Beverly Glenn Copeland

Last week musician, trans-activist, and former Sackville resident Beverly Glenn Copeland released a new album in collaboration with his wife Elizabeth Copeland. Titled Laughter in Summer, the recording can be listened to here. 

Signed copies of the compilation Transmissions (Sackville Edition) are still available from Struts Gallery, here. 

And Kerri Reid has contributed a hand-sewn felt finger puppet of Copeland to an auction benefiting Struts and the Owens Art Gallery. Bid on it here: 

https://www.32auctions.com/organizations/78578/auctions/194184/auction_items/6711565

She made me a great Yoko Ono finger puppet a few years ago, here. 

Dave Dyment/Roula Partheniou | We Love

The Sweetest Little Thing is an event held annually on Valentine’s Day, which features an in-person and online auction to benefit Struts and the Owens Art Gallery. 

This year includes affordably priced works by Shary Boyle, Micah Lexier, Andrea Mortson, Graeme Patterson, Kerri Reid, Jon Sasaki, Rhonda Weppler & Trevor Mahovsky and others who have appeared on this site numerous times. 

Roula and I donated this collaborative work, made last month. It is a plexiglass sculpture painted with acrylic paint and features a wooden gravity bar on the verso. 

100% of the proceeds from the auction go towards programming costs of the two galleries. 

Bid here: 

https://www.32auctions.com/organizations/78578/auctions/175799?r=1&t=all

Dave Dyment | Untitled [Fan Labour #2]

Dave Dyment

Untitled [Fan Labour #2], 2015 

Graphite on vellum 

41 x 33 x 4 cm.

Edition of 8 signed and numbered copies, each unique

From a series of works involving convoluted and complex ‘conspiracy theory’ readings of popular films, this piece is currently part of The Sweetest Little Thing, an annual auction and event to raise funds for the two galleries in town. The Owens Art Gallery is the country’s oldest University gallery and Struts is an Artist-Run-Centre with a reputation for punching above it’s weight bringing artists to town as part of it’s renowned residency program. 

The auction’s MO is smaller, affordable artworks and this year includes work by many artists who have featured on this site, see hashtags below. 

Forthcoming

With the month-long focus on Edition Hundertmark wrapped up, I will be rushing to catch up on some 

recently acquired, recently unearthed, recently thrown-into-a-frame items, including works by Kay Rosen, Robert Smithson, Michael Snow, Dara Birnbaum, Kerri Reid, Robert Filliou, Michael Asher, Jonathan Monk, bill bissett, Jake Kennedy, George Bowering and others. 

Future publisher focuses will include Harry Ruhe, Siglio Press, Vice-Versand , Nero, and others.

The Sweetest Little Thing

The Sweetest Little Thing event takes place tonight, including an online auction of affordable small artworks. These are two things we won last year, by Amanda Fauteux and Hannah Bridger: a cigarette as candy and cheezie as sculpture. This year’s event includes a work by Roula Partheniou (see previous post) as well as works by Micah Lexier & Jon Sasaki, Andrea Mortson, Lacey Decker Hawthorne, Paul Butler, Kerri Reid (A Bernie Sanders w/Mittens finger puppet), Derek Sullivan, etc. etc. 

All funds raised benefit Struts Gallery and The Owens Art Gallery. 

To bid, visit the 32Auctions site, here:

https://www.32auctions.com/slt2021

Kerri Reid | Things Fall Apart