12-03-09: Art Show.

Do it.

3rd Annual Monster Mash-Up.

Artists: .chicken bone., Christina Nitche, Chandra Baker, Jennifer Cichello, Hanlon Photography, Tom DeBlase, GON, PRVRT, Nikki Graziano, e moore, Kellie Cox, Fairy Magik, Shawn Hooper, Michael Rivera, Matt Calabrese, Adam Hanlon, & Chris Platt.

Wine & Champagne Tastings: Ryan Evans
Chocolate Tastings: Hedonist Artisan Chocolates.

Full Photobooth: Lukasaurus
Visuals: The NGB.

ONE Restaurant & Lounge
1 Ryan Alley (down the alley alongside Pearl / Anchor Bar)
Rochester, NY 14607

Doors open at 6:00PM with an enchanting art gallery reception and assorted tastings. Party goes until 2:00AM with an afterparty to follow. Ask Around.

21+, proper government-issued ID required without exception.

$10 presale tickets available for a LIMITED time and in limited quantity. MUCH MORE AT THE DOOR. Ticket prices will also increase leading up to the event!

Unholy Three

The Unholy Three
.Chicken Bone.
Steve Dorobiala
Allie Hartley

Opening Reception
10/27, 6-9 p.m.
Muddy Waters
752 S. Goodman St.
Rochester, NY
Show runs 10/27 - 11/22

New prints for sale.

"Just Enough to Turn Over the Deed"

[16 x 20: $20+s/h]

[11 x 14: $15+s/h]

[8 x 10: $10+s/h]

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"Take This Waltz"

[16 x 20: $20+s/h]

[11 x 14: $15+s/h]

[8 x 10: $10+s/h]

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"Reno Dakota"

[16 x 20: $20+s/h]

[11 x 14: $15+s/h]

[8 x 10: $10+s/h]

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"Dreams of Truckasaurus"

[16 x 20: $20+s/h]

[11 x 14: $15+s/h]

[8 x 10: $10+s/h]

Upcoming Show: 10/08/09.

$3.00 presale tickets, $5.00 at the door.
Add $3.00 more if you are under 21. Ticket outlets below.

Live art, gallery art, wine & champagne tastings, and of course live DJ sets.

Doors at 6PM. Goes until 3.

Featuring...
EASE & The NYAC DJ Crew performing a RocRaida tribute
OXFORD COLLECTIVE
AUDIOWRIGHT
PARALLAX (Minneapolis)

Wine & Champagne tastings by Ryan Evans.
Art gallery with Rheytchul .chicken bone. & Antonio Aresco.
Live mural art by Gon & PRVRT.

"WERD PLAY" @ 6:00PM, hosted by Act:Live. Open to all emcees.
Contact dublandunderground@gmail.com for sign-ups.
Recorded by Elektrobank.

Ticket Outlets: $3 Presale!

All performers
Thread
Dub Land Underground
Krudco
Skyehigh

Artist Row: 09-20-09.

From http://www.marketfriends.org/artistrow.html...

5th Annual Artist Row

SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 20

10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

ROCHESTER PUBLIC MARKET

Artist Row is a project presented and promoted by the Friends of the Rochester Public Market with support from the City of Rochester. The juried show has enjoyed generous support from corporate sponsors, such as Preferred Care, Canandaigua National Bank, as well as support from many local small businesses. The annual event showcases live performances by local and regional musicians, dancers and singers. The event also features booths from local community organizations.

It is FREE to the public.

Artist Row Public Market Art Fair began in 2005, with over 5000 people attending an exhibit that featured 68 local and regional artists. It has grown each year, attracting larger crowds and over 160 local and regional artists and artisans.

For more information about Artist Row 2009, to volunteer to assist in planning or to contribute and sponsor Artist Row 2009, contact the Friends of the Public Market at: mailto:marketfriends@rochester.rr.com

Interview with Act:Live, 11-08.

