Hi Everyone: Jessica Meuninck-Ganger and I are trying to raise money for our next collaborative solo exhibition at GALLERY AOP in Johannesburg, South Africa, in January 2013, through crowd-funding site US Artists. Some of this work will also be shown in Milwaukee as part of SGCI next March. Please consider donating even the smallest amount to help us cover [...]
Printing Time Kerikeri, New Zealand Nathaniel Stern at Art at Wharepuke 190 Kerikeri Road, Kerikeri Bay of Islands, Northland 0230 New Zealand 18th November – 8th December 2011 +64 9 407 8933 or info@art-at-wharepuke.co.nz – Printing Time is a suite of 18 performative prints, each an edition of 5. It was produced for a solo exhibition [...]
Current Tendencies II: Artists from Milwaukee Milwaukee, Wisconsin 10 Milwaukee artists at the Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University 13th and Clybourn, Milwaukee, Wisconsin August 24 – December 31, 2011 Opening reception, August 31, 6PM Concert at Church of the Gesu with John Weissrock, September 14, 6PM Panel Discussion with Meuninck-Ganger, Stern and others, October [...]
Giverny of the Midwest Johannesburg, South Africa Nathaniel Stern at GALLERY AOP 44 Stanley Avenue Braamfontein Werf (Milpark), Johannesburg Saturday 30 July – Saturday 13 August 2011 Opening talk by Jeremy Wafer, 30 July 14h00 Artist talks, 4 – 5 August, Joburg and Pretoria Artist walkabout at AOP, 4 August 18h00 For Nathaniel Stern’s ongoing [...]
Made Real London Made Real: Nathaniel Stern and Scott Kildall Furtherfield Gallery (formerly HTTP) Unit A2, Arena Design Centre 71 Ashfield Rd, London N4 1NY Friday 27 May – Saturday 25 June 2011 Private View: Thursday 26 May 2011, 6.30-9pm Networks – social, political, physical and digital – are a defining feature of contemporary life, [...]
Mind the Gap Minnesota Paul Watkins Gallery Winona State University, Minnesota 12 January – 2 February 2011 Artist talk, 14 January 3:30 pm Opening reception, 14 January 4:30 – 6:00pm Free and open to the public Nathaniel Stern’s first solo exhibition in Minnesota, Mind the Gap features his recently redeveloped and award-winning interactive installation, stuttering, [...]
Merry Christmakkah! Happy new year! I skipped a year, so it’s been 2 since I posted my surprisingly popular Tops of 2008: A Different Kind of Year in Review. Here, I go with four different Top 5 lists: The Top 5 people I newly met in 2010, The Top 5 people I’d like to meet [...]
Falling Still Yevgeniya Kaganovich and Nathaniel Stern UWM Art History Gallery curated by Jennifer Johung 2 December – 16 December 2010 opening reception 2 December, 5 – 7 PM the artists will be in attendance at the opening the exhibition has an accompanying booklet with text by the curator Falling Still utilizes 200 cement-cast feathers [...]
Whirlwind visit to Chelsea On Tuesday for a quick tour of great art before the Nurture Art Benefit. Some highlights include: Yoan Capote (Cuba) at Jack Shainman. This show is not open yet, but we got a preview and chatted to Yoan for quite a while about the work. It’s fantastically smart and funny, and [...]
Switch & Signal New Work with Jessica Meuninck-Ganger! It’s a one-of-a-kind charcoal and pastel drawing on paper, permanently mounted to an LCD screen playing machinima video from Second Life. Part of the ongoing Distill Life series, the image tells only part of the story. The earth’s rotation in the video is a time lapse, with [...]
Good friend and great artist Colleen Alborough exhibits a new solo of fantastic work in downtown Joburg, downstairs at the Standard Bank Gallery. I’m sad to miss it (in Wisconsin), but if you’re in town, it’s a must see. This opens alongside a Louis Khehla Maqhubela retrospective, the latter in the upstairs gallery. Opening, Tuesday [...]
Just finished an overhaul of compressionism.net, and uploaded content, including works, press, documentaiton, etc. Look out for upcoming books and shows that feature the new work! In this ongoing series of prints, I strap a desktop scanner, laptop and custom battery pack to my body, and perform images into existence. I might scan in straight, [...]
Wonderful day yesterday, slowly moseying around Chelsea and surrounds from gallery to gallery, afternoon drinks with good friend and great artist Sean Slemon, dinner with brilliant writer/thinker/academic and all-around fabulous lady Rebecca Schneider (and our respective partners – can’t get enough of that Nicole Ridgway, so it’s a good thing I convinced her to spend [...]
Two in Wisconsin, and more! It’s been a busy few months for Nathaniel Stern (me), and there’s more to come. My show with Jessica Meuninck-Ganger at Gallery AOP in Johannesburg has received critical acclaim in the Mail and Guardian and on Rhizome.org (among others), and the exhibition at Greylock Arts (extended for another two weeks [...]
Annette Monnier’s new blog project seeks to let her really focus in on one show she sees every month. She recently reviewed #class, a show in New York City meant to underscore the controversy about a bigger show by the famous Jeff Koons, also in New York City. In her review of the response show, [...]
On Nathaniel Stern & Jessica Meuninck-Ganger’s “Passing Between” at AOP Gallery by Christo Doherty “This past month, Johannesburg’s AOP Gallery, a space devoted to works on paper, hosted the exhibition “Passing Between” which showcased the collaborative output between digital artist Nathaniel Stern and printmaker Jessica Meuninck-Ganger. At the outset, Stern and Meuninck-Ganger approached the collaboration [...]
Profundity and plasticity for the greedy This article by Chris Roper appeared in both the online and print editions of the Mail & Guardian. Also see their online video feature. “… The work is funny, pretty and accessible, but it’s also complicated, surprising, exceedingly well crafted and rewards a long-term relationship. That’s your cue to [...]
Dada South? Exploring Dada legacies in South African art 1960 to the present ‘Dada South?’, curated by Roger van Wyk and Kathryn Smith presents a collision of artistic strategies and forms that reflect the impact of Dada; works conceived and enacted in the spirit of Dada, and which seek to question the conventions, values and [...]
Although not mentioned by name, that’s a Compressionist print of mine framed in the doorway, in this article in the art newspaper: Gallery dedicated to book art opens in Brooklyn Commercial venture shows growing popularity of the medium By Andrew Goldstein | Web only Published online 5 Oct 09 (Art Market) Central Booking’s opening party [...]
I’ve penned a review for the Milwaukee Art Museum’s American Furniture/Googled exhibition, and it’s up on the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel / Mary-Louise Schumacher’s “Art City” site. Teaser: The “American Furniture/Googled” exhibition at the Milwaukee Art Museum through Sunday is a surprisingly interesting show, even if only in its promise. Little did I expect, when going [...]
