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SUMMARY:Dorothea Van Camp: Variations On A Screen
DESCRIPTION:Reception: October 12th\, 5–7pm \nGallery Hours\nM\,T\,W\,F\, 10am–5pm\nTh\, 10am–8pm\nSat.\, 12–5pm \n“Variations On A Screen” is a solo exhibition featuring Dorothea Van Camp from Boston\, MA. The exhibition of mixed media prints depict an atmosphere in the midst of transformation. Van Camp creates entrancing and hypnotizing images that simultaneously reveal hints of recognizable objects\, while also raising questions and resist definition. \nMuch of Van Camp’s work addresses the intersection of the body and technology. To demonstrate this overlap\, the artist began incorporating vector-based computer drawings into her prints. The printed mark as always been an important presence in Van Camp’s work\, but how she has adapted her process to achieve the kind of a tangible relief texture that is distinctively her own. To achieve this\, Van Camp experimented with laser-cut stencils\, lithographic transfers\, and finally screen-printing to successfully transfer the digital renderings. Ultimately\, the artist found success in using thickened oil paint printed into a wax ground\,  to produces a rich relief texture. Van Camp says her unique process\, “makes a clear separation from digital output while also suggestive of a deeply etched intaglio print.” \n“Variations On A Screen” features a number Van Camp’s most recent prints\, created during a residency at Oehme Graphics in Steamboat Springs\, Colorado. Untitled OG 1627 is a layered cosmic experience. Pale shades of pink\, orange\, and mustard are contrasted by a mesh-like organic shape\, resembling a rendered drawing of wilting tulip petals or lungs exhaling a burst of air. Like other prints of Van Camp’s the work’s composition combines the sensation of biological or natural elements\, with a structure or rigidity of computer generated imagery. The mesh\, black shape hovers above another organic form.  This one is a deep mustard yellow laden with striations\, similar to muscular tissue neighbored by a backdrop of cell-like clusters. It is a metamorphic composition that that seems to have the power to change dramatically should you look away. \nDorothea Van Camp attended Rhode Island School of Design in Providence\, Rhode Island where she received a BFA in illustration. She has exhibited at 555 Gallery (South Boston\, MA)\, Nicole Longnecker Gallery (Houston\, TX)\, and 13 Forest Gallery (Arlington\, MA). \n \n  \n 
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/dorothea-van-camp-variations-on-a-screenseptember-14-october-15-2016/
LOCATION:Carol Schlosberg Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:MashUp: Objects In Dialogue
DESCRIPTION:Reception: September 1st @5–7pm \nGallery Hours\nM-F\, 11:30am–2:30pm\nSat\, 12–5pm \n\n“MashUp: Objects in Dialogue” is a group exhibition featuring the contemporary porcelain works by Liz Alexander (Salem\, NC)\, Molly Hatch (Northampton\, MA)\, and Christina Pitsch (Manchester\, NH). Curated by Gallery Director Leonie Bradbury\, the exhibition showcases how each artist explores and challenges the references of pattern\, culture\, and class that are inscribed within porcelain objects. All three artists are innovatively crossing perceived boundaries between decorative arts\, design\, and fine art. Described traditionally as “white gold\,” porcelain for many centuries was reserved only for the elite and powerful: emperors\, kings\, and moguls. It wasn’t until the 19th century\, that porcelain was produced in the United States and not until the 20th century that ordinary people gained access to porcelain tableware\, although “fine china” was and still is a symbol of status and wealth. The artists in this exhibition are fully aware of the complex\, politically charged history of their material and explore it to the fullest. \nLiz Alexander’s hand cut\, found porcelain and bone china (teacups\, saucers\, and pitchers) are delicate deconstructed icons of domesticity. A self proclaimed “domestic archaeologist\,” the artist reworks these antiquated symbols of femininity\, class\, and the decorative arts to subvert and probe the traditional understanding of the decorated surface and how it is intertwined with gender. Alexander begins by selecting objects containing elaborate decorative or floral surface design. Next\, using a refined cutting tool the artist carefully cuts into the porcelain\, completely removing all decorative embellishments from the object. Laden with irregular holes and cuts\, the once functional ware is now a defunct artifact that takes on a new identity as a culturally critical\, yet ethereal sculpture. The absence of pattern transforms the ubiquitous forms of everyday objects from ordinary to fine art. \nMolly Hatch explores the relationship between historic and contemporary decorative art\, design\, and fine art. She is deeply interested in the historical significance\, surface design\, and pattern of an object\, using it as an entry point for re-interpretation within her own practice. Hatch is “fascinated by how we live with objects\, how and why we acquire objects\, and what happens to them throughout history.” The artist’s “plate paintings” treat the functional surface of ceramic tableware as canvas for painting. After Rigaud: Versailles Orangerie (2014) is comprised of seventy-eight hand-thrown and hand-painted porcelain plates installed in a grid-like pattern. The image is sourced from the Museum of Fine Art Boston\, a print by Hyacinthe Rigaud\, Louis XIV’s court painter. Each plate re-works a portion of the original historical image that collectively coalesce as the artists re-interpretation. The image is neither a traditional plate nor a painting\, yet is both at the same time. \nChristina Pitsch’s work draws on hybridity of materials\, techniques\, and subject matter to question cultural iconography and the presumed meanings of decorative objects. She frequently uses flora and fauna in her objects and addresses the dynamic between humans and nature. She combines contrasting vocabularies such as a hunting and trophy aesthetic with porcelain and gold\, or cast cardboard with delicate porcelain floral elements. Each object presents a cultural clash between multiple dichotomies. For example: 17th century french chinoiserie is juxtaposed with American hunting culture; slick gold surfaces of a chandelier are contrasted with porcelain deer hooves. Additional contradictions contained within the work are: fancy vs. lowbrow\, dirty vs. clean\, contemporary vs. historical\, and elegance vs. kitsch. Pitsch states\, “A tension results when things cannot be cataloged into tidy compartments; it is this tension that I explore.”
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/mashup-objects-in-dialogueaugust-29-september-24-2016/
LOCATION:301 Gallery\, 301 Cabot Street\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Nadia Westcott
DESCRIPTION:We are proud to present Brooklyn-based artist\, Nadia Westcott in the Frame 301\, a street side window gallery of Montserrat College of Art\, located at 301 Cabot Street in Beverly. Westcott’s practice is dedicated to empowering viewer communities through graphic drawings\, murals\, and site-specific installations. The artist’s mural marks her return to Beverly\, two years after collaborating with Montserrat Galleries in the exhibition SEVEN: A Performative Drawing Project\, a show that invited seven artists to“draw” directly onto one of the seven gallery walls during a series of week-long residencies. In 2013\, Westcott created a “spontaneous” mural everyday\, for five days. Each graphic\, black and white mural was an exercise in impermanence\, practice\, and play. In light of the SEVEN Reunion exhibition on view in the Carol Schlosberg Alumni Gallery currently on view\, Westcott was invited to return to Beverly to create a new mural\, this time in the Frame 301 Gallery. \n“The Body” is a reflection of how Westcott integrates her exploration in personal healing and the connection to emotional pain that manifests as physical pain in the body. “The Body” is a therapeutic approach to separate the emotional body from the egotistic mind; it is a transfer of energy from physical body to the art expression on the wall. In allowing herself to be fully present with the work\, the action of Westcott’s installation is the metaphoric and physical release of trapped energy. Her deep respect for nature and love for textiles subconsciously inspires Westcott to create her own iconography that is playful in shape and form. “The Body” is rooted in understanding the human experience by acknowledging our traumas\, taking action to eliminate suffering by remaining in meditative states\, and embracing self-love and care. \n \nThe Frame 301 space is presented to the public through expansive storefront windows that face the road\, and encourages large-scale\, site-specific works from emerging and established artists. The unique venue encourages installations that encompass the entirety of the space and completely transform it. The public is able to view and appreciate the artwork on a 24/7 basis\, leading many to unexpectedly experience the artwork. \nNadia Westcott grew up in Boston\, MA and received her BA from the University of Vermont. Born of Indonesian and American heritage\, she was raised in a culturally rich and diverse environment\, where her family traveled the world learning and collecting cultural artifacts that inspired her curiosities and subconsciously enabled her to create her own iconography inspired by the world and cultures around her. Westcott currently lives and works in Brooklyn\, New York. \nThe Frame 301 is generously supported by a grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. \n 
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/nadia-westcottaugust-13-september-10-2016/
LOCATION:Frame 301 Gallery\, 301 Cabot Street\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Case Studies
DESCRIPTION:Reception: April 6th\, 5–8pm \nGallery Hours\nM-F\, 11:30am–2:30pm\nSat\, 12–5pm \nCase Studies is a fine art group exhibition focusing on the process of visual analysis into both the psychological expansion and condemning patterns of humanity. Each artist contributes their own perspective\, experience\, and personal interest in what it means to be a human. Media used in this process includes painting\, sculpture\, photography\, print\, and installation. \nExhibiting Artists include Tiffany Binger (Mattapan\, MA)\, Haiden Terrill (Somers\, CT)\, Claudia Valenti (Seymour\, CT)\, Joseph Tagliaferri (Cape Cod\, MA)\, and Paige Hall (Newburyport\, MA).
