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SUMMARY:Karmimadeebora McMillan: Wandering stars...for whom it is reserved...the blackness...the darkness...forever
DESCRIPTION:The Boston-based artist\, Karmimadeebora McMillan\, mines Black material culture and historical archives to reimagine Black histories through diverse media. In her first major solo exhibition in the region\, McMillan creates an immersive installation featuring animation\, painting\, and sound. Wandering stars…for whom it is reserved…the blackness…the darkness…forever is a kaleidoscopic journey through time that draws inspiration from sci-fi\, speculative fiction\, and Afrofuturism. \nWandering Stars debuts two animations\, one representing the Black historical past and the other\, a future for Black people and the building of a new world. Suspended throughout the gallery space are vibrantly painted cut-out figures. One such figure\, which McMillan refers to as Ms. Merri Mack\, is seen in multiple variations\, some solid in color while others are rendered in colorful detail. Based on a vintage doll portraying a black caricature\, and whose name is taken from a character in a nursery rhyme sung by enslaved children\, Ms. Merri Mack is a means for McMillan to reclaim and subvert racial stereotypes. As the central protagonist in McMillan’s futuristic narrative\, Ms. Merri Mack represents a catalyst for change\, leading the viewer through portals in time and toward a hopeful future. \nMcMillan’s work is rooted in references to Black culture across time. Allusions to the graphic boldness of the revolutionary Black art collective\, AfriCOBRA and images taken from the Black Panther Coloring Book\, a propaganda piece disseminated by the US government in the 1960s\, appear throughout McMillan’s paintings and animations.  Wandering stars…for whom it is reserved…the blackness…the darkness…forever\, the title taken from a song by the British band\, Portishead\, re-envisions the past\, present\, and future to explore the power of memory and how Black histories are held and carried. \nPresented in collaboration with bkprojects\, Watertown\, MA. \nWandering Stars among Boston Art Review’s Top Winter ’24 Exhibitions to See. \n  \nKarmimadeebora McMillan is an interdisciplinary artist working in painting\, printmaking\, sculpture\, animation\, installation\, and public art based in Cambridge\, MA. She received her Associate of Fine Arts degree from Peace College and MFA and Post Baccalaureate Certificate from SMFA at Tufts. She received her BA from her hometown in Fayetteville\, NC\, HBCU\, Fayetteville State University. \nMcMillan has shown extensively on the east coast and in 2021 received the Now + There public artists grant and is currently an Artist-in-Residence at the Boston Center for the Arts. She has performed with her mentor Magdalena Campos-Pons at the Guggenheim Museum in New York\, Queens Museum in New York\, and the Havana\, Cuba Biennale 15. Karmimadeebora is also the Director of the Post Baccalaureate Program at SMFA at Tufts. She is currently pursuing an Interdisciplinary PhD through Tufts University focusing on Black Women of Power. \n  \nRelated Events:\nArtist Reception + Community Meal: Wednesday\, February 7th\, 5-7PM \nArtist Conversation between Karmimadeebora McMillan and Charla Jones: Wednesday\, March 6\, 11 AM–12 PM\, H101 \n  \nImage: \nKarmimadeebora McMillan \nGenerations (detail)\, 2023 \nAcrylic and Collage on Canvas \n74×86 inches
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/karmimadeebora-mcmillan-wandering-stars-for-whom-it-is-reserved-the-blackness-the-darkness-forever/
LOCATION:Montserrat Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Loretta Park: About to Thaw
