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January 2019

Atlantic Works presents:

UFOs (Unfinished Objects)

January 11-26, 2019

Put on your winter art-smart-fun hat and come on over to Atlantic Works Gallery to witness a superb collection of UFOs. With a bit of nudging, our artists have agreed to show the public works-in-progress. Not an ordinary gallery-going experience! You will have a unique behind-the-scene look at the process of making art, be invited to give us your two cents, and collaborate in constructive completion.

You’ll see a few extraordinary sculptures searching for the perfect base; a drawing that may be begging for one more line; an almost-done painting waiting for a few more dabs of yellow. We’ll have clipboards, pencils and paper for visitors to leave comments.

If you’d like to hear how artist’s critique fellow artists’ work, our Artist Reception on January 17th will be both an opportunity to listen to thoughtful people and a warm winter party on the East Boston waterfront.

Artists Reception: Thursday, January 17, 6-9 pm
Gallery Hours: Fridays and Saturdays, 2-6 pm,
or by appointment

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December 2018

M I R A N D A

New works by George Shaw and Dominick Takis presented by Atlantic Works Gallery

December 1-28, 2018.

A wink and a smile and a kiss good-bye
Good-bye, so long, I hope that I will see you …

    –  Miranda- from “Slowdrive”

Time is present in memory. Takis and Shaw’s work are an accumulation of layers, representing time as sedimentary rock, housing memory layering upon memory; some are recognizable, and some memories reside where we rarely access them, waiting to come to the surface.  The name “Miranda” means worthy of recognition. Revelation and meaning has a way of finding the way to the top of our waking dreams.

Both artists use a combination of materials to create their work, ranging from lichen and industrial materials to cold wax, found objects, and spray paint.

George Shaw

“I’m a lousy fisherman, don’t have balls to be a hunter, too lazy to be a lawyer, too honest to be a politician. I decided to build stuff to put a roof over my head and to answer that nagging voice to figure out why I’m alive. That’s about it.  I’m a carpenter and an artist, nothing more, nothing less – hoping I’m helping me and you to figure it all out.”

Dominick Takis

“90’s dream pop’s Slowdive’s “Miranda” is the inspiration for this work. The sound is delicate and moody. It is layered, abstracted and textured. My art is texture and surface, transparent and opaque. The music reinforces and directs my pallet and tints. I get caught up in its dream and it takes me places, not unconsciously but parental. My use of lichen and its symbiotic existence reinforces my symbiotic relationship with music. I need it to paint.”

There will be an opening reception on Saturday, December 1st, 2018, from 6-9pm

The Third Thursday reception and Artists’ Talk will take place on December 20, from 6-9pm.

 

Atlantic Works Gallery

80 Border Street East Boston MA 02128

contact@atlanticworksgallery.org – 857 302 8363

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public hours 2-6p Friday & Saturday, by appointment, and during events

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November 2018

SAVϴRY/asIS/
A show of new works by Audrina Bell Warren and Michael St.Germain, presented at Atlantic Works Gallery, November 2-25 2018.

Individuals in recent polls lament the rapid passage of time and express desire to be more aware and present in life. The solution, say many, equates to slowing down and taking it all in.

Congruent with those aforementioned desires to be more aware and present, the work in AS IS speaks to immediacy, and the responsibility of individuals to accept a frame reference in said form. Deferring to intuition and gut responses, the artist makes rapid mechanical decisions, which explore aesthetic territory beyond the edges of logic and reason. The artist calls the selection of objects and drawings offered in AS IS “fruits of a fool’s errand”.
The SAVeRY is a satirical value analysis – an anecdotal proposal for a place where recognition of worth appreciates, the way a bank functions as an intermediary of trust, providing an institutional “stamp” of approval on all the functions protecting the value of assets saved within it. The context touches upon hyper-localized exchanges of goods and services, as mirrors of those on display around the world. Visitors to the SAVϴRY will likely recognize the connections between proximity to opportunity, and a society asleep and enslaved by capitalism.

