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A.P.E. presents its summer series: ARC.18 (Activate, Research, Create)
A.P.E.‘s third season of summer projects continues to expand the understanding of a contemporary art gallery as an active space within the community.  A.P.E.’s current location in the center of Northampton, easily accessible to artists and audience alike, provides opportunities for innovative programming and increases the presence of contemporary arts within a community.   ARC.18 consists of four distinct projects that run from June through August, 2018.

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AUGUST 20 - SEPTEMBER 2   ARC18 FINAL PROJECT
BUILDING LINES BY CHRIS SERRA
Artist Reception: Friday, August 24: 6-8 pm
Living and working in industrial spaces of South Boston and Holyoke, Massachusetts led Chris Serra to explore warehouses and waterfront alleyways and sparked a fascination with the inherent beauty of rundown factory buildings, broken machines and rusted mechanisms.
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​Combining materials, the artist thinks about how their disparate characteristics will play against or act on each other: oxidized steel, bleeding into plaster or a delicate mylar form floating in cement.  In this project, Serra will exhibit some of this work in conjunction with his sketchbooks – the rough “blueprints” for his sculptures. These books reveal connections and metamorphoses between figurative and nonrepresentational images and are accompanied by notes and instructions to the artistLiving and working in industrial spaces of South Boston and Holyoke, Massachusetts led Chris Serra to explore warehouses and waterfront alleyways and sparked a fascination with the inherent beauty of rundown factory buildings, broken machines and rusted mechanisms.
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