Riki Moss: The Paper Forest
Installation
March 24th to June 10th, 2012
Winooski Welcome Center & Gallery

Riki Moss’ work establishes a dialogue with the natural world in her on-going installation called The Paper Forest. The collection of sculptures ranges from flora and fauna to masks and flying bunnies. Her work is reminiscent of a mythological view on themes such as evolution, birth, and emotion. She works with over-beaten abaca pulp that is pressed over forms and finally assembled.

The Paper Forest explores the idea of reciprocal perception, a call and response between the viewer and the viewed, between seeing and being seen. Look gently and long at the natural world and it begins to return our gaze. As seen through the gallery windows, the piece reads as a diorama. The viewer is separated from the forest and its flora and fauna. Inside, you join a conversation, enter into dialogue, come to your own conclusions.

Working from a foundation in pottery and encaustic paint, Riki Moss has been creating sculptures from her studio in Grand Isle for the past five years. During 2010, the installation was part of an exhibition held in conjunction with the United Nations Conference on Biodiversity called “On The Planet” as well as shown in two museums for the Holland Paper Biennial. She is co-founder of Studio-Glow.

VISIT THE WINOOSKI WELCOME CENTER

May 16th, 7PM

Location: Winooski Welcome Center

Kasini House is seeking artists to participate in a unique project centered in downtown Winooski. The Winooski Pop-Up Gallery District aims to create an instant gallery district using vacant spaces in downtown Winooski.

Artists interested in learning more about the Winooski Pop-up Gallery District should attend this information meeting.

Check out the CALL TO ARTISTS.

ABOUT THE EVENT

The Winooski Pop-up Gallery District transforms downtown Winooski into a vibrant hub of contemporary art for six weeks in June and July. The event includes art exhibitions; music and other cultural events; activities for children; and showcases the community of Winooski–its shops, restaurants, and history.  The event will kick-off with a grand opening the weekend of June 22nd and continue through August 4th. The galleries will be open Thursday through Saturday from Noon to 6PM and Sundays from 10AM to 4PM. The Winooski Pop-up Gallery District is produced by Kasini House and the Winooski Welcome Center.

2012 vs 2011

This year’s Pop-Up Gallery District will operate differently from last year. Artists will not be required to staff galleries which, in 2012, will be staffed by volunteers. Artists are encouraged to volunteer, but it is not required. The Falls and Stoplight Galleries will exhibit large art, installation work, and curated exhibitions. Pop-up Pottery will become the Pop-up Artist Studios and become a working artist studio for artists who want to occupy the galleries and make art at the location. Artists may exhibit their work in the space as they see fit. What were the Top and Welcome Galleries have been combined and are now the Winooski Welcome Center & Gallery. Ric Kasini Kadour is curating “Hello from Vermont”, a diverse selection of art by contemporary Vermont artists, that will be exhibited in the space.

Kasini House & the Winooski Welcome Center present the
1st Annual Vermont Small Press & Comic Fair.

FREE

WHEN

Saturday, March 24th, 2012, 11AM-7PM.

RSVP on FACEBOOK

WHO

CLICK HERE…to see a list of exhibitors

WHERE

Winooski Welcome Center & Gallery in Downtown Winooski
CLICK HERE…for information about location & parking

Kasini House is organizing a Vermont Small Press & Comic Fair that will take place at the Winooski Welcome Center & Gallery in Downtown Winooski on Saturday, March 24th, 2012, 11AM-7PM.

This first-ever annual Vermont Small Press & Comic Fair is a celebration of alternative publishing in Vermont. The fair is open to DIY ‘zine makers, illustrators, comic artists, book artists, graphic novelists, independent publishers of every type.

