Brian Dewan   I-CAN-SEE 23 may - 23 june, 2003 opening, friday 23 may, 7-9pm     Photo: Ted Dewan           installation view             installation view     Pierogi proudly presents the first one-person exhibition of Brian DewanÕs I-CAN-SEE Film Strips. Brian Dewan is a latter-day Renaissance man. He is an accomplished visual artist, multi-instrumentalist, and singer / songwriter with two CDs to his credit (Brian Dewan Tells the Story and The Operating Theater.) His music has been described as a cross between Burl Ives, Charles Addams and Edgar Allen Poe. His I-CAN-SEE filmstrips include Before the White Man Came, Deuteronomy, GrimmÕs Tales, Neighbors in the Solar System, and The Course of Your Research, among others. Filmstrips are a form of projected image, like a sequenced slide show, originally used for public school and religious education from the 1920s through the 70s. The image frames are advanced by hand, frame-by-frame. DewanÕs nostalgia-tinted filmstrips are reproductions of his own drawings with accompanying narration and music. This exhibition will feature live filmstrip presentations by Dewan as well as video projections within an idiosyncratic classroom setting complete with pull-down charts, chalkboards, desks and chairs.
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