MEP: April 2012

Monday, April 23, 2012

Joey: Opening this Friday

Paintings by:

Alicia Gibson

Amanda B. Friedman

Meghan Petras

Sara Murphy

as well as a DJ set by Melissa Brown, 9-10 pm at the opening

Joey, a rap by Gina Beavers

Here to talk about Joey

Had his picture on my wall, my one and only

It started at school, me pressed up against the bricks

In the summer out back, in the sticks

The city screamed to us from it’s canyons

With its beats and passion and sins

We scrawled our names on its walls

An ancient city—

we moaned our love down its halls

We scratched our names in the sand

And when we fought I scratched lines in his hand

I saved all our memories in my scrapbook

Empty pack of cigs, a ticket stub, all ready for one look

That day it rained, he came round the same way

The clouds crowning down, waiting for our play

Oh, yeah and how we had loved minute to minute

Never lookin up, not thinkin time would tip it

April 27th - May 20th, 2012

566 Johnson (entrance on Stewart)

Bushwick, BK

Open Sats/Suns 12-6 or by appt.

Opening Friday April 27th, 7-10pm

B.Y.O.B

http://goodgirls.us

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Potential Images in Richmond,VA

Opening April 20 - June 2, 2012

Potential Images surveys current practices in contemporary painting, from the representational to abstract, narrative to conceptual. Curated by Emily Smith, Executive Director of 1708, Potential Images will examine how painting relates to larger trends in contemporary art—for example a pervasive DIY aesthetic, an interest in new media, a reuse of surrealism, an awareness of the neo-baroque and the sublime, and a prevalence of personal narrative.

In addition to surveying different modes of painting, Potential Images will introduce Richmond to a group of mostly up and coming (though some are fairly established) artists. The exhibition will include works by Ivin Ballen, Guy Ben-Ari, Michael DeLucia, Michael Dotson, Brendan Smith and Maria Walker.

Ivin Ballen, Pavers

Guy Ben-Ari, Shadow Casting

Michael Delucia, Tuning

Michael Dotson, Inventory

Brenda Smith, The Hammock 2

Maria Walker, Know You Hello Youat 1708 Gallery

Thursday, April 12, 2012

Eric Hibit

ERIC HIBIT
New Moon Child, 2011
Acrylic on paper

currently on view at C24 Gallery

Prince at the Forum

Participating artists:
Steven Bankhead, Jesse Benson, Big Girls (Hannah Greely and Elana Scherr),
Aline Bouvy and John Gillis (Brussels/Luxembourg), Joshua Callaghan,
David Catherall (Brussels), Tami Demaree, Scott Grieger, Dennis Hoekstra and Noah Olmsted, Marie Jager, Matt MacFarland, Brian Mann, Pentti Monkkonen, Joshua Nathanson+ [Fiona Connor, Bella Foster , Meghan Petras, Jessica
Williams, Alivia Zivich], Chris Oatey, Alison O’Daniel, Clunie Reid (London), Amanda Ross-Ho, Joe Sola , Torbjorn Vejvi, Pernille Kapper Williams (Brussels/Copenhagen), Liat Yossifor

Organized by Steven Bankhead and Jesse Benson