The fair is organized using the highly successful model of Montreal’s Expozine. Since 2002, Expozine has introduced thousands of people each year to alternative publishing. Their annual event, which takes place the last weekend of November in Montreal, helps “the public discover the multitude of local publications that fall outside the mainstream. It’s also become a place where the small press community and local writers and artists make new connections and plan future collaborations. The event attracts thousands of visitors eager to purchase material they might not find elsewhere.” In using this model, organizers of the Vermont Small Press & Comic Fair hope to create similar enthusiasm in Vermont’s creative community.

The 2012 event is co-hosted by Gregory C. Giordano aka Flameape. Giordano has been a staple of Vermont’s comic scene for over 20 years. Fresh out of high school, he worked at the first proper comic book store in the state, Earth Prime Comics on Bank Street in Burlington. Through this work, he played in integral role in putting Vermont on the radar of nationally-recognized artists, often bringing them to the state. In the early 2000’s, he published mini-comics featuring experimental, comic narratives and explored graphic-inspired video animation. He is a regular participant in the 24-hour Comics Challenge, where participants create 24-page comic books in 24 hours. He continues to work as an illustrator and a fine artist.

The Vermont Small Press & Comic Fair is an opportunity for the general public to meet artists and publishers and to take in the rich and diverse landscape of alternative publishing in and around Vermont. The public will be invited to peruse vendor or attend a talk or listen to a live reading. A complete roster of events will be released closer to the date.

VENDOR INFORMATION
If you are interested in becoming a vendor, click here to go to the Call to Vendors.

ABOUT Winooski Welcome Center & Gallery
Opening in March 2012, Winooski Welcome Center & Gallery will feature a shop, an information center, and a fine art gallery on the circle in Winooski. Learn more at www.winooskiwelcomecenter.com.

ABOUT Kasini House
Kasini House is a dynamic creative enterprise that seeks to make contemporary art and culture work. We produce art events such as First Friday Art Walk in Burlington. Kasini House Books publishes titles on contemporary art and culture. We also publish two periodicals: Art Map Burlington and Vermont Art Guide, the state’s most comprehensive and up-to-date guide to contemporary art. Kasini House Artshop sells art, art products, and books in our online artshop. Kasini House provides a range of consulting, media, and creative services to a variety of clients. Kasini House was incorporated in 2003.

Vermont Art Guide features articles about Vermont contemporary art, artists, and venues; reviews of exhibitions; profiles of artists; and listings for places to see art around the state.

Art Map Burlington, the official publication of First Friday Art Walk, is a monthly publication featuring up-to-date information about exhibitions, independently-written art reviews, features, and venue and artist profiles.

Kasini House is seeking contributors to write art reviews, articles about contemporary art in Burlington and across the state.

Writers are paid.

Interested? Send your resume and a relevant writing sample to info@kasinihouse.com.

Saturday, March 24, 2012
11 AM to 7PM

What is it?

Kasini House is organizing a small press and comic fair that will take place in a large space in Downtown Winooski on Saturday, March 24th, 2012.

The event will showcase small presses, ‘zine makers, comic illustrators, graphic novelists, book artists, and other publishers, writers, and artists.

Public Entry to the event is free.

Location

The fair will take place at the Winooski Welcome Center & Gallery on the right side of the circle in Downtown Winooski. While the address is 25 Winooski Falls Way, the entrance to the center is on Main Street/US2/US7.

Parking

Free on-street parking in downtown Winooski is available for 2 hours. Over a hundred free parking spaces are available in the municipal parking garage which is located in the interior block across from the Champlain Mill. Car access is via Cascade Way; pedestrian access is via East Allen and Main Streets and Cascade and Winooski Falls Way. Take the elevator to Level 3 and exit onto Main Street.

How to be involved?

Reserve a table

A limited number of tables are available. Tables come in 4-foot blocks and cost $25 per 4-feet. (Limit 2 blocks per vendor.) Click here to apply and reserve your spot. Space is available on a first come, first serve basis.

Click HERE to register online.

Interested in:
Hosting a talk, workshop, or reading
Becoming a sponsor
Volunteering

If you are interested in becoming involved in the Vermont Small Press & Comic Fair in some other way, email info@kasinihouse.com.

