Art show and interactive performance 'suitable for framing'
HUNG IN A MEAT LOCKER
curated by Alisoun Meehan

Gun & Wound Show
Opening: Saturday, March 1st, 2003 5-8 pm
Two weeks: March 1 - 16, 2003 11-5 pm, daily

James Riv Studio
485 Driggs Ave. @ North 9th Williamsburg
Brooklyn 11211, New York

Guns & Wounds is the first multi-media show in a series of three with a diptych construction. Each title is related in concept but not in context. Gun takes neither a pro nor anti gun stance yet references current global politic, societal, and historical concepts while Wound is body oriented, medically based, unrelated to weaponry. Its structure was created to provoke an initial flexing of tension between two concepts and then another upon the viewer while seeing the works in person. Given the current political situation this show's intention is to invigorate thought regarding the image and history of guns and the impermanence and adaptability of the human body without proselytizing good vs. bad or A = B, but rather through irony, beauty, and juxtaposition. It's a parole of artistic conjunctions...

Artists:

Elizabeth Alderman
Miriam Bohemia
Tom Burtonwood & Holly Holmes
Margaret Carlton
Theo Coulombe
Burr Dodd
Christopher Draeger
Mark & Matt Enger
Rose Marie Fiore
Margaret Evangeline
Luke Joerger
Chad Kleistch
Charles Krafft
Carter Kustera
Pan Xing Lei
Rebecca Major
Christopher Meehan
Ronald Parisi
Javier Pinon
Ann Sappenfield
Jaime Scholnick
Stephen J. Shanabrook
Janice Sloane
Roberto Visani
Albert Wilking
Jeff Wyckoff

Alisoun Meehan is an artist and curator of alternative art exhibitions in NYC. For the last several years, she has been producing an on-going series of public, food themed art shows called Dining Haul. She has exhibited in moving trucks that were parked in front of the 24th St galleries in Chelsea, a kitchen where world renown pastry chefs were paired up with emerging artists, in revamped meat lockers where the artwork hung like meat, and most recently in 4* Tribeca restaurants where chefs and artists collaborated on edible artworks. Essentially, these shows are created as public collaborations and to establish a supportive artist community. Guns & Wounds is a preview for a much larger project.