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Roll Away Your Stone

Thursday, April 1st, 2010

Join us tomorrow for Liz Stehl’s Roll Away Your Stone, a wall painting installation that has ended up filling the entire space, staging ”an environment for the spontaneous and fragile experience of renewal and of dying away.” Please come see it! 5:00-7:00pm.

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No Ordinary People

Monday, March 1st, 2010

Please join us tomorrow from 5:00-7:00 for local artist Matt Kleberg’s No Ordinary People, a collection of giant portraits of people portrayed as… well, far from normal.  The paintings, in the artist’s words, “find their inspiration in the weight of human longing” and are really a must-see. Refreshments provided as always.

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February’s First Fridays Opening: Sebastijan Jemec and Megan O’Hearn

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

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In It Was Real To Us, both Jemec and O’Hearn alter original images to produce a “manufactured reality.” The photos quietly show how recorded history is held captive by the imagination and turned into something that is only loosely based on real-life experience. Not only is it all aesthetically stimulating, but it serves as a thoughtful reminder of how imperfect and unpredictable our human understanding actually is.

Please join us Friday, February 5, from 5:00-7:00pm. And dress warmly! We’ll be stocked up on coffee and hot chocolate for when you get there.

November First Fridays Opening : Dana Giacofci’s “Staycation”

Friday, November 6th, 2009

Join us this Friday for the opening of our November installation- “Staycation” by Dana Giacofci.

Inspired by Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz–foreshadowing the end of a Gilded Age–Dana’s prints are an exploration of what happens when imagination and preoccupation assault otherwise routine repetitive travels along the highways of the everyday.

Friday, November 6th. 5:00-9:00PM.

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“6000 Instant Photographs from 2001 to 2009″ by James Ford

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

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We’re very excited about October’s installation as our friend, James Ford, will be displaying a selection of his 6000+ Polaroid photographs, taken over a period of eight years. Narrowing it down to a mere 2000 (!), he’ll be displaying the photos on a wall-sized grid in chronological order in a way that not only proves his remarkable eye for photography but also his passion for both film and comics.

Please join us Friday October 2 from 5:00-7:00pm for the opening reception and check out James’ artist statement below:

“Cumulatively, the photographs represent an ongoing work which functions as both observation and autobiography; the work is both lyrical and documentary, and contains portraits, landscapes, personal moments, famous landmarks, nostalgic instances, puzzling obscurities, messy fragments, eye-catching distractions, humorous gags, bacchanalian mistakes, and a few brief moments of unexpected beauty. This utterly disposable, imperfect, impermanent (and now largely extinct) medium allows us to capture brief and similarly impermanent moments and preserve them for a little while longer, and to share the experience with others.”