Library to Host Gallery Night Exhibit Opening

Tompkins County Public Library will celebrate the opening of “Project for a Re-volution in New York,” a multi-media exhibit created by Todd Ayoung and Krishna Ramanujan, Friday, February 5 from 5 to 8 p.m..

“Project for a Re-volution in New York,” inspired by the novel of the same name by Alain Robbe-Grillet, features the work of 22 local, national and internationally-exhibiting artists who were asked to consider the meaning of the word “revolution” in all of its connotations—as a rotation, an overturning, in the Marxist sense and as an action of a whirling mechanical device.

The exhibit opening will include a variety of artist-developed components, including “Poetry Readings from a Soapbox,” by Melissa Tuckey, award-winning author of “Tenuous Chapel,” from 6 to 6:10, 6:30 to 6:40 and 7 to 7:10 in the Library’s North Reading Room; a screening of the 1961 film “Last Year at Marienbad,” directed by Alain Resnais and written by Robbe-Grillet, with live, improvised musical accompaniment from GK2, from 6:15 to 7:45 p.m. in the BorgWarner Community Room and “Informal Interventions,” presented by the Aaron Burr Society.

“Project for a Re-volution in New York” will be on display at TCPL through April 9, 2016, and has been made possible with support from the Tompkins County Public Library Foundation and the Community Arts Partnership of Tompkins County.  

Also on display during Gallery Night, will be “Hats, Shoes and Accessories from the ‘Downton Abbey’ Era,” and winning submissions from the Tompkins County Office of Human Rights’ MLK Poster Contest.

Gallery Night after-hours access to the library will be available through the BorgWarner Community Room entrance, adjacent to TCAT’s East Green Street bus shelter.

For more information, contact Exhibit Coordinator Sally Grubb at (607) 272-4557 extension 232 or sgrubb@tcpl.org.

Tompkins County Public Library, through its collections, exhibits and programming, serves as a center for community conversations and supports literary, artistic and individual freedoms of expression.  Ideas presented in our collections, exhibits and programming, however, do not necessarily reflect those of the Library staff and should not be seen as an endorsement or statement of Library support.