Upcoming Exhibitions & Events
JUNE EXHIBITION:
Terry Jenoure and Pasqualina Azzarello
June 6-30, 2019
Artists' Reception: Friday, June 14: 5-8 pm
Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 12-5, Friday, 12-8, Sunday, 2-5, Closed Monday
Terry Jenoure
great expectations is a series of handmade doll sculptures, paper dolls and illustrations. They are inspired by letters written to my grandmother when she arrived in New York from Jamaica in the early part of the 20th century. Whether built into the figures, or more abstractly referenced, these letters from my great-grandmother and other ancestors are central and express their excitement, concerns, caution, but ultimately their hope for her success in the new world.
Images Above:
Paper doll 1 [watercolor, pens, fabric, digital enhancement, 2019]
No, my dear! [watercolor and pens, 2019]
Pasqualina Azzarello
Sender/Receiver: Our Infinite Atmospheres is a series of paintings that explores radical self-acceptance and transformative change. Each one is made with water-based media and utilizes direct and reflective mark-making to create human forms that represent, embody, and inhabit the interface of psychological and physiological healing. In its entirety, the series consists of 200+ works and continues to grow.
BIO: Pasqualina Azzarello is a painter, public muralist, educator, and community advocate. Working within grassroots, nonprofit, and academic channels, she works with others to cultivate generative spaces, initiatives, and partnerships that are innovative, collaborative, and inclusive of all participants. Throughout her unique professional path, each experience has been driven by core values including a profound belief in the creative potential of individuals and communities. Pasqualina serves as City Arts Coordinator at Easthampton City Arts in Easthampton, Massachusetts and is also a part-time faculty member at Parsons / The New School in New York City.
www.pasqualinaazzarello.com
ARC 2019
Activate Research Create
A.P.E.'s annual Summer Programming
May 27 - September 1
ARC 2019 continues to expand the understanding
of a contemporary art gallery as an active space within the community.
Activate Research Create
A.P.E.'s annual Summer Programming
May 27 - September 1
ARC 2019 continues to expand the understanding
of a contemporary art gallery as an active space within the community.
ARC Project 1:
Lynn Peterfreund/Artist in Residence.
Daily Practice/Daily Drawings
Tuesday, May 28-Sunday June 2, 2019
10 am-5 pm daily.
Open to the public all day, 10-5.
Daily workshops offered by Lynn at 1:00
Guest Practitioner workshops offered thoughout the week.
Daily Practice is ARC.2019's first of four projects to take place at A.P.E. this summer.
Lynn Peterfreund is showing 600 selected daily drawings she drew from 2012 through the present. She officially began making daily drawings in 2012 with her morning tea cup as the subject accompanied by notes about the day, observations, feelings, to do lists. In 2013, the theme was trees and since 2014, she’s been drawing people: her relatives, friends, students, teachers, colleagues, public figures, and herself. The drawings as a group present an unstructured memoire, stories with recurring characters, thoughts and feelings about things ranging from dinner to death. Her materials, watercolor pencils, pens and watercolors, are used in a variety of styles with some drawings done quickly and others more finished.
One viewer said of this exhibition:
“A rare glimpse into the small and large parts of a day and a life.
The juxtaposition of banal errands and cosmic thoughts. Unusually precise and descriptive words complimented by beautiful art.
Meditations on the biggest life issues in the drawings. Clear admiration of your closest people as well as humor about their idiosyncrasies. Brief memorials abound..." it would have been his 90th birthday". The tapes in your head emerge frequently...my mother would have said at this point, my father would have said. Details details details...the PT, the arm brace, the interior parts of your arm. Such careful observing...oh my. Like I said...you are a genius.”
As the artist in residence in the gallery, Lynn will be working on a series of drawing books. She and her guests will be conducting workshops daily that offer basic art making skills and creative prompts, as well as workshops in movement, writing and other practices. Tables in the gallery will be set up with materials for visitors to make collages, draw, write, read other graphic memoires as part of the theme of what it might mean to have daily practice. Anyone can come in and participate, read, or just sit in the space.
Guest Daily Practitioners include five dancers and movement artists, a musician/writer,
a birder-painter, textile and clay artists, and others visual artists.
An up-to-date schedule will be publicized at apearts.org.
If you are attending a workshop, please try to arrive by the start times noted below.
Schedule for the week of May 28-June 2 so far:
Every day: my workshop will be at 1 pm.
Tuesday
12-1 Fritha Pengelly (movement)
4-5 Andrea Olsen (movement)
Wed
11 Wendy Woodson (movement)
2-3 Charlotte Somerville (textile)
4 Andrew Vlock/Chinatsu Nagamune (clay, textile)
Thursday
1:30 Judith Souweine (knitting)
3:30 Dale Schwarz (creative expression)
4:30 Josh Lebow (movement)
Friday
10 Macaylla Silver (birding/painting)
12 Jennie McKenna (knitting and crocheting)
4-5 Departure Collective (writing, reading)
Saturday
11:30-1 Meredith Bove (movement)
1:30-3 Michael Silverstone(writing)
Sunday
David Andrews (drawing)
***closing reception from 3-5
Lynn Peterfreund has been making, teaching, and showing prints and paintings for the past few decades. Her local mural work can be seen in the JFK middle school cafetorium, Baystate, Cooley Dickinson and the University of Massachusetts. She is a member, teacher, and mentor at Zea Mays Printmaking and maintains her own studios at Arts and Industries and Leverett Crafts and Arts. Her artwork is included in numerous public and private collections which include the Mead Art Museum, Hood Art Museum, Cooper-Hewitt Museum, University of Michigan, and the Yale University Gallery of Art. Her monotype animations have been shown at University of Massachusetts, University of Oregon, International Center for Printmaking in New York, and her at APE.
