Welcome to Madrone Art Bar

"Madrone Art Bar is a full-on art experience. Paintings, photographs, mixed media, sculpture, video, film, design, fashion, music, spoken word, and dance share time with live music, DJs and specialty cocktails to round out this NoPa hotspot" (7x7 Magazine)

Because the highest form of art is drinking with friends!

Bodies in Space(s): Negotiating Sites/Sights
September 2–December 4, 2010
Exhibition:
Jeffery Beauchamp • Theophilus Brown • Linda Wallgren
Opening Reception: September 2, 2010 5:30pm–8pm

Performance Event
September 22, 2010 8pm–10pm $10/advance (at Madrone) or $5/door
Performances:
Bert Bergen • Daniel Blomquist • Terrance Graven • Justin Hoover
Geraldine Lozano • Lauren Marsden • Honey McMoney • Crystal Nelson
Heather Sparks • Kathryn Williamson • The Muistardeaux Collective

The exhibition Bodies in Space(s): Negotiating Sites/Sights at Madrone Art Bar contemplates how experiences and representations of the body/people are embedded in socially conditioned modes of expression, and are constituted as sites/sights of identification, personal history, and agency, are articulated in varied cultural spaces. The exhibition and performances are situated in the recognition that peoples’ bodies are “objective” social units that have a physical presence and are sustained through objects, people, and cultural matrixes external to one’s own being. The project thus views performative
acts of cultural production as modes of self-realization that have the potential to articulate, translate, and contest the way in which thoughts and images construct identities and social realities, through fluid and complex identity-formation systems. —Anthony Torres, Curator