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/case-studiesapril-4-8-2016/
LOCATION:301 Gallery\, 301 Cabot Street\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Chroma — A New England Art Awakening
DESCRIPTION:Closing Reception & Book Signing : Thursday\, September 1st\, 5:00–8:00pm \nGallery Hours\nM\,T\,W\,F\, 10am–5pm\nTh\, 10am–8pm\nSat.\, 12–5pm \nWe are pleased to announce Chroma – A New England Art Awakening\, a group exhibition featuring work by more than forty regional artists. Presented by the co-founders of Tryptic Press: John Cardinal 99′\, Andrew Houle 00′\, and Michael Crockett 97′ the work on view celebrates four volumes of their art annual Chroma\, a vibrant and varied publication that showcases emerging and established artists in New England. \nThe exhibition highlights the “Chroma Family” displaying a selection of artists who have graced the publication’s pages throughout four volumes. Cardinal\, Crockett\, and Houle started Chroma to celebrate collaborations\, new relationships\, and new directions for what they say\, “has always been right in our own backyard.” Bridging the diverse practices of abstract painters\, fashion photographers\, comic book illustrators\, community-based art programs\, printmakers\, sound-makers\, and even robot-makers\, this exhibition celebrates the talent surrounding New England. \nA New England Art Awakening coincides with the release of Chroma: Volumes 3 & 4 making the reception more than just an exhibition opening\, but also a book launch and signing event. Guests are welcome to meet and directly engage with the artists they read about in Chroma\, mimicking other events that Tryptic Press facilitates such as the Beverly MA’s Comic Con. \n\nTryptic Press\nAndrew Houle – Creative Director • John Cardinal – Publisher\, Editor in Chief • Michael Crockett – Lead Designer\nwww.trypticpress.com \nParticipating artists include: Adam J. O’Day\, Adam Miller\, Alyssa Watters\, Amanda Beard\, Andrew Houle\, Andrew MacLean\, Anthony Falcetta\, Bob Packert\, Braden Lamb\, Bruce Orr\, Chris E O’Neill\, Czarface\, Dan Blakeslee\, David Leblanc\, Deanna Burke\, Darek Wakeen\, Olli Brix\, Doug Poole\, Elizabeth Siegel\, Emily Dumas\, Emily McCracken\, EyeFormation\, Jim Forrest\, Fred Lynch\, Greg Orfanos\, Haig Demarjian\, James Weinberg\, Jeremy Miranda\, John Andrews\, John Cardinal\, Karl Stevens\, Mark Hoffmann\, Markus Sebastiano\, Mary Curtin\, Michael Crockett\, Mike “Sherpa” Doherty\, Morgan Dyer\, Nick Nazzaro\, North of Boston Studios\, Patt Kelly\, Rich Pellegrino\, Sarah Gy-O’Neill ScareCrowOven\, Scott Mulcahey\, Scottie Buchanan\, Shelli Paroline\, Syd Saynganthone\, Tom Torry\, Whalom Painting. \n 
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/chroma-a-new-england-art-awakeningjuly-30-september-25-2016/
LOCATION:Montserrat Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:SEVEN: A Performative Drawing Project (Reunion)
DESCRIPTION:Closing Reception & Book Signing : Thursday\, September 1st\, 5:00–8:00pm \nGallery Hours\nM\,T\,W\,F\, 10am–5pm\nTh\, 10am–8pm\nSat.\, 12–5pm \nWe are pleased to announce SEVEN in the Carol Schlosberg Alumni Gallery. The exhibition features work by the twenty-one artists who participated in the performative drawing project of the same name. SEVEN returns to Montserrat celebrating the release of a comprehensive catalogue that continues to share the SEVEN experience with our audiences. \nSEVEN: A Performative Drawing Project began in 2012 as an experimental idea to activate Montserrat Gallery over the usually quiet summer. For each exhibition\, seven New England artists were invited to “draw” directly onto one of the seven gallery walls during a series of weeklong residencies. Due to its success and transformative impact\, the concept was repeated in 2013 and 2015 with different artists. Each iteration began with a white box and culminated in an incredibly rich collection of large-scale “mural” works that engaged and communicated with one another. \nThe Galleries will host an opening and closing reception\, where copies of the exhibition catalogue will be on view and available for purchase. Designed and produced by Tryptic Press\, the 100+ page book is a complete look back at each of the twenty-one projects activated in the gallery. Each mural is accompanied by an essay thoughtfully written by members of the Montserrat Gallery staff\, past and present\, in addition to regional curators and art writers. Each piece of writing insightfully commemorates the experience and site-specificity of the artist’s work.\n\nParticipating artists include: Autumn Ahn\, Andy Bablo ’07\, Allison Cole\, Jim Falck\, Samantha Fields\, Percy Fortini-Wright\, John C. Gonzalez\, Raúl Gonzalez III\, Alexa Guariglia\, Mark Hoffmann\, Eben A. Kling’09\, Norman Laliberté\, Adam Miller’00 \, Christopher Mir\, Barbara Moody\, Kenji Nakayama\, Zsuzsanna Szegedi\, David Teng-Olsen\, August Ventimiglia\, Nadia Westcott\, Dana Woulfe.
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/seven-a-performative-drawing-project-reunionjuly-30-september-10-2016/
LOCATION:Carol Schlosberg Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Work With Me: Marlon Forrester\, Sarah Smith\, Kevin Townsend
DESCRIPTION:Receptions/Artist Talks\nKevin Townsend: July\, 13\, 5–7pm\nSarah Smith: July 15\, 5–7pm\nMarlon Forrester: July 18\, 5–7pm \nGallery Hours\nM–TH 9am–5pm\nF\, 9am–1pm \nMontserrat College of Art is pleased to announce “Work With Me” an interactive drawing project featuring three New England artists each invited to create a site-specific work that provokes collaboration echoing a call and response. In music\, a “call and response” is a succession of two distinct phrases usually played by different musicians\, where the second phrase is heard as a direct commentary on or response to the first. The art works on view are ongoing\, in process. Visitors are invited to respond to the artists’ mark making either within the piece itself (Forrester) or on the wall adjacent to the artist’s drawings (Smith and Townsend). \nMarlon Forrester’s “Center Court: Exploring Sacred Geometry Through Line” is a conceptual artwork that “plays” off of the geometry found on a basketball court. Forrester begins the drawing by creating  initial paths and lines to assign boundaries or “rules” to the wall using tape\, vinyl\, and markers. Visitors of the gallery are then invited to use the same materials to contribute their own lines in response to the initial paths created by Forrester. Collectively\, the marks “work together” to explore ideas around space\, place\, ritual\, competition\, winning\, and losing in hopes of re-imaging how we interact with one another through play. \nSarah Smith was inspired by prolific artists and friends that said they had to draw every day\, prompting her to draw more. “One Drawing a Day” is a multi-year drawing project that has evolved into daily source of encouragement and incentive to\, “keep going” she says. On view in the gallery\, arranged in a grid-like composition like that of an Instagram or Tumblr feed\, is a selection of 337 drawings from “One Drawing a Day.” The installation of the work references the artist’s daily updates on her social media page\, where she posts daily additions on: olfactorypress.tumblr.com. Her drawings deliver a dark sense of humor and are stylistically diverse. Visitors are invited to take a piece of paper and/or bring in their own of a similar size and contribute their daily drawings to the wall adjacent to the wall featuring Smith’s drawings.\n\n\nKevin Townsend is obsessed with time both in its accumulation within us\, and the way ways in which the tidal gravity of a given moment can\, “warp the experience of its passage.” Through his performative drawings he explores time\, space\, and duration. In graphite\, Townsend will draw overnight across a twenty-six foot wall in the gallery. After twelve hours\, the gallery will re-open the following morning at 8:30am\, allowing viewers to see his final marks against the wall. Students are invited to then draw\, also in graphite\, along an adjacent wall of the gallery in response to Townsend’s marks. Collectively\, both walls will contain temporal drawings that offer an experiential connection between both parties’ recorded actions.\nBIOGRAPHIES \nMarlon Forrester was born in Guyana\, South America. He is an artist and educator currently based in Boston\, MA. Forrester received a BA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston (SMFA) in 2008 and a MFA from Yale School of Art in 2010. He is currently a resident artist at African-American Masters Artist Residency Program (AAMARP)\, adjunct to the Department of African-American Studies in association with Northeastern University\, and teaches art in Boston Public Schools (BPS). Additionally\, he is an adjunct professor at School of The Museum of Fine Arts Boston. In 2016\, he will teach drawing and watercolor at SMFA. \nSarah Smith produces books\, comics and broadsides in the realm of nonsense and absurdity. Her work is often letterpress printed\, involving drawings\, relief printed imagery\, collage and very occasionally screenprint and offset printing. She is currently the Program Manager of the Book Arts Workshop at Dartmouth College\, in Hanover NH. Smith received her MFA in Book Arts/Printmaking at University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Since 1995\, she has been teaching letterpress printing\, bookbinding\, printmaking\, and graphic design. She taught at Maryland Institute College of Art\, Massachusetts College of Art\, Endicott College\, Simmons College and most recently at Montserrat College of Art\, where she helped create a letterpress printing studio and BFA concentration in Book Arts.\n\nKevin Townsend in an internationally recognized\, Boston-based\, interdisciplinary artist/educator. He is a professor at both Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MassArt) and School of the Museum of Fine Arts\, Boston (SMFA). Kevin’s time-based work centers around mark-making\, obsession and our experience of ‘being in time’. His current work brings together elements of drawing\, installation and performance where the resulting work is public\, durational\, and temporary. He most recently completed a twelve hour durational work in New York City on 18th & 8th Street. \n  \n\nMontserrat College of Art’s public programs are free of charge and open to the public. For more information contact Pamela Campanaro.
