Michael Krueger

Drop City Film Screening followed by Panel Discussion Nov. 12 (7:00 – 9:00PM)

This documentary tells the story of Drop City, the Colorado artists’ commune formed in 1965, which became an icon for a global counterculture. Directed by Joan Grossman; animations by Michael Krueger. 2012, 82 minutes.

A discussion follows with the film’s director Joan Grossman, the animator Michael Krueger, and Drop City cofounder Gene Bernofsky.

http://www.walkerart.org/calendar/2015/screeningdiscussion-drop-city

Panel Members:

Artist and filmmaker Gene Bernofsky is one of the founding members of Drop City, one of the first countercultural communes in the United States. Taking inspiration from R. Buckminster Fuller’s geodesic domes, the group began building their own colorful, hand-hewn versions out of scavenged wood, salvaged metal car tops, and other detritus, which they “dropped” across a seven-acre plot of land they purchased near Trinidad, Colorado. Bernofsky’s artworks and papers are archived at the University of Kansas Research Library in Lawrence, and his work is included in the exhibition Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia.

Brooklyn-based Joan Grossman is an independent media artist, producer, and scholar. Working across documentary and experimental nonfiction, she has made projects for cinema, television, museums, and the web. Her work has been screened and exhibited in more than 20 countries and has won numerous awards, with projects in Africa, China, Russia, and throughout Europe.

Grounded firmly in drawing, Michael Krueger works in a variety of media, including painting, drawing, printmaking, animation, and ceramics. His work reflects a deep interest in American history, contemporary American culture, art history, the human experience, and personal memoir.

Part of Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia

Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston, MA

On View: October 22 – December 31, 2015

Opening Reception: Friday, November 6, 2015, 5:30 – 8 PM

Meditation is Not What You Think marks an unabashed departure for Krueger both in terms of the form and content of his work. The exhibition features eleven new paintings that deal with the material and immaterial, images and non-images, each seeking moments of mediation. Krueger finds covert inspiration, form, humor and sensation in the struggle to unburden the mind, and clarity in the images that well up as one tries to meditate everything away. He embraces images that flicker off and on, repeat and refresh unfiltered.

http://stevenzevitasgallery.com/michael-krueger-meditation

“The charge for artists like me is to embed an idea in material. And in doing so create something that exists beyond language, in a non-linear, paradoxical realm where several things can be true at the same time. To create a work of art that can be seen with the eyes and the mind and transcends the material origins. In this way art is alchemical, it is not direct or tangible but rather mystical, prophetic and psychic.” – Michael Krueger

Reception
Friday, October 2, 6 – 8 pm

Exhibition: October 2 – November 7, 2015

Only By Night is a meditation on the solitary experience of the world at night. Inspired by an Edgar Allen Poe poem, which alludes to the constrictions of nighttime dreaming. Only By Night features works whose images come alive after dark falls, when the world quiets, and we find ourselves with a moment to contemplate the day that came before and the life that looms ahead. The pause for reflection vibrates from a still room, to a quiet neighborhood, to the hushed landscape, to the magnitude of the entire universe.

Opening Reception: Friday, July 24 (5-9)

7/24/2015 – 9/12/2015

​Featured artists include Ricky Allman, Corey Antis, Anthony Baab, Miki Baird, Laura Berman, Robert Bingaman, James Brinsfield, Shenequa Brooks, Keith F. Davis, Deanna Dikeman, David Ford, Nate Fors, Archie Scott Gobber, Corey Goering, Peregrine Honig, Matthew Kluber, Michael Krueger, Alex Kvares, Anne Lindberg, Marcie Miller Gross, Dylan Mortimer, Armin Muhsam, Garry Noland, Danni Parelman, Travis Pratt, Warren Rosser, Eric Sall, Russell Shoemaker, Mike Sinclair, Debra Smith, Davin Watne.

http://hawcontemporary.com/exhibition/you-people

Curated by DUSK Series & Editions,
featuring works on embossed paper by 15 artists.

July 9 – August 16, 2015
Opening Reception: Thursday, July 9, 6-8pm

Press Release:

Gallery Molly Krom is pleased to present Embossed, a group series curated by DUSK Series & Editions, featuring the work of 15 artists. With a firm belief in the collaboration and community building between gallery and artist, Gallery Molly Krom is transformed into an artist run space from July 9th to Aug 16th. Gallery Molly Krom’s programing has a focus on work on paper and this transfer of space represents a continuum in gallery’s aesthetics and beliefs. Both the gallery and Dusk are united by common aesthetic sensibilities and believe in promoting the work of artists with diverse history and exposure.

DUSK Series & Editions is a print studio & gallery, curated and operated by artist Ky Anderson. Embossed started in the DUSK print studio by embossing paper in a consistent pattern. Designed and embossed by Ky Anderson the pattern was intended to complement each artist work while still challenging them, but subtle enough to not dominate the work. Some embraced the pattern, some found it wildly inspiring, some wanted more paper, some ignored the pattern while some repeated it, some struggled and some rejected the surface altogether and pulled out of the show. This series is a result of a group of artists with a knowledge and respect of one another’s work. While there are multiple approaches to the work they’ve allowed themselves to be further connected to one another by engaging in the consistency of the size and texture as their starting point.

Embossed artists include Shane Drinkwater, Brian Edmonds, Sarajo Frieden, Benjamin Gardner, Yifat Gat, J Grabowski, Molly Herman, Michael Krueger, Emily Noelle Lambert, Meg Lipke, Jason Rohlf, Mason Saltarrelli, Ward Schumaker, Vicki Sher and Debra Smith.

Please join us for the opening on July 9th from 6-8 pm. Opening the same night at the gallery next door, Frosch & Portmann, is Cosmicomics curated by Embossed artist Vicki Sher. Save the date and join us for a festive summer evening celebrating the work of many artists and two galleries who support the collaborative spirit of the artist gallery relationship.

http://www.gallerykrom.com/

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http://duskeditions.com/