Fri 11/20 @ 5-10PM
E11even 2 Gallery at the 78th Street Gallery is known for its funky, affordable, pop culture-based art works, which cram the space in lively profusion.
For the past year gallery co-owner, artist Billy Naininger, has been focusing his work on the 1983 holiday cult film A Christmas Story, much of which was filmed in Cleveland. The results will be on display in a new exhibition called A Christmas Art Show, opening at November’s Third Friday art walk and running through December’s 12/18 art walk.
Naininger’s mixed-media pieces, which include spray paint, latex and found objects, depict characters and scenes from the film. As an added attraction, the gallery, which expanded into a second room earlier this year, will recreate parts of the interior of famous Christmas Story house in Tremont. Yes, there will be a leg lamp.
In addition to the pieces themselves, Naininger will have Christmas Story-themed ornaments and cards and limited edition prints of the new work. This is one gallery where you don’t have to have a big bank account to do some holiday shopping.