http://bhamweekly.com/birmingham/articles.sec-65-1-in-studio.html Palo Pallas is fascinated with transformation: most particularly in how transformation relates to individuals and life experience. Pallas also believes that thought is energy and as energy cannot only be transformed but transferred. These concerns are the basis for an exhibit of the artists' work at Avondale Bricks Gallery opening August 30.]]> She doesn´t mean to disprove the adage, "You are what you eat." After all, the food we eat is the source of the energy that produces our thoughts, if not the energy produced in turn by them..]]> Olympya Ortiz lives in a modest section carved out of one of the former middle class homes in the Vedado (which means sequestered or forbidden) section of Havana.]]> It is hard to tell whether the works of Cuban painter and collage artist Vladimir de Leon reflect a mind within a maze or a maze within a mind. Whichever the case, Vlado is working his way into and out of the images like a miner. The trail of the labyrinth he leaves behind is as notable as the end destination.]]> We�€™d like to welcome you to the first exhibition of the Avondale Bricks Gallery, EN CADA BARRIO REVOLUCI�“N. The Birmingham Weekly sponsors all exhibitions at the gallery. The first exhibition is a collection of Cuban art brought back by Stephen Humphreys from his friends in the country over the course of 15 years.]]> We'd like to welcome you to the first exhibition of the Avondale Bricks Gallery. The Birmingham Weekly sponsors all exhibitions at the gallery. The first exhibition is a collection of Cuban art brought back by Stephen Humphreys from his friends in the country over the course of 15 years.]]> Swann often includes weapons in the hands of the figures in his oil paintings. "The hammers and knives represent tools used to build or destroy human relationships,"� he said. "These tools actually represent relationships, which you're either building or destroying."]]> I had a great time talking to the Mountain Brook Art and Music Club on the subject of Cuban art that will be in the first exhibition sponsored by the Birmingham Weekly at the Avondale Bricks Gallery. When we looked at various paintings I told Mrs.]]> I had the pleasure of popping into the studio with my friend John Lytle Wilson, an artist with an international exhibition record. Strewn about the floor and wall are in-process pieces from past shows and shows to come. His style, like his personality, is unpretentious and easygoing.]]> In the story, based loosely on Russian and German folk tales, Odette is an enchanted princess under a spell of the evil sorcerer Von Rothbart; she has been transformed into a swan by day and can only regain her human form at night.]]> I "I'm a man without a shadow / in a room without walls" is a song lyric that could easily describe Hunter Bell's existentialist self-concept. The lyric is from Omni-Morphist's first EP, "We may be a joke. But it's a joke you can believe in." Hunter Bell and Aaron Slaughter formed Omni-Morphist when a sound check resulted in a 28-minute song.]]> Think of the infinite amount of ways you can fill space. Without even thinking, you are filling space right now. It's kind of what we do, at least for the brief flicker in time we get here on earth and hereafter when we leave behind our bones. Think of this little rock we call home, floating like a spec in the perpetual depth of the universe.]]>