Past Exhibitions & Events 2022
"Worked: Artist Labor Relations"
Curated by Grace Clark
August 10 - September 3, 2022
Artists' Reception: Friday, August 12: 5-8 pm
A.P.E. GALLERY is pleased to announce "Worked: Artist Labor Relations", an exhibition of 7 innovative artists working in painting, printmaking, video, performance, sculpture, installation, social practice, and combined media. Artists highlighted include Ash Strazzinski, Eeshita Kapadiya, Ella Weber, Roz Crews, Sarah LaPonte, Thunder Miller, and kelli rae adams. Worked is
curated by A.P.E.’s inaugural guest curator, artist Grace Clark.
No tickets are necessary for this free exhibition. All are welcome.
Artists often have a unique relationship with work, as they, themselves, have the privilege of determining the labor that consequently makes up
their practice. However, many artists’ practices can be heavily influenced by the financial need to work additional full-time jobs. How do artists lean into
balancing this obligation and desire? By making their day job the inspiration for their art, using their practice as a platform for discussion, or simply saying, “I can’t”? Worked explores how artists respond to their relationship with labor––through critical discourse, radical rest, and intentional play––to consider the many shapes that labor can take.
Labor structures have a deep history of exploitation, censorship, and disproportionately allocating creative resources, especially within marginalized communities. Worked aims to share the thoughts, actions, and feelings of a variety of arts workers, especially in communities highly susceptible to this including people of color, femmes, poor, disabled, queer and trans folx.
Grace Clark is an artist, educator, and arts worker. She has been employed in numerous art world and non-art world settings including galleries, museums, schools, artist studios, non- profits, freelance photography, retail, the food industry, and more––all while maintaining her own creative practice. After becoming injured from overwork on a museum job, a condition that left her unable to use her arm to make art for herself or hold down a full-time job for an entire year, Clark experienced a transformative identity shift in conjunction with an extreme change in her relationship with work, her trust in the structures that distribute labor, and her own ability to care for herself. As her body still feels lingering tensions from the past, Clark is continuing to learn
about her personal relationship with labor through the help of others, especially the artistscourageously and thoughtfully sharing their experiences in this exhibition.
This exhibition is part of A.P.E.'s Guest Curator Program and is supported in part by a grant from the Art Angels, through the Community Foundation of Western Mass.
Curated by Grace Clark
August 10 - September 3, 2022
Artists' Reception: Friday, August 12: 5-8 pm
A.P.E. GALLERY is pleased to announce "Worked: Artist Labor Relations", an exhibition of 7 innovative artists working in painting, printmaking, video, performance, sculpture, installation, social practice, and combined media. Artists highlighted include Ash Strazzinski, Eeshita Kapadiya, Ella Weber, Roz Crews, Sarah LaPonte, Thunder Miller, and kelli rae adams. Worked is
curated by A.P.E.’s inaugural guest curator, artist Grace Clark.
No tickets are necessary for this free exhibition. All are welcome.
Artists often have a unique relationship with work, as they, themselves, have the privilege of determining the labor that consequently makes up
their practice. However, many artists’ practices can be heavily influenced by the financial need to work additional full-time jobs. How do artists lean into
balancing this obligation and desire? By making their day job the inspiration for their art, using their practice as a platform for discussion, or simply saying, “I can’t”? Worked explores how artists respond to their relationship with labor––through critical discourse, radical rest, and intentional play––to consider the many shapes that labor can take.
Labor structures have a deep history of exploitation, censorship, and disproportionately allocating creative resources, especially within marginalized communities. Worked aims to share the thoughts, actions, and feelings of a variety of arts workers, especially in communities highly susceptible to this including people of color, femmes, poor, disabled, queer and trans folx.
Grace Clark is an artist, educator, and arts worker. She has been employed in numerous art world and non-art world settings including galleries, museums, schools, artist studios, non- profits, freelance photography, retail, the food industry, and more––all while maintaining her own creative practice. After becoming injured from overwork on a museum job, a condition that left her unable to use her arm to make art for herself or hold down a full-time job for an entire year, Clark experienced a transformative identity shift in conjunction with an extreme change in her relationship with work, her trust in the structures that distribute labor, and her own ability to care for herself. As her body still feels lingering tensions from the past, Clark is continuing to learn
about her personal relationship with labor through the help of others, especially the artistscourageously and thoughtfully sharing their experiences in this exhibition.
This exhibition is part of A.P.E.'s Guest Curator Program and is supported in part by a grant from the Art Angels, through the Community Foundation of Western Mass.
No Theater
let go Performances
July 28 - August 6
a short adult comedy about love, death and piles of paper....
