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Patrick Pierce:
Paintings, sculpture, poetry
Alyshia Lien: Paintings, sculpture,poetry, video
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no choice gravity is a law ha
ha ha stuck in
luck what
the **** is a joke man
woman kind or un-
is bigger than the tropes of
the pluto-Kleptocratic now art rules statistics sneer at the tao
brings freedom from
stoplights
unfolds wings furled by
fate & now
now & now yes
yes & yes it gets better
is better
now best
AL/PP
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Reception:
Sat. Jan 28, 3pm
Discussion/Performance: Sat. Feb 11, 2pm
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Gravity : Stop
Patrick Pierce - Alyshia Lien
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Jan 17- Feb 11, 2012 119 Gallery 119 Chelmsford Street Lowell, MA 01851 www.119gallery.org |
For the first exhibit of the new year, Patrick Pierce and Alyshia Lien have turned 119 Gallery into a vast terrain of art, intended to lift viewers to new sensual and spiritual vistas with paintings, sculpture, video, and poetry. Gravity : Stop is a dreamscape, a play of materials and interactions that marries different elements with the shared vision of the artists. The two artists combine their talents in order to elevate ethereal art and mundane materials to a unified poetic purpose.
In this mixed media installation the function of art is levity, and the uplifting of physical nature and the human spirit. Joining substance and matter in new combinations, Pierce and Lien fuse them together to create an environment in which gravity stops. Their collaborative, stamped, improvisational poems float on the wall, encouraging us to find meaning in the words, as well as the spaces between them.
In Gravity : Stop, Lien re-imagines the notion of gravity. Her works represent her own experiences with the institution of art, and the fracturing forces she believes have pulled apart the spiritual and feminine. Her landscapes champion nature's disorder over scientific order. Her sculptures allow these feminine and masculine forces to exist in balance.
Like the poet William Blake, Patrick Pierce views man as the tongue of nature. Reclaiming man-made and natural debris and detritus, combining and merging them, he lifts them up to sing a new, exuberant song. Wood, metal, rope, and canvas are twisted and bound in a tension that elevates the title piece, Gravity: Stop in the center of the gallery.
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Alyshia Lien is an artist, and mother. Lien, a.k.a. ALIEN, was born in and currently lives in Lowell. Lien is a mixed-media painter, sculptor, and poet. She also performs occasional movement improvisations at art venues and galleries. Lien is inspired by all things in nature, ideals of love, gender studies, psychological identities, poetry, music, figures in motion, and anything in between..
Patrick Pierce is a sculptor and poet of life-long practice who moved his studio to Lowell, MA in 2001. He has had multiple one-man and group shows in New York including the Denise Bibro Fine Art, with L'Attitude Gallery and Larry Powers, and with the Turtle Gallery on Deer Isle, Maine. His work is included in collections across the country and has been reviewed in The Atlantic Monthly, The Boston Globe, and other publications.
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119 Gallery promotes contemporary and new media art, innovative ideas and cutting-edge techniques with a rich and diverse program of exhibitions, performances and community-based arts services. We welcome everyone to explore and experience new, innovative art.
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