BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//118 Elliot - ECPv6.15.17.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://118elliot.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for 118 Elliot REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250101 DTSTAMP:20260427T173130 CREATED:20241025T193912Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241106T025954Z UID:15475-1730419200-1735689599@118elliot.com SUMMARY:Tina Olsen: Elisions (solo exhibit) DESCRIPTION:Open during 118 events and by appt. 917-860-5749Opening reception: November 1\, 5-9pm \nArtist Talk on abstract expressionism: Sunday\, November 24\, 4-6pm \nSchuyler Gould will share the space and exhibit light sculptures December 6-31opening reception: Dec 6\, 5-8pm \n  \n118 Elliot presents new works by painter Tina Olsen opening November 1\, with a public reception from 5:00 to 9:00 pm with refreshments. The Vermont Jazz Center will provide an exciting musical backdrop to the work with young emerging musicians from 5:00 to 8:00 pm. \nELISIONS refers to Olsen’s increasingly bold abstract expressionism defined as much by what is left out as the explosive color and form that results as she pushes the limits of what is possible on canvas. \nOver her 50 year painting career\, Olsen keeps discovering: “Painting allows me to get into my body\, to physically be with the paint and materials and let my body find the faces in the landscape\, the landscape in faces. The process is a primal embrace of nature and feelings and the mystery of how they emerge on a static plane as forms and colors with a dynamism and life all  their own.”  \nOlsen says she’s lately been heavily inspired by the writing and work of German expressionists pre World War II and quotes from these greats will appear throughout the gallery giving context to the work over space and time. \nOlsen has been a defining presence at 118 Elliot Gallery as a mentor an instigator/curator of the well-received ‘Creative Relations’ shows in 2022 and 2023 where she led a community-wide effort to chart the current of creativity through families and significant others. \nOlsen grew up in Springfield MA in a Mennonite family and moved to New York City to teach art at the progressive Walden School in 1965 where she married and had two daughters. Tina stayed in the city for 40 years where she was immersed in the creative energy of the 60’s cultural revolution. She worked as an art therapist at Staten Island Psychiatric Institute for 20 years before moving to Brattleboro in 2007 where she has deepened her dedication to her painting\, meditation and making music. She also teaches a class on ‘Art as Meditation’ at the River Gallery School.  \nOlsen will host an interactive artist talk with live participatory painting for the public exploring expressionism and abstraction on Sunday\, November 24\, from 4:00-6:00 at 118 Elliot. \nFrom December 6 thru 31\, she will be joined by her partner Schuyler Gould who will merge his light sculptures made with unusual found objects with her work to form a whole new show. \nOther area painters are impressed with Olsen’s work. “Tina Olsen’s larger landscapes have a ruggedness in keeping with the New England environment much of her work represents. The building of shape and line\, restricted perception of depth brings to mind Cézanne’s mountainsides. But we are not transported to Provence\, rather we are invited inside her very unique Northern American landscape. We are allowed to accompany her struggle\, pushing the horizontal plane of rock against the stark vertical line of a tree\, working her surface until she gets it right\,” Lauren Poster said. \nElisions can be seen at all events at 118 Elliot or by appointment. Call 917-860-5749. URL:https://118elliot.com/event/tina-olsen-elisions/ LOCATION:118 Elliot CATEGORIES:Current exhibit ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://118elliot.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/118-banner.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241109T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241109T193000 DTSTAMP:20260427T173130 CREATED:20241021T205735Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241021T210725Z UID:15461-1731180600-1731180600@118elliot.com SUMMARY:Turbulence Orchestra & Sub Units Perform Tempestuous Hubbub DESCRIPTION:The Turbulence Orchestra is a large format improvisation ensemble comprised of six or more horn players and a rhythm section. For this performance we will play four 15-minute improvisations each with a quarter of the total ensemble\, take a short break and then perform an hour-long improvisation with all the musicians. \nEvil Clown’s projects have been focused on the very interesting and difficult aesthetic problem of large ensemble free improvisation. Free improvisation is typically performed by smaller ensembles (duos to quartets). Larger ensemble size combined with a broad-palette approach where most of the players play many different instruments allow us to construct a journey through a series of highly varied sonorities of the duration of the work. This ensemble includes seasoned improvisors from the Evil Clown Roster who are all very experienced at large ensemble broad palette free improvisation. \nSince the pandemic\, the Turbulence Orchestra has Livestreamed to YouTube ten times from Evil Clown Headquarters in Waltham with the ensemble size between 8 and 10 musicians – the largest unit that can easily fit in the Evil Clown Livestreaming Studio Space. Each of these performances is posted on the Evil Clown YouTube channel\, released on CD/download available at bandcamp (turbulence2.bandcamp.com/) and other locations\, and has an album page on the Evil Clown Webpage (evilclown.rocks/turb-orchestra). \nThis is only the third Live Performance of the Turbulence Orchestra & Sub Units\, and currently has 13 performers booked with a few more likely. Another Evil Clown ensemble\, The Leap of Faith Orchestra\, however\, has had many performances with units this size and larger. We performed 13 times in three years before the pandemic at the Third Life Studios in Somerville MA with as many as 15 players in the orchestra. The Third Life Studios sessions used exactly the format we will use at this concert – Short 15 or 20 minute improvisations by Sub Units of the entire ensemble followed by an hour long improvisation with everyone. The entire run of performances was released on download/CD and is available both as a 25 CD set and individual double CD sets of each performance. The Evil Clown Album page for the box set is evilclown.rocks/lofosu-boxset/ which contains links to bandcamp\, YouTube and other web content. \nAlso\, between 2016 and 2019\, the Leap of Faith Orchestra performed six Graphic Scores composed by PEK with the orchestra size as large as 25. The vision of the overall Evil Clown project is to create an extremely broad universe of sound and to realize music which transforms into widely different sonorities within a single performance. The full Leap of Faith Orchestra performing a PEK frame notation score is the most complete implementation of that vision. The large ensemble size (15 to 25 performers) and the details provided in the score directing the improvisation allowed us to create a story through a huge number of controlled textures over the 75 minute duration of the works. See the Evil Clown website here. \nPerformers:Reeds: PEK\, Bonnie Kane\, Michael Caglianone\, Victor Signore\, Dennis Livingston Brass: Bob Moores\, Eric Dahlman\, Vance Provey\, John Fugarino\, Duane ReedPiano: Eric ZinmanBass: Scott SamenfeldDrums: John Loggia URL:https://118elliot.com/event/tempestuous-hubbub/ LOCATION:118 Elliot CATEGORIES:Music ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://118elliot.