Stacia Yeapanis: News and Press

Donation to Threewalls Fundraiser

2011-05-19T14:53:00.003-05:00

On Friday, May 2oth, come to the Threewalls Annual Spring Gala and bid on this piece from a new body of work called "Solace Studies." Hope to see you there.

Support the Kickstarter Campaign for 6x6

2011-05-10T10:08:00.005-05:00

What is 6x6?

Beginning on September 8, 2011, the roaming gallery Baang and Burne Contemporary will present 6x6, (six by six) a series of six, back to back, one week only art exhibitions in New York City. 6x6 was created by artists, for artists.

Essentially 6x6, is the art equivalent of a music festival, highlighting a line-up of twelve international artists, plus a host of events and programs for art buyers, artists, and creative entrepreneurs.

Solo Exhibition at Strawdog Theatre

2011-04-23T22:45:00.004-05:00

3829 N. Broadway St., Chicago IL
The Conquest of the South Pole runs April 24th through May 28th
Thursday-Saturday at 8, Sunday at 4
Opening reception for the artist: 6-7pm, April 29th
For tickets to the play, visit www.strawdog.org

Stacia Yeapanis is pleased to announce the exhibition of work from her series of cross-stitched embroideries Everybody Hurts at Strawdog Theatre Company. The exhibition will include new works that have never been exhibited in Chicago, along with work that had it's debut at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in 2009 in the 3-person exhibition MP3 II: Curtis Mann, John Opera, and Stacia Yeapanis.

Everybody Hurts, an ongoing series of embroideries based on television screen captures, deals with the experience of mediated emotion, offering a space for the contemplation and commemoration of human suffering. The exhibition will thematically compliment Strawdog’s production of The Conquest of the South Pole, a play about four unemployed German miners who cope with joblessness by reenacting the historic first expedition to the South Pole in their attic. The characters find comfort and inspiration in each other and in the story they experience through reenactment. Yeapanis’ series explores the same theme of finding solace in narratives, albeit fictional ones, by meticulously reproducing single moments from contemporary television shows by hand.

Strawdog Theatre Company is committed to ensemble acting and an immersive design approach, offering Chicago the premiere storefront theatre experience. The Company develops new work, re-imagines classic plays, explores new fusions of music and theatre, asks provocative questions, and delivers their audience the unexpected.

Strawdog Theatre has limited paid street parking and is easily accessible on public transportation via the train: Red Line Sheridan stop or bus: 36-Broadway, 80-Irving Park and 151-Sheridan routes.

Video Village 2011: New Media Expeditions @ Index Art

2011-03-30T17:57:00.002-05:00

Curated by Noah Collier and Stephanie Szerlip

INDEX ART CENTER is pleased to present “Video Village,” a group exhibition and fundraiser for Friends of African Village Libraries (FAVL), exploring experimental forms of ethnographic travelogue and highlighting new outlets for mental conceptions of foreign space and place.

Presenting video and new media installation works, these artists skirt the constraints of traditional channels of documentation. The works acknowledge the many mediations between physical travel and personal depiction, manipulating the ability of medium to become message, and creating abstract and subjective accounts of the cultural landscapes they have traversed.

Artists include: Alan Resnick, Brenna Murphy, Eva Engelbert, Jon Rafman, Lillian Gerson, Noah Collier, Orland Nutt, Petra Cortright, Simone Bailey and Stacia Yeapanis

April 2nd through April 8th
Reception: Saturday, April 2nd, 7- 11pm
$3 suggested donation
Opening night reception will include one-time-only screenings and performances.
Donations and all contributions will go towards funding video projects in Burkina Faso, West Africa.

SEE OUR WEBSITE FOR DIRECTIONS: http://vvideovillage.tumblr.com

INDEX
585 Broad Street
Newark, NJ 07102
www.indexartcenter.org

Open Crit at the Hyde Park Art Center with Dawoud Bey and Hamza Walker

2011-03-16T07:58:00.007-05:00

March 17th, 6-8pm
I'm happy to have my most recent work critiqued publicly, along with the work of Jaxon Pallas and Lynnette Astaire. Please come and participate. In addition to the regular facilitator, Photographer Dawoud Bey, the guest co-facilitator this session is Hamza Walker, Director of Education and Associate Curator at the Renaissance Society. Please contact Ray Yang at ryang@hydeparkart.org or 773-324-5520 x1002 for more information.

Baang and Burne Contemporary

2010-09-15T09:13:00.002-05:00

I've been invited to be part of an exciting new art venture, run by Charlie Grosso and Kesha Bruce, both artists and, now, directors of Baange and Burne.

