My friend and I are starting up and our art careers and would love people to come see the work and give some feedback.

The Buzzeo Building Gallery 31-16 36th Avenue Long Island City, Queens

Press Release

The Soft Plan May 7 – May 17, 2009

Exhibition of new work by Liz Burow and Angelo Monaco presented by Christine Purcell in collaboration with the Buzzeo Building Gallery

Opening Reception: Thursday, May 7, 2009 7-9 pm
Closing Reception: Sunday, May 17, 2009 7-9 pm
Poetry Readings: Saturday, May 9, 8-10 pm, Thursday, May 14 7:30-9:30 pm

Artist Liz Burow explores the abstract textures and patterns of urban landscapes using soft, tactile materials such as felt, topographic maps, recycled fabrics and paper. These three dimensional, abstracted textile works engage an interplay between utilitarian and recreation, softscape and hardscape, line and form, scale and context.

Angelo Monaco’s works on paper depart from the idea of Agit Prop – a visual strategy using propaganda to agitate the senses. Instead of political slogans, bright colors or superhuman figures to manufacture a consensus, he uses poetic fragments, magazine pages, blocks of black, and half-shaped human figures to identify in each of us an individual will. Like the poetic fragments of Sappho, they are broken mirrors that begin and end with silence. An epic story made from the artifacts of a lost world.

Gallery Hours:
5/8 Friday 6-9 pm
5/9 Saturday 12-10 pm
5/10 Sunday 12-5 pm

5/14 Thursday 6-10 pm
5/15 Friday 6-9 pm
5/16 Saturday 12-5 pm
5/17 Sunday 12-9 pm

Events:

5/9 Saturday 8-10 pm

Poetry reading
Featured poets: Eddie Hopely, Nicole Wallace, Douglas Piccinnini,
Gordon Faylor, Diana Hamilton, Sara Wintz

5/14 Thursday 7:30-9:30 pm

Poetry reading
Featured poets: Tomara Aldrich, Josef Kaplan, Lorraine Doran,
Magdalena Alagna and others