ART IN THE BAR XI

That's right...

Sunday December 7th from Noon to 7pm at The Knitting Factory Concert House in Downtown Boise. 
Sponsored by Dead Bird Local Art & Framing.

It's the 11th installment of ART IN THE BAR!

This show is one of the best local artist shows in Boise featuring 40 local artists of the Treasure Valley displaying and selling artwork (just in time for the holidays!)

And yes...
Myself and Lukas Evergreen will be sharing a booth and we'll have new artwork for sale! We'd love to have you stop by and see us! 

Performing Live at Art in the Bar 9

Myself, Lukas Evergreen, and Krysta Nebeker are once again teaming up as Marten Evergreen to perform live at Art in the Bar 9 being held at The Knitting Factory Concert House in downtown Boise on Sunday November 24th. This will probably be the largest Art in the Bar yet! Come experience the talented work of over 40 local Treasure Valley visual artists, craftsman, and performing artists under one roof. It's the perfect event for your creative holiday shopping! Doors open at 11am and close at 7pm. It's FREE to the public. Full bar with ID. Sponsored by Dead Bird Art & Framing. 

Marten Evergreen will be performing from Noon until 6pm (this will be our longest original live performance ever!) so come anytime during those 6 hours to experience this all new one of a kind avant garde mixed media performance of choreographed music/movement/painting live on stage at the Knitting Factory...for FREE! We'd love to have you join us there. Your presence as the audience helps to make it Marten Evergreen! 

Art in the Bar 8

 

Dead Bird Local Art & Framing presents

Art in the Bar 8

Sunday, February 17, 2013

The Knitting Factory Concert House

416 S. 9th St.

Boise, ID

Noon-9pm

Free to the public

All ages are welcome

Full Bar with ID

 

This show will feature the local artists of Green Chutes Artists Co-op and many more (including myself and Lukas Evergreen).
 

I regret to announce that Marten Evergreen (the performance art company I co-founded with Lukas Evergreen) will not be performing at this Art in the Bar afterall...but we are in the process of planning some upcoming performances and do plan on performing at the next Art in the Bar. So stay tuned for future announcements and come on out to see us when you can. We love performing for you Boise!

 



Sex Dreams Erased By Water: a Marten/Evergreen & Company Production

se libre: BE FREE!

Sex Dreams Erased By Water

a live avant-garde performance at The Knitting Factory for Art in the Bar VI in Boise, Idaho

By: Marten/Evergreen and Company

Lisa Marten

Lukas Evergreen

Gonzalo Valdez

Krysta Nebeker

 

sex dreams...exploitations, addictions, those things that trap us in our minds and in our past...fears, rejections, those parts of us that keep us in isolation and bondage...lies, trappings, seductions, those triggers that hinder us from receiving Truth, Love, Beauty, and Life...those things that keep us from being who we really were meant to be...from being Free.

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  “One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”-Sigmund Freud

about the performance:  This piece is the vulnerable exorcism of a man trapped in his mind. As the world goes on by, his world is being rocked by inspiration, desire and of course, lust. The man must break through the chains of his underdeveloped psychosocial self and find truth. Thankfully truth is Divinely guided by love and he must choose to live or die.

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hiding within...yet always covered by Divinity

dreaming and waking up

wrestling with the process

relinquishing to the process

embracing the process of cleansing

clinging to God, receiving Love

allowing the self to let go and receive Truth





experiencing something new to come forth from within that is beautiful

releasing by embracing Life and Love

cleansing Love pouring forth like a waterfall bringing freedom

experiencing freedom in heart, mind, body, and soul

The struggle through the process to receive True Freedom is worth it!

BE FREE!

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about Marten/Evergreen & Company: As a performing arts company, we have the desire, as most artists of any medium do, to connect with viewers on a given level of reality and/or fantasy. Progression plays a large factor and obstacle in this goal in being original, unique, and respected.

photography by Starry Night Media

Art in the Bar 6

52 local Boise artists under one roof!!!

ART IN THE BAR VI

The BIGGEST all local art show EVER!!!

sponsored by Dead Bird Gallery & Framing.

Saturday June 9

Noon-10pm

 The Knitting Factory Concert House downtown Boise

FREE to all ages

Open bar with ID

Lots of opportunity to connect with our local Boise art community.

