Thursday, December 15, 2011

FAREWELL TO DENVER POST ART CRITIC KYLE MACMILLAN

Serious art coverage in Colorado took a major hit last week as Denver Post Art Critic Kyle MacMillan announced his acceptance of a buyout package from the paper.  MacMillan reflected on his departure over the weekend with the following article:

http://www.denverpost.com/entertainment/ci_19451576?utm

MacMillan had a very poignant statement to make towards the end of the article, one that we think bears repeating here:

"The arts are not a luxury but an essential part of life. They probe the very essence of what it means to be human, taking us on emotional journeys that bring us face to face with our weaknesses and sorrows, but that also lift us to incredible heights of joy."
We couldn't agree more.  There is much doubt as to whether the Post will find a replacement for MacMillan and to what extent his departure will diminish their arts coverage.  We can only see it as a big loss for our community and another black-mark on regional arts journalism in general following the demise of the Rocky Mountain News two years prior.

PLUS GALLERY ARTISTS IN EXHIBITIONS THROUGHOUT COLORADO AND NY

Jon Rietfors: "Value Added" solo exhibition. Opens December 9th, on view through March 25th at the Loveland Museum of Art

Kate Petley: "Gline: Time and Light" installation in group exhibition. Opens December 2nd, on view through January 14th at the Lincoln Center Art Gallery in Fort Collins

Tsehai Johnson: "Strange Beauty: Baroque Sensibilities in Contemporary Art" group exhibition. Opens December 6th, on view through February 14th, 2012 at IDEA Space in the Edith Kinney Gaylord Cornerstone Arts Center, Colorado College, Colorado Springs

Justin Stewart: "Fully Empty #2" installation in group exhibition "The Longest Night. "Opens December 9th, on view through December 18th at Gowanus Ballroom in Brooklyn, NY

Melissa Furness: "A Feminine Contemporary Sublime" group exhibition. On view through December 21st at the A.I.R. Gallery in NYC

PLUS GALLERY LIMITED EDITION HOLIDAY T-SHIRTS FEATURING BILL AMUNDSON ARTWORK NOW AVAILABLE!

Long time followers of Plus Gallery can rely on one thing each year:  A classy design on a t-shirt featuring artwork by one of our artists.  Not quite true, we failed to deliver last year, but we are more than making up for it with a new t-shirt design this year with imagery and text culled from Bill Amundson's recent block-buster exhibition, specifically his scathing commentary on the art-world found in "Art Speak Remote."  This year's design is printed on high-quality American Apparel shirts which feel great against the skin.  We've also upped the ante with a three-color silk-screen, the first in gallery history!  The men's version is slightly different than the ladies, but all are available in three different sizes and limited to an edition of 36 of each.  Get yours now, we'll have them available starting tomorrow evening at Frank T. Martinez opening reception and Plus Gallery holiday soiree at a cost of $35 each.  Get yours while you can!

















Frank T. Martinez models Plus Gallery holiday shirt

PLUS GALLERY CONCLUDES 2011 WITH RETURN OF FRANK T. MARTINEZ IN "OUT/LINE"

OPENING RECEPTION THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8TH FROM 6-9PM

Plus Gallery welcomes Denver artist Frank T. Martinez back with his fourth solo exhibition "Out / Line" from December 8th, 2011 through January 21st, 2012.  Since debuting with the gallery in 2004, Martinez has become one of the most appreciated and acclaimed abstract painters in the region. Martinez works in series, each an extension but quite different from the last, exploring a particular concept in depth and to its conclusion.  His paintings generally combine multiple layers of paint applied through different techniques, the end result typically loaded with symbolic content that is thoughtful and visually captivating.  "Out / Line" might be his most dense and fascinating body of work yet, the new series exerting intricate line-play that hints at subtleties beneath the surface as well as bold flashes bursting through that create a gorgeous, compelling surface texture.  The new collection is an extremely rich exploration into pattern, architecture, color, and density, all seeming to combine with a poetic tension that stimulates the visual senses. The exhibition is presented in conjunction with the grand opening of the Clyfford Still Museum as an extension of hallmark ideas and the continuation of abstraction as a formidable practice in painting today.  Join Plus Gallery in welcoming Frank T. Martinez back to the gallery with an opening reception and holiday party on Thursday, December 8th from 6-9pm.













