Art & Cultural Events List

Calendar of Upcoming Events at the

Brookline Arts Center
86 Monmouth Street
Brookline, MA 02446

MBTA stops: St. Mary’s Street and Fenway on Green Line
www.brooklineartscenter.com
bac@brooklineartscenter.com
617-566-5715 for more information
Wheelchair accessible
Gallery Hours: 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Free Admission
Non-profit organization: Tax ID # 23-7000746

“There Are No Others Around Me”
Drawings by Taryn Wells that meditate on bi-racial identity
July 25 - August 29, 2008
Monday - Friday, 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Artist’s Reception: Friday, July 25, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

“Introduction to Photography”
Art class with Kevin Monaghan
Begins August 5, 2008, through August 21
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 6:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Tuition: $300
Advance registration required: 617-566-5715

“Fashion Reconstructed”
Art class for ages 9 to 12 with Adrienne Vodraska
Begins August 12, 2008, through August 21
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 3:00 - 5:30 p.m.
Tuition: $98 Materials: $30
Advance registration required: 617-566-5715

“Bloomsbury Tea Trays”
Decoratively painted wooden trays by Judy Kramer
September 5 to October 7, 2008
Monday - Friday, 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Artist’s Reception: Friday, September 19, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

“Women of Brookline”
Portraits in watercolor by Wendy Soneson
October 20 - November 7, 2008. Hours: Monday – Friday, 9:00 – 4:30 p.m.
and December 4 – 21, 2008. Hours: Thurs. 12- 8 p.m., Friday – Sunday, 12 - 6 p.m.
Artist’s Reception: Sunday, October 19: 3 to 5 p.m.

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CALL FOR ARTISTS - From Arlington and neighboring communities

The Arlington Center for the Arts is now accepting applications for our 9th
annual Open Studios, to be held October 18/19, 2008, from noon-5pm.

Arlington Open Studios showcases 80+ greater Boston artists (Arlington and
surrounding communities) in a weekend festival with live music, artist demos
and a great community spirit.

Application Deadline is JUNE 30.

COMPLETE INFO & REGISTRATION PACKET:
http://www.acarts.org/pdfs/AOScall_2008.pdf

Linda Shoemaker
Communications Director
Arlington Center for the Arts
41 Foster Street
Arlington, MA 02474

ph: 781.648.6220
fax: 781.643.7539
linda@acarts.org

NEW! We were nominated for ParentsConnect.com's Parents Pick award in the
"Best Artsy Class" Category in the "Big Kids" section! Vote for us at
www.ParentsConnect.com/ParentsPicks. Thanks!

Classes: www.acarts.org/classes.php
Events: www.acarts.org/events.php
Exhibits: www.acarts.org/exhibits.php

1988-2008 - Celebrating 20 Years of Transforming Lives through the Arts!

Fire and Ice: Images by Ron Rosenstock
June 12-July 28, 2008
Opening Reception: Thursday, June 19th 5-7 PM

Panopticon Gallery is pleased to present contemplative landscape photographs from Ron Rosenstock's travels through Death Valley, CA and Iceland. Named "Fire and Ice", the exhibition contrasts softly lit images of glaciers and water with bold abstract images of mesquite sand dunes.

Rosenstock spent 40 years meticulously crafting large format black and white photographs using the Zone System devised by Ansel Adams. "Fire and Ice" marks Rosenstock's first significant exploration of color photography. Photographer B.A. King states: "Ron's new work...[is] full of joy and fun, wildness and lyricism. Underneath it all is the famous Rosenstock flare for composition and reverence for light, to which we now can add an admiration for color."

"Fire and Ice" is Rosenstock's first body of work created entirely with digital imaging technology. "I do not consider [digital photography] a substitution for film, but an addition to my repertoire as a photographer," states Rosenstock. "Technique is finite, but vision is infinite".

Images in the show appear in Rosenstock's book Journeys (ISBN: 0971379521) published last year by Silver Strand Press. Rosenstock published three other monographs with Silver Strand Press: The Light of Ireland (with an introduction by Paul Caponigro) (ISBN: 0615112188), Chiostro: Photographs of Italy (ISBN: 0971379505), Hymn To The Earth, (with poetry by Gabriel Rosenstock and an introduction by Carl Chiarenza) (ISBN: 0971379513).

