Nuwandart
Gallery's 'The Happy Trail' ushers in 'The Haunting
of Deceased Artists' maze in October
"The
Happy Trail" -- The art of Jochen Ziems, Jonathan Aaron,
Laney D'Aquino, and Jennifer Strange opens Friday, October 5.
"The
Haunting of Deceased Artists" haunted maze opens Friday,
October 19.
"A"
Street Arts Building "End of Construction Party"
Sunday, October 14.
Plastic World News -- Ashland gallery Nuwandart will begin October
with a short, week-long collective exhibit, followed by a brief
closure before reopening later in the month with a haunted maze
installation for Halloween.
The
show, called "The Happy Trail," will feature
art by several Ashlanders, including Nuwandart gallery founder
Jochen Ziems and co-owner Jonathan Aaron, illustrator Laney D'Aquino,
award winning photojournalist Jennifer Strange, and other Artists.
Ziems will display his water paintings series, D'Aquino will show
watercolors, Aaron will display paintings and a sculpted tile
table, and Strange will bring a photographic series of street
life and the macabre in Paris, Berlin, Genoa and Amsterdam. Strange
won awards for photojournalism from the Alaska Press Club and
the Associated Press. D'Aquino is co-owner of The Illustrated
Sandwich and designs book and magazine covers.
The
opening is at 5 pm during the First Friday Art Walk on October
5th at the Nuwandart Gallery, 258 "A" Street. Aaron
said an open microphone will be available for performance, "for
people to express individual ideas about happiness."
"It's
kind of an intermission between bigger monthly viewings to get
ready for the haunted house," Ziems said. The haunted installation,
called "The Haunting of Deceased Artists," will
be built in the form of a maze in the gallery, and is scheduled
to open about a week before Halloween. It will involve the investment
of thousands of dollars, and work by Jordan Pease, Robin Downward,
and local artists.
