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It Came From Left Field Opening First Friday May 1st, 6-9 pm In May The 621 Gallery presents It Came From Left Field, an exhibition exploring the use of the absurd and American existence through the lens of comic culture. Herb Joseph Reith III reflects on the dichotomies of Mississippi culture through collage and cartoon imagery. Ming Donkey reacts to consumer culture, presenting contemporary works of art containing themes of renewal, replenishment, disconnection, and authenticity. Jason Baldwin transforms mementos from his childhood into reflections on the progression of time and evolution in his own personal life. In the Nan Boynton Memorial Gallery, FSU Art Students’ League.
Metamorphosis In the Main Gallery Thursday May 28, 2009 TONIGHT ONLY! Flim Flam Circus Variety and Trunk Show For one night only, Julie Argue and Kehren Barbour present an evening full of live This event is free to the public, but donations are welcome!
Spit It Out! In March, The 621 Gallery presents Spit it Out!, an exhibition revealing the narrative elements of pop-art, deconstruction, and contemporary invention. Alan Skees reacts to current events in a playful, yet critical manner using large-scale two-dimensional graphic art. Ivan Fortushniak exposes the history of paintings by creating distressed surfaces via unconventional methods. Mark Mcleod manipulates truth by incorporating myth and fiction into authentic narrative illustrations. Glitter Chariot will be performing “All That Heaven Will Allow”, featuring Ryan Berg, Chuck Carbia, Kelly Boehmer, Danielle Shockley, and Lexi Braun. This new performance brings sweet and tragic melodrama together with fantastic characters and sentimental song, completing a fiercely tender yet gruesome and unfortunate story of love. This retelling of the story of Ernie and Bert is thrust into a lovers’ triangle where the love of romance isn’t destroyed; the love of friendship is. Friends in need of each other are faced with the need to continue in the wake of brutal death. Memories of a past imagined (Germany, Kirshner’s Rock Concert, Sesame Street) run rampant, and the tenuousness of their bond is destroyed. Rylan Steele Rylan Steele explores the history of useful spaces through his photographs. Steele’s work reveals the expectations and inherent details of interior spaces, documenting facts and unearthing lived experiences.
Opening First Friday February 6th 6-9 pm Person, Place or ThingThe 621 Gallery presents Person, Place, or Thing, an exhibition connecting history with the present through artistic narrative. Inga Huld Tryggvadottir incorporates others’ experiences by relating her own personal memories through objects and icons. Yoko Iwinaga recalls childhood memories by piecing together her past with her present in abstract compositions. Sonja Hinrichsen maps urban locales with multi-media installations that track the history and diversity associated with each place. Greg Blair connects nature with culture through examples of co-dependence in mixed-media installations. (Main Gallery) LifestyleDuring their travels across the U.S., artists Barbour and Jones collect objects and photographs that serve as icons of American subcultures. This exhibit is a third person peek into the unique experiences and circumstances of communities and subcultures throughout the United States. Subcultures overflow and intermingle within this installation, actively engaging the viewer. Visitors will experience listening & talking and become participant & audience. Join Barbour and Jones in a Gallery Talk on Thursday February 5th at 6pm at The 621 Gallery. (The Nan Boynton Memorial Gallery)
Cultural DistortionOpening First Friday January 2nd, 6-9pm The 621 Gallery presents Cultural Distortion, an exhibition analyzing cultural perceptions through various mediums. Artist Sarah Christensen Blair explores gender roles by tracing the domestic roots of craft into a contemporary context. Jason Urban distorts perception through the juxtaposition of pattern and color in digital media and printmaking. Min Kim Park uses her large-scale media installations to dismantle social taboos associated with femininity and eastern cultures. In the Nan Boynton Memorial Gallery, FSU Art
2007-2008 EXHIBITIONS
Exploring the routine, these artists offer alternative takes on the rituals of daily life. The sculptures of Chicago artist Gagik Aroutiunian give ordinary objects new properties and new memories. John Henry Blatter of Virginia records and sculpts experience through film. New York artist Mari Ogihara's constructions reflect the female beautification process/ritual. In the Nan Boynton Memorial Gallery, Art from the Heart, an art contest for children in grades 3, 4 &5 in Leon county, is being hosted by Lee's Place, a non-profit grief and loss counseling center and sponsored by Florida Commerce Credit Union. The theme of the contest is expression of emotions. We have selected 60 pieces to be exhibited and further judged. Our judges are Eluster Richardson (local artist), Eileen McCann ( local artist and therapist) and Samantha Strickland ( Marketing Director at Florida Commerce Credit Union). We will be awarding prizes to the first and second place winners of each grade and then an overall winner. Lee's Place will have cookies and lemonade at the reception on First Friday from 6-9 P.M. For more information about the art contest or Lee' s Place in general, please check out our website, www.leesplace.org and/ call 850.841.7733.
