***LAUNCH PARTY***
We're so happy to announce the LAUNCH of Issue 2 of our literary journal, Prose & Lore. Blood, sweat, & tears - but it's finally here!
140 pages. 21 stories. 17 authors.
On July 10th, Bluestockings Bookstore will be hosting our initial launch party and author reading event. A selection of the authors from Issue 2 will be reading excerpts from their published works. This will also be the first time that the printed book is available for sale to the public!
Come celebrate with us this evening, enjoy storytelling at its best, and support our RedUP community!
---- THIS EVENT IS FREE ----
Authors Bios:
ANNA SAINI has lived many lives as a political scientist,
radical activist, and multi-media artist. She completed a B.A. and
M.A. in Political Science at the University of Toronto and
McMaster University respectively. She is passionately
dedicated to grassroots community organizing on drug and
education policy reform, civil and labor rights, prison abolition,
anti-police brutality, and post-colonial feminist liberation.
GERRY VISCO is a writer, photographer, performer, fashionista, and nightlife personality. The Village Voice named her Bravest Nightlife Photographer of 2010 and she was nominated for a Glam Award as best nightlife writer in 2010 and 2011. Visco holds a BA in Literature, an MFA in Writing, and an MS in Journalism from Columbia University. She is currently writing a memoir about her colorful lie in the gritty glamorous world of New York City during the 1970s and 1980s.
HIMA B. makes documentaries, narratives, experimental films/videos that explore intersections between race, gender, sexual orientation, labor, and economics in relation to women and girls. Born in India and raised in the US, she earned an MFA from Mills College while stripping and being a teaching assistant. She came into filmmaking through the crossroads of her sexuality, sex worker labor organizing, and desire to use the moving image to address social justice issues.
LILY FURY has been writing since she was a little girl, and
she wants to thank Melissa Petro and Audacia Ray for helping
her develop her talent as a writer. She is published in the newly
released Corner Stories, an anthology of writings by the
Washington Heights Corner Project community under the name
Naomi Madsen.
PAGE CAMPBELL worked in strip clubs in California in New York from 2003 to 2010. She’s been writing, in journals, poems, and damn good love letters, since she was six years old and got brave enough to share some of that writing in public starting at 24 years old. She’s passionate about accessible art making, social justice, and finding the best latte in the city.
RITA RACHAELS found her road less traveled in New York City.
Lyons Wier Gallery requests the pleasure of your company in celebrating our summer group exhibition “Summer Session.” The exhibition features new work by Andy Mister, Chris Biddy, James Gortner, Greg Haberny, David Lyle,Jason A. Maas, Bobby Mathieson, Anthony Mastromatteo, Cobi Moules,Aaron Nagel, Tim Okamura, Fahamu Pecou, James Rieck, Cayce Lanham Zavaglia.
Artist George Towne
July 10th – 27th, 2013
Opening Reception: Wed., July 10th, 6-8pm
Contact: Michael Mut 212.677.7868 michael@michaelmutgallery.com
Hours: Wed–Fri 2–6PM, Sat noon–6PM some Sundays during the summer
Location: 97 Ave C between 6th and 7th Sts, East Village/L.E.S.
Transportation: F,V to Second Ave; L to First Ave; 6 to Astor Place; M9 Bus
Artist George Towne
July 10th – 27th, 2013
Opening Reception: Wed., July 10th, 6-8pm
Contact: Michael Mut 212.677.7868 michael@michaelmutgallery.com
Hours: Wed–Fri 2–6PM, Sat noon–6PM some Sundays during the summer
Location: 97 Ave C between 6th and 7th Sts, East Village/L.E.S.
Transportation: F,V to Second Ave; L to First Ave; 6 to Astor Place; M9 Bus
For Immediate Release
Painted Love: Recent Artwork by George Towne
“And you think love is to pray, but I’m sorry I don’t pray that way” – Marc Almond/Soft Cell
The Michael Mut Gallery is pleased to present George Towne’s third solo show.
The show’s title, “Painted Love”, is a play on words alluding to the 1981 song “Tainted Love” sung by Soft Cell’s Marc Almond, which became a well-known Anthem for the Gay Community with lyrics like “I give you all a boy could give you”.
The song also refers to ways of praying. For Towne, Painting has allowed him to develop spirituality around his art making process; he lights a candle that slowly burns as he works, and laying out his palette of color has become a devotional act for him, much like traditional prayer and meditation. The love of his process is carried through into his subject matter in Towne’s summer show at Michael Mut Gallery.
A portrait of one of the artist’s former boyfriends holding a coffee mug sports the words, “I love you”. Towne also continues to explore both Portraiture and Landscape, with two works combining both subjects in stark detail. A man sitting on an urban park bench allows his highly rendered plaid shirt to fall open. Another image depicts a full figure portrait of a man wearing only bright red running shorts leaning against an old tree, providing the viewer with a sexual charge. Other images, which seem at first glance to only be Landscapes, are enhanced with the knowledge that they depict areas of Fire Island’s notorious cruising ground, The Meatrack.
George Towne has had Solo shows at The Barbara Ann Levy Gallery in Fire Island, NY, and at The Delaware Valley Arts Alliance in Narrowsburg, NY. He has been in numerous group shows; recent venues have included the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay & Lesbian Art, the Forbes Galleries in New York, and Kymara Gallery in Maine. His work has been written about in publications such as American Artist, A&U: Art & Understanding Magazine, Time Out New York, and Next Magazine. Art of Man, a Quarterly publication, featured him in its Winter 2012 Issue (#11).
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