Baang & Burne Contemporary was created with the intent of providing an innovative forum for the presentation of contemporary art. Our priority is to present and promote the work of a dynamic and diverse group of artists and to operate as a springboard for artists to take risks in launching new projects and introducing their work to international audiences.

Curating Super/Prime: PAVILION

2010-06-03T12:35:00.003-05:00

Naomi Gassel writes about curating Super/Prime: PAVILION, which is on view in LA. Plus there is a slideshow of images from the exhibition. Wish I could have been there.

Super-Prime:Pavillion

2010-05-20T11:36:00.002-05:00

I'm showing my piece 90210 House for the first time in Los Angeles as part of the Super/Prime: Pavillion, which is an annex to Volume at AT1 Projects.

"Super/Prime is an amorphous project of shifting sites with the aim of providing increased visibility to young artists and next level propaganda. Exhibitions take place in otherwise un- occupied spaces creating a platform upon which we may construct an alternative institution to support the production and dissemination of art.

Super/Prime brings their unique brand of pop-up art show to Los Angeles in the form of the Super/Prime: Pavilion, a site-specific, independently curated annex to VOLUME at AT1 Projects. Working off the flexible and broad idea of ERSATZ, the Pavilion furnishes its temporary home with work that confronts value & replacement, markets & ecotone. The Super/Prime: Pavilion is a squatter; home is where you hang your picture.

Installed haunted-house style in a three-story condominium in Atwater, Los Angeles, the show leads the viewers through displaced, illusive, and kitsch experiences mediated by an array of often-times badly-chosen substrates. The work exists in an in-between state, a holding pattern for ideas external to and very specifically about the substitution of material. By means of appropriation, mechanical reproduction, and transformation: This is our ersatz show."
(from the Super/Prime website)

the Super/Prime PAVILION: The Cloacina Project (Molly Danielsson and Mathew Lippincott), Harry Gassel, Brendan Griffiths & Mylinh Nguyen, Riley Hooker, Gary Kachadourian, Brian Randolph, Steven Sarkozy, and Stacia Yeapanis.

the Super/Prime: Pavilion
part of VOLUME at AT1 Projects
3229 Casitas Avenue, Los Angeles CA 90039

21 May—6 June 2010, Opening & Performances: Friday, 21 May, 6—10 PM (free)
Regular gallery hours: Wed—Sun, 12—6 PM

2010-04-28T08:28:00.003-05:00

I'm happy to have some work from my project My Life as a Sim in the SUGs booth (#8118) at Next this year. SUGs is the Student Union Gallery at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and they have curated a show of alumni work, also featuring work by Jeff Carter, Elise Rasmussen and Rob Davis.

Performance Anxiety screens tonight

2010-04-07T09:34:00.003-05:00

After the MFA show at Gallery 400 (8pm) tonight, come see a screening of Performance Anxiety, curated by Alicia Eler and Jefferson Godard.

In navigating complicated understandings of gender, race, class, sexuality, or existence in on- and off-line spaces, individuals accept and internalize cultural rules or ideologies and pass; reject them, identifying such performances as a form of cultural oppression; or even scramble and combine rules and codes in personalized constructions. Performance Anxiety (run time: approximately 50 minutes) features the work of Rochelle Feinstein, Kate Gilmore, James Murray, Jeroen Nelemans, Greg Stimac and Stacia Yeapanis.

Press for Losing Yourself

2010-03-17T15:56:00.003-05:00

"Defining Women: Group show one element in a broader cultural discussion about gender"
by Alex Ebstein

MARYLAND ART PLACE INTERNET COPYRIGHT WORKSHOP

2010-03-04T11:24:00.002-06:00

I'm really exciting to be traveling to Baltimore this weekend. I'll be giving an artist's lecture, which focuses on fair use issues, as part of a Copyright Workshop presented by Maryland Art Place and Maryland Lawyers for the Arts. Attorney Cynthia Blake Sanders will also be presenting and artists are invited to bring their appropriation work to receive comments.

Free and Open to the Public
Space Limited
Registration Required
map.submissions@gmail.com

Review of Losing Yourself

2010-02-25T10:52:00.002-06:00

Here's a nice review of Losing Yourself in the 21st Century, written by Naomi Gassel at Radar Redux.

Beyond Pixeltorialism: Digital Imaging in the 21st Century

2010-02-19T14:09:00.004-06:00

I have 3 pieces in this show opening next week. Curated by Rolland Miller, this group photography exhibition explores how digital photography is breaking new ground both aesthetically and technically. It features the varied works of ten artists from the Chicago area and outside Illinois.