LET GO with Roy Faudree and Jane Karakula
@ A.P.E. Gallery, 126 Main Street, Northampton, MA
Performances
July 28 - August 6 at 8:00 PM
No Theater now rarely performs locally. During the 70s and 80s they regularly presented new
original works such as The Elephant Man, DFS (de fiance suction), Last Resort, and Dupe.
Recent local productions:
A Skull in Connemara by Martin McDonagh (2020);
google gogol, inspired by Nikolai Gogol (2019);
and Richard Maxwell's Cave Man (2016-2018).
No Theater's work has been performed throughout Europe, in New York, San Francisco, Tokyo,
Singapore and Australia.
let go Performances
July 28 - August 6
a short adult comedy about love, death and piles of paper....
LET GO with Roy Faudree and Jane Karakula
@ A.P.E. Gallery, 126 Main Street, Northampton, MA
Performances
July 28 - August 6 at 8:00 PM
No Theater now rarely performs locally. During the 70s and 80s they regularly presented new
original works such as The Elephant Man, DFS (de fiance suction), Last Resort, and Dupe.
Recent local productions:
A Skull in Connemara by Martin McDonagh (2020);
google gogol, inspired by Nikolai Gogol (2019);
and Richard Maxwell's Cave Man (2016-2018).
No Theater's work has been performed throughout Europe, in New York, San Francisco, Tokyo,
Singapore and Australia.
Phyllis Kornfeld’s CELLBLOCK VISIONS
Watch Nick Verdi's video of Cellblock Visions with Phyllis Kornfeld HERE
Dates: May 7 - May 29, 2022
Saturday, May 14: Reception: 3-5 pm and Artist Talk: 4 pm
The artwork being exhibited at A.P.E. was created between 1983 and the present by incarcerated men and women across the country in those prisons and jails that offer classes led by artist/teachers and with limited access to art supplies. Phyllis Kornfeld has been working directly with these artists for over 39 years—in all levels of security from county jail to maximum security to death row.
“These artists did their work with care and passion. Though inexperienced, they seemed to know what to do and how to do it, without instruction. They trusted something, an unseen guide. The art is beautiful in its sincerity even where the truth is painful to see. Art has always had the power to transform lives.”
Artist Bio:
Phyllis Kornfeld is the author of Cellblock Visions: Prison Art in America, Princeton University Press and is the founder of several public projects whereby prison artists donate their artwork to benefit people in need. The Envelope Project: Incarcerated Men and Women Making Art for a Cause sold hundreds of original pieces of envelope art at the Outsider Art Fair in NYC. to benefit a children’s literacy non-profit.
Other publications include “Truth, Goodness, and Beautiful Art: Set Free in the Penitentiary,” for Art Education Beyond the Classroom, Palgrave MacMillan.
Journal contributions include Encyclopedia of Southern Folk Art, Raw Vision: International Journal of Intuitive and Visionary Art, Mountain Record, Art and Antiques Magazine.
Phyllis Kornfeld lives in western Massachusetts and due to the Covid pandemic, is currently waiting to return to teaching at the Berkshire County House of Corrections.
Image above by: Ronnie White
Watch Nick Verdi's video of Cellblock Visions with Phyllis Kornfeld HERE
Dates: May 7 - May 29, 2022
Saturday, May 14: Reception: 3-5 pm and Artist Talk: 4 pm
The artwork being exhibited at A.P.E. was created between 1983 and the present by incarcerated men and women across the country in those prisons and jails that offer classes led by artist/teachers and with limited access to art supplies. Phyllis Kornfeld has been working directly with these artists for over 39 years—in all levels of security from county jail to maximum security to death row.
“These artists did their work with care and passion. Though inexperienced, they seemed to know what to do and how to do it, without instruction. They trusted something, an unseen guide. The art is beautiful in its sincerity even where the truth is painful to see. Art has always had the power to transform lives.”
Artist Bio:
Phyllis Kornfeld is the author of Cellblock Visions: Prison Art in America, Princeton University Press and is the founder of several public projects whereby prison artists donate their artwork to benefit people in need. The Envelope Project: Incarcerated Men and Women Making Art for a Cause sold hundreds of original pieces of envelope art at the Outsider Art Fair in NYC. to benefit a children’s literacy non-profit.
Other publications include “Truth, Goodness, and Beautiful Art: Set Free in the Penitentiary,” for Art Education Beyond the Classroom, Palgrave MacMillan.
Journal contributions include Encyclopedia of Southern Folk Art, Raw Vision: International Journal of Intuitive and Visionary Art, Mountain Record, Art and Antiques Magazine.
