A.P.E. Gallery Hours: Wednesday - Sunday 12-5pm; open until 8pm on Friday
33 HAWLEY Open Hours: Wed - Fri 10am - 7pm; Sat 12-7pm
33 HAWLEY Open Hours: Wed - Fri 10am - 7pm; Sat 12-7pm
Upcoming Exhibitions & Events
October 8th, 7pm • A.P.E. Gallery
Poetry Book Launch
SLEEPING IN THE SAME WORLD
by Margaret Lloyd, accompanied by Group 18 poets
Sleeping in the Same World is Margaret Lloyd’s fifth book of poems. She will launch the book in the company of poets from Group 18—a poetry workshop in Northampton since 1985. Poets in the group (Doug Anderson, Trish Crapo, Roz Driscoll, Paul Jacobs, Henry Lyman, Missy-Marie Montgomery, Rich Michelson, Bill O'Connell, and Annie Woodhull) will each read one of their own poems, followed by Margaret reading from Sleeping in the Same World.
Margaret Lloyd was born in Liverpool, England, of Welsh parents and emigrated to a Welsh immigrant community in central New York State. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Leeds, England. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press published William Carlos Williams’s Paterson: A Critical Reappraisal. She is the author of five poetry books and is also a visual artist. Her poetry honors include a National Endowment for the Humanities grant, fellowships to Breadloaf and to Hawthornden Castle in Scotland, and a writing
residency at Yaddo. Margaret Lloyd
OCTOBER 10 - NOVEMBER 2 • Opening Reception Saturday, October 19, 2-5pm
Zea Mays Printmaking Biennial Exhibition
FORMERLY KNOWN AS PRINTS
Letters by Tekla McInerney
Zea Mays Printmaking returns to the A.P.E. gallery with their Biennial Exhibition. The theme of the exhibition,
titled Formerly Known as Prints is transformative works, specifically focusing on pieces where prints have been used to create something else. Works that will be presented include handmade papers, books and textiles, sculpture, collages, even an animated video – all with hand-pulled prints as the starting point.
In the words of the Zea Mays Printmaking Exhibition Committee:
“As printmakers, we try to make resonant and meaningful work that stands on its own as examples of printmaking techniques. But we do live in a world where boundaries have become more fluid and permeable by the day. For this exhibition, ZMP member printmakers were invited to make work that explores the boundaries of printmaking.”
Works included in the exhibition were selected by juror Phyllis McGibbon, visual artist and Elizabeth Christy Kopf, Professor of Art at Wellesley University. In the call for entries, McGibbon explained, “I find something poetic in the mechanisms of a print studio and am fascinated with the way that ideas can be taken apart, distilled, and expanded through a shift of context as well as dialogue. I value the kind of knowledge that can be developed by way of the hand as well as the eye.”
Formerly Known as Prints will feature works of art from: Laurie Alpert, Linda Batchelor, Anne Beresford, Whendy Carter, Willa Cox, Sarah Creighton, Nancy Diessner, Victoria Elbroch, Jennifer Gover, Ava Harper, Mary Hart, Mary-Helen Horne, Anita Hunt, Kate Jenkins, Julie Lapping Rivera, Tony(a) Lemos, Arch MacInnes, Tekla McInerney, Rebecca Muller, Lynn Peterfreund, Erika Radich, Bobbie Salthouse, Annie Silverman, Joyce Silverstone, Matthew Simons and Tina Stevens.
Zea Mays Printmaking is a studio, workshop, gallery, educational facility and research center dedicated to the safest and most sustainable printmaking practices available. They are located at 320 Riverside Drive, Florence, Massachusetts and online at https://www.zeamaysprintmaking.com/.
titled Formerly Known as Prints is transformative works, specifically focusing on pieces where prints have been used to create something else. Works that will be presented include handmade papers, books and textiles, sculpture, collages, even an animated video – all with hand-pulled prints as the starting point.
In the words of the Zea Mays Printmaking Exhibition Committee:
“As printmakers, we try to make resonant and meaningful work that stands on its own as examples of printmaking techniques. But we do live in a world where boundaries have become more fluid and permeable by the day. For this exhibition, ZMP member printmakers were invited to make work that explores the boundaries of printmaking.”
Works included in the exhibition were selected by juror Phyllis McGibbon, visual artist and Elizabeth Christy Kopf, Professor of Art at Wellesley University. In the call for entries, McGibbon explained, “I find something poetic in the mechanisms of a print studio and am fascinated with the way that ideas can be taken apart, distilled, and expanded through a shift of context as well as dialogue. I value the kind of knowledge that can be developed by way of the hand as well as the eye.”
