Artists For Puerto Rico

I'm taking over the instagram account of Artists For Puerto Rico  this week, the 6 month anniversary of Hurricane Maria. I'll be posting some studio work. Follow along @artistsforpuertorico and if you're looking for a way to help, consider purchasing some art - proceeds go to Unidos Por Puerto Rico to aid in their relief efforts. 

I Can See For Miles at Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne

 

23.03.2018—06.05.2018

MAGALI DUZANT, CLARE WEEKS, HARRY CULY, ELLA CONDON, JULIA ROCHFORD, ELLEN DAHL, REBECCA NAJDOWSKI AND AARON CLARINGBOLD. CURATED BY TALIA SMITH

I CAN SEE FOR MILES

To long is to yearn for something or someone, to desire the impractical or impossible. It is to stare out at the yawning distance and in doing so discover some kind of beauty in the quiet moments that meet us there.

In Rebecca Solnit’s Field guide to getting Lost, she uses the faded blue distance on the horizon line as an elegy for this kind of yearning. Solnit describes how the colour blue of that distance between you and the horizon represents an emotion, a kind of solitude and desire for what was and what could be.

I can see for miles presents the work of artists from Australia, New Zealand and New York whose practices explore the language of distance - both physical and emotional.

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magaliduzant.com
clareweeks.com.au
harryculy.net
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ellendahlphotographer.com
rebeccanajdowski.com

Image: Harry Culy Untitled Seascape #45 (pastel dusk) 2015, The Gap, Vaucluse, Sydney, Australia.

There Is No Threat // Pop Up Exhibition 3.24.18

There Is No Threat curated by Ashley Middleton opens March 24th in Tribeca. I'll be running a version of Live Streaming Sunset work !  Press Release here

Non-Fiction Reading Series / 3.5.18

March 5th I'll be reading from Light Blue Desire at Elyssa Goodman's Miss Manhattan Non-Fiction Reading Series at Niagara Bar at 7:45 alongside a roster of deep talent  ( come - it's free! )

Light Blue Desire : A Manual For The Color Blue

Available at Printed Matter and Conveyor Editions

Once In A Blue Moon Book Launch is an Artnet Editors' Pick!

Editors' Pick for this week, see here

Thursday, February 1

8. “Once in a Blue Moon” at Printed Matter, Inc.
A book launch and reading celebrating the release of Magali Duzant’s Light Blue Desire: A Manual to the Color Blue, aptly taking place on the evening of the astronomical phenomenon of a blue moon. The book is an investigation into the connection between language and form, specifically the color blue and how it functions as a metaphor and an idiom in the broad cultural landscape.

Location: Printed Matter, Inc., 231 11th Avenue
Price: Free
Time: Book launch & reading: 6 p.m.–8 p.m.

—Caroline Goldstein

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/editors-picks-january-29-1201628

Once In A Blue Moon / Book Launch for Light Blue Desire at Printed Matter Feb 1

Feb 1, 2018 6 - 8 PM Printed Matter 231 11th Ave New York, NY 10001

Join us for the launch of Light Blue Desire: A Manual to the Color Blue by Magali Duzant published by Conveyor Editions. The evening—which fittingly coincides with a very rare blue moon*—will include a two-channel video of the moon filmed during this rare astronomical event. In addition, Duzant will give a reading from her recent publications Light Blue Desireand I Looked & Looked, which both explore our relationship to language, color, and the night sky.

Light Blue Desire (2018) investigates the power, failure, and fluidity of language. The project, in its current incarnation as an artist book, lyrically maps the amorphous definition and meaning of the word blue across languages. The collection of idioms reveals a compendium of contradictions; concepts around a color that is both high and low, peaceful and pornographic, melancholic and manipulative, and consistently voted the world’s favorite color. How and why does blue seep into our speech, color our thoughts, lap into our languages?

Teaching Artist Residency // Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art

Spent the second week of January working with Peekskill High School students as a Teaching Artist in Residence with the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art.

QCA New Work Grant for 2018

I have been awarded a 2018 New Work Grant by the Queens Council on the Arts through the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs. The grant will provide funding to produce a new artist book, entitled And She Says Don't Give Up : A Psychic's Subway Guide. The book is both a visual archive of flyers found on the NYC subway system as well as a practical guide to the city's transit system featuring an annotated subway map alongside an exploration of the tropes found in neo-spiritual advertising.

Artists for Puerto Rico

A box set of I Looked & Looked ( books and 2 metallic shimmer prints ) is available with all proceeds going directly to relief efforts in Puerto Rico. Here

Flux Factory Benefit Auction

Donated a cyanotype projector piece to Flux Factory's Benefit Auction, up on Paddle 8 until December 4th. https://paddle8.com/work/magali-duzant/150137-atlantic/

Artist Talk

Saturday October 28th 4pm, I'll be speaking at Stand in Bay Ridge ( 414 78th St ) about my work on view in the group show, Reconceived Notions, in particular my book about the moon, I Looked & Looked.

One if By Night

Sept 10th is the ride for One If By Night

A long distance relationship ( III ) by Talia Smith, 2016-17