Art Collaborative: West End Cafe Gallery in Malden

Sand T/artSPACE@16 is grateful for having the opportunity to be a part of establishing West End Cafe Gallery on Summer Street in Malden in the Fall of 2004.

Voluntary involvement in this art collaborative included but not limited to: Provided consultations on cafe gallery setting, designed and had the gallery's sign made, composed a call for artists and distributed it to the art community on behalf of the Café Gallery; presented a "Lets-get-it-started" art event, conducted outreach to musicians to perform for opening reception; handed out listings of arts and cultural venues in Malden for attendees; created a html page of the Café Gallery on artSPACE@16's website; spread the word about this new art venue in Malden; encouraged others to do so in support of the Café Gallery. Motivated and supported owners of the West End Cafe Gallery to continue hosting art events at their café.

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NOTE FROM SYLVIE: " I would like to thank you again for everything you've been doing for us. I wanted the Cafe to be a great place so that people will enjoy coming and have fun here. I started distributing leaflets to advertise the Cafe Gallery. Thanks to you several artists have contacted me regarding showing work at the Cafe. This encouraged me a lot! I appreciate your support. I think we can make West End a great place for everyone as a Cafe and as an art Gallery." - Sylvie, Malden, MA - Oct 2004.

PLEASE NOTE: Sylvie's Cafe gallery has closed. - - Hello Malden, This is to inform you that West End Cafe Gallery owners Sylvie and Danny have decided to close their business for good for some personal reasons. Sylvie would like to thank you for your support and patronage. She is very disappointed about the closing as she knew that it could have been a great place for everyone as a cafe and also as an art gallery. I'm sure some of you probably feel the same way. Thank you for your attention. Best wishes - Sand T , Dec 2004.
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A Collaborative project to remember...
Thanks to you, Sylvie, for making this happened.

Premier Show at West End Cafe Gallery in Malden
Sept 25 through Oct 23, 2004

LANDSCAPES & ABSTRACTIONS
Paintings and Works on Paper by Sand T

YOU'RE CORDIALLY INVITED TO
An Evening of Music, Art and Poetry Reading at West End Café Gallery
Save the Date: Tuesday October 5, from 5 – 8 pm
Location: West End Café Gallery at 73 Summer Street in Malden
Gallery hours are Monday – Friday 7am – 3pm, Saturday 8am – 2pm.
Contact:

An information table for art resources in Malden will be set for networking and information sharing. You're most welcome to bring literature of art programming of your institutions, calls for artists, calls for art proposals, postcards of your current and upcoming shows - any art related information that you want to share with the attendees that evening. If you have art magazines or art books that you are ready to part with they can be dropped off at the Cafe anytime during the Cafe's hours. Tell us what you would like to do to bring quality art events to the West End Café Gallery and the local community. We look forward to seeing you at the Cafe.


West End Café Gallery (Malden, MA) presents abstract works by Malden artist Sand T. The exhibition runs Sept 25 through Oct 23, 2004. A reception with Music, Art and Poetry Reading has been scheduled for Tuesday, October 5, 2004 from 5 – 8pm. Mike Uzzi (aka SMARTYPANTS) will start the evening DJ-ing electronic music, followed by the improvisational live band AUDDITY, poetry will be read throughout the evening. The Cafe counter will be open during the reception.

Artworks on display include paintings and works on paper selected from Sand T’s series - Landscapes and Abstractions. This body of work reflects the environment in a mysterious and spiritual manner. Sand T says about the work, “In our surrounding environment, we often see abstractions in landscapes or vice versa.” Landscapes and Abstractions, wide in a vocabulary of marks, rich colors, and a multi-layered effect that emerges from this process is at once mysterious and introspective. This body of work creates a sense of space that is oddly familiar and enigmatic. A sense of churning warmth and swirling passion radiates from them. Works on display leave the viewer to their own interpretations.

Sand T completed her Graduate and Museum Studies from Tufts University and the Museum School with a MFA in 1997. She is a multidisciplinary visual artist who has been actively creating and exhibiting her works nationally and internationally for two decades. Painting, mixed media collage, digital documentary photography and art installations are her working mediums.

Currently, Sand T’s artworks can be seen in “PHOTO LAB(oratory),” a photography show juried by Leslie K. Brown, at artSPACE@16 in Malden; “The Persistence of Becoming,” a multi media exhibit co-curated by Malden artist Lauren O’Neal and Alex Metral at The Nave Gallery in Somerville; and “No0965859F” a multi media exhibition series at Westbrook Artists Site(WAS) in Winterset, Iowa. For more information, please contact Sand T at SandT.artSPACEat16@verizon.net.


