The Yes Men – Good Cop 15

YoHa (Yokokoji, Harwood) – Social Telephony

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 pm

Statement from Barbara Seiler

Subject sitting in a darkened room is told to watch… is the first show in a series of annual drawing shows curated by an artist who works mainly in drawings himself. The series is opened by Marcel van Eeden, a Dutch artist living in Zurich, whose work consists mainly of drawings and who prefers the techniques and simple materials of drawing.
For almost all artists in the show drawing is an important part of their practice. Van Eeden selected them on almost only that criterion. The final decision of asking artists for the show was quite intuitive. Despite this vague starting-point there are strong relations between the works of the artists. It was only after the selection these similarities became clear.
One main character of most works is humor. Fun. But not only to be funny in a meaningless way. ‘I believe that with humor and sarcasm, I am touching on pretty serious matters,’  Nedko Solakov said once.  Grown up in Bulgaria when it was still a communist country, Solakov learned to disguise his criticism. It is a strategy that still works.
The 70′s styled drawings of Porous Walker often show hilarious and especially juvenile, but at the same time melancholic sex jokes.  Critique, on society or the art world, is also an important part of the work of Steve Lambert. But again, mixed with humor to make things stronger, human and bearable.
Johan Gustavsson likes to stress ugliness and the imperfect to show us a glimpse of the real world, beyond the humorless perfectness that can be seen in magazines or on tv. And with a slight turn, Stephan van den Burg wants us to see those mass media images in an other way. He uses them, but with some changes that put them into a different light.
Humor also plays an important role in the work of the last three artists, but they add another feature to it: a kind of folkloristic naivety. They use the language of ‘outsider artists’, but they are definitely not. Charlie Roberts shows some of his ‘short stories’, small comic like narratives, and Maria Forde made a comic about the role music played in her youth. Her etchings of country artists fit in this story.  Rebecca Shapiro, an artist that lives in a house that only exists in the year 1945, uses images from old medical books for her embroideries, intended as a tragicomical collection of oddities.
It is a funny show.

This reception and exhibition will show some of the work I did at the Lower East Side Printshop Special Editions Residency last year.

LOWER EAST SIDE PRINTSHOP – EDITIONS ’10: CATALOGUE LAUNCH AND EXHIBITION

Reception for artists and catalogue launch party on
Wednesday, May 26, from 6 – 8 pm

Featuring:
Karlos Carcamo
Cammi Climaco
Steve Lambert
Enoc Perez
William Powhida

Catalogue essay by Sarah Kirk Hanley.

Exhibition on view May 17 – July 3, 2010
Hours: Weekdays from 10 am – 6 pm, and weekends from 12 pm – 6 pm. Free and open to the public. Click here for directions.

The Lower East Side Printshop is pleased to announce the Editions ’10 catalogue launch and exhibition, with a launch party and reception for artists on Wednesday, May 26. With a catalogue essay by independent print curator, advisor, and appraiser Sarah Kirk Hanley, the publication and exhibition will feature new works created by recipients of the Printshop’s Special Editions Residencies: Karlos Carcamo, Cammi Climaco, and Steve Lambert, and recipients of the Printshop’s Publishing Residencies: Enoc Perez and William Powhida.

I am exhibiting with Charlie James Gallery at the San Francisco Fine Art Fair. All my hometown friends, please stop by and say hello to Charlie. There’s 4 pieces in the show including DO IT and It’s About Power.

May 21-23, 2010
Festival Pavilion
Fort Mason Center
San Francisco, CA
San Francisco Fine Art Fair – for tickets

I’ll be showing work with Charlie James Gallery at the NEXT Exhibition in Chicago this year.

Location: alongside Art Chicago at The Merchandise Mart in Chicago
Cost: Adults: $20 daily or $25 multi-day pass | Seniors, Students or Groups: $15 multi-day pass | Children 12 and under are free.
Dates: April 30 – May 3, 2010

About NEXT:
More than an art fair, NEXT is a showcase for the world’s talents and an adventure in cutting-edge culture. An opportunity to redefine the relationship between art and its public, NEXT is a portal to seeing contemporary art in new, innovative, eye-opening ways. NEXT  will include works from both commercial and non-commercial arts organizations–galleries, project spaces, art publications and key private contemporary collections from around the world.

more information: www.nextartfair.com

I’ll be showing some new sign work with Charlie James Gallery at Pulse New York. I don’t have pictures because I’m working on it now…

Pulse New York
General Admission $20, Students and Seniors $15
330 West Street
Thursday, March 4 – Press and VIP Private Preview – 9am – 12pm
Thursday, March 4 – Open to public – 12pm – 8pm
Friday, March 5 – 12pm – 8pm
Saturday, March 6 – 12pm – 8pm
Sunday, March 7 – 12pm – 5pm

Charlie James Gallery presents “You Are Still Alive” at Pulse Miami 2009.

