I will be showing at Gallery Q – RI PRIDE art show.
June 1-28
Opening Reception is Friday June 3, 6-9pm.
GALLERY Q is located at 385 Westminster Street, Providence.
Also, if your in the area,
I will be exhibiting in State of the Arts in Rhode Island at URI Providence
Campus (which is right down the street from Gallery Q)
June 1-30
Opening Reception is Thursday, June 16 5-9pm
I would like to tell everyone in Rhode Island that you should vote yes on the Higher Education Bond Referendum Question 2. Your vote would go to a two part referendum: it helps RIC’s art center get a much needed expansion and make-over and URI gets a chemistry building.
currently been a little obsessed with Neko Case who did an in studio interview/performance here. Its pretty sweet.
Art exhibits coming down, new ones going up, working the day job, writing, the PRIDE parade, dancing in the streets… its been quite the past two weeks!
I haven’t danced in months and after Sunday night’s after PRIDE party at Dark Lady, which was $4 by the way, I can’t believe its been months since I went out to shake my groove thing. The band that played, was pretty amazing and fun to listen and groove to. I wished I didn’t have to get up so early the next morning so i could’ve stayed and danced with my friends and strangers … it was bad enough I got home and to bed around 1am!
State of the Arts at URI is coming down and Art from the Streets is going up this week! I have a piece in the show:
This evening was the opening for the State of the Arts. I know I was in the show last year, but I felt like it was an excuse for me to have the night off and to be social, what little socializing there was to be had. People allegedly stayed in rather than venture out into the light mist of an evening in June… its what, 65 out? Its not like its 30 below and snowing. There were plenty of cars, as I parked pretty far away from URI and took my gimpy umbrella, every little gust of wind made it wish to turn inside out so I had to hold it, after I figured out that it wasn’t broken in the first place that is. Maybe everyone owns gimpy umbrellas that didn’t go out this evening and that is the reason Providence looked like a ghost town… hardly anyone on the streets, driving or walking yet so many cars parked… weird.
I stopped off at Gallery Q in hopes that the Sabrina Blaze performance was still going on an hour after it started,I was a bit late. No such luck, it was a ghost town of gays in there as well…which is unfortunate, because the work was interesting. I enjoyed the installation of the little cut-out people over a light, it was a like a people-cut-out chandelier, I think it was made of paper. Also, Tamara Diaz had some work in the show, her work is always amazing. There was also an entire wall of pulp book covers – the kind of pulp books from like the 50′s that were about how depraved gays were even though it was typically gay writers who wrote them. It was a double edged sword because they could write about being gay, but it had to have a sad ending for the gay ‘heros’ of the story… but the covers are always hilarious.
Then I was off into the rain, and across the street to URI for yet another dead evening at yet another gallery. Tamara Diaz had work in this show too – good for her – its right there when you walk through the door along with some weird kinetic sculptures. I was also psyched to see work by Astrid because her work is amazing. My work is hung in the exact same spot that it was last year – up stairs on the landing – I wonder if the curator did that on purpose? I always pass right on by my own work if no one I know is with me, at least others were not doing the same. There were some interesting photos on the stairway but I forget who did them.
I headed out the door leading to Washington St… skipped across the street missing puddles and crack dealers at the bus stop in front of Lupos and on to the As220 Project Space. And no one was there either! The artists, Nick Hollibaugh and Ben Watkins, got this huge review in the Projo too! There was supposed to be a ‘artist talk’ at 6 and when I arrived it was after 6 and there was approximately 6 people there including myself… needless to say, the talk had yet to start…they just asked us if we had any questions. I really enjoyed some of the pieces, I’m glad I didn’t skip over the show because the piece that they showed in the projo just looked, meh. But it wasn’t all, meh, some of it was pretty amazing. The space is so small though, that was the first time I’d been there. And I ran into Neal (As220 gallery director) so we chatted, after asking me about my work/exhibits, he said he might head on over to URI if there was time later.
Since it was still raining and I was getting wet anyhow, I headed on over to As220 on Empire St. because it was on the way back to my car in a roundabout sort of way. I fell in love with some mixed media pieces by Leslie Friedman, that I could never possibly afford… or really have the room for because they were pretty large scale.
By this time, I decided that no one was coming to my show, as I hadn’t received any phone calls or text messages, so I went to Reflections for iced chai and decided to call it a night…I’ve decided to end my evening by checking out those Pixies videos I didn’t get to watch on stereogum, maybe read the “sookie stackhouse” novel that I borrowed…
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I guess I’m going to an 8th grade Catholic school graduation on the same day as PRIDE, ironic huh? I hope I don’t burst into flames, though I guess my cousin would have an interesting story to tell for the rest of his days… how his big dyke cousin burst into flames at his 8th grade graduation.
At least I can go to the parade, even though I’ve missed everything else PRIDE related… I’m heading over to the drag event at Gallery Q tomorrow evening before the show I’m in at URI. I guess I can enjoy a small part of PRIDE which feels more like “SHAME” this year.
State of the Arts in RI
URI Feinstein Providence Campus
80 Washington St.
Opening Reception, June 18th, 5-9pm
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MidSummer Muse
Gallery X
members’ summer exhibit
June 17-26
Opening Reception June 20th 7-10pm
(which I will not be at, because I’ll be at Providence PRIDE)
Gallery X is located at 169 William St. New Bedford, MA
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Also check out my latest blog on LezGetReal.
Opening this weekend!
and opening on the 18th!
Also! wrote my first piece for LezGetReal.. with butterflies in my belly! its here!
An exhibition of work of students, faculty, alumni and retired faculty from: University of Rhode Island, Community College of Rhode Island & Rhode Island College…
The exhibit will take place at the URI (Feinstein Providence Campus) , Providence, RI from June 1 – 22, 2009
Opening Reception: Thursday, June 18, 5-9pm
I was putting together stuff for the URI exhibit, in which I have to drop off on Monday, to discover that the original file for my business card is MIA. I have a flattened version in photoshop which doesn’t help me change that one line in which my (soon to be no more) website appears. So its redesigning. I thought maybe I should put something more current than the stick figure girl that was designed specifically for the card, only to think about it while practicing yoga – I wasn’t being totally mindful I will admit – I decided to keep the stick figure because if I use a current piece of art, I’ll end up changing my card like every 6 weeks, like my website.
today got my stereogum drop from stereogum.com it was the new Juliana Hatfield… why do all her songs just suck lately? True it was a free song, I shouldn’t complain, I used to like her music.. its a song about Lindsy Lohan. She makes a valid point about females in the spotlight having more pressure put upon them.
When I went to the stereogum website I discovered Vivian Girls has a new 7″ out, unfortunately, I can only get it through their UK label and with shipping this two song 7″ would cost me $12 in USD… I can’t decide if love them enough for this. There’s a video for their song, “moped girl” its pretty funny.
also this Saturday, Gallery X is having an opening! and I have two pieces in the show. I am so looking forward to having a fun night out.. and showing my work to boot!
