OPUS APIS - Bee Oeuvre April 7-13
Gallery Sora, Tottori City, Japan
Is an exhibition that was inspired by my wondering how many bees, hours, and flowers went into a tablespoon of honey.
After understanding more about their role in nature and their roles within their bzzy hives, I was motivated to make art and to reach out to other artists to collaborate on some projects to offer tribute from us lowly humans.
Recently the voilinist/composer Jason Kao Hwang and the choreographer/dancer
Maria Mitchell, and me have been sharing inspirations from the Apis community, and plans are underway to create a performance of installation, dance, and music, Opus Apis.
And a collaborative exhibition will be held in Tottori Japan, with an installation of my work in combination with sculptor/printmaker
Koichiro Tokumochi of Tottori City, Japan. I have known and worked with Koichiro for over 20 years, with our first
colloaboration as co-curators, BRIDGE in 1995 held at Bronx River Art Center and Gallery. This will be the first time we will have an exhibit of our work together.
This will include a performance by Osaka-based dancer
Kumiko Fujishita , who will perform BIRTH OF THE QUEEN, to Jason's composition TRANSIENTS, from his new album
Crossroads Unseen.
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BEE WORK:
MORE THAN THE HONEY
BIGGER THAN MONEY
UNIVERSALITY OF BEE COMMUNALISM
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OPUS APIS Tottori is a multi-media installation of masks, hexagons, flowers, and other
Bee-related imagery. One thing that's new for me is the hexagon, which I explored as a recurring symbol, playing with it as "Bee Money," a musical instrument, and broach. It's fascinating that bees produce the wax used in constructing their hives from their body; when we humans make our homes we're taking from everything around us. But then,
who would want to live in...do-do and other human wastes, which are the only thing we produce from our bodies!
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SOME BEE IMAGEZZZ
The two above designs by Koichiro Tokumochi
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BEES BY KOICHIRO TOKUCMOCHI
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...LEAVING TOTTORI AND RETURNING TO DA APPLE...
THE NEW TIMES HOLLER!
WHERE HAVE ALL THE HOMEYS GONE?
Amir Bey, 1995 Sheet Aluminum, Copper Foil, Brass, Acrylic on Plywood
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BORO ART: A Shout Out From the Bronx; Group Show
Debra Vanderburg Spencer, Curator
April 19 - June 19 Opening Reception Thursday, April 26 5 - 7:30
The Interchurch Center
475 Riverside Drive Suite 240
New York, NY 10115-0240
212-870-2200
This will be the first time for me to exhibit more than one (three out of eleven total) of the early editions of THE NEW TIMES HOLLER!, which were originally visual pieces. Words were written by hand-stamping each letter individually onto sheet aluminum plates that were donated by Bob Blackburn from the Pintmaking Workshop, before the Cyber Age.
This will be a great group show, and the space has interesting features for displaying work. This will be the first of a series of exhibitions that Spencer will curate that will eventually cover all 5 boroughs of New York. The participating artists are: John Ahearn; Jeanine Alfieri; Justin Allen; Bill Behnken; Amir Bey; Betty Blayton Taylor; Elena Bouza; Melissa A. calderón; Hatuey Ramos Fermin; Xavier Figueroa; Hashimoto Kuniyasu; Daniel Hauben; and Hrvoje Slovenc.
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