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SUMMARY:Heidi Whitman: Lost Cities
DESCRIPTION:Reception: Sept 10\, 5:00 – 7:30p \nEvents Hotline\n978.921.4242 x3 \nGallery Hours\nMon. – Wed. 10a – 5p\nThurs. 10a – 8p\nFri. 10a – 5p\nSat. 12p – 5p \nMontserrat College of Art is pleased to announce\, Lost Cities\, a solo exhibition of mixed media constructions and drawings by Heidi Whitman. The exhibition focuses on Whitman’s exploration of mapping metaphorical states of mind\, as well as implied physical places and events. Lost Cities brings together recent paper constructions with more than fifty mental map drawings. Whitman’s newest installation “Small World” (2015) references the increasing hyper-connectivity\, urbanization\, and migration in the contemporary world. \nWhitman creates fictitious terrains that she calls “reimagined place.” She writes that\, “the structure of the city and the structure of the mind are conflated” in her paper constructions. Whitman layers contemporary city grids and plans of ancient ruins while referencing mental networks. She creates a perfect balance in her topographical networks between chaos\, structure\, and reverie. \nSheets of cut and painted paper sprawl across the gallery wall and guide the viewer through an alien\, yet familiar\, terrain in the series\, Lost Cities. The delicately sculpted paper casts dramatic shadows that extend along the surface of the wall. “Lost City of A” (2015)\, like others in this series\, explores memory and the translation of dreams into reality. Painted with acrylic and gouache Whitman applies color to guide the viewer through internal and external worlds. Blue greens and reddish browns are in dialogue with what resembles tan ancient maps\, as if to piece together past\, present\, and imaginary worlds. \n“Hell” (2013) another paper construction of Whitman’s featured in her 2013 solo exhibition\, Heaven\, Hell and Here at Christopher Henry Gallery in New York will be on view in Montserrat Gallery. In contrast to the cool or earthy colors of the Lost Cities series\, “Hell” depicts a fiery red underworld\, appearing charred at parts\, spiraling across the wall. Inspired by maps of Roman city ruins and Dante’s Inferno\, Whitman creates her own thorny woods\, circles of madness\, and crimson rivers. While rooted in the classics and ancient history\, “Hell” resonates in the present day as society reacts to war\, aerial surveillance\, and terrorism. \nDirector and Curator\, Leonie Bradbury along with the artist\, selected more than thirty exploratory drawings from the Uncharted Territory\, Brain\, andBrainstorm series (1998-2001) to span twenty-six feet of gallery wall\, a first for Whitman in the display of her work. Arranged in a grid contrasted against a cadmium red painted wall\, these pieces focus on thought\, memory\, and dream. Whitman says drawing is the medium with\, “the most direct links between mind\, eye\, hand\, and subject perceived.” These improvisational drawings on various tea-stained Japanese papers combine a kind of ancient aesthetic with a gestural and expressive focus on the uncharted territory of the mind. One might imagine the brain sorting through data or recalling memories in these drawings. \nLost Cities presents a willingness and eagerness by Whitman to play with boundaries and the infinite abyss. Between Whitman’s mental map drawings and her paper constructions\, she communicates a spectrum of endless possibilities that take shape from imagining place beyond a singular perspective. \nHeidi Whitman has exhibited internationally\, most recently in The Art of Mapping at Tag Fine Arts in London. She has had two solo shows at the Christopher Henry Gallery in New York. Her other recent exhibitions include the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art\, Scope Miami\, the Boston Center for the Arts\, Whitespace (Atlanta)\, Pierogi Gallery (Brooklyn)\, Wheaton College\, the Boston Drawing Project\, Clark University\, The McMullen Museum of Art\, the Southeastern Louisiana Contemporary Art Gallery\, and Harvard College. Whitman’s work was featured in Katharine Harmon’s book The Map as Art\, New York: Princeton Architectural Press\, 2009. In 2007 Whitman completed a commission for the City of Cambridge\, MA (Jill Brown-Rhone Park). Whitman is a recipient of the Clarissa Bartlett Traveling Scholarship awarded by the Trustees of the Museum of Fine Arts. She is presently a faculty member at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts.