Born in 1943, Ron Rosenstock earned his MA degree in photography from Goddard College. His work is heavily influenced by his mentors Minor White and Paul Caponigro. Rosenstock's photographs are held in numerous private and museum collections, including: the Fogg Art Museum, Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, International Center of Photography, the Hallmark Museum of Contemporary Photography, Fidelity Investments Art Collection and the Polaroid Collection. He taught photography at Clark University from 1972 through 2002 and now leads international travel photography workshops in Iceland, Morocco, Italy, Peru, and the Czech Republic.

Founded in 1970, Panopticon Gallery is one of the oldest galleries in the United States dedicated solely to photography. The gallery specializes in 20th Century American Photography and emerging contemporary photography. The gallery is open Tuesday through Friday, 10 AM to 6 PM and Saturday, 11 AM to 5 PM and is located near the Kenmore Square T stop on the Green Line. Please contact marketing@panopt.com for additional information or images from the show.

Contact:
Isa Leshko
Marketing Director
Panopticon Gallery of Photography
502c Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215
phone: 617-351-0030
cell: 978-590-8129
e-mail: marketing@panopt.com
web: http://www.panopt.com

The Washington Street Art Center's Gallery 321 presents:

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang: Kissing Self-Portraits

June 7-28, 2008 Open Saturdays 12-4 or by appointment

Opening Reception June 14, 6-9 PM

This group show features local artists' interpretations of kissing self-portraits in a variety of media. Artists include:

Mike Beattie
Jill Comer
Reneé deMontaigne
Meredith Fitzgerald
Gretchen Graham
Lee Kilpatrick
Lauren Leone
Cathy Lu
Fiona Logusch
Deborah Morgan
Vanessa Thompson

The Washington Street Art Center is located at 321 Washington Street in Somerville, MA, just outside of Union Square on or near the 86, 87, 83 and 91 bus routes. Parking is free and ample. For more information visit www.washingtonst.org or call the WSAC at
617.623.5315

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Visual Art Exhibit: experimental / political
June 2008
Media Contact: Mary Curtin, 617-241-9664, 617-470-5867 (cell), marycurtin@comcast.net
Pierre Menard Gallery contact: Nathan Censullo, 617-868-2033, pierre@pierremenardgallery.com
[high res images available]


Meat After Meat Joy

[Betty Hirst’s
“Homage a Schwarzkogler”
(photograph, 2005)]

featuring the works of
Nezaket Ekici
Anthony Fisher
Betty Hirst
Zuang Huan
Tamara Kostianovsky
David Raymond
Dieter Roth
Carolee Schneemann
Jana Sterback
Jenny Walton

June 21-July 20
Pierre Menard Gallery

Opening reception
Saturday, June 21, 6-9 pm

curated by Heide Hatry

(Cambridge, MA) Pierre Menard Gallery presents Meat After Meat Joy: featuring the works of Nezaket Ekici, Anthony Fisher, Betty Hirst, Zuang Huan, Tamara Kostianovsky, David Raymond, Dieter Roth, Carolee Schneemann, Jana Sterback, and Jenny Walton; curated by Heide Hatry. June 21-July 20, with an opening reception on Saturday, June 21, 6-9 pm. Regular gallery hours: open daily, 12-8 pm. Free and open to the public. Pierre Menard Gallery, 10 Arrow Street, Cambridge. For more information, 617-868-2033 or www.pierremenardgallery.com.

Meat After Meat Joy, curated by Heide Hatry, brings together the work of 10 contemporary artists who use meat in their work (raw meat, the concept of meat, its symbolism and viscera) in order to investigate the paradoxical relationship meat has to the body. Meat combines flesh, skin, muscle, organs, blood — each with its own relationship to the body, yet meat’s only reference to the body is as a once-upon-a-time living biological thing. By putting these artists together, Meat After Meat Joy seeks to investigate the uncanny effect meat as a medium is for artist and viewer. This is not a show about meat as spectacle but about meat as signification, precisely because meat does not signify (a body) but its very annihilation.

