CHINESE SOUND ARTISTS at 13 E Tulane

Monday, April 4th.
8:00 - 10:00
$5.00 for the artists.

Yan Jun
www.yanjun.org
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5V52i0KI4w0

Li Jianhong
http://www.douban.com/artist/lijianhong/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRKEZ9y1lZ0

Wang Fan
http://www.myspace.com/wangfanofficial
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zu6g3KRO3iM

Solo sets and performances with local artists.

WAGGLE and SQUIRM

an open-studio reception of work by Ryan Agnew at 13 E Tulane Rd, Columbus (behind CupO'Joe in Clintonville)

Wednesday, April 13th
5:30 to 8:30 pm

GCAC’s OPPArt: Opportunities for Artists

GCAC’s OPPArt: Opportunities for Artists comes to ITLOOKSLIKEITSOPEN at 13 East Tulane

Monday, March 21st, 6-7:30pm

“Artists in the Community” is GCAC’s newest grants and services program designed to support individual artists in the community. New fellowships, supply grants and much more will be available in 2011. While these opportunities are not available to students, it is never too early to learn about what opportunities are out there to prepare for a career in Columbus as a professional artist. Join Ruby Classen in this informative session where she will de-mystify GCAC’s Artists in the Community application program and provide some one-on-one consultation in an informal environment. Bring your ideas and questions.

RSVP to attend this event, rclassen@gcac.org .

Walk-ins welcome, space allowing. Some seating provided, feel free to bring a chair or pillow.

www.gcac.org

FLOWING

Meagan Alwood / Aaron Troyer

Saturday February 26, 2011 7-10pm

Open Meditation

Sunday February 13th, 1:00-2:30pm

All are welcome to join and sit quietly together with us. Seth Josephson will facilitate with a short discussion of loving-kindness meditation. Participants are welcome to practice any form of meditation or prayer they feel comfortable with and are invited to share their techniques and the experience of getting to know themselves with awareness. Two 20 minute sessions will be followed by tea. Donations to the It Looks Like It's Open space are welcome.

"When compassion fills my heart,
free from all desire,
I sit quietly like the earth.
My silent cry echoes like thunder
throughout the universe."
-Jalal Ad-Din Rumi

image of handmade glass stones by Keikichi Honna, 2010

updates, shift and change in the studio

the studio at 13 east tulane is shifting and changing over time. we originally started out with a humble studio on summit in the winter of 2009. the idea for a space was conceived of by jamie boyle and herb vincent peterson, who later invited aimee sones, adele mattern and ryan agnew to join them. the studio on summit was not the right location and the group moved to our present location at 13 east tulane in the spring of 2009.

lots of making and events have occurred since then and are archived here on the blog.

adele relocated to massachusetts where she continues to practice. her website is www.adelemattern.com

jamie boyle recieved a greater columbus arts council neighborhood arts program grant to support the video support group film school in the spring of 2010.

jessica larva joined the studio in the fall of 2009.

mike shiflet joined the studio in the fall of 2010 and began hosting the Monumental Documents Listening Sessions and It Sounds Like It's Open on tuesday evenings.

studio mates winter 2011, from left to right: mike shiflet, jessica larva, herb vincent peterson, aimee sones and ryan agnew (center)

studio mates may 2009, from left to right: aimee sones, jamie boyle, herb peterson, ryan agnew and adele mattern

MEDITATIONS

Open Meditation
Sunday Jan. 9th, 11:00am

All are welcome to join and sit quietly together. Seth Josephson (Buddhist Network of Central Ohio and MA/PhD student at OSU's Department of Comparative Studies) will facilitate with an introduction to Zen and other Buddhist meditation styles. Participants are welcome to practice any form of meditation or prayer they feel comfortable with and are invited to share their techniques and the experience of getting to know themselves with awareness. Two 20 minute sessions will be followed by tea. Participants are welcome to bring a cushion. Donations to the It Looks Like It's Open space will be accepted.

