What to do this First Friday
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Bleedy poems, acid trippiness and Mars.
Lucia Thome
Full Bleed Poetry Comics Show
Sarah Kaizar
FULL BLEED: Poetry Comics Show
The whimsy of comics and the romance of poems here are mashed together to make a pretty art party. “FULL BLEED” features poets and artists like Paul Siegell, Emily Ballas and Bianca Stone, and will offer an art exhibition plus live sketch portraits of guests by artist Annie Mok. Stone says she’s not “entirely concerned” with defining Poetry Comics, “but rather seeing how many tiny silver arrows we can launch at it. And perhaps how many it can launch back at us.”
5-9 p.m., Indy Hall, 22 N. Third St., indyhall.org.
Lucia Thomé, “First Island”
Sounds a little acid trippy, but intriguing: “If solids are made from moving parts, then maybe wrenches can be tied into knots and maybe the earth is built of steel and wood.” “First Island,” Thomé’s first solo show, reflects on when she learned as a child that solid objects are made of quickly moving atoms. “What if nothing is what is seems?” she thought. The exhibition features sculpture, digital installation and drawings. All, incredibly, made of atoms.
7-9 p.m., through Nov. 25 by appointment, LMNL Gallery, 1526 Frankford Ave., lmnlgallery.com.
Sarah Kaizar, “Mars Show”
Mental health issues are painfully stigmatized, des-pite the millions suffering from diseases that quietly cripple everyday life. Kaizar says about “Mars Show” that she created the work after years of “chewing on ideas” about mental health care. The show comprises large and small-scale drawings rendered in acrylics and vellum, to evoke Mars rovers. “This show is for my dad,” Kaizar says, “who was in outer space a lot of the time.”
5-9 p.m., through Nov. 30, 3rd Street Gallery, 45 N. Second St., 215-625-0993, 3rdstgallery.com.
