Sonny Assu

They're Coming! Quick! I have a better hiding place for you. Dorvan V

2015

The title "Interventions On The Imaginary" is a clear reference to Marcia Crosby’s essay, "The Construction of the Imaginary Indian", and situates itself within the realm of remix culture—as digital interventions onto works that contain the colonial gaze. These interventions participate in the growing discourse of decolonization, acting as “tags” to challenging the colonial fantasy of terra nullius and confronting the dominant colonial culture’s continued portrayal of Indigenous peoples as a vanishing race...

The title "Interventions On The Imaginary" is a clear reference to Marcia Crosby’s essay, "The Construction of the Imaginary Indian", and situates itself within the realm of remix cu...

Will Petersen, a painter, master printer and a poet, was born in Chicago. (Amer. 1928-1994) Will's formal art education began with classes at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. As a student at the city's Steinmetz High School, Petersen succeeded Hugh Hefner (of Playboy magazine fame) as the HS newspaper cartoonist, the Steinmetz Star. During this time, Petersen recovered from polio. In 1947 Petersen enrolled at Chicago's Wilbur Wright College. While there, he painted with oils for the first time. Two years later he enrolled at Michigan State University where he developed a strong interest in literature and writing and began printmaking. By 1951 he had begun to exhibit paintings and prints nationally. A year later he completed his master's degree. Petersen served in the United States Army from 1952-54, spending one year as an education specialist in Japan. This encounter with the Japanese culture affected his entire life. He became interested in calligraphy and Noh, classical Japanese Buddhist performance that combines elements of drama, music and poetry. Upon completion of his military service in Japan in 1955, Will Petersen settled in Oakland, California, where he met some of the most active poets of the Beat Generation: Gary Snyder, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Phil Whalen, Mike McClure and others. Petersen was attracted to the group by their intelligence and belief in Zen Buddhism. In 1956 in his small studio in Oakland, he printed the poems of Jack Kerouac. He attended for the first time, the reading of Ginsberg's Howl at Six Gallery. His relationship with Gary Snyder had begun when both were in Kyoto, Japan; later Snyder wrote for the Plucked Chicken. Petersen returned to Japan in 1957, pursuing painting, printmaking and writing for eight years while living in Kyoto. In 1965 he accepted a faculty appointment at Ohio State University, teaching drawing, painting and printmaking. Four years later Petersen took his teaching skills to West Virginia University in Morgantown, where he concentrated on printmaking. He taught there until 1977 when he began publishing Plucked Chicken, a journal of art and poetry. In 1978 in Morgantown, Petersen and his wife, Cynthia Archer, established Plucked Chicken Press, which they later moved to Chicago and then Evanston. Petersen operated the Press until his death on April 1, 1994. 1956 In storefront studio in Oakland, California, creates signed serigraphs and lithographs. Prints poems of Jack Kerouac. 1961 Back in Japan, acquires a lithography press and stones and resumes printing lithographs. Exhibits regularly with Kyoto Printmakers. 1969 Resident lithographer at the Lakeside Studio, Lakeside, Michigan. Prints for the first time Richard Hunt lithographs. 1978 Establishes Plucked Chicken Press in Morgantown, West Virginia. Resident lithographer at Lakeside Studio in Michigan. 1980 Plucked Chicken Press moves to Chicago. Publishes lithographs by Don Crouch and Art Kleinman. 1982 Publishes Blossom, a lithograph/collage by Tom Nakashima. 1983 Series I of Plucked Chicken Press is published with work by Archer, Duckworth, Godfrey, Heagstedt, Himmelfarb, Hoff, Hunt, Martyl, Miller, Nakashima and Petersen. 1984 Plucked Chicken Press moves to Evanston. Series II of Plucked Chicken Press is published with works by Croydon, Ho, Archer, Torn, Osver, Middaugh, Roseberry, Petersen, Spiess-Ferris and Hoppock. 1985 Series III of Plucked Chicken Press is published with works by Driesbach, Hunt, Trupp, Gregor, Pattison, Conger, Evans, Weygandt, Archer, Ho and Petersen. Prints Suite I, Northern Illinois University Collectors Series, with lithographs by Renie Adams, David Bower, David Driesbach, Carl Hayano and Ben Mahmoud, all faculty members of the art department at Northern Illinois University. 1986 Publishes Richard Hunt s Over Wisdom Bridge. 1987 Series IV of Plucked Chicken Press is published with works by Bustos, Archer, Martyl, Petersen, Smith, Gordon, Gadomski and Godfrey. 1990 Series V of Plucked Chicken Press is published with four floral lithographs by Winifred Godfrey...

Commission Scroll Contemporary Art, Abstract Painting Acrylic and oil on canvas 81 x 81 cm Signed and dated About the artist Adrian Gonzalez (Mexico, 1987). He graduated in Visual Arts from the Faculty of Arts and Design, UNAM (Universidad Autonoma de Mexico) in 2011. His work is part of the Sebastian Foundation Collection, Grupo Reforma and various private collections. He was a beneficiary of the FONCA “Young Creators” program in the specialty of Painting in the 2015/2016 edition. SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2020 - Dance Till U Drop. Pared Space. Galería Virtual. 2018 - SCROLL. Galería Plomo. México, D.F. 2016 - El aire de lo eventual. Galería Alterna. México, D.F. 2015 - Escenarios para habitar el mundo. Galería Luis Adelantado México. México, D. F. - El fin de la apariencia. Galería Central de la ENPEG La Esmeralda, CENART. México, D.F. 2012 - Patrones de la Realidad. Centro Cultural Periodista. México D. F. GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2021 - El Fin. The End Project Space. EU. Atlanta. 2019 - La Causa de las Causas. Museo de Arte Moderno. México, CDMX. 2018 - Pensamiento Especulativo. Fundación CALOSA. México, Guanajuato. - Creación en Movimiento. Jóvenes Creadores del FONCA. 2015 – 2016. Fotomuseo Cuatro Caminos. México, D.F. 2016 - Creación en Movimiento. Jóvenes Creadores del FONCA. 2015 – 2016. Capilla del Arte de la UDLAP. México, Puebla. - X Bienal Nacional de Pintura y Grabado “Alfredo Zalce”. MACAZ. México, Michoacán. - Parámetro 02. Arte Lumen. Museo de la Ciudad de México. México, D. F. - JUSTMAD 7. Feria de Arte Emergente. LASEDE/ Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Madrid. España, Madrid. - Efectos Especiales. Galería DIAGRAMA. México, D. F. 2015 - XI Bienal de pintura Joaquín Clausell...