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Artwork is still available through May 23rd - Great deals even after the dash!!
Don't miss the group exhibit - on view Thursday - Saturday 12 - 4pm + SOWA ArtWalk May 15, 16th
This year's Video of the Dash!
Now Showing >>> March 16 - 27, 2010
Videre: an exhibition of new video work from SMFA advanced video students
Opening Reception: Tuesday, March 16, 2010, 6-9pm
Laconia Gallery welcomes you to explore Videre, a group exhibition of new video work from School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston advanced video installation course. Exhibiting artists include Fred Ata, Shane Butler, Ahyoung Choi, Stephen St. Francis Decky, Jill Fisher, Merideth Hillbrand, Nancy Ellen Jones, Sydney Kinchen, Katrina Neumann, Samantha Nye, Anna Rochinski, Coco Segaller, Lily Sheng, Michael Sims, Gabriel Sweet, Joanna Tam, Ali White, Melissa Woods, and Biying Zhang. With SMFA faculty Mary Ellen Strom, this group of young contemporary artists requests your presence and participation in this group show of new works.
The individual works present a broad range of ideas by makers from China, Dubai, Lebanon, Hong Kong, Brazil, Korea, Canada and the United States. Projects represent distinct subjects and styles including an intervention into the museum, an homage to Prince, experiences of immigration, a portrait of Guizhou and bad girl art. From high-end production, to stop motion animation, to do-ityourself theatricality, these new video works exhibit relationships to performance, site-work, painting, sculpture, film and digital culture.
To view videos on-line, please email James Dingle at jdingle@smfa.edu for Videre links.
View of Joe Wardwell and Katie Fitch kitchen (art by Jim Shaw)
The Artist as Collector (part one)
February 5 - March 6, 2010
Opening Reception: Friday February 5, 5:30 - 8 PM
An exhibition of artworks collected by 6 area artists and artist spouses (a group of group exhibitions) .
Collections by:
Derek Brain & Danielle Krcmar
John Guthrie
James Hull & Donna Veverka
Joe Wardwell & Katie Fitch
Douglas Weathersby & Hilary Tolan
Brian Zink & Paula SoaresThe idea for the “Artist as Collector” exhibit began over dinner with a couple of friends - all of whom were artists or married to them. We were admiring our hosts’ home and of course the artwork on view all around us. We recognized artists we knew, saw works we had forgotten about and things by friends that we never knew existed.
We shared an interest in how what we collected connected or contrasted with the work we each made. The exceptions to our assumptions and overlaps between our collections were interesting enough to support the idea of exhibiting several small collections in a single, neutral space.
Trading with other artists, collecting work from friends who are artists and living with artworks by people you know or admire is a very specific subset of collecting. What one chooses to collect becomes a portrait influenced by many factors: where we live, who we share a studio with or have worked with, what colors or styles we favor and more. The works also represent a span of time and tell a narrative outside of and in addition to the works themselves. The whole idea of it is different from a collection assembled as an investment or to demonstrate some thesis.
These collections operate differently from a visit to an artist’s or any collector’s home. It is certainly less intimate and excludes the other objects that happily interact with art in the home: chairs, wall colors, low lighting and of course residential architectural styles. That said, it offers an almost magical view of several home collections at one time, and in one space.