On Wednesday,  January 18th at 7pm Plus Gallery will host "New Abstraction Today: Four Essential Plus Gallery Artists." This forum brings together four of the gallery's represented artists who have consistently upheld new methods of abstraction within the Denver community and beyond. Frank T. Martinez, Kate Petley, Bruce Price and Dave Yust will discuss their place and what abstraction means in the contemporary milieu.  Presented in conjunction with the community celebration of the opening of the Clyfford Still Museum.  Reservation required, please RSVP to ivar@plusgallery.com

TELLURIDE'S TAKE ON CLYFFORD STILL MUSEUM

By now most everyone has either visited or heard about the latest in Denver's significant new infrastructure of institutional gems dedicated to art with the recent opening of the Clyfford Still Museum.  Two of our good friends from Telluride were recently in town for a tour, and has this report to share on their Still experience in their blog tellurideinside:

http://www.tellurideinside.com/2011/11/clyfford-still-museum-open-in-denver.html

JON RIETFORS ADDS VALUE TO THE LOVELAND MUSEUM OF ART STARTING DECEMBER 9TH

Plus Gallery artist Jon Rietfors has been a curator's favorite ever since emerging as an artist with his trademark approach to dimensional photography, utilizing consumer packaging as the substrate for his creations.  Denver's Center for Visual Arts just featured the artist in the summer group exhibition "Reclamation" with three recent examples of his work, and next month the Loveland Museum of Art follows suite with a more expansive solo exhibition of Rietfors work as a post-Chuck Close tribute to a particular approach to contemporary art.

Rietfors "Value Added" will open next Friday, December 9th with a reception up in Loveland, and will remain on view through March 25th.  Don't miss this opportunity to see one of the regions most original bodies of work in depth.









View of West Glenwood Springs with Nerds Candy Packages (2009)

PATTI HALLOCK TO SPEAK ON ROBERT ADAMS TONIGHT AT CPAC, 7PM

Plus Gallery artist Patti Hallock, who exhibited earlier this year at the gallery with the solo exhibition "The West is Here," is going to be speaking at the Colorado Photographic Arts Center this Wednesday night, November 30th at 7pm. This is the third lecture in a series that focus on a different book by Robert Adams, and in conjunction with the CPAC exhibit titled "Situating Robert Adams". Patti's lecture is inspired by the book "Along Some Rivers" which is a book of interviews with Robert Adams in regard to his work, career and thoughts about photography. She will discuss the ways in which his photographs and words have inspired her own work.

Patti Hallock's "Trailview" from her 2004 body of work "Nocturnal Suburbia"

The talk will take place at the CPAC gallery which is located in Lakewood in the Belmar district. For directions and info visit

http://www.cpacphoto.org/how-to-find-the-center/

NEW MIRROR PANELS AT PLUS GALLERY FROM WILLIAM BETTS

William Betts has made serious progress since emerging in 2004, in a short period of time he's become one of the most fascinating and collectible artists in the international market, his approach to contemporary art truly formidable and thoroughly unique.  We are currently planning for his return to center stage at Plus Gallery in 2012, but in the meantime we've just received two of Betts' recent reverse-drilled mirrored acrylic paintings which will go on display in our upstairs viewing space.













Pool I Miami Beach, October 6, 2010, 3:16pm, (2011)


William is currently featured in the Western Edition of New American Paintings, available at major bookstores nationwide.  His most recent exhibition in Albequerque with Richard Levy Gallery was favorably reviewed in THE Magazine, read the report online at

http://www.levygallery.com/current/2011_betts.themag.pdf

FINAL WEEK AT PLUS GALLERY FOR BILL AMUNDSON EXHIBITION "BLURRED VISION"

This is the final week to stop by Plus Gallery and view Bill Amundson's "Blurred Vision" in it's full glory. Bill will return to Denver in February of 2012 for some lectures and workshops at the Art Students League, otherwise he'll be back on the boards in Wisconsin producing more work for the foreseeable future.

