[atlantaprog] [eyedrum-announcement-list] February 8 – February 11, 2006

Eyedrum events February 8 – February 11, 2006

Regular gallery hours:  Wednesday, Friday, Saturday 12:00pm – 5:00pm


Febraury’s Podcast is now available
This month's show features music from Chris Devoe, Ju Ju B. Solomon, and Ocha La Rocha, from the New Street CD compilation event on Feb 3rd Two dozen bite-sized selections from the frenetic February Open Improv that enforced a 60-second limit on all of the improvistional performances. At various times, the instrumentation included a didgeridoo, tuba and a chorus of cell phones.
If you're using iTunes or other RSS software, click here for the feed . If not, you can also just download the January or February show (right click on "download") although be forewarned that the file is 50 MB in size.


February 10 Friday

King Bomba / Paul Mercer - Davis Patterson
Music   
9:00pm


-Zano
-Davis Paterson and Paul Mercer
-Mario, Zano, Kareem

Atlanta-based musicians Mario Schambon, Zano, and Kareem Khalifa have combined electric, electronic, and rock elements to create aggressive, high-energy free improvisations and compositions. The show at Eyedrum will mark their debut.

Mario Schambon is a visual artist, composer, and percussionist hailing originally from Bogota, Colombia. He has been active in improvised music communities throughout the Southeast, including collaborations with members of the Sam Rivers Rivbea Orchestra.

Dr. Kareem Khalifa is an improviser, composer, arranger, bassist, guitarist, and academic philosopher. He has played with various jazz and rock musicians in the Atlanta and Chicago areas, including current bands dp3 and the Unexplained Explainers. In this project, he plays an electric nylon string guitar through an assortment of effects and loops.


February 11 Saturday

Andrew Bird/Acanthus Arts
Music & Art
9:00pm
SOLD OUT!


The AcanthusArts.Org GROUP ART SHOW
w/ special performance by ANDREW BIRD

This is a guerilla style opening w/
20+ artists showing paintings, metal
sculpture, photography, architecture,
furniture, installations, literature,
and other semi-covert creative labors.

The show is sold out, however a very limited number of tickets will be sold at 7:30pm on Saturday.




Currently in our back gallery:

The George and Helen Spelvin Folk Art Collection

As part of the opening reception, Beauvais Lyons will present a tour of the exhibition.

Curated by Beauvais Lyons, Director of the Hokes Archives, The George and Helen Spelvin Folk Art Collection is considered to be one of the most insightful private collections of contemporary ‘outsider’ art. This exhibition will survey the creations of eleven different artists in the collection. Examples include enamel painted records by Lucas Farley, Arthur Middleton’s painted portraits of American Presidents, numerous 'limberjack' puppets by Lester Dowdey, velvet paintings of brides by Charlotte Black, flower paintings on book pages by Emma Whorley, and some of the best examples of "mug jugs" by North Carolina potter Rufus Martinez. E. B. Hazzard's 'alien communication device', made of over 300 flattened tin cans on a modified tent pole structure and Max Pritchard's hand-printed religious tracts on cereal boxes are also represented in the collection. The show also includes the inter-racial rag doll friendship chain by Loretta Howard.

Over the past twenty-five years, when they were not busy with their jobs as a school teacher and an insurance agent, Helen and George Spelvin devoted their energy and resources to the study and collection of visionary folk art. While a small number of works from their collection have been loaned to museums, including the Smithsonian Institution and the Erie Museum of Art, most of the works in their collection are unknown in the field of folk art. For more information on the collection, as well as the Hokes Archives, visit their web site at: web.utk.edu/~blyons

‘At the very least, it might get some useful conversations started about what's good and what's bad in folk art.’ Jerry Cullum

Read Jerry Cullum’s full review in the AJC.


Through February 18th


Currently in our front gallery:

"Certification of Ingenuity; Preliminary Assessment Forms: Findings presented by Peripheral Association Research Association

Organized by Bryan C. Baker, Director of the Peripheral Association Research Association, this exhibition presents a portion of the paperwork and photographic documentation collected during the initial stages of a recent investigation. On display will be multiple copies of the PAR Association's Certification of Ingenuity: Preliminary Assessment Form A. 80 32948799. This form was developed to objectively look into a very specific manner of problem-solving, one which some have dubbed as 'folk engineering', and others define as a 'trans-applicationary' activity.



Currently in our small gallery:

Erin Burke, Danielle Benson, Audrey Molinare

Athens-based artists Erin Burke, Danielle Benson, Audrey Molinare.
www.greenblanky.com

Until February 25th.


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