Avalanche Art Space

08/18/2022

Avalanche presents
GABRIELLE VICTORIA MEYEROWITZ :
[UN]TOUCHABLE BANQUET

“[UN]TOUCHABLE BANQUET” is a combination of multiple interactive installations using revived old-new works, poems in various mediums/formats, sound & video, and objects. At first, all seems untouchable - yet is felt sensually. Yet guests may find themselves arriving at satisfaction - or a feeling of fullness - upon completion of the feast.

VERNISSAGE: Friday August 19th 5 – 9pm

EXHIBITION PERIOD: 8/19 - 9/13, 2022 Weekend events through 9/13

HOURS: M-F 3-6 / Sat 1-7 and Garden Tours by appointment

Generous Sponsors: Berkshire Food Coop / Rubiner's

06/21/2022

AVALANCHE ART SPACE presents SARA S. WALLACH : ISLAND – Νησί

“ISLAND – Νησί” is a new series of bittersweet and melancholy photographs the artist made in the Spring of 2021. In this mid-pandemic period the artist traveled to Greece while the country’s EU borders were closed, revisiting Athens and Paros, locations she inhabited a decade earlier with a dramatically contrasting life experience. In this time, “I was simultaneously hollow with loneliness, knocking at the door of memories carrying their own old pain and isolation, but also connected to this place.” This exhibition marks Wallach’s second solo show at Avalanche.

PREVIEW: Friday June 24th 5-9pm, with a curated playlist by Dj Mishmash

OPENING: Saturday June 25th 5-9pm, with acoustic set by Michael Lesko + Dj Mishmash playlist

EXHIBITION PERIOD: June 24-July 17

HOURS: By chance or appointment

Preview and Opening Special Guests:

Friday and Saturday:
DJ Mishmash
Mishmash has created a specially curated mix of songs for the Island - Νησί opening that will take us around the world and surely make you want to Shazam.

Saturday:
Michael Lesko
will present a solo acoustic set consisting of Michael’s favorite songs off his recent album along with a batch of new songs he is preparing for the next album.

Sara S. Wallach (b.1993) is a fine art photographer. Her works stem from a lifelong interest in the themes of mess, ruin, death, and impermanence. After earning a bachelors degree in photography from Bard College, she lived in Eastern Europe, including Albania and Greece where she studied at the Aegean Center for Fine Arts in Paros, and later in London where she attended graduate courses at Goldsmiths.

05/10/2022

11/06/2020

Installation images from the exhibition “Censored”
Part 3

AVALANCHE ART SPACE presents CENSORED a collaboration between MISS EXPANDING UNIVERSE and photography duo GUZMAN. The exhibition takes two forms: Guzman’s exploration of Miss Expanding Universe and her muse Uncle Fingers, and a selection of erotic art that has been banned, chastised, and removed from view within daily public life.

Miss Expanding Universe (aka Ashley Yang-Thompson) is a poet, performance artist, painter, prankster, experimenter, and founder of WORM HOUSE: a PURE WEIRD HILARIOUS HEARTBREAKING EGO-DISPENSING graphic-novel-strip-tease-THING. She has won many accolades, but not as many as some of her friends.

Guzman (aka Constance Hansen and Russell Peacock) In the words of Miss Rosen, “You’ve been swimming in Guzman photographs for so long, you might not even know you’re wet... Possessed with the inimitable ability to blur the boundaries of genre, Guzman has been making some of the most innovative, influential, and iconoclastic advertising, fashion, n**e, sports, and celebrity photographs of our age.”

11/06/2020

Installation images from the exhibition “Censored”
Part 2

AVALANCHE ART SPACE presents CENSORED a collaboration between MISS EXPANDING UNIVERSE and photography duo GUZMAN. The exhibition takes two forms: Guzman’s exploration of Miss Expanding Universe and her muse Uncle Fingers, and a selection of erotic art that has been banned, chastised, and removed from view within daily public life.

Miss Expanding Universe (aka Ashley Yang-Thompson) is a poet, performance artist, painter, prankster, experimenter, and founder of WORM HOUSE: a PURE WEIRD HILARIOUS HEARTBREAKING EGO-DISPENSING graphic-novel-strip-tease-THING. She has won many accolades, but not as many as some of her friends.

Guzman (aka Constance Hansen and Russell Peacock) In the words of Miss Rosen, “You’ve been swimming in Guzman photographs for so long, you might not even know you’re wet... Possessed with the inimitable ability to blur the boundaries of genre, Guzman has been making some of the most innovative, influential, and iconoclastic advertising, fashion, n**e, sports, and celebrity photographs of our age.”

11/06/2020

Installation images from the exhibition “Censored”
Part 2

AVALANCHE ART SPACE presents CENSORED a collaboration between MISS EXPANDING UNIVERSE and photography duo GUZMAN. The exhibition takes two forms: Guzman’s exploration of Miss Expanding Universe and her muse Uncle Fingers, and a selection of erotic art that has been banned, chastised, and removed from view within daily public life.

