[IMC] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - The Zipper Binder Project; Fishing for Queens and Things Opening Reception

[Eszter Sápi]

*FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE*

*Monday, October, 22, 2012*

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CONTACT:

Eszter Sápi

indigo.coop at gmail.com

651-399-0684



*The Zipper Binder Project – A Benefit for Franklin Middle School*

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*October 24, 2012, 6-10 pm*



The University of Illinois School of Social Work has teamed up with
Franklin Middle School to raise funds for school supplies for the students!

Join us at the Indi Go Artist Co-Op for an evening of live music, featuring:
Alex Blomarz **

Cole Rabenort
Black Coffee Fridays
Megan Johns



Refreshments will be served, please bring your IDs! Wine has been donated
by Paul Simpson with support of the Barham Benefit Group.


Cover: $5 or get two free admissions by bringing in a zippered binder (or a
trapper keeper)!





*Gallery information:** **
Indi Go Artist Co-Op*
9 E. University Ave.
Champaign, IL 61820


*Gallery hours:*

Monday-Wednesday: 4:30-8:30pm

Thursday: 5:30-8:30pm

Friday: 4-7pm

Saturday: 11-7pm

Sunday: 11-3pm



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*FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE*

*Monday, October, 22, 2012*

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CONTACT:

Eszter Sápi

indigo.coop at gmail.com

651-399-0684

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*Jim Graham: Fishing for Queens and Things*

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*Opening reception: Friday, October 26, 2012, 7pm*


In the series *Fishing for Queens and Things,* the paintings embrace a
broad visual language that hinges on disproportionate amounts of clarity
and a murky vagueness. This relationship is particularly evident in the
69”x72” diptych,* The Romantic Trout.* In this work an idealized Tuscan
farm scene is carefully represented as the top of a ceramic wine cork. The
bottle itself becomes more gestural as it moves down the neck and sits upon
a shelf purged of detail. The combination highlights a difference between
the fiction of the pastoral promises made by the painting on the cork and
the physical presence the object has within the picture plane itself. The
shelf acts more simply as a break, a breath dredged of content and detail.


Similar object/ground combinations play comparable roles within several
recent works. A bunt pan, a boot, a hollow log on the edge of a vacant
field, all occupy privileged territory within these paintings and are
undisturbed by the activity around them. Objects such as these are often
the only recipients a foregrounding that brings with it a since of
singularity for the object. It is not uncommon, however, for secondary
figures like dancing wigwams or amorous trout that seduce young women by
tickling their feet to appear on the fringes of these objects. The
imperfect nature of painting along with its long recorded historical flux
in representation allows for the more absurd characters in these works to
be forgiven for their brashness while the mundane can begin to obtain a
greater consideration.


There is specificity within the objects of these paintings that also occurs
within fiction in literature. There is a particular kind of convincing that
is necessary in fiction to fill the vacancies between honesty and
misdirection. Flannery O’Connor explored this idea throughout her career
and describes it beautifully in a lecture transcribed in *Mystery and
Manners*: “He thinks that judgment exists in one place and sense-impression
in an other. But for the fiction writer, judgment begins in the details he
sees and how he sees them.” That is to say that an author who is overly
optimistic of the total accuracy of their accounts will neglect the details
that would have convinced the reader that something has happened in the
first place. The paintings in this series are not fiction, nor are they
interested in accuracy.  Rather, it is the act of convincing itself that is
the subject of my work.







Gallery information: *
Indi Go Artist Co-Op*
9 E. University Ave.
Champaign, IL 61820



Gallery hours:

Monday-Wednesday: 4:30-8:30pm

Thursday: 5:30-8:30pm

Friday: 4-7pm

Saturday: 11-7pm

Sunday: 11-3pm







-- 
Eszter Sápi
Gallery Director
indi go Artist Co-Op
9 E. University; Champaign, IL
www.ind-go-art.com
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