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deCordova Lending Artists Boston-area Exhibitions

Join deCordova Lending Artist Maureen O’Connor this weekend for East Boston Open Studios!

May 18 and 19, 11am-5pm

Studio #211, 80 Border Street, East Boston

www.EastBostonArtistsgroup.org.

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deCordova Lending Artist Carol Gove’s work is currently on view at the AstraZeneca Cancer Center  until September 2013:

Gove, 5.5” x 7”, paper collages, 2012 

125 South Huntington Avenue 

Boston, MA

Parking available at Heath Street T stop - across from Hope Lodge  
Part of the proceeds benefit The American Cancer Society 

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deCordova Lending Artist Lara Loutrel’s work is included in this year’s

Gallery Aferro 5th Annual Benefit Art Auction and Party

June 15, 2013

more information and tickets: http://aferro.org

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White, Grey — IID

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deCordova Lending Artist Keith Francis exhibits at the Colo Colo Gallery in New Bedford in June!

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AND, opening next week here at deCordova, Tony Feher !!!

Which Painting Would You Have Chosen?

Left: Jack Wolfe’s Hyannis

Right: Robert Hamilton’s Upperworld-Underworld

Sculpture Exhibition | deCordova Corporate Program

Since the 1970s, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum has offered Greater Boston area businesses the opportunity to support the museum and regional contemporary art. Over the past couple of months, the Corporate Program has worked with local sculptor Gints Grinbergs in the exhibition of his 3D work at Corporate Member offices! From standing dandelions to pedestal-less spheres, Grinbergs’ work is exhibited at Corporate Member locations in Cambridge, Framingham, and Wilmington. These installations offer viewers a unique, museum-quality exhibition everyday, right in their office.

Steel Ball Series; 2012 – 2013

Steel; Spheres ranging from 7 – 21” diameter

Cumberland Gulf Group | Framingham, MA

Aura; 2008

Stainless steel on bluestone; 80 x 26 x 26”

H3 Biomedicine, Inc | Cambridge, MA

Shimmer; 2009

Stainless steel and stone; 80 x34 x 34”

Press Ganey | Wilmington, MA

For more information on Gints, other deCordova Lending Artists, or how to enroll your company as a deCordova Corporate Member, please visit our page on decordova.org

Art Events in your Boston Neighborhood

180 Newton artists will be opening their studios this weekend for Newton Open Studios! Several deCordova Lending Artists will be participating such as Nancy Simonds and Amy Kaufman.

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DeCordova Lending Artist Stephen Coyle exhibits new work at Chase Young Gallery. Visit the gallery, artist studios, and the Sowa district tonight during First Fridays!

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DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum presents PAINT THINGS Performance Day! 11am-3pm Saturday, April 6:

Repeat Performances at 11:30 am, 12:30 pm, 1:30 pm, and 2:30 pm. Come see this 10-minute staged dance with two performers clad in twin wearable inflatable sculptures as they are blinded by sculpture yet dance in unison to disco beats. Choreographed by PAINT THINGS exhibiting artist, Claire Ashley.

DOUBLE DISCO is part of the PAINT THINGS Performance Day, which also includes the interactive, Indigo Girls, with artist Travis Boyer. Please bring in an item to be dipped in indigo.  Drop in anytime from 11am-3p

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(image courtesy of http://artery.wbur.org/2013/04/05/barry-mcgee-ica)

San Francisco artist Barry McGee exhibits a retrospective of work at the ICA Boston. Members opening is tonight. McGee first began working in Boston in the 80s/90s on the roofs of Cambridge and walls in our tunnels. He revisits his previous identity as Twist on these newly tagged walls behind Fenway, over looking the Mass Pike.

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(image credit http://montserrat.edu/auction27/)

Raúl Gonzalez III, Nowhere To Go But Everywhere, 2012

Boston-based artist Raul Gonzalez is this year’s Montserrat College of Art’s Auction Party featured artist! Artrageous!27 features

“curated auction of more than 200 paintings, prints, photographs, illustrations, sculpture, jewelry, giftware, trips and more — donated by Montserrat alumni, faculty, staff, students and important established and emerging artists from around the nation. See students create at Art-In-The-Moment stations and enjoy signature cocktails and culinary delights from Timothy S. Hopkins Catering.”

