I have a painting  Consequent (below) in Montserrat College of Art’s annual art auction, with guest artist Rachel Perry Welty, to benefit student scholarship. Artists in the live auction is comprised of 20 artists. The silent auction includes 89 artists. The exhibition was juried by Destiny M. Barletta, Pucker Gallery; Kristen Dodge, DODGEgallery; Randi Hopkins, ICA Boston.

Here are the details:

Montserrat College of Art Artrageous!25 Auction Party
75 Sylvan Street, Danvers, MA

Saturday April 30, 2011
6pm – Silent Auction and Reception
7:30 pm – Live Auction

Tickets $100

Public Preview Days:
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Thursday, April 28, 2011
12 – 4 pm
On-site bids will be accepted.
Preview art online: montserrat.edu/auction25

For more information contact:
Evangeline Egizi
eegizi@montserrat.edu
978-921-4242 x1122
Montserrat College of Art
23 Essex Street, Beverly, MA 01915

I have a painting (Alpine Confluence) in this group show comprised of 84 artists.  Here are the details:

MFAconnects@SPS.edu
AIB/MFA Alumni Show
St. Paul’s School, Hargate Art Center
325 Pleasant Street
Concord, NH 03301
603-229-4644

www.sps.edu

Show runs March 29-April 30, 2011
Artists’ Reception: Friday, April 1, 2011, 6-8pm
Gallery Hours: 9am-4pm Tuesday thru Saturday

I have a solo exhibition of recent paintings at:

The Amherst Building Gallery
New Hampshire Institute of Art
77 Amherst Street
Manchester, NH 03101

www.nhia.edu

For more information contact Gallery Director Andrew Lucas at 603-836-2573 or email alucas@nhia.edu
Mapquest Link

Show runs January 10 – February 14, 2011
Opening Reception: Wednesday, January 19, 2011, 5-7pm
Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday 9am-5pm, Saturday 9am-12pm, Closed Sunday

Matrix 9, 30 x 30 inches, acrylic on panel, 2010.

INSTALLATION VIEWS…

New Hampshire Union Leader Article, published January 13, 2011

I have a painting (Alpine Confluence) in this group show comprised of 84 artists.  Here are the details:

MFAconnects@POSTAIB.edu
AIB/MFA Alumni Show
Fourth Wall Projects
132 Brookline Ave
Boston, MA 02215
617-349-8625

www.fourthwallproject.com

Show runs January 7-14, 2011
Artists’ Reception: Friday, Janaury 7, 2011, 7-10pm
Gallery Hours: 12-6pm Sat Jan 8 thru Fri Jan 14

AIB MFA ALUMNI SHOW JANUARY 7-14, 2011
The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University

Boston, MA, December 9th, 2010
MFAconnects@POSTAIB.edu
January 7, 2011
Fourth Wall Project, Boston MA

The first ever gallery show for our AIB Masters of Fine Arts alumni will be held this winter. Brought to realization by a dedicated committee – Kate Farrington ’09, Mike Finnegan ’08, Greg Kitterle ’09, Carolyn Latourelle ’07, and Keith MacLelland ’98, MFA ’07 – this Alumni Exhibition ‘MFAConnects@POSTAIB.edu’ will feature the work of 83 alumni artists from all over the world. Purposely set on the first night of the winter residency so as to include all those who have yet to complete the program, it celebrates a community. Not a virtual one, but one in the real world.

For all the artists, there is instant recognition – a kind of invisible nod that says: “we share an understanding.” To signify that bond, each artwork is accompanied by the thesis advisor’s quote that appeared alongside the culminating images in each of the graduation catalogues. Like a “senior quote,” this statement is a right of passage and a summation of the MFA experience.

With no dominant movement, artists today enjoy enormous freedom in making art. While there is a notable absence of conceptual, performance, “big production” art, or purely idea-driven objects, the pieces in this show evidence a careful and sensitive reinvestment in art making, or to say it another way, a reinvention of known forms. Perhaps the intense searching demanded in an MFA program accounts for such emphasis on personal expression.

Please visit the Gallery to experience the AIB Masters of Fine Arts Alumni Reunion show.

Opening Reception: Friday, January 7, 2011 – 7:00-10:00 pm.

Gallery Hours:
Friday, January 7, 2011 Opening Reception 7:00-10:00 pm
Saturday, January 8, 2011 Hours 10:00 am – 6:00 pm
Sunday, January 9, 2011 Hours 12:00 – 6:00 pm
Monday, January 10, 2011 Hours 12:00 – 6:00 pm
Tuesday, January 11, 2011 Hours 12:00 – 6:00 pm
Wednesday, January 12, 2011 Hours 12:00 – 6:00 pm
Thursday, January 13, 2011 Hours 12:00 – 6:00 pm
Friday, January 14, 2011 Hours 12:00 – 6:00 pm

I have a solo exhibition of recent paintings at:

The Caturano & Company Art Gallery
The Library at Bentley University
175 Forest Street
Waltham, MA 02452

blogs.bentley.edu/intheknow/artgallery/
www.bentley.edu

For more information: 781-891-2700

Click here for directions, or call: 781-891-2100
Mapquest
Campus Map (pdf)
Use the Forest Street entrance, follow the main road until the end and take a left. Go a short distance and park in lots L6, L7, L8 or L9 (on your left). The Library is in building 54 (the one with the clock tower) that is set back between LaCava Center [on right] and Morison Hall [on left]. The main entrance is to the left of the building.

