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 49 Faces from
CHILE * NEW YORK * IRAQ
JEFF SCHLANGER
October 4 - Spring 2010
FREE PUBLIC CONCERT!!
JOIN US on Saturday, June 5, 5-6pm for an Outdoor Jazz Concert & Closing Celebration of CHILE ∙ NEW YORK ∙ IRAQ! Roy Campbell, trumpet and William Parker, bass will tune their June 5 musical improvisation to the sculptural expression of the outdoor wall installation of 49 Faces from CHILE•NEW YORK•IRAQ. The coordinated Music & Art vibration will mark the closing of a wall of ceramic Facesby Clay Art Center founding member Jeff Schlanger, on view since October 2008 when it opened with a pubic concert of the Roy Campbell Quartet featuring Joe McPhee & Bob Stewart. Free & Open to the public! Bring a lawn chair and a picnic!
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| Jeff Schlanger began an extended ensemble of 400 ceramic stoneware Faces, Heads, monumental Jars and effigy Figures in the aftermath of the September 11, 1973 military overthrow of the elected government in Chile, massively supported by the Nixon administration in Washington, DC. Its development has continued throughout subsequent interventions in, among many other countries, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Haiti, Lebanon, Afghanistan & Iraq.
Installations of CHILE · NEW YORK · IRAQ have been mounted in over 40 public spaces, including the City University of New York Graduate Center on 42 nd Street. Patterns of these fired Faces on public walls embody solidarity with the inextinguishable worldwide outcry of resistance.
CHILE · NEW YORK · IRAQis a unique component of All Fired Up! and a unique event in Clay Art Center history. The installed ensemble itself is an unprecedented public announcement from the Center to the community in the actual three-dimensional, lasting language of Clay Art relevant to a key-turning time in the political, economic and social history of this country. |
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| A founding member of the Clay Art Center, JEFF SCHLANGER studied Ceramics at Music & Art High School in New York, at Cranbrook with Maija Grotell, and is the author, with Toshiko Takaezu of the Studio Potter book, Maija Grotell: Works Which Grow from Belief . He has developed public projects on three interrelated subjects : Peace, Resistance to War and Music. His work has been exhibited in Japan, Uzbekistan, Russia and across the United States, including solo exhibitions at the Jane Hartsook Gallery, the NY State College of Ceramics at Alfred and the City University of New York Graduate Center. SPIRITWORLD , a combined installation of his music Witness ® project of avantjazz performance paintings, ceramic sculptures of contemporary improvising musicians and live music, was at New York City's CUE Art Foundation in 2005. |
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