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Love for Sale III @ Studio Hart

Buffalo, NY-Studio Hart is proud to announce the third annual showing of Love for Sale, a group show curated by Buffalo artist Molly Jarboe and featuring live music by Honey Girl and the Horseshoe Falls.

Participating visual artists include several familiar faces from years past as well as a number of new contributors:

Lauren Braun
Amy Greenan
Ani Hoover
Doug Lambert
Amy Meza Luraschi
Julian Montague
Jan Nagle
Maria Pabico LaRotonda and Craig LaRotonda
Nancy J. Parisi
Kate Parzych
Allen Shelton and Molly Jarboe (Collaboration)
Ginny Rose Stewart
Elizabeth Switzer
Christine Walsh and Adam Weekley (Collaboration)

*Honey Girl and the Horseshoe Falls will be performing Live at the opening featuring tracks from the new album “Oh Lake Erie.”  Music starts at 7pm.

(Honey Girl & the Horseshoe Falls is a Buffalo based indie folk duo consisting of Lisa Forrest (vocals, guitar) and Doug Lambert (vocals, guitar, piano, bass, harmonica).

Once again, the exhibition is intended to coincide with the days leading up to Valentine’s Day and features works by multiple artists addressing the subject of gift giving to show love. The exhibition will be on view February 3-March 1, 2012. An opening reception will be held 6-9 pm Friday, February 4 as part of the Allentown First Fridays Gallery Walk.

 

 

 

Love for Sale explores love, sweet love, obsessive, dark love, all kinds of love.  It goes from the joy of new love to the misery of unrequited love and spans all points in between. We invite you to come and investigate the mystery of gift giving while viewing objects of art representing expressions of love for sale. In the words of Roland Barthes:

“The Heart – coeur/heart – This word refers to all kinds of movements and desires, but what is constant is that the heart is constituted into a gift-object–whether ignored or rejected. “ – A Lover’s Discourse

Image Credits: Top: Untitled photo by Jan Nagle, 2012, Bottom: Two Hearts Beat as One, Amy Greenan, mixed media, 2012

Studio Hart is located in Buffalo’s historic Allentown district, home to many galleries, fine restaurants and retail shops. Studio Hart is open Open Tuesday – Friday, 11:30 – 3:00pm Saturday, 12:00 to 3:00pm and by appointment.

Contact:

Barbara Hart
Studio Hart
65 Allen Street
Buffalo, NY 14202
716-536-8337
www.studiohart.com
studiohart@gmail.com

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Christmas Craft: I Love Cheese!

I was invited to participate in a benefit and an art event, both honoring the holidays.  I decided to try my hand at a craft project which is NOT normally my thing and at first I struggled to think of what to make.  The art event specifically called for hand-made ornaments so I started with that.  After a lot of trial and error, this fun little project sprung from somewhere in my imagination.  It came from just playing with some materials I had lying around and eventually evolved into the below.  Not surprisingly it has a forest animal theme and serves as a cheesy, but sweet tribute to my ongoing photo project entitled, Tangled.  I liked the outcome so much a made one for the benefit as well.

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A Walk in the Woods

I went walking in the woods the other day, and I was delighted by the beautiful light for photographing that I encountered on this mild November day.  I’m gathering source images for a Fall chapter in my ongoing series entitled Tangled, and I’m not sure if any of these will work, but I was pleased to capture them on my walk.  I’m amazed at all the colors I observed even in the midst of the stark, bleak death always associated with this time of year.

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Thinking about making a move…

Recently I updated my photography website and removed all commercial related content leaving mollyjarboe.com dedicated solely to my fine art work.  I’m thinking about starting a separate site dedicated to portrait and event photography and making more than a passive go at this kind of work on the side.  Here’s an example of a portrait I took of a little friend of mine named Aksel. I’m trying out a new logo too.