'Message in a Bottle Exhibition' in Minneapolis

Message in a Bottle Exhibition : Secrets, Cyphers, Codes & Mysteries
Light Grey Art Lab, 118 E 26th Street #101, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
http://lightgreyartlab.com/



As a featured artist, I'll be showing eleven linocut images based around themes of lying, secrets and hidden meanings. To see the images in the show: http://lightgreyartlab.com/message-in-a-bottle/

There's also a recorded interview as a podcast available here:
http://lightgreyartlab.com/lgalpodcast/

Opening Reception: Friday January 25th from 7 -10pm

The show runs through February 15th.

Regular Gallery Hours are Wed - Friday from 12 - 7pm
and on Saturday and Sunday from 12-3pm

"We are hosting the work of 40 international artists who will contribute mind-bending, coded works to Light Grey -- filled with secrets, hidden imagery and alternate meanings. Spend a little more time looking through the details in this show and you might just find something surprising.
Our lineup of events at Light Grey between Jan 25 and Feb 15 include classes on codes, secret imagery, mentalism and more. The exhibition will feature a limited edition print for those people that are the first to find the hidden images in the pieces, an interactive decoding piece, and walls and walls of art containing intimate secrets and mesmerizing detail.
Jackie Batey will also be joining us as a featured artist for this exhibition as well as Kali Ciesemier's MAKE 2013 workshop." Grey Art Lab website.

Prints available to buy here:
http://lightgreyartlabshop.bigcartel.com/products

Some photos of the Private View (with thanks to curator Lindsay Nohl).

Pale Ire Press - launched

Rainbow Ruses 1-3

Jackie Batey
(work in progress, series of 10)

These three square prints are part of a series of 10. They represent common Rainbow Ruses sometimes know as 'Barnum Statements' - spurious phrases that contradict themselves in order to gain the confidence of a gullible person. Ideally they are the introduction phrases of the confidence trickster or phoney clairvoyant. In these images two opposing statements are illustrated with the various characters
trying to fool each other. These three prints represent lies told in order to win trust and then deceive. Ultimately a set of 10 false prophets. The characters are based on masks to underline the concealing a personality. The masks were drawn from reference in the British Museum and some were constructs of my own.

The images are two-colour lino prints 30cm x 30cm printed on light imitation Japanese paper, each embossed with the Pale Ire Press stamp. Numbered and signed by the artist.

Rainbow Ruse No.1
You make carefully considered choices BUT occasionally you surrender to the imp of the impulsive.

Rainbow Ruse No.2
You have oodles of acquaintances BUT only a handful of bosom buddies.

Rainbow Ruse No.2
You have oodles of acquaintances BUT only a handful of bosom buddies.