Upcoming Exhibitions & Events 2021
CAGE SHUFFLE: MARATHON with Paul Lazar
September 1 & 3 at 7 pm at A.P.E. on Main Street
In "Cage Shuffle: Marathon" Paul Lazar will perform all of the ninety one-minute stories of John Cage’s Indeterminacy. In an avalanche of words and dances, Paul’s execution of the entirety of the stories, told while continuously dancing 90 minutes of complex choreography, heightens the audience’s viewing experience in ways that could not be achieved in a less demanding iteration. The piece will include on-stage visits from guest performers from the non-traditional art making community, and through these guest appearances, Lazar creates a celebrational event that vivifies the kinship of current artists to one of their most joyful, playful and adventurous forebears. The touring version of the Cage Shuffle Marathon will include guest artists drawn from the local community wherever the piece is performing.
"Cage Shuffle:Marathon” will premiere at LaMaMa Theater in New York City in the Fall 2021.
To Learn More about Cage Shuffle: https://www.cageshuffle.com
September 1 & 3 at 7 pm at A.P.E. on Main Street
In "Cage Shuffle: Marathon" Paul Lazar will perform all of the ninety one-minute stories of John Cage’s Indeterminacy. In an avalanche of words and dances, Paul’s execution of the entirety of the stories, told while continuously dancing 90 minutes of complex choreography, heightens the audience’s viewing experience in ways that could not be achieved in a less demanding iteration. The piece will include on-stage visits from guest performers from the non-traditional art making community, and through these guest appearances, Lazar creates a celebrational event that vivifies the kinship of current artists to one of their most joyful, playful and adventurous forebears. The touring version of the Cage Shuffle Marathon will include guest artists drawn from the local community wherever the piece is performing.
"Cage Shuffle:Marathon” will premiere at LaMaMa Theater in New York City in the Fall 2021.
To Learn More about Cage Shuffle: https://www.cageshuffle.com
SEPTEMBER 2021 EXHIBITION
New Paradigm Tool Company
Work by Peter Dellert
September 8 - October 2, 2021
Artist Reception: Friday, September 10
Peter Dellert is a sculptor and mixed media artist living and working in Holyoke MA.
Historically a furniture maker and cabinetmaker, he has been exhibiting his sculptures in galleries, museums and outdoor sculpture shows in the U.S. and Japan since 2005. He creates sculptures using diverse materials including wood, steel, concrete, grape vines, recycled automotive catalytic converter covers, Tyvek, recycled plastic and others.
His most recent works comprise an ongoing collection entitled New Paradigm Tool Company. These works utilize legacy tools for manual labor. These tools are refitted with new, surprising, and elaborate wood handles, often laboriously laminated and bent into curves; additional modifications to the tools are also employed. These changes render the tools seemingly non-functional, absurd and surrealistic.
The work focuses on an examination of hand tools. The work seeks to address the place of the worker, especially the hand worker and manual laborer in contemporary Western culture. The relation of labor and capital is embodied in the technology of tools. Tools are the means of production in society, and such means of production create our social relationships. These modified tools ask what kind of social relations would emerge from such absurd means of production? This absurdity is a critique on the un-reflected deployment of technology without the consideration of the resulting change in social relations. What at first might appear as a nostalgic look at a past era is in fact a bold statement on the future of labor in the age of digital transformation born of artificial intelligence and increasing automation of manual work in our future.
Peter Dellert is a sculptor and collage artist living and working in Holyoke, MA. Inspired by nature, biomorphic forms, and most recently vintage hand tools, his sculptures utilize such diverse materials as tin cans, tree branches, grape vines, steel, copper, aluminum, carved Spanish cedar, concrete, and found recycled automotive catalytic converter covers. His sculptures have been exhibited in Sculpture Key West (FL), Contemporary Sculpture at Chesterwood (MA), Sculpture New Hope (PA), and Sculpture Now at the Mount (MA) as well as galleries and museums in the U.S. and Japan. One of his most recent pieces, Truth #1 (lime version) was chosen for inclusion in the Burlington MA Sculpture Park. His recent New Paradigm Tool Company pieces which incorporate found / recycled tools were part of a solo show at Anchor House of Artists in the summer of 2020. A larger solo show featuring new additions to this collection can be seen at A.P.E. Gallery in Northampton MA in September 2021.
He has taught at Arrowmont, Haystack, Snow Farm, and North Country Studio Workshops. In 2015 his work was exhibited in Art in the Park (Worcester, MA), Art in Nature (Fruitlands Museum, Harvard, MA) ,Sculpture Now at the Mount (Lenox, MA) and Art in the Orchard
https://peterdellert.com/
OCTOBER 2021 EXHIBITION
Positions and Props: a loosening line
Roberly Bell and Sandy Litchfield
Positions and Props brings together the sculpture of Roberley Bell with paintings of Sandy Litchfield. Recognizing a shared formal language, these two artists have engaged an ongoing conversation about landscape. This exhibition pairs unexpected colors and distinctive compositions in both painting and sculpture, suggesting the ordinary (and extraordinary) nature of being in place.
ARTISTS’ STATEMENT
When we first met four years ago, we were excited to discover our overlapping interests in creative placemaking, walking and mapping. As artists working in academia, we’ve both taught courses that bridge art, architecture, design and writing. And although we work in different media, we also saw a clear connection in our sensibility to form, color, and visual expression.
Our conversations, which often took place walking along local trails, extended beyond our own studio practice, drawing broad connections between literature, travel, bookmaking, local ecology and other artists. The ideas for this exhibition simmered slowly during these pandemic outdoor walks. Afterwards we’d follow up with haiku texts, snapshots of landscape drawings and other studio experiments. This became a way to distill the unpredictable world around us in our separate studio practice. Over time, it was as if the logic just appeared by itself– a painting and a sculpture in proximate space, each recognizing a part of itself in the other.
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