SAVE THE SCREENING DATE
Huntington Museum of Art hosts free showing of 'HOUSE IN THE CLOUDS' on Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2024, from 6 to 8 pm
SAVE THE DATE: We are pleased to report that 'HOUSE IN THE CLOUDS: The Artistic Life of Robert Singleton,' will be screened for free, 6 to 8 p.m, Tuesday, Oct. 8, at Huntington Museum of Art in Huntington WV. Robert Singleton will be featured live on-screen in a Q-and-A after the conclusion of the hour-long documentary on his remarkable and challenging life. The film won Best Documentary in the first round of the 2024 International Queer Film and Art Forum and was recently picked as a semi-finalist in the Virginia Queer Film Festival. It tracks the world-class artist’s life from trauma to triumph, from tribulation and deep loss, to equilibrium and mastery. Now 86, Robert paints onward in his mountaintop studio in remote Hardy County, WV.
ALSO, FOUR LITHOGRAPHS created by Robert in 1978, each with hand-colored additions in pastel, are included in the current HMA exhibit "Land, Sea, Air: Vistas & Viewpoints,' up through December 1, 2024. Curated from the museum’s permanent collection, a description of the exhibit says these works "share stories from the ground beneath our feet, the world beyond the horizon, and the skies above.'
THE AMPMEDIAPROJECT.com film was crafted by Douglas John Imbrogno and Bobby Lee Messer and funded by The Jeff and Deb Lamb Family Trust and numerous crowdfunding supporters (see other posts on houseintheclouds.movie for more on them and the film).
The museum screening is a homecoming, of sorts, for Robert’s artwork. In 2017 and 2018, the Huntington museum hosted an engrossing installation of multiple paintings by the artist, set to the ethereal music of Dan Morro. Viewers entered darkened exhibition spaces as the music set the mood and the lights came up on Robert’s large-format paintings. I wrote an Aug. 12, 2017 Charleston Gazette-Mail story about the installation titled ‘The Cloud Painter and the Berlin Musician,’. I included an audio interview with the two of them that you can hear by clicking the orange-circled arrow below. ~ by Douglas John Imbrogno
CLICK TO LISTEN TO: ‘The Man Who Paints Clouds’
THE MUSIC OF THE DOCUMENTARY
The ‘HOUSE IN THE CLOUDS’ soundtrack features a host of West Virginia musicians, including Bob Thompson Spencer Elliott Janet Gillies Neil Gillies Robin Kessinger Paul N Callicoat Barbara Nissman Ron Sowell Will Carter Jarren Jackson Jim Probst JB Stalnaker and myself, plus Jeremy Soule Todd Hallawell and Beckie Davy.
