Pat Oleszko at Brandeis University
12/14/2016
12/14/2016
Fool for Thought
Tree of Life 2016 grantee Pat Oleszko makes a spectacle of herself—and doesn’t mind if you laugh. With elaborate handmade costumes and props, she utilizes the body as armature for ideas in an array of lampoons that call her audience to action. From the personal to the political, her performances and installations ceremoniously exorcize through humor. Hoisting an enormous burning bra on the exterior of the Women’s Studies Research Center, the exhibition Fool for Thought highlights costumes and performances from a wild variety of events including Hello Folly: The Floes & Cons of Arctic Drilling, Oldilocks and the Bewares, Stalking Walking Topiary and The Pat and the Hats. Oleszko, self-identified as the Fool in question and the questioning Fool, fans the flames with rousing absurdity and maintains that she who laughs, lasts.
November 21, 2016 - March 3, 2017
Artist's Lecture and Reception: January 25, 2017
Kniznick Gallery
Women's Studies Research Center
Brandeis University
Waltham, MA
2016 Grantees
6/13/2016
Tree of Life is pleased to announce the five artists who were selected to receive the Tree of Life Individual Artist Grant. The Grantees are:
Ann McCoy, Brooklyn, NY
Pat Oleszko, New York, NY
Gelah Penn, Brooklyn, NY
Linda Carmella Sibio, Joshua Tree, CA
Nancy Youdelman, Clovis, CA
Additional information about the artists and their projects will be posted to the website in July.
Above Image: Pat Oleszko, Darwin’s Nightmare Pa’t Two: The Half-AstroNuts Dilemma, cardboard, wood, tyvek, plastics, tape, fabric, 12 x 10 x 16 feet, 2013
6/13/2016
Tree of Life is pleased to announce the five artists who were selected to receive the Tree of Life Individual Artist Grant. The Grantees are:
Ann McCoy, Brooklyn, NY
Pat Oleszko, New York, NY
Gelah Penn, Brooklyn, NY
Linda Carmella Sibio, Joshua Tree, CA
Nancy Youdelman, Clovis, CA
Additional information about the artists and their projects will be posted to the website in July.
Above Image: Pat Oleszko, Darwin’s Nightmare Pa’t Two: The Half-AstroNuts Dilemma, cardboard, wood, tyvek, plastics, tape, fabric, 12 x 10 x 16 feet, 2013
Jane Terry at UFVA
6/13/2016
Tree of Life 2015 grantee Jane Terry's short film, Stations, will be screened at the 2016 University Film and Video Association Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. The UFVA is an international organization of professors, scholars, and film and video makers. The theme of this year's conference is Content Creation in the 21st Century. The film is supported in part by a grant from the Tree of Life Foundation.
6/13/2016
Tree of Life 2015 grantee Jane Terry's short film, Stations, will be screened at the 2016 University Film and Video Association Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. The UFVA is an international organization of professors, scholars, and film and video makers. The theme of this year's conference is Content Creation in the 21st Century. The film is supported in part by a grant from the Tree of Life Foundation.
Jane Terry at New York City Independent Film Festival
4/17/2016
Tree of Life 2015 grantee Jane Terry's short film, Stations, was named an official selection of the New York City Independent Film Festival to be held April 27 -May 1, 2016.
The film is supported in part by a grant from the Tree of Life Foundation.
4/17/2016
Tree of Life 2015 grantee Jane Terry's short film, Stations, was named an official selection of the New York City Independent Film Festival to be held April 27 -May 1, 2016.
The film is supported in part by a grant from the Tree of Life Foundation.
Kathy Rose at Epos Film Art Festival
3/8/2016
Kathy Rose, 2015 Tree of Life Grantee, will present a program of videos at the Epos Film Art Festival in the Tel Aviv Museum on March 17, 2016.
3/8/2016
Kathy Rose, 2015 Tree of Life Grantee, will present a program of videos at the Epos Film Art Festival in the Tel Aviv Museum on March 17, 2016.
The videos will include: City of Lost Moons, Rapture of the Petals, Ritual of the Fall, Opera of the Interior, Cubano Bas, The Metaphysical Paintings, No More Worry—No More Blue, She and early animation work.
Image: digital still from Cubano Bas
2016 Grant Program
1/19/2016
Tree of Life is pleased to announce that our Grant Program is now open for application. Please visit the Grant Program link on our website to download the Grant Application Guidelines and the Grant Application Form for the Individual Artist Grant. We also suggest that you visit our Contact page to join our mailing list (if you haven’t already) in order to receive updates regarding our Grant Program, and to ask any questions that are not answered in our downloadable materials. The postmark deadline for applications is April 1, 2016.
1/19/2016
Tree of Life is pleased to announce that our Grant Program is now open for application. Please visit the Grant Program link on our website to download the Grant Application Guidelines and the Grant Application Form for the Individual Artist Grant. We also suggest that you visit our Contact page to join our mailing list (if you haven’t already) in order to receive updates regarding our Grant Program, and to ask any questions that are not answered in our downloadable materials. The postmark deadline for applications is April 1, 2016.
Alyce Simon Featured in Apollo, The International Art Magazine
1/13/2016
Tree of Life founder, Alyce Simon, is featured in an article published by London-based Apollo: The International Art Magazine, in their January 2016 issue. Written by James Purdon, Atomic Matter explores ways in which post-war and contemporary artists have represented nuclear energy.
1/13/2016
Tree of Life founder, Alyce Simon, is featured in an article published by London-based Apollo: The International Art Magazine, in their January 2016 issue. Written by James Purdon, Atomic Matter explores ways in which post-war and contemporary artists have represented nuclear energy.
To read Atomic Matter, please click the above image.