My most favorite solo show that I have done, ever is open at the Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento.
I love the paintings and the film and the way that they are working together.
It's my first show since leaving the commerical gallery world completely, and I truly enjoyed creating it. I hope you can make it to the talk and reception.
Enid Baxter Blader Lecture*
March 12/ 3 pm
Opening Reception
March 12 / 6 - 9 pm
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One of my hobbies is co-Directing the Monterey Bay Film Society.
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Director Peter Sillen will introduce the screening and take questions. Seating is limited. Film Programmer Mike Plante (Associate Programmer, Sundance and Creative Director, MBFS) will also be present at the event. Plante selected the film to screen because it fits with great literary tradition of the Monterey Bay area, while furthering the MBFS mission to continue championing films that might otherwise go unseen while supporting filmmakers who tell stories in a distinct and stylish way.
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INFORMATION ECONOMY Exhibition Dates: January 22 - March 6, 2011 Opening Reception: Saturday, January 22, 6-9PM |
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Performances and Events: January 22 at 6PM Ecstatic Energy Consultants, Inc. will commemorate Dumbo Arts Center's new location (111 Front St.) and new director Karl Erickson by performing a House Blessing. EEC Inc.'s field agents Tom McKenzie and Steven L. Anderson will lead a participatory ceremony to sweep out old ghosts and usher in a positive, productive, new energy. The new era of Dumbo Arts Center begins now! February 3 at 6:30PM Mary Jeys & Jesse Suchmann, creators of the Brooklyn Torch, a local currency initiative, will be holding a swap: gallery visitors are invited to bring an item or service for exchange either immediately, or later on through available vouchers. DAC will exhibit the ledger documenting these exchanges as part of Information Economy. Feburary 13 from 6-9PM Original Cockette and archivist Rumi Missabu will present A Cocktail of Glamour and Anarchy. February 16 from 7-9PM A conversation and film screening with Rumi Missabu, moderated by NYU Professor Joe E. Jeffreys, creator of Drag Show Verite. Films will include: -PAG-THE LADY IS DEAD: director: Roy Raz 2010 - INTERIORS: director: David Riley 2010 - CHILDREN OF THE COCKETTES: director: Ben Wa (in progress) - THE GLITTER EMERGENCY: director: Paul Festa 2010 - RUMI & FRANCOIS @ CLICK + DRAG: director: Joe E. Jeffreys 2010 March 6, time TBA A new rock opera by Rachel Mason.
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Hours:
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Second
Saturday of each month, 6-9 pm
Admission:
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Smithsonian,
Sundance and Getty Museum exhibited
filmmaker Enid Baxter Blader to present films at CCAS
August 21st at 2:00
The Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento will show three video works by Aptos, California-based artist Enid Baxter Blader on August 21 at 2pm. A filmmaker, musician and painter, Blader’s work have exhibited at the Smithsonian in Washington DC, Sundance in Park City, Utah, and the Getty Museum in Los Angeles. Currently an Assistant Professor of Digital Cinema at CSU, Monterey Bay, she also lectures internationally on apocalyptic media. The work offers the viewer a glimpse of everyday apocalypses, which she defines as the ending of the familiar and the beginning of something new.
In Local 909er (16 mm film and digital video, 30 minutes), Blader examines the rapid suburbanization and transformation of the geographic area of Inland Empire in Southern California. The fast-growing population has resulted in master-planned communities, mega malls and “McMansions” replacing the once vast expanse of vineyards, orange groves and cow fields. Secret Apocalyptic Love Diaries (video, 12 minutes) is an ongoing episodic series that Blader shot with her “Frankenstein Camera” made of parts from old TV cameras. She describes Diaries as a “small-time apocalypse” about relationships. An excerpt of Blader’s Planet Ord will be shown that documents the de-commissioned Fort Ord Army Base, which is now the site of the CSU, Monterey Bay campus.
Admission is free to current CCAS members and student; general admission is $5.00. Seating is extremely limited, and will be on a first-come first-served basis. Doors open at 1:30.
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I am very excited to be part of the 'Set Theory' exhibition at Torrance Art Museum, opening on May 1st. The exhibition is centered around Roland Reiss, who was my MFA thesis advisor, a decade ago. The painting included in the exhibition (above) is of a sand dune in Seaside.
Here is the brief statement that I gave the catalog writer:
My paintings are done on linen with canola oil-based paint. They have energetic brushwork, and are full of humor and hope. I paint about places, and I often feature 'highway signs.' These are homemade large-scale inspirational messages that appear along the sides of roads in American rural areas. Sometimes the signs are heartbreaking, sometimes inspirational, sometimes frightening.
This particular painting is about a giant sand dune in Seaside, CA. Every day, someone climbs the side and creates messages about of dried seaweed. Once, I drove by, and there was just a heart.
I also make films. My paintings and films are always narrative, highlighting small interstitial moments.
(Apologies - I rarely write about my work. I haven't written an artists' statement in years. I am very rusty.)
Roland always encouraged me as a storyteller, even when narrative work was not in vogue. He encouraged me to develop as a painter and experimental filmmaker which is an unusual combination. He is someone who also experiments across media, and who explores unusual materials and subjects.
In 2008, I started the Monterey Bay Teen Film Festival. In 2010, Chris Carpenter, Mike Plante, Hayley Allison and I expanded it to become the Monterey Bay Film Festival.
