2010 Exhibition at Fl!ght

New video art from Leslie Raymond, and a recent sound sculpture by Jason Jay Stevens are on exhibit at Justin Parr's Flight Gallery in San Antonio, as part of the "2010" group show. Other exhibitors include Beto Gonzales, Andy Benavides, Joe DelaCruz, Vanessa Centeno, Kelly O'Connor, Jeremiah Teutsch, Sarah Stevens, Thomas Cummins, Kimberly Aubuchon, Raygun Johns, Jake Harper, Jung Hee Mun, Daniel Saldaña, Shaun Jarvis, Thomas Cummins, Hills Snyder, Kendra Curry, Chris Tracy, and Christine Catsifas.

San Antonio Casts A Spell Hotline!

call the special toll-free number
1-866-820-5327

San Antonio Casts a Spell - Trailer!

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Chalk It Up 2009

Saturday was a great day for working outdoors - not too sunny (ominously cloudy in fact), full of kids, and full of artists. Good day to draw a board game on the sidewalk. It didn't rain, fortunately!



PBL may be known for their work in video and new media, but the interactive and participatory aspect that they use in their video work translated very well to sidewalk chalk drawing. Dozens of kids took part in the life-size board game, and they liked it.



Thanks to everyone who stopped by, and thanks to Artpace for inviting PBL to be a Showcase Artist. It was a blast.

ArtPrize is happening!

ArtPrize, the world's biggest art competition, opens this Wednesday 9/23 for the public's critical perusal!

Everyone in or near Grand Rapids should go see how upwards of 1,200 artists have turned the entire city into a gallery. And if you're around there looking at the art, you should also register to vote, then vote!

What's that? You'd like to vote for Leslie and/or Jason? You are so kind! Here's how:

Vote FOR Leslie's Icarus Overland: vote30371
Vote AGAINST Leslie's Icarus Overland: vote30370

Vote FOR Jason's Eleven Strata and the Planetary Boundary: vote30271
Vote AGAINST Jason's Eleven Strata and the Planetary Boundary: vote30270

Art Prize at Grand Rapids, MI

Both Leslie and Jason are participating in the competition for world's largest art prize, aptly named ArtPrize. It's taking place in Grand Rapids, Michigan, from September 23 to October 10, and the winners will be chosen democratically by the public without the involvement of electoral colleges.

Both entries have proven success in San Antonio already:

Leslie will be showing her Icarus Overland piece, previously seen in the Multiples Show at David Shelton Gallery. Her venue is Lightbox.

Jason's entry is his Eleven Strata and the Planetary Boundary installation, as seen before at Joan Grona, to be shown at The Old Federal Building.

Please send your sincerest, most effective good luck wishes, and if they work, you might get a cut of the winnings! Or not! Who knows!

Eleven Strata and the Planetary Boundary

JASON JAY STEVENS

ELEVEN STRATA AND THE PLANETARY BOUNDARY

Sound and Sculpture

2 July through 2 August 2009

Joan Grona Gallery

at the Blue Star Arts Complex

112 Blue Star, San Antonio, Texas 78204

opening reception: 6 pm Thursday 2 July 2009

hours: Tuesday - Friday 11am - 5pm Saturday 11 am - 6pm

phone: 210.225.6334

email: jgrona@satx.rr.com

web: http://www.joangronagallery.com

The artist offers the audience a unique, virtual tour of eleven strata of atmosphere and ocean, on either side of the planetary boundary. As illustrations of the qualities of places from high in the outer Magnetosphere, through the Thermosphere, the Stratosphere, and down into Mesopelagia, Bathypelagia, and the deeper Abyss, Stevens presents a batch of mysterious experiments, curious handmade instrumentation, and eerie field recordings.

Featuring sculptures, a pair of paintings, and a pair of photographs, the centerpiece of the exhibition are two sound compositions, one each for atmosphere and ocean. These musical works are essentially performed by an ensemble made up of sculptures in the gallery, in coordination, generating a planetary rhythm and harmony. The sonic landscape varies dramatically throughout the space, but at any point can be contemplated as one work.

47th Ann Arbor Film Festival!

