Paul Villinski
• "The Emergency Response Studio" project is underway at Socrates Sculpture Park in Long Island City, NY. The project re-purposes a dilapidated 30' FEMA trailer, typical of those deployed to the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina, transforming it from a shoddy structure and depressing symbol into a visually engaging, solar and wind-powered, mobile, artist's studio. The trailer is designed for use in post-disaster or "emergency" settings to house displaced or visiting artists, enabling them to immerse themselves and chronicle unfolding events. The project is featured in "Waste Not, Want Not", an exhibition at Socrates opening May 4th, 2008, which explores issues of recycling and adaptive re-use of materials. In November, the project will travel to New Orleans as part of "Prospect .1 New Orleans", a new, international, biennial exhibition curated by Dan Cameron.
• The Los Angeles Times recently featured and article about the "Emergency Response Studio."
• The Museum of Arts and Designis featuring an interview with Paul Villinski on their media site. The Museum will inaugurate it's new home at 2 Columbus Circle, NY, NY, with the exhibition "Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary", Sept 27, 2008 - February 15, 2009, which will include Villinski's "My Back Pages"
• The New York Times Magazine featured "Relay", a "beer can butterfly" piece, on the table of contents pages of their first "Green Issue" on April 20, 2008.
• The New Orleans Museum of Art has recently acquired "Radio Flyer" for their permanent collection. Built around a child's red wagon found in the Lower Ninth Ward after Hurricane Katrina, the diminutive "flying machine" was concieved of as "an imaginary escape vehicle" and was featured in Villinski's "Airlift" exhibition at the Jonathan Ferrara Gallery in New Orleans in December, 2006
Upcoming exhibitons include:
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"Prospect .1 New Orleans", curated by Dan Cameron, November 1, 2008 - January 28, 2009
• "Multiples", Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, LA, opening Nov., 2008
• "Cutters", The Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ, opening January 11, 2009
• "Full Circle: Recycled Into Art," The Arizona Museum for Youth, Mesa, AZ, October 2, 2008 - May 17, 2009
Current exhibitions include:
• "Sexy Time", NY Morgan Lehman Gallery, NY, June 5 - August 1, 2008
• "Summer Journeys, Summer Dreams", Philadelphia, PA, June 6 - July 12, 2008
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"Waste Not, Want Not", Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY, May 4 - August 3, 2008
• "Pricked: Extreme Embroidery" at The Museum of Arts and Design (November 8 2007 - April 27, 2008) included Villinski's "Lament". With a catalog by curator David Revere McFadden, the exhibition featured works by 48 artists from 17 countries. The Wall Street Journal review of the exhibition described "Lament" as "...the piece likeliest to haunt your dreams." NTV Broadcasting, Russia's largest non-governmental television network covered Pricked and featured a clip with Villinski. WNET Channel 13 NY Public Television "Sunday Arts" also covered the exhibition.
• A New York Times article about soaring "Powered by the Air" quoted Paul Villinski and featured three photographs of him flying gliders.
• A group show entitled "2" at Project 4 Gallery (February 2 - March 1, 2008) included Villinski's "Epigram." Project 4 is at 903 U Street NW, Washington
• ARTINFO.com featured an article called "What's in your studio, Paul Villinski?" which featured his "powered paraglider," an ultralight flying machine.
• Mark Kingdon, CEO of Organic, Inc., has commissioned a major installation for his extraordinary Long Island home designed by Shigeru Ban and Dean Maltz. The house is one of 34 "Houses at Sagaponac," each designed by a significant contemporary architect. "Nocturne II" is comprised of 260 black butterflies which create a fifteen foot, elliptical "drawing" on a wall in the living room, and was completed at the end of July, 2007.
• The Museum of Arts and Design acquired "Pilot," a "glove wing" piece from 1995, for its permanent collection. The museum is located at 40 West 53rd St., NYC, opposite MoMA, but will relocate to Columbus Circle in 2008. Collector Jean Stein very generously donated the piece to MAD.
• GRK Fasteners, of Thunder Bay, Ontario, makers of innovatively designed, super-high quality fasteners, has agreed to sponsor Paul Villinski by providing fasteners for use in his work.