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SUMMARY:Crown\, Teeth & Tears
DESCRIPTION:A unique experience of experimental chamber music curated by Terri Phillips featuring the Blueshift Ensemble. \nDoors open at 7:30 p.m./performance begins at 8 p.m. Approximate performance time: 45 minutes \nTickets are $10. Holiday cocktail included in the price of admission. Click here to purchase. \n\nLimited number of chair seating available; standing room also available \n\n   \n\n\nAbout Terri Phillips\nTerri Phillips is an artist and writer from Alabama\, currently living in Memphis.  She is a recipient of the ArtsMemphis Accelerator grant and has exhibited and curated internationally. She is a graduate of California Institute of the Arts and Pepperdine University.  Her work has been written about in ArtForum\, The New York Times\,LA Times\, Sculpture Magazine\, and The Commercial Appeal.  She has written three books of poetry and is currently finishing a record of country songs with the artist Jim Ovelmen. \n\n\nAbout Blueshift Ensemble\nBlueshift is a Memphis­-based contemporary chamber music ensemble dedicated to bringing artists and audiences together through artistic collaboration. By programming both new and existing classical repertoire alongside multi­-genre collaborations\, Blueshift aims to connect a wider audience to today’s classical music. The ensemble draws upon Memphis’ uniquely diverse musical heritage by combining classical music with popular music genres such as rock\, blues\, soul\, and hip-hop and featuring local musicians\, dancers\, visual artists\, and composers. \n\nAbout the musicians \nA native of Brazil\, Mariama Alcântara grew up in a musical family and began studying the violin at age seven. She made her solo debut at age 12 with the Paraiba Symphony Orchestra\, and since then she has appeared as a soloist with several orchestras in her home country. Mariama moved to the United States in 2012\, and received her bachelor’s degree in violin performance from the University of Memphis where she studied with Dr. Soh-Hyun Altino and Dr. Marcin Arendt. She has performed with many orchestras including the Jackson Symphony (TN)\, Starkville Symphony (MS)\, Sinfonietta Orchestra (TN)\, Memphis Repertory Orchestra\, and Memphis Symphony (Feb. 2017). Mariama is now an IRIS Orchestra Artist Fellow and a member of the C3 Strings Trio. She also instructs and mentors elementary and middle school students as a Memphis Music Initiative fellow. \n\nBlueshift Ensemble Artistic Director and flutist\, Jenny Davis is a Memphis-based flutist who regularly performs with the Luna Nova Ensemble and the Memphis Repertory Orchestra and maintains a large private teaching studio. She has also performed with other area ensembles including the Memphis Symphony Orchestra\, PRIZM Ensemble\, Balmoral Chamber Orchestra\, and is a member of the River City Flute Quartet. In past summers\, Jenny has performed at the New Music on the Point contemporary chamber music festival\, the Cortona Sessions for New Music in Cortona\, Italy\, the National Music Festival\, and the Belvedere Chamber Music Festival. Jenny was a finalist in the 35th Annual James Pappoutsakis Memorial Flute Competition\, as well as alternate finalist in the 2015 Chicago Flute Club Donald Peck International Competition and 2014 Mid-South Flute Society Young Artist Competition. In addition to performing and teaching\, Jenny serves on the boards of the Beethoven Club of Memphis and the Mid-South Flute Society and is a co-founder of the Greater Memphis Flute Club. Jenny holds degrees in flute performance from Boston University\, Middle Tennessee State University\, and two years of additional post-graduate flute studies with Trevor Wye at Studio in Kent\, United Kingdom. \n\n Andre Dyachenko currently serves as the principal clarinetist with Memphis Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Dyachenko has performed as a member Minnesota Orchestra\, Houston Symphony\, Houston Grand Opera and as a guest principal with Seattle Symphony Orchestra and Arkansas Symphony Orchestra. During summers he has participated in several music festivals\, including Music Academy of the West\, Spoleto USA\, Hot Springs Music Festival and Feodosia Music Festival. Mr. Dyachenko is a recipient of First and Grand Prize at the International Competition for Woodwind Players in Kharkiv and First Prize at the International Clarinet Association Orchestral Competition. He had his first solo debut with the orchestra at the age 14 playing Weber Concerto No. 1. Mr. Dyachenko performed numerous solo recitals around Europe and US. Mr. Dyachenko started his education at the age of 7 in Kharkiv Special Secondary School of Music under guidance of Valeriy Altukhov. In 1996 he was awarded full scholarship to study clarinet at Interlochen Arts Academy with Richard Hawkins. Mr. Dyachenko also holds bachelor’s degree from University of Michigan and master’s degree from University of Minnesota and Doctor of Music degree from Rice University. Among his teachers are Fred Ormand\, Burt Hara\, Richie Hawley\, Lee Morgan\, Yehuda Gilad\, Richard Hawkins and Michael Webster. \n\n Logan Hanna is a guitarist and educator from Memphis. He currently works with different jazz groups around town\, and is a member of The Mighty Souls Brass Band\, Big Barton\, and the Memphis Ukulele Band. For the last 8 years\, Logan has also been recording and performing with Grace Askew. He is also currently on the adjust faculty at the University of Memphis where he teaches Intro To Jazz Guitar. Heavily influenced by guitar greats such as Bill Frisell\, Jim Hall\, Marc Ribot\, Albert King\, T-Bone Walker\, Steve Cropper\, and Don Rich\, Logan enjoys being somewhat of a musical chameleon blending styles to fit the music he is playing. \n\nDelara Hashemi is a freelance musician and teacher in the Memphis area. She subs with the Memphis Symphony\, the Memphis Symphony Woodwind Quintet\, and plays in the BlueShift Ensemble and Poplar Wind Trio. She has performed in the National Flute Association (NFA) Collegiate Flute Choir at conventions in 2009 and 2011. Delara was the 2011 and 2012 Music Teachers National Association State Winner in Oklahoma\, Young Artist Performance – Woodwinds. Delara completed degrees in flute performance at the University of Memphis where she studied flute with Prof. Elise Blatchford\, and the University of Central Oklahoma where she studied flute with Dr. Emily Butterfield. \n\nBlueshift cellist and Composer-in-Residence\, Jonathan Kirkscey is a composer\, producer\, and cellist who regularly performs with the Memphis Symphony Orchestra\, Mouserocket and Luna Nova Ensemble. As a film composer\, Jonathan scored the documentary “Best of Enemies”\, directed by Morgan Neville (20 Feet From Stardom) and Robert Gordon\, which premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. His score for “Best of Enemies” earned him the International Documentary Association’s award for best original music in a documentary feature.  He also composed music for the Netflix original documentary series “Chelsea Does”\, which premiered at Sundance in January of 2016. Jonathan also recently scored the short film “Our Conductor” directed by Craig Brewer for the Memphis Grizzlies. Jonathan has provided arrangements for the Memphis Symphony Orchestra and has had several original pieces for orchestra performed by the MSO. As an arranger and performer he has worked with Cat Power\, Al Green\, Ra Ra Riot\, Smokey Robinson\, Johnny Mathis\, Steve Jordan\, Daniel Johnston\, Jay Reatard\, North Mississippi Allstars\, Lucero\, Amy Lavere\, Kallen Esperian\, and many others. \n\nEd Murray is a graduate of the New England Conservatory and was a student of Vic Firth. He has held the position of Assistant Principal of Percussion/Timpani in the Memphis Symphony Orchestra since 1987\, and has been a member of the Iris Orchestra since the year 2000. Ed has been the first-call percussionist for the Orpheum Theatre Touring Shows since 1990 and is the drummer for the Memphis Symphony Orchestra Big Band.  He was a soloist with the Memphis Symphony Orchestra on three separate occasions\, featured on Xylophone\, Marimba and World Percussion. He was the Principal Percussionist for the Mexico City Philharmonic\, 1985-1987\, and has performed with such artists as Yo-Yo Ma\, Itzhak Perlman\, Aretha Franklin\, Johnny Mathis and  Joshua Bell. \n\nRenée Kemper Murray has called Memphis her home since 2004. She has been a Musical Director for many Regional Theaters across the U.S. such as the Fulton Opera House (PA)\, the Barter Theater (VA)\, the Old Creamery (Iowa)\, and the Tri-Arts Sharon Playhouse (CT). After completing Graduate School at the University of Memphis (2006)\, she joined the production staff at Memphis’ Playhouse on the Square as the Resident Music Director for seven years. She is now in her third year with St. George’s Independent Schools as Music Artist-in-Residence and Fine Arts educator at their Memphis Campus. In addition to her Master of Music degree in Collaborative Piano Performance\, she holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Piano Performance from Southwestern University (Georgetown\, TX) and has attended the Aspen School of Music in Colorado. She has received five Ostrander awards and two Memphis Theater Awards for Excellence in Musical Direction as well as two Ostrander Awards for singing roles in theater – one for her featured role in Jaques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris and the other for Leading Actress in the musical\, A Closer Walk with Patsy Cline. She has played with the Memphis Symphony Orchestra Big Band\, continues to play for shows\, performs as singer and guitarist in her own band\, and is a member of Blueshift Ensemble. \n\nViolinist Marisa Polesky is a member of the Memphis Symphony Orchestra and the IRIS Orchestra. In addition\, she works with the Memphis Music Initiative as a mentor/teacher at White Station Middle and High Schools and teaches at St Louis School. \n\nJennifer Puckett currently serves as principal violist with the Memphis Symphony Orchestra. Prior to her tenure here in Memphis\, she completed three years with the New World Symphony in Miami Beach\, Florida. She has been on the EMF faculty since the summer of 2005. Mrs. Puckett has been teaching private lessons since 1996. She has taught with different Suzuki programs and is the founder of the East Memphis Music Academy. Her current private studio consist violin and viola students of all ages. Originally trained as a violinist\, she received her Bachelor’s degree in violin performance from the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. Some of the summer music festivals she attended in the past are the Aspen Music Festival\, Meadowmount School of Music\, National Repertory Orchestra\, Spoleto USA\, and the Brevard Music Center. The Aspen Music Festival led her to the University of Colorado in Boulder where she received her Master’s degree in viola performance. Mrs. Puckett held graduate quartet and teaching assistantships for the three years that she was at the University of Colorado. Over the years she has played professionally with many other orchestras including the Colorado Symphony\, Alabama Symphony\, and the Arizona Music Festival to name a few. In addition to her position with the Memphis Symphony\, her leadership experience includes principal viola on numerous occasions with the New World Symphony\, and throughout her college career as concertmaster\, principal second violin\, and principal viola. \n\nJonathan Russ composes direct\, expressive music with an eye towards social good\, drawing from the languages of contemporary classical music\, musical theater\, and indie rock. He is Composer-In-Residence with the Blueshift Ensemble and the American Chamber Ensemble\, and is a founding member of the ICEBERG New Music composers’ collective. Jonathan has worked with Marimolin\, Sō Percussion (through their Summer Institute)\, members of the JACK Quartet and International Contemporary Ensemble\, clarinetist Stanley Drucker (NY Philharmonic)\, mezzo-soprano Jennifer Beattie\, and pianists Amir Khosrowpour and Marilyn Lehman. Awards include the MA-ASTA Composition Competition\, ShoutHouse Call For Scores\, and the Boston Conservatory Choral Composers’ Competition. Jonathan has held residencies at the Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts and the Hambidge Center\, was featured at the inaugural New Music On The Bayou Festival\, and will be in residence at Arteles and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center in 2017. Upcoming projects include a book of piano pieces\, an opera about a hermetic young woman\, and a piece for New York-based ensemble loadbang. As a guitarist\, Jonathan has performed with indie bands Young Yeller and Lucky Sons\, and has played in musical theater pits throughout New York. He holds a master’s in composition from The Boston Conservatory\, where he studied with Andy Vores and Curtis Hughes\, as well as a BA from Brown University in music and an MFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts in musical theater writing. www.jonathanrussmusic.com
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/crown-tear-and-tears/
LOCATION:Crosstown Arts Galleries\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Retos y Retratos
DESCRIPTION:OPENING RECEPTION: FRIDAY\, NOVEMBER 18\, 6-9 PM \nNoviembre 19 hasta Diciembre 4\nRecepción: Viernes\, 18 de noviembre 6 – 9 PM \nHorario de la Galería: de Martes a Sábado\, 10 AM – 6 PM \nThe gallery will be closed November 24-25 for the Thanksgiving holiday. \n\nRetos y Retratos\, an exhibition of portraits of Latino/a artists and samples of their work\, strives to give a voice to the struggles\, triumphs\, and experiences of this community of artists in Memphis. Committed to different forms of expression\, united by art and the challenges they have faced\, these artists seek to preserve and communicate their roots. The portraits demonstrate both the artistic and intimate side of these creators. \nOrganized by Centro Cultural Latino Cultural Center in collaboration with Crosstown Arts. \n\nRetos y Retratos es una  muestra de arte Latino en Memphis que busca dar una voz a los procesos y experiencias de sus artistas.  Entregados a diferentes formas de expresión\, unidos por el arte y los retos alcanzados\, estos artistas buscan conservar y comunicar sus raíces. Los  retratos presentados nos muestran el lado artístico y a la vez intimo de estos  creadores.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/retos-y-retratos/
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SUMMARY:Artist Talk: Brantley Ellzey
DESCRIPTION:Artist and architect Brantley Ellzey discusses his work on display in “Sweet\,” an exhibition of over 20 new works created from hand-rolled construction paper in a kaleidoscopic array of colors and forms. \n“Sweet” is on display from October 7th through November 5th. \n\nArtist Biography\nBrantley Ellzey is an architect and artist who has operated an independent studio in the Crosstown neighborhood of Memphis since 2010.  With degrees in Architecture and Theater Design from Tulane University\, Ellzey creates art that illustrates the precision and structural form of architecture while embodying the colorful thrill and drama of the theater.  His works consist primarily of paper from magazines\, books and other printed media which he deconstructs\, rolls and methodically builds into complex\, layered forms.  Drawing from the themes of the selected materials\, he expresses the anatomy of a journal\, making the subject and content visually apparent in the piece with lines\, color and overall construction.  His work is in numerous private and corporate collections throughout the United States\, such as Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital\, West Cancer Center\, Bass Berry + Sims\, Wunderlich Securities\, and Iberia Bank. Examples of his architectural work are First Congregational Church\, The Museum of Modern Spinal Surgery at Medtronic\,The Kemmons Wilson Exhibit at the Kemmons Wilson School of Hospitality and Resort Management at University of Memphis\, the renovation of Immaculate Conception Cathedral\, and Ballet Memphis (Cordova).