DESCRIPTION:Loretta Park incorporates weaving and fiber-art techniques with an array of everyday objects to create colorful and tactile sculptures.  From colorful nylon rope\, plastic ice-cube trays\, plates\, and cups to scraps of cloth and paper\, Park transforms commonplace materials and classic techniques into newly imagined color blocks of form and texture. \nAn interdisciplinary artist\, Park’s artworks evoke aspects of painting\, assemblage\, and fiber-arts\, while adhering resolutely to neither medium. As an integral part of her practice\, Park continuously adapts and modifies her structures through intuitive responses to color\, texture\, shape\, and material. One element builds on the other until the final work is achieved. The process of adding and subtracting materials becomes a marker of time\, labor\, and an experiential response to her particular moment. \nAn earlier version of the exhibition\, entitled\, Sea Glass is Diamond\, was on view at the Trustman Art Gallery at Simmons University this fall curated by Gallery Director\, Helen Popinchalk. \nLoretta Park holds an MFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design and a BA from Bowdoin College. Her work has been exhibited at The Station in the Fenway\, Boston\, MA (2023); Brookline Arts Center\, Boston\, MA (2023); Brandeis Kniznick Gallery\, Waltham\, MA (2023); Praise Shadows Art Gallery\, Boston\, MA (2022); Dimensions Variable\, Miami\, FL (2021-22); The Umbrella Arts Center\, Concord\, MA (2021); Shelter In Place Gallery\, Boston\, MA (2020); New System Exhibitions\, Portland\, ME (2019); Ray Gallery\, Brooklyn\, NY (2018); Society of Arts and Crafts\, Boston\, MA (2017); and Center for Maine Contemporary Art\, Rockland\, ME (2017). Park’s work has appeared in Art New England\, The Boston Globe\, and Korean Daily. Loretta currently works in the Boston area and serves as a Visiting Assistant Professor and Compass Faculty Mentor at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. \nFor more information about the artist\, visit her website. \nRelated Events:\nArtist Reception + Community Meal: Wednesday\, February 7\, 5–7 pm \nArtist Talk + 3D Collage Workshop: Friday\, February 23\, 3–5 pm\, Montserrat Gallery
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/loretta-park-about-to-thaw/
LOCATION:Carol Schlosberg Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Liz Nofziger: Flail
DESCRIPTION:A site-responsive work for Frame 301 as part of In•Animate Objects by Liz Nofziger concurrently on view in the Founders Gallery at 248 Cabot Street. \nResurrected on the half hour\, the contained Air Dancers® frantically seek both connection and escape while serving as an absurd timepiece. The tragi-comic efforts of these yellow beacons are partnered with the constant flutter of their common partner pennant flags\, encompassing the facade in a desperate cry for attention\, advertising nothing but the act of looking. \n  \nLiz Nofziger was born in Indianapolis in 1974 and grew up in a small Mennonite community in southern Indiana. Her site-specific installation work examines relationships to space within the physical\, architectural\, political\, and pop-cultural landscape. Employing a broad range of media including sculptural elements\, video\, light\, audio\, and text\, viewer investigation completes her work. \nNofziger currently has a small site-specific sculpture and audio piece tucked away in Beverly\, MA on Powder House Lane\, and is part of Alpha-60\, a sci-fi inspired augmented reality exhibition that’s animating the Emerald Necklace from Franklin Park to the Fenway. She has had solo exhibitions at Galéria Ateneo (Medellin\, Colombia)\, the Glass Curtain Gallery at Columbia College Chicago (Chicago\, IL)\, Vox Populi (Philadelphia\, PA)\, Kult 41 (Bonn\, Germany)\, the Contemporary Artists Center (North Adams\, MA)\, and Montserrat College of Art (Beverly\, MA)\, among others. \nNofziger earned her MFA at Massachusetts College of Art\, where she taught for many years. She currently teaches at Montserrat College of Art. Since 2018\, she has been living\, working\, and finding community on the North Shore. \n 
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/liz-nofziger-flail/
LOCATION:Frame 301 Gallery\, 301 Cabot Street\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:In•Animate Objects
