Studio Hart is proud to announce the third annual showing of Love for Sale, a group show curated by Buffalo artist Molly Jarboe. The exhibition opens Friday, February 3 from 6-9 pm as part of the Allentown First Fridays Gallery Walk. Honey Girl and the Horseshoe Falls* will provide live music featuring tracks from their new album "Oh Lake Erie" at 7 pm. Participating visual artists include several familiar faces from years past as well as a number of new contributors:
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•Lauren Braun
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•Amy Greenan
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•Ani Hoover
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•Dot Keller
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•Doug Lambert
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•Amy Meza Luraschi
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•Julian Montague
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•Jan Nagle
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•Maria Pabico LaRotonda and Craig LaRotonda
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•Nancy J. Parisi
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•Kate Parzych
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•Allen Shelton and Molly Jarboe (Collaboration)
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•Ginny Rose Stewart
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•Elizabeth Switzer
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•Christine Walsh and Adam Weekley (Collaboration)
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Once again, the exhibition is intended to coincide with the days leading up to Valentine’s Day and features works by multiple artists addressing the subject of gift giving to show love. Love for Sale explores love, sweet love, obsessive, dark love, all kinds of love. It goes from the joy of new love to the misery of unrequited love and spans all points in between. We invite you to come and investigate the mystery of gift giving while viewing objects of art representing expressions of love for sale. In the words of Roland Barthes:
"The Heart – coeur/heart – This word refers to all kinds of movements and desires, but what is constant is that the heart is constituted into a gift-object–whether ignored or rejected. “ – A Lover’s Discourse
* Honey Girl & the Horseshoe Falls is a Buffalo based indie folk duo consisting of Lisa Forrest (vocals, guitar) and Doug Lambert (vocals, guitar, piano, bass, harmonica).
