Friday the 13th + January Events at The Front Room

[Tom Swirly]

I'm playing this Friday the 13th!

Expect some strangeness and weird luck...

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Front Room Gallery 147 roebling street williamsburg brooklyn, ny 718-782-2556 open fri - sun 1 pm to 6 pm & by appointment in...@frontroom.org www.frontroom.org

FRIDAY THE 13th: SOUND/VIDEO/LIGHT/MOVEMENT PERFORMANCES, 7-10: 7pm: Tom Swirly 8pm: Bradford Reed and Chris Jordan 9pm: Rubaiyats Of The Cicadas (ROTC) with Shige Moriya and Ximena Garnica of LEIMAY Tom Swirly has been a force for chaos and fun on New York City's underground scene for decades. As a virtuoso on the electronic wind instrument, and as an electronic vocalist, he has played all over the world, including at the Dutch Electronic Arts Festival in Rotterdam, a live broadcast on Sydney's Bondi Radio, a performance at KEK Gallery, Budapest, and other performances in Australia, Asia, Canada and the United States. He was a member of the legendary avant-garde performance band Verge for over 20 years, and more recent the deranged, charismatic synthesist and vocalizator for the space-punk band The Megatoids. Bradford Reed is a Brooklyn based composer, performer and producer who fights and tames the idiosyncrasies of the pencilina, an original instrument of his own design. He played with King Missile III (and produced 4 of their records) and in the Blue Man Group's original band. He's composed for film and television including the music for the first season Superjail! on Adult Swim and is currently working on the score for his third season on Ugly Americans the new hit series on Comedy Central, an album of his own music and playing the drums with Zach Layton in their project Minerals. Chris Jordan explores the medium of light, movement, and time through the use of technology. His installations have appeared at the Moma, The New Museum, The Whitney, The Museum of Natural History, The Chelsea Museum, Times Square, numerous galleries and clubs; and the incidental spaces inbetween. Rubaiyats Of The Cicadas (ROTC) with Shige Moriya and Ximena Garnica of LEIMAY Rubaiyats Of The Cicadas (ROTC) are underground inhabitants emerging to emit frequencies of warmth and to create cadences of fragile ephemeral structure. Shige Moriya is a Japanese born video and installation artist. He studied architecture at Kinki University in Osaka. Moriya has been active as a curator and producer. In 1996 he co-founded CAVE as a space for the development of experimental and interdisciplinary art in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. His solo work has been presented in Japan, Finland, Vietnam, Spain, Germany and the US. Shige received the 2009 Armani Design Award through the Robert Wilson Watermill Center. He has received fellowship and residencies from the Ford Foundation, the Puffin Foundation and the Hanoi Contemporary Art Center. Ximena Garnica (b. 1981) is a Colombian-born interdisciplinary choreographer, director and artist based in New York. She received a B.A. in theater arts with a minor in multimedia studies from the City College of New York. In 2006 she graduated from Akira Kasai’s Tenshikan Dance Institute in Tokyo. Ximena is active as a curator and producer. She is Co Director of the Brooklyn base art space CAVE and of The New York Butoh Festival. Currently she teaches at P.H.T.S, New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, Department of Drama. She is currently on the Junior Advisory Board of Dance NYC. She lives in Brooklyn and leads ongoing training in dance and performance at CAVE. LEIMAY is a project of the experimental and contemporary art and performance space known as CAVE. ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• FRIDAY JANUARY 20TH: The Front Room is Proud to Present: IN-HABITAT Julia Whitney Barnes Gregory Curry Lisa DiLillo Kim Holleman January 20-February 19th Opening Friday, January 20th 7-9 Front Room Gallery is proud to present, “In-Habitat” an exhibition of new works by: Julia Whitney Barnes, Gregory Curry, Lisa DiLillo, and Kim Holleman. In the exhibition “In-Habitat” each artist takes a unique perspective of the concept of habitat, and what it is to inhabit this world. Gregory Curry’s paintings relate his postulations of a post human environment inspired by and extrapolated from the various dynamic conditions now impacting on the human animal. The environments and entities that populate his paintings seem imbued with pure energy on a primordial level, set against a background of contrasting complimentary colors. Curry utilizes familiar modes of representation such as rendering, perspective and classic spatial relationships in a way that draws the viewers into these uncanny realms, relating our temporality within an environment of elemental particles and genetic materials. Lisa DiLillo engages with the noctural forest, illuminating aspects of woodland wilderness with fire, sparks and smoke. Her layered images capture the transformative nature of experiencing woods at night. DiLillo conveys the fear and fascination of the forest environment that has inspired a long history folklore, mythologies and literature. DiLillo’s process involves shooting smoke, fire, and other light sources in these landscapes and using luminosity as a visual correlation to the vitality within. Rooted simultaneously in science while evoking the fantastic, Julia Whitney Barnes creates works that reinterpret life and the natural environment. Her paintings explore the complex relationship and power struggles of humans with nature, and the contradictions in which our society gives life to and reveres nature while abusing and overlooking it. Her large scale oil painting depicting a tree house abstracted with layers transparencies and lush patches of color, transposes elements of the forest and individual trees with the interior panels of a the structure, relating her desire for a more balanced relationship with nature. Kim Holleman relates environmental issues of contamination of our natural resources, brought on by radioactive fallout, chemicals seeping into ground water, oil spills and the ephemera in our petro-chemical environment. She infers the impact of these elements and the increasing toll on our natural environment, presenting an installation of displays and scenes, colliding natural and artificial reality, both fantastical and frightening, into a curio collection gone awry. This faux-scientific archive shows us beautiful, sometimes-toxic parks, public spaces, visions of nostalgic environments and constructions straining towards natural growth, but spinning out of control, coated to saturation which threatens their very existence. 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