(The work of Jeffrey Meyer)
Happy Early 4th of July!
Time to befriend someone with a boat/roofdeck/kegerator. Quick!
So many things going on this weekend, most of which are FREE.
Let’s wrap this up.
Cyanotype x Pattern Recognition x Two Bloody Hours x Above Within Below
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2011 Free Fun Fridays
(The work of Edward Gorey)
“Free fun fridays invites Massachusetts residents and tourists to visit designated cultural attractions every Friday this summer with free admission. No registration or tickets required. Visit and enjoy!”
How: Official Website
Free attractions for July 1st, 2011
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS
465 Huntington Ave – Boston
BUTTONWOOD PARK ZOO
425 Hawthorn Street – New Bedford
EDWARD GOREY HOUSE
8 Strawberry Lane – Yarmouth Port
HERITAGE MUSEUMS & GARDENS
67 Grove Street – Sandwich
Download the full calendar of events here.
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MFA Summer Fridays
When: Friday July 1st, 2011 5:30-9:30PM
Where: Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115
How: Official Website
Cost: Free with Admission to the museum
What/Why: “Every Friday in July and August, join us in the Calderwood Courtyard (rain location Koch Gallery 250) for live music and a cash bar featuring signature cocktails for visitors 21 and older.”
MFA Summer Fridays Musical Lineup:
July 1 – Grooversity Brazilian Trio (Part of Free Fun Friday. See the full schedule of events)
July 8 – Four Piece Suit
July 15 – Conscious Reggae Band
July 22 – DJ Deja
July 29 – Seth Connelly and Friends
August 5 – Los Three Latin Trio
August 12 – Grupo Fantasia
August 19 – Steel Rhythm
August 26 – DJ Deja
Note: Cash Bar.
And while you’re at the MFA, there is a new exhibit!
Europe at Mid-Century
(Detail of the work of Joan Miro)
When: On view now through January 22nd, 2012
How: Official Website
What/Why: “Postwar Europe saw many and diverse transformations of the way in which artists depicted the human image. Figuration and abstraction were the contending elements in a dynamic dialogue boldly visible in the work of Alberto Giacometti, Jean Dubuffet, Pablo Picasso, and their many contemporaries. Thirty-five prints, drawings, and paintings by twenty artists from continental Europe and Britain—including works on loan from private collections—illuminate the many innovations and consequent artistic tensions of the 1940s, 50s, and 60s. Other artists, including Joan Miró, Jean Arp, and Henry Moore added their unique perspectives to the ongoing debate. Many of these mid-century artists are currently in the process of being rediscovered, figures such as Jean Fautrier, Karel Appel, and Stanley William Hayter.”
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Interaction | Cyanotype and Mixed Media
(Interaction 14)
When: On view now through July 31st, 2011
Where: Kingston Gallery, 450 Harrison Ave. #43 , Boston, MA 02118
How: Official Website
What/Why: “Interaction uses tree rings, cyanotype, and iron oxide to create mysterious and ethereal images that explore the elemental and sacred. A tree ring is digitally photographed and printed in cyanotype, as 21st century technology meets 19th century photographic technique. Iron Oxide interacts with cyanotype creating new, unpredictable layers, transforming the original print.”
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New England Scapes
(Provincelands, Timothy Wilson)
When: On view now through July 30th, 2011
Where: Gallery Seven, 7 Nason Street, Maynard, Massachusetts 01754
How: Official Website
What/Why: “Gallery Seven presents “New England Scapes”, a juried exhibition featuring over 35 local artists. Guest juror Carrie M. Nixon, a painter and Associate Professor teaching Painting and Drawing at Assumption College in Worcester, helped the gallery choose from an array of entries. With the high quality of artwork and large number of pieces submitted, the resulting exhibition is hung salon style. On display is an eclectic group of artwork ranging from photographs, to paintings, to drawings and more.
New England is known for its strong cultural identity, deep history and beautiful scapes. This exhibition allows for a broad interpretation of the word “scape”. There are abstracts in which some viewers may see sky while others see water. There are farmscapes as well as classic sea, city and landscapes and there is even a scape from a bar scene in Worcester. With so many images and various interpretations, viewers may be drawn back for a second or third look.”
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Pattern Recognition
(Beatrice in Flight)
When: On view now through July 16th, 2011
Where: Axiom, 141 Green St. Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
How: Official Website
What/Why: “Axiom Center for New and Experimental Media is pleased to announce its annual student show, Pattern Recognition. The show features undergraduate, graduate, and recently graduated students working in new media.
Artists were selected from local programs and schools, including the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, MIT, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, and UMass Boston and Dartmouth. Exploring a variety of media, themes and strategies, Pattern Recognition showcases the next generation of new media artists in Boston.
How is new media defined for emerging artists who have spent much of their lives in the new millennium, immersed in the web and technologically literate? The artists represented here interpret and alter the massive amounts of raw data they encounter every day, creating meaning from the chaos of contemporary life. Artworks range from digitally glitched photographs to microscopic poetry, appropriated pop songs to musical scores based on bird flight.”
