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| Sloan Fine Art presents Elizabeth McGrath "The Folly of St. Hubertus" & Jonathan Viner "COMPUTER SCIENCE" Exhibition: March 31 to April 30, 2011 128 Rivington Street, New York, NY 10002 www.sloanfineart.com 212.477.1140 alix@sloanfineart.com With “The Folly of St Hubertus,” Elizabeth McGrath fuses German folklore, contemporary materials and her trademark flair for the dramatic into one spectacular sculpture that touches on all of the recurring themes in her work - protecting and caring for the vulnerable, taking responsibility for how our actions impact the environment and co-existing conscientiously with the creatures of the earth. Born in the seventh century, Hubertus was an avid hunter and woodsman who, while in the forest one Christmas Eve encountered the wondrous image of a splendid albino stag carrying a shining cross between its antlers. Through this vision, Hubertus was moved to transform his life. He laid down his high ranks of office, distributed his wealth among the poor and the church and dedicated his life to honoring the creatures of the forest and protecting animals from needless suffering. Today, Hubertus is the patron saint of hunters and animal protectionists in northern Europe and his devotees honor him by sharing their feasts with townspeople, holding charity fundraising festivals and being responsible for the care of animals on their lands, both domestic and wild. With “The Folly of St Hubertus,” McGrath re-imagines the hunter’s transformative vision in gold leaf and over 60,000 hand-placed Swarovski crystals. The fantasy eight-legged creature, glittering with bands of reflective light and pierced by golden arrows, is simultaneously confrontational and ethereal. He at once entices with glorious beauty and shocks with profound sadness, giving one no choice but consider one’s own relationship with nature, the environment, those less fortunate and those who can not speak for themselves. Self-taught, Elizabeth McGrath has exhibited extensively in galleries
and museums in the US and Europe including the American Visionary Art
Museum and the Bristol City Museum and Gallery. She lives in Downtown
Los Angeles with her husband, the artist Morgan Slade and their hairless
dogs Blue and King Tut. McGrath is currently working on her second solo
exhibition for Sloan Fine Art, scheduled to open in 2012. |
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WPA
2011 Art Auction Exhibition Auction is Saturday, February 19, 2011 from 5-6pm Exhibition runs from February 19th through March 11th . Washington Project for the Arts 2023 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20036 |
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Suggestivism-
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February 12 , 2011 8 pm- 11pm & February 13, 2011; 10:00AM to
3:00PM David Lynch has created a map of Twin Peaks which will be published as a special edition print for the 20th Anniversary. In addition, work by two artists who had acting roles in the series, Grace Zabriskie (Sarah Palmer) and Richard Beymer (Benjamin Horne), will also be shown. |
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Last chance to get your fortune told by "The Man with the Anal
Eyes" The installation project i did with artist Brian Poor will be coming down within the last week of February 2011. Located on the corner of 5th and Main in downtown LA in Bert Green's Project Window Annex. The Man With Anal Eyes presents an animatronics sculpture on the streetscape of our urban environment. This installation will be both visible and interactive from a small window on the Main Street side of the gallery and is accessible 24 hours a day from the street. Bert Green Fine Art, 102 West 5th St., Los Angeles, CA 90013 Brian and I have another interactive piece "the Damn O Meter" currently at the Gold Bug in Old Town Pasadena |
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March 30th 2011, in the Project Room at
Sloan Fine Art Opening Reception: Wednesday, March 30th, 6 to 8 pm
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Coming soon! a T-shirt collaboration with Anna Sui (here's one of the design's she chosen) |
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Inspired
Remnants, Curious Dreams: |
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The
Road he also put together a little film about my old punk bands tour through
the southwest and mexico- check it out here on youtube
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