November 7, 2019 through November 23 2019
Opening Reception: November 5, 6-9pm
Third Thursday Reception: November 21, 6-9pm
Gallery Hours: Fridays and Saturdays, 2-6pm
or by appointment.

What happens when deserving mid-career artists decide that they want to hit the big time—the REALLY big time….as in the art world’s most prestigious biennial exhibits? For over a decade now the answer lies with the artist collaborative known as The Biennial Project. Formed by Eric Hess, Anna Salmeron and our friends, the “Project’s” objective is to develop a collective body of work that will ultimately be featured in as many biennial exhibitions as possible—especially the really cool ones.

Once again The Biennial Project is letting you in on a few of our latest endeavors in the form of a brand new show at Atlantic Works Gallery. We are calling it In Bed with The Biennial Project because so many fantastic artists from all over the world have been sweet enough, and well smart enough, to work with us, thereby getting ‘in bed with us’. We also derived the title from a piece we saw in Havana, Cuba by notorious artist and close friend Nonardo Perea entitled ‘In Bed with Nonardo’.

When you come visit the gallery you will be greeted by us actually in a real bed. Please join us in the sack. You can watch Teen Mom with us and even eat on the mattress with us.

Also at the show we will be having affordable botox by The Boston Beauty Nurse, Rachel Moloney RN, BSN who happens to be our cosmetic professional as well as that of a lot of other legendary artists. I mean you can’t find fame in the art world with out looking your very best. Your art work isn’t going sell itself!! Bring your checkbook (or Venmo app)!!

Acclaimed photographer Paul Weiner has agreed to do a limited number of artist portrait sessions using his seductive flashlight technique during the reception. We will have a stylist on call to help you into the most fabulous yellow attire supplied by us. The flashlight photos he took of us in Venice, during the opening week of The Venice Biennale, will be on display as well.

The Biennial Project will also be trumpeting snip bits of some of our performance art over the past few years which will include videos of the Biennial Project Marching through The Venice Biennale in out full yellow clad glory with a petition to demand our spot in the next Biennale and our windshield washing campaign we held to ‘welcome’ the ICA to our long time neighborhood of East Boston. We will also be displaying the work we did when we participated in The 00bienal de la habana in Havana Cuba last year.

These and more art will be on exhibition at Atlantic Works Gallery by The Biennial Project for a chunk of November. Come out to the reception for fun, botox, food, photography and to ride our coattails to fame and fortune in the art world or maybe the under worlds.

October 5, 2019 through October 26 2019
Opening Reception: Saturday, October 5, 6-9pm
Third Thursday Reception: October 17, 6-9pm
Gallery Hours: Fridays and Saturdays, 2-6 pm,
or by appointment.

In Paris Stories & Sicily: It’s Complicated …, the artists are exploring their origins and how they influence who we are through stories and various places. From physical locations to the world of the invisible and beliefs, we are who we are through our experiences and stories we have heard, created or followed. In their two-person exhibition, Sandrine Colson and Diane Modica, each tell stories about places close to their heart and beliefs by taking you through a journey of imagination or reality depending on the tale being represented under their brush.

For Sandrine, her journey as a painter began from childhood influenced by her grandmother’s artistic guidance and continued through various studies, her world travels, native Provence in France and current Boston residence.  In her Paris Stories, a series of unique and original pieces of mixed media work each tell a different story about the “city of light.” Each piece – represents unique events, memories, words, and accounts of fictional or real people, past events or emotional journeys related to Paris. Each invites the viewer to let his or her imagination decides where the story goes, somewhat guided by the composition created.

For Modica, this exhibit reflects her continuing search for the connection to her family roots in Sicily. A Boston native, both sets of her grandparents emigrated from Mineo, Sicily to the U.S. in the early 1900’s. While one raised its family in Boston and the other in Portland, Maine, the two sides always remained in contact with one another.

As in previous shows, Modica mines the complex and rich history and heritage of her Sicilian roots. Sicily, a strategically located  island at the boot of Italy , survived centuries of invaders including Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Arabs, Normans, Swabians and Spanish all of whom left their mark on the island and its people. Using colorful mixed media including painting, collage, stitching, textiles and written text, she finds a visceral and visual bond of the past with the present.

Solo exhibition of paintings on folded paper by X Bonnie Woods

Map Fragments

Sept 1-29, 2019

Opening Reception: Sunday, Sept. 8, 4-7pm
Third Thursday party and artist’s talk: Sept. 19, 6-9pm
Gallery Hours: Fridays and Saturdays, 2-6 pm, or by
appointment. (781-426-5827)

X Bonnie Woods is an artist based in Boston and Berlin, Germany. Her works challenge traditional ideas about artistic materials and boundaries. She has exhibited her paintings and photos widely in the U.S. and Europe. The paintings are often map-like, and sometimes include hidden elements of language.

The newest series includes “Map Fragments,” her glimpse into the piecemeal and fragmentary way that contemporary Americans have come to view the world.

Woods paints on folded printmaking paper with Sumi, a dense black Asian ink. Large-scale works done outdoors often incorporate rain or snow. Relief printing and ink washes dominate. Her playful use of water tension, gravity, and the random effects of weather are important parts of the process.