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Garth Amundson and Pierre Gour will speak about their work and collaborations in art (photography, painting, and mixed-media as well as residencies) at Mack b Projects this Wednesday, March 26, at 7:00 p.m. Come to hear about their explorations of the perceptions and politics surrounding the home and domestic sphere.

Amundson recently completed a Fulbright fellowship in Morelia, Mexico where he taught at the University of Latin America. Constant e-mails and I-Chats between Mexico, Vancouver, B.C., and Bellingham, WA kept the artists working together. Popular teachers and exciting speakers, both artists will discuss their wide experiences of practice and exhibitions.

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“BODY ENGLISH”
New paintings by Daniel Bilodeau
One man art exhibition and opening reception with the artist Reception: Thursday, April 3rd,2008,from 5:30pm–8:00pm
Exhibition: April 3rd through April 30th, 2008

at Dabbert Gallery
76 South Palm Ave.
Sarasota, Florida 34236
(941) 955-1315
Gallery hours: Tuesday through Saturday 11:00 – 5:00pm
and by appointment.
http://www.danielbilodeau.com/
http://www.dabbertgallery.com/

At one point or another we have all sat and watched as raindrops traced a circuitous path along a window pane. There is a special emotional quality to this experience that is echoed in the new paintings of artist Daniel Bilodeau. Daniel Bilodeau’s highly
anticipated solo show at the Dabbert Gallery in Sarasota is entitled “BODY ENGLISH“ and runs from Thursday, April 3rd through Wednesday April 30th, 2008. There is an opening reception with the artist present on Thursday, April 3rd from 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm.

In this series of contemporary realistic works, the painted figures themselves take up the paint and work their way through an atmosphere of liquid color. Sometimes much larger than life sized, Bilodeau‘s subjects are pictured in a moment of creation.
Through their act of painting as metaphor, his people define themselves and affect the world around them. “According to our individuality,“ says Bilodeau, “we are always actively painting ourselves and our world. I paint my people as a reminder that we are responsible.“ The works speak to finding and acting from the best in ourselves.

In a play on the differences between abstract expressionism and classical realism, paint is splattered in these pictures, and running along the peaks and valleys of highly finished and detailed representations of the human form. “I freeze a moment
of moving, splattered action and over the course of many hours I repaint what took two seconds to paint. I treat each work like a detailed portrait or a scientific illustration, and in doing so I discover and pay homage to the emotional character of liquid color”
says Bilodeau.

Daniel Bilodeau’s paintings have been exhibited in solo and group shows in galleries and museums throughout the United States and abroad, including the Franklin Mint Museum in Media, Pennsylvania; the Peninsula Museum of Art in Belmont, California and the Guardian Gallery in Tokyo, Japan. In addition, his work is in public and private collections, including those of the Citadel Museum in Canadian, Texas and the University of Tampa in Florida. Mr. Bilodeau is the recipient of numerous awards and honors including the George Sugarman Foundation Grant.

CONTACT:
David and Patricia Dabbert
76 South Palm Ave.
Sarasota, Florida 34236
(941) 955-1315
dabbert@aol.com

“BloodBrother,” by Matt Lopez, Shawn Pettersen and Nathan Skiles
“Recent Paintings, Installations and Glicee Prints,” by Richard Heipp
New Music New College performance, “The Great Learning, Paragraph 7,” Music of Cornelius Cardew

Due to the size of our exhibition space, mack b projects will be having two exhibitions simultaneously. These exhibitions will be distinguished by separate gallery spaces. The opening reception for both of these exhibitions will occur on two separate evenings.

Sarasota, Fla.- Mack b projects presents two exhibitions, March 8 – April 4. “BloodBrother,” will open Saturday, March 15, 6-9pm, with a New Music New College performance beginning the same night, at 8pm.

Gallery 1+2 (Opening 3/15/08): In the exhibition “BloodBrother,” Matt Lopez, Shawn Pettersen and Nathan Skiles present a group of paintings, sculptures and installations in which their curatorship is determined by the union of personal histories rather than a formal or conceptual framework. Lopez, Pettersen and Skiles offer the following, “‘BloodBrother,’ as gleaned from the Holiest of Holy texts, Wikipedia. Blood Brother referring to two or more men not related by birth, who swear loyalty to one another in a ceremony, known as a Blood Oath, where the blood of each man is mingled together. Historically as an extension of fraternization, the act of the Blood Oath forms a relationship that through improper loyalty transcends ones ethics, social expectations and professionalism in order to bind one another together as equals. Coupling this historic precedent with the Blood Oath’s popular conception as a brash display of boyish machismo the pact of the Blood Brothers endures as a lasting image of an overly romanticized act of Platonic devotion.”

