Art Exhibit Opening Reception at Starlight Studio Featuring:

Marc Tomko & Alison Mantione

Friday March 16th

6-8pm
Starlight Studio & Art Gallery
340 Delaware Avenue
Buffalo NY 14202

also exhibited, Hallway: Paul Chandler & Lisa Kobis

Blue Sink Café: Debbie Bowers

On view through Mid-April

Starlight Artist Alison Matione and Buffalo artist Marc Tomko exhibit their artwork and collections.

This exhibit is part of our "Side By Each" series in which Starlight artists are exhibited alongside artists from this region and beyond. Curated by Kyle Butler with the help of Starlight staff.

Kyle writes:

"Upcoming at Starlight, we will be exhibiting the work of two artists who each collect for reasons both habitual and creative. Alison Mantione collects from the world around her seemingly indiscriminately: broken jewelry, discarded packaging, pins, bottle caps, a damaged license plate, broken bike parts, and more, all from the proverbial discard bin of gutters, yards and sidewalks. The found objects are organized by date-discovered, placed in bags or other containers, and labeled in Mantione's idiosyncratic handwriting that is as much flourish as it is text. Marc Tomko's collecting practice is more introspective: keeping whatever objects, tools, and ephemera that have played a role in his life and occupy a space in his psyche. Tomko has a similarly low threshold as Mantione for what constitutes a worthwhile object: cheap toys, weird housewares, impulsive sculptures, remnants of previous creative projects, and so on. But his collecting has more to do with archiving the strange paper trail (object trail?) of his past and analyzing aesthetic and psychological tendencies through the objects. A small series of these objects will be exhibited along a line of rotating platforms. Tomko's inquisitiveness toward his own psyche also compels him to make impulsive drawings and paintings where the resultant scrawl is regarded more as a record of a particular moment than it is a static artwork. Tomko will exhibit some of these 2D works, but as videos shot from his own vantage point as he rummages through them and picks out strange details. "

UPCOMING:

Thursday, April 19th 6-9pm

Co-Artifact

Eleven Twenty Projects

1120 Main St. Buffalo NY

Friday, April 27th 6-8pm

Stanley G. Falk School Student Exhibit

Thursday, May 3rd 6-8pm

Sussan Giallombardo

Friday May 18th 6-8pm

Jim Paulson & Dana Graap

Friday, July 13th 6-9pm

Starlight Open House

Friday September 14th 6-8pm

Mario & Sherri, Emily Churco, & John Budney

Friday, October 19th

Mary Louise Wyrick & Michele Miller

Saturday December 1st 1-4pm

Starlight Open House