For Immediate Release:

November 14th 2004

Manifest Artistry teams up with Mary Mattingly
Launches Lifeboat off Miami Coast

Artist made refugee craft is sailed away by Mary Mattingly and Paul Middendorf
crossing boundaries. exploring new ideas and gaining freedom

During Art Basel
December 2-5 2004

Paul Middendorf of Manifest Artistry and Mary Mattingly contribute to Miami as a temporary center for artistic and creative attention, with Art Basel, the Positions, the Containers, Scope, NADA, and the Lifeboat.

In midst of the gallery-world, Paul and Mary include artists' work that are concerned with topics of environment, politics, language, technologies, and social communities. Together, through parts brought to Miami from across the globe, they build the "freedom" craft. Artists are contributing to make it a whole. "We think it is important to, through artwork and performance aspects, speak about changing borders within the USA, policies for immigration, nautical utopias, pirates, flags, and other symbols or limited-realities," Paul and Mary boldly comment.

NY artist Mary Mattingly, Sophie Kamin and Paul Middendorf head to Miami, several days before the opening of Art Basel. Collecting the parts that have been sent, as well as to make the body of the vessel, they begin their sail about Miami Beach. Groups include Red 76, NineteenEighty, The M.O.S.T., Hall Gallery, Disjecta and more. Artists involved are Joseph Beil (LA), Rhoda London, Stephanie Snyder, Bruce Conkle, Todd Kurtzman, Chandra Bocci, David Eckard, Dianne Kornberg, JoAnn Kemmis (OR), Tomas Saraceno (Argentina), Elena Bajo (NY & Spain), Dre Wapenaar (NL), Orly Cogan ( NY ), Libia Pérez de Siles de Castro and many, many more. People will be able explore the vessel, view the exhibition, and expand their boundaries.

Mary Mattingly is an artist, graduate of PNCA, who participates in a community-based arts organization in New York. She is represented by Lyons Wier Gallery in New York, and has ongoing national and international projects including residency in Rotterdam, Holland and work with her continuous project A New Breed.

Paul Middendorf, graduate of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, is an artist/curator living and working in Portland, Or. He is also working as Creative Director of Disjecta Art Center, and Founder of Manifest Artistry Organization. www.marymattingly.com, www.manifestartistry.com

With sloping mast and dipping prow,
As who pursued with yell and blow
Still treads the shadow of his foe,
And forward bends his head,
The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast,
And southward aye we fled. ( Samuel Coleridge )

For more information please contact Mary Mattingly at marytmattingly@yahoo.com or Paul Middendorf at pmiddy@galleryhomeland.org