PIECE WORK POETRY READINGS

Join Garry Noland & Studios Inc for an afternoon poetry reading in his exhibition, “Piece Work”. The poetry reading will take place July 11th, from 2 to 4 pm, and will be accompanied with refreshments. Featured writers and poets will include Pyllis Becker, Anthony Procopio Ross, as well as Brandan & Hannah Griffin. The public is welcome to come and share their own writings as well!

“My studio practice is multi-disciplinary. The one constant is an openness to rough patches, glitches or mistakes. The presence of edges or boundaries between mistakes establishes immediate contextual and formal relationships. Those abutments mime our interaction with art and with each other.  Closer attention is paid to the verbs of making than to the finality of the resulting noun of the object. What happens when something is put next to something else is the thing.

What goes with what? What happens on either side of the line? What’s good and who decides? Sometimes I am the boss of the material but just as often the material, by virtue of chance arrangements, will tell me what needs to be done.

Art puns and mimes the systems and appearances we experience in both the non-human and human parts of nature. The oft-quoted role of the free press is "to afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted". Art's first cousin role, then, is to find the mundane in the grand and the grand in the mundane.” - Garry Noland Artist Statement

Piece Work will remain on view through August 1st. Gallery hours are Wednesday through Friday 10 am - 4 pm, and Saturdays 12 to 4 pm.