I have work (Net 1) in the upcoming group exhibition Other Possible Titles coming up at Grizzly Grizzly in Philly.

Here’s text from the press release:
October 18, 2011

Grizzly Grizzly is pleased to present our inaugural call for entries, ‘Other Possible Titles,’ a survey of
contemporary art juried by the members of the collective. The thirty-five artworks selected — culled
from nearly 250 submissions — represent the wide range of artistic strength and thoughtfulness we
witnessed from our artistic peers throughout the process.

By far our largest exhibition to date, ‘Other Possible Titles’ will utilize the entirely of the gallery
and spill out into the adjoining floor. Although incredibly divergent in media, the work on a whole
demonstrates a particular intelligence and awareness of material and play within contemporary
practices – whether it be through installation, photography, sculpture, video, or painting and drawing.
Selected artist locations range from Philadelphia to New York, Ypsilanti to Los Angeles, Barcelona to
Ireland.

Throughout the duration of the exhibition, Grizzly Grizzly will encourage visitors to vote on their
favorite work. The artist receiving the most votes will receive a solo exhibition in the 2012 gallery
season.

Our hope with this exhibition is to extend the boundaries of the call for entries group exhibition
through risk and audience engagement. Grizzly member and exhibition programmer, Jacque Liu,
states that, “Our gallery is a meeting-ground for dialogue. We know that our viewers see vast amounts
of art — by giving them the ability to determine a future show, we hope to leverage their knowledge,
experience and passion to help us define our audience and in turn, to create a deeper and more
meaningful relationship to the work.”

Included artists are:
Aggtelek, Amy Sacksteder, Ana Galan, Analia Zalazar, Anders Johnson, Andrea Mcginty, Angie Zielinski,
Areca Roe, Ben Will, Benjamin Farnack, Caitlin Lennon, Carly Glovinski, Christina Day, Christine
McCauley, Dana Lok, Dave Kim, David Welch, Dennis Ritter, Eimearjean McCormack, Joanna Platt,
John Jodzio, Liz Davenport, Matt Brett, Michael Ohgren, Olja Stipanovic, Peter Morgan, Rachelle
Beaudoin, Run Shayo, Samantha Mitchell, Scott Giblin, Shelby Donnelly, Stephanie Norberg, Trevor
Amery, Wendy Wolf, Yoorim Park

For further inquiries or to arrange an interview, please contact cindystocktonmoore@gmail.com

“Other Possible Titles”
November 4 – November 263, 2011
First Friday Opening, November 4th, 6-10PM
Grizzly Grizzly, 319 North 11th Street, 2nd Floor, Philadelphia, PA,
www.grizzlygrizzly.com
Hours: Saturday and Sundays, 2-6PM

Grizzly Grizzly is a project space in Philadelphia, PA. Since 2009, Grizzly Grizzly has programmed monthly
exhibitions, screenings and performances. The gallery is currently under the direction of artists Mike
Ellyson, Jacque Liu, Dennis Matthews, Matthew Price, Ruth Scott, Mary Smull, Cindy Stockton-Moore and Josh Weiss.

Here are some images from my solo exhibition We are running… at Northeastern Illinois University’s Fine Arts Center Gallery.  Much of this work appeared in my recent exhibition in at Pterodactyl in Philadelphia, but the postcard installation with the bottle of ash is new.  The postcards are manipulated exhibition announcements from both solo exhibitions, mounted on Scrabble tile trays.  The bottle contains sea glass and volcanic ash from the base of  the Eyjafjallajökull volcano that erupted in Iceland this year.  Exhibition details follow the images.

Amy Sacksteder: We are running…

October 4th-October 29th

The work included in this project is derived from the last moments of Amelia Earhart’s life and is used as a springboard to examine and confront mortality. The title is an excerpt of Earhart’s last words. The work is also influenced by the artists’s June 2010 residency in Iceland.

