Lily White and Todd Isler
Sunday May 16th, 11am
We have tried to host the duo once before in April, but Todd Isler unfortunately was sick. This Sunday you have another chance to hear them!
Drummer, teacher and author Todd Isler is based in New York City, where he has been active in the jazz and world music scenes for over 20 years. He has released two original CDs, Two Step: Duets and Beyond, and his current Soul Drums, as well as his book You Can Takadimi This, published by Gerard and Sarzin in 2005.
Saxophonist and composer Lily White has released 3 CDs under her own name: Somewhere Between Truth and Fiction, No Pork Long line, and Big Blue Line.
She and Todd have been friends for over 20 years.
Leigh Davis
May 9th, 11 am
Leigh Davis recently spent time with the aged members of a religious order living on the grounds of a former military hospital in New Mexico. Only five men remain, and all but one has lived there for over 60 years. She will present photographs from The Brothers, a work-in-progress documenting these men and the rituals they adhere to, their relationship to their physical surroundings, and the spiritual community they foster among themselves and in tenuous connection with the outside world.
www.leighdavisprojects.com
Ethan Crenson
May 2nd, 11 am
In nineteen hundred and forty-five,
the atom bomb it came alive…
From his impressive collection of 78 rpm records containing songs about the atomic bomb, Ethan Crenson will fill the cHURCH OF MONIKA with gospel and sacred music as it grapples with the reality of the new and massively destructive force–a force contained in the very atoms of God’s creation. The actual 78 rpm records from the era, 1945 to 1958, will be played right before the congregations ears.
Sara Bouchard
Sunday, April 25th, 11am
Artist and neighbor Sara Bouchard will present new work from her photography/video series “Worship.” The series consists of images captured from the Worship Channel as displayed on her home television set. Tuned in using a digital converter box to interpret a weak antenna signal, the TV images become garbled and infused with a strange, otherworldly quality.
Leslie Kuo
April 18th (11am)
Leslie Kuo will be giving a slide show presentation of Urban Plant Research, after she was invited to do the same at the opening reception for our friend Debbie Hesse’s exhibition, an installation involving living plants at Umbrella Arts in the East Village. Sara Buchard will be there as well to answer questions and contribute to discussion after the presentation.
URBAN PLANT RESEARCH EVENTS
Week One
- Saturday August 15, 7-10pm: Opening
- Sunday August 16, 1-5pm: Local herb tea on the stoop; 5pm: Field trip to the Waterpod, a “floating green home” currently docked at Brooklyn Bridge Park (departs from gallery at 5pm)
Week Two
- Saturday August 22, 6pm: A Walk Around the Block, an urban nature walk led by the artists, followed by a happy hour featuring local mint mojitos
Week Three
- Thursday August 27, 6pm: Visit to 6/15 Green, a nearby community garden (departs from gallery at 6pm)
- Friday August 28, 3-5pm: Activities for kids
- Sunday August 30, 1-5pm: Acoustic Jam for the Plants, a jam open to all levels and genres of musicians. Bring your acoustic instrument and join in, or just bring along your houseplant and listen!
Lily White and Todd Isler
Sunday April 11th, 11am
Drummer, teacher and author Todd Isler is based in New York City, where he has been active in the jazz and world music scenes for over 20 years. He has released two original CDs, Two Step: Duets and Beyond, and his current Soul Drums, as well as his book You Can Takadimi This, published by Gerard and Sarzin in 2005.
Saxophonist and composer Lily White has released 3 CDs under her own name: Somewhere Between Truth and Fiction, No Pork Long line, and Big Blue Line.
She and Todd have been friends for over 20 years.
Christian Brown: September 5 – October 1
Opening: September 12th: 7-10pm
Looking and seeing are as different from one another as registering a pulse is to “living.” Christian Brown’s obsession with, in his words, “the edges of things,” is a collection of detritus that has been reformed into an alternate and personal historical record. Collage and drawing in his work are explorations into “self” versus the world at large and repesent a singular view of that relationship. This deeply interior view of an artist’s discomfort and inability to register any absolute truths does not evoke the grandeur of nature. However, it does deliver clues as to why we can all appreciate, despite quotidian struggle, the art of being alive.
His creative endeavors have included the exhibition of his work (paintings, drawings, sculpture, and mixed media installations), contribution to a fashion collective, illustration for newspapers, magazines, and album covers, as well as writing and illustrating two books.
on view now
Peter Feigenbaum “Trainset Ghetto: Streetsmart”09.04.-09.30.2010 Opening: Saturday 09.04.2010 7-10pm In September 2010, Peter will be showing a new series of large-scale photographs at Open Source Gallery based on a site-specific installation of his “Trainset Ghetto” sets on the street in front of the gallery storefront space. The images will feature increasingly bizarre and phantasmagorical juxtapositions of time, scale, and [...]
upcoming
ORFI NYC: LIVE GIG 2010
Nobuko: wa
Pirmin Hagen: First
past
Images NYC
make Soap Box Racers for the Soap Box Derby
ONE BIG WINDMILL
Open Source Residency w/Austrian Artists
Patricia Watwood: Portraits 20/10
Cornucopias: Paintings by Rachel Youens
Ondrej Brody & Kristofer Paetau: Wang Bin Torture in Commercial Quality, High Quality and Museum Quality
Akiyuki Ina: Emitting Evanescent Beauty
John Coburn: Fairlane Marauder
Soup Kitchen 12.1 – 12.24