(eight): CHELA Collective Inaugural Exhibition

OPENING: Sat, Jan 24th, 7- 10pm

SPECIAL CLOSING: Sat, Feb 7th, 7-9pm.
Screening at 8pm

Jay Perry (Collective member will premiere his video installation / documentary "Book of the Dead"

Gallery hours, Sat, Sun 12-5pm

(eight) is an exhibition and introduction of the CHELA collective members. Works will include installation, video, text/performance, drawings, paintings, and photography/mixed media.

Christine Bailey (Performance, Installation, Media)
William Downs(Drawing, Sculpture)
Talia Greene (Drawing, Digital Printing)
Bonnie Jones (Text, Writing, Performance)
Jackie Milad (Drawing, Painting)
Jay Perry (Video, Film, Text, Photography)
Ric Royer (Text, Writing, Performance)
Chris Smith (Sculpture, Video, Film)


CLOSING RECEPTION SCREENING:

For the closing of the (eight) exhibition, Jay Perry will premiere his video Installation/documentary BOOK OF THE DEAD: IMPERMANENCE, BLIGHT, AND RENEWAL IN GREATER BALTIMORE

2-channel digital video installation, Book of the Dead is a consideration of Baltimore's abandoned housing and the relationship between community and the self. Using the Tibetan Book of the Dead as a conceptual "frame," the video juxtaposes perspectives from the text with social and economic polemics of the urban landscape.

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