"Pink Moon" Exhibition
steven harvey fine art projects
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"Pink Moon" is a group exhibition inspired by the final album of the English folksinger Nick Drake (1948-1974) includes paintings by Gideon Bok, Duncan Hannah, Kurt Knobelsdorf, Sangram Majumdar, Stephanie Pierce and Stuart Shils, sculpture by Paul Villinski, music by D. M Stith and Arborea and film by Chris Wilcha. The exhibition will also include Michael Trevithick’s original painting used for the album design of "Pink Moon".
"Pink Moon", Nick Drake’s final “bare bones” masterpiece of voice and guitar was released in 1972, 2 years before his premature death from an overdose of antidepressants. Often considered to reflect the young singer’s increasingly fragile mental state it is also unquestionably a brilliant pop masterpiece, blending exquisite open guitar tunings with Drakes ethereal singing and abstract word pictures. "Pink Moon" is an album that continues to speak volumes to artists.
This exhibition was inspired by The Estate of Nick Drake’s vision of contemporary artists in different media having a ongoing dialog with Drake’s work. The Estate has lent Michael Trevithick’s original surrealist inspired painting for the "Pink Moon" album, to the exhibition allowing us this unique opportunity to see a seventies album design masterwork. Gideon Bok’s perceptually based paintings often feature record albums scattered around his studio in Maine along with motorcycles, musical instruments all sheltered from the snow glimpsed through the windows . Multiple images of a single copy of the "Pink Moon" lp record its movement across the studio floor.
In "Summer of Love", Anglophile painter Duncan Hannah portrays an upper class English idyll with a white shirted couple holding hands strolling by a lake across from a castle. Even with the moon glimpsed through the high window, Stephanie Pierce’s cell-like grey room with bed is a claustrophobic fairy tale prison.
In Paul Villinski’s installation sculpture of a blond electric guitar, black butterflies emerge out of a burnt hole. The exhibition “soundtrack” includes original music composed by Asthmatic Kitty recording artist D.M. Stith and songs by Maine based “psyche folk” duo Arborea, who will also perform in a “house concert” at the gallery. Emmy award winning documentary filmmaker Chris Wilcha focuses his quirky and personal documentary sensibility on "Pink Moon".
"Pink Moon", the exhibition, explores the hidden dimensions of connectivity in between music and art (and specifically painting.) In doing so, it seeks to reconsider the resonance of a pop masterwork in contemporary terms.
[Image: Michael Trevithick, painting for "Pink Moon" cover (1971) gouache on board 27 x 41 in.]
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Schedule
from April 02, 2011 to April 30, 2011
Opening Reception on 2011-04-02 from 17:00 to 19:00