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/brantley-ellzey-artist-talk/
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SUMMARY:Brantley Ellzey: SWEET
DESCRIPTION:OPENING RECEPTION: FRIDAY\, OCTOBER 7\, 6-9 PM \n\nCrosstown Arts is pleased to present SWEET\, an exhibition of 20 new works by Memphis-based artist and architect\, Brantley Ellzey. \nFor the past 15 years\, Ellzey’s practice has typically involved media-based content in service to a particular subject. His works consist primarily of paper from magazines\, books\, and other printed media which he deconstructs\, rolls and methodically builds into complex\, layered forms.  Hand-rolled\, individual pages contain information that create an archive\, a time capsule of a specific theme and period. He has spent the last few years working on commissions that involved this concept\, giving him less control over palette or pattern. \nWith approximately 20 new pieces on view in SWEET\, Ellzey continues his exploration of the rolled paper module\, the process in creating the module\, and the resulting compositions and textures when the module is replicated and combined. In the process of these works\, Ellzey’s architectural training is evident. He was always drawn to model-making and the notion of creating things by hand. Modules provide scale and the hand is visible in the final product\, as each roll of paper is meticulously reworked by the artist. “This process of rolling is a meditative process. I find great inspiration in mundane\, methodical tasks. My mind is free to concentrate on exactly how and why I’m driven to create a particular piece.” The rolled pages that make up his work are filled with energy\, like springs waiting to snap back. \n“You say to a brick\, “What do you want\, brick?” And brick says to you\, “I like an arch.” -Louis Kahn \nThroughout SWEET\, Ellzey returns to the origins of his process by focusing on elements of color\, form\, and composition. In paring down the recent works to their basics\, Ellzey also simplified his inspirations and returned to his past. He began to revisit children’s books that formed his earliest visual memories and researched artists and designers that were working in the early sixties. Through this process he discovered the work of Mary Blair.  An unsung hero of the Disney animation studios and creative force in advertising and design\, Blair was responsible for the “It’s A Small World” attraction for the New York World’s Fair and then Disneyland. The juxtapositions of color with folk art patterning and imagery in her work hugely influenced his perception of the world as a child. Blair’s work as well as the styles of Alexander Girard and Charles and Ray Eames have guided the color and energy of Ellzey’s new body of work. \nDuring this tumultuous political season\, the process of creating these pieces\, as well as the imagery and materials involved\, has been a bulwark against a daily barrage of cynicism and acrimony. SWEET is unabashedly happy and optimistic\, and Ellzey hopes his audience will be similarly inspired. \n\n                 \n\n\n    \n\nArtist Biography \nBrantley Ellzey is an architect and artist who has operated an independent studio in the Crosstown neighborhood of Memphis since 2010.  With degrees in Architecture and Theater Design from Tulane University\, Ellzey creates art that illustrates the precision and structural form of architecture while embodying the colorful thrill and drama of the theater.  His works consist primarily of paper from magazines\, books and other printed media which he deconstructs\, rolls and methodically builds into complex\, layered forms.  Drawing from the themes of the selected materials\, he expresses the anatomy of a journal\, making the subject and content visually apparent in the piece with lines\, color and overall construction.  His work is in numerous private and corporate collections throughout the United States\, such as Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital\, West Cancer Center\, Bass Berry + Sims\, Wunderlich Securities\, and Iberia Bank. Examples of his architectural work are First Congregational Church\, The Museum of Modern Spinal Surgery at Medtronic\,The Kemmons Wilson Exhibit at the Kemmons Wilson School of Hospitality and Resort Management at University of Memphis\, the renovation of Immaculate Conception Cathedral\, and Ballet Memphis (Cordova).
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SUMMARY:Anthology: Somewhere Not Here
DESCRIPTION:OPENING FRIDAY\, AUGUST 19\, 6-9 pm\nON VIEW THROUGH SEPTEMBER 17\nRelated event: A Real Imitation\n\nCURATED BY TOMMY KHA\nPao Houa Her\nManal Abu-Shaheen\nJohanna Case-Hofmeister\nJen Davis\nCurran Hatleberg\nKa-Man Tse\nPixy Liao\nJoel W. Fisher\nDru Donovan\nMichael Marcelle\nFarah Al Qasimi\nSara Maria Salamone\nJustine Kurland\nRyan James MacFarland\nShane Lavalette\nRory Mulligan\nHannah Price\nNelson Chan\nLilly McElroy \n\nCrosstown Arts is pleased to present Anthology: Somewhere Not Here\, an exhibition of photography and video curated by New York/Memphis-based artist Tommy Kha. \nAnthology collects images by an array of contemporary photographers sharing a common process instead of specific genre or subject. The works are informed by the acts of their journeys—seeking\, feeling\, and finding through passages of time and place. \nFeatured artists include Pao Houa Her\, Manal Abu-Shaheen\, Johanna Case-Hofmeister\, Jen Davis\, Curran Hatleberg\, Ka-Man Tse\, Pixy Liao\, Joel W. Fisher\, Dru Donovan\, Michael Marcelle\, Farah Al Qasimi\, Sara Maria Salamone\, Justine Kurland\, Ryan James MacFarland\, Shane Lavalette\, Rory Mulligan\, Hannah Price\, Nelson Chan\, and Lilly McElroy. \nLearn more about the artists below. \nFrom the curator \nLife is not about significant details\, illuminated a flash\, fixed forever. Photographs are. \n– Susan Sontag \nSomewhere Not Here brings together a diverse group of contemporary photographers. Rather than relying on a particular theme\, the selected artists and works are connected through a hunting and gathering gesture in picture making. \nThe pictures\, intentionally printed in small format to reference drug store prints and postcards\, vary in subject matter and genre. They share and borrow languages such as landscape\, the open road\, picture as document\, and street photography. \nThe photographers are nomadic\, always in search of images that are elusive and not always present\, not easily hunted. \nCurran Hatleberg and Justine Kurland actively travel the American Road\, while Manal Abu-Shaheen seeks her subjects in further places\, crossing vast oceans to photograph in her home country. \nOften\, the way home is the source of the artists’ images. Ka-man Tse presents a picture of the personal journey\, of her wife and Tse’s parents sharing a meal together in the same frame. Lilly McElroy’s video\, Hopeful Romantic\, reflects another aspect of artist’s performative nature—a performed Lilly McElroy. The video is edited to Bruce Springsteen’s “Dancing in the Dark” as she drives from Maine to California. \nSome respond on impulse\, referencing modes of transport\, manifested as a sort of muse—a sitter for the camera. At times\, these modes become a temporary studio space for Pixy Liao\, as she travels back to China with her boyfriend\, Moro Magario. \nOthers respond to constraints. Hannah Price’s pictures may take cues from Oulipo\, a French literary movement\, where she actively makes photographs “during a time people consider to be the most menacing; during the dark nights and of those who blend in with it. At night\, I roam the streets looking for subjects of this type.” \nThe rest could be seen as collections of the world seen in passing—the gathered. \n\nAbout Tommy Kha \nTommy Kha (b. 1988\, Memphis\, Tennessee) received his BFA in Photography from Memphis College of Art and his MFA from Yale University School of Art. His work has been published in Modern Painters\, Humble Arts\, Slate\, the Huffington Post\, Blouin ArtInfo\, BUTT Magazine\, Buzzfeed\, and Miranda July’s “We Think Alone” and exhibited at Deli Gallery\, Ryerson Artspace\, Georgia Scherman Projects\, Aperture\, Signal Gallery\, ALLGOLD at MoMA PS1 Printshop\, Johalla ProAjects\, Yongkang Lu Art\, and Kunstverein Wolfsburg. He was an artist-in-residence through the Center for Photography at Woodstock and Light Work. Recently\, Kha published his first monograph\, A Real Imitation\, through Aint-Bad Magazine. He currently lives and works in New York City and Memphis.\nLearn more \n\n\nAbout the Artists \nPao Houa Her was born somewhere in the northern jungles of Laos. She fled Laos with her family when she was a baby\, crossed the Mekong on her mother’s back\, was fed opium to keep from crying\, lived in the refugee camps in Thailand and landed in America on a silver metal bird in the mid 1980s. She is a visual artist who works within multiple genres of photography. She has exhibited in numerous shows both nationally and internationally including a solo show at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. Her received her BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and her MFA from Yale University. \nManal Abu-Shaheen is a Lebanese-American photographer currently living and working in Long Island City\, NY. She was born in Beirut in 1982 and moved from Lebanon to New York in 2000. Abu-Shaheen received a MFA in Photography from the Yale School of Art\, New Haven\, CT in 2011; a BA from Sarah Lawrence College\, Bronxville\, NY in 2003; and attended Lebanese American University\, Byblos\, Lebanon in 1999. Her work has been exhibited at the Queens Museum\, Queens\, NY (2016); The Center for Fine Art Photography\, Fort Collins\, CO (2016); The Bronx Museum of the Arts\, Bronx\, NY (2015); The Print Shop at MoMA PS1\, Queens\, NY (2014); Camera Club of New York\, NY (2013); and Welch School of Art and Design Galleries\, Atlanta\, GA (2012)\, among others. She is a recipient of the 2016/17 A.I.R Gallery Fellowship and the 2015 Artist in the Marketplace Residency program at the Bronx Museum of the Arts. She currently teaches at the City College of New York. \nJohanna Case-Hofmeister received an MFA from Yale University in 2013. She went on to study projection design and technology at the Yale School of Drama. Her photography has been exhibited nationally and internationally. She is currently an Associate Professor in Photography at Long Island University. \nJen Davis is a New York based photographer. For the past fourteen years she has been working on a series of Self-Portrait’s dealing with issues regarding beauty\, identity\, and body image. She has also been exploring men as a subject\, and is interested in investigating the idea of the relationship\, both physical and psychological\, with her camera. Her first monograph titled Eleven Years\, published by Kehrer Verlag (Germany) was released in the Spring of 2014 accompanied by her first solo show in New York City at ClampArt. She received an MFA from Yale University in 2008\, and BFA from Columbia College Chicago in 2002. Davis’ work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally. In the fall of 2016 Davis will have a solo exhibition in FotoFocus 2016 Biennial in Cincinnati\, Ohio. Her photographs are in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago\, The Sir Elton John Photography Collection\, and The Library of Congress\, Museum of Fine Arts\, Boston. Davis is represented by Lee Marks Fine Art and ClampArt\, NY. \nCurran Hatleberg (b. 1982\, Washington\, DC) received his MFA from Yale University in 2010. