Rustbelt Arts's author K.A. Letts can't resist 'the urge to compare and contrast' works by Alter and Ziejka in the show at Firecat.

By Stanislav Grezdo, Robin Dluzen, Walter Hoydysh PhD
Catalog of the exhibition at The Ukrainian Institute of America in New York that originated at Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art in Chicago. On April 26, 1986, the Chornobyl nuclear disaster occurred in Pripyat, Ukraine. This was the worst nuclear power plant catastrophe in history resulting in tremendous casualties and long term contamination effects that are still reverberating to this day.

Unfolding Matter: An Exhibition at Hubbard Street Lofts
Landscape is both a physical space and an aesthetic construction. It is the land that surrounds us and upon which we live, and it is the organization of that exterior space within a genre of the visual arts. Any artist whose practice connects with land, earth, or terrain, is dealing from the beginning with that twin focus, looking both outwards to the world and then back into the interior world. Read more...

Extreme Fibers: Textile Icons and the New Edge is the second collaboration between the Muskegon Museum of Art and guest curator Geary Jones. In our first show, Innovators and Legends (2012-2015), the focus was on teachers and mentors, revealing how each new generation expanded upon the innovations they inherited. This time, Geary envisioned a grander approach: to invite a group of major artists from around the world and then enhance that core show with a jury-selected body of work. Read more...

Anne Farley Gaines, the chief curator of the exhibit, speaking at the reception at the Carthage College in Kenosha, Wisconsin on February 14, 2013. Short introduction by the gallery director Diane Levesque.

In honor of the 80th anniversary of the Holodomor-Famine-Genocide of 1932-1933 in Ukraine, the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art in Chicago is organizing the exhibition “Artists Respond to Genocide”. Read more...
UIMA Chicago, IL October 4, 2013 - December 1, 2013

...Launched in 1996, this premier, international exhibition highlights the best of international contemporary hand woven tapestry...

Just a part of Rebecca Mezoff's cowering of ATB9 at Fort Wayne.
For full coverage of the exhibition, search on her blog.

Clip from Art China TV from opening of exhibition in Nantong, November 8th.

Venue 1
October 19 – December 16, 2012
The Dairy Barn Arts Center
8000 Dairy Lane
Athens, OH 45701-9393
www.dairybarn.org

Venue 2
January 12 – February 23, 2013
Fort Wayne Museum of Art
311 East Main Street
Fort Wayne, IN 46802
(260) 422-6467
http://www.fwmoa.org/

... As a group, the work is thought-provoking with each artist using their own unique visual language to address modern day issues such as gender, politics, and the environment...
November 28, 2011 through January 28, 2012
104 Ann Street, Newburgh, NY 12550

... The classic four elements refer to ancient beliefs based on natural observation of the world around us and the components that make up that world or network...
October 1-October 30, 2011

... unique metaphorical portraits of his/her animal spirit, or that of another person, place, thing, or even society as a whole...
March 29 - May 19, 2011
H. F. Johnson Gallery of Art
Carthage College
Kenosha, Wisconsin

October 2nd - November 14th 2009
Tom Robinson Studio Gallery
2416 W. North Avenue,
Chicago, IL 60647