Past Exhibitions and Events 2016
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DRIVING HOME
Photographs by Sarah Holbrook December 13 – January 4 Taking a photograph is part magical journey to the spot where the rock leans just West, the mountain breaks the clouds or the woman turns her face into darkness . . . part magical pause filled with belief that the light will turn, the receding wave will leave its signature, she will set her glass in front of the candle . . . part moment of recognition as the image is tossed before you, in an instant, headlights catch snow, the wave breaks, she smiles . . . but always it is the gift of light, the dance of light, dancing with the wave and into the camera, dancing with her face and into the lens. I am grateful to have been able to hold a camera all these years. MORE |
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Plan Health
Designing Healthy Communities December 4-10 Sponsered by the City of Northampton, Planning and Sustainability with Western Mass American Institute of Architects, UMass Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning, Smith College Landscape Studies, Conway School of Design, and Healthy Hampshire. MORE |
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Forget What I Said
Group Exhibition November 4 - December 3 Forget What I Said is an exhibition featuring the work of eight artists: William Brayton, Brenda Garand, Carol Keller, Cathy Osman, Tim Segar, Joe Smith, Deborra Stewart-Pettengill, and Erica Wurtz. Although they have known each other for many years, to exhibit together or to have their work be in context with one another is an unusual and valued opportunity to create a visual dialogue across the disciplines of collage, painting, and sculpture. Each artist shares an interest in the formal language of abstraction and a deliberate use of material. Paper, paint, steel, wood, aluminum screening, clay, and porcupine quills are some of the materials used to convey ideas in two and three dimensions. The content of their works separate undeniably one from another, yet in conversation the pieces reflect and reveal new relationships within individual works, aswell as in response to the collective dynamic. In a time where the spoken and written word often describes what the viewer is looking at, Forget What I Said, places emphasis on seeing and bringing your own experiences and conclusions to the work. Image: Cathy Osman |
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Unity of Opposites
Zea Mays Printmaking Exhibition October 5-30 It all started with a quote (which is revealed at A.P.E.). Two artists, one from Zea Mays Printmaking and another from The Peregrine Press (Portland, ME), created prints inspired by the quote. Once completed, the two prints were sent to another three artists from each of the organizing studios, those six prints to 19 other artists until 75 artists had responded to each other over the course of five months. Each new “generation” of artists made their original print inspired by anything from the previous generation’s pieces, be it a subject matter, mood, color, the quality of a line, or a combination of many aspects of the pieces. Image: Sally Clegg |
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White Rabbit Red Rabbit
Serious Play Theatre Ensemble October 15-17 Serious Play Theatre Ensemble in Association with Aurora Nova Productions and Boat Rocker Entertainment Presents, White Rabbit Red Rabbit by Nassim Soleimanpour No set, no rehearsal and the script is unsealed by the one actor in the show who reads it for the first and only time. White Rabbit Red Rabbit has been called a play. But it’s a lively, global sensation that no-one is allowed to talk about. Its award-winning playwright, Nassim Soleimanpour, is Iranian. His words have escaped censorship and are awaiting your audience. Slyly humorous and audaciously pointed, this ‘theater entertainment meets social experiment’ is unlike anything, and will make you question everything. Have fun! MORE To learn more about Serious Play Theatre Ensemble, click HERE |
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Northampton Film Festival
September 28 - October 2 Taking place in multiple venues across the city of Northampton, MA, we endeavor to help redefine the modern film festival. The festival will include free public screenings, virtual reality experiences that act as narratives, as immersive journalism experiences and as games, participatory art projects, speakers, workshops, ticketed features and shorts, and more. This is the beginning of a brand new celebration of the art of the image within our city. We invite you to join us on the adventure. MORE |
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The Northampton Print & Book Fair
October 2 The Northampton Print & Book Fair is an invitational and juried event that seeks to bring together a diverse group of artists, makers and sellers. Our emphasis is on printed material, flat works, books, and zines drawing from a mix of local, regional, national and international artists and voices. The fair is part of a day-long, city-wide celebration of printmaking, Print Works 2016. MORE This event is sponsored in part by the Northampton Arts Council and co-produced by Fugitive Arts, with additional support from Small Oven and River Valley Co-op. |
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#TheFlagWeLove Xfinity Theater September 9 Xfinity Theater creates live spectacles that confront & reframe cultural touchstones, including FAST FIVE (2014) & TODAY (2016). #TheFlagWeLove is a solo multimedia performance by Patrick Gaughan based on a patriotic children's book. MORE |
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What I Am
Denise Beaudet August 26-28 What I Am is a deeply personal pop-up exhibit of over 150 small paintings, and nature photos full of narrative rememberings and woodland figures. Proceeds from the weekend will bring Roots To Resistance to it's final stage and will be used to complete the 12th and final Portrait: recently slain Honduran Activist Berta Caceres. MORE |
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Play by Play The Northampton Playwrights Lab September 15-25 A two-week long festival of play readings by members of the Northampton Playwrights Lab: Leanna Blackwell, Meryl Cohn, Mojie Crigler, Harley Erdman, Tanyss Martula, Eric Henry Sanders. MORE |
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6 x 6