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/heidi-whitman-lost-citiesaugust-26-september-26-2015/
LOCATION:Montserrat Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Dan Mills: Interferences
DESCRIPTION:Reception: Thursday\, September 10\, 5-7:30pm \nMills is interested in visualizing information both through additive mark making and erasure. The inclusion of found\, vintage geographical maps and the practice of painting directly on to the maps has been a recurring facet of the artist’s work for several years. Mills sources are as diverse as children’s atlases and classroom maps. The series explores history\, geopolitics and current events. \nThe artist addresses changes to the landscape as a result of conflict and highlights hidden geographical information. His mark-making decisions\, such as color and shape choices\, are guided by rules or game-like strategy. Mills paints over political boundaries\, dates\, keys\, and names of human-made and natural landmarks- information usually based on histories of conquest and imperialism. This all disappears beneath variegated fields of painted color that gradually informs the translation of collective research and collated data into a visual language. \nInterferences features a large-scale mural by Mills and alumni Kevin Lucey ’15. The scale of Current Wars & Conflicts\, Belligerents and Supporter Data Visualized (2015) amplifies the traditional facets of Mills’ smaller works on paper. Twelve feet of gallery wall is covered in a printed decal of a world map. Originally taken from an online source\, Mills “reworked” the map in Photoshop before printing it. For instance\, the muted fields of blue indicating bodies of water\, are patterned into a two-tone blue checkerboard. Mills does this to clearly reference the strategy of seizing land as if in a game of chess. Mills blurs other indicators\, such as text\, to disconnect the viewer from language. As a result\, visual cues like shape and color become the method of identifying place. \nFor several weeks\, Mills recorded information that would eventually become the visualized data on the mural. He explored a variety of subjects: How many conflicts each country is currently active in\, the number of belligerents affiliated within each country\, death counts\, etc. With the help of Lucey\, the artists marked each country with the visual representation of their collected data. An adjacent key aides in correlating to the viewer the relationship between the more layered a mark is\, the higher numerical value associated with a country’s political state. \nSince 2009\, Mills has had solo shows at George Billis Gallery in New York\, the Chicago Cultural Center\, Sherry Frumkin Gallery in Santa Monica\, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery in Chicago\, Union College in Schenectady\, NY\, and Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts Museum in China. He has participated in several group exhibitions including: Dissident Futures at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco; Remix: Selections from the International College Center (traveling nationally)\, and Party Headquarters: Voting is Just the Beginning at Pratt Manhattan Gallery. Collections include the British Library\, John D. & Catherine C. MacArthur Foundation\, Chicago\, JPMorgan Chase\, New York\, Library of Congress\, Washington\, DC\, and UCLA. He is represented by George Billis Gallery in New York and Zolla/Lieberman Gallery in Chicago. Mills presently is the Director of the Bates College Museum of Art and Lecturer in the Humanities.
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/dan-mills-interferencesaugust-24-september-19-2015/
LOCATION:Carol Schlosberg Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
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SUMMARY:Paul Roden & Valerie Rueth:Tugboat Printshop
DESCRIPTION:Artist Talk: March 13\, 11:30a-12:30p \nEvents Hotline\n978.921.4242 x3 \nGallery Hours\nMon. – Thurs. 10 am – 5 pm\nFri. 10 am – 1 pm \nMontserrat College of Art is excited to welcome Pittsburgh-based Paul Roden and Valerie Lueth\, the husband and wife team behind Tugboat Printshop. Since 2006\, Tugboat has created contemporary artwork using traditional printmaking techniques. Roden and Lueth create work that seem other-worldly. Giant moths with intricately patterned wings\, a moon against a star clustered\, intergalactic sky. Anything is possible is you can imagine it- and Tugboat delightfully does. \nHandmade from original images\, carved out of wood and printed onto paper\, Tugboat prides their practice on using age-old printmaking techniques employed by artisans for centuries. “Our exact methods have evolved through our practice\, always maintaining a high standard of quality.We rely on handicraft & artisan skill in every stage of development\,” explain Roden and Lueth. Maintaining authentic printmaking techniques in critical in Tugboat’s methodical\, multi-step process. And original image is drawn directly on birch plywood\, first in pencil and then in pen. The images are then carved in low relief and brushed with oil-based ink. With pressure\, alike a stamp\, the final print is made by running hand-cut paper through a printing press. \nEach completed print exudes energy; gestural\, vibrant moments of energy. “Valley” (2014)\, captures a liminal moment before dawn. As a hawk glides behind a “V” of birds in the lower left-hand corner\, the sky sweeps right to left\, creating concentric semi-circle formations\, each of a different color (light blue\, violet\, magenta\, yellow). Beneath the assortment of hues\, a lush valley fills the lower third of the composition. Following the same semicircle shape as the sky above\, the valley sustains life of baby seedlings and evergreens beneath the gradient sky. \nPaul Roden was born & raised in Nashville\, TN. Paul got his BFA from Washington University\, St. Louis in 2001 and\, later in 2004\, his MFA in Printmaking from the University of South Dakota\, Vermillion. Valerie Lueth is a South Dakota prairie gal\, born in Iowa and raised in rural Humboldt and Hartford\, SD. Valerie received her BFA in Printmaking from the University of South Dakota\, Vermillion in 2004.
