Sunday, August 11, 2013
PROVINCETOWN GALLERY EVENTS - August-September 2013
AMP: Art Market Provincetown & +14inches gallery
Exhibitions | August 13-September 15, 2013
Happenings | August 17 - September 11, 2013
The Exhibitions: (for more info & images, please visit: http://www.artmarketprovincetown.com/exhibitions.php)
LIVING . . . ROOM | August 13 - August 25
OPENING RECEPTION: FRIDAY, AUGUST 16TH, 6-9PM
Keith Krisa: The Living Room Series
Jennifer Moller: Pools
Matt Sesow & Dana Ellyn: Take No Prisoners
Sam Smiley: TUNLvision +14inches gallery
Keith Krisa writes: "I use a Diana (plastic cameras) to create my images. Film is exposed in the camera, the developed negatives are digitally scanned and then printed with an inkjet printer using archival pigment inks. It was the discovery of these toy cameras about 30 years ago-that opened up the world of creativity for me as an photographer. Light leaks often occur, as well as other unpredictable occurrences, and images look like they are coming up from under water or out of a dream. It is this serendipity that brings my images to life." Keith Krisa lives and works in Cambridge, MA.
Jennifer Moller writes: "In the Pools project I am photographing the same area over multiple years in different seasons, weather conditions, times of day, and times of tide flow, it is a meditative practice." Jennifer Moller is an interdisciplinary free-lance artist working across many boundaries, time and space, mediums and disciplines. Working with the power of visual poetics, Moller creates drawings, animations, videos, installations, and community service engagement art. She encourages the possibility of collaborations with creative people and travel at any opportunity. She and her creative partner, Beth Ireland, are building a mobile art studio for her to use for travel and teaching this spring. Moller has also been teaching art processes and practices to undergraduate and graduate students in Boston, Massachusetts, Santa Fe, New Mexico, and most recently at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. Jennifer Moller is also an accomplished photographer artist whose many clients have included Provincetown’s own John Waters.
Matt Sesow & Dana Ellyn are a DC-based artist/spouse team bringing their colorful and vibrant imagery to AMP. Known for their playful and “take no prisoners” style of art, you’ll be compelled to look closer at each painting as you discover and understand the layers of story and paint that make their work so collectable. The artists will be on hand for the opening reception to answer questions, tell stories, and provide some laughs.
Matt Sesow is an independent self employed artist living and working in Washington, DC. Sesow’s “self-taught” style of painting has been described in the press as Art Brut, Outsider, Folk Art, and Abstract Expressionist. He enjoys portraying subject matter as diverse as cuddly animals with razor sharp teeth to bumbling politicians and a slew of life’s little tragedies. His use of bold colors, sharp lines, and aggressive techniques in painting have created a following in a variety regions of America, Spain, and France.
Dana Ellyn is a full-time painter who lives and paints in her studio in a subsidized artist housing unit in downtown Washington DC. Ellyn’s style sits on the fence between social realism and expressionism. Having spent her childhood and college years honing her skills and striving to be technically correct, during the past 10 years she has tasked herself with unlearning those restrictive habits. Ellyn’s paintings have stories to tell and opinions to profess. She delivers hard slaps to myths of all kinds – from religion, to politics to what it means to be a woman.
Sam Smiley's TUNLvision in the +14inches gallery is a miniature expo in glorious 3D. Glasses provided. Smiley is a media artist and educator working within the intersection of video art, video music, and the sciences. Her work has shown at media festivals worldwide.
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Every thing becomes another | August 13 - August 25
OPENING RECEPTION: FRIDAY, AUGUST 30TH, 6-9PM
Caitlin Bermingham: The Living Room Series
Suara Welitoff: Every thing becomes another
James Forren: Petal +14inches gallery
Caitlin Bermingham's Converge is an abstract of a sun/root system on a street grid near where I was born in Los Angeles, protected by forms of nature, trees. This is overlayed with small yellow systems darting across the airspace referring to wind speed, cumulus cloud formations. Omnipresent microwave towers diffuse the atmosphere sending out their own information, often disrupted by solar flares; our inability to control the natural world, the one we’ve created and their convergence.
