DEARRAINDROP – “Don’t Go to Your Mansion” Curated by Paul Butler
18th October – 31st October, 2008
special performance hosted by send + receive see web for details

aceartinc. is pleased to present the first solo multi-media exhibition in Winnipeg by Dearraindrop.

Dearraindrop is a Virginia Beach-based collective made up of Owen Osborn, Christopher Kucinski and founding members Joe Grillo, Laura Grant, and Billy Grant. Dearraindrop have collaborated on paintings, clothing, animation, installations, music, performance and videos for close to 15 years. This fall, they’ll bring their explosive psychedelic maximism born from mass media, art history, old cartoons, video-games and science fiction to Winnipeg in what curator Paul Butler calls ‘an attempt to resuscitate Winnipeg’s art community as a leading collaborative centre.”

The aceartinc. exhibition is part of a larger series of events organized by Butler including a musical performance for the Send + Receive festival, a workshop at Art City where children will learn to make instruments for electronic toys, an artist talk and The University of Manitoba’s Fine Art department, and a video screening at Cinematheque organized in collaboration with Platform centre for digital and photographic arts.

Dearraindrop have exhibited solo shows at V1 gallery in Copenhagen, Denmark (2008), GAD in Oslo, Norway (2007), Iconic Gallery in Lisbon, Portugal (2007), Loyal in Stockholm, Sweden (2006), Perugi Arte Contemporanea in Padova, Italy (2005), Kavi Gupta Gallery in Chicago, (2005), Deitch Projects in NY (2004), P.S.1. In Brooklyn, NY (2004), John Connelly Presents in NY (2003), and HaNNa (2004) in Tokyo, Japan. Their work has been hailed widely in the press including reviews and articles in The New York Times, Paper Magazine and The Globe and Mail.