Be sure to check out Make It, Break It, Rebuild It this weekend before it's over! While you are there, look for work by PSG Charter Member
Michael Konrad!
MAKE IT, BREAK IT, REBUILD IT
September 7, 8, 13, 14 & 15th
at Oxford Mills, 100 W. Oxford St. (between the Berks & Girard stops along Front St.)
Exhibition hours are
6pm - 10pm each night;
performances are timed events.
Exhibiting Artists:
Jaime
Alvarez, Nick Auman, Marcus Balum, Patricia Barrera, Emily Bowser, Brad Carney,
Christina P. Day, Nicole Donnelly, Jenna Efrein, Keith Hartwig, Delia King,
Mike Konrad, Ron Longsdorf, Chloris Lowe, Lisa Murch, Daniel Ostrov, Ryan
Parker, Damon Reaves, Mary Tasillo, Mat Tomezsko, Jason Varone, Bonnie
Whitfield, Jared Wood, Tara Wosiski, and Summer Yates, as well as Emerging
Muralist teams Golden Brush Design, Collective Waters, Art Inception, and Junk
of Kings.
Performance
Schedule:
Sept. 13th at 8pm - || Lincoln-Line || an
interactive fashion show and live music
Sept. 14th at 7pm – Ellie Goudie-Averill,
Olive Prince, Zornitsa Stoyanova
Sept. 15th at 7pm - Ellie Goudie-Averill,
Olive Prince, Real Live People(in)Motion
Set in the raw warehouse space of an old lamp factory,
MAKE IT, BREAK IT, REBUILD IT is a two-week art happening featuring
site-specific installations and performances that reflect society’s need to
create, destroy, and reuse. This show brings together the work of over 30
artists and performer/choreographers speaking directly to the purpose of
rebuilding -- not simply as it applies to physical objects but to the greater
community. Artists examine the purpose of re-purpose through object-based
media, structured and improvisatory performance, and audience-interactive
installations that discuss society’s need to Make It, Break it, and Rebuild It.
The 25 visual art installations run the gamut of large scale
audience-interactive woven sculpture (Tara Wosiski) to discreet 2-D and 3-D
artworks (Ron Longsdorf, Jared Wood), from a technology-focused live twitter
feed video projection (Jason Varone) to the tactile smashing and reassembling
of bottles (Jenna Efrein) and of hand papermaking (Mary Tasillo), from
exquisitely rendered depictions of discarded materials (Mat Tomeszko) to the
construction of livable spaces from discarded materials (Mike Konrad, Christina
Day). Including artwork of nearly every medium --
from painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, light and space, and
interactive installations--, the exhibition will be in a state of continual
flux and progression over the course of two weekends.
The
performances of Dance Amidst Art at
MAKE IT, BREAK IT, REBUILD IT, part of the Philly Fringe Festival, are the
largest series of collaborations between dancers and visual artists under one
roof, occurring within the art installations as well as on stage. Cross-pollination is a term that gets bandied
about when artists from different disciplines are asked to collaborate, to
digest and to respond to another artist or artwork in the process of their
creative act. At its root,
cross-pollination expands the conversation between disciplines, and at its
best, it creates new work that extends the boundaries and possibilities of both
art forms.
For
details about the events, artists, or location:
ALL EVENTS ARE FREE!!
