CATHERINE FARISH
The Firmament
On View Starting October 12, 2019
On View Starting October 12, 2019
September 25 – November 3, 2018
1315 MASS MoCA Way, North Adams, MA
Allison Gildersleeve, an artist in Brooklyn, opens a new installation, “In The Retelling”, at CYNTHIA-REEVES located on the MASS MoCA campus in North Adams. The exhibition formally opens with an artist reception on Saturday, September 29th, 5 – 7 pm. During the week prior, Gildersleeve will be on site from the 25th through to the opening day, creating an installation in the gallery based on recent drawing and collages. The gallery will be open to the public during the working session, giving audiences an opportunity to speak with the artist and observe firsthand the development of the installation. The signature, large scale collage will be complemented by large mixed-media works on paper and paintings. The exhibition runs through November 3rd.
Essay by Cynthia Reeves
Published by CYNTHIA-REEVES, 2018
25 pages + cover; includes artist statement.
“Willard Boepple is an unabashed modernist — an innovator who works within a well-defined sculptural tradition made new through his passion and his wonderful sense of surprise. Boepple’s sculptures make manifest the latent friction and release in their geometries, creating a changing symphony of negative spaces as one surveys his sculptures from different perspectives. He emphasizes economy and restraint in the judicious placement of each linear element: these works are both concise and quite light, creating beautiful dance-like structures of complexity and ease.”
June 30 – August 11, 2018
1315 MASS MoCA Way, North Adams, MA
Doug Trump consistently pursues a unique visual language, combining quick, gestural marks with broad swaths of paint, continuously layering and, at times, sanding back into those layers to create an archeological quality to the works. The strength of his composition is derived from an association with architectural and landscape elements, as well as the figure: clear horizontals and verticals, intentionally broken by definitive brushwork. Because the strong frameworks of these compositions are interrupted, there is always a portal through which the viewer can tease out his own narrative – a jazz-like storyline that underpins every painting.
Exhibition Catalog (pdf), Press Release (pdf)
April 27, 2019
1315 MASS MoCA Way, North Adams, MA
A day-long installation by RISD students Yuqing Liu, Susue Zhu, Liekkas Zhang, Matthew Cuschieri, Ariela Kanarek, Marcus Soltzberg, Daniel Grimme, Seabass Immonen, Garrett Zanin, Bo Hony, Sybil Lu, Wells Goetzmann, Jon Chen, Soo Park, Azure Brooks, Darrian Nield, Kyle Lee, Catherine Wu, Rachel Moss, Ashley Ru, and Yizhak Elyashiv, faculty member of RISD.