[Frameworks] X Y Chromosome Project at Court Tree Gallery; opening party, screening, reading

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*May 10 – 31, 2018*

with weekly evening events on Thursdays: 5/10; 5/17 & 5/24

for gallery hours and to schedule an appointment: info at courttree.com

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"Court Tree Gallery proudly presents *The XY Chromosome Project.*
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The recent collages of filmmakers Mark Street
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and Lynne Sachs
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Street and Sachs have been making films individually and collaboratively
for over 30 years, which is also the length of their relationship as a
couple.

*The XY Chromosome Project* follows the career paths of Lynne Sachs and
Mark Street. To follow this path is like tracing the blueprint on devotion.
Working both together and individually for the past 30 years, each has
carved out their own niche without the obvious influences of being married.
They part ways to be left alone to their own creations. It is the respect
for the other's work that bonds them. Left alone, their work could not be
more different. Lynne's work is cerebral and emotional. As seen in her full
length films *Your Day is My Night*
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and *Tip of My Tongue*
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She collages the art of storytelling by layering stunning visuals while
swimming between reality and performance. Her films are remarkable. Mark is
the experimental film hero, a pioneer in film manipulation, an encyclopedia
in the world of experimental films. His film work is solely connected to
what is possible in the organics of film manipulation. They celebrate
experimentation in its truest form. Yet both come down on the same line
when it matters most. The line of captivation which as any artist knows is
the hardest to achieve. In 2010, they created *The XY Chromosome Project*
an umbrella for their collaborative ventures. Together they have produced
an array of collaborative installations, performances, and two-dimensional
art works. In addition to exhibiting their collages on the walls of the
Court Tree Gallery, they will present movies, poetry and essays by
themselves and other artists and writers throughout the month of May."
 (*Stephen
Lipuma, co-director, Court Tree Gallery*)
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Falling Through Air, Archival pigment print on archival paper, 12 × 16 in,
2017

In 2017, Lynne embraced her life-long love of collage during an artist
residency at Beta Local, an art center in San Juan, Puerto Rico dedicated
to supporting and promoting aesthetic thought and practice. While there,
Lynne worked with San Juan artists who shared images torn from magazines or
newspapers, found in a drawer, a family album or in the trash -- personal,
commercial and ephemeral objects. Lynne then proceeded to “collaborate”
with these artists by integrating both the treasures and the trash from
their lives into her collages.
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*Bike Election*, Archival pigment print on archival paper, 17 × 11 in 2017

Morning Addition is a series of collages Mark has been working on since
2015.  He uses images from newspapers, old books, Farmers’ Almanacs, paper
shooting targets and original photographs to create strange and uncanny
combinations.  What arrives on the doorstep or is found on the street mixes
together to distill quotidian ephemera down to an unanticipated broth.
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*Split Time*, Archival pigment print on archival paper, 12 × 16 in, 2017

*Weekly Events:*

*Thursday, May 10 – The XY Chromosome Project Opening Party   7 – 9 PM*

*Thursday, May 17 – Short Films by Mark Street and Lynne Sachs  7 – 9 PM*

Since 1992, Lynne and Mark have been showing films together in an attempt
to uncover connections and dissonances, pitting the X against the Y, the
magenta against the green, the hard edged against the ephemeral. At Court
Tree Gallery, they will present 11 short films (including one they made
together) created over the last 25 years. Loose themes and affinities will
unspool, including chimerical traces of their children, women's voices
amplified on the screen, quotidian diary effusions, found footage movies
reimagined, weather as an apocalyptic (bell)weather and finally, the frame
as a shifting, malleable grid.

*Thursday, May 24 – Invitational Poetry and Prose Readings 7 – 9 PM*

Lynne and Mark invite local writers of poetry and prose Denver Butson,
Jason Dubow, Paolo Javier, Heather Johnson, and Maria Robinson Somerville
to look at the idea of the XY Chromosome – the notion of boy-girl, gender,
sex, DNA, biology, society, and identity.

Guest writers:  Denver Butson
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is a Brooklyn-based poet, collaborator with artists in various disciplines,
father, husband, cook, gardener, guitarist, and creative director of an
arts and cultural center in southern Italy. Many of his poems involve real
or imagined tensions between real or imagined people in real or imagined
relationships.  Jason Dubow
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at St. Francis College and is working on a book that grew out of his blog,
"LearnMeProject: Reflections on One Family's Home School Experiment and
Beyond". Jason and his son Isaac, a jazz trumpet player, will read/perform
their collaborative essay "A Father and Son in a Sort of Conversation."  Paolo
Javier’s
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collaboration with Listening Center appeared as a book-cassette,
Ur'lyeh/Aklopolis in early 2017. A featured artist in MoMA PS1's 2015
Greater NY Show as well the Queens International ‘18, Paulo is the author
of four full-length collections of poetry, including Court of the Dragon
which Publisher's Weekly calls "a linguistic time machine".  Heather Lynn
Johnson
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is the author of The Survival Guide for Queer Black Youth and the 2017
literary fellow for the Queer|Art|Mentorship program. Heather’s work is
characterized by its lyricism and cultural critique. Through the use of
imagery and the written word, Johnson explores being other-ed in a
consumerist society by mining the history of gender, sexuality, and the
racialized body. Maria Robins-Somerville
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received a Hopwood Prize for Poetry at the University Michigan. This fall,
she’ll be starting at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. She will read
an essay about her twin brother.
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