Panel Discussion on visual performance

Add some food for thought to your Thanksgiving weekend.  An artists' panel discussion on visual performance, "Physical Endurance and Extended Time," will be held at 7p.m. this Friday, Nov. 28, at Gallery 510 Fine Art, 510 E. Fifth St.

The discussion is being held in conjunction with the visual performance art exhibit "Approaching Metronome" at Goloka gallery, in which sculptor and painter Ryan McCullough is seeking to discover the space where sensory deprivation, identity and social expression intersect by becoming the very concept his art aims to explore. On Nov. 7, a sensory-deprived McCullough - outfitted with industrial earplugs and his eyes covered - began a residency in the gallery, creating art that was a visual representation of his experiences in his quiet darkness.

McCullough will participate in the panel discussion, along with Landon Crowell, the sculpture technician at Wright State University who has worked on extended time physical endurance art, and Jason Nein, who is in the Master of Fine Arts degree program in sculpture at Ohio University.  Thomas Macaulay of Wright State University will moderate.   

Gallery 510 Fine Art

Hi! I have not posted here for quite a while.  Lots of new things are going on with me and my art.  In October I expanded my gallery into the empty storefront next door.  I tripled the size of the gallery to 2400 sq. ft.  Part of the reason for doing this was to have more room to teach workshops.  I now have a space at the rear of the new gallery dedicated to teaching.  I also have room to showcase more of my artwork as well as the artwork of other wonderful artists.  

Currently on exhibit at Gallery 510 Fine Art are 20 of the watercolor paintings I did over the summer.  They are of the homes in the adjacent Oregon Historic District neighborhood. While I was painting a friend on mine, Doug Taylor, was taking photographs of the same locations and those photos are hanging with my paintings thru the month of November.

Gallery 510 Fine Art also has a wonderful group of paintings by Dayton artist and educator Curtis Barnes Sr.  The show is a preview exhibit for his upcoming retrospective at the University of Dayton December 9, 2008 thru January 30, 2009.  We have 23 of Mr. Barnes paintings, many of them recent 2008 canvases.

Gallery 510 Fine Art has many great holiday gifts...paintings, photographs, sculptures, fine pottery, handmade jewelry, art quilts, greeting cards, handcrafted natural soaps.  Please plan on stopping in sometime soon.  Gallery hours are Wed, Thu & Sat. 12-5, Fri 3-8 & by appointment.  Plan to lunch at Dublin Pub, Trolley Stop, Blind Bob's, Pacchia, Oregon Express or Thia 9 and stop by the gallery for a visit!