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NEWS:
  Thanky is bursting with pride to present a show art by Max Hubenthal and Travis Robertson. Contract All Y'All is an exhibit of new work and hits from the vault by these two Thanky mentors and inspirations. More details and photos will be thrown up soon! /// If you need to pick up your pieces from The Cartoon Utopia by Ron Regé, Jr., please email thankyspace (at) gmail (dot)com to set up a meeting time. We still have a few copies of the zine that Ron made especially for the exhibit, too. Get one while they last! PAST NEWS: ///
 Thanky is proud to present "The Cartoon Utopia", a show of new work by Ron Regé, Jr., a cartoonist and musician from Plymouth, Massachusetts. Ron Regé, Jr. began publishing his own minicomics while attending Massachusetts College of Art in 1988 and has since been published by Kramer's Ergot, Buenaventura Press, Drawn & Quarterly, Highwater Books, Fantagraphics, and McSweeneys. His illustrations have appeared regularly in The New York Times and Canada's National Post. Ron Regé, Jr. currently lives in Los Angeles where he plays drums in the band Lavender Diamond. Regé possesses a big heart and a steady hand, creating intricate lines and patterns, cute cartoon people and creatures that inhabit a fantastic universe with stories that dive into the deepest or darkest notions of our shared experience. His perception of human nature is keen and precise and his work vibrates with a joyful energy. He has exhibited at The Hope Gallery in LA and at the Librarie Drawn & Quarterly in Montreal. As a performance art act, Regé performs solo as the Discombobulated Ventriloquist. Here is an explanation of the origins of his show at Thanky in his own words: At the beginning of 2008 – I started to create a series of numbered 4x6” drawings as an exercise - to start to flesh out ideas for a kind of “science fiction universe” that I’ve been slowly imagining over the last few years - the idea of a “Cartoon Utopia.” So many imagined futuristic “fantasy worlds” seem to be “dystopian” in nature –dark and pessimistic. I thought it would be nice to imagine a “futuristic” fantasy where humanity had progressed in a more positive way. Find out more at Ron's blog: http://ronrege.blogspot.
"The Cartoon
Utopia", a show of new work by Ron Regé, Jr.
Opening reception
from 6 pm to 9 pm on Friday, May 1st.
Featuring performances by the Discombobulated Ventriloquist and Dearraindrop. Complimentary cupcakes will be on hand. Open hours are from 12 pm to 3 pm on Fridays and
Saturdays, and by appointment. To make an appointment, please email
thankyspace (at) gmail (dot) com.
Dearraindrop are an art collective from Virginia Beach that make intensely colorful, mind-expanding art and ear-amplifying music. They have exhibited around the world including PS 1 MoMA, Arken Museum of Modern Art Denmark, Katherine Mulherin Contemporary Art Toronto and Perugi Arte Contemporanea in Padova, Italy. We are thrilled to have them performing at Thanky. You can learn more at www.dearraindrop.org.  ///  Some Shit by Geneviève Castrée comes down at the end of this week. Hurry up and come see it before it's gone! Some of the sunflower seeds are sprouting and the show is beautiful. Remaining open hours are 12 to 3 pm on Friday or you can email thankyspace (at) gmail (dot) com to make an appointment. /// Is the world a hologram? The next show at Thanky will be "The Cartoon Utopia", a show of new work by Ron Regé, Jr. Ron Regé, Jr. began publishing his own minicomics while attending Massachusetts College of Art in 1988 and has since been published by Kramer's Ergot, Buenaventura Press, Drawn & Quarterly, Highwater Books, and more. Regé possesses a big heart and a steady hand, creating intricate lines and patterns, cute cartoon people and creatures that inhabit a fantastic universe with stories that dive into the deepest or darkest notions of our experience. His perception of human nature is always keen and precise and his work vibrates with a joyful energy. He has exhibited at The Hope Gallery in LA and at the Librarie Drawn & Quarterly in Montreal. There will be a reception for "The Cartoon Utopia" on Friday, May 1st from 6 to 9 pm. Find out more at Ron's blog: http://ronrege.blogspot.com/ /// If you got a piece at Foodist in December and you haven't picked it up yet, please email us at thankyspace (at) gmail (dot) com to arrange pick up. We raised over 500 lbs. of non-perishables for the Central Va Food Bank! Yeah! ///  Thanky
is proud to present "Some Shit", a show of new work by Geneviève
Castrée. A native of Québec, Geneviève
Castrée now makes art and music and delicious food in Anacortes,
Washington. She has written and illustrated several wonderful books
with the Montreal-based publishing house L'Oie de Cravan, and her work
has been featured in a volume of the Drawn and Quarterly Showcase
Series. Performing music as Woelv, her most recent album, Tout Seul
dans la Forêt en Plein Jour, Avez-Vous Peur?, was released on K
Records in 2007. Her show at Thanky will be "something in between
humor, ugliness and public service announcements."
