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Bar Harbor, ME – MDI Biological Lab

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E-announcement AMSExhibition June 20th – September 30th

A Fresh Field of Life: Artists, Naturalists and the Vision for Acadia is the theme of the MDI Biological Laboratory’s fifth annual Art Meets Science exhibit that features science-inspired work by local, national, and international artists. Concurrent with the centennial celebration of Acadia National Park, this year’s exhibition tells the story of art and science coming together on this island in the 19th century, the founding of a national part and how art and science connect our knowledge in the 21st century.

Featured Art & Science Collaborators

Robyn Ellenbogen with Keven Strange, Ph.D., & Dustin Updike, Ph.D.
Linda Rowell-Kelley with Jane Disney, Ph.D.

Opening Reception > Thursday, July 7th
Preview showing for artists and their guests begins at 4 pm
Open to the public at 5-7 pm

Weekly guided tours > June 21st through September 30th
For more information and to pre-register: mdibl.org/events

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Spring Exhibitions 2016

PineNeedles1. MDI Biological Laboratory “Art Meets Science: A Fresh Field of Life: Artists, Naturalists and the Vision for Acadia“, Bar Harbor, ME – June 20 – September 30, 2016

2. Larkin Gallery and Post Office Gallery “Angels – Rise and Shine“, Provincetown, MA and North Truro, MA   – May 27 – June 14, 2016

3. Wellesley Community Art Project “Blue and Green“, Wellesley, MA – May – June 2016

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2015 Wheaton Biennial: Photography Beyond The Frame Opens At Wheaton College

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2015 Wheaton Biennial: Photography Beyond The Frame Opens At Wheaton College

 

The Beard and Weil Gallery at Wheaton College in Norton, MA is pleased to announce the opening of the 2015 Wheaton Biennial: Photography Beyond The Frame on Wednesday, March 4 from 6-8 pm.

 

Kristen Gresh, the Estrellita and Yousuf Karsh Assistant Curator of Photographs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston acted as juror for the exhibit, which features 45 works of art by 30 American artists.

 

The gallery will hold an artist talk onMarch 25 at 6:00 pm and will share Voice of the Artist: A lecture by Dimitra Ermeidou on March 31 at 6:30. All events are free, open to the public and accessible to those with disabilities.

The exhibiting artists are:

Trent Davis Bailey (California)
Kristi Beisecker (Massachusetts)
Adina Bricklin (Massachusetts)
Erin Kyle Danna (New York)
Dimitra Ermeidou (Pennsylvania)
Nicholas Fedak II (California)
Jonathan Fischer (California)
Doug Fogelson (Illinois)
John Fraser (Illinois)
Erin Geideman (Ohio)
Ed Grant (New York)
Katherine Gulla (Massachusetts)
Chad Joiner (Massachusetts)
Dean Kessmann (District of Columbia)
Tina Leto (Illinois)
Linda Lindroth (Connecticut)
Matthew Moore (Maryland)
Jennifer Liston Munson (Massachusetts)
Tara Penick (Florida)
Sarah Pollman (Massachusetts)
Ellen Pratte (Rhode Island)
Mike Rebholz (Wisconsin)
Jack Robinson (New York)
Jorge Sanchez (Florida)
John Steck Jr. (Illinois)
Robert Thurlow (Massachusetts)
Rodrigo Valenzuela (Texas)
Gary Wahl (Minnesota)
David Wells (Rhode Island)
Laura Wulf (Massachusetts)

 

About The Exhibition

 

Wheaton College cultivates an open spirit of inquiry with a curriculum emphasizing connections across disciplinary boundaries. The 2015 Wheaton Biennial includes the works of photographers whose work reflects a similar spirit of inquiry and a critical reflection on what constitutes the boundaries of the medium in today’s art world.

 

About The Juror

 

Juror Kristen Gresh is the Estrellita and Yousuf Karsh Assistant Curator of Photographs at the Museum Of Fine Arts in Boston. Her most recent exhibition was She Who Tells A Story: Women Photographers From Iran And The Arab World. 

 

About The Galleries

 

The Beard and Weil Galleries are a vital part of Wheaton’s creative and intellectual life. Exhibitions feature work by contemporary artists in all media, as well as works from Wheaton’s extensive Permanent Collection, spanning ancient Greece to contemporary South Africa. 

 

The Galleries’ educational mission encompasses all forms of creative expression in an effort to forge meaningful connections between objects and their histories, student and faculty creative work, art historical research, and critical thinking. The crucial role the visual arts play in a liberal arts education is central to the design and focus of our exhibitions.

 

Acknowledgements

 

Photography Beyond The Frame and its corresponding events have been made possible by the generous support of the Wheaton College Friends Of Art. The participation of Dimitra Ermeidou was made possible by the Celeste Gottesman Bartos ’35 Fund For the Visual Arts within the Evelyn Danzig Haas ’39 Visiting Artists Program. 