DESCRIPTION:Opening Reception\nFriday\, April 19\, 4-6 pm\nFounders Gallery\n\nCJ Karch\, Liz Nofziger\, Ruth Bauer\, and Blyth Hazen each make objects and then they move them; or move lenses around them; or something else moves and then they move; or a switch is triggered; or… \nSometimes this all happens very very slowly and tediously a frame at a time\, sometimes a little faster at the edge of chaos and emergence. \nBut in all cases what was once just a still object becomes something else entirely… it is not really that the artists breathe life into the objects but more they give us a way to see or imagine the life within. \nBlyth Hazen’s creative and teaching practice often involves making things that move. Sometimes they appear to do this on their own – on a screen. While other times they need more human engagement to be activated – like a puppet\, robot or an automata. Blyth first came to Montserrat College of Art in the late 1990’s to help integrate digital tools into the curriculum. Blyth is currently the Coordinator of the Games Toys Play Program where she is inspired every day by the characters and the worlds her students create. \nIn 2019 Blyth and her collaborator the artist Ruth Bauer completed the stopmotion animation\, The War Dept. available on Vimeo. \nBlyth and Ruth are now working together on a multi-year stop-motion project with the working title Big Sky. This animated short is a coming-of-age story about a young artist living in Texas in the 1960s. Both Ruth and Blyth grew up in Texas\, and both left as young adults. But Texas never left them. The characters and the stories in Big Sky are amalgamation of their own childhood experiences dealing with religion\, race\, beauty\, the landscape and horned toads. \nVarious forms of narrative have always been part of Ruth Bauer’s art practice\, which is multidisciplinary in that she paints\, makes collages\, writes\, has co-created two theater pieces\, and is now working on a second stop motion animation project with her collaborator\, Blyth Hazen. Their first stop motion animation is a short video of The War Dept. and is available on Vimeo. Blyth and Ruth are currently working on a new stop motion project titled Big Sky. Big Sky is fictionalized memoir and an amalgamation of both of their childhood experiences in Texas dealing with gender roles\, beauty standards\, religion\, race\, the expansive landscape\, and horned toads. \nRuth is a proponent of slow art\, and for a number of years has been writing and illustrating a fictional journal of a nineteenth century woman naturalist who has traveled to the mythical isle of Kokovoko (the home of the charismatic cannibal Queequeg in Herman Melville’s Moby Dick) to document the flora and fauna there. Information about and images of Ruth’s other artwork and projects can be found here www.ruthbauer.com \nLiz Nofziger was born in Indianapolis in 1974 and grew up in a small Mennonite community in southern Indiana. Her site-specific installation work examines relationships to space within the physical\, architectural\, political\, and pop-cultural landscape. Employing a broad range of media including sculptural elements\, video\, light\, audio\, and text\, viewer investigation completes her work. \nNofziger currently has a small site-specific sculpture and audio piece tucked away in Beverly\, MA on Powder House Lane\, and is part of Alpha-60\, a sci-fi inspired augmented reality exhibition that’s animating the Emerald Necklace from Franklin Park to the Fenway. She has had solo exhibitions at Galéria Ateneo (Medellin\, Colombia)\, the Glass Curtain Gallery at Columbia College Chicago (Chicago\, IL)\, Vox Populi (Philadelphia\, PA)\, Kult 41 (Bonn\, Germany)\, the Contemporary Artists Center (North Adams\, MA)\, and Montserrat College of Art (Beverly\, MA)\, among others. \nNofziger earned her MFA at Massachusetts College of Art\, where she taught for many years. She currently teaches at Montserrat College of Art. Since 2018\, she has been living\, working\, and finding community on the North Shore. www.nofzilla.com \nCJ Karch is an artist and photographer living in Salem\, Massachusetts. He studied Plant and Soil Sciences at the University of Massachusetts and photography at the Hallmark Institute of Photography. His love of story telling and passion for all creative forms have lead him to create his own unique brand of photographic art. \nBlyth Hazen and Ruth Bauer\, Big Sky\, Animation Still\nLiz Nofziger\, Pile\, 2024 Paper animation\, video\, wooden crate
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