Skin is the body’s largest organ and greatest protection. It is the body’s most public point of vulnerability and private realm of pleasure. Flesh is associated with the body; it cannot be separated from the body except when it is torn, crucified, burned, flayed. Muscle and fat are anatomy, as well as the fit body, the football body, the anorectic body, the fat body.

Meat is the body without skin. It has no identity. Meat cannot have a mood, cannot feel, nor have an intention. It cannot die or even remember having been killed. It is not a metaphor but matter. Meat cannot have a soul. When a suicide bomber blows up a wedding, a funeral, a café creating sprawling mass of bloody, fleshy, skinless, blobs and chunks human beings and animal are turned into meat. In William Gibson’s Neuromancer (1984), when Cases’s body is unhooked from the computer and no longer jacked into cyberspace, it becomes “meat”. Meat has no notion of being-in-the-world.

And yet, an exhibition on meat seems like an obvious continuation of discussions of contemporary art and the body. Certainly in relation to feminism, meat has been an erotic and eschatological component of a liberatory, transgressive discourse of female sexuality and the body beginning with Carolee Schneemann’s path-breaking 1964 Meat Joy. After Meat Joy, the female body was no longer the ‘poulet” or chick but an erotic and political force of the laugh of the Medusa (Helene Cixous) — the writhing ecstatic female body freed from the constraints of patriarchal definition (meat is the indefinable flesh) that expresses an epistemology (Interior Scroll 1975) into ontology (the feminist movement). In Meat Joy, although controversial, raw meat — animal human — and the human body are at their most uncontested and merged, for meat is not the absence or the other the body but an act of reclamation and affirmation of all that patriarchy had previously “disemboweled” from the female body.

But what kind of commentary about being and the body is Zuang Huan’s Meat Suit within the context of the body as meat of the suicide bomber? Both amusing and terrifying; beautiful and nauseating — Meat Suit is both super hero and carcass; literal description of the body as meat as well as explosive metaphor of the body as raw meat in the age of virtual reality and suicide bombing. Then again, what is Betty Hirst’s crowned circumcised sushi penis asking of meat and the body in Penis. It calls up the penis of the female to male transsexual, a limb fashioned out of skin and muscle from other parts of the body. It signifies raw humor (literally skinning the phallus), and raw critique as it juxtaposes the skin of a body with the skinless shape, the act of sculpting and photographing, playing this skinless dick to the anonymous white skinned body on which it lays. But the body is never there in any of these interpretations – only the raw meat that has been carved(?) sewn(?) rolled(?) into this representation of the phallus which, for psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, was never the penis, but the Grand Signifier.

Besides the work of Schneemann (www.caroleeschneemann.com), Huan (www.zhanghuan.com), and Hirst (www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/yourgallery/artist_profile/Betty+Hirst/25929.html), Meat After Meat Joy also features work by the following artists:
Jana Sterback (www.janasterbak.com)
Tamara Kostianovsky (www.tamarakostianovsky.com)
Nezaket Ekici (www.ekici-art.de)
Dieter Roth (www.dieter-roth-museum.de)
Anthony Fisher (http://home.comcast.net/~a.anthonyfisher/index.html)
David Raymond (http://l5-din-a4.org/draymon.html)
Jenny Walton (www.jennywaltonart.com)
Following the run at the Pierre Menard Gallery, Meat After Meat Joy will travel to Daneyal Mamood Gallery in New York City in the Fall of 2008.

Background information:

Curator Heide Hatry is a painter, sculptor, photographer and performance artist, who has also been trained as a printer, art historian and rare bookseller. She curated the exhibition entitled SKIN, in which she assembled work by seven woman artists, whose primary subject, and in some cases, medium, is skin. The show was mounted at the Heidelberger Kunstverein, the Goethe Institute in New York, and several commercial galleries. She also published the book Skin, several catalogs for artists including Carolee Schneemann and is currently working on a book about portraits, as well as completing the exhibition catalog for Meat After Meat Joy. She curated a show for Elga Wimmer Gallery in New York about body-related performance art, which will travel during 2008. For more information on Hatry, visit www.heidehatry.com.