 

For further information on the website: http://wheatoncollege.edu/gallery/2015/2015-wheaton-biennial-photography-beyond-the-frame/

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Statehouse Working to Make Art Buying Tax Exempt

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Yesterday, I finally attended the Artist Under the Dome Event!  It is sponsored by the Mass Cultural Council. The event was geared to celebrating artists are who working and living in Massachusetts. The morning was filled with political figures speaking about the work they’re doing to improve the quality of life of artists working and living in Massachusetts. Treasurer Steven Grossman spoke about working to make art buying tax exempt which will encourage potential art collectors to buy more art directly from the artists as they’ll get a tax break as well. I also learned that they are working on improving the quality of life for Independent Contractors.

The afternoon was filled with lunch, networking and trips to our Senators’ offices. Unfortunately mine weren’t around so I just dropped off my press kits in hopes of something coming out of it! You never know. The afternoon had a panel of leaders who are working in the Boston area who hold leadership positions in prominent artist groups that are trying to make things a little easier. They also talked about major issues that keep popping up; finding space, unpaid internships, etc. Most of which I was already aware of.

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Gallery 263: Massachusetts!

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massgalleryOn Friday I left work early to go into Cambridge, MA for two receptions. The first one, at this year’s VSA competition (the one that accepted my works into the Smithsonian) from the Massachusetts chapter. I ran across the blog and am going to submit my story to it (when I have a chance to write it). I met the one of the members who connected me to this reception who happened to grow up in Longmeadow! Crazy. The reception was nice and the gallery was nice but small. Afterwords, I sent the executive director an email seeing if they’d let me do a solo show at the Open Doors Gallery (where it was held).

Then I went to the other side of the river for the reception at Gallery 263: Massachusetts! A former high school teacher of mine came to the reception as well as my uncle and my brother. As you can probably tell from my photos, it was PACKED. It was probably the most crowded reception I have been in! (This is the reception where I was mentioned in the press release). Overall fun night, despite battling Boston rush hour traffic. Ugh!

 

PS: If you click the photo about it’ll take you to the facebook photo gallery.

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Gallery 263 – Massachusetts!

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 03.4.2014

Massachusetts

On view: March 20 – April 12, 2014
Gallery Hours: W-Sa/12-7pm; Su/event dependent Artists’ Reception: Friday March 28, 7-9pm

Cambridge, MA – Gallery 263 is pleased to present Massachusetts, a juried exhibition selected by Dina Deitsch (Curator of Contemporary Art, deCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA).

Massachusetts is the second part of a two-part juried exhibition series celebrating five years of art, music and people at Gallery 263. Turning our attention towards artists living and working in the Bay State, Massachusetts features 38 local artists and 41 contemporary artworks.

This diverse group of Massachusetts artwork is pertinent to contemporary American cultural topics and technical choices. Massachusetts artists McCool, Pattison and Thorne comment on the digitization and packaging of our experiences, while the work of Leone, Martini, Kim and Yeol relates to health, mutation and scientific experimentation. MA residents will surely resonate with representations of strong local individuals present and past, from McMahon’s personal story of recovery from the indelible Boston tragedy last April, to Cann’s depiction of Emily Dickenson and her parting words. A more macrocosmic look at American consciousness is made by Marcoux’s picture of pride in Provincetown, as well as by Crowell’s found object assemblage that investigates a “new American ethnic identity”. In terms of technique, the use of gold as a surface material is employed in several works, by Photopoulos, Brister and Layzer. Other unusual technical approaches include Beisecker’s electrically exposed parsley on photo paper, and Gregg’s fiber and acrylic piece, illustrating an entire text listing for a “Call for Art”. Massachusetts truly celebrates contemporary MA artists, who Gallery 263 is proud to represent. Thank you for taking a stake in our success, Massachusetts!

Guest juror, Dina Deitsch, pioneered the deCordova’s Biennial programming in 2010, and has organized numerous solo and large-scale group exhibitions since. Prior to working at the deCordova, Deitsch held curatorial positions at the Williams College Museum of Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. In addition to working as an independent curator locally and regionally, Deitsch served as the guest juror for the 2012 Northeast Issue of New American Painting. Gallery 263 appreciates Deitsch’s support in selecting the artwork for Massachusetts.

