Photos from last night’s “Quart Bag” exhibition @ the Civilian Art Projects

Photos from last night’s “Quart Bag” exhibition @ the Civilian Art Projects
|| 8/9/2008 || 12:42 pm || 3 Comments Rendered || ||

Unidentified woman looking at my piece “Without You I am Lost,”
next to Brook Halvorson’s “Stool Sample – Jeff Koons” and RenÃ© TreviÃ±o’s “Cupcakes for gay Iranians“

Inspired by the many things you can do with a quart bag, Civilian Art Projects and friends have invited 100 DC area artists to participate in a community art exhibition called Quart Bag. The exhibition provides an imaginative opportunity for artists to use thirty-two ounces of space within a plastic quart size bag. All works of art will be sold for $100 or less, providing an opportunity for all people to walk home with a piece of art that is FAA approved.

Below are some of the photographs I took last night at the opening reception for Quart Bag at the Civilian Art Projects. There were over 100 different pieces in the show and I managed to photograph about 1/3 of them.

Photograph of exhibition attendees

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Nikki Painter – Optimist

Cara Ober – The Truth Sounds Like A Pistol

Rachel Fantastic – Girls Grow Up Faster

Steven Frost – Hello Double Headed Dildo

Emily Slaughter – Untitled

Dr Kenneth Clay Smith, BWRC – Leftovers – [book]

Amanda Klienman – Very Special Baggies [left]
Megan Blafas – Parts of a Whole [right]

Briony Evans – Implant – Left Brain / Right Brain – [silicone, acrylic paint]

Kristina Bilonick – Hearthrob [screen printed bass wood puzzle]

Peter E. Harper – Before Littering – mixed media [trash, bones, glass candy wrappers, 2 photos, string/wood]

John Bohl – Untitled – Inkjet on Cardstock – text: Rastafarian finds success at Outback Steakhouse

Martin Brief – 1296 square inches (holy words)
1296 piece of paper with the first 432 words from the Old Testament, New Tesament, and the Qur’an

Jon Bobby Benjamin – you need to save your time – [mixed media]

Bridget Sue Lambert – When In Doubt Lick Everything – [dolls, paper, wooden chair]

Matthew Best – A Painting and all the garbage created in its execution

Denise Tassin – Organ Failure

YAY TEAM – The Fattest Sac [mushrooms, powdered sugar, cat nip]

Rene Trevino - Cupcakes for gay Iranians

RenÃ© TreviÃ±o – Cupcakes for gay Iranians

Rebecca Julliette – Americana [plastic bag crochet]

Carole Greenwood – The Weight of Loss [plaster, wire, iron, found object, text]

Dick Cheney – Bombs Over Baghdad Nightlite [resin & mini lights]
(not really made by Dick Cheney)

Rootz Steele – Everyone is subject to be searched [mixed media]
(Rootz was not present at the opening because he is currently in Europe touring with Thievery Corporation)

Brook Halvorson – Stool Sample – Jeff Koons [painted wood]

Anita Walsh – Untitled [rubber bands, birch, brass, plastic]

Nathan Manuel – Fools (no apostrophes) [gold glitter & archival chipboard]

Katherine Mann - Candyland 8 --- Joseph Bradley - Untitled

Katherine Mann – Candyland 8 (left) [acrylic and pil pastel on paper]
Joseph Bradley – Untitled (right) [screen print]

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My favorite fashion accessory of the evening was this purse which features a slightly outdated map of the Balkans.
Compare it to the contemporary Google Map

Up Next: A Gallon Bag of Last Night’s Leftovers [short video]

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Hey, just wanted you to know we linked to your blog over at ARTifice, since you have great images of some of our work, and the work of friends. (Also, my friend Kate’s map-bag- awesome!)

Nice post and congrats on having work in the show!

“A Gallon Bag of Last Night’s Leftovers” is hilarious, especially since I was standing right next to it for probably 10 minutes and never even noticed it.

Comment by Nikki — 8/10/2008 @ 7:02 pm

[…] Nikolas Schiller documented most of the work. Take a minute to check out Nikolas’ blog, The Daily Render if you missed the […]

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