Caitlin Bermingham was recently in House Beautiful, an exhibition in a 1956 ranch style home the San Gabriel Valley, CA, a 3-person show titled Radical Fabric at Long Island University's Humanities Gallery in Brooklyn, where she exhibited a large scale sculpture and installation of sewn vinyl. She was also in an exhibition at the Galapagos Kunsthalle, Brooklyn and attended the Artist Summer Institute on Governor's Island, a program co-sponsored by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and Creative Capital. She has been showing her work at the Texas Firehouse in Long Island City since 2006, and was in a group show there this past summer. She attended a residency at the Vermont Studio Center in 2010 where she was the recipient of an artist's grant. She was also nominated for a Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant in 2009. She has exhibited in Berlin, Melbourne and at the NADA Art Fair Miami with Participant Inc.
Suara Welitoff works with time via the moving image. In her videos, seconds of film are stretched into minutes and hours — the traditional structures of time and narrative are discarded in favor of a charged gesture or sequence. The video clips are often appropriated from films or news programs, but also from film footage and photographs she’s made using analog cameras. An imposed narrative is replaced with a pictorial language full of nuance and suggestion. In the gallery, Welitoff combines video, photographs and sound into a collage, a dialog between the works.
Suara Welitoff’s work is included in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Worcester Art Museum; Deutsche Bank, New York; List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, among others and has been exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; NGBK, Berlin; Participant Inc. and Threadwaxing Space, New York; Western Bridge, Seattle; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and CCC Strozzina, Florence. She was named the 2002 Maud Morgan recipient, and received a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award in 2009. In 2012 she was honored with the deCordova Museum’s Rappaport Prize, and exhibited with La Rete Projects in Milan. In 2013, along with her present show at AMP Gallery, her work has been shown at Document, Chicago, and at the James Harris Gallery, Seattle. She will have work in the upcoming 2013 deCordova Biennial at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, in Lincoln, MA.
Suara Welitoff lives and works in Cambridge, MA and shows with Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston.
James Forren's Petal looks like the wall is being crumpled into a series of petals, dancing around a puncture that reveals the window behind. It tells a story about the space through light and geometry. The piece makes evident the geometry of the nook by connecting a set of 3D points whose surfaces are then animated by the play of interior and exterior light. It would be constructed of a series of faceted planes seamlessly integrated with the wall and window. The installation is meant to capture universal stories of light and geometry that spark our imagination beyond words. It is in part inspired by the site-specific games of LeWitt and the play of light by Turrell but at an intimate scale. Forren is an architect and artist and currently a full time lecturer at Northeastern University in Architecture.
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The Happenings : (for more info, please visit: http://www.artmarketprovincetown.com/happenings/)
SATURDAY, AUGUST 17TH, 7PM
A READING by Urvashi Vaid
Urvashi Vaid, author and activist, will read from her new novel Irresistible Revolution: Confronting Race, Class and the Assumptions of LGBT Politics.
Urvashi Vaid's leadership in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) movement spans more than 30 years. Vaid is author of Irresistible Revolution: Confronting Race, Class and the Assumptions of LGBT Politics (Magnus Books, 2012); Virtual Equality: The Mainstreaming of Lesbian and Gay LiberationAnchor Books, 1996); and co-editor with John D’Emilio and William Turner of Creating Change: Public Policy, Sexuality and Civil Rights (St. Martin’s Press, 2000).
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 24TH, 7PM
A READING by Amy Hoffman
Amy Hoffman will read from her new novel 'Lies About My Family. A Memoir.'
This well-crafted family memoir is about the stories that are told and the ones that are not told, and about the ways the meanings of the stories change down the generations. It is about memory and the spaces between memories, and about alienation and reconciliation.
Hoffman is editor in chief of Women's Review of Books and a faculty member in the Solstice MFA program at Pine Manor College. She is author of An Army of Ex-Lovers: My Life at the “Gay Community News” and Hospital Time. She has been an editor at Gay Community News, South End Press, and the Unitarian Universalist World magazine.
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 31ST, 7:30PM
AN EVENING OF MUSIC with Thalia Zedek, Billy Hough & Susan Goldberg, and Anne Stott.