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally\, including recent shows at Higher Pictures gallery and Fraenkel Gallery. He is the recipient of a 2015 Magnum Emergency Fund grant\, a 2014 Aaron Siskind Foundation Individual Photographer’s Fellowship grant\, and the 2010 Richard Benson Prize for excellence in photography. Hatleberg’s work is held in various museum collections\, including the SF MoMA\, the Center for Contemporary Photography\, the Davison Art Center at Wesleyan University\, the Williams College Museum of Art\, and the Yale University Art Gallery. Lost Coast\, his forthcoming monograph\, will be released by TBW Books in fall 2016. \nKa-Man Tse is a photographer and video artist based in New York.  She received an MFA from Yale University in 2009\, and a BA from Bard College in 2003.   Her images are informed by the points of intersection between the LGBTQ and the Asian Pacific Islander communities\, and what is shared and negotiated between the two seemingly divergent worlds.  Her photography and video begin from small gestures and moments that then unfold in public and private spaces. She has exhibited internationally and nationally; including the Lianzhou Foto Festival in Guangdong\, China\, the Museum of Chinese in America in New York\, NY\, the Bronx Museum of the Arts in New York\, NY; Cornell University\, the Palm Springs Art Museum in California\, Capricious Gallery in New York\, NY\, the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center\, and Gallery 339 in Philadelphia\, and the Eighth Veil in Los Angeles.  She was a SPARC Artist-in-Residence through the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs\, and completed the Artist in the Marketplace Program through the Bronx Museum of Arts. She is the recipient of the 2014-2015 Robert Giard Fellowship.  She currently teaches at Yale University\, where she was appointed lecturer in 2013\, as well Parsons the New School of Design\, since 2011. This spring\, Tse mounted her first solo exhibition at the Silver Eye Center for Photography in Pittsburgh\, PA. Her current project\, Narrow Distances is currently on view in a solo exhibition at Lumenvisum in Hong Kong this summer (July 23 – August 21\, 2016); her work is also currently on view at the New York Public Library\, Mulberry Street Branch in Soho (June 1 – September 7\, 2016). \nBorn and raised in Shanghai\, China\, Pixy Liao is an artist currently resides in Brooklyn.She is a recipient of NYFA Fellowship in photography\, En Foco’s New Works Fellowship and LensCulture Exposure Awards\, etc. She has done artist residencies at Pioneer Works\, Light Work\, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council\, Center for Photography at Woodstock\, and Camera Club of New York. Liao’s photographs have been exhibited internationally\, including He Xiangning Art Museum (China)\, Asia Society (Houston)\, Flower Gallery (NY)\,  VT Artsalon (Taiwan)\, Kips Gallery (Korea)\, The Running Horse Contemporary Art Space (Lebanon)\,  Format (UK)\, Noorderlicht (Netherland)\, etc\,.Liao holds a MFA in photography from University of Memphis. \nJoel W. Fisher (b. Newport\, VT) received a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of New Hampshire in 1997 and a Master in Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2006. From 2006-2007 he worked and studied at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig\, Germany on a Fulbright Fellowship. His work has shown both nationally and internationally in both group and solo exhibitions. Work in collaboration with J.T. Leonard entitled Landmark was shown in group and two person exhibitions including Wassaic Projects’ Return to Rattlesnake Mountain\, AD/HD at KNOWMOREGAMES and P-R-I-M-E-T-I-M-E Galleries in Brooklyn\, and solo exhibitions in Kansas City and Indianapolis in 2013 and 2014. A monograph entitled Landmark was published by Daylight Books in the spring of 2015 and was short-listed for the Aperture Foundation First Book Prize. Work from an on-going solo project entitled Agapage appeared in exhibitions Shifting Practices: Allusions\, Interventions\, and Conventions in Contemporary Photography at The Art Gym at Marylhurst University and The Heart is a Lonely Hunter at the Fraenkel Gallery in 2015. Joel has received grants from the Oregon Arts Commission\, Ford Family and Mellon Foundations and was a participant in the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Workspace Program (2015-2016). Joel also co-curated and wrote the introduction for the exhibition catalog Reinventing Documentary: The Art of Allan Sekula (2015). Joel was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology\, an area head of photography at the City College of New York (CUNY)\, and is currently an Assistant Professor of Art and Studio Head of Photography at Lewis and Clark College. \nDru Donovan received a BFA from California College of the Arts in 2004 and an MFA from Yale School of Art in 2009. Donovan’s work has shown nationally and internationally and was included in reGeneration2: Tomorrow’s Photographers Today at the Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne\, Switzerland\, and in the 2010 California Biennial at the Orange County Museum of Art\, Fraenkel Gallery\, Yancey Richardson Gallery\, Hap Gallery and Philadelphia Photo Arts Center. Donovan’s photographs have been published in Aperture Magazine\, Blind Spot\, Picture Magazine\, Matte Magazine\, The New York Times Magazine and Vice. Her work is in the collections of Deutsche Bank and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. In 2011TBW Books published her first book\, Lifting Water. In 2011-2012 she participated in the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Workspace studio residency. Awards Donovan has received are the John Gutmann Photography Fellowship in 2015 and is a 2016-2017 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow. She has taught at many institutions including Parsons School for Design\, Pratt Institute\, Lewis & Clark College\, University of Hartford and Yale University and will be a Visiting Lecturer at Harvard in the fall of 2016. \nMichael Marcelle was born in New Jersey in 1983\, received a BA from Bard College in 2005 and an MFA from Yale University in 2013. His work has been exhibited at Aperture Foundation\, Interstate Projects\, Pioneer Works\, Austin Center for Photography\, and has been featured in The New Yorker\, Vice Magazine\, Vogue\, Paper Journal\, and more. \nFarah Al Qasimi\, born 1991 in Abu Dhabi\, is an artist and musician. Farah studied photography and music at Yale University (New Haven\, Connecticut) and is currently an MFA candidate in the Photography program at the Yale School of Art. Farah has participated in residencies at the Burren College of Art in Ireland\, at her studio in Dubai (with the support of the Abu Dhabi Music and Arts Foundation) and at the School of Visual Arts in New York. Recent shows include Coming Up Roses at The Third Line\, Dubai; Biennial for Arab Photography at Institut du Monde Arabe\, Paris; Emirati Expressions at Manarat al Saadiyat\, Abu Dhabi; Walls and Margins at the Barjeel Art Foundation\, Sharjah; and Black Mirror at the Aperture Foundation\, New York. \nSara Maria Salamone is a photographer and independent curator who has earned her BA in Photography from Hampshire College and her MFA in Photography and Related Media from Parsons The New School for Design. Salamone has curated exhibitions at Albany Center Gallery in Albany\, NY and LAUNCH F18\, NYCAMs\, and site95 in NYC. Salamone also comes from a diverse and experienced background\, having worked at Casey Kaplan\, site95\, The Armory Show\, Frieze New York among many others. Her most recent solo exhibition was held at GCA in Brooklyn\, NY. Salamone lives and works in Brooklyn. \nJustine Kurland is an artist who is lives in New York\, and is represented by Mitchell-Innes & Nash. \nRyan James MacFarland\, born Tallahassee\, FL in 1985\, is a multidisciplinary artist with a focus in analog photography. Working with both natural and found environments as his primary subject\, MacFarland explores the relationship to his surroundings informed by concepts such as nonlinear science\, cosmic intervention and conscious existence. His work has been exhibited in the US and abroad since 2004 and written about or published in Art F City\, Artinfo\, DuJour\, Purple\, OUT\, The New York Times\, Vogue\, W and Whitewall. He lives and works in Brooklyn\, NY. \nShane Lavalette\, born 1987\, in Burlington\, VT\, is an American photographer\, the founding Publisher/Editor of Lavalette\, and the Director of Light Work. He holds a BFA from Tufts University in partnership with The School of the Museum of Fine Arts\, Boston. Lavalette’s photographs have been shown widely\, including exhibitions at the High Museum of Art\, Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University\, Aperture Gallery\, Montserrat College of Art\, The Carpenter Center for Visual Arts at Harvard University\, The Center for Photography at Woodstock\, The Museum of Fine Arts\, Boston\, and Musée de l’Elysée\, in addition to being held in private and public collections. In 2016\, a solo exhibition of One Sun\, One Shadowwas presented at Robert Morat Galerie in Hamburg\, Germany. His editorial work has been published in various magazines\, including The New York Times Magazine\, The New Yorker\, Newsweek\, Esquire\, Bloomberg Businessweek\, Vice Magazine\, The Wire\, Wallpaper*\, among others. Lavalette is currently based in Upstate New York. \nRory Mulligan currently lives in Hastings-on-Hudson\, New York. He received a BA from Fordham University and a MFA from Yale University in 2010. His work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally and is included in the permanent collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Mulligan’s work has been published by J&L Books (Atlanta)\, Blind Spot Magazine (New York) and Art Licks (London) and his writing is featured in The Photographer’s Playbook published by Aperture. He was a 2014 Artist in Residence at Light Work in Syracuse\, New York and is currently a Process Space Resident for the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. \nRaised in Fort Collins\, Colorado\, Hannah Price\, born in 1986\, is a photographic artist and filmmaker primarily interested in documenting relationships\, race politics\, perception and misperception.  Price is internationally known for her project City of Brotherly Love (2009-2012)\, a series of photographs of the men who catcalled her on the streets of Philadelphia. In 2014\, Price graduated from the Yale School of Art MFA Photography program\, receiving the Richard Benson Prize for excellence in photography.  Over the past six years\, Price’s photos have been displayed in several cities across the United States\, with a few residing in the permanent collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. \nNelson Chan was born in New Jersey to immigrant parents from Hong Kong and Taiwan and has spent most of his life between the States and Hong Kong. Having grown up on two continents with unique cultures\, this immigrant experience has influenced the majority of Nelson’s work. He continues to explore this duality of personal and cultural identity through the medium of photography. He is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design\, where he received a BFA and a graduate of the University of Hartford\, Hartford Art School\, where is received his MFA. Nelson is based in New York City and is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn\, New York. \nLilly McElroy is an American photographer born in Wilcox\, Arizona. The artistic projects she pursues are a reflection of her complex relationship with the American West and exploring what it means to be an American in a time of diminished expectations. She received her BFA in Photography in 2003 and BA in creative writing in 2004 from University of Arizona\, and an MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago in 2006.
