A.P.E. Gallery Hours: Wednesday - Sunday: 12-5, Friday: 12-8, Closed Monday & Tuesday
Current
MISSING DEPARTMENT
visual works by Ligia Bouton + poetry by Matt Donovan
November 10 - December 10, 2022
Artists Reception: Friday, November 11: 5-8 pm (Arts Night Out)
Student Poetry Reading: Friday, December 9: 7-9pm
MISSING DEPARTMENT, a collaborative exhibition by artist Ligia Bouton and writer Matt Donovan, uses visual art and poetry to respond to missing person ads that were placed in pulp fiction magazines from the early 20th-century. This diptych series responds to a selection of widely varied ads that, in raw and intimate language, seek forgiveness, solace, answers, and connections from vanished spouses, lovers, friends, siblings, and children. The show features drawings, paintings, sculptures, and collages created from the magazine’s original paper, as well as letterpress poems made from erasures of pulp fiction stories. Through elaborate interventions with the magazine’s material and language, this expansive exhibition interrogates desire, empathy, and loss.
In addition to the displayed artwork and poems, this exhibition will culminate in a reading at A.P.E. by student poets from Mount Holyoke and Smith College on Friday, December 9th, 7-9pm
Ligia Bouton’s artwork has been shown in numerous galleries and museums, including the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Guildhall Art Gallery in London, and SITE Santa Fe. Bouton is an Associate Professor of Studio Art at Mount Holyoke College. Matt Donovan is the author, most recently, of the collection of poems The Dug-Up Gun Museum (BOA, 2022). He serves as the Director of the Boutelle-Day Poetry Center at Smith College.
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Flat File Program 2022
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A.P.E. is excited to announce its inaugural Flat File Program that celebrates the potential of flat media: drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, textiles, ceramic and collage. This collection of small works, selected from an open call, represents a variety of approaches to flat media either as finished works or momentary components of a creative process. A.P.E.’s Flat File Program features the work of 50 local, regional and national artists, many of them new to A.P.E. One of the goals of this new program is to bring work together to highlight and provide exposure to emerging artists and experimental work that is less likely to be shown in a traditional exhibition setting. The 2022 Flat File Program will be available to browse and collect in the online catalog through December 2022.
