Gallery

[Manganr]

Ok, for thos of us who are not going to make it to the Exhibition to see your work in person Deadeye & co (sorry :jdevil: ), is ther any chance of a gallery of the exhibition here in a photographic form so that we might admire your talent from afar.

[FireMonkey]

Too bad you couldn't set up a live webcam and we could watch the action...

[ded i]

Xray will put up some pics of the exhibition soon. He and the camera just returned from Maine last night.

[xrayzebra]

Yep... it's already been a long week. We got back from Virginia Sunday night, and Monday morning I was out the door around 4 AM for Maine. Got back late last night and had a busy day today.

But, at last, here are some pix...

Lillian Bayley was the only other artist who came down for the show, so I have some pix of here as well as her work.

She's a very smart, thoughtful lady, whose work ranges from political commentary to some really whimsical stuff. She paints, does sculpture, makes furniture, and does digital imaging work, among other things. She is truly multitalented and extremely imaginative.

She's done some crazy stuff... she hand made a set of trading cards called Monkey Rider. They look almost like factory produced trading cards, featuring pictures of monkeys riding on dogs and goats, etc. I bought two packs of them... I'll have to scan and post some of them one of these days, but back to this show...

Oh yeah, and creativity is in the family. Her father wrote the novel "Big Fish," which was made into a movie. It was his FIRST novel.

Lillian showed the following - all of which has a political theme to it - not all of her work does:

The Dollar Memorial - she has kept track of the names of every American killed in the Middle Eastern Wars, and has etched them into dollar bills, with a type of laser printer that can cut wood. She sets it on a very low setting that just vaporizes the surface off of the bill, so that it cuts off the print, revealing the paper below, without burning through the bill.




She has set these dollar bills up in a line on wall mounted light boxes that she built herself, covering them with plexiglass so they lay nice and flat and don't blow off or get picked up by viewers.




This is a pretty multilayered piece, IMHO. It's obviously a bit of a protest, linking the deaths of Americans to greed, but it is also a sincere memorial. She feels deeply about it. She intends to continue doing this as long as Americans are dying in the Middle Eastern Wars, and put the dollar bills back into circulation at some future date. She plans to spend them in a way that she hopes they will remain in circulation for a while before the banks return them to the treasury to be destroyed.

She hopes that they will travel a while first, so that people encounter them, and look closely, to see the names and ranks of the men and women who have died - so that there are many isolated moments of recognition in which some will realize what they are looking at. These pix are backlit. It is easier to read the names when front lit, as when held in your own hand.

[xrayzebra]

More of Lillian's work:



I don't have names of these pieces, unfortunately - will try to get them and edit this post later.

Above is based on a very old wood cut of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, with a familiar face photochopped into it. I believe that this was then laser etched into a sheet of wood, and then printed on paper with ink, just like an old timey wood cut print. I could be wrong... it might be digitally printed.



This is another one based on an old wood cut, with a quote added, dealing with the abandonment of the Geneva Convention articles on torture, etc.

Again, not all of her work is political - these were the pieces the curator asked for.

[xrayzebra]

Some abstract paintings by Rosie Brooks:

[xrayzebra]

A painting by Lori Larusso - there were two, but I only got a good shot of this one:




This was presented on a much longer piece of paper. For purposes of showing in a low res file, I cropped it down to the image, sorta subverting her intentions, so apologies to Lori.

[xrayzebra]

Photos of sculpture by Roc Yeun:



These are very high quality digital prints of sculpture done by Roc... the scultpures are "life sized," like as big as a woman. They have kind of human shapes - I forget what materials she used, perhaps Deadeye will chime in and explain everything I have forgotten to include or have gotten wrong.

[xrayzebra]

More pix of the show and spectators...




Judy's painting can be seen just inside the door, the computer linked to JD is just to the left.



Lots of the visitors checked out JD.



I bought Gary a beer, but had to drink it myself.



Lillian, right, with a student who visited.



Katie, the curator.







I didn't get a good shot that shows the rest of the layout of the place... it's an L shaped room... Lillian and Lori's stuff was on the wall I didn't shoot. There was a TV set on the back wall that ran a constant loop video by another friend, Baio Obiodun. He has been working with making narrative videos out of video games... making the characters "act" rather than play the game. There were five videos, but the gallery didn't have a dvd player that would loop them all, so they manually changed them once in a while.

[nigel_hell]

Thanks for taking the time to share images of the exhibit for those of us who couldn't be there! It looks like a great grouping of artists and its always nice when your piece is the first one guests see, its a place of honor.

[Manganr]

The gallery and work within look fantastic.
The Dollar Bill memorial is very impressive. I'd happily buy a bunch of those dollars at the and of the show to keep a little piece of that memorial alive.

Nice painting by the front door too DD. Jeez, I wish I could paint like that!

[ded i]

The gallery and work within look fantastic.
The Dollar Bill memorial is very impressive. I'd happily buy a bunch of those dollars at the and of the show to keep a little piece of that memorial alive.

Nice painting by the front door too DD. Jeez, I wish I could paint like that!

Thank you manganr. I'm a good painter, but there are 5 artists in the show and the other four are as good or better than me. Each of us does something a bit different.

Lillian's Dollar Memorial is a stunning conceptual work. I feel as you, I want to keep some of the bills so the work will last. I explained that and Lillian promised me one of the bills. It is important to Lillian that the dollars circulate after the Iraq war ends, so I doubt she will sell any part of it. Lillian won't make money on the memorial. It was costly to build and she is not well off. She really could use the money, but she won't do that. Other artists are trying to convince her to make a copy of the work, so she will have one to sell. She's thinking about that.

The dollar bills are "etched" with a laser cutter - not a printer. Lillian programed the laser cutter to remove the pigment the dollar bill was printed with - so it is the original paper of the dollar bill which displays the soldier's names, rank, and date of death.

The last time I saw Dollar Memorial displayed it consisted of three light boxes, approximately 15 feet long. It is twice that length now, six boxes, and Lillian updates the work monthly. She's been working on this project for four years. She constructs, wires, and lights the boxes herself.

Lillian and I were classmates at the Mount Royal School of Mixed Media which is an MFA program at the Maryland Institute College of Art. She is one of the most beautiful human beings I've ever met in my life - completely sincere, stunningly intelligent, and without affectation.

Here is Lillian at the show talking to people, including Katie Shaw, the curator. (I'm behind Lilly, dressed in black and gray, back to the camera.)

[G3]

Nice gallery pictures.

I was an art major in high school and halfway through college before I gave it up as my source of income. The "starving artist" grew too hungry. Before I joined the community college I spent some time at the Students Art League on W. 57th St, NYC. I am more into pen and ink as my favorite mediums., followed closely by pencil, charcoals, and pastels. :spin:

[Umberto]

The Dollar Memorial so much reminds me of the DC Viet Nam Memorial, w/ a twist. Kinda the point I guess huh.

Big Fish how cool. What a wonderful movie.
You know some really special people.
Lillian Bayley, interesting work.

She's gonna spend them huh?
That makes the work like a seed pod.

[Clydetz]

... I bought Gary a beer, but had to drink it myself.

Thanks for the guided tour, xrayzebra! Oh! And thanks for the beer but Bud gives me a 'bloated' feeling.