"Since 1981, Boston-based singer-songwriter-guitarist Thalia Zedek has been making excrutiating emotional rock music... Nothing draws as much blood as the work of this songwriter, one of the most painfully honest and brilliant anywhere." – Time Out New York
Billy Hough, from the legendary punk band garageDogs, sings, screams, rants, and fights his way through the history of rock-n-roll. Accompanied on bass and eyerolls by the hysterically accurate Susan Goldberg (Space Pussy, Dirty Blonde), the duo have earned a provocative reputation for themselves by finding the midpoint between piano bar and horror movie.
Anne Stott is a singer/songwriter based in Provincetown, MA. Her last album, PENNSYLVANIA, was produced by Jack Petruzzelli (Patti Smith, Rufus Wainwright) and contains songs ranging from rock ballad to alt country groove to spoken word anthem. Fueled by restlessness and desire, Anne's sound lives in the space between irish folk singer and seventies rock band. The UMass Lowell Connector said, "Anne's music speaks more of...the conflicts we're made of rather than the conflicts we've made." She recently completed Everything is Different All Over Again, a limited edition compilation of poems, thoughts, and sketches.
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6TH, 7PM
LYRIC RESONANCE, A READING by Elizabeth Bradfield & Amy Dryanski.
What is the nature of inspiration? What responses does art invoke in a viewer? How do we make connections between what we see and our own interior lives? Poets Elizabeth Bradfield and Amy Dryansky will try and lift the veil in this non-traditional poetry reading. Each will read poems—their own and possibly those of others—that resonate with what’s on the walls of the gallery. Art, inspiration, image voice: join us for an evening of unique convergences.
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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11th, 7PM
A Reading by Lucy Corin
Lucy Corin is the author of the short story collection The Entire Predicament (Tin House Books) and the novel Everyday Psychokillers: A History for Girls (FC2). She will read from her new book One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses.
Look forward to seeing you!
cheers!
Debbie Nadolney
AMP Gallery | 148 Commercial Street, Provincetown, MA 02657 | 646.298.9258 | www.artmarketprovincetown.com
Exhibitions | August 13-September 15, 2013
Happenings | August 17 - September 11, 2013
The Exhibitions: (for more info & images, please visit: http://www.artmarketprovincetown.com/exhibitions.php)
LIVING . . . ROOM | August 13 - August 25
OPENING RECEPTION: FRIDAY, AUGUST 16TH, 6-9PM
Keith Krisa: The Living Room Series
Jennifer Moller: Pools
Matt Sesow & Dana Ellyn: Take No Prisoners
Sam Smiley: TUNLvision +14inches gallery
Keith Krisa writes: "I use a Diana (plastic cameras) to create my images. Film is exposed in the camera, the developed negatives are digitally scanned and then printed with an inkjet printer using archival pigment inks. It was the discovery of these toy cameras about 30 years ago-that opened up the world of creativity for me as an photographer. Light leaks often occur, as well as other unpredictable occurrences, and images look like they are coming up from under water or out of a dream. It is this serendipity that brings my images to life." Keith Krisa lives and works in Cambridge, MA.
Jennifer Moller writes: "In the Pools project I am photographing the same area over multiple years in different seasons, weather conditions, times of day, and times of tide flow, it is a meditative practice." Jennifer Moller is an interdisciplinary free-lance artist working across many boundaries, time and space, mediums and disciplines. Working with the power of visual poetics, Moller creates drawings, animations, videos, installations, and community service engagement art. She encourages the possibility of collaborations with creative people and travel at any opportunity. She and her creative partner, Beth Ireland, are building a mobile art studio for her to use for travel and teaching this spring. Moller has also been teaching art processes and practices to undergraduate and graduate students in Boston, Massachusetts, Santa Fe, New Mexico, and most recently at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. Jennifer Moller is also an accomplished photographer artist whose many clients have included Provincetown’s own John Waters.
Matt Sesow & Dana Ellyn are a DC-based artist/spouse team bringing their colorful and vibrant imagery to AMP. Known for their playful and “take no prisoners” style of art, you’ll be compelled to look closer at each painting as you discover and understand the layers of story and paint that make their work so collectable. The artists will be on hand for the opening reception to answer questions, tell stories, and provide some laughs.
