New Video

_work in progress - burning DVDs and assembling the documentation booklet for the Seeking Kali artist call_

The artist call that I have been co-curating finished in January and now the documentation has commenced.  Ria Vanden Eynde, Susan Shulman and I organized this call back in August and over the course of five months had over 80 artists submit works. The art encompasses poetry, spoken work, music, video, sculpture as well as performance, painting and mixed techniques.

While the Seeking Kali blog we created archives all the submissions, we are working on two forms of hard copy archive for our artists. A DVD containing the blog material is almost ready for release. A book format will be out in March.  The photo above is a hint of the final DVD. There will be ordering instructions on the blog or our facebook group soon.  The DVD is especially valuable as a compilation of the video, performance and poetry.

The DVD also contains the eight minute segment below that features the painting, collage and mixed media works.


A video presentation of the painting, collage and mixed technique artists who submitted to the 2010 Seeking Kali artist call. Links to individual artists can be found on the Seeking Kali blog at seekingkali.blogspot.com. Soundtrack by Ian Evertson.

The complete works that will be featured on the DVD are viewable on the Seeking Kali blog, including the musicians, poets and video artists. The DVD release is scheduled for next week and will available via a link on this page or on the Seeking Kali blog.

The Seeking Kali DVD will be screened at the opening of Archetypology

 The works that have been submitted to Seeking Kali's DVD are being screened on February 25th at the opening of Archtypology.  Curator and artist Ivana Režek has organized a series of exhibitions for this show including the Prima Center Berlin where our first screening will take place.

100 Artists 100 Dreams

_The artist preview for the 100 Artists 100 Dreams launches with and opening Saturday, Feb. 5th. at ART ON THE WALL Virtual Gallery, Deep Listening Institute, located at 77 Cornell Street, Kingston, N.Y.

The project is curated by Sadee Brathwaite, the founder of La Leona Arts and is a long term project involving artists, musicians and performers. The project continues with a film screening this fall as well as as exhibitions in 2012 and 2013.

Two Boys Remember - © William Evertson - mixed media collage

My first piece for this project, Two Boys Remember, will be featured on www.deeplistening.org during February.

The Invasion Continues

If a picture is worth a thousand words then this series of photos from artist and independent curator, Angela Ferrara of Brazil is priceless.  This is a quick look at the installation of the Troyart exhibition which opened on January 11th in Sao Paulo.   My Dharma Girl robot is on display until January 30th.   Looks like she is in good company.
 

 Dharma Girl _ © 2010 William Evertson

Mixed media assemblage with gold-leaf.

The robots have completed their take over of MuBE (Museu Brasileiro da'Escultura.  Many thanks to Angela Ferrara, the staff at MuBE and Troyart to make this exhibit a success.  (photos: Angela Ferrara)

Robots Invade Brazil

_Dharma Girl is part of Troyart at MuBE - Opening Friday January 14th, 2011_

The Museu Brasileiro daEscultura (MuBE) in Sao Paulo, Brazil hosts an international exhibit of artist modified robots from the Troyart collection of toys.

My piece for this show is based on the original toy provided by Troyart and then customized with collage elements from mandalas, gold leaf and original art.


Building "Dharma Girl" a project for the Troyart International Exhibition at Museu Brasileiro daEscultura (MuBE) of Brasil. They will be exhibited early in 2011.


First look at the toy robot received from Museu Brasileiro daEscultura (MuBE) of Brasil. Robots have been sent to artists for assembly and a personal touch. They will be exhibited early in 2011.

Troyart runs through January 30th, 2011

Seeking Kali Makes a Book

_The Kali Ray Flip Book _ ©Evertson_Vanden Eynde_Shulman 2011_

 Altered books and artist books are the subject of an Italian exhibition in the Centrale Libreria Costaneiro Galleria Piazza Giorgione, Castelfranco Veneto, (Treviso) Italy.

This video is a Seeking Kali artist book collaboration. Ria Vanden Eynde, Susan Shulman and myself worked via Skype, Facebook and email in the preparation of the Kali Ray Flip book for exhibition at Omaggio Ray Johnson, Trevsio, Italy during April of 2011. The Italian Un Libro Sulla Morte is curated by Virginia Milici.

Flipping through the book

 This is one of several projects in the works for this collaboration. Ria, Susan and myself are in the final stages of our personal portfolios of Kali related art and our Seeking Kali artist call has been a great success with 89 (and counting) great submissions to the site.  We have extended the deadline until January 15th for inclusion in the book and the DVD documentation. Information concering the artist call can be found HERE.  

Year in Review

_ Exhibits _ 
Highlights of 2010 

JANUARY

Visual AIDS - Postcards from the Edge - ZieherSmith, NYC (paper/mixed media)

OX and O's performance at Mobius  Works in Progress (Audience participation piece with Tic Tac Toe)

FEBRUARY

Accordion Book - The Sketchbook Project - Hardcover Artist Book - Brooklyn Art Library

Crude - Multimedia, copper mesh, metal toys and hubcap - Landfill Art

Mube - Sao Paulo, Brazil  Um Livro Sobre A Morte
digital collage

MARCH

Viewing area for Thorns in the Garden - MOBIUS  The Alternative Experimental Flower Show

Intermedia - video loop with various props

Green Seen - Mail art exhibit at Wendell Free Library (digital collage)

