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07.07 2009
PIFAS PLACE
This friday at PIFAS, WET ABS CONTEST!
I will be at the Pifas Place party this friday presenting my Let Me Know If My Abs Get Too Tight interactive performance. The party goes form 9:30pm until ? At 11pm in my booth I will be having a WET ABS CONTEST. It is free to enter and the top 3 hottest wet ab owners will win cash and prizes! See you there!
There will be tons of other artist presentations and performances going on all night long.
Pifas Place
“Where People Meet”
Friday, July 10, 2009 at 9:30pm until ?
The Philadelphia Institute for Advanced Study
1712 North Second Street.
Philadelphia, PA
www.pifas.net
07.06 2009
Cadaver Corpse
Images from our latest show in the gallery, Cadaver Corpse, curated by Tessa Perutz, are now online HERE.
Thanks to everyone who made it out Friday.
06.29 2009
The NeverEnding Story IV
The NeverEnding Story IV, A two person exhibition with Isaac Lin and Andrew Jeffrey Wright at Cinders Gallery, 103 Havemeyer St., Brooklyn, NY www.cindersgallery.com Opening reception, July, 2nd, 7p-10p, Show runs until July 22, 2009.
06.23 2009
ANDREW JEFFREY WRIGHT’S ART JOKE CLUB
On Thursday June 25th at The Print Center, 1614 Latimer St., Phila., PA 19103, at 7:30 pm I will be screening my “LIVE AT SPACE 1026 ANDREW JEFFREY WRIGHT ART JOKES” video. The video is over 46 minutes long. Before the screening I will be performing brand new never heard before anywhere ever jokes and if the jokes go over in a terrible way they will never be heard again, unless it is the kind of terrible I like, then I will be performing those jokes all summer long at The Giggle Stop. Admission is $5. and then you get free beer. www.printcenter.org
06.19 2009
CADAVER CORPSE
CADAVER CORPSE
Joshua Abelow, Matias Arganaraz, Derek Aylward, Dessarae Bassil, Ben Bauman, James Connolly, Moira Connelly, Garrett Durant, Ry Fyan, Kathy Grayson, Patrick Griffin, Maureen Gubia, Ghazal Hashemi, Bjorn Hegardt, Cody Hudson, Christopher Ilth, Bruce Ingram, Aislinn Jefferies, Billy Kang, Leslie Kulesh, Alex Lengyel, Chris Lux, Kristen MacGregor, JJ Manford, Orion Martin, Eddie Martinez, Mario Martinez, Jude MC, Christopher Milhausen, Zane Morris, Jayson Musson, Jordan Nickel, Aliza Nisenbaum, KC Ortiz, Angel Otero, Eric Perkins, Lucy Perutz, Matt Phillips, Tyson Reeder, Max Roseglass, Kid Sister, Thomas Stavnes, Greg Stimac, Ola Vasiljeva, Justin B. Williams, Josh Young and more.
Curated by Tessa Perutz
At Space 1026,
July 3rd – 31st, 2009
Opening Reception: Friday, July 3rd, 7 – 10pm
06.05 2009
Liberal Arts
William Buzzell “Liberal Arts” new paintings about Providence’s library system
Sunday, June 7th, 2009 – 4pm-7pm
AS220 – Street Exhibition Space
115 Empire St.
Providence, RI 02903
AS220 is pleased to display the creations from William Buzzell’s month long artist residency at the organization in our street window exhibition space on Empire St. For the month of May, William has worked closely with staff at the Providence library system, including Richard Ring, head of Special Collections, to delve into the library’s long history. As the son of a librarian himself, a former employee of the Rockefeller Library and the Sciences Library at Brown University, and also a generally avid user of libraries for both pleasure and for the meticulous research his work requires, libraries make a decidedly natural subject matter for Buzzell. Culminating from this work is a large sculptural painting evoking library bookshelves, its contents offering both inherent analysis and objective glimpses of aspects of the Providence Library system from its 1875 conception to the current day. Buzzell states, “Although there are failures and problems in the Providence Public Library, I hope the painting will reflect the dedicated people, the various community outreach programs, and the admirable mission statement of the PPL as well. I strive for this work to be an unbiased portrait of a complicated library system in a struggling post-industrial city in the present period of technological advancement and economic slowdown.”
