KARIN WEINER: Recent Work!! Still in the Studio

The following shots are of work in progress at the Camp Meade studio... This will all be installed in the gallery in NY for the opening on April 17th. No show title or press release yet but I will post it ASAP along with more pictures as the work develops

Craz y mountain thing with rainbows exploling out of the top... Not unlike the image from the show in Los Angeles titled Planned Community

Just another view of the sculpture this time through the rainbow and catches a glimpse of the beginnings of a rainstorm of blue gods eyes

Now with a base of crystals and blocks... All carved out of foam and then it will get covered with what is called 'scenic dope' in the business... the dope is a homeade version of an aqua resin. Water based so that it doesnt eat away at the foam but then sturdy enough to seal the foam and give it a rigid shell.

Just one more

Barry the faithful assistant (and boyfriend) in the studio at Camp Meade

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

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Recent Work!! Still in the Studio

No comments:

The War Plane

The Story Of Camp Meade

5 and Dime

Related Sites

Blog Archive

Artist and Crafter

Crafty Madness

KARIN WEINER BIO