Welcome Spring!
Written by - Uma Shannon
WELCOME SPRING!
Spring is here! Time to reorient ourselves to the warmer weather, bounty of seasonal produce! Find yourself moving with the season by taking a regenerative session at GYROTONIC® Soho - Movement Beyond!
Visit The Farmers Markets!
April offers us cool spring mornings and midafternoon warmth. I know I’ll soon be finding myself at the farmers market looking for the small coiled delights of the young ostrich fern known as fiddleheads. With a brief season, fiddleheads are enjoyed only in April. Small and vegetal, fiddleheads offer a beautiful shape and an excellent substitute for asparagus in quiche, omelets, and pasta dishes. Or, very simply steam them up and dress with olive oil, lemon, and salt to enjoy as a side dish to a meal.
Upcoming Exhibit!
EPISTROPHY
Melvin Edwards
William T. Williams
Exhibition Details:
Apr 1 – 30, 2022
Gallery:
540 West 25th Street
New York
https://www.pacegallery.com/exhibitions/epistrophy/
“The exhibition will consist of two sections, with the first comprising large-scale works by each artist: a site-specific barbed-wire installation by Edwards that responds to the architecture of the gallery, a monumental drape painting by Gilliam, and a suite of Williams’s early paintings from his seminal Diamond in a Box series. As a counterpoint to these larger-scale works, the second section of the exhibition will consist of drawings and works on paper.
Bringing the artists’ individual bodies of work into conversation with one another, the show addresses questions of monumentality and gravity, materiality and objecthood, the self and the collective, and the personal and the political. At the heart of the exhibition is an examination of abstraction as a force that might signify life without directly representing it.”
Upcoming Performance!
NVA & GUESTS
Stay With Me
APRIL 21-23, 2022
8pm
$20 in advance / $25 at the door
(Please note this piece contains adult content and a hazer.)
https://www.triskelionarts.org/nva-guests-2022
“Stay With Me, directed by Nicole von Arx, is an evening-length performance combining dance, theater, text, and audience participation.
Undeniably influenced by the world we live in today, Stay With Me reveals a series of personal vignettes where the performers attempt to physically connect to each other and with the audience. Amid our global unity, our human connections seem to be falling apart. A shared sense of yearning for our past lives, and our fear for what’s next, prevent us from moving forward.
In Stay With Me – looking both backward and forward in time – Nicole von Arx and her truly exceptional collaborators will invite you to reconnect with the present.”
Sam Gilliam, Green April, 1969, acrylic on canvas, 98 x 271 x 3 7/8 inches (248.9 x 688.3 x 9.8 cm), Collection of Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Courtesy of David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, photography by Lee Thompson. https://www.pacegallery.com/artists/sam-gilliam/
- Uma Shannon
