We are so pleased to display the beautiful work by Elizabeth from December 15 – January 31.

Elizabeth Chai Malpass:

Chance Mandate

Inman Perk Gainesville welcomes Chance Mandate!  Show starts at 7:00 PM on December 18th, 2009!

Chance Mandate is an American songwriter that released his self-titled album in December of 2008, living in Ontario at the time. His influences include John Frusciante, Bjork, Radiohead, Elliott Smith, Leonard Cohen, The Beatles, Led Zepplin and many more. His tracks Not Now, Bel and The Shore got rotation on the KCRW show “Morning Becomes Eclectic.” Not Now was also selected on KCRW’s website as “Tune of the Day.” The song Paths was also played on the show “No Pigeonholes” syndicated by KKUP in San Francisco and Radio Marabu in Germany. Check myspace.com/chancemandate to hear his music and find out more.

Please view Kathryn’s paintings November 1-December 14, 2009.  From the artist:

I am fascinated with people’s choices and the very specific places we end up on the globe. We are all connected and constantly affecting one another. When I was a little girl I imagined that everyone left a trail of highlighted air behind them each with his own specific color.  Looking down at the world it would be possible to see how often paths crossed or near misses happened.

 There is an organic predestination to our lives; you and I changing each other though we’ve never met.  Outside influences contribute to our decisions.  Your driveway connects to my driveway. Think long-term, big picture from space. Think personal, single-family home.  A balance between knowing how tiny you are, and how much you affect.  Who are all these people? Who are you?

       This inspired a series of landscapes dominated by highways with various volumes of traffic.  I went further, painting highways from an aerial view, which became graphic and removed. The integration of portraiture brings intimacy and story to the landscape.  This intimacy is captured best from a live model.  I don’t trust a camera to tell me what is there.  Information traveling a short lively distance will contain mistakes and magic. 

       At the concept’s infancy I was preoccupied and barely paying attention to my own way.  I found myself in situations I would rather run away from.  I have been asleep behind the wheel.  Awake now, I have a strong and growing responsibility to myself and to the work. 

Inman Perk Gainesville welcomes the art of Mitch Freeman for the month of November.

For more information visit www.MitchFreemanArt.com!

When I am making this work I feel like I am a conduit of universal love and universal pain.  I feel like I am connecting with something much larger than myself, a vastness, through these people and their gaze.  I guess the feeling comes from working in a state of flow, that mindless place where invention and magic happen.  This magic is where my symbols occur as well.  They spring up from living, exploring, playing, taking notice and from allowing things to unfold as they will with freedom.  The process of living is my inspiration: when my heart is open and directly connected to this vastness. 

By carving into the wood I symbolically carve into the surface of exteriors, into the psyche, into thought, into what is just beneath the surface.  My figures are humans with all of the stories that they have carried around with them of who they are.  Yet, they are universals of all of our unmet needs, our struggles, our longings, our dreams, and our journeys.   With my carving I symbolically create openings for love, for pure unadulterated consciousness to fill and transform.  With my life and my art I hope to create jumping blocks for humans to transform past the suffering and into ways of living that are blissfull and untimately most aligned with love.