The Pierre Menard Gallery was founded in 2006 by John Wronoski, proprietor of the well-known international rare book firm, Lame Duck Books (founded 1984). In its first year, the gallery mounted an exhausting 17 shows. The gallery’s space allows for multiple simultaneous exhibitions. Among the artists exhibited have been Lucien Clergue, Jim Peters, Hiroyuki Hamada, Jan Saudek, Josef Sudek, Christian Bastian, Matt Weber, Gordon Wagner, Rikki Ducornet and Elena Urbaitis. Exhibition catalogs have been produced to accompany the majority of its shows, often with contributions by prominent authors, art historians and critics. Nathan Censullo is the gallery's director. Log onto www.pierremenardgallery.com for more details.

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The Berwick Research Institute Presents...

Alumni John Ewing's Virtual Street Corners. A public art project connecting street corners in Coolidge Corner and Dudley Square for two solid weeks of 24/7, real-time, interaction.

John Ewing VIRTUAL ST. CORNERS

Virtual Street Corners is a digital media public art project by John Ewing, assisted by Minotte Romulus with design by Matey Odonkor. It was developed durning a Berwick Reserach Institute residency period and is being presented in collaboration with the Roxbury Film Festival.

From June 12 - June 21, 2008 (with an "opening" on June 18, from 4-7pm) the storefronts of Brookline Booksmith in Coolidge Corner, Brookline and Stash's Grill in Dudley Square, Roxbury will be transformed into large video screens, providing pedestrians of each neighborhood with a portal into one another's worlds. Running 24/7, life-size screen images and AV technology will enable real-time chat between residents of the two neighborhoods. Though only 2.4 miles apart and connected by the Route 66 bus, few people from either neighborhood ever visit the other. Using technology developed to bridge geographical distances, Virtual Street Corners instead traverses the social boundaries that separate two cultural and transportation hubs with important historical connections.

Some exchanges will be arranged - such as conversations among elected officials, youth groups, religious leaders and arts performances (including Ron Jones and Larry Tish of www.theblackjewdialogues.com). But the majority of the interactions will be left open to spontaneous conversations between passers-by and residents. Ewing hopes people will use Virtual Street Corners as an opportunity to share their personal experiences and reflections on their neighborhoods.
John Ewing is a digital media artist with a focus on public art that creates platforms for social dialogue. Local projects include Symphony of a City (which was covered by NPR, PBS, Art News and Fox TV among others-Boston Globe article attached). Symphony of a City portrayed Boston from 8 different perspectives by installing "headcams" on residents and projecting the resulting video footage 30 feet high on Boston City Hall and streaming it on the web. (www.symphonyofacity.org).

Virtual Street Corners was developed during a "Public Art Incubator" residency at The Berwick Research Institute, and supported by MIT Community Fund, Prudential Foundation and the Tomfohrde Foundation. Also thanks to ACT Roxbury and Councilor Chuck Turner.

A special thanks to Videre Conferencing for donating HD videoconferencing equipment; Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts and Brown Rudnick Berlack Israels LLP for legal advice;

Brookline Booksmith, Stash's Grill and Nuestra Comunidad for hosting the project.

Go to the opening if you can, or check it out over the next two weeks if you can't.
For more information or to schedule a more formal exchange on the Virtual Corner, contact John Ewing 857-719-4877, www.virtualcorners.net or www.johnewing.org

Proposals now being accepted for an Outdoor Art Installation, WRAP 'EM: Column Art under McGrath. Help us transform the McGrath Highway (in Somerville, MA) underpass into an outdoor art installation. Accepting proposals from individual artists, groups of artists, and community groups to conceive, design, then paint one of the canvas-covered columns we provide to you. No entry fee.

Contact:

SSPSomerville

http://sspsomerville.org/ssp_sumcall2.htm

Saturday, June 7
7:00 to 10:00 am
Neville Place Driveway
650 Concord Avenue, Cambridge

We will walk all of the way around the Pond, collecting information on bird species, numbers, and nests for our Biodiversity Days database. Beginners are welcome on this easy 2.25-mile walk. We have binoculars to lend and will show you how to use them.