Leslie is in Ann Arbor this week with her students at the film festival.  If you are anywhere in the vicinity, check out her installation in the lobby:

Vantagepoints: Mapping the 47th Ann Arbor Film Festival

(2009) 45 min, looping

media: Google Earth 4.2, 1.77GHz PowerPC G4 with 2 GB SDRAMM, 100 Mb/s Ethernet, 4x 2.5 GHz PowerPC G5 with 4GB SDRAMM, Final Cut Pro 5.1

Here, the works in the 47th Ann Arbor Film Festival competition are globally sited predominantly by zip code but sometimes by city or even country name. A hand-drawn map with pushpins denoting filmmakers' hometowns used to grace the Michigan Theater Lobby at film festival time. That map was the main inspiration for this video, which is essentially the same thing created using the media of our time.

Also, be sure to see vjFutureWorkerGirl performing with DJ Bob Moir on Saturday night at the Cavern Club.

Settings and Characters at Palo Alto College

A new variation of the multi-channel installation of our video series, Settings and Characters
October 20 - November 21, 2008
Gallery100
Palo Alto College: Fine & Performing Arts Department



Reception:
Wednesday, October 22, 4 - 6 pm
Gallery Talk @ 4 pm

Gallery Hours: Monday - Friday 9 am - 5 pm
Contact: 210.486.3205

Settings and Characters is an award-winning multichannel video and sound installation that deconstructs a story into basic elements. As the projections and monitors juxtapose different settings and characters, the visitors, with a little imagination, assemble their own story.

This event is free and open to the public
Directions/Map:
http://www.accd.edu/pac/htm/Prospective/CampusTour/mapsdirections.htm

The Theoretical Fixed Point in the Turbulent Aeviternity

Jason Jay Stevens presents his latest sculpture installation at Joan Grona Gallery, at the Blue Star Arts Complex, during San Antonio Contemporary Art Month.
The show opens with a reception on Thursday, June 26th, from 6 until 9pm, and runs through August 16th.
For "The Theoretical Fixed Point in the Turbulent Aeviternity (Come You Lost Atoms to Your Center Draw)," Stevens has combined work in fabric, wood, electronics, light, musical objects, and strange lightning bolts made from black shag carpet. The result might be a scene from an alternate dimension.
At one end of the gallery, a giant light box occasionally flashes the question, "Did you feel that?" referring to a mysterious event that makes the viewer question their sensitivity. Throughout the room, flying bed sheets imitate a firmament of angels, and flecks of gold outline otherwise invisible magnetic fields.

June 26 through August 16, 2008
Opening Reception: Thursday, June 26, 6-9pm
Joan Grona Gallery, 112 Blue Star, San Antonio, Texas 78204
210-225-6334

Mixing Chamber at Luminaria

Potter-Belmar Labs collaborated with San Antonio artist, Stuart Allen, to create "Mixing Chamber," on view for one day only, Saturday, March 15, from 10am until 10pm, at the San Antonio Museum of Art.

The Museum's Curator of Contemporary Art, David Rubin, has described "Mixing Chamber," which fills the Cowden gallery with light, colors, and sound, as "a giant, walk-through luminaria." We think he's pretty much nailed that on the head.
Not by coincidence only, downtown will be filled with contemporary art during the day and night of the 15th, as the city celebrates it's first-ever Luminaria Arts Night. There will be plenty to do and see. Don't miss it!

McNay Artists Looking At Art

A fine fifty-degree evening for projecting "Characters" and "Settings" outdoors on the Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum,
a big bunch of friendly faces to watch with,
a few thoughts of thinkings to say,
but so much more interesting to entertain questions from the audience.




Photos by Roger Stephens, thank you Roger!

Big Thank You to Rene Barilleaux for inviting us!

Exquisite Corpse

Two nights only! Don't miss it!

Potter-Belmar Labs presents "Exquisite Corpse"
An exhibition of over fifty collaborative drawings by thirty-nine San Antonio artists



At Gallery 118, located at 118 Broadway in San Antonio.
Sale of the more than 50 unique artworks will benefit
the Artist Foundation of San Antonio.

Two days only! Reception on Friday, November 30, 6 to 10pm, with DJ Gabriel Velasquez and refreshments, and open on Saturday, December 1, noon to 8pm.

