BESTIARY: Show and Fund Raiser
Curated by Sally Morgan Lehman, Liz Parks, and Sally Zunino
June 27 - July 25, Thursday - Sunday 12pm - 6pm
Ticketed Preview: Saturday, June 26, 4pm - 8pm, @ Maxon Mills
Art / DJ Scott Anderson / Food by Serevan Restaurant / Drink / Raffle
Buy your tickets online HERE!
To pay by check, please print the RSVP form (downloadable HERE) and make checks payable to our wonderful 501c3 sponsor "The Solo Foundation". Checks can be mailed to: The Wassaic Project / P.O. Box 220 / Wassaic, NY 12592
Ticket Prices:
Farmer (Artists / Students): $25
Donor Duck: $50
Generous Goat: $100
Honorable Horse: $500
The Barnyard: $1000
The Farm: $5000
BESTIARY
June 27 - July 25, Thursday - Sunday, 12pm - 6pm
Maxon Mills, 37 Furnace Bank Rd, Wassaic NY
In response to their ambitious, fauna focused show in 2009, "Outside In", Sally, Sally, and Liz are taking on Maxon Mills again to bring us the animal themed "Bestiary". Come join us on Saturday, June 26, to preview this fantastic show, eat food generously donated by Serevan Restaurant, and have a cocktail relaxing to the sounds of DJ Scott Anderson.
Artists Include:
Jeff Barnett-Winsby, Jonathan Bee, Hannes Bend, Jennifer Catron, Emilie Clark, Carl D'Alvia, Walton Ford, Alexander Gorlizki, Sarah Hardesty, Laurie Hogin, Philip Knoll, Rob Macinnis, Greg Murr, Ruby Palmer, Robert Andrew Parker, Jon Rappleye, John Salvest, Joseph Smolinski, Michael Waugh
Benefit Committee:
Christine Armstrong & Ben Nickoll, Jeff Bailey, Flora Biddle, Diana Burroughs, Lucy Commoner, Maxwell Davidson IV, Richard Frankel & Kathleen Clark, Jay Grimm, Helen & Peter Haje, Deborah Herschel, Eliza Hicks, Stephen & Bindy Kaye, Emily-Jane Kirwan, Chuck & Jane Klein, Bridget Potter, Jay Lehman, Randy Lehrer & Harry Moses, Joan & Bob McGuire, John Rockwell & Linda Mavorack, Sara Jo Romero, Lisa Schroeder, James Sherry & Deborah Thomas, Stacy & Giles Van Praagh, Michael Ward & Bruce Whipple.
Raffle Items include:
Gift bag from Tuthilltown Distillery
Painting by Jim Meyer
2 Tickets to Stomp in NYC
Gift Certificate to Hunter Bee in Millerton, NY
Chelsea Gallery tour by Sally Morgan Lehman and Liz Parks
Sponsored by:
PRESS RELEASE:
BESTIARY
A foolish dog
bark at the flying bird.
- Bob Marley, "Jah Live," 1975
The Wassaic Project is pleased to announce Bestiary, an exhibition in various media, curated by Sally Morgan Lehman, Liz Parks and Sally Zunino.
Animals, as the subject of numerous works of art, literature and music, have often acted as allegorical stand-ins to their human counterparts - especially to parlay a moral or political message that might prove otherwise incendiary, or, perhaps conversely, obvious. The Middle Ages' literary manifestation of this transference was the Bestiary, a collection of moralized fables about both real and fictional animals. In such treatises, the physical or imagined mental characteristics of beasts were ascribed certain human traits or values. For example, Bartholomaeus Anglicus' 13th century Bestiary De proprietatibus rerum, describes an aging donkey: "For the elder the ass is, the fouler he waxeth from day to day, and hairy and rough, and is a melancholy beast, that is cold and dry, and is therefore kindly heavy and slow, and unlusty, dull and witless and forgetful."
This exhibition offers a modern take on the medieval Bestiary, with works by 20 contemporary artists in whose work animals play a salient role. The animals are ascribed certain characteristics specific to contemporary times. As an example, the owl, a bird historically linked to Christ, figures prominently into the work of John Rappleye. In Rappleye's work, stars have replaced the eyes of the owl. Could this be a symbol of omniscience, or perhaps the religious rapture sought by so many in today's world? Likewise, Michael Waugh's drawings utilize an ancient form of Hebrew calligraphy called micrography, wherein the lines creating the subject matter are actually small written words; here, Waugh has transcribed Part I of Ronald Reagan's HIV Commission - a report documenting the HIV epidemic after Reagan had largely ignored its presence and vilified those who suffered from it - into the forms of three dogs. Perhaps the notion of the dog being always faithful (semper fidelis) to its master is being tested, as the recommendations made in the report were quite progressive, and went against most of Reagan's beliefs. The visual menagerie created by these works, as well as the others included in the exhibition, acts as a mirror to the society in which we currently live.