Here's a great article about the fest:
In the Shorts
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The debut Monterey Bay Film Festival amasses a whirlwind of striking short films.What do a group of teenage girls incarcerated at Salinas Juvenile Hall, Watsonville high school kids and an award-winning animator have in common? They are all filmmakers with short films screening this Saturday at the inaugural Monterey Bay Film Festival, an expanded version of last year’s Teen Film Festival.
“This year, the whole festival is framed to be intergenerational,” says Enid Baxter Blader, CSU Monterey Bay’s Teledramatic Arts and Technology department chair. “We have films by teens who learned from college students and films by college students and established filmmakers, who the college students learn from.”
CSUMB film students have been leading Young Filmmakers Program workshops at nine cites throughout Monterey County, including programs at Seaside Boys and Girls Club and the Salinas Community Center. The goal of it is to teach local 13-17 year-olds how to make their own short films. This year, there were 212 submissions competing for the festival’s 12 available spots. The college students running the workshops were tasked with a difficult selection process. “This is how [the students] get the experience of putting together a film festival,” Blader says. “The process is extremely selective, so all the films showing at the festival are amazing.”
The program will open with a film by an Armenian teen about a young boy who works in a tombstone factory. Another one of the standouts isLetters From Within, a collaborative effort made by two CSUMB students and girls serving time at Salinas Juvenile Hall. The film tells the gripping stories of the teen girls’ lives through their letters and poetry.
“[Letters] is going to win a lot of awards in the future,” Blader says.
There will also be a screening of five films by current CSUMB students, including a claymation short, The Sniffer, and a quirky music video shot on a local beach.
Following the teen and college short film segments, Blader enlisted of her longtime cine-pal Mike Plante—a programmer for the Sundance Film Festival—to put together an additional shorts program to complete the intergenerational triangle. “Right now, [Plante] is probably the most important film festival programmer in the country,” Blader says.
Plante explains that it’s important for the festival to begin modestly and grow a little bit each year. Currently, there’s a mobile application in the works.
“We didn’t want to go nuts the first year,” he says. “We wanted to do something we knew we’d be able to pull off.
Just by having the festival we’re going to start making connections with people in the area and interest will grow; we have to make it manageable so people can have a good time and not feel overwhelmed.”
The enthusiastic film fest guru says that he watches more than 5,000 films every year for Sundance and other festivals; he keeps an ongoing list of gems that sometimes don’t make it into festival lineups. For MBFF, Plante chose 11 stellar shorts that he considers to be “really good, unusual films” that locals will dig.
“These are great films that I want people to see,” Plante says. “I tried to hone in a little bit about what may play good in Monterey.”
Plante took into account the county’s rich literary history and diverse population to construct a tasty plate of mini celluloid samplings.
Notes on the Other, directed by Sergio Oksman, is a pseudo-documentary and quasi-autobiographical toast to the mysterious and romantic life (and death) of Ernest Hemmingway, starring a number of the author’s look-alikes and featuring the running of the bulls in Pamplona.
Two-time Academy Award nominee Don Hertzfeldt uses stick figures with flashy backgrounds to tell a very human story in his animated short I Am so Proud of You.
Topaz Adizes’ Laredo, Texas is an 11-minute border story—which takes place in the biggest inland port city in the U.S.—about a the tension-filled interaction between an undocumented immigrant and a guy on his first day at a new job.
The Sundance-selected Charlie and the Rabbit—directed by CSUMB alumni Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck and Robert Machoian—delightfully follows a trotting toddler on a mission to hunt his own rabbit, Elmer Fudd style.
Next year, Plante already plans to add a selection of feature-length films. In addition to bringing subversive films to the area, the festival will pair CSUMB students with working filmmakers. “Students will get access to people working in film around the country on a similar level,” Plante says. “A lot of the stuff I’m showing was made for a few thousand dollars, with no studio backing and a small crew.”
Plante, who works with other festivals around the country besides Sundance, is making it his personal mission to spread the word around the industry about the MBFF and CSUMB the rising film program.
“I see it becoming a multi-venue festival featuring local content, literature and activism,” Blader says. “Mike and I have big plans and we think the community is going to rise to the occasion.”
The Monterey Bay Film Festival begins 1pm Saturday, April 3, at CSUMB World Theater, Sixth Avenue, Seaside. Free. 582-4580.
Pride and Joy: Don Hertzfeldt’s “existential’” film, I Am So Proud Of You, has previously shown at the Sundance Film Festival.
at the Torrance Museum of Art: http://www.torranceartmuseum.com Set Theory 1 - Roland Reiss Main Gallery May 1 - June 12, 2010 Opening Reception: Saturday, May 1, 6-10pm The Set Theory series of exhibitions deals with the overlapping personal dialogues between artists, over a period of time and based around a central nexus-point artist, engaging with the intellectual and practical shared concerns and discussions held between them. This year’s inaugural choice as the nexus point artist is Roland Reiss with artists: Dion Johnson, Brad Eberhard, Dawn Arrowsmith, Lisa Adams, Terri Friedman, Jacci Den Hartog, Aitor Lajarin, Enid Baxter Blader, Dean DeCocker, Kristi Lippire, Margaret Adachi, Wendell Gladstone, Jason Eoff and Michael Salerno