The participants: Oscar Alvarado, Ricky Armendariz, Kimberly Aubuchon, Nate Cassie, Judith Cottrell, Margaret Craig, Meredith Dean, Joan Fabian, Rick Frederick, Christopher French, Beto Gonzales, Mark Hogensen, Mimi Kato, Jimmy Kuehnle, Rhonda Kuhlman, Claire Little, Ken Little, Mark Little, Connie Lowe, Karen Mahaffey, Rick Martinez, John Mason, Jon Mata, Franco Mondini-Ruiz, Michele Monseau, Janette Morales, Dennis Olsen, Justin Parr, Chuck Ramirez, Leslie Raymond, David Rubin, Chris Sauter, S. T. Shimi, Ethel Shipton, Jason Jay Stevens, Michelle Valdez, Anne Wallace, Bettie Ward, and George Zupp.

Visit the website for more information!

In The Garden

Leslie Raymond
In The Garden
a taxonomy of flora & fauna
from my video loop database
2001 - present

at Cactus Bra
reception: 6-9pm November 2, 2007
show runs through November 21, 2007

106C Blue Star, San Antonio, TX 78204
210-226-6688

In The Garden is a video installation made with loops mined from the image database of video artist Leslie Raymond. It is a rendition of the age-old theme of The Garden told via light and color moving on the walls of Cactus Bra Space.

University of St. Cloud, Minnesota

Click here to see a few images of our performance and gallery installation at the Unversity of St. Cloud, shot by Ted Sher (thanks Ted!). We were shown a great time by all of the friendly Minnesotans at our our host school and would especially like to thank Alexa Horochowski, sculpture professor, and Bruce Tapola, professor and gallery director, for their assistance and support in our performance and exhibition there.

We were also very pleased to get to speak to graduate students of art at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. Big thanks go to printmaker-professor Jenny Schmid for the invitation and to sculptor-professor Wayne Potraz for hosting us.

And finally, click here to see the video of our contribution to the Mark Wojahn-Kitty Patrick wedding-- a collaborative effort forged with our compañeros Brian Jeans and Chris Kubick and many many more.

The Lab at the Roger Smith Hotel

Awesome video of our September 2007 show at The Lab at the Roger Smith Hotel, an art space in New York City, can now be found on The Lab's website, courtesy Adam Wallace, producer. It includes some interview clips, and some great footage that will give you an idea of what it was like.

Tuesday Night Pix

Our friend Bridget Shields the photographer and yoga goddess came by tonight and shot these pictures... thanks Bridget!

Potter-Belmar Labs at The Lab

Potter-Belmar Labs is going to put Times Square to shame! Come see us light up the corner of Lexington and 47th in Midtown Manhattan this week, Monday through Friday, from 6 to 10 each evening!

We are inviting everyone--that includes you!--to participate by submitting their own snippet of narration or dialog, which we will use to inspire an Improvised Cinema portraying the zeitgeist of our moment.

To assure that you receive a blank submission card, email and we'll send you one immediately.
Email it to us, mail the card or drop it off at the reception desk of The Roger Smith Hotel, at
501 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10017

& please visit our performance/installation, happening nightly,
the 3rd through the 7th, from 6 to 10pm
at The Lab at The Roger Smith Hotel

Eight Gestures in Airborne Rope + Embellishments

Images of Jason's installation at Blue Star, on view until the end of July!

Eight Gestures in Airborne Rope
digital images in lightboxes, installation 18 feet wide, 16 inches tall, four inches off the wall
photo by Michelle Monseau

Nine Pallas
bedsheets stiffened with polyacrylic, each roughly four feet by four feet, about 16 inches off the wall
photos by Mark Jones


Polar Field Drawings, 2007, two sheets of glass about 60 inches by 30 with magnetic painting on the surface
photos by Todd Johnson

Eight Gestures in Airborne Rope + Embellishments

New Work by Jason Jay Stevens

Blue Star Gallery Four
June 28 through July 29
Opening reception on June 28
and during Contemporary Art Month, the First Thursday + First Friday

Blue Star Contemporary Art Center
116 Blue Star. San Antonio. Texas
210.227.6960