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June 2018

Discovery and Discernment…A Journey Back to Now

Featuring new works  by artists Diane Modica and Sandrine Colson

June 2-23

Opening Reception – Saturday, June 2, 6-9pm

Artists Explore Heritage at Atlantic Works Gallery Exhibit 
Modica and Colson each explore their rich ancestry and heritage and the connections that the past and the present create within us.  This includes the confluence of the visible and invisible forces;  the communal nature that we all share  with the past and with one another and  the seen and unseen history that influences our   personal experience. No one  gets in or out of time without resilience, trauma and gifts. 
 
Modica’s work reflects her Sicilian heritage launching her on a journey  to her family’s roots in Sicily.  Her  work represents connections  and emotions born out of a very complex island that has survived centuries of invaders who actually shaped the Sicilian psyche. Modica remarks  “I believe   that once you  really dig into your family roots a lot is revealed about why you are who you are “.
 
 
Colson comes   from a family of artists.  She is originally from Provence, France . Her work reflects her rich family history and their  journey throughout Europe and North Africa. Colson states”  My work is a continuing experimentation with form, color and medium letting innovation and creativity materialize on the canvas leaving it to the viewer’s imagination to finish the story that I started making. magination visible.”
 
 The Atlantic Works Gallery is the premier visual arts organization in East Boston and has occupied 80 Border Street  for 15 years. The artists  work in a collaboration to produce monthly exhibits by members at the space  . 
 
 The Gallery shares  building space  with the East Boston Artists Group which hosts  the annual East Boston Open Studios with generous support from the East Boston Foundation and with  financial support from involved  local business sponsors.

Gallery hours: Friday-Saturday 2-6pm or by appointment

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May 2018

Atlantic Works Gallery
is proud to host

The Revolution Will Not Be…

May 4, 2018 through May 26, 2018

Opening Reception – Saturday, May 5, 6-9pm

3rd Thursday Reception and artist talks– May 17th  6-9pm

 

The Revolution Will Not Be…
A dilemma for an artist is how to make art out of information that most of us would rather ignore. This May, at Atlantic Works Gallery, leading Boston Artists focus on the political character and power of art. Their honest, intimate and visceral work is both personal and historical, with surprising juxtapositioning of images, such as the high color guillotine next to a headless nude besieged by digital gadgets. The collection reveals the mechanisms of power in all its manifestations with the intent to impact the viewer into being an active participant in the information circuit.
            “At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that
             the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling
              of love.”
                               …..Che Guevara
Atlantic Works continues to be a space for artistic expression amid the web of economic and cultural circuits that continues to determine the experience of artists in this region. Here we encourage the artist to speak their voice, show their stuff and express solidarity.

Gallery hours: Friday-Saturday 2-6pm or by appointment

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April 2018

Atlantic Works Gallery
is proud to host

Boston Biennial 5

presented by The Biennial Project

April 7, 2018 through Ap, 2018

Opening Reception – Saturday, April 7, 6-9pm

3rd Thursday Reception and capsule artist talks– April 19th  6-9pm

Closing Reception– Sunday, April 22nd, 4-6pm

3rd Thursday Reception and capsule artist talks– April 19th 6-9pm

“So much gorgeous and successful work from a diverse group of artists based around the country and the world. The Biennial Project’s commitment to building connections between artists here and elsewhere is utterly refreshing. To see them and their collaborators at work is to see artists at the top of their game – working without the net of institutional support, but obviously having a hell of a good time in the process – and nurturing personal and working relationships and networks that feel downright subversive in this day and age.” Critic Alec Onsemska on the Boston Biennial

Building on the very positive critical response to 2016’s Boston Biennial 4, The Biennial Project is excited to announce that the Boston Biennial 5 will take place at Atlantic Works Gallery this April, 2018.

This highly anticipated 5th installment of the Boston Biennial brings together art from all over the US, twelve other countries and 5 continents.

All accepted art work will be displayed via a large screen digital presentation in the gallery.

In addition, fourteen prizewinning artists chosen by The Biennial Project from among the accepted work will have their art exhibited in the gallery.

Gallery hours: Friday-Saturday 2-6pm or by appointment, and Saturday/Sunday April 21st and 22nd 12-6pm as part of East Boston Open Studios

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March 2018

Thin Places:

Bo Petran, Stephanie Arnett and invited guests

March 3, 2018 through March 30, 2018

Opening Reception – Saturday, March 3rd, 6-9pm

3rd Thursday Reception – March 15th  6-9pm

In Thin Places, we are divested of the illusion that our mundane world is wholly separate from the world of the invisible.  The phrase is Celtic in origin and unlike similar concepts of oneness with the divine from other cultures, it refers to a physical location where we can peek through to a greater beyond. In their two-person exhibition with invited guests, Bo Petran and Stephanie Arnett present a look behind the veil.