Robert T. Wright Gallery
College of Lake County
19351 Washington St.
Grayslake, IL
Gallery Talk: Feb. 26th, 6:15- 7pm
Opening Reception: Feb. 26th, 7-9pm

2010-02-01T10:16:00.002-06:00

Losing Yourself in the 21st Century has traveled to Maryland Art Place in Baltimore. It opens on Feb. 4th and, besides me (!), features artists Katherine Behar, Amber Boardman, Milana Braslavsky, Estherka Projekt, Susan Lee-Chun, Noelle Mason, Shana Moulton, Ali Prosch, Renetta Sitoy, Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum, Amber Hawk Swanson, and Saya Woolfalk.

Fuzzy Logic

2010-01-27T11:00:00.002-06:00

My two newest embroideries will be in a show called Fuzzy Logic, opening on Feb. 5th at Des Lee Gallery in St. Louis, Missouri.

Fuzzy Logic is curated by Audrey Mast and features artists Gina T. Alvarez (St. Louis), Mike Andrews (Chicago), Amanda Browder (New York), Rob Conger (New York), Shelby Donnelly (Philadelphia), Carson Fox (New York), Orly Genger (New York), Laura Splan (New York) and Stacia Yeapanis (Chicago). Join us at the Des Lee Gallery for the opening reception Friday, February 5, 2010 from 6-9 pm. The exhibition runs through March 13, 2010.

The Des Lee Gallery is located at 1627 Washington Ave., St. Louis, Missouri 63103. 314.621.8735. Gallery hours are Wednesday, Friday and Saturday from 1 until 6.

First Annual World's Fair Use Day

2010-01-06T08:10:00.009-06:00

I hate it when I hear about an event that's only 6 days away and across the country. I wish I could be a part of World's Fair Use Day. Well, I'm glad it's happening. It's a celebration of the doctrine of Fair Use with artists, academics, press, and consumer advocates. From the website, I can tell there will be a ton of people there that I would like to meet: Jonathan McIntosh and Elisa Kreisinger, two remix artists in their own right who also run www.politicalremixvideo.com, Dan Walsh, creator of the "Garfield Minus Garfield," Anthony Falzone of Stanford Fair Use Project, Peter Jaszi of Center for Social Media, and Mark Hosler of Negativland, to name just a few.
Well, if you are in DC on January 12th, go show your support.

"My Feminism is 80s-Teen-Movie Flavored"

2009-12-03T18:42:00.008-06:00

The Bad-at-Sports blog has a new series called Off-Topic, which "invites artists, curators, writers, and cultural workers to discuss a subject not directly related to the practice of making art." Check out my post about one of my favorite movies from the 80s: The Legend of Billie Jean.

Performance Anxiety

2009-12-02T18:49:00.006-06:00

"Life isn't bliss. Life is just this. It's living." is included in a video program called Performance Anxiety, which was curated by Alicia Eler and Jefferson Godard and will air on German and French television stations this month, thanks to Souvenirs from Earth. Claudine Ise has written a thoughtful review of the show.

"Chicago Curators’ “Performance Anxiety” on Souvenirs from the Earth TV" by Claudine Ise (Bad at Sports)

RE: Figure, A Contemporary Look at Figurative Representation in Art

2009-09-10T19:00:00.005-05:00

opens tonight at the Glass Curtain Gallery in Chicago.
Curated by: Cole Robertson
September 8th, 2009 - October 30th, 2009

"New technologies and innovative use of traditional media have changed the ways in which we view the body – from the Sims to Facebook to YouTube, our lives are inundated with new interpretations of, and uses for, figurative representation. The art exhibition RE:figure explores the common ground between new and old media representations of the human form, as well as the different uses of figurative representation."

Losing Yourself in the 21st Century

2009-07-19T19:00:00.005-05:00

Seven pieces from my series "Everybody Hurts" will be included in the traveling exhibition Losing Yourself in the 21st Century, which will open at Ernest G. Welch Gallery at Georgia State University in October 2009 and then travel to Maryland Art Place in February 2010.

MP3: Midwest Photographer’s Publication Project

2009-07-17T20:25:00.002-05:00

opens tonight at the Museum of Contemporary Photography. The three person exhibition includes work by me, Curtis Mann, and John Opera.

Exhibition Dates: July 17 - September 13, 2009
Exhibiting Artists Talk: July 23 @ 5:30pm :
Closing Reception and Book Signing: September 10, 2009 from 5-7pm

My article in Fiberarts Magazine

2009-06-05T10:38:00.002-05:00

I've written an article for the Summer issue of Fiberarts magazine. It's a creative process piece about my embroideries. Click the picture to read.