"Learn to take the backward step that turns the light inward to illuminate the self. Body and mind of themselves will drop away, and your original face will manifest."- Dogen Zenji


image of handmade glass stones by Keikichi Honna, 2010

THE HUSH HUSH with MYCELIA

Echo at the Kuhn Fine Arts Gallery

Curated by Orion Barrett, this show explores themes of nature and loss in the works of Aimee Sones, Jessica Larva and Molly Jo Burke. The show will be up until December 13th, 2010.

Molly Jo Burke

Jessica Larva (prints), Aimee Sones (aluminum foil mountain)

Jessica Larva (prints), Aimee Sones (aluminum foil mountain) and Molly Jo Burke (sculpture on rear wall)

ARTIST HYPE

JOEY

"i paint heads and knuckles, self-taught, with honors"

MONSOON

Lindsay Gallery, 986 N High St, Columbus OH 43201, 614-291-1973

http://www.joeymonsoon.com/

HANNAH BARNES

And at the Hour of Our Death, works by HERB VINCENT PETERSON

Sean Christopher Gallery at Health Perspectives

815 N. High St., suites H & N, Columbus Ohio 614-291-5890

Open Wed.-Fri. 3:30-5:30 p.m., 1st Sat. 6-10 p.m., remaining Sat. 1-3 p.m. and by appointment, through 11/27

ARTIST HYPE

David Staniunas had a show August 2010 at It Looks Like It's Open with Adam Hinterlang. David and his partner, artist Sara Gallo, moved to Philadelphia this fall. I caught up with him in Columbus while he was installing his work at ROYGBIV Gallery. David's recent completion of the Kent State University's MLIS program has something to do with the recurring depictions in his work of a character performing various specialized tasks vaguely referencing information science and blowing bubbles. Works included in the photos below are acrylic on canvas and guache on paper. David's work will be up at ROY through Nov 27, along with superb photos and video by Takeshi Moro. An artists' talk is scheduled Saturday, Nov 27th at 2:30pm.

LINKS:

SKYLARKING by David Staniunas and Adam Hinterlang here and here

Gallostan site and blog

ROYGBIV Gallery here

Takeshi Moro

-Ryan

TUESDAY NIGHTS

Mike Shiflet is curating two weekly series at 13 East Tulane here in Columbus: It Sounds Like It's Open, an open-to-all improvisation session, and the Monumental Documents Listening Sessions, in which classic experimental recordings are played through our PA at concert-level volume. The events will alternate in an 8:00 to 10:00 time slot on Tuesday nights, beginning October 12th. More info below.

It Sounds Like It's Open
This bi-weekly mass improvisation session is free and open to all,
acoustic, electric, and electronic instruments and non-instruments are
all welcome. If you plan on playing something electric, please bring
your own amplification suitable for playing alongside unamplified
acoustic instruments. The format for this is still being worked out,
and we will try a few different approaches the first few weeks before
democratically deciding on one (or not).

Monumental Documents Listening Sessions
This series will kick off Tuesday, the 19th, with two Pauline Oliveros
recordings, Primordial Lift and Alien Bog. As the concepts behind the
Listening Sessions take inspiration from Pauline’s philosophy of Deep
Listening, it only seemed right to initiate the series with selections
from her vast discography. Feel free to bring a computer, book,
homework, what have you to these sessions. Though inspired by deep
listening, 100% devotion to the recordings is not required at these
events. As long as it is not disruptive to others, you can do as you
please while listening.

The schedule of events for the next few weeks is as follows:
10.12: It Sounds Like It's Open
10.19: Listening Session: Pauline Oliveros
10.26: It Sounds Like It's Open
11.2: Listening Session: John Tilbury and David Tudor
11.9: It Sounds Like It's Open
11.16: Listening Session: Revue OU: Sound Poetry Anthology
11.23: It Sounds Like It's Open
11.30: Listening Session: Orchestral Space 1966

For more info, feel free to email Mike at monumental.documents@gmail.com
or look up Monumental Documents on Facebook.

