DISLOCATIONS : GAP Artists Books with FRAG Project Works
Curated by:
Carl Heyward / Akiko Suzuki / Jenny Hynes
On View: Sunday, September 28 through Saturday, November 22
Opening Reception: Sunday, September 28, 1-4pm
GAP // Global Art Project:
An international mixed-media collaborative collective promoting the creative intelligence of the international arts community through exhibitions, material and resource exchanges, residencies and ongoing projects that support artist-generated projects within and outside of the traditional gallery-museum system since 2013. GAP consists of more than 90working artists operating in 20 countries.
Artist books are intimate art galleries, personal and portable, accessible to all, allowing a glimpse into creative possibilities. DISLOCATIONS is the umbrella title of our Artists' Books series. We invite you to participate in this exhibition as we continue the tradition begun in Venice, Italy in 2014 during our first residency involving the creation of collaborative and solo altered and unique books, then continued at ROOM Art Gallery, Mill Valley, Ca in 2015 and furthered through Lafayette Public Library and Diablo Valley College Gallery exhibitions during the Pandemic.
FRAGS:
The fragments, the raw materials that might become elements of mixed-media collages or paintings...torn found papers, billboard-tears, fabric, canvas and throw-aways that are given new life by another; a way to collaborate via the mail and internet as well as in-person...
Mixed-media work derived from the exchange between members of Global Art Project a mixed-media collaborative collective operating in 17 countries with 80 member working artists; relinquishing responsibility or ownership going beyond the original intention of an image or idea broken down into fragments ( frags) resulting in a deconstruction, a re-ordering of the visual universe into new ways of seeing...
Carl Heyward :
Is an artist, writer and curator; an NEA (National Endowment for the Arts) Fellow and grant recipient, former MFA instructor at SF Academy of Art University, arts writer and founder of Global Art Project, a mixed-media collaborative cooperative with a membership in 17 countries. He has exhibited at Room Art Gallery, Mill Valley, The Fourth Wall Gallery in Oakland, CA, artist-in-residence at The Schools of The Sacred Heart at The Flood Mansion, San Francisco, and continues to exhibit internationally: Kranz, Slovenia; Mazatlan, Mexico; Venice, Italy; Senegal, and Ghent, Belgium, in 2017-2020; in 2019 curated GAP no / MIND East Village Art View Gallery NYC; 2020 curated and exhibited in CrossingBorders USA at Jennifer Perlmutter Gallery, Ca; The Fragmented Mind Casa de Cultura de San Lorenzo Madrid, Spain Curator October 2020; Pulchri Gallery in The Netherlands 2020; Gallerie Renee Marie in THE AMERICAN HEART OF WINTER through January 2021 (Benicia, Ca) Santiago, Chile March April 2021 QUARENTENA Galeria Artistas en Pandemica; A BOUNTIFUL MOMENT @Piedmont Center for the Arts Dec 2021; YES! Ostia , Artheka 32 Gallery artists-curator Rome, Italy October 2021; Artist-Curator Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design REIMAGINING THE GLOBAL VILLAGE (GAP works with Nirmal Raja exhibition curator); HARVEST two-person exhibition with Akiko Suzuki @ Jennifer Perlmutter Gallery, Lafayette Ca thru March 26, 2022; STIIIZY Benicia mixed-media works April-May 2022; CONTEMPORARY REVOLUTION Campo-Santo, Ghent Belgium July 2022; DISTANCE & NEARNESS curator CASA DE LA CULTURA , Puerto Madryn Chubut Patagonia , Argentina, Feb 2023; FRAGS & FLARDEN artist-curator for GAP 2023 Sept 9-Oct 29, 2023 Lier, Belgium, Galerij Artisjok; YES! Lecce, Italy May 2023 artist-curator; EARTH & SOUL, Tarrangona, Spain August 2023 5fafinternational; PAPER TRAILS, Village Theater Art Gallery , Danville, Ca August -October 2023; "Plastic Madness/Locura del Plastico" exhibition Cartagena, Colombia Museo Naval de Caribe, Sept. 18 - Oct. 8, 2023 Curated by Glen Rogers Art Mexico and Dory Perdomo / Baupres Gallery Mazatlan Mexico; STRANGE BREW group exhibition ORANGELAND Gallery SF, November 2023; Curator A DUAL NATURE for Jamie Madison and Helen S. Cohen Solo Works 2024; CrossingBorders : WE ARE ALL IMMIGRANTS artist-curator for GLOBAL ART PROJECT, Nine Eighteen Nine Gallery, Charlotte, NC Nov 16, 2024 -Jan 4, 2025. His work resides in collections held by SF-MOMA, NY-MOMA, Yale University Art Library, Franklin Furnace, the National Gallery of Australia, Wellesley Art Library and the Brooklyn Museum. He is associated with Jennifer Perlmutter Gallery, CA; Galerie Sobo Bade, Senegal, East Village Art View Gallery, NYC and Pulchri Studio, The Hague, The Netherlands; Sloan –Miyasato SF Design Center; Michelle Bello Art Consultant; Singulart Platform, France and Area Environments, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Akiko Suzuki b:1960 Osaka Japan
I am a textile and mixed media artist living in the San Francisco bay area, CA, USA. and graduated in Visual Design at Kyoto Art Junior College in 1986, studied photography , video and 3D creation there. I began quilt making in 1990 and currently teach contemporary quilt practice ; am recipient of numerous art quilt prizes and awards in Japan and internationally; am held in private and public collections worldwide . Since 2014 I have participated in Global Art Project produced by my partner Carl Heyward, an international mixed-media collaborative co-operative as founding member and have participated in group exhibitions and workshops as well as collaborative studio settings in Italy, America, Mexico and Senegal. My work expresses the invisible nature of thought, of skin sensation, the poetry of Love and Eros or the presentiments that occur prior to thought . Intuitive works are born from everyday life as are novels. The words borne out of the flood of my imagery beco me poetry and are visualized i n works as abstractions through paint, collage, sewing and fiber works .
Sometimes these intuitive words become the titles of my pieces . I have an affinity for film and video, as the expression of these feelings are transferable across various media.