More information and more art can be seen at
https://www.lynnpeterfreund.com/
July 7 – 21
Shaina Cantino
Shaina will be developing and documenting an evening-length contemporary dance theater piece in collaboration with performer Leah Fournier and dramaturg/designer Rose Proctor. The performance, inspired by Cantino's relationship with her recently deceased grandmother, grapples with various levels of intimacy in the dying process. The movement and text explores the tug between rigidity and expansion in aging and letting go.
Cantino began to create the piece after doing a Craniosacral Therapy (CST) with her 97-year-old grandmother, who had dementia and was nearing the end of her life. Shaina was amazed by her grandmother's response - she kept saying, “This is peace, this is peace.” Her openness to it stirred up questions for Shaina of how our culture relates to those losing mental function and nearing the end of their lives. She saw many of the nurses passing through her room asking, “Why are you scared,” in response to which her grandmother would become more frustrated and disoriented. Cantino also saw how relaxing and supportive her grandmother found a gentle hand on her body and a simple "I understand, it's very hard." Her grandmother responded with, "I feel you here with me."
Cantino will engage the Northampton public in several ways. During the making process, there will be an open-studio time for people to pass through the gallery space, with the option to receive a taste of Craniosacral Therapy. Also during her residency, Cantino will offer a durational performance in the gallery window, legible to foot-traffic. Lastly, she will present three performances at the end of her residency, open to the public. The dates are July 18-20 at 8 pm
This project was funded in part by New England Foundation for the Arts’ New England Dance Fund, with generous support from the Aliad Fund at the Boston Foundation.
http://www.shainacantino.com/dance.html
Shaina Cantino
Shaina will be developing and documenting an evening-length contemporary dance theater piece in collaboration with performer Leah Fournier and dramaturg/designer Rose Proctor. The performance, inspired by Cantino's relationship with her recently deceased grandmother, grapples with various levels of intimacy in the dying process. The movement and text explores the tug between rigidity and expansion in aging and letting go.
Cantino began to create the piece after doing a Craniosacral Therapy (CST) with her 97-year-old grandmother, who had dementia and was nearing the end of her life. Shaina was amazed by her grandmother's response - she kept saying, “This is peace, this is peace.” Her openness to it stirred up questions for Shaina of how our culture relates to those losing mental function and nearing the end of their lives. She saw many of the nurses passing through her room asking, “Why are you scared,” in response to which her grandmother would become more frustrated and disoriented. Cantino also saw how relaxing and supportive her grandmother found a gentle hand on her body and a simple "I understand, it's very hard." Her grandmother responded with, "I feel you here with me."
Cantino will engage the Northampton public in several ways. During the making process, there will be an open-studio time for people to pass through the gallery space, with the option to receive a taste of Craniosacral Therapy. Also during her residency, Cantino will offer a durational performance in the gallery window, legible to foot-traffic. Lastly, she will present three performances at the end of her residency, open to the public. The dates are July 18-20 at 8 pm
This project was funded in part by New England Foundation for the Arts’ New England Dance Fund, with generous support from the Aliad Fund at the Boston Foundation.
http://www.shainacantino.com/dance.html
ARC Project 3:
Eli Liebman and other artists
Security in a State of Violence
July 28 – August 11
A mixed media exhibition focused on the phenomena and relationship of security and violence and exploring how they are articulated in varied forms ranging human touch to dragnet surveillance; from the built environment to notions of health. The show will be comprised of woodblock prints, animation, sewn blankets, postcards, sound, and sculpture. Artists include: Eli Liebman (MA), Venancio Velasco (Oaxaca, Mexico), Clarice Allgood (MN), Andrew Fernandez (NC), Alex Liebman (WA). Public events include a reading on Saturday, August 3.
https://elimack.weebly.com/contact.html
Eli Liebman and other artists
Security in a State of Violence
July 28 – August 11
A mixed media exhibition focused on the phenomena and relationship of security and violence and exploring how they are articulated in varied forms ranging human touch to dragnet surveillance; from the built environment to notions of health. The show will be comprised of woodblock prints, animation, sewn blankets, postcards, sound, and sculpture. Artists include: Eli Liebman (MA), Venancio Velasco (Oaxaca, Mexico), Clarice Allgood (MN), Andrew Fernandez (NC), Alex Liebman (WA). Public events include a reading on Saturday, August 3.
https://elimack.weebly.com/contact.html
ARC Project 4
Tristatic: Jacqueline Dougherty, Julia Handschuh & Haley Morgan
August 18 – September 1
This 10-year anniversary installation for Tristatic will be focused around performance for video work, video stills, costumes and accessories. Tristatic will have a series of 'open hours' during the two weeks for public engagement and prompts to interact with the installations.
www.tristatic.com/
Tristatic: Jacqueline Dougherty, Julia Handschuh & Haley Morgan
August 18 – September 1
This 10-year anniversary installation for Tristatic will be focused around performance for video work, video stills, costumes and accessories. Tristatic will have a series of 'open hours' during the two weeks for public engagement and prompts to interact with the installations.
www.tristatic.com/
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.
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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