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Stranger's Story, Friday, January 29, 2010 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Open by appt. until Feb 12th

Featuring a live musical performance by Brooke Brown Saracino and photographs
by Gregory Bartlett

Brooke Brown Saracino is out and about the country celebrating her sophomore, solo-produced and recorded record, Stranger's Story - an understanding of silence and words; a perfectly accurate representation of her full yet solo sound, and somehow through the simplicity comes profundity and something that all artists can only hope for - to reach the Listener.

Paired with Brooke's performance are Gregory Bartlett's small photographs that are simple and straightforward, yet captivating. Intimate in gesture, obsessively detailed, his photographs are quietly observant, sharing unseen occurrences and untold stories.

Although Brooke and Gregory are long time collaborators- Gregory created the album art for Brooke's debut and sophomore CD Releases, they took their collaborative concept to the road for the first time this January as they toured down the west coast. Join them for the closing night of the tour: Stranger's Story- an intimate night of pictures and songs at The Spare Room Project.

More information on their tour can be found at http://www.gregorybartlett.net/strangersstory.html

The Robinbergs: New Portraits, Friday, February 26th, 7-10pm
Open by appt. only until March 12th

A shotgun studio in the basement of a local watering hole showcases the divergent, yet symbiotic styles of these artists mingling to present a rounded vision of folks from differing perspectives.

The Robinbergs are Ginger Robinson and Sara Seinberg.
www.robinbergphotography.com

"Sash, 2010" by Ginger Robinson

Ginger Robinson grew up in Chickamauga, Georgia next to a haunted civil war national park. She took up photography in 2001, turning out a portrait series of women working in the produce department of the nation's largest collectively run, worker-owned grocery in the United States, Rainbow Grocery, Inc. Alongside her arresting portraiture work, she photographed quiet, still images of her life: diners, empty beds, shotguns and friendships. She also has an ongoing project documenting the town where she grew up, showcasing the unequivocal beauty and easy humor of the south enmeshed with its painful past and rebel flags. Her work has garnered her attention in her hometown of San Francisco where she has exhibited in solo and group shows. She co-founded Robinberg Photography with Sara Seinberg in 2008.

Sara Seinberg began making photographs in 1998. After creating work for three years with the photo collective Point Blank in San Francisco, she returned to school at Tufts University's School of the Museum of Fine Arts and received her MFA in photography in 2004. Her work has appeared in print nationally and internationally and on the walls of galleries throughout the US. The images are a thrilling mix of editorial style portraits, industrial urban still lifes, momentary beauty queens, and molotov cocktails of color. She toured the US (and a few great stops in Canada) showing her photographs with the legendary Sister Spit in 2009. She co-founded Robinberg Photography with Ginger Robinson in 2008.

"Sarah and Rufus, 2010" by Sara Seinberg