"Her drawings deal with the dark side of modern life, while being themselves light, undogmatic, and even verging on hopeful." -Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York, NY "The cover of her book Tout Seul dans la Forêt en Plein Jour, Avez-Vous Peur? (All Alone in the Forest in Broad Daylight, Are You Scared?), makes her one of the only relatively kid-friendly artists working with wartime imagery." -New York Magazine "Last Wednesday I saw a stunning gig on a tempestuous night – electrical storms lighting up the sky for hours on end, rain sending trees thundering down hillsides – from (Geneviève Castrée). In a near-deserted Step Inn, the French-Canadian singer weaved spells of layered music and magic, ducking and deftly bobbing her way through emotional, chillingly pure songs ... She finely articulated her vowels in French, translated them through simple actions (an arm showing the passage of a wave, a fist clenched on breast). And Geneviève is also an incredible visual artist ... " -The Guardian (UK) You can find out more about Geneviève's work on her website: http://www.opaon.ca/ (in French and English) There will be an opening reception from 6 pm to 9 pm on Friday, April 3rd. Complimentary cupcakes will be on hand. The exhibit will close on April 24th. Open hours are from 12 pm to 3 pm on Fridays and Saturdays, and by appointment. There will also be a performance featuring Geneviève's musical project Ô Paon and Ultra Dolphins on Sunday, April 5th. Doors are at 7 pm. /// An official Thanky congratulations to Travis and Becca on the birth of their new beautiful baby girl! (In addition to having fantastic parents, this girl has also got an awesome pi birthday = 3.14) Travis designed our new sign, curated the Foodist Colony II show and is an all-around-good-guy/mentor/inspiration for Thanky. ///
Check it, Geneviève Castrée is coming to Richmond in April! Her show "Some Shit" will open at Thanky on April 3rd. Her music project Ô Paon will be performing at Thanky on Sunday April 5th w/ Ultra Dolphins. Ô Paon will also be performing at MACRoCK on April 4th. You can read more about her and view recent work from a show at the Adam Baumgold gallery here. ///
Kevin
Hooyman spent the better part of a week installing here at Thanky
during the first week of March. 475 drawings, 1 large painting and
1 music video later, the show is up and looks amazing! Gull
played a short set at the opening which was attended by Kevin and his
friendly and intelligent dog, Klaus. Seriously, you don't want to
miss this show. Come by the gallery during open hours to see it!
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We got a new sign!
Designed by Travis and constructed by Max (it's hollow, amazing!)
See pictures of the hanging ceremony here.///
KEVIN HOOYMAN SHOW OPENING ON MARCH 6TH! GET READY!  Opening Friday March 6th - 6-9pm - 407 Brook Road DARK DARK DARK PLAYING ON MARCH 8TH! with Hurray for the Riff Raff @ Thanky on Sunday, March 8 Doors at 7pm. Dark Dark Dark recently collaborated with the artist Swoon and playwright Lisa D'Amour on "Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea", a flotilla of rafts that sailed down the Hudson River, culminating in a performance at Deitch Projects in New York City. You can read more about that project here: NYTimes Article Hear songs by Dark Dark Dark at myspace.com/darkdarkdarkband Dark Dark Dark's official website: http://www.darkdarkdark.com /// The Kyle Field show "small floor plan" for February is still up and beautiful. Come open hours and see it!   ///
Dang! Thank you to
everyone who came out for Foodist Colony 2: Temple
of Food! We collected a
LOT of canned goods for the Central Virginia Food Bank
-- we'll post the final tally soon, but for now the backroom
of Thanky is packed with food!
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We are sad to announce
that the Sister Corita exhibit we had
planned for January is not happening. In a nutshell,
there were circumstances beyond our control. The Silk
Flowers show we had booked to be a part of the festivities
is also off (just didn't seem right to have them perform in an
empty room). However, we're carefully reading Sister Corita's
"Play or Pray Book" and taking the opportunity to renew our spirits.
Thanky will open up again in February and we're psyched about
the rest of the calendar in the new year.
/// Molly O'Connell sent us a
package full of zines and cassettes. They
are amazing! Molly is part of a collection in Baltimore called
Closed Caption Comics. Check it out!
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"Foodist Colony II" photo by Jason Lefton