Fine Arts faculty members Thomas Lail and Tara Fracalossi exhibited over the summer at the Galleria Cypriana Majernika in Bratislava, Slovakia in an exhibition entitled “Transport: Tara Fracalossi, Thomas Lail, Leah Singer, Lee Ranaldo” (Singer and Ranaldo were subject of an exhibition at the college’s Teaching Gallery in 2009).
The four exhibitors additionally invited some 27 artists to lend one work each for an exhibition within the exhibition. Fine Arts faculty members Gail Roberts, Ryan Parr, Kyra Garrigue, Justin Baker and Rich Garrison were all included in this portion of the show. The exhibition was funded in part by the US State Department.
Also during the summer, Fracalossi had a new large-scale photographic installation included in the exhibition “A Field Guide to Getting Lost” at Masters&Pelavin Gallery in New York City.
Both Fracalossi and Lail recently performed at “Cage 99” — a festival of music and works by American composer John Cage held at the Arts Center, Troy. As members of Location Ensemble, Fracalossi and Lail performed Cage’s “Imaginary Landscapes IV.” Lail also read from Cage’s long-form poem, “Art is Either a Complaint or Do Something Else.” Location Ensemble will perform “Imaginary Landscapes IV” again as part of the Arts Center’s “Wired Kingdom” exhibition on Friday, Oct. 30.
Location Ensemble also will perform works by its members (including a new composition by Lail) at The Arts Center in Saratoga Springs on Saturday, Nov. 12.
Earlier in the summer, Lail’s experimental music duo “soundBarn” was featured as Airtime Visiting Artist on radio station WGXC. The interview and performance can be found at wgxc.org
soundBarn next will perform a live, improvised accompaniment to Alfred Hitchcock’s 1929 film “BlackMail” on Tuesday, Nov. 1 at the Sage Auditorium at RPI in Troy.
Published: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 12:30:13 +0000 by t.lail