the peanut gallery

Some Art

2006-05-04T18:01:00.000-04:00

Here's a sample of some pieces from the "Animal Magic" show. Stop by Peanut between 5-8pm on Saturday, May 6th during Eastworks Gallery Night. Or during the Spring Festival from 10-4 to check out our trove of artist-made treasures.

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Eastworks Gallery Night
Saturday, May 6, 5-7pm
Eastworks, 116 Pleasant St, Easthampton, MA
http://www.eastworks.com/events.html

Spend the evening hopping between seven galleries under one roof. The following Eastworks galleries will be hosting solo and group shows featuring paintings, sculpture, video, audio, soft goods design, printmaking, drawing and mixed media work produced by local, national and international artists.

Suite 146 Peanut Gallery, "Animal Magic"
Suite 206 Invisible Fountain, "Be There or Be Square"
Suite 246 Red Horse Press, "The Member Show"
Suite 248 Traveling Shoes Studio: Kathleen Trestka, "Recent Mixed Media Drawings and Paintings"
Suite 250 Two Five Oh!: Sean Greene and Kathranne Brown, "Recent Works"
Suite 252 Denis Luzuriaga, David Poppie, Matthew Johnson, "Paintings & Sculpture"
Suite 256 Grey Garden Studio: Justin Brown, "Exploring Self-Works in Progress"

Animal Magic opening

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!Animal Magic opens 4/13!

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Hairanoia closes this Saturday, April 8th. If you haven't had a chance to check it out, stop by this week. (Hours: M-F 10-6, Sat 10-4)

Next Thursday, April 13th, our new show, Animal Magic opens! The opening will take place Thursday night from 6-8pm. Animal Magic will also be open until 8pm on Saturday, May 6th for Eastworks Gallery Night.
From 5-8pm, seven different Eastworks galleries will be exhibiting new work. Animal Magic will end May 27th. An off-site closing performance featuring Jason Martin's Evolution Revolution, Tumblecat Poof Poofy Poof and other animal sounds is in the works. More info coming soon.

Animal Magic is a group show featuring work by Joseph Segal, Roland Lusk, Seth Scriver, Bwana Spoons, Joshua Vrysen, Jessica Williams, Diane Cluck, Jamie Mohr, Michele Bond, Shaun Kessler, Courtney Raiph, Chase Carlisle, Beverly Shana Palmer, Jesse Clark, Jesse Goldstein, Kristen Lupoli and Jason Martin.

While at least two animal focused group art shows have taken place in Western Massachusetts over the last year (Becoming Animal at MASS MoCA last spring and very recently, Animal Kingdom at W. M. Baczek Fine Arts) the artists in Animal Magic have a very different vision to share with you. While most of the artists in Becoming Animal looked with fear towards a dystopian future where the gap between animals and humans would diminish in the military, scientific and technological realms, the artists of Animal Magic earnestly preserve a primitive, often shamanistic world where animals maintain their integrity and mystique. Bwana Spoons looks to the past and resurrects a woolly mammoth walking through an enchanted land of blossom crystals. Jason Martin, a man who dons a wolf mask and tail when performing with his band Evolution Revolution, presents his personal mythology, a mix of ancient Egyptian magic, totemism and furry fandom, in a well-researched book and CD. He begs his audience to "find their tail" and use their animal spirit to "smash the state."

Unlike many of their self-conscious contemporaries, the artists exhibiting in Animal Magic are not inhibited by the anthropomorphobic need to eschew sincerity and emotion when discussing animals. While many postmodern artists see an impending technocracy under which animals will be assimilated further into the human kingdom and humans will lose the qualities that distinguish them from beasts, the artists in Animal Magic conjure these beasts to help us find what we have already lost.

2006-03-18T21:39:00.000-05:00

!Big Peanut Update!

March 9th, lots of fun folks came out and partied arty at the Hairanoia opening. Kevin Pelrine snipped and catalogued the locks of guests on the spot. The specimens can be viewed in his Hair Sample Rack for the duration of the show. The last day of Hairanoia is April 8th. Lucky for you, Peanut is now open six days a week!