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/work-with-me-marlon-forrester-sarah-smith-kevin-townsendjuly-11-22-2016/
LOCATION:Montserrat Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Barbara Owen
DESCRIPTION:We are proud to present Rhode Island-based artist\, Barbara Owen in the Frame 301. Owen’s practice explores how color\, shape\, material\, and paint develop and change one’s experience. Her work is deeply engaged in playing with space and the relationship between shapes\, often times combining a range of media such as ink\, acrylic\, and cut paper to build a unique hybrid of painting and sculpture.\nOwen graduated from Bennington College with a dual bachelor’s degree in sculpture and poetry. She wrote a creative thesis under the direction of the poet Ben Belitt and studied sculpture with Brower Hatcher and Lee Tribe\, and painting with the painter and art critic Sidney Tillim.  Her work is influenced and characterized by her study of sculpture\, but she identifies as a painter. Her use of vibrant color\, shape\, and form is loaded with concepts about history\, feminism\, and painting. \nBarbara Owen has been featured at numerous venues\, including the Minor Injury Gallery\, Brooklyn\, NY; The Arts Center\, Troy\, NY; and UMass Dartmouth’s Art Gallery\, New Bedford\, MA. Owen has participated in artist residency programs nationwide\, including the MASS MoCA/Assets for Artists in 2015. She was also a featured artist in the NetWorks 2015 Artist Video Portraits series at the RISD Museum.\n\nThe Frame 301 space is presented to the public through expansive storefront windows that face the road\, and encourages large-scale\, site-specific works from emerging and established artists. The unique venue encourages installations that encompass the entirety of the space and completely transform it. The public is able to view and appreciate the artwork on a 24/7 basis\, leading many to unexpectedly experience the artwork. \nThe Frame 301 is generously supported by a grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. \n“Color Magic”\, 2016. Image courtesy of Barbara Owen. \n 
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/barbara-owenjuly-5-august-8-2016/
LOCATION:Frame 301 Gallery\, 301 Cabot Street\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:L’appel du vide: Cyrille Conan
DESCRIPTION:Reception and Artist Talk: Thursday\, July 21st\, 5–7pm \nGallery Hours\nM–Th\, 10am–5pm\nF\, 10am–1pm \n\nL’appel du vide\, a solo-exhibition of Boston-based painter\, Cyrille Conan in the Carol Schlosberg Alumni Gallery. Curated by Pam Campanaro\, the exhibition celebrates the artist’s signature abstract vocabulary of mark making\, collage\, and textures that deconstructs and reconstructs an automatic\, intuitive\, and improvisational process. \nConan’s studio practice embraces intuitive and responsive mark making\, an approach that parallels his own nature and mirrors his frame of mind. The artist says this allows for the paintings to generate as honestly and intuitively as possible\, making them a kind of\, “anchor to keep connected to realness and truth\, like a meditation. There is less thinking and more reacting and building.” Each mark and layer informs and dictates the final composition that ultimately achieves a visual balance of form\, color\, and repetition. The artist uses a range of materials such as: painters tape\, reclaimed wood\, remnants of exhibition design\, paint\, and fabric to narrate the action of painting itself. L’appel du vide continues this method of dialectic making as the artist gathered recent work to “talk and respond to” in the creation of a new large-scale mural. \nConan’s latest\, site-specific mural\, Beilhan (to stay awake) (2016) emphasises and makes large\, stylistic choices and the accumulation of mark-making found within his smaller paintings on board. Regardless of scale\, Conan’s use of materials and textures defines his unique perspective; his signature\, or handwriting\, contributing to the larger narrative of painting. Roiñ penn da (to yield) (2016) and Moment of Hesitation (2015) flank the twenty-seven foot wide\, grey gallery wall. These two paintings on board serve as metaphorical bookends to Conan’s painterly story\, containing the artist’s mixed-media writing. The artist rips pages from his life as an exhibition and design preparator by appropriating materials from discarded exhibition remnants and mock-ups. Between Roiñ penn da (to yield) and Moment of Hesitation\, Conan wheat pasted sample text from the MFA Boston’s current major exhibition\, MegaCities\, that investigates urban life in Asia. On top of the wheat pasted fragments\, Conan taped off three rows of circles and semi circles in blue tape\, as if to make zoomed in view of the smaller painting\, Pelec’h emañ honnez? (Where is she?) (2015) resting just opposite the mural. \n\nThe title of the exhibition\, L’appel du vide is a French existential phrase that translates to\, “the call of the void.” The expression references a sudden\, inexplicable urge to indulge or act on something despite knowing it would lead to unfavorable consequences\, such as deliberately letting go of a fragile\, porcelain vase or stepping out over the edge of a high point. Human internal censors ultimately override this impulse by rationalizing reasons not to do something\, but the option or sheer possibility arises because our minds are built to be flexible and consider all options. Cyrille Conan’s practice mirrors that same flexibility and impulse to engage in an instinct. While we physically don’t act on the call of the void\, the artist’s explores it within each of his compositions and as a result\, to stand in front of Conan’s paintings is to be at the threshold of an alternate future. \nCyrille Conan is a French (Breton) born\, New York City native.  He earned his  BFA in Painting from the Hartford Art School before planting his roots in Boston. While Conan’s  primary practice continues to be painting\, he works in a variety of mediums and scales. He has produced site-specific installations and murals across the United States in addition to local galleries and public spaces in Boston\, including The Cyclorama and City Hall. Conan lives and works in Roxbury\, MA. \n 
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/lappel-du-vide-cyrille-conanjune-28-july-22-2016/
LOCATION:Carol Schlosberg Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Inspired Views
DESCRIPTION:Reception: Saturday\, June 18th\, 2–4pm \nGallery Hours\nM\, T\, W\, F\, 10am–5pm\nTh\, 10am–8pm\nSat.\, 12–5pm \n \n“Inspired Views” gathers more than seventy New England art educators together in celebration of their commitment and dedication to arts education. Recognizing the many working artists who inspire and mentor our young people\, “Inspired Views\,” brings art educators together and give them an opportunity to exhibit their own artwork in the Montserrat Gallery. Art teachers represented work in K-12 public and independent schools\, as well as art educators working in community colleges. \nParticipating Artists: Angela Alés\, Ursina Amsler\, Gregory Barry\, Todd Bartel\, Mary Barton-Lech\, Steven Berson\, Paula Borsetti\, Kristin Breiseth\, Joy Dai Buell\, Linda Burke\, Margaret Burns\, Donna Calleja\, Lotte Calnek\, Lorrinda Cerrutti\, Christina Chang\, Yong Chen\, Kayla Cochran\, Sheila Concannon\, Sandra Davidson\, Elaine Dearden\, Jen Dubis\, Anne Duchak Lang\, Kara Dunne\, English\, Danette\, Erin Evans\, John Favret\, Hope Flynn\, Michael Frassinelli\, Brenda Fredericks\, Erica Frisk\, Audrey Fusco-Benoit\, David Stephan Graves\, Kipp Greene\, Sean Hagan\, Emily Harney\, Bianca Hegre\, Deanna Jacome\, Jenna Kelly\, Rebecca Figler Kostich\, June Krinsky Rudder\, Billy Landenberger\, Moey Lane\, Jennifer Levatino\, Colleen Lucas\, Stacy Mannheim\, Willa McKee\, Talin Megherian\, Meghan Mulkerrin\, Marcia Nadeau\, Brian O’Donnell\, Brian O’Malley\, Laura Phillips\, Anne Pieterse\, Scott Place\, Spiridoula Politis\, Pascale Queval\, George Ratkevich\, Brian Reddy\, Richard Kim\, Janet Robbins\, Elizabeth Saitta\, Richard Schwartz\, Larry Sheinfled\, Jenny Sorblom\, Stephanie Mahan Stigliano\, Jaimee Taborda\, Jessica Thistlethwaite\, Ken Tighe\, Ed Touchette\, Stéphanie Williams\, Jozeph Zaraemba. \n 
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/inspired-viewsjune-6-july-2-2016/
LOCATION:Montserrat Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Ben Jundanian: You Can't Get There From Here
DESCRIPTION:Ben Jundanian is an illustrator and muralist living and working in the Boston area. His intricate work ranges in size from small works on paper to large mural installations… No matter the scale\, his complex and expansive illustrations draw the viewer in to a fabricated world much like our own\, steeped in humor and surprising details. Don’t forget to look twice\, you might have missed the punchline! \nFrame 301 Gallery is presented to the public through expansive storefront windows that face the road\, and encourages large-scale\, site-specific works from emerging and established artists. Frame 301’s exhibitions change monthly and it is a unique space encouraging installations that encompass the entirety of the space and completely transform it. It is an extremely public exhibition space\, offering anyone traveling along Cabot Street the potential to experience large scale\, site-specific artwork. The public is able to view and appreciate the artwork on a 24/7 basis\, leading many to unexpectedly experience the artwork. \nThe Frame 301 is supported by a generous grant from the Beverly Cultural Council.
