CEC ArtsLink’s Global Art Lab continued in the Spring of 2011 with a visit to New York by six artists from Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. During their intensive trip, the group met with organizations and artists working in the fields of public art and socially engaged art and visited a wide range of contemporary arts museums, galleries, and arts centers. Following this visit to NYC the program participants, together with CEC ArtsLink, will choose 4 US artists to travel to Central Asia to conduct workshops and seminars in September and October, 2011.
Through meetings with some of New York’s leading organizations in the field of public art, including Creative Time, Third Rail Projects, No Longer Empty, the Percent for Art Fund, and Wooster Collective, the Central Asian artists learned not only how public art projects are designed and implemented in the U.S., but also about the wide range of artistic practices. They also conversed with numerous US artists working in the public realm including Clarina Bezzola, Marisa Jahn, Kendal Henry, Daniel Gallegos, and Jason Eppink.
The program was not limited to meetings and conversation, however. The group collaborated with the artist Gabriel Reese on the creation of a large scale work on an outside wall in Brooklyn, spent the day at The Point in the Bronx learning about the important role of murals and graffiti in this community and helping a local artist complete a community mural, and toured galleries and public art works in Soho and Chelsea with the art critic Agnes Berecz. In short, the 9-day program was filled to the brim with the best of the best in NYC public art today and was designed to encourage and explore possibilities of future cultural discourse between artists from both the US and Central Asia.
The Global Art Lab 2011 participants include:
Through meetings with some of New York’s leading organizations in the field of public art, including Creative Time, Third Rail Projects, No Longer Empty, the Percent for Art Fund, and Wooster Collective, the Central Asian artists learned not only how public art projects are designed and implemented in the U.S., but also about the wide range of artistic practices. They also conversed with numerous US artists working in the public realm including Clarina Bezzola, Marisa Jahn, Kendal Henry, Daniel Gallegos, and Jason Eppink.
The program was not limited to meetings and conversation, however. The group collaborated with the artist Gabriel Reese on the creation of a large scale work on an outside wall in Brooklyn, spent the day at The Point in the Bronx learning about the important role of murals and graffiti in this community and helping a local artist complete a community mural, and toured galleries and public art works in Soho and Chelsea with the art critic Agnes Berecz. In short, the 9-day program was filled to the brim with the best of the best in NYC public art today and was designed to encourage and explore possibilities of future cultural discourse between artists from both the US and Central Asia.
The Global Art Lab 2011 participants include:
- Bermet Borubaeva - Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
- Evgenii Kondratev - Tashkent, Uzbekistan
- Andrei Lomanov - Tashkent, Uzbekistan
- Evgenii Makshakov - Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
- Dmitrii Petrovskii - Bishkek, Krygzstan
- Abdullojon Ubaidulloev - Dushanbe, Tajikistan
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