montpelier video salon
JURIED VIDEO SALON
ON VIEW FRIDAYS AND SATURDAYS 5:30-7:30 THROUGH NOVEMBER 19.
WE WONDER…
The Susan Calza Gallery, in collaboration with the Montpelier Public Art Commission, and Montpelier Alive ArtWalk, presents three evenings of public video projections in downtown Montpelier on October 6, 7 and 8 from 7:00 - 9:00pm. The location is 22 Main Street, home of The Drawing Board and the Savoy Theater. The videos will be projected on the left side of the brick building, adjacent to Shaw's Supermarket. There will be an indoor venue at The Susan Calza Gallery at 138 Main Street. The exhibition is curated by Gallery Director Susan Calza and Assistant Director Kelly Holt.
Artists, Collaborations and titles of the videos are as follows (approximately 5 minutes in length each):
Arthur Bell & Katharine Montstream collaboration - “Winter Swimming”
Susan Calza - “Street Angels”
Molly Davies - “NYC in the Rear View Mirror”
Tatiana Florival - “Imagined Conversation #1”
Monica Frisell & Peter Franceschetti (collaboration) - “Studio Visit”
Lukas Huffman & Erika Senft Miller (collaboration) - “Kintsugi Angel”
John Killacky & Arthur Bell - (FLOW, 2017)
Gregory Scheckler - “Timepieces”
Semiliminal Research Group (Sean Clute & Leif Hunneman)
- “Lost Objects from the Subsurface”
Dayton J. Shafer - “American Soliloquy VIII: Gauntlet”
Andrea Wasserman - “WHERE ARE THE TREES”
Christopher Wiersema - “Winter Jazz Ice Harvest (1919) (2022)”
Bell and Montstream’s: “Winter Swimming”, “grew out of Covid…a number of us on our own and collectively were looking for a way to quiet our minds and in some cases, sleep better.”
Calza’s “Street Angels” is a meditation on the exoticization and exploitation of beauty and homelessness.
Davies’ “NYC in the Rear View Mirror” documents heading north with memories of New York days.
Florival’s “Imagined Conversation #1 presents five rebels throughout history, real and imagined, stuck in a cave. Together they discuss human rights, revolutions, justice, and more.
Frisell and Franceschetti’s “Studio Visit” is an intriguing look on artistic process.
Huffman and Senft Miller’s “Kintsugi Angel” responds to an increasingly polarized world, creating a cinematic experience that explores the universal feelings of displacement and the longing to belong.
Killacky and Bell’s “FLOW, 2017” depicts tears, purification, and joy flowing.
Scheckler’s “Timepieces” is a digital animation of silverpoint drawings. The imagery references natural movements of waves, oscillations, and feedback cycles in local geologies.
Semiliminal Research group’s: “Lost Objects from the Subsurface” is a vast oceanic video-space littered with detritus representing loss, memory and longing.
Shafer’s : deconstructs evolving masculinity—a space where lessons can be learned, views shifted, rehashed, halted, paths are taken, or not.
Wiersema’s “Winter Jazz Ice Harvest (1919) (2022)” is a desktop documentary video and soundscape meditating on winter, poverty, and archival film footage of a Pennsylvania ice harvest from 1919.
Wasserman’s “WHERE ARE THE TREES” balances the interconnected life force of trees raising awareness about trash and the relationship between our disposable society and the ecological balance of our natural habitat.
The Montpelier Video Salon will be held rain or shine (barring severe weather). Any cancellations will be announced on the Gallery’s social media @thesusancalza gallery. All participants are welcome to bring their own chairs for watching the Salon outdoors. The Montpelier Video Salon is sponsored by: Montpelier Public Art Commission and the City of Montpelier.
IN THE GALLERY…”Listening - Stories from Red Oculus “ Calza’s in process video of stories collected from her Red Oculus Sculpture in 2021& 2022. And continued viewing of the Montpelier Video Salon.
Video Salon is hosted by the Montpelier Public Art Commission in participation with Montpelier Alive’s ArtWalk on October 7.
