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DINING HAUL COCHON BALL ARTE DA MANGIARE
Curator of food-themed, multi-media contemporary art exhibitions. Unconventional venues: the interiors of large moving trucks parked for a day, vacant meat lockers, pastry school, restaurant kitchens, and urban brickyards. Collaborators: artists, dancers, musicians, writers, chefs, restaurants, farmers, farmers’ markets, health clinics, and many theme-related sponsors.
CURATOR & ARTIST
1st Ever Annual, Corcoran Street Pie Fellowship
Dupont Circle, Washington, D.C. 2019
First-ever, block party extravaganza where all the residents made and presented 100% homemade pies. There was a DJ and a STEM/engineering table where the ideas of motion and resisitance were explained through hands-on model making.
Collaborators: Alisoun Meehan, NYC CUNY Professor of Engineering & Technology Masato Nakimura, DJ Alex Khalchenia of firstinspacestudio.com, all of our lovely neighbors especially those who researched and baked pies for the very first time!!
Cochon Ball: When Scrubs Fly
Vacant grassy field, Chartres St., Marigny, NOLA 2010
The 2nd annual costumed, health-themed, human foosball sporting event while local chefs & NYC artist roasted six wild hogs in the opposing goalies. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, we celebrated the surge of pop-up farmer’s markets and local health clinics as Charity Hospital closed, the second longest operating public hospital in the United States. Participants wore medical scrubs, and white lab coats.
Collaborators: Alisoun Meehan, NYC artist Lars Kremer, Farmer Justin Pitts, BBQ chef Budd Hirons, Naval Air Station JRB New Orleans, ArtDocs, NOMC, Daughters of Charity, Tulane Community Health Center at Covenant House, Hollygrove Market and Farm, Blair Grocery, Market Umbrella, Uniform Advantage, local hay growers, and many quiet sponsors.
Chinatown Series
Good Children Gallery, St. Claude Arts District, NOLA 2009
Solo exhibition. Twelve wall-sized pastel drawings depicting the window displays of Chinatown, NYC.
Everything Must Go Benefit
Good Children Gallery, St. Claude Arts District, NOLA 2009
Artists: Grimanesa Amoros, Anny Shaw & Stephen Hilaer, Cody Arnall, Robin Atkinson, Scott Barnes, Jessica Bizer, Kyle Bravo, Charisse Celino, Stephen Collier, Sandy Chism, Ernest Concepcion, Diogo De Lima, Rachel Detrinis, Matt C. Enger & Mark Enger, Mallory Feltz, Janina S. Fischer, Jeff Forsythe, Kit French, Daniel Fuselier, Rebecca Frank, G.A.S.(Tony Campbell & Matt Vis), Guerilla Haiku Team, Keith Griffiths, Brian Guidry, Shawn Hall, Robert Hannant, Nessim Higson, Jayme Kalal, Christina Kee, Kourtney Keller, Vannie Kenneth, Erik Kiesewetter, Matthew Kirscht, Lars Kremer, Barbie L’Hoste, Travis Linde, Srdjan Loncar, Daphne Loney, Malcolm McClay, Dennis McNet, Arturo Meade, Alisoun Meehan, Nick Nehez, Natalie Nichols, John Oles, Richard O’Russa, Carlos Pez, Adrian Price, Rajko Radovanovic, Lala Rascic, Allison Reagan, Jeff Rinehadt, Marie Roberts, Ron Rule, Chris Saucedo, Natalie Sciortino-Rinehart, Maxx Sizeler, Sara Smith, Regina Scully, Stephanie Akemi Soucy, Steve Speres, Eric Steinberg, Minka Stoyanova, Julia Schwadron, Alexandra Szkafarowsky, Dan Tague, Davitt Terrell, Betty Tompkins, Jonathan Traviesa, Ryan WH, Esther Wallace, Dr. Wheelie, Frances Wong, Jeremy Yuslum.
Collaborators: Alisoun Meehan, Jessica Bizer, Stephen Collier, Generic Art Solutions: G.A.S. (Tony Campbell & Matt Vis), Brian Guidry, Srdjan Loncar, Daphne Loney, Malcolm McClay, Adrian Price, Rajko Radovanovic, Christopher Saucedo, Dan Tague.
