KARIN WEINER: January 2009

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Stellar Concrete House!!

This is a Dave Sellars creation up in the hills beyond the hamlet of Warren VT! Made entirely out of pured concrete! Absolutely beautiful if you ask me and just about ready for habitation...Oh how I wish...

BIG PIG ROAST PART 2!!

Though not as well attended as the Hair of the Dog/ Year of the Pig Party back in 2006...
The pig rocked the house and was as juicy and delicious as can be!! Raised right here on Spry Farm

Picking Wild Cranberries Down At The Bog

A bunch of old friends were down for the Pig Roast Holiday Party!! So we put them to work and we all picked succulent little red berries off of the frozen vines along the shores of the beaver pond. Then we decided to make a cranberry infused vodka!! YUM

The Story Of Camp Meade

For those who might be curious about what the heck Camp Meade is, here's the story...

I'm presently renting a studio at an historic WPA camp. It was build back in the New Deal Era when men were given employment by the federal government on public works projects around the country in order to get the ecomomy going again after the Great Depression. The camp was where the workers lived while constructing bridges and dams around the state of Vermont. For many years after the WPA was disbanded, the camp was run as a restaurant with rental cabins around a pool. It catered to biker groups, large families looking for a place to have reunions, and many of the teachers from the local high school who gathered at the diner for breakfast before home room. I can't say much for what the food was like but the owners had a unique collection of antique army junk, like planes and tanks and stuff. Humorously enough some of these artifacts are still there on the green outside my studio door. Most recently the property was purchased by a local couple and is being built out as an artisnal bakery and cafe and hopefully a cluster of artist spaces like mine.

KARIN WEINER BIO

1971 Born in Ridgewood, New Jersey
Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York and Warren, VT

EDUCATION
2003 MFA, Hunter College, New York
2002 Frank Mohr Institute, Groningen, Netherlands
1995 BFA, UVM, Burlington, VT

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007
CLEAR CUT, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Karin Weiner, curated by Kerri Hurtado, 101 California, San Francisco
So Many Daunting New Complexities, Sixspace, Los Angeles
2006
The Great View, ZieherSmith @ Art Rock, Rockefeller Center, New York
2005
Feels Like Home, Lisa Boyle Gallery, Chicago
Frontiera, ZieherSmith, New York
Forecast & Conditions, two-person show, Sixspace, Los Angeles
2004
Shades of White, ZieherSmith, New York
2000
The Amateur Ornithologist, Helen Day Museum of Art, Stowe, Vermont
1999
Fig. 30 X 500, Firehouse Gallery, Burlington, Vermont
Case Studies, Red Mill Gallery, Johnson, Vermont

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007

Elizabeth Leach @ Aqua Wynwood Art Fair, Miami FL

Sixspace @ Aqua Art Fair, Miami FL

Art Under Glass Macy's Windows NYC
Come Undone, curated by Amy Ross, Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston
2006
A Century of Collage, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Collage Party, ZieherSmith, New York
The New Collage, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York
FAUNA://hybrid, curated by Lioba Reddeker, Charim Galerie, Vienna, Austria
Rare Specimen: The Natural History Museum Show, curated by Clare Weiss, The Arsenal Gallery in Central Park, New York
Cutting, Miller Block Gallery, Boston
2005
Petits formats ou miniatures, Gallerie Quang, Paris
Breaking Ground, The Horticultural Society, New York
2004
Works on Paper, Lisa Boyle Gallery, Chicago
I Want To Take You Higher, McKenzie Fine Art, New York
Happy Medium, curated by Meghan Dailey, Clementine Gallery, New York
Becoming Giants, Columbia University, New York
2003
Objects for Joseph Cornell, ZieherSmith, New York

Hunter College MFA Thesis Exhibtion
Rectangle 1: Debut, Rectangle Gallery, Miami
Underlined, Lowenstein Gallery, Fordham University, New York
Postcard From the Volcano, Hotel Chelsea, New York
Totems, Shrines and Fetishes; Contemporary Relics of the Mind, Main Street Museum, Hartford, Vermont

BIBLIOGRAPHY
John Motley, “Karin Weiner: Clear Cut,” The Portland Mercury, October 18, 2007
Steven Stern, "Collage Party," Frieze 101, September 2006
"Rare Specimen," The New Yorker, April 3, 2005
Cate McQuaid, "Marks of Distinction," The Boston Globe, February 9, 2006
"Vu pour vous," Beaux Arts 256 (October 2005), image
Martha Schwendener, "Karin Weiner," The New Yorker, June 25, 2005
Maureen Mullarkey, "Karin Weiner: Frontiera," The New York Sun, July 14, 2005
Judith Benhamou-Huet, "Quatre galleries dans le vent, Les Echos, July 8, 2005
Ken Johnson, "Art Listins: Karin Weiner," The New York Times, June 3, 2005br> Grace Glueck, I Want to Take You Higher, The New York Times, June 25, 2004
Brian Sholis, Happy Medium, Artforum.com, March 2004

AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2005 Jentel Artist Residency, Banner, Wyoming
2004 UCross Artist Residency, UCross, Wyoming
1997-99 Vermont Studio Center Staff Artist
1996 Vermont Studio Center Full Fellowship
1995 Frank Hewitt Memorial Scholarship, UVM, Burlington

KARIN WEINER

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Stellar Concrete House!!

BIG PIG ROAST PART 2!!

Picking Wild Cranberries Down At The Bog

The War Plane

The Story Of Camp Meade

5 and Dime

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