Performance (3/15/08 @ 8pm): In “The Great Learning, Paragraph 7,” New College students perform the music of Cornelius Cardew under the direction of NMNC director Stephen Miles. This vocal program offers an aural and locomotive kaleidoscope of sound based on a canonical work of Confusianism. For additional information visit www.newmusicnewcollege.org.

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Contact: Tobey Albright
Mack b Projects
(941) 359-0654
tobey@mackbgallery.com

ARTIST’S TALK: RICHARD HEIPP
Professor of Painting, School of Art and art History, University of Florida

Mildred Sainer Auditorium, New College of Florida
Friday, March 14 at 3:30

Artist Richard Heipp will present a two-part lecture focusing on his personal artwork and its relationship to his public art practice. Part two of the presentation will elaborate on his experiences as a public artist, as well as provide information on how to locate, apply for and propose public art projects in Florida. He is visiting from Gainesville, Florida He has taught painting at the University of Florida for more than 25 years, where he is Professor of Painting and Drawing at the University of Florida’s School of Art and Art History. An exhibition of his recent work is on display at Mack b Projects in Sarasota through the end of March. The talk is free and open to the public.

“Recent Paintings, Installations and Glicee Prints,” by Richard Heipp

Due to the size of our exhibition space, mack b projects will be having two exhibitions simultaneously. These exhibitions will be distinguished by separate gallery spaces. The opening reception for both of these exhibitions will occur on two separate evenings.

Sarasota, Fla.- Mack b projects presents two exhibitions, March 8 - April 4, with two separate opening receptions. Richard Heipp’s “Recent Paintings, Installations and Glicee Prints,” opening reception is Saturday, March 8, 6-9 PM. There will also be a closing reception for the exhibition “Brandon Whitcomb: A Retrospective After Life,” presented by Kevin Dean and mack b projects.

Gallery 3 (Opening 3/08/08): In the exhibition “Recent Paintings, Installations and Glicee Prints,” Richard Heipp, one of “Florida’s best known artists,” will present work concerned with the intersection of technology and vision within artistic production. Heipp has created the term “photocentric” to describe his paintings in which he goes great lengths to mimic what appears to be precise mechanically produced images. Interested in the way we “see” and the manner in which contemporary culture consumes images, Heipp states,” I believe the 21st century has brought about an important difference between ‘looking’ (the superficial way we digest most images) and ’seeing’ (a profound looking which includes an aspect of the contextual understanding).” Richard Heipp’s incredible collection of technical skills and craftsmanship encourages us to not only think and remember what we see but reconsider the means and motives behind what we look at.

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image: Richard Heipp

Gallery 1+2: Kevin Dean and mack b projects present: “Brandon Whitcomb: A Retrospective After Life”

Twenty-three years in the making! Featuring 60 (more or less) of Whitcomb’s mind bending drawings, prints, paintings, constructions and installations!

EXTRA ADDED ATTRACTION:

Gallery talk and readings from THE WHITCOMB FILES: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF AN AMERICAN ARTIST, a biography in three parts by Leighton Ziesler, now available (we hope) in a plain black archival file box, with each chapter hand placed in genuine file folders. The limited (to the number of people who want to buy it) book will be signed and dated by the author, and will include a noterized letter of authenticity. Thrill to the story of Whitcomb’s turbulant life as he struggles to maintain his soul in an art world festering with sex, drugs, rock and roll, violence and madness! Its yours for the asking?and a check for $175.

The gallery talk and readings will be presented the night of the opening at 8:30p.m.

Gallery 3: Caui Lofgren “Deuce”

In the exhibition “Deuce,” Caui Lofgren will exhibit several paintings and prints that develop his continued interest in social patterns and repetitive actions. Lofgren states, “In art and relationships, as with in sports, strategy and rules sometimes give way to friendly challenges, creative interpretations, and innovations born out of disadvantage.” A former skateboarder currently teaching art at a sports academy, Lofgren is interested in where these two worlds collide and when rules give way to play.