These events are FREE and open to the public. Children are welcome in the company of an adult.

Please register for each event that you plan to attend: Important information on parking will be given to you.

E-mail Elizabeth Wylde at: friendsoffreshpond@yahoo.com

Offered by Friends of Fresh Pond Reservation: http://friendsoffreshpond.org

For a listing of spring and summer programs offered by the Cambridge Water Department please go to: http://friendsoffreshpond.org/cwdprograms.htm

Fed up with four-dollar gas? Want to reduce your carbon footprint? Check out these June Cyber-events, all easily reachable by T.
GASP! It's Sonic Arts!
From the Electric Studio at AXIOM
Phillip is Back!
Attention Arts Organizations: Now's the Time ...

GASP! It's Sonic Arts!
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Cyber-musician, Berklee faculty member, and Boston Cyberarts Festival favorite Neil Leonard is organizing another evening of the latest in cyber-music at GASP, a space devoted to promoting collaboration between disciplines and fields in the contemporary cultural landscape. Sonic Arts @ GASP features beat de-constructions, circuit bending noise and realtime video by Berklee Music Synthesis students and alumni. Performers include London laptop maestro Gadi Sassoon, Somerville's own guitar player and electronic artist Katie Amaral, and New Hampshire-based sound artist Eric Miller.

It all happens this Friday, June 6, at 8:00 p.m. at the GASP Gallery, 362-4 Boylston St., Brookline, just one block from the Brookline Hills stop on the Riverside branch of the Green Line. Suggested donation is $10, or $6 with a valid student ID. Email galleryinfo@g-a-s-p.net or call 617.418.4308 for more information.
From the Electric Studio
at AXIOM

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AXIOMFrom the Electric Studio, curated by Dana Moser and Fred Wolflink, is the Third Annual Massachusetts College of Art and Design collaboration with AXIOM. By turns humorous and startling, it's a smorgasbord of interactive artwork including video, photography, kinetic, light and sound sculpture, created by artists working in MassArt's Studio for Interrelated Media. Featured artists include: Clint Baclawski, Kevin Clancy, Kristin Kyper, Celia Rose Marks, Shawn Moore, Mary Murray, Jack Pattishall, Alexandro Quintana, David Thacker, Joey Tipton, Andrea Zampitella and Max Del Viscio.

From the Electric Studio is generously supported by the Centre Street Café in Jamaica Plain (the favorite lunch spot of Boston Cyberarts Director George Fifield and generations of staffers); Machine Science in Cambridge; Hefeweizen UFO; and our forward-thinking and generous friends at LEF Foundation.

The exhibition runs through June 21 and can be seen Wednesdays and Thursdays from 6:00-9:00 p.m., Saturdays from 2:00-5:00 p.m., and by appointment. AXIOM is located next to the Green Street T station on the Orange line, at the corner of Amory and Green Streets in Jamaica Plain. For more information, visit www.axiomart.org or call 617.953.6413..
Phillip is Back!
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PhillipA different Green Street - the one in Cambridge - is the site of Episode 14, the next chapter in a continuing series of experimental multi-media installation and performance projects known as The Phillip Project. Spearheaded by Boston-based Michael Jahoda and Finnish video artist Pasi Granqvist, Phillip and the Phillip Project were created in Amsterdam in 2001. For Episode 14, Jahoda teams up with Dutch percussionist Robbert van Hulzen to create a new 40-minute unplugged, acoustic episode with text, movement and live music. Phillip, the questioning and endearing leitmotif, once again takes center stage - reliving his past, twisting the present, and laying the ground for an idyllic future.

There will be two performances - at 8:30 and 9:45 - on Thursday, June 12. A Boston DJ will spin sounds before and between performances, so audience members are invited to come early and stay late. Green Street Studios are at 185 Green Street, Cambridge, near the Central Square stop on the Red Line. For information about the Phillip Project visit www.phillipproject.com. Tickets to the performance are $15; contact Green Street Studios at 617.864.3191 for more information.
Attention Arts Organizations!
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Now's the time to start planning your event or exhibition for the next Boston Cyberarts Festival, taking place April 24-May 10, 2009. We're starting to gather some amazing works ... video art at the DeCordova, a new opera, an fascinating dance project for Ideas in Motion (no, we can't tell you about it yet, but it's going to be great), gaming, digital literature, electronic music ... you name it, we got it.