We came across this report on Bill from the Wisconsin State Journal, published in January of 2011 shortly after his return to the state.  We found it worth sharing, particularly in consideration of the explosive nature, quality and scale of the works he completed for our exhibition since that time:

http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/columnists/article_9cdc10e4-1865-11e0-8b6f-001cc4c002e0.html

 Bill's limited edition print "Four Art Franchises: Moderno" will be available from Plus Gallery through the holiday season, and we'll also be using portions of his scathing "Art Speak Remote" for the new Plus Gallery holiday t-shirt, available starting December 8th at the opening for Frank T. Martinez new exhibition "Out / Line"












 New Mens and Ladies shirts available at Plus Gallery soon!

THE LONGEST NIGHT BY R. JUSTIN STEWART @ GOWANUS BALLROOM

Plus Gallery aritist and sensation R. Justin Stewart will present "Fully Empty #2," a large scale installation @ Gowanus Ballroom as a part of "The Longest Night," a group exhibition that is all about paying a bit of Brooklyn-style homage to the winter solstice. Drawing inspiration from the longest night of the year, the show explores darkness and light through artworks that mesmerize and sometimes deceive the eye.

Sounds a little bit like the art world gone pagan, right? Because it is as artists contemporize ancient ritual and totemic celebration through modern artistic expression. Featured objects all but defy their materiality and toy with the peculiarities and sensualities that come with the absence of light. Labyrinthine interactive pieces play on ideas of negative and positive space, altering the atmosphere and leaving a potent experiential mark on viewers. Artworks range across media, from painting, drawing, and sculpture to photography, installation, and 3D light mapping projections and performances.

Artists include Jordan Eagles, Leandro Flaherty, Shani Frymer, Robin Hill, Jeremy Holmes, Serban Ionescu, Integrated Visions, Margaret Krug, Kate Raudenbush, Cecelia Rembert, Matthew William Robinson, Charlotte Schulz, R. Justin Stewart, Melanie Vote, Dustin Yellin, and Joshua Young.

Opening Reception
Friday, December 9, 2011
Doors open at 6pm
$5 suggested donation after 8pm

Gowanus Ballroom
55 9th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11215

Dates & Times
December 9-11 & 16-18
Fridays: Doors open at 6pm
Saturdays: Doors open at 12pm
Sundays: 12-6
Weekdays: Viewings available by appointment, 347.460.2687



KATE PETLEY TO UNVEIL "GLINT : TIME AND LIGHT" DECEMBER 2nd IN FORT COLLINS

The Lincoln Center Art Gallery in Fort Collins will unveil a new exhibition on December 9th curated by prestigious regional art critic Leanne Goebel and featuring none other than Plus Gallery artist Kate Petley with a new site-specific installation "Glint: Time and Light."   Other invited artists in the exhibition include Kevin Bell, Chris Coleman, Gregory Euclide, Jenny Gummersall and Laleh Mehran, all terrific artists who have made an impact in Denver and beyond with their work.  In addition, thirty four artists' work has been included, juried from a national submission.

The opening Reception will take place on December 9th from 5:00 - 8:00 P.M.

LOOKING FOR HOLIDAY GIFTS? WANT TO STIMULATE THE ECONOMY? CONSIDER SHOPPING PLUS GALLERY

One of the absolute misunderstandings within the community of contemporary art is that you can't find a good bargain or even something remarkably well priced at a gallery as established as Plus.  We have a number of excellent recommendations for this years holiday shopping, whether you are looking for someone special on your list or upping the ante on your own with an art investment that will leave you satiated for the rest of your life.  While we always highly recommend considering the Plus Gallery artwork inventory in depth at any time, here are just a few items we think you should take note of for holiday gift-giving and receiving:


Bill Amundson Limited Edition Print

The first of it's kind for both the artist and the gallery, a high-quality print from a master artists presented in conjunction with Bill's current exhibition "Blurred Vision" and supported by Modern in Denver magazine.  Available for $250 each in an edition of 58, numbered and signed by Bill.




















New Plus Gallery T-Shirt

Artwork and text from Bill Amundson's  savage and scintillating "Art Speak Remote" will grace this years new Plus Gallery holiday shirt, available in very high-caliber t's silkscreened in three colors in select sizes for both men and the ladies.  This year's design was inspired not only by Bill's artwork but by the opening salvo at his amazing artist talk on November 4th.  Available for pre-order now at $30 or at $35 once they are finished and unveiled at Frank T. Martinez exhibition opening on December 8th.






 








Xi Zhang - Dream Dusts book

Plus Gallery's most recent in-house publication is a tribute to the remarkable career of Xi Zhang.  At just the age of 26 this artist has produced some of the most fascinating and finely-hones bodies of work by any artist we've encountered.  The book looks and feels good, combining a multitude of Zhang's best and most recent works together with select text on the artist including his fascinating 2011 thesis writing.  Available for $100. We might also recommend asking about some of Xi's smaller, most affordable works, just a few are left and available at the gallery.
 
Jenny Morgan - New Frontier

We have exactly 2 more fresh copies of our first Plus Gallery book "New Frontiers" by Jenny Morgan, at a cost of $120.  After these two are gone, they will only be available by special order or direct from blurb.com for $150. A definitive collectors item and essential for all fans of Morgan's work.















Gabriel Liston's "How to draw your family"

A new and exquisite gem arrived at our doorstep recently by one of our favorite painters Gabriel Liston.  His handbound "How to Draw Your Family" is a fun and inspired combination of the artist's loose, magisterial sketches and often misunderstood wit.  We think it's the perfect stocking stuffer and are expecting a small run of copies to be available soon for the holidays.  Cost will be based on how much we like you and/or how badly you want one.  We also suggest considering any and all of the fine paintings from Liston's recent exhibition "Still on the Wrong Side of the Water" presented last july to celebrate the 10 year anniversary of Plus Gallery in Denver.  Did we also mention the fine and affordable "Blue Book" tiles by Liston?  Also perfect for stocking or boxed, wrapped and stuck under a tree or two.
 







 











Ideal Woman & Mirror, Mirror Necklaces by Allie Pohl

Absolutely the ideal holiday gift, Allie Pohl has taken her concept of the "Ideal Woman" and developed a multi-tiered strategy for world domination, both as an artist and an icon.  We expect big things from Allie in the near future following her stunning solo exhibition "Mirror, Mirror" earlier this year at Plus Gallery.  We have a small supply of her necklaces, both the Ideal Woman in various colors and formats, as well as the new "Mirror, Mirror" that only the most deserving females can wear.



















Plus Gallery gift certificate

Can't decide if that special someone will like that radically innovative new William Betts painting?  Not sure if Bill Amundson's "Eric Cantormoretti" will bring a smile or a frown? Don't make your holiday burden more than it needs to be, consider a Plus Gallery gift certificate in whatever amount you deem worthy, available just like cash and without an expiration date.

Riva Sweetrocket paintings (if you are in Niwot)

A few of Riva Sweetrocket's most recent paintings are currently on view at the Manifest Art Gallery in Niwot, on loan from Plus Gallery for their inaugural exhibition.  Sweetrocket recently left Denver for NYC, a move that we have no doubt will increase her collector base and elevate the level of her career substantially.  As a result, everything left in her inventory is worth consideration now, those prices are unlikely to go anywhere but up from here.  Read a little about her show in last week's report from the Longmont Times:

http://www.timescall.com/lifestyles/entertainment/ci_19349207








PLUS GALLERY THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY WEEKEND HOURS

There are two weeks left to view one of the best exhibitions of the decade and now one of the most successful in recent years with 5 of the 6 major works in "Blurred Vision" already sold.  Bill's return to Denver to unveil an all new body of work has been a spectacular run, there really is nothing like it either in Denver or likely in the world of contemporary art right now.