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Drawn to Disaster
When: On view now through Sunday August 7th, 2011
Where: Maine College of Art, 522 Congress Street, Portland, Maine
How: Official Website
What/Why: “In this age of the 24-hour news cycle the media bombards us with sensationalist imperatives, looking towards the next storyline, ignoring the vulnerability of those left behind when journalists leave. In this exhibition artists examine the ephemerality of news reports and conjure the complexities of disorder, anger, and optimism that can follow disaster.
Featuring work by: Anthony Campuzano, Dave McKenzie, Christian Holstad, Carlos Motta, Sun Xun, Dominic McGill, Stacy Howe, Deb Sokolow, Yael Bartana, Daniel Guzmán, and Lisi Raskin.”
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F*CK Yeah America!
When: On view now through July 9th, 2011
Where: Lincoln Arts Project, 289 Moody Street, Waltham, MA
How: Official Website
What/Why: “Lincoln Arts Project, the new-ish hipster gallery in Waltham (yes, Waltham) also known as LAP, presents a group exhibition ripe with celebration in time for Independence Day, aptly titled Fuck Yeah America! Featured artists include Robyn Day, Jes Hughes, Molly Kennedy, Angela Jennings, Daniel Lambert, Ali Reid, Charlie Smith and Dave Tolmie.
According to LAP-er Pat Falco, “Artists submitted lots of different interpretations of Fuck Yeah America! Some funny, others political or satirical. Some works were vaguely related to America—like pictures of Confederate flags. The spirit was defined more by the artists than the gallery.” The exhibition includes works in printmaking, sculpture, photo, stencil installation, painting and collage.” (writeup via Dig Boston)
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Naked
(Woman Fleeing From Her Youth, Robert Colescott)
When: On view now through August 19th, 2011
Where: Howard Yezerski Gallery, 460 Harrision Avenue, Boston, MA 02118
How: Official Website
What/Why: “Featuring work by:Robert Colescott, John Coplans, Robert Cumming, Steven DiRado, Emily Eveleth, Robert Feintuch, John Goodman, Peter Hujar, Neeta Madahar, Denise Marika, Barbara Norfleet, John O’Reilly, Rona Pondick and Gary Schneider”
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Above Within Below/Stephanie Cardon-New Photographs
When: On view July 1st-July 30th, 2011
Where: Jane Deering Gallery, 18 Arlington Street, Gloucester, MA
How: Official Website
What/Why: “The Gallery is pleased to present ABOVE WITHIN BELOW, an exhibition combining recent photographs by Stephanie Cardon and a sound installation by Cardon+McNulty created for the studio space.
Visual artist Stephanie Cardon and composer/audio artist Marc McNulty have created a sonic and sculptural environment conveying sensations of instability and precariousness usually felt on a larger scale. With increasingly numerous and alarming accounts of disastrous floods, storms and quakes, Cardon+McNulty felt compelled to transform a place we would see as shelter into a space that evokes anything but safety. They hope to bring some tangibility to an experience that for many of us remains abstract, though perhaps increasingly less so.
The interior of the studio has been modified to exaggerate its existing floor-plan, with its angled wall, low ceiling and New England aesthetic. Light dynamically modifies the space in counterpoint to sound from opposing ends of the audible spectrum, creating an experience that is responded to viscerally rather than interpretively.”
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The Work of David Cummings
with guests from Cavity.Lab: Brianna Dillman, OKTO, Chelsea Robot
(Rooster)
When: On view now through July 31st, 2011
Where: Galatea Fine Art, 460B Harrison Avenue, Boston, MA
How: Official Website
What/Why:“Erumpere Colore” translates from the Latin to “to burst forth in color”. David Cummings’ natural, raw and uninhibited style is an absolute vibration of selflessness and the love of material, process, and the resulting celebration of color. His subject matter derails the symbolism of a Jungian universe, the product of free association, with no interference, as his work sits on the apex of the self-taught experience. He states: “… I will try to catch your eye, hold your attention and positively enhance your visual and emotional senses. I love using bright colors. You will see a lot of blue tones, yellows, orange and brown in my paintings because these are colors I connect with personally. To me these colors stimulate or calm; depending how they are used they have the ability to produce both of these feelings. I believe my work has evolved from conveying a simplistic ” in your face” attitude to a subtle, maturing, complex ” in your face” style.”
Also at Galatea..
Member Group Show
(Family Day at the Beach, Paula Estey)
What/Why: “For July, in addition to the David Cummings exhibit, Galatea is pleased to be showing a member’s exhibit, which spotlights works from all Galatea Gallery members.”
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(Touch up and Shut up, Jeffrey Meyer)
♂/☺/♫
There are whispers around the office that we might get out early today..
Hope that is true for me and you.
Have a great weekend! ♥
