Visual Art Exhibit / Salon
6-9pm
free
STUDIO Z: 1ST Thursdays @ Zeitgeist
presents

Zeitgeist Gallery’s Studio Z
presents
A Night of Spectacle
with
The Assembly

With The Assembly, prepare to be thoroughly immersed in a visual and sonic shakedown. This Boston-based art collective, consisting of Travis Fuller, Matthew Goldstein, Nicole Margaretten and Ted Sweeney, exists to invert commonplace imagery and ideals. Their bent is to provoke the viewer into considering previously unquestioned notions. Their installations/performances deconstruct and then reassemble, disrupting the usual roles of artist and audience, while playing out the results in a broader socio-political context.

Matthew Goldstein’s interior landscape leads visitors down a passageway comprised of found urban waste. Participants are encouraged to find the beauty and the disgust generated by our destructive society. Ted Sweeney constructs narratives by using 4 ft. pedestals that display visually pristine sentences. Carefully selected words trigger specific audience responses, which are then questioned and examined.

Two performances take place within these installations. In “Sip The Cycles That Kills The Seed,” Travis Fuller couples meditative and violent actions with sound. His reappropriation of “The National Anthem” subverts the usual conditioned complacent response and promotes a holistic approach to change. Closing the night is Nicole Margaretten with her “The First Day of Summer” which chisels away at behavioral constructs by manipulating artificial skin tone, a kiddy pool, hot dogs, watermelon and noise.

Members of The Assembly have exhibited work in New York, throughout New England and on Resonance FM, which broadcasts out of London (UK).

Studio Z - a curated art event - is an opportunity for 5-7 artists to show and sell their work for one evening, the first Thursday of each month, from 7-11 pm. Studio Z is also an opportunity for the public to see, talk about, and purchase fine art immediately and informally, sometimes directly from the artist. A salon atmosphere will prevail, with lively discussion. Temporary exhibit walls will be brought in to display the work. The art will be both inexpensive and of fine quality. Admission is free, and light refreshments will be served.

Contact for the Zeitgeist Gallery:
Mary Curtin [marycurtinproductions], 617-241-9664, 617-470-5867 (cell), marycurtin@hotmail.com