For additional information visit: http://mackbgallery.com/exhib.html

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Mr. Tobey McCain Albright
mack b projects
mackbgallery.com

tel: 941.359.0654
fax: 941.359.0789

500 Tallevast Rd.
Suite 107
Sarasota, Fl 34243

Hours:
Wednesday-Friday 12-6pm, Saturday 12-3pm

The Painting Room: Transition Gallery: 12 January - 10 February 2008

Private View: Friday 11 January 2008 6-9pm

Gallery Opening Hours: Friday - Sunday 12-6pm
Late Night First Thursdays Opening: 7 February 2008 6-9pm

Transition Gallery Unit 25a Regent Studios, 8 Andrews Road, London E8 4QN
www.transitiongallery.co.uk mailto:info@transitiongallery.co.uk 07941 208566 / 020 7254 4202

www.andrewbracey.com
www.suite-studiogroup.co.uk
www.axisweb.org/artist/andrewbracey

“Red, Right, Return,” by Tom Stephens
“Smaller,” a group show, at White Dog Design [Outside Project]

This exhibition, at mack b projects, will inaugurate an expansion of additional gallery space. Gallery 3 (project room) will expand the exhibition space by another 3500 sq. ft. The “Smaller” exhibition is an outside project in collaboration with White Dog Design, located in the historic Mira Mar building, (above Caragiulos restaurant) at 73 South Palm Avenue, Suite 218, Sarasota, FL.

Sarasota, Fla.- Mack b projects presents “Red, Right, Return,” December 1-31, with an opening reception Saturday, December 1, 6:00-9:00pm. Mack b projects and White Dog Design presents “Smaller,” December 7-31, with an opening reception Friday, December 7, 6-9pm.

Gallery 3: In the exhibition “Red, Right, Return,” Tom Stephens will present new paintings and sculptures. Stephens develops his work through extensive periods of observation on the local bay and gulf waters. On these waters, the relationships between the sky and the water, the man-made and the natural are intensified by the seemingly endless landscape rolling over the horizon-line. In this space, Stephens finds all the elements responsible for the degradation of this environment and reapplies them as symbols and signs of visual harmony. Tom Stephens’ paintings and new sculptures further prepare us for the consequences of over-looking our co-survival with the world around us.

For images follow link: http://mackbgallery.com/exhib_future.html

@ White Dog Design: “Smaller,” a group show of small works at White Dog Design, is intended to be an opportunity to give the gift of art for the holidays. Each work in the show is minimal in size and price, and provides the opportunity to support an artist and their practice. The artists included in the exhibition are: Kim Anderson, James Beaman, Caui Lofgren, Thomas Martin, Cindy Mason, Eric McClune, Dodi Reifenberg, Nathan Skiles, Bradley Wester.

For additional information please contact Tobey Albright or Cindy Mason (cindy@whitedogdesign.com).

White Dog Design
73 South Palm Avenue, Suite 218
Sarasota, FL 34236
P: 941.331.1455
www.whitedogdesign.com

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Tobey Albright
mack b projects

tel: 941.359.0654
fax: 941.359.0789

500 Tallevast Rd.
Suite 107
Sarasota, Fl 34243

Hours: Wednesday-Friday 12-6pm, Saturday 12-3pm

www.mackbgallery.com

Sonnet Gallery, the most celebrated contemporary art gallery in Sarasota’s revitalized downtown, now in Towles Court, is now showing a preview of its 2008 exhibitions by its Internationally known Artists

The gallery’s new space allows collectors to have a closer and more intimate interaction with artwork in a home like setting.

Sonnet gallery is these Artists exclusive representative in the area. The gallery, now located at 1920 Adams Ln. at Towles Court, is open Tuesdays to Fridays from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. and Saturdays from 11 A.M. to 3 P.M., and by appointment. Closed on Sundays and Mondays. For more information, go to www.sonnetgallery.com or contact Ramses Serrano, Gallery Director/Proprietor, at (941) 928-6490 or at RamsesSerrano@AOL.com

Ramses Serrano
Gallery Director/Proprietor
Sonnet Gallery Fine Art
1920 Adams Ln., Sarasota Fl., 34236
(941) 928-6490
www.sonnetgallery.com