ACT:LIVE ON ART:
Introducing .chickenbone.
werd: james niche

ACT:LIVE: My first question is did you go to school for art and have you always lived in Rochester?

I’ve moved about, but lived in Brooklyn while going to school. I went to Pratt, but I don’t like to credit school with my talent. Out of all the schools I’ve been to, MCC has the best art program. I have one high school teacher who will always be solely responsible for my interest in art and pushing me in the right direction.

ACT:LIVE: How do you view your art? I mean, what’s the vibe you send out?

I think I have a sense of humor that other people may not see or don’t know how to react to. I think that comes through with the titles.

ACT:LIVE: You paint a lot of face portraits, are these models in front of you while you paint?

I paint from a lot of photographs. I have a lot of these old journals and magazines and they have the greatest photographs of people. I use those for a basis, and then turn it into whatever it ends up as.

ACT:LIVE: What drove you to portraits?

I’ve always been drawn to people; even as a kid I would do portraits of Garth Brooks and New Kids On The Block. It’s hilarious to look at now.

ACT:LIVE: How long have you been involved in the Rochester art community, and what has your involvement been?

Last year I kind of decided to use it or lose it, if you know what I mean.

ACT:LIVE: Meaning, get involved or stop doing it?

Yeah, I never really showed my art before.

ACT:LIVE: Have you found many opportunities to get your work out there?

Yeah, especially working with Pat (Gaffney), he helped me out a lot and gave me my first big push. He threw the ‘Sunglasses Only’ party at Tilt and that got me back into it.

ACT:LIVE: So you won the award for best painter at Artist’s Row, tell me more about that.

This group of people came into my tent and began scrutinizing and asking what everything was, so at that point I thought I was in trouble because of my tent size. I didn’t know if they were asking me all these questions because I am a painter and I had prints…I just thought I was in trouble. So, then they left. Then, they came back and told me I was best in show for painting!

ACT:LIVE: Is there any sort of support that comes along with winning the award or is it just a pat on the back?

Honestly, I’m not really sure. I was just really interested to find out that my demographic is broader than I had imagined. People that I would have never guessed to be interested in my art were approaching me all day. It’s much nicer when a total stranger compliments your work than someone who may feel obligated.

ACT:LIVE: I have had many people tell me that the artists in this town desperately need more resources to help get their art sold and into the hands of the marketplace…what are your feelings on what can be done about that and is that important to you?

Well, selling things and making money is all well and good, but if you’re not doing it if you have to do it, then you shouldn’t be doing it. I love all these alternative art spaces we have like Lux, Bug Jar, salons and Laundromats that want to hang our work. I mean, that’s great, but we also have places like Rochester Contemporary, too. I can’t tell you the last time they had a big solo show for a Rochester artist. I say represent the people that are here in Rochester, the people who are really working. I just think Rochester Contemporary could do a lot more to represent.

ACT:LIVE: What are some of your other favorite art venues…and what is this place, Café Vas?

Café Vas is a cool little place over on Merchants, Mike Hanlon from Hanlon Photographic and Beth Sumner were both showing some work there. It’s a fun little coffee shop in the Merchants neighborhood. The Potential Life Gallery is a really awesome space, too. They have been bringing in a lot of fantastic art and music. Every Sunday they do like, a noise music jam night. It’s really cool.

ACT:LIVE: So, where is your next showing?

December 5th, The High Falls Gallery. They’re doing a show called ‘Portraits: Our City, Our People’. I actually met Sally Winslow, the lady who runs The High Falls Gallery at Artists Row and she invited me into the show, so, big thumbs up to Artists Row, all the way around.

Auxillary Magazine, February 2009.

Potential Life Studios
by Kaci Smith

You will not find generic landscape paintings at Potential Life Studios. This avant-garde arts space is Rochester, New York’s answer to its lack of places to exhibit and view experimental art and music. When Jeremy Dziedic and Colleen Guthrie returned to Rochester in July 2007, they brought with them Potential Life Studios, a solution to what they saw as an absence in the Rochester arts scene.

