On the night of the opening of Unlock exhibit, the Leftist Marching Band made an appearance - it was a most awesome celebration with great music, dancing and even some baton twirling  ...  

 

Leftist Marching Band. https://vine.com/v/OhdMitBgX1m

Ten Commandments Broken:  <link>

Asia Scudder, Artist - Gallery Director

Well, so I am going to have one political piece in this show.  I have been creating art in wire since 1993 - and I have certainly created a wide variety of works, from simple, charming animal figures to more serene "spiritual" pieces.  I also have my own thoughts on the lives of others in our country and around the world.  This equates for me to concerns on what can be done to help lift the burden of the pressure I and our culture as a whole puts on our earth on a daily basis.   Often times in our own "innocent" use of resources we go about our routine lifestyles and I see that on average we aren't necessarily thinking about our earth.   So I wonder how can we create our lives in a more responsible and sustainable manner?   For me there is a desired end-result - that being able to maintain a kind of preciousness that we can ascribe to our lives and the lives of others.  

However, when we use so much stuff in our daily lives it really looks as if there still is not an overall understanding of a "bottom" to our  access to almost any available resource we desire.   That can be basic resources such as food, water, clothing, heat in the winter, or air conditioning in the summer, a vehicle to drive and the resources to purchase gas to run my vehicle and so forth. My thoughts are not about limitation, really.   I am thinking on how to become more in partnership with the earth, moving away from the adultery of user-ship (or ownership) of the resources that are at our command due to our technological advances.  

This piece I created for the show represents a possible "king within" as an ambivalent leader. 

OPENING EXHIBIT: OCTOBER 24, 2014. 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM

UNLOCK: OPENING EXHIBIT: 

October 24, 2014

5:00 pm - 9:00 pm

 

Blue Wave Art Gallery

52 Main St.

Amesbury, MA  01913

David Magdalenski. Amesbury, MA.

Right.  So D. Magdalenski brought in about 30 works of art yesterday that range from paintings of God and the Devil playing a game of chess - with the atomic clock as a timer to a beautiful cat sitting on a stool in front of an abstract landscape.  It has been quite a journey already with many conversations and good laughter.  More later.

Daniel Venjean. Sci-fi Art.

You just have to check out his website!     CLICK HERE!

Born in Angers, Venjean first exhibited his drawings and gouaches ... inspired by the surrealist literature and SF "Black River Anticipation, Meteor, Galaxy ..." in 1958 at the Foyer St Paul Angers. The 60s: Created rock groups, studies and research painting techniques of the Flemish painting of the fifteenth and sixteenth century.  Anjou and the Taverne Poets works were accepted and exhibited by Peter Lanne Palette d'Or. Accepted at the Winter Exhibition of the City of Paris Museum of Modern Art. Standing painter gallery Marigny Paris and Tokyo. Several exhibitions with young surrealist artists, the Salon des Artistes Independants and French (an associate). The 70s: Exhibition Paris: Galerie Duncan, The Dolmen, Biron, Pergolesi Gallery Konstsalongen Sweden, Otto Vienna, Tokyo Marigny. Selected by Maurice Genevoix of the French Academy Award, 1972 New York, New York and traveling exhibitions in the USA. 80: Exhibitions and Conventions of Science Fiction, solo exhibition at the inauguration of the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales, Astronautics Festival in Meribel, France Air Museum, Exploration of Space City Hall of Paris, Castiglione Paris gallery, Gallery Guichard Lyon. Worked with John Deacon and Roger Taylor of rock group Queen for the creation of a Space Opera, Jean Claude Brially, audiovisual shows, Grand Prix of France Arts. 90s: Theatrical scenery, lectures on the History of Art, Sacred Art of Venjean, decorative French Art Exhibition in New York Décor; The French Osaka Japan. Radio and television (France culture, FR3, NHK Japan ...). Années2000: Galerie Le Jardin des Arts Paris Champs Elysées, Adam and Eve Barbizon, a member of the Society of Arts of the Imaginary and Fantastic Dream, Cyber ​​varnishing Brainphasing One Retrospective Museum of the Air Angers Marce. Various exhibitions and awards in the US (New York, Chicago, Boston, Claremore, permanently galleries: Amesbury MA, Newburyport MA, ME Exeter)

Greg Kitterle. Cloud Cutting. Venetian Plaster, Oil.

Artist statement

The materials an artist works with creates a primary dialogue. For me, learning to converse with the properties of these materials in this dialogue is like wandering in a labyrinth. The depth of this labyrinth can be as thin as a sheet of paper, yet one can wander in it for miles and hours. As one does the stains, blotches, scratches and irregularities of the surface created while working become walls that rise up to tell their
tale, each as individual as the eyes that behold them. Some are clear and offer easy images to share. Others are sunken and only whisper possibilities. The images in my work are from tales told to me during my wanderings in this labyrinth of surface.

Gregory Kitterle 2011

Mitchel Ahern. Saucers Seen Over Hollywood.

I find these videos of Mitchel Ahern's performances widely interesting, somewhat confusing and overall enjoyable.   CLICK HERE>

 

This is just for the record:   Mitchel Ahern Artist Bio 

Mitchel Ahern is a print maker, writer and performance artist. He has invented a variety of electro-acoustic musical instruments including the Lid, the Crutch, the Electroluxopipeophone, and the Leaf-Springoleon. Mitchel performs on these instruments solo and in groups such as the The Invented Thing Quartet, PKD, the dadallama performance company and Ursonate Urchestra, in venues including the Knitting Factory, AS220, Zeitgeist, the Middle East, the Rat and galleries such as King Hooper and Gallery 119. He also writes performance art pieces such as Stalingrad, Martha Stewart in the Underworld, and Perky Pat Layouts which he performs solo and with a variety of participating artists. Mitchel is an active printmaker creating multiple-block mono-prints using linoleum block alphabets and illustrations he designs and cuts himself. Projects include The Angry Dishtowels, The Articles of the Robot Rescue League, the On The Road Kerouac Scrolls, Gettysburg Scroll and the 108 Defilements of Buddhism which he has shown at the DeCordova Museum in Lincoln MA and in galleries such as 516 Arts in Albuquerque NM, Atlantic Works Gallery in East Boston, Lincoln Arts Project in Waltham, Gallery 119 in Lowell, Galatea in Boston and Outpost Gallery in Cambridge. He is an artist member of Gallery 119 and Atlantic Works.

Augustus Goertz.

Augustus Goertz   

End of War Series. Fighter. 1 - 5. 5" x 5". $950.

Goertz was born and raised in an artistic/ bohemian household in Greenwich Village, New York City. He received his education at La Guardia High School in NYC, at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA and eventually earned a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in San Francisco, CA, where he studied with Bruce Nauman, Jay Defeo and Wally Hedrick. http://www.lichtundfire.com/managing/augustus-goertz/

Mitchel Ahern

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