A new media installation by Tom Holt and Brian Milbrand
On View: May 6, 2010 – May 29, 2010
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 6, 2010 6-8:30pm
The Carnegie Art Center is pleased present "2112 (how it all ended)" new works by long time collaborators Tom Holt and Brian Milbrand. The artists collaborate to investigate visions of the future in their new multimedia installation “2112”. This exhibit probes into both rational, and absurd irrational fears of how the world will end. The shows features fragments of the future, glimpses of the variety of ways humans will disintegrate. Earthquakes, rising sea levels, aliens, black holes, nuclear winter, and mutant animals are among the many possible outcomes that will lead to our demise.
The works feature a variety of styles including animations, hand processed films, paintings, sculptures and videos. “Zombie Jesus” is an animation of the rapturous effects the reanimating can have on the devout. “Collapsed” is a sculptural canvas depicting a galaxy encountering a powerful black hole. “The Endings”, featuring Ron Ehmke, is a chaotic video featuring multiple incarnations of Ehmke and Milbrand contending with an onslaught of apocalyptic scenarios.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a limited edition hardcover book for sale containing an archival DVD of the movies from the exhibition and more.
Scan Lines
On View: April 10, 2010 – May 15, 2010
Opening Screening at Hallwalls: Friday, April 9, 2010 8pm
Scan Lines is a screening and exhibition of feminist video exploring female interiority in public and private spaces. Hallwalls hosts the opening screening (April 9th @ 8.p.m.) of this exhibition that plays on TV sets at the Carnegie Art Center (North Tonawanda, NY). April 10th - May 15th, 2010. Works by Shannon Plumb, Kate Gilmore, Eileen Maxson, Heather Kueng, Miranda July and more. Curated by Stella Marrs.
During the Carnegie exhibition, there will be a special screening
and media making workshop open to high school girls.
Friday night, April 16, 4:30pm–6:30pm, Special presentation for high school girls.
Saturday, April 17, 10am-2pm. A workshop of writing and strategy for girls to make media.
Saturday, May 8, 7:30pm. A showing of media made from this project.
If you are interested in this program and would like to know more, please email stella (at) stellamarrs.com with your questions and RSVP.
Stella Marrs is an interdisciplinary artist who has worked at the intersections of feminism and environmental issues for over 20 years. Her art projects and cultural production have taken the form of performance, community organization, commercial art, media and the fine arts. She has worked with organizations including Washington Toxics Coalition, Glasgow Woman’s Library and Artist Trust (Washington State). She has presented her work and lectured at venues including MIT, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Texas, Austin and California College of the Arts. Her work has been featured or written about in Bust, Venus, Time Out NY, Punk Planet, and L.A. Weekly among others.
In 2009, she received her MFA in Visual Studies at the University at Buffalo. She has just completed a new video during her Squeaky Wheel’s Local Artist Access Residency Grant. She is currently honoring the memory of the east side activist Rosa Gibson with her installation in a group show “Precious Cargo” at the University at Buffalo. Stella is committed to developing works and creating new spaces that expand her tactical activist background, and using a variety of artistic strategies including new media art and video, to communicate social, economic and political concerns that reflect the subjective experience.
Special Events
Graphic Assault! Queen City Roller Girls
Saturday, May 22, 2010: Opening & After-Bout Party 3pm-Midnight
The talented agressions of The Queen City Roller Girls, and their accomplices, will be on display in a vivid retrospective of design, illustration, photography, and video.
May 22, 2010 Activities Schedule:
Preview: 3pm – 6pm
Parade of the Cup: 5:45pm (along Goundry Street from the Carnegie Art Center to Rainbow Rink)
Championship Roller Derby Bout: 6 – 10pm at Rainbow Rink More Info
After-Bout Party: 10pm – Midnight @ Carnegie Art Center
The exhibition will be on view May 22 – May 29, 2010
Sweet Chair-ity Benefit
Thursday, June 10, 2010 6-8pm
Auction of Carnegie Art Center chairs painted by North Tonawanda High School art students
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE 2010 ARTS NIAGARA DEC GRANT WINNERS!
AN AWARDS CEREMONY WILL TAKE PLACE FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 2010 from 3-5pm TO HONOR THE FOLLOWING GROUPS THAT RECEIVED 2010 GRANTS!
Friends of the Lewiston Library, Lewiston, NY
Friends of the Lockport Library, Lockport, NY
Greater Niagara Ballet Company, Niagara Falls, NY
Herschelle Carrousel Factory Museum, North Tonawanda, NY
Lewiston Council on the Arts, Lewiston, NY
Lockport Chorale, Lockport, NY
Main Street Business and Professionals Assoc., Niagara Falls, NY
Market Street Art Center, Lockport, NY
Mental Health Association of Niagara County, Lockport, NY
Middleport Community Choir, Middleport, NY
McClew Interpretive Center, Burt, NY
Opportunities Unlimited of Niagara, Niagara Falls, NY
People and Possibilites, Niagara Falls, NY
Retired Mens Service Club Chorus, Lewiston, NY
Rivershore, Lewiston, NY
Theatre in the Mist, Lewiston, NY
Theatre in the Mist, Lewiston, NY
Tonawandas Gateway Harbor Inc, North Tonawanda, NY
Town of Porter Historical Society, Youngstown, NY
Village of Youngstown, Youngstown, NY
