First Thursday Art Talk for April
Thursday, April 5 | 7:00 p.m.
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Description: WHAT: First Thursday Art Talk for April
WHEN: Thursday, April 5, 2012, 7:00 pm
WHERE: Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, 12th & Leavenworth, Omaha, NE
Join us as current artists-in-residence Amy Brener, Dawn Black, and Jeff Eisenberg present their work during the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts’ First Thursday Art Talk on April 5, 2012 at 7:00 pm. As always, Art Talk is free and open to the public.
Amy Brener has developed a method of layering resin, glass and fresnel lens to create light sensitive sculptures that resemble artifacts of an imagined future. Dawn Black's watercolor and ink paintings examine the practice of masquerade and its role in mythmaking. Jeff Eisenberg's drawings and paintings explore the built environment, architecture, niche cultures and marginal systems.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Jeff Eisenberg graduated with an MFA in painting from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2005. He has shown nationally and internationally, exhibits regularly in and around the Bay Area and has participated in a number of artist residencies. His most recent exhibitions have been solo shows with Swarm Gallery in Oakland, CA, Helmuth Projects in San Diego, CA, and POVevolving in Los Angeles, CA, as well as an upcoming selected group show at KALA Institute in Berkeley, CA. In addition to his own work, Jeff frequently participates in a number of collaborative projects, most recently as co-curator for “Building Steam”, a yearlong series of audio projects and sound installations hosted by Swarm Gallery and partially funded with a Southern Exposure Alternative Grant from 2010 to 2011. The artist lives and works in San Francisco.
Amy Brener was born in Victoria, BC and now lives and works in New York City. She holds an MFA in Sculpture from Hunter College and was a participant of Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2011. Her work has been exhibited in New York, Toronto and London.
Dawn Black was born in Louisiana and received a BFA from Louisiana State University. She earned both an MA and MFA, specializing in Painting and Sculpture, from the University of Iowa School of Art and Art History. In 2000, she spent the summer exploring Venice, Italy while making prints at Scoula di Graphica, a printmaking studio on the Grand Canal. She has had solo exhibitions at Curator’s Office, Washington DC, Kunstoffice, Berlin, Germany and Eve Drewelowe Gallery, Iowa City, IA. Her work has also been included in numerous group exhibitions across the country. Black has been reviewed by the Washington Post, Art Papers magazine, and most recently online at www.artinamerica.com and her work is represented in various private collections, notably the Zacharius collection. The artist lives and works in Baton Rouge, LA.
ART TALK PRESENTING SPONSOR Weitz Family Foundation
ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE SPONSORS Nebraska Arts Council, Nebraska Cultural Endowment, National Endowment for the Arts, William and Ruth Scott Family Foundation , Gifford Foundation, Laura and Greg Schnackel, Betiana and Todd Simon, Paul and Annette Smith, Weitz Family Foundation
WHEN: Thursday, April 5, 2012, 7:00 pm
WHERE: Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, 12th & Leavenworth, Omaha, NE
Join us as current artists-in-residence Amy Brener, Dawn Black, and Jeff Eisenberg present their work during the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts’ First Thursday Art Talk on April 5, 2012 at 7:00 pm. As always, Art Talk is free and open to the public.
Amy Brener has developed a method of layering resin, glass and fresnel lens to create light sensitive sculptures that resemble artifacts of an imagined future. Dawn Black's watercolor and ink paintings examine the practice of masquerade and its role in mythmaking. Jeff Eisenberg's drawings and paintings explore the built environment, architecture, niche cultures and marginal systems.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Jeff Eisenberg graduated with an MFA in painting from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2005. He has shown nationally and internationally, exhibits regularly in and around the Bay Area and has participated in a number of artist residencies. His most recent exhibitions have been solo shows with Swarm Gallery in Oakland, CA, Helmuth Projects in San Diego, CA, and POVevolving in Los Angeles, CA, as well as an upcoming selected group show at KALA Institute in Berkeley, CA. In addition to his own work, Jeff frequently participates in a number of collaborative projects, most recently as co-curator for “Building Steam”, a yearlong series of audio projects and sound installations hosted by Swarm Gallery and partially funded with a Southern Exposure Alternative Grant from 2010 to 2011. The artist lives and works in San Francisco.
Amy Brener was born in Victoria, BC and now lives and works in New York City. She holds an MFA in Sculpture from Hunter College and was a participant of Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2011. Her work has been exhibited in New York, Toronto and London.
Dawn Black was born in Louisiana and received a BFA from Louisiana State University. She earned both an MA and MFA, specializing in Painting and Sculpture, from the University of Iowa School of Art and Art History. In 2000, she spent the summer exploring Venice, Italy while making prints at Scoula di Graphica, a printmaking studio on the Grand Canal. She has had solo exhibitions at Curator’s Office, Washington DC, Kunstoffice, Berlin, Germany and Eve Drewelowe Gallery, Iowa City, IA. Her work has also been included in numerous group exhibitions across the country. Black has been reviewed by the Washington Post, Art Papers magazine, and most recently online at www.artinamerica.com and her work is represented in various private collections, notably the Zacharius collection. The artist lives and works in Baton Rouge, LA.
ART TALK PRESENTING SPONSOR Weitz Family Foundation
ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE SPONSORS Nebraska Arts Council, Nebraska Cultural Endowment, National Endowment for the Arts, William and Ruth Scott Family Foundation , Gifford Foundation, Laura and Greg Schnackel, Betiana and Todd Simon, Paul and Annette Smith, Weitz Family Foundation