WITCH-HAZEL TREE

now blooming in front of the studio

STEFAN LENKE

Stefan Lenke (Dresden, Germany)

miles away from home

Viewing/Reception October 9th 6-9pm

Stefan weighing the paintings he made in USA.

CLINTON THEATER WHAT's NEXT?

NONSTOP INSTITUTE PRESENTS:

Local Stories--an Oral Histories Project - opening
* When: September 25 – Saturday – 7pm
* Where: Nonstop Institute, 305 N. Walnut, Yellow Springs
* Cost: Pay as you are able
http://nonstopinstitute.org/nonstop-presents/local-stories-an-oral-histories-project/

This Saturday evening, September 25th, the Nonstop Institute welcomes all to its “Local Stories--an Oral Histories Project,” opening with works by Ryan Agnew, Dennie Eagleson and Jonny No & John Hempfling. During this summer’s residency program (made possible in part by the generous support of the Yellow Springs Community Foundation) our guest artists have developed a varied set of responses to the oral histories theme. Along with individual choices in media and method, each brings a unique approach to the topic of ‘local stories,’ capturing and creating personal narratives and perspectives outside of center that otherwise risk falling through the cracks, attending to personal and collective memory, meaning, imagination, and the legitimacy of voice.

Particular works to be presented include:

“ Wildflower Honey” a temporary installation of drawings, notes and recorded audio charting cycles of discovery experienced, remembered or imagined during this summer’s engagement with Yellow Springs by Columbus-area artist Ryan Agnew;

“ Threshing Day, Medway, Ohio, 1934,” a multimedia installation based upon artifacts and accounts of Milly Bell Wallace and a local family’s efforts to live and cope through the Depression era, by documentary and fine art photographer and sustainable farming advocate, Dennie Eagleson;

“ Public Prohibited / Minor Infractions: The Control and Criminalization of Youth Culture in Yellow Springs, Ohio,” a documentary survey of youth perspectives on the diminished availability of public space accompanied by increasingly assertive law enforcement pressure, by media makers and Yellow Springs Youth Council members, Jonny No & John Hempfling.

Collectively and individually these artists and their works endeavor to expand and thoughtfully contribute to the public dialogue of our community. Please come to the opening and join in the discussion this Saturday evening beginning at 7 at Nonstop, 305 N. Walnut Street.

Open hours for the exhibition will be from 1-4pm on Saturdays in October, or by appointment.

For further information please contact Chris Hill at chris.hill@nonstopinstitute.org

MATT DIETZ

WORKS BY MATTHEW DIETZ
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 10th 7-10PM
IT LOOKS LIKE ITS OPEN, 13 E TULANE RD, COLUMBUS 43202

“I started working solely with making abstractions in the year 2000. I have used many different methods and processes to create abstractions. I like to work in a kind of creative stumble, I will use drawing, observation and repetitive processes, to give the work some intentionality.”
-Matthew Dietz

HANNAH BARNES

Hannah Barnes, Quad, 2010

Hannah Barnes, Avo, 2010

WORKS BY HANNAH BARNES

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 4th 7-10PM

IT LOOKS LIKE ITS OPEN, 13 E TULANE RD, COLUMBUS 43202

Hannah Barnes was born in Bridgewater, Massachusetts and currently lives and works in Muncie Indiana. Barnes received her BFA in Painting from Maine College of Art and her MFA in Visual Art from Rutgers State University of New Jersey. Her work has been exhibited in galleries nationally including Work Gallery and Hogar Collection in Brooklyn NY, the Ohio State University in Columbus OH, Hay Gallery in Portland ME, Hello Gallery in New Haven CT, Arthouse Contemporary in Austin TX, and the Shore Institute for Contemporary Art in Long Branch, NJ. Barnes has been a visiting artist and lecturer at Ohio State University, Kent State University, and Maine College of Art and is currently Assistant Professor of Painting at Ball State University.

Barnes's work draws on traditional media and painterly craft to explore themes of ambiguity, fragmentation, and the rejection of overt meaning in painting. For this exhibition, Hannah will incorporate recent painting and works on paper into the studio-as-gallery.

