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"A group of fellow grad students and I were each handed Meaning Maker pamphlets while leaving an exhibition of tired old hacks (oops, I mean "professionals") in the incestuous print world, who have apparently been repeating the same themes in their work for at least ten years now. Perhaps we were spotted as a disenchanted lot, who wish to resist this bleak and burned-out fate to someday become our own. Enter Meaning Maker-- the highlight of the whole freakin' SGC conference!"
"Meaning Maker blows all recent art I’ve experienced out of the water. Art in brochure form?, what a hoot you folks are. It’s like a judgment test. We’ve never applied ourselves to an artwork so in-depthly. Thanks for helping reveal things we didn’t previously contemplate."
"I am so excited to have a signed edition of Meaning Maker from the Southern Graphics Print Conference! I love the tacky blue pamphlet of this contemporary print project AND the smart assessment of the conference experience it critiques. Thank You Meaning Maker!"
August 2008
"Meaning Maker" at Burning Man!
Meaning Maker "American Citizenship" edition was delivered to mailboxes in Black Rock City during the last week of August. Black Rock City is the township of the annual Burning Man festival. The theme was "American Dream." Close to 50,000 people attended this year's experiment in alternative community.
July 2008
"Meaning Maker" exhibits in Vashon, Washington
Meaning Maker "Art Viewing Experience" edition exhibits alongside "Wessel: Works On Paper, And Sometimes Doesn't " at Up Against the Two Wall Gallery on Vashon Island in Washington state. The primary exhibition is an eight year retrospective of the works of Greg Wessel.
June 2008
"Meaning Maker" at Electronic Literature 2008 conference
Meaning Maker "Academic Conference," "Art Viewing Experience" and "American Citizenship" editions were presented at "Visionary Landscapes, the Electronic Literature 2008 Conference" at Washington State University in Vancouver, Washington May 27 - June 1, 2008.
May 2008
"Meaning Maker" intervenes at Social Practice conference
March 2008
"Meaning Maker" exhibits in California and Georgia
"Inscribing Meaning: The Context of Text in Visual Art" is an exhibition curated by Shannon Morris of The Georgia College and State University Museum in Milledgeville, Georgia. "Inscribing Meaning" includes the work of five artists and runs March 13 - May 1.
December 2007
"Meaning Maker" gets press in Artweek via "Moving Cultures" exhibit
November 2007
"Meaning Maker" gets press in "La Voz"
October 2007
"Meaning Maker" in "Moving Cultures" at The Euphrat Museum
October 2 - November 21, 2007
Reception with poet Norma Cantú October 1, 4-5pm, with artists 5-6pm.
Euphrat Museum website
July 2007
"Meaning Maker" featured on KQED's Gallery Crawl
Meaning Maker co-creator and spokesperson, Kent Manske, discusses Meaning Maker at WORKS/San José for KQED's monthly Gallery Crawl program. View the video.
July 2007
"Meaning Maker" in The Netherlands
Meaning Maker's Academic Conference edition makes an appearance at Remediating Literature Conference at Utrecht University. Art Viewing Experience edition sneaks into the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.
June 2007
"Meaning Maker" takes a prize at 'Homecoming' WORKS San José
Meaning Maker's American Citizenship edition received a Juror's Choice Award at WORKS/San José's annual member exhibition. Of the 170 artworks on exhibit, eight received awards. Jurors were Karen Kienzle of The de Saisset Museum in Santa Clara, and Jan Rindfleish of The Euphrat Museum in Cupertino.
May 2007
"Meaning Maker" in Crossroads at Rhonda Schaller Studio, Chelsea
Meaning Maker's Art Viewing Experience Gallery Kiosk is included in Crossroads, an exhibition at Rhonda Schaller Studio in New York City.
Crossroads
Rhonda Schaller Studio
547 West 27th Street, Suite 529, New York
Exhibition Dates: May 31 - June 23, 2007
Reception: Thursday June 7th 6pm - 8pm
Hours: Thursday - Saturday 12 -5 pm and by appointment
May 1, 2007- New York, NY. Rhonda Schaller Studio is proud to present Crossroads, from May 31 through June 23, 2007. Opening reception June 7th, 6 - 8 pm. A group exhibition of 27 artists, working in an array of materials from traditional watercolors to computer generated graphics, from human hair to found paper. The selected artists travel through a soulful array of artistic directions, each one an authentic voice within the collective crossroads of contemporary art.
Selected from the gallery’s inventory of Art Link Network artists, each artist has contributed a work that illuminates life’s rugged terrain with purpose, articulating boundaries encountered in themselves or in the world around them - in shape, color or materials, one or all of which is at the heart of their subject matter. We see in each art work an illustration of the intrinsic connectedness each artist has to the poetry of the familiar, a revelation of home found in self-questioning, whose intent only a modern look at society and self could reveal.