I am a Video
Good Children Gallery, St. Claude Arts District, NOLA 2009
Artists: Rachel deTrenis, Kate Gilmore, Diana Heise, Jeremy Mitchell Pelt, John Pilson, Ray Rapp.
Collaborators: Alisoun Meehan, Stephen Collier.
Cochon Ball: A Pig Field Folly
Vacant brickyard, Chatres St., Bywater, NOLA 2009
The 1st annual costumed, hog-themed, human foosball sporting event while local NOLA chefs and NYC artist roasted pigs in the opposing goalies. We celebrated small U.S. independent farms preserving rare American hog breeds, the recorded oral histories of Cajun boudin sausage makers, pigs in the media (Kevin Bacon, Miss Piggy, etc). All participants wore pink-red coloured sausage-themed shirts. It was the closing event for New Orleans’ first Prospect 1, Biennial.
Collaborators: Alisoun Meehan, NYC artist Lars Kremer, James Beard award winning chefs Donald Link & Stephen Stryjewski of Cochon Restaurant, James beard Foundation, Food writer Sara Roahen, hosted by KK Projects Life is Art Foundation, Southern Foodways Alliance, The Food and Beverage Museum, Slow Food NOLA Chapter, and the Crescent City Farmer’s Market Organization, Maveric Heritage Ranch Co., American Apparel (donated shirts), Whole Foods Market, local Satsuma farmers Aloma and Kenneth Savastrano, Home Depot, Lowes, many quiet sponsors.
Tee shirts: Alisoun Meehan, Lars Kremer
Contranym & Tropism
Chashama, ABC Gallery, 169 Ave. C @10th St., Lower East Side, NYC 2008
Awarded the New Voices Curatorial Award for two exhibitions.
Artists: Robert Delford Brown, John Cage, Victoria Fu, Stephanie Loveless, Brian Kim Stefans.
Lecture performance: Mark Bloch.
Collaborators: Alisoun Meehan, Kelly Kivland, Christopher D. Stackhouse.
Game Bird Sampler: New Works
White Box Gallery @ The Annex, Chelsea, NYC 2007
Artists: Alisoun Meehan, William Anastasi, Nancy Barber, Dove Bradshaw, Fernando Colon-Gonzalez, Richard Edson, Mark Enger, Mathew C. Enger, G.A.S. as Tony Campbell & Matt Vis, Mahmoud Hamadani, Jibade-Khalil Huffman, Rebecca Major, Andrew Moszynski, Jason Nickel, Christopher D. Stackhouse, Jomar Statkun, William Stone, LeRone Wilson, and Mandy Wilson.
Collaborators: Alisoun Meehan, Christopher D. Stackhouse.
Five Sublime
White Box @ The Annex, Chelsea, NYC 2003
Five artists (African American, Caucasian, Latino) referencing an inclusive history of 20th c. Abstract painting.
Artists: Fernando Colon, Peter Fox, Wally Schrank, Christopher D. Stackhouse, and LeRone Wilson.
Collaborators: Alisoun Meehan, Christopher D. Stackhouse.
Gun & Wound Show
White Box Gallery @ The Annex, Chelsea, NYC 2003
Diptych exhibition in opposition to the 2003 US invasion of Iraq.
Artists: Alisoun Meehan & Christopher Meehan, Elizabeth Alderman, Erik Bakke, Tom Burtonwood & Holly Holmes, Margaret Carlton, Theo Coulombe & Jameson Ellis, Burr Dodd, Christopher Draeger, Mark Enger & Matt Enger, Rosemarie Fiore, Thomas Florschuetz, Margaret Evangeline, Harold Garrison, Luke Joerger, Chad Kleitsch, Charles Krafft, Carter Kustera, Rebecca Major & Sophie Malleret, Ronald Parisi, Javier Pinon, Ann Sappenfield, Koji Shimizu, Janice Sloane, Albert Wilking, Jeff Wyckoff.
Tee shirts: Alisoun Meehan, Ann Sappenfield.
LIC SALON
Long Island City, Queens, NY 2002
Art salon exhibiting works in progress.