New Hours:
Monday-Friday: 10-6
Saturday: 10-4

The list is in for Animal Magic, our next show, opening April 13th. Expect wild things from: Michele Bond, Chase Carlisle, Jessie Clark, Diane Cluck, Alex DaCorte, Shaun Kessler, Roland Lusk, Jason Martin, Jamie Mohr, Beverly Shana Palmer, Courtney Raiph, Seth Scriver, Joseph Segal, Bwana Spoons, Joshua Vrysen and Jessica Williams.

We've also been getting lots of great new stuff in the store and now is the best time to scope it all out because

everything in the store is 25% off

The sale will run through Saturday, March 25th.

You can pick up the Salvor owl pillow you've had your eyes on. Get a great deal on a new 2K T-Shirt designed by Min Kim, Alex Rich, Chinatsu Ban, Geoff McFetridge or Guillaume Wolf. The two new Basquiat designs come in kids' sizes! Other new products include Marimekko designs, books for children and crafting, notions (ribbons, patches and buttons), new Egg + Avocado designs (onesies, T's and pants), vintage-inspired stationary and journals, authentic Russian nesting dolls and jewelry, MP tights in adult and kid sizes, Little Raggio shoes and urban children's fashions selected from the Spring 2006 collection of Ashor's Room. Below are some examples of our new Ashor's Room selection.

If you are far from Western Massachusetts, you can still buy many of these items from the Home and Gifts section on the Reprodepot website. All clothing and tees are currently 30% off when purchased online! Peanut will have everything available for sale on its own website soon.

!Hairanoia!

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"Hairanoia!" @ Peanut Gallery

Opening Thursday night!

A fun, group show with a slightly unhealthy fixation on hair.

Artists: Marc Bell (Vancouver), Ben Jones, Dennis Tyfus (Belgium),
Beverly Shana Palmer, George Myers, Bwana Spoons (Portland), Stephen
St. Francis Decky, Erik Ullanderson (Chicago), Dan Cashman, Bill Nace,
Kristen Lupoli, Brantner DeAtley, Shana Philips, Jamie Mohr
(Albany), Martin Ontiveros (Portland), Kevin Pelrine and Seth
Faergolzia (Ithaca).

Media includes works on paper and canvas, painting installation on the
wall, photography, wearable art, video and hair.

Peanut Gallery
Suite 146, 116 Pleasant St
Eastworks Building
Easthampton, MA 01027

Opening Reception: 3/9/06, 6-8pm
Show dates: 3/9/06-4/8/06
Gallery hours: Wed-Sat 11am-6pm

More hairy works by Brantner DeAtley here.

!Friends and Strangers opening!

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click on images for full size

better quality photos of all artwork coming soon!

kevin scalzo and devon zink

rob roy and family

devon zink, beth boggia and andrew bieker
(courtney raiph in background)

donut dip

joshua vrysen

brantner deatley and baby lachlan

shoshana phillips, djerba goldfinger and eva

the lovely miss eva

bwanna spoons #4

erik ullanderson #20

detail of chase carlisle #24

kevin scalzo #71

special favorite #3

crystal stowkowski #76

detail of bwana spoons #11

What's next?

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If you missed the opening last night for Friends and Strangers, you missed a good time: a vast array of Donut Dip, a dj set from Josh Vrysen that would make wizards cry and great company. We will have photos up soon, so you can see for yourself. But don't be sad. The show will now be up until Saturday, March 4th.

Here's a little more info about the show:

Some of the art has travelled from such exotic lands as Portland, Virginia, Chicago and New York. Some of it has been secretly slaved over by your very own neighbors. Prepare to be penetrated by a rainbow ricochet of virtuosity as you travel through our long, narrow hall of otherworldly objets d'art. Here be gnomes, minotaurs, a cloth panoply spun of dreams, enchanted swamps and vultures tormented by the Holograph.

Friends and Strangers:
Andrew Bieker, Chase Carlisle, Luke J. Cavagnac, Brantner DeAtley, Stephen St. Francis Decky, Erik Ullanderson, Martin Ontiveros, Shoshana Phillips, Bunny Pillow, Courtney Raiph, Kevin Scalzo, Joseph Segal, Special Favorite, Bwana Spoons, Chris Stoddard, Crystal Stokowski, Joshua Vrysen and Wayne Zink.

