Of Other Places | Kate Harding, Sarah Heinemann, JJ Manford and Kelly McRaven

SARDINE is pleased to present a summer group show titled Of Other Places. The show opens Saturday, June 29 from 6 to 9pm and will be up through July 28.

Whether it’s an imagined psychological space or a physical location, our lives are inherently tied to the notion of place. It plays a key role in the decisions we make, the feelings that arise, and the places we make for ourselves.  While the processes and approaches are very different, the four artists in Of Other Places bend their places into a location for emotion and transcendence. They draw you into their own private worlds, but may also illicit a connection with the universalities within.

Kate Harding is an artist living and working between Los Angeles, New York City and Missouri. Harding is a current degree candidate in the School of Visual Arts’ MFA Art Practice program (2014), and holds a BFA from Otis College (Los Angeles, CA), and an AAS from Fashion Institute of Technology (New York, NY).  Exhibitions and screenings include Echo Park Film Center, Beacon Arts Gallery, Edward Cella Art + Architecture, SeeLine, Track 16 Gallery, Circus Gallery, Los Angeles; East Central College Gallery, Union, MO; The Chelsea Hotel, 2/20 Gallery and Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY.

Sarah Heinemann is a Brooklyn based artist. She was born in Chicago, IL. Sarah attended Smith College and holds a BFA in painting from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She received an Odyssey Travel Grant from SAIC.  Her work has shown at Marwen Alumni Gallery and Open End Space in Chicago, as well as Ace Gallery in New York and Mass MoCA's 28 Holden St. Gallery in North Adams, MA.

JJ Manford is an artist living and working in Brooklyn. He received his undergraduate degree from Cornell University, in 2006, and his MFA from Hunter College in 2013. He has exhibited in Chicago, New York, London, and recently had a solo show, entitled The Brink of Utterance at John Davis Gallery in Hudson, NY.

Kelly McRaven (b 1977, Dayton, OH) received an MFA in Painting in 2005 on fellowship from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, and a BFA in Painting and Art History in 1999 at Ohio University in Athens, OH. She had her first solo show in New York at V&A Gallery. Recent exhibitions include Duck Duck Rabbit: EJ Hauser, Todd Bienvenu and Kelly McRaven, curated by Joy Curtis and Mike Olin, Brooklyn, NY; and Low Epic, curated by Sheryl Oppenheim, New York, NY. Her work has been written about in Modern Painters, TimeOut New York, New York Sun, Fallon and Rosof's Art Blog (theartblog.org) and Philadelphia Weekly.

This Friday, May 31st at 7:30 PM, please join us for an informal artists’ discussion about Maria Calandra’s Pencil in the Studio. It will include a group of the artists featured in the project: Michael Mahalchick, Jess Fuller, Mike Olin, Elisa Lendvay, Lauren Luloff, Christine Heindl and Erik den Breejen. And Maria Calandra! It will be moderated by curator Jon Lutz.

In other news, Maria’s exhibition was covered in the Wall Street Journal and The New York Sun:

Wall Street Journal: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324102604578493261895227262.html

The New York Sun:http://www.nysun.com/arts/inside-the-artists-studio/88308/

Pencil in the Studio by Maria Calandra is a selection of the drawings that have been featured on her blog, also titled Pencil in the Studio. The show coincides with the two-year mark since the blogs’ conception and will be the first time they have been seen in an extensive survey. The exhibition opens Saturday, May 18th from 6 to 9 pm and will be up through late June.

With Pencil in the Studio, Maria Calandra discovers another way to look at the role of the studio in an artist’s development. Featuring the studios of some of the most dynamic emerging and established artists working today, her drawings are focused on being anthropological studies of her contemporaries. She usually spends an entire day with them drawing, observing, talking and writing. Not only does she render their works, supplies, and source materials, but she also hones in on what makes each of them naturally distinctive. Paintings in progress are stacked on paint cans, brushes are scattered about, pets hang out, and detritus piles up. It’s a humble exploration and exoneration of the present and a sweet vision of the studio as a location for the practice of success and failure. 

The artists that she has featured in the series thus far: Andy Cross, Ariel Dill, Chris Martin, Christine Heindl, Chuck Webster, Daniel Heidkamp, EJ Hauser, Elisa Lendvay, Erik den Breejen, Inna Babaeva, Ivin Ballen, Jay Gaskill, Jess Fuller, JJ Manford, Joe Ballweg, Jon Lutz, Joshua Abelow, Jovi Schnell, Joy Curtis, Karla Wozniak, Katherine Bradford, Katherine Newbegin, Kees den Breejen, Kelly McRaven, Keltie Ferris, Lauren Luloff, Liz Ainslie, Matt Jones, Marnet Larson, Michael Berryhill, Michael Mahalchick, Mike Olin, Rob Nadeau, Ron Amstutz, Sarah Mattes, Tamara Gonzales, and Vince Contarino. 

Maria Calandra lives and works in Brooklyn. She is a graduate of the Cornell University MFA program and has exhibited with Norte Maar, Daily Operation, DNA Gallery, Shoot the Lobster and Storefront. 

See Pencil in the Studio online at: pencilinthestudio.blogspot.com.

Please join us for POSITIVITY LIGHTNING ROD SUMMIT, a very special night of musical performance by Ben Seretan.

There will be 2 shows with limited space: @ 7:30 PM and 9:30 PM. PLEASE RSVP! Send a reply email to sardinebk@gmail.com and let us know which performance you would prefer. They are slightly different, but equivalent experiences.

Also please arrive ON TIME for your designated set. We know this isn't how concerts TYPICALLY OPERATE but both of these things will make Saturday extra awesome.

$5 suggested donation.

Ben Seretan is a performing musician living in Brooklyn. He plays the electric guitar, sings, and performs "long music" - warm, improvised clouds of swelling tones that fill a room. His latest recording is called New Song.http://www.benseretan.com/

Here's the Article!

By LIZZIE SIMON | May 19, 2013

SARDINE is pleased to present Pencil in the Studio by Maria Calandra. This exhibition is a selection of the drawings that have been featured on her blog, also titled Pencil in the Studio. The show coincides with the two-year mark since the blogs’ conception and will be the first time they have been seen in an extensive survey. The exhibition opens Saturday, May 18th from 6 to 9 pm and will be up through  late June.

With Pencil in the Studio, Maria Calandra discovers another way to look at the role of the studio in an artist’s development. Featuring the studios of some of the most dynamic emerging and established artists working today, her drawings are focused on being anthropological studies of her contemporaries. She usually spends an entire day with them drawing, observing, talking and writing. Not only does she render their works, supplies, and source materials, but she also hones in on what makes each of them naturally distinctive. Paintings in progress are stacked on paint cans, brushes are scattered about, pets hang out, and detritus piles up. It’s a humble exploration and exoneration of the present and a sweet vision of the studio as a location for the practice of success and failure.

The artists that she has featured in the series thus far: Andy Cross, Ariel Dill, Chris Martin,
Christine Heindl, Chuck Webster, Daniel Heidkamp, EJ Hauser, Elisa Lendvay, Erik den Breejen,
Inna Babaeva, Ivin Ballen, Jay Gaskill, Jess Fuller, JJ Manford, Joe Ballweg, Jon Lutz, Joshua Abelow, Jovi Schnell, Joy Curtis, Karla Wozniak, Katherine Bradford, Katherine Newbegin, Kees den Breejen, Kelly McRaven, Keltie Ferris, Lauren Luloff, Liz Ainslie, Matt Jones, Marnet Larson, Michael Berryhill, Michael Mahalchick, Mike Olin, Rob Nadeau, Ron Amstutz, Sarah Mattes, Tamara Gonzales, and
Vince Contarino.  

Maria Calandra lives and works in Brooklyn. She is a graduate of Cornell University MFA program and has exhibited with Norte Maar, Daily Operation, DNA Gallery, Shoot the Lobster and Storefront.

See Pencil in the Studio online at: pencilinthestudio.blogspot.com.