Upcoming Exhibitions & Events
A.P.E. Flat File Sale Pop-UP
in collaboration with
Northampton Print & Book Fair 2022
Saturday, October 1, 2022
33 Hawley St., Northampton, MA
Northampton Print & Book Fair: 12:00–5:00pm
A.P.E. Flat File Sale: 10:00am–3:00pm
Free and open to the public
These two distinct events happening on the same day at 33 Hawley celebrate the potential of flat media in all forms and bring together A.P.E.’s flat file program with NPBF!
A.P.E.’s Flat File Pop-Up Sale
As a previous host for the Northampton Print & Book Fair at A.P.E.’s 126 Main Street gallery, Flat File curators Jil Crary-Ross and Aidan Wright are excited to be collaborating with the NPBF on October 1, 2022 at 33 Hawley Street. A.P.E. will host a pop-up Flat File show and sale in A.P.E.’s Workroom Theater, celebrating flat media alongside the NPBF in the Center for the Art’s Flex space. Both events occur at 33 Hawley St and will be free to the public. A.P.E. has encouraged all its flat file artists to attend if possible as it will be a great opportunity to meet fellow flat-file artists, print and book fair artists and to sell work!
A.P.E.'s inaugural Flat File Program 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, with the goal to highlight and provide exposure to emerging artists and experimental work that is less likely to be shown in a traditional exhibition setting.
Northampton Print & Book Fair 2022
After a two year hiatus, the Northampton Print & Book Fair makes its return to downtown Northampton this Fall. On October 1st, over 20 artists will gather at 33 Hawley for a one-day celebration of contemporary artist publications, prints, and multiples. This event will feature a diverse community of artists, publishers, and collectives from across western Massachusetts and throughout New England. Artwork will be on display and for sale and will include artists’ books, zines, chapbooks, poetry, comics, screenprints, risograph prints, photographs, photobooks, mini sculptures, ceramics, wearable art, and much more. The NPBF represents a unique opportunity for the public to directly engage with and support local and regional artists. The event is free to attend and open to the public with 100% of the sales going directly to the artists.
Established in 2015, the Northampton Print & Book Fair is a one-day event held annually in downtown Northampton, Massachusetts. It was created to promote contemporary artist publications, prints, and multiples, celebrating local talent while bringing regional artists and publishers to our community. The NPBF is run by volunteers and is produced by Fugitive Arts – a collaborative, transient curatorial project dedicated to promoting experimental art and emerging artists in western Massachusetts, with a goal to create innovative, accessible, and engaging arts programming through exhibitions, publications, and public events. Fugitive Arts was founded by Esther S White and Trevor Powers.
This year’s NPBF is sponsored in part by the Northampton Arts Council and CatLABS, with additional support from Collective Copies, Daily Operation, and generous community members.
in collaboration with
Northampton Print & Book Fair 2022
Saturday, October 1, 2022
33 Hawley St., Northampton, MA
Northampton Print & Book Fair: 12:00–5:00pm
A.P.E. Flat File Sale: 10:00am–3:00pm
Free and open to the public
These two distinct events happening on the same day at 33 Hawley celebrate the potential of flat media in all forms and bring together A.P.E.’s flat file program with NPBF!
A.P.E.’s Flat File Pop-Up Sale
As a previous host for the Northampton Print & Book Fair at A.P.E.’s 126 Main Street gallery, Flat File curators Jil Crary-Ross and Aidan Wright are excited to be collaborating with the NPBF on October 1, 2022 at 33 Hawley Street. A.P.E. will host a pop-up Flat File show and sale in A.P.E.’s Workroom Theater, celebrating flat media alongside the NPBF in the Center for the Art’s Flex space. Both events occur at 33 Hawley St and will be free to the public. A.P.E. has encouraged all its flat file artists to attend if possible as it will be a great opportunity to meet fellow flat-file artists, print and book fair artists and to sell work!
A.P.E.'s inaugural Flat File Program 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, with the goal to highlight and provide exposure to emerging artists and experimental work that is less likely to be shown in a traditional exhibition setting.
Northampton Print & Book Fair 2022
After a two year hiatus, the Northampton Print & Book Fair makes its return to downtown Northampton this Fall. On October 1st, over 20 artists will gather at 33 Hawley for a one-day celebration of contemporary artist publications, prints, and multiples. This event will feature a diverse community of artists, publishers, and collectives from across western Massachusetts and throughout New England. Artwork will be on display and for sale and will include artists’ books, zines, chapbooks, poetry, comics, screenprints, risograph prints, photographs, photobooks, mini sculptures, ceramics, wearable art, and much more. The NPBF represents a unique opportunity for the public to directly engage with and support local and regional artists. The event is free to attend and open to the public with 100% of the sales going directly to the artists.
Established in 2015, the Northampton Print & Book Fair is a one-day event held annually in downtown Northampton, Massachusetts. It was created to promote contemporary artist publications, prints, and multiples, celebrating local talent while bringing regional artists and publishers to our community. The NPBF is run by volunteers and is produced by Fugitive Arts – a collaborative, transient curatorial project dedicated to promoting experimental art and emerging artists in western Massachusetts, with a goal to create innovative, accessible, and engaging arts programming through exhibitions, publications, and public events. Fugitive Arts was founded by Esther S White and Trevor Powers.
