• VIP DINNER CRAFTED BY KATIUSHKA MELO’S CATERING SERVICE “IN THE MOOD FOR” •
• OPEN BAR UNTIL MIDNIGHT •
• SILENT ART AUCTION •
• MUSICAL PERFORMANCE BY ELLIOTT SHARP •
• DJ SETS BY
DJ NAT ROE (wfmu, Silent Barn)
DJ CHIPOTLE (Syed+Kunal of Babycastles +++ Thu Tran of IFC’s “Food Party”)
DJ Alaina Stamatis (The Ho_se, Impose)
We invite you to join us on Thursday, September 12, for a fundraiser to help us actualize our vision of creating a warm, active, inventive and purposeful art space and workshop. The winter is not so kind to our large, wide gallery and last year the REVERSE team made it through the cold by using space heaters. However, this year we hope to be better prepared. This fundraiser will help offset costs of installing a heating system so that we can continue to use our space on Frost Street and work towards a warmer winter.
A year in and REVERSE has burgeoned into a project-based exhibition space and laboratory for multidisciplinary and experimental artwork created by innovative, boundary-breaking individuals. It is without a doubt only through the love and support of the artists and creative, community-focused people around us that we have made it thus far. As we move into our second year the REVERSE team is working hard to make the space better by improving our public programs and crafting exhibitions and events that engage and excite the neighborhood around the gallery, as we transition to a non for profit/fiscally sponsored program structure.
DEFROST will feature a silent art auction including works generously donated to the fundraiser by the REVERSE artist community as well as friends of REVERSE. Music will include a performance by Elliott Sharp, who exhibited at the gallery this past May, musical guest Ancient History as well as a guest DJ. VIP and Benefit tickets will give you access to your choice of a digital artwork created by one of our REVERSE artists, click here to browse through the images. After purchasing your ticket, REVERSE will send you a link where you can download the piece along with instructions from the artist on how to print it. Your purchase of a ticket at any level will support REVERSE and help us continue to present programs that encourage new and emerging artists, curators, and creative individuals.
Participating artists in the silent art auction include:
Claes Oldenburg, Peace Prints, 1972
Robert Whitman, Peace Prints, 1972
Richard Anuskiewicz, Peace Prints, 1972
Öyvind Fahlström, Peace Prints, 1972
Marisol, Peace Prints, 1972
Robert Rauschenberg, Highway Poster
Mary Baumeister, Cancer Print
Aki Onda
Aleksey Yudzon
Audra Wolowiec
Benjamin Jay Shand
CHiKA
Daniel Zeller
Elliott Sharp
Gabriel J. Shuldiner
Gentleman’s Game (Brandon Friend + Jason Douglas Griffin)
Katiushka Melo
Marc Dennis
Matthew Brennan
Melissa F. Clarke
Raimundo Rubio
Sarah Butler
Serra Victoria Bothwell Fels
The event will be three tiered:
Your purchase of a ticket at any level will support REVERSE and help us continue to present programs that encourage new and emerging artists, curators, and creative individuals.
If you are unable to attend the benefit but would still like to support REVERSE, please consider making a tax-deductible donation.