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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE <br>
Visual Art (3D) / Political Sculpture<br>
March, 2007<br>
Media Contact for the Pierre Menard Gallery:<br>
Mary Curtin, 617-241-9664, 617-470-5867 (cell), marycurtin@comcast.net<br>
[high res images available]<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><strong><b><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Donald
Shambroom’s</span></font></b></strong><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>“Recruits”<br>
an emergency exhibition<br>
<br>
</span></b><font color=black><span style='color:black'>April 11-15<br>
</span></font><b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Pierre Menard Gallery<br>
<br>
</span></b><u>Opening reception</u>, Saturday, April 14, 6-9 pm<br>
<u>“Art and War” discussion</u>, Sunday, April 15, 3-5 pm<br>
with <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Kevin Bowen</span></b> (poet), <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>Kermit Dunkelberg</span></b> (actor), <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Donald Shambroom</span></b> (sculptor) & <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>Chip Troiano</span></b> (photographer)<b><span
style='font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>(<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Cambridge</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">MA</st1:State></st1:place>)
<strong><b><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>Pierre Menard
Gallery </span></font></b></strong><strong><b><font face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal'>presents</span></font></b></strong><strong><b><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'> Donald Shambroom’s
“Recruits” : an emergency exhibition</span></font></b></strong><strong><b><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal'>.
Wednesday-Sunday, April 11-15, with opening reception, Saturday, April 14, 6-9
pm, and “Art and War’ discussion, Sunday, April 15, 3-5 pm. </span></font></b></strong><font
color=black><span style='color:black'>Pierre Menard Gallery, 10 Arrow Street,
Cambridge. Regular gallery hours: Wednesday-Sunday, 11 am-7 pm. Free and open
to the public. For more information, 617-868-2033 or www.pierremenardgallery.com.</span></font><br>
<br>
<span class=style61><font color=black face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>All
of <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Donald Shambroom’s</span></b> </span></font></span>recent
sculptures address the tragedy of war. Each piece represents a point in time, a
random instant when the lives of a small group of soldiers are transformed. <span
class=style61><font color=black face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>His
sculptures range in height from five to nine feet, are made of clay, various
kinds of wood, and sign paint – and are each frozen in a tragic moment.</span></font></span><font
color=black><span style='color:black'><br>
<br>
<span class=style61><font color=black face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>In
2005, Shambroom first began to explore war as a theme and installed his work in
storefronts to jar the passersby. He would stress that his pieces were not
anti-war, but rather a detached reminder of the violent loss of life in
wartime. But with “Recruits”, Shambroom has taken a stand.
Detachment is not an option.</span></font></span><br>
<br>
Background information:<br>
<br>
<strong><b><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>Donald Shambroom</span></font></b></strong>
is a painter and sculptor whose works have been shown in <st1:State w:st="on">New
York</st1:State>, <st1:City w:st="on">Los Angeles</st1:City>, and <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Boston</st1:City></st1:place>. After completing
his first three years of undergraduate study in philosophy at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Yale</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>,
Shambroom was chosen as Scholar of the House in art for his senior year. His
paintings and drawings have been acquired by the <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Museum</st1:PlaceType>
of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Fine Arts</st1:PlaceName> in <st1:City w:st="on">Boston</st1:City>,
the <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">DeCordova</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Museum</st1:PlaceType>,
and the <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Metropolitan</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">Museum</st1:PlaceType> in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on">New
York</st1:State></st1:place>. Some of his better-known pieces involve
imaginary construction sites based on real-world scenes. His "Flying
Dream" series show a single figure against a golden sky, hurtling through,
or suspended in, space. Shambroom began creating sculpture in 2000 after the
death of his wife of 22 years, when his deep interest in the works and writings
of French painter and sculptor Marcel Duchamp inspired him to make objects that
stand on the floor. For the past several years, Shambroom’s public
art project “Fatalities” has appeared in storefronts throughout the
greater <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Boston</st1:City></st1:place>
area. He terms them as </span></font>modest ciphers of the sudden termination
of life in war, and they are meant to be displayed in busy retail locations.
