Chronicles

On February 13th I will be heading to Hawaii to participate in Pow Wow Hawaii 2012:

POW WOW IS A GATHERING OF CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS THAT ENGAGES WITH THE BROADER COMMUNITY IN THE PROCESS AND CREATION OF ART.

From February 13 to 18, 2012, Honolulu will host over thirty artists from around the world. Opening and closing events will be held at Loft in Space, with the production of art being done all over the streets of Kaka’ako. During Pow Wow, the community is encouraged to interact with visiting artists in a creative environment.

I am honored and excited to be participating in this amazing event, with amazing artists, organizers and sponsors.  I will be working, live, on a 300 lb sculpture, which will exist only for the week of Pow Wow.

Here are some pictures from the first 6 months of my new life in NY.  These pictures are in no particular order, and for no particular reason.  Lots of places, people, events, experiences were not documented, or edited out; this city moves fast, and at times wildly.  But mostly life hasn’t change drastically, as I am keeping my nose to the grind stone, and putting in a lot of work in my studio.  The first 6 months have been a lot of fun and very productive I look forward to the next 6 months.  I hope to update the chronicles with pictures, and better images, more frequently, but we will see how that goes.

Life has been very busy and productive here in NY, and I am finally getting around to utilizing the Chronicles feature on the site to let you all know about 2 shows, that I will be participating in, in December.  The first will be a show that I have participated in for the last 6 years: Fresh Produce at Anno Domini gallery in San Jose http://galleryad.com/.  I will be showing several Etchings that I have been working on this past year, it is a very rare showing of some of my 2D work.  Secondly, I will be showing some of my brand new sculptures, created in NY, at the Greenwich House Pottery, in their annual Made In Clay exhibition.

All of the details and information is below.  I hope you can make it out to check out the shows, there is one for each coast, and if you’re in NY  I will see you there.

Hope you are all well.
Best
Derek

The 11th Annual FRESH PRODUCE exhibition features 45 artists from 14 countries!

Artists from around the world have created hundreds of original works of art for this highly anticipated annual exhibition and affordable art sale. The artists were invited based on their unique artistic vision and contribution to urban contemporary arts and culture.

Lina Arias (Columbia), Jason Arnold (USA), Philippe Baudelocque (France), Tyler Bewley (USA), Julie Bilyeu (USA), Christian Breitkreutz (USA), Broken Crow (USA), Lacey Bryant (USA), CAKE (USA), Liza Corbett (USA), Isaac Cordal aka Cement Eclipses (Belgium), DAL (South Africa), Jennifer Davis (USA), Daupo (USA), Mike Egan (USA), Lia Fenix (Brazil), Gilbert1 (France), Rimon Guimarães (Brazil), Hyuro (Argentina), JAZ (Argentina), Rafal Karcz (Poland), Laguna (Spain), Mark Lev (USA), Daniel Jesse Lewis (USA), Limo (France), Limon & Olson (onoffcrew), Jeremiah Maddock (USA), Dale “VN” Marshall (UK), Nuno de Matos (France), Danica Novgorodoff (USA) , Gustavo Ortiz (UK), Daryll Peirce (USA), Motel Seven (South Africa), Zéh Palito (Brazil), Noah Ptolemy (USA), Faring Purth (USA), Ro (France), Skount (Amsterdam), Barron Storey (USA), TIKA (Brazil), Jon Todd (USA), Porous Walker (USA), Dave Warnke (USA), Jake Watling (USA), Derek Weisberg (USA), Yumanzumu (Japan), Zilda (France), Zosen (Spain)

Opening Reception: Friday, December 2, 2011 RSVP
Preview: 7pm / Sale: 8-11pm
Music: tba

GREENWICH HOUSE POTTERY BENEFIT SALE/ MADE IN CLAY

Friday, December 16th: 6-9pm
Saturday, December 17th: 12-9pm
Sunday, December 18th: 12-4pm

Opening Reception:
Friday, December 16th:  6-9pm
($10 suggested donation)

Second Reception:
Saturday, December 17th: 7-9pm
($10 suggested donation)

Three floors of unique handmade pottery and sculpture for sale!

Featured Artists:
Carol Adams, Billy Allen, Mara Altschuler, Rene Barkett, Peter Barnett, Jenny Blumenfield, Nancy Cameron, Stella Chasteen, Will Coggin, Aimee Ehrman, Del Feldman, Charles Freehof, Myrna Goldberg, Suzanne Goodelman, Karen Hagopian, Joan Haslam, Rosemarie Hittmeyer, Rebecca Lepkoff, Alice Mackler, Cara Jean McCarthy, Jane Opper, Ji Park, Brad Parsons, Yael Pearl, Deb Reed, Kathryn Robinson-Millen, Robin Roi, Hope Rovelto, Judy Sager, Eleanor Seewald, Deborah Seidman, Naomi Sheiner, Phyllis Silver, Margie Skaggs, Melissa Stanley, Gaia Starr, Ryan Strobel, Derek Weisberg.

Greenwich House Pottery is a boutique for locally made art. For over 100 years our members have been making and selling art in New York City.

Greenwich House Pottery
16 Jones Street, New York, NY 10014
212.242.4106
greenwichhousepottery.org

Hello All,

Thanks for checking out the new website and all of the new features and new content.  I am very excited about the new website.  It will be an all inclusive platform for my work and the world it and I live in.  Some of the new features are:

1. You can “like” on Facebook any and all images, so please do that and let me know which are your favorite pieces.
2. You can see what work is available for purchasing and where to go about doing that.
3. You can see up to date work made from this year, excluding what is in my studio now.
4. You can see what the world is saying about my work, and see most of the press that I am getting, under the Hoopla section.
5. You can follow me and my life here in the Chronicles section, here, as I attempt to blog-up my life and give you insight into my daily activities.  Now, you all know, or should know, that I make stuff from the primordial material of clay, and am a real earthling , and fussing and fiddling around on this digital box is not my favorite thing to do.  but I will try to hop on here and give you regular updates for you to follow along with.
6. There is a great video interview done by my good friend and good dood Daniel Vigil, if you have 10 minutes to check it out you can get a really good look at me working in my Oakland studio (which I no longer have, sine I am living and working In NY) and talking about my work in an in depth way.

Thank you all for checking out the new site and everything here.  I hope you enjoy all the new content and the interactive qualities.  and thank you all for your continued support!

I hope you are all well! until the next entry!

Peace, Derek