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ARTS NIGHT OUT + OPENING RECEPTIONS • FRIDAY 13th; 5-8pm
33 HAWLEY Open Hours: Wed - Fri 10am - 7pm; Sat 12-7pm
ARTS NIGHT OUT + OPENING RECEPTIONS • FRIDAY 13th; 5-8pm
Current
Boxing Gloves; Ana Busto
SEPT 13 - OCT 6
Run Rabbit Run!
Ana Busto, Hilary Kliros, George Simonds
Curated by Ruby Lindsey
Run Rabbit Run! brings together the work of Ana Busto, George Simonds and Hilary Kliros at A.P.E. Gallery in Northampton, Massachusetts. The installation leads gallery visitors through a storybook landscape twisted into abstraction. It is the stage of a fantasia, frozen in flux. Complementing the artworks is King of the Night, a poem written by Ruby Lindsey, the exhibition’s curator, in response to the work in the show.
In the space Busto lays scores of burnt, crooked ceramic woodland creatures between totems and heavy metal and stone sculptures, and sacrificially hangs “dead” stoneware rabbits from Gothic-era-inspired arches. Simonds displays found-object assemblages and stands rickety Frankenstein-esque fountains that bubble and churn as guideposts in the space. Walls of his whimsical motor-driven “Machines” click and crank, performing curiously monotonous functions. Kliros’ digitally rendered prints cast the storybook characters we know and love - Humpty Dumpty, The Tin Man, Alice in Wonderland, and the rest – into the collective role of rebellious fairytale army; on disintegrating chessboards they are free to play but poised to fight and flee.
Busto’s porcelain and stoneware sculptures are made from molded and fired billion-year-old earth stew. Simonds’ constructions and contraptions are built using degraded industrial and household objects, rediscovered and sometimes unearthed after being lost or thrown away. Kliros’ fairytale battle scenes are a collaboration with the dead. Part of her series Exquisite Corpse, the revolting fairytale characters once contentedly existed in quaint storybooks and journals illustrated by her parents from the 1970s through 2013.
There is no hard line between the worlds of fantasy and reality. We live our lives in stories. As children they teach us about the world. We tell stories to each other, grow with them, and become them after death. Death is the impetus for the endless cycle that turns reality into fantasy, and birth turns fantasy back to reality. Run Rabbit Run! embodies this perpetual resurrection. Cave paintings from 60,000 years ago once told stories of the cave dwellers who painted them. Now we see them through a long lens of time and mystery, abstracted like a kaleidoscope, colored by the ever floating, ever spinning and ever falling dust of history that settles on them.
Run Rabbit Run!
Ana Busto, Hilary Kliros, George Simonds
Curated by Ruby Lindsey
Run Rabbit Run! brings together the work of Ana Busto, George Simonds and Hilary Kliros at A.P.E. Gallery in Northampton, Massachusetts. The installation leads gallery visitors through a storybook landscape twisted into abstraction. It is the stage of a fantasia, frozen in flux. Complementing the artworks is King of the Night, a poem written by Ruby Lindsey, the exhibition’s curator, in response to the work in the show.
In the space Busto lays scores of burnt, crooked ceramic woodland creatures between totems and heavy metal and stone sculptures, and sacrificially hangs “dead” stoneware rabbits from Gothic-era-inspired arches. Simonds displays found-object assemblages and stands rickety Frankenstein-esque fountains that bubble and churn as guideposts in the space. Walls of his whimsical motor-driven “Machines” click and crank, performing curiously monotonous functions. Kliros’ digitally rendered prints cast the storybook characters we know and love - Humpty Dumpty, The Tin Man, Alice in Wonderland, and the rest – into the collective role of rebellious fairytale army; on disintegrating chessboards they are free to play but poised to fight and flee.
Busto’s porcelain and stoneware sculptures are made from molded and fired billion-year-old earth stew. Simonds’ constructions and contraptions are built using degraded industrial and household objects, rediscovered and sometimes unearthed after being lost or thrown away. Kliros’ fairytale battle scenes are a collaboration with the dead. Part of her series Exquisite Corpse, the revolting fairytale characters once contentedly existed in quaint storybooks and journals illustrated by her parents from the 1970s through 2013.
