July | 2014 | Matt Swift - OSU Film Studies Program Coordinator

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This Friday August 1st, 6 of my meditation wall scroll paintings will be in display and up for auction at The Oak Room Gallery. The Auction is in support of the 25 on High photographic exhibition that will take place in September. Along with auctioning off some of my paintings I am also a participating photographer int eh 25 on High exhibition with photographs of high street from the OSU Campus area. For more information about the show and auction read the event details below.

Amber – One of the paintings that will be up for auction.

Amber

The Oak Room

511 North High Street, Columbus, Ohio 43215

Friday

at 5:00pm – 9:00pm

2 days from now · 84°F / 61°F Chance of a Thunderstorm

The Oak Room is proud to celebrate the collective works of the 25 on High project initiated by Clay Lowe. We invite you to join us in this celebration for a quick celebration of works from our local Columbus artists in our High Street gallery. The exhibition will be on display for one week only, ending in a closing reception featuring a silent auction. Proceeds from the silent auction will benefit contributing artists and the 25 on High project raising funds for their exhibition later this year at the OSU Urban Arts Space.

Silent Auction Submissions: Deadline Thursday, July 24th. Submit directly to Oak Room director Nicole Desiree at info@oakroomgallery.com

Installation: drop off and installation will take place on Saturday, July 26th. Please, drop off works between noon and 3pm on July 26th.

Exhibition: 25 on High Benefit show is on view from July 26th through August 1st.

Closing Reception: August 1st from 5pm-9pm, Auction from 6:00pm-8:45pm.

Would you like to contribute?
Consider donating items or services for our auction,
Share this event with your friends
Contribute to the 25 on High IndieGoGo fundraiser: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/25-on-high-a-photographic-journey

Or put a little something in our tip jar during the closing reception 🙂

This past weekend Nicolette Swift (my wife) and I had the pleasure of working with Roman and Jennifer to shoot a dance film in Thornhaven Manor. Roman and Jennifer are a local Columbus dance duet that engages audiences by combining their skills in traditional ballroom dancing with edgy improvisational dance that is paired with dark industrial music. Their style of dance is a perfect fit for a film that would feature a haunted house, AKA Thornhaven Manor. Thornhaven Manor is a large estate in New Castle, Indiana that has been vacant until recently. It has recently been purchased and the owner is performing renovations to make the estate more accessible. In the past, paranormal investigators, musicians and others have used the house as a focal point to create a sense of the beyond. For our purposes it was a suitable location to create a short dance film that focused on a man and a woman bound to the house, longing for an eternal dance together even though all that’s left of the house are the flies, and spiders. Even a swarm of bees has moved on to another plane of existence (see the still below). We hope to have the film edited and ready to send to festivals in late August 2014 under the production company Nicolettecinemagraphics. Enjoy the photos.