Public Welcome: Sumi Ink Club @ RAM
Exhibition: May 10, 2010-July 31, 2010
Collaborative Art Creation: May 10, 11, & 12, 2010 from noon-4 p.m.
Sumi Ink Club is a Los Angeles-based drawing collective founded in 2005 by Sarah Anderson and Luke Fischbeck. The group holds regular open meetings to execute topsy-turvy, detailed, collaborative drawings using ink on paper with anyone who wants to participate. For this work, titled Public Welcome, Sumi Ink Club met in the Art Alliance gallery for three days, drawing directly on the wall in collaboration with museum visitors. In each of its permutations, Sumi Ink Club uses group drawings as a means to open and fortify social interactions that bleed into everyday life. Sumi Ink Club is non-hierarchical: all ages, all humans, and all styles. Their hope is to build community through sharing the experience of making collaborative art.
Sumi Ink Club has chapters throughout the world and has exhibited their work in museums such as: Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, CA), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art (New York City, NY, as part of their 2008 Whitney Biennial), Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington D.C.), Walker Arts Center (Minneapolis, MN), Para-Site Gallery (Hong Kong), and Institute of Contemporary Arts (London). They have also offered workshops in museums and universities around the world, including: Stanford University, Emerson College (Boston, MA), Brown University (Providence, RI), MICA (Baltimore, MD), École Estienne (Paris, France), The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (Denmark), National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (Taichung, Taiwan), and AIMAS (Ogaki, Japan). The group has received a George Peabody Gardner Fellowship, a Rhode Island State Council for the Arts Fellowship in New Genres, and a Harvestworks New Works Residency.
Join us for the DIY Arts and Letters Fest May 29 and special performances with Lucky Dragons this summer.