This year’s NPBF is sponsored in part by the Northampton Arts Council and CatLABS, with additional support from Collective Copies, Daily Operation, and generous community members.
David Aipperspach, Sundial (3), 36" x 40", oil on canvas, 2022.
SHADOW WORK
Curated by AJ Rombach
October 14 - November 6, 2022
Artists Reception: Friday, October 14: 5-8 pm (Arts Night Out)
Participating Artists:
David Aipperspach - www.davidaipperspach.com
Natessa Amin - www.natessa.com
River Kim - www.riverminjukim.com
Lena Schmid - www.schmidlena.com
Stephen Proski - www.stephenproski.com
SHADOW WORK examines painting's potential to trace the cognitive and unconscious thought of maker and viewer. What does a symbol communicate? How do paintings act as bridges between subjective and collective experience? How do art objects encapsulate ontological mystery? Natessa Amin and Lena Schmid’s abstracted work relies on systems of invented symbolism that become catalogs of dreams, events, energies and desires. River Kim bridges Amin and Schmid’s abstraction into an embodied expression of fur and latex, large enough to dress a monster. David Aipperspach illustrates the dilemma of embodiment, perception and subjectivity. Stephen Proski's oversized braille monument, and collection of playful yet darkly titled symbols, profoundly punctuates this dilemma in a gesture purposefully alienating. SHADOW WORK inherits its title from the psychoanalytical work of Carl Jung. Jung insisted that, "It is the essence of the symbol to contain both the rational and the irrational," (Jung, Liber Novus, 57,) SHADOW WORK aims to create an environment in which the unconscious be permitted to (consciously) surface.
AJ Rombach is an artist, educator and curator based in Massachusetts. AJ has an MFA from Boston University (2022) and a BFA from Boston University (2010.) AJ is a 2022 Walter Feldman Fellow. AJ is a founding member and former co-director of FJORD, an artist-run space in Philadelphia and has been included in solo and group exhibitions at SPACEUS, Boston; University City Arts League, Philadelphia; Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia; Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Philadelphia; Satellite Art Fair, Miami; CSA Gallery, Philadelphia; and Rodger LaPelle Gallery, Philadelphia. AJ has helped curate exhibitions in Philadelphia, New York, Miami + Boston and has painted murals in Costa Rica, Philadelphia, New Orleans, Santa Fe, and Minneapolis. AJ taught as a lead teacher at Acorn Gallery School of Art in Marblehead, MA. AJ now lives in Leeds, MA.
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 AJ Rombach
October 14 - November 6, 2022
Artists Reception: Friday, October 14: 5-8 pm (Arts Night Out)
Participating Artists:
David Aipperspach - www.davidaipperspach.com
Natessa Amin - www.natessa.com
River Kim - www.riverminjukim.com
Lena Schmid - www.schmidlena.com
Stephen Proski - www.stephenproski.com
SHADOW WORK examines painting's potential to trace the cognitive and unconscious thought of maker and viewer. What does a symbol communicate? How do paintings act as bridges between subjective and collective experience? How do art objects encapsulate ontological mystery? Natessa Amin and Lena Schmid’s abstracted work relies on systems of invented symbolism that become catalogs of dreams, events, energies and desires. River Kim bridges Amin and Schmid’s abstraction into an embodied expression of fur and latex, large enough to dress a monster. David Aipperspach illustrates the dilemma of embodiment, perception and subjectivity. Stephen Proski's oversized braille monument, and collection of playful yet darkly titled symbols, profoundly punctuates this dilemma in a gesture purposefully alienating. SHADOW WORK inherits its title from the psychoanalytical work of Carl Jung. Jung insisted that, "It is the essence of the symbol to contain both the rational and the irrational," (Jung, Liber Novus, 57,) SHADOW WORK aims to create an environment in which the unconscious be permitted to (consciously) surface.
AJ Rombach is an artist, educator and curator based in Massachusetts. AJ has an MFA from Boston University (2022) and a BFA from Boston University (2010.) AJ is a 2022 Walter Feldman Fellow. AJ is a founding member and former co-director of FJORD, an artist-run space in Philadelphia and has been included in solo and group exhibitions at SPACEUS, Boston; University City Arts League, Philadelphia; Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia; Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Philadelphia; Satellite Art Fair, Miami; CSA Gallery, Philadelphia; and Rodger LaPelle Gallery, Philadelphia. AJ has helped curate exhibitions in Philadelphia, New York, Miami + Boston and has painted murals in Costa Rica, Philadelphia, New Orleans, Santa Fe, and Minneapolis. AJ taught as a lead teacher at Acorn Gallery School of Art in Marblehead, MA. AJ now lives in Leeds, MA.
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.
The LAB at APE • 2022-2023
Photos from Love and Depositions, conceived and directed by Marina Zurita, Acadia Barrengos, and Mollye Maxner. Photos by Marina Zurita
The Lab at APE is a research and residency program for emerging local, national, and international transdisciplinary performance makers / designers. The 2022-23 LAB will bring together 6 artists with a focus on the craft and creative practice of new work with a focus on text/theater/dramaturgy. This year's LAB artists will be announced soon!
Questions about the LAB at APE? Reach out to Mollye Maxner: mollyemaxner@apearts.org, 413-586-5553
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