Opening Reception: Friday, October 12, 2018 5:00-10:00
Film and discussion night: Friday, October 19 , 2018, 7:00-9:00
NeeNee Productions presents Sauti, a coming of age story about five courageous teen-aged girls who fled their home countries of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, and South Sudan when they were very young to eventually live in Uganda’s Kyangwali Refugee Settlement, which they call home to this day. “Sauti” means voice in Swahili. The young women tell their stories in their own voices; personal drawings, poems, song, dance, and handicam diary interviews filmed by the girls themselves are incorporated into professionally shot footage. With tenacity, tenderness, and imagination, the girls approach their uncertain futures to envision new lives of their own choosing.
Opening reception Friday, September 21, 2018 5:00 -10:00 pm
Stephen Shugart – Nocturnes
Past, Present, Future and Elsewhere. 2018. Pine, embroidery hoops, polyester/spandex, thread, springs, cable, clamp lights, remote control bluetooth RGB LED bulbs, hardware. 79″ x 35″ x 35″
Nocturnes is a multi-media, multi genre show featuring new light art sculptures, painting, photographs and poetry on the theme of time, memory and the cosmos. The minimalist works contrast natural and synthetic materials using wood, fabric, springs, magnets, lights, hardware, and found objects.
Kay Galvan – Doha
Spinning in Samsara 2018. Oil on Canvas. 24″ x 24″
Doha is a Hindi and sometimes Buddhist form of poetry, written to describe a sensual, devotional or spiritual state. These doha are spontaneous and poetic visual responses to the contemplative experiences of my inner world.
We all contain stuff…from our basic physicality to our emotions, memories, experiences, history, trauma and beliefs.
The truth is contained.
People are contained.
And with containment often comes release…#Me Too, marches, investigations….and even Pele.
Jennifer Hope Transition
Jennifer Hope goes back to her beginning at Edge Gallery and shows us the transition of her painting style.
Ken Peterson The Holga Series
“Swan Lake“ 4.5” x 6” October 2017
Rachel Amos Connecting to Earth
“Continuing the Cycle” Chalk Pastel 18″ x 12″
Propelling me in most of these drawings is the discovery made public not too long ago, that trees and other plants communicate a lot of information with each other via fungi. This is really interesting for me, as it seems to show a further connection among many kinds of life; I have tried to express the depth of this in my work.
Nolan Tredway Undark
“Memory Garden“
Nolan Tredway’s Undark will feature his newest multimedia work. This exhibition explores the impermanence of the mortal and the digital infinite, invoking the meaning of memory and its subjugation versus the clarity of objective documents. Both these lives, the ones remembered and the ones observed, are part of cyclical and symbiotic process, each needing the other to stay alive, but ultimately failing. Our ability to bring meaning to mortality depends on our ability to celebrate the impermanent as part of a larger trajectory.
Artists Faith Williams and Candace Shepard present a mixed-media exhibition exploring the deeply personal connections of natural ecosystems: from the microscopic moments that tie organisms together to the dynamic balance of the environment.
Opening Reception July 20
Evening of Live Music Friday July 27, 7-9pm
First Friday Art Walk Friday Aug 3
Past, Present, Future and Elsewhere. 2018. Pine, embroidery hoops, polyester/spandex, thread, springs, cable, clamp lights, remote control bluetooth RGB LED bulbs, hardware. 79″ x 35″ x 35″