Show runs October 26 – November 30, 2010
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 28, 2010, 4:30-6:30pm
Gallery Hours: Sunday-Thursday 7:30am-2am, Friday & Saturday 7:30am-6pm

Volcanic Mangrove, 16 x 16 inches, acrylic on panel, 2010.

With my mother at the opening reception

I have a painting (Volcanic Mangrove) in this group show comprised of 53 artists. The exhibition was juried by Dina Deitsch, Assistant Curator at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum. Here are the details:

Collective, The First Annual Juried Exhibition
Galate Fine Art
460-B Harrison Ave
Boston, MA 02118

www.galateaart.org

Show runs August 6 – 29, 2010
Artists’ Reception: Friday, August 6, 2010, 6-8pm
Gallery Hours: Wednesday-Friday 12-6pm, Saturday & Sunday 12-5pm

Artists: Aimee Belanger, Aimee Debose,  Alison Williams, Alya Romeos, Amy Giese, Ashley Kircher, Benjamin Fedosky, Beverly Rippel, Brian Hart, Christianne Lippeveld, Cindy Stephens, Constance Bigony, David Whittaker, Diane Bowie Zaitlin, Dilla Tingley, Elizabeth Hoy, Elizabeth Thach, Ellen Fisher, Eric Zamuco, Holly Popielarz, Jan Corash, Jane Hipple, Jenny Walker, Jill Kolva, Joan Mullen, John McCaughey, Kristina Martino, Laura Osterweis, Laurel McMechan, Lisa Barthelson, Lynda Schlosberg, Marjorie Kaye, Mary Hughes, Mathew King, May Deviney, Michelle Sarkisisan, Mitchel Ahern, Neil Wilkins, Carpenito, Paula Estey, Rama Brown, Richard Dolan, Roberta Stone, Ronnie Gould, Ruth Daniels, Ruth Lague, Ruth Segaloff, Sandra Cardillo, Sarah Lubin, Tim Heavican, William Scully, Zehra Kahn, Zoe Perry Wood.

PRESS RELEASE:

Galatea Fine Art thanks Dina Deitsch, Associate Curator at the DeCordova Museum in Lincoln, for jurying its upcoming First Annual Juried Exhibition entitled “Collective”. Dina’s respected work with the DeCordova Museum was recently praised by the Boston Globe for the extraordinary 2010 DeCordova Biennial showcasing a broad variety of artists in all media. For “Collective”, Ms. Deitsch chose 53 artists of varying genres from New England to participate in this eclectic and energetic exhibition. “Collective” will be shown at Galatea Fine Art, Boston’s newest cooperative gallery, a large space which will be hosting the selected paintings, sculptures, installations, prints, photography and mixed media.

Ms. Deitsch surveyed over 412 images and selected work that creates a balance between irony and pure aesthetics. Her sense of the ironic vacillates between the humorous and mysterious, the common denominator being direct and sometimes surprising observation. Ms. Deitsch also chose work that investigates the purity of form and its relationship to surroundings. In the entirety of the exhibition, she has revealed a direct involvement with the manner in which aesthetics create and define the nature of environment. The work selected creates a vibrancy reflected in the unbridled energy of the evolving and current day, focusing on a greatly desired, but unknown destination.

I have a painting (Matrix 8) in this group show comprised of almost 100 artists from the Northeastern United Sates. The exhibition was juried by Cheryl Brutvan, Curator of Contemporary Art, Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach, FL. Artists work is on display in two galleries. Here are the details:

Northeast Prize Show
Cambridge Art Association
Kathryn Schultz Gallery
25 Lowell Street
Cambridge MA 02138

University Place Gallery (my work is in this gallery)
124 Mt. Auburn Street
Cambridge MA 02138

www.cambridgeart.org

Show runs May 14 – June 23, 2010
Artists’ Reception: Thursday, May 20, 2010, 6-8pm – Awards: 7pm at University Place
Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday 9am-6pm, Saturday 9am-1pm

I have a painting (Matrix 6) in this group show comprised of 21 national and international artists.

Artists included are: Aljoscha, Kate Beck, Larry Caveney, Amy Stacey Curtis, Nick Gadbois, Mary Gallagher Stout, Brent Hallard, Tom Hollenback, Sky Kim, Matthew Metzger, Steven Pearson, Bruce Pollock, Anne Polashenski, Linda Stillman, Lynda Schlosberg, Owen Schuh, Scot Sinclair, Craig Stockwell, Grant Vetter, Rachael Wren, Raymond Yeager.