Mike Uzzi, aka SMARTYPANTS (Somerville, MA) was trained as a classical percussionist at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, but somewhere along the way he found himself more interested in producing and DJ-ing electronic music. He has become a staple of the underground techno scene in both New York and Boston, playing alongside some of the biggest names of the international techno community including Stewart Walker, Sammy Dee, and Dinky. As a producer, Mike has had tracks released by the esteemed German label Traum Schallplatten, as well as Sentrall Records and Adhesive Records. His debut solo EP will be released this fall on the local label Zero G Sounds. Currently, Mike can be found DJing and playing live sets with the rest of the Unlockedgroove collective every Saturday night at River Gods in Cambridge and on the third Wednesday of every month for the Zero G Sounds events at the Phoenix Landing in Central Square.

Auddity (Medford, MA) was formed by the three members Eric Dahlman, Michaeal Knoblach and Erik Nugent. Auddity improvise music by drawing upon a vast array of international, jazz and experimental influences to create a spacious and frequently ethereal soundscape. This music is created in part by drawing upon the band’s huge collection of over a thousand instruments.

Eric Dahlman: Trumpet, Bird Calls, Percussion, Vocals - - Dahlman has performed with Hal Russell’s NRG Ensemble, James Marshall’s Human Arts Ensemble, the Aardvark Jazz Orchestra, The Chandler Travis Philharmonic, Spring Parsnips, The Calypso Invaders, Dubious Duo and Pulp Ensemble. Eric is poised to release a second solo CD with John Voigt and other luminaries. He has two duo recordings that will be released in 2004 and is also currently working with Blood Cells, L Contra Band and The Arrangement. He also appeared on Brendan Kanty’s (Fugazi) Discovery Channel soundtrack for the documentary “Bridges.” Eric has also performed with a parakeet and Jed Speare in Berkeley, CA and Drummstick inventor E. Doctor Smith. Dahlman has studied with Anthony Davis (composer of the jazz opera “Malcolm X,” etc.), Steve Hendrickson (Principal Trumpet, National Symphony) and solo jazz piano artist Dave Frank.

Michael Knoblach: Percussion, Hurdy Gurdy, Vocals - - Knoblach has played with Ad Frank, Twitcher, Cul de Sac, Jon LaMaster’s Saturnalia, Neovoxer Ensemble, The Boston Village Gamelan, Kiniwe African Percussion Ensemble, Donald “the junkman” Knaack (ex-John Cage), The Calypso Invaders, The Valhalla Kittens, The Trojan Ponies, et al. He played the New Year’s Countdown for Boston, MA in Copley Square for a number of years and is also currently playing with Ted Drozdowski’s The Scissormen. He has done soundtrack work for the Troma Films release “Terror Firmer.” Michael has studied drum set with Gene Picallo (ex-Jack McDuff, ex-Woody Herman, ex-Glenn Miller Band and a longtime student of Ed Thigpen and Shelly Manne) and has had extensive studies in Arabic hand drumming and classical Egyptian tambourine, as well as having studied tabla and North Indian classical music with Marcus Wise (ex-Steve Tibbetts, ex-Dean McGraw), Jerry Leake (Natraj), Ali Akbar Khan and Swapan Chaudhuri.

Erik Nugent: Plays instruments of his own invention including Triangular-Bore Slide Saxophone, Slide Bagpipe, Three-note Didgeridoo, Beer Bottle Pan Pipe, Flexididjs, Pyrophone, Aquarina, other wind instruments, and percussion. He has studied the ancient forms of throat singing created in Tuva called Sygyt and Kargyraa. Nugent has played with John Zorn and the Experimental Musical Instruments Ensemble, Otis Reem, Been Caught Steelin’, Automobile Revision, Devil Music Ensemble, and The Calypso Invaders. Performing on many of these instruments as well as Clarinet and Bass Clarinet, he was part of the ensemble that performed a live soundtrack to the contemporary film “Neovoxer” by Michael Pope and D. Franklin. He has composed the soundtrack for “Eddie’s Question”, a film by Lee Sullivan. He makes his living building and repairing hand-made flutes.

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CONTACT INFO:

For more information about “LANDSCAPES & ABSTRACTIONS” exhibition, please contact Sand T SandT.artSPACEat16@verizon.net.
For more info about Mike Uzzi aka SMARTYPANTS, send email to contact@hustle-me.com, or visit unlockedgroove.com, hustle-me.com and zer0gsounds.com
For more info about Auddity, please contact Michael Knoblach drumkrazy@comcast.net or visit nununugent.com/projects/Auddity

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WEST END CAFÉ GALLERY CALL FOR VISUAL ARTISTS, POETS AND MUSICIANS:

Tell us what you would like to do to bring quality art events to the West End Café Gallery and the local community. COME! Be a part in shaping a strong artists community in Malden. The Possibilities Are Endless!

For more information about DO-IT-YOURSELF ART EVENT OPPORTUNITIES at the West End Café Gallery, visit Sylvie at her Café Gallery located at 73 Summer Street in Malden.