Miss Expanding Universe (aka Ashley Yang-Thompson) is a poet, performance artist, painter, prankster, experimenter, and founder of WORM HOUSE: a PURE WEIRD HILARIOUS HEARTBREAKING EGO-DISPENSING graphic-novel-strip-tease-THING. She has won many accolades, but not as many as some of her friends.

Guzman (aka Constance Hansen and Russell Peacock) In the words of Miss Rosen, “You’ve been swimming in Guzman photographs for so long, you might not even know you’re wet... Possessed with the inimitable ability to blur the boundaries of genre, Guzman has been making some of the most innovative, influential, and iconoclastic advertising, fashion, n**e, sports, and celebrity photographs of our age.”

11/06/2020

Installation images from the exhibition “Censored”
Part 1

AVALANCHE ART SPACE presents CENSORED a collaboration between MISS EXPANDING UNIVERSE and photography duo GUZMAN. The exhibition takes two forms: Guzman’s exploration of Miss Expanding Universe and her muse Uncle Fingers, and a selection of erotic art that has been banned, chastised, and removed from view within daily public life.

Miss Expanding Universe (aka Ashley Yang-Thompson) is a poet, performance artist, painter, prankster, experimenter, and founder of WORM HOUSE: a PURE WEIRD HILARIOUS HEARTBREAKING EGO-DISPENSING graphic-novel-strip-tease-THING. She has won many accolades, but not as many as some of her friends.

Guzman (aka Constance Hansen and Russell Peacock) In the words of Miss Rosen, “You’ve been swimming in Guzman photographs for so long, you might not even know you’re wet... Possessed with the inimitable ability to blur the boundaries of genre, Guzman has been making some of the most innovative, influential, and iconoclastic advertising, fashion, n**e, sports, and celebrity photographs of our age.”

10/06/2020

09/18/2020

AVALANCHE ART SPACE
welcomes your attendance to the
Avalanche Garden video screening:

LINKED OBJECTS

Friday, September 18th, 7:30-9pm
Saturday, September 19th, 7:30-9pm
Sunday, September 20th, 7:30-9pm

Linked Objects presents a collection of 34 international artists' videos. The works are a meditation on our interconnectedness in times of isolation and forceful separation. Initiated by the International Environmental Art Symposium Nine Dragon Heads’ the event runs in tandem with the International ONLINE Art Festival GRAD – Moja Kuca, Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina

ARTISTS:
ALI BRAMWELL (NZ), ALOIS SCHILD (AT), ANTTI TENETZ (FI), BIRO JOZSEF (HU), BRUCE ALLAN (GB), BRIGITTE & GABRIELA (AT), CHANNA BOON (NL), CHRISTOPHE DOUCET (FR), DANIELA DE MADDALLENA (CH), DENIZHAN OZER (TK), DIEK GROBLER (ZA), . ENRIQUE GARCIA (CL), FRED LUIDE (CH), GABRIEL ADAMS (US), GORDANA ANDJELIC (B&H), HAROLD DE BREE (NL), HANNES EGGER (IT), ILIKO ZAUTASHVILI (GE), INGRID ROLLEMA (HL), JASON HAWKES (AU), JAYNE DYER (PT) JESSY THEO RAHMAN (SR), JOSEPHINE TURALBA (PH), KELLI SHARP (AU), LOIS SCHENK(AU), MAGDA GURULI(GE), MAX BUHLMANN(CH), MIKE WATSON & JUSSI (IT/FI), NANDIN EDRENE (MO), OONA HYLAND(IR), PANG HYOSUNG(KR), PAUL DONKER DUYVIS(NL), PARK BYOUNGUK(KR), PIETERTJE V. SPLUNTER(NL), PHIL DADSON(NZ), ROSH ABDELFATAH(SY), SO YOUNG(KR), SUSANNE MULLER CH), THOM VINK(NL),YOKO KAJIO(JP)

09/18/2020

AVALANCHE ART SPACE
welcomes your attendance to the
Avalanche Garden video screening:

LINKED OBJECTS

Friday, September 18th, 7:30-9pm
Saturday, September 19th, 7:30-9pm
Sunday, September 20th, 7:30-9pm

Linked Objects presents a collection of 34 international artists' videos. The works are a meditation on our interconnectedness in times of isolation and forceful separation. Initiated by the International Environmental Art Symposium Nine Dragon Heads’ the event runs in tandem with the International ONLINE Art Festival GRAD – Moja Kuca, Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina

