Betsy Jo Lundquist

The time for Misery draws near! Misery Connoisseur: A Glossy Magazine


Misery Connoisseur is a curatorial project, initiated by Rowena Harris, Emma E Hunt, Michael Heilgemeir and Betsy Jo Lundquist, using the format of a quarterly glossy magazine as its critical structure. Each issue will bring together the work of commissioned artists, writers and theorists as well as invited and paid for advertising into a critically ambiguous read.

The intention behind Misery Connoisseur is three-fold. Firstly, and most importantly, it serves to provide a suitable platform to showcase and distribute the work of talented emerging and established artists, writers and theorists. Secondly it will provide a new and engaging media for artists to explore and create new work, and finally, to provide a critique and provoke discussion surrounding the relationship between culture and advertising.

Misery Connoisseur will launch early 2012 with its inaugural edition, chalked full of excruciating goodness! In the meantime, check us out at Misery Connoisseur.

Let's Be Civil: The civil union between Gandt and Andor

Join Gandt and Andor for a series of events and performances throughout July at

ANDOR Gallery London
3 Mare Street
London
E8 4RP

from Andor's website:

"LET'S BE CIVIL

AN EXHIBITION PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN GANDT AND ANDOR

 

7 JULY - 31 JULY 2011

For their exhibition at ANDOR Gallery London the art collaborative GANDT have transformed the series of complex moral obligations associated with the gallery’s request by taking the hand(s) of ANDOR in a civil partnership. Throughout the opening evening guests of both GANDT and ANDOR have been invited to come and celebrate the partnership and offer a gift to the group taking inspiration from a standard John Lewis wedding gift list.

The greater moral and ethical relationships of the artist and the gallery as well as their expanded networks of peers and friends are being brought together in ANDOR’s gallery space through the creation of a quasi-domestic, quasi performative, semi-public/private amalgamation of kind, friendly and slightly obliged donations.

GANDT’s practice continually absorbs and entertains a wide range of different activities and artworks upon GANDT’s invitations to different people to participate in their projects. Consequently the position of the artist and of artistic production is constantly being mobilised and reinvented. Questioning the institutional structures and obligations inherent in artistic practices as well as the groups and organisations that play host to them.

LET’S BE CIVIL is the second exhibition to take place at ANDOR Gallery’s new space on Mare Street following Ross Jardine’s exhibition Heritage is a Bogus History. The Gallery is running monthly exhibitions with a growing number of artists from London and abroad.

As part of the exhibition LET’S BE CIVIL the following events are scheduled to take place in July:

Saturday 16th: GANDT DINNER

Wednesday 20th: Arabian Nights: Screening of Lawrence of Arabia on super8 + Middle Eastern food

Sunday 24th: Hi-Teen Carnival + BBQ: Music, MIXTAPE SWAPSHOP, Performances, Fortune Telling, Tom Hanks.

Sunday 31st: Brunch of Doom: An annulment brunch accompanied by readings of a gloomy propensity"


http://www.creativeandorcultural.com/index.php/current-exhibition
http://gandtpresents.com/


S.A.G.S. @ Woodmill, April 9th - May 1st 2011:

Time for a fond farewell to Woodmill's first location/ incarnation and on to a future surely bright but mildly uncertain aside from heavy lifting. A bitterness that should be slightly tempered by what is sure to be an amazing show by studio artists. Please see www.woodmill.org for gallery opening schedule and directions.


09.04 – 01.05.2011

Private view: 09.04.2011 - 19.00–22.00

A celebration of the Woodmills studio artists and the final chapter of the Woodmill at its Neckinger Depot location.

Thorbjørn Andersen Clarisse d'Arcimoles Tasha Aulls Nicole Bachmann Stuart Bailes Anna Baker Jo Ball Claire Bayliss Dave Bateman Ciaran Begley Joshua Bilton Gabriel Birch Steve Bishop Savinder Bual Laura Buckley Melissa Bugarella Ben Burgis Charlesworth, Lewandowski & Mann
Spartacus Chetwynd Adam Christensen Sidsel Christensen Chris Clarke Ben Connors Patrick Coyle Blue Curry Annie Davey Tim Devas Claudia Djabbari Philip Ewe James Ferris Alastair Frazer Malcolm Gauldie Hal Silver Una Hamilton Richard Hards Rowena Harris Kate Hawkins Darren Harvery-Regan
Michael Heilgemeir Joey Holder Jang-Oh Hong Annie Hermond Hotte Toby Huddlestone Emma Hunt Emily Hussey Monica Jäger Poppy Jones Clarke Keatley Trevor Kiernander Una Knox Iva Kontic Vera Kox Al Braithwaite Betsy Lundquist Simon Memel Nick McQueen Stuart Middleton Jasiek Mischke Jenny Moore Koslowsky Jon Moscow Dave Newton Thom O'Nions Joep Overtoom Laurence Owen Alexander Page Jihye Park Jon Parkinson Yuri Pattison Faye Peacock Naomi Pearce Ksenia Pedan Linda Persson Kate Pickering Jonathan Pinchard Natasha Rees Lara Rettondini Ishai Rimmer Rachel Russell Hendrik Schneider Paul Schneider Sabrina Osbourne Richard Sides Jim Threapleton Katelyn Toth-Fejel Jack Vickridge Josh Walsh Charlottte Warne Thomas Joe Watling Angharad Williams Dale Wilson Kentaro Yamada


Woodmill Limited Edition Print Box:

At £55, you'd be mad not to! Seriously; if not sufficiently convinced to purchase, please seek professional help. Professional help will likely cost you far more than £55. This is to say, you are better off just buying a box containing nearly 50 fabulous prints by the amazing folk of the Woodmill who've contributed.

from http://www.southlondonartmap.com/galleries/the-woodmill/88

"Over 40 artists from The Woodmill have contributed to this limited edition print portfolio. The works range from screenprints to lasercut images on wood. The sale of the edition will directly contribute to the curatorial and studio program at the Woodmill and all artists have worked on it charitably.

Artists include:

Thorbjorn Andersen, Tasha Aulls, Nicole Bachmann, Anna Baker, Jo Ball, Ciaran Begley, Gabriel Birch, Laura Buckley, Charlesworth Lewandowski & Mann, Chris Clarke, Ben Connors, Patrick Coyle, Blue Curry, Annie Davey, Claudia Djabbari, Philip Ewe, James Ferris, Richard Hards, Rowena Harris, Michael Heilgemeir, Joey Holder, Toby Huddlestone, Emma Hunt, Monica Jaeger, Trevor Kiernander, Una Knox, Iva Konic, Vera Kox, Betsy Lundquist, Mark Melvin, Stuart Middleton, Jasiek Mischke, Jenny Moore Koslowsky, Joep Overtoom, E. Park, Linda Persson, Natasha Rees, Paul Schneider, Sabrina Shabbu, Unknown Artists, Charlotte Warne Thomas, Joe Watling, Angharad WIlliams, Dale Wilson, Kentaro Yamada.

The portfolio has been printed in an edition of 100 and is on sale for £55.

Portfolios are available through the Woodmill, Koenig Books at the Whitechapel Gallery, Koenig Books on Charing Cross Road, Donlon Books on Broadway Market, X Marks the Bökship on Cambridge Heath Road in London and Koenig Books at the Temporary Stedelijk 2 in Amsterdam.

More sales points are to be announced soon.

For mailorder please contact: jasiekmischke@gmail.com "