Artists: Alisoun Meehan, Andrew Chan, Burr Dodd, Tony Gray, Jesse Lambert, Jin Lee, Miranda Lloyd, Ilse Murdock, Javier Pinon, Lisa Sanditz, Ann Sappenfield, Christopher D. Stackhouse, Tillamook Cheddar, and Mie Yim.
Collaborators: Alisoun Meehan, Christopher D. Stackhouse.
Arte da Mangiare no. 2
Cinque Terre/Jolly Madison Towers, Midtown, NYC 2003
Executive Chef Giovanni Sias and Alisoun created a signature herbal ‘memory menu’ relating to the Sardinian herb garden of his childhood, while Alisoun’s exhibited her landscape drawings of Sardinia in the dining room.
Collaborators: Alisoun Meehan, Chiara Carfi, Tizia Tronci, Topylabrys (Arte da Mangiare in Milano, Italy), Chef Giovanni Sias.
Arte da Mangiare no. 1
Citywide, NYC 2002
A two-week long, food themed festival held in multiple sites around NYC. Exhibitions and events took place starting at the United Nations, moved on to the menus of blue-chip restaurants in Tribeca, NYC, and ended up at the NY Chocolate Show.
Collaborators: Alisoun Meehan, Chiara Carfi, Tizia Tronci, Topylabrys (Arte da Mangiare in Milano, Italy).
1. Chefs & Artists
United teams of Executive Chefs and NYC artists who created signature menus, while each artist exhibited their works in their respective restaurants during the two-week festival.
• Delegates Dining Room at the United Nations: Executive Chef Ed Lake and Alisoun created a signature menu, then transformed the entire executive kitchen where they served a lavish luncheon for forty Italian dignitaries, product CEO’s, and visiting Italian artists. Alisoun exhibited six wall-sized meat drawings in the UN’s Delegate’s Dining Room.
• Chanterelle: Chef Kate Zuckerman & LeRone Wilson
• Laylah: Chef Frank Proto & Stephen J. Shanabrook
• Le Zinc: Chef Michael Sullivan & Christopher D. Stackhouse
• Nobu New York: Chef Edwyn Ferrari & Topylabrys
• The Harrison: Chef Joey Campanaro & Andrew Chan
• Tribeca Bakery/Grill: Chef Stephane Motir & Lisa Sanditz
2. The Strainer
Sculpture exhibition interpreting the strainer. Thirty-five Italian artists, all attended opening.
• Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimo, NYU, Chelsea, NYC
Artists: Bellini, I.Brancaccio, G. Bravi, M.A. Cangiano, I. Cappelletti, Caputo diRcoccanova, A. Caruso, A. Ceriani, A. Chiari, A. Consilvio, S. Dameri, G.D Anna, M. L. Imperiali, N. Kherli, I. Lisimberti, A. Lohmann, S. Manazza, Masciarelli, M. Micozzi, C. Molteni, D. Mori, A. Muka, F. Naalin, E. Oneto, Pollidori, L. Rendina, F. Rinaldi, G. Rubicco, Spelta, S. Soddu, T. Tettamanti, Titonel, Topylabrys, V. Vivani, D. Weisz, M. Wolf.
3. Chocolate Visual
Created the first art booth, exhibiting contemporary artwork, all referencing chocolate.
• The NYC Chocolate Show 2002, Chelsea, NYC.
Artists: Alisoun Meehan, LeRone Wilson, Stephen J. Shanabrook, Topylabrys.
Dining Haul: Unpacked no. 4
Two vacant meat lockers, Washington St., Meat Packing District, NYC 2002
Transformed two adjoining meat lockers into temporary galleries, hung artwork on meat hooks, while a performance of Butoh dancers slow-motioned Sumo wrestled in a giant pool of coleslaw to beat-box music. Created a neighborhood map which listed MPD businesses, who for two weeks, closed late every night while Dining Haul: Unpacked no. 4 was open.
