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It's always a kick to get an email and find out there is a new gallery out there I don't know about. So this morning, when I opened my email and read that there's a new place called Cosign Projects over in Benton Park, I almost choked on my tea, I was so happy. They opened their first show on All Saints' Day, hoisting the red flags pictured above, made by artist Jessica Langley, off the poles on the facade of the building. Here's a bit more:
"As much as Jessica Langley’s work is alive with activity, bright colors, and wonder, her work deals with darker issues of decay in nature and idealism. In the flags for Cosign Projects, Langley is conflating a common competitive sports slogan with autumnal images of nature making further reference to the death of nature when matched against the industrial giants of agriculture."
And on December 12, they hang an interesting interdisciplinary show:
"Poet Brigid Dolan and visual artist Cheryl Wassenaar collaborate for the first time on 'The Other Side,' a poem about 2733 Arsenal, the hundred-year-old site of Cosign Projects, a former general store. Dolan responded to the building’s sense of past in a first person narrative, with words that carry us through the cycles of lives lived there. Wassenaar responds by arranging portions of the text on the windows of the building, the 'eyes' of its soul."
Here is the fascinating thing: Cosign's not an interior gallery - the goal is to speak to the surrounding community from the exterior of the building, an interesting variation on Snowflake's Driveby Gallery. If you would like to drive by either or both, here is a map to Cosign, and here is one for Driveby. --Stefene Russell
