March 27, 2008
Repressed III Closing Show @ Gallery5
Gallery5 has announced a special Repressed III Closing Exhibition in collaboration with the 2008 Southern Graphics Council Conference. Fri 3/28 6-10PM FREE.
Command Print: Repressed III Closing Exhibition:
In collaboration with the 2008 Southern Graphics Council Conference
Friday, March 28.
FREE 6PM - 10PM
6pm-10pm:
Print Actions by:
Marwin Begaye
John Hitchcock
Peripheral Media Project
BACK TO BACK
Music/noise/spoken word antics:
7pm Thundersnow
7:30pm The Amazing Hancock Brothers
8:00pm Thundersnow
9pm The Amazing Hancock Brothers
Oklahoma artist Marwin Begaye and Wisconsin artist John Hitchcock will team up for a multi-media print action at the Gallery 5 in Richmond, Virginia as part of the Southern Graphics Council Conference to be held at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Begaye will present prints form his series What’s Your Sugar? This body of work is intended to bring awareness about the epidemic of Diabetes in American Indian communities. Begaye hopes that viewers will see how their own actions are complicit in this disease. As a graphic artist, he uses a variety of media from relief to digital process that communicates his message on many levels. Begaye said, “Each of us has responsibility to make healthy choices. We often choose affordability and convenience over our health. The woodblocks seemed to be the right medium for exploring the impact on our community. The graphic quality of the woodblock and the black ink has an old-school look for the contemporary message. The starkness minimizes the distracting nature of color and allows the message to be clear. These are the black and white reflections of the impact of our poor tobacco, food and drink choices. We make these choices daily and rarely do we evaluate the choice on its effect. But the choices have an effect… one that is deadly.
Hitchcock will present his BRUTALITY GHOSTS series that consists of mythological hybrid creatures (buffalo, wolf, boar, deer, moose) and military weaponry (tanks and helicopters). BRUTALITY GHOSTS is based on his childhood memories and stories of growing up in the Wichita Mountains of Oklahoma next to Ft Sill field artillery military base. BRUTALITY GHOSTS explores notions of good, evil, death, and life cycles through the dissemination of hand-pulled prints and public signs. Hitchcock’s depictions of animals and machines act as a metaphors for human behavior and cycles of violence. His artwork is a response to intrusive behaviour by humans towards nature and other humans. Hitchcock uses the repetitive x mark as a symbol to comment on the United States government’s regional, national and international policies on human beings to the forcible relocation and removal of people from one location to another. On another level, BRUTALITY GHOSTS is a statement about current events such as the US invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan, the major conflict between the Palestinians and Israelis, and the recent announcement by the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health that “An estimated 655,000 Iraqis have died since 2003.
Beagay and Hitchcock will work collaboratively on a series of banner prints that comment on social and political issues related to health and food. They will be printing images on t-shirts and have small give aways during the opening with live music provided by the mammoth sounds of THUNDERSNOW. THUNDERSNOW hails from the depths of the bitter cold Midwest, where snow drifts are 12 feet tall and printmakers can be found on every block.
Leave a Comment