It’s official! Check out our Facebook event for more information. Thanks to Erich Lehman for the beautiful design and Hannah Betts for the photo. We are so excited to be kicking off the yet to be renovated home of 1975.
4More beautiful process photos by Hannah Betts.
3Here are a few moments captured by Hannah Betts while our installation continues. After spending most of the week in the studio, it was exciting to bring over the pieces on paper and start building them into their new environments.
Please note: our opening reception has been moved to Saturday, June 2nd, so stay on the lookout for more promotion coming soon! The show will be up for 2 weeks after with evening viewing hours so there will be lots of time to come see it.
Finally, we still have crows available as gifts for making a $40 dollar donation towards the exhibition costs. Thank you for all that have already sponsored us! We couldn’t do this without the beautiful support we feel from our community, both in Rochester and beyond! Here is the PAYPAL link or feel free to stop by THE YARDS collaborative art space Tues., Thurs. or Saturdays from 10am-2pm.
Much love,
s.
Dearest Rochester, One of my favorite parts of living here is exploring your many abandoned places, filled with vestiges of worlds past. Hand written cards, lenses buried underneath the mossy ground, machine operating manuals, rusty levers… It is all treasure to me, caked in fifty or more years of dirt. The decay, the natural world inhabiting these once mighty man-made structures - it is the past and the future. Much love, s.
3Installation underway!
Enjoy these lovely photos (taken by Hannah Betts) after our first day of working in the new space. In case you can’t figure it out by the images, we are installing our show at 89 Charlotte Street (the previous location for the Little Bakery), located behind Restaurant 2Vine. The building is a gem of location and we couldn’t be more thrilled that the fine owners are allowing us this venue. Also, a special thanks to Todd Thomsen for making the trip to help us get started!
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Dearest art viewers,
I am writing to announce a new art installation entitled “Spyglass” which will be held in May, 2012 (Location TBA). The intent of this exhibit is to create an impermanent space with multiple viewpoints and overlap of exterior and interior space. I am working with architect Brandon Colaprete on this project and am excited to explore our interactions of 2 and 3 dimensional spaces.
One of the difficult parts of working with impermanence is the question of funds. Nothing from this exhibit will be for sale: it is purely about the experience, a unique world built to be experienced for a short duration. That said, as a way for us to pay the expense of producing the installation we are asking for $40 donations. As a gift for this donation, you will receive a crow (as shown above) at the conclusion of the exhibit as a vestige of our deconstructed world.
Spyglass Crow Donation can be made through PAYPAL or by visiting me at THE YARDS collaborative art space in the Public Market (Tuesday/ Thursday or Saturday 10am-2pm).
Much love,
s.
Great photo by Matt. Portrait in the back is from the mural I did a few months back at Java’s at the Market.
Last month I photographed Rochester, NY coffee roasting icon, Java Joe for Rochester Magazine. This is one of the photos used in the story.
While I realize I have yet to post many pictures of Sweet Meat Co’s latest endeavor, Sweetsville, in all its transient glory (you can always check out www.sweetmeatco.com), I felt compelled to post at least one from our day of deconstruction. Its amazing to me that what took a month of tireless work to build, took less than a day to take apart. All the parts that were so treasured, the little details, now lay buried in a box and the “art” divided up amongst patrons and ourselves to be either reinstalled elsewhere, kept, or discarded. The pieces by themselves serve as a memory of the greater world in which they lived, but seem strangely out of place without their neighbors. More photos and reflections to be posted soon. As always, thank you to all who came and supported and to the amazing people who made this show a success.
The progress shots begin! (courtesy of Hannah Betts Moncibiaz)
And here is why I heart Rochester. Its been nice settling back in to the swing of my artistic life here. The photos above were documenting Sweet Meat Co’s quest for boxes/materials for our upcoming show at the Public Market (June 24, 2011).
1After an amazing time at the Vermont Studio Center last month, I ended my journeys with a short stint in NYC. Here are a few shots from my show currently hanging at Cafe Pedlar in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. If you are in New York, stop by!
2And a few more pictures of my Vermont-y life….
And a few more shots from the studio….
I’m doing a slide presentation of my work for the other residents tonight here at the Vermont Studio Center. After finally editing some photos from “Nothing New” with St. Monci and 1975 Gallery, I decided to put a little slideshow up!
1A few studio shots of what’s been cooking.
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