June 3-30 2023

Opening Reception, Sunday, June 4, 2-5 pm
Third Thursday Reception, May 18, 6-9 pm

You may have already stopped by but we just opened our brand new Boston Harbor-level gallery and it is spectacular! We’re thrilled to invite you to come on over to 80 Border Street to take a first look.

During June you’ll step into the buzz, light, and warm sensations created by two accomplished Atlantic Works artists, Charlene Liska and Christine Palamidessi.

Charlene Liska is presenting A BLINDING FLASH OF LIGHT, which explores through mixed media and video her lifelong personal and artistic experience with epilepsy.

Christine Palamidessi’s lighthearted SUMMER installation builds upon her fascination with miniature sculptural swim suits, the black and white moods of South Italy in June, and large projections from her Street Art collection.

In her Border Street studio Liska makes abstract urban and natural landscapes, using photography, video and painting. For many years, she lived off the grid in the subarctic wilderness of northern Canada, which contributed to her perception of disordered light.

Palamidessi has a studio in Somerville and a summer studio in Puglia, Italy. Her creations with paper—monotypes and figurative sculptures—have been exhibited worldwide. She studied the high art of paper mache— cartapesta—with artisans in Lecce, Italy.

May 4-27

Opening Reception, Thursday, May 4, 6-9 pm
Third Thursday Reception, May 18, 6-9 pm

Eric Hess is taking the meaning of M’aidez as the literal translation of ‘help me’ tying it in with traditional European Mayday when humans salute the earth. 

Humans dancing around a maypole adorned in flower crowns might not have the impact that is needed now that our planet seems to be dying. Hess will explore through photography, video and objects how people celebrate and the consequences of human actions and demonstrate how nature usually wins in the end.

Ian Babylon has prepared a collection of works where both mortal and divine are asking for help, assistance, intercession, intervention. 

Using classical & contemporary visual elements Babylon recomposes collaged works into newly cast surrealist mythologies familiar yet novel for today and tomorrow to come.

April 8-29

Opening Reception, Saturday, April 8, 6-8 pm
Third Thursday Reception, April 20, 6-9 pm

We all have challenges to overcome, from getting to work to bringing food on the table to dealing with health or mental health issues. Artists often use their art as an outlet for their own challenges and a means of expressing not only their own soul but the human soul. In this exhibit, Kristen and Sandrine use colors and various artistic techniques to express their inner demons as well as hopes. They will let these fly away on the canvas or other supports to liberate their souls and attempt to create their own world of happiness.

Making Connections

a New Members Exhibition featuring the work of
B. Amore, Julie C Baer, Maryellen Cahill, and Beth Plakidas

February 4 – March 25

B. Amore creates multi-media wall assemblages incorporating found objects, text, photos on silk, stone, bronzed gloves. The focus of her current work honors the reality of our commonly shared humanity.

Julie C Baer’s paintings reflect close attention to the biota in her natural environment, wherever she is, and the seasonal trajectory of its life cycles: budding, blooming, pollinating, fruiting, seeding, dying, renewal. 

Maryellen Cahill incorporates textiles, fiber, and beads in her mixed media art. She takes inspiration from her travels around the globe and the beautiful cultures she has been exposed to.

Beth Plakidas uses collected and handmade objects to create intimate installations. Combining formal, conceptual, and chance elements, Beth’s work balances the absurd with the beautiful.

(clockwise from top left)
Beth Plakidas, Julie C Baer, Maryellen Cahill, and B. Amore

Group Show by
Atlantic Works artist members

January 14-28
Reception: Thursday, January 19, 6-9 pm
Gallery Hours: Fridays and Saturdays, 2-6 pm,
and by appointment

Join us for the last group show in our current space. Soon we will be moving to a new gallery on the ground floor!

curated by
Samantha Marder

December 3-30
Opening Reception: Saturday, December 3, 6-9 pm
Third Thursday Celebration: December 15, 6-9 pm
Gallery Hours: Fridays and Saturdays, 2-6 pm,
and by appointment

NOTE: December 3rd, the Gallery will be open from 6-9 pm
The Gallery will be closed on Saturday, December 24th 

Samantha Marder curates a show of work which reflects a broad interpretation of the neurodivergent creative process…art illustrating the outward manifestation of internal chaos, non-linear thinking, conflicted sensibilities, and unleashed absurdity.

Nov 3rd – Nov 23rd. Opening Reception: Saturday, November 5, 6-9 p.m. Closing Reception: Thursday, November 17, 6-9 p.m.

AUGUST 28 – OCTOBER 20
EDGE – X BONNIE WOODS
WHAT TO MAKE OF ALL OF THIS? – WALTER KOPEC

Opening Reception: Sunday, August 28, 3-5 p.m.
Third Thursday Receptions, September 15 and October 20, 6-9 p.m.
Gallery Hours: Fridays and Saturdays, 2-6 p.m.,
and by appointment (tel/text 857-335-3100)

X Bonnie Woods is showing new works on folded paper in a Boston solo exhibition entitled EDGE.  Irregularly shaped paper constructions are marked by Sumi ink, reaching across walls and ceilings. The map-like images offer a geography of puzzle parts and emphasize the essence of each painting’s edge. Originating from the artist’s aerial sketches of islands, landforms, and snowforms, these works were completed in Boston and Berlin, Germany, between 2020 and the present. The artist works and resides in both cities.

What to make of all of this? It’s an open-ended question, with few, if any, concrete answers.

With a strong conceptual, graphic sensibility, Walter Kopec’s work, through minimal, appropriate materials and economical gesture, uses strategies of puzzle-making and linguistic tricks to create visual/verbal connections, each component fortifying, reflecting or complementing the other.

Using wordplay and idiomatic expressions, irony and humor as a springboard to invite immediate recognition and general accessibility, each “visual poem” challenges the viewer to consider a more layered and nuanced response, asking for consideration beyond the obvious and how carefully parsed language, leads to doublespeak, irony and innuendo, and in the worst case… hypocrisy. http://www.walterkopec.com