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/ben-jundanian-you-cant-get-there-from-heremay-6-june-30-2016/
LOCATION:Frame 301 Gallery\, 301 Cabot Street\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160619
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SUMMARY:Matthew Ritchie
DESCRIPTION:Public Artist Lecture\nThursday\, May 12 at 6:30pm\nThe Cabot Performing Arts Center\n286 Cabot Street\, Beverly\, MA 01915 \nGallery Hours\nM\,T\,W\,F\, 10am–5pm\nTh\, 10am–8pm\nSat.\, 12–5pm \nIn an era defined by the constant presence of information\, Matthew Ritchie creates a snapshot of the interconnected structures that permeate modern living. Through a combination of techniques ranging from painting\, to digital manipulation\, to sculptures cut from sheet metal\, layers of visual forms become a response to the questions Ritchie asks himself: “How do you escape the pattern that’s imposed on you by the physical order of the universe? How do you make the imaginative leap?” \nThe context that the art comes from is integral to the experience of the work\, inviting viewers to analyze it beyond an aesthetic level. In each piece\, Ritchie deals directly with information. He draws heavily from research and philosophy to distill a multiplicity of conceptual inquiries into brief moments of connection. The work often incorporates themes such as particle physics\, non-linear narrative structures\, games of chance\, and the use of science as a tool in theological debate. Each new project builds upon an encyclopedic body of work juxtaposing the vastness of the universe with the man-made belief systems that attempt to comprehend it. \nRitchie was born in London and received a BFA from Camberwell School of Art in 1986 before relocating to New York. Over the course of his career he has been featured in over 25 solo exhibitions and 100 group exhibitions\, both domestically and internationally. Recently\, his work has been shown at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston\, the Dallas Museum of Art\, the Guggenheim\, MASS MoCA\, and the MoMA.
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/matthew-ritchieapril-28-june-18-2016/
LOCATION:Carol Schlosberg Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Eyes on Fire
DESCRIPTION:Reception: April 27th\, 5-8pm \nGallery Hours\nM-F\, 11:30am–2:30pm\nSat\, 12–5pm \nMeghan Higgins hopes to be involved with a studio and continue to create TV shows and movies that continue to experiment with the medium in the future. Her time building her senior project\, both digitally and physically hand crafting\, was an experience she hopes to take with her and apply again professionally at some point. Animation is a field that can be made from a variety of mediums\, it’s not just one painting\, it’s not just one drawing\, it would be a shame to be idle and not try new ways to bring storytelling to life. \nRachel Greco uses charcoal and paper to render small moments in everyday life. She captures instants of the world around her\, reflecting on important themes in her personal life. The flexibility of charcoal allows her to confidently achieve deep black markings on the page\, which can then be wiped clean with a single movement. These responsive materials reflect the unpredictability of the creative process\, allowing her to carve out forms in black and white. Rachel layers multiple visuals on top of each other to create one moving image\, exploring the relationship between multiple viewing experiences and a single audio track. She enjoys the challenge of activating unsuspected soundscapes with the people and creatures that fill them. \nBronte Pirulli is a 2-D animator who works digitally and traditionally to bring texture and depth to her work. Her film\, “?” mixes digital animation with charcoal drawing to arrive at its hand- drawn appearance. The piece was inspired by Bronte’s time spent studying abroad in Viterbo\, Italy\, and the body of work she created there. “?” focuses on interactions between people and the space around them\, incorporating the artist’s love of drawing\, storytelling and people-watching. \nAyden Borowski is an animator and game designing. For their thesis\, they made a visual novel following the story of a character in a psychiatric ward. To go along with the visual novel\, they also made a retro 2D side scroller game\, which takes place in the same psychiatric ward. The player controls a pixel version of the main character through four levels\, avoiding enemies and collecting medication.\nShelby Hamel makes video games for marginalized groups that are often under represented in media. Her senior thesis\, titled\, “WomanBorn”\, is a video game centering on a girl’s adventure story in a market that is dominated by male voices and sexualized images of women. The player is invited to make choices and use items to solve problems\, leading up to multiple endings. \nVictoria Vega is a fierce lover of character design and storyboarding. As a 2D animator and illustrator\, Vicki’s work is heavily motivated by the notion that people from different backgrounds have stories that deserve to be told. Their senior thesis film\, “Convenient” tells the story of a young child who befriends two unusual characters during a hike in the forest. \nBrandon Troelstrup is a graduating senior here at Montserrat. His work focuses on board game tradition\, the psychic experience and storytelling. He studies ancient societies\, their poems\, crafts and traditions to make games that reflect them. Through mechanics\, he constructs a world that enforces cooperation\, empathy and communication “Ashes” is his second board game\, and has been in development for 2 years. He plans to hone this game beyond his thesis show over the summer and use crowdfunding to publish it. \n 
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/eyes-on-fireapril-25-29-2016/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Not Now But Soon: A Book Arts Thesis Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Reception: Wednesday\, April 20th\, 5–8pm \nZeitgeist Gallery & Studios\n222 Cabot Street\nBeverly\, MA \nGallery Hours\nTues\, Thu\, Fri\, 11am–4pm\nor by appointment\ncontact: alanna.urie@montserrat.edu\n\nMontserrat College of Art and Zeitgeist Gallery are proud to present Not Now But Soon\, featuring recent work from Joyce Tat and Alanna Urie\, two graduating seniors from Montserrat’s Book Arts concentration. \nThe work on view explores relationships between form and content while challenging notions of what could be considered a time-based medium. Throughout the exhibition\, themes of identity\, social influences\, and domesticity emerge from repetitive and time consuming-processes. \nThe work contends with the idea of finish; presenting ongoing projects acknowledges  that a resolution of the artists’ experiences may never be achieved. What becomes important is a commitment to perseverance — to continue accumulating written text from each present moment\, or hand-stitching a quilt that is unable to fully counteract the past. \nDrawing on a background in sculpture\, papermaking\, and zine production\, Joyce Tat explores an upbringing between a Chinese family and American culture. Working on vellum\, wooden panels\, and household objects\, Chinese characters learned as a child and English phrases pulled from intrusive thoughts and overheard conversations are overlaid in watercolor and acrylic paint. The collected phrases become an abstract composition of repetitive marks\, visually processing chaotic themes that are only partially legible: the destabilization of intimate relationships\, racial and gender dysphoria\, and a dissatisfaction with social attitudes. Each piece\, in its creation and the outcome\, is an attempt to make sense of the present. \n \nUsing meticulous domestic crafts such as embroidery and quilting\, Alanna Urie addresses  a need for order that is simultaneously fueled by and in opposition to the lasting mental effects of trauma. Traditional materials recall cultural notions of “the home” — a space that holds complex associations with both safety and violence. The laborious and time-consuming nature of these crafts parallel the psychological task of dealing with trauma; the resulting object serves as a record of personal experiences and a means of imagining a new relationship with the space in which those experiences took place. \nAs Tat and Urie confront a variety of lived experiences\, both artists ask themselves: Where do I go from here? \n 
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/not-now-but-soon-a-book-arts-thesis-exhibitionapril-18-29-2016/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Nonagon
