Last chance to see Montserrat Galleries’ Home Sweet Home on view through Jan. 21, 2012. Artists Elizabeth Alexander, Samantha Fields, and Kirsten Reynolds offer site-specific installations that challenge the boundaries of the home. The show explores the walls between inside and out, and the public and private within houses.
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Montserrat Galleries – Home Sweet Home
Tuesday, January 10th, 2012Montserrat Galleries = Top 10 in Boston
Wednesday, January 4th, 2012
Anne Siems, Hummingbird Girl, 2010, mixed media on panel
Congratulations to Gallery Director Leonie Bradbury for being recognized (again!) for Montserrat College of Art’s spring 2011 exhibit Debt to Pleasure. The exhibit was featured in The Boston Globe’s list of “Top Gallery Exhibits in 2011.”
“For unadulterated visual luxury, nothing beat A Debt to Pleasure, a ravishing yet unsettling show organized at Montserrat College of Art Gallery by gallery director Leonie Bradbury,” said Cate McQuaid from The Boston Globe. “Artists played off the hallucinatory beauty evoked in allegorical strains of art history, from 17th-century Dutch painting to 19th-century American folk art. Set together in a contemporary gallery, these works evoked a heightened sense of time’s gulf, and how we shape history to fit our present-day needs.”
Read the full article on Boston.com!
Art Education Practicum Thesis Exhibition
Monday, December 5th, 2011
Alumna Clara Bohan '11
Exchange: Four Art Education Practicum graduates from Montserrat will exhibit student artwork from their elementary through high school grade level classrooms. The Exchange exhibit will remain open from Dec. 5 – 16 in the 301 Gallery. A reception will be held Wednesday, Dec. 7 from 5-8 pm, 301 Cabot Street, Beverly, MA.
Exhibiting Instructors, who are also graduates from Montserrat’s Class of 2011, and schools include: Clara Bohan, Beverly High School; Rebecca Figler, Ipswich High School; Deborah Gray, Manchester-Essex Middle High School; and Jacqueline Gaudet, Rockport Elementary School.
The artworks shown were created from lessons taught by the Art Education Practicum graduate teachers during the Fall 2011 semester. Artworks include photography, sculpture, drawing, paintings, ceramics, and printmaking.
Visit www.montserrat.edu for more information!
Viterbo 2011
Thursday, December 1st, 2011
Left: Val Toukatly's Watercolors on paper; Right: Lana Wheeler's "Untitled," 2011, Sketchbook & Colin Prahl's "Behind the Duomo," 2011, Sketchbook
Carol Schlosberg Alumni Gallery
Nov. 30 – Dec. 21
Montserrat presents paintings, drawings and sketchbooks from students and faculty from their study abroad trip to the medieval Italian town of Viterbo in June 2011, which will be on display through Dec. 21. Montserrat encourages and supports students who want to study art abroad and believes that Montserrat becomes a stronger institution when our students bring broad and diverse educational and life experiences to class.
For more information about the program, please visit Drawing Viterbo!
Elizabeth Alexander: Home Sweet Home
Monday, November 28th, 2011“It’s not really fixing it. It’s making it more useless and more ridiculous.” —Elizabeth Alexander
Elizabeth Alexander, "Keeping Up Appearances"
Sculpture Instructor Elizabeth Alexander gave an artist talk about her current Home Sweet Home exhibit at the Montserrat Gallery, on view through Jan. 21. She discussed what it was like growing up as a welder’s daughter, her struggle to always prove herself, her obsession for perfection, and more. She gave insight into how her art has progressed over the years and how the Victorian age has inspired her to transform welding tools and equipment into decorative and desirable objects. Elizabeth even discussed how she took a red Firebird that she found in a junkyard and turned it into a “Victorian chariot”. She aims to marry the blue collar world with the world of luxury.
Read more about Elizabeth’s Artist Talk on The New England Journal of Aesthetic Research
Home Sweet Home features site-specific installations by three New England artists: Elizabeth Alexander, Samantha Fields, and Kirsten Reynolds. Each artist explores the interior and exterior boundaries of ‘the home’ within both an architectural and feminist context. Together they provide a critique of the cultural power structure that is the domestic sphere. Each artist engages specifically with the walls, both exterior and interior, as the primary signifier of the home.
