Please join us on Friday, June 22 (5-8pm), Saturday, June 23 (11am-6pm) and Sunday, June 24, (1-5pm) for a building wide celebration of artists who are paying attention. The event features 4 artists; Karen Fitzgerald, Betti Franceschi, Michael Poast and Traiko Truhlar.
Artists of all types are good at paying attention. We notice color, clouds and minutia within movement. We pay attention to the process of moving pencils across paper and schmearing paint on surfaces. Our brains seem to have different markers for what we consider to be important. Dancers pay attention to a myriad of inner as well as outer cues, simultaneously navigating space and time beyond any of our “regular” capacities. Attention is one of our most precious choices, as well as an intensely tender state of being. Full attention is relinquishing self; oneness with the universe. We celebrate it!
The history of the art world is filled with friendships. Ours is no different from countless others. While our work is stylistically quite distinct from each other, we find ourselves often discussing those things we notice, those things we pay attention to. Underneath the differences of how our works look are intense similarities of attention. The movement of the unclothed human body brings with it a doorway to the metaphysical realm. Flesh and bones that are so intensely attuned as in a dancer’s body go well beyond our physical world. The same is true of light and color within our physical world. A red wash suddenly becomes a sea, golden foam carrying us beyond any sandy shore this side of the Far Sea.
We’ll be paying attention at 31-51 12th Street, 2nd Floor, Long Island City, NY 11106. The whole building will be open.
Take the N or Q train to Broadway in Astoria. Walk West on Broadway toward the river and turn right onto 12th Street;
it’s a 12 minute stroll from the subway to our door. It looks like this, plus or minus a few polka dots: