ARC 2018 |
Activate, Research, Create |
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ARC.18, activate, research, create, 2018, is A.P.E.'s third season of summer projects. ARC continues to expand the understanding of a contemporary art gallery as an active space within the community. From June 5 to September 2, 2018, A.P.E. will host four distinct projects, including site-specific installation works, mixed-media workshops, and handweaving. During each residency, artists will create and shape work in the gallery space, which will be open to the public through a variety of workshops, performances, and interactive installations. Each project maintains a central inquiry into the relationship between the public, the work, and the space in which it is made. |
Image by Louise LaPlante
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SHELTER Participating artists include Pat Bennett, Harriet Diamond, Nan Fleming, Heather Hall, Amy Johnquest, Louise Laplante, B.Z. Reily and Abby Rieser Curated by B.Z. Reily and Nan Fleming June 5 - 30, 2018 This project and installation will explore the timely topic of SHELTER using metal, clay, wood, paper and fibers. There are many ways to think about shelter - besides the general definition of housing - there is protection, refuge, asylum, sanctuary and safety to consider. With the wide range of materials and techniques used by the artists, this project will be both diverse and unified by the commitment to use common, scrap or unusual objects in innovative ways. SHELTER will invite participation and community engagement with interactive public events, including fundraising for a local organization dedicated to shelter. |
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Gathering Light
Ellen Augarten, Mary Ann Kelly, Jan Ruby-Crystal July 5 - 29, 2018 Light with its infinite nuances from bright to dark, from quiet to buoyant, is the source of inspiration for this new and varied work. Ellen Augarten, Mary Ann Kelly and Jan Ruby Crystal, three Northampton artists who have a long association, have been meeting over the last year with a trajectory to create a mixed media project for ARC.18 "Gathering Light” is the culmination of a year of keeping the idea of ‘light’ at the forefront of visual explorations. As a group, the artists produce art that is outwardly different. Some works incorporate soft modulations of color, others range from faithful representation, to repetition, to layered abstraction. Mary Ann Kelly's meditative metal vessel forms and her elegant, introspective paintings, Ellen Augarten's photography using double exposure and camera movement and Jan Ruby Crystal's detailed and complex drawn imagery that reflects and absorbs the impact of light are in conversation about LIGHT --- light upon landscape, translucent light, golden light, shadows and the absence of light. |
Image by Claire Hawley Crews
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The Space Between: Weaving and Fibrous Connection Claire Hawley Crews, Anastatia Spicer, Sarah Rose Lejeune August 3 - 17, 2018 Three handweavers whose work treads a line between craft and conceptual art will create an exhibition at A.P.E. that includes site-specific handwoven sculptures, fibrous drawings, and reflections on clothmaking today. These tactile manifestations create new ways of building kinship and connection, cultivating curiosity around how the process of handweaving serves as a metaphor for alternative ways of being in relation to one another. Patrons will be invited to weave with the artists on a loom in the gallery as well as interact with the work through sound installations. |
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Building Lines Chris Serra August 20 - September 2, 2018 Living and working in industrial spaces of South Boston and Holyoke, Massachusetts led Chris Serra to explore warehouses and waterfront alleyways and sparked a fascination with the inherent beauty of rundown factory buildings, broken machines and rusted mechanisms. Combining materials, the artist thinks about how their disparate characteristics will play against or act on each other: oxidized steel, bleeding into plaster or a delicate mylar form floating in cement. In this project, Serra will exhibit some of this work in conjunction with his sketchbooks – the rough “blueprints” for his sculptures. An important part of his process, these books reveal connections and metamorphoses between figurative and nonrepresentational images. Notes and instructions to the artist accompany certain sketches. These guidelines become beneficial when deciding how a drawn line can transform into a three dimensional element. |