While other galleries in Rochester tend to cater to hobbyists or non-local artists, Potential Life Studio’s mission is to showcase local alternative and experimental artists. Rochester, like many medium-sized cities in the United States, is not lacking in creative people, but instead is lacking galleries that highlight off-beat and non-traditional art. The name of the gallery was adopted from the moniker Jeremy’s father used while screen printing band shirts in the 1980s. For those looking for something that runs against the grain, something that is less cookie-cutter and more raw, Potential Life Studios is the place to go.

Potential Life Studios is tucked away at 34 Elton Street. Unlike most galleries in the area, Potential Life Studios caters to the extraordinary artist. This studio is at the cutting-edge of the art scene and brings out some of the best of what the area has to offer. Most of the shows revolve around a particular theme, whether it be a sequential arts comic book show or photographs that incorporate origami elephants. Currently, the showing of “reMIXED Media” features the work of Chicken Bone, Kurt Ketchum, R. Scott Oliver, and Jeremy Dziedic. Many of the pieces are hung in antique frames, giving the gallery a more nostalgic feel. The gallery itself has a very DIY pathos and ethic. Each piece on display maintains a high level of quality and craftsmanship. The studio’s layout encourages people to interact and experience the artwork in a communal setting with many comfortable chairs and has music playing at all times. Such a design encourages the viewers to stay for a while and chat, rather than just look and leave. There is also an abundance of merchandise for sale, including t-shirts and smaller prints from local artists.

Potential Life Studios operates for the love of art, not for the paycheck. Other galleries in the area tend to capitalize on artists who are eager to display their artwork. Many galleries, regardless of location, will charge artists a hanging fee to use their space and are often not very selective in the quality of work that is exhibited. A typical trend in the art scene celebrates names rather than talent. This tends to lead to mediocre, run-of-the-mill scene galleries. This is the antithesis of Potential Life Studios. Funding for the gallery comes from donation, as well as the pockets of Jeremy and Colleen. An attitude found in some medium to smaller sized cities is that their city is devoid of a notable art scene. This apathy needs to stop and people need to start attending events. Art enthusiasts need support their community with attendance and patronage to keep places like Potential Life Studios alive and multiplying.

The experimental noise and music scene is fairly large in Rochester, but one wouldn’t know it if they opened any of the weekly events papers. Potential Life Studios not only provides a venue for local alternative and experimental artist but also encourages musicians to collaborate in their weekly event Output: Noise. Every Sunday, musicians can come into the gallery and collaborate and experiment with music in a different way than just in their normal practice. This collaboration is then recorded and released monthly on a compilation. Listeners can subscribe to the compilation at $50 for six months. Every cent of sale goes towards keeping the studio open and bringing in new music. This multi-faceted venue is not unlike spaces you would find in major cities around the world. The collaborative and innovative music coming out of Potential Life Studios is similar to artist collective, The Kitchen, that was founded in the 70s. the Kitchen helped launch the careers of John Cage and Philip Glass. This is the only place in town where you can hear classically a trained saxophonist freestyle over the sounds of a sampler that someone drilled into a suitcase. This is the audiophile’s dream for listening to live music. The acoustics in the building create a resonance that adds to the experience. Along with local musicians, Potential Life Studios has also featured national acts such as Sunburned Hand of the Man, CJ Boyd, and Tom Carter from Charalambides.

Flying below the radar, for now, Potential Life Studios is Rochester’s best kept secret. As a Rochester native, I have always been saddened when innovative and exciting places have closed down (Analog Shock, A/V Space, and The Night Gallery), so it was inspiring to meet Jeremy and Colleen. Since graduating from art school in 2006, I had been trying to find a place that could fill the niche I was craving. Potential Life Studios is that place. If you’re in the area, I encourage you to check out one of their upcoming events and see for yourself. www.potentiallifestudios.com

from the February Issue of Auxiliary Magazine