For Petran, his  journey as a painter and sculptor began with his choice to cross between two worlds: from the Czechoslovakian border to West Germany with a machine gun in his hand.  His Thin Place will represent a physical space cultivated for creative flow.

Arnett is a lapsed painter, and a photographer by trade,  She’ll be showing her recent experiments with flow painting in a continuation of the narrative of space exploration from her Away Mission series.

ATLANTIC WORKS GALLERY is East Boston’s Collaborative Space for Art and Ideas. Established in 2003, it is a member-operated gallery located on the top floor of 80 Border Street on the waterfront. It is T-accessible (Maverick stop on the Blue Line) and there is usually ample parking.  For detailed directions, information about members, future shows, etc, please visit atlanticworks.org.

For more information or to schedule a private press viewing, contact Stephanie via email: (steph@stephaniearnett.com) or phone (617-388-6250)

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February 2018

New Members Show

“Point of View” by Diane Modica and “New Works” by Justin Rounds 

February 3 – 24, 2018

Opening Reception: Saturday, February 3, 6-9pm

Third Thursday Reception: February 15, 6-9pm

About the Artists

Diane Modica was born and raised in East Boston where she resides. A lawyer by day, she is a self-taught artist who has gained significant insights from classes, workshops, reading, traveling, history, heritage, faith, politics, people and other artists. By observing and engaging in life and all its emotional, and often unseen and unknown connections, her work resonates with surprise.  Her work is both abstract and representational in in all media-water color, oil, acrylic, collage, textile and whatever else calls out to her.

Modica approaches art with an intuitive spirit. While her knowledge and experience may come from years of engagement, intuition is a special gift that guides her artistic expression.

She believes that observing history, everyday objects, nature and life with an open mind can force a whole new perspective, or point of view, freedom from conventional perceptions and the release of imagination from its persistent constraints.

Modica says, “My finished pieces may change with the manner, mood and place from which I view them. It shows me that small marks, gestures and variations in art and life can inform me in an entirely different way.  Sometimes that different point of view is hidden until you search and it reveals itself. The key is an open mind. Points of view will find you if you let them”.

To schedule a private viewing and press interview at a more convenient time, please contact Diane Modica at 617 567-7200.

 

 Justin Rounds is a transmedia artist, musician, and educator living and working in Boston, Massachusetts. Employing painting, performance, and interactivity, his work investigates dynamics of power and control in culture and society, using processes emerging from the  intersection of art and technology. He is an active member of Atlantic Works Gallery in East Boston, adjunct faculty at Northeastern University, and passionate about helping people use technology creatively. You can find his work on line at justincrounds.org

 

Begun in 2003, Atlantic works Gallery, East Boston’s Collaborative Space for Art and Ideas, is a member-operated gallery located on the top floor of 80 Border Street on the waterfront of East Boston. It is nearby the Maverick T stop on the Blue Line. Parking is available in the 80 Border Street Lot,  and  on and around Border Street.  Please visit us at www.atlantic works.org and on Facebook.

Gallery hours: Fridays and Saturdays 2-6pm, or by appointment

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January 2018

Art Basil

January 12 – 27, 2018

Opening Reception and Artist Talks: Thursday, January 18, 6-9pm

 

Atlantic Works Gallery has a history of staging offbeat group shows to satisfy the personalities and talents of our eclectic artist members…

 

…so, this past summer, when one of our members climbed up a ladder to get basil from his rooftop garden only to fall off the ladder and bust his face up but good, we joked that the portrait he took of himself after returning from the hospital should be titled Art Basil.  

 

And then it hit us–our first 2018 group show must be Art Basil! What better way to play off the whole ART BASEL thing and its attendant hoopla and, at the same time, challenge ourselves to create amazing new work for the new year.

 

Another of our extraordinary members had the idea for an Art Basil cookbook that showcases AWG art and basil recipes, which we promptly got to work on.  

 

Now you have it in your hand: the ART BASIL cookbook. And we’re inviting you to come see the exciting ART BASIL show.  (You can check out the remarkable transformation happening on the East Boston Waterfront, too, in which AWG is prime art player.)

 

FOR MORE INFO, or to request another Art Basil cookbook, or a private viewing*, contact Anna Salmeron at annasalmeron@comcast.net or 617.913.1871, or Christine Palamidessi at christine@palamidessi.com or 617.460.0550.

 

Gallery hours: Fridays and Saturdays 2-6pm, or by appointment*

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December 2017

Nexus

work by Marjorie Kaye and Carmen Sasso

December 1-23, 2017

Nexus represents a constellation of ideas circulating in the present, originating with the ancients, and manifesting in the sculpture and painting of artists Marjorie Kaye and Carmen Sasso.