Phyllis Kornfeld lives in western Massachusetts and due to the Covid pandemic, is currently waiting to return to teaching at the Berkshire County House of Corrections.
Image above by: Ronnie White
MHC Art Major Senior Exhibition at A.P.E. Gallery
Title:
this is my letter to the world
Friday, April 29 - Monday, May 2, 2022
Reception: Friday, April 29, 5-7pm
Contact:
Lisa Iglesias, Associate Professor, Art Studio, Mount Holyoke College, liglesia@mtholyoke.edu, 607-280-5319
10 Artists:
Sarah Chait
Emily Donahue
Ella Giordano
Paula Mascuch
AJ Methner
Hiba Nawaid
Embry Valentino O’Leary
Kinsey Ratzman
Zofia Topor
Fran Winterbottom
A.P.E. Gallery is pleased to announce this is my letter to the world, a group show of 10 solo exhibitions by Mount Holyoke College seniors in Northampton, on view from April 29 to May 2, 2022. The participating artists Sarah Chait, Emily Donahue, Ella Giordano, Paula Mascuch, AJ Methner, Hiba Nawaid, Embry Valentino O’Leary, Kinsey Ratzman, Zofia Topor, and Fran Winterbottom work across video, painting, book arts, sculpture, textiles, exhibiting genre blurring projects that resist strict categorization.
For the past 4 years, the artists participating in this is my letter to the world have been immersed in a liberal arts, interdisciplinary academic environment and have experienced a spectrum of pre-pandemic interactions, remote education, and a transition to in-person realities. In titling the show this is my letter to the world, the artists nod to the eponymous poem by Emily Dickinson, who attended Mount Holyoke Seminary (the College’s original name) from 1847 to 1848. In their senior exhibition, as Dickinson’s poem puts forward, the emerging artists’ works on view offer up communications to their community, reflecting upon isolation, identity, history, and their reflections of the world around them.
this is my letter to the world features the creative research and artistic production of a group of studio majors from the Class of 2022 as well as mentorship by multiple individuals. The Studio Art Department is grateful for contributions by current and past faculty including Ligia Bouton, Lisa Iglesias, Gina Siepel, Amanda Maciuba, and Jacob Rhoads, as well as student TAs and members of 2022 thesis committees including MHC Professors Sarah Stefana Smith, Sabra Thorner, and Susanne Mrozik.
Located in South Hadley, Massachusetts, Mount Holyoke College is a highly selective, nondenominational, residential, research liberal arts college for women that is gender diverse and the oldest of the Seven Sister colleges.
Image credit: Image Courtesy of Sarah Chait and Zofia Tpopr
Title:
this is my letter to the world
Friday, April 29 - Monday, May 2, 2022
Reception: Friday, April 29, 5-7pm
Contact:
Lisa Iglesias, Associate Professor, Art Studio, Mount Holyoke College, liglesia@mtholyoke.edu, 607-280-5319
10 Artists:
Sarah Chait
Emily Donahue
Ella Giordano
Paula Mascuch
AJ Methner
Hiba Nawaid
Embry Valentino O’Leary
Kinsey Ratzman
Zofia Topor
Fran Winterbottom
A.P.E. Gallery is pleased to announce this is my letter to the world, a group show of 10 solo exhibitions by Mount Holyoke College seniors in Northampton, on view from April 29 to May 2, 2022. The participating artists Sarah Chait, Emily Donahue, Ella Giordano, Paula Mascuch, AJ Methner, Hiba Nawaid, Embry Valentino O’Leary, Kinsey Ratzman, Zofia Topor, and Fran Winterbottom work across video, painting, book arts, sculpture, textiles, exhibiting genre blurring projects that resist strict categorization.
For the past 4 years, the artists participating in this is my letter to the world have been immersed in a liberal arts, interdisciplinary academic environment and have experienced a spectrum of pre-pandemic interactions, remote education, and a transition to in-person realities. In titling the show this is my letter to the world, the artists nod to the eponymous poem by Emily Dickinson, who attended Mount Holyoke Seminary (the College’s original name) from 1847 to 1848. In their senior exhibition, as Dickinson’s poem puts forward, the emerging artists’ works on view offer up communications to their community, reflecting upon isolation, identity, history, and their reflections of the world around them.
this is my letter to the world features the creative research and artistic production of a group of studio majors from the Class of 2022 as well as mentorship by multiple individuals. The Studio Art Department is grateful for contributions by current and past faculty including Ligia Bouton, Lisa Iglesias, Gina Siepel, Amanda Maciuba, and Jacob Rhoads, as well as student TAs and members of 2022 thesis committees including MHC Professors Sarah Stefana Smith, Sabra Thorner, and Susanne Mrozik.
