Repeat

Opening reception for Repeat

Monday 12/17/2012

at Atlantic Wharf, 290 Congress Street

Repeat


A group show of FPAC member artists whose work explores themes of pattern and repetition

guest juror: Howard Yezerski

Opening Reception Monday December 17, 5-730pm

more info here:

http://www.fortpointarts.org/posts/repeat-at-atlantic-wharf/

 

The language of pattern reflects both a sense of the natural world, and our human understanding of it. Pattern is also present in the imprints made by the rituals and habits of our daily lives. The repetition of our being is ingrained in our surroundings. Sometimes organic, sometimes more graphic, repetition allows us to dive into the unknown and understand its beauty.
Thanks to our guest juror, Howard Yezerski

 

Artists:
Nicole Aquillano, Domingo Barreres, Carrie Chang, Kathy Chapman, Laura Davidson, Jane Deutsch, Kippy Goldfarb, Jenny Grassl, Marty Harris, Jeffrey Heyne, Ian Kennelly, Mario Kon, Helen Lee, Leslie Miller, Bonnie Mineo, Andrew Neumann, Claudia Ravaschiere, Ann Scott, Wendy Shapiro, Christine Vaillancourt, Dorothea Van Camp, Anne Welch, Tom Wojciechowski, Andrew Woodward

 

Linda Huey Ceramics making pottery for the FPAC Holiday Sale and Made in Fort Point.  Stop at Midways Studios, 15 Channel Center Street, Boston, MA December 14-16 for the Holiday Sale.  Pick up a unique hand-made gift and support the arts!  Photo by Sylvia Stagg Giuliano

FPAC Holiday Sales

Work by Kate Gilbert this week at Channel Center‏

Synapse
35 Channel Center
Sept - Dec, 2012

Synapse opening reception

Thursday, Nov 1, 5:30-7:30 at 35 Channel Center Street, Boston

An exhibit of paintings that take inspiration from meditative practices. The paintings on view range from the 2009 Denoument series to smaller oil paintings created this fall in response to my new neighbor, Os Gemeos' Giant.

Synapse was selected by the Fort Point Arts Community Lending Program for the lobby at 35 Channel Center.  With the exception of the opening night, Synapse is by appointment-only. Contact Kate Gilbert if you'd like to stop by at another time.

The installation better living through levity TM (BLTL) was installed October 20-21, 2012 in a former office space among artists selling their wares at Boston’s annual Fort Point Open Studios. The installation occupied a 12’x10’ office with two aluminum framed glass walls, a glass door and two white walls.

BLTL, a non-existent company, is intended to appear as a spin off or sub-brand of my studio. The company’s mission is to “help make your life better through design that provides comfort and happiness.” Products range from the ss dress with an inflatable neckline that puts warmth and pressure around your chest to the pa wristlets, personal inflatable bags to combat panic attacks. All are intended to make “[you] feel happier, relaxed and just plain lighter."

The products are designed to appeal specifically to women ages 35-55 suffering from anxiety. (The high-profile career woman and stay-at-home urban mom are my target demos.) Great care is taken to make the stitching look as professional as possible. Colors are chosen from the bright Pantone palette that one might find on a designers desk (or in MoMA store products) and humor is employed in product-use instructions written on oversized tags. They let the customer know “its ok to panic."

The joke of BLTL is on us. We create our own stress. And we can decide how we cope with it. We don’t need a straw in a bag to make us live better. Even if it looks kinda neat.

The products in BLTL were not for sale. But by situating BLTL in the middle of a commerce-driven atmosphere I presented a gray area, and for those not familiar with installations, a complex environment to navigate. Some didn’t even enter in the door. One young man joked, “What, you’re too big-time to sell?” And even after acknowledging the joke, a few people wanted to buy the wristlets anyway, as gag gifts. This is where the installation got interesting for me.  BLTL is a commentary on better living through design and on the multitude of products we don’t need.

Yet we still need.

Do you need a thing on your wrist to remember to breathe deep? I hope not.  Do you need art to live a better life? That depends on how you define living.

