Seven Artists at Green Kill, December 2018

Saturday, Dec 01 2018;
5:00 PM To 9:00 PM

Green Kill 229 Greenkill Avenue Kingston NY 12401

www.greenkill.org

You are invited to the opening reception for the exhibitions at Green Kill of Dasha Bazanova, Bianca Biji, Terry Huber, Willi Hoppe, Nina Kossman, Aaron Landcastle
And Ali Schrago-Spechler  on Saturday, December 1, from 5 to 9. Refreshments will  be served.

There will be a special performance at the reception by Line Eldi of the band Line on Some Trip (L.O.S.T.) at 6:30 pm for 30 minutes. The exhibition is on view from December 1 to 29, 2018. Best viewing hours are Tuesday-Saturday 3-6 PM. Green Kill hours are Tuesday-Saturday, 3-9 PM

About Line Eldi
Born and raised in the suburbs of Paris, Line grew up in a muslim immigrant family from Syria and Palestine. She travelled across Europe and lived in England, Italy, Scotland and Hungary where she found many human and artistic inspirations. She moved to NYC in 2014 and started her official musical project. With a soft voice that can turn into a storm of rage and strumming strings, Line tackles the topic of depression caused by the consumption society. She composes Post-punk and Antifolk sometimes psychedelic songs with simple and quirky lyrics full of irony. “Music is a tool

About the Artists

Dasha Bazanova
I am a multi-media artist. With my work I’m exploring my heritage, my past memories, and my unconscious connection to Eastern European mythology by embracing newfound culture in America. My images represent the conflict between my consciousness and the chaotic fragmented narratives that are so relative today.” 
—Dasha Bazanova

About Bianca Biji
My work takes me to areas unconnected to the conscious mind it is an escape a catharsis, a diary of possibilities, the moment of creativity can be brief, a minuscule moment in history, but for me very powerful and rewarding.

There is no fear for me in expressing my inner thoughts and feelings, it is all there written in the largest print, and can be read by anyone who cares to know, a connection of the human condition that we all share.

About Terry Huber
Painting is my spiritual practice. Utilizing spontaneous and automatic painting techniques, I enter into an ecstatic state of consciousness. The undulating colors and forms become a window into a spiritual dimension where my imagination is allowed to play freely without restriction. By entering into this trance state, I lose touch with concrete analytical thinking and become more aware of deep emotions and subconscious thoughts and feelings. This is then transcribed into the language of painting. The rhythmic dancing colors take the viewer on a spiritually transcendent visionary experience.   It is my hope that my paintings will act as a catalyst for others and help initiate and develop this transformative process in each individual and in society as a whole.

About Nina Kossman
Nina Kossman believes that her paintings spring from a deep layer of the subconscious, and it is the connection, through her paintings, to the deepest subconscious, that helps her survive.
Moscow born, Nina Kossman is a painter, sculptor,  bilingual writer, poet, and playwright. Her paintings and sculptures have been exhibited in Moscow and New York. She is the author of two books of poems in Russian as well as the translator of two volumes of Marina Tsvetaeva’s poems, In the Inmost Hour of the Soul and Poem of the End. Her other books include Behind the Border (HarperCollins,1994), a collection of stories about her Moscow childhood; Gods and Mortals: Modern Poems on Classical Myths (Oxford University Press, 2001); Pereboi, a collection of Russian poems published in Moscow; a bilingual edition of her poems published in the US, and a novel.  Her translations of Russian poetry have been anthologized in Twentieth Century Russian Poetry (Doubleday, 1993), The Gospels in Our Image (Harcourt Brace, 1995), The World Treasury of Poetry (Norton, 1998), and Divine Inspiration (Oxford University Press, 1998). Her Russian short stories and poems have been published in Russian literary magazines in and outside of Russia. Her English poems and short stories have been published in a wide spectrum of  American and Canadian literary magazines, e.g. Tin House, The Columbia Journal, The Threepenny Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Columbia, Confrontation, etc., and have been translated into several languages, including Japanese, Dutch, and Greek. Two of her plays have been produced off-off Broadway. One of her plays was included in Best Women Playwrights 2000. Her poems and short stories have been translated into several languages, including Japanese, Dutch, Greek, and Spanish. She received a UNESCO/PEN Short Story Award, an NEA fellowship, and grants from Foundation for Hellenic Culture, the Onassis Public Benefit Foundation, and Fundacion Valparaiso. She lives in New York.


About Aaron Landcastle
Deeply unsatisfied with personal work of the last five years, I began working exclusively with an airbrush and a compressor. In these first pictures exhibited using an airbrush, the motivation was in reducing the gravity of conception while simultaneously establishing the obstruction present in that gravity. To me, the denial of significance is attributable towards the processes of generating greater meaning in discovery, and so I’ve taken great care to alienate myself in further representing a concrete reality wherein reality effectively cannot reside.

About  Ali Schrago-Spechler 
A smooth brow looks so ugly, 2018

With a humorous, sentimental, and sensory approach, Ali’s installations and performative actions address the malleability of history and the invention of tradition. I make videos, paintings, sculptural objects, and interactive events to create a fun, familiar, and strange space for my audience. Her hybrid actions employ a reflective nostalgia; exploring the comedy and violence of Jewish history and culture and encouraging viewers to question their own narratives, self-imposed alienation, and the source and effect of memory.

By occupying established traditions and national symbols filtered through a secular Jewish-American lens, Ali’s multidisciplinary works merge fact and fiction into a new narrative that maintains cultural cues while revealing and celebrating the absurd. Signifiers from popular culture are combined with religious iconography and ritual, reflecting a bizarre integration of social practices. She contextualizes these symbols to explore stereotypes, revealing the structures that root us in our language and lifestyles.
Ali Shrago-Spechler is an interdisciplinary artist from Hollywood, Florida. Through painting, parties, and performative installation, her work explores the source of rituals practiced within religion, nationalism and bureaucracy and the allegiance required to participate. Ali is the recipient of the Emerging Artist Naomi Anolic Family Award (2017), studied fine art at Bezalel Academy of the Arts’ exchange program in 2010 and attended residencies at Trestle Artist Residency (2018), Art Kibbutz NY on Governors Island (2016) Vermont Studio Center (2016) and The Studios at MASS MoCA (2017), with work has been featured in The Forward, VICE Creators Project, Time Out NY, New Times, and The Miami Herald. She received her BFA in painting and art history from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and her MFA in fine arts from School of Visual Arts in New York. Ali lives and works in Brooklyn.

About Green Kill

Green Kill is an inclusive, multiuser space dedicated to the arts. It serves a growing diverse art community. Green Kill is an LLC for the sole purpose over the short term of making sure it stays on track. The objective is to build an institution for the arts which grows and creates opportunities through the peer to peer involvement of talented visual and performing artists. Green kill offers a structured-DIY program, with smooth operation rules, and its longevity and usefulness result solely from artist involvement and artist community promotion.

Green Kill is a handicapped accessible exhibition and performance Space located at 229 Greenkill Avenue, Kingston, New York, 12401, 229greenkill@greenkill.org, Green Kill is open Tuesday to Saturday from 3 pm to 9 pm, closed on national holidays. The phone number is 1(347)689-2323. Performance events schedule please visit thttps://greenkill.org/2017/04/24/green-kill-activities/. Exhibition viewing hours are Tuesday-Saturday, 3-5 PM or you may make a special appointment by contacting 229greenkill@greenkill.org or phoning 347-689-2323.