Formerly Known as Prints will feature works of art from: Laurie Alpert, Linda Batchelor, Anne Beresford, Whendy Carter, Willa Cox, Sarah Creighton, Nancy Diessner, Victoria Elbroch, Jennifer Gover, Ava Harper, Mary Hart, Mary-Helen Horne, Anita Hunt, Kate Jenkins, Julie Lapping Rivera, Tony(a) Lemos, Arch MacInnes, Tekla McInerney, Rebecca Muller, Lynn Peterfreund, Erika Radich, Bobbie Salthouse, Annie Silverman, Joyce Silverstone, Matthew Simons and Tina Stevens.
Zea Mays Printmaking is a studio, workshop, gallery, educational facility and research center dedicated to the safest and most sustainable printmaking practices available. They are located at 320 Riverside Drive, Florence, Massachusetts and online at https://www.zeamaysprintmaking.com/.
Cloud(dots); by Lynn Peterfreund
NOVEMBER 8 - DECEMBER 1, 2024 • A.P.E. GALLERY
VARIATIONS IN MONOCHROME:
LIMITING THE PALETTE
Curated by Patricia Everett
Opening reception: Friday, November 8, 5-8pm
Numerous events throughout the month (details and registration below)
Variations in Monochrome: Limiting the Palette a group show curated by Patricia Everett, features 12 artists who create works with a restrained palette. Operating within the confines of restricted color, these artists present their work using a wide range of hues, materials, and sensibilities. Monochromatic work encourages a closer kind of looking, an acute attention to nuance and difference.
Much has been written about the artistic freedom that comes from such limitations. Terry Gilliam of Monty Python fame proclaimed: “Nothing sets you (or at least me) free creatively like having a set of limitations to explore.” Pico Iyer observed about the custom in Japan of many restaurants presenting a prix fixe menu: “Freedom doesn’t mean an abundance of choice so much as liberation from the burden of too much choice.” And Proust described the kind of expansion that can emerge from limitations: “My mother…managed to extract from the restriction itself a further refinement of thought, as great poets do when the tyranny of rhyme forces them into the discovery of their finest lines” (Swann’s Way, 1913; italics added). James McNeill Whistler investigated a limited palette in his Nocturne paintings and in works with titles inspired by musical associations, such as Variations in Violet and Grey. Remaining within the boundaries of a chosen palette, artists can be even freer to explore and expand.
The exhibition includes work by local and regional artists in various phases of their art careers, including local artists Olivia Bernard, Alan Fortescue, Elizabeth Lehman, Lynn Peterfreund, Evelyn Pye, Josue Salazar, and Livia Westcott-Lahar; and regional artists Elaine Smollin, Stephen Hannock, John Cyr, Michael Sell, and Darren Waterston.
The works in this show explore variations in monochrome through a range of mediums: drawing, collage, painting, photography, printmaking, and mixed media, inviting a dialogue between different artists and varying sensibilities--from the brooding charcoal of Elaine Smollin’s The Crying Road to the luminous Nocturne for the River Keeper by Stephen Hannock.
In conjunction with this exhibition, 6 workshops and events will be offered at A.P.E.'s Main Street Galelry. All events are FREE, but registration required (with the exception of the live music on November 15). Full event details and registration can be found at the links below:
Saturday, November 9, 10:30am-12pm
Monochromatic Collage Workshop with Lynn Peterfreund
REGISTER HERE
Tuesday, November 12, 5:30-7 pm
Poetry Reading and Workshop with Margaret Babbott
REGISTER HERE
Friday, November 15, 10:30-11:30am
Monochromatic Flower Arranging with Lynn Matteson
REGISTER HERE
Friday, November 15, 6:30-7:30pm
Color Music with Will Amend / Rebecca Schrader duo
NO REGISTRATION REQUIRED • Donations gratefully accepted
Sunday, November 17, 5-6pm
Meditation with Olivia Bernard
REGISTER HERE
Thursday, November 21, 5.30 pm to 7 pm:
Head to Toe Monochrome: Styling Made Easy with Jody Riseman and Whendy Carter
REGISTER HERE
Photos from Love and Depositions, conceived and directed by Marina Zurita, Acadia Barrengos, and Mollye Maxner. Photos by Marina Zurita
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