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LOCUS MEDIA, INC. Who We Are Locus Media Inc. ("Locus") is an event space and multi-disciplinary art gallery aimed at devising and presenting multi-media arts, political and socially based events characterized by a provocation of thought and a cross- appeal to those in the arts, business and other social, political, vocational structures and organizations.
Five Seasons: In Locus’ first season it presented among other gallery shows Morphed Out and Winter Fantasies (an event featuring paintings from children’s books and readings by a spectrum of actors) which yielded attention by, among other periodicals, the New York Times, New York Magazine and Time Out .  In May 1999 Locus brought its first season to a close with, The Womb
Room, an exploration of issues concerning women’s physiognomy in general and
themes such as challenging conventional evolutionary wisdom, perceptions of beauty,
sexuality, health, body image, public presentation and women in business. Locus featured
evening performances by celebrated authors, scholars, performers and poets on these
subjects as a collective exploration of matters of the womb. Among other scheduled
events, Locus held a runway show which celebrated women of all body types-
"conventional" (read tall and skinny) models, fitness models, full-figured
models, tattooed models and others debuting the lush clothing of Richard Metzger, the
first full-figured fashion designer (the proceeds of the show were allocated to The New
York Foundling Hospital). During its first season, Locus housed a series of
performances, readings and events produced by "Dixon Place", an
award-winning performance art institution. Locus screened the film classic
"The Bride Of Frankenstein, accompanied by events intended to
celebrate various aspects of the film's artistry, and provided a venue for
numerous performance artists as part of the annual Fringe Festival.
The Second Season Locus rang in the New Year with legendary Jazz singer, Marion Cowings while opening with new paintings by
Singaporean artist, Olga Polunin followed by painter, Jenny Scobel, mixed media artists
Ivan Spinoza and Susan Mastrangelo and in June 2000 graffiti, fusion artist Doze Green. In
May 2000, Locus presented a Wearable Art Fashion Show Benefit for God’s Love We
Deliver, an AIDS
charity organization, as hosted by celebrity Linda Dano and featuring original artwork by
such art luminaries as Eric Fishl and Bruce Weber, their works painted on clothing
contributed by leading fashion designers. These new art pieces were then modeled in a
runway fashion show and available through a silent auction.
Beginning in January 2000 and continuing to the present, Locus has served as a venue for a poetry reading series undertaken by critically acclaimed Mad Alex Arts Foundation. In addition, Locus commenced producing short documentaries on several of its artists and screening them at the gallery. And in the Summer of 2000, Locus organized a new Emerging Media Seminar exploring diverse aspects of web-based art and commerce. Locus also houses the company Fistful of Pixels, Inc. which is an Internet production company designed to created episodics for the web. The Third Season In October 2000 we began the new season with Manic & Depressed Symposium & Art Exhibit. Through Art, Spoken Word and Lectures: A symposium with several components was given, including, among others, an art exhibition featuring the works of persons with manic depression; poetry readings as well as readings of letters, poems and other works by famous manic depressives such as Anne Sexton, Jack Kerouac, Diane Arbus, Van Gogh, Edgar Allen Poe, Byron and Virginia Woolf; and lectures by art therapists, psychiatrists, psychologists who have addressed manic depression and its causes and treatments. Art drawn from both those who consider themselves to be manic depressives (“MD’s”) and others who do not (but whose work clearly represents phases of the bipolar phenomenon), including Boris Dolin ( featuring pictures off of his website which chronicle his sister's phases of MD, plus samples of her poetry), Linda Hoard, Ivan Spinoza and Gwynne Duncan, Stephene Stanley. In addition, we featured the video documentary “Four Lives: Portraits in Manic Depression.” Talks were given by Psychiatrist Dr. Daniel Crane (associated with Pfizer Pharmaceuticals) on medicating the condition, Sandra Indig, Psychotherapist for Arts Services and writer for the New York Foundation for the Arts and others.
The early Spring 2001 solo exhibition was of figurative and landscape oil paintings by New York based artist Robert Jeff Bye. His figurative work tells of the personal relationships he has formed with his subjects; his landscapes capture moods equally narrative in their grandeur or isolation. In
May of 2001 we had A MONTH
OF MUNDANE SEX The Fourth Season On the fifth of October 2001 we began the latest season with “BUSH - a solo exhibit of NICK PAPADAKIS - who with his oversized photographs of nudes in the setting of the Grand Canyon raised consciousness about the environment. In connection with this exhibit, we continued the month with a Live Film Score composed and performed by Steve Sandberg. Furthermore, we had a session of “Gesture Jam” - an Innovative Open Figure Drawing Class (with live music and multiple models). And last but not least, we had a Film screening “Freedom Through Yoga” by David Conway of Samudra Pictures, Inc. The opening reception in November of “Leaving”, a group show presenting paintings by Lora Shelley, Troy June and Brigitte Epple, was well received. And at the end of November, we are having the last Opening Reception for the year 2001 titled PHRENOLOGY which is a Solo Exhibit by multi-media artist HILARY LORENZ accompanied with writings by ALBERT MOBILIO from their forthcoming book “The Handbook of Phrenology” (Phrenology being the relationships between a person’s character and the morphology of the skull). In keeping with our original mandate as a gallery and with work that we have featured since the inception of Locus, it is our hope to raise further consciousness in the forthcoming millennium.
FROM THE MARCH 2002 MONKEY MAN SHOW
Locus Media ended its season with the successful Monkey Man Show or "The Enemy has a Purple Ass" which was an exploration of the Indian urban legend centered on The half ape, half man terrorizing New Delhi citizens. Elizabeth Grove curated the reading series which included such lumineraries as Jonathan Ames and Thomas Beller. Ivan Spinoza, James Maszle, Nitish Naharas, Lora Shelley and John Coyne outfitted the gallery with paintings and sculptures. The
Fifth Season The fifth season begun with a sequel to the Womb Room Exhibit back in 1999 titled “Return To The Womb Room”, an exploration of mothers and others. A Multi-media visual art retrospective with the opening reception on September 26, 2002. The retrospective was a densely packed intermingling of photographs, paintings, performance videos and mixed media pieces by a formidable group of New York artist. It was followed by weekly readings and performances on comparable themes such as femininity, sexuality, spirituality, loneliness and alienation. This season continued with the December 5th 2002 open forum with film screening and photo exhibition titled “FALUN GONG: The Price and Value of Truth.” Locus Media sponsored the event which included speeches on Human Rights, Understanding FLG from the Perspective of Medicine as well as the Relationship between FLG and Traditional Spiritual practice. The exhibit ended officially December 24, but was extended an additional two weeks and finally ended Mid-January 2003,well into the new year .
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December of 2000 we continued with a group show titled “Triptychs,
Diptychs, How Do You Do” with paintings by artists such as Sherri Page,
Caroline E. Kelley, Tobin Sprout, Jeff Bye, Gwynne Duncan.
