| LIMITED EDITION: exhibition by Tim Roda at chashama Gallery 461, July 12-15 / 19-22, 2-6pm | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Anita Durst (anita.durst chashama.info)
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| Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 15:31:32 -0700 (PDT) | |
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chashama
presents Tim Roda creates gritty black and white images that are fraught with tension- between individuals and within their public lives and private selves. In his photographs, documentary and fictive impulses don't so much intersect as blur. Using himself and his wife and son as actors and subjects in his elaborately staged work, he positions the family unit?? its mythologies and iconography??as the root of community. It's a seemingly closed circuit with a ripple effect of public implications where private meanings freight all other interactions. Roda has cited Roy DeCarava as an influence. The Harlem-born photographer lived there through many decades, befriended many of the prominent black artists, musicians and writers active at the time, and chronicled the lives of neighborhood residents. DeCarava began working as a painter and commercial illustrator, and many of his early photographs were meant only as reference for prints. He was drawn to photography by "the directness of the medium". Roda studied ceramics but was also drawn to photography, using clay and sculptural elements in the elaborate and encoded sets for his work. He was inspired by the multiplicity of photography??its directness and the bending of it into ambiguity. The imagery in Roda's work stages working-class ethics, family traditions, and childhood memories as fragmented narratives. They are rife with mystery, melancholy, and possibility. Some are drawn from moments of personal significance, but all are enacted with universal implication. The rough-hewn and cluttered sets he creates are reflections of places from memory, like many photographs, but his overlay several memories onto one scenario. The multiples embody lineage and multitudes, of seeing different things in the same face and the same thing in different faces. -Nate Lippens ? 2007 This show is Courtesy of Gasser &
Grunert, New York. 212.807.9494
The Artist is also represented by Art
Agents Gallery, www.artagents.de,
Germany, and by Greg Kucera Gallery, www.gregkucera.com/roda.htm,
Seattle, Washington.
Reception After Party at Toast
3157 (125th & Broadway) NYC 10027, 212-662-1144
Train Line: 1 Train @ 125th & Broadway also / upcoming
Meat
Market
by CHRISTINA MASSEY July 5th ? July 12th, 2007 12:00PM - 6:00PM M-F, Closed Weekends, or by special appointment. Opening Reception: Friday July 6th 6-8 PM chashama, 112 West 44th Street (Between 6th and 7th Ave) FREE and open to the public. Portraits:
artists
working uptown
an installation by Megan Metcalf at chashama Project Exhibition Studio 159 West 119th Street (at Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard) Trains: 2/3 to 116th Street; A/C/B/D to 125th St handicap accessible Open Studio: Friday, July 6, 7-9 PM Additional hours: Saturday, July 7, 1-4 PM & Sunday, July 8, 1-4 PM FREE and open to the public. www.meganmetcalf.com supported by collectiveP.A.S.T
@chashama
Dark of the Moon written by Howard Richardson & William Berney Directed by Ian Crawford chashama, 217 E.42nd St (btw 2nd & 3rd Aves) 1 1/2 blocks east of Grand Central June 15 - July 8, 2007 Thursdays - Saturdays, 8pm Sundays, 2pm Tickets: $15 For reservations, go to www.smarttix.com, call 212-868-4444 or email reservations [at] thirstyturtle.org Cast: Adelgiza Chemountd, Renee Delio, Sarah
Hayes Donnell, Noah J. Dunham, Adam K. Fujita, Matthew Hadley, Russell Harder,
Jessica Howell, Chris Masullo, Brendan Norton, Katey Parker,Amanda Peck, Minna
Richardson, Jake Thomas, Dennis X. Tseng.
works on
exhibit
by Christopher Golden & Patrick Golden at chashama 217, 217 East 42nd Street (between 2nd & 3rd Aves) Available for viewing in the hours prior to any performance. During the run of Ateh Theater's "Mr. A", performances are every last and first Friday of the month, 10:30-12midnight on July 6th, and July 27th. Thus viewing hours on those days are: 9:30-10:30p. For more information about the work on view, please contact Liz Jonckheer: 347-721-3471 / lizjonckheer [at] hotmail.com |
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