space 1026

05.18 2009

Trutheater Theater’s The Unbroken Circle Of Broken Things

Space 1026 presents, from Providence Rhode Island, Trutheater Theater’s The Unbroken Circle Of Broken Things —– A play about the unbreakable spirit energy of love. Starring Peter Glantz, Erin Rosenthal, Roby Newton and Leif Goldberg.

05.03 2009

Music & Potluck @ Padlock Gallery:​:​:​:​TODAY!​!​!​!​

Come on out…good music…good food….good god.

04.29 2009

The Moth, the Flame the Returning Comet, & the Golem

The Moth, the Flame the Returning Comet, & the Golem, a new exhibition featuring the work of Derek Weisberg and Matt Rebholz, opens at Space 1026 on First Friday, May 1, 7-10pm, at 1026 Arch Street in Philadelphia.

Through clay and ink Derek Weisberg and Matt Rebholz reflect on mortality and ethics, both artists pulling from traditional Jewish themes.

Matt Rebholz’s series of etchings are a loose reimaginging of the Gustav Meyrink novel Der Golem. The novel’s title character, based upon the clay automaton of Jewish folklore, wanders the streets of a corrupt and ruined city, blissfully unaware that he is a malfunctioning robot and not truly a man.

Similarly, Rebholz’s works are grotesque tableaux populated by a cast of damaged characters occupying a polluted and uneasy dreamscape – a fairytale in which deranged actors struggle to find their role in a stage play they do not quite understand.These elements conspire to form a series of intimate, allegorical vignettes pregnant with obscenity and metaphor. Within this environment, the Golem serves as a metaphor for humanity adrift in an absurdly dystopian world. The progression of the etchings reflects the artist’s evolving beliefs about contemporary society and the manifestations of consumption, ingestion, greed and expulsion within it.

Derek Weisberg creates emotional and psychological self-portraits attempting to reconcile a secular worldview with religious tradition. The artists explores themes of death and spirituality as a means to overcome personal loss.

Weisberg finds parallels between the act of making art to prolong the memory or metaphysical existence of lost loved ones, and the traditional Jewish belief that the actions of the living affect the voyage the departed soul takes through the afterlife.

Weisberg seeks a greater understanding of himself by using the creative process to explore ideas that can be uncomfortable and unfamiliar, and hopes to provoke similar self-discovery in his viewers. At its core, Weisberg’s works reflect a humanist ideology: searching for truth and universal morality based on the commonality of death as part the human condition.

04.20 2009

MAN MAN AND ME ME ON TOUR!

I am opening up for Man Man on their current tour. Totally real nutz! I’ll be performing my art jokes and they will be performing their music art. Here are the dates:
Wed 22-Apr Knoxville, TN The Square Room
Thu 23-Apr Little Rock AR The Rev Room
Fri 24-Apr Dallas, TX Lounge on Elm St
Sun 26-Apr Nashville, TN Mercy Lounge
Mon 27-Apr Birmingham, AL Bottletree
Tue 28-Apr Pensacola, FL Sluggo’s
Wed 29-Apr Orlando, FL Social
Thu 30-Apr Orlando, FL Social
Fri 1-May Atlanta, GA Variety Playhouse
Sat 2-May Carrboro, NC Cat’ s Cradle
Sun 3-May Washington, DC Black Cat
Mon 4-May State College, PA The State Theater
Tue 5-May Pittsburgh, PA Diesel
Wed 6-May Detroit, MI Magic Stick
For more info go to Man Man’s website. See you there at every show!
Love
Andrew Jeffrey Wright

04.02 2009

“WHO IS BOZO TEXINO?” fIlm screening + THE EXTRAORDINAIRES & SWEATHEART

Join filmmaker BILL DANIEL for a special screening of his epic and beautiful documentary,
“WHO IS BOZO TEXINO?”
The black and white film shot in 16mm and Super8mm over 16-years chronicles the search for the source of a ubiquitous and mythic rail graffiti– a simple sketch of a character with an infinity-shaped hat and the scrawled moniker, “Bozo Texino”– a drawing seen on railcars for over 80 years. Daniel’s gritty film uncovers a secret society and it’s underground universe of hobo and railworker graffiti, and includes interviews with legendary boxcar artists.