Zoë Barracano’s artwork is whimsical and fresh. She uses photography, paint, wood, toys and scraps of paper. All this is subject to change.

About Zoë Barracano:
Zoë Barracano was raised in the SoHo of George Maciunas and the Fluxist movement that existed in the 1970?s. She went on to attend the High School of Music and Art but has remained largely self-taught since those formative years.

She specializes in photography and dapples in paintings and mixed-media. She’s held exhibitions in Los Angeles, New York City, Burlington & Montpelier. Her photographs have been published in the Los Angeles Times and the New York Sun.  Her works are in collections worldwide. She also works as a freelance photographer. She currently resides in Burlington with her husband and two daughters.

Zoë is listed in Art Map Burlington’s Artist Database where her other work can be viewed online.

The exhibition is on view October through December 2011 (the work will be taken down temporarily mid-November for maintenance of the space)  at Opportunities Credit Union, 92 North Avenue in Burlington’s Old North End. Zoë is offering a Holiday Season discount for these photographs, which are all priced at $199. To purchase artwork, call 802-264-4839 or CLICK HERE…to send an email to Kasini House.

Autumn Revelry

Patty Sgrecci says about her work, “Animation has always fascinated me. Whether it’s a cartoon, claymation or a marionette dancing the jig, there is something magical about an inanimate object coming to life through movement.  My mobiles are studies in form, balance and motion.  The kinetic drama is accentuated by positive and negative space, light, gravity, and air.

“I love the process of making art, whether it’s carving wood or stitching hand-painted rice papers. I have developed a technique of combining layers of papers to strengthen them yet still maintain their translucency. Wire, acrylic and steel are some of the other elements that get incorporated into my mobiles. My goal is to find the balance point where line and form resolve in a lyrical moving sculpture.”

About Patty Sgrecci:
Patty Sgrecci grew up in New England, receiving a BFA in Fiber Arts from Syracuse University.  It was after taking a summer workshop at Haystack Mountain School of Craft in Maine that she began to focus on kinetic sculptures. They integrate two earlier passions: marionettes and theater. The slowly moving sculptures create their own drama as they turn and spin. She uses an array of mixed media such as carved wood, reed, wire, steel and papier-mâché. Patty maintains a studio at The Granary in Brandon, Vermont In addition to showing in galleries and art fairs, she has also completed three large scale public art commissions in Washington and Idaho, where she once lived.

Patty is listed in Art Map Burlington’s Artist Database where her other work can be viewed online.

The exhibition is on view July through September 2011 at Opportunities Credit Union, 92 North Avenue in Burlington’s Old North End. Prices for these sculptures range from $95 to $695. To purchase artwork, call 802-264-4839 or CLICK HERE…to send an email to Kasini House.

Sculpture by Tom Holmes, one of the twenty-two artists who will install large outdoor works around Stowe, Vermont as part of Exposed.

Kasini House and the Vermont Art Guide is working with the Helen Day Art Center to document and promote the annual outdoor sculpture exhibition, Exposed. Kasini House will publish a book of Exposed artists and Vermontartguide.com will publish profiles of artists.

For the past twenty-years, the Helen Day Art Center has hosted an outdoor public art and sculpture exhibition called Exposed in Stowe, Vermont. The 2011 edition will feature twenty-two sculptors who will install art at various sites throughout the town and eleven additional artists who work in text or performance. The exhibition will take place July 8th to October 8th, 2011.

Kasini House is releasing a full-color, 66-page book that features work by each of the Exposed artists as well as critical writing about the exhibition. The book will be available online, at the Helen Day Art Center, and at various retailers in and around Stowe.

Vermontartguide.com will feature profiles and images of the artists and provide a means of visitors to Exposed to learn more about the artists, plan their visit, comment on the artist’s work, or share information about the event through various social media platforms.

