Thanks to everyone who came out last night to end a beautiful day in Boston with great art, great people and some free beer! You can see a time lapse of the whole thing below:
Danger Play Opening from Andrew Edman on Vimeo.
Danger Play explores battle and war in games and toys.
work by Chris Abrams and Chris Frost
Opening Reception: Friday, April 1st 6-8:30pm
Show Dates (by appointment): March 28th - April 22nd
Imago
works by Allison Bamcat and Caterina Urrata
Opening Reception: March 4th 6 - 8:30
Growing up is supposed to mean taking on all kinds of arbitrary attributes, from a rejection of play to a specific set of aesthetic standards that ostensibly equal sophistication. We’re supposed to put away the bright colors and bold forms of youth and cover our bodies and homes in sensible white, black and gray- maybe a “pop” of color here or there.
Imago is the final stage of metamorphosis, from larval form to adulthood. It’s this juncture, this moment of dramatic change that we are examining in this month’s exhibition.
Alison Bamcat and Trina Urrata challenge the assumption that maturity means shedding the things that we love, the form and color that we are attracted to despite the judgement from the minimalists among us.
Bright, brash colors, a full embrace of the decorative, the soft forms of a stuffed animal - Alison and Trina’s art draws on sources as varied as tattoo culture, scientific illustration and childhood toys and offers an alternative, more human view of our ongoing transformation, suggesting that we can take some of what had made us who we are, into the future of what we will be.
It was a snowy, slushy Friday night but a lot of people came out to see the striking prints and paintings by Victoria Barquin & Wen Yu.
If you made it out- it was well worth it, if you didn't, you missed out on something special.
Thanks everyone for coming out, and we'll see you all again next month!
Commons with work by Victoria Marie Barquin and Wen Yu explores color, texture, and layers through printmaking and painting. Barquin layers images of domestic objects, bright scribbles of color, and blind contour drawings; exploring memory through personal subject matter from her childhood. Yu's work is much more abstract and is built through silkscreen, paint and drawing layer in a laborious process to bring us striking fields of texture with boldly colored geometric shapes.
Opening: Friday, February 5th 6:00 - 8:30
Show dates (by appointment): January 31st - February 19th 2016