Weekend Rundown
Mar 6, 2009
Bela Dubby – Lakewood, OH:
Rx is a collection of new works by New York City artist Christopher Sweiger. Several Years ago Christopher tested positive for HIV. Upon beginning treatment in November of 2007 he began to conceptualize a series of work that would chronicle his first year of treatment.
The show is nothing less than his creative and emotional response to surrendering his health to a pharmaceutical industry that he’s desperatly tried to not become a part of. All the pieces are made using pharmaceutical related images, and pharmaceuticals themselves in a mixed media format.
Each piece can be seen as a window to his 14 months of ingesting HIV pills. All the frustrating and triumphant things systematically juxtaposed on canvas. The glory of restoring his immune system and also a library of intense dreams and other side effects. 10% off all sales of Rx will benefit The Aids Task Force.
March 6th, 6 PM
1708 Gallery – Richmond, VA:
Rain or Shine insists on the daily act of art making. These four artists are adamant about the cyclic habit and its necessity to the context of their work. Moreover, each artist intends their work to be viewed in series or multiples because the form of production demands context. Like journaling, it is a self-imposed regiment with no compromise. It is definitive and resolute about the necessity of routine. The limits of the day demand inventiveness. These perpetual devotions universalize the creative habit. These four workaholics are addicted. Alert, awake, eyes open: Rain or Shine.
Kate Bingaman-Burt worships daily in the church of consumerism. Obsessively documenting her daily purchases through contour line drawings, Kate records and synthesizes capitalism. In addition, she monthly recreates her credit card statement in an act of perverse self-evaluation. Gallery installations include a DIY store selling paraphernalia documenting her consumer lifestyle perpetuating the cycle.
Taking inspiration from journaling, Sarah Hollis has developed a body of work by obsessively scanning every page out of a blank sketchbook and then journaling on the color printouts in sequence. She has removed the intimacy of the journal and deals instead with the object-ness of the digital print. Delicately crafted drawings and mildly depressed banter form a page-to-page narrative in a knowingly anxious push-pull of maker and audience.
Pedestrian existence transforms into delightful fodder for Ryan Mulligan’s autobiographical works. An elaborate blockbuster fiction of appropriated imagery and day-to-day musings take the form of massive wall drawing installations and magically pointless ready-mades. Nothing is immune to re-contextualization in a choose-your-own-adventure epic regurgitated from Ryan’s brain.
Last year’s sky photograph equals today’s sky painting in Stacy Searcy’s work. October 6, 2006 photographed = October 6, 2007 painted. Stacy lives in the possibility of two different times where linear and cyclical time couple in a microcosm of experience. The drama unfolds in the ever-evolving blue.
March 6th, 7 PM
Firebrand – Buffalo, NY
Firebrand is having a skinhead-rosie the riveter-jubilee-kevin mcallister-’top gun’-rompers and jumpsuit inspired party in house. “Come by, eat our food, drink our drinks, buy our shoes, pick our clovers, we won’t mind… just don’t mess with our leprechaun.”
March 6th, 9 PM
Mustache Co – Greenville, NC:
Dance Dance Dance!!!!!! Besnyo opens for the Mathematicians and Future islands at the Mustache Co. The space has great acoustics, always turns out an impressive, college based, crowd and caters to the eclectic sort who like to hang street art, juggle and ride specialized. Meet these guys: shop owner Jake, the juggler Thomas, and Besnyo vocalist Sean.
March 7th, 8 PM
Static Age Records – Asheville, NC:
WAUMISS will be creating bizzaro, disjointed, psychedelic, and amazing popish rock and featuring members of the Kingsbury Manx. Joining them will be locals Ventricles, whom slayed opening for No Age, and newcomers Old Folks.
March 6th, 8 PM
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