November 1-28, 2009
opening reception
Sunday, November 1, 4-7pm
Great Shows coming up oh so soon in the merry month of November! Paintings dominate at AS220 Empire St. Complex. Emily Lisker's strange, visceral theaterscapes paintings explode in size and color in the new series "Three's a Crowd." Michelle L'Heurex new series "Gender Redux "explores the ambiguity of our identity as well as the ambiguity that exists within the multiple layers of the painted surface. John Bhogal rocks the Youth Gallery on the 2nd floor with "Handle It!" mixed media paintings spanning styles that hit just right. But let us not forget the photographic medium, Russ Pedro presents a series of photographic still lives in the Open Window gallery. The AS220 Project Space presents "Screening My Thoughts" videos and book works by Julia Gandrund. Delicate line & Primordial images twist & dance & open up to the magical beauty of the world, sometimes softly like a whisper.
& like a whisper that turns into monsoon we have a special autumn surprise: we have transformed our little side room exhibition space into a bookshop/reading room/printed ephemera exhibition space. we are looking to feature works by book artists & and makers of printed ephemera of all stripes! November brings us an exquisite project form Chicago, Illinois. The Green Lantern & Caroline Picard present Isolated Fictions: A Group Show featuring the work of Jason Dunda, Deb Sokolow, Nick Butcher & Rebecca Grady
AS220 Main Gallery New Paintings by Emily Lisker and Gender Redux Paintings by Michele L'Heureux
Open Window
Photography by Russ Pedro
Youth Gallery
Handle It ! : new paintings by John Bhogal
AS220 Project Space
Screening My Thoughts: new work by Julia Gandrud
Isolated Fictions: A Group Show from Green Lantern Gallery in Chicago
About 200 years ago, a fleet of English ships got stuck in the Arctic ice for a year. Their Captain had them run up canvas, covering the ships' masts. They battened the hatches, so to speak, and watched as the sun set for winter's entirety, waiting with unimaginable patience for spring. They waited for their passage home to melt. Under Captain Parry's orders, the fleet printed a newspaper: the entries of which were solicited from the men on deck, under the condition that nothing depressing be published. These men also put on plays.
Chicago's Green Lantern Press is proud to announce the re-release of this manuscript, The North Georgia Gazette. Touring the country along with this book is a group exhibition, Isolated Fictions, featuring contemporary artists from the publication. Our new edition features excerpts from the Captain's Journal, the newspaper in its entire, an essay by contemporary Arctic explorer John Huston, end notes by transcriber/poet Lily Robert-Foley and original artwork by Daniel Anhorn, Jason Dunda, Rebecca Grady, and Deb Sokolow.
Isolated Fictions features works on paper by Deb Sokolow that address the second person, incorporating that viewer into the Arctic landscape; large gouache paintings of impossible wood towers by Jason Dunda that parallel the newspaper's impossible success; maps of the arctic as well as an historical timeline by Rebecca Grady; and a 7" record made of wood glue by Nick Butcher that plays on repeat.
The Newspaper itself functions as a metaphor for an inherent aspect of humanity-whether the arctic is a devastating place, or a place wild with imagination and longing, it represents the unknown. That unknown can exist in the world, between neighboring communities. But often that unknown space is within oneself, and though it is essential to try and communicate those territories--to study them and map them out, they maintain a mysterious ground. And it is in the failure of exposing everything, or knowing everything, that we accomplish great heights of beauty.
and that is not all folks. The Providence Athenaeum Special Collection will be displaying the original North Georgia Gazette during the month of November! Yes! Get your historical geek on and see the original (and the wonder of the Atheneaeum)& then come marvel at the re-release & the gems it pours forth! A historical roundelay! Special thanks to Christina Bevilacqua & Kate Wodehouse for making the original available to view.)
any questions please drop a line or stop by for a cup of tea.
