Upcoming Exhibitions & Events
ARC 2019
Activate Research Create
A.P.E.'s annual Summer Programming
May 27 - August 31
ARC 2019 continues to expand the understanding
of a contemporary art gallery as an active space within the community.
LEARN MORE AND SCHEDULE
Activate Research Create
A.P.E.'s annual Summer Programming
May 27 - August 31
ARC 2019 continues to expand the understanding
of a contemporary art gallery as an active space within the community.
LEARN MORE AND SCHEDULE
FALL 2019 PROJECTS AT A.P.E.
September, 2019
Frank Ward & Robert Tobey Photographs
The Last Empire—The new countries of the old Soviet Union. Photographs by Frank Ward
These photographs of the former Soviet Empire tell a story of curious pleasures and confounded expectations. On a beach in Ukraine a grandmother in a bikini asks me to take her picture. In the Russian Far East I discover a wall mural of Lenin blowing a kiss to Marilyn Monroe. Policemen in Uzbekistan accuse me of stealing strategic military secrets by photographing a World War II tank on display in a park. In Siberia, an angry security guard repeats his only phrase in English, “I love you,” as he makes me delete my pictures of a destroyed waterfront habitat. The former Soviet Empire is a paradise of paradox, where the landscapes are limitless and the people are full of passion and pain.
Frank Ward is a professor of visual art at Holyoke Community College, Holyoke, MA. Over the past 18 years, Ward has made ten trips to the Former Soviet Union. In 2012, he went to Central Asia as the Cultural Envoy in Photography for the US Department of State. In 2011, he was awarded an Artist Fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council for his photography in the former Soviet Union. He has received the National Endowment for the Arts and numerous other grants for his work in Holyoke, the former Yugoslavia, Tibet and India. He is represented by Photo Eye Gallery in Santa Fe, NM.
-BLIND I: Unnmeditated Unmediated, Articulated Automatism. Photographs by Robert Tobey
More info coming soon.
Frank Ward & Robert Tobey Photographs
The Last Empire—The new countries of the old Soviet Union. Photographs by Frank Ward
These photographs of the former Soviet Empire tell a story of curious pleasures and confounded expectations. On a beach in Ukraine a grandmother in a bikini asks me to take her picture. In the Russian Far East I discover a wall mural of Lenin blowing a kiss to Marilyn Monroe. Policemen in Uzbekistan accuse me of stealing strategic military secrets by photographing a World War II tank on display in a park. In Siberia, an angry security guard repeats his only phrase in English, “I love you,” as he makes me delete my pictures of a destroyed waterfront habitat. The former Soviet Empire is a paradise of paradox, where the landscapes are limitless and the people are full of passion and pain.
Frank Ward is a professor of visual art at Holyoke Community College, Holyoke, MA. Over the past 18 years, Ward has made ten trips to the Former Soviet Union. In 2012, he went to Central Asia as the Cultural Envoy in Photography for the US Department of State. In 2011, he was awarded an Artist Fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council for his photography in the former Soviet Union. He has received the National Endowment for the Arts and numerous other grants for his work in Holyoke, the former Yugoslavia, Tibet and India. He is represented by Photo Eye Gallery in Santa Fe, NM.
-BLIND I: Unnmeditated Unmediated, Articulated Automatism. Photographs by Robert Tobey
More info coming soon.
SHARED SPACES
MIXED MEDIA INSTALLATION
STEPHEN WICKS
October 4 - November 2, 2019
Artist Reception, Friday, October 11: 5-8 pm
… heading off across America to make these photographs I chose the open road. I deliberately avoided visiting familiar iconic destinations. Instead, I travelled with an eye toward discovering places along the way where the built environment merged with the
natural landscape …
The photographs and video pieces in this SHARED SPACES exhibition are works selected from The NATURE/CULTURE Project - my ten year [ 2008-2018] survey of American spaces and places found along the roadside across all regions of the country.
Although my NATURE/CULTURE Project photographs are of places void of people, I believe a human trace is visible in each picture and, with this in mind, I see my images of these spaces as social landscapes.
It is precisely the absence of people along with a sense of their presence, as seen in the marks, changes and artifacts left in the environment, I find most fascinating.
Stephen Wicks website: www.wicksmedia.com
MIXED MEDIA INSTALLATION
STEPHEN WICKS
October 4 - November 2, 2019
Artist Reception, Friday, October 11: 5-8 pm
… heading off across America to make these photographs I chose the open road. I deliberately avoided visiting familiar iconic destinations. Instead, I travelled with an eye toward discovering places along the way where the built environment merged with the
natural landscape …
The photographs and video pieces in this SHARED SPACES exhibition are works selected from The NATURE/CULTURE Project - my ten year [ 2008-2018] survey of American spaces and places found along the roadside across all regions of the country.
