Paul Chisholm Artist

http://www.gailymail.co.uk/culture/gfest-is-upon-us/ You are here: Home / Culture / GFEST is upon us! GFEST is upon us! November 5, 2011 By Raymund VN:D [1.9.11_1134] Rating: 3.8/ 5 (4 votes cast) GFEST is upon us. Now in its fifth year, London’s LGBT arts festival will be showcasing the best in visual arts, film and performance. Expect highbrow debate, queer controversy and a good old fashioned love-in. The Gaily Mail caught up with one of this year’s artists, Paul Chisholm, to discuss price tags, exhibiting in New York and the issue of Jesus’ HIV status. GFEST – in a nutshell, what’s it all about and how important is LGBT arts in today’s society? GFEST is London’s only lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Arts Festival. LGBT arts are very important in society. There is still a long way to go in gaining equality both abroad and here in the UK.  Art is one of the best tools for changing opinions. GFEST is very selective in ...

Noisy Rain Magazine Volume 1, Issue 5, September 2011.  Here is a selection of pages from the article published about my work. 

Id like to share with you a new article written about my Art, in issue five of noisy rain magazine, dedicated to showcasing Gay Art...... see the link below ! Enjoy ! x  http://issuu.com/ehirano/docs/noisy_rain_magazine_issue_v/1

Clarity through mixed messages Published:  Wednesday, June 15, 2011 3:01 PM CDT BY LILY BOUVIER  Print E-mail Comment  ( 1 comment(s) ) Rate    Text Size     How do you put more than 30 years of pandemic struggle, horror and death into words? In “Mixed Messages,” over 40 artists try their hands at expressing the HIV/AIDS crisis through whatever means possible — from words scrawled on bathroom walls and ceiling ducts, to statements proclaimed in paintings, prints and sculptures, to messages stamped on door handles and floor mats. All of these methods, and more, are employed to communicate messages meant to end the silence (and death) that still persists. The brilliance of those concise messages resides in their endless possibilities: “You do what you do/And they do what they do” (James Joyce), “So what if I did” (Lou Laurita), “Lifestyles/Ultra Sensitive” (Sam McKinniss), “Touch Me” (Yoko Ono). Each can mean one thing to the artist, another to the vi...

mailto: A gallery, an email address, and a printer June 3-24, 2011   //   Opening reception: Friday, June 3   //   7-11pm  Drift Station Gallery is pleased to announce our next exhibition  mailto: , an exhibition built around the open portal of an email address. Beginning in early May, works or messages of any kind sent in the body of an email or as an attachment to anything@driftstation.org were printed and hung, up through the end of the opening reception. 652 emails, totaling over 2,500 pages were printed and installed. mailto:  argues for a curatorial practice akin to chaos theory or aleatoric musical composition – that the initiation of a specific but open structure creates unexpected and diverse results. As the digital files (up until this point infinitely malleable and scalable) reach the printer, they are made manifest as fixed, physical objects; when hung on the gallery wall they each represent a small document in a cur...

The Final Show at metafora was a great evening ! A chance to celebrate a hard working residency, and a dream come true ! Now its time to move onwards and upwards ! With a show in New York opening tonight ! A move to Palma, Mallorca, where i will open my own studio, and viewing Gallery, More info on this in the coming months ! 

For the first time my work will be shown amongst such Art stars as Felix- Gonzalez Torres, + Yoko Ono ! Very exciting ! Go check out the show if you are in New York this June !

Nos complace invitarte a la inaguración de"¿para aqui o para llevar?", la exposición del final de año del Taller Internacional, Metàfora, Tallers d'Art Contemporani. Inaguración Viernes 27 de Mayo, 19'30 Metàfora, Calle Papin 29, Sants (metro: Plaza De Sants). La exposición estará abierta entre el 30 de mayo y el 1 de junio, 9'15-18'00

Paul Chisholm “ I love Alella “ Three t-shirts, Man, Woman, Child., Printed Logo 2011 Paul Chisholm work for the Alella project takes the iconic image “ I LOVE NY “ created by Milton Glaser and he re-appropriates the image to give a gift to the small Catalan village of Alella. The Logo has been copied millions of times not just for NY but also for Cities and Towns across the World. This time however the work has been subverted for the Alella community. Not only using the Catalan flag but also the image of the “ little wing “ The Icon for Alella. This work explores issues of identity both collectivley as a village and the singularity of each individuals identity within the community of Alella. Who will wear these t- shirts ? Normally it would be a tourist who has visited the place and Loved it ! However this work asks the people of Alella to try on a T-shirt which identifies them to the home they live ; Alella. Pablo Chisholm "M'encanta Alella...