We had to extend the show to March 4th, because we will be scoping out the Tokyo scene from February 17th-24th and who wants to hang a show while recovering from serious jetlag? The store and gallery will still be open normal hours. But our gallery show schedule has to change yet again. So, as of now, here is the new show schedule!

Friends and Strangers (1/20/06-3/04/06)
Hairanoia (3/09/06-4/08/06)
Animal Magic (4/13/06-5/13/06)
Boys and Girls (5/20/06-6/17/06)
Supersecret Summerfun Operation (Summer 2006)
Quilt Show (Fall or Winter 2006)

Thursday, March 9th, mark your calendars for the opening of Hairanoia! A group show totally obsessed with hair. You might just leave still wearing your bedazzled fake mustache, come home with a charm-heavy hair wrap or at least with a bad case of Hairanoia!

Thursday, April 13th, come experience Animal Magic. This show is a collection of gently plucked pieces from various regions, celebrating the Romantic, otherworldly, mystical and magical symbolism and presence of animals.

Douglas Anson will be guest curating Boys and Girls, opening Saturday, May 20th. A fair mix of boys and girls from all over America and Tokyo will flood our gallery with video, sculpture, music, objects, handmade clothing, works on canvas and paper and "products." The opening night will consist of a number of live performances. Douglas says the show is "a springtime coming together of people doing great work with playful, boy/girl energy." So come out in May and welcome in the spring with an international art blast of fun.

You can't even handle what we have planned for the summer...but it's gonna be big.

Stay tuned towards the end of the year, when we'll be hanging quilts hand-stitched by friends like Diane Cluck, Hanna Fushihara, Seth Faergolzia, and Crystal Stokowski.

Did You Know?

2006-01-12T23:16:00.000-05:00

The phrase peanut gallery dates back to the early 20th century in America, referring to the least expensive section in the rear of a theatre. The same seats in British theatres were (and still are) often called the gods because you were so high you seemed to be halfway to heaven. The patrons in the peanut gallery, often of the lower classes, were known for a strong sense of community, a penchant for heckling, and the use of peanuts as missiles to express their distaste of the entertainment. By extension, the term is used, often humorously, to refer to any noisy, disorderly, or belligerent persons attending a presentation, lecture, or other event with an audience. start content In the 1950's, the Howdy Doody show adopted the name to represent their audience of 40 kids. A website is dedicated to reuniting those who appeared in the gallery, on the show: The Peanut Gallery
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

up to the minute artist update for 'Friends and Strangers'

2006-01-12T20:11:00.000-05:00

This list may keep growing until the opening night of 'Friends and Strangers,' so keep checking for recently added artists. Also, some artists names are now linked to their sites.

Andrew Bieker, Chase Carlisle, Luke J. Cavagnac, Brantner DeAtley, Stephen St. Francis Decky, Erik Ullanderson, Martin Ontiveros, Shoshana Phillips, Bunny Pillow, Courtney Raiph, Kevin Scalzo, Joseph Segal, Special Favorite, Bwana Spoons, Chris Stoddard, Crystal Stokowski, Joshua Vrysen and Wayne Zink.

Various media presented will include paintings, drawings on paper, micro-edition prints, wearable art and mixed media sculpture. Opening for 'Friends and Strangers' is Friday, January 20th. 6pm-8pm. Exhibiting artist and comic book wrangler, Josh Vrysen, will be also be providing his DJ skills for the evening. If you can't make the opening, the show will be up until March 5th. Gallery Hours: Wed-Sat (11am-6pm).

Welcome to the peanut gallery!

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The peanut gallery opened December 2nd in the Eastworks building in Easthampton, Massachusetts. It is part of a shop called peanut, which sells unique gifts and clothing for children and adults. Peanut currently carries monsters with sideburns, fooey, salvor, paulina quintana, batik by nancy, cram cream, blabla, 2K tees and more. Soon we will also have artist-made clothing, books/comics, dolls, etc. The peanut gallery is located on the first floor of Eastworks, near Blue Moon Grocery.

We are currently showing work by our Red Horse Press neighbors in the Eastworks building.

Exhibiting artists: Jason D. LaCroix, Brantner DeAtley, William Carter, Aliene Howell, Hannah Reiff, Anne Thalheimer and Shoshana Phillips.