Participating artists are Monique Ford, Mare Vaccaro, Elena Fajt, Vlatko Ceric, Daniela I. Ovtcharov, Desi Minchillo, Helen R. Klebesadel, Cynthia Eardley, Randee Silv, Clare Murray Adams, Laurie Joan Aron, Kari-Mette Astrup, Ellie Brown, Sandra de Nijs, Johanna Gillman, Carrie Hoelzer, Jacqueline Jrolf, Elizabeth Leader, Julian Lesser, Mary Kay Neumann, Susan Sanborn North, Jeremias Paul, Sherry Shine, Millee Tibbs, Sheryl Westergreen, Olivia Carol Williams, and Nanette Wylde.
APRIL 2007
"Meaning Maker" gets press via Corporate Art Expo '07
Meaning Maker gains attention in an array of West Coast Press:
• Review of 'Corporate Art Expo '07' by Aimee Le Duc for Artweek June 2007
• Review of 'Corporate Art Expo '07' by Stephanie Ellis for Stretcher
• The Art Don't Stop.com April 14, 2007 sketches of artists' talks
MARCH 2007
"Meaning Maker" launches three new editions at Corporate Art Expo '07
PreNeo Press will launch three new Meaning Maker editions on March 30 at the opening of "Corporate Art Expo '07" in San Francisco, California. The new editions are: American Citizenship Edition, Periodic Personal Evaluation Edition, and Relationship to Nature Edition. These are added to Meaning Maker's 2006 stable: Academic Conference Edition, Art Viewing Experience Edition, and Family Gathering Edition.
Limited-edition Meaning Maker aprons and tool kits will be given away at the reception.
Exhibition Dates: March 30 - April 28, 2007
Opening Reception: Friday, March 30, 6-9 PM
Gallery Hours: Wednesdays-Saturdays, 1-6 PM
Panel Discussion: Saturday, April 14, 4-6 PM
The LAB is located at 2948 16th Street (at Capp) in the heart of San Francisco's Mission District.
p: 415.864.8855
http://www.thelab.org
Corporate Art Expo '07
Shane Montgomery, curator
Featuring the Anti-Advertising Agency, Acclair, C5 Corporation, Davis & Davis Research, Meaning Maker, Death and Taxes, Inc., Old Glory Condom Co., PP Valise, SubRosa, Slop Art, TDirt, Tectonic Corporation, and We Are War
Curator's Statement:
Over the last few years, a new group of artists have emerged that package themselves as corporate entities. They develop a company name, a branding scheme, and utilize the language of advertising and marketing. These individual artists and collectives create art objects, marketing materials, and performative event-based pieces that can exist in a gallery setting as well as in the public sphere. Much of this work centers around issues of capitalism and consumerism. By putting this work within the context of fictional products or alternative services, we are able to engage in a more enhanced conversation around topics ranging from globalization, immigration reform, and health care in a way that is whimsical and visually inspiring.
MARCH 2007
"Meaning Maker" at the Southern Graphics Council Conference in Kansas City
Meaning Maker's Art Viewing Experience Edition and Academic Conference Edition will be included in the registration packets at the Southern Graphics Council Conference in Kansas City, Missouri, March 21 - 25. Twelve hundred artists are expected to attend this dynamic annual convergence of printmakers. The conference is being hosted by the Kansas City Art Institute. Meaning Maker's first public distribution was at the 2006 Southern Graphics Council Conference at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
FEBRUARY 2007
"Meaning Maker" at the annual College Art Association Conference in New York City
Meaning Maker Academic Conference Edition is distributed at the College Art Association's annual conference in New York City. Meaning Maker Art Viewing Experience Edition is available at a variety of Chelsea galleries.
JANUARY 2007
"Meaning Maker" Gets First International Venue
Meaning Maker Art Viewing Experience Edition Gallery kiosk is installed at HTTP Gallery in London.
AUGUST 2006
"Meaning Maker" Academic Conference Edition launches at ISEA2006
PreNeo Press launches version 1 of Academic Conference Edition at the 13th International Symposium of Electronic Art (ISEA 2006). Meaning Makers will be distributed to conference attendees with their conference materials. The International Symposium of Electronic Art is expected to bring thousands of artists, curators, theorists, educators, and other brainy types to San José from around the world.
AUGUST 2006
"Meaning Maker" Art Viewing Experience in galleries at Global Festival of Art on the Edge
PreNeo Press' Art Viewing Experience Edition is situated in several galleries in San José California for ZeroOne San José Global Festival of Art on the Edge. Galleries with Meaning Maker kiosks include Anno Domini, The Institute of Contemporary Art and WORKS/San José.
JULY 2006
"Meaning Maker" Art Viewing Experience and Family Gathering Edition released at Krause Center for Innovation exhibition
Launch: Projects by PreNeo Press opens July 26 at the Krause Center for Innovation Art Gallery in Los Altos Hills, California. PreNeo's Meaning Maker launches two new editions at this venue: Art Viewing Experience and Family Gathering.
APRIL 2006
"Meaning Maker" Academic Conference Edition beta test at Southern Graphics Conference
PreNeo Press goes guerilla with the beta version of Meaning Maker Academic Conference Edition. Meaning Makers will be distributed via hand to printmakers attending the Southern Graphics Conference in Madison, Wisconsin, April 5 - 9.
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