Saturday April 6, 6pm at 300 Jubilee Drive in Peabody.

Exhibition news

Former Lincoln resident and deCordova Lending Artist Shirley Nisbet exhibits recent work at the Lincoln Public Library. Dave and I stopped in one afternoon to view the show, which included works on canvas and encaustic.

Great show, Shirley!

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Corporate Member BioMed Realty joined the Corporate Program in 2012 with a unique exhibition opportunity at their building in the Longwood medical area. With the recent acquisition of 210 Broadway, BioMed invited us into the space to program exhibitions of not only of 2D works by Lending Artists, but also with site-specific installation! On view until July, Lending Artist Joey Asal’s KOAN will be on view in the lobby of 210 Broadway in Cambridge in addition to the eight 2D pieces.

Elizabeth Geller, Head of the Corporate Program, is seen here investigating the artist’s installation, which included extruded polystyrene, acrylic rods, paper, and mono-filament.

The artist spoke to viewers during the opening reception on March 28, where tenants of 210 Broadway, deCordova Corporate Program staff and Lending Artists, and BioMed Realty professionals joined together to celebrate the art on view!

AD20/21, Residencies, and More!

Our Sixth Annual Show & Sale! 

March 21-24, 2013

The Cyclorama

At The Boston Center for The Arts
539 Tremont Street, in the South End

50 Select Exhibitors

offering modern to contemporary fine art, photography, jewelry, Mid-Century furnishings and contemporary studio furniture, decorative arts, sculpture, fine prints, drawings and more at the only show and sale of its kind in New England… affordable works to museum-quality masterpieces!

Please visit the following deCordova Corporate Program supporters this weekend at AD20/21:

Andrew Stevovich
Chocolate Truffles,2013
Oil on linen
12 x 7 1/4 inches

Adelson Galleries Boston is at Booth #8

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Kayla Mohammadi; Matisse’s Window, 2012; watercolor monotype; 19” x 15 1/2”

Lending Artist Kayla Mohammadi’s prints will be on view with Oehme Graphics at Booth #14s.

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Beverly Rippel, 450 Harrison Ave, Studio #401B

SALON SUNDAY SOWA THIS SUNDAY

Sunday, March 24th, from 11 a.m. until 6 p.m., you are welcome to stop by 450 Harrison Ave for Open Studios

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Congratulations to the following deCordova Lending Artist for being awarded the following fellowships!

“Long-time NESADSU Professor Lydia Martin is the latest recipient of a Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation Faculty Fellowship, which will enable her to spend a month this summer in Paris on a research project of her own devising. Of the 118 applicants for Whiting Fellowships, Lydia is one of 36 recipients.

May 29, 2013 marks the centenary of Igor Stravinsky’s groundbreaking ballet, the Rite of Spring, which premiered in the then newly constructed Theatre des Champs Elysees and which was performed by Serge Diaghilev’s Ballet Russes. Lydia’s study project will involve researching the circle of artists that participated in that event. The Russian art director Serge Diaghilev drew upon a rich network of composers, painters, designers and architects to produce a multi-media event that led to further collaborations among such artists as Matisse, Picasso, Braque, Leger, Baskt, Goncharova and others as well as composers such as Debussy, Ravel and Satie.

Upon her return from Paris, Lydia will give a presentation to her students on her research and will incorporate a variety of creative explorations in drawing and painting into her curricula.”

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“WESTPORT ARTIST SELECTED FOR RESIDENCY IN SPAIN

WESTPORT — Westport-based artist Maddy Bragar will travel to the

mountains of Spain this April for a month-long residency and will share

her experience through photos and commentary on her personal blog.

Bragar applied for the residency last year, while recovering from a very

serious bicycle accident.

“I made a promise to myself that if I regained my mobility I would work

not smaller, but larger, and be as adventurous as possible,” said

Bragar. “This art adventure is about healing, appreciation and

determination. It’s about the dedication of a community of friends and

family who encouraged me to keep moving.”