Matt Sesow is an independent self employed artist living and working in Washington, DC. Sesow’s “self-taught” style of painting has been described in the press as Art Brut, Outsider, Folk Art, and Abstract Expressionist. He enjoys portraying subject matter as diverse as cuddly animals with razor sharp teeth to bumbling politicians and a slew of life’s little tragedies. His use of bold colors, sharp lines, and aggressive techniques in painting have created a following in a variety regions of America, Spain, and France.
Dana Ellyn is a full-time painter who lives and paints in her studio in a subsidized artist housing unit in downtown Washington DC. Ellyn’s style sits on the fence between social realism and expressionism. Having spent her childhood and college years honing her skills and striving to be technically correct, during the past 10 years she has tasked herself with unlearning those restrictive habits. Ellyn’s paintings have stories to tell and opinions to profess. She delivers hard slaps to myths of all kinds – from religion, to politics to what it means to be a woman.
Sam Smiley's TUNLvision in the +14inches gallery is a miniature expo in glorious 3D. Glasses provided. Smiley is a media artist and educator working within the intersection of video art, video music, and the sciences. Her work has shown at media festivals worldwide.
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Every thing becomes another | August 13 - August 25
OPENING RECEPTION: FRIDAY, AUGUST 30TH, 6-9PM
Caitlin Bermingham: The Living Room Series
Suara Welitoff: Every thing becomes another
James Forren: Petal +14inches gallery
Caitlin Bermingham's Converge is an abstract of a sun/root system on a street grid near where I was born in Los Angeles, protected by forms of nature, trees. This is overlayed with small yellow systems darting across the airspace referring to wind speed, cumulus cloud formations. Omnipresent microwave towers diffuse the atmosphere sending out their own information, often disrupted by solar flares; our inability to control the natural world, the one we’ve created and their convergence.
Caitlin Bermingham was recently in House Beautiful, an exhibition in a 1956 ranch style home the San Gabriel Valley, CA, a 3-person show titled Radical Fabric at Long Island University's Humanities Gallery in Brooklyn, where she exhibited a large scale sculpture and installation of sewn vinyl. She was also in an exhibition at the Galapagos Kunsthalle, Brooklyn and attended the Artist Summer Institute on Governor's Island, a program co-sponsored by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and Creative Capital. She has been showing her work at the Texas Firehouse in Long Island City since 2006, and was in a group show there this past summer. She attended a residency at the Vermont Studio Center in 2010 where she was the recipient of an artist's grant. She was also nominated for a Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant in 2009. She has exhibited in Berlin, Melbourne and at the NADA Art Fair Miami with Participant Inc.
Suara Welitoff works with time via the moving image. In her videos, seconds of film are stretched into minutes and hours — the traditional structures of time and narrative are discarded in favor of a charged gesture or sequence. The video clips are often appropriated from films or news programs, but also from film footage and photographs she’s made using analog cameras. An imposed narrative is replaced with a pictorial language full of nuance and suggestion. In the gallery, Welitoff combines video, photographs and sound into a collage, a dialog between the works.
Suara Welitoff’s work is included in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Worcester Art Museum; Deutsche Bank, New York; List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, among others and has been exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; NGBK, Berlin; Participant Inc. and Threadwaxing Space, New York; Western Bridge, Seattle; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and CCC Strozzina, Florence. She was named the 2002 Maud Morgan recipient, and received a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award in 2009. In 2012 she was honored with the deCordova Museum’s Rappaport Prize, and exhibited with La Rete Projects in Milan. In 2013, along with her present show at AMP Gallery, her work has been shown at Document, Chicago, and at the James Harris Gallery, Seattle. She will have work in the upcoming 2013 deCordova Biennial at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, in Lincoln, MA.
Suara Welitoff lives and works in Cambridge, MA and shows with Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston.
