Opening Reception: Thursday, September 29, 6 PM-8 PM

Instagram Live Feed and Walkthrough: Tuesday, October 4, 6 PM www.instagram.com/susanrostow

Live Performance: with Bill Frisell (Guitar), and Luke Bergman (Bass). Limited seating. Friday, October 7. Doors open 6 PM, Performance 6:45 PM to 7:30 PM. RSVP ONLY at musicthemagician@gmail.com

Artists Talk at the Gallery and on Zoom: Thursday, October 13, 6-7 PM
RSVP for the zoom link at zoomthemagicians@gmail.com

The Atlantic Gallery is proud to present The Magicians, a collaborative exhibition by painter Carole d’Inverno, and printmaker-sculptor Susan Rostow. Composer and guitarist Bill Frisell provides the soundtrack for a video by Rostow.

Circus, humor and magic tricks are favorite subjects for both artists. For Rostow, she attributes her propensity to jokes and verbal puns to her grandfather Poppy, a Russian-Jewish immigrant who hailed from Odessa, the “Capital of Humor.’ For d’Inverno, it’s her memories of the traveling circus passing through her Italian village: the one very old and mangy lion, the ripped fishnets of the aerialists, and the mismatched shoes of the clowns.

Rostow presents a series of anthropomorphic sculptures made by gluing together layers upon layers of her prints on paper. The pieces are then toned with pigments, and sand. The added elements of found materials, plastics, and metal wires, make the work familiar yet otherworldly. The sculptures range from 3 inches to a monumental 6 feet tall called Alter Kocker. The visual relationships between the pieces creates stories, puns, intrigue, and laughter.

d’Inverno presents a large 6.7 x 12-foot painting called Abracadabra. This semi- abstract piece invites the viewer into a world evocative of magic tricks, and marionettes. On view also is Shenanigans, a series of small works on paper, in watercolors, pencils and vinyl emulsions. These chromatic pieces are based on the frenetic activities of the circus.

The artists are also presenting a collaborative installation, entitled The Magicians. Here the viewer is presented with d’Inverno’s lines extending outwards and creating a bridge for Rostow’s anthropomorphic figurations to travel to and from the painting. On view also: The Magicians, an animation by Rostow with a soundtrack by composer Bill Frisell. In it, the artists’ work interacts, separate, and regroup, to the mysterious sounds of Frisell’s music.