Art
Video of the Shadow Show opening is now avaible. Click the thumbnail below.
Other coverage and reviews of the show on the web are available on the Connecticut Art Scene blog and on courant.com.
Gordon and I powered up yesterday for a long trek across back road Rhode Island & Connecticut to Hartford for the opening of The Shadow Show at Real Art Ways. It featured our first attempt at multi-media art: "ROCKSTAR" (accomplished only with Aerostatic's profound help in music and videography!) Rockstar is a short demonstration of how an ordinary piece of granite capable of producing a self-generated petro-voltaic charge can be used to summon a video and sonic representation of considerable visual complexity and sonic appeal. The over riding intent of the work is to illustrate the capacity of Nature, even in one of its most modest forms, i.e. a small piece of rock, to be capable of profound interaction with people and the environment.
October 27 - February 3, 2008
Opening Reception Saturday, October 27, 6-8pm
Real Art Ways
56 Arbor St
Hartford, CT 06106
Shadow Show includes work by 16 artists, many from Providence, Rhode Island, and others from Connecticut and New York. The exhibition will explore a range of associations with the word and idea of "shadow." Included will be work in which physical shadows either play an integral part, or the ideas of shadow, as in tail, trace, surveillance, mystery, memory and longing, are explored. The exhibition will work on multiple levels, addressing visual mystery, but also hidden systems in society.
Duncan will screen Rockstar, a short film created in collaboration with Aerostatic.
For more information on the Shadow Show, visit the visual arts page at Real Art Ways.
In the summer of 1979 I was asked by an acquaintance to come apply for a job teaching art in a school he had co-founded for juvenile delinquents in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, Perkiomen Valley Academy (PVA) was begun as part of a county-wide program to develop an alternative school therapy program for teenagers who, for personal or legal reasons, were unable to function in the school system but who had not committed serious enough offenses to be imprisoned
