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George Shaw – 4 Portals, #45

Sarah Meyers Brent – Overgrown Canvas II, #44

Marjorie Keye – A Delicate Balance, #41

Michael St Germain – Untitled, #42

Keith Harris – Untitled, #40

L.J Lanfranchi – Emergence, #58

Dell M. Hamilton – Untitled, #34

Martha McCollough – 2 Birds Inseparable Friends, #33

Jodi Colella – Embrace, #59

Bo Petran – Untitled, #35

Justin Augspurg – Untitled, #31

Joan Ryan – Cash Rules, #30
Trena Noval – releasing jack – a short film, #52

Audrina Bell Warren – (the) Satis-factory, #50

Lars Hoeg – Rod Drabant, #51

Lee Hall – Web, #22

Jennifer Moses – Under/Over, #23
Kelly Slater – Detroit, #26
Danielle Donigan – The Color Adventure, #27

Erica Famino – We Really Hate This Shit. We Really Do, #3

Carmen Sasso – Burst, #4

Rick Dorff – Untitled, #2

Veronica Domkarova – Bizarre Artists Happenings, #63, #21
Anna Salmaron – Bizarre Artists Happenings, #27, #20


Leah Grimaldi – James #11
Alecia Augsburg – Baby Brushes #10

 Marc Bisson – DeVil biss 9, #9

Charlene Liska – Jack Nicholson on the receiving end of some really bad news,  #8

Vanessa Thompson – When the sun comes up – Video, #60

Max Kuzmin – Buffer Zone, #19

Maj. Britt Pederson – Untitled, #18

Max Kuzmin – Eastie, #15

Mitchel Adhern – This is a Crime, #48

Stephanie Bradley – Basement Song – Video, #55

Stephanie Bradley – Basement Song – Video, #55

Stephanie Bradley – Basement Song – Video, #55

AWG – Before Opening

AWG – East Wing

AWG – South Wing

AWG – The cubby space

Sam and Laura Torres

AWG – West Wing

Shelah Horvitz – Continual Apocalypse (SOLD), #5

Opening Night Party

We had a really great turnout of friends and friends of friends and AW members

Friend Audrina Bell Warren talks about her work

 I overexposed Kristen with flash with shadows from cards in front of camera – Just for fun – MarkN

Kristen Freitas – Character I, #49
Transfer print onDura-lar

Samantha Marder talks about “Cinderella Liberty”, #46

If you missed our opening you have another chance to see this really great exhibit on Third
Thursday this month – May 17th from 6PM to 9 PM

Amanda Gallagher – Sexy Nana, #13

Adrienne Wetmore – Untitled, #12

Sonia Domkorova – Bizarre Artist Happenings, #86 (sisters), #14

Donald Rex Bishop – Untitled, #17

Donald Rex Bishop – Untitled, #16

dei xhrist – pelt, #57
Lola Baltzell – Suffer Me Not to be Separated, #29

Diane Teubner – Alembic, #47

Peter Pizzi – Birdman, #56
The Biennial Project – Whitney Biennial Trading Cards, #53

Photo credits for this blog – Mark Natale, Brookline MA

With a Little Help from our Friends

Work by ATLANTIC WORKS ARTISTS and Invited Guests

No artist is an island. Your ideas stimulate our ideas, and the exchange goes both ways. It is the dialog between the messages of friends, family and culture and our own internal dictates that makes art relevant. In our annual “Friends” show, we Atlantic Works artists invite friends whose input matters to us, whose work should be seen. We ask our artist friends with the most interesting ideas to contribute, to strut their stuff, to contribute to the dialog, to keep our gallery vital and fresh. We at Atlantic Works donʼt go stale. Our “Friends” show is part of the reason why.

Exhibition dates: May 5–26, 2012
Opening: Saturday, May 5, 6-9pm
Third Thursday reception: Thursday, May 17, 6-9pm
Open Studios: Saturday and Sunday, May 19-20, 12pm–6pm
Barbeque: Sunday, May 20, 4–6pm

Creative Couples:

artwork by 14 Boston-based artist couples

When two artists live together, what is the impact on their work? Creative Couples, an exhibit organized by Lola Baltzell, seeks to find the answer.

Of the encouragement that can take place in a creative couple, Mark Natale says, “My wife Lola Baltzell is fearless and her creativity is contagious. She inspired me to take my own photography more seriously. Now I am showing my work, which is very exciting.”

Sometimes a partner’s different background can lead a mate in a new direction. Marjorie Kaye, who will be showing with her partner George Shaw, says, “George is a finish carpenter who specializes in restoration, so he encouraged me to include more sculptural elements in my paintings.”

Or both artists may collaborate. Inspired by the writings of Carl Jung, photographer David Weinberg and painter Louise Weinberg began exploring the same house/tower that Jung built in Bollingen, each in their respective medium.

