I looked up March Madness on Wikipedia to research the roots of the saying "March Madness". I was expecting to find anecdotes on Julius Caesar & the "Ides of March" or that the name March is derived from Mars, the Roman God of War & was the traditional start of military campaigns, or even references to the coming of Spring & folks getting all crazy, you know LOVE crazy, after long cold lonely winter. But, no. It's all about Basketball. College Basketball. Lots of College Basketball. So in the spirit of full disclosure there is nothing in the AS220 galleries this March that directly refers to any college basketball team or tournament. What I can promise is signs of Spring in Amy Ryan's lush landscapes, and the growing hope in Jenine Bressner's glass plant chandeliers. Just enough madness licks the fringes of Christopher Thomas's mixed media sculptures that compel delicate navigation round them. Deb Hickey's mixed media work tours the gritty side of the West End exposing traces of psychogeographical madness round those parts. S.W. Dinge presents "...a moon lit graveyard, a balloon, some crayons, a pile of matches, an atomic bomb and a box of feathers. that's the sunday bullet." A March Madness of a different order all together....
Our new exhibitions open Sunday March 1 from 4-7pm and runs through March 28, featuring: in the AS220 Main Gallery: "Ready or Not Here I Come" New Collage Paintings by Deb Hickey and New Paintings by Amy Ryan.
The Open Window features New Glass Chandeliers by Jenine Bressner.
The AS220 Project Space presents New Sculpture work by Christopher Thomas & "The Sunday Bullet" an installation by S.W. Dinge.
The Youth Gallery presents work from the Beacon Charter High School for the Art, where the school motto "To be an artist is to believe in life", is their guiding spirit.
