Overview
Transformer partners with legendary NY based arts organization Visual AIDS, creators of the international Red Ribbon project, to present ReMixed Messages: A(I)DS, Art + Words, an exhibition of over forty text-based works by visual artists and designers whose reactions to and connections through HIV/AIDS reflect the contemporary moment’s tenor on the pandemic.
Taking place in tandem with the International AIDS Society Conference at the Washington Convention Center July 22-27, this special DC presentation of ReMixed Messages curated by John Chaich for Visual AIDS and originally presented in NYC as Mixed Message (June/July 2011), will be hosted by Fathom Creative/Gallery. ReMixed Messages will feature painting, prints, sculpture, and installation, juxtaposes public messages with deeply personal revelations, which are at once polemic and poetic, positive and negative, both in tone and form.
PLEASE JOIN TRANSFORMER & VISUAL AIDS
TUESDAY, JULY 24, 6:30 – 9PM
AT
FATHOM CREATIVE’S FATHOM GALLERY
IN CELEBRATING ReMIXED MESSAGES
July 24 – August 4, 2012
Fathom Gallery, 1333 14TH ST, NW, WDC 20005
OPENING RECEPTION: Tuesday, July 24, 6:30-9 pm
CLOSING RECEPTION: Thursday, August 2, 6-8pm
Sponsored by Logan Circle Community Association
Please join Transformer next Tuesday, July 24, 6:30 - 9pm, as we celebrate the launch of a very special and timely exhibition! Presented at our neighbor Fathom Creative’s beautiful Fathom Gallery space, ReMixed Messages - curated by John Chaich for legendary NY based non-profit arts organization Visual AIDS - features over thirty text-based works reflecting reactions to and connections through HIV/AIDS across generations.
First presented at La MaMa La Galleria, New York City in 2011, this DC exhibition co-produced by Transformer and Visual AIDS and presented at Fathom Gallery is remixed for the 2012 International AIDS Conference being held July 22-27 in Washington, DC.
The July 24 opening reception will feature a talk with ReMixed Messages curator John Chaich, 6:30-7pm, followed by a special introduction and honoring of Dr. Elly T. Katabira, Accordia Academic Alliance Member, Professor of Medicine, Makerere University, and International Chair and President, International AIDS Society.
The ReMixed Messages opening reception is being made possible by the generous support of the Accordia Global Health Foundation. www.accordiafoundation.org
The ReMixed Messages closing reception is being made possible by the generous support of the Logan Circle Community Association. www.logancircle.org
