news & events (category: 2009)

Soup Kitchen @ Transformer Gallery

SOUP KITCHEN
Friday, February 20, 5 – 8pm

a Communal Meal and part of SUMMER CAMP at
TRANSFORMER GALLERY
Washington, DC

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Baby, it's COLD OUTSIDE! This Friday DC-based artists Kathryn Cornelius and Lisa Marie Thalhammer heat things up with SOUP KITCHEN, serving a FREE meal of soup and bread to ALL. Join the artists as they fill bowls, slice bread, and entertain guests with an event that engages the relationship of art and community service with the common concerns of our current economic situation, in the format of a communal experience.

*All remaining food items will be donated to S.O.M.E. (So Others Might Eat), a local non-profit outreach program located next to the O St. artists live/work space.

"We can start the country over from scratch…Can you see the Blue Room with Campbell's Soup Cans all over the walls?Because that's what Foreign Heads of State should see, Campbell's Soup Cans and Elizabeth Taylor and Marilyn Monroe. That's America. That's what should be in the White House."
- Andy Warhol, 1975

"Warhol's Campbell's Soup cans were a brilliant parody of art in the same way that Campbell's Soup is a brilliant parody of food."
– Craig Kilborn during The Daily Show

"Who knew that Campbell's Soup still existed? The only reason they are probably still in business is because Andy gave them a place in pop culture history that will forever be celebrated as some of the best art work ever created."
– a Pop Burger rep on the 139 year-old soup company

For more information, please see:
www.transformergallery.org
www.some.org
www.kathryncornelius.com
www.lisamariestudio.com

By Kathryn Cornelius

VIDEYO! - Presented by Your Last Neighbor and Transformer Gallery

VIDEYO! at Comet Ping Pong (5037 Connecticut Ave., NW)
Opening Party
Saturday, February 7, 9 - 11pm

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Presented by Your Last Neighbor and Transformer, VIDEYO! is an artistic action/reaction to the intimately lit interior of popular pizza restaurant and after school/work hangout Comet Ping Pong. Confronting the audience with larger than life projected imagery, narrating with frame by frame image alternation, captivating with comedic collages, and hypnotizing with vibrant montages, the participating VIDEYO! artists – Kathryn Cornelius, Victoria F. Gaitán, Bill Kelly, Audrey Lam, Nilay Lawson, Frankie Martin, Baby Martinez, and Luke Wyatt - showcase a variety of video art works that reflect how the creative uses of this medium are as infinite as its technological advancements. Opening party music provided by DJ Solomon Sanchez.

By Kathryn Cornelius