Here are the details:

Fuzzy Logic: Contemporary Painting After a Century of Abstract Art
Thompson Gallery
Garthwaite Center for Science and Art
Cambridge School of Weston
45 Georgian Road
Weston, MA 02493
thompsongallery.csw.org

Show runs April 9 – June 17, 2010
Artists’ Reception: Friday, April 23, 2010, 4-7pm
Gallery Talk: Saturday, May 15, 2010, 1-2pm
Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday 9am-4pm

Below are some photographs of the installation:

I have two paintings (Matrix 6 and Matrix 7) in this group show of 32 artists. The exhibition was juried by Nick Capasso, Senior Curator at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum. Here are the details:

Material is Language, 5th Annual Juried Exhibition
119 Gallery
119 Chelmsford Street
Lowell, MA 01851

www.119gallery.org

Show runs November 24 – December 19, 2009
Artists’ Reception: Saturday, December 5, 2009, 6-10pm
Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Saturday 12-5pm

Artists: Mitchel K Ahern, Betul Arin, Sarah Bennett, Deborah Brown, Kathleen Cammarata, Anne Cavanaugh, Jim Coates, Michael F. Dailey Jr., Empire S.N.A.F.U. Restoration Project, Nicole Ratos Enerson, Charles Gallagher, Amy Geise, Jane Fox Hipple, Dian Hosmer, Anna Isaak-Ross, Jim Jeffers, Jan Johnson, Kyeong Kim, Craig Lupien, Denise Manseau, Stephen Mishol, Andy Moerlein, Alicia Renadette, Yulanda Rios, Dan Rocha, Lynda Schlosberg, Laurie Simko, Emile Tobenfeld, Brenda van der Beek, Katherine Vetne, Charlies Win, Dei Xhrist

Juror’s Statement:

The theme of “material as language” was chosen by the 119 Gallery for this juried group exhibition, and as the invited juror I adhered closely to this intentional framework. In selecting artwork for the show, I applied two criteria: overall aesthetic excellence, and the overt privileging of materials in the creation and content of each work.

Art historically considered, materials – until very recently – were to be transformed, transcended, and hidden in the service of imagery. Stone became flesh and drapery, paint conjured people or landscapes, glass dissolved into light itself. Inherently base, materials were vehicles for ideas and emotions. In and of themselves, they were but dust.

The trajectory of art since the late 19th century changed all this. Impressionism and Post-Impressionism began to explore the materiality of paint. The direct carving movement emphasized a “dialogue with the stone.” Modernism demanded “truth to materials.” And Post-Minimalist artists considered materials themselves to be language, embraced but not transformed. And hierarchies of materials were smashed as artists worked with dirt, rubber, poured lead, raw fibers, bodily fluids, gut, meat, pollen, garbage, and a host of other stuff never before considered worthy.

In this exhibition, several ideas about materials emerge. For some artists, materiality is crucial – but in no way denied – in the creation of images and objects, and the materials themselves work to reinforce imagery and content. Other artists have synthesized the languages of materials and text. And still others have entered into a dialogue with ideas surrounding the material and the immaterial.

This last category I found most interesting, and least expected. By probing the dualities of substance/light, obdurate/ephemeral, thing/not thing, being/not being, etc., these artists get to the linguistic (as it were) and philosophical heart of “material as language.” And the single work that best articulates these relationships, with utter simplicity and breathtaking eloquence, is Nicole Ratos Enerson’s looped video In and Out, which I selected as Best in Show.

Congratulations to all the artists, and many thanks to the 119 Gallery for inviting me to serve as juror for Material is Language.

Nick Capasso, Senior Curator
deCordova Sculpture Park + Museum
Lincoln, MA

I have two paintings (Matrix 4 and Matrix 5) in my MFA Graduate Exhibition with 14 of my classmates.  Artists work is on display in two galleries. Here are the details:

MFA in Visual Arts
The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University
Graduate Exhibition

University Hall Gallery
1815 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA

Main Gallery (my work is in this gallery)
700 Beacon Street
Boston, MA 02215

www.aiboston.edu/mfa2009

Show runs June 22-27, 2009
University Hall Artists’ Reception: Friday, June 26, 2009, 8-9:30pm
Main Gallery Artist’s Reception and Graudate Toast: Saturday, June 27, 2009, 8-10pm

University Hall Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday 12-6pm, Saturday 12-5pm
Main Gallery Hours: Monday-Saturday 9am-5pm

Artists: RJ Calabrese, Jeffrey Ellse, Nick Mancillas, Liz Schrenk, Brenda van der Beek, Christopher Irvin, Samantha Johnston, Melissa Kulig, Jason Landry, Coelynn McIninch, David Poole, Lynda Schlosberg, Alison Williams, Cindy Kaylor, Patrick Loehr.