November 2015

in other words, anders gesagt

new work by X Bonnie Woods and John Kennard 

November 5th – 29th

X Bonnie Woods divides her studio time between Boston, MA, and Berlin, Germany. In the Bilingual series she explores notions of communication, translation, and miscommunication. She has exhibited her paintings and photos widely in the U.S. and Germany. She uses tools she has made herself, and incorporates relief printmaking techniques into the Sumi (dense Japanese ink) paintings. Some of her most recent work is on folded heavy printmaking paper, breaking out into 3 dimensions.

Primarily a photographer, Kennard also does work with post-consumer waste. In this show, he uses eggshells and teabags saved from his daily consumption over a number of years.

Kennard and Woods are long-time colleagues.

Opening Reception:

Thursday, November 5th, 6-9 pm

Third Thursday Reception:
Thursday, November 19th, 6-9 pm

Gallery Hours:
Fridays and Saturdays, 2-6pm or by appointment.

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October 2015

Evidence: work by Melissa Shook &

Procession: work by Rachel Shatil

October 1st – 24th

Evidence, by Melissa Shook, comprises a series of daily self-portraits taken with an iPhone between December 2014 and July 2015, which advances concerns of her original 1972-73 daily portrait series.  The new work reflects a woman now in her mid-seventies, with text referring  to personal and political concerns. In addition, Shook will show a selection of new Tree Knot drawings that have a very distinct sexual overtone, and an installation, “Landscape,” consisting of small clay pinch pots.

Shook is a retired member of the faculty of Art, UMASS Boston. She is represented by the Joseph Bellows Gallery, LaJolla, Ca., and is represented in various collections including MOMA, Moderna  Museet, Stockholm, and the St. Louis Art Museum. She is a  recipient of an NEA Visual Artist Grant. For the last ten years, she has been concentrating on animal and human doings at Suffolk Downs Racetrack, near Boston. See www.briarhillthoroughbreds.com for her latest work about the breeding and raising of thoroughbred horses.

Rachel Shatil’s Procession focuses on the image of a jacket as a symbol of displacement.  A jacket is a special item of clothing designed to provide the body with the thickest layer of protection.  In circumstances of displacement, a jacket is the most valuable item one owns.  In the gravest of situations, fleeing mortal peril, a jacket can become a feeble substitute for the lost home. It surrounds the body on all sides, distinctly separating inside from outside. One can hide within its warm, soft confines. The procession of jackets is a procession of the dispossessed, whose jackets, inadequate as they are, are their vehicles of survival.

Rachel Shatil is a Boston-based Israeli artist.  Her visual work is a continuation of an earlier career as a theater director and art director. Her pieces and installations challenge the viewer to interact with experiences of loss and displacement.

Opening Reception:

Thursday, October 1st, 6-9 pm

Third Thursday Reception:
Thursday, October 15th, 6-9 pm

Gallery Hours:
Fridays and Saturdays, 2-6pm or by appointment.

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September 2015

Something Out of Nothing:

works by Leigh Hall, Martha McCollough, Michael St Germain, and Audrina Warren

September 5th – 26th

“I have never felt like I was creating anything. For me, it’s like walking through a desert and all at once, poking up through the hardpan, I see the top of a chimney. I know there’s a house under there, and I’m pretty sure that I can dig it up if I want.” Stephen King

Atlantic Works Gallery presents Something Out of Nothing, in which artists bring a motley assortment of objects and actions into play, including video, sculpture, photography, costumes, ceiling hooks, household junk, and more. Their goal is to dig up something of what’s “under there” through creative destruction and reinvention. A paper shredder is involved.

Opening Reception:

Saturday, September 5th, 6-9 pm

Closing Reception & Artist Talks:
Thursday, September 17th, 6-9 pm

Gallery Hours:
Fridays and Saturdays, 2-6pm or by appointment.

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July / August 2015

Doppelgänger:

a group show that explores parallels and connections between the work of gallery members and their invited guests  

July 16th – August 20th

Stephanie Arnett – Sarah Rushford / Suzanne Mercury – Peter Anthony / Nicholas DiStefano – tba /Rick Dorff – Rick Dorff (id) / Kristen Freitas – Paige Cunning / Leigh Hall – Sarah Hutt / The Biennial Project – Eva and Adele / Marjorie Kaye – Joan Mullen / Walter Kopec – Kristin S. Street / Charlene Liska – Georgina Lewis / Samantha Marder – sisterwerx art collective / Christine Palamidessi – Roberta Pyx Sutherland / Bo Petran – John Wilkinson, Rebecca Potter, Matthew Keller / Carmen Sasso – Tami Amoroso / Rachel Shatil – Amira Harari Kaplan / George Shaw – Dominick Takis / Melissa Shook – Patt Blue Michael St. Germain – Justin Augspurg / Audrina Warren – tba / X Bonnie Woods – Donna Pucciani / and more

Opening Reception:
Thursday, July 16th, 6-9 pm

Closing Reception & Artist Talks:
Thursday, August 20th, 6-9 pm

Gallery Hours:
Fridays and Saturdays, 2-6pm or by appointment.

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June 2015

Away Mission: new works by Stephanie Arnett and Martha McCollough

Away Mission: a metaphor for daydreaming and the internal life, in which the mind steps away from the perceptions created by the body and uses memory to form a constellation of thoughts that reverse-engineer possible futures.

