{"id":577,"date":"2011-12-06T04:07:26","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T09:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sirianniart.com\/blog\/?p=246"},"modified":"2012-09-06T21:17:24","modified_gmt":"2012-09-07T01:17:24","slug":"246","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/2011\/12\/246\/","title":{"rendered":"Chi-Stock"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_245\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/2011c.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-245\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-245 \" title=\"2011c\" src=\"http:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/2011c-300x176.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"176\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-245\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&quot;Chi - Man&quot; Acrylics and Color pencil sticks on paper (45&quot; x 95&quot;) 2011<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Artvoice Article 12\/22\/2011:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Chi-Stock<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A new series of art events debuts<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Ralph Sirianni\u2014a friend, artist, veteran, and champion of possibilities in improving one\u2019s good nature\u2014invited me to \u201cChi-Stock,\u201d a music and art event held in a large downtown loft put together by his son, Gabriel, featuring Ralph painting in situ while the young patrons watched, chatted, and danced. An upright piano served as a bar where drinks were passed over the piano lid from an elevated platform. An atmosphere of family fealty prevailed as Sirianni brushed acrylic on a wall-sized, taped-off canvas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Chi is the vital life force that stimulates motivation, coming from the original Chinese (qi) for breath. Meant to be a series of future events providing a visually ingratiating gathering place for young people, Chi-Stock will feature artists working on installations specific to themes supporting introspection, contemplation, and joy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Meanwhile in another part of the loft, Bruce Lee held forth in Enter the Dragon while a fog machine created billowing plumes before a seated Buddha amid a gathering of tea lights.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&gt; j. tim raymond<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artvoice Article 12\/22\/2011: Chi-Stock A new series of art events debuts Ralph Sirianni\u2014a friend, artist, veteran, and champion of possibilities in improving one\u2019s good nature\u2014invited me to \u201cChi-Stock,\u201d a music and art event held in a large downtown loft put together by his son, Gabriel, featuring Ralph painting in situ while the young patrons watched, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-other-works"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":614,"href":"https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions\/614"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}