Having grown up in Syracuse during the burgeoning hardcore music scene of the late 1980s and early 1990s, multidisciplinary artist Paul Lloyd Sargent returns home this spring to present elegy: society for a dead society, his first solo show in Central New York, mounted at the Red House Art Center from April 15th through June 6th. 

Drawn from details of the death of a former friend and bandmate, elegy is presented through a multimedia installation of mashed up, remixed, and recontextualized historical ephemera collected from mix-tapes, amateur videos, zines, photographs, band fliers, sketchbook pages, song lyrics, and more.  A lament for the death of youth despite the overwhelming persistence of youth culture, elegy: society for a dead society paints nostalgia and cynicism as two shades within the same dark palette.

Paul Lloyd Sargent splits his time between Brooklyn and Wellesley Island, NY.  He was raised in Syracuse and graduated from Nottingham High School in 1989 and Hamilton College in 1993.  After stints in Las Vegas, Boston, and Venice Beach, in 2000, he received his MFA in video from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. 

The opening reception for elegy: society for a dead society will be held from 5pm - 8pm on April 15 in the Joan Lukas Rothenberg gallery on the second floor of the Red House Arts Center.  Paul Lloyd Sargent will give an artist talk at 7PM.  The reception will be free and open to the public as a part of th3.

{un} familiar

curated by Maeve Mulrennan tH3 Opening Reception
Thursday, March 18
5PM - 8PM
Curatorial Talk at 7PM
Free and Open to the Public
Exhibition Runs
March 18 – April 12

Red House Gallery Exhibit is {un}familiar

Red House Arts Center presents {un}familiar, curated by Maeve Mulrennan of the Galway Arts Centre in Ireland.  {un}familiar will have an opening reception in the Joan Lukas Rothenberg Gallery on the second floor of Red House on Thursday, March 18 from 5PM – 8PM as part of th3.  The curator and selected artists will give a talk at 7PM the night of the opening reception.  The talk will be reprised in the Galway Arts Centre the following day.

This exhibition takes as its starting point research by Professor Olaf Blanke into out-of-body-experiences. The selected artists have been invited to make a new work for the exhibition. They have been given research texts by the curator, which include Prof. Blanke’s case studies, Foucault’s ‘Of Other Spaces, Heterotopias’ and ‘Alice’s Adventure’s In Wonderland’ by Lewis Carroll.

The artists were selected not because they have explored this territory before: it is because they each show a need to investigate the unknown, to immerse themselves in the unheimlich and reveal fears, myths and truths surrounding their subjects. Each artist works in various media, including performance, video, painting, drawing, collage and sculpture.

{un}familiar features the work of Michelle Browne, Benji de Burca, Cecilia Danell, Vera Klute, Sabina MacMahon, and Julia Pallone.  The opening reception will include a performance of The World Could Wait No Longer by Mark Clare on the Red House stage.  A video of this performance will be shown throughout the remainder of the exhibition.

{un}familiar will be on exhibit in the Joan Lukas Rothenberg Gallery on the second floor of the Red House Arts Center from March 18 until April 12.  The gallery is open by appointment Monday through Friday from 10AM – 5PM.  To make an appointment, contact the Red House at 315-425-0405.

Phantoms by Stephen Stoyanov

The show features artists: Phil Argent, Heather Bennett, Amelie Chabannes, Lieven de Boeck,
Cliff Evans, Dominik Lejman, Marie Maillard, Susanna Starr, Eva Davidova, Blake Carrington
and Trine Lise Nedreaas. The word ‘phantoms’ calls up shadowy intangibles, dusky opacities
shrouding a hovering yet vacated presence; stealing away on a foggy midnight in a muddied
white dressing gown without a trace.
The nine artists’ work presented in this exhibition of the same name, all take issue with
illusive existence and our fear of fading into black. Dominik Lejman’s ghostly projected figures
betray a feverish trajectory toward collective anonymity, his common man struggling against
the pursuant fear of non-existence. The ordinary dissolves us. Trine Lise Nedreaas’ “Testify”,
a literal interview with a vampire, addresses the extremes to which an individual will go to avoid
this trap of the habitual. Trying to pry himself out of the homogeneous blob of society, her subject
creates an alter presence, even a false identity. By physically embodying her characters, Heather
Bennett, also obscures identity. She confuses presences: submitting her own self within a hollow
stereotype, leaving us to look at her apparition through a dark jeweled glass, smoky with society's
prejudice and own residue. Referencing occult photography and primitive identification systems of
the early 20th century, Amelie Chabannes, eviscerates identity.