Plus Gallery will close early today at 2:30pm for the Thanksgiving Holiday and will remain closed on Thursday.  But we'll open up again for regular hours on Friday and Saturday for a well needed respite for "Black Friday"  shoppers, those visiting family in the area, or those just looking for a decent outlet to get their art fix on.

We wish everyone a wonderful Thanksgiving and give our own personal thanks to those who has supported us this year and throughout our ten year history.  It has been remarkable to see some of our artists thrive even during tumultuous times, and for the gallery to remain standing on steady ground.  None of this would be possible if it weren't for the enthusiasm of our clients, the integrity of our artists, and the extended family that has built around our program.  As we get ready to head into one of our best lineups ever for 2012, all we can say is "you aint seen nothin yet!"

SDFF34 - FINAL PLUS GALLERY REPORT

The Starz Denver Film Festival concluded it's 34th year this last sunday, the end of an exhausting ten days that also marked the end of the latest Denver Arts Week.  Some in the community felt that Denver Arts Week would be better off not straddling the same dates as the Film Festival, others recognize it as a perfect tribute to the scene in Denver, albeit skewed towards the cinematic arts.  But it might not really matter, the takeaway from both concepts is that there is excellent programming all year round hosted by the Denver Film Society, Landmark Cinemas and a handful of other specialized pockets that aficionados can get their fill from, just as one can within the hyper-robust visual art scene at all moments of the year throughout the Denver community.   To celebrate it in a concentrated effort once a year can bring out some of the best, as it did in the case of Bill Amundson's artist talk as well as many of the terrific screenings held by SDFF.  Our only issue is the recurring bad-cold that tends to wash out half of the opportunities at hand this time of the year.  It happens that way every year......

One thing the festival programmers sure know how to do is secure the films that will be on everyone's hot-sheets at year's end, at least the critical hot-sheets.  This might have more to do with the timing of the festival in early November than anything else, many complain that a lot of the "big" films show up right after the festival concludes, making it partially redundant.  But there are many other ways to look at the concept of the festival, and two of the best examples came with the closing night film last Saturday night and the next day's Special screening at the King Center.   There seemed to be a lot of advance speculation as to the merits and audience readiness for the Michel Hazanavicius' "The Artist," a film that attempts to take the audience back in time to the silent era.  While other contemporary filmmakers such as Guy Maddin have been dabbling in this arena in the most creative and engaging ways for years now, seemingly nobody has endeavored to make what could be a "popular" film that hearkens back to that bygone era.  Fortunately "The Artist" had the chops to pull it off, in addition to the Weinstein stamp that will undoubtedly pull some weight come Oscar time.  I think one would be hard pressed to not fall under the overwhelming charms and spells put forth in this feature; it's certainly not the best film out there, hell I dozed off through most of the last third, but it does a lot and does it well within what most would consider confining boundaries.  And even though it will be unleashed to screens around the world very soon, one probably won't find a better venue than the Caulkins Opera House to view it, something no-one including the entire Starz staff, filmmaker and audience would say about the opening night film "Like Crazy."  What makes "The Artist" resonate in that environment is simply that it takes us all back to a time and place where going to the theater to see a movie was a thrill, it didn't even need sound to bring an audience in.  The screen at Caulkins supports the pictures now-defunct aspect ratio, almost a perfect square, which will seem completely alien to most audiences that watch it in a multiplex (or god forbid on a TV) and certain to lose a lot of it's grandeur there as a result.  But at Caulkins it just filled the stage with the most striking black and white imagery, and brought back a playfulness in film that is largely lacking since the early 1920's.  Of course not entirely, but that's what it felt like at the festival and that's really what the festival is about.  Does this mean that others will start using outdated formats and flourishes in the coming years?  Possibly..........I did also find out just yesterday that music CD's are officially out and that cassette tapes are again all the rage, at least amongst hipsters, for reasons entirely baffling to me.

