(Nursery, Liz Mamont)
The day has finally come.
Call to Adventure x In Vain x Offline x Release
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2011 Ahts Festival
(Stormy Seas, Jen Lewis)
When: Saturday September 10th-Sunday September 11th, 12:00-6:00PM
Where: Christopher Columbus Waterfront Park, Boston, MA
How: Official Website
What/Why: “The Boston Arts Festival features the best of the Boston Arts Scene- both visual and performance. Started in 2003 as a single afternoon event, the festival has expanded into a 2-day celebration incorporating a diverse performing arts program and a specially built artists’ village. The festival features over 60 juried artists from Boston and a performance program on 2 stages showcasing Boston’s best performing arts groups and performers.”
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Upper Gallery – Then & Now: The Enduring Allure of Light in Photography
(Bagan Sunrise, Doug Adams)
When: September 10th- October 6th, 2011
Member’s Reception: September 15th, 5:30-7:30PM
Where: Copley Society of Art, 158 Newbury Street, Boston, MA
How: Official Website
What/Why: “The Copley Society of Art invites you to attend our national juried exhibition, celebrating light in photography, featuring work from over dozens of artists from across the United States. Co|So is honored to have distinguished photographer Joel Meyerowitz as jurist for this unique exhibition.”
Resplendent in Convergence
When: On view through October 2nd, 2011
Opening Reception: Saturday September 10th, 7:00-10:00PM
Where: Gallery X, 169 William St., New Bedford, MA 02740
How: Official Website
What/Why: “Our Fall season opens with a special invitational exhibit of seven graduates of the Swain School of Design who have not significantly shown in New Bedford in over twenty years. The show is curated by Gallery X president Don Wilkinson, Swain alumni ’82, and runs from September 7th through October 2nd.”
Uz vs Them
(The Peckin’ Order, Richard Bell)
When: On view now through November 20th, 2011
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 15, 5:30–8:00 pm
6:00 pm: Welcome from the Wampanoag Homelands
6:15 p.m. Conversation between featured artist Richard Bell and Mick Dodson, visiting chair of Australian Studies, Harvard University, law professor at the Australian National University, and director of the Australian National Centre for Indigenous Studies
Where: Tufts University, Tisch Gallery, MA
How: Official Website
What/Why: “A self-taught artist, Richard Bell works in a wide range of media, including painting, performance, and video. He freely borrows styles and motifs from other artists, periods, and cultures. Visual references invoking the dot matrixes and expressionist drips of Aboriginal desert paintings, the Pop art styles of Jasper Johns and Roy Lichtenstein, and the paint drips of Jackson Pollock are juxtaposed with text to create powerful political and social commentary. Politicized at an early age, the artist merged his activism into artmaking in the late ’80s, first making “tourist” art and then art about, as he describes it, “the hopes, dreams, and aspirations of Aboriginal people.” Bell still sees himself as “more an activist than an artist.”
Women of Art and Rock
When: September 12th, 2011 7:30-11:30PM
Where: Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Avenue, Boston
How: Official Website
What/Why: Live Music & Art! Painting by TofuSquirrel
The Call to Adventure!
(Love(Candy), Alexia Stamatiou)
When: On view now through October 8th, 2011
Where: La Montagne Gallery, 555 E. 2nd Street, South Boston, Ma 02127
How: Official Website
What/Why: “In her new work, Alexia Stamatiou has shifted her focus from the end of life to its hopeful, euphoric beginnings. ‘The Call to Adventure’, the first stage of Joseph Campbell’s monomyth, is described in The Hero with a Thousand Faces with the following: “A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered…”. It is with this in mind that Stamatiou has begun illustrating the first steps of a cycle. This cycle details the quest of a civilization of mimes, examples of universal gesture and language, as they begin their mythic journey into existence. The paintings focus heavily on fertility symbols and the ecstasy of life, yet include the tiny presence of death, as death begets life. The focus of these paintings was conceived also with reference to the French term ‘La Petite Mort’, which equates orgasm with a kind of small death.”
PIC/NIC
(In Vain – In Vain, David Stein)
When: Sunday September 11th, 2:00-7:00PM
Where: Proof 516 E. 2nd St, and The Beehive 541 Tremont St
How: Official Website
What/Why: “Join us at Proof from 2-4 for a fundraiser where all works are $150.
Participating artists include:
Anna Schachte, Conor Sullivan, Dave Ingenthron, David Stein, Douglas Urbank, Elise Rasmussen, Ellen Rich, Gretjen Helene, Ingrid Ludt, Jeff Degolier, Julia Hechtman, Kara Braciale, Kathy Bitetti, Katy Fischer, Laura Braciale, Lauren Portada, Maria Molteni, Matt Rich, Max Warsh, Meghan Calhoun, Rebecca Roberts, Sam Mckinniss, Scott Patrick Wiener, Sharon Harper, Shona Macdonald, Siebren Versteeg, Stacie Johnson, Suara Welitoff.
