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Art comes out at Sage’s Dragnet

A very different crowd of artists (48 of them in all!) showed up for Dragnet, Sage Project‘s open invitation exhibit, from those who showed up for 2007′s Here and Now open invitation exhibit at Copy Gallery. In Dragnet, I got the sense of people struggling to find their inner artists and anxiously daring to reveal them. Quite the opposite at Copy, which featured mostly art-school grads–and peeps connected to them–eager exhibitionists I guess you could say.

Wanted: a few good artists…and a few good laughs

Some events on our minds for this week: Thursday, July 16 Sage Projects on South Street, one of the new temporary artist-run spaces,  has an open call for your art for their unjuried show up and show exhibit Dragnet.  Stuff is due in Thursday, 4-8 pm.  No slides or CDs; bring the real stuff.

Weekly Update — First Friday picks

Here’s the link to my Weekly piece.  Below is my copy. Sage Projects “Tenuous Magic Parts” opened at the new South Street gallery in May to a crowd of 300 and is being held over for another opening Friday. The show asks the artists to find truth in a perplexing world. Fantasy abounds in comical portraits, nonsense posters, paintings that question reality, still lifes that aren’t still, and junk assemblage sculpture. Dustin Metz’s paintings and Karen Stone’s “hair trees”—fantasy 2-D portraits with art nouveau arabesques of long hair—are standout pieces. Curator Jon Manteau loves music at openings and “Fat Man ...