+Opening Night Celebration+ The Song Remains the Same

Yankee Swap provided much entertainment

There were so many people I did not have much room to photograph artwork

Stephanie, Charlene with Matt and Nick in the background. We were packed in…

Anna’s Birthday kiss from Bo

Mitch Kasha and Anna. Kasia was the recipient of a beautiful yankee swap gift

Justin with yankee swap package.

Mitch created the concept for our show. It’s also burning man celebration night. Mitch is properly adorned for the event.

Artwork by Mitch Ahern

Hey – there’s Eric Hess

All Photographs by Mark Natale (copyleft – 2013)

January 20, 2013/by Mark Natale

Exhibitions

January 2013

The Song Remains the Same

Atlantic Works group show of art born of music

Music is a mind-altering tool as strong as any drug. Since many artists get ideas from other media and most visual artists listen to music when they work, Atlantic Works has launched a group show that celebrates art made under the influence of music. These pieces raise the question, how can ideas raised by one art form find resolution in another? The exchange is lively and fun and it shows how profoundly art and artists reflect our time and our culture.

Exhibition dates: January 11–26, 2013
DJ Party Opening Reception: Thursday, January 17, 6-9pm

January 1, 2013/by Nick DiStefano

Exhibitions

December 2012

Barter

Holiday Glee Market
by Samantha Marder and Neil Wyatt

The thrill of discovery. Unexpected finds — lush colors, organized chaos, and a sly sense of humor. In Barter, artists Samantha Marder and Neil Wyatt evoke the fun of an exotic market, where everything is unique and full of personality. Marder’s tiny tableaux play with place, scale, and the magic juxtaposition of imagination against reality. They enchant with the childlike question, “What if…?” Because their absurdity invites the viewer to invent narratives, Marder’s pieces are simultaneously funny, rich in meaning, and pregnant with possibility.

Whereas Wyatt’s abstract paintings take their cue from the metals, flowers and fabrics of a Middle Eastern bazaar. Wyatt is a painter’s painter, whose masterful command of his medium enables him to create a sense of mystery and joy that evades most artists. Deep bronze, copper and other gilded tones add depth and luminescence. The rich colors and complexity of his layers create a new surprise at every glimpse. The exhibition will also feature a holiday shop of affordable gifts.

December 1–29, 2012
Opening Reception:
Saturday, December 1, 6-9pm
music by Shaun England
Third Thursday Gathering:
December 13, 6-9pm

December 4, 2012/by Nick DiStefano

Exhibitions

November 2012

Welcome to Control

An Installation of Typographic Monoprints,
Mechanical Mind Control and Fiber Performance Art by Mitchel Ahern

As many people suspect, there is a pervasive international, pan-dimensional organization known as Control, responsible for cultural manipulation and management. Although the goals of the organization are kept secret, Control has established a visitor center and gift shop in East Boston at Atlantic Works Gallery. There, the public is welcome to view various visual, video and performance and textual works recently made public by the Freedom of Information Act, as well as Control devices including the Cut-Up Oracle of Control and a working Dream Machine Cone of Silence, inspired by Control agents such as Burroughs, Gysin, Oglivy, Maxwell Smart, Martha Stewart and Roger Ailes.

The artist, Mitchel Ahern, works in large-format typographic linocut monographs on fabric, which he incorporates into mechanical devices and performance, along with his self-invented musical instruments. His political/social installations have been exhibited at the DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Atlantic Works, Galatea Fine Arts, and Gallery 119. He has also performed at The Knitting Factory, The Middle East, The Rat, and Exit 13.

Exhibition dates: November 1–24, 2012
Opening reception: Thursday, November 1, 6-9pm
Third Thursday reception and performances: November 15, 6-9pm

November 4, 2012/by Nick DiStefano

Exhibitions

October 2012

The Inspection House

New work by Martha McCollough and Matthew Keller

A panopticon is a circular prison with cells arranged around a central well, from which prisoners can at all times be observed. It is an apt metaphor for how we live today. We are photographed everywhere, recorded everywhere, and social media exposes the minute details of our lives and thoughts. Not only our own private lives, but also the machinations of the powerful become more transparent as information moves freely across borders and up and down hierarchies. What then? In their two-person exhibition, Martha McCollough and Matthew Keller take the panopticon as a starting point and explore how it affects our lives. With brilliant black humor, Martha McCollough’s videos and acrylic paintings explore our responses, which can run the gamut from exhibitionist euphoria to constant anxiety to outright paranoia. The constant question is how do we present ourselves, how do we choose to mask or unmask? The answer is dependent on whether we perceive surveillance as the harmless and even comforting interest of our friends as offered through social media, or as a tool of social control in the hands of repressive powers. McCollough is a two-time fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Her text-based videos have recently been exhibited as part of the MIX Conference at Bath Spa University, UK, at the Void Network Film Poetry Festival in Greece, in Gone Lawn, an online magazine of experimental fiction, and in Rattapallax online magazine.

