Nick Ragheb : Darbuka, Davul, Frame Drum Phil Coatsworth: Darbuka, Davul E. May: Darbuka, Riq, Frame Drum Ben Mericli: Ney Luke Williams: Guitar
Our collective experience has included performances with Pittsburgh based artists like Phat Man Dee, Colter Harper, Ishtar, Elie Kihona, Zafira Dance Troupe, NYC based artist and composer Lukas Ligetti, as well as Istanbul based Turko Trans.
Influences
Levent Yildirim, Ibrahim Tatlises, Selim Sesler, Hüsnü Şenlinderici, Glen Velez, Bilgin Canaz
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Kırık Hava at Your Inner Vagabond, March 29th 2009
Üsküdar'a Gideryken
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Kırık Hava at The 3rd Street Gallery, Feb. 8th 2009
Yemen Türküsü
Çeçen Kızı
Ada Sahillerinde Bekliyorum
Üsküdar'a Gideryken
Evcara Saz Semaisi
"Kırık Hava", loosely translated as "broken melody", is a turkish term that is used to refer to any song with a clear rhythmic structure, most often a lively and spirited folk tune.
Kırık Hava, the group, performs traditional folk tunes from Central Anatolia and Turkish Thrace, but with a contemporary style in the spirit of many of the musicians of Istanbul and the Turkish diaspora.
Wishful Thinking Paintings by Victoria Cessna and David Wallace
Opening Friday, August 7, 2009. 6-10pm. Zombo Gallery. 4900 Hatfield St., Pittsburgh, PA 15201 www.zomboworld.com With live music by Slim and George Cessna with Rob Loveclutch. Showing through Friday, August 28.
With great excitement and a touch of wise doubt, local painters Victoria Cessna and David Wallace present ‘Wishful Thinking’ at Zombo Gallery on August 7, showcasing works that were completed by the artists over the past year.
Both artists have an affinity for using found imagery from bygone eras as inspiration for their work.
Cessna’s paintings explore the mysterious allure of the random snapshot and capture the quality of a long-forgotten photograph in paint. Her work takes these photographs out of their original context and suggests that there is more than meets the eye in these seemingly tranquil domestic environments.
As a graphic designer, Wallace has always been interested in the power of images and words in advertising. The pairing of innocent, naïve images from mid-century home magazine ads with more modern, direct text create a more complex world than those ‘50s magazines imply. New meanings are derived and questions are posed. As in Cessna’s work, things are not always as they seem or as we wish they could be.
Just as the phrase ‘Wishful Thinking’ can either cheerfully conjure a joyful hope or sarcastically imply a skeptical doubt, the work of Cessna and Wallace explores the duality of meaning inherent within mundane, everyday imagery.
‘Wishful Thinking’ opens Friday, August 7 at Zombo Gallery in Lawrenceville and continues through August 28. For more information on Zombo Gallery visit www.zomboworld.com To view David Wallace’s artwork visit www.salaczar.com To view Victoria Cessna’s artwork visit www.vicskitschn.com
Hand to Hand - the coast to coast collaborative collage of Rebecca Trawick and David Wallace
Over the course of two years, Rebecca and I traded collages back and forth through the mail, adding to each work as it changed hands. Throughout this process, we never met in person - I live in Pittsburgh, and Rebecca lives in Southern CA. We found that working together was a way to communicate on a purely creative level. We weren’t interested in becoming “pen pals,” but rather in seeing how our two styles could combine to create work that was not completely me, not totally her, but something new and surprising to us both. The work debuted at Moxie Dada in Pittsburgh in January 2007 and has since been shown at Phd Gallery in St. Louis and Tangent Lab in Wichita, working its way across the U.S. in much the same way the pieces themselves traveled between the two of us.
"This beautiful collection of collages holds no specific thematic intentions; there are no hidden messages to interpret. Each piece offers its own vocabulary, images for which viewers can create their own meanings. Or one can simply appreciate the image for its aesthetic value as a beautiful work of art." - Janera Soloman, Pittsburgh City Paper
'Hand to Hand' February 11 – March 13, 2009 Presented by Hub-Bub at The Showroom 149 S.Daniel Morgan Ave. Suite 2 Spartanburg, SC 29306 864-582-0056
Opening reception Wednesday, February 11, 2009 7:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m.
