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*May 10 – 31, 2018* with weekly evening events on Thursdays: 5/10; 5/17 & 5/24 for gallery hours and to schedule an appointment: i...@courttree.com See us on Artsy <https://www.artsy.net/show/court-tree-gallery-the-xy-chromosome-project> "Court Tree Gallery proudly presents *The XY Chromosome Project.* <https://courttree.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f931829669c9c31abc14d193a&id=a444109817&e=6df2acb0ef> The recent collages of filmmakers Mark Street <https://courttree.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f931829669c9c31abc14d193a&id=b851c92efe&e=6df2acb0ef> and Lynne Sachs <https://courttree.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f931829669c9c31abc14d193a&id=c0596b15ee&e=6df2acb0ef>. Street and Sachs have been making films individually and collaboratively for over 30 years, which is also the length of their relationship as a couple. *The XY Chromosome Project* follows the career paths of Lynne Sachs and Mark Street. To follow this path is like tracing the blueprint on devotion. Working both together and individually for the past 30 years, each has carved out their own niche without the obvious influences of being married. They part ways to be left alone to their own creations. It is the respect for the other's work that bonds them. Left alone, their work could not be more different. Lynne's work is cerebral and emotional. As seen in her full length films *Your Day is My Night* <https://courttree.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f931829669c9c31abc14d193a&id=6529030e0f&e=6df2acb0ef> and *Tip of My Tongue* <https://courttree.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f931829669c9c31abc14d193a&id=215c4a756d&e=6df2acb0ef>. She collages the art of storytelling by layering stunning visuals while swimming between reality and performance. Her films are remarkable. Mark is the experimental film hero, a pioneer in film manipulation, an encyclopedia in the world of experimental films. His film work is solely connected to what is possible in the organics of film manipulation. They celebrate experimentation in its truest form. Yet both come down on the same line when it matters most. The line of captivation which as any artist knows is the hardest to achieve. In 2010, they created *The XY Chromosome Project* an umbrella for their collaborative ventures. Together they have produced an array of collaborative installations, performances, and two-dimensional art works. In addition to exhibiting their collages on the walls of the Court Tree Gallery, they will present movies, poetry and essays by themselves and other artists and writers throughout the month of May." (*Stephen Lipuma, co-director, Court Tree Gallery*) <https://courttree.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f931829669c9c31abc14d193a&id=6add1853b9&e=6df2acb0ef> Falling Through Air, Archival pigment print on archival paper, 12 × 16 in, 2017 In 2017, Lynne embraced her life-long love of collage during an artist residency at Beta Local, an art center in San Juan, Puerto Rico dedicated to supporting and promoting aesthetic thought and practice. While there, Lynne worked with San Juan artists who shared images torn from magazines or newspapers, found in a drawer, a family album or in the trash -- personal, commercial and ephemeral objects. Lynne then proceeded to “collaborate” with these artists by integrating both the treasures and the trash from their lives into her collages. <https://courttree.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f931829669c9c31abc14d193a&id=5cfa83e0a4&e=6df2acb0ef> *Bike Election*, Archival pigment print on archival paper, 17 × 11 in 2017 Morning Addition is a series of collages Mark has been working on since 2015. He uses images from newspapers, old books, Farmers’ Almanacs, paper shooting targets and original photographs to create strange and uncanny combinations. What arrives on the doorstep or is found on the street mixes together to distill quotidian ephemera down to an unanticipated broth. <https://courttree.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f931829669c9c31abc14d193a&id=650997e5c3&e=6df2acb0ef> *Split Time*, Archival pigment print on archival paper, 12 × 16 in, 2017 *Weekly Events:* *Thursday, May 10 – The XY Chromosome Project Opening Party 7 – 9 PM* *Thursday, May 17 – Short Films by Mark Street and Lynne Sachs 7 – 9 PM* Since 1992, Lynne and Mark have been showing films together in an attempt to uncover connections and dissonances, pitting the X against the Y, the magenta against the green, the hard edged against the ephemeral. At Court Tree Gallery, they will present 11 short films (including one they made together) created over the last 25 years. Loose themes and affinities will unspool, including chimerical traces of their children, women's voices amplified on the screen, quotidian diary effusions, found footage movies reimagined, weather as an apocalyptic (bell)weather and finally, the frame as a shifting, malleable grid. *Thursday, May 24 – Invitational Poetry and Prose Readings 7 – 9 PM* Lynne and Mark invite local writers of poetry and prose Denver Butson, Jason Dubow, Paolo Javier, Heather Johnson, and Maria Robinson Somerville to look at the idea of the XY Chromosome – the notion of boy-girl, gender, sex, DNA, biology, society, and identity. Guest writers: Denver Butson <https://courttree.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f931829669c9c31abc14d193a&id=45c8601429&e=6df2acb0ef> is a Brooklyn-based poet, collaborator with artists in various disciplines, father, husband, cook, gardener, guitarist, and creative director of an arts and cultural center in southern Italy. Many of his poems involve real or imagined tensions between real or imagined people in real or imagined relationships. Jason Dubow <https://courttree.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f931829669c9c31abc14d193a&id=e31b8be523&e=6df2acb0ef>teaches at St. Francis College and is working on a book that grew out of his blog, "LearnMeProject: Reflections on One Family's Home School Experiment and Beyond". Jason and his son Isaac, a jazz trumpet player, will read/perform their collaborative essay "A Father and Son in a Sort of Conversation." Paolo Javier’s <https://courttree.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f931829669c9c31abc14d193a&id=38ee42d4a8&e=6df2acb0ef> collaboration with Listening Center appeared as a book-cassette, Ur'lyeh/Aklopolis in early 2017. A featured artist in MoMA PS1's 2015 Greater NY Show as well the Queens International ‘18, Paulo is the author of four full-length collections of poetry, including Court of the Dragon which Publisher's Weekly calls "a linguistic time machine". Heather Lynn Johnson <https://courttree.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f931829669c9c31abc14d193a&id=d223c489c7&e=6df2acb0ef> is the author of The Survival Guide for Queer Black Youth and the 2017 literary fellow for the Queer|Art|Mentorship program. Heather’s work is characterized by its lyricism and cultural critique. Through the use of imagery and the written word, Johnson explores being other-ed in a consumerist society by mining the history of gender, sexuality, and the racialized body. Maria Robins-Somerville <https://courttree.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f931829669c9c31abc14d193a&id=13ebf92f53&e=6df2acb0ef> received a Hopwood Prize for Poetry at the University Michigan. 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