ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE :: 6/4
JUNE ARTTALK WITH SEAN WARD & GEORGIA GOLDBERG
Thursday, June 4 | 7:00 p.m.
Free and open to the public
Join us as artist-in-residence Georgia Goldberg and visiting artist Sean Ward present their work during our monthly ArtTalk. Goldberg’s installations reference time and space through mark-making, light, and shadow. Her layered, multi-dimensional installations are constructed with Plexiglas, wax, paper, fabric and board and incorporate drawing with ink, wire, and thread. Ward is currently building A Pre-Conscious Space, a shimmering wattle and cob cave that will premier on July 24 during Mutual of Omaha’s Wild About Omaha celebration. This functional music venue and event-space is located within the Okada building, directly to the East of the Bemis Center’s main facility.
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PUBLIC ART :: 6/24
DEDICATION OF FERTILE GROUND: OMAHA MURAL PROJECT
Wednesday, June 24 | 9:30 p.m.
13th and Webster Street
Free and open to the public
This spring artist Meg Saligman and her team have continued work on the Omaha mural project, wrapping it around to the north wall of the Energy Systems building. Come see the first public lighting of the completed mural. Now over 25,000 square feet,
Fertile Ground
, is the largest public art project in Omaha and one of largest murals in the country.
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EXHIBITIONS :: 6/26
spurse: MATR: MOBILE APPARATUS FOR TEMPORALITY RESEARCH
Opening Reception: Friday, June 26 | 6:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Gallery Talk: Saturday, June 27 | 12 noon
Free and open to the public
The Bemis Center is pleased to welcome MATR: Mobile Apparatus for Temporality Research, a project by the interdisciplinary collective spurse, to Omaha this summer. MATR arrives as a shipping container whose contents expand tactically across the Bemis Center’s grounds. MATR operates as an assemblage of work areas, libraries, long-term experiments, visualization and sensory tools that invite the public to explore and make circuits across time.
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PERFORMANCE :: 6/25 - 6/27
ætherplough: knives out
June 25, 26 & 27 | 8:00 p.m., June 26 | 11:00 p.m.
Tickets $8: Bemis Center members; $10: non-members
knives out is an ætherplough-created performance pastiche constructed of equal parts ancient Greek tragedy, noir thriller, reality TV, and postmodern dance. Complete with live music and floating furniture, knives out
toys with the past in an obstacle course that (mis)remembers the process of finding one’s way home.
ætherplough is the performance production company co-founded by Thom Sibbitt and Susann Suprenant with theatre artists Sarah Carlson-Brown and Vince Carlson-Brown. ætherplough brings together writers, musicians, performing and visual artists to foster collaboratively-created performance works. |
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NEW ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE
NOAH SIMBLIST, DALLAS, TX: 6/1/09 - 8/30/09
Noah Simblist is an artist and writer living in Dallas, TX. He creates paintings, drawings, video, wall text and sound installations that explore the limits of symbolic meaning in political, religious and quasi-religious modernist iconography. Most recently these images have been placed in the context of texts and images that deal with the political role of the artist, the concept of forgiveness, Christian Zionism and the idea of home in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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NEW ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE
MIN KIM PARK, SOUTH KOREA: 6/1/09 - 8/30/09
Born in South Korea, Min Kim Park focuses on exploring the issues revolving around gender, ethnicity and identity using multimedia performance, video, photography, and sound installation. The artist draws from her experience as a journalist in both South Korea and the United States.
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NEW ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE
GEORGIA GOLDBERG, ROSS, CA: 6/1/09 - 8/30/09
Georgia Goldberg installations reference time and space through mark making, light, and shadow. Her layered, multi dimensional installations are constructed with Plexiglas, wax, paper, fabric and board and incorporate drawing with ink, wire, and thread.
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NEW ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE
MARGARET MEEHAN, DALLAS, TX: 6/1/09 - 8/30/09
Dallas based artist Margaret Meehan's concern with locating the sublime in the grotesque is as grounded in a traditional Victorian obsession with medical anomalies as it is with defying our more recent attempt to banish all nastiness and discomfort from our daily experience. In Meehan’s eyes, oily real life indeed seeps up into our fluffy, shiny world, and that’s where things finally get interesting (and often quite funny and absurd).
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NEWS :: 7/24
Join Mutual of Omaha in celebrating 100 years! Wild about Omaha Weekend, July 24 & 25, will be two days of fun-filled events at fourteen Omaha arts & entertainment venues. Visit
www.WildAboutOmaha.com
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