By propping a clinical, primitive definition of the individual by the state against our own psychological
mind’s eye, she magnifies our bottomless paradox. Ellen Harvey, leaves the ghost of the artist’s
presence in the form of tiny traditional landscapes ‘tagged’ on structures around New York City in a
series called the “New York Beautification Project”. Liven de Boeck delves into the ephemeral nature
of presence, by highlighting the anonymity of the artist in his, similarly fleeting almost drive-by acts of authorship. Maire Maillard’s images themselves quietly run away, melting from recognizable landscapes
into a mist of abstracted bands of subdued color. An imprint of our known reality is left behind, recast.
Phil Argent’s comment on absence, as Maillard’s, is one of a formally focused nature. Somehow he
illuminates a kind of virtual space in his paintings, dialectically creating a ‘space’ borne of absence.
And finally in Cliff Evans' video, disparate shots of an array of motorway overpasses and exchanges
are stitched together in order to create a complex machinic landscape of concrete, smoke and automobiles.
The images hurtle through a dense arterial chaos of constructed time and sibilance, dissolving into a
column of smoke and revealing their destination as circular and contained. So maybe with this exhibition
we are put into the peculiar position of Gogol’s conniving Chichikov, that of having a chance to purchase
a few lost, dead souls. Halloween is not quite over.

       • PHANTOMS exhibit
       • tH3 Gallery Opening Reception THURS FEB18th
       • 5-8PM - 7PM curator's talk
       • refreshments served

          http://www.stephanstoyanovgallery.com/

Cryptopocalypse by DJ Rose

Not to be venerated nor worshiped. The holy blasphemy of devotional art by David "D.J." Rose jr. using sign, symbol, code and cipher to unveil the occulted. Transforming crude material to reflect the signs and wonders of blessed TRUTH between void and universe. 

• tH3 OPENING RECEPTION JAN21st, 2010
• Open from 5-8PM
• Artist talk at 7PM
• free and open to the public. refreshements served.

DJ's BIO: David "D.J." Rose is a tattooist and artist in the folk art tradition. He has no formal art training. His devotion to his craft has driven him deeply into the study of symbolism, as to best manifest his clients desires to transform their lives using crude tools to apply ancient talismans. He co-owns Halo Tattoo in Syracuse New York. He is driven to create and proclaim as is commanded "both for glory and for beauty."

visit the Halo Tattoo myspace page.

How Does Your Garden Grow?  gallery exhibition

Love Me, Loves Me Not - 30" x 40" Oil, Acrylic & spray paint

"Through a combination of techniques utilizing traditional oil, acrylic, spray paint and marker, stories unfold from deep within my own consciousness, each relating to a memory, image or event that haunts and intrigues me.  Painting, for me, is a cathartic process that enables me to draw from many sources from the past and present. The act of painting itself struggles to survive in the ever-changing world of technology and the saturation of media imagery. "

                                                                               - Marianne Smith Dalton

• Gallery viewed by appointment through Januray 2nd, 2010
• Free and Open to the Public - call 425-0405 to make an appointment

Click here to visit Marianne's official site

"Last Wishes" by mudboy

"Last Wishes" is a kinetic, in the dark installation consisting of several light ‘paintings’ by the artist known as mudboy. The kinetic paintings use handmade optical projectors, LED lights and open source 8 bit controller technology to project a constant moving image. mudboy is an installation and sound artist specializing in the production of wonder in dark spaces, magic in lit ones, and meditations on the shape of life. The opening of “Last Wishes” also serves as the introduction to ((audience)), the traveling, international festival of 5.1 surround sound art works curated by Alexis Bhagat and Lauren Rosati. Festival passes will be available for purchase in the box office during the event.

• "Last Wishes"
• Opening Reception September 17, 2009
• 5PM-8PM | ((audience)) fetsival kick-off
• Artist Talk at 7PM
• Free and Open to the Public | refreshments served

• www.mudboymusic.com
• www.freematterfortheblind.com