ARTISTS:
ALI BRAMWELL (NZ), ALOIS SCHILD (AT), ANTTI TENETZ (FI), BIRO JOZSEF (HU), BRUCE ALLAN (GB), BRIGITTE & GABRIELA (AT), CHANNA BOON (NL), CHRISTOPHE DOUCET (FR), DANIELA DE MADDALLENA (CH), DENIZHAN OZER (TK), DIEK GROBLER (ZA), . ENRIQUE GARCIA (CL), FRED LUIDE (CH), GABRIEL ADAMS (US), GORDANA ANDJELIC (B&H), HAROLD DE BREE (NL), HANNES EGGER (IT), ILIKO ZAUTASHVILI (GE), INGRID ROLLEMA (HL), JASON HAWKES (AU), JAYNE DYER (PT) JESSY THEO RAHMAN (SR), JOSEPHINE TURALBA (PH), KELLI SHARP (AU), LOIS SCHENK(AU), MAGDA GURULI(GE), MAX BUHLMANN(CH), MIKE WATSON & JUSSI (IT/FI), NANDIN EDRENE (MO), OONA HYLAND(IR), PANG HYOSUNG(KR), PAUL DONKER DUYVIS(NL), PARK BYOUNGUK(KR), PIETERTJE V. SPLUNTER(NL), PHIL DADSON(NZ), ROSH ABDELFATAH(SY), SO YOUNG(KR), SUSANNE MULLER CH), THOM VINK(NL),YOKO KAJIO(JP)

09/17/2020

Open tonight!
6-9pm

Also Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, September 17-20 and anytime by appointment.

SARA S. WALLACH // BE REAL OR DIE a collection of images made between 2016 – 2020 which represent the artists mastery at transforming the mundane, overlooked, leftover and forgotten objects of the world around us into images that are saturated with a sense of meaning and belonging. The title, Be Real or Die, refers to the artist's photographic practice of making art with reality, but is more pointed to the essence of the artist herself, “If I did not have this form of creative outlet, I would die. At least my soul would.”

09/09/2020

presents SARA S. WALLACH // BE REAL OR DIE a collection of images made between 2016 – 2020 which represent the artists mastery at transforming the mundane, overlooked, leftover and forgotten objects of the world around us into images that are saturated with a sense of meaning and belonging. The title, Be Real or Die, refers to the artist's photographic practice of making art with reality, but is more pointed to the essence of the artist herself, “If I did not have this form of creative outlet, I would die. At least my soul would.”

This is Wallach’s first solo show.

Preview:
September 10, Thursday 6-9pm
Opening:
September 11, Friday 6-9pm
Open Nights from 6-9pm:
September 10-12, 17-20 and anytime by appointment

SARA S. WALLACH (1993) is a Fine Art Photographer. Her works stem from a lifelong interest in the themes of mess, ruin, death, and impermanence. After earning a bachelor's degree in photography from Bard College, she lived in Eastern Europe, including Albania and Greece, where she studied at The Aegean Center for the Fine Arts in Paros, and later in London where she attended graduate courses at Goldsmiths.

For more details contact the gallery.

09/09/2020

presents:

SOUNDSCAPES with
JOHN SNYDER

"Atmospheric love with a hint of devotion."

This listening event occurred on Thursday, September 3, 2020



















# soundart

09/03/2020

"Atmospheric love with a hint of devotion."
This Thursday evening!

John Snyder : Soundscapes

Please RSVP if you plan to attend.

Socially distant seating in the Avalanche Garden is limited! The garden gate will be open and street listening is encouraged, bring your own chair and set up on the sidewalk.

Masks are mandatory

08/19/2020

KARA SMITH: CODE AVALANCHE ART SPACE presents KARA SMITH: CODE an exhibition of images that use the patterns of player piano music rolls to investigate how sounds and information can be experienced visually. Smith has experimented with how to interpret and represent these visual scores through a var...

08/19/2020

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KARA SMITH: CODE an exhibition of images that use the patterns of player piano music rolls to investigate how sounds and information can be experienced visually. Smith has experimented with how to interpret and represent these visual scores through a variety of tactile mediums. Works include paintings on linen, canvas, rice paper, wood panels, gold leaf on slate, and hand-pulled prints on joss paper.

Preview:
August 20, Thursday 6-9pm

Opening:
August 21, Friday 6-9pm

Open Nights from 6-9pm: August 20-22, 27-29
September 3rd-5th
and by appointment

KARA SMITH (1980) is a Berkshire-based artist and art educator. She has been awarded residencies at MASS MoCA, The Vermont Studio Center, Brooklyn Art Space, Drop, Forge and Tool, and holds an MA in Art Education from Brooklyn College, and a BFA from the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University. In 2019, she had her first NYC solo exhibition at ChaShaMa and created her first site-specific permanent installation at TurnPark Art Space. Smith is currently the Program Coordinator and a Faculty Artist at Community Access to the Arts (CATA).

This project has been supported by a grant from the Martha Boschen Porter Fund, a Fund of Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation.

07/23/2020

Headlining the local Berkshire Edge is a thoughtful article about Borden's exhibit by Hannah Van Sickle. The show 'Jake Borden: Minneapolis' closes this week, and will be open this Thursday July 23 - Sat. July 25th from 6-9pm, and anytime by appointment.


https://theberkshireedge.com/avalanche-art-space-hosts-jake-borden-minneapolis-exhibit/

Borden found a delicate balance: He was able to blend in with protesters and gain their trust while showing he was not a threat to those with clubs.