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SUMMARY:FISH Gallery Talk
DESCRIPTION:Learn more about the inspiration behind and production of FISH from its creators Laura Jean Hocking\, Sarah Fleming\, and Christopher Reyes.\nRECENT PRESS\n\n\n\nLaura Jean Hocking\n\nThe universe was mysteriously created; fourteen billion years later Laura Jean Hocking became a filmmaker. She has edited four feature films\, including the award winning documentary Antenna\, and directed and/or edited dozens of music videos and experimental short films. Her most recent creation is the Indie Grant funded short film\, “How To Skin A Cat.” \n\nSarah Fleming\nFor over a decade Sarah has worked as a filmmaker and visual artist in the Memphis area.  She has produced and directed numerous award-winning works of art\, spanning the spectrum from narrative and documentary films to music videos to experimental films and projection pieces.  Currently she heads up her own production company\, Cat and Fish\, and is an active member of both Team Electron and Film Fatales. Sarah is passionate about creativity and an engaged member of the Memphis community. \n\nChristopher Reyes\nChristopher Reyes AKA Ninjacat is an experiential artist combining traditional murals\, sculptures\, and installations\, with original soundscapes\, music\, film\, projection mapping\, and technology.  Most recent installations include the Moonpie Project with Birdcap and NFO with the Urban Art Commission. \n\n\n                 \n\n\n    \n\n 
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/fish-gallery-talk/
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SUMMARY:FISH
DESCRIPTION:On view Tuesday-Saturday\, 10 am – 6 pm through August 13\nGallery Talk: Friday\, August 5\, 5:30 pm\nExperience a magical underwater world. From the minds of Laura Jean Hocking\, Sarah Fleming\, and Christopher Reyes\, FISH is an immersive\, site-specific display combining traditional audio\, visual\, and sculptural media with technology.\n\n\nRECENT PRESS \n\n\n\n                 \n\n\n    \n\n\n\n\nLaura Jean Hocking\n\nThe universe was mysteriously created; fourteen billion years later Laura Jean Hocking became a filmmaker. She has edited four feature films\, including the award winning documentary Antenna\, and directed and/or edited dozens of music videos and experimental short films. Her most recent creation is the Indie Grant funded short film\, “How To Skin A Cat.” \n\nSarah Fleming\nFor over a decade Sarah has worked as a filmmaker and visual artist in the Memphis area.  She has produced and directed numerous award-winning works of art\, spanning the spectrum from narrative and documentary films to music videos to experimental films and projection pieces.  Currently she heads up her own production company\, Cat and Fish\, and is an active member of both Team Electron and Film Fatales. Sarah is passionate about creativity and an engaged member of the Memphis community. \n\nChristopher Reyes\nChristopher Reyes AKA Ninjacat is an experiential artist combining traditional murals\, sculptures\, and installations\, with original soundscapes\, music\, film\, projection mapping\, and technology.  Most recent installations include the Moonpie Project with Birdcap and NFO with the Urban Art Commission. \n\n  \n\n 
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/fish/
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SUMMARY:Say Hello to America!
DESCRIPTION:OPENING EVENT: FRIDAY\, JUNE 10\, 6-9 PM\n\nParticipating artists:  \nKenneth Alexander\, Mary Baddour\, Timothy Barker\, Nick Canterucci\, Len Clark\, Saj Crone\, Temple Daniels\, Judith Dierkes\, Charles Dwyer\, Brantley Ellzey\, Jay Etkin\, Adam Farmer\, Jan Hankins\, Carrol Harding McTyre\, Kenneth Johnston\, Paula Kovarik\, Taylor Loftin\, Elysia Mann\, Barbi Martin\, Sophia Mason\, Lester Merriweather\, Andrea Morales\, Margaret Munz-Losch\, Nathan Parten\, Alex Paulus\, Terri Phillips\, Erica     Qualy\, Carrie Schule\, Matt Seltzer\, Valerie Shavers\, Valerie Sparks\, Kyle Taylor\, Lance Turner\, Jeane Umbreit\, Jeff Unthank\, Richard Varnon\, Keysha Warr\, Stephanie Wexler\, Jana Wilson & Meredith Wilson \n\nHi Friends\, \nOf all the madness in American politics at the moment\, it’s nearly impossible to get your head around exactly what’s happening. Somehow\, it’s all very funny and sad and terrifying at the same time. Dr. Thomas More asked a question in the opening lines of Walker Percy’s Love in the Ruins that feels eerily appropriate to ask now: \nIn these dread latter days of the old violent beloved and of the Christ-forgetting Christ-haunted death dealing western world…undoubtedly something is about to happen. Or is it that something has stopped happening? Is it that God has at last removed his blessing from the U.S.A. and what we feel now is just the clank of the old historical machinery\, the sudden jerking ahead of the roller-coaster cars as the chain catches hold and carries us back into history with its ordinary catastrophies\, carries us out and up toward the brink from that felicitous and privileged siding where even unbelievers admitted that if it was not God who blessed the U.S.A\, then at least some great good luck had befallen us\, and that now the blessing or the luck is over\, the machinery clanks\, the chain catches hold\, and the cars jerk forward? \nBut who needs words to describe what’s happening to America? Did you get bored reading that last paragraph? It was kind of long\, right? Way too many words for this news cycle. Keep the words short\, mean what you say—or don’t. Tomorrow’s another headline. \nMillions of Americans are supporting a man for president who has stayed in the forefront of the news by repeatedly saying outrageous things with a very limited range of words\, usually 140 characters or less at a time. He’s definitely onto something and knows it\, even claiming “I know words. I have the best words.” \nThis is a season of extremes\, but in the words of Extreme’s “More than Words\,” “more than words is all you have to do to make it real.” \nPlease consider yourself invited to submit works of visual art\, music\, or performance related to the current political landscape (or anything to do with politics\, America\, etc.) for the upcoming exhibit Say Hello To America! All that we ask is that you keep it real\, using words\, or not. Whatever. \nHere is my submission to the show\, made in collaboration with Memphis-based artist Sadie Yanckello. The photo is of my son\, with an American made beer\, because he loves America. I promise this photo is “real.” It even has words on it to prove it! \n \nChristopher Miner & Sadie Yanckello\, The 4.2%\, digital collage\, 2016\n“I believe in an America where millions of Americans believe in an America. That’s the America millions of Americans believe in. That’s the America I love.” – Mitt Romney \nHope to see you soon\,\nChris \n\n  \n1.Important Dates \nSubmission deadline: Sunday\, May 15 \nSelection notices sent: Friday\, May 20 \nArtwork drop-off: Monday\, June 6\, 9am-6pm \nOpening Reception: Friday\, June 10\, 6-9 pm \nArtwork pick-up: Sunday\, July 10\, 3-5 pm and Monday\, July 11\, 9am-noon  \nDates on view: June 10-July 9\, 2016\, Tuesday-Friday\, 10 am – 6 pm \nOther events TBA \n2.Size Limit\nThere is no restriction on size of artwork other than reasonable passage through a standard doorway. \n3.Display Requirements\nAll artwork must be delivered ready to hang/install to be included in the exhibition. Please communicate any specific installation needs (special handling\, pedestal needs\, AV equipment needs\, etc) in submission form. \n4.Sales\nAll proceeds from sales go directly to artists. Crosstown Arts does not take a commission. Crosstown Arts will facilitate sales via cash\, check (made out to the artist) or Visa/MasterCard via Square during the run of the show. More details to follow. \n5.SUBMISSION FORM \nSubmit entries online through this form \n\nContact: For more information please contact us at info@crosstownarts.org \nCrosstown Arts\, 422 N Cleveland\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104
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SUMMARY:Belongings II: Repurposed
DESCRIPTION:Opening Reception: Friday\, April 29\, 6-9 pm\n\n\nCall to Artists – February 2016\nBelongings II: Repurposed \nAn open call exhibition organized by Crosstown Arts and the Cleveland Street Flea Market \nThis second incarnation of the Belongings show continues in the spirit of community and the reuse and re-imagining of objects. All artists are invited to participate by purchasing any object of inspiration from the Cleveland Street Flea Market at 438 N Cleveland to transform into (or use as inspiration for) a new work of art. \nThe nostalgia and surprise felt when browsing at a flea market is a ripe field for artistic interpretation. A psychedelic print from the 70’s can inspire a color scheme or shape motif. A plastic bust of Scooby Doo can evoke early childhood Saturday mornings in front of the TV. A cover of an early genre pulp fiction paperback might be a poignant reminder of how prevalent attitudes have changed since the 1950’s. \nOne submission per artist will be accepted based on the guidelines below. All artists are welcome to participate regardless of their level of expertise or prior art experience. \nBelongings II: Repurposed will be on view at \nCrosstown Arts Gallery\, 422 N Cleveland\, April 29- May 14\, 2016  \n\nCall for Submissions\n1. Submit via Formstack \nClick here to submit \n2. Important Dates \nArtwork submission deadline/drop-off: Monday\, April 25\, 2-7 pm at Crosstown Arts at 422 N Cleveland \nOpening Reception: Friday\, April 29\, 6-9 pm \nGallery Hours: Tuesday-Saturday\, April 29 – May 14\, 10 am – 6 pm \nArtwork pick-up: Sunday\, May 15\, 2-5 pm and Monday\, May 16\, 12-6 pm \n3. Fees\nThere is no fee to participate in the show other than the cost of purchasing an item from the Cleveland Street Flea Market to be incorporated into or used as inspiration for the artwork for the show. Prices of objects in the flea market are $1+ \n4. Size limit\nThere is no restriction on size of artwork other than reasonable passage through a standard doorway. \n5. Display requirements\nAll artwork must be delivered ready to hang/install to be included in the exhibition. Please communicate any specific installation needs (special handling\, pedestal needs\, AV equipment needs\, etc) by email to maryjo@crosstownarts.org before delivery. \n6.Sales\nCrosstown Arts will facilitate sales via cash\, check (made out to the artist) or Visa/MasterCard via square during the run of the show. More details to follow. \nContact: For more information please contact Mary Jo Karimnia at maryjo@crosstownarts.org or 901-626-6298
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SUMMARY:Duets for Mellotron - Encore
DESCRIPTION:ENCORE PERFORMANCE ADDED: SUNDAY\, APRIL 17\, 7:30 PM \nCrosstown Arts is pleased to present Duets for Mellotron\, a live performance by Jonathan Kirkscey and Robby Grant\, organized in collaboration with Winston Eggleston. \nThis unique performance experience—the world’s first Mellotron duet—features an obscure but ingenious keyboard instrument invented in the 1940s which was designed to reproduce the sound of virtually any acoustic\, electromechanical\, or synthesized instrument. \nThe Mellotron is essentially a giant cassette tape player\, operated manually by pressing keys on a keyboard. When a key is struck\, a prerecorded sound is played/heard\, conceptually making the Mellotron an analog forerunner to digital sampling. \nThe M400 and a new M4000 cycling Mellotron\, from Winston Eggleston’s small but diverse Mellotron collection\, will be played at the performance. Eggleston will also share a series of new site-specific digital projections to complement the music. \nThe collaboration will result in a forthcoming limited-release vinyl recording of the performance and other duets for Mellotron composed by the artists. \nEvent tickets can be purchased in advance\, online for $30 (includes a copy of the record) or $15 (performance only). Capacity is limited. Performance location is Crosstown Arts at 422 N. Cleveland\, Memphis. A complimentary reception will take place prior to the performance. \n\nTICKETS \nDuets for Mellotron\nSaturday\, April 16\, 8 pm doors/8:30 pm show (45 mins)\nCrosstown Arts\, 422 N. Cleveland\nTickets: $15 / $30 with record\nSOLD OUT \n\nDuets for Mellotron Encore\nSunday\, April 17\, 7:30 pm doors/8 pm show (45 mins)\nCrosstown Arts\, 422 N. Cleveland\nTickets: $15 / $30 with record \n \n\n\n\nOrganized by Robby Grant\, Jonathan Kirkscey\, and Winston Eggleston \nMore about the Mellotron: \nThe Mellotron is essentially a giant cassette tape player\, operated manually by pressing keys on a keyboard. When a key is struck\, a prerecorded sound is played/heard\, conceptually making the Mellotron an analog forerunner to digital sampling. \nAn American engineer named Harry Chamberlin invented the precursor to the Mellotron in the late 1940s. While playing his Hammond organ\, he wondered if it would be possible to create a keyboard instrument that allowed the player to reproduce a wider range of orchestral and brass sounds. Over the course of many decades and through the hands of several manufacturers and marketers\, the Mellotron’s technology and appearance took many forms. \nWhile the individual instruments sampled for the Mellotron were recorded in the highest available fidelity for the time\, the wow and flutter of the tape playback mechanism\, as well as the ability to affect volume and speed through the relative amount of pressure applied to the keys all contribute to the instrument’s characteristic sound. \nThe iconic sound of the Mellotron has helped shape important moments in the history of modern music\, such as the Beatles’ “Strawberry Fields Forever\,” and work by The Moody Blues\, Pink Floyd\, Yes\, Genesis\, and Led Zeppelin\, to name a few. \nMore about the artists/organizers: \nJonathan Kirkscey and Robby Grant have been playing music together for over 10 years with the band Mouserocket. Jonathan also performs with Glorie\, String Theory\, the Memphis Symphony\, and recently scored the documentary “Best of Enemies.” Robby has performed at Crosstown previously with the experimental band\, >mancontrol<. He most recently recorded and released “Let the Little Things Go” under the Vending Machine moniker.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/duets-for-mellotron-encore/
