6/6/6

With the proliferation of social networking and technology-based communication, making real connections becomes more important than ever. Each artist in this exhibition has selected one other artist who lives and works in a different community, forming a network of local art communities and creating personal and global connections among artists. This effort makes the local more than just local and infuses each region with energy from around the country. Like a chain letter, this process is expansive and like an exquisite corpse, the results are surprising and unexpected. This exhibition, in a sense, “created itself” by means of connectivity. Appropriately for a show about drawing connections, the show takes the drawn line as its subject and features artists from all over the country: Jeff Badger (Portland, ME), Carl Baratta (Chicago, IL),  Amanda Curreri (San Francisco, CA); Joanne Lefrak (Santa Fe, NM), Kathy Leisen (Detroit, MI) and Dan Schank (Philadelphia, PA).

Throughout the past year 6/6/6 has travelled across the country, on exhibit in the hometowns of each artist: January in San Francisco (Queens Nails Projects), February in Santa Fe (Linda Durham Contemporary Art) , April in Chicago (Lloyd Dobler Gallery), May in Detroit (Popp’s Packing), and July in Philadelphia (Pterodactyl Projects). The show now makes its final stop in Maine, the home of local artist Jeff Badger, at Gallery 37A in Portland.  6/6/6 opens on Friday, September 2^nd  with a reception during the First Friday Art Walk.

Gallery 37A: http://www.thirtysevena.com/

6/6/6 blog: http://666exhibition.blogspot.com/

6/6/6 Facebook page: facebook.com/sixartistssixcitiessixconnections

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