Hot off the press!!!  Boots Contemporary Art Space announces the fourth issue of BOOT PRINT.  Click here to download the pdf.

This issue features the following:

*Finnish Academy of Fine Art
*Academy Schloss Solitude
*The Rijksakademie
*School of the Art Institute of Chicago
*Gender and Queer identity
*Cory Arcangel
*Manto
*Isil Egrikavuk
*Front Room
*Deva Eveland
*Cacilia Canziani
*Elpida Karaba
*Jan van Woensel
*Silverio

With the arrival of spring, the landscape at Laumeier Sculpture Park is bursting with life and color.  As visitors continue to enjoy the In Sight exhibition in the indoor galleries, the staff is hard at work preparing for the 2009 Kranzberg Exhibition.  I thought I’d share the names of the local artists whose work will blossom in the galleries this June. The six artists are busy creating five unique installations for the seventh edition of the Kranzberg series.

Sarah Frost will construct two large-scale, site specific sculptures of repurposed items from daily life.

Craig Norton will create an installation employing drawings, stencils and wooden sculptures that will focus on the continuing strife in the Darfur region of Sudan.

Stan Chisholm will construct an installation/environment using a variety of two and three-dimensional materials in a large narrative vignette filled with idiosyncratic figures.

Mike Behle will exhibit paintings and sculptures reflecting on emotional contrasts of the human condition.

Cameron Fuller & Sarah Paulsen will collaborate on an ambitious gallery installation merging Fuller’s architectural, sculptural trickery with animations by Paulsen.

Visit our website for more information and mark your calendars for the evening of June 5 and check-out these local artists on the rise.

White Flag doesn’t do many repeats, so our audience usually only gets one chance to see any of the artists we exhibit. It’s too bad in way, because they tend to get out of here and then BLOW UP. We’re always getting news about good things happening for artists that have been part the WFP program– and not the kind of fake junk some galleries put in these kinds of things to make it look like an artist who is doing nothing is doing something- THIS STUFF IS REAL. This is what has come in over the past few weeks:

Kansas City-based photographer Jaimie Warren had a monograph of her self-portraits published by the Aperture Foundation, not to mention a review in the last Artforum. She also performed at Deitch Projects infamous holiday party in December.  Jaimie’s exhibition at White Flag was in September 2007. THAT’S REAL.

Jacob Kassay was in January’s “One Loses One’s Classics”. There’s no way for us to confirm it without having to pick up the phone, but we hear his New York solo debut in at Eleven Rivington sold out… these days that is PRETTY DAMN REAL.

Amy Granat was already a big thing when she brought her show to WFP in May 2008, but she just got bigger. Word is the Museum of Modern Art has just acquired two of her works for their permanent collection. THAT’S REAL.

Matt Keegan’s work was part of Cinema Zero’s BENDOVER/HANGOVER show last year. This year his work will be in the much hyped “The Generational: Younger Than Jesus ” at The New Museum… and that’s a hard ticket to get (500 artists were nominated and only 50 are in.) THAT IS REAL.

If you need more of this kind of reality you can get it in April when we relaunch the White Flag newsletter.