LOCATION:Crosstown Arts Galleries\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Gallery,Programs
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SUMMARY:Duets for Mellotron
DESCRIPTION:SATURDAY PERFORMANCE IS SOLD OUT!  \nENCORE PERFORMANCE ADDED: SUNDAY\, APRIL 17\, 7:30 PM \nCrosstown Arts is pleased to present Duets for Mellotron\, a live performance by Jonathan Kirkscey and Robby Grant\, organized in collaboration with Winston Eggleston. \nThis unique performance experience—the world’s first Mellotron duet—features an obscure but ingenious keyboard instrument invented in the 1940s which was designed to reproduce the sound of virtually any acoustic\, electromechanical\, or synthesized instrument. \nThe Mellotron is essentially a giant cassette tape player\, operated manually by pressing keys on a keyboard. When a key is struck\, a prerecorded sound is played/heard\, conceptually making the Mellotron an analog forerunner to digital sampling. \nThe M400 and a new M4000 cycling Mellotron\, from Winston Eggleston’s small but diverse Mellotron collection\, will be played at the performance. Eggleston will also share a series of new site-specific digital projections to complement the music. \nThe collaboration will result in a forthcoming limited-release vinyl recording of the performance and other duets for Mellotron composed by the artists. \nEvent tickets can be purchased in advance\, online for $30 (includes a copy of the record) or $15 (performance only). Capacity is limited. Performance location is Crosstown Arts at 422 N. Cleveland\, Memphis. A complimentary reception will take place prior to the performance. \n\nTICKETS \nDuets for Mellotron\nSaturday\, April 16\, 8 pm doors/8:30 pm show (45 mins)\nCrosstown Arts\, 422 N. Cleveland\nTickets: $15 / $30 with record\nSOLD OUT \n\nDuets for Mellotron Encore\nSunday\, April 17\, 7:30 pm doors/8 pm show (45 mins)\nCrosstown Arts\, 422 N. Cleveland\nTickets: $15 / $30 with record \n \n\n\n\nOrganized by Robby Grant\, Jonathan Kirkscey\, and Winston Eggleston \nMore about the Mellotron: \nThe Mellotron is essentially a giant cassette tape player\, operated manually by pressing keys on a keyboard. When a key is struck\, a prerecorded sound is played/heard\, conceptually making the Mellotron an analog forerunner to digital sampling. \nAn American engineer named Harry Chamberlin invented the precursor to the Mellotron in the late 1940s. While playing his Hammond organ\, he wondered if it would be possible to create a keyboard instrument that allowed the player to reproduce a wider range of orchestral and brass sounds. Over the course of many decades and through the hands of several manufacturers and marketers\, the Mellotron’s technology and appearance took many forms. \nWhile the individual instruments sampled for the Mellotron were recorded in the highest available fidelity for the time\, the wow and flutter of the tape playback mechanism\, as well as the ability to affect volume and speed through the relative amount of pressure applied to the keys all contribute to the instrument’s characteristic sound. \nThe iconic sound of the Mellotron has helped shape important moments in the history of modern music\, such as the Beatles’ “Strawberry Fields Forever\,” and work by The Moody Blues\, Pink Floyd\, Yes\, Genesis\, and Led Zeppelin\, to name a few. \nMore about the artists/organizers: \nJonathan Kirkscey and Robby Grant have been playing music together for over 10 years with the band Mouserocket. Jonathan also performs with Glorie\, String Theory\, the Memphis Symphony\, and recently scored the documentary “Best of Enemies.” Robby has performed at Crosstown previously with the experimental band\, >mancontrol<. He most recently recorded and released “Let the Little Things Go” under the Vending Machine moniker.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/duets-for-mellotron/
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SUMMARY:do it
DESCRIPTION:OPENING RECEPTION: FRIDAY\, MARCH 4\, 6-9 PM\nARTIST TALKS AND PERFORMANCE: SATURDAY\, MARCH 5\, 5-7 PM\nIn the early nineties the international curator Hans Ulrich Obrist and the artists Bertrand Lavier and Christian Boltanski wanted more flexible and open-ended art exhibitions.  Could “scores” or written instructions by artists\, as a point of departure\, be interpreted anew every time they were enacted? Twenty years later the exhibition they came to call do it grew to include instructions by nearly three-hundred artists\, choreographers\, writers\, and poets and has been featured in more than fifty exhibitions worldwide. This spring the Art Museum of the University of Memphis in collaboration with the Lambuth campus and Crosstown Arts will present more than 2 dozen interpretations of the do it instructions.\n\nCrosstown Arts:  March 4 – April 2\nAMUM: April 9 – May 7\nUniversity of Memphis Lambuth: March 17 \nPROJECTS ON VIEW AT CROSSTOWN ARTS:\n\nJoseph Grigely instruction interpreted by Johnathan Payne\n\n\nFelix Gonzales-Torres Untitled interpreted by Joel Parsons (installation image on homepage)\n\n\nTracey Emin What Would Tracy Do? interpreted by Terri Jones\n\n\nRirkrit Tiravanija Untitled interpreted by Catherine Pena\n\n\nClaire Fontaine instruction interpreted by Terry Lynn\n\n\nMeg Cranston instruction interpreted by Corkey Sinks\n\n\ndo it is an exhibition conceived and curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist\, and organized by Independent Curators International (ICI)\, New York. do it and the accompanying publication\, do it: the compendium\, were made possible\, in part\, by grants from the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation\, the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation\, and with the generous support from Project Perpetual and ICI’s International Forum and Board of Trustees.\n  \n\n  \nSponsored locally by The University of Memphis Student Activity Fee Fund
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SUMMARY:Blind Navigator
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts is pleased to present “Blind Navigator\,” an exhibition of new individual and collaborative works by New York-based artist Clare Torina and Memphis-based artist Alex Paulus. \nClare Torina’s recent paintings and objects refer to one another in sequence\, symbolism\, and mimicry. She pulls from a personal set of fascinations – her dog (Lolita)\, the Illuminati\, basketball\, patriarchal painting history\, ancient art – and subjugates their representations to a multitude of transitions using color models and plays on style. \nAlex Paulus’s pieces address broken things that must be repeatedly fixed or altered to allow them to continue to function. The subject matter ranges from common objects to human emotions to animals nearing extinction. He presents these damaged subjects\, which can be overlooked and ignored\, that ultimately need to be recognized and reconciled. \nAt the heart of this exhibition is an acknowledgement of the bewilderment and reformation during creative process. Together\, the artists volley to find a metaphor for the act of seeing and being seen while in the throes of malfunction. The blind navigator is the artist\, the viewer\, and the work itself feeling its way through shadows. \nClare Torina is an interdisciplinary artist living and working in New York. After undergraduate study at the University of Memphis\, she received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and was a resident at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Her work has been exhibited in New York\, Chicago\, Memphis\, and abroad. Additional information and images of her work can be found at claretorina.com. \nAlex Paulus is originally from southeast Missouri\, but has been a resident of Memphis\, TN since 2007. He received his MFA in 2009 from the Memphis College of Art and has been teaching ever since. Paulus’s work has been shown in numerous galleries in Memphis\, Nashville\, Dallas\, St. Louis\, and many others. His work has also been published in Studio Visit magazine and Beautiful/Decay. Additional information and images of his work can be seen at alexanderpaulus.blogspot.com. \nExhibition Press: Memphis Flyer | Commercial Appeal
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/blind-navigator/
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SUMMARY:From the Margins to the Mainstream: Artists with Disabilities Today
DESCRIPTION:Curator Talk in conjunction with Extra Celestial  \nIn conjunction with the exhibition\, please join Creative Growth Director Tom di Maria for his gallery talk\, From the Margins to the Mainstream: Artists with Disabilities Today. The talk will review the history and leadership of Creative Growth Art Center’s work as the world’s oldest and largest art center for people with disabilities. He will review the Center’s studio art practice\, the evolution of several key artists\, and its relationship to so-called Outsider Art and to the contemporary art world. \n________________________________ \nAbout Creative Growth \nCreative Growth Art Center is the nation’s oldest and largest artist-run space for artists with disabilities\, offering a professional art studio\, exhibition opportunities\, and a supportive artistic community for 154 adult artists with developmental\, physical\, emotional\, and mental disabilities. Founded in 1974 on the idea that all people can gain strength\, enjoyment and fulfillment from experiences in the arts and are capable of producing works of high artistic merit\, CGAC’s studio program offers\, at no cost\, 74 ongoing workshops led by artists in a range of media. Our year-round Saturday Youth Art program provides 16 young adults with access to our award-winning studio. As a role model organization\, CGAC has fostered the development of over 20 similar centers worldwide. \nCritical to CGAC’s success is its landmark/adjoining gallery. Started in 1978 with a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts as the world’s first gallery for artists with disabilities\, this museum-quality space\, with its six extraordinary annual exhibitions\, serves as a portal to the larger community of viewers and collectors. Over 12\,000 people visit our gallery each year. \nCGAC’s artists are thriving in the mainstream art world\, making significant contributions to the field of contemporary art\, and becoming recognized among the outstanding contemporary artists of our era. Recent accomplishments include: \n–       CGAC artist Judith Scott became our third artist (Dan Miller and William Scott are the others) to have work acquired by the Museum of Modern Art\, New York. These are the only three artists with developmental disabilities with work in the Museum of Modern Art’s permanent collection.\n–       Participation in over 20 outside exhibitions and art fairs\, including our artists’ first presence at: Art Fair Tokyo\, Japan; D’Dessin Paris Contemporary Drawing Fair\, France; and the Codex Book Fair\, Richmond\, CA.\n–       CGAC artists Kerry Damianakes and William Scott received 2015 Wynn Newhouse Awards\, given to artists of excellence who also happen to have disabilities.\n–       “Bound and Unbound\,” a major 5-month retrospective exhibition of CGAC artist Judith Scott’s eighteen years of sculpture making\, was presented at the Brooklyn Museum.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/from-the-margins-to-the-mainstream-artists-with-disabilities-today/
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SUMMARY:Extra Celestial
