April 26- May 15, 2022 in the STIE theater @ HVMOCA<\/p>\n
Hudson Valley MOCA hours: Thursdays and Saturdays 11:-5:00.<\/p>\n
Studio Theater in Exile presents Sculptures in the Audience <\/em>created by Jo-Ann Brody (video and sculpture installation).<\/p>\n Description: Mara: \u201cFor many years, Brody, Barkman, and I have collaborated on a theater piece to go with the opening of her shows at CERES gallery, NYC. This past year with COVID restrictions in place, we opted to create a video of the Perfect Mind reading that would be paired with a tour of Brody\u2019s and Liz Nydoye\u2019s work. The installation of Brody\u2019s sculptures in Studio Theater in Exile audience brings performance and art into an intimate relationship.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n ARTIST AND PERFORMER<\/p>\n BRODY: Brody<\/strong>\u00a0started with clay sculpture; she moved to cement to create larger, life-sized women. Both materials are from the earth and retained their earth tones; currently she is working in paper mache\u2014still figurative but now with color and collaged image from her photography and from magazines and books. The forms are familiar, but the addition of image and color adds a new dimension. There are references to her surroundings encountered on daily walks.<\/p>\n ARTIST<\/p>\n Lizz Ndoye<\/strong>\u00a0continues her love affair with her doll \u201ccreatures\u201d \u2013 soft, fabric, humanoid figures that she makes and installs in tandem with her large canvases and drawings to depict aspects of their doll culture and existence and ability to heal.<\/p>\n PERFORMERS<\/p>\n Mara Mills, Artistic Director, STIE. And DramaturgeMara is a writer across many genres and a stage director for over 40 years. Her love is original work and interesting formats that break the rules of proscenium theater. With Livia Strauss, President Hudson Valley MOCA, Mara has collaborated for 16 years on image\/word projects. Studio Theater in Exile is now housed at HV MOCA . NOTE: \u201cFor many years, Brody, Barkman, and I have collaborated on a theater piece to go with the opening of her show at CERES gallery, NYC. This past year with COVID restrictions in place, we opted to create a video of the Perfect Mind reading that would be paired with a tour of Brody\u2019s and Liz Nydoye\u2019s work. \u201dThe installation of Brody\u2019s sculptures in the audience brings performance and art into an intimate relationship.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n As a writer\/actor, Donna Barkman has performed her solo plays, \u201cHand-Me-Downs: Scenes from a Life with a Little Help from Antigone and Mother Goose,\u201d and \u201cSticks and Stones and Women\u2019s Bones,\u201d in New York City and environs. produced in NYC and Westchester. She wrote and performed two pieces in The Ides of March at the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art. Sticks and Stones and Women\u2019s Bones, directed by Mara Mills was written based on Scar Tissue, an art installation by Jo-Ann Brody and performed in 2017 at HVCCA. Her poetry has appeared in The Westchester Review, ragazine.cc<\/a>, Bray Arts Journal, Chautauqua, Boston Literary Review, and others. Her poetry has appeared in Chautauqua, Boston Literary Review, String Poet, Per Contra, Pennsylvania English, Trivia: Voices of Feminism, and others, as well as in many anthologies. Ms. Barkman served as a juror for the Bronx Council on the Arts Poetry Competition and has regularly written and performed poetry and short plays for many ekphrastic events at Upstream Gallery and Hudson MOCA for in Westchester, and Ceres Gallery, New York City.<\/p>\n About the poem: Thunder, Perfect Mind is a poem written by an unknown woman circa 400 A.D. (C.E.) . It is part of a collection of Gnostic Texts found at Nag Hammadi. It is thought to have originated in Alexandria, written in Greece and translated into Coptic and is the only manuscript known to have survived. Scholars assume it was written by a woman since its form and content follows early Jewish, Egyptian, and Gnostic poems said to be \u201c\u2026 the self-revelation of a powerful goddess.\u201d (Patricia Cox Miller: Professor Syracuse University)<\/p>\n