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SUMMARY:A Light Under the Bushel: Paintings by Julia Bottoms
DESCRIPTION:A Light Under the Bushel: Paintings by Julia Bottoms\nOn View\nJul 14\, 2023 – Oct 29\, 2023\nThe practice of portraiture has historically served to not only represent the subject but to also preserve their spirit in its most honest form. For Buffalo-based visual artist Julia Bottoms\, traditional portraiture is a means to express the nuance and complexities of Black identity beyond limiting\, reductive stereotypes. Thinking through historic periods in which portraits were commissioned for figures of prominence\, Bottoms’ practice interrogates portraiture as a concept of record. The inclusion – or lack thereof – of Black and Brown bodies in classical portraiture has inspired a new series and conceptual direction in her work.  \nA Light Under the Bushel features work from this new series\, building upon the artist’s interest in expanding narratives around representations of Blackness. Black and Brown people certainly existed during times like the Renaissance and Victorian eras when classical portraits were created. However\, their inclusion in such works is rare and highly circumstantial\, their lives rarely deemed important enough to be documented by fine art. Bottoms’ new paintings push against this\, emphasizing that they have always been an important part of history. Inspired by portraits of these eras\, her work fuses the historic with the contemporary through her models’ dress. Her work is reminiscent of the recontextualization of blackness throughout history seen in the work of portrait artist Kehinde Wiley. However\, Bottoms moves in a different direction by employing soft\, gestural brush strokes and posing her models to emulate classical depictions of saints\, Madonna and Child\, warriors\, and other angelic beings\, imbuing her figures with an ethereal presence.  \nBottoms reflects on the allusion to religious iconography as twofold in an artist statement on the series:   \nFirst\, it’s meant to convey the intangible spiritual aspect of each person depicted. Second\, it is a reference to Black and Brown bodies as they relate to the history of Christianity. Growing up religious\, I often felt a disconnect between the Eurocentric imagery in religious art and what I knew to be the factual appearance of people from the regions described in the Bible. People from the Middle East and North Africa are people of color. The shades and features of Biblical characters would have varied\, but the fact that they were of color is undeniable. So it stands to reason that that would be reflected in classical art depictions. However\, that is not the case. This exclusion comes with an implication; The alignment of whiteness with purity/goodness and Blackness with corruption/evil has had far-reaching psychological ramifications for us all. In the case of Biblical depictions\, this is not only a lack of inclusion\, it is erasure.  \nAs I worked on the series\, a particular verse came to mind. In Matthew 5:15-16 Jesus says: “Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand\, and it gives light to everyone in the house. In the same way\, let your light so shine before others\, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.”  \nI kept thinking about all the talents\, all the goodness\, and all the truly great accomplishments\, lost to time because a person’s skin color disqualified them from being recorded. How many lights were placed under a bushel and how deeply has humanity missed out on great minds for it? How many scientists\, poets\, mathematicians\, and philosophers have been lost to institutional bushels? The light we each possess is still subject in part to the roles we are forced into and the circumstances we must endure. But a light is still a light regardless of its location. In covering it\, the light does not cease to be what it is\, rather it is *us* who miss out on its illumination. \nOverall\, this series is meant to spark our imaginations. History cannot be re-written; however\, we can find value in reflecting on what inclusion could have looked like. Additionally\, perhaps this imagery can inspire an excavation of sorts\, in which we search for the accomplishments that have been recorded but ignored or distorted. It is my hope that the work will inspire the contemporary art world and artists going forward. Above all\, I challenge the viewer to value the light of every individual and to never be the bushel that conceals it. \nA Light Under the Bushel: Paintings by Julia Bottoms is made possible through the generosity of our presenting sponsor\, M&T Bank. For his leadership commitment\, we gratefully acknowledge Senator Sean M. Ryan\, with additional thanks to James & Dorothy Pappas and Gary & Willow Brost for their generous support.
