BVGN: Sparrow Collective: May 31, 2013!!
Sparrow Collective
MAY 31st, 2013
Make Sparrow Collective a priority stop for this years Bay View Gallery Night! Not only is it BVGN, but it's also Sparrow Collective's 4th Birthday!! This year's show is pretty amazing! Continuing our dedication to Milwaukee artists, designers and craft-folk, we are featuring fantastic local artists! Their work reflects the many different facets of Milwaukee existence, creativity, and heart. The exposition includes a collection of paintings/mixed media by Sebastian Pechstein, mixed-media by Cody Frei and a collection of prints by Anja Notanja. Anja will also be doing performance art, channeling LIVE RADIOWAVES from space! Eric Oleyniczak (from Head On Electric) will be playing his acoustic deviation Head Off Electric and Sparrow will provide a Photo Booth so you can always remember the amazing time you had at BVGN 2013! Stop in and Love Your Milwaukee Artists!
Artists:
Anja Notanja Sieger Milwaukee, WI
Local Artist and Storyteller, Anja Notanja will be channeling LIVE RADIOWAVES from space at the "x" from with an antennae made of her own hair. Come and receive a little bit of what the universe is trying to tell you; Anja Notanja will type up the incoming radiowave on her typewriter and hand it to you directly. Good reception from Ursa Minor and Beyond! She is not a psychic, but she does channel radiowaves from space.
What Are Radio Waves From Space?!
"RADIOWAVES FROM SPACE are birthed to Earth through the
clouds. RADIOWAVES FROM SPACE run through trees like hot pea soup. RADIOWAVES FROM SPACE cleave wormholes we can fit through. RADIOWAVES FROM SPACE will happily transfer you to the 17th dimension. RADIOWAVES FROM SPACE are precious and evil queens will always want them."
http://anjanotanja.com/section/269095_Radio_Waves_From_Space.html
Antenea Vision by Anja Notanja Sieger
Sebastian Pechstein Milwaukee, WI
Sebastian Pechstein attended Pius XI Hgh School, graduating in 2008, During his time there he was the president of Pius's Art Club. He continued to pursue art at the Kansas City Art Institute in Missouri. Midway through his second semester he decided college wasn't the right place for him,
"I found out a four year art education wasn't for me. I decided to obtain my education from the world around me and the people I encounter in my everyday life. Living in the moment is what I strive to achieve at this point in my life."
Sebastian experimented and excelled in many mediums including painting, drawing, printmaking, sewing, fibers, and textiles.
Sebastian Pechstein passed away earlier this year. Sparrow Collective is honored to celebrate this young artist's incredible life and work during this year's BVGN.
Go Home Now,by Sebastian Pechstein
Cody Frei Milwaukee, WI
Artist Statement:
Culture cultivation, there are two primary dimensions that I function under, artist and art/social organizer. For the past three years I have worked with two curatorial practices (62 Dimension and CENTER) constructing and showcasing a vivid variety of contemporary exhibition, novice art, fairs, satellite radio shows, group meditation classes and educational youth art programs.
The position of being both creator and organizer has situated me in a position of having a privileged perspective, allowing for a pivot back and forth between the two with little resistance. Personally speaking, the pivot holds a conceptual and physical grace, a fluid gesture, mentally surviving the landscape while physically and viscerally responding to the transition as seamlessly as possible.
For this exhibition I’m interested in articulating my appreciation of fashion as culture and art, while not becoming overly invested in creating an art piece, but a fashion piece that could be considered art. The work sincerely engages the two different mediums of art and fashion as conceptual and cultural products to illuminate a slightly different plane.
Music:
Eric Oleyniczak, from Head On Electric, playing his acoustic deviation Head Off Electric!!