This weekend a number of DART subcribers are opening exhibitions of their work, from San Francisco to Leipzig. From west to east, here’s the rundown.

Ward Schumaker at Jack Fisher Gallery, San Francisco:

Ward Schumaker, an artist who lives near the Dogpatch area of San Francisco, has created illustrations, calligraphy, and art for just about every type of printed matter imaginable. His passion for painting inflects his work, and over the past several years has taken the forefront, with one-man shows in New York, Los Angeles, Shanghai, Nashville and San Francisco.

Currently on view at Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, is Dogon Kayak, featuring recent paintings in acrylic on canvas and paper, collages, and wood sculptures inspired by Schumaker’s travels to Mali in 2005. Ritual Dogon altars gave form to Schumaker’s series of stepped, painted sculptures, titled Bandiagaras. Many of the recent paintings in the Dogon Kayak series are large in scale with designs resembling patchwork quilts, overlaid with various sizes of irregular dots.

Ward Schumaker | Dogon Kayak opens on September 12th and runs through October 17^th at Jack Fischer Gallery, 311 Potrero Avenue, San Francisco, CA.  An opening reception for the artist will be held on September 12th from three to five pm, with an artist's talk at 4:30. Website. Blog. Ward Schumaker in DART here and here. Photos, top and above, courtesy the artist. Above, left, the artist; right, the gallerist.

Jessica Lagunas at The Center for Book Arts:
Jessica Lagunas, a New York-based artist who grew up in Guatemala has made the condition of women in contemporary society the focus of her art practice. A recent grantee of the Joan Mitchel Foundation Painters & Sculptors program she currently has work in three group shows in the tri-state area.

At The Center of Book Arts, her work is included in /mit ð det/: Source Materials Visualized presents artists’ books, book-related artworks, and text-based new media that are visual interpretations, extrapolations, and recontextualizations of researched source materials such as data analysis, surveying, mapping, plotting, data mining, statistics, analytics, observations, and schemes. Feminicidio en Guatemalan (below), an artist book with statistics of the crime of feminicide from 2000 to 2010 in Guatemala, mostly taken from the National Police records, can also be seen here. The exhibition continues through September 19 at The Center for Book Arts, 28 West 27^th Street, NY, NY.

At the, College of New Rochelle, work from her Wave Hill residency is included in the exhibition Then and Now: Ten Years of Residencies at The Center for Book Arts continues through November 8, with an artists reception Sunday, September 27, from two to four pm. The Castle Gallery, 29 Castle Place, New Rochelle, NY. Her jewelry pieces from natural materials collected in Inwood Hill Park are in a group show, The (Not So) Secret Life of Plants, continuing at the Paul Robeson Galleries, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ through December 17. Information.

Winners of the AI-AP Latin American Fotografía and Ilustración 3
competition, sponsored by Epson, are on view at Photoville this weekend and next. This annual competition presents the work of established and emerging photographers and illustrators being created today in or about Latin America in a global, multi-cultural exchange of art and ideas. Information.Photoville in DART.

Daniel Horowitz at Spinerei Rundgang, Leipzig:
In his 1982 essay, The Solitude of Latin America, Gabriel Garcia Marquez evokes a voyage to the New World, in which Antonio Pigafetta, a 16^th-century Florentine navigator who went with Magellan on the first voyage around the world, wrote a strictly accurate account that nonetheless resembles a venture into fantasy. In it, he recorded that he had seen hogs with navels on their haunches, clawless birds whose hens laid eggs on the backs of their mates, and others still, resembling tongueless pelicans, with beaks like spoons.” 

I decided to travel East, in order to discover and describe, in a somewhat similar fashion, a visual codex of the peculiar and the profane. This project is a painter’s log of a reverse voyage to the Old World, into the uncanny. A place of many paradoxes; ideals and nightmares, socialism and capitalism, romanticism and realism, scary monsters and super creeps, Leipzig, Germany has come to represent many of these idiosyncrasies. 

Upon being awarded a fellowship to the Leipzig International Art Programme, I took up residency from June 1 to September 30. This weekend, Toungueless Pelicans, 50 paintings from the series I made during my residency, will be exhibited during the annual Spinnerei Rundgang event on Saturday from 11 am to 8 pm; Sunday from 11am to 5 pm.  Information. Directions. Website. Daniel Horowitz in DART and here. Photos courtesy the artist. Top: from Toungeless Pelicans: above: from Triangle Arts Association residency.

This just in from Mirko Ilic:
[Yesterday] MoMA, on their show Making Music Modern: Design for Ear and Eye, displayed four of my designs from their collection. Not only that my work is on the same wall with Sex Pistols, Ramones, Talking Heads, Kraftwerk, but also on the same wall is Milton Glaser's Bob Dylan and many others. It's an honor to hang with them. More.

This just in from AI-AP:
The deadline for submitting work to the International Motion Art Awards 4 is Monday the 14th. The site will stay open all night, closing Tuesday at 10am. Enter. More.