The residency is at the Can Serrat Centro de Actividades Artisticas,

located in a rustic farmhouse in Montserrat Natural Park, near the city

of Barcelona. She will live in a communal atmosphere with a community of

film makers, writers and visual artists from around the world.

“Like my healing, the work will be a discovery of process and materials

and time,” Bragar said. “I have my tools, brushes and sketch books

packed, some paint and canvas, and most of all an open mind.”

Bragar’s art focuses on assemblage and painting inspired by materials

she finds in the natural world. She is particularly interested in the

effect of time and erosion on objects related to the sea and farmlands

near her home.

“Having my studio in Westport has brought my work into the pine trees,

the ever-changing seascape, and the places where people worked with

their hands over generations of seasons respecting the elements that

simultaneously challenged and sustained their existence,” said Bragar.

Bragar has studied with artists including Joan Snyder, John Murray, Jon

Ember, Sue Miller and Ron Rizzi, and her on-site work has spanned from

the seashores of the East Coast of the United States to the deserts of

the American West.

Her work has been featured throughout the South Coast and Boston area.

She participates in the DeCordova Museum’s Corporate Program, an

initiative that provides area businesses with opportunities to support

the museum and New England-based contemporary artists, and The Art

Drive, an annual event featuring the work of artists based in Westport

and Dartmouth.

Readers interested in following Bragar’s international experience may

visit her personal blog at www.maddybragar.com.”

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Have an artful weekend!

Boston Art

Is it spring yet? Celebrate the arrival of warmer (hopefully soon!) months in Boston by supporting your local artists. Over 200 professional Boston artists loan original contemporary fine art to deCordova’s Corporate Program where it is exhibited by Corporate Member companies, such as law firms, Bio-tech companies, hospitals etc. Review the full list of deCordova Corporate Members here and check back to this blog frequently to see what Lending Artists are up to.

Adam O’Day exhibits new works at Christopher’s in Cambridge. Adam’s recent city scapes, cut-outs, and collaborations with Lending Artist Kenji Nakayama are also on view now at Exclusive Jewels Gallery in Beacon Hill.

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Lending Artist Jeanne Williamson exhibits A Room of Our Own at the Concord Art Association in Concord, MA, from March 28 to May 5, 2013. The Opening reception is Thursday, March 28, 6-8pm.

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Fountain Street Fine Art announces Call for Art!

Currently on view, Lending Artist Richard Kattman exhibits Painted Abstracts, on view until March 24.

West of the Sun, 60x60 in., acrylic on canvas.

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Lending Artist Suzanne Hodes exhibits at the Cambridge Art Association in Unquiet World, on view until April 4.

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To view work by these and other Lending Artists installed at Corporate Member companies throughout the Greater Boston Area, please click on their names above or visit Corporate Program’s page on decordova.org!

Tips for Artists

I’ve seen an influx of articles lately prescribing success tips for artists and curators. As a community of supportive networks, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum’s Corporate Program works to foster and promote local artists here in Boston. I not only thought these points were well executed, but also thought provoking as a means to describe an agent’s role in the local art scene. Check out Hyperallergic’s article summarizing the discussion from the artist panel at SCAD’s 2013 deFine Art Conference and colleague/friend Maggie Cavallo’s blog post GET MONEY: tips 4 artists & curators, co-written with Leonie Bradbury.

deCordova debuts new look at Peterson Party Center

Inspired by the deep cobalt blue in Terri Priest’s Static Variations- Blue Memory, deCordova’s Head of Visitor Services Holly Berube took to a nautical theme when creating the new look at Peterson Party Center’s showroom. The contrasting colors in the painting are highlighted by the table, where Holly has also introduced a bold green in the flags, plate decor, and menu card. Holly’s candelabra used as the center piece mimics the strong presence of Priest’s shaped canvas, introducing different lines and forms to pull in the viewer’s eye.

Thank you Holly and Peterson Party Center for continuing the deCordova Corporate Program artwork inspiration in your showroom!