Steve Lambert will be featured at Impulse with Charlie James Gallery at the Pulse Miami Art Fair from December 3 thru 6, 2009. Selected works from Lambert’s “Everything You Want Right Now!” solo show will be featured, as well as the debut of his Arrow Sign print editions. This solo project will be entitled “You Are Still Alive” and is organized around the idea of the liberating power of simple truths.

Steve Lambert has been working as an artist and provocateur for over ten years now, disrupting the stream of corporate-driven communication that showers down on us 24-7, and more importantly empowering regular people to Think Different, and not in the way of those old, fairly vacuous Apple computer ads, but by actually causing it to happen through his work. For an example of Steve jamming the corporate communication system, we can look at his newest edition of prints. Steve bought a large, lighted arrow sign on a stand and put it up around LA with non-corporate and sometimes personal messages on it: You Are Still Alive pointing at a cemetery, for example. Funny, definitely, but poignant as well. Using the techniques of commercial signage, Steve will make for PULSE Miami light-box marquees that take commercial speech to its logical conclusion: Park & Spend, Money Laundered; Everything You Want, Right Now! Steve’s signs tell baldly, as if it were the truth, the lies that hide behind commercial signage: endless abundance, endless choice, consumption with joy. For his solo project at IMPULSE Miami, Steve will present a combination of lighted signs, hand-painted signs, and new print work in an installation organized around the idea of the liberating power of simple truths.

Moolah: An Exhibit About Money
November 13th – December 11th
Reception: Sunday, November 15th, 1-4 PM

The Arts Guild of Rahway
1670 Irving Street
Rahway, New Jersey 07065

Market Forces 2009
Piemonte Share Festival
Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali
via Giolitti 36
Torino, Italy

“Uncommon Ground” will be displayed at Eyebeam’s Open Studios this weekend.

Uncommon Ground is a sound installation created in collaboration with Victoria Estok. Using stethoscopes against a five by five foot planter box, people can hear the plants commentary, discussions, and inner thoughts – which are normally inaudible to human beings.

The plants are voiced by comedians and neighbors, including; Reggie Watts, James Bewley, Cathleen Carr, Maria Del Piano, Courtney Robinson, Jonathan Shahn, Steve Trevelise, Kenya Robinson, Stefanie Connell, Maya Connell, and Larry Bogad.

Eyebeam Open Studios

Eyebeam will hold Open Studios for Artists In Residence, Student Residents, and Senior Fellows
Friday, October 23 and Saturday, October 24, from 3-6pm.
A two-day presentation allowing a rare inside look at the current state of research at Eyebeam.

Eyebeam is pleased to host Open Studios for its 2009 Senior Fellowships and Summer/Fall residents at Eyebeam’s state-of-the-art new media design, digital research, and fabrication studio; showcasing work in the areas of  performance, experimental film, wearable technologies, open culture and sustainable art.

Eyebeam’s residents are selected from two yearly open calls of emerging artists, technologists and engineers for a five-month residency, which includes a stipend as well as access to Eyebeam’s facilities, equipment, and opportunities for collaboration and presentation of work. This group of five residents was selected from a group of 195 applicants.

More on Eyebeam Open Studios…

Uncommon Ground is a sound installation created in collaboration with Victoria Estok. Using stethoscopes against a five by five foot planter box, people can hear the plants commentary, discussions, and inner thoughts – which are normally inaudible to human beings.

The plants are voiced by comedians and neighbors, including; Reggie Watts, James Bewley, Cathleen Carr, Maria Del Piano, Courtney Robinson, Jonathan Shahn, Steve Trevelise, Kenya Robinson, Stefanie Connell, Maya Connell, and Larry Bogad.

Whitney Family Day 2009
WhitneyKids Back To Nature
1–4 Pm Saturday, October 3, 2009

Families are invited to explore the abstractions of Georgia O’Keeffe through interactive gallery tours, hands-on art making, and much more!

Discover O’Keeffe’s lines, colors, and landscapes through guided gallery tours. Look closely at natural objects and create your own abstract work of art. Work with artist collectives Windowfarms.org and Plant Parenthood to plant your own natural landscape for your home!

All children must be accompanied by an adult.

Admission is $10 per family, free for member families.
A family ticket is valid for up to 2 adults; children and teens 18 and under always receive free admission. $5 admission for additional adults.

September 27 – November 15, 2009

Since 1992 the San Francisco Arts Commission has been enlisting local artists to create original posters for the kiosks along Market Street between Van Ness Avenue and the Embarcadero. The Art on Market Street Kiosk Poster Series provides round-the-clock access to contemporary art for thousands of pedestrians. The artists, who work in a variety of media to reflect urban life, have included such well-known SF artists as Seyed Alavi, Megan Wilson, Kara Maria, Katherine Aoki, Amanda Hughen, Owen Smith, Jason Jagel, and Mark Brest van Kempen. The Bedford exhibition pays homage to this successful and model public art project by featuring thirty of the original 6ft by 4ft posters.

Bedford Gallery
1601 Civic Drive
Walnut Creek, CA 94596
(925)295-1417