THE GANTALIST
The Art of Being Jerry Gant
A DuboisAshong Film

Friday, May 18, 2012
Doors open at 8pm
Screens at 9pm

Solo(s) Project House – 5th Floor

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The World Premiere Screening of “THE GANTALIST” a documented account of fine artist Jerry Gant who has made Newark, New Jersey his home for 50 years. This documentary showcases the life, work, trials and tribulations of an artist who has never surrendered his vision to please anyone other than himself.

Dubois Ashong is a documentary filmmaker on the rise – representing a new generation of young, dynamic storytellers. With a creative vision that bends all the rules, the drive and passion of Dubois and team is reflected in his latest, and admittedly, his most determined work to date. The Gantalist is an intense and intimate profile of artist Jerry Gant, whose unique life and work is chronicled/explored by Dubois through 9 months of shadowing, conversations, interviews and shared experiences.

SOUND DESIGN, MIX, & ENGINEERED by Melvin Jones Jr
Musical Contributions by Mello Mel & Sah Ril

STATE OF EXPLANATION
Solo(s) Project House in conjunction with the PAC
May 5, 2012
10 am – 10 pm

468 Totowa Ave
Paterson, NJ

Athena Barat
Daniel Patrick Helmstetter
Dave Lancet
Joshua Knoblick
Hannah Craft
Kelly Ann Pinho
Kylie Lefkowitz
Lori Merhige
Meghann Snow
Victoria Hanks
and more

Site specific installations and performances that will be exhibited May 5, 2012 during the Annual Paterson Art walk.

Non-traditional art forms tend to strike an age old question: “Is this Art”, challenging the artist’s intentions and place them in a constant state of explanation. “State of Explanation” will glorify the “out-of-the-box” initiative that each artist has taken.

To view the site: http://solosprojecthouse.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/PAC.jpg

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Solo(s) Speak: Q & A with ASHLI SISK
Thursday, April 19, 2012
7 – 10pm
Refreshments Served

Join Solo(s) Project House for an evening of Q & A with featured artist, Ashli Sisk. Her current solo exhibition, “BIG GAME” is on display from March 23, 2012 through May 17, 2012.

ABOUT: ASHLI SISK “BIG GAME
Solo(s) Project House presents Ashli Sisk: “Big Game” from March 23, 2012 – May 17, 2012.

Sisks brings to us a survey of fur, fantasy and the portrait of the beast. “Big Game” will introduce viewers to the ever-changing human perspective of a variety of animals. An animal in a dwindling population is branded a mascot and separated from the swarm of beasts. Slipping iinto extinction where it only exists in medium transforming then into the fantastical beast never alive- and unable to die, a Golem.

“Whether the animal is small or profoundly huge or weird looking, I endeavor to put these animals in a space that reflects the shifting human attitudes towards them- which meditates on the human implications of such attitudes as human animals reflect on nature changing, dying and extinguishing.”

The frames and artifacts that surround her paintings serve as part of the work. Within this context also discuss the idea of the museum, and the mortuary, as well as the history of painting. Frames have their own language, expressing time and quality, cost, art conservation, and prevailing attitudes about how art is seen depending on the time period.

“The Art Museum and The Natural History museum Collide- one part Taxonomy,and one part Wunderkammer in this exhibition, the questions I am asking is Is there a way to preserve something without changing it completely?Where does the human animal fit in the natural world? And what is the natural world?” -Ashli Sisk

Ashli Sisk is from Northern California, Where she attended San Francisco Art Institute. As recent transplant to the East Coast, she attends Montclair State University. She brings to her practice a background in Archeology and Cultural Anthropology, Animal Sciences and Biology, Gnosticism and Theatre, Magic and Divination.

www.ashlisisk.com