Artists: Alisoun Meehan, Micheal Anderson, Eliot Brodsky, Matt Brookens, Galina Chevchenko, Jennifer Dalton, Burr Dodd & Ewald Notter, Jeanne Friscia, Dan Frydman, Jeffrey Gibson, Lisa Gould, Elliott Grant, Jeph Gurecka, Tillamook Cheddar & Bowman Hastings, Jennifer Karady, Donna Kessinger, Pam Kray, Mary Magsamen, Rebecca Major, Mark Mann, Jillian Mcdonald, Crandall Miller & Mike Johnson, Robert Miller, Ilse Murdock, Christian Nguyen, Rune Arne Berge Olsen, Jose Parla, Stephanie Schafer, Stephanie Patton, Victoria Reynolds, Arlene Roza, June Russell, Gecko Saccomanno & Misa Martin, Serena Schonbrun, Stephen J. Shanabrook, Liz Shapiro, Brandon Smith, Ellen Lousie Smith, Christopher D. Stackhouse, Laura Stein, Wade Sturdivant, Ralph Syverson, Dirk Westphal.
Musician: Terry “Kid Lucky” Lewis, beat box performer
Dancers: Naked butoh dancers by Hayley Downs
Film: 30 Dirty Films
Sugar Craze
A Taste of Art, Tribeca, NYC 2002
Edible sugar projects on display from Dining Haul: Sweets.
Artists: Alisoun Meehan, Luke Joerger, Burr Dodd & Ewald Notter, LeRone Wilson & Andrew Shotts.
Dining Haul: Sweets
Andrew Shotts’ Pastry Kitchen, 26th St., Chelsea, NYC 2002
Transformed a professional pastry school/kitchen into a temporary art gallery. Created Pastry Chef and NYC artist teams to create unique, multi-media edible cake and sugar sculptures.
Pastry Chefs & Artists
• Cake Chef Colette Peters & Alisoun Meehan
• Cake Chef Margaret Braun & Luke Joerger
• Pastry Chef Colleen Grapes & Stephen J. Shanabrook
• Pastry Chef Ewald Notter & Burr Dodd
• Chocolatier Andrew Shotts & LeRone Wilson
Musician: Ed Davis, NY subway musician, performed classical violin.
Dining Haul: Trucks set for Twelve
Thirteen parked trucks, W. 24th St, Chelsea, NYC 2001
Transformed thirteen 26ft refrigerator/moving trucks into professional art galleries. All trucks were parked on Chelsea’s block buster gallery row.Each artist was given a truck of their choice, to house a solo show for 12 hours.
Artists: Alisoun Meehan, Jim Brossy, Jeph Gurecka & Craig Colorusso, Jennifer Karady, Jillian Mcdonald, Libby McInnis, Ilse Murdock, Stuart Nicholson, Mimi Oka & Doug Fitch, Mary Sargent, Stephen J. Shanabrook, and Simone Shubuck.
Tee shirts: Alisoun Meehan, Ann Sappenfield.
The NY Chocolate Show 2001
Metropolitan Pavilion, Chelsea, NYC 2001
Solo Exhibition. Organized its inaugural exhibition of contemporary artwork relating to chocolate, cakes, and candies.
Dining Haul: An Art Show in Parked Trucks
Four parked trucks, W. 24th St, Chelsea, NYC 2001
Transformed five 26ft refrigerator/moving trucks. All trucks were parked on Chelsea’s block buster gallery row. Each artist was given a truck in which to exhibit a one-day solo show. Viewers climbed inside.
Artists: Alisoun Meehan, Jeph Gurecka, Mimi Oka & Doug Fitch, and Stephen J. Shanabrook.
Lego, Breasts, and Thighs
Flame Gallery, N. 7th, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY 2000
Created a two-week art gallery for the Williamsburg Elsewhere 2000 Arts Festival.
Artists: Alisoun Meehan, Burr Dodd, Zachary Meadows, John Pamer, Amy L. Steiner, and Shoshannah White.
Collaborators: Alisoun Meehan, Burr Dodd.
Prologue
Brooklyn Fireproof, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY 2000
Artists: Alisoun Meehan, Jeremiah Clancy, Glen Garner, Duane McDermiad, Jillian McDonald, Bob Partington, Dalton Portella, Christine Sciulli, Ellen Louise Smith, Angela Waters.
Collaborators: Alisoun Meehan, Burr Dodd.