DESCRIPTION:Reception: Wednesday\, April 20th\, 5–8pm \nGallery Hours\nM-F\, 11:30am–2:30pm\nSat\, 12-5pm \nAlexandra Rios has spent the last year creating ways to help people become more aware of the ongoing honey bee crisis. While exploring several areas of this crisis\, she found out that there are select plants that specifically attract honey bees and pollinators alike. If humans can provide more sources of food for the bees\, than this would make their jobs a lot easier. If the honey bees die off\, we will soon die with them. \nAngel Lukos-Algarin creates abstractions of Boston’s architecture that follow principles of 2-D design. These abstractions explore relationships of space\, form and line to create pieces that are engaging visually. \nJames Hillmann is interested in the visualization of data in an immersive 3D space. With this idea in mind it led James down a path to concept and prototype a series of futuristic visors that would allow the user to experience web content in a 3D manor. Following this James used his graphic design and web markup skills to brand this idea as a product under the fictitious company\, Quantum. \nJuan Matias’ main focus is directed towards online dating and how it relates to others. Through research and first hand experience I figured out how to restructure modern online dating too make it teachable too people who struggle with adapting to the age of the Internet. I got to this idea through the realization that though I don’t completely agree with all the aspects of modern online dating\, it is a crucial part of the future of relationships and shouldn’t be ignored. This lead me to write and design a formal “how to Guide” for the number 1 online dating program out right now\, Tinder. \nMariah Florez’s project revolves around people and their hatred and/or fear of snakes. Most people fear these animals\, not due to a bad experience\, but rather due to negative connotations that they’ve carried with them as long as they can remember. These fears are so deeply embedded that they can affect not only the life of the individual\, but can end up threatening the lives of the animals they hate. Her goal with her thesis show is to use the aesthetic that snakes have to prove that these creatures are not always scary and intimidating\, but can be thought-provoking and beautiful. Her hope is not that every person who views her work will be converted into loving these animals\, but would be content if her show made her viewers reconsider their hatred or fear of them. \nKayla Whelan explores the concepts of communication and meaning through her studies of typographic forms. By pushing the boundaries of what can be considered typography\, she converts language into something purely visual and abstracted beyond recognition.\n\nMeg Bentsen has a great admiration for the design work that goes into modular origami. Her work focuses on the idea that many simple things come together to create something complex and unique\, a statement true of both origami and design. \nSamantha Perry has been researching birds nests. Birds have a natural instinct inside them to build a certain nest. There is one singular purpose of these nests\, which is to attract a mate and to lay their eggs. This form serves no other purpose. Birds obtain the materials that are around them to construct the form. The purpose for humans to build nests is to see how the word nest and form are interrupted. The other purpose is to see how the form is interrupted in different ways. Our nests contain no physical purpose other than to demonstrate trial and error. The form is dictated by the way we think as humans. The end result of this project is to have people think about the instinctual process versus the design process. \nCody Pelletier set out to create CD package design but with introduction to the internet people just aren’t purchasing CDs anymore. The physical form is not as appealing when one can listen to the music online. Cody however still purchasing CDs created package design that holds an experience that the internet will not. Prepare for the experience on 04.20.16
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/nonagon-april-18-22-2016/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS
DESCRIPTION:Reception: Wednesday\, April 13th\, 5–8pm \nMingo Gallery\n284 Cabot Street\nBeverly\, MA \nGallery Hours\nTues\, Wed\, Fri\, 10am–9pm\nThurs 11am-7pm\nSat 10am-4pm \n*Friends With Benefits* features the work of seniors Sam Glidden\, a bookbinder\, and Brendan MacAllister\, an illustrator. Both artists create work that comments on the tendencies of 21st Century American culture through dark\, dry humor and irony touching on themes such as consumerism\, apathy\, and materialism. MacAllister deals with these concepts through figurative paintings\, while Glidden employs rhetoric and hand printed literature. As the sarcastic title of the show suggests\, Brendan and Sam are both tongue-in-cheek on the surface\, but underneath the humor lies two dishearted youths without answers in 21st Century America presenting their view on the human condition.
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/friends-with-benefitsapril-12-23-2016/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160416
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SUMMARY:Convergence
DESCRIPTION:Reception: April 13 \nGallery Hours\nM-F\, 11:30am–2:30pm\nSat\, 12–5pm \nFeaturing: Sentho Hunt-Sterwart (Warner\, NH)\, Tara Kossman (Bensalem\, PA)\, Andrew Podziewski (Hooksett\, NH)\, Loki Michael LaChapelle (Lynn\, MA)\, Livia Anya (Meriden\, CT)\, Dino Rowan (Waltham\, MA). \nMontserrat College of Art is proud to announce Convergence: A Senior Thesis Show exhibition featuring six fine art students. Convergence is the result of several people or things coming together from different directions that eventually meet as one. Each artist works in their own medium including photography and video\, print\, sculpture\, collage\, and painting. While each artist has their own unique style\, they are collaborating together to form one cohesive exhibition. \nSentho Hunt-Stewart is an abstract painter and her work deals with the subjects of war\, memory and self identity. With the use of color and texture\, she paints her story of her childhood past in War torn Sierra Leone\, West Africa. \nTara Kossman explores the grid and composition through her collage on wood panel. She utilizes found material collections and repurposes them. These colleges are an exploration of vibration and sensation through color and shape. \nAndrew Podziewski is a sculptor who uses a variety of materials to create his work. Andrew is interested in using aspects of the human body to vulnerabilities between the artist and the viewer. \nLoki Michael LaChapelle works abstractly as a mix media artist and finds inspiration by looking at scientific imagery incorporating everything from the very large\, down to patterns found on a microscopic level. Using this interest in science and mathematical patterns as inspiration\, he later branches out and expands on them to create dynamic images that have a controlled yet energetic feel. In the coming months following Convergence\, Loki and much of his current work can be found at Salem Ink Tattoo and Art Gallery. As owner\, he works there as both a full time body art professional and gallery curator.\nLivia Anya explores the inner structure of the human eye through various printmaking methods. Her prints are largely based on digital retinal photographs taken of her own eyes\, along with other images found through various ophthalmic resources. Livia’s work is a response to her having become partially sighted due to retinal detachments caused by Stickler Syndrome. Livia explores the delicate architecture of the retina and how the impairment of vision can alter its composition. \nDino Rowan\, through working with local business Good Mojo Tattoos demonstrates a living archive of documentary video and installation focusing on the concepts of growth and identity in his own community. Through artist and community member interviews\, contextual footage\, and sculptural installation\, Dino Rowan captures and recreates the intimate yet welcoming community Good Mojo creates within itself\, artists\, and clients new and returning. To Dino\, Good Mojo is beyond business; Good Mojo is family. \n 
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/convergenceapril-11-15-2016/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:The Last Laugh
DESCRIPTION:Opening Reception: Wednesday\, March 30th\, 5-8pm\nClosing Reception with film screening and surprise musical guests: Friday\, April 8th\, 7-9pm \nMingo Gallery\n284 Cabot Street\nBeverly\, MA \nGallery Hours\nTues\, Wed\, Fri\, 10am–6pm\nThu\, 11am–7pm\nSat\, 10am–4pm \nThe Last Laugh\, features the artists Zachary DeWitt (Barrington\, NH) and Lilia Volodina (Krasnoyarsk\, Russia). Through the painting\, time-based media\, still photographs and illustrations respectively\, the artists explore the narratives of real and imaginary lives through the lens of empathy\, absurdity and magical realism. \nDeWitt elaborates upon the inherent isolation that occurs at the end of one’s own life. Inspired by childhood interactions with the inhabitants of nursing homes where his mother worked\, DeWitt\, through his paintings of anonymous subjects\, encourages the viewer to reflect on their own experiences with the elderly. With the incorporation of the figure in an invented environment\, he revitalizes what society deems forgotten\, or somehow less important than the rest of society. \nVolodina draws upon her life experiences as an inspiration for creating narratives of an absurd\, violent and fantastical nature. Through the media of film\, animation\, photography and illustration\, Volodina uses humor and whimsy in her work in order to invite viewers to embrace absurdity in their lives and encourage them to gain a sense of resilience and invincibility over anything life has in store. \nBIOGRAPHIES\nZachary DeWitt (b. 1993) was born in Portland\, Maine\, and raised in the small town of Barrington\, NH. He is currently earning his BFA in Painting and Drawing\, with a Minor in Art History at Montserrat College of Art. Zachary’s work were shown in exhibitions throughout New Hampshire and Massachusetts\, and commissioned several works for private collections\, including The Art Exchange\, The Crane Estate\, as well as the President of Montserrat College of Art. \nLilia Volodina (b. 1988)\, was born and raised in Siberia\, Russia\, in the city of Krasnoyarsk. She is currently earning her BFA in Photography at Montserrat College of Art in Beverly. Lilia’s work was shown in several juried group exhibits around Massachusetts\, including at the Chatham Creative Arts Center\, Cotuit Center for the Arts\, Beverly Historical Society\, Raizes Gallery at Lesley University College of Art and Design\, and Walter J. Manninen Center for the Arts at Endicott College.