Catala - Espanol "Projecte Alella / Alella Project" Group exhibition of artistic interventions in Alella We look forward to see you at the opening on May 6th at 19:30 The first weeks of May Alella will be busy with working artists from Metàfora, Tallers d'Art Contemporani, Barcelona. Each of them will work to make artistic interventions or art projects based on reflections on the culture, history and contemporary reality of Alella. The result of this artistic research be viewed from 6 May at the exhibition place Can Manyé in Alella. The exhibition will present a series of installations, paintings, photographs and video projects based on this process of discovering and knowing the village. With the works produced by the artists and their outsider’s view, the exhibitions offers a reflection on the identity of Alella. "Project Alella / Alella Project" will suggest a new perspective on the dichotomy between internal and external spaces, between the...

"Provocation" Jesus had HIV, 2010 " Provocation is a work made in response to the words of Pastor Xola Skosana In South Africa. He made this statement to de-stigmatise those who are affected by HIV and AIDS, This work aims to bring these issues to light within the Art consuming community. Jesus did indeed suffer for our existence and he also loves each and every one of us despite our status. The Artists views on religion are; that it has a strong influence upon many cultures and communities and it can bring forth strong feelings and debates despite ones belief. The artist himself is non-religious and believes that there may or may not have been some fictitious man called Jesus, However the power to Provocate using Religious symbology, text or references has the power to make humanity consider the way it treats each other. Which is one of the over riding intentions of this young Artist. Andreas Serrano created " Piss christ " a photograph of Jesus on the...

http://bb-bodylanguage.blogspot.com/2011/04/male-art-comes-into-its-own.html MONDAY, APRIL 18, 2011 Male Art Comes Into Its Own  Fifty years ago this book,  100 Artists of the Male Figure,  may have been considered an outrage or an affront. Few artists were working figuratively and fewer still were concentrating on men. Thirty years ago, this book might have been dismissed as a “gay” thing or a “guy” thing, as something relating to “coming out” or grandstanding. Thankfully those days are over.  Today, the most remarkable aspect of the book is not that it is only about men, but that it has tremendous range, expertise and emotion, even with the narrow focus. But maybe the focus is not so narrow. Men, after all, number about half of the 7 billion people on the planet, why shouldn't they have an art book (or many art books) celebrating themselves?  Furthermore, speaking as a heterosexual woman of a certain age, I frankly have to admit that I enjoy looking at men! As...

What? The Artists' Lottery Syndicate is a forty-strong collective of UK based artists who are joining forces to play  The National Lottery  over the course of a year, with the hope of hitting the jackpot. The Syndicate will run from 1 July 2010 - 1 July 2011. Why? As a reaction to the recession and its knock-on effect on arts funding, the Artists' Lottery Syndicate is a speculative new scheme for acquiring funds for artists. By utilising the element of 'luck', which plays such a central role in an artist's career, the Syndicate aims to explore the prevalent 'winner-takes-all' market of the arts, described by Hans Abbing in his book  Why Are Artists Poor? As well as these cynical undertones, playing on the 'lucky break' aspirations of many artists, the Syndicate also has a collective spirit. Inspired by the definition of a 'syndicate' as  a group of people 'joining forces', working together for a common goal , it aims to be a social ...

Mixed Messages: Visual AIDS at La MaMa Mixed Messages: A(I)DS, Art + Words June 2 – July 3, 2011 Opening Reception:  Thursday, June 2 from 6:00 – 8:00 PM  La MaMa La Galleria  6 E. 1st Street New York City Mixed Messages: A(I)DS, Art + Words  curated by  John Chaich  for  Visual AIDS , presents over forty text-based works by visual artists and designers whose reactions to and connections through HIV/AIDS reflect the contemporary moment’s tenor on the pandemic. From painting to print, sculpture   and installation, the featured works juxtapose publicly intended messages with deeply personal revelations, which are at once polemic and poetic, positive and negative, both in tone and form.  Featuring the artwork of over 40 artists and designers, including  General Idea, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Gran Fury, Deborah Kass, Glenn Ligon, Yoko Ono, Jack Pierson, Kay Rosen, David Wojnarowicz,  and Rob Wynne. and............ Paul...