[atlantaprog] [eyedrum-announcement-list] January 25 – January 28, 2006

Eyedrum events January 25 – January 28, 2006

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



January 25 Wednesday


‘The Jesus Saves’
Film Program
8:00pm
$4

‘The Jesus Saves’ is a compiliation of almost every mention on the word "Jesus" in contemporary films, scene by scene. Every use of the word "Jesus" is in a different context... which has an effect of chipping away and highlighting what the term means in modern times and mass media. A 4 part, 55 min. film by Jon Ehinger.


January 27 Friday

Clare Byrne Dance
Dance
8:00pm
$8

Clare Byrne and Sharon Estacio, two New York City choreographers and dancers, will perform an evening of duets and solos. The show will include an improvised piece featuring Clare, dancing, and her sister, Mary Byrne, of the Atlanta-based rock trio Hot Young Priest, on solo voice and guitar.
The Eyedrum show will include repertoire from Clare Byrne Dance, including Wind May Blow, an energetic duet to early gospel music; Fording the Night, a meditative dance performed in silence; and Still Swell, a solo to jazz music by Eric Reed.
The night will mark the Atlanta debut of the critically acclaimed Clare Byrne. And the unusual two-night pairing of modern dance with indie rock will be a rare chance for two ordinarily separate communities to mingle, cross-pollinate – and, perhaps, to discover their connections.

Clare Byrne Dance celebrates dancing: the expressive, explosive, radical, and affirmative power of movement. Byrne's unabashed love affair with music -- jazz, classical, gospel, blues, rock & roll -- brings physicality into partnership with the aural, intricately layering meaning in rhythm and counterpoint. With movement that blends the sweeping grace of ballet, the heated communion of social dance, and the fervor of praise-dancing, Clare Byrne Dance pushes dancing to uncommon virtuosity of body, mind and spirit.

‘There's a lot of dancing in this work, and it's as variegated and full of soul as the music...Sometimes -- hips swaying, arms raising, elation in every footfall -- the dancers might be celebrants working up steam in a Southern Baptist service.’ (Deborah Jowitt, Village Voice)

More info (bios, etc.) can be found on Eyedrum’s website.

Come check out a rare dance event at Eyedrum!!



January 22 Saturday

Show & Tell #2
Workshop
12:00pm – 4:00pm
Free


In an effort to promote community & friendliness, and also in an effort to cut the crap, Eyedrum has declared January 28th, 2006 as Show & Tell Saturday. Any artist knows about the headaches & heartaches that are involved in submitting a proposal to a gallery. You can easily spend hours writing an artist statement and putting your resume together, only to, more often than not, receive an impersonal letter of rejection. We invite visual artists of all levels of professionalism to visit us between the hours of 12 noon and 4PM and show us their work, or reproductions of their work. We will gladly listen to what you have to say, and, who knows, we may even put you in a show.



Some Girls
Me and Him Call It Us
The Letters Organize
Music program
9:00pm
$8

SOME GIRLS is made from scraps and pieces of punk murder junkies The Locust, Swing Kids, Crimson Curse, Holy Molar (Justin Pearson, bass), Give Up The Ghost, American Nightmare (Wes Eisold, singing), Unbroken, Over My Dead Body (Rob Moran, guitar) Plot to Blow Up The Eiffel Tower (Chuck Rowell, guitar and is rounded out by the swollen brains of a recording studio (Sal Gallegos, drums). But whatever image that gives you - whatever you dream up from the various matings and crossbreeding - is probably way off. Or maybe it's dead on. Whatever it is, the guys in the band don't care. They started SOME GIRLS as a side-project-music for the sake of making hard noise-they record songs when they want, play shows if they're in the mood.

also appearing
Me and Him Call It Us
The Letters Organize

brought to you by:
TIGHT BROS NETWORK



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.



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.

But wait, there’s more!:

A Golden Blizzard installation that’s a combo: painted mural and video installation. Come check this out!

Golden Blizzard is an art collective based in Atlanta, Georgia. Composed of seven artists, they esteem drawing, painting and installation as their primary means of expression. The members of Golden Blizzard work by integrating their unique artistic styles into a single expressive voice. Their subject matter investigates the aesthetics of beauty and destruction. A cornucopia of apocalyptic, pop culture and organic imagery, the work engages all artists in the collective at once. Drawings are continually edited by different hands, altered and augmented, so that the act of working in the collective is at once an obliteration of ego and a declaration of self. The tension of this work-method plays out in the forum of the drawings, the space of the page becoming a controlled environment for the lively dialogue of ideas.

The seven members of Golden Blizzard are Ellen Black, Errol Crane, Jennifer Kornder, Alex Kvares, Ann-Marie Manker, Jordan Reese and Daniel Upton. Individually concerned with a wide range of concepts and media and working autonomously as artists outside of the group, the members of Golden Blizzard formed as a collective in order to engage with other artists and to deliver a vision of integrated artistic exploration.



Currently in our small gallery:

Nick Nelson:  Mandalas

An installation consisting of 4 large wall mounted mandalas created from phototransfers on scotch tape, flowers, and wall drawings. Included in the installation is Asphodel, part of a previous show in Memphis composed of 3000 photo transfers of a single flower.
This exhibit ends Saturday, January 28th.


Miscellania

Eyedrum’s December & January podcasts now available!

Eyedrum now offers a podcast of our monthly radio show on WREK! If you're using iTunes or other RSS software, click here for the feed . If not, you can also just download the December or January show (right click on "download") although be forewarned that the file is 50 MB in size.

This month's show is now available and features music from Open Improv nights throughout 2005. The first Thursday of every month, eyedrum hosts "Open Improv", a forum and opportunity for musicians to gather and improvise together, often with spectacular results. Hand picked by Eyedrum sound guru Jeff Rackley, this show features excerpts from several performances.

Last month's show is now available and features music from the "Atlanta Eclectic Improv Festival" that took place at Eyedrum on the weekend of November 11-12, 2005. Included are live performances by Brian Parks, GFE, Ben Davis, Keith Leslie, Brian Fieldin, Mario Schambon, Zandosis, Erik Hinds, Andy Ditzler, A.C.M.E. and Lie & Swell. Strange instruments abound, including appearances by a virginal, a custom-built harpeggione and various electronic gadgetry.

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