Happy Hour Release Party for Jasper Magazine Spring 2022 - Thursday, June 9th at Black Rooster Rooftop Bar

Join us as we celebrate all the artists honored in the spring 2022 issue of Jasper Magazine for the official release event at 5:30 on Thursday, June 9th at the Black Rooster’s beautiful rooftop bar.

Among the artists we’ll be celebrating are cover artist Lindsay Radford (written by Kristine Hartvigsen) and centerfold Michael Krajewski (which was shot by Brad Martin in the Black Rooster itself!)

In a jam-packed 64 pages you’ll find another piece by Kristine Hartvigsen on Mike Miller’s new novel, The Hip Shot, as well as excerpts from Jane Zenger and Angelo Geter’s new books of poetry from Muddy Ford Press.

Music editor Kevin Oliver put together a detailed section of new music called “10 to Watch” featuring new work from Saul Seibert, Katera, Desiree Richardson, Tam the Vibe, Rex Darling, Space Force, Admiral Radio, Hillmouse, Candy Coffins, and Lang Owen, with contributing writing from Kyle Petersen and Emily Moffitt.

Tam the Vibe

Stephanie Allen writes about Josetra Baxter and Tamara Finkbeiner’s Walking on Water Productions and their new series Secrets in Plain Sight, with photography by Bree Burchfield.

And we highlight Columbia artist Quincy Pugh as well as feature Will South’s interview with Tyrone Geter all the way from Gambia.

The Three Graces by Quincy Pugh

USC filmmaker Carleen Maur helps us understand more about the art of experimental filmmaking.

Emily Moffitt profiles visual artists Rebecca Horne, Lucy Bailey, and designer Diko Pekdemir-Lewis.

Ed Madden curates poetry from Juan David Cruz-Duarte and Terri McCord.

Christina Xan details the incredible success of Cooper Rust and her non-profit organization, Artists for Africa.

Cindi Boiter profiles SC Arts Commission executive director David Platts, with photography by Brodie Porterfield, and writes about the new public art, Motherhood by Nora Valdez, with exquisite photography by Stephen Chesley.

Motherhood by Nora Valdez, phot by Stephen Chesley

And finally, we memorialize two pillars of the Columbia arts community, Mary Bentz Gilkerson and Wim Roefs, whose loss this spring we are still reeling from.

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We look forward to seeing you Thursday night.

The event is free and Black Rooster’s regular rooftop bar will be serving drinks and food. Come by for happy hour and grab a drink, a magazine, and a hug from your favorite folks. Or plan on staying a while and grabbing dinner or snacks.

Thanks to restauranteur extraordinaire Kristian Niemi for hosting us.

We can’t wait to see you and show off these exceptional artists who call Columbia, SC home!

If Art presents Roger Beebe - Films for One to Eight Projectors - Wednesday March 2nd

Beebe Berlin

Roger Beebe is a filmmaker whose work since 2006 consists primarily of multiple-projector performances and essayistic videos that explore the world of found images and the "found" landscapes of late capitalism. He has screened his films around the globe at such unlikely venues as the CBS Jumbotron in Times Square and McMurdo Station in Antarctica as well as more likely ones including Sundance and the Museum of Modern Art with solo shows at Anthology Film Archives, The Laboratorio Arte Alameda in Mexico City, and Los Angeles Filmforum among many other venues. His work has been supported by residencies at the Headlands Center for the Arts and the MacDowell Colony and elsewhere.

Next week, Wim Roefs welcomes innovative film professor Roger Beebe to the If Art Gallery on Lincoln Street for a performance of Films for One to Eight Projectors and Jasper plans to be in the house. Artists and patrons of all arts disciplines are invited to attend and would be wise to do so. Film has a unique way of spurring creativity that stems from its multi-sensory stimulation, usually presented in an immersive environment, that scholars are still trying to understand. Here’s an opportunity to do some research on your own.

From If Art -

“Roger Beebe's films provide an exciting opportunity to explore new boundaries within film, performance and installation,” University of South Carolina media arts professor Carleen Maur says. “His films provide an experience that asks audiences to explore complex spatial, sonic and image relationships.” Ohio State art professor Beebe will present a film performance at if ART Gallery, Columbia, SC, on Wednesday, March 2, 2002, at 7:00 pm. Suggested donation is $5.

Beebe will operate and perform with several 16mm film projectors, showing several new works alongside some of his best-known projector performances. The latter will include the seven-projector, show-stopping Last Night of the Dying Stars of 2008/2011. Beebe also will include a sampling of recent essayistic videos, presented as live-narrated documentaries. Topics will include a range from the forbidden pleasures of men crying to the racial politics of font choices and the real spaces of virtual economy.

“Beebe’s films are both erudite and punk, lo-fi yet high-brow shorts that wrestle with a disfigured, contemporary American landscape,” Atlanta’s Creative Loafing wrote. The Independent Weekly said that Beebe’s “implicitly and explicitly evoke the work of Robert Frank, Garry Winogrand and Lee Friedlander, all photographers of the atomic age whose Western photographs captured the banalities, cruelties and beauties of imperial America."

Beebe has since 2007 had more than 130 solo exhibitions all over the United States and abroad, the latter in Mexico, Finland, Spain, France, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Germany and the United Kingdom.

Wednesday, March 2, 2022

7:00 pm

Suggestion Donation: $5

 

For more information, contact Wim Roefs at if ART:

(803) 238-2351 – wroefs@sc.rr.com

 

if ART Gallery

1223 Lincoln St.

Columbia, SC