URL:https://bornbuffalo.com/event/a-light-under-the-bushel-paintings-by-julia-bottoms/
LOCATION:Burchfield Penney Art Center\, 1300 Elmwood Avenue\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14222\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art Event,Buffalo Event,Family
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SUMMARY:Communities: Trust The Front Yard Film Screening Series
DESCRIPTION:Communities: Trust\nThe Front Yard Film Screening Series \nSep 22\, 2023 – Dec 22\, 2023\nThe Front Yard film screening series features seasonally changing projected media art programs\, highlighting the work of Western New York artists. The inaugural program revolves around the theme of communities: trust\, coinciding with The 2023 Buffalo Humanities Festival. Presentations will begin after dark each night and will run for three months. \nCommunities: Trust\, guest curated by Dorothea Braemer\, Lukia Costello\, and  Meg Knowles\, tackles the topic of community and trust through the lens of the diverse perspectives of 10 regional media artists. Tammy McGovern’sAutostorm presents a notion of community disappeared into the confines of our cars. Kyla Kegler’s Monster Society performatively studies alienation and finding ways to approach community. Her Own Hero by Lukia Costello and the late Tilke Hill tackles the history of women’s self-defense\, and Harlem Nights by Kaitlyn Lowe celebrates the community of radical artists of the Harlem Renaissance in the form of a visual poem.  In Savage Future\, Terry Jones interrogates the American-Indian boarding school experience and in Mrs. Snow\, Annette Daniels-Taylor explores the mindset of a mid-century  African-American domestic worker.  Olurotimi Akanbi’sUrban Transitions draws attention to the contrast between communities in urban and rural landscapes in and around Buffalo\, while Edreys Wajed’s The Sidewalk imagines community from the perspective of a sidewalk on Buffalo’s East Side. Interwoven throughout the program are pieces by Phil Hastings and David Mawer.   Three pieces from Phil Hasting’s poetic fragmentum series metaphorically address community through evocative studies of humans and nature.  Seven playful geometric studies from David Mawer reference landing sequences and the pull of gravity through patterns of undulating dots\, lines and shapes\, sometimes superimposed over maps. \nDorothea Braemer and Meg Knowles are filmmakers and professors in the media production major at Buffalo State University\, and Lukia Costello\, also a filmmaker\, is the founding director of the Spark Filmmaker Collaborative and the Micromania Film Festival. \nCommunities: Trust – Program Order and Credits:\nTammy McGovern  – Autostorm\, 2023   \nKyla Kegler – Monster Society\, 2022 \nDavid Mawer – Lerp Puppet Strings\, No. 1\, 2023 \nPhilip Hastings –  fragmentum 62 (c)\, 2017 \nDavid Mawer – Landing Sequence (for an Interdimensional Fleet)\, No. 3\, 2023 \nLukia Costello and Tilke Hill – Her Own Hero\, 2022 \nDavid Mawer – Algorithm for a Gravity Wave: Dots\, 2023 \nKaitlyn Lowe – Harlem Nights\, 2022 \nPhil Hastings – fragmentum 37 (b)\, 2018 \nDavid Mawer – Landing Sequence (for an Interdimensional Fleet)\, No. 2\, 2023 \nTerry Jones – Savage Future\, 2022 \nAnnette Daniels-Taylor – Mrs. Snow\, 2017\, 2018 \nDavid Mawer – Landing Sequence (for an Interdimensional Fleet)\, No. 1\, 2023 \nOlurotimi Akanbi – Urban Transitions\, 2022 \nDavid Mawer – Algorithm for a Gravity Wave: Grid\, 2023 \nPhil Hastings – fragmentum 43 (b)\, 2019 \nDavid Mawer – Landing Sequence (for an Interdimensional Fleet)\, No. 4\, 2023 \nEdreys Wajed – The Sidewalk\, 2018 \nTRT: 32 mins 48 seconds
URL:https://bornbuffalo.com/event/communities-trust-the-front-yard-film-screening-series/
LOCATION:Burchfield Penney Art Center\, 1300 Elmwood Avenue\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14222\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art Event,Buffalo Event
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SUMMARY:THE LEMON TWIGS W/ JOANNA STERNBERG
DESCRIPTION:The Lemon Twigs w/ Joanna Sternberg make their Buffalo Iron Works debut on Tuesday October 10th\, 2023! \nThe Lemon Twigs \nOn Everything Harmony\, the fourth full-length studio release from New York’s The Lemon Twigs\, the prodigiously talented brothers Brian and Michael D’Addario offer 13 original servings of beauty that showcase an emotional depth and musical sophistication far beyond their years as a band\, let alone as young men. While they eagerly devour musical influences from everything and everywhere\, they have somehow arrived at a cohesive and dynamic sound that speaks to our troubled times. \nHaving bounded onto the music scene with their precocious 2016 debut Do Hollywood\, they threw caution to the wind two years later on their followup Goto School. By the time of their third album\, Songs for the General Public (2020) The Lemon Twigs had begun to pull from a wide range of multigenerational inspirations\, expertly darting from twee chamber pop balladry to full on glam punk\, mixing plaintive singer-songwriter confessionals with an almost Syd Barrett sense of outré pop.In an interview from the time\, they expressed an interest in creating “something really beautiful sounding” based on vocal harmonies and developing their combined melodic sensibilities into a setting where “the sounds were as important as the songs” themselves. \nOn Everything Harmony\, the brothers have fully realized that vision\, with a unified “Lemon Twigs sound” that