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Fontanelle Gallery presents Long Live The Ephemeral, an exhibition featuring prints, drawings, and paintings by renowned artists from all across the US who have created album artwork for punk and DIY bands. The inventiveness of this subcultural phenomenon, which inspired the artist and first-time curator Ryan Jacob Smith to pursue an art education as a teenager, will be chronicled in the show and accompanying installation, zine, and artist talk.
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The close-knit "Do It Yourself" culture spawns creative relationships and friendships between bands, record labels, and artists while also fueling the fire to create other ventures - design companies, printing presses, cafes, and art galleries. A band member might not only play music, but also run the record label and create the art for the record. The importance of album art and the vinyl record is the visual archive it creates to record the history of the movement, proof that the ephemeral with live on.
Smith dug deep into his record collection to identify his favorite artists and subsequently, the most prolific and inspirational of the bunch. At the opening, Smith aka DJ Hello Shit will pay homage to these albums by utilizing them in his deejay set.
The artwork in the exhibition is an overview of recent works by the participating artists. In addition, there will be an installation dedicated to the albums and ephemera from Smith’s personal collection, evocative of the environment in which the community thrived.
Smith will also give an artist talk on Wednesday, March 25th where he will discuss the exhibited artists’ context within the movement from his personal perspective. He will also present a zine published on the occasion of the show that will catalogue the objects on display along with his own experiences.
The exhibition will feature works by Melinda Beck, DEARRAINDROP, Brandon Evans, Jordin Isip, Rich Jacobs, Adam Juresko, Ashley Macomber, Mark McCoy, Sam McPheeters, Christopher Norris, Brian Roettinger, Seripop, Drew Speziale, and Chris Taylor.
Curator Ryan Jacob Smith lives and works in Portland, OR. He graduated from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA in 2001. His artwork has been exhibited at Motel Gallery (Portland, OR), Cinders Gallery (Brooklyn, NY) and Giant Robot (San Francisco, CA). This is his first curatorial endeavor.
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