The final day of the festival always holds a few gems, and considering the crowd lined up to get into the matinee screening of Cronenberg's latest "A Dangerous Method," one would think the festival was still going full-tilt.  Everyone seemed to be discussing "The Artist" and whether it could really win this year's best picture award, or if that last third really was sleep inducing, or was it just the cold/flu/fatigue at festival's end????  and how much they hate the King Center for festival screenings, etc, etc.....And all of the anticipation seemed worthy of the new Cronenberg, it's definitely a riveting piece for the mind as well as the eye, nothing too fancy here save for the excellent recreation of the period and the strangely subdued, extremely thought-provoking banter amongst rival psychologists Freud and Jung. And if outmoded technology is a recurring theme, all I could think during the film was how sad it is to have lost the hand-written letter, first to email, now facebook, one day to something else.  Where did these people get the time to write not just beautifully but long, flowing treatises of philosophical inspiration!!  Maybe that's why both "A Dangerous Method" and "The Artist" are so timely, they strike chords in multiple ways that are so far removed from our lives, yet are only one hundred years old.  Amazing.  And of course, where else but the festival is one going to get to witness this in a crappy theater not meant for screening film but one that supports a large stage with no less than 5 local "Jung" specialists to dissect the film afterwards?  That's the icing on the cake!


On a final note, this year is the last in which screenings will be held at the theaters in the Tivoli Center.  The festival celebrated that night with screenings of some of the first films ever hosted at those screens at the inception of the festival 34 years ago.  No doubt some crying ensued amongst staff and patrons that night, though we had to bow out of that nostalgia ourselves.

AND TSEHAI JOHNSON REPRISED NEXT MONTH IN COLORADO SPRINGS

From December 6, 2011 to February 14, 2012 the Interdisciplinary Arts program at Colorado College will feature the exhibition Strange Beauty: Baroque Sensibilities in Contemporary Art. The exhibition presents paintings, sculpture, installation, photography, and performance art by selected Contemporary artists who revisit artistic strategies and cultural concerns of the 17th Century. The exhibition will take place in the IDEA Space, located in the Edith Kinney Gaylord Cornerstone Arts Center, 825 N. Cascade Avenue, Colorado Springs, CO.  On Tuesday, December 6 beginning at 4:30 pm, the public is invited to attend an opening reception and IDEA Cabaret presentation by IDEA Curator Jessica Hunter-Larsen and the Colorado College student co-curators who contributed research to the exhibition. The exhibition and reception are free and open to the public.

Exploring some of these intersections between contemporary and Baroque culture, Strange Beauty features bodies of work by Liza Lou, Kehinde Wiley, and Sherrie Wolf, an installation by Tsehai Johnson (a reformatting of her DAM installation from the summer's blockbuster "Overthrown: Clay without Limits" exhibition) and a selection of pieces by Ken Aptekar, Jimmy Baker, Renee Cox, Andres Serrano, and Cindy Sherman. The exhibition text, written by students in the Colorado College course "The Age of the Baroque: Art and Empire in the 17th Century" will further explore connections between Baroque and contemporary art and experience.

Colorado College is a nationally prominent, four-year liberal arts college that was founded in Colorado Springs in 1874. The college operates on the innovative Block Plan, in which its 1,975 undergraduate students study one course at a time in intensive 3_-week blocks. The college also offers a master of arts in teaching degree. For more information, visit www.ColoradoCollege.edu . For directions or disability accommodation at the event, members of the public may call (719) 389-6607.

MELISSA FURNESS CURATES GROUP EXHIBITION FOR A.I.R. GALLERY IN NYC

Plus Gallery artist Melissa Furness has curated a group exhibition that will also feature her work for A.I.R. Gallery in NYC, scheduled to open at the end of the month.  "A Feminine Contemporary Sublime" features works by Liz Surbeck Biddle, Melissa Furness, Jan Johnson, and Nancy Lasar. The exhibition will run November 30 - December 21st, 2011 with an opening reception on Thursday, December 1st from 6:00 - 9:00pm.