DESCRIPTION:Organized in partnership with Creative Growth Art Center (Oakland\, CA)\n Curated by Tom di Maria\, Director of CGAC\nOpening Reception: Friday\, December 11\, 6-9 pm\n Curator Talk: Saturday\, December 12\, 2 pm\nCrosstown Arts is pleased to partner with Creative Growth Art Center to present the upcoming exhibition Extra Celestial. Founded in Oakland\, California in 1973\, Creative Growth serves adult artists with developmental\, mental\, and physical disabilities\, providing a professional studio environment for artistic development\, gallery exhibition and representation\, and more. \nIn Extra Celestial\, Creative Growth artists Luis Aguilera\, David Albertsen\, Terri Bowden\, Susan Janow\, Allan Lofberg\, Dan Miller\, Donald Mitchell\, William Scott\, Ruth Stafford\, William Tyler\, Merritt Wallace and Ed Walter explore concepts of inner and outer space. \nThis ethereal grouping of works on paper presents an otherworldly and highly personal view of inner explorations and celestial journeys. Often abstract\, always visionary\, these colorful and dynamic paintings and drawings serve as maps to a galaxy of dreams and to compelling utopian realities. \nAn important component of Extra Celestial is the gallery premiere of Starquarius\, the new space exploration video from the Creative Growth Video Production Workshop that reflects and re-considers the iconic sci-fi films of our lives. \n\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				Starquarius (poster)\n				\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				David Albertsen\n				\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				Still from Starquarius\n				\n		\n\n\nCurator Talk: Saturday\, December 12\, 2 pm \nIn conjunction with the exhibition\, please join Creative Growth Director Tom di Maria for his gallery talk\, From the Margins to the Mainstream: Artists with Disabilities Today. The talk will review the history and leadership of Creative Growth Art Center’s work as the world’s oldest and largest art center for people with disabilities. He will review the Center’s studio art practice\, the evolution of several key artists\, and its relationship to so-called Outsider Art and to the contemporary art world. \n\nAbout Creative Growth \nCreative Growth Art Center is the nation’s oldest and largest artist-run space for artists with disabilities\, offering a professional art studio\, exhibition opportunities\, and a supportive artistic community for 154 adult artists with developmental\, physical\, emotional\, and mental disabilities. Founded in 1974 on the idea that all people can gain strength\, enjoyment and fulfillment from experiences in the arts and are capable of producing works of high artistic merit\, CGAC’s studio program offers\, at no cost\, 74 ongoing workshops led by artists in a range of media. Our year-round Saturday Youth Art program provides 16 young adults with access to our award-winning studio. As a role model organization\, CGAC has fostered the development of over 20 similar centers worldwide. \nCritical to CGAC’s success is its landmark/adjoining gallery. Started in 1978 with a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts as the world’s first gallery for artists with disabilities\, this museum-quality space\, with its six extraordinary annual exhibitions\, serves as a portal to the larger community of viewers and collectors. Over 12\,000 people visit our gallery each year. \nCGAC’s artists are thriving in the mainstream art world\, making significant contributions to the field of contemporary art\, and becoming recognized among the outstanding contemporary artists of our era. Recent accomplishments include: \n–       CGAC artist Judith Scott became our third artist (Dan Miller and William Scott are the others) to have work acquired by the Museum of Modern Art\, New York. These are the only three artists with developmental disabilities with work in the Museum of Modern Art’s permanent collection.\n–       Participation in over 20 outside exhibitions and art fairs\, including our artists’ first presence at: Art Fair Tokyo\, Japan; D’Dessin Paris Contemporary Drawing Fair\, France; and the Codex Book Fair\, Richmond\, CA.\n–       CGAC artists Kerry Damianakes and William Scott received 2015 Wynn Newhouse Awards\, given to artists of excellence who also happen to have disabilities.\n–       “Bound and Unbound\,” a major 5-month retrospective exhibition of CGAC artist Judith Scott’s eighteen years of sculpture making\, was presented at the Brooklyn Museum.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/extra-celestial/
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SUMMARY:Mi Sur/My South
DESCRIPTION:A Survey of Latina/o Artists Working in Memphis\nOrganized by Centro Cultural in collaboration with Crosstown Arts and Caritas Village\nMade possible by the First Tennessee Foundation/ArtsFirst\nGallery Talks: Thursday\, December 3\, 5:30-7:30 & Saturday\, December 5\, 2-4 pm\nCall to Artists: Spanish | English\n\n\n“Mi Sur/My South: A Survey of Latina/o Artists Working in Memphis attempts to show a cross section of contemporary Latina/o artists creating artwork in the Memphis area. Mi Sur/My South is concerned with amplifying the artistic voices that have largely been ignored but are in fact and deed contributing to the changing demographic and cultural dynamic disrupting the once binary racial understanding of the South. This exhibition is part of the efforts of Centro Cultural (a Latina/o cultural center based at Caritas Village) to survey and document the artistic life and production of Latina/os in Shelby County. To this end\, the Centro is additionally working to compile an Artist Registry that would include not only visual artists but all creative disciplines. \nAccording to a 2012 paper\,  A Profile of the Hispanic Population in the State of Tennessee\, researched and compiled by the Center for Business and Economic Research at the University of Tennessee\, “Latinos were the fastest growing racial or ethnic group in Tennessee during the last ten years.” In fact\, the growth rate of the Hispanic population in Tennessee was the third-fastest in the nation. According to the 2010 Census\, there were 290\,059 Hispanic persons in Tennessee\, representing 4.6 percent of the population. With Shelby County being home to a significant share of Tennessee’s Latina/o population it would be safe to assume that not only have Latina/os contributed to the economic growth of Memphis but to its cultural vitality as well.”\n-Centro Cultural \nSince the inception of the Centro in 2012 there have been annual exhibitions of Latina/o art in the Hope Gallery at Caritas Village\, as well as a fruitful collaboration with the Dixon Gallery and Gardens in producing the highly attended exhibition of Latina/o artists titled Memphis Vive. \nCentro Cultural is proud to participate in partnership with Crosstown Arts and Caritas Village\, the Centro’s homebase\, in organizing this exhibition. \n\n  \n“Mi Sur / Mi Sur – Una encuesta de Latinas / os artistas que trabajan en Memphis (Mi Sur) intenta mostrar una sección transversal de contemporánea Latina / o artista obra creando en el área de Memphis. Mi Sur / Mi Sur está preocupado con la amplificación de las voces artísticas que en gran parte han sido ignorados pero que son de hecho y de obra que contribuye a la cambiante dinámica demográfica y cultural interrumpir el entendimiento racial vez binaria del Sur. Esta exposición forma parte del Centro Cultural\, una o centro de Latina / cultural basado en Caritas pueblo\, los esfuerzos en la topografía y la documentación de la vida artística y la producción de Latina / o en el condado de Shelby. Para ello\, el Centro está trabajando en un Registro artista que incluiría no sólo a artistas visuales\, pero todas las disciplinas creativas. \nDe acuerdo con un documento de 2012 titulado “UN PERFIL DE LA POBLACIÓN HISPANA EN EL ESTADO DE TENNESSEE”\, investigado y compilado por el Centro de Negocios e Investigación Económica de la Universidad de Tennessee: “Los latinos fueron el grupo racial o étnico de más rápido crecimiento en Tennessee durante los últimos diez años. De hecho\, la tasa de crecimiento de la población hispana en Tennessee fue el tercero más rápido en la nación. Según el Censo de 2010\, había 290\,059 personas hispanas en Tennessee\, lo que representa un 4\,6 por ciento de la población. Con el condado de Shelby ser el hogar de una parte significativa de la población Latina / o de Tennessee sería seguro asumir que no sólo tiene Latina / os contribuyó al crecimiento económico de Memphis\, pero a él es la vitalidad cultural.”\n-Centro Cultural \nDesde la creación del Centro en 2012 ha habido exposiciones anuales de Latina / o arte en la Galería de la Esperanza en Caritas Village. También hubo una muy fructífera colaboración con la Galería de Dixon y Jardines en la producción de la exposición altamente asistido de Latina / os artistas titulado\, Memphis Vive. \nEl Centro se enorgullece de participar en sociedad con Crosstown Artes y Caritas Village\, base de operaciones del Centro\, en la organización de esta exposición. \n\n  \nSpecial thanks to the First Tennessee Foundation/ArtsFirst for their support of this exhibition and the partnership between Crosstown Arts and Centro Cultural. \n \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/mi-sur-my-south/
LOCATION:Crosstown Arts Galleries\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Beholding and Being Held
DESCRIPTION:Performance by artist Joel Parsons in conjunction with You are the Hole\,  currently on view at 422 N. Cleveland.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/beholding-and-being-held/
LOCATION:Crosstown Arts Galleries\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Roundtable Discussion with Joel Parsons
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a roundtable discussion with artist Joel Parsons\, in conjunction with You are the Hole\, An Exhibition in Four Acts\,  on view at 422 N. Cleveland. \nThis as an open\, informal opportunity to have a conversation. The session will be recorded and then transcribed and published to our website\, archiving the exhibition through a collection of voices.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/roundtable-discussion-with-joel-parsons/
LOCATION:Crosstown Arts Galleries\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Gallery,Programs
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SUMMARY:Joel Parsons: You Are the Hole\, An Exhibition in Four Acts
DESCRIPTION:Opening Reception: Friday\, October 9\, 6 – 9 pm\nPerformance: Sunday\, October 25\, 2 pm\nYou Are the Hole is the theatre of desire\, abstracted. By presenting the self as something constructed and performed\, Joel Parsons gently prods the human dichotomy of yearning to divulge and yearning to conceal. \nUsing the structural components of a theatre\, he establishes an installation space that is simultaneously formal and intimate. Occupying the transformed stage are sculptures in voluptuous pinks and nudes\, a flesh-like latex curtain and dozens of small drawings. Parsons has made a zine to accompany the exhibition\, which will be available in the gallery. \nThe culmination is Parsons’ performance of his originally-choreographed piece\, “Beholding and Being Held.” \n\nJoel Parsons is an artist\, writer\, and curator based in Memphis\, TN. He is an Assistant Professor of Art and Director of Clough-Hanson Gallery at Rhodes College\, co-director of Beige\, an otherwise space for art and performance\, and a founding member of the ArtsMemphis Artist Advisory Council. A graduate of Rhodes College and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago\, he has exhibited his work in Memphis at the Powerhouse\, Material\, and Southfork Gallery\, as well as at Western Exhibtions in Chicago\, and venues in Peru\, India\, and South Africa. \n\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n		\n\n 
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SUMMARY:No Brag Pure Fact: The Art of Graceland Too
DESCRIPTION:  \nOpening Reception: Wednesday\, September 23\, 6 – 9 pm\nIn partnership with Gonerfest 12\, Goner Records and Crosstown Arts present No Brag Pure Fact\, an exhibition of artifacts and exclusive footage from Graceland Too. Included are some of Paul MacLeod’s own Elvis-inspired outsider artworks\, notebooks he kept\, and mounted photographs of visitors to his house\, all courtesy of Friends of Graceland Too. Filmmakers Jeffrey Jensen and Geoffrey Shrewsbury have also contributed video footage of MacLeod and clips from their upcoming documentary\, The Rise and Fall of Graceland Too. \nAt the reception\, meet special guests and have the opportunity to purchase Graceland Too Memorabilia\, a commemorative 45 RPM record and “Friends Of Graceland Too” t-shirts. \nExhibition List (PDF)\n\nSpecial Thanks\nThe Friends of Graceland Too\, Filmmakers Jeffrey Jensen and Geoffrey Shrewsbury (The Rise and Fall of Graceland Too)\, Marie Claire Underwood \n\nWho was Paul MacLeod? \nElvis Presley fans tend to be an especially devoted lot\, but Paul MacLeod possessed a zeal few could rival. Driven by his perverse affinity for The King\, he turned his own Holly Springs\, MS home into Graceland Too\, an obsessive\, candy-colored shrine dedicated to all things Elvis\, where his ongoing mission was amassing all of the Presley ephemera he could get his hands on and documenting every mention of the star he could find via radio\, television and film. In addition to being a dogged curator of kingly dreck\, MacLeod was known as a bombastic personality with the eccentric habit of giving lengthy\, frenetic tours of his home to anyone who stopped by\, 24 hours a day. \nSpectacle to some\, sanctuary to others\, Graceland Too was a wayward beacon that attracted Elvis fans from all over the world. \nPaul MacLeod passed away in July of 2014\, and over the past year\, many have offered their time and resources in service of preserving what became his life’s work: sheltering strange treasures and welcoming fellow pilgrims on the road to Graceland (Too).
