DAVID YAGHJIAN: More Scenes, December 9 – 30, 2017

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EDWARD RICE: Corpus – October 28 – November 18, 2017

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PREVIEW David Yaghjian: More Scenes, Dec. 9 – 30, 2017

Cloud, 2016, oil on panel, 8 x 8 in., $650

Man, Moon, House, 2016, monotype, 5 x 5 in., $400.

Untitled #2, 2017, monotype, 5 x 5 in., $400.

Untitled, 2017, monotype, 5 x 5 in., $400.

Untitled #5, 2016, monotype, 5 x 5 in., $400.

Hand Raised, 2017, monotype, 5 x 5 in., $400.

Untitled #4, 2017, monotype, 10 x 8 in., $500.

Scene L, Airplane, 2016-17, oil on canvas, 9 x 12 in, $900

Scene LIX, Water (Small), 2016, oil on canvas panel, 

9 x 12 in, $900

Scene LIX, Water, 2016, oil on canvas, 36 x 36 in, $5,000

Scene LX, Earth, 2016, oil on canvas, 18 x 18 in, $2,000

Scene LXI, Blue Door, 2016, oil on canvas, 9 x 12 in, $900

Scene LXII, Sitting, 2016, oil on canvas, 11 x 14 in, $1,200

Scene LXIII, Eating, 2017, oil on canvas, 16 x 18 in, $1,800

Scene LXIV, Collapse, 2017, oil on canvas, 9 x 12 in, $900

Scene LXIX, Duo, 2017, oil on canvas, 

12 x 9 in, $900

Scene LXV, Ape With Fish, 2017, oil on canvas, 9 x 12 in, 

$900

Scene LXVI, Bicycles, 2017, oil on canvas, 14 x 16 in, $1,600

Scene LXVII, Solstice, 2017, oil on canvas, 

40 x 30 in, $4,650

Scene XXV, Whale Boat, 2013-17, oil on canvas, 

36 x 36 in, NFS

BALLISTER with Dave Rempis, Fred Lonberg-Holm & Paal Nilsson-Love, October 4, 2017,8:30 pm; $10.

BALLISTER with Dave Rempis, Fred Lonberg-Holm & Paal Nilsson-Love 
October 4, 2017, 8:30 pm; $10.

Featuring Dave Rempis on saxophone, Fred Lonberg-Holm on cello and Paal Nilsson-Love on drums, BALLISTER is a powerhouse trans-atlantic trio now on its US Tour in support of its new release Slag. As fans of the music will recognize, this is inevitably a hard-hitting group. The unabashed energy of Rempis and Nilssen-Love, coupled with the electrified cello antics of Lonberg-Holm, make for a powerful listening experience that combines driving grooves with noisy textures and occasional melodic interjections. These sliding and overlapping rhythms often give the music a feeling as if a rug is slowly being pulled out from underneath the listener while the music still maintains a strong forward momentum. Reference points include the Julius Hemphill groups of the 70’s and 80’s featuring Abdul Wadud, Ornette Coleman’s Prime Time, and the early 70’s explorations of Miles Davis’ electric bands.

STEVEN CHAPP: Print Reconstructions, Sept. 23 – Oct. 14, 2017

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DANIEL LEVIN Solo on Cello, Sept. 20, 8:30

if ART Gallery Concert Series presents:

Daniel Levin Solo on Cello

WEDNESDAY, September 20, 2017

8:30 pm (doors open @ 8:00 pm)

Admission: $10.00

Peter Lenzo: In Memory Of My Memory, June 3 - 24, 2017

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Italian Soda @ if ART Gallery, June 14th, 8:30-10:00 pm

Italian Soda @ if ART Gallery

Wed., June 14, 2017, 
8:30 pm
Admission: $10

To see/hear a clip of Italian Soda, go to:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDP6FwcRL0M&feature=youtu.be

Italian Soda is a Los Angeles-based experimental pop band inspired by Brazilian samba, surf rock and bubbles. An unlikely combination of acoustic instruments and synth sounds, the group
plays music with a rhythmic, airy yet unrestrained approach. Influences include the experimentalism of Björk, the joy and groove of Hermeto Pascoal and the electronic psychedelia of Stereolab. The band features bassoonist Cody Putman, vocalist Molly Pease,
bassist Miller Wrenn and drummer Jacob Richards. Having played shows at venues in Los Angeles such as Rec Center, Que Sera and Roy O. Disney Hall, Italian Soda is on their very first tour throughout the United States. Their EP “Bubbles” was released in February of 2017 and is available online at italiansoda.bandcamp.com.

Concert: The Few @ if ART Gallery, June 21st, 8:30-11:00 pm

CONCERT

June 21st, 8:30-11:00 pm
Admission: $10

THE FEW
Marcie Stewart – violin & voice
Charlie Kirchen – bass
Steve Marquette – guitar

THE FEW brings together three of the most dynamic string players from the latest generation of Chicago’s storied improvised music community: Macie Stewart of Homme and Marrow; Charlie Kirchen of Room; and Steve Marquette of Instigation Orchestra. The three musicians form an improvising, acoustic trio that seamlessly blends their wide ranging influences into a singular whole.

