Archive for the ‘FOGM’ Category

09.15 2010

Anni @ TrickGo

Photos from Anni’s show at TrickGo

06.10 2009

Fuck Cancer Drawing Jam!

Justin Van Hoy is a true fighter. He has fought and beat cancer for the second and final time. Now he needs a little help from his friends. Please join us at Space 1026 for the Fuck Cancer Drawing Jam! We will be passing the hat and sending all the money raised his way as well as drawings. We got the paper and beers, bring your favorite drawing tools and money! Help us celebrate Justin

05.31 2009

TENDER FOREVER + ANNAH. + MAPLE RABBIT 6/6

Space 1026 presents the official beginning of summer fun:

TENDER FOREVER (K-Records)
One woman, one sequencer, one keyboard, two knees to slide on, and many big sounds. Power-pop, love, dance, fun, workout-eat-your-heart-out party.
From France, Portland, and everywhere in between.
http://www.myspace.com/tenderforever

ANNAH. (Oakland, CA)
Solo soothing good vibe melodies with spoons, gas masks, live loops, and overhead projections from Oakland, CA.
http://www.myspace.com/annahantipalindrome

MAPLE RABBIT (Philly, PA)
Philly video-band superstars! Three-voices and three keyboards and the occaisional glock with stop-animations and video love. Get ready to stand in back of the crush line.
http://www.myspace.com/maplerabbit

SATURDAY June 6th
8:00pm
$5.00
Space 1026
1026 Arch St.
Philadelphia

05.31 2009

Sketchy Stash

AHN|VHS is pleased to present an exhibition of sketch books by Bill McRight.

Primarily a printmaker working in linoleum block and silkscreen, McRight’s work is known for its extreme intricacy and for his bold, often absurd figures. These sketchbooks are McRight’s place for character and concept development, as well as impulsive composition. The figures in his books are drawn and redrawn with altered and increasingly exaggerated gestures and features, interspersed with pages of striking painterly abstraction and bursts of free associative text or overheard phrases. There seems to be a narrative at work, although the books leave no conclusion but to continue to another page. It is rare that McRight takes a figure directly from one of these books for use in a print; these forms are composed on impulse and are made to retain that immediacy. This looseness and experimentation with material and gesture is a surprising contrast to McRight’s rigid sculpting of forms in his prints and lino cuts in particular.

This is the first exhibition of the artist’s books since his 2005 MFA thesis exhibition at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn.

AHN|VHS will produce a limited edition reproduction of one of these sketch books concurrent with the exhibition.

Bill McRight is a printmaker working primarily in silkscreen and linoleum or wood block. In 2005 he received an MFA from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. His prints have been published by Cannonball Press. He lives in Philadelphia and is a current member of Space 1026.

AHN|VHS Gallery
319 A N. 11th Street 4th Floor
Philadelphia, PA
Friday, June 5, 2009
7:00pm – 11:00pm

03.10 2009

Chris Johanson at Davidson College

Brad Thomas runs the Van Every/ Smith galleries down there at Davidson College in North Carolina… This time around he has brought Chris Johanson to Davidson and they are having an opening this Thursday, March 12 at 7pm. One part of this show that sounds extra-special is a collaboration between Chris and members of the Art Works 945 program at Urban Ministries in Charlotte.

Also coming up in that neck of the woods, on Sunday, the 15th AJW, Sweatheart, Narwhals of Sound, Coma League and Radio Taiwan are playing at the Saturday Skateboards warehouse… and it’s only $5.

So if you are South of the Mason Dixon line. Go to Davidson and Charlotte this weekend… and If you are in Philly and plan on going, hook me up with a ride!

Flier.

03.04 2009

Rent Time

Make sure to include Copy in your first friday art quest, Nick Paparone is doing a performance or live art or something… I’ve been helping print shirts over there and have gotten some kind of sneak preview… it’s gonna be awesome!

A performance in a lecture series type format that surveys the constant rituals brought forth everyday, every month, every year until our demise. Including the non-stop purging of literal and metaphoric excrement caused by eating meals and doing what you have to do to pay rent.

02.20 2009

The kids are alright!

I got an email from Timothy Soper, he teaches art at Kings Highway elementary school in Westport, Connecticut. He had his 4th grade classes do a project about relief printmaking. Tim showed his classes some of my prints and told them the project was about using line to make monsters. I just got some pictures of some of their prints… watch out world when kids that are 8 are making prints that rule this hard we are all in trouble!