Matthew Keller’s oil paintings explore thoughts of observation and the acts of the observed. The focus is on individual perceptions relating directly to voyeurism, the changes in the activities of the watched, and the refusal to acknowledge the possibility of consequence by unknown onlookers. The goal is to not only comment on but also to preserve these feelings of alienation, inadequacy and powerlessness.

http://theinspectionhouse.org/about/

October 4 – 27, 2012
Opening Reception:
Thursday, October 4, 6–9pm, Catering by Bitter Science
Third Thursday Gathering:
October 18, 6–9pm

October 4, 2012/by Nick DiStefano

Exhibitions

September 2012

Diamond

new artwork by Justin Augspurg

Justin Augspurg is an artist who combines elegant painting and collage with a streetwise urban sensibility. In Diamond, his new exhibition at Atlantic Works Gallery, the diamond shape that is a unifying motif comes from the chain link fences he sees around his home in Chelsea. Augspurg is a scavenger, combining everything around him – fashion, automotive design, graffiti, store signage – into new and beautiful forms and ennobling them in the process. Because he insists on the right to appropriate, recontextualize and change what comes from the mass media, his painting is an assertion of personal and social freedom. Augspurg’s gritty new show is a diamond that could only have come out of the rough.

Exhibition dates: August 31 – September 29, 2012
Opening: Saturday, September 8, 6–9pm
Third Thursday reception: Thursday, September 20, 6–9pm

September 2, 2012/by Nick DiStefano

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As Bizarre as Promised

Never let it be said that the Biennial Project isn’t serious with a capital Serious. With its summer show here at Atlantic Works, the Biennial Project makes a serious effort to satisfy your minimum monthly requirement of horny Boy Scouts, opium-smoking eccentrics, circus freaks, aging hippies, lumberjacks, and sex workers. Even if you missed the opening party it’s not too late to bathe in the bliss of total self-regard as the Biennial Project asks again its perennial question, “Why Not Us?”
Come to the closing reception: August 16th, 7-10 pm.

Fernando DeOliveira

Samantha Marder and Fernando DeOliveira

From the bizarre photo shoot

Mitch Ahern Demands Your Love

Peanut butter and art sandwiches

Suzanne Mercury reads one-word poems

On the red carpet with Sonia Domkarova, Fernando DeOliveira and Jess Stambaugh

Branden Harrington takes time out from making awesome videos
to make social media faces with Anna Salmeron

Stills from Martha McCollough’s Video I Spy,
in case you wondered what you look like from space.

August 1, 2012/by atlanticworks

Exhibitions

July 2012

The Biennial Project presents

Bizarre Artist Happenings

The internationally renowned, cutting edge and East Boston based conceptual artist group, The Biennial Project, is pleased to announce the opening of their trail blazing newest show ‘Bizarre Artist Happenings’

Bizarre Artist Happenings’ will start off with a trail blazing opening reception at Atlantic Works Gallery this coming July 19th and will show until the boisterous closing reception being held on Thursday August 16th.These will be the art parties of the summer if not the decade and they are not to be missed. Partygoers are encourage to dress to impress as their ‘eclectic artist persona’. Bring out that Puchi or your leather chaps and lets all bring some of the faded glamour of the Warhol Factory to Beantown!!

We look forward to seeing you and your entire audience at our avant-garde, innovative event (which your grandchildren will surely be talking about)!!

Exhibition Dates: July 19–August 18, 2012
Opening Reception: Thursday July 19th 7–10pm
Closing Reception: Thursday August 16th 7–10pm

July 4, 2012/by Nick DiStefano

Community

SKIN–extended

SKIN Show will be extended to Saturday July 7th with a closing party. Stop by around 7 PM – BYOB, Bring a friend, bring a date or just your wonderful self.