Laurie Hogin
The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (Diorama with Rozerem and Black Alligators)
Michael Waugh
The HIV Commission, part 1
Rob Macinnis
Opening Night
Curated by Sally Morgan Lehman, Liz Parks, and Sally Zunino
June 27 - July 25, Thursday - Sunday 12pm - 6pm
Ticketed Preview: Saturday, June 26, 4pm - 8pm, @ Maxon Mills
Art / DJ Scott Anderson / Food by Serevan Restaurant / Drink / Raffle
Buy your tickets online HERE!
To pay by check, please print the RSVP form (downloadable HERE) and make checks payable to our wonderful 501c3 sponsor "The Solo Foundation". Checks can be mailed to: The Wassaic Project / P.O. Box 220 / Wassaic, NY 12592
Ticket Prices:
Farmer (Artists / Students): $25
Donor Duck: $50
Generous Goat: $100
Honorable Horse: $500
The Barnyard: $1000
The Farm: $5000
BESTIARY
June 27 - July 25, Thursday - Sunday, 12pm - 6pm
Maxon Mills, 37 Furnace Bank Rd, Wassaic NY
In response to their ambitious, fauna focused show in 2009, "Outside In", Sally, Sally, and Liz are taking on Maxon Mills again to bring us the animal themed "Bestiary". Come join us on Saturday, June 26, to preview this fantastic show, eat food generously donated by Serevan Restaurant, and have a cocktail relaxing to the sounds of DJ Scott Anderson.
Artists Include:
Jeff Barnett-Winsby, Jonathan Bee, Hannes Bend, Jennifer Catron, Emilie Clark, Carl D'Alvia, Walton Ford, Alexander Gorlizki, Sarah Hardesty, Laurie Hogin, Philip Knoll, Rob Macinnis, Greg Murr, Ruby Palmer, Robert Andrew Parker, Jon Rappleye, John Salvest, Joseph Smolinski, Michael Waugh
Benefit Committee:
Christine Armstrong & Ben Nickoll, Jeff Bailey, Flora Biddle, Diana Burroughs, Lucy Commoner, Maxwell Davidson IV, Richard Frankel & Kathleen Clark, Jay Grimm, Helen & Peter Haje, Deborah Herschel, Eliza Hicks, Stephen & Bindy Kaye, Emily-Jane Kirwan, Chuck & Jane Klein, Bridget Potter, Jay Lehman, Randy Lehrer & Harry Moses, Joan & Bob McGuire, John Rockwell & Linda Mavorack, Sara Jo Romero, Lisa Schroeder, James Sherry & Deborah Thomas, Stacy & Giles Van Praagh, Michael Ward & Bruce Whipple.
Raffle Items include:
Gift bag from Tuthilltown Distillery
Painting by Jim Meyer
2 Tickets to Stomp in NYC
Gift Certificate to Hunter Bee in Millerton, NY
Chelsea Gallery tour by Sally Morgan Lehman and Liz Parks
Sponsored by:
PRESS RELEASE:
BESTIARY
A foolish dog
bark at the flying bird.
- Bob Marley, "Jah Live," 1975
The Wassaic Project is pleased to announce Bestiary, an exhibition in various media, curated by Sally Morgan Lehman, Liz Parks and Sally Zunino.
Animals, as the subject of numerous works of art, literature and music, have often acted as allegorical stand-ins to their human counterparts - especially to parlay a moral or political message that might prove otherwise incendiary, or, perhaps conversely, obvious. The Middle Ages' literary manifestation of this transference was the Bestiary, a collection of moralized fables about both real and fictional animals. In such treatises, the physical or imagined mental characteristics of beasts were ascribed certain human traits or values. For example, Bartholomaeus Anglicus' 13th century Bestiary De proprietatibus rerum, describes an aging donkey: "For the elder the ass is, the fouler he waxeth from day to day, and hairy and rough, and is a melancholy beast, that is cold and dry, and is therefore kindly heavy and slow, and unlusty, dull and witless and forgetful."
This exhibition offers a modern take on the medieval Bestiary, with works by 20 contemporary artists in whose work animals play a salient role. The animals are ascribed certain characteristics specific to contemporary times. As an example, the owl, a bird historically linked to Christ, figures prominently into the work of John Rappleye. In Rappleye's work, stars have replaced the eyes of the owl. Could this be a symbol of omniscience, or perhaps the religious rapture sought by so many in today's world? Likewise, Michael Waugh's drawings utilize an ancient form of Hebrew calligraphy called micrography, wherein the lines creating the subject matter are actually small written words; here, Waugh has transcribed Part I of Ronald Reagan's HIV Commission - a report documenting the HIV epidemic after Reagan had largely ignored its presence and vilified those who suffered from it - into the forms of three dogs. Perhaps the notion of the dog being always faithful (semper fidelis) to its master is being tested, as the recommendations made in the report were quite progressive, and went against most of Reagan's beliefs. The visual menagerie created by these works, as well as the others included in the exhibition, acts as a mirror to the society in which we currently live.
Laurie Hogin
The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (Diorama with Rozerem and Black Alligators)
Michael Waugh
The HIV Commission, part 1
Rob Macinnis
Opening Night