Crane Arts Llc

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Tickets: $15 admission ($10 for students, seniors, and Crane Arts tenants) – tickets will only be sold at the door, no advance, cash only
Location: Ice Box
Crane Arts presents the JACK Quartet, who will perform the world premiere of a new work by Gregory Spears, inspired by the composers experience as artist-in-residence at the Buttonwood Psychiatric Hospital under the supervision of Dr. Morris Schimmel. Mr. Spears reflects: “In the winter of 2010 I was invited by Dr. Morris Schimmel to complete a six-week artist residency at the Buttonwood Psychiatric Unit in Burlington County, NJ. Twice a week I brought music onto the unit, performed for and with patients and observed the staff diagnose and treat the residents. I also had many insightful conversations with patients and staff regarding mental illness, creativity, and the role of art in treatment. Buttonwood is a meditation on this unique experience and is dedicated to all the staff and patients I encountered ‘on the unit’.”
Preceding the musical performance, both Mr. Spears and Dr. Schimmel will give brief presentations about their experiences of the residency. Mr. Spears will touch on issues explored in the writing course he teaches at Princeton University, Music and Madness, which delves into popular conceptions (and misconceptions) about the relationship between creativity and mental illness.
The JACK Quartet will also perform the insistent Dig Deep by Philadelphia native and Bang on a Can co-founder Julia Wolfe and the ruminative String Quartet No. 2 “Reigen seliger Geister” by German modernist master Helmut Lachenmann.

Lecture: 7pm – 8pm / Book Signing: 8pm – 8:30pm
Abelardo Morell currently has two solo exhibitions in New York at the Bonni Benrubi and Bryce Wolkowitz Galleries. He also has work in a group exhibition at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, and will have an exhibition in 2011 at the University of Kentucky Art Museum. Morells work is held in numerous major museum collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.