(The work of Sasha Borodinova via v e l l u m)
Blackened skies and flipped out umbrellas last night? Temps pushing triple digits today?
This weather needs to get a life.
Better go out and see some things before the world ends.
It’s a wrap, baby.
Summer Secrets x The Rapture x Practical Nursing x Archetypology
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Chelsea Art Walk 2011
(via Gallery at Apollinaire Theater)
When: June 11-12th, 2011 Most events: 12:00-6:00PM both days
Where: Participating venues in Chelsea, MA
How: Official Website
What/Why: “The Art Walk is our version of open studios, where the public is invited to visit our galleries and alternative venues showing art, music, theatre and historical exhibits for free.”
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Kirstin Ilse: The Rapture
When: June 11th-July 3rd, 2011
Where: The Piano Factory Gallery, 791 Tremont Street, Boston, MA
How: Official Website
What/Why: An exhibition of painting on silk by Kirstin Ilse.
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Multiple/Unique: The Printmakers of Mastwood Press
(Girl on a Street Corner, Rachel Mello)
When: On view now through June 25th, 2011
Opening Reception: Friday June 10, 2011: 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Where: Washington Street Art Center, 321 Washington Street, Somerville, MA 02143
How: Official Website
What/Why: “At Mastwood Press, Ira Cummings, Rachel Mello, and Rachel Silber work independently in a collective environment that allows for interchange of resources and ideas. From each of their unique viewpoints they are creating uneditioned yet related prints.”
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Practical Nursing
(Use of Mask)
When: On view now through June 26th, 2011
Where: The Hallway Gallery, 66a South Street, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts 02130
How: Official Website
What/Why: “My prints explore the aesthetics of vulnerability and fear though the transformation of diagrams from medical textbooks and first aid manuals. Framing the figure in a medical context allows me to distinguish the physical body from the individual, enabling me to explore emotions in a two-dimensional framework. Through the use of medical diagrams I present the body as an object, illustrating the loss of physical control that a patient experiences in a medical setting. The sexual tone of the images that the material and intimate environment evoke contrasts the sterility of the clinical imagery. This contrast emphasizes the perceived disparity between surgery and sexual intimacy, addressing the true nature of emotional vulnerability and physical intimacy.” -K. Stothart
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Super Secret Summer Surprise
When: Sunday June 12th, 2011, 8:00PM-12:00AM
Where: ICA Boston, 100 Northern Avenue, Boston, MA
How: Official Website
Cost: $25 general admission; $20 members and students with valid ID.
21+ Tickets are still available by phone or at the door.
What/Why: “The super secret is revealed…our surprise guest is Dan Deacon! PLEASE NOTE: Experiment will happen RAIN or SHINE. Remember those mornings, as a kid, when you woke up, ran downstairs, and flipped on cartoons? Or played Twister in the basement with your friends after school? You know how you practiced hot dance moves in the mirror?
Well, summer’s here, and it’s time to recapture your youth at Boston’s only art museum dance party. It’s the first-ever outdoor Experiment, and we’ve got it all: cartoons curated by Hooliganship, a giant game of Twister, multimedia artists the Video Hippos, Master of Ceremonies Jimmy Joe Roche, Wham City’s “Ultimate Reality,” and a surprise guest who’ll get you to dust off those old moves.”
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INN3R
When: June 10th-July 9th, 2011
Opening Reception: June 11, 7-10 pm
Third Thursday Celebration: June 16, 7-10 pm
BYOB Closing Party: July 9, 6-10 pm
Where: Atlantic Works, 80 Border Street, Top Floor, East Boston, MA
How: Official Website
What/Why: “Installation and Paintings by Leah Grimaldi and Chris Spuglio. What separates inside from outside? How thin is the boundary? Once the boundary is penetrated, what happens? Chris Spuglio and Leah Grimaldi pick at, explore and transgress the border that separates the insides from the outsides in their show INN3R.”
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Jennifer Koch: Scissor Drawings
(Scissor Drawing Page #937)
When: June 10th-August 21st, 2011
Opening Reception: Friday June 10, 6-9 pm
Where: ningyo editions, 83 Spring Street, Watertown
How: Official Website
What/Why: “ningyo editions is proud to present Scissor Drawings by Vermont-based Jennifer Koch in her first Boston-area solo exhibit.
These drawings involve no preliminary sketching, but are cut directly from black paper which is then applied to pages that have been removed from a 1925 Funk & Wagnalls Practical Standard Dictionary. The text adds an incidental commentary to the work, and images from the books 2,500 pictorial illustrations provide additional visual resources. The use of scissors as a drawing tool has its origins in Victorian silhouettes and kirie (“cut pictures”) of Japan. The drawings are presented in multiples to accentuate their compulsive nature, as well as to develop a narrative for each series.”
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Archetypology
(Power of the Ocean 1, Lili Jurinec)
When: Friday June 10th-June 15th, 2011
Opening Reception: Friday June 10th 7:00-9:00pm
Where: Mobius, 725 Harrison Avenue, Suite One, Boston MA 02118
How: Official Website
What/Why: “A group show of artwork inspired by archetypal themes – fundamental types of characters or situations embedded in the collective unconscious of all human beings”
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Picture Books
When: Exhibit for June 2011
Saturday, June 11th Events:Daylong Sidewalk Book Sale
Reception: 4:00 – 6:00 PM
Where: Clark Gallery, 145 Lincoln Road, Lincoln, MA 01773
How: Official Website
What/Why: A group exhibition featuring work in all media that pictures, or, references a book within the composition, or, is a book of some kind.
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Wall Works
(Robot Dance Party, Natalie Lanese)
When: June 11th, 2011-April 29th, 2012
Where: deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, 51 Sandy Pond Road , Lincoln, MA 01773
How:Official Website
What/Why: “In Wall Works, six artists were invited to create site-specific wall installations in response to the Museum’s collection of modern and contemporary American art. In preparation for the exhibition, artists Kysa Johnson, Natalie Lanese,Caleb Neelon, Alison Owen, Justin Richel, andMary Temple trolled the Museum’s database of 3,500 objects and selected an artwork to serve as a source of inspiration for their proposed “wall work.” The artists identified artworks that resonated with their varied interests and aesthetics and have consequently assembled an eclectic assortment of objects from deCordova’s collection. Sited both in the gallery and the Museum’s Café, these new installations reflect each artist’s own practice while creatively engaging the Permanent Collection as an educational, historical, and inspirational entity.”
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your eyes are vessels
(Sasha Kurmaz )
Where: Online Exhibit
How: Official Website
What/Why: “your eyes are vessels is an exhibition of fantasy; the feeling of being transported (at first glance into someone’s eyes) to places they have seen, touched and imagined. it’s about primal curiosity, the need to know where they’ve walked, and who (besides you, if only for a moment), they have embraced. the eminent barrier between your fantasized idea of that person’s experiences and how it differentiates from their reality is brought into question. do we idealize? do we ask? do we trust? can this barrier be broken (do we want it to break?). when we hear their stories, what images do we conjure? when people leave our lives, does that curiosity ever disappear?
did they change you?
using photographs shot from an immediate perspective, these images are a collection of places your eyes have taken me; and while this show is about very real, very specific people, i hope that it’s message will allow you to look a little deeper (and i hope you grow to wonder as much as i do).”
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(Pallucchini’s ‘Matisse’, Roger Kizik currently on view at the Clark Gallery)
♂/☺/♫
I dedicate this wrap-up to all of my lovely gays in Boston and beyond. Happy Pride.
May it be full of glitter, sparkles, and Grindr hook-ups.
Cheers. ♥
