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Thursday, October 25, 6:30pm ‌ ‌ ‌ Artist Talk with Christine Kyle, Gail Samuelson, Gin Stone & Daniel Zeese Thursday, October 25th, 6:30-8pm at Cambridge Art Association | 25R Lowell Street, Cambridge MA Creature Comforts invites the viewer to enter Another Environment: a landscape of contrasts, with creatures and beings spotlighted in their native realm. Some are adapted to wetlands, other an environment unrecognizable to humans. In this hall, visitors will explore a hauntingly beautiful, otherworldly depiction of an ethereal, foreign place, and encounter its remarkable residents face-to-face. Free & Open to the Public Click here to RSVP for the Creature Comforts artist talk About the Artists: About Christine Kyle | As a child, Christine Kyle was often absorbed in creative reveries. Fortunately, the Waldorf high school she attended encouraged and nurtured her artistic talents. As a sociology major in college, Kyle continued to be drawn to art, taking enough art classes to enable her to add art as a second major. After teaching art and life studies at an alternative high school for five years, Kyle enrolled in a graphic design program, and worked in the field for fifteen years. All the while, she maintained a dedicated studio practice, steadily creating work, and experimenting with a wide array of media. In 2006, Kyle earned an MFA from Lesley University College of Art and Design and has since focused solely on her artistic pursuits. Her work has been exhibited widely at venues throughout Massachusetts, including the Lunder Arts Center and the Cambridge Art Association, both in Cambridge; the Kobalt Gallery and Rice Polak Gallery, both in Provincetown; the Holzwasser Gallery at the New Art Center in Newton; and the Cultural Arts Alliance in Hopkinton. About Gail Samuelson | Samuelson photographs places where she lives and walks every day: along the trails of Rocky Narrows, a Trustees of Reservations property near her house in Sherborn, MA, and along Tonset Beach in Orleans, MA. She works mostly with film cameras, including a large format camera used to make the images for Creature Comforts now on display at the Kathryn Schultz gallery. In addition to the Cambridge Art Association galleries, Gail has shown her work at the Davis Orton Gallery in Hudson, NY, the Danforth Museum in Framingham, 555 Gallery in South Boston, and the Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, MA. Previously, Gail ran her own portrait and event photography business. About Gin Stone | I am an ardent environmentalist and lover of living creatures. I previously worked solely with paint and panel, and this experience has given me my base knowledge of color and form in space. My last 5 years of work has been combining these things in a new way, humane taxidermy. I use hand dyed reclaimed longline fishing gear as a medium. The material itself is part of my work’s innate narrative. The local fishing culture is deeply ingrained in the environment I live in, my studio is on Cape Cod. More recently the science community has come into the arena to help recover retain the health of oceans. There is frequently a clashing between these two groups. By bringing the recovery and recycling of the fishing gear to the artistic arena, I can help put a spotlight on collaboration and creativity, and perhaps a hopeful outlook on the future from everyone involved. About Daniel Zeese | Daniel Zeese is an artist, designer and educator practicing in Somerville and Boston Massachusetts. His latest work explores populations, belonging, and identity within an urban environment. Inspired by a history of textiles and the domestic objects that we bring into our home to create refuge, Daniel reveals a way to let our minds return to nature while our bodies inhabit the city. His work investigates what it means to be within civilization while on the edge of the wilderness. Outnumbered, on the fringe of what is accepted in the city, celebrated from a distance, and threatened to exile by the powers of the majority. Daniel reacts to the continuing history of violence within cities against people who, while defining the cultural identity of a place, are often misunderstood, attacked and objectified. Later we experience the outcome, the resulting martyrdom, through the master cultural narrative. This body of work explores, in many mediums, whom it is we choose to mourn and celebrate. Kathryn Schultz Gallery and Offices | 25 Lowell Street, Cambridge MA Tuesday-Saturday, 11am-5pm University Place Gallery | 124 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge MA Monday-Friday, 9am-6pm, Saturday, 9am-1pm www.cambridgeart.org • 617-876-0246 • info@cambridgeart.org Cambridge Art Association | 25 Lowell Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 Unsubscribe artdeadlineslist@gmail.com Update Profile | About our service provider Sent by info@cambridgeart.org in collaboration with Try it free today