The 621 Gallery is the place to be this Halloween night! Join us for the end of the world! Performance is invited. Political art is encouraged. Wear a costume and bring a flashlight! If you would like to show art or build an installation, please deliver it to the gallery between Wednesday, October 24th- Sunday, October 28th or Halloween Day. New hours M-W, 11-6 Sat. Sun. 1-5. Pick up date is Thursday Nov. 1st between 11 am- 6 pm. (If the work is not picked up during this time, it is considered a donation to the art auction that takes place November 16th. Sorry, there is no extra room for storage) In the NBMG, Perdita Ross The Annual Art Auction for The 621 Gallery is our best attended annual function and is the major fundraising event for our non-profit art gallery. It is an evening of entertainment, wine and finger food as well as an opportunity to purchase original art from Tallahassee’s finest and most well known artists. This year’s auction will take place on Friday, November 16th. Click here for more information on this exciting event! Stories The 621 Gallery is transformed into a labyrinth of hallucinations. Stories features insight into an array of childhood traditions with the work of Tallahassee artist Kelly Boehmer, Matthew Hopson -Walker of California, and Kristin Skees. Kelly Boehmer’s soft sculpture revelations address nostalgia and memories of youth through form and texture. Matthew Hopson-Walker portrays demented fairy tales in his work. Explore the real versus imaginary role of wifely duties through the forms of Kristin Skees. In the NBMG, FSU Art Students League Culture of Conflict The 621 Gallery addresses a Culture of Conflict in January. As today’s digital culture blurs the distinction between entertainment and reality, artists Carola Dreidemie of Miami, Michael Heroux of Washington D.C., and Claire Rau of South Carolina address the affect of media on social interactions, particularly conflict. Carola Dreidemie’s installations comment on conflict and confusion in society. Michael Heroux addresses the effects of digital culture, entertainment, and news. Claire Rau investigates the concept of war as sport in her sculptures and prints. In the NBMG, FSU Art Students League Connected The 621 Gallery addresses Connected with the February exhibition. Artists Matthew Borgen of Philadelphia, Jeff Eisenberg of San Francisco, and Charles Matson Lume of Minnesota explore the internal relationships between language, science, and history. Matthew Borgen comments on perceptions of the past and the failure to recreate history. Jeff Eisenberg’s drawings examine spatial relationships inspired by science. Charles Matson Lume explores light and transforms aesthetic experiences through the language of art. In the NBMG, Randy Pulumbo Put Together Assembly comes to the forefront at The 621 Gallery in the March exhibition. Put Together addresses how we assemble ourselves inside and out with the work of Charles E. Birnbaum of New York, Jeana Eve Klein of North Carolina, and Marcy Sperry of Chicago. Charles E. Birnbaum reveals the construction of identity through ceramics. Jeana Eve Klein explores the disconnect between souvenirs and the places they represent by recreating tangible memories through quilting. Marcy Sperry’s images reveal a resistance against obsessive body modification. In the NBMG, FSU Art Students League Primal The 621 Gallery is going Primal in the April exhibition. Artists Gabi Etenberg of Nevada, Linda Frost of California, and Jane Hesser of Rhode Island explore the relationship between primitive nature and humanity. Gabi Etenberg uses the camera to capture people and places that explain the tension of displacement within herself. Linda Frost addresses the suffering of animals in the name of science. Jane Hesser explores the inner, primal nature of humanness that is expressed through animalistic imagery. In the NBMG, FSU Art Students League Industry The 621 Gallery explores the effects of production in society with Industry in May. Artists Mark Abrahamson from Washington, Ira Hill from Tallahassee, and Gil Scullion from Connecticut comment on the effects of industry in the social environment. Mark Abrahamson’s aerial photographs are a global warning of how industry impacts the environment. Ira Hill stretches traditional sculpture techniques in the creation of 3-D social commentaries. Through assemblages of stencils and templates, Gil Scullion illustrates how traditional construction practices are being applied to science with genetic manipulation and selective breeding. In the NBMG, FSU Art Students League ANJE III July 4th - 27th, 2008 Petra Kralickova, Tannaz Farsi, and Elissa Cox 2007
Kenda North is a photographer from Texas who takes underwater images of people in various iconic positions all in swimming pools. A woman in a dress feels the skirt rise over her knees and suddenly she personifies Marilyn Monroe. The cool blue of the pool establishes a dramatic backdrop for players on an aquatic stage. Insoon Ha creates sculpture installations that draw attention to the barbarity that is allowed in the name of progress. Her work combines human and animal images in a graphic display of what can occur when science goes awry. Julie Anand is a photographer/installation artist from Arizona who draws on a background in Ecology and Biology to create organic images and objects that focus on the intersection of matter and meaning.
