The Singularity House of Art and Live Music

Saturday, May 19th, the Singularity held a collaborative art experience.
Housing over forty artists of various medias from the Jackson and surrounding areas, we are acknowledging and celebrating that the 517 underground art culture exists, needs, and can be provided with a place to work, study, and display their work.

On behalf of the Singularity, I would like to thank all of the artists and writers whose work is on display, musicians, everyone who participated in the drum circle (you guys vibe so well together!), Kristen Andrews for taking charge, filling in the gaps, and putting together the music line up, Nate Norris for also filling in the gaps and helping out so much, Art 634 for giving us a place to throw such a wonderful event, Maggie Riggle for putting up with our scatter brains, Cuppa for basically fueling everyone who came through, anyone who snapped photographs to help document the event (please e-mail them to us! singularityhouse@gmail.com), Kyle Johnson for his extra set up of things to do (artarchy and it’s finest), and anyone else who helped out during set up and the day of.

We tallied over an astonishing 400 guests who came through the gallery from 4pm-10pm Saturday evening. A couple people posted on our event page on Facebook after the event stating their gratitude for us and our efforts, but in all honesty, we should be thanking you, because without your support and love, this wouldn’t be possible. It was all of YOU who made this event so much more than we could have imagined.
“It’s nice to feel a sense of home & family at an event here. No fussin’ no fighting. good times.” – Jason Bennett

We also had a donation jug out for Team Austin, and raised $70.00 for the benefit!

Artwork is still on display and for sale, open gallery hours are Monday May 21st 12pm-3pm, Thursday May 24th 12pm-5pm, and Friday May 25th 2pm-6pm! Here is also a PDF file (not including cover artwork) of the writers booklet, so that everyone has a chance to see it: BookletFinal

Last, here is a collection of my favorite pieces from the show by each artist, in no particular order, involved. All photographs were taken with a Canon DSLR. I am still waiting on a couple of rolls to be developed, so this is not everything I took from the evening.

Sophie Wood

Sara Reynolds

Rodney Pruitt

Colleen Peterson

Kaiti McDonough

Kristina Duchaine

Kennedy Taylor

Kelsey Sharples

Doug Jones

James McNulty

Even Farmer

Connie Lopez

Phillip Dawson

Devon Camel

Kristen Andrews

Andrea Rowe

Abby Doebel

Wes Swartz
(this is such a terrible photograph of his work, I apologize for not getting a better shot)

Wayne Barringstool

Sheryl Amburgey

Matt Shaw
(more photographs of Matt were taken on film, which is still being developed)

Shannon Frybarger

Samm Rae

Ronnie Fergasun

Joy Fulk

Josh Croy

Legaia Finch
(Personally one of my favorites from the evening!)

Cheddar

Calico

Blenderhand (Chad Niekowal)

Alyssa Scott

Justine Melville

If you have any photographs from the evening and would like to share them with us, please e-mail them to singularityhouse@gmail.com

We are all in this together.

Thank you,

justinenicolemelville

the Story of Olivia Close-ups

In anticipation of the Story of Olivia full body model shots, we are excited to show you the close-ups of Doug’s work.

Photographs above by Justine Melville

On the day of the event, Doug started painting the models at noon. The five models were painted in layers, our job, Justine and Kaiti, as the photographers, was to capture the process of the paint. From wet globs, long streaks of color, textures and patterns, to the effect the layers have on the human skin. The reaction human skin has to acrylic paint is breathtaking. Silver and gold make the skin shimmer. Goosebumps that occur after cool paint is spread over the natural heat of the body makes a stunning textured photograph. The models movement throughout the entire day as the paint dries adds to the effects of these textures. The following  set of photographs takes you through the beginning stages of an all day process.

Photographs above by Justine Melville

All paintings are the work of Doug Jones and were painted on April 28th, 2012 at the Story of Olivia Body Art Show held at the Oh! Bar in Jackson, Michigan.

Model 1

Photographs above by Justine Melville

Photographs above by Kaiti McDonough

Model 2

Photographs above by Justine Melville

Photographs above by Kaiti McDonough

Model 3

Photographs above by Justine Melville

Photographs above by Kaiti McDonough

Model 4

Photographs above by Justine Melville

Photographs above by Kaiti McDonough

Model 5

Photographs above by Justine Melville

Photographs above by Kaiti McDonough

 

Photobooth photographs and the full body model shots will be posted within the next couple of weeks!

❤ One Love