Myself and Lukas Evergreen will be there sharing a booth inside once again to display and sell our art (we both will have NEW work at this show).

AND...

Marten/Evergreen & Company are back for another live performance!!!

We will be peforming an all NEW LIVE production of choreographed dance, painting & music in the alley in front of The Knitting Factory. Our performance will be one you won't want to miss. We should be performing around 5pm or 6pm (not quite sure about exact time yet as of writing this post). If you're planning on being there for the performance, let me know day of and I can give you the exact time we'll be performing.

Hope to see you!

A Fragile Process of the Creative Minds

"Collaboration" a joint piece by Lukas Evergreen & Lisa Marten. c. 2012

I love being eclectic in my taste of artistic espression...not only in what I like to experience from others, but also in what I like to participate in myself. Lately I've been embracing a wider variety of my own expression through multi-media avant-garde live performances. These include dance, painting, drama and music choreographed together  to tell a story and become an experience of art for all involved (those of us participating and those who come to watch). These performances are meant to be shared by all.
My creative partner, Lukas Evergreen (along with our company of performers, Naomi Psalm, Krysta Nebeker, and Jeremy Busack) performed our latest creation at Art in the Bar V held at The Knitting Factory Concert House in downtown Boise. I love love love this art event! It's the largest local art show in Boise sponsored by Dead Bird Gallery and it takes place four times a year. It's an amazing show to connect and network with other artists of all various mediums and styles and to connect and network with the public as they get to enjoy the show for free. Inside the venue features artbooths by tons of the most talented and ecclectic artists that the Treasure Valley holds. Lukas and I shared a booth and displayed our work together. And outside we constructed a HUGE bubble cube where we performed for a large crowd that had formed.

This latest performance took us about 4 months of planning and 2 months fully practicing multiple times a week to present it to the public. We had so much fun in the creation of this piece, in the execution of the piece, and in the aftermath of the piece. The real point to these live performances is the opportunity to connect with people before and afterwards. We love people! Art is an amazing thing...it really does start the conversation and it's a exciting moment when you recognize that it is operating as the catalyst that sparks connection and community.

I love love love what I get to do.
Here is a brief synopsis of what the Art in the Bar V performance was about...and as you scroll down you will find a link to a YouTube video taken of it in it's entirety.
Please enjoy and may you know that you are loved and that you are not alone. we need each other. Let's keep engaging in the creative process and paint on each others' lives.
Dive deep!
Lisa

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Title: "A Fragile Process of the Creative Minds"
a live avant-garde performance of dance, music, paint, & drama produced by
Marten/Evergreen and Company.

Outline of Choreography...







First Song: "Die Tonight, Live Forever" MP3 song by InnerPartySystem

1. minds are stimulated with inspiration
2. lift of lamentation
3. base coat
4. lift of lamentation
5. the exchange of creative talents, painting the shirts
6. preparation of artistic execution, displaying the shirts

Dramatic Interlude

Second Song: "Listen" performed live by Naomi Psalm

1. full on creation of art by full participation. no holding back
2. finale is in exploration of God's creative and intimate connection with man. we finish in a position representing DaVinci's "Madonna of the Rocks" and Michelangelo's iconic image of God giving life to Adam.
3. pop the bubble to birth creativity and love on people

Artist Statement of Performance...

yellow is representative of Divinity. blue is representative of Baptism & Birthing. the Bubble is representative of the right side of everybody's brain which is where we experience creativity.

the song represents a desire for each other in community. it is painted through the pure aspects of materialistic humanity. whether good or evil, we must search for Truth up until the end.

how we influence each other through collaboration.
we teach. we learn.

we can't help coming away from collaboration with a little bit of each other afterwards.
who we are is a piece of everyone we have connected with.

the piece is representing when we collaborate with each other, we as the participants are neurons in the brain responding to each others' ideas and cross pollinating.

painting on each other is just that...ideas connecting, moving, and influencing as the work comes together, execution of the work...that IS collaboration...results in the final piece as it is brought together...IS the work.

the work is painting on people's lives. it is the connection of Divinity and humanity.
collaboration. fellowship.

With Love & Art
Marten/Evergreen and Company

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Watch the full Performance on YouTube:
Marten/Evergreen & Company Presents: A Fragile Process of the Creative Minds