Our thanks to all the artists and spouses who have emptied their beautiful homes and temporarily loaned some of their beloved collections to make this exhibition possible.Organized by James Hull
List of artists exhibited:
HULL+ VEVERKA
David Faust
Lisa Costanzo
David Pappaceno
Hannah Barrett
Bill Thompson
Suzannah Sinclair
Doug Weathersby
Dana Clancy
Danielle Krcmar
Cristi Rinklin
Jill Slosburg-Ackerman
Hilary Tolan
Sheila Pepe
Arthur Henderson
Audrey Goldstein
Joe Wardwell
Taylor Davis
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BRAIN+KRCMAR
Sheila Gallagher
Jason Brain
Ric Haynes
Joe Wardwell
Dana Clancy
Brian Zink
Kanishka Raja
Maggie Connors
Brendan Killian
Melora Kuhn
Chris Nau
Hannah Barrett
Chris Faust
Line Bruntse
Nicholas Higbee
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WEATHERSBY+TOLAN
Jeff Perrott
Sam Tan
Ethel Poindexter
Marina Vindrell
Mattew Burns
Isabel Riley
Joe Wardwell
Brian Zink
James Hull
John Guthrie
Mike Mittelman
Judy Haberl
Suzannah Sinclair
Tori Fair
Brian Miller
Donna Veverka
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ZINK+SOARES
Richard Anuskiewicz
Doug Weathersby
James Hull
Sheila Pepe
Paul Palacios
Eric Doeringer
Joe Wardwell
Jill Slosburg-Ackerman
Sheila Pepe
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WARDWELL+FITCH
Tanja Hollander
Jim Shaw
John Guthrie
Angela Dufresne
Gideon Bok
Clint Jukkala
Brian Zink
Wilson
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GUTHRIE
Spencer James
Leah Gibberson
Danielle Krcmar
Tammi Jane Meehan
Taylor Davis
Spencer James
Susan Jane Belton
Bill Thompson
Rob Moore
Suzannah Sinclair
A. M. Lilly
Juliann Cydylo
Isabel Riley
Heather Rowe
Kanishka Raja
Donna Veverka
Hannah Cole: I Move to Keep Things Whole
December 4 - January 23, 2010
First Friday Reception: December 4, 5:30 - 8PM
Artist's Reception: Friday December 11, 5:30 - 8 PM
Gallery Hours: Thursday - Saturday: 12 - 4 PM
Boston Globe review by Cate McQuaid HERE
Weekly Dig review HERE
link to artist's web site: HERE
Hannah Cole slows down the momentary visual overlaps between public and private experiences and scrutinizes them, using everyday scenes as metaphors for the erosion of solitude in contemporary life. Cole paints large scale scenarios on shaped panels that picture our commuter existence. She invigorates these genre scenes through an evocative use of multiple viewpoints and silhouette cut outs which make implicit the author’s position as a passenger in a car. The painterly depiction of direct and indirect visual experience using rearview mirrors and car window shaped panels transforms what could be a passing snapshot into a moment of introspection and cultural critique. By giving us a mediated view that has been enlarged and enhanced we are encouraged to slow down, to engage the scene and to look more closely. Stretching time by recording a specific viewpoint has been used in photography and painting for decades but Cole offers us a compelling example of temporality in a fresh new way.
The creation of blurring movement and sharply focused detail in the same painting serves as a reminder of how we see–and how visual clarity depends on what we do not see. Point of view, framing and the objects literally cut out of the image alert the viewer to draw a distinction between this work and documentation. Cole relegates edited out elements to the status of silhouettes which effectively diminishes their pictorial impact while supporting the particular positional relationships of the scene.
The artist observes that, “In an overcrowded world, and in the overexposed era of Facebook and reality TV, driving is one of the few remaining acts of ritual and solitude.” The frame for so many of our visual encounters, the car window, is the stage for an investigation of perception and experience. The windshield is often the invisible division between public and private, between interior and exterior worlds. Being a passenger in an automobile remains a paradoxical refuge in our car culture: both a quiet, protected enclosure and a wide, evocative, constantly changing view of the world outside.
The result of the physical manipulation of the panels is psychological: we see the speed of our contemporary point of view as a memory in our minds eye. Within that view, because it has materialized in front of us, we take the time to momentarily transcend the absent-minded, fast-paced, cacophony of our existence enough to see the beauty in it. Cole gives us back time to ruminate on the sublime immensity of the outside world by helping us visually escape into a moment that becomes a stand-in for our interior world.
