A
NON-PROFIT GALLERY
FOR
THE VISUAL AND
PERFORMING
ARTS
artspace @ Plant Zero
Zero
804.232.6464 Fax: 804.232.6465
Wed.-Sun.,
12 pm – 4 pm and by appointment
September 15, 2006
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
GALLERY EXHIBITION
September 22 through October 22, 2006
Opening Reception
Fourth Friday, September 22, 7-10 pm
Featuring Music by Rattlemouth
Rattlemouth is - Danny Finney: Saxophones, Robbie Kinter: Drums, Marc S. Langelier:
Bass, George Lowe: Guitar http://www.myspace.com/rattlemouth.
Charlie Ponticello
"Bullet
to Mars"
Winner of 2005 Sculpture Invitational
Main Gallery
Santa Sergio De Haven
"Out
of Context"
large paintings and collages
Helena Davis Gallery
Melissa Worthington
"Catch"
photography
Frable Gallery
Frances Wessells
Retrospective
Members' Gallery
Descriptions follow:
Charlie Ponticello
"Bullet
to Mars"
Winner of 2005 Sculpture Invitational
Main Gallery
Many individuals within
the science community have concluded from projected environmental models the
longevity of Earth’s life supporting resources are
at great risk. At present there are discussions and conceptual plans to
“probe” other planets in the event we have to make such a bold move
as to pack the station wagon and move out.
The movement of the giant
turning wheel, the unstoppable concocted economic patterns and growth, have
severed a large cross section of the human population from the responsibilities
that impact us as a whole.
Five minutes every day,
the world should fall silent: every human, down on the ground.
Listening…ears squeezed to the Earth. Such a profound move may just give
us the answers we need to devise a truce and re-forge a sacred bond of
equilibrium.
Santa Sergio De Haven
"Out
of Context"
large paintings and collages
Helena Davis Gallery
Color, form and
composition coalesce in the work of Santa Sergio De Haven. The two-dimensional
collages create a deep and still pictorial space in which objects exist in a moment
of clarity. De Haven works with a surreal vocabulary in sculpture, painting and
drawing. The “real”, pulled from
context, become shape, color, texture. The original
intentions of the images haunt all the collages, sometimes insistently.
The collages range from
the very small, 3 inches square, to poster size images, but the sense of size
in all is consistent within De Haven’s complex cosmology. The vision is contemplative, but often sly, in its
metaphorical mix.
Melissa Worthington
"Catch"
photography
Frable Gallery
Catch includes the most recent works from Melissa Zieziula Worthington’s series of photo constructions
which have evolved from a comparison between fly fishing and dating into a
study of transmogrification in the game of physical attraction and beyond.
Poster sized, humorous and uncomfortably eye catching, these vignettes of
personified fishing lures question the authenticity of every interaction
leading to a first date. The series title has a fitting double meaning,
suggesting both a desired result and an imminent snag. To see past examples
from the series, visit www.melissazworthington.com.
Thank you! Enjoy
the Show.