Sorry the blog has been idle the last 3 days — lots of business to attend to here.  First off, the Eastside Art Crawl will be taking place on October 12, 13, & 14.  More info about participants [including sneak peaks at work and profiles of the local galleries] to be coming very shortly.

Also, tonight we open Diane Barcelowsky’s latest orgy of culture, religion, space, & time, ‘YELLOW BUCKETS OF BLOOD 2.’  We’ve been somewhat cryptic about the explanation of tonight’s proceedings, but finally, here is some more info from the parties involved. Diane Barcelowsky’s works on paper have been exhibited in New York, New Jersey, Boston, Pennsylvania,  Barcelona, Australia, Beijing, and England, and this specific body of work is a sequel to her solo show at Cinders Gallery in New York.

The performance of Yellow Buckets of Blood II: High Drama hints back to the classic tradition of opera
combining music, costume, acting, scenery and dance.  What is born dies and that is the only natural
narrative.

Cut from Diane Barcelowsky’s imagery the cast is set and the drama rises out of their blind and mute relations.  Dance and music guide the viewer through their own comprehension and imagination.  How does one explain the relationship between the Ancient Ancestors and the Purple Pie Man?

This is a journey that falls between life and death.

Afterlife provided by Tribal Tats, a band with Gothic dependencies.  DJ set by Kate Mccombs.

If you seek solace in predictions and scripture, whether they are true or false: the “Opera” will be 15 minutes in duration.  The characters will rise out of a coffin.  Each will dawn masks replicated from the works of Diane Barcelowsky. The masks create sensory obstructions blinding and muting the performers.  These restraints lend to the basis of miscommunication and perception, all the while heightening the drama of watching depraved bodies acting out on stage.  The original score is made up of an eclectic range ofinstruments, samples and vocals by Diane Barcelowsky a nd Brina Thurston.

Source materials include:
Opera structure, Pink Floyd’s interpretations on narrative and music, Rituals of religious, cultural and sexual nature, Improvised and choreographed dance, 2D and 3D, Helen Keller, Postcolonialism, Tap, &
Gothic.

Thoughts on this body of work by Ms. Barcelowsky-

From shadows of forgotten famous polish pedigree, emerges the artist.  What is drawn is drawn, and these are forever song-scapes, recapitulating Noah’s beasts, now dancing now prancing ‘pon loose leaf boughs, treasure folded in fanciful brushwood pen-work.  Oh for the love of the impoverished artist, please sing a song of six-pence, or spare more, for the artist has forgone her ashen spirit in return for this body of pleasure pictures.  Beholden are we, dear readers.  Here lies the spook of loons perched in a shady timber:  look out below! Crowds fall from the thick of the air.   There stood a ‘hood of roof beams raised high, inside the dream of a long-since scene:  the sky’s the limit!  Ships like snowflakes set to sea-fare. Imagine the great ecstasy of the artist as soothsayer, the motif of the hourglass lately inverted, and, ladies and gentlemen, children of all the ages, we are as the timeless spots in this latter-day looking glass.  Come, gather together ‘pon these grounds and sing the artist’s praises.
-b.kraft (a friend)