James Forren's Petal looks like the wall is being crumpled into a series of petals, dancing around a puncture that reveals the window behind. It tells a story about the space through light and geometry. The piece makes evident the geometry of the nook by connecting a set of 3D points whose surfaces are then animated by the play of interior and exterior light. It would be constructed of a series of faceted planes seamlessly integrated with the wall and window. The installation is meant to capture universal stories of light and geometry that spark our imagination beyond words. It is in part inspired by the site-specific games of LeWitt and the play of light by Turrell but at an intimate scale. Forren is an architect and artist and currently a full time lecturer at Northeastern University in Architecture.
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The Happenings : (for more info, please visit: http://www.artmarketprovincetown.com/happenings/)
SATURDAY, AUGUST 17TH, 7PM
A READING by Urvashi Vaid
Urvashi Vaid, author and activist, will read from her new novel Irresistible Revolution: Confronting Race, Class and the Assumptions of LGBT Politics.
Urvashi Vaid's leadership in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) movement spans more than 30 years. Vaid is author of Irresistible Revolution: Confronting Race, Class and the Assumptions of LGBT Politics (Magnus Books, 2012); Virtual Equality: The Mainstreaming of Lesbian and Gay LiberationAnchor Books, 1996); and co-editor with John D’Emilio and William Turner of Creating Change: Public Policy, Sexuality and Civil Rights (St. Martin’s Press, 2000).
____________________________________________
SATURDAY, AUGUST 24TH, 7PM
A READING by Amy Hoffman
Amy Hoffman will read from her new novel 'Lies About My Family. A Memoir.'
This well-crafted family memoir is about the stories that are told and the ones that are not told, and about the ways the meanings of the stories change down the generations. It is about memory and the spaces between memories, and about alienation and reconciliation.
Hoffman is editor in chief of Women's Review of Books and a faculty member in the Solstice MFA program at Pine Manor College. She is author of An Army of Ex-Lovers: My Life at the “Gay Community News” and Hospital Time. She has been an editor at Gay Community News, South End Press, and the Unitarian Universalist World magazine.
____________________________________________
SATURDAY, AUGUST 31ST, 7:30PM
AN EVENING OF MUSIC with Thalia Zedek, Billy Hough & Susan Goldberg, and Anne Stott.
"Since 1981, Boston-based singer-songwriter-guitarist Thalia Zedek has been making excrutiating emotional rock music... Nothing draws as much blood as the work of this songwriter, one of the most painfully honest and brilliant anywhere." – Time Out New York
Billy Hough, from the legendary punk band garageDogs, sings, screams, rants, and fights his way through the history of rock-n-roll. Accompanied on bass and eyerolls by the hysterically accurate Susan Goldberg (Space Pussy, Dirty Blonde), the duo have earned a provocative reputation for themselves by finding the midpoint between piano bar and horror movie.
Anne Stott is a singer/songwriter based in Provincetown, MA. Her last album, PENNSYLVANIA, was produced by Jack Petruzzelli (Patti Smith, Rufus Wainwright) and contains songs ranging from rock ballad to alt country groove to spoken word anthem. Fueled by restlessness and desire, Anne's sound lives in the space between irish folk singer and seventies rock band. The UMass Lowell Connector said, "Anne's music speaks more of...the conflicts we're made of rather than the conflicts we've made." She recently completed Everything is Different All Over Again, a limited edition compilation of poems, thoughts, and sketches.
____________________________________________
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6TH, 7PM
LYRIC RESONANCE, A READING by Elizabeth Bradfield & Amy Dryanski.
What is the nature of inspiration? What responses does art invoke in a viewer? How do we make connections between what we see and our own interior lives? Poets Elizabeth Bradfield and Amy Dryansky will try and lift the veil in this non-traditional poetry reading. Each will read poems—their own and possibly those of others—that resonate with what’s on the walls of the gallery. Art, inspiration, image voice: join us for an evening of unique convergences.
____________________________________________
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11th, 7PM
A Reading by Lucy Corin
Lucy Corin is the author of the short story collection The Entire Predicament (Tin House Books) and the novel Everyday Psychokillers: A History for Girls (FC2). She will read from her new book One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses.
Look forward to seeing you!
cheers!
Debbie Nadolney
AMP Gallery | 148 Commercial Street, Provincetown, MA 02657 | 646.298.9258 | www.artmarketprovincetown.com
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