Anna Salmeron & Bo Petran
Lola Baltzell & Mark Natale
Kelly Slater & John Wilkinson
Laura Torres & Pietri Valbuena
Carol Odell & Tom Odell
Louise Weinberg & David Weinberg
Marjorie Kaye & George Shaw
Elisa Hamilton & Andrew Edman
Trish Crapo & Tom Ashley
Courtney Hadden & Michael Dowling
David Piemonte & Terry Del Percio-Piemonte
Charlene Liska & Bart Higgins
Jenny Grassl & Anton Grassl
Margot Stage & David Crane
Jennifer Amadeo-Holl & Tanwin Chang
Dominic Chavez & Silvia Lopez Chavez

Exhibition Dates: April 7 – 28, 2012
Opening Reception: April 7, 6 to 9 pm
Third Thursday Celebration: April 19, 6 to 9 pm

That’s right. The party is Thursday, March 22, from 6 to 9 p.m. Come and see  work by artists Charlene Liska and Leah Grimaldi:
Getting There: Terror and desire in uneasy times

 

   
   

Getting There:  Terror and Desire in Uneasy Times

New work by Leah Grimaldi and Charlene Liska

What do we want?  We often seem to hover in the uncomfortable regions of knowing both too much and too little.  A fifteenth century inscription in Paris’s Cimetiere Des Innocents refers to us as “Oh rational creature/who wishes for eternal life.”  The Jesuits say we’re a “being without a reasonable reason for being.”  Hank Williams says, “I’ll never get out of this world alive.”  Little wonder then, that we’re, most of the time, more comfortable with the sweetly false sentiments of Disney’s ‘When You Wish Upon a Star”:”Fate is kind./She brings to those who love/the sweet fulfillment of/their secret longings.”

In painting and video, Charlene Liska entertains the extremes of aspiration and fear, the competing bids for our attention between pop culture’s appropriations of these and blunt reality, and the places where the differences are not so easily discernible, or possibly even meaningful.

Leah Grimaldi explores the boundary where horror and seduction meet. This is a place of terror and the sublime. Using paper cut-outs with cartoonish lines and candy colors, Grimaldi constructs imaginary organic forms.  Tiny two-dimensional flesh pieces conjoin to form weighty figures, which are both disgusted by and delight in themselves and their fluid ephemerality.

extreme seductiveness is probably at the boundary of horror.
-Georges Bataille

Exhibition Dates: March 9-31, 2012
Opening: Saturday, March 10, 6-9pm
Fourth Thursday: March 22, 6-9pm

control
the taboo to want, the desire to engage, the coldness of guilt
release
the courage to let go, the upwelling of energy, the approach to the threshold
transform
the movement of life, the flow of time and space, the ceaseless transformation


control.release.transform.
a new member show featuring installation,
prints, and drawing by Matthew Keller,
mixed media abstractions by Kelly Slater,
and kinetic sculpture by John Wilkinson.












































control.release.transform.

Artwork by Atlantic Works New Members

At Atlantic Works, our new members show features three very different artists. Matthew Keller’s installation, prints and drawings are about intimate and subtle power over others, ideas of practicing restraint, thoughts of regulation of the dangers to oneself. He explores the daily give and relinquishment of power in personal communications, and the struggle to understand unknown entities.

Paintings of windows and doors have always held a special fascination for Kelly Slater. According to Slater, “Whether clearly recognizable or only merely suggestive, depictions of windows, doorways and other portals convey a sense of hopefulness and possibility–inviting us to look out onto a new vista or to cross a threshold into a different world.” In this series of abstract paintings and prints, Slater explores crossing over through the painted window and door.

In his kinetic sculptures, John Wilkinson uses common tools and materials to achieve a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts. Moving through space, propelled by subtle air currents often created merely by the movement of people within that space, these sculptures establish a delicate connection between the object and the viewer. This connection gives life to the mobile. And, adds John, “it is my hope that the mobile in some way returns the favor.”

Exhibition dates: February 2–26, 2012
Opening: Thursday, February 2, 6-9pm
Third Thursday Reception: Thursday, February 16, 6-9pm

Atlantic Works presents:

Rough Trade

Looking for art that’s well-mannered and innocuous? Looking for sweet and decorative? That’s not us. We’ve got something to say. There’s a reason we’re out by the docks. If you want truth and you want it in your face, you come to us. And at Atlantic Works’s Rough Trade show for just one month, you’ll find great work for $100 or less by some of the most fun, edgy artists in the Boston area.

Come here. You know you want it.

Exhibition dates: January 6–19, 2012
Reception: Thursday, January 19, 6-9pm
Gallery hours: Fridays and Saturdays 2–6pm