ALLEGRO UTOPIA ! Allegro School of Music ! M - F 12:00–8:00 pm Tu 12:00–8:00 Sa 10:00 am – 5:00 pm Su11:00 am – 3:00 pm ! 4641 N 1st Ave #5, Tucson ! 85718
Music is an important element of my practice. I like to
choose a certain song on iTunes, then hit shuffle. For this exhibit, I often chose Antony and
the Johnsons song, Another World,
which conveys a desperate love for the world, confounded by the knowledge that
it and we are ephemeral. The guiding principle for ALLEGRO UTOPIA is to
discover ANOTHER WORLD and make A LITTLE PEACE.
In contrast to a world where we hurt nature, each other, and ourselves,
ALLEGRO UTOPIA is a lively and bright world of clouds, rainbows, and
waterfalls.
The word utopia was borrowed from Greek by Sir Thomas
More for his 1516 book Utopia. Utopia
means "no place." The English homophone eutopia means "good
place." THE ROAD TO NOPLACE begins
and ends within us. Though we do harm,
we do love. We are kind. We desire connection and celebration. Let’s go to a
CLOUD PARTY AT THE RAINBOW. Let’s KEEP DANCING.
Reading, research, and visual arts are integral to my
process as well. They are my escape from making, but my inspiration to get back
to paintbrushes or sculpting tools. I had the opportunity to visit California
in the midst of production. At the LACMA, I saw Chris Burden's utopia,
Metropolis II, and Hans Richter: Encounters. Richter was involved w/ the
utopian groups Die Brƒcke (The
Bridge) and Der Blaue Reiter (The
Blue Rider). I brought home a copy of Timothy Benson’s Expressionist Utopias.
The guiding principle behind many utopian movements is
the desire to make a better community, which creates the purity of a Garden of
Eden or the complexity of an architectural fantasy. For the Glashaus utopians,
a CRYSTAL CATHEDRAL is the center of their architectural ideal.
My cathedral is the rainbow, a WATERHOUSE. My utopia is a
community of works.
In Plato’s Symposium,
Sophocles posits that to love is to desire love. The minimalism of Sophocles’ notion of
love leaves room for interpretation and conversation. The figures and images in
ALLEGRO UTOPIA explore Sophocles’ position, and its opposite, to love without expectation.
KEEP DANCING +V
Gift sets, solos, stocking stuffers and a triptych available for
holiday pricing from $75 - $250 with free shipping in the US till
Thursday December 3rd...
This is a very special event - a chapbook pre-release reading and celebration! These 3 put their very smart (and equally charming) brains together and made a thing and now we get to experience the wonder of it!
Saturday, April 12
7-9 p.m.
$5 Suggested Donation
Trickhouse Live is an integrative arts series that brings together people working with words, images, sounds, videos, and performances. The series serves as a venue for visiting artists to interact with local artists and for the borders between genres and media to be permeable. Trickhouse Live is a physical world extension of the online cross-genre arts journal, Trickhouse.org.
If you are out and about at Tucson Open Studios, stop by Splinter Brothers and Sisters Warehouse to see Fred Soto at Fred's Custom Stretching. Fred is showing my work and the work of several other artists. He does all my stretching and framing as well as makes substrates for my encaustic art, and he deals in supplies. My work on display is discounted from online prices.
Splinter Brother's is at 901 N. 13th Ave.
CLOUDSHOW #3 at THE SUNSET ROOM | November 1st – December 15th | Lost Coast Culture Machine | 190 East Elm St. Fort Bragg | 95437
GIVE LOVE by Valyntina Grenier
