Lynette at Make Space did a nice q and a with me about process and practices. Check it out

During the month of February I had a studio visit, interview and a few posts on the the Scene’s arts and culture blog, Country Life. Have a look.

I am looking forward to seeing familiar Chicago faces. Please stop by the opening on Friday the 13th!

ACRE presents: Soft Ground // New works by Emily Clayton and Eileen Mueller
Opening reception Friday, January 13th, 6 to 9pm
Roots& Culture, 1034 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago

Nice little mention on Make Space.

HAUS Rotations is a new collective in Nashville. For their inaugural exhibition they are hosting a one night only show in a vacant house in Slyvan Park. I’ll be showing some new things. It’s nice to see this sort of thing happening in Nashville.

Saturday, September 17 · 5:00pm - 10:00pm
3530 Murphy Rd. Nashville
One night only.

http://www.facebook.com/HAUS.Rotations?sk=events

Very excited to attend the ACRE Residency from July 20th to the 31st.

The past three months have been spent acclimating to my new studio in Nashville. Last weekend the 100 year old building opened its doors for a visit. There was a nice mention here in the Scene. Thanks to all who came out.

Good friend Chad Kouri paid a visit to my studio.
Look at the photos and read the interview on The Post Family

This is happening the same night as the Sad Cycle opening. But it goes late! One of my paintings will be auctioned and I think they are having a petting zoo. wow.

2nd floor @ 1550 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622

10 December 2010, 6:00pm—11:00pm

Cost: $20 ($10 students)

Sad Cycle includes works that are inspired by death rituals. The exhibition is part of a larger series that seeks to examine ways in which people grieve through a lens of palpably dramatic forms and performance. The pieces shown at Eastern Expansion were created in the past three months and reflect an intimate focus on material and a process-driven sculptural practice.

Sad Cycle / Emily Clayton

Eastern Expansion / 244 w. 31st Street / Chicago
Reception December 10, 2010 / 6-9 pm
Through January 7

http://easternexpansion.blogspot.com

Chris has freshened up the Reelfoot Library. Berlin based artist, Mike Ruiz, is the first artist to be exhibited in the new online gallery Rank and File. It is a nice place to slow down and sift through pleasing content.

Printervention ( a traveling exhibition I co-organized and curated with Chris Roberson & Ed Marszewski ) will be shown in Nashville in the coming weeks thanks to artist and friend Jes Owings. The show features social and political posters created specifically for the project and draws inspiration from the Works Progress Administration of the 1930’s when artists actually got paid by the government.

I have been working long and hard with Chris and our buddy Ed Marszewski putting together a poster initiative this spring.

Printervention // Printing for the Public

Following the success of last years’ Version Festival program: the Bridgeport WPA pilot project, we have asked artists from around the country to create works that raise awareness of social and political issues of our day.
Printervention debuts April 16, 2010 at the The Chicago Tourism Center Gallery and continues through Version Festival to include workshops, a mobile silkscreen cart, a window display at The Whistler and more. For more information and a complete schedule of events and participants please visit www.printervention.org

Opening Reception Friday, April 16, 2010 5pm – 7pm
@ Chicago Tourism Center Gallery
72 E Randolph // Chicago

Printervention, organized by Emily Clayton, Chris Roberson and Ed Marszewski, is part of Version Festival 2010, an annual arts festival in Chicago produced by the Public Media Institute that brings together hundreds of artists, musicians and educators from around the world.

www.printervention.org
www.versionfest.org

The Harold Arts Residency Program is looking to raise awareness and funds for their 2010 residecy program. My piece, Orange Pour #2, will be auctioned off to help with the cause. If you are in New York please stop by.

Harold Arts Silent Auction
@ the Salt Gallery
133 W. 25th St., fifth floor
New York, NY 10001

One Night Only:
April 23rd, 2010, 6-10 pm

http://www.haroldarts.org

Stop by the Chicago Cultural Center’s Tourism Gallery (72 E Randolph)
this Friday evening from 5 to 7pm.

http://getittogethershow.com

The (Con)Temporary Art Space is a store, mapping center and exhibition space located downtown Chicago, 208 S Wabash. Because the space is temporary, we have an ambitious schedule of weekly shows, with an opening reception every Thursday. Images below are from our inaugural exhibition which featured work from all the (c)tas members. I did an installation in the display case gallery.

Springtime and Version festival are around the corner. I am very excited about this year’s happenings. To mention a few : Printervention show at the Cultural Center,  so many international artists are traveling to Chicago for the festival ( from Finland, Germany, France and the Netherlands+), as well as different shows opening each night of the festival.

Call for participants is out. Please spread the word . Deadline is March 1st.

VERSION FESTIVAL 10 Call For Participation

VERSION FESTIVAL 10:
Infrastructures and Territories
April 22, May 2, 2010

DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: March 1, 2010.

Version is an annual springtime convergence that brings together hundreds of artists, musicians, and educators from around the world to present some of the most challenging ideas and progressive art initiatives of our day.

This is the Ninth edition.

Submit your proposal online:
http://www.lumpen.com/V10/theme.html

Please spread the word to all of your networks. Thanks.

A few of my new pieces will be included in the upcoming exhibition. // The Get It Together exhibition (now Get It Together Again) was picked up by the Chicago Cultural Center and will open on March 19th, 2010 at The Chicago Cultural center’s tourism building (72 E Randolph) with new work from the old contributors and an extended line-up including 9 new Chicago artist, 3 new US artists, and 3 new international artist.

Get It Together: Collage Assemblage & Collaboration, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago, July 2009

From the Co-Prosperity Sphere

Saturday, January 16, 2010 9pm – 1am
$10 please. (you will receive a copy of the new issue) or $8 without mag!

Please join us for the release of the sixth issue of Proximity magazine.  There will be an evening of performances by Proximity friends and family as well as an exhibition of works by artists featured in past magazines. The exhibition is part of an exchange project with our friends at Trendbeheer. Works on display will be sent to Rotterdam to be exhibited at Kunst & Complex in early March.

My website have been revamped and redesigned, thanks to the generous help of Chris. I migrated a few of my previous site’s news posts to the new blog.

Please enjoy the latest work and check back often for updates.

This summer I had the opportunity to spend a week in rural Ohio at the Harold Arts Residency.
To showcase the artist and work made throughout the summer Heaven Gallery and Johalla Projects hosted an exhibition this October.

From Johalla’s website

On Friday, October 23, 2009, Johalla Projects hosted “The Yield: Harold Arts 2009 Resident Exhibition” along with Heaven Gallery at 1550 North Milwaukee Avenue.  Each summer, the Harold Arts Residency Program invites emerging and established artists and musicians to stay at the Jeffers Tree Farm in rural Ohio and produce new works.  The Yield was a part of the week-long event Harvest 2009, which featured musical performances and exhibitions around Chicago and the release of the Harold Arts annual compilation album.  Participating artists shown at Johalla Projects were:

For more information about Harold Arts visit: www.haroldarts.org

Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.

I had the pleasure of attending the HAROLD ARTS RESIDENCY this summer. Here are some photographs I took while enjoying the woods.

Issue 6 of MULE MAGAZINE is out!

Chris Roberson and I have been working with the magazine for the past few years. This issue founder and publisher, Liz Tapp, was kind enough to conduct an interview with the two of us. We spoke in early spring about art, collaboration and coupledom.

SARAH MCKEMIE
took some the portraits. Amazing photographer.

Get the new issue! It’s free. And enjoy the ONLINE EDITION and website MULEMAGAZINE.COM