Meat Market Gallery

Meat Market Launches its 1st. Performance Week. A different and excited performance Daily.

01.17-24 > MOVING PICTURES by RICHARD SIEGMAN

Dynamism, Movement, Process, Color

These are the central themes of Richard Siegman?s vibrant, expressionist
paintings, whose bold swashes of color ricochet at the speed of light. Like
neutrons and protons, they careen in all directions, exiting the borders of
their slick surface, they fly through space. Infinity, not only possible, but probable!

Immediacy, Chance, Play, Randomness

These qualities cannot be understated. Each asserts itself into the process. The
artist puts his hand to the surface, and fate intercedes. The malignant heart of
contemporary art has long been necrotic. Expressionism performs a transplant!

-Stuart Greenwell

RICHARD SIEGMAN PAINTING, an ekphrastic text
I drop trowel and sprint over to . . .
Gorgeous! The color is more Washington School.
Dries fast. Mention how thick.
I drop trowel and guard color.
Peruse already displayed serration.
Save markings.
Full finish shall inside stripe.
Modular circles show you the most.
Chance/slice each.

-Barry Alpert

01.17>(5-7) STASIS by J.J. McCRAKEN

J.J. McCracken is investigating preservation through a series of performances. The series offers a way forward for the artist, who grapples with issues surrounding hospice and the deterioration of memory over time. The performance venue ascribes to maker and the process of generating and preserving form the same importance as the resulting "art object"—an importance underscored by the use of a "live" material in constant flux. In its tangible and active form, each performance exploits cyclical repetition and offers a visual diary that reflects an ongoing inquiry.

01.18>(5-7pm) TRAVEL BAG total dimensions 45'' by CHARLOTTE ANDREW

Charlotte Andrew,, celebrating 300 years that the twinings tea company has been in existence. looking at the place of the picnic hamper in our life as forum for social communication around food but outside of the home.

01.18>(5-7pm) INSTALLATION By RAYMONDE VAN SANTEN

trash convenience break time
comfort stain

These are some of the words that may come to mind when one sees used tea bags.
This work can be read on different levels.
A discarded material was used to create a geometric pattern.
The seemingly futile, labor-intensive, repetitious action of collecting and attaching, and the subsequent enjoyment of the result, reference domesticity.
Tea as a beverage connotes comfort, sharing a moment with someone else.
A tea bag can be read as a metaphor of a person; it is a container, a skin around an essence, that, when touched, shares itself with its environment. The stains are markers of its contact.
Thus the grid becomes a framework for storage of memories, some stronger than others, some lost, most are connected. Different colorations show different personalities. Different labels can be a metaphor of how society labels and categorizes people.

This piece is a record of my memories of the people I met during my residency at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA), at Amherst, VA.

01.19> (5-7pm)MATT RAVENSTAHL

Many times the cruelest of sentiments is delivered with the softness of a kiss or the sweetness of “I love you”. Whether it be an exchange between spouses living a lie or a government lying to its citizens, true meaning is buried underneath sweet sounding words; but its impact on our psyche is as if we have been slammed into a wall. In the poetry of material and action I hope to give physical manifestation to the state of one’s psyche enduring this experience. The choices of materials and action are a deliberately obvious metaphor for the subtle violence perpetrated upon each of us in these situations.

01.20> (12pm) THE GLASS AGE By COLE SWENSON

The Glass Age: this collection of linked poems looks at fragility and clarity through the lens of Pierre Bonnard’s paintings of windows. They manage to be both completely transparent and completely opaque, and so function as an appropriate metaphor for the scientific and technological revolution that transformed occidental society throughout the 19th century. We all know and live with its practical repercussions; this book tries to track its emotional, metaphorical, and aesthetic dimensions as well.

01.20> (5-7pm) AARON JACKSON (Contemporary Dance Performance of 3 series)

01.21> (12pm)“READING MIRROR /LOOKING GLASS” by MARK CAMERON BOYD

“READING MIRROR /LOOKING GLASS” continues the text-based and interactive explorations that I began last year with my Katzen Arts Center installation. The Meat Market’s space inspired this piece which is conceived for two players (Reuben Breslar and Katie Schuler) who perform their individual and secret text transcriptions and the required decoding actions inside the gallery’s storefront window display. The piece is dependent upon the environment and its meaning is contextual from the dual points-of-view of performer and audience.

01.21> (5-7pm) d’steel(e) poetics (Poetry Reading)

01.21> (7pm) Breck Brunson (Apartying Invite Only)

01.22> (5-7pm)"the YAY Team"

The YAY team’s work deals with relationships. When two people choose to connect, they join their lives for seconds, minutes, hours, or lifetimes. How much does a person gain through these interactions, how much does a person lose? The YAY team’s work deals with the merging experience. And works to express the struggles and fun of connecting with others, not just lovers, but friends.
In their debut performance, Let’s Get Together, the YAY team attempts to fuse together physically. Forcing themselves to work as a team not only to accomplish the task at hand, but also to experience traveling through the world visibly joined.

01.23>(5-7pm) DAVID WILLIAMS

David Williams, demonstrating the research that goes on behind the
scenes with an art project, I plan on involving some other aspects
of my talent (music/poetry) with the aspect of the research venue.

01.24> (5-7pm) REMAINING INSITU 24-28 By DAVID PAGE

David Page, builds a sculpture and uses it as a prop; metal and canvas, very carefully crafted and large,it has aq balance mechanism which he will be one side of, so he will be suspended.