October 2013

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NEW ART WORK BY BO PETRAN AND MATTHEW KELLER

Things start out so promising, and then something gets in the way. Nothing goes according to plan. Psychological, spiritual and social difficulties crop up. They are our obstacles. They give us energy or they take it away. They are the friction that propels our way through life.

barriers is an art installation by Bo Petran and Matthew Keller that consists of a series of environments reflecting these obstacles.

Petran explores the energy we may gain from the physical experience of death and destruction. Through the burning of piled wooden planks, he creates a very tangible barrier and a spectacle resplendent of the beauty and elegance of death.

Keller delves into the intangible barriers etched into our psyches through the practice and ritual of organized religion— in his own case, through the Catholic Church. His space, patterned after an altar and confessional, alludes to the emotional walls created by past misdeeds. His barriers are created by the thrill of freedom and maintained by the thrill of shame. Keller’s barriers are cleansed by prayer.

The opening (which is free) includes a performance from former bartender of No. 9 Park, Tyler Jay Wang, of the creation of a cocktail and a conversation on subjects chosen by the artists. Purchase tickets from socialbarriers.eventbrite.com to pass the barrier to this performance.

Exhibition Dates: October 5 – 26, 2013
Opening Reception: Saturday, 05 October, 6-9 PM (free of charge)
Performance by Tyler Jay Wang: Saturday, 05 October, 6-9 PM (by ticket)
Third Thursday Reception/Artist Talk: Thursday, 17 October, 6-9 PM
Masquerade Closing Party: Friday, 25 October, 6-9 PM
Gallery Hours: Fridays and Saturdays 2-6 PM

September 29, 2013/by Nick DiStefano

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Congratulations to HarborArts on their 3rd annual festival!!

Congratulations to HarborArts from Atlantic Works on a super successful Festival this past Sunday, Sept. 21. 2013!! Everything looked wonderful and the marina was just bustling with art seekers! It was a beautiful day, the Sam Adams was flowing and the music was rumping at the end of the pier. The raffle winners from the Atlantic work booth to support the HarborArts Foundation will be announced shortly. Cannot wait to see beautiful some art find new homes for a fantastic cause!

Let us not forget to give a big THANK YOU to all of the volunteers who made this even possible! Can’t wait to see the photos! And cannot wait for the festival next year!

xoxo – jess

September 23, 2013/by Jess Stambaugh

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September 20, 2013/by Charlene Liska

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Local Artists-in-Residence at Grand Canyon

Local artists Johanna Finnegan-Topitzer and Jeremy Heflin were the National Park Service Artists-in-Residence at Grand Canyon National Park for the month of August this year. After acclimating to the heat and altitude, they set off on various hikes to collect pictures of scenery, visitors, park community, culture, flora, and fauna to put into their work. In the spirit of European curiosity cabinets and Asian curio boxes, Johanna and Jeremy have put together what they call “curio images.”

These large scale photographs look two dimensional from afar, but when viewed close up, have elements that stick out at the viewer. Reaching behind or opening these projections will reveal sculptures, books, and boxes that incite curiosity and give further insight about the canyon and the life within it. Johanna and Jeremy will talk about their work and the Grand Canyon AIR program on Saturday, September 28th, from 12 noon – 1 p.m at the National Park Service Faneuil Hall Visitor Center. Free and open to the public. Handicapped accessible.

For more information, please call (617) 242-5616.

September 12, 2013/by Nick DiStefano

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OccupyING the Present

Come to East Boston and check out OccupyING the Present >> An Exhibition of Temporary Site-Responsive Art at our friends, HarborArts, located in the Boston Harbor Shipyard and Marina, East Boston.

Opening Saturday, June 29, HarborArts, Inc. of East Boston presents a summer-long exhibition of temporary outdoor sculpture and installation on the waterfront at the Boston Harbor Shipyard and Marina in East Boston, through September 21. Curated by Brookline sculptor, videographer, and critic Elizabeth Michelman, OccupyING the Present expands the sculpture park’s collection of twenty-five semi-permanent works with sixteen new site-responsive pieces by Boston area artists. The works transform the materials and forms of Boston Harbor and the neighborhood of East Boston into a dialogue about impermanence, change, and creative thinking.

The opening celebration on Saturday June 29 from 3-8PM will include refreshments, familyoriented sculpture activities, a curator’s talk, and an evening jazz concert by the Joel Press Combo. Artist tours are offered throughout the summer, with Thursday evening artistled talks July 11 and August 8 at 6:30 PM, and Saturday tours July 20, August 17, Sept. 14 and 21 at 4:00 PM. The season closes with the HarborArts Festival all day on September 21. Further information and schedule of summer events at www.HarborArts.org, or www.StudiosWithoutWalls.org.

September 11, 2013/by Nick DiStefano

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September 11, 2013/by Leigh Hall

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Richard Mosse / The Enclave

Go over to Big Red & Shiny and check out the new article covering Richard Mosse’s The Enclave from the Venice Biennale 2013, by Atlantic Works’ very own member, Stephanie Arnett.

Read the full article here.

September 10, 2013/by Nick DiStefano

Special Events

Third Thursday Poetry Reading with Erica Anzalone and Andrew K. Peterson

The Atlantic Works Poetry Reading Series opens on September 19th with readings by poets Erica Anzalone and Andrew K. Peterson. The reading coincides with Atlantic Works’s exhibition, Through & Through. A gallery party kicks off at 6pm, with the readings beginning at 8pm.

Erica Anzalone holds an MFA from the University of Iowa and a Ph.D. from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where she was awarded a Schaeffer fellowship. Her first book, Samsara, is the winner of the 2011 Noemi Press Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared in Denver Quarterly, Hotel Amerika, Pleiades, the Colorado Review, and many other journals. She is currently Book Review Editor of the literary magazine Interim.

Andrew K. Peterson‘s poetry books include some deer left the yard moving day (BlazeVox Books 2013), Karaoke Lipsync Opera (White Sky eBooks 2012), and Museum of Thrown Objects (BlazeVox 2010). His chapbook bonjour meriwether and the rabid maps was runner up in Fact-Simile Press’ Equinox Chapbook Contest and was published in 2011. He edits summer stock, an online literary journal.