Boston Cyberarts Festival

2009-05-20T09:23:00.003-05:00

"We Have a Right to be Angry" will be screened as part of a panel at the Boston Cyberarts Festival along with other videos that have received takedown notices from YouTube. The panel is called "The Politics of Video Sampling: Slash and Remix Culture."

Republished

2009-05-18T08:54:00.000-05:00

I'm excited to have my essay "Confessions of an Aca-Arti-Femi-Fan," which was originally written for Henry Jenkins' blog, republished in MLA Briefs, the summer newsletter of the Maryland Lawyers for the Arts.

MP3: Midwest Photographers Publication Project

2009-05-06T20:09:00.005-05:00

My first monograph is now available on Amazon! It is packaged together with the monographs of Curtis Mann and John Opera. This set was co-published by Aperture and The Museum of Contemporary Photography as part of the Midwest Photographers Publication Project. Keep an eye out for the upcoming exhibition...

And it's my birthday today.

We Have a Right to be Angry: Feminism, Fanvids and Fair Use

2009-05-01T08:36:00.003-05:00

On Saturday, I will give a lecture at Versionfest09 called "We Have a Right to Be Angry: Feminism, Fanvids, and Fair Use," in which I discuss my experience receiving a takedown notice from YouTube. The video will be screened, and I will talk about the history of fanvids, appropriation art and why my use is transformative.

Woo-hoo! A grant!

2009-04-07T20:04:00.002-05:00

I got a CAAP grant! It stands for Community Arts Assistance Program. This will help me pay for framing for my show at The Museum of Contemporary Photography this summer, which otherwise would have been difficult to manage. Anyway, this is a great program which awards small grants to new and emerging artists in Chicago. Good stuff.

Confessions of an Aca/Arti/Femi/Fan

2009-03-11T15:44:00.004-05:00

I'm excited to have my takedown notice experience documented on Henry Jenkins' blog "Confessions of an Aca/Fan." He is a very accomplished media theorist and his work has influenced mine greatly. This was really a wonderful opportunity to bridge the gap between fandom and the art world and academia, which is something I'm always interested in doing.

"Locating Fair Use in the Space Between Fandom and the Art World: Part I"
"Locating Fair Use in the Space Between Fandom and the Art World: Part II"

Amber Hawk Swanson on Fair Use and Copyright

2009-03-04T18:22:00.009-06:00

Amber Hawk Swanson interviewed me for NYFA's Current Magazine and wrote this informative article on fair use and appropriation art.

2008-12-13T18:10:00.004-06:00

On Monday, December 1st, I received an email notice from YouTube stating that my fanvid "We Have a Right to Be Angry" had been blocked by Fox Broadcasting, because it contains copyrighted content that was identified using an automated system. After a week of research and anxiety, I removed my video due to my belief that I am financially unprepared for the potential court battle that could result (although it's unlikely). I do believe that my use of said content is covered by Fair Use, a doctrine of US Copyright law that is severely misunderstood and under-used. I am plunging into an R & D phase in order to figure out how to address this in my work. The video in question already has a new meaning in relation to the takedown notice. Think of the swords as fair use...

Rewind, Remix, Fast Forward

2008-11-10T17:48:00.008-06:00

This past weekend "It's a Video about Sharing" was screened at the Miller Gallery at Carnegie Melon in conjunction with the annual SPEMA Conference. The program was called Rewind, Remix, Fast Forward: Exploring Our Cultural Ecosystem through Video.

My Fanvid is shown in Estonia!

2008-10-10T17:43:00.006-05:00

"We Have a Right to be Angry" will be included in a video program called Chicago Works: Exploring the Virtual Body curated by Andrew Hicks.

2008-09-01T17:36:00.006-05:00

I've been interviewed:
"Who's Who: Stacia Yeapanis" by Alicia Eler (Centerstage.com)

2008-07-08T17:16:00.007-05:00

Review of Ladylike: A Proper Take on Feminist Art:
"Critics' Picks" by Alicia Eler (Artforum.com)

Henbane: Dialectics of the Feminine Sublime

2008-04-16T16:42:00.013-05:00

This is the first, but certainly not the last time I will show work with artists Jenny Kendler, Meg Leary, Molly Schafer and Amber Hawk Swanson.

Various reviews of Henbane: Dialectics of the Feminine Sublime:
"Henbane: Dialectics of the Feminine Sublime" by Alicia Eler (Time Out Chicago)
"The Stinking Nightshade" by Kelly McClure (New City Art)

"Buffy Summers #2" is on the cover of the Chicago Reader Arts Section!

2008-03-20T16:26:00.003-05:00