The night will also include musical performances by:
THE EXTRAORDINAIRES
and
SWEATHEART

AFTER PARTY AT LITTLE BERLIN 1801 N. Howard St.

03.28 2009

SYNESTHESIA

Synesthesia

This artwork smells/tastes/sounds/looks/feels great! Embrace the visual with all of your senses in an exhibition that blends the visual within a broader field of sensory perception. Guest curator Anabelle Rodriguez brings together a kaleidoscopic array of local and national artists who consider the scientific phenomenon of synesthesia, the blending of the senses.

Participating artists include: S. Damary Burgos, Roderic Coover, Matt Cue, Daniel De Jesus, Samantha Ernst, Art Fanega, Sofia Maldonado, Matt Neff, Mark Price, Dan One Polanco, Jacqueline Reis, Mario Rodriguez, John Schenk/Tantrum Tonic, Serendip, Daryl Raven Thompson, Shelley Thorstensen, Reade Vaisman, Michelle Wilson.

Independence Foundation Gallery for the Visual Arts
April 3 – May 16
Receptions: April 3 and May 1, 5pm-7pm

03.23 2009

AMERICAN REALITIES

AMERICAN REALITIES
Clare Rojas, Andrew Jeffrey Wright and Lydia Fong

opening reception:
March 28th, 7pm to 10pm
with live performances by Peggy Honeywell and
Andrew Jeffrey Wright – Art Jokes

at:
New Image Art
7908 Santa Monica Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90046
(323) 654-2192
www.newimageartgallery.com

03.22 2009

THE GREAT DEPRESSION by Bill Daniel opening reception

Filmmaker, photographer, and artist, Bill Daniel presents “The Great Depression”.
Culminated from over twenty-years of work and cross-country travels, “The Great Depression” is a mixed media gallery show that has evolved from the on-going Sunset Scavenger project. The gallery will be jammed with a mix of Bill’s photography – from murals to snapshots, a mash-up wall of found things + friends’ work, a video projected onto signal flags, and some stuff that he’s been dragging around from state to state, waiting for a place to stick it up.

ALSO on SATURDAY April 4th 7:00pm @ Space 1026
Join Bill for a special screening of his epic and beautiful documentary, “Who Is Bozo Texino?” The black and white film shot in 16mm and Super8mm over 16-years chronicles the search for the source of a ubiquitous and mythic rail graffiti– a simple sketch of a character with an infinity-shaped hat and the scrawled moniker, “Bozo Texino”– a drawing seen on railcars for over 80 years. Daniel’s gritty film uncovers a secret society and it’s underground universe of hobo and railworker graffiti, and includes interviews with legendary boxcar artists.

The night will also include musical performances by The Extraordinaires and Sweatheart.

03.18 2009

Seriously Stupididity

beloved aesthetic savants Adam Wallacavage and Damian Weinkrantz- have brought together “…a veritable lexicon of emerging and established artists who have come to define this town as one of the great bastions of cultural production in America today.”

INCLUDING:
Shelley Spector
Charles Burns
David Dunn
Carrie Collins
Issac Lin
Adam Crawford
Aryon Hoselton
Andrew Jefferey Wright
Ben Woodward
Crystal Stokowski
Matt Leines
Jim Houser
Jayson Musson
AND MANY, MANY MORE. PRESUMABLY ALL THEIR FRIENDS AND ENEMIES!!!

OPENING TONIGHT
8PM
UPSTAIRS AT
KENTUCKY FRIED NECKTIE
1248 N Front Street
Philadelphia, PA 19122