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March 12th, 2009 - 7-11pm - Open Studio with John Hawaka and Jill Caporlingua

John Hawaka
John Hawaka
 
Jill Caporlingua - Electric Amoeba
Electric Amoeba by Jill Caporlingua

Curator: Natalie Trainor
Exhibition duration: March 5-25, 2009
Live Music by: Terminal Reynaldo and Sugar Glyder

Admission: $5 (before 8pm), $7 afterwards

On Thursday, March 12th Alfa Art Gallery will host John Hawaka and Jill Caprolingua's Open Studio. Our open studio events allow visitors to learn about the artists' creative processes and techniques. Following Mr. Hawaka and Ms. Caprolingua's discussion will be a musical and visual collaboration of local and visiting artists. Reid Bingham will expand the space with original projection that will compliment the art of John Hawaka and the sounds of North Carolina's Sugar Glyder and Jersey City's Terminal Reynaldo.

The Open Studio event will take place during our upcoming exhibition, The Essence of Nature: John Hawaka's Solo Exhibition, which will be running from March 5th to March 21, 2009. The exhibition will display an array of Mr. Hawaka's experimental, large format, abstract works executed in the rare lacquer painting technique. The artist is one of the few artists in North America employing this technique.

The lacquer technique is a style and creative process based upon time and chemistry. It is a mysterious process because the artist is hesitant to disclose exactly how it is done. The outcome is myriad waves of bright colors akin to what one would find in a watercolor painting. Solvents control the lacquer, which creates one of a kind painting that is impossible to reproduce. For Mr. Hawaka there is no message in mind when painting. There are no magical words to explain what and why he is creating.  His art is his mistress, it controls him, he does not control the art.

Jill Caprorlingua, an artist's whose works were included in the last exhibition, Art Lines: Linear Abstractions in Graphic Design, Painting and Sculpture, explores the subject of science and the human body by painting dots of two or more colors upon the canvas to create a solid space. The artist abstracts images of microscopic cells, diseases and DNA strands by painting in a style that spatially organizes the microscopic images in a linear arrangement; thus presenting scientific images to the viewer in a decorative composition that recalls the style of Pointillism in the discourse of art history.

Reid Bingham is an electronics and video artist currently based in New Jersey.  He graduated from Rutgers College in 2007 with a B.A in the arts, spending most of his time making short video pieces and circuit bending. Now he is combining the two doing live visuals in the New Jersey and New York area.

Terminal Reynaldo and Sugar Glyder will be touring together throughout North Carolina, New Jersey, Virginia and New York this March.  To listen to the bands and to find out other venues they will playing in the surrounding area you can visit http://www.myspace.com/terminalreynaldo and www.myspace.com/sugarglyder

 

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