SKY THING

SKY THING / JUSTIN CLIFFORD RHODY / THE LAVENDER BONK

MONDAY AUGUST 30th 8PM

13 E TULANE RD, COLUMBUS 43202

Cost: $5 suggested donation

SKY THING is a sampler/drum duo from Ft. Wayne Indiana. You can hear what they sound like and scope out more info about them here: www.myspace.com/skything. They have a new cassette & cd-r that just came out on "friends & relatives" records, amongst their other projects and releases. JUSTIN CLIFFORD RHODY will present a 35mm slide show of photographs alongside a soundtrack of old scuffed records. THE LAVENDER BONK is a vibraphone/bass duo from Columbus and this is their first show.

Sky Thing

Ryan Jewell

Justin Clifford Rhody

SHIP: ARTillery (THE GATEWAY)

Artists at 13 E. Tulane

at 1570 N High St. in the South Campus Gateway

The Ohio State University Campus

August 19-29

photo by Ryan Chitwood

ROMARIC SOBAC

SUPERB MANATEES

WORKS BY ROMARIC SOBAC

FRIDAY AUGUST 27th 7PM

13 E TULANE RD, COLUMBUS 43202

Romaric Sobac has been playing improv shows, mostly in Paris, over the last ten years, playing stuff like radios and tapes. His shows are jazz-inspired, constituting an extremely intense physical statement, wrapped up in a mixture of desperate humor and dada-like absurdity and driven by accumulation of objects, mostly found, which are assembled together to form as he calls them “des tas de bouse”. For this project, Sobac will make up an exhibition with stuff found on the US land. He also will show his obsessions with Elvis Presley and bass players.

Two links to a show he had in Orleans, France this year :
http://mixar.fr
http://vimeo.com/10065979

Sobac will also perform with Nicolas Murer Wednesday August 25th at Skylab, 57 E Gay St, Downtown, 5^th Floor and Saturday August 28th 6PM at Used Kids Records, 1980 N. High St.

photos by Ryan A

OHIO STATE FAIR 2010

PIG RACE


FRIED TWINKIE FRIEND

NOVELLER & unFACT

Noveller is the solo project of Brooklyn-based guitarist and filmmaker
Sarah Lipstate. Using looped guitar phrases, Lipstate creates an
ecosystem of sound populated by colors and textures that parallel her
16mm hand-painted visuals. Her new album, 'Desert Fires', is out now
on her own imprint, Saffron Recordings. She is previously a member
of Parts & Labor and Cold Cave. Noveller has toured supporting Xiu
Xiu, the Jesus Lizard, Man Forever, and Emeralds. Lipstate is
currently working with Carla Bozulich (Evangelista) on an improvised
duo release for No Fun Productions.

unFact is the solo bass project of David Wm. Sims. Using electric
bass guitars and an array of effects and looping devices, unFact
creates improvised instrumental canvases of noise and melody that
encompass fragile shards of memory and harrowing cascades of chthonic
fury. Sims is known for his work in the rock bands Scratch Acid and
the Jesus Lizard. He has toured as the bassist for Sparklehorse In
2009, Sims participated in the 200-guitar ensemble that performed Rhys
Chatham's "A Crimson Grail" at the Lincoln Center. He is currently
collaborating on recording projects with various artists including Big
Sir, Paul Amlehn, and Teledubgnosis. Sims lives in New York City and
is a recovering Certified Public Accountant.

Thanks to Mike Shiflet for putting this show together.

Links:

Noveller / Sarah Lipstate

unFact / David Wm. Sims

Mike Shiflet (Mike's blog)

Snippets:

Noveller

unFact

SKYLARKING

Pink Panswer by Adam and David

MARKER DRAWINGS

BY ADAM HINTERLANG & DAVID STANIUNAS

Featuring a Five Hour Rendition of the Horace Andy Classic Skylarking

Friday, August 6th

From 4-9 PM

13 East Tulane Rd

Columbus, OH 43202

http://www.adamhinterlang.com/skylarking/