Tyler Meuninck - Public Works

mt.comfort (a space for champions) would like to encourage you to attend the opening reception of public works, brand new work by Tyler Meuninck.
Please join us for food, fun, and the best paintings you'll see this side of the Mississippi.

already voted best opening of the year by tons of people you know.

mt.comfort (a space for champions)
1651 English Ave
Indianapolis, In 46201

opening reception
Friday November 6th
6 pm to 10 pm



While you're in the neighborhood check out the bootleg show across the street, it's going to be a great one.

Jon Autry - What Dream Is Worth This?

An ambient sleep soundtrack.

mt.comfort (a space for champions)
1651 english ave.
7pm - late

60 dreams, 60 pieces of ambient music, 60 minutes long...

Each is individually numbered and conveniently bundled with a small pillow (featuring handmade, embroidered pillowcases by Joan Hutcheson) and sleeping mask.

Bio:

Jon Autry is a human man, making lonely sounds alone. Jon has performed at the Winter Music Conference in Miami, SXSW in Austin, Texas and at Frank Lloyd Wright's estate, Taliesin in Wisconsin. His music has also been featured several times on NPR's "This American Life," as well as in several episodes of the emmy-winning television version on Showtime. Jon currently resides in Brooklyn, NY.

http://jonautry.com

Statement:

Sleep is one of the things I love most in life. Unfortunately, for a very long time, I've had a very unhealthy relationship with it. Sleeping too much. Sleeping too little. Can't get to sleep. Can't wake up. A sleep schedule that slips around the clock leaving me waking at 7am some times and 7pm others. Bad mattresses, noisy neighbors and nightmares. The perfect sleep always seems to elude me.

I've tried many things to solve this problem: Stretching, herbal tea, pain-relievers, reading, counting, visualizing various things, clearing my mind, watching movies... However, listening to music has long been my method of choice. Over the years I've slowly altered my bedtime music selections, looking for the perfect music to get lost and drift away in. Never quite finding the perfect solution, I began to think about what helped me the most and started considering writing and recording a piece for my own use, which is what inspired the creation of these pieces.

Hopefully, one of these 60 pieces of music will bring you a restful sleep.

Sweet Dreams,
Jon Autry

signs of life

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

"Signs of life"
recent works by Adam Ekberg
September 4th - September 25th, 2009
Opening Reception: Friday, September 4th, 5 pm - 11 pm
Gallery Hours: Fridays and Saturdays, Noon - 5 pm and by appointment

mt.comfort (a space for champions) is pleased to open the fall gallery
season with an exhibition of work by Chicago based artist Adam Ekberg. This
exhibit will present a selection of recent photographs by the artist. The
exhibition opens with a reception on Friday, September 4th from 5 until 11
pm and continues through September 25th, 2009.

Adam Ekberg uses large and medium format cameras as well as video to
document performances, constructions and lens-based phenomena; his images
function as traces of a presence. The photographed interventions range from
very simple gestures to elaborate stagings; what they have in common is an
implied trace. This residual presence is established through a host of
different strategies- juxtaposing banality with the phenomenal this body of
images explores the activation of environments through gesture and lens
fallibility.

This exhibition was made possible with the help and collaboration of the
artist and Thomas Robertello Gallery Chicago.
www.thomasrobertello.com

Adam Ekberg currently lives and works in Chicago. He graduated with an MFA
from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is currently an
instructor of photography at both SAIC and the Hyde Park Art Center. Ekberg
is currently represented by Thomas Robertello Gallery in Chicago, has
exhibited extensively across the country and has works in the collections of
the Cleveland Clinic, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, and the
Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, IL.
www.adamekberg.com

mt.comfort (a space for champions)
1651 English Ave. (corner of State and English)
Indianapolis, IN 46201
(317) 522-6857
www.mtcomfort.blogspot.com

Attached Image Information:
Adam Ekberg, The view through my window, 2007, image courtesy of the artist and Thomas Robertello Gallery Chicago

For further information and images available, contact Scott Grow at (317) 504-8219 or
scottgrowstudio@gmail.com

JEFFREY CORTLAND JONES




August 7th – 29th, 2009
Opening Reception August 7th, 6-11pm

Jeffrey Cortland Jones : 3 color paints whole world, an exhibition of new paintings by Ohio-based artist Jeffrey Cortland Jones. Jones' small-scale, abstract paintings court both painterly and minimal aesthetic concerns, all the while keeping material and process at the center of his practice. The paintings resonate with dualities, “chance happenings and a fusion of formal opposites: geometric vs. organic, spontaneous vs. controlled.”

Jones paintings have been included in many national and international exhibitions. He is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Dayton. He received his MFA from the University of Cincinnati.

For more information on the artist, visit the following:
http://jeffreycortlandjones.wordpress.com

JULY 28, 8PM
MARY HALVORSON & JESSICA PAVONE



Mt. Comfort is very excited to host a performance by New York avant-folk free-jazz musicians Mary Halvorson and Jessica Pavone. They're on tour to support their new release, Thin Air on Thirsty Ear.

LISTEN HERE

The show opens with a marimba performance by local musician Josh Aldorisio. He'll be playing Time (Minoru Miki, 1968), For Marimba II (Tokuhide Niimi, 1978), and Mirage (Yasuo Sueyoshi, 1971).

This is possibly the best music you'll see in Indianapolis all summer.

Tuesday, July 28 2009 ... 8pm ... $5 suggested donation

JULY 3



lets all go camping!
by NERS

awhile back mt.comfort (a space for champions) asked the question.
NERS (pride of the north side) answered it with "lets all go camping!".


see works from this recent herron graduate.

he brought it. you best recognize.

OPENING JUNE 5




LISA K. BLATT
UNDER COVER

www.lisakblatt.com

Blatt’s photography and video installations have been included in many international and U.S. exhibitions. Recently she was a participant in the National Science Foundation’s Artists and Writers Program in Antarctica, and was an artist-in-residence for NASA. She received an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2006.

We will be open First Friday, June 5th from 6pm to midnight and Saturdays this month from 1 to 6pm. We hope to see you, it'll be a great night, for real.

mt.comfort (a space for champions) is super proud to host this event.

they might live in new york now,
but they're from here dude ... (don't let 'em, forget it)!
show 'em the love, bring it in for the real thing.


jon autry
joan hutcheson
david brant (bronze float)

thursday may 28th 2009
9pm

for free
for great music.

MAY 1



links:
Nat Russell
Danielle Rante
Erin Drew

We would love to see you there!

APRIL 3



We'll be open this Friday from 7 to 11.
Stop by and have a drink with us.