Interested? Contact Festival Director George Fifield at 617.524.2109 or george@bostoncyberarts.org.

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We extend a grateful thanks to our sponsors

Massachusetts Cultural Council, John & Abigail Adams Arts Fund

Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

Phoenix Media Communications Group

LEF Foundation

And many other generous institutions and individuals.

If you're interested in becoming a sponsor for the next Boston Cyberarts Festival, contact George Fifield at 617.524.2109 or george@bostoncyberarts.org.

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Contact Us at info@bostoncyberararts.org
or visit www.bostoncyberarts.org

Fire and Ice: Images by Ron Rosenstock
June 12-July 28, 2008
Opening Reception: Thursday, June 19th 5-7 PM

Panopticon Gallery is conveniently located off of the Green Line at the Kenmore Sq. T stop within the Hotel Commonwealth.

Ron Rosenstock
Outgoing Tide Hvalfjordur, Iceland
© Ron Rosenstock

Panopticon Gallery is pleased to present contemplative landscape photographs from Ron Rosenstock's travels through Death Valley, CA and Iceland. Named "Fire and Ice", the exhibition contrasts softly lit images of glaciers and water with bold abstract images of mesquite sand dunes.

Rosenstock spent 40 years meticulously crafting large format black and white photographs using the Zone System devised by Ansel Adams. "Fire and Ice" marks Rosenstock's first significant exploration of color photography. Photographer B.A. King states: "Ron's new work...[is] full of joy and fun, wildness and lyricism. Underneath it all is the famous Rosenstock flare for composition and reverence for light, to which we now can add an admiration for color."

"Fire and Ice" is Rosenstock's first body of work created entirely with digital imaging technology. "I do not consider [digital photography] a substitution for film, but an addition to my repertoire as a photographer," states Rosenstock. "Technique is finite, but vision is infinite".

Images in the show appear in Rosenstock's book Journeys published last year by Silver Strand Press. Rosenstock published three other monographs with Silver Strand Press: The Light of Ireland (with an introduction by Paul Caponigro), Chiostro: Photographs of Italy, Hymn To The Earth, (with poetry by Gabriel Rosenstock and an introduction by Carl Chiarenza).

Born in 1943, Ron Rosenstock earned his MA degree in photography from Goddard College. His work is heavily influenced by his mentors Minor White and Paul Caponigro. Rosenstock's photographs are held in numerous private and museum collections, including: the Fogg Art Museum, Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, International Center of Photography, the Hallmark Museum of Contemporary Photography, Fidelity Investments Art Collection and the Polaroid Collection. He taught photography at Clark University from 1972 through 2002 and now leads international travel photography workshops in Iceland, Morocco, Italy, Peru, and the Czech Republic.

Founded in 1971, Panopticon Gallery is one of the oldest galleries in the United States dedicated solely to photography. The gallery specializes in 20th Century American Photography and emerging contemporary photography. The gallery is open Tuesday through Friday, 10 AM to 6 PM and Saturday, 11 AM to 5 PM and is located near the Kenmore Square T stop on the Green Line. Please contact gallery@panopt.com for additional information.

Best Regards,
Tony Decaneas, Shannon McDonald, & Isa Leshko

Panopticon Gallery of Photography
502c Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215
phone: 617-267-8929
e-mail: gallery@panopt.com
web: http://www.panopt.com

mobius

HOCKET: a new work in progress by Jed Speare and Marjorie Morgan
Ana's house
Performed by Alison Ball, Jim Banta, Marjorie Morgan, Jessica Newman, Janet Slifka and Jody Weber.


mobius
725 Harrison Avenue
Boston MA

Thursday 6/5
open rehearsal
7 PM (free)

Friday 6/6
performance
8 PM ($8/$5)

Saturday 6/7
performance
8 PM ($8/$5)


In this new collaborative work, Marjorie Morgan and Jed Speare create overlapping and sequential images in performance, film/video, and music/sound that work off a central theme of visibility and disappearance.
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Hocket is a three-part collaboration. This weekend's performance is a work-in-progress of part one of the collaboration. In it, each artist will lead a work, with the other intensively collaborating within it.