successfully blends their distinct personalities while giving voice to their diverse and eclectic influences. Opening the album with the unassuming acoustic folk of plaintive “When Winter Comes Around\,” which echoes the sophisticated grandeur of classic Simon & Garfunkel recordings\, they immediately switch things up to the sunny classic pop motif of “In My Head.” From that point on Everything Harmony makes it clear that the Lemon Twigs can’t be pinned down. \nHaving recently worked with friends like Natalie Mering\, with whom they appeared on the latest Weyes Blood album\, they also collaborated with classic rock hero Todd Rundgren on his most recent album\, Space Force. Rundgren\, himself no stranger to eclecticism\, says he can relate to their time-tripping approach to contemporary pop. \n“They started when they were five and six years old\, doing TV and Broadway and things like that\,” says Rundgren. “So\, they have built-in appreciation for music that is of a couple of generations before theirs. I think they were bored by the music of their own generation\, and since you can’t fast forward to the music of the future\, you just start going backwards to music that was made before you were born. I can empathize with that impulse\, because I did that too\, back in the seventies.” \nReleased as the album teaser track\, “Corner of My Eye” channels an Art Garfunkel-like vocal melody over a moody\, vibraphone-tinged backing track suggesting the chamber pop of Brian Wilson. \nEverything Harmony was mostly written and recorded between 2020 and 2021\, when tracking for the album began at a “very chaotic” rehearsal studio in Manhattan. \n“It was one of the noisiest places I’ve ever been\,” says Brian. “We did takes of acoustic guitar in between metal bands rehearsing next door and fire engines roaring down 8th Avenue. After months of sessions there\, where we recorded the basic tracks to ‘Corner Of My Eye’\, ‘In My Head\,’ ‘I Don’t Belong To Me\,’ ‘WhatHappens To A Heart\,’ ‘Ghost Run Free\,’ and ‘New To Me\,’ we decided enough was enough and we looked into studios that had acoustic echo chambers after hearingEast West’s chambers during the recording of Weyes Blood’s latest record.” \nThey finally got out of town\, but instead of ‘doing Hollywood’ again\, they took the tapes to San Francisco’s Hyde Street Studios where they added the album’s omnipresent vibraphone textures\, harpsichord\, French horn\, strings\, and many layers of vocal harmonies. To finish up\, they flew home to their brand new studio in Brooklyn to finish mixing and mastering with the help of Paul Millar of Bug Sound. \nBrian D’Addario notes the influence of two late lamented artists in particular this time; Moondog\, and Arthur Russell whose album Iowa Dream encouraged them to lean into their own melodic tendencies and keep the arrangements delicate. \n“Their arrangements entered my head when we were arranging the strings on the album\,”says Brian\, “and we worked for a long time on our vocal blend. On previous records\, whoever wrote the song might do most\, if not all\, of the harmonies on their track but not so much on this one. Our blend is a strength that we tried to exploit as much as possible.” \nWhile they had no grand concept for EverythingHarmony\, both the D’Addarios felt a “palpable mood of defeat” prevailed while writing and recording it. “New To Me” was inspired by their shared experience with loved ones suffering from Alzheimer’s\, “What You Were Doing” is dressed in the tortured jangle of vintage Big Star\, while “Born To Be Lonely\,” written after watching John Cassavetes’ Opening Night\, deals with what Brian calls “the fragility that often comes with age.” \n“The album cycles through moments of depression and isolation on songs like ‘WhatHappens To A Heart\,’ or ‘Born To Be Lonely’ to episodes of dizzying euphoria in‘Ghost Run Free’ or the title track. There’s very little middle ground. On‘What Happens to A Heart’ we were going for a 70’s Spector vibe\, along the lines of Leonard Cohen’s Death Of A Ladies Man. We tracked it with me on piano\, Daryl Johns on electric bass and Michael and Andres Valbuena both playing drums. I overdubbed a fretless bass. Two pianos\, two organs\, harpsichord\, and celeste. The basic track was done in New York\, and strings and French horn recorded in San Francisco. We got the Friction Quartet to overdub themselves about 8 times to get a more symphonic sound. We also recorded about 8 acoustics and bounced them down to two tracks; we did the same with the electric guitars.” \nEverything Harmony is a unified song cycle born of shared blood and common purpose. With two musical heads being better than one\, there’s no shortage of ideas to draw on. Their only impediments are time and the challenge of keeping up with their own prolific musical inspiration. \n“We share an intuition and tend to be influenced by one another\,” says Brian\, “so the lyrical ideas on this record tend to complement each other. Writing has never been the issue for us. It’s completing\, editing and compiling that takes the time. We’re trapped in a web of songs!” \nBuffalo Iron Works \n49 Illinois St Buffalo\, NY 14203 \nTickets: $20 ADV/$25 DOS \nDoors: 7:00pm \nShow: 8:00pm \nAges: 18+
URL:https://bornbuffalo.com/event/the-lemon-twigs-w-joanna-sternberg/
LOCATION:Buffalo Iron Works\, 49 Illinois St\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14203\, United States
CATEGORIES:Buffalo Event,Live Music
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