What's that saying about March? In like a lion, out like a slightly-less-ferocious-but-still-dangerous lion? I think the idiom goes something like that, or at least that's what the SNOW and WIND outside seem to be telling me. Fret not, though - the galleries at AS220 are packed and hot like fire this month. Here's the lineup:
At the AS220 Main Gallery (115 Empire St), Doug Lindsay shows The Michael Jordan Series, a group of paintings from the perspective of a child for whom Michael Jordan is an all-powerful superhero. His new book The Skunk Story picks up the life of this child and runs with it, glimpsing into a child's view of life and celebrity. Lindsay's alter ego is joined by Tony Carneiro's own imagined double, Danger Tony. Through digital collages, screen prints and installations, Carneiro gives an in-depth exploration of 1950's and 1960's pop culture, deconstructing the myths and dreams of the "golden age" of rock and roll.
In the Open Window at the Main Gallery, Nagaraj Seshardi presents a series of new work in photography, capturing vivid scenes of urbanity, nature, and the human experience of each.
Upstairs in the Youth Gallery, Geraldo Jose Figueroa's ink drawings trace the haunting forms of brooding and masked figures.
Over at the Project Space (93 Mathewson St), Kim Kazan's irregular canvases fill the space with masses of unexpectedly cute, unexpected unsettling amorphous little creatures and human figures. Her work is paired with a series of paintings by Melody Tuttle called sacred/profane. The person-sized canvases contain mashed images of palm trees, book spines, beetles, and salsa dancers.
Rounding out the jam-packed month, Sarah Clover curates a fascinating show of artist books in the Reading Room (in the Project Space). Ranging from hand-crafted picture books to published prose and poetry to delicate pop-up books, the show When Nothing is Sure ~ Everything is Possible offers an uncommon collection of works by a number of artists, including Peggy Clover, Jo Dery, Meredith Stern, Mike Taylor, Alec Thibodeau, and Brian Ziegler.
So that's April! As you can tell, there's a lot of see in the galleries this month. Come drop by!