A few exhibitions to highlight

Please join deCordova Lending Artist Nedret Andre at her opening of Bruegel’s Dream on Feb 23, 5-9pm at the Touch Gallery in Cambridge.

Touch Gallery, 281 Concord Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138  Tel: (617) 547- 0017

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deCordova Lending Artist and New England School of Art & Design/Suffolk University faculty member, Lydia Martin exhibits in the Adams Gallery- Sargent Hall through March 5, 2013. Red Shoes is one of fifteen works the artist included in her Loteria series.

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St. Botolph Club, 199 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston

Opening Reception: March 27th, 5:30-7:00pm

RSVP: (617) 536-7570 or emailing, lisa@stbotolphclub.org

deCordova Lending Artist Sean Flood exhibits at the St. Botolph Club, with an opening reception is schedule for March 27. The only opportunity for the general public to view the show is during this reception. 

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Hope you can join us for the Opening Reception Friday February 15 at 6PM

MLYLT*

(Me Love You Long Time)

Curated by Edwin Ramoran

February 15, 2013 – April 7, 2013

The Boston Center for the Arts is proud to present Me Love You Long Time (MLYLT), a group exhibition of contemporary art and video by artists from Southeast Asia and North America who use various media and complicated visual strategies to upend or explore gender expression, sexuality, sex work, and new subjectivities.

For more than a year, curator Edwin Ramoran travelled Southeast Asia and the U.S., visiting nightclub dwellers and sex workers in search of artists for MLYLT. Modern life at the intersections of war, sex, gender, film, popular music, and contemporary art has provided the generative sources for MLYLT.

The title Me Love You Long Time  is borrowed from Stanley Kubrick’s “Full Metal Jacket” (1987), which is set during the Tet Offensive of the Vietnam War. In that film, a hooker solicits two U.S. soldiers with the words, “Me love you long time.” Her voice was later sampled in the hip-hop song “Me So Horny” (1989) by the music group 2 live Crew. 

Insinuatingly professional, yet beguilingly innocent, those words, “me love you long time” have become a familiar pop-cultural trope. Recently, hip-hop artist, M.I.A, in her overtly political album Arular, conflates the lines of the hooker and the soldiers for the song, “10 Dollar”: “what can I get for 10 dollar? Anything you want.” By doing this, M.I.A. embodies the colonial, sexual economy and gendered relationship—re-politicizing the lyrics into the confident voice of a young girl, and possibly a transgendered girl, in the sex trade.

The artists included here elaborate and perform the conflicting colonial realities of the sex worker, civilization’s oldest profession, bringing sexuality and gender expression into the public arena. Reworking film dialogue into music lyrics speaks of the repeatability and mutability of language in popular culture and imagination. The pushy prostitute understands the sexual economy. She provides a defiant interpretation of the culture and language of submission — giving them what they want, yet taking what she needs, presenting simultaneously the subversion and the assertion of power.

Organized by Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art

ArtBeyond Call to Artists

Call to Artists

www.theartconnection.org

A Call to Artists: We are seeking 2D artwork that is framed or ready to hang, not to exceed 36” in any direction. Jurors will select 12 works of art to be included in our Art Bingo fundraising event on April 20th. Artwork donations support the mission of The Art Connection, which enriches and empowers under-served communities by increasing access to original works of art. Submit work by February 20^th

Jurors: 

Leonie Bradbury is the Director and Curator of Montserrat College of Art Galleries and curator of contemporary art exhibitions of notable national and international artists. Leonie is a recipient of  New England Art Awards, New England Museum Association Publication Awards, and two curatorial awards from the Association of International Art Critics. Bradbury’s specialties are contemporary art, theory, and criticism, and she is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Aesthetics and Art Theory at the Institute for Doctoral Studies in Visual Arts. 

Carolyn Muskat holds a BFA in Painting and Printmaking from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA and is a Tamarind Master Printer. Her work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions across the country. She is a Visiting Faculty Member at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University, and the Massachusetts College of Art & Design, and a visiting artist at the Hanoi Fine Art Center in Hanoi, Vietnam.

