Love Letters

 

 

Krista Gregory, the Visionaries + Voices Exhibitions Director, writes about Dale Jackson's work:

 

Accumulation of ideas and thoughts and paper:  Dale Jackson's commentary falls across the page with a non-sequitur/poetic beauty as an accumulating collection of ideas and thoughts reflective of his everyday: TV, the bus ride, automobiles he sees, songs which move him and people who've touched him: exercises in kindness and rudeness.  Documented on page after page of poster board in an expressive script akin to Cy Twombly, collected (here for a year), and stored for the eyes of no one.  semantics will present one year of Dale's writings, in collaboration with V+V Exhibitions Director Krista Gregory, in a large stack. Formally, it presents a sculpture in the vein of Felix Gonzales-Torres: A rectangular volume of layered colored paper, like candy, exposing only the top layer of writing.  The exposed top piece will be for sale, if it is sold, the next layer will be exposed and for sale, and so on and so on and so on...to slowly reveal Dale's tranquil daily reflections as one would mindfully reflect back thru a stack of love letters, painstakingly one at a time.

We're pulling together an exhibit at Semantics Gallery in Brighton that opens on Saturday called "Words and Pictures:  New Works by Eric Deller, Dale Jackson, and Mike Weber."  Reception 7 to 11 pm:  more info semantics gallery.  Please stop by if you can.  And thanks to Krista for her lovely love letter to Dale's art.

Ice Melting

Shots from last night's opening for "Ice Ice Baby!  New Works by Bob Scheadler & Mike Weber," with a sound installation by Adam Maloney, and a beautiful ice-sculpture by Tom Tsuchiya.  A truly 2 + 2 = 5 experience.

Word to Your Mother

I love this photo montage featuring Mike Weber, whose work is featured in the next Thunder-Sky, Inc. gig:  "Ice Ice Baby! New Works by Bob Scheadler and Mike Weber."  Bob is Mike's brother-in-law, and he did the pic above, featuring Mike as the Iceman rocking it out with some polar bears.  Both Mike and Bob are totally excited about the works they've made, and the results, both collaborative and solo, reflect that energy.  Mike has truly taken some giant aesthetic steps forward, pushing his experimentation with paint and texture into new territory, honing in on a subject that's both abstract and concrete:  anything below 32 degrees Fahrenheit.  His pictures are like meditations on the way ice is both experienced and represented, and some of the works even push image into spectrum, ice into ornament.  Bob's photos and prints have both an austerity and a grit, like crystalline images from a science textbook chopped up and sprinkled into a kaleidoscope from Mars.  When we were talking at the gallery last Saturday, both artists were riffing on all kinds of ice-inspired variations:  how ice controls the temperature of the planet, how if you eat too much of it ice can chip the enamel off your teeth, how they want to talk to Dave down at the Comet about having an "Ice Ice Baby" cocktail for the night of the opening.  Which is January 7, 2011, 6 to 9 pm.  Both Thunder-, Inc's gallery and the basement underneath will be featuring their works.  It promises to be a great example of 2 + 2 = 5 -- not only because Mike and Bob are sharing the same inspiration, but also because Adam Maloney will be installing a "soundscape" that night called "In Space No One Can Hear Your Tractor Beam."  Word to your mother.