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     Yevgeniya Baras is an artist living and working in NY. Yevgeniya has a BA and MS from the University of Pennsylvania (2003) and an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2007). Yevgeniya has exhibited her work in several New York City galleries and internationally. She is represented by Nicelle Beauchene Gallery in NY and the Landing Gallery in LA. Yevgeniya is a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2019, the Pollock-Krasner grant and the Chinati Foundation Residency in 2018, and the Yaddo Residency in 2017. She received the Artadia Prize and was selected for the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program and the MacDowell Colony residency in 2015. In 2014 she was named the recipient of the Rema Hort Mann Foundation’s Emerging Artist Prize. Her work has been reviewed in the New York Times, LA Times, ArtForum, and Art in America. Yevgeniya's next solo exhibitions are at Reyes Projects, Detroit in Sept 2019 and in LA at the Landing Gallery In April 2020.

     Yevgeniya co-founded and co-curated Regina Rex Gallery on the Lower East Side of NY (2010-2018). Yevgeniya has curated and co-curated over twenty exhibitions at Regina Rex and other galleries in NY, Chicago, and Philadelphia. Yevgeniya is teaching at RISD and Sarah Lawrence College. 





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My Art

& Other 

Stuff 


Often Break


Words and music by Dave Granger and Clark Williams

Arranged by Clark Williams 

October 1980 

Time: 6:16

(Click our picture to listen to the original cassette recording)


If ever it's a rainy day

I pack myself up in my room

Then chase all the clouds away

Get myself back to you

 

Chorus:

Well I know that you're going to cry

Tears are running from your eyes

A piece of my love you take

Is one that so often break 

 

If ever you're miles away

I'll think of you the way you are

Your shining hair your ruby lips

Then it don't seem quite so far 


Harmonica lament break:

 

Chorus:


Very long jam session:

 

Repeat 2nd. verse

 

Chorus: 

 






















I Won’t Touch/Taking a Ride

Words and music by Dave Granger and Clark Williams

Arranged by Clark Williams 

October 1980 

Time: 9:40

 

(A song about getting over from being bullied

 

You might think I've hidden my shame

of things I've said and done

Who am I to play this silly game?

When there's no way to tell if I've won

No way to tell if I've won

 

Chorus:  

I won't touch

No, I won't feel

Won't hurt as much because it won't even seem real

Won't feel pain

No, and I won't feel sorrow

I'll just wait and wonder who I am tomorrow

 

Quick Harmonica break:


And freedom is something that everybody needs

But you can't chase it blindly 

You can't run but must walk proud 

No peace of mind comes with its finding

Peace of mind sure is fine, sure is fine

I'd like to find peace of mind

 

(Chorus)

 

Eclectic guitars and forsaken dreams

Are kept in closets to hide them

I think it's time to open up the doors

To do our best to find them

Do our best to find them

 

(Refrain) 

Oh yeah!

It's time to touch

Yes it's time to feel

It's going to hurt so much

But it's the only way I'll heal

I'll feel pain and soon I'll feel sorrow

I'll wake up knowing

I'm so happy

So happy

Tomorrow

 

(Lead-out harmonica solo then go into "Taking a Ride")



Art Studio Commune 

East 6th and Grand Ave. Des Moines, Iowa,  circa 1970 something. I had it in 1983, 84, 85.