Sweat Portfolio, Phase 1

“Sweat Portfolio, Phase 1”

Saturday 9 October – 10 November, 2010

The SWEAT Portfolio is an ongoing project of Visual Artists and Writers to collaborate and provide mutual support. Each work has input from two collaborators, and the works covers a variety of techniques and ideas, and texts of poetry to prose to create broadsheets (hand pulled prints of image and text). You must see these magnificent prints!

Andrew Binder – Crissa-Jean Chappel
Rosemarie Chiarlone – Susan Weiner
Ashley Ford – Brian Lehnen
Park McArthur – Peter Borrebach
Park McArthur – David Gonzalez
Park McArthur – Jessica Machado
Alberto Meza – Pete Borrebach
Betty Monteavaro – Yaddyra Peralta
Lea Nickless – Cyn. Zarco
Lea Nickless – David Gonzalez
Celeste Pierson – Celeste Pierson
Brian Reedy – P. Scott Cunningham
Lydia Rubio – Michael Hettich
Claudia Scalise – Claudia Scalise
Kari Snyder – Michael Hettich
Kari Snyder – David Gonzalez
Tom Virgin – Yaddyra Peralta
Tom Virgin – John Dufresne
Tom Virgin – Gabriel Spera
Onajide Shabaka – Purvis Daniels (deceased family relative)
(Visual Artist – Writer)


Exhibition Dates: 9 October – 10 November, 2010

Meet the Artists: Sunday, 17 October, 12 noon-4 pm

Hours: Tue.-Sat. 11-5 p.m. (by appt.)

Open Every Second Saturday’s Wynwood Art Walk until 10:30 p.m.

Jonathan Thomas

Jonathan Thomas

From the material I collect, I perform various strategies of image manipulation defined by collage, dissection, re-contextualization, free-association, and ultimately transformation. Through this process I am able to address my interest in the contradictions and ambiguity of visual culture. The majority of this activity is cast through the prism of printmaking, and as a result, is heavily invested in concepts inherent to print media; repetition, multiplicity, layering, sequence, misdirection, ghosting, binary systems of thought and reversals. Prints are residue, traces of information, tracks in the snow.  A print is never an isolated object. There is an innate reference to the source of its creation and the ability for that source to recreate at a different time. This issue addresses the manner in which afterthought and forethought convolute to create our immediate reality. This concept is the structure through which I explore the fragility of memory, the cracked logic of dreams and the gap between perception and actuality.