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Rick Wright | Vessels of the Late Petroleum Age
In light of our quarantined exhibitions, we want to make sure you don’t miss out on the great works on the walls of the Griffin, and our satellite exhibitions across the Greater Boston area. Our satellite space at WinCam, The Winchester Community Access & Media Channel features the clever work of Rick Wright. His series Read More »
Jim Lustenader | City Streets
The streets of Boston are empty, with COVID-19 Stay at Home orders, but the interwebs remain a space for creativity and connection between us all. In an effort to showcase the exhibitions that we all cannot visit in person, we are bringing them to you online. Today’s view is the city streets as viewed through Read More »
Not Waving But Drowning | Michelle Rogers Pritzl
In the time of Corona, our exhibitions at the museum are quarantined along with the rest of us. One of the programs the Griffin has is the John Chervinsky Scholarship, which includes a monetary award to produce a body of work, along with an exhibition at the museum. While Corona had other plans about us Read More »
Atelier 31 | Meet the Artist – Jeanne Widmer
Now more than ever, we are witnessing a surge in documentary photography. So much of our life changes so quickly, that without the visual document of transformation, we fail to notice what is happening around us. We are left to wonder when that change occurred and ask ourselves, what did we miss? Jeanne Widmer noticed Read More »
Atelier 31 | Meet the Artist Naohiro Maeda
Unique images, hand crafted, sculptural objects are the focus of Naohiro Maeda‘s series Origami-grams. These soft cyanotypes hold organic and structured shapes and textures, playing with light and shadow. Maeda’s idea that these are memory keepers posited an interesting theory. How do we transfer our own notion onto an abstract pattern, like a rorschach test. Read More »
Atelier 31 | Meet the Artist – Anne Piessens
Artists are compelled to create. Painters, sculptors, mixed media artists and photographers all reach to express their vision with their hands and tools. Photography is unique, functioning as noun and verb in taking (creating) a photograph and producing an object, the photographic print. Anne Piessens uses the photographic print as a base to enhance her creative Read More »
Atelier 31 | Meet the Artist – Kathleen DeCarlo-Plano
Architecture is an amazing combination of science and art. Balancing feats of concrete, steel and glass, brick and mortar, asphalt and cobbles, structures rise up around us. So many take for granted the structures that keep us safe, working, moving and shelter us from coming storms. Kathleen DeCarlo-Plano took to the streets to mix architecture, Read More »
Atelier 31 | Meet the Artist – Tony Schwartz
Many major cities have an area where the Chinese communities congregate and live. Chinatowns are legendary in major cities like San Francisco, New York, Seattle, Los Angeles and Chicago. Photographer Tony Schwartz chose to focus his lens on Boston’s Chinatown, connecting with locals who gave him access and insight into the local culture and community. Read More »
Atelier 31 | Meet the Artist – Cynthia Johnston
Visually defining a vast country like the United States is complicated. Region to region, state to state, town to town. Every area has its quirks, and no two places are the same. Photographer Cynthia Johnston and her series “Somewhere in the Middle” explores the idea of the road less traveled, following along the backroads of America. Read More »
