1708 Gallery is pleased to announce their upcoming exhibition, Mama Pajama Rolled Out of Bed featuring paintings and animations by Brooklyn artist, Marcie Paper. The exhibition will be on view from Friday, September 3 through Saturday, October 9.

Through stop-animation and paintings, Marcie Paper records visual abstractions of her experiences in the current moment. As she layers these images on the paper, they become a collection of short-term memories that help her, “hold on to a little longer, understand a little better, and have physical evidence of, (her) existence.”

The paintings and animations on display in Mama Pajama Rolled Out of Bed were created during a two year period in which Paper listened exclusively to one side of a Paul Simon album. She notes that this particular album brought her back to a former time and place in her life, and “began to wonder how much “memory-time” one album or song could hold.” The images that comprise this exhibition represent and capture specific moments in time and explore questions that arise as the artist investigates memory, experience and nostalgia.

Originally from New England, Marcie Paper is an artist currently living and working in Brooklyn. She received a BFA in 2-D studies and a BS in Art Therapy from Bowling Green State University and an MFA in Painting from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Since then she has been awarded a number of residencies, and has shown her work nationally. For more information about Marcie Paper, please visit her website: www.marciepaper.com

FIRST FRIDAYS: OCTOBER 1, 2010 7:00-10:00PM

EXHIBITION: SEPTEMBER 3 - OCTOBER 9, 2010

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EVENTS:

Get Ready for InLight Richmond at First Fridays Lantern Making Workshop

October 1st; 7pm-10pm
Free and all ages
Featuring PAPER HOUSE LANTERNS with Richmond painter, sculptor and printmaker, Matt Lively and other artful lantern designs.

InLight Richmond 2010

Organized by 1708 Gallery, InLight Richmond is a public exhibition of contemporary art inspired by light. InLight Richmond 2010 will take place in Shockoe Slip on October 22, 2010 from 7:30 pm until midnight. The historic fabric of Shockoe Slip, with its cobblestone streets and revitalized tobacco warehouses, offers artists a unique canvas for this year’s exhibition. Shockoe Slip is also a dynamic, authentic Richmond neighborhood that today is home to many creative companies and people, which makes it a great location for Richmond’s edgiest and most progressive art exhibition.
Shockoe Slip will by transformed by 39 installations created by 60 artists presenting a mix of visual and performance art showcased in a variety of unexpected spaces – including sidewalks, alcoves, walls, storefronts, building facades, instant gallery spaces and more. Photography, video, sculpture, mixed media, interactive, sound, digital, and performance art are just a sampling of the art you will experience. This year emerging and established artists from throughout the United States, and as far away as Australia, have been selected for the exhibition by guest juror Amanda McDonald Crowley. Ms. Crowley is the Executive Director of Eyebeam, which is the leading not-for-profit art and technology center in the United States, dedicated to exposing broad and diverse audiences to new technologies and media arts.