- Kate Gilbert

www.kategilbertstudio.com

http://kategilbertstudio.squarespace.com/blog/2012/10/29/bltl-first-installation-report.html

FPAC Open Studio photographs © Kathy Chapman 2012

http://www.kathychapman.com

FALL - Fabulous!

This Fall get out of the studio, out of the house, and out of the office to get inspired.  Check out these upcoming exhibits and events.  FALL in love with art.

TODAY (10.25)

Something Along Those Lines

School of the Musuem of Fine Arts

230 Fenway, Boston

Group exhibit featuring:  Adel Abdessemed, Carlos Cruz-Diez, and Felix Gonzales-Torres, among others. 
Today and tomorrow (10.26) Katrina Chamberlin presents Mnemonic, a performance work.

All day

FREE

SMFA.edu

TOMORROW (10.26)

Agents of Change: Art as Activism

Guerilla Girls Keynote

Montserrat college of art

23 Essex Street

Beverly

8pm

$10 Students, $20 General

Montserrat.edu

THIS WEEKEND (10.27 – 10.28)

The Sound of Singing Through Dust

An installation of hand-made slides and film loops by Luther Price

STUDIO soto

10 Channel Center St., Boston, MA 02210

Saturday and Sunday 2-5 pm

FREE

Studiosoto.org

SATURDAY (10.27)

Big Red Forum: Community

Big Red & Shiny will host a spirited conversation on art & community.

Moderated by Danforth Museum director Katherine French, with panelists Jenny Gibbs, Louisa McCall, & Richard Graf.

Bartos Theater

20 Ames St - MIT

5-6:30 pm

FREE

Bigredandshiny.com

SATURDAY (10.27)

Flesh and Bone

On view -  Maxwell Lee, Jason Mager, Katherine Paeth, Adrien Rodriguez, Alvan Long

Blanc Gallery 

110 Brookline Street - Cambridge

6-8 pm

FREE

Costumes required

Blancgallery.com

NOW THROUGH 10.31

Everything That Creeps

“A Special Halloween Exhibition Featuring Illustrative Paintings and Sculpture by Patt Kelley, 100 Theatrical Masks by Behind the Mask, Ink-drips by Walter Sickert, Strange Dolls by Beth Robinson, Creepy Art Dolls by Nicole Johnson, Paintings by Amanda Clarke, Heather Rose, and more macabre, morbid, and mutant… Also featuring select original “B” Movie Horror Film Posters”

Lincoln Arts Project,

289 Moody St.

Waltham

FREE

Lincolnartsproject.com

NOW THROUGH 10.31

FPAC Annual Group Show

More than 75 local artists exhibit work

FPAC Gallery

300 Summer Street

Monday – Friday

9 am-4 pm

FREE

http://www.fortpointarts.org/posts/annual-members-show/

FRIDAY (11.2)

New Media  | Fresh Paint II

DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum is pleased to honor its Corporate Members and Lending Artists at the annual Corporate Night Reception, held this year at the New Art Center. Corporate Members and Lending Artists are also invited to celebrate the opening reception of New Media | Fresh Paint II, a juried exhibition of new work by Lending Artists on view in the Main Gallery at the New Art Center. - Featuring:Laraine Armenti, Joey Asal, Julie Baer, Carol Baum, Sandy Berbeco, Resa Blatman, Steven Bogart, Maddy Bragar, Amy Brnger, Selma Bromberg, Robin Cheung, Deb Davidson, Beatrice Dauge, Bob daVies, Eva Hidvegi Demjen, Steven Duede, Sean Flood, Keith Francis, Katherine Gulla, Gints Grinbergs, JB Jones, Dinora Justice, Sand T Kalloch, Richard Kattman, Marjorie Kaye, Jan Lhormer, Lara Loutrel, Bea Modisett, Robert Morgan, Kenji Nakayama, Dean Nimmer, Maureen O’Connor, Adam O’Day, Iris Osterman, Destiny Palmer, Rachel Paxton, Deb Randall, Susan Richards, Beverly Rippel, Sally Russell, Lois Tarlow, Stephanie Terelak, Christine Vaillancourt, Julie Vinette, Ellen Wineberg, Antoinette Winters, Erin Woodbrey, Dana Woulfe
New Art Center