Although my NATURE/CULTURE Project photographs are of places void of people, I believe a human trace is visible in each picture and, with this in mind, I see my images of these spaces as social landscapes.
It is precisely the absence of people along with a sense of their presence, as seen in the marks, changes and artifacts left in the environment, I find most fascinating.
Stephen Wicks website: www.wicksmedia.com
Carolyn Webb - Wood, Paper, Slate
November 6 - December 7, 2019
Carolyn Webb, sculptor and printmaker will present a comprehensive and integrated exhibit of works on paper and freestanding wood and slate relief sculptures.
Webb’s abstract work is based in close observation and reverence for natural forms. This exhibit will present an enveloping environment in which her prints, drawings, and sculptures are experienced in a uniquely cohesive fashion as they speak to each other across the gallery.
https://carolynwebb.net/
No Theater has postponed its March production of
A SKULL IN CONNEMARA
by Martin McDonagh
Performances will be held in December, 2019
No Theater, the resident theater of A.P.E., takes its time working on its original scripts and productions of the published works of playwrights. No Theater presented three separate local productions of Richard Maxwell's CAVEMAN over a period of three years before its New York run in 2013. Last spring's google gogol was the result of members of the community reading several translations and adaptations of Nikolai Gogol's Ревизор (THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR) for a year.
In the fall No Theater plans to performs Martin McDonagh's A SKULL IN CONNEMARA, a dark comedy by the writer/director of the Academy Award winning film THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI. Check the http://www.apearts.org website for information.
A SKULL IN CONNEMARA was first presented as a Druid Theatre Company and Royal Court Theatre co-production in Galway, Ireland and then in London in the summer of 1997. "Mr. McDonagh's great strength is that he combines a love of traditional story-telling with the savage ironic humour of the modern generation.... In A SKULL IN CONNEMARA, a gravedigger, whose job is to disinter the bones of seven-year-old corpses and smash them to a pulp, is hotly suspected of killing his wife." THE GUARDIAN
Performed by No Theater veterans Roy Faudree, Charles Holt, Jane Karakula and Tom Mahnken, the play takes place in McDonagh’s fictional rural West Ireland small town where people “smile at you ‘til you’re a mile away before they start talking behind your back."
Based in Northampton, No Theater has been presenting their new original experimental works in Western Massachusetts and around the world since 1972, alongside innovative productions of plays by such diverse writers as Shakespeare, Chekhov, Čapek, Kroetz, Gogol, Williams, Albee, Berkman, Maceda, Mullin, McDonald, and Maxwell.
Photo above by Matthew Cavanaugh
A SKULL IN CONNEMARA
by Martin McDonagh
Performances will be held in December, 2019
No Theater, the resident theater of A.P.E., takes its time working on its original scripts and productions of the published works of playwrights. No Theater presented three separate local productions of Richard Maxwell's CAVEMAN over a period of three years before its New York run in 2013. Last spring's google gogol was the result of members of the community reading several translations and adaptations of Nikolai Gogol's Ревизор (THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR) for a year.
In the fall No Theater plans to performs Martin McDonagh's A SKULL IN CONNEMARA, a dark comedy by the writer/director of the Academy Award winning film THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI. Check the http://www.apearts.org website for information.
A SKULL IN CONNEMARA was first presented as a Druid Theatre Company and Royal Court Theatre co-production in Galway, Ireland and then in London in the summer of 1997. "Mr. McDonagh's great strength is that he combines a love of traditional story-telling with the savage ironic humour of the modern generation.... In A SKULL IN CONNEMARA, a gravedigger, whose job is to disinter the bones of seven-year-old corpses and smash them to a pulp, is hotly suspected of killing his wife." THE GUARDIAN
Performed by No Theater veterans Roy Faudree, Charles Holt, Jane Karakula and Tom Mahnken, the play takes place in McDonagh’s fictional rural West Ireland small town where people “smile at you ‘til you’re a mile away before they start talking behind your back."
Based in Northampton, No Theater has been presenting their new original experimental works in Western Massachusetts and around the world since 1972, alongside innovative productions of plays by such diverse writers as Shakespeare, Chekhov, Čapek, Kroetz, Gogol, Williams, Albee, Berkman, Maceda, Mullin, McDonald, and Maxwell.
Photo above by Matthew Cavanaugh
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