"Negative Sex and Untold Secrets"
new work by Kristian Peters and Miss Lyn Cardinal
November 7-21
Opening reception, with live music provided by
Monique Ortiz (of Bourbon Princess),
Saturday, November 12, 3-6 pm
(Cambridge, MA) Zeitgeist Gallery presents "Negative Sex and Untold Secrets": new work by Kristian Peters and Miss Lyn Cardinal. November 7-21; an opening reception on Saturday, November 12, 3-6 pm, with live music provided by Monique Ortiz (of Bourbon Princess). Regular gallery hours: 1-7 pm, Tues.-Sun. Free and open to the public. At the Zeitgeist Gallery, 1353 Cambridge St., Inman Sq., Cambridge. Wheelchair accessible. For more information call the Zeitgeist Gallery, 617-876-6060 or log onto www.zeitgeist-gallery.org.
Inner artistic monologues can take you many places. For Kristian Peters, these become explorations of sex and in photographic terms, negative sex. Her un-manipulated images are created by introducing two unrelated negatives, both with striking properties. She then scans the negatives, sandwiching them together to form / birth another separate, unique piece of art -- a negative offspring from its parental negatives. The result is for the viewer to determine and to feel the fuel behind the fire. Peters' "Negative Sex" is a very deliberate process of choosing the negatives -- but the results, after scanning, have a non-deliberate life of there own.
Miss Lyn Cardinal finds it only natural to connect her "Untold Secrets" with Peters' "Negative Sex." Her work spans the creative bridge from large, non-traditional pastel paintings to evocative collage & assemblage pieces. Her pastels feature mysterious, organic shapes resting in their own private environments. The focus is on color, shadow and weight using full advantage of the rich pigments only pastels can provide.Yet Miss Lyn finds her story-telling voice through her collage & assemblage work. She is inspired not only by the beauty in a single found-object but by the magic created when it is combined with the grace of the written word. Her collages hint at stories and secrets begging to be told. Of her work Miss Lyn says: “I want to draw the viewer into a different world in which they become a part of the piece. By creating a sense of mystery, the viewer must interpret, and make sense of, the clues presented -- using either their own personal language or that of the collective subconscious."
Background:
Kristian Peters is a photographic artist, film maker, founder and director of Sonic shake ARThole. Her work began as darkly comic photographic images illustrating a love for the 1950's and American Trash Culture. She developed many characters in this forum, most notably Miss Kiki Vegas. Storyboards and production teams gave rise to elaborate photo shoots of her characters in action. The next natural progression was film. She currently is in post production of "The Kiki Vegas Story" and in development of her latest script "Desperate Hellcat." The new work shown at the Zeitgeist Gallery is a reaction to having rid herself of the characters and a retuning to a more introspective way of communicating with her pictures.
Miss Lyn Cardinal is Mass College of Art graduate. She has been working through her compulsion to represent her organic forms in various styles and media for years and is continually on the look out for more interesting found objects for her collages on her long walks through out the city of Boston. Miss Lyn is also the well-known editor of The Boston Groupie News, Boston’s first, and most legendary, punk/rock’n’roll fanzine. After resurrecting it online in 2001 as www.bostongroupienews.com, Miss Lyn has been the muse of many rockers and the inspiration behind some of Boston’s most notable and entertaining bands. She has appeared in several documentaries about the Boston music scene and as Nova in "The Kiki Vegas Story".