In Western society, the 'sublime' was something historically described by men. The sense of what is "beyond words" manifested itself in art as images of grand landscapes and romantic spectacles of the heroic act. A Feminine Contemporary Sublime articulates a feminine perspective of the sublime understood in the
context of contemporary society, where the grand illusions of male-centric Romanticism have dissipated into a mass of social media and complex communication. In his survey of Documents of Contemporary Art on the Sublime, Simon Morley states that in modern society "the sublime is an experience looking
for a context." The works featured in A Feminine Contemporary Sublime recognize the awe produced by the "sublime experience" as an illusion of misperceived realities. 19th Century Romanticism stressed that "the transcendental ego must strive to detach itself from nature, from society, from the emotions, from the body, and above all from the feminine" (Philip Shaw in The Sublime). With this exhibition, we affirm the failure of the notion of the autonomous self elevated by the imagination's supposed ability to depict the transcendent, and instead rebuild our understanding of the sublime from a "detached" feminine point of view - a view that recognizes the multi-faceted complexity of what we perceive each day in contemporary society as a transcendent force within itself.

This feminine perspective translates the sublime into an "other" reality overwhelmed with information and emotion that ultimately produces a full and even dark contemporary sublime. The works in this exhibition present the viewer with what is familiar, and then exposes them again as a kind of "unknown." As women artists working today in our own "supersensible vocation" (Kant), we are utter multi-taskers, piling one thing upon another and balancing our layered worlds of work, family, home, in addition to navigating social media and virtual communication. This overlapping series of structures at some point breaks down and suspends thought, producing a sublime experience. In this way, the sublime has transformed into multi-layered meanings and forms that are fragmented and contradictory-a kind of super anti-sensible substrate. Here, there is a sense of altered place and unhinged movement, of lines that connect and disconnect, and hints of virtual worlds and information masses, all moving from the internal to the external through a cycle of broken "structures."

A.I.R. Gallery is located at 111 Front Street, #228 in the DUMBO neighborhood of Brooklyn.

http://www.airgallery.org

SHANNON NOVAK BRINGS HIS UNIQUE BLEND OF ART AND MUSIC TO TEXAS THIS WEEKEND

Plus Gallery artist and New Zealand native Shannon Novak unveils a unique installation this Saturday as part of the University of Texas at Dallas Artist's residency program. "One Song, Three Composers" is Novak's latest installation that explores the interrelationships between three distinct approaches of mapping color to sound. Novak references three prominent figures in the field: Louis-Bertrand Castel (France), Richard Merrick (USA), and Michael Smither (New Zealand). Three electronic pianos form the focal point of the exhibition, each chromatically altered to represent these theorists' approaches. The keyboards form a triangle in CentralTrak's gallery, corresponding to the connection and intersection of Castel's, Merrick's and Smither's individual hypotheses. This configuration of musical instruments acts as a birthing point, propagating geometric forms imitating the unseen movement of sound. One Song, Three Composers links three schools of thought through visual abstraction, and uses duration, volume and spiritual content to reconsider the effects and nature of sound beyond pitch. Check it out if you happen to be in Dallas!

Opening reception: Saturday, November 19, 2011, 8 - 10 pm
Exhibition runs through December 17

The University of Texas at Dallas Artists Residency - centraltrak.org

CentralTrak Gallery
800 EXpOSiTiON AvE., DALLAS, TX 75226
Gallery Hours: Wed. - Sat., 12 - 5 pm

BILL AMUNDSON REPORT ON THE ILLITERATE BLOG

Read what the Illiterate Blog has to report on our current exhibition by Bill Amundson here at Plus, this is from a source that specializes in radical art, works on paper and all things extremely hip in the local and international art spheres.

http://www.illiteratemedia.com/blog/view/515