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Running By Sight
RUNNING BY SIGHT follows painter and photographer Tim Hussey through a year of inspiration and production. Filmmaker Adam Boozer captures the spirit and struggles of a contemporary artist living in the Southeast, while recounting past experiences that brought Hussey to gain national recognition. RUNNING BY SIGHT documents the developing body of work and elements of influence that have shaped Hussey’s career.
According to Nick Smith of the Charleston City Paper, “A free film screening seems like the perfect way to connect with Hussey aficionados and introduce him to new collectors. Boozer explains, ‘I wanted to make something that people who don’t know or haven’t heard of Tim can watch, enjoy his story, and be exposed to it the way I was.”‘
Running by Sight includes rich imagery, time-lapse photography, recognizable locales, and interviews with intelligent folks like Halsey Director Mark Sloan, gallery owner Rebekah Jacob, and artists Shepard Fairey and Jill Hooper.
Hussey hopes that these elements will entertain his audience — and, yes, teach them — without coming across like some sort of ego trip.”
Book Release! The Projectionist: Photos by Kendall Messick
The ideal artist is unwilling to sacrifice his or her individuality to anything or anyone, particularly commercialism or outside control. Such artists often work in seclusion and their creations are uniquely pure. Gordon Brinckle is such an artist. [Messick's] photographs are both tender and authentic in the greatest sense, and I found myself as close to his subject as I ever could have hoped to be.” Albert Maysles, documentary filmmaker (Gimme Shelter, Grey Gardens)Product DescriptionGordon Brinckle (1915-2007) seemed like an ordinary man a modest and reserved husband and father living in an ordinary 1950s-era home in Middletown, Delaware. Known around town as the night projectionist at the local movie theater, it was the unusual way he spent his days that eventually brought him attention. In his free time, Brinckle meticulously constructed a miniature version of a grand movie palace in his basement. The Shalimar, as he called it, was not only fully functional (with nine authentic movie seats, a projection booth with a 16-mm projector, numerous speakers, and a working organ) but was also lushly designed and decorated with an obsessive attention to detail. Brinckle’s “picture palace of renown,” as he referred to it, adapted various theater styles of the twentieth century, boasting a marquee that distinctly recalls the 1960s; an auditorium decorated in the “semi-atmospheric” style of the 1930s, bringing the outdoors in through the use of fake foliage and wildlife; and three opulent working curtains. When filmmaker and photographer Kendall Messick, who used to live across the street from the Brinckle family as a boy, became reacquainted with his former neighbor during a visit home in 2001, he knew he had to document the theater and its one-of-a-kind creator. In The Projectionist, Messick captures every detail of Brinckle’s colorful fantasy world, including Brinckle’s original artwork, architectural plans, drawings, and linoleum prints of imaginary movie theaters, ticket stubs, and usher uniform designs. An essay by curator Brooke Davis Anderson of the American Folk Art Museum looks at Gordon’s work in the context of outsider art, and a foreword by artist, curator, and author Mark Sloan discusses Messick’s photographic work.
Get RED-Y to Wear
Artist Mask Specifics:
Masks will be provided, as well as beads, feathers, and other decorations. Feel free to create your own masks and access your own materials. The mask is not limited to the theme or genre of red-it can be any color or design. If you create your own mask, please make it “wearable,” as the goal is to have the buyer integrate the mask into his/her costume for the Red Party.
Deadline: By Oct 1-please deliver the mask to Rebekah Jacob Gallery. No pick-ups. Gallery hours 10AM-5:30PM.
Concept: The masks will exhibited and auctioned Thursday, Oct 6 between 6-8PM to raise money for the American College of the Building Arts in historic downtown Charleston.
Contact the gallery with any questions: 843.937.9222 P/ rjacob@rebekahjacobgallery.com