– James Hull, Curator
“I move to keep things whole” is from the poem, “Keeping Things Whole” by Mark Strand
These prints offer humor, pain, honesty, truth. They show the ingenuity and dedication of 93 contemporary Cuban artists making outstanding art under difficult conditions. Continuing its history of international collaboration, the Boston Printmakers is proud to celebrate the richness of Cuban culture in conjunction with exhibitions at the Fuller Craft Museum and the Massachusetts College of Art.
- Candy Nartonis and Marjorie Javan, CuratorsExhibition Schedule:
Opening Reception: Friday, Oct. 2, 5:30-8pm & October 15, 6-7pm
Gallery talk with artist/collector Phyllis Ewen: Azul y Blue
October 18, 1-2pm: Gallery talk with artist/collector Steven Daiber: Collaboration with Cuban Print Studios
November 6, 5:30-8pm: First Friday Reception
November 22, Sunday, 3-4pm: Closing party: drinks & tapas.
Gallery Hours: Thursday - Sunday, 12-4pm
First Fridays, 5:30-8pm
Artists in the exhibition:
Pedro Abascal Vázquez
Michel Acosta
Pavel Acosta
Juan Carlos Alom
Franklin Álvarez
Belkis Ayón
Hugo Azcuy Castillo
Abel Barroso
Pablo Borges Delgado
Yamilys Brito
Tania Bruguera
Janet Brossard Duharte
Luis Cabrera
Ányel Maidelin Calzadilla Fernandez
Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons
Iván y Joan Capote
Marlon Castellanos Barrera
Liset Castillo Valdéz
Osvaldo Castillo
Sandra Ceballos Obaya
Angel Delgado
Liang Dominguez
Nelson Dominguez
Luis Lamothe Duribe
ENEMA
Ricardo Elías
Carlos Estévez
Dania Fleites Díaz
Ordoamoris Gabinete
Carlos Garaicoa Manso
Amalia Amayo García
Aliosky Garcia
Yordanis García Delgado
Alejandro González
Eduardo Guerra
Inti Hernández
Laura Hidalgo Cabrer
Joel Jiménez
Glenda León
Antonio Lewis
Alberto Lescay
Ted Magee
Jacqueline Maggi Hallands
Cecilia Mandrile
Norberto Marrero Pirez
Frank Martinez
Mayimbe
Janier Méndez
Maria Mencia
Francisco Mendez-Diez
Manuel Mendive
Juan Carlos Menéndez Ruiz
Tatiana Mesa
Abel Milanes
Enrique Miralles Tarabull (Tente)
Ibrahim Miranda
Ricardo Silverira Miro
Orlando Montalván
Carlos Montes De Oca
Yalili y Daniel Rivero Mora
Yamilianis Morales
Eduardo Múnoz
Antonio Núnez Hernández
Julio Cesar Pena Peralta
Hanoi Pérez Cardero
Roberto Fabelo Pérez
Eduardo Ponjuán González
Adislen Reyes Pino
Alain Pino
Planchet
Juan Carlos Pozo Galvez
Rene Quintana
Ángel Roque Ramíriz
Alfredo Ramos
Sandra Ramos
Jesús Roberto (Chucho) Reyes Romeu
Andy Rivero
Juan Carlos Rivero Cintra
Fernando Rodrígues Falcón
Isolina Limonta Rodríguez
Elio Rodríguez Valdés
Lázaro Saavedro González
Alejandro Ramón Alfonso Saínz
Eduardo Hernández Santos
Bernardo Sarrias
Alberto Sautúa
González Suárez
Israel Tamayo Zamora
José Angel Toirac
Ulises Urra
Elio Rodrígues Valdés
Rafael Zarza Gonzalez
Kerstin Zurbrigg
Plastic Fantastic!
