Interview with HarborArts Executive Director Matt Pollock

[via The Boston Harbor Association]

Matt Pollock, a graphic artist and sculptor, is the executive director of HarborArts, a nonprofit sculpture park located in the Boston Harbor Shipyard and Marina in East Boston. With direct sight lines to Boston’s entire downtown waterfront, HarborArts’ Shipyard Gallery is Boston’s largest collection of contemporary public art.

“My goal as an artist and arts administrator is to redefine and expand Boston’s public art palate by working collaboratively to create, plan and implement alternative arts programming and exhibitions in the city.”

Matt and HarborArts are key partners in Summer on the Waterfront, a three-month annual festival involving thousands of cultural and recreational events along Boston’s waterfront from East Boston through Dorchester. For their work to increase East Boston’s visibility as a vibrant arts community, we are proud to honor Matt and HarborArts among this year’s Harbor Champions!

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Photos: One Moment On Going

New work by Carmen Sasso

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Plan 9 From Outer Space Screening

Tonight at Atlantic Works.

Can’t make the screening? Watch the full move here.

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December 2013

One Moment On Going

New work by Carmen Sasso

One Moment On Going is an exhibit that extracts a sculptural prototype from a Picasso painting. The Cubist 2D format is perceived as a blue print for 3D structure. The figurative constructions, reflective of a Picasso image, are then developed with personalities determined by Greek Myth representing Pluto, Neptune, Venus and Mercury. Surrounding these sculptural dispositions, similar to the Roman Colosseum, are 5×5 square canvas.

Each painting is created with one intent: To listen as lightening strikes, and to witness the Osprey snatching a fish from the sea.

Salvatore Quasimodo sums up this artist’s attitude with a poem: “every one of us stands alone on the heart of the earth, Transfixed by a beam of sun; And suddenly it is evening.”

Exhibition dates: December 5 – 28, 2013
Opening Reception: Thursday, December 5th, 6-9pm
3rd Thursday Party: December 19th, 6-9pm

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Rifrakt’s Annual Holiday Fair this Sunday

Art Fair at the LOFT

It’s an all-out feel-good Holiday Fair this weekend brought to you by Rifrakt! Featuring local artwork, live music, handmade crafts, photography, jewelry, clothing, chair massage, tarot card readings and baked goods. Get your holiday shopping done, get a massage, and enjoy some be complimentary coffee, tea, and wine. For more details and a list of participating artists, check out their Facebook Event page.

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Bring-Your-Own-Dog-Pandemonium-Dog-Party

Thursday, November 21, 6–9pm

Throughout November, Atlantic Works Gallery is hosting Missing Stories, a series of paintings and drawings by Shelah Horvitz. Since her work is about the commonalities between all manner of Us and Them, this month’s Third Thursday reception will be the

babyJesusBlessesTheDinosaurs_160px_wideArtist’s Talk: And if that weren’t enough, as part of the Pandemonium celebrations, Shelah will give an artist’s talk, in which she will read aloud her short story, “The Gospel According to the Texas Board of Education.”

You don’t have to bring a dog to come. Your kids are also welcome, as is anyone else, plant or animal, you like to have around.

We hope to see you there!

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November 2013

Missing Stories

Artwork by Shelah Horvitz

When people look at Horvitz’s paintings, they want to know the story. What is the bear looking at? Where is the owl going? Why? We make sense of the world through the stories we tell ourselves about our lives. Our stories reflect our passions, show our outlooks, and reveal our blind spots. The stories we tell are our self-portraits.

Horvitz’s paintings remind us of cave paintings, of children’s book illustrations, of religious paintings. They allude to times when our belief is pure and raw. But they have no easy answers. Her animals are neither cuddly nor vicious, they just are, trying to get by on their own terms, as we are. Her landscapes are open and full of menace or potential, depending on how you look at them. The story her painting triggers is your story, and it will change from view to view.

So when you look at one of Horvitz’s paintings, you may find yourself looking at yourself, at your most vulnerable, and at your most heroic. The story continues beyond the painting.

Exhibition dates: November 1–29, 2013
Opening Reception: Saturday November 9, 6–9PM
3rd Thursday Party: November 21, 6–9pm

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Review: She Who Tells a Story at the MFA

The Museum of Fine Arts is showing She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World featuring the work of photographers familiar to the local photography scene such as Rania Matar and Lalla Essaydi, as well as Shirin Neshat, Jananne Al-Ani, Boushra Almutawakel, Gohar Dashti, Rana El Nemr, Shadi Ghadirian, Tanya Habjouqa, Rula Halawani, Nermine Hammam, and Newsha Tavakolian.

Click here for a review of the show written by Stephanie Arnett for Big Red & Shiny.

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“Barriers” Opening Night

Here are some photos from last night’s Opening of “Barriers.” They don’t begin to do the work justice. Go See!

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The Magnetic Divine at Galatea Fine Art

The Magnetic Divine

“My work is a study of magnetism: repulsion, attraction, retreating, emerging. They cast shadows within planes of energy. Mirrored in the elemental universe, in oceans and earth, the sculptures resemble creature-like forms, meeting the other in symbiosis.  The dialogue between areas of formation suggests the complexity of life, which generates the multiplicity of cells and organisms.” -Marjorie Kaye

Gallery member Marjorie Kaye’s solo show entitled “The Magnetic Divine” opens this Friday at Galatea Fine Art in the South End.

Reception/First Friday: October 4th 6-9pm

Exhibition dates:  October 2-27, 2013

Galatea Hours:  W-F 12-6; Sa-Su 12-5

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