PUT ON YOUR FAVORITE MASK AND COME PLAY WITH US!
PRESS RELEASE
The Fifth Annual Exquisite Corpse Exhibition
The Exquisite Corpse and Its Elaborately Tall
Tale.
What: Art Exhibition
When: Opening Reception Tuesday October 29th
Time: 5:00PM
until 9:00 PM.
GALLERY HOURS:
WED OCT 30 THROUGH SUN NOV 3RD
NOON UNTIL 6PM
Where: 1140 Main Street Suite 208
Ramona, CA 92065
THIS IS A MASCARADE OPENING SO PLEASE COME
WITH A MASK.
Information Contact: Helen Wilson,
studio@helenwilsonartist.com
For the fifth year artist
Helen Wilson invited the artist’s group Tuesday Nights to
play the game "Exquisite Corpse." This is a game by which a
collection of images is assembled by the group to form bodies. The game was
invented by the Surrealists;
and earned its name from one of the initial writings, "Le cadavre / exquis
/ boira / le vin / nouveau" (The exquisite corpse will drink the young
wine). It is the perfect game for creating Art for a Halloween Exhibition.
This
group plays the game with a bit of a twist. The body is broken into
proportionally correct sheets of paper. Then they all draw, one body part at a
time. The results are then put on the floor where each of the artists chose a
body, one part at a time. Traditionally this is where the game ends a body
created by multiple artists, but this
is where they really change the game; everyone goes home with his or her body
and they agreed to reassemble for the exhibition. Once home, their body was the
inspiration for a piece of art. Artists could work in any material they wanted.
The only obligations were to the art and to keep a sense of play - after
all it is a game.
This year we added another twist to the game. The corpse
had to have a narrative of some kind. Each story will be found in it’s own
artist book. Following the tradition of Ghost stories on Halloween we will read
some of them at the Opening Reception on Oct 29th between 5 and 9
PM. No one has seen all the finished work, and some interesting performances
have been promised. Add to this that everyone will be wearing masks and this
opening is sure to be a lot of fun.
The artists include Antonia
Cosentino,
Nancy Ferguson, Karen James, Bob Norman, Tracy
Potter, Kathi
Rothe, Marsha Cook, Nancy Winslow, Annie Marie Heaton, Heidi
Schlotfeldt,
Kathleen Beck, Cindy Dodson, Pamela Underwood, Julie Z Weaver, Diane Conklin,
Regina Wilson, Ralph Jensen, Don Weeke, Helen Petre, Felicia Hill, Natalie
Strohson,
Deborah Behnke and Helen Wilson. The group has
painters, sculptors, quilters, assemblage artists, collage artists,
printmakers, basket weavers, musicians, book artists and mixed media artists -
so the show is sure to be interesting.
All the artists are part of a class/group called Tuesday Nights facilitated by Helen Wilson, which meets once
a month (sometimes more.) Each meeting is built around one project idea,
which culminates in an exhibition but mostly it is a way to advance creative
skills while hanging with a great group of creative types.
The
goals are the building of an art community through exhibitions and socialization
with other artists (There is something to be said about breathing the air of
other creative souls); learning to critique your own and others’ work
effectively and developing technical proficiency in a variety of media and/or
methods, by planning, designing and completing projects. (It is about
developing artistic energy through sharing with a larger community. Think of it
as A Happening.) We are not a critique
group and we do not jury our exhibitions.
That is
what will be happening on Tuesday October 29th, an Opening reception
for an art exhibition. It’s open to the public, so come with a mask and ready
for fun. The time is 5:00PM until 9:00PM 1140 Main, Suite 208 above the Tuna
Shack and McWhorter
Jewelers. Just take the elevator up.
This location is made possible by Lezley Knott at Eleven Forty and her desire
to support the arts in Ramona.
The
exhibition will be up through Nov 3rd. Gallery hours are noon until six.
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