Dear Friends, Supporters, Collectors new and old: The week of shortest days of the year is here and the push for LIGHT is on. Just the thought of wha

         
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Dear Friends, Supporters, Collectors new and old:

The week of shortest days of the year is here and the push for LIGHT is on. Just the thought of what I have encountered in 2015 makes my body glow and emanate light: solo exhibitions from Venice to Brooklyn, performances from Sydney to Manhattan, warm embraces from Tallinn to Istanbul, Storms and Silences , birth of Studio Peerna in Yonkers, and much more. And, yes, there are also the moments of doubt, the seeming endlessness of pursuits needed to keep the art practice going, the inconvenient truth revealed about a gallerist, the sorrow that seeps in when you stop to reflect on the melting glaciers..

All together it makes 365 days of life. Life worth living.

So I thank you for all you have shared with me this year, weather a studio visit, a link to an inspiring article, a good question, quiet walk, collaboration, purchase of an artwork or your eyes reading my newsletter.. I look forward to connecting in ways new and old in 2016!

Let there be LIGHT,

Sincerely,
Jaanika

PS: For Estonian language readers: Eesti keeles lugejad - ma pole eesti keeles oma uudiskirja eluaja jooksul veel tagasisidet saanud - kas on lihtsalt tegemist tagasihoidlike inimestega või pole eesti keeles lugejaid?? Palun andke teada, siis tean kas lisan uuel aastal taas eesti keelse sissejuhatuse nagu varasemalt. Ilusat Jõulu!

WORKSHOP INVITE

Join us for a creative start of 2016 for this 2 hour workshop on January 2 in Greenpoint , Brooklyn!

I have the Woody pencils and long rolls of paper ready for us to explore via drawing what can not be done otherwise. I promise to guide you gently!

Find out more HERE

OVERTONE COLLABORATION

My solo exhibition of drawing installation and video at WAAM in Woodstock NY got a live component as an overtone singer Timothy Hill joined me for a collaborative performance on November 22. Here is a little glimpse of the performance on VIDEO

PRIME

Such an honor to be featured in this newly published book PRIME featuring 80 amazing women from age 35-102. Each photographed without make-up, Photoshoping or filters, plus first hand essays on what have made them who they are today.

Take a closer look HERE and if inclined order your very own copy to meditate on beauty and time during the remaining days of the year.

PEEKSKILL PERFORMANCE

Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art in Peekskill NY will host a Live Art Fest on January 31, 2016. The museum will be hopping with various performances and activities that day from 1-5 PM. I will be doing a solo 1h performance on the longest paper I have tackled yet. Hope some of you will come hold the space for me that day!
More detailed schedule will be posted in January HERE

GUIDE TO RYMAN

->As many of you know I have been a teaching artist and guide with Dia:Beacon periodically since the museum opened in the Hudson Valley in 2003. Last week Dia Art Foundation opened a new exhibition on the works of Robert Ryman at it's Chelsea location which already has gotten reviews in the New York Times and The New Yorker. Come visit us in Chelsea and hope to guide you through the shades of white. Exhibition info and tours sign up HERE

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"The closer you look at a world the more distantly it looks back.”

-Karl Ernst Claus (Baltic German chemist and naturalist 1796 -1864)

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