His work can be seen at </span></font><a href="http://www.donaldshambroom.com/"><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black;text-decoration:none'>www.donaldshambroom.com</span></font></a><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>.<font
color=black><span style='color:black'><br>
<br>
Discussion participants:<br>
<br>
Poet <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Kevin Bowen</span></b> was drafted and
served in the 1st Air Cavalry Division in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">Vietnam</st1:country-region></st1:place> from 1968-1969. A graduate
of the UMass Boston, Bowen is a former Danforth Fellow and Fulbright Fellow at <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">New</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">College</st1:PlaceType>,
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Oxford</st1:City></st1:place> and
earned his Ph.D. in English Literature from the SUNY Buffalo. He worked as an
aide and speechwriter for Lt. Governor Thomas P. O'Neill, III prior to becoming
director of the Veterans' Upward Bound Program at UMass Boston in 1984. He was
appointed co-director of the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Joiner</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Center</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> in 1984 and has
been the director since 1993. Since 1987, he has returned to <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">Vietnam</st1:country-region></st1:place> many times, initiating
cultural, educational, and humanitarian exchanges. He is an adjunct Associate
Professor in the English Department where he teaches courses in creative
writing, literature and war, and the literature of the Vietnam War. His poetry
has been published by Curbstone Press and has also appeared in <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Agni</span></i>, <i><span style='font-style:italic'>American
Poetry Review</span></i>, <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Boston Review</span></i>,
<i><span style='font-style:italic'>Ploughshares</span></i>, among others. He
has edited a special feature on contemporary Vietnamese poetry and with Bruce
Weigl, is co-editor of <u>Writing Between the Lines: Writings on War and Its
Consequences</u>.<br>
<br>
</span></font>Actor <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Kermit Dunkelberg</span></b>,
a co-founder and Core Actor of Pilgrim Theatre, has created ground-breaking
roles for the company for twenty years. A student of Jerzy
Grotowski’s at Irvine, CA, and a company member of <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Drugie Studio Wroclawskie</span></i> (Second Studio
of Wroclaw Poland, under Zbigniew Cynkutis), Dunkelberg has explored the sonic
and physical textures of performance, pushing the envelope with each new
artistic journey. He has just completed a run of <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>Pilgrim Theatre's <em><i><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>Kafka’s
The Trial: “An Extraordinary Rendition</span></font></i></em></span></b><em><i><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial;font-style:normal'> which he
developed as a performative exploration of Franz </span></font></i></em>Kafka’s
tale of domestic surveillance and undisclosed charges. The performance invites
the audience, without judgment, into a dialogue about their role in
today’s “theatre” of war. <br>
<br>
Photographer <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Chip Troiano</span></b> served
with the Sixth Armored Cavalry in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">Vietnam</st1:country-region></st1:place>, from 1966-1967, first in
an infantry platoon as a machine gunner, and then later as a door gunner on a
helicopter gunship. In 1999, he took his first trip back to <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">Vietnam</st1:country-region></st1:place>, using it as an opportunity
to take pictures of a country and its people, who still live as they did
decades earlier despite the ravages of war. Recently he returned to <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Vietnam</st1:country-region>, this time working with filmmaker Ed
Nef, who is creating a documentary for PBS about <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">Vietnam</st1:country-region></st1:place> veterans who have gone
back. A native of Staten Island, Troiano has lived in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State
w:st="on">Vermont</st1:State></st1:place> since the early 70’s and has
been a participant in many Bread and Puppet Theater events. He is also a
justice of the peace and works as an investigator for a public defender. <br>
<br>
The <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Pierre Menard Gallery</span></b> opened
in <st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Harvard Square</st1:address></st1:Street>
in the fall of 2006, in a brick building that previously housed an antique
shop. The removal of the second floor resulted in a tall, striking space,
accompanied by two smaller exhibition rooms below. The gallery features
contemporary art, and visual art by writers. Pierre Menard, the gallery’s
namesake, is a fictional character from a story by Jorge Luis Borges, whose
inventive spirit helps set the tone for the enterprise. For more Information,
log onto <font color=black><span style='color:black'>www.pierremenardgallery.com.</span></font><br>
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c/o Mary Curtin<br>
<st1:address w:st="on"><st1:Street w:st="on">PO Box 290703</st1:Street>, <st1:City
w:st="on">Charlestown</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">MA</st1:State> <st1:PostalCode
w:st="on">02129</st1:PostalCode></st1:address><br>
617-241-9664, 617-470-5867 (cell), marycurtin@comcast.net<br>
"dedicated to staging insightful entertainment, particularly in
non-traditional venues"<br>
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