First Class/Second Class investigates class structure through a combination of personal narratives and outsider perspectives, and shows the tribal nature of class. The exhibition posits that "class is omnipresent as an identity marker, and frequently undermines race, gender and nationality, while simultaneously being dependent on individual circumstances" (from the show statement).
First Class/Second Class
opening Thursday 31 March
6-9pm
Asya Geisberg gallery
537B W. 23rd St., NYC
In Pittsburgh on Friday nite, ModernFormations opens a two-man show of new work by Ron Copeland (Echoed From Empty Walls) and Steve Ehret (Buried by the Daisies).
Copeland has been avidly documenting abandoned buildings (of which there are no shortage) throughout the Rust Belt, finding inspiration from their textures, colors and moods to create large-scale installations using found objects such as wood, paper and much much more.
Ehret's paintings are influenced by low-brow artists and stylized by graffiti-like and cartoon-shaped figures, himself also often employing found materials to the piece.Echoed From Empty Walls (Ron Copeland)
Buried by the Daisies (Steve Ehret)
opening Friday 1 April
7-10pm
ModernFormations
4919 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh
Elsewhere in the Rust Belt, on Saturday nite our group North Coast Collective opens a show at Pink Eye Gallery in an interpretation of Ken Nordine's (yes, the Ken Nordine of the iconic voice-over) Colors album from 1967.
Black #1 - My True Love's Hair, 201120"x16", archival inkjet print
Internet display is really not good enough to accurately reproduce the subtle tonal variations and gradations in these dark images, so I hope that if you're able, you'll come out to the opening and see it larger in print.
Black #2 - Midnite (at the lake), 201120"x16", archival inkjet print
Colors
An interpretation of Ken Nordine's songs by the North Coast Collective
opening Saturday 2 April
6-11pm
Pink Eye gallery
3904 Lorain Ave., Cleveland