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/paul-roden-valerie-ruethtugboat-printshopmarch-10-april-4-2015/
LOCATION:Carol Schlosberg Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:6th Congressional District High School Art Show
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the 2015 Congressional High School Art Competition and Exhibition sponsored by Congressman Seth Moulton. \nThe exhibition is a juried art show\, open to high school students grades 10-12 from public and private schools within the Sixth Congressional District of Massachusetts\, as well as high school students home-schooled within the district. Students from every school in the district are encouraged to participate. \nThe Closing Awards Event with Congressman Seth Moulton will take place Sat.\, March 7\, 3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m. at Montserrat College of Art’s 301 Cabot Street Gallery. \nThe Award Winners will receive varying amounts of scholarship to Montserrat’s Pre-College summer program and the U.S. Postal Service will provide students with the option of having their artwork displayed at their local post office. \nAt the conclusion of the exhibition\, the artwork of the Grand Award Winner will be sent to the U.S. Capitol Building where it will be displayed for one year with the work of other award winners from across the country. The winner from each district\, accompanied by one adult\, will be invited to attend the opening of that exhibition in Washington\, D.C. to be scheduled for a date in June. \nFor more information visit: https://www.montserrat.edu/news/HS_Congressional.php \nQuestions? \nContact: Jo Broderick \njo.broderick@montserrat.edu \n978.867.9613
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/6th-congressional-district-high-school-art-showmarch-5-march-10-2015/
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SUMMARY:Meryl Blinder: Aquatic
DESCRIPTION:The current installation in the Frame 301 space is Meryl Blinder’s: Aquatic on view through Sunday\, March 29\, 2015. The group of five panels represents Blinder’s interest in how color and patterns excite our visual pathways\, engage our senses and can be conveyed through the traditional mediums of oil painting and pencil drawing. \nThe painted canvas acts as both a window and a surface. Oil paint\, when loosely applied\, is translucent and the layering of colors conveys depth and space and pencil lines are precise and repetitive. They contrast with the depth of oil paint ground as they delicately incise the canvas surface. Blinder utilizes Orange and blue\, which are complements and opposites: the warm and cool colors appear to advance and recede. \nDrawing and color have had an important role throughout Blinder’s career. She spent 10 years working as a colorist for the architect Michael Graves. While there\, she worked on color models and renderings. She also created patterns and color for such projects as Disney Dolphin\, Swan hotels and the Denver Public Library. As a courtroom sketch artist\, Blinder documented events for television news stations in Connecticut and New York. Her work has also been commemorative; she has exhibited 2 drawing installations at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts on World AIDS day in 2000 and 2001 and her drawing in reaction to the World Trade Center bombing is in the permanent archive of the Library of Congress. Blinder currently has a studio in Boston and teaches color and drawing at the School on Architecture and Design at Wentworth Institute in Boston.