APRIL

At University of Omaha, Nebraska

MAY

Visitors view the Surrealestate cards - Part of ArtRages, Boston - MOBIUS

 JUNE

My image contained in the data recorder for Space Shuttle launch STS-133_
_Fluxface in Space

_BP logo ©evertson 2010 (for Greenpeace's Behind the Logo)_

©evertson_contribution to Abalcabal #1_"Introductions"

_©evertson_contribution to Abalcabal #2_"Codes"_

_©evertson_New work for Abalcabal issue #3_"Holding Out"_

AUGUST

OX and O boxs at East Hampton Public Library

The Launch of Our Seeking Kali Blog and Artist Call    Ongoing collaboration with Susan Shulman and Ria Vanden Eynde

SEPTEMBER

My merchandise for the Mobius Prostitution of Art Exhibit

Red Sea Ducks for UR Toy Story at ARTpool Gallery, St. Petersburg, FL (digital collage)

Digital collage for ABAD at Belknap Mill, New Hampshire

Digital collage (still from performance) for ABAD at CW Post SAL Gallery

Mixed Media for ABAD at Fluxmuseum

OCTOBER

Analogue Narratives - Collaborative blog launch - On-going accounts of the attempt to create an ending for the unfinished René Daumal novel Mount Analogue

NOVEMBER

Kali Yuga, a Shadow Production by William Evertson for Seeking Kali premiered at the opening of the Ray Johnson/A Book About Death exhibition on Nov. 3rd, 2010. Hosted by the SAL Gallery, CW Post campus of Long Island University. Music by Larry Cohen.

DECEMBER

Mr. Wicket quilt square at the Maine Discovery Museum, Bangor, Maine

These are the highlights from my studio this past year. It was a wonderful year filled with love, support and encouragement from many people.  Thank you...all who are following and reading.

Dream Rocket over Maine

_Mr. Wicket quilt square_

"I wanted to let you know that your artwork is currently on display at the

Maine Discovery Museum in Bangor, Maine."

Email from Jennifer Marsh, the organizer of the Dream Rocket Project. (12/05/10) Yea!! I made this fabric piece almost a year ago to be part of an international project to cover a Saturn V Rocket with quilt squares.  Jennifer has been at work for a couple years now; accumulating art from groups and individuals in the quest to assemble the 30, 467 square feet needed to cover the 38 story rocket that is on display outside the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville Alabama.

Select panels are on tour through-out the US at fourteen venues.

The Maine Discovery Museum is the largest children's museum in Maine. The Dream Rocket panels are on display through January.

Dharma Girl

_Ready for Mission to Brazil_

An international exhibition of robots is coming to Brazil in January.  The Troyart International Exhibition will feature works gathered from artists around the world. The robots are the work of the Brazilian Company, Troyart which makes the easy to assemble toys that were sent out by the museum this fall.

Artists have been asked to paint, modify and generally remake the robots in their own style.  The exhibit is slowly being assembled online at the Troyart blog in preparation for the exhibit at the Museu Brasileiro daEscultura (MuBE) in Sao Paulo, Brazil beginning in January.

I have made two videos; both featured in the video section of the museum blog that chronicle my work on Dharma Girl; Exhibit #97.  My first video is called Beginning Robotics.

Beginning Robotics - Meeting My Robot

 The second video shows my work on the robot as I make her.  Yes, it is a she robot and she's called Dharma Girl.

Intermediate Robotics - Building Dharma Girl 

Next Step: Pack her for the long trip back to MuBE.  

Many thanks to Angela Ferrara who curates and maintains the exhibition blog, Renata Azevedo of MuBE for direction and Roberto Stelzer of Troyart.

Wrapping Up Ray

_Backstage at Ray Johnson/ABAD Exhibition with Seeking Kali_

1000 pieces of mail art and an extravagant evening of lecture, readings and performance! Curators Joan L. Harrison, LuAnn Palazzo and Constance Sloggatt Wolf added a wonderful chapter to the continuing global explosion of A Book About Death exhibits. Long Island University's SAL Gallery at the CW Post campus hosted an opening reception Nov. 3rd that featured all of the above.

The Seeking Kali group of projects that I helped launch with my fellow collaborators Ria Vanden Eynde of Belgium and Canadian Susan Shulman was well represented at Ray Johnson/A Book About Death.  Artists currently in our on-going artist call were represented via a video presentation of their work as well as a loop on a monitor that played throughout the evenings opening activities.  Many of these artists found their way to Seeking Kali as a result of their past association with ABAD exhibits.
One of my highlights was presenting the Shadow Theater that I developed around the subject of Kali.

I've put together a video that compresses some of these highlights into a six minute tour of the opening.  This is just a bit of the festival atmosphere that the evening presented.


Ray Johnson/A Book About Death Opening from William Evertson on Vimeo.

There are more exhibition highlights as well as a complete archive of the work submitted on the Ray Johnson/ABAD blog.

There is more information about past and future A Book About Death opportunities on the the ABAD archive site. 

Matthew Rose, creator of the A Book About Death that premiered at Emily Harvey Gallery in NYC mentioned "Several new shows are being planned; for Italy, London, Paris, Germany, Arizona and China (a real possibility) and I hope a major museum in Tokyo."

The Italy exhibit is being planned by Virginia Milici, a long time follower of this blog.

Shadow Performance at CW Post

The premier of the Kali Shadow Theater was Nov.3rd at the SAL Gallery, CW Post campus of Long Island University. The opening reception of the Ray Johnson/ A Book About Death exhibition featured a variety of readings, performance and video.