ARTIFACTS FROM THE BASEMENT OF THE CHURCH OF CONTEMPORARY ART
new works by ANGELA WATTERS
JUNE 2-4, 2012
Opening Reception: Sunday, June 3, 4-8pm
Open Hours: Saturday, June 2, 1-4pm
Monday, June 4, noon-4pm
ARTIFACTS FROM THE BASEMENT OF THE CHURCH OF CONTEMPORARY ART
Church
of Contemporary Art co-founder, Angela Watters, will be sharing the
sculpture, painting, and photography from CoCA’s permanent collection
for the exhibition, Artifacts from the Basement of the Church of Contemporary Art. CoCA
pairs the rituals and relics of religion with the seductive allure of
contemporary art. Our communion ceremony consists of a diet of
gourmet-cubed marshmallows and Kool-Aid spiked with vodka (the body and
blood of art). No matter what you identify as, “We are what you
need.” On June 2nd and 3rd there will be sliding scale counseling
sessions given by CoCA members in the gallery in conjunction with the
exhibition and CoCA’s June 1st performance at Defibrillator Gallery for the Rapid Pulse International Performance Art Festival at 7PM. Please contact info@angelawatters.com to schedule your counseling session.
ANGELA WATTERS is a multi-disciplinary artist and educator. She is a 2012-2013 recipient of a Terminal Award for new media for The Poor House,
a participatory project about the student loan debt problem. As
founding member and lead organizer of The Foster Collective she
organized a collective response to the 2010 Gulf oil spill on gas
station paper towels, which has been exhibited in several cities across
the country. She received her BFA in Photography from New York
University’s Tisch School of the Arts and her MFA from Columbia College
Chicago. This summer she will be artist-in-residence at the Luminary
Center for the Arts in St. Louis.
More information about Angela Watters can be found at www.angelawatters.com