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Gallery 321 @ The Washington Street Art Center Presents: The Dream Team: Coyne, Creamer, Feinstein, Leone 321 Washington Street, Somerville September 8–September 29, 2012 OPENING RECEPTION: Saturday, Septemaber 8, 2012. From 7–10 p.m. ON VIEW: Saturdays 12-4 p.m., and by appointment CONTACT: gallery321@washingtonst.org For high-resolution photos and/or interviews, the press should contact: Lauren Leone at scapegrace3@yahoo.com, Megan at meganmary.creamer@gmail.com, Alex Feinsten at arfeinstein@gmail.com Work by Sarah Coyne, Megan Creamer, Alex Feinstein, and Lauren Leone is on display at WSAC the month of September. Dream Team is an exhibit by four artists working together in spirit, yet individually in practice, in painting, drawing, fibers, mixed media, and cut paper. The concepts for the show were developed collaboratively by the artists, and touch on themes of process, the passage of time, and the confidence in one’s ability to create, as well as the need for community and the friendship of fellow artists. Through several meetings and dozens of email chains filled with lofty ideas, mixed emotions, articles, reference photos, time-lapse videos, and animated gifs, these four artists have developed their own concepts for this show, with one another. Dream Team is four artists who are all #1. Coyne’s work shows the potential of all things to be great, documenting natural history, family history, and the process of creating art. In watercolor, ink, and mixed media, Coyne beautifully and tenderly details the life and growth of herbs from seed through to harvest for medicinal purposes. Creamer’s work shows process in bursts of speed interspersed between long periods of dormancy. Using the imagery of creeping coral reefs and waves building from a ripple in the middle of the ocean to an 9 foot wave crashing on the shore, Creamer’s work moves through the kernel of an idea scratched in a sketchbook to the final work looming in yards of cut black paper 7 months later. Feinstein’s work views the concept of choice with a flat associative hierarchy, treating each option as a separate world and exploring the parallel realities created when we try to envision the future. Working in painting and drawing, Feinstein simultaneously reflects on past experiences and imagines possible future paths using the imagery of potential tattoos; all equally as ridiculous as they are serious. Leone’s work meditates on the passage of time in the form of a large-scale calendar. Each day is summarized through the use of symbols, song lyrics, and the images and phrases that make up her internal monologue. Using embroidery, drawing, and stenciling, she creates a mixed media representation of a daily diary, exposing the intensely personal with a dry wit.