Santa Fe - Currents 2010

Just arrived in Santa Fe today!  Potter-Belmar Labs' Double Thunder is showing in Currents 2010, which opened this evening.  We are amongst some great company & a few familiar faces in this stunning exhibition of contemporary video art.  There about 2 dozen installations alongside 4 ongoing programs of linear work which have been divided into 4 screenings of about 1/2 hour each.

Check it out if you can!!


El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe
In Santa Fe's Railyard District - next to the Farmers' Market / across the street from SITE Santa Fe
june 18-june 27 / 10AM - 7PM
FREE EVERY DAY

Co-Existing and Co-Llaborating

From November 20 until January 15, the show Co-Existing and Co-Llaborating will be open at the SPACES Gallery in Cleveland, Ohio. Curated by Mary Magsamen of Aurora Picture Show, Co-existing explores the video art of artist couples who live and work together. The pieces offer a glimpse of the way each collaborative couple deals with sharing their physical and mental space, and how this dynamic affects and nourishes their artwork.

PBL's video "Double Thunder" is featured in the show, alongside work by by Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby; Travis and Dana Hanmer; Darrin Martin and Jamil Hellu; Jennifer & Kevin McCoy; and Robyn Voshardt and Sven Humphrey.

San Antonio Casts a Spell - Trailer!

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Double Thunder showing at Antimatter Film Festival!

Prestigious yearly Canadian film festival "Antimatter", which is taking place on October 9-17 this year, will have Potter-Belmar Labs' short "Double Thunder" in its roster of prodigious screenings. While the program guide is not to be up at their website until mid-September, I happen to know that they will be playing Double Thunder on October 14.

Some history: dedicated readers may recall that PBL participated in the festival last year with their Fortune performance.

Multiples

Multiples
group exhibition

July 25 - August 22
Preview: July 24, 11 am - 8 pm; July 25, 11 am - 6 pm
Opening Party: July 25, 6 pm - 10 pm

Featuring new work by over a dozen artists who have been chosen to create small series of variants or versions based on a single theme.

Leslie will be presenting her new video "Icarus Overland" in an edition of 3.

Artists include:
Kimberly Aubuchon, Holly Hein Brooks/Bryson Brooks (collaborative work), Alejandro Diaz, Joey Fauerso, Frank Hein, Diana Kersey, Scott Lifshutz, Franco Mondini-Ruiz, Jung Mun, Cruz Ortiz, Chuck Ramirez, Leslie Raymond, Al Souza, Dan Sutherland, Michael Velliquette

Manipulated Images in Santa Fe

Alysse Stepanian launches a monthly series at the Complex in Santa Fe, New Mexico, to feature artists that explore the innovative use of technology and software to manipulate image.
The initial program on Friday, February 27 will feature artists and videos by Ethan Bach, Anne Farrell, Merrill Kazanjian, Leslie Raymond & Jason Jay Stevens (Potter-Belmar), and Flame Schon. Admission is free and the event coincides with Frito Friday, an opportunity to socialize at the complex, located at 632 Agua Fria, in Santa Fe.

Honorable Mention at Fargo Film Festival

The new Potter-Belmar Labs short, Double Thunder, has won honorable mention at this year's Fargo Film Festival, where it will premier. The Festival takes place March 3 through 7th, at the historic Fargo Theater and other locations in and around Fargo and Moorhead, North Dakota.

Metaphor Public Art

Earlier in the year, Jason worked with a high school class at San Antonio's Fox Academic and Technical High School to create a work of public art, through ArtPace's Semester Program. The students wrote metaphors that captured something personal about their lives, and then worked with Jason to create short videos that illustrate the metaphors.
The result is a collection of videos, collectively titled, "Metaphor," hosted on this website. Cool stuff. Check it out.

LANDSCAPES

at Blue Star Contemporary Art Center
opening reception Thursday September 4, 6-9pm
runs through September 30

Leslie Raymond's new show LANDSCAPES puts the focus on the tried and true theme of the landscape. A primary genre in painting, landscapes generally depict views from nature. Here, Raymond presents a contemporary take on the subject. Broadening the vocabulary of the picture-plane through the use of the moving image, she incorporates video's inevitable language of time. This group of landscape images embodies artifacts of the passage of time (including lapsed time, movement through time and space, and time pressure) while simultaneously considering composition, color, shape and form. Each video loop composition in this series is displayed on its own flat-panel monitor, and is an edition of four.

Bearded Child in Minneapolis

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

LOOP Barcelona

video festival and fair

PBL's "Pandora's Bike" screened at Mau Mau
in the program
Numinous Inscriptions: Art Video from San Antonio TX
Thursday May 31, 2007