Steve Novick, Rob Rovenolt, Brian Zink
June 27 - August 1, 2009 ( + by appt. in August)
Exhibition Schedule:
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 27, 4-6pm
Gallery Hours: Fri, 11-3pm
Sat & Sun, 12-4pm
Plastic Fantastic! presents work by three artists whose works combines found
objects, assemblage and formalism
without losing their sense of humor. Inhabiting the territory between sculpture
and painting, these artists employ color,
texture and cultural references in equal measure delivering self-contained topographies
that are both familiar and
surprisingly unknown. Whether using high chroma toys, industrial plastics or
discarded metal parts, the formal clarity
of these assemblages relies on the careful consideration of the relationship
between different parts of a specific work.
The artists must also navigate the previous lives or intended uses of these
materials outside the art world. The
recognizable objects employed are revitalized or disguised completely as elements
in new constellations where
form replaces function.
Brain Zink and Steve Novick use “off the shelf” objects and architectural
hardware as raw material in their sculptural
and wall works. The contemporary, kitschy feel of the objects is embraced and
subverted by a deliberate formality
and exacting construction that never feels severe. While they often approach
Minimalism in the simplified geometric
forms and patterns, the materials themselves resist the solemn feel of Tony
Smith’s or Robert Irwin’s work from the
1970’s while directly referencing either the Pop Art or Op Art works of
that same period.
Robert Rovenolt has a slightly more nostalgic approach often using materials
that have aged a bit by comparison to
Zink’s and Novick’s clean new plastics. Found and distressed objects
lend a warmer but still very strict geometry
to Rovenolt’s compositions. Closer to Cornell or Rauschenberg than Smith,
the history of the surfaces and parts feel
more illustrative and mysteriously narrative than formal.
Together these artist demonstrate the appropriation aspect of the plastic arts
that Duchamp and Manzoni irreverently
introduced into artistic production. Updating the “found object”
in an era when plastic is demonized and recycling has
taken on political overtones is an interesting task which each of these artists
responds to in a very individual way.
James Hull - Curator
Past Exhibits:
The 150 x150 Mad Dash returns! Laconia Gallery May 1st preview + Saturday May 2nd @ Noon is the Dash!
List of artists in the 150 x 150!
This Years's Mad Dash! 2009 at Laconia ( More Videos)
150 works for only $150 each, it's a race... Video of the dash HERE
This fundraiser is first come first served event where participants race in and grad the tag next to the work they want to purchase for only $150! The event will have a preview friday, May 1st during "First Friday" in the South End and the Dash will happen at High Noon on Saturday, May 2nd. People line up ahead of time to get the best chance at the pice of art they want. Come and see how exciting it can be to buy art in public!
Cash or check only - some works remain on sale after the dash May 3rd - 8th (Sunday May 3, 12 - 4 pm, Monday - Friday 6-9pm)
Our thanks to the generous artists that make this event possible, they donate 100% of the works sale price to our non-profit gallery.
Dana Clancy
Sight Plan
March 21 - April 25, 2009
433 Harrison Avenue ( South End)
Boston, MA 02118
Dana Clancy, Spin (2008)
oil on canvas 58 x 58 inches
Dana Clancy, Network (2008/9)
acrylic on panel , colored pencil and latex
Like a concert tour, but with sketchbooks.
We send you the sketchbook, you make the art. Then Art House is taking all the
sketchbooks on a 6 city tour to galleries and museums across the U.S. The goal
of the exhibition is to encourage anyone to create artwork and build a collective
of sketchbooks made by artists from all over the world.
At Laconia Gallery March 6, 2009 ( First Friday!)
Images of installations at Laconia Gallery:
Chris Faust: Inland
Chris Faust touching up mural ( 20 feet x 9 feet) produced with his brother David Faust
Detail of center of mural
Gallery installation view of "Inland"
Chris Faust "Hillside" oil on canvas
Chris Faust, "Imaginary Landscape II" drawing detail (50 x 60 inches)
Chris Faust, "Spire" acrylic on canvas painting
Detail of Spire
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