ART :: GEORGIA ELROD : HERE AND HERE :: Now at John Davis Gallery in Hudson, NY
The paintings and drawings of Georgia Elrod invite poetry -- or perhaps they are poetry? -- in so far as in transmuting experience into visual form, they perform the inverse maneuver: asking more questions even as they answer the ancient riddle,
ART :: NOTES FROM THE BUREAU OF SELF-RECOGNITION : CHLOË BASS
Exit Strata is pleased as punch to introduce you to interdisciplinary conceptual artist Chloë Bass, who will be sending us Field Notes from her upcoming journey across the pond as she continues her ongoing work with The Bureau of Self-Recognition.
ART :: OPENINGS PRESENTS FRENZY INTO FOLLY : VIRTUAL GALLERY II :: BERUBE, SIMON, ALDERSON, HOLLARS, RUSTERHOLZ
In celebration of Awesome Creators OPENINGS Collective upcoming group show, Frenzy into Folly, Exit Strata is currently featuring the work of the 38 participating artists weekly in anticipation of and through the run [TONIGHT, September 14 - October 26, 2012]
ART :: Allison Malinsky and the Places of Memory :: RETORNO
Introduce yourself
ART :: OPENINGS presents FRENZY INTO FOLLY : Virtual Gallery I :: Hildebrandt, Nelson, Penizzotto, Brennan, Bellucci
In celebration of Awesome Creators OPENINGS Collective upcoming group show, Frenzy into Folly, Exit Strata will be featuring the work of the 38 participating artists weekly in anticipation of and through the run [September 14 - October 26, 2012, Opening Reception Thursday -
ART : HELIOPOLIS PROUDLY PRESENTS :: DO IT AWAKE! (on Mysterious Mountain) :: EMMA CORRALL / MOLLIE MCKINLEY / ELIZA SWANN
Ripe For Pleasure on Mysterious Mountain - TRAILER from Bride of Fire on Vimeo. "The mountains got tired / Of sitting amongst a sleeping audience" - Hafiz Awesome Creators : Heliopolis Project continues to inspire with DO
FIELD NOTES :: No Instructions for Assembly :: Kameelah Rasheed's Photographic Memory
While an Artist in Residence at the Center for Photography at Woodstock this summer, I continued to work on the series Memories: No Instructions for Assembly. This series which has morphed into six evolving iterations - I, II, III, IV, V, and VI is born from my family's experience with displacement and loss. There is limited photographic evidence that my family ever existed. Photographs were lost when we were unlawfully removed from our home in 1998. Some photographs were water-damaged or accidentally trashed before we packed seven lives and accompanying articles into a burgundy station wagon and made our home in a 450-square foot illegal attachment where my grandfather died, alone, nine years prior of stomach cancer. An attempt to conjure my family back into existence, in Memories: No Instructions for Assembly, I weave together orphaned photographs found at garage sales, photos stolen from the Facebook pages of estranged family members, magazine pages, water-damaged images salvaged during my family's 10-year bout with homelessness, and original photography to re-imagine a lost family history. Working in the tradition of the archaeologist and the archivist, I sample as well as reorganize existing materials into a series of images to produce a non-linear narrative that dances between vivid and vague memories. ART: DESERT RAVEN PHOTOGRAPHY :: Capturing Creators "For the Love of ART"
Desert Raven Photography is a collaborative endeavor between Ashley Garvy and Audrey Helow - a company birthed out of their desire to be continuously making art together. Garvy and Helow took the time and made the effort to find a way. To
HOT ART (summer in the city): Peter Milne Greiner on Klass's "Universal Fit"
“Standardization leads to variation. The repetition of motion forms a meditation. Lines divergent from and contiguous to the original appear. Small squares assembled begin to impose a narrative.” On the wall, beneath the title of her exhibition, Universal Fit, Emily Klass has placed these
ART: "Meet Miss Subways!" Photography, History and Identity :: Fiona Gardner
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If you're not from around here, you may not know that Meet Miss Subways is more than a Ferlinghetti poem.
And, as such, you may not know that
"Miss Subways was a title accorded to individual New York City women between 1941 and 1976. The woman who was "Miss Subways" at any one time appeared on posters placed on New York City Subway trains, along with a brief description of her. The program was run by the ad agency "New York Subways Advertising".
To be eligible, a woman had to be a New York City resident and herself use the subway. Winners were usually chosen by telephone-based voting, from among a group of contenders whose photos were all placed on the subways; the nominees were chosen by John Robert Powers, a modelling agent."
{thank you, Wikipedia!}
I'm a sucker for New York memorabilia, and photographic projects examining identity, place, and culture, so when I happened upon Fiona Gardner's series -- in which she documents, via striking, technicolor-esque present day portraits and tells the stories of former "Miss Subways," alongside the now-dated newspaper clippings introducing these "girls" to an adoring city -- I immediately rang her (um, or, since it's not 1960, I messaged her on facebook, where I found her through our mutual friend, painter and herbalist Michael Viola).
