Attenborough Naftel Yard Sale

The Great Holiday Tailgate!

You're invited to the first Attenborough-Naftel Tailgate!
Saturday December 22, 2012 (day after the end of the world)
11am-4pm
At Union Craft Brewing
1700-D Union Avenue Baltimore, Maryland 21211


We'll be tailgating out our newest and most unique collaboration to date, Pregame Session a 4.4% Mild Ale at Union Brewing. We will be pouring this incredible new brew right off the taps of Attenborough Naftel‘s (A/N) new intervention, Tailgate ManCave, which is the result of nearly a year of gutting and renovating the interior and exterior of a 1975 Winnebago Indian D-23. The Winnebago showcases hardwood floors, entertainment unit, library, full bar with kegerator, and urinal for the interior, the exterior supports an additional TV unit, dual Weber grills, lawn games and sound system.

Inside the brewery, Union be hosting a vinyl record sale to benefit Believe In Music, a non-profit organization that strives to bring music education to inner-city youth with no access to music programs. Thousands of vinyl records will be on sale with a DJ spinning classic records all day!

So get ready to tailgate the holidays - Bring your prized tailgate dish or something to throw on the grill and share with friends. We'll get the grills and the firepit hot and pints will be pouring inside and out. And don't forget to bring some extra cash for some vinyl records to benefit a great cause and for some new UNION merch too! :)

Hope to see you all on the 22nd.

Attenborough / Naftel

BookFace invite-
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Union Craft Brewery-
www.unioncraftbrewing.com

5 in 1

Also, I'm excited to announce that there will be a Roving Project show here in Knoxville coming up in October.

Artists include:

Craig Cully

Erin Treacy

Nathaniel Galka

Tim Clorius

Denise Stewart-Sanabria

Saturday October 13, 6-10:00pm-ish

@ the historic Weigel House aka Monday House

2721 Asbury Lane

Knoxville, TN 37914

Vote!

Help me win Art Takes Miami! 
yeah, right.

I did something I rarely do and paid to enter a competition.  Usually, that kind of feels just like taking money and throwing it up in the air and watching it get sucked into a black hole, never to be seen again.  Or rather, buying a lottery ticket...you know the odds are really bad, but the daydreams are nice for a while.  In the end you're minus a few bucks, had some fun crossing your fingers, but ultimately disappointed.

This one actually seems somewhat worthwhile considering who the judges are, so it would be great if ya'll could check it out, possibly enter yourself, and uh...vote for my portfolio :)

Plywood + another project

As some of you know Chris Attenborough and I (Sean Naftel) have been collaborating since we were at the college. We work under the name PEACOCK creating situational pieces based on space. We also have been working on Roving Project, a wandering curatorial program that drops into slack spaces for exhibitions. And now, we have started Plywood.

Plywood is a white cube gallery located in North Baltimore. It is also being slotted under Roving Project, as the space is ours until a tenant found for the storefront. Our first exhibition opens the 9th of September and will be a solo exhibition. The show is yet untitled, but features the photographic work of Jim Lucio.

So check out the website www.plywoodsite.org and keep checking back for more information on new exhibitions.

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Another project that we are currently preparing for is the 3rd incarnation of the Free Art Booth. PEACOCK has been invited to present this piece at the (e)merge Art Fair this September in Washington DC. We are currently seeking submissions and would love to have work from other BCAers. Shoot us an email, find us on the facebook, or check out www.peacock-interventions.com for more info!

BINGO

 

A1 Labarts presents BINGO @ 8 Shooters Studio.  A very serious exhibition featuring work play by an international group of emerging and established artists:

Kiernan Dunn Duffy Goodman
Joshua Jobb
Thane Lund
Hali Maltsberger
Sean Naftel
Brian Nigus
Beka Peralta
Giorgio Sadotti
Kevin Van Aelst

Opening reception First Friday, June 3, 6-10:00 pm, 2011.

On display through June 29.

8 Shooters
1202 N Central St.
Knoxville, TN 37919

Curated by Hali Maltsberger

Poulnabrone Bouncy Dolmen

The Poulnabrone Bouncy Dolmen

A touring public artwork by Jim Ricks

June 7th - 21st 2011

The Aughty regions of County Galway

Official launch: June 7th, 2011, 9:00 am at The Huntsman Inn, Galway

“The best public art piece... ever.” – Alice Maher, Artist

“The artist has combined an icon of ancient Ireland with an icon of contemporary Ireland, playfully re-presenting elements of Irish culture, often over-used commercially to attract tourism, in an accessible, witty, and visually arresting way.” – Kernan Andrews, Galway Advertiser

The Poulnabrone Bouncy Dolmen by Jim Ricks is a monumental inflatable sculpture designed for members of the public, of all ages, to interact with. The artwork will be touring venues around the Aughty Region of County Galway during June of 2011. The Poulnabrone Bouncy Dolmen is a replica, at twice the scale, of the famous 6,000 year old megalithic portal tomb of the same name, which is located in the Burren, Co. Clare. Jim Ricks created the interactive soft sculpture with the intention of bringing a portal dolmen to Aughty, a region which has no dolmens, only wedge tombs.

The official launch of The Poulnabrone Bouncy Dolmen will be on June 7th, 2011 in front of the Huntsman Inn in Galway. The piece will be set up first thing in the morning (weather permitting!) followed by a small reception at 9am. It will be touring the Slieve Aughty region of Galway for 2 weeks. The tour will close with an afternoon appearance adjacent to the real Poulnabrone Dolmen in the Burren, on the June 21st solstice.

Jim Ricks’ practice is characterised by challenges and disruptions to ownership, intellectual property rights and any conception of originality. As such, he openly imitates art and life through available means and materials. This process embraces creativity through divergence and welcomes the accidents that occur in the ‘knock off’ process as the (automatic) art itself. The work also frequently explore the grey area between flattery and theft. Ricks’ work is influenced by his background as a prolific graffiti artist and a political activist.

Born in California, Jim Ricks received his MFA from the National University of Ireland, Galway and Burren College of Art programme and his BFA from the California College of the Arts. He has exhibited internationally, most recently with with The Black Mariah for the Terminal Convention, Cork, and at What are You Thinking?, The Niland Gallery, Galway. In 2010 he received the Artlink ‘New Art Award’; exhibited at the Royal Hibernian Academy (Dublin); had solo shows at Fort Dunree (Co. Donegal), Occupy Space (Limerick) and Pallas Contemporary Projects (Dublin); took part in group shows with Dock Discourse at 126 and offsite (Galway), The Galway Arts Festival (Galway), Monster Truck Temple Bar (Dublin) and Pallas Contemporary Projects (Dublin). In 2009 he exhibited in the Galway Arts Centre (Galway), Monster Truck Gallery (Dublin), IMOCA (Dublin) and participated in Frieze Projects’ COPYSTAND: Autonomous Manufacturing Zone (London). Ricks is currently working on the touring public work In Search of the Truth (The Truth Booth), a collaboration with Cause Collective (US) in 2011.

Supported by the Galway County Council, the Clare County Council Arts Office, Ground Up Artists Collective, The Huntsman Inn and Eight Bar and Restaurant.

For more information about the artist please see: www.jimricks.info

To see the Bouncy Dolmen in action please visit us here.

Read what the Irish Times says about it here.

Read what the Galway Advertiser says about it here.

Check it out on publicart.ie here.

And share the event on Facebook here.