Friday at the Fringe Festival

How We Remember: Images Found and Made
Creative Renewal Fellowship
Solo exhibition at Big Car Gallery, open through Aug. 30.

Judith G. Levy

The past is never dead, it's not even past.
-- William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun

Call (317) 450-6630 to schedule and appointment.

Here a capsule of the 5-star review of Levy's show that appeared in NUVO:

Judith G. Levy's strongest body of work to date probes how people recall experiences then interpret, record and reinvent them as individual or collective memories. Most works resulted from travels to Germany and Poland through support of a Creative Renewal Fellowship. New pieces still address the subject of identity through imagery, including some of Levy's trademark minimalist white-hooded and red-boot clad characters. But here, Levy's focus expands from gender questioning and slight voyeurism and ties in hard searching: How do memories translate into something significant?
-Susan Watt Grade

To find out more, read Levy's essay on the show
here.

Saturday at Big Car

Saturday Aug. 23: Music show at Big Car Gallery featuring Lovely Houses, Scott Hensley and Cliff Snyder. 8:30 p.m. by donation.

VisualFringe up through Aug. 31 on Mass Ave.

The VisualFringe once again brings its eclectic mix of local art to Mass Ave. throughout August as part of the Indianapolis Fringe Theatre Festival. The show opens Aug. 1 as part of IDADA's First Friday Gallery tour.

Curated by the Big Car Arts Collective, Visual Fringe features 50 artists in a dozen spaces -- including exhibitions by the Herron School of Art and Primary Colours. The Visual Fringe, now in its fourth year, is open through Aug. 31.

VisualFringe galleries include: Art Bank, Circle City Baskets Co., Earth House at Lockerbie Central United Methodist Church, Franklin Barry Gallery and Frame Shop, G. C. Lucas Gallery, Graffiti Art Pit at Fringe Central (Historic Fire Station), Henry's Coffee Bistro, IMC Gallery, Kuaba Gallery, Mass Avenue Wine Shoppe, Herron School of Art (in a donated space at 911 Mass Ave.) and McFee Gallery of Modern Art. Check with individual galleries on hours.

Above: A still from Stop, Watch.

Upcoming Big Car dates of note:

Sept. 5: First Friday opening - Art Hospital show, 6 p.m. to midnight. Music at 10 p.m. Free.
Also check out the Stop, Watch video installation in Harrison Center's Gallery No. 2 by Big Car's Jim Walker. Free.

Sept. 19: BART (3rd Friday Beer & Art night), 8 p.m. Featuring Octoberfest beer and "Lynch One" the new documentary about director David Lynch. Free for those 21 and over.

Sept. 20: Big Car Collective installation/site specific performance at Oranje, 8 p.m.

Sept. 27: Masterpiece in a Day, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. throughout Fountain Square. Featuring art and writing competitions. New art categories this year! Free to enter.

Above: an image from Silva's show at Big Car in October.

Oct. 3: First Friday opening - Debbie Reichard in Suite 4.
Arthur Silva in Suite 215. 6 p.m. to midnight, music at 10 p.m. Free

Oct. 17: Opening of Big Car Collective Halloween show at Sullivan Munce Art Center in Zionsville, 6 p.m. Free.

Oct. 24: Opening of Big Car Collective Outside/In show at Art Hospital in Bloomington, 6 p.m. Free.

Oct. 25: Big Car hosting a music stage at the Broad Ripple Music Festival at LUNA Midtown. All day. By donation.

Daily feature

Enjoy our daily (Mon-Thurs) comic by Jayson with a Y of Indianapolis who does all of his drawings in the fabulous Microsoft Paint program. Visit his myspace here and tell him what you think and view an archive of his work.

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