One of the most fun ways to get a peek into another person’s life is to experience their city like a local would -- with a homebase in a their space. LifeSwap takes the fun of living how a stranger does one step further. We’ve teamed up with AirBnB to give you a taste of what it’s like to step into someone else’s shoes. We can safely say that this is the best giveaway of any SXSW party around.
Day 4 is about the word on every marketer’s mouth. Everyone’s focusing on it, but it’s not a focused word. What does it mean exactly? Why does it matter? And how do we do it right? Attend small group workshops about mobile ads, mobile responsive site and mobile app development. Learn about the rapid rise of mobile browsing (and what that means to us) in our interactive globe installation. And hear from Ruth McCarthy, Founder of Mobili Media, about how to get caught up -- and then get ahead.
Decorative and fine art is a false dichotomy informed by a systemic misunderstanding that reality should be mundanely visible. Beauty gives us different degrees of reality and this exhibition, “Embellishing the Truth”, curated by Morgan Everhart, shares four artists' convergences of their truths through adornment. The name of this exhibition is purely ironic, because there’s nothing to hide with Claudia Santiso, Jennifer Caviola, Becca Van K, and Mandy Chesney’s work. Each artist openly welcomes the implications their materials and references have. In some cases, there is so little rejection of their mediums that the works are inherently sculptural.
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When something is considered realistic, it’s true to reality and involves a practical view of life. With that in mind, Santiso’s work is considerably the most matter-of-fact in this exhibition, letting paint’s sheen and viscosity run candidly and intuitively. Respectively, Chesney’s iridescence and jewels are celebratory and indulgent in a rebellious way of the possessions that give most beings desirability and advantage. Caviola’s Leaf Grids may be the most widely understood as realistic, as they clearly depict the underlying geometry that shapes how we understand relativity and space. However, Caviola completely subverts that universality through her use of color and gold. Van K explores the personality and agency embedded in evocative materials and boldly lets the viewer decide how they define us.
Becca Van K is a mixed media fiber artist based in New York’s Catskill Mountains. She translates her deepest passions into vibrant colors & pattern combinations with various handcraft and fiber art methods. She has exhibited widely in the Hudson Valley & Capital Regions, and firmly believes in art as a conduit for community support/engagement. She is a 2021 recipient of a NYSCA Decentralization Grant through Greene County Council on the Arts and a 2020 recipient of the NYFA “Keep NYS Creating” Grant. She has recently participated in exhibitions at Columbia College (Columbia, MO), ArtPort Kingston (Kingston, NY), and Collar Works (Troy, NY). Torn between city nightlife and the woods of the Catskills, she’d only leave New York if there were techno clubs in the desert. The happiness of her viewers is at the center of her practice.
Claudia Santiso is a self taught NYC based artist using various mediums to navigate her exploration of imagination and fictional, psychological landscapes perceived through color and choices of material; often using materials pushing painting into alchemy. Her work explores human nature to reimagine the ordinary in accordance to one's desire to connect and transcend the present state. An obsession to get out of, or into oneself; to travel through unknown landscapes of distant lands, real or imagined. In part she hopes to render visuals that can be viewed as realistic spaces as well as emotional nebulas activated by the act of viewing.
Mandy Chesney’s interest in domestic craft and kitsch sensibilities is evident throughout her multidisciplinary practice. In her work, camp and kitsch function as a visual vernacular outside of traditional notions of fine art. Leveraging these “value added” materials in a way that celebrates their assumed queerness and femininity brings an agency that beguiles cultural assumptions.
Jennifer Caviola received her BFA in Painting from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York in 2002 and her MFA from Parsons in New York City in 2007. She has had solo shows in New York City, Brooklyn, and California and has participated in group shows throughout the United States, Europe and the Middle East. She has been featured in publications such as Vogue, Cultured Magazine, The Huffington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Complex Magazine, Papermag, Juxtapoz and High Fructose..
Everhart is a painter, writer, and curator who lives and works in NYC. Everhart’s practice challenges naturalism and ontology through reflection on personal experiences, identity, religion, and art history. Everhart is currently a contributor for A Women's Thing, the curator-in-residence at The Yard City Hall Park, and represented by YCG Fine Art.