Mobius Newsletter

COMING SOON AT mobius

Sunday - Saturday 6/8 - 6/14
Pete Pold video installation

Friday, Saturday 6/13 & 6/14
Lewis Gesner/Larry Johnson: New Work
6 PM

Friday 6/27 8pm - Saturday 6/28 midnight
GANG CLAN MAFIA 1440

About Mobius:
Mobius, founded by Marilyn Arsem in 1977, is known for incorporating a wide range of the visual, performing, and media arts into innovative live performance, video, installation and intermedia works. Mobius has produced hundreds of original works that have attained critical acclaim in Boston, nationally and internationally. Works created at Mobius have been presented throughout the North and South America, Europe and Asia.

Mobius has long been committed to creating artist exchange projects bringing artists from different geographic regions to work together. The international exchange projects with artists from Macedonia, Croatia, Poland, and Taiwan have focused on site-specific and publicly-sited work. Mobius has presented work involving thousands of artists over its 30-year history and is recognized as one of the seminal alternative, artist-run organizations in the U.S.

For more on Mobius click HERE.

Mobius, Inc is funded by the Tanne Foundation; the Nonsequitur Foundation; the Boston Redevelopment Authority; the LEF Foundation; the Boston Cultural Council, a municipal agency which is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency; Foundation for Contemporary Arts;
the Oedipus Foundation; and generous private support.

mobius
725 Harrison Ave. Boston, MA 02118
www.mobius.org

John Beech, Antony Flackett, Dante Marioni, Joseph Marioni,
Matt McClune, Peter Tollens, Ulrich Wellmann, and Brian Zink
June 2 - June 25th, 2008

Dear Friends of the Gallery,

We are pleased to announce our current exhibition featuring the work of John Beech, Antony Flackett, Dante Marioni, Joseph Marioni, Matt McClune, Peter Tollens, Ulrich Wellmann, and Brian Zink. The exhibition is open now and will run through June 25th.

We hope that you will stop by and see what will be the last exhibition in our 14 Newbury Street gallery location. At the end of June we will be packing up and heading over to the South End. We will open in our new gallery space in the Fall at 460 Harrison Avenue. Look for future news about in your mailbox and on our website, we will be sending out updates and look forward to catching up in the Fall!

Sincerely,

Howard Yezerski Gallery
14 Newbury Street
Boston, MA 02116

617.262.0550 p
617.262.2444 f
www.howardyezerskigallery.com

ANN KIRCHNER EXHIBITS PORTRAITS OF AMBIGUITY AT BROOKLINE ARTS CENTER GALLERY

Brighton artist Ann Kirchner shows faces that elude and confront.

(BROOKLINE, MA: May 29, 2008) – Ann Kirchner loves the medium of pastels. A mainstay of rococo portraits and Degas ballet scenes, pastels appeal to her for the manner in which atmospheric space is created with a thickly colored surface. With their heavily layered strokes of pigment on coarse watercolor paper, Kirchner’s portraits resist stasis: they waver and elude the viewer within an implied space.

“The pastel medium is essentially dust,” explains Kirchner. “It speaks to impermanence, so my images are veiled and play with atmospheric space. The women I depict remain in limbo: on the edge of becoming…or on the verge of disappearing altogether.”

The Brookline Arts Center will feature Kirchner’s pastel drawings in Ann Kirchner: Portraits and Pages, from June 11 - July 18, 2008 in the Brookline Arts Center gallery.

An artist’s reception will be held Friday, June 27, from 6 – 8 p.m. and is free to the public. The Brookline Arts Center is located at 86 Monmouth St. in Brookline. For more information, call 617-566-5715 or visit www.brooklineartscenter.com . The reception and exhibition are wheelchair accessible.

This exhibition is supported in part by grants from the Brookline Commission for the Arts, a local agency which is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency. The Brookline Arts Center is also supported in part by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.

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