Upcoming Events for the Week of October 19th
Where are We?
When:October 15-November 04, 2009
Where:The Chazen Gallery at Wheeler
228 Angell Street
Providence, RI 02906
How: Official Website
Cost: Free
What/Why:”The Chazan Gallery at Wheeler is showing an exhibition of figurative work entitled Where Are We? by artists Clara Lieu, Eric Sung, Julie Gearan and Brian O’Malley from October 15 to November 4, 2009. There will be an opening reception for the artists on Gallery Night, Thursday, October 15, from 5 – 7 p.m. The public is invited.
Clara Lieu’s large drawings are done in lithographic crayon on multiple translucent layers to “investigate ways to visually represent the emotional and physical experience of individual isolation in groups. The drawings depict figure groups wading in water to portray loneliness as the experience of feeling unseen and unknown within a group.” Lieu has an MFA degree from the New York Academy of Art and a BFA from RISD. She has taught at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and The Art Institute of Boston, and more recently been a critic and lecturer at Wellesley and RISD and has exhibited her work in numerous solo and group exhibitions.
Eric Sung sees his images as “photographic relics, captured as the participant enacts a prescribed ceremony. Influenced by Taoism and Buddhism, the interaction of ritual performances, matter, and location describes the act of transformation. The long exposures ensure both the suspension of sequenced movement and the disappearance of other elements.” Born in Korea, Sung has been a resident of the US since 1993 and has exhibited his work in several solo and group exhibitions. He holds an MFA from Indiana University and is currently an Asst Professor of Photography at Providence College.
Julie Gearan’s recent paintings “explore and visually define the liquid nature of the human experience… My subjects are drawn from life and memory, and it is often the observation of a small domestic moment that will inspire a greater theme.” Gearan holds a BFA from Tyler School of Art and an MFA from Indiana University with studies at Yale, Temple and the Art Students League. She has shown her work in numerous exhibitions and she is the recipient of several grants, including a Rhode Island State Council of the Arts fellowship in 2007.
Brian O’Malley’s small ink drawings are part of a larger series entitled Survey of Human Activity. The drawings “engage with human activities, gestures, emotions, fantasy” and explore “how these elements illuminate stories/narratives.” O’Malley holds an MFA from the University of Miami and a BFA from the University of Rhode Island. His work has been shown in numerous exhibitions and he is currently an adjunct faculty member at the University of Rhode Island.”
Second Nature
When:October 16-November 29, 2009
Where:Provincetown Art Association and Museum
460 Commercial Street
Provincetown, MA 02657
How: Official Website
Cost: Free
What/Why:”Vico Fabbris, Susan Lyman, Michael Mazur, and Nathalie Miebach-The four artists in this exhibition explore contemporary responses to nature, re-interpreting Hans Hofmann’s dictum, declared in 1950: “The creative process lies not in imitating, but in paralleling nature-translating the impulse received from nature into the medium of expression, thus vitalizing this medium.”“
Mechanical Migration; A Flight of Fancy
When: October 16 - November 22, 2009
Where:Gallery 263
How: Official Website
Cost: Free
What/Why:”Miniature cranks, pulleys and music boxes bring to life the images and characters in these mechanical collages; Erica von Schilgen’s artworks are intended to be played with. The works stir a silent awe that quickly blooms to audible joy, and while hinting at Victorian collages, Cornell’s assemblages, surrealism, and early stopmotion animation, the works are their own imaginative contemporary creations. By using vintage magazine images, many works in the show tend to bring back memories of a place, person or time that no longer exists.
The title piece of the show, “Flight of Fancy”, features a young girl climbing on piles of huge green peas and flying a living kite while birdlike creatures beckon her kite in unison. The largest piece is a family portrait of sorts in which five siblings and various animals come alive amid a dream-like landscape as they engage in the task of catching fully articulated mechanical butterflies. Please come in and join us on this mechanical migration, on this flight of fancy… “
Make A Wish
When: October 20-November 14, 2009
Where: 119 Gallery
119 Chelmsford St
Lowell MA 01851
How: Official Website
Cost: Free
What/Why:”A three-channel video projection, Make a Wish combines images of thunder storms and water with an accompanying soundtrack of voiced concerns to envelop the gallery in an electrical storm of uncertainty. Watery surfaces spill with a myriad of visions that form a layered collage of contemporary troubles. Mixing real and virtual imagery, Dumas creates multiple points of view that redefine domestic, political, ecological, social, and economic ideas.
“My work addresses psychologically charged situations, while exploring the language and its inventive uses, to visually translate aspects of human behaviour and consciousness. This takes form in the metaphorical situations I create, in which I perform, film, or use my sculptures as theatre or as actors.” — Dumas
Dumas’ installation is intended to empower us eliciting our resolve in the face of real and conjured threats. Like the artist, we are to summon our own sense of individual identity as a rudder to navigate through confusing circumstances and environments.
A Canadian sculptor and multi-media artist, Denise Dumas investigates boundaries and identity. As an immigrant, she is keenly aware of the borders and intersections of cultural, social and political interaction. Dumas believes that reality changes according to the environment and social context that we inhabit. She finds that current economic ills and political fears have created an insidious climate of insecurity that permeates our daily lives. Dumas’ video installation is a metaphor for this troubled climate, her stormy environment mirroring the unsettling times in which we live.”
‘Geomorphics’-Changing Art for a Changing Landscape
When: October 23-November 22, 2009
Where:Nave Gallery
PO Box 43600
Somerville, MA 02143
How: Official Website
Cost: Free
What/Why:”Nave Gallery presents the work of 13 contemporary artists investigating landscapes and their changes. The effects of human activity on these fragile spaces is questioned and depicted. The exhibit includes abstract painting, photography, and installation. Curated by Karl Gustafson. Artists: Joan Barker, Jason Burch, Kay Canavino, Cathleen Daley, GroundView, Julie Jankowski, Sarah Meyers, Ted Ollier, Christopher Poteet, Doug Purnell, Alicenne Reid, Blake Roberts, Noah Wilson.”