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/meryl-blinderaquaticjanuary-29-march-29-2015/
LOCATION:Frame 301 Gallery\, 301 Cabot Street\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Seven: A Performative Drawing Project
DESCRIPTION:Opening Reception: Every Friday 7-9pm\nHours\nMon. – Thurs. 10 am – 5 pm\nFri. 10 am – 1 pm \nEvents Hotline\n978.921.4242 x3 \nMontserrat Galleries is thrilled to announce the third iteration of SEVEN: A Performative Drawing Project from January 12 – March 28\, 2015. Over the course of seven weeks\, seven artists will be asked to ‘draw’ directed onto the seven gallery walls of Montserrat Gallery\, highlighting the performative aspects of drawing and the individual nature of each artist’s process. The gallery will operate as an open studio\, effectively putting the creative process on display. SEVEN challenges the traditional definition of ‘drawing’\, inviting artists to mark make in a variety of disciplines and considering the final drawings residue of an artistic performance. \nAugust Ventimiglia’s “Swell”\, a mural of blue chalk-snap lines resembling a wave\, will span an eighteen foot wall. Sign-painter Kenji Nakayama executes a meditative\, highly-trained craft to investigate personal and social realities. Samantha Fields deconstructs and reconstructs found textiles on a loom\, inspired by repetitive actions. Christopher Mir’s ‘automatic image collisions’ are paintings of contemporary mythologies influenced by song lyrics\, jpegs and photographs. Montserrat Alumnus Adam Miller’s commitment to comics and illustration emerge from his dynamic sequential drawings. Montserrat Faculty Mark Hoffmann incorporates influence of southern folk art and americana with a humorous and personal style. Nadia Westcott creates graphic murals with an emphasis on the ways in which public and site-specific art can empower viewer communities. \nJanuary 12 – 16: August Ventimiglia\nOpening Reception Friday\, January 16\, 7-9p \nJanuary 19 – 23: Kenji Nakayama\nOpening Reception Friday\, January 23\, 7-9p \nJanuary 26 – 30: Samantha Fields\nOpening Reception Friday\, January 30\, 7-9p \nFebruary 2 – 6: Christopher Mir\nOpening Reception Friday\, February 6\, 7-9p \nFebruary 9 – 13: Adam Miller\nOpening Reception Friday\, February 13\, 7-9p \nFebruary 16 – 20: Mark Hoffmann\nOpening Reception Friday\, February 20\, 7-9p \nFebruary 23 – 27: Nadia Westcott\nOpening Reception Thursday\, February 26\, 7-9p
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/seven-a-performative-drawing-project-january-12-march-28-2015/
LOCATION:Montserrat Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
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SUMMARY:Franklin Evans: juddrules
DESCRIPTION:Reception: Sept 17\, 5:00 – 8:00p \nGallery Hours\nMon. – Thurs. 10 am – 5 pm\nFri. 10 am – 1 pm \nOpen Studios: M – Th\, 11:10a – 12:30p \nEvents Hotline\n978.921.4242 x3 \nMontserrat College of Art is proud to present juddrules featuring New York-based artist Franklin Evans. While Evans considers himself first and foremost a painter his works are process-based physical environments\, surrounded by the very source materials that conceptually inform his paintings. “It’s like walking into a painting\,” describes Evans\, anticipating how Montserrat Gallery will evolve into a ‘landscape’ of ephemeral and factual materials over the course of his three week residency. \nAt first glance the space resembles a studio more than a gallery: long strands of painters tape\, unstretched canvas mounted to the walls\, books\, low resolution printed out photos and stacks of paper implies that the audience is literally “stepping into” a work in progress. Evans utilizes the gallery as a site of production\, rather than an endpoint in which show a “finished” product. By revealing cultural references influential to his work such as theoretical texts\, art historical documents\, exhibition press releases\, digital images\, etc.\, Evans creates a web of interconnected ideas. \nLeonie Bradbury\, Director and Chief Curator of Montserrat Galleries describes the artist’s work as a network. “The artwork exists in a state of flux\, continuously transitioning\, wavering between assembled and dismantled\, reconnecting and disconnecting\, configuring and reconfiguring to form moments of coalescence.” The inclusion of both found objects (tape\, photos\, books) and his fine art paintings work together to illustrate an expansive view into Evans’ history and biography as an artist. The flux between big picture thematics and personal items within the installation creates a constant loop of informing and influence. \nAnother way that Evans communicates sources of influence and inspiration is through the titles of his work. For example\, paintingassupermodel\, a recent solo-exhibition at Ameringer McEnery Yohe Gallery (New York) expanded upon three essays in Yves-Alain Bois’ book\, Painting as Model. For his exhibition at Montserrat\, Evans will work with the writings of Minimalist artist\, Donald Judd\, specifically those that were highlighted or underlined during Evans’ original reading of the text. Creating self-imposed guidelines or “rules” for which excepts to incorporate into the installation results in the title\, juddrules. \n*Franklin Evans will be in residence installing juddrules August 24 – September 16\, 2014. If you want to meet the artist or talk about his work come back during “open studio hours” Mondays-Thursdays 11:10am – 12:30pm OR contact Assistant Curator of Exhibitions\, Pam Campanaro: pamela.campanaro@montserrat.edu OR Curator of Education\, Maggie Cavallo: maggie.cavallo@montserrat.edu to schedule a visit. \nwww.franklinevans.com
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/franklin-evans-juddrulessept-17-dec-13-2014/
LOCATION:Montserrat Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
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