Index/Kedar Tonite, Master Plan and Red Bulls Saturday

I saw Kevin Darmanie, proprietor of the Kedar Studio of Art, at the closing of the 2+2 exhibit at NJIT and asked what's next for Kedar. (Kevin is a pop artist who works in sophisticated, adult cartoons, and "Kedar" is the name of one of his principal characters; but here I meant "Kedar Studio of Art".) He said that on December 9th he's opening a new show, and I asked if Index (Art Center, which takes up most of the same floor of 585 Broad Street) is going to open something the same nite, as they usually do. Kevin thought Index was going to do a fotografy show.

Fotos of artworks today are from previous shows at Kedar and Index. This is a pair of small paintings by Victor Davson, in a Kedar show.

I expressed the hope that it wouldn't be b&w, but color, and said something I've often thought, that if the original fotograffic process had produced color, nobody would be working in black-and-white. As soon as I said it, to an artist, I realized that some artists, seeking a different vision, might opt for monochrome, and Kevin said aloud that some artists might be more inclined to work in monochrome if the bulk of fotografy were full-color. Indeed. But, I think now, they might not all settle on black, white, and shades of gray, but other base colors and their shades: purple, blue, red, etc., not a single standard for art(sy-craftsy) fotografy.

Small artworks at Kedar.

In any case, I saw the email announcement for the new Index/Kedar shows Tuesday (sent shortly before midnite Monday, and thus too late for that event to be included in the Newark Pulse weekly events newsletter, which comes out on Tuesday. Here is the text:

Transposition

This exhibition will feature work by painter DAVID DZIEMIAN and photographer WARREN YOUNG. The work of these two artists seem[s] to take on new rolls [roles?] through the use of traditional mediums. Areas of paint and texture are explored through the lens. Spacial relationships, perspective and reality are examined using the brush[.]

December 9 through January 4th
Reception: Friday Dec. 9, 6-10pm
Also exhibiting -
Reception Room: works by Benjamin Griffin
27 Mix: works by Gavin Gewecke

INDEX
585 Broad Street
Newark, NJ 07102
www.indexartcenter.org
index.gallery@gmail.com
Gallery ph. 862-218-0278

Gallery hours:
Thur: 6-9 pm
Fri: 1-4 pm
Sat: 1-4 pm
Viewing appointments are welcome

Truly monochrome painting, all-black, marred by reflections at September show at Index.

So I shall endeavor to get there tonite. Ordinarily the Index email would include mention of Kedar's offerings the same nite, but not this time. In that Kevin said he was planning something for the 9th, I assumed that there will be something on offer there tonite too. I don't know if Kedar has a mailing list, but in any case, I'm not on one for them. So I checked Kedar's Facebook page and found this:

Join us this Friday for Kedar Art Exhibit of Jewelry and Fine Craft featuring among others, jewelry by SamKa.

Artist and jeweler Samantha M. Katehis specializes in creating detailed figurative pieces out of wax.

Master Plan Open House. I mentioned here Wednesday that there were to be two displays of the Master Plan as now envisioned, at Central High School, on Wednesday and Saturday, and that I hoped to get to one or the other. Since the Wednesday showing was in the evening (5:30-8:00pm) but the Saturday showing at 10:00am-12:30pm, I went to the Wednesday event. I'll show fotos and discuss my experience of it later. If you go tomorrow, let me cue you in to what you'll see. There are a bunch of tables on the left as you enter, which show the different areas of the city, with two maps that may look the same but are actually of the current zoning (left) and proposed new zoning (right). On the right wall are tables by subject-matter area. You can write a comment on a PostIt and place it on the relevant poster for their information later.

Index Reception Room.

Red Bulls Open House. Tomorrow (Saturday) from 10am-6pm, the "New York" Red Bulls are having an Open House at their magnificent, 25,000-seat stadium in Harrison, a half mile in from the Newark line — in New JERSEY. Are you as sick as I am of New York sports teams playing in NJ but still calling themselves NY teams?

Another work from a Reception Room show.

I have to check with Gaetano if he's going. He took me to a Red Bulls soccer game on Fan Appreciation Day, April 24, 2010. I attended to see if I could get into soccer, but mainly to see the stadium ("arena", they call it) from the inside and up close from the outside.

I show today some of the fotos I took of the area then but meant to use long before now. I'll use others shortly before the home opening of the 2012 season, on March 25th.

In this next foto, you can see Gaetano in the foreground and much of the Newark skyline in the background.

The announcement text of tomorrow's event reads:

Your holiday shopping struggles are over! Come to Red Bull Arena on Saturday, December 10th from 10am to 6pm to select the best 2012 season ticket seat locations and purchase discounted Red Bulls merchandise.

While you're here you'll also have the opportunity to:

o Take a penalty shot on the pitch
o Get a behind the scenes tour of the Red Bulls locker room
o Meet a Red Bulls player.

They originally said that only people who RSVP'd before 3pm today would be admitted, but they relented, and a notice says "Please just arrive prior to 4pm in order to guarantee that you'll be able to take part in all the fun elements!"
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Gaetano and I each got an autograf on a Red Bulls poster last year from Juan Pablo Ángel, then a star player with the Red Bulls but now playing for Chivas USA. The guy had real charisma, a term much overused. When he looked up at you before signing the poster, he made you feel like he was really connecting with you in particular, not just acknowleding one of a very long line of nameless fans. That's an extremely rare quality. And very sexy.

The last foto today shows part of the Reception Room during an opening reception at Index. They get a good crowd, but I can't always stay as long as I might like because they allow smoking. Doesn't Newark have an indoor-smoking ordinance? It should have.