Cocktails and After-Party at The Beehive 5-7
$10 at the door. Artist Reception/Appetizers/Raffle”
Ready..Steady..Go
When: On view September 10th-October 23rd, 2011
Where: Fourth Wall Project, 132 Brookline Avenue, Boston, MA
How: Official Website
What/Why: “Fourth Wall Projects is pleased to announce *READY…STEADY…GO!*… a solo art exhibition by Kostas Seremetis –paintings, sculptures, prints, and video– all exploding with his trademark superpotent abstract expressionist imagery. “I create contemporary fine art using iconic characters from pop culture, from Rock’n’Roll, film, comics and classic cartoons, ” says Seremetis. “I don’t feel paintings are individuals, they feel more like a group or gang… which explains why I repeat icons or images in different mediums and situations, to better amplify the body of work.”
A native son of Boston MA, Seremetis started his art career in local nightclubs and coffee shops in the early nineties (ex: Other Side Cafe, Axis/Avalon). Semeretis moved to NY in 1996, where he still resides, and held his first New York Solo Show in 1997 (Mary Anthony Gallery). His most recent exhibition was at the Kindergarten Group Show in Modena, Italy alongside Delta, Mode2, Os Gemeos, Tom Sachs, and Futura 2000, curated by Giorgio de Mitri. Seremetis’s work is coveted and collected worldwide, and he counts some heavyhitters as fans (and customers), such as Ian Astbury of THE CULT, who declared Kostas is “the Rauschenberg of our generation,” and Darren Aronofsky who calls Kostas “an exceptional artist.”
Pieces in the exhibition include a free standing, 9-foot sculpture of 5-point star, made of police barricades, multiple colorful and abstract Mickey Mouse palette-knife paintings; a palette-knife painting mashing Felix The Cat’s face atop the Black Panther; paintings on paper including Captain America masks with skulls! and Batman cowls with plastic fangs! Eight new “comic book covers series” (editions of 25), each a masterful mashup: Wolverine/Jim Morrison. Wonder Woman/Frida Kahlo. Black Panther/RZA, Master of Kung Fu/Jimi Hendrix and more; and looped on a monitor will be TRILOGY – a visual and aural collage consisting of the Star Wars Trilogy; Seremetis edited this 126 minute film, taking the left third of Star Wars, the middle third of Empire Strikes Back and the right third of Return of the Jedi, synchronizing them to magical effect.”
24 Solo Shows
When: On view now through October 1st, 2011
Opening Reception: September 9th, 6:00-9:30PM
Where: Bromfield Gallery, 450 Harrison Avenue, Boston, MA
How: Official Website
What/Why: “In Bromfield’s three spaces, 24 gallery artists each present a solo exhibition, ranging in media from photography to printmaking, from oils and drawing to installation.”
Disponible: A Kind of Mexican Show
(El General(Film Still), Natalia Almada)
When: On view September 13th- November 9th, 2011
Where: SMFA, 230 Fenway, Boston, MA
How: Official Website
What/Why: “Featuring eight Mexican contemporary artists who explore the challenges and contradictions of modern society. Within Mexico’s urban setting, contemporary art and other experimental and creative practices such as architecture, design and music flourish, forming one of the most original and intriguing art scenes in the global landscape. Taking its name from the empty advertisement billboards across Mexican city skylines, disponible means at once available and potentially changeable or disposable. The word also interestingly, and quite accurately, reflects the reality of Mexican society in perpetual transition from post-colonial revolution to its current negotiation with globalization. “Disponible: A Kind of Mexican Show” brings together eight of Mexico’s most innovative contemporary artists as they critique and explore the challenges and contradictions of their native country. The exhibition is on view September 13–November 19, 2011 in various locations at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (SMFA), including the Barbara and Steven Grossman Gallery, Mrs. E. Ross Anderson Auditorium and the outdoor courtyard.”
Glass + Light
(Water Glass 2, Amanda Means)
When: September 9th-October 11th, 2011
Opening Reception: Friday September 9th, 6:00-8:00PM
Where: Howard Yezerski Gallery, 450 Harrison Avenue, Boston, MA
How: Official Website
What/Why: “Howard Yezerski Gallery is pleased to present Glass + Light, an exhibition of photographs by Amanda Means, opening Friday September 9th. The passing of light through glass is a necessary component of photography. Means plays on that concept using glass and light as her subject matter and revealing the complex interplay between the two. By choosing only light bulbs and water glasses as her subjects Means is able to isolate the subtleties of their individual relationships to glass and light; bulbs generate light, water glasses allow for the passage of light. Using this repetitive imagery allows Means to communicate the multifaceted effects that glass and light can generate when they are brought together. But, the fleeting and transient natures of glass and light are exposed in her subjects as well; a glass is only necessary until we are finished drinking what it contains, a light bulb until we leave the room. Thus, Means repurposes these objects in order to demonstrate how captivating and remarkable the deliberate use of glass and light can be.”
Release
When: September 9th, 7:00-11:00PM
Where: Lot F Gallery, 145 Pearl Street, Boston, MA
How: Official Website
What/Why: “Todd Robertson will be showcasing a new body of work for this solo exhibition. Todd has developed various multimedia techniques on canvas, which he applies to sculpture and toys. His interest in toys and love for robots evolved into the mecha style he has dubbed the ‘Mecha Virus’. “I approach the mecha concept as if it was a virus encapsulating each individual piece”. Paintings, Toys and Sculptures will be represented at the show. Also, check out the Mecha Ollie Timelapse, the Mecha Ollie piece will be featured at the opening. “
Oh, and..
(Google Image Search Results for: “Party Glitter Graphic”)
See you Offline! ♥