Sculptors featured in this year’s festival include: Ria Blaas; Lynne Bond; Christopher Curtis; Carla Duarte; Matt Harding; Monica Herrera; Tom Holmes; R. Elliott Katz; James Knittle; Lora Lode; Deborah Margo; Chris Miller; Matt Neckers; Darrell Petit; Kate Pond; Torin Porter; Jack Reed; Ellen Rothenberg; Oliver Schemm & Jessica DiClerico; Tyler Vendituoli; Denis Versweyveld; and Bennett Wine.

Other Artists include: Stephanie Beck; Carrick Bell; Molly Davies; Gretchen Farrar & Francisco Roldán; Alisha Laramee; Regina Mamou; Polly Motley; Jeroen Nelemans; Theofanis Nouskas; m. pinchuk; Shannon Schmidt; Julia Shipley.

Kasini House Books is publishing Exposed: Outdoor Sculpture in Stowe, Vermont. The 66-page, full color book features twenty-two artist profiles, photographs of the sculptures, profiles of eleven other artists participating in the project, and critical writing about the exhibition. To order, visit Kasini House Books (price is $24.95).

HELEN DAY ART CENTER

The Helen Day Art Center is a member-supported, community arts and education non-profit organization in the village of Stowe, Vermont, whose mission is to enhance the human experience through the visual arts. Helen Day Art Center produces major exhibitions featuring internationally and nationally recognized artists and local Vermont artists and artwork. They offer art classes for youth and adults year-round and collaborate with businesses and organizations to bring the arts to the region. They create original special events driven by artists that connect their broad audience of Vermonters and visitors with creativity. Class offerings include everything from figure drawing to video animation, Photoshop to plein aire painting. Helen Day Art Center offers scholarships for classes to ensure that all artists, young and old have access to the visual arts.  Over one thousand students a year are welcome to docent led tours of the exhibitions through school bus scholarships made possible by members, donors and sponsors.  www.helenday.com

EXPOSED

Exposed is a long-standing annual outdoor sculpture exhibition in Stowe, Vermont. Hosted by Helen Day Art Center, Exposed was initiated by two local artists, Chris Curtis and John Matusz, to bring what was Vermont Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition off the lawn of Helen Day Art Center and into the village of Stowe to “expose” the artwork of both emerging and established artists to a greater public. Now in its 20th year, the exhibition aims to continue this tradition while introducing artists who work interactively with community and site. It will showcase sculptural objects and engage the public with a series of parallel events. This pervasive exhibition is grounded in a commitment to bring art to the public and the public to art. Exposed 2011 is co-presented by Stephen Levin and Helen Day Art Center. www.helenday.com/exposed

KASINI HOUSE

Kasini House is a dynamic creative enterprise that seeks to make contemporary art and culture work. We produce art events such as First Friday Art Walk in Burlington, Vermont. Kasini House Books publishes titles on contemporary art and culture. We also publishing three periodicals: Art Map Burlington, Vermont Contemporary Art Annual, and Vermont Art Guide, the state’s most comprehensive and up-to-date guide to contemporary art. Kasini House Artshop sells art, art products, and books in our online artshop. Kasini House provides a range of consulting, media, and creative services to a variety of clients. Kasini House was incorporated in 2003. www.kasinihouse.com

Vermont Art Guide

Vermont Art Guide is a comprehensive guide to Vermont’s contemporary art scene.  The website profiles art venues, public art, and artists in the State of Vermont; announces events and exhibitions; and reports on contemporary art news. Vermont Art Guide is a project of Kasini House. www.vermontartguide.com

Outcast

For Michael Lew-Smith, art is very simple: Art is about Beauty.

Although Michael’s photographs are abstract, they are taken out of a concrete context, namely, the weathered paint that one finds on old, abandoned, misused and forgotten cars, trucks and tractors. In the process of taking these photographs, Michael became fascinated by the intricate designs and textures created by the weathering of paint and by the “inadvertent art” that can be extracted from forgotten junk.