There is no hard line between the worlds of fantasy and reality. We live our lives in stories. As children they teach us about the world. We tell stories to each other, grow with them, and become them after death. Death is the impetus for the endless cycle that turns reality into fantasy, and birth turns fantasy back to reality. Run Rabbit Run! embodies this perpetual resurrection. Cave paintings from 60,000 years ago once told stories of the cave dwellers who painted them. Now we see them through a long lens of time and mystery, abstracted like a kaleidoscope, colored by the ever floating, ever spinning and ever falling dust of history that settles on them.
Ana Busto is a multi-disciplinary artist from the Basque country in northern Spain. She has been working and living in Brooklyn, NY since 1980. Shortly after arriving in NYC, she split her time working and living between Brooklyn and Cummington, MA. Ana earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism at the University of Autonoma in Barcelona in 1975. In 2005 she studied at New York University, gaining a Master’s Degree in Interactive Telecommunications. In 2009 she earned a certificate in MA/MSP at Harvestworks in NYC. After this, she moved on to being the Curator/Co-Director of Ventana 244 Gallery, a nonprofit art space dedicated to artist-curated projects, exhibits and residencies in Williamsburg, NYC. Ana has been awarded numerous fellowships and residencies in the US, Europe, Canada and Asia, and has shown her work in a multitude of group and solo shows in the US, Europe, South America, Canada and Asia.
Hilary Kliros lives and works in Brooklyn and Millbrook, New York. She attended Bennington College, Parsons School of Design, and The Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. She has exhibited her work in numerous galleries in New York City including The Brooklyn Museum, Dia Art Foundation, Artist Space, and has been awarded grants from Creative Artist Public Service, Art Matters and New York State Council on the Arts.
George Simonds is a multimedia artist who works mainly with found object sculpture. He splits his time between Brooklyn, NY. and Williamstown, MA. He graduated from the painting department of SUNY Purchase in 2018. He now works as a freelance art handler. His work has been included in group shows at HereArts, 601 Artspace, and All St. Gallery. He has had solo exhibitions at FiveMyles, Installation Space, and SUNY Purchase College.
Ruby Lindsey is a graduate of Camberwell College of Art (University of the Arts, London) and Duncan of Jordanstone College of Arts and Design (University of Dundee). Upon completion of her final Camberwell degree show she was awarded the AMP prize, which included a solo exhibition at AMP Gallery in Peckham, London. After growing up in the North East of England she moved to New York City to work in the Arts. For the past four years has worked as Manager at non-profit visual art and performance space FiveMyles in NYC, and has exhibited in multiple group exhibitions in both New York and the UK. Aside from Run Rabbit Run! she has curated one solo exhibition in NYC and is currently curating two more which will open in Spring 2025.
Hilary Kliros lives and works in Brooklyn and Millbrook, New York. She attended Bennington College, Parsons School of Design, and The Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. She has exhibited her work in numerous galleries in New York City including The Brooklyn Museum, Dia Art Foundation, Artist Space, and has been awarded grants from Creative Artist Public Service, Art Matters and New York State Council on the Arts.
George Simonds is a multimedia artist who works mainly with found object sculpture. He splits his time between Brooklyn, NY. and Williamstown, MA. He graduated from the painting department of SUNY Purchase in 2018. He now works as a freelance art handler. His work has been included in group shows at HereArts, 601 Artspace, and All St. Gallery. He has had solo exhibitions at FiveMyles, Installation Space, and SUNY Purchase College.
Ruby Lindsey is a graduate of Camberwell College of Art (University of the Arts, London) and Duncan of Jordanstone College of Arts and Design (University of Dundee). Upon completion of her final Camberwell degree show she was awarded the AMP prize, which included a solo exhibition at AMP Gallery in Peckham, London. After growing up in the North East of England she moved to New York City to work in the Arts. For the past four years has worked as Manager at non-profit visual art and performance space FiveMyles in NYC, and has exhibited in multiple group exhibitions in both New York and the UK. Aside from Run Rabbit Run! she has curated one solo exhibition in NYC and is currently curating two more which will open in Spring 2025.