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/the-last-laughmarch-29-april-9-2016/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Sonder
DESCRIPTION:Reception: March 30th\, 5–8pm \nGallery Hours\nM-F\, 11:30am–2:30pm\nSat\, 12–5pm \nFeaturing: Ian Barrie (Raleigh\, NC)\, Bridget Mahan (Milton\, MA)\, Michelle Richard (Sudbury\, MA)\, Sebastian Sawyer (Bellingham\, MA)\, Kevin Schlink (Quaker Hill\, CT)\, and\nKelly Schultz (Ballston Lake\, NY). \nIan Barrie creates abstract paintings and drawings on canvas as well as paper. In these works he subversively veers away from landscape painting.  His paintings are built of overlapping and interlocking organic lines.The experience of being present in the landscape is integral to the work and for the artist\, the work is in a constant conversation between intuition and experience. \nBridget Mahan captures the essence of the female figure through film and digital photographic formats. Her work includes nude self-portraits and portraits of women in a space familiar to them\, that depicts their unique personality. She interviews and analyzes the body as well as the mind of her subjects to decipher what it takes to be content with the body. \nMichelle Richard creates black and white works that are based around the concept of memory. The work displays text broken or dismantled to metaphorically explore the complexity of a memory. These pieces vary in size on translucent paper\, using layers in order to create depth. \nSebastian Sawyer is an abstract painter who utilizes collage elements in their work as a way to introduce found color and shapes. Their paintings feature heavy application of paint and blocked in color in order to create moods and emotions for which we have no name as well as showing glimpses or ‘blurry snapshots’ into past emotionally charged events. \nKevin Schlink is a book artist and printmaker who creates books and prints that investigate the relationship between words and imagery. Through the combination of fictional narratives and scenes of distorted home environments\, he attempts to blur the lines of definition. Do the words define the image or do the images define the words? He does not seek the answers to these questions but instead explores why we create these personal meanings and associations.\n\nKelly Schultz makes work that is characterized by an exploration of paint itself\, using it as a tool to create an atmosphere. She is currently invested in using acrylic\, watercolor\, and gouache paint to create ephemeral organic forms. Equally present is the use of water\, and the process of both the application and the removal of the paint causes these forms to emerge. The forms then become like transient orbs of energy\, subtly exploring ideas of preciousness and mortality.
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/sondermarch-28-april-1-2016-2/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160328
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160402
DTSTAMP:20260423T174322
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SUMMARY:Sonder March 28 – April 1\, 2016
DESCRIPTION:301 Gallery\n301 Cabot Street\nBeverly\, MA 01915Gallery Hours\nM-F\, 11:30am–2:30pm\nSat\, 12–5pmReception\nMarch 30\n5–8pmFeaturing: Ian Barrie (Raleigh\, NC)\, Bridget Mahan (Milton\, MA)\, Michelle Richard (Sudbury\, MA)\, Sebastian Sawyer (Bellingham\, MA)\, Kevin Schlink (Quaker Hill\, CT)\, and\nKelly Schultz (Ballston Lake\, NY). \nIan Barrie creates abstract paintings and drawings on canvas as well as paper. In these works he subversively veers away from landscape painting.  His paintings are built of overlapping and interlocking organic lines.The experience of being present in the landscape is integral to the work and for the artist\, the work is in a constant conversation between intuition and experience. \nBridget Mahan captures the essence of the female figure through film and digital photographic formats. Her work includes nude self-portraits and portraits of women in a space familiar to them\, that depicts their unique personality. She interviews and analyzes the body as well as the mind of her subjects to decipher what it takes to be content with the body. \nMichelle Richard creates black and white works that are based around the concept of memory. The work displays text broken or dismantled to metaphorically explore the complexity of a memory. These pieces vary in size on translucent paper\, using layers in order to create depth. \nSebastian Sawyer is an abstract painter who utilizes collage elements in their work as a way to introduce found color and shapes. Their paintings feature heavy application of paint and blocked in color in order to create moods and emotions for which we have no name as well as showing glimpses or ‘blurry snapshots’ into past emotionally charged events. \nKevin Schlink is a book artist and printmaker who creates books and prints that investigate the relationship between words and imagery. Through the combination of fictional narratives andscenes of distorted home environments\, he attempts to blur the lines of definition. Do the words define the image or do the images define the words? He does not seek the answers to these questions but instead explores why we create these personal meanings and associations.\n\nKelly Schultz makes work that is characterized by an exploration of paint itself\, using it as a tool to create an atmosphere. She is currently invested in using acrylic\, watercolor\, and gouache paint to create ephemeral organic forms. Equally present is the use of water\, and the process of both the application and the removal of the paint causes these forms to emerge. The forms then become like transient orbs of energy\, subtly exploring ideas of preciousness and mortality.
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/sondermarch-28-april-1-2016/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160321
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160326
DTSTAMP:20260423T174322
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SUMMARY:Meraki
DESCRIPTION:Reception: March 23rd\, 5–8pm \nGallery Hours\nM-F\, 11:30am–2:30pm\nSat\, 12–5pm \nFeaturing: Jes Banta (Norwich\, CT)\, Lauren Carroza (Rockaway\, NJ)\, Erin McLaughlin (Cheshire\, CT)\, Alessandra Hansen (New Haven\, CT)\, Samantha Wyckoff (Lawrenceville\, NJ)\, Lynnett Perez (Boston\, MA)\, Tessa Storm Jacques (Ellington\, CT)\, Johnathan Good (Mansfield\, MA). \nMontserrat College of art is proud to announce Meraki: A senior show exhibition featuring eight graduating illustration majors. Meraki by definition means the soul\, creativity or love you put into something; the essence of yourself put into your work. Each work made by the artist exhibits the passion they place within their work through their medium and subject matter. \nJes Banta creates factual pieces that are influenced by shape and form in her digital pieces. She features a lot of medical subjects geared for medical magazines and informational posters. Lauren Carozza explores the American mythology that has helped shape the culture we know today. These narratives include both obscure and classic American tall tales\, alien encounters\, urban legends\, and folk heroes portrayed from a playful\, colorful point of view. She works primarily in watercolor and gouache. Erin McLaughlin is a digital children’s illustrator focusing on narrative work and design for kid’s books and products. Driven by the relationships between kids and the world around them\, Erin hopes to create children’s books that nurture young art and creativity. Samantha Wyckoff uses traditional ink with digital coloring to design book covers and patterns. Her work features horror and her passion for both insects and arachnids. She uses small marks to build texture and value while using color for mood. Lynnett Perez focuses on narrative with an emphasis on character design. Their work is designed to give viewers a sense of joy and playfulness using color and subject matter.\nAlessandra Hansen is an illustrator whose work reflects their interest in both the beautiful and bizarre. Their watercolor paintings take ordinarily mundane subjects and give them a strange\, paranormal twist. Their work begs the viewer to do a double take. Tessa Storm Jacques delves into the adaptation\, mutation\, and transformation of animals in a post-apocalyptic world. With a setting of strange and harsh climate changes\, she explores the world and the challenges the creatures of earth would need to adapt to\, or die. Focusing primarily on conceptual art\, Tessa’s work involves hours of research and careful studying\, carefully painted in gouache\, ink\, and watercolor. Johnathan Good is a historic-oriented illustrator. The goal of his work is to create engaging\, painterly compositions that share his passion for history\, and give viewers at least a twinge of curiosity about the ancient world.
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/merakimarch-21-25-2016/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160314
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160319
DTSTAMP:20260423T174322
CREATED:20231220T195408Z
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SUMMARY:Chimera
DESCRIPTION:Reception: March 16th\, 5–8pm \nGallery Hours\nM-F\, 11:30am–2:30pm\nSat\, 12–5pm \nFeaturing: Tess Roever (Ashaway\, RI)\, Sayyid Lestrade (Boston\, MA)\, Raashaad Jones (Derby\, CT)\, Shannon Blencowe (Clinton\, CT)\, Kyle Des Lauriers (Methuen\, MA)\, Richie McCarthy (Lowell\, MA)\, Kismet Debnam (Milford\, CT). \nChimera is a group show exhibiting seven New England artists\, all of whom are current seniors at Montserrat College of Art. The exhibited artists work in a variety of mediums\, including digital\, acrylic and gouache. While each artist has a unique style and subject matter\, the artists who make up Chimera share common themes. Fantastical worlds\, dark atmospheres\, unusual characters and dramatic narratives make up the bulk of this show. In likeness to the exhibit’s mythical namesake\, Chimera is a show created from a diverse conglomeration of artists held together by both magic and myth. \nKismet’s paintings focus on the darker side of the subconscious; manifesting the elements of anxiety\, nightmares and burden using figurative and structural forms with heavy colors. Sayyid’s work incorporates heavy dark colors and loose linework to create engaging illustrations. In this body of work\, Sayyid reimagines classic Tarot cards in a new and dynamic way. Raashaad is a figurative painter\, creating serene fantasy illustrations with bold colors and strong contrast. With an afro-fantasy nuance he takes a new look at typical fantasy elements. Kyle focuses on graphic shapes to produce various figures of legend. His illustrations include voodoo folk legends and comic book superheroes.