William Buzzell creates highly detailed, painstakingly rendered paintings from everyday, rough materials, most commonly house paint and found wood. His use of 3D sculptural elements in many of his pieces is also noteworthy and characteristic of many of his works. Buzzell obsessively researches his topics and experiments visually with the organization and presentation of the synthesized information. Subjects explored range from class issues, identity, modern culture, science, history, and the arts and share the aesthetic of science fair projects, natural history museum displays, and public service announcements. Since 2005, William Buzzell has had several solo shows in New York, California, and Canada. Over the last eight years, Buzzell has also played his part in numerous group shows across the United States and has exhibited his artwork as far as London, Stolkholm, and the Philippines.
William Buzzell was born and raised in Providence, Rhode Island and is often associated with the now legendary art community that flourished there in the late 90’s. Some of his work was published in the late, Paper Rodeo, an anthology of Providence comics and art. Buzzell also attended Parsons The New School for Design in New York City where he pursued illustration. He currently resides in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as part of the Space 1026 artist collective. He loves to remind everyone that he is a proud Eagle Scout.
For more information about the artist, the exhibit, the AIR program or AS220 please contact:
Cheryl Kaminsky
AS220 Communications Director
401.831.9327
cheryl@as220.org
05.31 2009
New Works, Matthew Palladino and Eric Shaw
New Works
Matthew Palladino and Eric Shaw
Opening Reception Friday, June 5th 7 p.m. – 10 p.m.
Space 1026
1026 Arch St. 2nd Floor, Philadelphia, PA
space1026.com
New Works, an exhibition featuring drawings by Matthew Palladino and Eric Shaw at Space 1026, running June 5th through the 25th. Opening reception First Friday of June from 7-10pm at 1026 Arch Street in Philadelphia.
Matthew Palladino’s new work plays with perceptions of race, gender, ghosts and alternative mental states. Through painting he explores representations of the human form in varying situations and fluctuating visibility.
Matthew Palladino was born and raised in San Francisco. He attended California College of Arts for two years, dropping out due to fiscal complications. He continued painting on his own and discovered alternative outlets to pursue his education. He is planning on moving to Philadelphia in the fall of this year.
Eric Shaw was conceived on a hill by the grace of the divine cacti button, he sprung into life eleven months prematurely. With young Eric strapped to her back, his mother set out and traveled all over New England, from radio station to radio station. Some stations accommodated the little duo, allowing Patricia Fox to project her voice all-wherever disco guidos’ ears sought her angelic voice.
His father, Senior Shaw-a bottle collector-who digs out deep in the Connecticut River Valley (of Western Mass), was working one day, when his spade hit a thin object. This object transformed Eric’s life-a heron bone pen! Anyone who examines a piece of Eric’s art closely, will notice the fine detail projected by the pen!
Following the Connecticut River further south to it’s tributary, one will come upon Enfield, Connecticut, home of the big pizza, Eric’s Mexican Papa, and Meme. Here, Eric was placed beneath the couch, where he germinated into what he is today. While deep beneath the couch, enveloped in darkness, Eric refined his color theory and mastery of the line. And then Eric returned to Methuen, Massachusetts, where the Plastic Factory distorted his mind even more. The rest are minor details. Eric Shaw seeks to establish a place in every individual’s mind. He hopes to see you soon.
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
05.27 2009
The Room
Written, directed, produced by and starring Tommy Wiseau, The Room, a kitsch film commonly denoted as “The Worst Movie Ever Made” has garnered a cult following in LA and NYC much akin to The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Seating may be limited. Plastic spoons encouraged.
The Room Website
The Room on NPR
Doors open at 9:45
Admission: Free
05.23 2009
MOVEMENT I, MOVEMENT II AND A SCULPTURE
Andrew Jeffrey Wright solo exhibition at The Print Center, 1614 Latimer St., Philadelphia. www.printcenter.org Show runs May 30th to August 1st. Opening reception May 30th, 3pm – 5pm.