Marjorie Kaye examines the relationship between recent two dimensional paintings and three dimensional sculptures.  The paintings see interrelationships between shapes along the surface, as if there were entities co-existing within the space.  They encouraged three dimensional pieces that seemed to have jumped out of the surface, escaping from the confines of the second dimension. There is a dichotomy present in the works, from subtlety to complexity; iteration to minimalism.   Together the works address the balance between two disciplines, and the singular worlds that arise from their interaction, as in a thought giving way to the crystallization of form.

Carmen Sasso works with ideas which resonate with solace from the Old Testament through the Psalms of David, praising God, and confirming faith through the management of fear.  Echoes of gratitude sung from a simple shepherd thousands of years past are still heard today and offer calm to a modern person suffering the same.

Each artist approaches the meeting point between structure and idea. Both offer an elixir to the malaise of the present in the forms of joy, reverence and contemplation.

Opening Reception: December 2, 6-9pm
Third Thursday Reception and Artists’ Talk: December 22, 6-9pm
Gallery Hours: Friday and Saturday, 2-6pm or by appointment

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November 2017

Silent. Silence. Silenced

2017-11 Silent Silence Silenced Palamidessi

November 4 – 25, 2017

Silent. Silence. Silenced, at Atlantic Works Gallery, pits the duality of quietude vs. inquietude within a provacative month-long show that is likely to stir up some controversy.

Exploring the particulars of silence, Boston artists Charlene Liska and Christine Palamidessi slide between sound made visible and the unquiet silence of nature; between the shrouding of a spokesperson and the aftershock of decapitated explosives. Each artist takes a different approach while working together to consider both the existential character of silence as well as the modes-of-being that cause us to remain or appreciate the silent, whether we have been made speechless by regime or silenced by awe.

Palamidessi’s sculptural work and monoprints re-mythologize noisy historical and contemporary events, with deliberate subtraction of sound and actions of self-censorship.

Using video and photography, Liska layers the psychological with the scientific, looking at the unreliability of perception and sound, the anxiety resulting from loss of signal, and, finally, the joy of small sounds.

Several artists have been invited to participate in the Silent. Silence. Silenced exhibition:
Christine Coënon, French sound artist.
John Wilkinson, Boston mobile maker.

Opening Reception and Special Event:Saturday, November 4, 6-9pm
“Everything You Wanted to Know About Abaya But Didn’t Know Who to Ask”
Three Arab women, in full black abaya, will answer questions about the experience of being silenced, or not, by their garments; as well as share the cultural history of the abaya.
Third Thursday Artist Talks: Thursday, November 16, 6-9pm
Gallery Hours 2:00-6:00 pm Fridays and Saturdays, or by appointment

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October 2017

Here and There

New England artists investigate place

Saturday October 14 – Friday October 27th

“[Places] give us continuity, something to return to, and offer a familiarity that allows some portion of our own lives to remain connected and coherent.”

Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby

Vermont College of Fine Arts offers a low-residency MFA in Visual Art program, and so students of the program inevitably end up thinking about place and what it means. The program is here (Montpelier, Vermont) and it is there (wherever students live and work). Threads from across the country and sometimes globe meet in Montpelier and connect students, teachers and alumni. In Here and There, thirteen alumni of the program offer their interpretations of place and what it means to them. In addition to attending VCFA, Renee Lauzon, Muriel Angelil, Heather Park, Chip Rutan, Sumru Tekin, Kim Darling, Valerie Hird, Sabrina Fadial, Brian Zeigler, Samantha Eckert, Wendy Powell, Maggie Nowinski and Leah Grimaldi have lived or currently live and work in New England.

Opening Reception Saturday, October 14, 6-9pm
Third Thursday Reception and Artist Talk Thursday, October 19, 6-9pm
Gallery Hours 2-6pm Fridays and Saturdays, or by appointment

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September 2017

Narrow

new work by Perla Casteneda and Kristen Freitas

September 9 – 30, 2017

Both artists will examine the reality of the world around them. Come broaden your world!

Perla will showcase her recent trip to Guatemala through photographs, video and
installation. Her work will focus on the ideals of the quality of life, culture and its expectations,
and her husband’s identity while in his native country. Perla will examine how each world relates
and differs.

Kristen will dig deep into the emotional and physical ideals of society. These ideals that
we either choose to accept or push away. Our choice determines our emotional wellbeing.
Narrow will focus on an imposed and socially acceptable reality and how it can affect your
surroundings.

Opening Reception: Saturday, September 9, 6-9PM
Third Thursday Reception and Artist Talks: Thursday, September 21, 6-9PM
Gallery Hours: Fridays & Saturdays, 2-6 PM or by appointment

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