Please join us at The Brooklyn Coffee Tea & Guest House for our Feb 2020 Exhibition, continuing the showing of work by Sarah Jane Lapp and In celebration of Black History Month also featuring Marlon Carey and Shirleen Henderson.
The exhibition will be on view on the first floor of the Brooklyn Coffee House located at 209 Douglas Ave, in Providence, RI. Gallery hours are Tuesday – Saturday 8am-2pm, during public events and by appointment.
Join us for an Artist's Reception on Thursday, February 20th from 6–8pm. Light refreshments will be served. Free on and off-street parking is available.
Marlon Carey
Marlon Carey aka “Inphynit” is a multi-talented artist who has been creating art since he was a young child. He began by drawing airplanes at the dinner table with his uncle Ray, and has graduated to painting, sculpture and digital art. For most of his life, Poetry has been his main vocation, with painting and drawing always in the background. Over the years, he has generated a substantial collection of artwork. His themes range from the playful to the macabre, though initially, the images are meant to grab your attention with their surface appeal. Each painting reflects an emotion. The paintings he chooses to share each represent something he wishes to say out loud but can’t quite find the words. For all the things unsaid in poetry slam, theater, and hip hop, there are these works of visual art.
A bright and vibrant palette reflects at times the Caribbean heritage of the Providence RI-based artist. He is a Full-time Father and a Literary Performance Artist living in the Smith Hill area, with three children, a wife and three cats.
Shirleen Henderson
Shirleen Henderson is a Free Lance Artist. She loves the beauty of each Dream Catcher she makes. Especially, the "Tree of Life Dream Catchers." Shirleen's goal is to create all her designs to give pleasure and joy to the owner and takes pride in making their "Dreams Come True."
Shirleen has a great passion for Native American Culture. Traditionally, Dream Catcher's are said to protect the sleeping people from negative dreams while letting positive dreams pass through. ... In Native tradition, dreamcatchers are filters that allow only good, pleasant dreams to get through.
Shirleen has an APS. and AA degrees and was elected as a Township Clerk in the State of Illinois and attended the Art Instruction of Illinois. She worked at Foxwoods Casino and retired from JC Penney Inc.
She is influenced by all forms of arts and crafts, music, literature, history, politics, environmental improvement and helping people experience the joy of creating life through Art work to fulfill their wonderful dreams.
Sarah Jane Lapp
www.cinemagoat.com
Sarah Jane Lapp is an American artist. She also likes to help people laugh, preferably together. Over the last twenty-five years she has made images for stage, page, screen, and bean, producing essay-films, hand-drawn animations, short plays, jigsaw puzzles, music videos, telematic productions, anti-fascist greeting cards, and photovoltaic solar installations.
Two very funny Minnesotans spawned SJL and sent her to earn a B.A in Playwriting at Brown University before she moved even farther east as Fulbright Scholar at Filmova a Televizni Fakulta Academie Muzickych Umeni (FAMU) in Prague. She apprenticed at Studio Bratri v Triku and completed her MFA from the Department of Filmmaking at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. After a brief stint in NYC typing for R.O. Blechman and Wall Street tycoons alike, Ms. Lapp spent the next eight years in Seattle, vending her drawings at Pike Place Market, contributing editorial cartoons to the Hearst daily, Seattle Post-Intelligencer (RIP!), and producing animations, primarily for social justice and arts-dedicated entities. These animations, including her collaborations “Chronicles of an Asthmatic Stripper” and “Chronicles of a Professional Eulogist” with contrabassist and composer Mark Dresser, earned SJ internationally peculiar museum and festival exhibitions, an almost-Genius Award, and numerous stalkers.
Lured back East for teaching appointments at Wellesley and Harvard, Sarah Jane dropped anchor in Seekonk, MA with her partner, the musician Skyjelly. Living among turkeys, deer, and other people’s dogs Sarah Jane uses comedy and compassion to generate free and off-grid renewable energy.
Light Refreshments will be served
FREE off-street parking is available.