Five Feelings at Angels Gate Cultural Center
It’s my bandwith, so it’s self-promotion time here. This weekend, Five Feelings, Angels Gate International Exhibition 2007: Thailand, opens at Angels Gate. My trip to Thailand earlier this year wasn’t just motivated by my desire to expand the range of rodents, lizards and insects that I have established my food-chain dominance upon. I was there to meet with Jessada Kongsommart and assemble an exhibition for Angels Gate. Well, all of the meetings, studio and gallery visits I did in Thailand pay off on Sunday, when we open the exhibition.
The exhibition features work by five younger Thai artists, Jieng Sae Jern, Narupon Chutiwansopon, Jessada Kongsommart, Pongsak Pechmang, and Narakorn Sittties, all showing in the US for the first time. These guys are all terrificly skilled and it’s really a pleasure to be able to exhibit their work. There’s also a small catalog accompanying the exhibition. I’ve got enough copies to give away or mail out to interested folks, so if you can’t make it, or would just like one, just E-mail me about it.
Here’s a link to all of my Thailand related posts here, and a here’s a link to my Thailand Flickr set. Also, Five Feelings has its own set on the Angels Gate Flickr page. It’s mostly food, but I’ll be posting some more Thailand stuff as the show goes on - my photo backlog is gargantuan at this point.
Also, at the same time, we’re opening a solo show, Bridges / Decisions, in the Center’s Downstairs Gallery for Adrian de la Pena, who did a really beautiful installation, A Nice Meal for Yamauba, for the Contemplating Apocalypse show that I organized last September. I love working with Adrian, and it’s great to be able to isolate his work in a solo exhibition.
The Details
Five Feelings & Bridges / Decisions
September 2 - November 4, 2007
Opening Reception September 2, 2 - 4 PM
We’ll be having a Thai style ribbon cutting and some brief opening remarks at the start of the reception, so if you’re there at 2 PM sharp, you’ll get to participate in that.
Getting to Angels Gate is easy - if you’re coming and haven’t been before, here’s the Center’s directions page.
At top - Cloud 2 by Pongsak Pechmang
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