short notes:
will brady's ruminations
will brady's ruminations
2007-04-22
arts + culture
This morning I took a Red Line canal bus to get me to Central Station. From there is was a short walk to the temporary Stedelijk Museum where I wandered through the current exhibits. These included two main exhibitions Mapping the City and a Paul Chan video installation Lights and Drawings
There was also a display of storybooks done by children during the Soviet Era of Russia, which were quite well drafted. I wondered if I was looking at works actually done by children or was this an elaborate project by a couple of adults who made it appear so.
After leaving the Stedelijk I came across the Horsemove Project, a tiny gallery space that was born froma group of artists squatting, then negotiating with the owner to stay until 2008.
The current exhibit is to pay homage to a graffiti
artist who died young in an accident. That exhibit is closing as the space makes way for a startling new mural to be completetd in time for an opening party this coming Saturday, in time for the Queen's Birthday Bash.
People in Amsterdam who will be able to view the new work [either Queen's Day or afterwards] might want to stop by that way and see it.
This would be especially so for those coming to look in wonder at the works about noted, and the movers + shakers making an exit from the Stedelijk's 11th storey bar, would do themsleves well to stop over to Horsemove Project's exhibits. They may well be getting a peek at the next generation of artists who shall, themselved. grace the walls of the New Stedelijk when it re-opens in 2009.
I have included more images of the exhibit in Horsemove at my other space
This morning I took a Red Line canal bus to get me to Central Station. From there is was a short walk to the temporary Stedelijk Museum where I wandered through the current exhibits. These included two main exhibitions Mapping the City and a Paul Chan video installation Lights and DrawingsThere was also a display of storybooks done by children during the Soviet Era of Russia, which were quite well drafted. I wondered if I was looking at works actually done by children or was this an elaborate project by a couple of adults who made it appear so.
After leaving the Stedelijk I came across the Horsemove Project, a tiny gallery space that was born froma group of artists squatting, then negotiating with the owner to stay until 2008.
The current exhibit is to pay homage to a graffiti
artist who died young in an accident. That exhibit is closing as the space makes way for a startling new mural to be completetd in time for an opening party this coming Saturday, in time for the Queen's Birthday Bash.People in Amsterdam who will be able to view the new work [either Queen's Day or afterwards] might want to stop by that way and see it.
This would be especially so for those coming to look in wonder at the works about noted, and the movers + shakers making an exit from the Stedelijk's 11th storey bar, would do themsleves well to stop over to Horsemove Project's exhibits. They may well be getting a peek at the next generation of artists who shall, themselved. grace the walls of the New Stedelijk when it re-opens in 2009.
I have included more images of the exhibit in Horsemove at my other space
Labels: amsterdam, artists, emerging artists, Horsemove, Mushkone, Stedelijk
¶ 15:40 1 comments
2007-01-21
art show in hartford, ct
I was invited to exhibit some of my work at an agency in Hartford, CT. So, since Thursday morning, there have been probably 60 photos and 15 additional works on display in the entry lobby area to the Connecticut Department of Mental Health + Addiction Services, 410 Capitol Avenue, 4th floor.
The hours are weekdays 9:00 am to 4:30 pm. Parking is difficult but you can use public parking behind 410 Capitol Avenue. Or you can make a day of it, park at the Legislative Office Building [two blocks east] and tour the LOB and the State Capitol as well.
The show doesn't include any controversial pieces. There are works, for instance, that I have completed that might be misconstrued if placed in an agency whose mandate is to provide services to people with psychiatric disorders and or problems with addictions. Given my own working role in that same service system, I wouldn't want to display works there that would, even if only momentarily, be inaccurately interpreted as pandering to prejudices the citizenry at large have about mental illness, for instance.
Anyway, what you have here are two of the black and white photos on display at the space. Readers and visitors to this site may have already seen some of the works I have on display in this show. Other works are yet to be put up here, so I'll make up for this in the days to come.
