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Between the Lines @ Studiopolis
Thursday 24 June @ 19:53:57 |
 by Valerie Valentine
Red denotes lifeblood, passion, virility, warning, love, communism, meat...no other color encompasses such varied symbolic connotations recognizable in mass culture. What better theme for an artistic salute? Kids down at Studiopolis do it up in Between the Lines: Behind the RED CULTure, with works by emerging painters Alissa Valdovinos and Lindsy Halleckson. Opening night was accompanied by the music of William Collins, playing laptop songs composed in the key of red.
 The combination of music and art appeals, because so often one art influences another. Inspiration can arrive from beyond the realm of human emotion and experience. Artists use other arts to enter into a subject, or they combine media to double the reactive effects. Film begs for soundtracks, sublime visuals arouse the poets, and visual artists interpret sounds, words and sights.
Collins’ “key of red” is a creative twist on the scientific analysis of color and sound. The musical note F-sharp vibrates on a wavelength identical to that which the color yields. His songs hit the ear the way red hits the eye. What results is a double-whammy in tonal stimulation. A wistful, rich melody sporadically decayed by soaring beats echoed the experience outward in a way that quiet artful musing cannot replicate.
Art by Alissa Valdovinos comes from deep inside. Cellular units make the bits come together in an organic manner. It could be brains and bloody body parts, or simply that which is most vulnerable in the artist. The paintings are intimate; “Conversation with My 2nd Attempt” is like looking at someone’s visual diary. A human target for love gets hit, infected and begins disintegrating. Figural shapes make it utterly human; a combination of virility and virus that present this composition as a work of life and death.
Viral speckles and chunks can cause the skin to crawl, while comforting with warm tones at the same time.
Lindsy Halleckson’s post-punk pieces balance bold color with wild titles. “Satan’s Sassy Underpants” gives a frame of reference to otherwise abstract streaks. The work relies heavily on aesthetics and philosophy of abstract expressionism, mainly that of spontaneous improvisation and gestural technique. Halleckson keeps the tone consistent, with red’s resonance differing widely, depending on background shades.
Studiopolis should be anyone’s starting point for investigating the artistic portal that is Northrup King. In this space artists get communal, and showcase their sharing sensibilities by making it a gallery.
Between the Lines: Between the RED CULTure runs through July 10. Studiopolis, Northrup King Building, No. 423, 1500 Jackson St. N.E., Mpls. 763-442-3101.
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