First Show
Brooklyn Fireproof, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY 2000
The inaugural exhibition.
Artists: Alisoun Meehan, Burr Dodd, Duane McDermiad, Christine Sciulli, Ellen Louise Smith, and Shawn Spencer.
Collaborators: Alisoun Meehan, Burr Dodd.
Meat Saved For Later But Never Eaten
Loft, W. 22nd St, Chelsea, NYC 1997
Solo exhibition. Created a temporary gallery. Exhibited ten wall-sized pastel drawings of meats & sweets.
Flavor on a Budget
William Proctor Art Center of Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 1994
Senior Project. Exhibited ten wall-sized pastel drawings of meats & sweets.
GROUP ♦ EXHIBITIONS
December’s Letters, Orgy Park, Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY 2014
Mail art exchange, which went missing, and subsequently the search became part of the art project.
Collaborators: Alisoun Meehan, GCA Gallery, Professor Mary Kosut, Ph.D., Mike Schreiber (email needlepoint submission)
Provisions, Nathan Cummings Foundation & Rush Philanthropic, Chelsea, NYC 2010
3 Day Lock Down, Good Children Gallery, St Claude Arts District, NOLA 2009
Thirteen Gallery members lived in gallery for 3-days straight while making work. (wall painting)
Collaborators: Alisoun Meehan, Jessica Bizer, Stephen Collier, Generic Art Solutions: G.A.S. (Tony Campbell & Matt Vis), Brian Guidry, Srdjan Loncar, Daphne Loney, Malcolm McClay, Adrian Price, Rajko Radovanovic, Christopher Saucedo, Dan Tague.
Knead, KK Projects/Life is Art Foundation, Bywater, NOLA 2009
Art House for Build Now, Houses for Katrina, NOLA 2009
Crescent City Meat, Bob Tannen’s Studio 527, Julia St., NOLA 2009
Choice Cuts, Inaugural exhibition, Good Children Gallery, St Claude Arts District, NOLA 2009
Femme Fest 2009 Women Artists in NOLA, Jazz & Herritage Gallery, French Quarter, NOLA 2009
Relative Value$: St. Claude on Julia St., Bob Tannen’s Studio 527, Julia St., NOLA 2009
Brucennial 08: Doing it Again, Bruce High Quality Foundation, Brooklyn, NY 2008
Masquerade Red Ball Benefit, White Box Gallery, Chelsea, NYC 2008 (sugar sculpture submission)
Making a Home: Japanese Contemporary Artists in New York, Japan Society Gallery, NYC 2008
Collaborators: Emiko Kasahara, Alisoun Meehan (audio submission)
Aljira Emerge 8 Exhibition, Aljira A Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ 2007
Food Art, A Taste of Art, Tribeca, NYC 2003
Snoop-Snoop Fate, The LMCC/Workspace: The Woolworth Building, Tribeca, NYC 2003
Collaborators: PRAXIS, Alisoun Meehan (two-sec video submission)
Collarobations, National Arts Club, Chelsea, NYC 2002
Collaborators: Tillamook Cheddar, Alisoun Meehan (sugar sculpture submission)
Dirty 30, LA, CA 2002, Video exhibition (9/11 video submission)
42nd St. Windows: Tele Twin Towers, Chashama, Times Square, NYC 2002 (9/11 video submission)
Reflect Rebuild Rejoice, A Taste of Art, Tribeca, NYC 2001
Open Studios October, Brooklyn Fireproof, Brooklyn, NY 2001
Open Studios May, Brooklyn Fireproof, Brooklyn NY 2001
Opening, A Taste of Art, Tribeca, NYC 2001
Sugar, 31 Grand, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY 2000
5th Night at the Nuyorican Benefit, Lafayette St, SoHo, NYC 2000
Live girls all night: 100 female artists from NYC, loft, 9th Ave, Meat Packing District, NYC 1998
Sweets: cakes, candies, pastries, and ice cream, Bruce Lewin Gallery, SoHo, NYC 1998
Meats and Sweets, Hal Barnett Gallery, French Quarter, NOLA 1995
PRIVATE ⇒ COLLECTION
Marcel’s Restaurant, Washington, D.C.
The Trellis, Williamsburg, VA[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]