Upcoming Events for the Week of October 26th
South Boston Open Studios
When: October 31-November 01, 2009
Where:”Public transportation is easy, take the Red Line to Broadway and walk East, or take the #7 City Point bus from South Station to Elkins St.”
How: Official Website
Cost: Free
What/Why:”Artists and craftspeople of South Boston will open their doors to the public Saturday and Sunday, October 31st and November 1, 2009, as part of the annual South Boston Open Studios event. Visitors will be able to talk to and make purchases directly from the artists while touring the creative environments in which the artwork is produced. The weekend-long event also provides a great opportunity to sample many of this historic neighborhood’s restaurants, cafes, pubs, and retail shops.
Numerous disciplines will be represented throughout the dozens of participants, including: sculpture, painting, drawing, printmaking, installation, photography, video, jewelry, ceramics, woodworking, fabric and performance art. Much of the work will be in-process and the artists will be on hand for questions and conversations. Participating organizations and galleries include The Distillery (which will showcase three galleries and over 50 artists) located at 516 East 2nd Street, King Terminal at 110 K Street & 570 E 1st Street, and Norman Crump Studio at 793 East Sixth Street.
The event is free to the public, rain or shine, noon to 6pm each day. “
The Shadow of Italy
When:October 29-November 28, 2009
Where:Rolly-Michaux Gallery
290 Dartmouth Street
Boston MA
How: Official Website
Cost: Free
What/Why:”“Italy - rich with artisanship, splendor and beauty - is part of my heritage, and has cast its influence upon my life and family. In this series, I have focused on the elusive shadow to accentuate and counterpoint the color, texture and feel of my photographic images.”
Fixed Chaos
When: October 30, 2009-January 23, 2010
Where:Montserrat Gallery
23 Essex Street
Beverly, MA 01915
How: Official Website
Cost: Free
What/Why:” In Fixed Chaos, ceramic sculptures embody contemporary ideas of provisional form and ambiguous content. The works allude to traditional ceramic forms, but break down the relationship with alternately blunt and surreal qualities. A blue-and-white ware vase bloats in exaggerated lumps and saggy handles. Fu Lions with humorous grimaces flirt with tiny damsels in distress. A Buddha head balances upside-down with a rose garnish, and a hobo clown’s eyes open in continual bloom in a claymation video. The exhibition includes figural and abstract pieces by Mark Cooper, Ryan Mitchell, Saya Moriyasu and Allison Schulnik.”
Contemporary Outlook:Seeing Sounds
When: October 26, 2009-February 21, 2010
Where:Museum of Fine Arts
Avenue of the Arts
465 Huntington Avenue
Avenue of the Arts
Boston, Massachusetts
How: Official Website
Cost: Free
What/Why:”Technology has rendered music more accessible and pervasive than ever before. MP3 players are omnipresent; every cell phone can make a statement about the owner’s musical taste. Music is everywhere, and in the process has become both more public and more private. We all travel through life with our own soundtrack—sometimes others can hear it; sometimes it’s ours alone.
Visual artists, however, have been inspired by music throughout history. They have responded by transforming something that is arguably intangible, into visual, physical form. “Seeing Songs” presents an eclectic mix of work—mainly from the Museum’s collections—that draws on music as inspiration, focusing on abstract as well as representational art and connections to musical forms as varied as classical, jazz, and pop. From lyrical works on paper by Wassily Kandinsky and a painting by Stuart Davis that depicts music as gesture and improvisation, to recent videos by Gillian Wearing and Candice Breitz that explore the relationship between pop stars and their fans, this exhibition brings together an international group of artists in whose work we see songs.”
Ben Norris: American Modernist, 1910-2006
When:October 26-November 14, 2009
Where:Childs Gallery
169 Newbury Street
Boston, MA 02116
How: Official Website
Cost: Free
What/Why:”This retrospective spans the career of the artist, from his early impressions of Paris to painterly California landscapes and abstracted Hawaiian vistas, wrapping up with figurative works and dreamscapes painted in New York.”
