Day Off? Get Off!
Mar 5, 2009
Neptune Gallery – Bethesda, MD:
Surrealist artists Mark Behme and Judy Goodkind bring their wit to Neptune this month with work in carved wood and collages in paint and paper.
Mark Behme returns after his “Exquisite Corpse” exhibit at Neptune in April 2007, with new carved wood sculptures deftly detailed and layered with bright enamel paint. The result is very carnival like; one could even mistake some of these pieces as dense plastic moldings, but like Dentzel carousel animals a deeper inspection reveals the handmade skill behind each wood carved allegory. In addition to a series of table top sculptures, Behme has realized a collection of profound hand carved electric guitars. “Nut Job” and “Dicey Clown” are immaculately carved and painted and both share the same carnie like allure, their fixated grins are menacing and naughty, their execution is exquisite.
Judy Goodkind creates fantastic tableaus using paint and paper images in her precise, colorful collages. Her compositions move from the comfort of a cozy living room to the front yard of a house or church, a bedroom or a pastoral landscape, and all include familiar objects, people and animals. But it is the scale and arrangement of these components that are the most significant devices in these otherwise normal domestic scenes. Goodkind exaggerates her composition to reveal the comic/tragic situations of interpersonal relationships. In “The Baby was Beginning to Attract Attention” Goodkind makes the baby appear as a giant next to her parents, visualizing a psychological hierarchy. In “Tub Night” everyone seems to be taking a bath in different ways, their privacy intact although they are occupying the same room. A time to refresh is the pastime in this humorous home spa, no matter who is watching.
March 6th, 7 PM
Young Blood Gallery – Atlanta, GA:
David Hale arrives at Young Blood Gallery! Hale is a 23-year-old artist from Athens whose work is a body of illustrated life experiences. “Although I did draw from a whole lot of cartoons and comic book stuff, I also was really into drawing directly from life and from my imagination as a child… I filled up sketchbooks like crazy with a massive variety of things,” stated Hale in an interview.
Hale will be showing with Abby Glassenberg, a former sixth grade teacher who now spends her daughters’ nap time crafting graceful soft sculpture birds. “I have made 17 original soft sculpture birds for this show, my most cohesive collection yet. All of them will be for sale through the gallery,” Abby said in her A href=”http://www.whileshenaps.typepad.com/”>blog. “This is certainly the biggest exhibition of my soft sculptures as of yet and David’s paintings are so incredible.”
March 7th, 7 PM
Space 1026 – Philadelphia, PA:
Michelle Blade: acrylic & ink, Jeanette Mundt: oil on canvas, Suzannah Sinclair: watercolor, acrylic & pencil on panel, and Erika Somogyi: water color & gouache on paper
March 6th, 7 PM
Artchitecture Gallery – Cleveland, OH:
Tampa Florida based artist Leon “Tes One” Bedore is exhibiting Hunt & gather. Showing in March at the Artchitecture Gallery, Tes One’s art is a refined graphic hybrid of painting, street aesthetic and graphics design. A true meshing of high tech tools like the computer and situational influences and materials like plywood or planks as a support. Nature and nurture come together in the Bedore’s art. Earlier pieces meld graphic high contrast stencil style icons of the city with portraits of often beautiful woman and abstract flourishes that remind me of “essence”. There is a rhythm and whimsical play between the color, line and contrast that seems to be the manifestation of a young man navigating the city with headphones on, girl watching and day dreaming. Pictures made in Bedore’s mind while looking at and processing his environment then overlaying flash points of interest on one surface to suggest moments , places and people who stuck out during his journey. Tes One’s work seems to be born from a stream of conscience fast paced image bombardment walk down an urban street where rich, poor, white, black, old industry meets new development all flow together into a lyrical visual mash-up.
March 6th, 7 PM
Big Orbit – Buffalo, NY
Big Orbit presents no longer just swept along, an exhibition of thesis work by up-coming artist David Andree. no longer just swept along consists of installed visual works including paintings, wall drawing and sculpture in addition to media content of audio and video elements. Through the combination of these artistic medias, no longer just swept along encompasses the shifting immense cycles of nature that surrounds us such as growth and decay, the weather and the seasons, showing the significance these forces play in our lives.
David Andree, displays the unique artistic ability to combining drawing, sculpture, audio and video work into cohesive visual and conceptual statements. no longer just swept along has originated from what David writes is his “desire to investigate the same idea, of locating the self within the ever-changing systems of nature that surround us through multiple sensory experiences.” … “Creating these works has become a struggle to make implicit the temporary nature of existence – a state of constant change and decay, a world which forces continue independently from the will of any individual part.”
March 7th, 8 PM
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Thanks for the highlight of our group exhibit. Please let me know if you have any questions/comments for me to respond to. http://www.markbehme.com
No problem Mark, it looked like a great opening! It would be fun to do an interview with you sometime – up to it?