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Curated by David Gibson Matt Bollinger, Liz Chalfin, Meghan Gordon, Deb Karpman Elizabeth Kellogg, Ruth Waldman, Angela Zamarelli Curated by Klaus Postler Courtney Andrews, Wilson Cummer, Lisa Elmaleh Asia Ingalls, Sara Klar, Jamie M. Lee, Dot Szemiot Hampden Gallery / University of Massachusetts 16 Curry Hicks Building, 100 Hicks Way Amherst, MA 01003 November 7 – December 7, 2008 Reception: Friday, November 7, 4-6 PM MATT BOLLINGER LIZ CHALFIN MEGHAN GORDON DEB KARPMAN ELIZABETH KELLOGG RUTH WALDMAN ANGELA ZAMMARELLI

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I posted the following on the Soulcast blog on 18 August 2006 and it was titled: "Why I admire America". Today with the historic election of Barack Obama as President, I feel compelled to repost it here: I am not an American. I am probably one of millions of people around this planet seething with anger about American foreign policy and what it has done and what it is doing to the rest of the world. I express negative views about the Bush administration's policies. I oppose the so-called "war on terror" used as a cover for domination of oil resources in the middle east. etc. etc. etc. An American listening to me might easily assume that I have a lot of disdain for the USA and Americans. But, I'll let you in on a secret. I love all the great and glorious ideals of freedom and liberty that America stands for... those ideals that are enshrined in its constitution. As someone living in a country where freedom of speech, freedom expression and freedom of assembl...

The scenes are euphoric. The moment is historic. A man of partial African origin has become the President-elect of the most powerful nation on this planet. At this point I think the following words of Martin Luther King are apt: From every mountainside, let freedom ring. And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!³

October 16 – November 9, 2008 Opens Thursday, October 16, 6-9 PM GALLERY THOMAS JAECKEL 532 West 25th Street, 2nd floor New York, New York 10001 Thomas Jaeckel and David Gibson are proud to present “Barachois” a series of new paintings by Peggy Bates in which the artist continues her fascination with the signification and expressivity of organic form as a direct charismatic link to the natural world. Her most recent body of work has taken on a chromatic tone of coolness which ranges from the icy blue associated with the first days of a new winter season, to day-glo yellow and fuschia, purple, aquamarine, and sea green. The forms which appear in this work are characterized by a scriptlike furtiveness, in which broad swaths of bright colors wade amid a light blue background, just like the eddies of tides which are caught against the sandbars of tidal pools before being swept out to sea. But despite their sensitive chromatic touch, and the antic forms in their foreground, they are charact...

BETHANY BRISTOW Curated by David Gibson and Jennifer Junkermeier Bethany Bristow, Bonnie Collura, Gabert Farrar, Limor Gasko Scott Kiernan, Karen Marston, John O’Brien, Sono Osato Meridith Pingree, Richard Schort, Fumiko Toda Ernest Rubenstein Gallery of The Educational Alliance 197 East Broadway, New York NY 10002 September 18 – October 31, 2008 Reception: Thursday, Sept 18, 6-8 PM Beauty's Burden explores our predetermined attitudes toward art as a means of personal and cultural expression. In a museum-style exhibition that is directed only by its theme, we hope to show how beauty operates in collusion with the specific dictates of image and form, occurring randomly across mediums, flowing through the cracks in our understanding of each artist's process. Beauty in this case does not represent an idealized standard, but an element of culturally determined content that collaborates in the moment (or process) of creation with ideas specific to each artist's formal aim. The a...