Artist Talk: Friday October 29th, 11am
Reception: Friday October 15th, 6-9pm

The Fine Arts Center Gallery
Northeastern Illinois University
5500 N St. Louis Ave
Chicago, IL 60625

The Gallery is located on the NEIU campus inside the Salme Harju Steinberg Fine Arts Center. Park in the lot the west side of campus via the entrances Foster or Bryn Mawr Avenues.

Directions here.

To see invividual images of pieces in the show, visit this page on my website.

Krista Peel is at it again, making another themed calendar with her great photography.  I’m a participating artist once more, and this time the directions involve: the theme “Mystery Mansion,” providing her with some supplies and instructions, and her constructing the rooms around those instructions and objects.

She just sent out glimpses of the rooms constructed so far, and I spotted mine, evident by the objects I sent her: buckthorn roots, smoky quartz crystals and dark agate slices.  I can’t wait to see the real thing!

Experiments with postcards from the show.  I am starting to love multiples. The materiality of them is very satisfying in person.

Here are a few more shots from the show and last night’s opening.  I really like the way the space was lit.  Cheers to the good folks at Pterodactyl for pulling together the new side gallery (in which my show is situated) in under a week and for putting on a lovely opening.

Here are images from my show Our Improbable Existence at Pterodactyl in Philly.  Here is more info about the show.  The show was made possible by the support of the Philadelphia Art Hotel.  To see individual pieces, peruse recent blog posts or visit my website.  Off to the opening!

Yesterday I was inspired to finish the rest of the drawings on photos to make twelve total.  All of them are either liquid gold leaf or ink on a digital photographic print.  They’re either 15″ x 20″ or 20″ x 15″.  Again, excuse the poor documentation.  Here they be:

Here is the press release for my show at Pterodactyl sponsored by the Philadelphia Art Hotel.  Install Thursday, opening Friday.  I’m pasting the text below for better readability. Here’s hoping the five people I know in Philly and the rest of the city make it out to the opening!

The Philadelphia Art Hotel and Pterodactyl present an exhibition:

Amy Sacksteder – Our Improbable Existence

August 13th, 2010
8pm
3237 Amber St.
5th Floor North
Philadelphia, PA 19134

Amy Sacksteder attempts to reconcile vitality and mortality (and the accompanying celebrations and mournings that reality elicit), both her own and with that of others’. To quote Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, “we try as best we can to do justice to the tremendousness of our improbable existence.” She thus distills momentous experiences into and through her artwork, which in turn, becomes a place for mourning and celebration; a place to explore and engage the tension between vitality and mortality. Her work has been sited on contemporary art blogs such as my love for you is a stampede of horses, and has been published in New American Paintings. Amy Sacksteder exhibits regularly nationally and internationally. She has attended residencies through the Ragdale Foundation in Illinois, the Pouch Cove Foundation in Newfoundland, the Residential Art Centre of Cantagal in France, and the Hungarian Multicultural Center in Budapest.

Most recently, she attended a residency program through the Association of Icelandic Visual Artists (SÍM) in Reykjavík to prepare for a solo exhibition at Northeastern Illinois University in the fall. She will return to Iceland in November to continue the research and creative work she began there in June. Amy Sacksteder received her MFA from Northern Illinois University in 2004. She lives and works in Ypsilanti, Michigan, where she is an Assistant Professor of Art at Eastern Michigan University.

Here are some new blue drawings and drawings on photos.  Once again, sorry about the quality of some of the images.  It’s hard to get a good shot of the photos.  Documentation-quality images will be up on my website sometime in September (hopefully).

I am comfortably set up at the Philadelphia Art Hotel, run by two fantastic people, artists Zak Starer and Krista Peel. Here’s a great article in the Philadelphia Inquirer about the residency. I also have become fast friends with my co-residents Danielle Rante and her dog Kanga.

After running around town for two days exploring the Kensington neighborhood in which the PAH is situated, getting groceries and visiting the Reading Terminal Market, dropping my work of at Pterodactyl for my upcoming show, and generally recovering from the 11- hour drive, I have gotten to make some work. Here are some scenes from my urban studio:

I’ll post some work soon. I need to get to more making first. Aaaand a parting shot of my new best friend who keeps me company in the studio while I work (that’s my chair, by the way).