New drawing for show in Minsk, Belarus

A new drawing made for an upcoming group show in Minksk, Belarus. The show is this summer at Artplaz Gallery.

Feature in Maine Home + Design

My installation Cupcake Hunt was featured in my profile in the 2013 "Art Issue" of Maine Home + Design magazine. Curator and writer Britta Konau put this year's feature together, and it was focused on artists who work in a variety of media. The quotation in my profile reads:

"Everything starts with drawing, but I’ve never felt the need to be tied to one medium. Rather, I think of myself as a story teller, and discovering what medium will best tell the story is part of my process. I like to explore the variety of experiences a viewer might have with an intimate drawing versus, say, an environment."

Phoenix Best 2013 nomination

I have been nominated for Best Visual Artist in the Phoenix "Best of 2013" contest.
If you care to vote for me (or any of the other talented artists who have been nominated) you can do so at the Portland Phoenix Best of 2013 site here.

CIEE Contemporary Art Seminar in Mexico

I am honored to have been awarded a Ping Faculty Development Fellowship to attend the "Contemporary Art World in Context" International Faculty Development Seminar in Guanajuato, Mexico this summer. Looks like a great seminar in an incredible city. Join me! Check out details on the seminar at the CIEE site.

Tetra Projects featured in Maine Sunday Telegram

Rubicon1, "After After" 2012

A great article and video about Esta Tierra Plana / This Flat Earth and Tetra Projects appears in today's Maine Sunday Telegram. Check it out here! Thanks to Bob Keyes for his insight and attention to our efforts.

Esta Tierra Plana / This Flat Earth opens in Madrid

Esta Tierra Plana / This Flat Earth opened this past Saturday January 5 at Embajadores Con Provisiones in Madrid, Spain. All reports are that the show and reception were excellent! It travels to Portland, Maine next month for an opening on February 8th at Rose Contemporary. More details at the Tetra Projects blog.

Interview with Factory Portland

photo by Nathan Eldridge

The folks at Factory Portland interviewed me today about musical things, with a link to classic "Holy Shit, It's Christmas!" by The Hot Dogs. 

Drawn & Cornered at the Portland Museum of Art

Here are a few pictures of last night's performance of Drawn and Cornered, a project presented last night at the Portland Museum of Art by me and Harold Philbrook, with assistance from Ted Hummel. The performance was one of fourteen installations and happenings that made up Nightlight, an artist "intervention" organized by Kimberly Convery.

With assistance from Ted Hummel, patrons made drawings on sticky notes in the Great Hall and brought them up the stairs to the first floor landing, where Harold and I - wearing clinical/pod-men costumes with luminous helmets - were inside two drawing labs/pods built into the bay windows of the museum. Patrons inserted their drawings into a slot in the middle of the pod, and the drawings were stuck up on the clear walls of the pod from the inside. Harold and I also created our own drawings while inside the pods. Over the course of the two-hour event the walls of the pod were eventually obscured by the drawings on both sides, viewable from the inside and the outside of the museum. 

These are just a few snapshots from the night. If anyone else out there in Internetland has good pictures of the performance I would appreciate getting a chance to see them! Please email me at jeff@jeffbadger.com.

photo by Kimberly Convery

photo by Kimberly Convery

Site update

I did an update of my website with a dozen or so new images of 2D work, including this piece, titled Onomatopoeia. See more at www.jeffbadger.com.

Drawn & Cornered at the Portland Museum of Art

Here is another process photo of the set pieces for Drawn & Cornered, my performance with Harold Philbrook at the Portland Museum of Art on First December 7th from 5-7pm. This project keeps getting bigger and better. Going to be a fun night!

Tetra Projects presents This Flat Earth / Esta Tierra Plana

My curatorial outfit Tetra Projects is proud to present This Flat Earth / Esta Tierra Plana, a cross-Atlantic group exhibition of twenty-six artists from Spain and the US, with shows in Portland, Maine and Madrid, Spain. The show was  organized by Tetra Projects and Madrid-based Rubicon1. Shows in both cities are scheduled for January and February of 2013. Go to the Tetra Projects blog for details.

Upcoming performance at Portland Museum of Art

Harold Philbrook and Jeff Badger

I spent today building elements for an upcoming performance with Harold Philbrook at the Portland Museum of Art. It is one of a number of projects presented as part of an "intervention" titled Nightlight, curated by Kimberly Convery, scheduled for December 7th between 5:00 and 7:00pm, as part of the First Friday Art Walk and the museum's Copper Beech Tree lighting ceremony.