One Gray Grass in the Ball Field

Vox Alumni
Friday, September 5th- November 2nd, 2008

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

For this September’s exhibition, Vox revives a great 90’s tradition: the group theme show. One Gray Grass in the Ball Field assigns artists with a simple mission: to create the feeling of a country fair art exhibition. The idea for One Gray Grass in the Ball Field was forged through the friendly bond between Shannon Bowser, Joy Feasley, Paul Swenbeck, and Clint Takeda. An earlier Vox exhibition called Doohickey Lodge became the inspiraation for this group to pitch in and buy a three season cottage in Northport, ME. 4-H club and country6 fairs like th Common Ground Fair in Liberty, Maine, serve as a model for the aesthetic vieiw of the show. The artists in volved are sampled from a group of artists that cut their teeth in the mid-nineties when John Cage was still around to be mortified by our tributes to his Yoda-like art practice. Invited artists incliude, David Wicklan, Jen Macdonald, Kait Midgett, Nick Muel,lner, Richard Harrod, and Tristin Lowe. Following the fotosteps of past Vox exhibitions like Elf Portraits and New Nihilism Now, this show will be a chaotic melange of handicraft and poetry, fine art, and pies