Sharky Sings Paul

Front/Space - Kansas City, MO

with Amelia Colette Jones and Maggie Ginestra
Opening Saturday, May 19 2012, 6pm

Sharky Sings Paul is a re-singing and expansion of Paul Simon's 1986 album Graceland. Sharky Sings Paul operates from the perspective of a fictional character, Sharky, in order to explore the imperfect-ness of personal, cultural, and historical memory. Utilizing repetition in a variety of media including sound, video, and found objects, this body of work dwells in the ambiguity of a combination of storgic relationships. Sharky is every person who has ever desired a Grace-land.

Sharky Sings Paul

Sharky Sings Paul
Front/Space - Kansas City, MO

with Amelia Colette Jones and Maggie Ginestra

Opening Saturday, May 19 2012, 6pm
On view through May 31 2012, Fri-Sun 3-6pm or by appointment.

Sharky Sings Paul is a re-singing and expansion of Paul Simon's 1986 album Graceland. Sharky Sings Paul operates from the perspective of a fictional character, Sharky, in order to explore the imperfect-ness of personal, cultural, and historical memory. Utilizing repetition in a variety of media including sound, video, and found objects, this body of work dwells in the ambiguity of a combination of storgic relationships. Sharky is every person who has ever desired a Grace-land.

Amelia Colette Jones is originally from North Texas. She moved to St Louis in 2007 and received her Masters in Fine Art from Washington University in 2009. In 2010 she co-founded Sloup, a monthly soup dinner that generates funding for the arts, with Maggie Ginestra, a fellow artist, facilitator, and Sharky. Amelia has shown at Fort Gondo Compound for the Arts and Los Caminos in St Louis.

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HEAD OVER HEELS: SHARKY'S FIRST LOVE
Los Caminos - St. Louis, MO

Saturday, January 22, 8-11pm
a one-night event

Los Caminos presents Head Over Heels: Sharky’s First Love, a one night event organized by Maggie Ginestra and Amelia Colette Jones. Uniting their interest in popular cult icons and contemporary rites of passage, the artists will transform Los Caminos into a place both strange and familiar, a place in which viewers simultaneously become spectators and participants.

Sharky fell in love. Sharky fell in love first. Sharky collected. We arranged his collection because it was prettier. Was it prettier because it was first?

We’re not too shy to wait for the party, or for our date to arrive. And if you waited with us—how would you? And for whom?

We hope to circumnavigate our favorite certainties about contemporary ritual (i.e. prom), obsession (i.e. celebrities), exhibition (i.e. prom), performance (i.e. prom), persona (i.e. celebrities), and celebrities (i.e. prom).

Head Over Heels: Sharky’s First Love is an unfixed meditation on tenderness and the gaze of desire, as well as an invitation to alter that gaze through duration.

Maggie Ginestra and Amelia Colette Jones are in love with how Sharky loves. You might even say they are head over heels. Maggie and Amelia earned MFAs from Washington University in poetry and studio art respectively and have since collaborated on a number of exhibitions and programs. In February 2010, they founded Sloup, St. Louis's soup dinner for the arts, earning a MasterMind award from the Riverfront Times shortly thereafter. In August 2010, Maggie and Amelia exhibited together in This is Where I Have: An Intimate Display at Fort Gondo. Originally from Texas, Amelia has exhibited extensively throughout St. Louis. Her work is currently on view in a window installation at Pig Slop Studios. Hailing from Florida, Maggie has recently had poems published in Super Arrow, Thermos, and Drunken Boat. Amelia used to work with Sharky. Maggie rode a train with him to Chicago once.