Ronnie Cramer is a multi-media video installation artist from Denver who combines synchronized electronic music with lurid images from paperback novels which morph from one to the next on video screens. Jason Scuilla is a printmaker from Sarasota, FL. He makes intesely passionate, large scale etchings on wood panels dealing with human physical interaction. Boris Shpeizman is a glass artist from New York who defies tradition by using his media in extremely non-glass areas of design and sculptture, such as lingerie. Prison Art: Inspired by Love An exhibition of artwork created by inmates in North Florida prisons. The works on display in the Nan Boynton Memorial Gallery include pencil drawings on cloth handkerchiefs and illustrations on envelopes dyed from coffee grinds. Alls proceeds from the exhibition go to the non-profit corporation, Inspired by Love of North Florida. Issac Williams, founder of Inspired by Love of North Florida, gives a presentation about the exhibition. FSU professor of Art Therapy, Dave Gussak, discusses the subject of Art Therapy in prisons. Internationally renowed vocalist Pam Laws wraps up the opening with a performance joined by Issac Williams.
Bike-Power is curated by Florida State University's Associate Professor of Digital Arts, Keith Roberson. An accomplished international artist, Keith is also a daily bike commuter, a mountain bike endurance racer and is in his yard right now, trying to teach his kids to ride. The exhibition features over 50 artists from Tallahassee, across the United States and Canada. Please visit www.bikepower.com for more information. This exhibition is sponsored by locally owned Joe's Bike Shop & Higher Ground of Tallahassee, SORBA's FatOfTheLand.org and TallyCat.org.
A solo exhibit of a prominent Tallahassee painter. Dean Dioia is well known through the region for his pensive paintings of the lush north Florida landscape including images of our canopy roads and freshwater springs.
This exhibition is a multi-media environmental performance. David Lobdell, Shereen Lobdell, Ashley Carlisle, David Higginbotham and Todd Christensen are four artists and a poet from New Mexico. These artists create live performances in which a ceremonious burning is conduced to poetry at sunset while numerous sculptures surround.
Nan Boynton Memorial Gallery presents Marcella Stasa, a sculptor who uses found objects to explore the beauty she finds in death and decay.
In its second year, the All-media National Juried Exhibition (ANJE) features a variety of work from outstanding artists from all over the continental United States. Juror Cynthia Hollis Has hand-selected 25 individuals from the applicant pool to form the exhibition of various media. Winners: Exhibiting Artists: Christie Ashley . Daniel Baird . Kim Beckmann . Dustyn Bork . Mary Becker . Youngsoon Chon . Dale Clifford James Glaser . Betsy Gandy . Dolores Glover Kaufman . Carrie Kersey . Jeemin Kim . Jamie M. Lee . Sean Lyman . Jessie Lovano-Kerr . Melissa McCutcheon . Jill Olm . Michael Reedy . K. Terumi Shorb
The Nan Boynton Memorial Gallery features Sugar & Spice, artwork by a group of FSU MFA students: Julie Guyot, Becki Rutta, and Erin ElizabethGainey.
Janis Brothers is a sculptor from Live Oak, FL who uses interactive video installation to deal with the issues of life, death, mourning and healing. Denise Bookwalter is an artist from Cincinnati, OH that combines prints, installations, and animation to address the evolution of high and low technology and their influences on contemporary culture. Ryan Adrick is a photographer, sculptor, and digital artist from Jacksonville, FL whose work deals with relationships formed between artist and subject.
Quickly becoming a tradition of The 621 Gallery, the September exhibition is a time to showcase the work of local art professors. Journeys features the work of three FSU faculty including the Jessie Lovano-Ker Professor of Art Education, Tom Anderson, Art Department Foundations Director, Mary Stewart , and newcomer to the Art Department faculty, Tracy Longly-Cook. Tom Anderson used text and photographs to chronicle the situations he encountered on his expedition to Mount Kilimanjaro. Tracy Longly-Cook's photographs emphasize the continuous undercurrent of physical and psychological change in our lives. Prints by Mary Stewart explore connections among visual and ecological complexities. Join us in the NBMG for Hands Off! - an international exhibition exploring possibilities in digital photography. Juror and image-maker Robert Fichter selected 30 images for this unique opportunity. Visit www.621gallery.com/handsoff or www.handsoffat621gallery.blogspot.com for more info. |
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