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The Best Seat in Town! Original Toilet Seat Designs by Boston’s Creatives
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Added: 04/06/2004
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The Best Seat in Town! Original Toilet Seat Designs by Boston’s Creatives
The Paradise Lounge Gallery (in association with Out of the Blue Gallery) is proud to announce The Best Seat in Town! Original Toilet Seat Designs by Boston’s Creatives, featuring new artwork by nearly 50 artists including illustrators, photographers, musicians and painters. The opening reception, sponsored by Stuff at Night, is Thursday, May 6th, at 7 p.m. The silent auction will accept on-site bids on artwork until 8:30 p.m.
Known for it’s pop-culture, often edgy, hip visual art exhibitions, and called “a bustling underground art space,” The Paradise Lounge Gallery welcomes guest co-curator Darcy Scanlon (assistant editor, Stuff@Night), whose inspiration for “toilet seat art” seems contagious, if not timely. The past two years, at her Stuff@Night post has found Scanlon living, eating, breathing and writing about everything from lip balm to lampshades, opera to underground porn, and everything else that comes out after five.
In this instance, she pays homage to her grandfather, Nicholas Petronzio, who, in an effort to “be prepared for anything,” had accumulated a dozen brand new toilet seats. After his passing Darcy kept the seats, and thus The Best Seat in Town! was born.
The exhibit features original designs by the following area celebs:
Sticky Bren Bataclan Dave Tree Peter Gueth
William Freese Jenna Talbot Althea Roy Aliza Shapiro
Eric Franklin Carly Weaver Honnah Lee Milne Fat Ram Tattoo
Kenji Quinn Salty Joe Keinberger Andy Regan
Lana Barakat William George The Count Andrea Fischman
Sue Carlin Ed Curran Alvan Long MCA
Kelly Davidson EEE Adams Joey Mars Hanna Sandstrom Barton
Ted Riederer Chris Debarge Mike Shea Tadpole
ANS Cat Thompson Brooks Morris Jermaine Rogers
Jyll Ethier Deidre Doyle Leslie Stevens
Currently on display is Emergence: Female Artists on the Rise, featuring new work by Jyll Ethier, Stephanie Horne, Christine Navin and Hanna Sandstrom-Barton. This 4-woman exhibit followed Outsider Inside, featuring new artwork by New York painter, Steve Keene. The exhibit featured 44 new paintings, a-la-Keene, originals, assembly-line style. Often a subject of the age-old controversial struggle between “art and commerce,” Brooklyn-based, Yale-educated Keene has shown throughout the globe, and sold nearly 200,000 paintings. According to The Los Angeles Times, “Keene takes the popular accessibility of Warhol’s mass-produced images to the next level.”
The Paradise Lounge began its gallery showing of visual arts in November 2002, with Infections, the visual art of former Weezer bassist, Mikey Welsh. Other shows have included Between Rock and an Art Place, Part 2, celebrating visual art by musicians; Paradise Found, concert posters celebrating 25 years of rock history and Manifestations of the Discarded, found and recycled art sculpture by Asa Brebner and Wayne Viens. In 2003, The Paradise Rock Club toted its 25th-year anniversary, as it continues to prove one of the best live music venues in the country.
Newly renovated, and under new management, The Paradise Lounge is a rock & roll bar/lounge with a new restaurant element. It is open nightly at 5 p.m., providing a unique space to dine or lounge before a show, catering to patrons with a love of all things music/art. The Paradise Lounge is located at 967 Commonwealth Avenue in Boston. It is accessible via the Green Line on the MBTA. Metered parking is also available in the area. The reception is open to the public, and various artists will be in attendance. Artwork shown is also available for purchase unless otherwise noted. Paradise Lounge Information 617.562.8814. [thedise.com. The Paradise Lounge is open to the public, and is 18+.
Artists and Scanlon are available for interview. Select high-resolution images and press kits available. Contact Ami Bennitt at 617.876.7363, ami.bennitt@verizon.net [alterartgallery.com/bestseat ]
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