Opening celebration and “Brunch” November 3 from 1-4pm
Third Thursday reception November 15 from 6-9pm

In addition, the artists will host “Values” a conversation and virtual forum on “what we find valuable”, a discussion of anything worth considerable value, during regular gallery hours November 9 from 2-6pm. Support for this event provided by its contributors and Cultural Liability Corporation ©

Atlantic Works Gallery
80 Border Street East Boston MA 02128
contact@atlanticworksgallery.org – 857 302 8363
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public hours 2-6p Friday & Saturday, by appointment, and during events

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October 2018

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

October 6-27

Atlantic Works Gallery presents

Receptions 6-9pm

October 6 OPENING

October 18 THIRD THURSDAY

Justin C. Rounds’ work depicts the everyday shopping cart in image and object, deconstructing and reconstructing the icon of consumer capitalism in an effort to transform the viewer’s perspective on our environmentally and socially destructive buying habits. Salvaged materials are manipulated to create artworks which evoke the tension between nature and the industrialized urban landscape.

For this exhibit, Leigh Hall has reinvented her wall drawing technique from the early 2000’s, working with black masking tape on heavy-weight drawing paper. The result is a large and detailed work, East Boston Greenway, presented as 26 distinct pieces assembled to create a larger-than-life landscape, which crosses the boundaries between realism and abstraction.

Gallery hours: October 6-27: Fridays and Saturdays 2-6pm and by appointment. atlanticworks.org | 80 Border St., 3rd Floor, East Boston, MA 02128 contact@atlanticworks.org | 857-302-8363

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September 2018

September 8 – 29, 2018
ATLANTIC WORKS GALLERY PRESENTS

Fabrications

paintings by Diane Teubner and Brian Jude Reardon

RECEPTIONS 6-9PM
SEPTEMBER 8 OPENING
SEPTEMBER 20 THIRD THURSDAY

Two painters respond to the made, constructed, assembled.
Diane Teubner attends to interval, measure, and rhythms in her paintings, looking
to textiles – their structure, designs, and embellishments – as a source for her
explorations.

Brian Jude Reardon creates paintings of classic vehicles and farm tractors,
experimenting with the play of bright colors as they describe form. For Reardon,
they are simple objects of desire executed in oil.

Gallery hours:

September 8 – 29 Fridays and Saturdays 2-6pm

and by appointment.

ATLANTICWORKS.ORG | 80 BORDER ST., 3RD FLOOR, EAST BOSTON, MA 02128

contact@ATLANTICWORKS.ORG | 857-302-8363

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July 2018

July 19 – August 18, 2018
ATLANTIC WORKS GALLERY PRESENTS
15 Years on the Edge:

Atlantic Works Gallery’s anniversary celebration

featuring members of the gallery
RECEPTIONS 6-9PM
JULY 19 OPENING
AUGUST 16 CLOSING

The Atlantic Works Building at 80 Border Street in East Boston is visible on maps as
early as 1892, as part of a large parcel owned by the Atlantic Works Company. By
2001, the building consisted primarily of artists' studios.

When a large room on the top floor became available in late 2002, a number of
artists decided to pool their resources and rent it as a group, using the space both
for exhibits and whatever creative endeavors seemed appropriate. This was the
birth of Atlantic Works – A Collaborative Space for Art and Ideas. The inaugural
exhibit was held in February of 2003.

Several of the original 22 people who were in the inaugural show are still active
members today. Our newest members joined as recently as this year.

Join us for a show celebrating our fifteen years as co-op gallery and space for
nurturing and encouraging artists.

Gallery hours are Fridays and Saturdays 2-6pm and by appointment.
ATLANTICWORKS.ORG | 80 BORDER ST., 3RD FLOOR, EAST BOSTON, MA 02128

contact@ATLANTICWORKS.ORG | 857-302-8363

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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

Boston Biennial 5 PostcardBoston Biennial 5 Postcard (back)

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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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