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/turbulence_banner.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241115T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241115T190000 DTSTAMP:20260427T173130 CREATED:20241106T031807Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241106T031812Z UID:15515-1731697200-1731697200@118elliot.com SUMMARY:Homegrown horror-comedy film script read and crowdfunding kickoff DESCRIPTION: URL:https://118elliot.com/event/nightmare-at-nanas/ LOCATION:118 Elliot CATEGORIES:Film,Lecture / Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://118elliot.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/nanas.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241124T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241124T180000 DTSTAMP:20260427T173130 CREATED:20241106T030818Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241116T202634Z UID:15505-1732464000-1732471200@118elliot.com SUMMARY:Tina Olsen: Artist Talk on Abstract Expressionism DESCRIPTION:Abstract Expressionism: What it means to me and and other painters. For the first hour three or four participants will work side by side on a large 5’x12’ canvas drawing\, mixing colors\, and painting free form — responding to what each other paints as they work. Planning is suspended as the forms and lines emerge intuitively. Work may be layered over. We will discuss ideas of meaning together as images and forms arise. \nI will also share the evolution of 2 of my most important works\, “Mother – Identity Erased.” I painted over an abstract painting by Betsy Macarthur of an abstract seated woman. I felt that I spoke for both her and myself as I blotted out her face and painted her as if she were part and the same as the white empty background space. As a mother I had struggled with a sense of loosing my identity and becoming lost in a background. The meaning for me remained unclear until I felt finished. As I looked at it I was jolted into the recognizing that painful time. The memory of feeling I had lost myself and my children enabled me to come to terms with that most painful and important time in my life.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n “My Lady”; the meaning of this painting came to me much after it was finished. I painted directly from life and a live model – a young clerk from Brown and Roberts. I was taken with the beauty of her skin. I recognized that she was one of the few paintings I had ever done of a very peaceful person. I see that she is myself at a much later time of equanimity and presense after much turmoil. \nThe work of the artist in particular expressionism is personal\, its meaning emerges from with in\, it is spiritual work – the work of the soul to come to know itself. To look with equal acceptance upon the ugly and beautiful\, the joy and the pain. To embrace it all as human without judgement. Like dreams it is available to us all. I invite you to try joining yourself with the paint and see where it takes you. Like me you see will that you have gone through times of struggle and times of peace like everyone else. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ELISIONS refers to Olsen’s increasingly bold abstract expressionism defined as much by what is left out as the explosive color and form that results as she pushes the limits of what is possible on canvas. \nOver her 50 year painting career\, Olsen keeps discovering: “Painting allows me to get into my body\, to physically be with the paint and materials and let my body find the faces in the landscape\, the landscape in faces. The process is a primal embrace of nature and feelings and the mystery of how they emerge on a static plane as forms and colors with a dynamism and life all  their own.”  \nOlsen says she’s lately been heavily inspired by the writing and work of German expressionists pre World War II and quotes from these greats will appear throughout the gallery giving context to the work over space and time. \nOlsen has been a defining presence at 118 Elliot Gallery as a mentor an instigator/curator of the well-received ‘Creative Relations’ shows in 2022 and 2023 where she led a community-wide effort to chart the current of creativity through families and significant others. \nOlsen grew up in Springfield MA in a Mennonite family and moved to New York City to teach art at the progressive Walden School in 1965 where she married and had two daughters. Tina stayed in the city for 40 years where she was immersed in the creative energy of the 60’s cultural revolution. She worked as an art therapist at Staten Island Psychiatric Institute for 20 years before moving to Brattleboro in 2007 where she has deepened her dedication to her painting\, meditation and making music. She also teaches a class on ‘Art as Meditation’ at the River Gallery School.  \nOlsen will host an interactive artist talk with live participatory painting for the public exploring expressionism and abstraction on Sunday\, November 24\, from 4:00-6:00 at 118 Elliot. \nFrom December 6 thru 31\, she will be joined by her partner Schuyler Gould who will merge his light sculptures made with unusual found objects with her work to form a whole new show. \nOther area painters are impressed with Olsen’s work. “Tina Olsen’s larger landscapes have a ruggedness in keeping with the New England environment much of her work represents. The building of shape and line\, restricted perception of depth brings to mind Cézanne’s mountainsides. But we are not transported to Provence\, rather we are invited inside her very unique Northern American landscape. We are allowed to accompany her struggle\, pushing the horizontal plane of rock against the stark vertical line of a tree\, working her surface until she gets it right\,” Lauren Poster said. \nElisions can be seen at all events at 118 Elliot or by appointment. Call 917-860-5749. URL:https://118elliot.com/event/tina-olsen-artist-talk/ LOCATION:118 Elliot CATEGORIES:Lecture / Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://118elliot.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/artist-talk-banner.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR