[DAC] Fwd: Second Gallery presents: WILDERLAND; The Second Gallery Drawing Exhibition

[Donna Penn]

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> From: "second gallery" <secondgallery at gmail.com>
> Date: December 1, 2006 5:50:15 PM EST
> To: secondgallery at secondgallery.org
> Subject: Second Gallery presents: WILDERLAND; The Second Gallery  
> Drawing Exhibition
>
>
> We at Second Gallery hope you can make it to:
>
> Wilderland
> The Second Gallery Drawing Exhibition
>
> December 9 – January 7
>
> Opening Reception Saturday December 9th, 8 to 10 pm.
>
> Gallery Hours: Wed - Sat, noon to 6.
>
>     * Shaun Kessler
>     * Evan Quigley
>     * Eric Shaw
>     * Jonah Stern
>     * Anna Trzaska
>     * Brian Willmont
>     * Zoe Wright
>
> All works for sale; all proceeds to support the gallery and the  
> artists.
> Buy art for  the holidays this year!
>
> Gallery Hours: Wed - Sat, noon to 6.
>
>
>
> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
>
> WILDERLAND
> The Second Gallery Drawing Exhibition
>
> December 9, 2006 - January 7, 2007
>
> Opening Reception: Saturday December 9, 2006, 8 to 10 pm.
>
> All works in this exhibition are for sale and all proceeds go  
> directly to support Second Gallery and participating artists.
>
> Second Gallery is pleased to present Wilderland, The Second Gallery  
> Drawing Exhibition, featuring works by Shaun Kessler, Evan Quigley,  
> Eric Shaw, Jonah Stern, Anna Trzaska, Brian Willmont, and Zoë  
> Wright. Second Gallery generally specializes in the exhibition of  
> installation, sculpture, and video work, but this winter Second  
> Gallery will be exhibiting the works on paper of these seven adroit  
> emerging artists.
>
> Though each artist in Wilderland explores his or her own set of  
> themes and questions, the works in this show are united by a shared  
> sense of openness to possibility, fantasy, and imagination. The  
> drawings in this exhibition tend to alter everyday objects and  
> traditional characters through unexpected imaginative  
> juxtapositions and the introduction of surprising and strange  
> elements. Some of the works in the show are playful and cartoonish  
> in style, while others are ripe with a sense of disconnection and  
> loss. All, however, reside in the freely associative realm of the  
> fantastical, through their strange and wonderful logics, these  
> works invite the viewer into the wilderland.
>
> The artists in Wilderland hail from across the US and Canada. Brian  
> Willmont ( www.brianwillmont.com) is a Boston based artist who has  
> exhibited most notably at the Mills Gallery at the Boston Center  
> for the Arts earlier in 2006. He is also the co-creator of Apenest,  
> a new bookzine featuring art and writing from artists and critics  
> in Boston and surrounding areas. Willmont's delicate drawings and  
> paintings often involve the juxtaposition of architectural spaces  
> with natural and imaginary environments. Eric Shaw, (www.  
> Ericshawdesign.com) also based in Boston, features his psychedelic  
> and often grotesque illustrations on apparel that is carried at a  
> number of venues around Boston including Bodega. Additionally in  
> Boston, Anna Trzaska ( www.annatrzaska.com) creates enchanting and  
> landscape-esque compositions that are rich in color and texture.  
> Based in Toronto, Evan Quigley's (www.evanquigley.com) drawn and  
> painted compositions investigate our relationships with everyday  
> objects and spaces in a way that is both playful and  
> discontinuitously dissonant. Quigley has exhibited widely  
> throughout Canada and the USA. Jonah Stern, based in Brooklyn,  
> creates cartoonish and juvenile depictions of creatures and  
> anthropomorphized objects that explore issues of masculinity and  
> nostalgia. Brooklyn based artist Shaun Kessler  
> ( www.shaunkessler.com) contributes to this exhibition a series of  
> collages that reference and build on the historical aesthetic of  
> psychedelia and the visual manifestations of fantasy novels, games,  
> and culture. Zoë Wright, based is Portland, Oregon, contributes a  
> series of drawings that ingeniously explore the relationships  
> between everyday objects and figures, the force of mark making and  
> image creation, and memory.
>
> Wilderland, The Second Gallery Drawing Exhibition. December 9 -  
> January 7. Opening Reception Saturday December 9th, 8 to 10 pm.  
> Shaun Kessler, Evan Quigley, Eric Shaw, Jonah Stern, Anna Trzaska,  
> Brian Willmont, and Zoë Wright. All works for sale; all proceeds to  
> support the gallery and the artists
>
> Second Gallery The Distillery 516 East 2nd Street South Boston, MA  
> 02127
> W: www.secondgallery.org E: secondgallery at gmail.com T: 617 413 9395
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> Second Gallery
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