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/chimeramarch-14-18-2016/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160308
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160409
DTSTAMP:20260423T174322
CREATED:20231220T195406Z
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SUMMARY:Working Titles: Andrew Houle ’00
DESCRIPTION:Reception: Thursday\, March 24th\, 5–7pm \nPublic Artist Talk: Thursday\, March 24 11:30am–12:20pm. Room H201 \nGallery Hours\nM\,T\,W\,F\, 10am–5pm\nTh\, 10am–8pm\nSat.\, 12–5pm \nMontserrat College of Art is proud to present Working Titles\, a solo exhibition featuring paintings by alumnus Andrew Houle’00\, in the Carol Schlosberg Alumni Gallery. Houle’s oil paintings present detailed views with a compelling specificity of place. The artists gravitates towards subjects that include storefronts and streetscapes in Beverly\, where Houle has lived since graduating Montserrat\, Gloucester\, and other North Shore cities. \nEven those who do not reside in the area may feel a sense of familiarity in the scenes of residential streets\, criss-crossing power lines\, and laundromats\, due to the way that Houle balances precise forms and lines with atmospheric colors and textures. Gallery visitors will find stunning sunsets and rows of houses that powerfully continue the tradition of American Realism. Houle cites the influence of twentieth-century master artists including Edward Hopper and Norman Rockwell\, along with the light of Cape Ann and his own personal connections to the community. \nThe title of the exhibition\, and the artworks themselves\, are of autobiographical significance to the artist. Houle says\, “Working towards a career as a professional artist is ever-evolving\, challenging and at times confusing. My current show represents roughly the last five years\, consisting of the landmarks and common spaces that take up our days and nights. The parking lots\, sunsets\, laundromats and side streets are those with different titles at various stages of our lives.” This exhibition enables Houle to share his accomplishments with a community that was formative to his career.\n\nHoule graduated from Montserrat College of Art in 2000 with a focus in Illustration and oil painting. He presently divides his time between being an artist and the Creative Director of Tryptic Press. His studio space is located at Porter Mills\, Beverly. Houle is the co-Chair of the Beverly Cultural Council and the lead promoter of Beverly Comic Con. He shares a home with his wife Melissa\, Mila the overweight cat\, and his comic book collection.
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/working-titles-andrew-houle-00-march-8-april-8-2016/
LOCATION:Carol Schlosberg Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160210
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160306
DTSTAMP:20260423T174322
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SUMMARY:Remix: Illustrated Products by Emily Dumas
DESCRIPTION:Gallery Hours\nM\,T\,W\,F\, 10am–5pm\nTh\, 10am–8pm\nSat.\, 12–5pm \nEmily Dumas\, image courtesy of the artist. \nMontserrat College of Art is pleased to present Remixed: Illustrated Products\, a solo exhibition featuring Emily Dumas\, in the Carol Schlosberg Alumni Gallery. Dumas is an illustrator\, surface designer and hand letterer based north of Boston. Her on-trend\, whimsical imagery presents a light-hearted world\, with friendly whales\, crabs\, and octopi inhabiting nautical themes\, sushi arrayed in pleasing pastels\, and adorable monsters saying phrases that recall beloved pet internet memes\, such as “I can has hug?” \nIn Montserrat’s Carol Schlosberg Alumni Gallery visitors will find access to two sides of Dumas’ creative expression. One area focuses on production\, with a clustered arrangement of original drawings beside a neatly lined shelf of framed prints. The other section translates the original\, flat imagery into three dimensions. Dumas decides which of her designs to print onto specific products\, including magnets\, tea towels\, socks\, and throw pillows. The pastel hues and friendly\, buoyant patterns create an inviting\, shop-like effect for the gallery display. \n“I’m looking forward to having my friends and family see this exhibition\, because I think it will help them understand what I actually do\,” said Dumas during the installation. In a world of screens\, and with imagery that is well-adapted to being viewed as pixels\, rather than in person\, Remixed offers insight into the process that goes into making custom items. \nIn addition to surface design\, where Dumas adapts her original drawings to a line of products\, she also runs Flowers in May\, a paper and gift company. Dumas has a BA in Graphic Design from Salem State University\, where she currently teaches design and illustration. Dumas has been featured in publications such as: States of Terror\, Chroma\, and Work/Life. Recently\, Dumas illustrated her first picture book Unicorn Park in collaboration with authors Chris and Sophia Lee.
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/remix-illustrated-products-by-emily-dumas-february-10-march-5-2016/
LOCATION:Carol Schlosberg Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160201
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160212
DTSTAMP:20260423T174322
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SUMMARY:Annual Illustration Theme Show
DESCRIPTION:Reception: Wednesday\, February 3rd 5–8pm \nGallery Hours\nM–F\, 11:30am–2:30pm\nSat.\, 12–5pm \nThis year’s theme for the Annual Illustration Theme Show is Cryptic! \nCurrent student work is shown alongside faculty\, staff and alumni in a broad range of method and media. \nDeadline for Students is January 27th \n*All current Illustration Students must enter! \nDeadline for Alumni is January 30th
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/annual-illustration-theme-showfebruary-1-11-2016/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160112
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160208
DTSTAMP:20260423T174322
CREATED:20231220T195401Z
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SUMMARY:Remi Thornton: Free Air 4 You
DESCRIPTION:Reception: Thursday\, January 21st\, 5:30–7:30pm \nGallery Hours\nM\,T\,W\,F\, 10am–5pm\nTh\, 10am–8pm\nSat.\, 12–5pm \nUsing only atmospheric street lighting\, Remi Thornton has developed a style that has been described as capable of capturing\, “that emotion that has been chased by writers\, poets\, film makers\, artists forever.” Titled after one of the prints in this exhibition\, Free Air 4 You will feature recent works\, as well as\, two debut images from his latest body of work\, “Ranch Camp” (2015). \nThornton’s first Digital SLR camera was delivered at the end of the day and as he was eager to try it out\, his first shoot was at night. Since then\, Thornton has felt compelled and excited by documenting the unstaged\, quiet moments illuminated only by “natural” street lighting. The works portray a sense of anticipation – that either something doesn’t seem right or something is about to happen.” Because of this feeling of urgency and unspoken tension\, Thornton places the viewer at the threshold of a potential mysterious or a thrilling encounter. Works in this series such as\, Superette (2014) and Arlington Pump (2015)\, capture the calm\, quiet sensation that can only be captured in the stillness of a mid-night encounter. \nThornton’s latest body of work\, “Ranch Camp” came to fruition during a recent trip back to the artist’s adolescent sleep-away camp. As a camper\, Thornton developed a personal connection to the forty plus acres of land during his nights wandering the grounds suffering from insomnia. He would frequent the picnic benches or sit outside of the boys cabins with his older counselors\, waiting for the tiredness to set in. Thornton says\, “Like most places\, the camp had an entirely different personality at night… it would take on a distinctive look\, sound\, and feel once the sun went down.” No stranger to the mysterious and strange characteristics only legible at night\, the artist says\, “It made sense for me to return to camp and document the silent side as I remember it.” \n\nCabin 6E (2015) is a standout piece from the “Ranch Camp” series. At the forefront of the print is a quintessential rustic cabin\, seemingly made of stacked logs topped by a weathered pointed roof. Using only the natural light around him\, Thornton captures a truly magical moment in which a cluster of emerald green light radiates from off into the distance from the woods\, at far left just behind the cabin. The color canopies the entire work\, particularly on the facade of the tiny house\, almost camouflaging it against the green grass and woods that surround it. \nRemi Thornton has exhibited throughout the United States and his photographs have been highly collected by private and public collections including Fidelity Investments and Wellington Management. He was recently selected as a recipient of the St. Botolph Club Foundation Emerging Artist Award. Thornton lives in Melrose\, Massachusetts\, with his wife and a heavily photographed Chihuahua/Pug mix named Winnie Cooper.
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/remi-thornton-free-air-4-youjanuary-12-february-7-2016/
LOCATION:Carol Schlosberg Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160111
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160403
DTSTAMP:20260423T174322
CREATED:20231220T195359Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240108T165817Z
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SUMMARY:I Will Go On...
DESCRIPTION:Reception: Thursday\, January 21st\, 5:30–7:30pm \nGallery Hours\nM\, T\, W\, F\, 10am–5pm\nTh\, 10am–8pm\nSat.\, 12–5pm \nFeaturing: Liz Jaff\, Jon Kuzmich\, Aaron Meyers\, Jenny O’Dell\, Rachel Perry \nCurated by Associate Curator of Exhibitions and Programs\, Pam Campanaro\, I Will Go On… exhibits artists whose practices parallel the characteristics of a marathoner: endurance\, repetition\, and focus. Each artist on view employs repetitive\, laborious acts such as: drilling tiny holes into wood until it breaks\, painting with a needlepoint\, compulsively collecting\, or meticulously hand-cutting paper to demonstrate precise focus.  \nBy bringing to light each artist’s exceptional endurance and devotion to their process\, Campanaro reveals the bridge between artist as maker and artist as “marathoner.” Preparing for a marathon requires a specific type of conditioning; a kind of training that syncs the physicality of doing and mental stimulus that tells you to keep pressing on. A runner’s training looks a lot like an artist in their studio: They too devote a substantial amount of time to the physicality of doing or making\, while the conceptual or mental facets of the work are equally essential in seeing a project through. \nInspired by a passage from Samuel Beckett’s novel The Unnamable\, the exhibition title I Will Go On… references a climactic moment in which the author converses with himself repeating\, “You must go on\, that’s all I know. You must go on. I can’t go on. You must go on. I’ll go on.” Beckett’s struggle is identical to the physical and psychological battle a runner faces during the final miles of a marathon. In the end\, true marathoners repeat the process and fine tune their practice in pursuit of different results. The artists exhibiting in I Will Go On… follow suit in that all of the works on view are continuations or adaptations of ongoing projects “running their course.” \nLiz Jaff pushes the structure\, or “body” of paper to its limits by manipulating its formal and physical qualities. In its third iteration\, “Plugs and Fuses” (2015) spans twenty-six feet of gallery wall. Originally a single sheet of white paper\, Jaff cuts vertical strips\, twisting them downward into long coils with circles half cut out of each strand. \n\nJon Kuzmich’s paintings are evenly paced and well tempoed\, like that of a seasoned marathoner. Using only a needlepoint as his brush to apply up to four million marks\, Kuzmich translates economic data into visual systems that aesthetically reference characteristics of Op-art\, Pointilism\, and abstraction. Aaron Meyers illustrates the bridge between sculpture and performance in his infinite performance “It Must Be Nearly Finished” (2012-ongoing). Now in its sixth iteration\, Meyers continually drills 1/16” holes into the surface of a wooden plank bracketed to the gallery wall until he falls. Jenny O’Dell collects online imagery\, escalating the traditional practice of archiving in that not only does she research the “life” of an object\, but creates a place for it permanently be “suspended” using augmented reality. Now researching the discarded\, unwanted object\, O’Dell founded the Bureau of Suspended Objects- an ongoing\, one-person organization and archive created during a residency at the Recology dump in San Francisco. Rachel Perry is the ultimate marathoner. She obsessively and repetitively collects aspects of her own life ranging from bread tags and twist ties to voice messages left on her answering machine. Like O’Dell who uses the digital frontier\, Perry’s “Twitter Project” (2009-ongoing) captures and archives the daily life of an artist using the social media platform Twitter in exactly one hundred forty characters.