Located in South Hadley, Massachusetts, Mount Holyoke College is a highly selective, nondenominational, residential, research liberal arts college for women that is gender diverse and the oldest of the Seven Sister colleges.
Image credit: Image Courtesy of Sarah Chait and Zofia Tpopr
"Wanna Come Over?"
April 5 - 24, 2022
Artists' Reception: Friday, April 8: 5-8 pm
“Wanna come over?” is a group installation piece at A.P.E. gallery led by art students at Smith College. Working in collaboration, the senior class students (both Art History and Studio Art majors) seek to recreate the space of a Smith dorm room. Using the classic school-chosen furniture as well as trinkets, textiles, wall art, doodles, and more, this room represents the inner spaces of student life as they contrast the elusive exteriors of a private institution.
This exhibit is part of A.P.E.'s new Guest Curator Program and is curated by Aidan Wright and Ariella Heise '22.
Participating artists include Phoebe Collins, Paige Oliveira, Fay Adan, Talia Heyman, Ariella Heise, Shreya Dwibedy, Ashai Gonzalez, Nicole Huang, Sandra Pomelo-Fowler, and Eve Liberman.
April 5 - 24, 2022
Artists' Reception: Friday, April 8: 5-8 pm
“Wanna come over?” is a group installation piece at A.P.E. gallery led by art students at Smith College. Working in collaboration, the senior class students (both Art History and Studio Art majors) seek to recreate the space of a Smith dorm room. Using the classic school-chosen furniture as well as trinkets, textiles, wall art, doodles, and more, this room represents the inner spaces of student life as they contrast the elusive exteriors of a private institution.
This exhibit is part of A.P.E.'s new Guest Curator Program and is curated by Aidan Wright and Ariella Heise '22.
Participating artists include Phoebe Collins, Paige Oliveira, Fay Adan, Talia Heyman, Ariella Heise, Shreya Dwibedy, Ashai Gonzalez, Nicole Huang, Sandra Pomelo-Fowler, and Eve Liberman.
Crossing Cultures: Family, Memory and Displacement
March 9 - April 1, 2022
Curated by Claudia Ruiz Gustafson
Participating artists: Astrid Reischwitz, Claudia Ruiz Gustafson, Nilou Moochhala, Vivian Poey, Shabnam Jannesari, Nicolas Hyacinthe
About the Exhibition:
Crossing Cultures is an art exhibition about family, memory, displacement and identity from the point of view of six visual artists with roots in five regions: Asia (India and Iran), South America (Peru), North America (Mexico), The Caribbean (Cuba and Haiti) and Europe (Germany). Through the use of vintage family photographs, and the use of different mediums: photography, painting, mixed media and video, these artists uncover their family stories and create complex, multidimensional narratives to reflect upon what they have left behind while shifting countries and at the same time honoring and remembering family traditions and vanishing ways of life.
We are a nation of people who have come from around the globe and have experienced loss and transformation as we make our way in a new place. A place where diverse backgrounds, political beliefs, faiths, identities, and ideas come together to create something new. This exhibition embodies and celebrates this ongoing transformation in what it means to find home at a time where migration across the world is at an all-time high.
In the Blink of Our Lifetimes - The Ecology of Dusk
An Exhibition of Photographs by Pamela Petro
February 5 - March 4, 2022
Shooting the dusk series I learned that dusk is not a unilateral event but a process, like a slow, rolling wave. Each day there are three stages of twilight. Civil twilight, which begins at sunset; nautical twilight, when stars brighten; and astronomical twilight, just before darkness. The final moments of each phase are called “dusk.” The marine tones of these images, taken at nautical dusk, suggest that the sky blues land as readily as it does the sea.
An Exhibition of Photographs by Pamela Petro
February 5 - March 4, 2022
Shooting the dusk series I learned that dusk is not a unilateral event but a process, like a slow, rolling wave. Each day there are three stages of twilight. Civil twilight, which begins at sunset; nautical twilight, when stars brighten; and astronomical twilight, just before darkness. The final moments of each phase are called “dusk.” The marine tones of these images, taken at nautical dusk, suggest that the sky blues land as readily as it does the sea.
All of No Theater's January performances
of LET GO have been canceled due to
the current Omicron variant surge.
Brown Paper Tickets will reimburse those
who have purchased tickets. Please email
notheater@yahoo.com for more information.
A.P.E., Ltd. will announce new dates for the
production later this year.