[atlantaprog] [eyedrum-announcement-list] April 21 – April 23, 2006

Eyedrum events April 21 – April 23, 2006


Regular Gallery Hours are Wednesday, Friday & Saturday 12:00pm – 5:00pm


April 21 Friday

Grady High School Art Exhibit
Art opening…exhibit lasts ONE NIGHT ONLY!
7:00pm
Free

Grady High School Presents the 5th annual AP Art / Lit Mag / Design Art Exhibition.

The event will present culminating work from the Advanced Placement Studio Art Class under the direction of John Brandhorst, the new Design Emphasis in the Communications Magnet under Patricia Kendall, and the unveiling of the Unmasking literary magazine under Scott Stephens. This event promises to be our largest ever as we take over the entire space at the EYEDRUM Gallery of Art and Music.

The exhibition will feature works in all media from print to paint, photography to welded steel, and all work is available for purchase. The literary magazine will also have its newest edition available for sale.

This event begins the high cultural season of Grady High School. All should plan to attend as this will be an unforgettable evening.


April 22 Saturday

Katherine Marbury Exhibit Closing Reception
Art
6:00pm – 8:00pm
Free

In the Small Gallery:
Closing reception for Katherine Marbury's “All my guilty pleasures have become habits.”
See below for more info.
Last chance to see this exhibit!


Also!

WRAS 88.5FM Benefit
Music
6:00pm
$10

From its humble beginnings in 1971, WRAS is now ready to celebrate 35 years of serving the Atlanta community. Album 88 encompasses many diverse and unusual styles of music and the benefit will not disappoint.

We have a great show planned. The band line up includes The Brunettes from New Zealand, local artists DQE, Brooklyn based Au Revoir Simone, The Extruders all the way from Japan with their first and only USA show to date, and representing Athens, GA is Cinemechanica.

In addition to great music, there will be a fantastic door prize for the first eighty-eight people, that includes limited edition Album 88 hand bags, CDs, posters, DVDs and much more!

Massive all ages show!


April 23 Sunday

Rainer Maria
Music
8:00pm
$10

Rainer Maria defy comparison. From their very first performances at d.i.y. basement and living rooms shows across the U.S. almost 10 years ago to the release of their latest, instantly inspiring album Catastrophe Keeps Us Together, this inseparable trio has always set their sights on uncharted musical territories, rather than mainstream musical trends.

During the past three years, the band has focused almost exclusively on writing, recording and mixing Catastrophe Keeps Us Together. After extensive touring in the U.S., Japan, Canada, and Europe for the better part of 2003 and 2004, they returned to the studio. Drummer William Kuehn explains: “We came home from touring without a set label situation. It would have been easy to go back to doing things the way we had for so long. Instead we wrote the most personal songs we could, without timelines or deadlines, answering to no one but ourselves."

Catastrophe Keeps Us Together is a startling leap forward for even the most restless band. And it is appropriately unique as the first release of the nascent Grunion Records label. The themes of love lost always present in Caithlin De Marrais' lyrics appear now as a world collapsing all around our ears. Is it the end of the world, or a new one beginning – where all you need in a catastrophe is the one you love to make it through? Her voice is as delicate as it is resolute. And singing along underneath her, not with his voice but broad guitar work, Kyle Fischer delivers his most beautiful and spine-tingling performance to date. These gorgeous sounds are answered and propelled by the mercurial drumming of Kuehn. This band lives and dies by the rhythm and melody of Kuehn's drums, and it's no wonder that over the years, the line-up has remained the same . . . there's something magnificent in the way these three bond together musically.

Throughout the new album, these tightly structured songs hit many atmospheric highs. Equal parts restraint, taste and power, Catastrophe Keeps Us Together shows Rainer Maria challenging them on every single track. Songs like "Life of Leisure," "Burn" and "Already Lost" sonically burst off the walls and ceilings. And songs like "Terrified," "Cities Above" and the dreamlike cover of "I'll Keep It with Mine" from Nico's Chelsea Girls, written by Bob Dylan, engage the listener at such an intimate level, it's as if the band has lost all sense of boundary between the outside world and their own heads.


With Catastrophe Keeps Us Together, everything coheres. Beautifully direct and aurally complex throughout, this is easily the most stunning and original work to date by a stunningly original band.




In the galleries:


Small Gallery:

Katherine Marbury presents
All my guilty pleasures...
have become habits
(a star-crossed romance of video, velvet, and oil paint).

Projecting video onto painted portraits, Marbury uses the unlikely setting of an Atlanta IKEA store as her subjects' backdrop. "Shooting video portraits in IKEA allows me to suggest shopping as a metaphor, because the experience of 'going shopping' reminds me of the way we sometimes select an identity for ourselves from among a glittering array of choices. With the abundance that surrounds us, we sometimes forget to do the really pleasurable work of creating a unique identity to express ourselves," she explains.

Marbury's previous paintings and drawings have been explorations into other ways of crafting personal identity. These investigations have led her to various late-night haunts where, camera in hand, she observes and records the interplay of constructed personas. In addition, Marbury created a site-specific memorial to unmarked graves in Oakland Cemetery, 17,000 Known Souls, in 2005. Currently she is an MFA candidate at Georgia State University; "All my guilty pleasures have become habits" is her exit show.

Through April 22nd




Miscellany

April’s Podcast is now available!!

This month's show is now available and features music from Robert Rich, WS Burns, Grace Braun, Ship at Sea, selections from the 404 Noise Festival, and more Robert Rich. If you're using iTunes or other RSS software, click here for the feed. If not, you can also just download the March or April show (right click on the link) although be forewarned that the file is 50 MB in size.



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