Upended | Piano Craft Gallery | Mar 5-28, 2021
I am excited to introduce new work for the upcoming group show, Upended, at the Piano Craft Gallery from March 5-28, 2021 curated by Melissa Shaak and Ginny Mahoney.
“An exercise program I follow stresses the value of being able to get up from the floor after sitting, falling, or even being knocked down. Like exercise, painting is also a practice that I rely upon to develop patience, resilience, and comprehension. As I fill shapes with color in my Kinship paintings, the emerging patterns contain the energy of interaction and connection between us even in isolation. Focusing on this energy has allowed a joyful optimism to simmer and grow in this year of upheaval.”
From the press release:
Upended
Curated by Melissa Shaak + Virginia Mahoney
March 5–March 28, 2021
Opening Reception: Friday, March 5, 6–8PM
Exhibit Location:
Piano Craft Gallery
793 Tremont Street, Boston
Hours: Friday 6–8PM, Saturday + Sunday 12–5PM
Beginning March 5, 2021, the Core Members of Fountain Street will take the floor at Piano Craft Gallery, 793 Tremont Street. “Upended” offers a timely look at the experience of being turned upside down. Fountain Street’s exhibition schedule itself was upended by the coronavirus, as well as by last April’s water main break in Boston’s SoWa District. In this relocated exhibition, artists working in 2D, 3D and time-based media interpret the theme “Upended” in both literal and metaphorical ways.
The exhibition pays tribute to all whose lives and livelihoods have been upended by COVID-19. While artists have been among those disrupted, they are also disruptors by trade. Artists consciously and conspicuously upend familiar patterns and change the way we look at things. They challenge conventions. Unorthodoxies abound. It can be what we look to art for—upsetting the balance, turning something expected on its head. We need art in real time, now as much as ever, to give us new frames of reference, illuminate deeper truths and starker realities, and help us cultivate humor, beauty and grace.
More information at Fountain Street Gallery website