LAURA SPONG & LEO TWIGGS: The Elizabeth O'Neill Verner Governor's Award for Lifetime Achievement Exhibition

Ken Vadermark / Nate Wooley Duo, May 11, 2017

if ART Gallery Concert Series presents:

Ken Vandermark / Nate Wooley Duo

THURSDAY, May 11, 2017

8:30 pm (doors open @ 8:00 pm)

Admission: $10.00

if ART Gallery

1223 Lincoln St.

Columbia, SC 29201

(803) 238-2351

wroefs@sc.rr.com

           

Columbia’s if ART Gallery presents on Thursday, May 11, 2017, 8:30 p.m., a concert by saxophone and clarinet player Ken Vandermark and trumpet player Nate Wooley. The concert is part of the duo’s current United States tour. Admission is $10; concert, at 8:30; doors open at 8:00.

A winner of a 1999 McArthur Genius Grant at the age of 35, Vandermark has been among the world’s most celebrated free- and improv jazz composers, saxophonists and clarinet players for decades. He and his Vandermark 5 ensemble are among the most prominent representatives of the Chicago jazz scene. Vandermark has played in Columbia several times, including a memorable 2009 concert at 701 Center for Contemporary Art with the Dutch Ab Baars Trio.

            Wooley was called by Downbeat magazine “one of the most interesting and unusual trumpet players living today, and that is without hyperbole.” He’s one of the most sough-after trumpet players of the Brooklyn, NY, jazz and new music scene and has played with legends such as John Zorn, Anthony Braxton, Eliane Radique and Fred Frith.

Vandermark and Wooley have been operating in each other's orbits for several years, having worked together with Paul Lytton, Joe Morris, Agusti Fernandez and Terrie Ex before putting together their duo project. In 2013 they toured the

United States for the first time. With this unique ensemble, they deal directly with each other's iconoclastic compositional and improvisational vocabularies and have created a book of original material that takes inspirational cues from the under-appreciated work of John Carter and Bobby Bradford; two of those musicians’ compositions are part of the group's repertoire. Vandermark and Wooley have worked together to create an

organic combination of the jazz tradition, free improvisation and modern composition and have then placed it into the raw and intimate context of this duo. In 2014, Vandermark and Wooley released their record East By Northwest.

TOM STANLEY: Drawing in Paint, 1992 – 2017

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Dave Rempis' Latice, April 25, 8 pm

if ART Gallery Concert Series presents:

Dave Rempis’ Latice

TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 2017

8:30 pm (doors open @ 8:00 pm)

Admission: $10.00

if ART Gallery

1223 Lincoln St.

Columbia, SC 29201

(803) 238-2351

wroefs@sc.rr.com

           

            Columbia’s if ART Gallery presents on Wednesday, April 25, 2017, 8:30 p.m., a solo concert by veteran Chicago saxophonist Dave Rempis. The concert is part of Rempis’ sprawling solo journey around the United States this spring. During the tour, Rempis develops repertoire for his first solo release scheduled on Aerophonic Records this fall.

Admission is $10; concert, at 8:30; doors open at 8:00.

Rempis has performed in Columbia on many occasions with a variety of improv jazz ensembles, most recently at if ART in October 2016 with his trio Gunwale. The saxophonist, improviser and composer has been an integral part of the thriving Chicago jazz and improvised music scene since 1997. With a background in ethnomusicology and African studies at Northwestern University, including a year spent at the University of Ghana, Rempis burst onto the creative music scene at the age of 22 when he joined the well-known Chicago jazz outfit The Vandermark Five. This opportunity catapulted him to notoriety as he began to tour regularly throughout the US and Europe, an active schedule that he still maintains to the present day. 

At the same time, Rempis began to develop the many Chicago-based groups for which he’s currently known, including The Rempis Percussion Quartet, The Engines, Ballister, Rempis/Abrams/Ra, Wheelhouse, Triage, The Rempis/Rosaly Duo, and The Rempis/Daisy Duo. Other collaborations have included work with Paul Lytton, Axel Dörner, Fred Anderson, Peter Brötzmann, C. Spencer Yeh, Hamid Drake, Steve Swell, John Tchicai, Roscoe Mitchell, Kevin Drumm, Paal Nilssen-Love, Nels Cline, and Joe McPhee. Rempis has been named regularly since 2006 in the annual Downbeat Critics’s Poll as a “rising star” on alto saxophone and as a “rising star” and “established talent” on baritone saxophone. In 2013, he started his own record label, Aerophonic Records, to document this ongoing work. 

Rempis' musical expression draws on a number of touchstones. While heavily improvisational in nature, his work is informed by his Greek ethnicity, studies in jazz and ethnomusicology, appreciation for the philosophical underpinnings of contemporary composition and his love for unforgivingly strident yelps, screeches and squeals that can encompass the ever-evolving state of human depravity. 

LAURA SPONG & JEREMY BRENT BUTLER: The World Begins – a painter & poet collaboration

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JAIME MISENHEIMER: Hour Of The Wolf

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VISTA ENSEMBLE Concert: MUSIC FROM CLASSICAL VIENNA

Featuring Patrick Hawkins, Erika Cutler, Jeana Melilli, Brittnee Siemon and Gail Ann Schroeder 

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