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/gonerfest-12-graceland-too/
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SUMMARY:Lawrence Matthews III: In a Violent Way
DESCRIPTION:Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday\, 10 am – 6 pm \n\nPerformance at Rock For Love: Friday\, September\, 4\, 8:30 pm\nArtist Talk: Thursday\, September 10\, 7:30 pm\n\n\n“A riot is the language of the unheard.” – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. \nIn a Violent Way is a multimedia installation by Lawrence Matthews III that incorporates a wide array of visual and audio elements\, from oil painting and collage to tube televisions and archival video footage. To accompany the installation\, Matthews will perform his own original songs at the close of the show’s reception. The exhibition’s title is a nod to the seminal\, genre-bending 1969 Miles Davis recording\, In a Silent Way\, which inspired and guided Matthews while he created this body of work. \nThe imagery of In a Violent Way is sourced from or informed by mass media portrayals of events past and present in four primary cities: Baltimore\, Los Angeles\, St. Louis and Memphis\, each with its own history of entrenched racial discrimination and economic disparity disproportionately affecting people of color. Mixed media works depicting the demonstrations and unrest of the 1960’s tellingly reside alongside banks of television sets showing video footage of more recent discord\, like the 1992 L.A. Riots. These scenes — differing in timeline\, though not in tenor — convey generations of frustration caused by institutionalized oppression\, angry citizens crying out against abuses at the hands of authority\, and the ambivalent eye of the media that only captures part of the story. \n“My work does not judge the morality of the individuals partaking in the riots\, only the institutions that create the circumstances where riots are the only voice.” – Lawrence Matthews III \n\n                 \n\n\n    \n\nLawrence Matthews III was born in Memphis\, TN\, into a family who encouraged him to be an artist from a young age. He received his BFA from the University of Memphis and was awarded “Best of Show” in the University’s 31st Annual Juried Student Exhibition. Young\, but already prolific\, Matthews is an emerging artist who has shown work in several solo and group shows across Memphis\, including Doomed to Repeat at Circuitous Succession Gallery (2015)\, Cigar Box Show at Glitch Gallery (2014)\, and Price Is Right at David Lusk Gallery (2014). \nMatthews works in a wide variety of media\, including oil paint\, collage\, photography\, sculpture\, music and film\, and combines post-modern\, Pop Art and contemporary influences to narrate his perspective as an African descendant living in America.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/in-a-violent-way/
LOCATION:Crosstown Arts Galleries\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Walking Eyes: Roundtable Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts is hosting a small group discussion with Walking Eyes collaborators\, Kong Wee Pang and Jay Crum. This free event is open to the public. \nIf you are interested in attending\, please email emily@crosstownarts.org to RSVP.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/walking-eyes-roundtable/
LOCATION:Crosstown Arts Galleries\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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SUMMARY:LOCATE Arts: Q&A Forum
DESCRIPTION:LOCATE Arts is a brand new organization with plans to strengthen the connections between artists and patrons across Tennessee\, while sharing the dynamic contemporary arts of our state with the rest of the country. \nCo-founders\, Carri Jobe and Brian R. Jobe\, will be leading a discussion about the mission\, vision and goals of LOCATE Arts. Please join us!
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/locate-arts-forum/
LOCATION:Crosstown Arts Galleries\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Walking Eyes: Opening Reception
DESCRIPTION:Walking Eyes is a collaborative exhibition by Kong Wee Pang and Jay Crum. Inspired by a month spent in Southeast Asia\, each piece was developed through exchanges of ideas and sketches between the two artists. The work is informed by personal memories\, hand-drawn maps\, tropical flora\, and Batik patterns. Many of the pieces have high levels of details with hidden treasures to encourage exploration. The show includes a collection of mixed-media works on paper and fabric\, as well as an installation. \nCollaborators in life and art\, Kong Wee and Jay thoughtfully balance married life\, creative exploration and professional growth through ongoing ventures like the playful TaroPop Studio\, which they co-founded in 2009. \n\nPlease join us for refreshments in the gallery to celebrate the exhibition\, and visit the Walking Eyes page for more information.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/walking-eyes-reception/
LOCATION:Crosstown Arts Galleries\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Kong Wee Pang and Jay Crum: Walking Eyes
DESCRIPTION:Reception: Friday\, July 31\, 6 – 9 pm\nRoundtable Discussion: Saturday\, August 15\, 3 – 5 pm\nGallery Hours:\nTuesday – Saturday\, 10 am – 6 pm\nWalking Eyes is a collaborative exhibition by Kong Wee Pang and Jay Crum. Inspired by a month spent in Southeast Asia\, each piece was developed through exchanges of ideas and sketches between the two artists. The work is informed by personal memories\, hand-drawn maps\, tropical flora\, and Batik patterns. Many of the pieces have high levels of details with hidden treasures to encourage exploration. The show includes a collection of mixed-media works on paper and fabric\, as well as an installation. \nCollaborators in life and art\, Kong Wee and Jay thoughtfully balance married life\, creative exploration and professional growth through ongoing ventures like the playful TaroPop Studio\, which they co-founded in 2009. \n\n                 \n\n\n    \n\n\n \n\nArtists Bios\nKong Wee Pang is a designer/artist from Malaysia. She graduated from Singapore Nanyang Academy of Fine Art. In 2001 she moved to the United States. She received a degree in fine art and design and an MFA from the Memphis College of Art. She currently works as an art director at the mid-south’s largest ad agency\, archer>malmo. Her work has been shown in NYC’s Times Square\, Spain\, Italy\, Berlin\, Atlanta\, Memphis and California. \nKong Wee on her practice: \n\nMy work is concerned with transformation. Coming from Malaysia\, I have learned to adapt to a new way of life here in the United States. I exist in a liminal state living in two worlds. I have focused upon the notion of original self\, outside influences and transmutation. Working with watercolor is meaningful to me. In Chinese we have a saying which translates roughly to “When you drink water\, remember the spring.” The abstracted figures give me a chance to face my new freedom while remembering where I come from. It is found in translation. \n\nJay Crum is a designer\, illustrator and artist. He was born in New Orleans\, LA and currently lives in Memphis\, TN. He received a BFA in printmaking in 2005 and has since been navigating the line where art and design meet. In 2009 he co-founded TaroPop\, a small studio producing T-shirt designs and limited-edition art-prints. He received his MFA at Memphis College of Art in 2012. He has exhibited work in Memphis\, Rome and Barcelona.
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SUMMARY:Richard Lou: Stories On My Back
DESCRIPTION:Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday\, 10 am – 6 pm \nCrosstown Arts is pleased to present Stories On My Back\, a large-scale multi-media installation incorporating audio\, video\, digital photographs\, and tamale leaves created by Memphis artist Richard Lou. The installation\, never before seen in its entirety in Memphis\, is an immersive experience alluding to a ceremonial site where people come to share their stories and personal histories. The piece is informed by stories exchanged through the artist’s family: stories told by the artist’s mother and father\, the stories he shared with his children\, and the stories retold by his children as their own. \n \nStories On My Back from Crosstown Arts on Vimeo. \nThe thousands of tamale leaves in the installation speak to the artist’s bi-cultural heritage as a Chinese/Mexican\, or what artist/activist Guillermo Gomez-Peña would a “Chicanese\,” a Chicano/Chinese. The stories mix personal history within the larger context of the external historical forces that brought the artist’s families together\, or threatened to pull them apart. They are stories of loss\, dreams\, isolation\, ignorance\, race\, disparities of power\, assimilation\, spirit\, and subjugated knowledge and wisdom. \nIncluded in the installation is Lou’s father’s chair\, where Lou Yet Ming would sit and watch John Wayne westerns and movies about World War II. Lou’s father served in the U.S. Marine Corp during World War II and was honorably discharged as a Technical Sergeant. Lou Yet Ming’s recliner was re-designed and brought back to life by Louisiana artist Chere Labbe Doiron\, reupholstered with images of the artist’s children and his mother. It has traveled with the exhibition for the last two years and now has become an integral component of the larger installation. \nRichard Lou was born in San Diego\, CA and raised in San Diego and Tijuana\, BCN\, MX. He has over 20 years of teaching experience in higher education\, over 15 years of arts administration experience\, has curated over 30 exhibitions\, and continues to produce and exhibit art while teaching and chairing the Department of Art at the University of Memphis. \nCrosstown Arts thanks the First Tennessee Foundation | ArtsFirst and ArtMemphis for support of this exhibition and its related programs\, which are part of an ongoing artistic and community partnership between Crosstown Arts and Centro Cultural.  More details about the18-month schedule of collaborative exhibitions and events\, and several long-term cultural projects\, can be found at crosstownarts.org/centro-cultural-collaboration. \n\nStories On My Back Events \nOpening Festivities: Friday\, June 5 \n\n9am: WKNO Checking on the Arts interview with Richard Lou\n6 pm: Blessing by Danza Azteca Quetzalcoatl\n6:15 pm: Performance from singer/songwriter Savannah Long\n7 pm: Cuban and Latin folk music by Los Cantadores\n6 – 9 pm: Hot Mess Burritos food truck\, empanadas from Havana’s Pilon\, paletas by Michoachana\, elote (grilled corn) and a wide variety of cold beverages!\n\nExhibition Programs: Saturday\, June 6\, 2-4 pm\n \n\n2 pm: Lecture by Visiting Scholar Guisela Latorre\, 430 N. Cleveland\n3 pm: Gallery Talk with Richard Lou & Guisela Latorre\, 422 N. Cleveland\n\n\nPress for Stories On My Back \nArt Review: Richard Lou explores mixed heritage in ‘Stories on My Back’ at Crosstown Arts\nFredric Koeppel / Commercial Appeal / June\, 2015 \n\nArtist Biography \nRichard Alexander Lou was born in San Diego\, CA and raised in San Diego and Tijuana\, BCN\, MX. Richard grew up in a biracial family\, spiritually and intel­lectually guided by an anti-colonialist Chinese father and a culturally affirming Mexicana mother. Educated at Southwestern College\, Chula Vista\, CA receiving an A.A. in Fine Art in 1981; California State University at Fullerton\, CA receiving a B.A. in Fine Art in 1983; Clemson University\, Clemson\, SC receiving an M.F.A. in Fine Art in 1986. \nLou has exhibited at the DePaul Art Museum\, Chicago\, IL; Wing Luke Museum\, Seattle\, WA; Landmark Gallery\, Texas Tech University\, Lubbock\, TX; Museo Carrillo Gil\, Mexico City DF\, Mexico; Museum of Contemporary Art\, San Diego; Mexic-Arte Mu­seum\, Austin\, TX; Newport Harbor Art Museum\, Newport Beach\, CA; Cornerhouse Art Gallery\, Manchester\, England; the 3rd International Istanbul Biennial\, Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum\, Istanbul\, Turkey; Dong-A University\, Busan\, South Korea; Miami Museum\, Miami\, FL; Museum of Photographic Arts\, Balboa Park\, San Diego\, CA; Walker Art Center\, Minneapolis\, MN; Mexican Fine Arts Museum\, Chicago\, IL; Otis School of Art and Design\, Otis Gallery\, Los Angeles\, CA; MIT List Visual Arts Center\, Boston\, MA; Aperto 90` Section\, La Biennale Di Venezia\, Venice\, Italy; Grey Art Gallery\, New York University\, NY\, NY; Dia Foundation\, NY\, NY; Artist Space\, NY\, NY. Richard Lou’s artwork has been published and/or cited in various newspapers\, magazines\, catalogs\, electronic media\, and over 30 books. Lou has over 20 years of teaching experience in higher education\, over 15 years of arts administration experience\, has curated over 30 exhibitions\, and continues to produce and exhibit art while teaching and chairing the Department of Art at the University of Memphis. \nArtist Statement \n“There has never been a free people\, a free country\, a real democracy on the face of this Earth.  In a city of some 300\,000 slaves and 90\,000 so called free men\, Plato sat down and praised freedom in exquisitely elegant phrases.” Lerone Bennett Jr. \nAs a Chicano artist the recurrent themes are the subjugation of my community by the dominant culture and white privelege. These works manifest themselves in the creation of counter-images and counter-definitions made in a self-determinant manner.  