Art BINGO: The Art Connection is encouraging new and continuing Boston-area art collectors by hosting Art Bingo, in which participants will play Bingo for original art.  Each game will be played for a specific piece, and the winning players will take their piece home that night.

About The Art Connection: The Art Connection finds permanent homes for original works of art throughout the Greater Boston Area. We facilitate the choice of art (generously donated to us by artists and collectors), by those who may not have the opportunity to experience the transformative possibilities of art in their lives.In our 17 years of bringing art to life, we have celebrated the placement over 5,760 original works of art in over 320 agencies, by over 360 art donors.

Submission Rules: Please email jpegs (250 KB to 1 MB, at least 1000 pixels in the larger direction) to artbostonbingo@gmail.com .You may submit up to three works. Please include the information below in the body of your email. Submissions are due by February 20, 2013. We will let you know by February 28, 2013 if your work is selected. All work selected for Art Bingo will need to be delivered to The Art Connection (located on Tremont St. in the South End) on or before March 19, 2013 at 2pm.

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The Art in Science

Several deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum’s Corporate Member Companies are bio-pharmaceutical/ bio-tech firms, such as Novartis, Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Nuvera Fuel Cells, and Alnylam Pharmaceuticals. These Corporate Members take pleasure in providing exhibitions of original artwork for their employees to not only fill the wall space, but also to continue the elements of discovery and play that is found in the scientific work being done in those very lab spaces.

Lending Artist Sean Flood exhibits South Station in Ironwood’s atrium. This location allows maximum employee and visitor engagement with the piece’s formal elements, including the investigation of paint layers, shadows, and space as well as the abstract elements, including the idea of transportation and community. 

In addition to Biotech companies providing artwork for the office, property managers that lend themselves to science-focus tenants are also interested in providing original art for their lab-focused constituents. BioMed Trust Company recently signed up for a Corporate Membership that included the installation of a site-specific piece that would be created by a Lending Artist every four months in the lobby of 210 Broadway in Cambridge. Bob Davies created this first piece by directly drawings and painting on the lobby wall while tenants of the building entered and exit during the busy hours of the work week. Many conversations were sparked by the artist’s project, all of which highlight the viewer’s professional habit to ask questions, discover connections and contemplate the findings. All of which are characteristics adopted when viewing a work of art!

Here are three ways to encourage a vibrant office culture:

1. Think open: open office spaces encourage community conversations and thinking. Look at lowering those cubicle walls, providing an open floor plan for cafes, and also think of a way to spruce up those break rooms with a ping pong table, wii, or yoga room!

2. Color: don’t be afraid of your interior designer! A mix of color and textures throughout the office space can create a vibrant atmosphere that fuels employees from 9-5. Try cool wall tones with bright red or patterned furniture!

3. The Art in science: art initiates conversation. Whether it is a small start-up or nationwide pharmaceutical company, companies and their employees identify with the relationship between art and science. The congruent processes of scientific discovery and exploring a painting on the wall prove to be essential in these unique office cultures.

To get in touch with us to tour your space, fill out this form here!

Welcome new Lending Artist

Lexington-based artist Judith Ellen Sanders joins the list of deCordova Corporate Program Lending Artists! Influenced by her scientific background, the artist creates vibrant acrylic works on canvas and paper, in both series and single pieces, that are interlaced with strong color choices, detailed lines, and harmonious compositions.

Vibrancy 1-4; acrylic on paper; 34 x 17” | Back Bay Events Center

Anemone; acrylic on canvas; 62 x 72” | Attivio

Free Flight; acrylic on canvas; 60 x 60” | Back Bay Events Center

Judith begins her work by initially taping off sections to paint precise lines that compliment the composition’s more whimsical shapes.  The pieces are then  populated with bold colors, including pinks, golden yellows, and backgrounds of black or deep purples. Judith combines a smooth brush stroke approach as well as a  more neo-impressionistic approach when painting that includes small, layered pockets of paint. The artist ends with an acrylic medium to add a layer of shine to her works on canvas.

Thank you, Judith, for loaning deCordova’s Corporate Program 8 pieces in total! We are so pleased to share them with our Corporate Members.