- Milepost 5
- Remember, developers, you can’t de-cut a red ribbon
In the wake of the conversation surrounding Sarah’s Milepost 5 (MP5) piece, I wanted to point out that the management of the “community designed to provide [artists with] affordable live/work spaces” is keeping at least some of their promises. Namely, a quartet of on-site gallery spaces featuring both resident and visiting artists— and a PR team to megaphone the corresponding exhibitions to folks like myself (after all, it isn’t every landlord that will help you get your work in front of an audience larger than the people hanging out in your living room).
Regardless of whether or not these art openings— and the tenants themselves— are just “window dressing [to sell] some condos,” as commenter papa smurf argued in response to Sarah’s story, new exhibits have been rolling along at a monthly clip.
The openings fall on First Friday (which happens to be going down tonight), the art walk spanning many destinations East of the river.
Click on past the jump for details on tonight’s First Friday openings at Milepost 5, which run from 6-10 pm, alongside two floors of open studios and an array of on-site businesses that will stay open late for guests.
- Kally Kahn
- Kally Kahn’s “With Inside,” on view at Denizen Gallery
Denizen Gallery, a space dedicated to the work of MP5 residents, offers Milepost 5 Photographers: A Showcase. According to the press release, “The work approaches themes of family, the circus, portraiture, landscape, nature, and the mundane through a variety of styles, ranging from alternative printing processes, mural size prints, digital, black and white traditional processing, and sculptural.” Featured artists are as follows: “Michelle Mitchell, Kally Kahn, Verone Flood, Peter Turner, Mark Clawson, Penny Michelle Taylor, Teresa Behlke, Will Elder, Brenda Ubhoff and Jakob Ferrier.”
- Keith Dillon
- Keith Dillion’s “Raising Them Right in the US of A,” on view at Denizen Annex Gallery
Adjacent to Denizen is the Denizen Annex Gallery, which is presenting Digitalx3: Dreams and Visions, an exhibit of digital work by MP5 residents Dana Henderson, Curt Brandhorst, and Keith Dillion.
- Rhoda London
- From Rhoda London’s The Representation of Space
Over in Gallery 5, a space featuring non-resident artists, The Representation of Space by Rhoda London will debut. The installation “signifies the place where the outside world intersects with [London’s] paintings by enhancing the notions of space on the canvas and in ‘real’ space.” Here’s a little blurb that London wrote about her piece:
The paintings have become part of a performative act of dissection, they went from being four large canvases concerning ideas about beauty, representation, and self-image to a series of fragments, intuitively chosen and cut, which can be continually reconfigured in new sequences. The re-sequencing of the canvas segments creates new, non-linear narratives, which relate to strategies in contemporary film, video and photography.
Finally, the Plumbum Gallery is hosting its maiden exhibition, New Work by Janet Julian and Liam Marshall— and at 7 pm, Post5 Theater will present Romeo and Juliet in the courtyard.
It’s all free, and if you haven’t been out to Milepost 5, it’ll be a good chance to see things first hand. 6-10 pm, 900 NE 81st Ave.