Washington Park – Newton

6-9 pm

FREE

Newartcenter.org

FRIDAY (11.2)

Lot F Gallery Presents

FOUR

Featuring work from: Mike Hammecker, Adam O'Day, Elizabeth Kirby Sullivan, & Dave Tree

145 Pearl Street #4

Boston

7-11 pm

FREE

lotfgallery.com

SATURDAY & SUNDAY (11.3 - 11.4)
South Boston Open Studios

Group show in the main gallery featuring residents of the Distillery

Noon - 6pm

FREE
southbostonopenstudios.org

NOW THROUGH 11.9

Fort Point Fall Public Art

BUCKYS ON THE CHANNEL by Carol Bugarin and DANCE SPOT by Elisa H. Hamilton 
fortpointarts.org

NOW THROUGH DECEMBER

Kate Gilbert 

35 Channel Center Street
kategilbertstudio.com

SUNDAY (12.9)

ROCK ON!

Glovebox fundraiser for the arts

Featuring music by Kristin Cifelli, Ederson, and the Chaparrals.  Bid on local art by Jodie Baehre, Ari Hauben, Janelle Roscoe, Jody Morlock, and more!  Raffle tickets to win a Scooter from Scooters Go Green are $20. All proceeds support Glovebox, a 501 c3 non-profit arts organization.

4-8 pm

$20 at the door (admission includes 3 performances and free grub)

www.GLVBX.com

THURSDAY (12.13)

AMBASSADORS

Featuring work from: Josh Falk, Sean Flood, Adam O'Day, Felipe Ortiz, & Percy Fortini-Wright

Scollay Square Gallery

City Hall – Boston, 3^rd Floor

4-5:30 pm

FREE

Made in Fort Point is Open for Business

Made in Fort Point is open for business! Stop by and shop for artwork, jewelry, cards, fashions, and more - All made by Fort Point artists.

Photos © Kathy Chapman 2012

http://www.kathychapman.com

The Sound of Singing Through Dust

Artist and Filmmaker Luther Price at Studio Soto

Studio Soto in collaboration with Mobius is presenting the work of local artist and filmmaker, Luther Price, who has taught at both MassArt and SMFA and who was the first of fifteen filmmakers presented at this year’s Whitney Biennial, and just last week was featured at the Views from the Avant-Garde film festival at Lincoln Center.


Peter Schjeldahl in the New Yorker referring to the Biennial described Price's films as "a blizzard of fantastically beautiful visual effects."  Roberta Smith in the New York Times called him "one of the Biennial's stars."  And Akiva Gottlieb in an article in the Nation titled Last Picture Shows: Film and Obsolescence said his work “made for an auspicious beginning to an ambitious, ambivalent goodbye.”


This is the second time this year that Studio Soto has shown Luther Price’s work, the first was a film program this spring.  For this exhibition, last Saturday night was the reception including his installation and screening of 5 of his films, but throughout the run of the show there will be several slide projectors projecting his 400 or so handmade slides along with some film loops.  Incredibly the slides are all from 2012, made the same year he was creating many of the 26 films screened at the Whitney. - Contributed by Douglas Urbank

"One of the Biennial's stars" ­- Roberta Smith, the New York Times

"A blizzard of fantastically beautiful visual effects" 

- Peter Schjeldahl, the New Yorker

Luther Price's technique is fascinating...he uses found footage, bleach, salt, ink, the shavings of film (photo above), liquid emulsion made from dissolved film; he cuts, smashes and mutilates, then tapes it all together and projects the original work. The sound is made by the imagery whirling by the optical track reader on the projector. Eye candy.  -Contributed by Kathy Chapman (All Photos © Kathy Chapman 2012)

An installation of hand-made slides and film loops by Luther Price

Saturday Oct. 13, 2012 - Sunday Oct. 28, 2012

Gallery hours: Fri. 5-7; Saturday and Sunday 2-5, and by appointment

Hours during Fort Point Open Studios 

October 19-21 Fri. 4-7; Sat. and Sun. 12-6

STUDIO soto

10 Channel Center St., Boston, MA 02210

(617) 426-7686  •  http://www.studiosoto.org/