Curated by Kathy Couch & Jil Crary-Ross July 10 - August 21 From July 10 - August 21, 2016, A.P.E. launched 6X6, a unique new program that expanded the understanding of a contemporary art gallery as an active space within the community. 6X6 hosted six artists/artist groups over six weeks from July to mid August. During their week-long residency, each artist or group created and continued work in the gallery space, which was then made open to the public through a variety of workshops, events, and pop-up exhibitions. Artists and artist groups were provided with an open platform to try something different, test an idea, develop new work, and engage new audiences. Each project or process relied on or maintained a central inquiry into the relationship between the public, the work, and the space in which it is made. MORE |
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House of Life
Anna Dibble June 8 - July 3 ‘House of Life’ is a collection of recent work that was done during and after a three year stretch of loss and change in Dibble’s life. The subsequent deaths of her husband, her dog and her mother motivated Dibble to find ways to tame the pain of grief. “The grieving, which often seemed to be an outside force that attacked like an emotional terrorist, erased clarity and inspiration. It seemed there was nothing I could do to speed up the process and get to the elusive ‘other side.’’ After much change, Dibble finally got to work, attempting to “paint into the pain with hopes I could paint my way out.” In the process she found that it’s impossible to escape grief, but you can learn how to be patient with the dark, and find ways to live in a positive way with its presence. The resulting paintings tell a story of love, loss, change, hope and healing. MORE |
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Sun Salutations Palaver Strings June 9 Palaver Strings embarks on their first New England tour called "Sun Salutations" with a beautiful program of energetic works to wrap our 2015-2016 season "From Darkness to Light". MORE Sun Salutations Program: MOZART Divertimento in D Major, K. 136 GRIEG Holberg Suite, Op. 40 TCHAIKOVSKY Serenade for Strings |
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11 Circles Carolyn Eckert May 26 Carolyn Eckert launches her book Your Idea Starts Here and exhibits the book's central creative exercise, 11 circles. Your Idea Starts Here explores how to unlock creativity. MORE |
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Magnetic Circuitries, David Brewster April 14 - May 15 David Brewster is in the process of creating a dynamic suite of interrelated oil paintings that provide exposure to rarely seen views of the spectacular visual realities implicit within various types of power generation plants operating in Massachusetts. The often monstrous and bizarre forms of nuclear silos, hydroelectric structures, wind turbines, and solar farms speak to vast movements of resources and energy and to unique and significant impacts on the surrounding landscape and communities. His main tool is the foam paint roller, which is the perfect match for the exuberance he brings to his work, the energy and velocity of how he moves paint increasingly becoming a subject in itself. Letting the mark expand and travel and become something more in its own right, he's able to liberate from descriptive tendency and come closer to his ideal of working as nature works, with the marks blooming and evolving of their own accord. MORE |
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PROJECTION INSTRUCTIONS: An Evening of Expanded Cinema from the Collection of the Film-Makers’ Cooperative
Monday, April 11th, 7:00 PM Presented by X (Unknown Quantity) “Projection Instructions” is a touring program of 16mm films from the collection of the Film-Makers’ Cooperative that involve special instructions to the projectionist. The works in this program depart from the conventional form of filmic exhibition, employing experimental modes of presentation that reconfigure the relations between projector, spectator, and screen. Emphasizing elements of chance, liveness, and variability, the films underscore cinema’s performative qualities, ensuring that no two screenings are the same. For this screening, dual-projection films by the Japanese filmmaker and media artist Takahiko Iimura, and American artists Paul Sharits and Storm De Hirsch, will be shown along with single-projection films by the British artists Malcolm Le Grice and Guy Sherwin. MORE |
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TODAY an Xfinity Theater production April 7-9 Performed by Stella Corso, Jonathan Volk, Laura A. Warman, Andy McAlpine, & John Sieracki Creation & Direction by Patrick Gaughan Set by Ethan Kiermaier & Chelsea Hogue The Today Show beams the news onto millions of screens every morning. Every hotel continental breakfast, every hospital waiting room, every kitchen counter. In the Internet age, one might think television news is dead, but The Today Show is one of NBC’s largest money-makers, subsidizing its entire news division. TODAY is part homage to a decaying medium and part exposé on the four anchors often referred to as “America’s First Family.” The script collages verbatim television segments with news articles, interviews, criticism, and dance sequences. News is vulnerable. News is human. News is theater. MORE |
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Questions of Travel: Recent Landscapes
Justin Kim March 8 - April 2 “Questions of Travel: Recent Landscapes” includes a series of mixed media landscapes on paper executed over the past three years. The subject for these include specific locations where the artist, Justin Kim, has lived and worked, including: the California high desert, Sierra Nevada, New York City and New England. Kim’s work combines the grand tradition of painting with a contemporary sensibility, exploring themes such as pastiche, authenticity, the body, and the relationship between technology and the artist’s hand. His work generates tension between reality and artifice while challenging traditional painting structures. MORE |
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Incubation from Empty Space
Genevieve Mae Burnett, Michael Tillyer, Gordon Thorne January 8 - February 28, 2016 The form that fills empty space is an adequate definition of art. The idea that is born new from confusion can be thought of as the creative spark. The dredging of lakes filled with experience pulls forth the supply to weave and shape the stuff of reinterpretation. Over the months that introduce the new year, the empty space at A.P.E. will be filled week by week with exploration by three creative workers whose lives have been inextricably woven into the story of the Available space: Gordon Thorne, A.P.E. founder whose inspirational ideal elusively appears and reappears from the fogginess of public expectation; Michael Tillyer whose creative work and life has been as an emulator; and Genevieve Mae Burnett whose dejection has led to her final emergent victory. The A.P.E space will be open to the public at the Arts Night Out events over the next two months and at variable times over the incubation term of the working studio. |