Works by the following artists are included in the show:
Freedom Baird / Jim Banks / Kristi Beisecker / Lauren Bennett / Kaca Bradonjic / Erik Brisson / Kathriel Brister / Connie Cann / Cyrille Conan / Charlie Crowell / Steven Duede / Claire Elliott / Arlene Fins / Tatiana Flis / Sharon Freed / Sandy Gregg / Lydia Harris / Helena Hsieh / Yeol Jung / Natanya Khashan / Sawool Kim / Molly Lamb / Jennifer Layzer / Lauren Leone / Brittany Marcoux / Julie Martini / Timothy McCool / Ryan McMahon / Noritaka Minami / Laura Miner / Yola Monakhov / Jeanette O’Connor / Todd Pattison / Alexandra Photopoulos / Alex Sewell / Kyle Thorne / Timothy Wilson / Mong-jane Wu

Gallery 263 is a nonprofit arts organization in Cambridge, MA. Our mission is to provide a place for local and regional artists of all media to exhibit work and engage the community. Gallery 263 exhibits are free and open to the public.

263 Pearl Street Cambridge, MA 02139 www.gallery263.com contact@gallery263.com

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Exhibition News

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My work, Treeflowers, was accepted into an exhibition titled, Less is More! at the Blackboard Gallery in Camarillo, CA! The exhibition will run from March 1st – March 22nd. Super excited for this exhibition as it is my first one on the West Coast! Now my artwork is Bi-Coastal!

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I am SUPER excited for this exhibition! This past week, my artwork, Parsley, was accepted into a Spring juried exhibition, Massachusetts!, at a local gallery in Cambridge, MA. I feel like this is my first “real” gallery exhibition. I don’t know why. The exhibition will run from March 20th – April 12th, 2014.

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The Empty Spaces Project

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1599781_736229466389292_219763217_oBack in December I exhibited at a local gallery called The Boxcar Gallery. There I met a few more local artists and a gallery owner who owns a gallery in Putnam, CT. I learned that I was their first artist to be invited to their Tragic Love exhibit. Tonight I went out there to check out the space and have a few drinks. They were drawn to my ‘Smithsonian’ status (as it’s been lovingly called…) and it was the one of the many factors that went into inviting me to their show. A lot of work seems to have gone into the space and I guess this upcoming exhibition is like their “reopening”?! I don’t know!! But it has given me some thought as to how, where and the direction of my creative space will go. I’m intrigued by the idea of taking over empty store fronts for gallery and artist spaces (The Empty Spaces Project). There are some things that need to come to pass but for now I have to move out of my studio in Beverly and transition completely to Longmeadow.

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Tragic Love Exhibition – The Empty Spaces Project

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So funny thing about this exhibition.

Back in December I exhibited my artwork in a new gallery called The Boxcar Gallery in Greenfield, MA. I drove up there one night to attend the reception. I began talking to a gallery owner in Putnam, CT. Which is about an hour from where I am stationed in Western, MA. The gallery owner wanted to fit me in their Tragic Love exhibition. The last I heard was they were going to put me into their November exhibition (perhaps they meant February)? Anyway, I saw these images on facebook this week and was like WHA! How am I in an exhibition I did not know that I was aware of that I am in!

The funny thing is… it is Venus retrograde now. It typically is a time when all kinds of relationships that are important to you and that are real go haywire (it’s like mercury retrograde but instead of communications and technology its love, friendships, relationships and romance). Venus retrograde ends this friday! (but takes a few weeks to settle down).

Monday night I’ll be driving out there to drop off my artwork that I’m going to be bringing back here to Western MA after the weekend.

 

 

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The Boxcar Gallery Reception

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575256_378481182297177_639000869_nFriday I drove back to Western Ma to attend The Boxcar Gallery’s Opening Reception. This gallery is literally in an old boxcar. The gallery is located in downtown Greenfield, Ma. It is also part of The Empty Space’s Project. Kim, the owner of The Boxcar Gallery, had the opportunity to also exhibit some of Joseph Mallord William Turner, a painter from the 1800s.  It was really nice to meet some of the artists in Western Massachusetts and Connecticut. I also met the owners of a gallery in Putnam, Connecticut and they were interested in showing my work as well. First venture out in Western Mass, a success I’d say.

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Haymarket

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  Tonight I drove out to Northampton, Ma and met Kim the owner of The Boxcar Gallery – (yes this gallery is really in an old boxcar) at the Haymarket Cafe! I had their hot chocolate and their Fried Egg and Mozzarella sandwich. The sandwich was a little too much food than I expected but I enjoyed it overall. Kim asked me about my photographic process and I asked her about the arts in western Massachusetts. She had also asked me for a tarot reading and I gave her one at the end. Never been to Northampton (or “Noho”) before and it reminded me of Bethlehem – but holy shit did I feel at home in Northampton! It’s definitely a city I’d like to explore more. The funny thing with meeting Kim is that she had seen my artwork in Pomfret before I submitted my work to her as she grew up in Pomfret. It was a cool moment for me because I was all, “WOAH! MY ART IS GETTING RECOGNIZED!” I seriously hope this job in Enfield continues because I’m falling in love with this area.