And for those who have the chance to, by all means, stop by and see the show. Comments and feedback, once you've seen it, are welcome and you can write me at my e-mail addy if you've gone and seen the presentation. One final note, the large blue circular work in the center of the hall is not mine. That is the official seal of the Department.
You can find more work at my Rondacker LiveJournal Page
One of the works in the show. below are two more
I was invited to exhibit some of my work at an agency in Hartford, CT. So, since Thursday morning, there have been probably 60 photos and 15 additional works on display in the entry lobby area to the Connecticut Department of Mental Health + Addiction Services, 410 Capitol Avenue, 4th floor.The hours are weekdays 9:00 am to 4:30 pm. Parking is difficult but you can use public parking behind 410 Capitol Avenue. Or you can make a day of it, park at the Legislative Office Building [two blocks east] and tour the LOB and the State Capitol as well.
The show doesn't include any controversial pieces. There are works, for instance, that I have completed that might be misconstrued if placed in an agency whose mandate is to provide services to people with psychiatric disorders and or problems with addictions. Given my own working role in that same service system, I wouldn't want to display works there that would, even if only momentarily, be inaccurately interpreted as pandering to prejudices the citizenry at large have about mental illness, for instance.
Anyway, what you have here are two of the black and white photos on display at the space. Readers and visitors to this site may have already seen some of the works I have on display in this show. Other works are yet to be put up here, so I'll make up for this in the days to come.And for those who have the chance to, by all means, stop by and see the show. Comments and feedback, once you've seen it, are welcome and you can write me at my e-mail addy if you've gone and seen the presentation. One final note, the large blue circular work in the center of the hall is not mine. That is the official seal of the Department.
You can find more work at my Rondacker LiveJournal Page
Labels: collage, DMHAS, emerging artists, watercolors, will brady
¶ 14:37 0 comments
2006-04-18
poem
The river transported us
through a dramatic ravine.
We'd hoped to be rejuvenated by the waters
but ended up soaked,
cold and losing all our food.
You came down witha fever
the next day.
and we were alone.
no power.
no conversation.
remote from love.
I watched you change your clothes with cynicism.
One of your breasts was smaller than the other
and you had told me it would be a perfect
weekend
for canoeing.
Later,
you caught our dinner with a net
salvaged from an abandoned chack
down by a flow along the river.
It was a rainbow trout.
We cooked it over an open fire.
Our stomachs, drunk with ecstacy,
Thanked us for remembering that they, too,
had come along for the trip.
The river transported us
through a dramatic ravine.
We'd hoped to be rejuvenated by the waters
but ended up soaked,
cold and losing all our food.
You came down witha fever
the next day.
and we were alone.
no power.
no conversation.
remote from love.
I watched you change your clothes with cynicism.
One of your breasts was smaller than the other
and you had told me it would be a perfect
weekend
for canoeing.
Later,
you caught our dinner with a net
salvaged from an abandoned chack
down by a flow along the river.
It was a rainbow trout.
We cooked it over an open fire.
Our stomachs, drunk with ecstacy,
Thanked us for remembering that they, too,
had come along for the trip.
Wilmington, NY
Labels: emerging artists, poetry, will brady
¶ 09:37 0 comments
2006-03-30
visual art
For more samples of my work see my image gallery.
Night Grazing
For more samples of my work see my image gallery.
Labels: emerging artists, nature, will brady
¶ 08:26 1 comments
2006-03-14
reproductive rights
Michalia Reid writes The Boiling Point a carton weblog that discusses everything from the the Sperm Sufferage rights mobement to Queer Cowboys and the importance of teaching intolerance.
I think I love her stuff and plan on adding her to my blogroll.
Michalia Reid writes The Boiling Point a carton weblog that discusses everything from the the Sperm Sufferage rights mobement to Queer Cowboys and the importance of teaching intolerance.I think I love her stuff and plan on adding her to my blogroll.
FIRST SEEN AT: AlterNet |
Labels: emerging artists, humor, social comment
¶ 10:37 1 comments