Although these are digital photographs, Michael has “an inexplicable and unjustifiable adherence to portraying reality in the more traditional photographic sense.” Which is to say, he manipulates the images very little in the digital darkroom and that these images are largely accurate representations of the scenes encountered. Michael prints his photographs using an ink-jet process with archival ink and paper.

About Michael Lew-Smith
Michael Lew-Smith is a self-taught photographer and professional human who resides in Hardwick. He has also shown his work at the White Water Gallery in East Hardwick and at the Vermont Photo Space Gallery in Essex Junction.

Michael is listed in Art Map Burlington’s Artist Database where her other work can be viewed online.

The exhibition is on view April through June 2011 at Opportunities Credit Union, 92 North Avenue in Burlington’s Old North End. Prices for these framed prints range from $175 to $225. To purchase artwork, call 802-264-4839 or CLICK HERE…to send an email to Kasini House.

About Opportunities Credit Union

Opportunities shows work by local artists at their branch at 92 North Avenue on the corner of North Street and North Avenue, across from Burlington College. Past artists have included Melvin Harris, Elizabeth Cleary, Gillian Klein, Robert Waldo Brunelle, Jr. and Karen M. Geiger. The branch is open Monday through Thursday from 9AM to 5PM and Friday from 9AM to 6PM. Opportunities Credit Union is Vermont’s only regulated financial institution dedicated to serving the emerging markets of low-wealth individuals. Opportunities brings a full range of financial services to all. We turn hope into opportunity while creating wealth and enriching lives and communities.

About Kasini House

Kasini House is a dynamic creative enterprise that seeks to make contemporary art and culture work. Kasini House Gallery presents work by a range of contemporary artists. They produce art events such as First Friday Art Walk in Burlington, Vermont. Kasini House Books publishes titles on contemporary art and culture.  Kasini House Artshop sells art, art products, and books in our online artshop, at events, and at our gallery in Montreal. Kasini House Printshop operates an on-demand printshop in Montreal that specialize in books, greeting cards, posters, postcards, and other products. Kasini House provides a range of consulting, media, and creative services to a variety of clients.

Hello From Vermont: Contemporary Art from the Green Mountain State

2011 edited by Ric Kasini Kadour and showcasing work from 35 of Vermont’s leading artists.

In this 2011 catalog of Vermont art, Maison Kasini Gallery Director Ric Kasini Kadour presents the work of thirty-five contemporary artists. The work includes painting, sculpture, ceramics, fiber, and installation from some of states’s leading artists:

Anna Ayres | Brian Zeigler | Candy Barr | Carol MacDonald | Ciaran Brennan | Elizabeth Nelson | Eric Tobin | Irene Lederer LaCroix | Jayne Shoup | Kat Clear | Linda Durkee | Lois Eby | Longina Smolinski | Marni McKitrick | Robert Waldo Brunelle, Jr. | Winnie Looby | Alex Costantino | Alisa Dworsky | Anne Cummings | Brian O’Neill | Lynn Rupe | Eve Jacobs-Carnahan | James Vogler | Janet Van Fleet | John Brickels | Linda E. Jones | Nancy H. Taplin | Riki Moss | Sally Linder | Sherri Rigby | Susan Larkin | Tom McGlynn | Wendy James | Will Patlove | Kate Longmaid

The catalog presents the work of nineteen artists exhibited at Galerie Maison Kasini in Montreal, February 9-March 26, 2011 (EXHIBITION DETAILS HERE), as well as work by an additional sixteen artists.  The catalog contains an essay by Ric Kasini Kadour and images and biographical statements about each of the thirty-five artists.

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ABOUT KASINI HOUSE BOOKS

Kasini House Books publishes trade and limited edition artist books, booklets, art catalogs, periodicals, and folios.We are interested in contemporary art and literature.