[atlantaprog] [eyedrum-announcement-list] June 23 – June 24, 2006

Eyedrum events June 23 – June 24, 2006


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

Members admitted free to all events!

In recognition of its dedication to visual arts programming, Eyedrum has been awarded a $30,000 grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts! It’s our largest grant to date! This grant will allow us to provide financial support for curators and artists and their projects at Eyedrum over the next two years.

Read the press release here! http://www.eyedrum.org/pressreleases/ eyedrum-warhol-grant.pdf

Read what the Atlanta Journal-Constitution had to say! http:// www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/atlanta/stories/0619warhol.html

Read what Creative Loafing had to say!
http://atlanta.creativeloafing.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid:87935

Come and be a part of this vital part of Atlanta’s art/music/ literature/film/dance/performance scene!


June 23 Friday

Tuna Helpers (Web of Mimicry)
Small Framed Boy
Rising Appalachia
Music
9:00pm
$TBA, probably $5-ish

From the Web of Mimicry (you know...Secret Chiefs etc.) Website:
“Cruella Deville meets Mary Poppins meets Kate Bush” – that’s how Austin, Texas, based band the Tuna Helpers have been described, and it’s pretty darned accurate. Adrienne and Bethany are the odd and delightful sisters who form the basis of a trio that is rounded out by their similarly odd & delightful long lost sister Khattie.

Immediately upon hearing them you wonder how it could even be: at times it’s like a doll come to life singing to you with an operatic voice, & teaching you to waltz to sparse drum beats on broken toys. To complete the effect, at shows the Tuna Helpers visually dazzle audiences with puppet shows and American Sign Language. Though theirs is a tapestry of gothic styling, they uniquely weave the doctrines of girly power, gross-out contests and sophisticated musical sensibilities into what they hope will become your favorite doll.
http://www.thetunahelpers.org/

Small Framed Boy:
Local act makes good with their concoction of tribal rythyms, Eastern instrumention, otherworldly vocals, and glorious noise.
http://www.myspace.com/smallframedboy


JUST ADDED TO THE SHOW: RISING APPALACHIA!!!
appalachian style rock and roll with guitar, violin, hand drums and more...very very good stuff! from atlanta and not to be missed!

(A Little Castle Production)

June 24  Saturday

Two Opening Receptions!
Art Openings
6:00pm – 11:00pm
Free

6:00pm – 8:00pm
in the small gallery

Erica Wilson, "Cricket Constellations"

An installation inspired by Palladio, decay, beauty, time, spirituality and music.

"My work is a celebration of the wonders of the world and all the complexities that arise from simple rules within it. I am illustrating concepts and ideas that are not tangible realities, ideas that no real words can describe. The installation is my way of illustrating an idea, a philosophy, and a way of life that is felt in the souls of individuals. It's that feeling of awe and excitement when one truly sees something for the first time and is moved by its beauty. It is recognition of those aesthetics not typically embraced by western standars of beauty, and overlooked in our fast-paced day- to-day lives. All of the pieces, simple and complex, tiny as they are, come to make one whole piece; embracing the silence and wonder that occur between moments of chaos."

Exhibit runs through July 15th.

7:00pm – 11:00pm
in the back gallery

Robert Witherspoon, “Machinations”

sculptural installations

Machinate (mak'-e-nat'): to devise, plan, and plot artfully, especially with evil intent.
Machinator: a plotter, schemer; intriguer.

This exhibition, Machinations, showcases Robert Witherspoon's recent sculptural works that investigate the merging of installation art, social commentary, and object making. For this exhibition, Witherspoon has turned his attention to metaphor-laden objects and common iconography that have politically and socially potent messages. The associations and meaning escalate as the artist takes these objects out of context to investigate social issues ranging from censorship, the language of the defenses industry, to unabashed American consumerism. These subjects are all closely related in our society and current events at home and overseas.

At times the work leads you down some dark mental pathways that utilize humor, irony, and sometimes an exaggerated sense of scale to usher in a dialogue with the viewer. Witherspoon remarks, "My work strives to create situations that draw the viewer to investigate my objects closely while simultaneously creating visual and physical barriers that confront the viewer and create a psychological barrier that can be navigated."

At a time when the absurdities and perversions of war are unfurled and fears and insecurities about the future are augmented daily, the very collective psyche of our nation has temporarily become altered. The trajectory of Witherspoon's artwork reflects on this evolving dynamic and attempts to ratchet and rise to meet these challenges. In two of the installations, the language of the defense industry and censorship is certainly one of the foremost concerns. Using satire, common iconography and dark humor, Witherspoon unfurls his own parachutes and arsenals of the mind's eye that bears witness to political landscape like a canary in the coal mine.

Exhibit runs through August 5th.



On view in our main gallery:

Please note: The OPENING RECEPTION will be held SATURDAY, JULY 15TH from 7-11PM)

"The Carbonist School: Study Hall"

School is in session.

Eyedrum hosts the first public exhibition (June 24-August 5, 2006) of The Carbonist School, an underground art and idea movement with its roots in the American South. The Carbonist School was founded over wireless laptops and cell phones in 2004 by a small group of black artists in response to shifting social realities in which an ever widening array of experiences has become available to black people.

By using metaphors of strangeness and mutation, and strategies of disorientation and science fiction allusion, these artists imagine a geek-enabled practice in which blackness is expressed as a malleable technology open to infinite mutation. No longer limited narrowly by metaphors of struggle or strictly by the logic of oppression, the Carbonist School opens a new era of expression marked by aesthetic exuberance, multilayered realities, and the cult of the strange. The Carbonist School seeks to represent blackness in ways that do not foreclose on multiple readings of the work. The Carbonist School is an idea whose time has come.

Come study with the Carbonist School: video, painting, sculpture and sound works by emerging and mid-career artists will be on the curriculum.

Exhibiting artists include Greg Tate, William Cordoa, Cauleen Smith, Kojo Griffin, Mendi+Kieth Obadike, Kevin Sipp, and others.

Exhibit runs through August 5th.


Miscellany

May’s Podcast is now available!
There will be no June Podcast…sorry die hards!

This month’s show features performances from the past year of "Language Harm". Language Harm is Eyedrum's bi-monthly poetry event conducted by the Atlanta Poets Group (the next one is Wed May 17th). Tune in to hear language turned inside out.

Poetry by the following writers are featured:
John Lowther
Tracy Gagne
Randy Prunty
Mark Presjnar
James Sanders
Zac Denton
Dana Petersen
Michelle Reeves
If you're using iTunes or other RSS software, click here for the feed. If not, you can also just download the April or May show (right click on the link) although be forewarned that the file is 50 MB in size.



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404.522.0655 or www.eyedrum.org

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