Saturday, January 20, 2007
100 Posters, 1994-2005
100 posters, 1994-2005 by me @ MassArt April 23-25
I exhibited 110 posters from 1994-2005 at the beautiful, new Godine Gallery at Massachusetts College of Art in a 3-day-only show, April 23-25. Posters for rock concerts, burlesque shows, DJ nights, haircut fundraisers, underground cinema, restaurants, bmx companies, parties, bellydancing, lucha libre, and my own art shows....including ones from when I was a student at MassArt! Following the opening night reception (April 23, 6-8 pm) was the crazy "Revelry to Nowhere" show, also @ MassArt, featuring live bands, Black Cat Burlesque, and La Gata Negra League of Masked Lady Wrestlers.
review in the Boston Phoenix:
"Brie, nachos, and PBR is pretty good fare for an art opening, but a party just isn’t a party until a guy in a giant Frankenstein mask shows up with the gummy fish. Last Saturday at MassArt, the man beneath the homemade mask turned out to be Mister Reusch, who was also the guest of honor, as 100 of his monster-inspired posters lined the walls. Across the hall, his girlfriend’s masked lady-wrestling league, La Gata Negra, went at it on a mat in the middle of a gym-like auditorium. The troupe was like a little sister of Kaiju Big Battel, complete with hilarious characters and costumes: Missy America wore an American-flag-styled singlet; the Bad Habits, tag-team nuns, toted a Bible and a ruler. As if head stomping weren’t enough, Connecticut’s the Can Kickers inspired some serious foot stomping with their old-time country-punk clap-alongs. After whipping the couple-hundred-strong crowd into a frenzy, the trio — toting a fiddle, a banjo, and a washboard — ditched the PA system (which wasn’t serving them well anyhow) and jumped off the stage for their last song while the crowd formed a tight circle around them, hootin’, hollerin’, and hoppin’ around. It was enough to make percussionist Dough Schaefer turn into a hillbilly Keith Moon and smash his washboard to pieces."
me menacing Jamie O'Brien:
some action shots I took of La Gata Negra's La Hornita vs. Mistress Cheetah:
BIG thanks to Janaka of
http://www.blackocean.org
and Jamie O'Brien from Eventworks for putting these shows together. And thanks to everyone who came out, it was a GREAT turnout!
I exhibited 110 posters from 1994-2005 at the beautiful, new Godine Gallery at Massachusetts College of Art in a 3-day-only show, April 23-25. Posters for rock concerts, burlesque shows, DJ nights, haircut fundraisers, underground cinema, restaurants, bmx companies, parties, bellydancing, lucha libre, and my own art shows....including ones from when I was a student at MassArt! Following the opening night reception (April 23, 6-8 pm) was the crazy "Revelry to Nowhere" show, also @ MassArt, featuring live bands, Black Cat Burlesque, and La Gata Negra League of Masked Lady Wrestlers.
review in the Boston Phoenix:
"Brie, nachos, and PBR is pretty good fare for an art opening, but a party just isn’t a party until a guy in a giant Frankenstein mask shows up with the gummy fish. Last Saturday at MassArt, the man beneath the homemade mask turned out to be Mister Reusch, who was also the guest of honor, as 100 of his monster-inspired posters lined the walls. Across the hall, his girlfriend’s masked lady-wrestling league, La Gata Negra, went at it on a mat in the middle of a gym-like auditorium. The troupe was like a little sister of Kaiju Big Battel, complete with hilarious characters and costumes: Missy America wore an American-flag-styled singlet; the Bad Habits, tag-team nuns, toted a Bible and a ruler. As if head stomping weren’t enough, Connecticut’s the Can Kickers inspired some serious foot stomping with their old-time country-punk clap-alongs. After whipping the couple-hundred-strong crowd into a frenzy, the trio — toting a fiddle, a banjo, and a washboard — ditched the PA system (which wasn’t serving them well anyhow) and jumped off the stage for their last song while the crowd formed a tight circle around them, hootin’, hollerin’, and hoppin’ around. It was enough to make percussionist Dough Schaefer turn into a hillbilly Keith Moon and smash his washboard to pieces."
me menacing Jamie O'Brien:
some action shots I took of La Gata Negra's La Hornita vs. Mistress Cheetah:
BIG thanks to Janaka of
http://www.blackocean.org
and Jamie O'Brien from Eventworks for putting these shows together. And thanks to everyone who came out, it was a GREAT turnout!
posted by mister reusch # 10:29 PM 
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