Phantoms by Stephen Stoyanov

The show features artists: Phil Argent, Heather Bennett, Amelie Chabannes, Lieven de Boeck,
Cliff Evans, Dominik Lejman, Marie Maillard, 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