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.Curatorial
Project
.Under
the Fort
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The
Rhys Gallery
.Boston,
MA, June - July 2006 |
Featuring
the work of:
ALC,
Hilary Baldwin, Ria Brodell, Brian Burkhardt, Reniel Diaz,
Amanda Fiedler, Gonzalo Fuenmayor, Tomoko Kakeda, Mark Messersmith,
Sally Moore, and Samantha Moyer
A
group exhibition of emerging and established artists working in
Massachusetts, Florida, Connecticut, New York, and Colombia. The
artists in this exhibition pull fragments from “outside
the fort” back inside to create their own invented worlds.
Daily environments and familiar landscapes are retold through
exaggerated narratives transformed by a magic realism and filtered
into new spaces of the imagination. Real and Imagined, Indoor
and Outdoor, Natural and Constructed all converge under the fort.
How does one perceive the world they inhabit? What kind of spaces
do we create for ourselves to exist within? The artists in this
exhibition respond to their political, emotional, social, and
cultural environments through the characters, landscapes, and
relationships living within their work.
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.Community
Outreach Arts Project
.Blue
Print Voyage
.@
The
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
.Project
Dates: November - May 2006
.Exhibition
Dates: May 20 - August 26, 2006 |
Between
January and May 2006 about one hundred children, ages seven through
twelve, from three organizations explored and created works of
art in the MFA, led by artist Evelyn Rydz. This unique collaboration
brings together the community youth groups’ multiple perspectives
on the collections in a new map of the museum, as seen through
the children’s eyes.
This
exhibition documents the making of Blue Print Voyage, a multimedia
collaborative installation created by members of the Boston Chinatown
Neighborhood Center, the United South End Settlements, and the
West End House Boys and Girls Club of Allston-Brighton in response
to their experiences working within the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston’s
diverse collections.
Each group participated over a span of eight days. The first visit
included an introduction to the project, during which each child
was given a sketchbook with a map of the MFA’s galleries.
The activities on each subsequent day began with stories, conversations,
and sketching. At the end of the session, participants marked
the galleries they had visited on their maps. Then the second
half of each visit was spent making art. Using sheets of self-adhesive
vinyl, the children cut and layered their drawings to create collage
decals inspired by artworks from a specific Museum gallery. On
their last visit, the children helped with the installation of
the exhibition, making their own version of the MFA map. The individual
works come together in this overlapping collage to create a new
collaborative mural, made up of small fragments and memories of
the museum, collected and recreated in the children’s work.
This program was made possible through generous funding from the
Linde Family Foundation.
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Featuring
the work of:
Hilary
Baldwin, Jason Bartsch, Brian Burkhardt, Evelyn Rydz, Jamie
Vasta, Lauren Warner
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Blurring
Landscape offers a look at landscape as a place that is both
blurred and in the process of being blurred, a fluid and changing
site composed of interconnected dynamic forces. Where does one
landscape begin and another end? Where, how, and in what form
can nature be located within a landscape? An endless multitude
of layered and linked landscapes exist simultaneously, each
one affecting its inhabitant’s lives and creating a boundless
variety of possibilities and problems for how a given landscape
might be experienced and viewed. What is the physical and emotional
texture of a landscape’s culture, its colors, economics,
ecology, energy, politics, climate, history, seduction, production,
cultivation, restrictions, and humanity? While the landscape
being proposed here is one of integrations and unification,
it is not homogenous, and the experiences of it are always specific.
This exhibition brings together six possibilities of landscape
through the work of Hilary Baldwin, Jason Bartsch, Brian Burkhardt,
Evelyn Rydz, Jamie Vasta, and Lauren Warner. The artists in
this project focus on the nature of landscape, blurring definitions
and making boundaries between organic and synthetic, mediated
and direct encounters, daydreams and consciousness, and between
one place and another more fluid that fixed. Landscape can be
a destination, a road side attraction, a designated site to
seek out and visit, a National Park, a treasured place to preserve
and protect, a nostalgic image of pre-industrial times, an untouched
setting, an accumulation of ecological phenomena, an event,
a mediated experience, a debris pile, a background or set, a
stage for human lives, the site of an archeological dig revealing
fragments of time and place. It can be everything and it can
be nothing.
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