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/i-will-go-on-january-11-april-2-2016/
LOCATION:Montserrat Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160111
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160128
DTSTAMP:20260423T174322
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SUMMARY:Constellations: Annual Alumni Show
DESCRIPTION:Reception: Saturday\, January 23rd 4–7pm \nGallery Hours\nM-F\, 11:30am–2:30pm\nSat\, 12–5pm \nCurated by Printmaking Professor Stacy Thomas-Vickory ’91\, Constellations is a large multi-disciplinary exhibition featuring over 30 works created by Montserrat Alumni. \nThomas-Vickory had the idea of using the concept of a constellation to symbolize the connections that the alumni have with one another. She described this as follows: “The Constellation is an emblem of the connections that we make between individuals even though we may be spread across a huge distance of place and time. The uniting thread is that they were all here at Montserrat\, with a shared experience and that we’ve taken that experience with us into the broader world.” The Constellation theme also references the role that social media plays in our lives\, be it strengthening connections or forging new ones\, but also is a reminder that we not forget the defining moments that helped spark those connections. \nParticipating Montserrat Alumni: Christine Bobek ‘74\, Carly Brasier ‘15\, Elizabeth Breder ‘15\, Peter Brefini ‘07\, Kathryn Brown ‘12\, Devon Clapp ‘06\, Alexandra Comfort ‘13\, Dan DeRosato ‘14\, Sarah Dineen ‘97\, Richard Dolan ‘09\, Corinne D’Orsi ‘15\, Kevin Duffy ‘77\, David Ferreira ‘98\, Yetti Frenkel ‘82\, Omer Gagnon ‘81\, Albert Gray ‘08\, Leonard Greco ‘03\, Nathan Hayward ‘06\,Rachel Hegburg Petruccillo ‘00\, Deanne Jacome ‘15\, Nicole Kircher ‘01\, Mark Lies ‘03\, Kevin Lucey ‘15\, Tom Maio ‘13\, Brett Mason ‘12\, Sarah LL Milton ‘03\, Kalimah Muhammad ‘11\, Kevin Quinn ‘11\, Suzanne Papin ‘00\, Richard Pawlak ‘81\, Alyssa Petit ‘15\, Janet Souza ‘01\, Christopher Stepler ‘09\, Karen Tusinski ‘98\, Stephanie Visciglia ‘15\, Cory Wasnewsky ‘14\, David Watson ‘07\, Allison White ‘08\, Amanda Woronecki ‘12\, and Timothy Zerci ‘09.
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/constellations-annual-alumni-showjanuary-11-27-2016/
LOCATION:301 Gallery\, 301 Cabot Street\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20151208
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20151219
DTSTAMP:20260423T174322
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SUMMARY:Growing Pains: Art Education Thesis Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Reception: Thursday\, December 10\, 5–8pm \nGallery Hours\nM–F\, 11:30am–2:30pm\nSat.\, 12–5pm \nThe Art Education Program of Montserrat College and the Practicum students are pleased to present the artworks of their students in this annual celebration of their Pre-K–12 Initial Licensure requirements.  \nThe exhibition features works on paper and mixed\, traditional and digital media\, in two and three dimensions\, representing a selection of visual arts projects produced in the context of art classes assisted or taught by Practicum students Kayla Cochran (BFA Painting\, 2015)\, Deanna Jacome (BFA Book Arts\, 2015) and Taylor Kurmis (BFA Book Arts\, 2015).  \nThe Practicum students are showcasing the artwork created by their students across elementary\, middle and high school. Schools represented are Malcolm L. Bell Elementary School in Marblehead\, Masconomet Regional Middle School in Boxford\, and Revere High School.  \nThe work featured in this exhibition is an intimate look at the time Practicum students have spent educating and supporting youth in public school systems while completing their Pre-K–12 Initial Licensure requirements. The practicum internship consists of 300 hours of classroom experience usually completed in the Fall semester from September to December. Students enrolled in the program work with students in visual arts classes in a school of their choice\, under the professional guidance of their Supervising Practitioner. We are honored to have three local art teachers supporting our students as Supervising Practitioners: Tammy Picone Nohelty of Malcolm L. Bell School\, Ursina Amsler of Masconomet Regional Middle School and Meghan Allen of Revere High School.  \nA ceremony for the presentation of Certificates of Completion to the Practicum students will be held at the Opening Reception taking place on Thursday December 10th\, from 5–8pm at 301 Gallery\, 301 Cabot Street in Beverly\, MA. \nFriends and family\, colleagues\, teacher\, school students and their parents are all invited. Refreshments will be served. \n 
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/growing-pains-art-education-thesis-exhibitiondecember-8-december-18-2015/
LOCATION:301 Gallery\, 301 Cabot Street\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20151130
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20151205
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SUMMARY:Bowerbirds
DESCRIPTION:Reception: Wed. December 2\, 5pm – 8PM \nGallery Hours\nM – F 11:30am – 2:30pm \nThe work of Haley Anderson strives to achieve a balance between a control and spontaneity\, while abstracting crystal structures. Veering away from tradition by breaking the rectangle\, she tears the paper to create the desired form. From there\, she proceeds to create large scale drawings that combine crystal structures with energetic mark making made by splattered ink. \nCyr’s work is an exploration of the concept of fantasy worlds and alternate realities.  Inspired by video games and the worlds that they build\, she seeks to create glimpses into her own fabricated worlds through two-dimensional media. These worlds are often ambiguous in nature\, giving them a dreamlike quality. Working intuitively\, she uses printmaking techniques along with craft materials to make collages that best represent these places as they appear in her head. \nFrana is an interdisciplinary artist currently focusing on found object\, sculptural\, installations. He uses construction materials to create environments that some have called drawings in space.  Frana’s work is abstract in nature and is left for the viewer to construct a meaning from. \nCiaran Gaffney grew up in Vermont\, the Caribbean\, and Montreal.  At Montserrat\, they have spent their time in the Illustration track honing skills for a narrative approach\, whether it be a single illustration\, development for film and game\, or in graphic novel format.  They utilize both digital and traditional tools. Enjoying gods\, monsters\, and passers-by who get swept up into those crowds\, their Bowerbirds collection will be a culminating approach to these themes\, a bestiary of both the sinister and the benevolent. Ciaran has a piece hanging in Montserrat’s Hardie lobby\, has created and sold work at Artrageous28 and 29\, and was accepted into the Society of Illustrators shows for ’14 and ’15. They hope to continue their independent endeavours and teach within the illustration field. \nDerrick Jamison’s three 40×30 multimedia canvas depict three different social aspects; Colorism\, Classism\, and sneaker violence. He uses color and figures to express personal feeling in each aspect.\n \nPrimarily done in ink and digital color\, Shae Vasile’s work explores the possibilities of illustration in package design.  Her current series of handmade bath products based on fairytales consists of label designs\, limited edition posters\, story cards\, and overall packaging of the three different products.  Based on common and lesser known fairy tales\, these illustrations not only drive a product but also offer an experience for the consumer. \nPhoebe Warner is a sensory artist who uses intuition to inspire her time-based work. Through various media- three-dimensional puff paint\, glitter\, flocking\, found objects\, and ball-point pen- she tries to capture something intangible and give it physicality. Her ink drawings are visual portraits of the sensory feelings she observes in public. While in the studio\, she focuses on adding intricate textures to old dysfunctional utilitarian objects as a meditative way to deal with the subjective world. Warner uses these components to curate maximalist installations that encourage hands-on audience participation.
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/bowerbirds-november-30-december-4-2015/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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