As a contemporary image-maker I am interested in collecting dissonant ideas and narratives allowing them to bump into each other\, to coax new meanings and possibilities that dismantle the hierarchy of images. The work serves as an ideological\, social\, political\, and cultural matrix from which I understand my place in this world and to make a simple marking of the cultural shifts of my community. The artwork examines how communities use images and language to dehumanize the “Other” in order to ignore the “Other’s” basic human rights.  It challenges unquestioned claims to territory and legal status. \n“Art is one of the most sacred ways to communicate.” Consuelo Jimenez Underwood \nThe work that I create as a Chicano artist emanates and is in response to the love I have for my family.  The work embraces the contradictions\, the conflicts and triumphs\, the quiet and raucous moments of a routine day\, the flowering\, the decaying\, the markings and ceremonies that compose a lifetime all within a society that subjugates.  At the core\, all work I do is for them.  And in that hopeful light\, I am willing to take the chance that the power of the work will ultimately save my children who will become the inhabitants of a New Nepantla as they negotiate a home in this destabilized world. \n-Richard Lou \n— \n\n\n\nLecture on June 6\, 2 pm at 430 N. Cleveland \nStories on My Back by Richard Lou: Installation Art\, Transnationalism and the Chinese-Chicano Experience \nPerformance\, installation and new media artist Richard Lou’s work has compelled spectators to think critically about bordered identities\, power inequities\, post-colonial realities\, race relations\, and other socially relevant issues. His provocative and dynamic performances\, installations and multimedia pieces have also encouraged audiences to problematize clear distinctions between art and activism and between creative endeavors and social justice work. \nPrimarily known as a Chicano artist\, Lou’s work for the past ten years\, however\, has paid great attention to his Chinese heritage and to the transnational subjectivities that animate social identities. Having grown up in the San Diego/Tijuana border region with a Mexican mother and a Chinese father\, Lou’s experiences have been defined by the transnationalism of the border region itself but also by the biculturalism of his upbringing. \nIn this presentation\, Guisela Latorre will focus on one of the artist’s installation Stories on my Back on display at the Crosstown Arts Gallery. Without losing sight of the politically engaged and collective nature of his art\, this work is among the most introspective and deeply personal of the artist’s career. Utilizing the images and voices of the artist’s children and deploying story-telling devices throughout the installation\, Lou articulates a transnational identity that is\, on the one hand\, quite intimate and unique to his Chinese-Chicano experience and\, on the other\, broadly symptomatic of an increasingly globalized world. \nThus\, Stories on my Back embodies what cultural studies scholars Kit Dobson and Áine McGlynn identify as “the desire to advocate for artistic agency at a time when globalizing forces are increasingly calling for economic rationalizations for creative practices.” Latorre will therefore argue in this presentation that Stories on my Back eloquently speaks of the critical connections between the Chicana/o and Chinese experiences in the U.S.\, connections that represent viable forms of transnational resistance to the homogenizing and subordinating forces of globalization. \nGuisela Latorre\, Associate Professor\, Ohio State University Department of Art \nGuisela Latorre specializes in modern and contemporary U.S. Latina/o and Latin American art with a special emphasis on gender and women artists. Her first book titled Walls of Empowerment: Chicana/o Indigenist Murals from California (U. of Texas Press 2008)\, explored the recurrence of indigenist motifs in Chicana/o community murals from the 1970s to the turn of the millennium. Her other publications include “Border Consciousness and Artivist Aesthetics: Richard Lou’s Performance and Multimedia Artwork” in the American Studies Journal (2012)\, “New Approaches to Chicana/o Art: The Visual and the Political as Cognitive Process” in Image & Narrative (2010)\, and “Icons of Love and Devotion: Alma López’s Art” in Feminist Studies (Spring/Summer 2008). Latorre’s recent research activities include the co-editorship of the feminist journal Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies and work on a second book project of the graffiti and mural movement in Chile during the post-dictatorship era. She teaches classes on Latina/Chicana feminism\, visual culture and Latina/o art. \n\n\n\n— \nCrosstown Arts is a contemporary arts organization dedicated to further cultivating the creative community in Memphis. Managing five types of spaces that integrate varying components of exhibition\, performance\, production\, education and retail\, Crosstown Arts supports multidisciplinary and collaborative projects that interconnect people and organizations. We welcome anyone in the community to join any of our events or projects\, regardless of prior experience or expertise with creative interests. \ncrosstownarts.org \nCentro Cultural Latino de Memphis strives to meet the needs of the community by celebrating and promoting awareness of our cultural richness and diversity interpreted through the literary\, performing\, and visual arts. Our primary goal is to preserve our respective rich Latino cultural heritage and to stimulate intergenerational dialogues among the disciplines\, languages\, and traditional and contemporary expressions. \ncentrocultural.us
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SUMMARY:Centro Cultural Collaboration
DESCRIPTION:Supported by the First Tennessee Foundation/ArtsFirst and ArtsMemphis\nCrosstown Arts is pleased to partner with Centro Cultural Latino de Memphis for a series of exhibitions and events to showcase the work of Latino artists living and working in Memphis and to celebrate elements and traditions of Latino culture as an integral part of the creative community of Memphis. This partnership is made possible by a generous grant from the First Tennessee Foundation\, ArtsFirst and ArtsMemphis. The partnership builds on the substantial work that Centro Cultural Latino de Memphis has accomplished and furthers Crosstown Arts’ ongoing mission to help combine audiences\, further expand inclusivity and provide opportunities to all of Memphis’ creative community. \nTwo large-scale partnership events were Stories on My Back on view at Crosstown Arts during the month of June 2015\, and the Tamale Fest at Caritas Village\, held on June 28\, 2015. Created by bi-cultural Memphis artist Richard Lou\, Stories On My Back is a multi-media installation that incorporates audio\, video\, digital photographs\, thousands of tamale leaves. This work has never been installed or seen in its entirety in Memphis. Later that month\, Crosstown Arts was an integral partner with Centro Cultural and Caritas Village for the Tamale Fest\, the first annual fundraising event for Centro Cultural. This event featured tamale-cooking teams and contests\, tamale tastings\, food trucks\, live entertainment\, an artist market and family activities. \nIn addition to an 18-month schedule of exhibitions and events\, detailed below\, several longer-term artistic projects will be launched through the partnership: the Crosstown-Centro Billboard Program will feature artwork displayed on a billboard on North Cleveland; and the Tamale Stories video project will capture and share the diverse Memphis’ community’s cross-cultural stories and memories of the beloved “tamal” or “tamale.” \n\nCalendar of Events\nSPRING 2015\nCentro Cultural Spring Showcase\nSaturday\, April 25\, 5-7 pm\, Crosstown Arts\, 430 N. Cleveland \nShowcase of visual and performing arts organized by Centro Cultural \nTamale Cooking Demo\nSaturday\, May 16\, 2 pm\, at Latino Memphis\, 6041 Mt. Moriah Rd \nThis one-hour cooking demo will be facilitated by a local tamale-making expert (or “tamalero/a” in Spanish). The tamalero/a will share his/her own family recipe and will walk the attendees through a step-by-step process for making tamales at home. \n$10 admission/donation to benefit Centro Cultural. \nSUMMER 2015\nRichard Lou: Stories on my Back\nMultumedia installation on view June 5-July 4\, 2015\, Crosstown Arts Gallery\, 422 N. Cleveland\nOpening Night: Friday\, June 5\, 6-9 pm\nFood trucks\, live music and more \nExhibition Programs: Saturday\, June 6\, 2-4 pm\nLecture by Visiting Scholar Guisela LaTorre\, 430 N. Cleveland\, 2 pm\nGallery Talk with Richard Lou & Guisela LaTorre\, 422 N. Cleveland\, 3 pm \nTamale Cooking Demo\nSunday\, June 7\, 3 pm\, Crosstown Arts\, 430 N. Cleveland\nThis one-hour cooking demo will be facilitated by a local tamale-making expert (or “tamalero/a” in Spanish). The tamalero/a will share his/her own family recipe and will walk the attendees through a step-by-step process for making tamales at home.\n$10 admission/donation to benefit Centro Cultural. \nPechaKucha Night Volume 12\nThursday\, June 25\, 6:30 pm\, Phuong Long\, 306 N. Cleveland\nAn evening of fun\, fast-paced presentations themed around food\, made by community members. Presenters for this installment: Miles Tamboli\, Wes Riddle\, Ben McLean\, Noah Campbell\, Margarita Sandino\, Onie Johns\, Rachel Neely Williams & Edna Banks-Hawkins\nFree admission. \nTamale Fest\nSaturday\, June 27\, 2-6 pm\, Caritas Village\, 2509 Harvard Avenue in Binghampton\nOrganized by Centro Cultural\, Caritas Village and Crosstown Arts\nTamale Fest 2015 is the first annual fundraising event for Centro Cultural. The festival will have main stage live entertainment\, a tamale team cooking contest\, a tamale tasting tent\, a kids’ activity corner\, art vendors\, food trucks and a photo booth. Centro Cultural was founded in 2011 and has been operating as a 100% volunteer-run organization. Accomplishments to date include over 60 cultural workshops taught\, 13 showcases celebrated\, 6 art exhibits produced\, collaboration with Dixon Gallery and Gardens produced the first contemporary Latino Art exhibition in Memphis\, current development of a book based on immigrant stories in Binghamton and over 5000 hours of volunteer time given. The purpose of the Tamale Fest is to share and celebrate Latino culture\, bring people together for a positive cultural experience and to raise money to allow Centro Cultural to expand their programs and administration. \nFALL 2015\nCentro Cultural Visual Arts Showcase\nFriday\, November 6-28\, 2015\, Crosstown Arts Gallery\, 422 N. Cleveland \nFALL 2016\nExhibition of Latino/a Artist Portraits\nNovember 2016\, Crosstown Arts Gallery\, 422 N. Cleveland \nONGOING / UPCOMING\n\nCrosstown-Centro Billboard Program at 431 N. Cleveland\nCentro Cultural’s Latino/a Artist Registry\nTamale Stories video project
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/centro-cultural-collaboration/
LOCATION:Crosstown Arts Galleries\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Eye on Abstraction: All-Ages Workshop
DESCRIPTION:An after-school workshop all about abstraction. Explore our current abstract painting exhibition\, Between the Eyes (in the gallery at 422 N. Cleveland). Then meet in story booth for hands-on art activities for all ages\, led by artists Laurel Sucsy (Between the Eyes curator)\, Mary Jo Karimnia\, and Brittney Bullock. \nThis is a free\, drop-in program: come when you wish\, no registration necessary! \nChildren must be accompanied by adults.\nSnacks and drinks will be served. \n(Image: Rubens Ghenov)
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/eye-on-abstraction/
LOCATION:Crosstown Arts Galleries\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Painters on Painting Gallery Talk
DESCRIPTION:A discussion about abstraction with artists Hamlett Dobbins\, Melissa Dunn\, and Laurel Sucsy \nImage: Rob De Oude
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/painters-on-painting-gallery-talk/
LOCATION:Crosstown Arts Galleries\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Gallery
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SUMMARY:Between the Eyes
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts is pleased to present Between the Eyes\, a group show about contemporary abstract painting and how we see it.  Just as the relationships of pitch and duration can express emotion in music\, the formal relationships of hue\, value\, shape\, and placement can collect to create meaning in abstract painting.  Featuring the work of six painters exploring distinct modes of abstraction\, the exhibition examines the way each artist uses deliberate choices to engage us in the experience of looking.  Formal cues such as gesture\, color and the use of found objects prompt us to recognize patterns and attribute meaning to certain behaviors.  Physicality contends with the pictorial as we both decipher and project meaning into the space of abstract forms. \nThe exhibition is curated by Laurel Sucsy and features work by New York-based artists Marina Adams\, Rob de Oude\, and Joe Fyfe; LA-based artist Iva Gueorguieva; Philadelphia-based artist Rubens Ghenov; and Laurel Sucsy of Memphis.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/between-the-eyes/
LOCATION:Crosstown Arts Galleries\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Gallery
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