June 6th – 27th

In Away Mission, Stephanie Arnett works with constructed landscapes, experimental photography, and log entries (drawings). Arnett is a Boston-based photographer and artist. Her photography has been recognized by Photo District News and the Magenta Foundation.

Martha McCollough ventures into new media (macro lens photography,) new subject (text as image,) and new scale. She will also be showing several video poems. McCollough is a videographer and writer who lives in Chelsea, Massachusetts. Her video poems have been exhibited internationally, and have appeared in Triquarterly, Rattapallax, and El Aleph.

Opening Reception:
Saturday, June 6th, 6-9 pm

Third Thursday Reception:
June 18th, 6-9 pm

Gallery Hours:
Fridays and Saturdays, 2-6pm or by appointment.

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May 2015

Layered:

new works on paper and in video by Kristen Freitas

May 2nd – 28th

Layers suggest depth and mystery over a vast range of entities from geological strata to historical representations of events to the recess of the human psyche, and, in all cases, it is rarely the most accessible layer that offers up the most profound truths. In Layered, Kristen Freitas exhibits the results of her recent explorations of materials and their contrasting, layered personalities, bringing to life both playful and intriguingly complex interrelationships between layered textures and chroma.

Works on paper reveal the natural beauty of the paint in its infinite response to manipulation by brushes and tools, by both invention and opportune accident, obscurantism and revelation. Videos present yet another set of conversations using the concealing and revealing powers of layers. In Layered, Freitas seeks to elicit from these diverse media both the direct and sensual pleasures of the eye as well as the subtler, more telling, and enduring responses of the emotions.

Opening Reception:
Saturday, May 2nd, 6-9 pm

Third Thursday Reception:
May 21st, 6-9 pm

Gallery Hours:
Fridays and Saturdays, 2-6pm or by appointment.

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April 2015

Metaphors & Metamorphoses

Leigh Hall and Suzanne Mercury

April 4th – 26th

Atlantic Works Gallery is pleased to present Metaphors &Metamorphoses, a lyrical and meditative exhibition which combines sculptural and mixed media images of insects, mirrors, and fragmented language, and explores the weird aerial and liminal physicality of the constantly changing natural world in all its beauty, charm, and strangeness.

Leigh Hall has been fascinated with insects and arachnids all of her life. She also has a tendency to collect scraps of metal with interesting shapes and textures. For this exhibit she combines those two interests in a collection of sculptures depicting various creatures, both real and imaginary.

Suzanne Mercury creates mixed-media assemblages using found objects, old books, LED lights, glass, gold, tree branches, and all manner of odd and natural materials. For this exhibit, she has also created a series of “haptic poems” in etched mirror and glass, which explore where language overlaps with what is dreamlike, ephemeral, and inexpressible.

Opening Reception:
Saturday, April 4th, 6-9 pm

Third Thursday Reception:
April 16th, 6-9 pm

Gallery Hours:
Fridays and Saturdays, 2-6pm or by appointment.

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March 2015

Inner Investigation/ Hidden Truths

George Shaw and Marjorie Kaye

March 6th – 28th

“A Persian rug is perfectly imperfect and precisely imprecise,” as it is said.  A flaw is deliberately included to represent humility, and to honor God, or Spiritual Intelligence.

When considering the relationship between Classical form and the Romantic in visual art, the “flaw” in the human gestalt, the romantic and irrational beauty of emotion and expression, fills a perfect mirror of the universe, the pristine Classical structure.  The rhythm of creation includes the passion of human existence.

The Golden Ratio, which is a system of order in the universe striving for eternal beauty and perfection, is present in the works of both painter George Shaw and sculptor Marjorie Kaye.  Both artists inject aspects of the Romantic into this form.  Shaw works the surface in a combination of oil paint and wax medium, textural mapping within a clean, geometrical composition.  His work investigates the area between conscious reflection and the otherworldliness of another dimension of reality.  The paintings are a balance between self-knowledge and unknown sources of experience.  The act of searching, reflection, discovery and manifestation take place at once in a skeletal form of geometric truth.  Kaye’s wood sculptures, on the other hand, utilize classical structure as a vehicle for blatant expression of joy and spiritual rapture.  They are boldly color-saturated and organic.  The forms point upward from a centrifugal base, hunting and seeking.  The questions and the answers rapidly become intertwined.  Time is visualized, stretched, emoted.  The forms contain and suggest energetic direction, almost to the point where observation stands on the edge of a physical experience.

Within the works of both artists, subjective expression is contained within the objective means of composition.  It is this realization of the harmonious in nature, the overwhelming presence of the divine unknown, which unifies structure both recognizable and mysterious.   This enables the passion and complexity of the expression of being to emerge within form.

Opening Reception:
Saturday, March 7th, 6-9 pm

Third Thursday Reception:
March 19th, 6-9 pm

Gallery Hours:
Fridays and Saturdays, 2-6pm or by appointment.

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February 2015

KOPEC REED SHATIL SHOOK WARREN:

work by the new members of  Atlantic Works

January 31st – February 21st

Opening Reception:
Saturday, January 31st, 6-9 pm

Third Thursday Reception:
February 19th, 6-9 pm

Gallery Hours:
Fridays and Saturdays, 2-6pm or by appointment.

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