Artist Receptions this Saturday for Arts Incubator Gallery, Rocket Gallery, Tooley's on Congress, and our new gallery and boutique, PLAY.
PLAY
276 E Congress
"BLACK + WHITE"
An Exhibit of primarily black and white pieces that will be visually stitched together
to form a larger datum on the walls of the gallery.
December 6 - 27, 2008
Artist Reception: December 6, 6-9pm
Masquerade Ball: December 27, 8 till late
Arts Incubator Gallery
108 E. Congress
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Rocket Gallery
270 E. Congress
Shara Rowley Plough
"The Anxiety of Abundance"
M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition
December 2-20, 2008
Opening reception: Sat Dec 6, 6-9pm
"The Anxiety of Abundance" is an installation of paper works. The exhibition uses near life-size recreations of early nineteenth-century toile vignettes to highlight the benefits of thrift.
Central Arts Gallery
Tooley’s on Congress
278 E. Congress
Jorge Porrata
"What the Animals Had to Say"
December 6, 2008- January 2, 2009
Artist Reception: Saturday, December 6, 7-9pm
What came first, the story or the image? This exhibit explores the relationship between the creation of images and stories. As an illustrator, I often create illustrations for stories, but in this work the images informed the stories, and both later defined the final illustrations.
Beyond this process, this work is a minute version of human history, or passages of it, as some sacred books have recorded. It also depicts different facets coexisting in our own personalities that shape our behaviors. As a spiritual book, as its narrative suggests, it calls for a harmony between man and nature and within man himself.
More than the obvious Aesop's Fables, "What the Animals Had to Say" is a hybrid work rooted in oriental philosophy, similar to the five ancient books of the "Panchatantra" which were the first animal fables to appear in literature. More intimately, it owes a debt to the works of poets like Khalil Gibran and Rabindranant Tagore, and to spiritual masters like Paramahansa Yogananda and Lao Tse. I also cannot deny influences from the Ancient Testament and Christ's teachings. I was also inspired by the conversations with my great-grandmother about spirituality and her Rosicrucian practices.
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