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Posted on November 22, 2008

The Pleasures of Modern Living
Nadine Boughton
November 22 – January 24, 2009

An opening reception with Boughton at the Stoneham Theatre is December 7, 3:30-5 p.m. It is open to all. Please RSVP to the Griffin Museum by December 1.

  • A laundry line on the moon. A woman stands by the line with her laundry basket.

Growing up in suburban, mid-century America, Nadine Boughton loved all things “modern’’ – frozen foods, sprawling homes and lawns, leisure time, and all the new products to consume. To her, suburbia appeared as an ordered universe, sleek and spacious.

The Pleasures of Modern Living, an exhibit of her digital collages, is featured in The Griffin Museum’s Atelier Gallery at the Stoneham Theatre in Stoneham, MA, November 26 through January 24. The exhibition runs parallel to the theater’s performance of It’s a Wonderful Life. “As an artist, I am drawn back to my beginnings, to the imagery and cultural milieu of the post-war period through the early 1960s,’’ says Boughton. “Using vintage magazines and materials, I scan and compose digital collages. My intention is to blend the nostalgia for the past with the darkness beneath `the pleasures of modern living.'”

Boughton says her work also “explores the portrayal of women and domestic culture; the illusion of security; food as an object of desire and comfort; and the power of materiality. I am piecing together fragments of memory into new narratives. Color often acts as an organizing principle.’’

“The Pleasures of Modern Living skillfully pokes fun at how the media creates truth from fiction,” says Paula Tognarelli executive director of the Griffin Museum of Photography. “With digital scissors in hand, Boughton reconstructs scenes from a time when the modern woman was depicted as party hostess and house wife even while doing the laundry.”

Boughton, of Medford, MA, studied photography at the Essex Photography Center in Essex. MA; the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, NY; and the Lesley University Seminars in Cambridge, MA. She also has a master’s degree in expressive therapy from Lesley University and is a writer, poet, teacher, and creativity coach.

 

 

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Floor Plan

Amy Rindskopf's Terra Novus

At the market, I pick each one up, pulled in by the shapes as they sit together, waiting. I feel its heft in my hand, enjoy the textures of the skin or peel, and begin to look closer and closer. The patterns on each individual surface marks them as distinct. I push further still, discovering territory unseen by the casual observer, a new land. I am like a satellite orbiting a distant planet, taking the first-ever images of this newly envisioned place.

This project started as an homage to Edward Weston’s Pepper No. 30 (I am, ironically, allergic to peppers). As I looked for my subject matter at the market, I found that I wasn’t drawn to just one single fruit or vegetable. There were so many choices, appealing to both hand and eye. I decided to print in black and white to help make the images visually more about the shapes, and not about guessing which fruit is smoothest, which vegetable is greenest.

Artistic Purpose/Intent

Artistic Purpose/Intent

Tricia Gahagan

 

Photography has been paramount in my personal path of healing from disease and

connecting with consciousness. The intention of my work is to overcome the limits of the

mind and engage the spirit. Like a Zen koan, my images are paradoxes hidden in plain

sight. They are intended to be sat with meditatively, eventually revealing greater truths

about the world and about one’s self.

 

John Chervinsky’s photography is a testament to pensive work without simple answers;

it connects by encouraging discovery and altering perspectives. I see this scholarship

as a potential to continue his legacy and evolve the boundaries of how photography can

explore the human condition.

 

Growing my artistic skill and voice as an emerging photographer is critical, I see this as

a rare opportunity to strengthen my foundation and transition towards an established

and influential future. I am thirsty to engage viewers and provide a transformative

experience through my work. I have been honing my current project and building a plan

for its complete execution. The incredible Griffin community of mentors and the

generous funds would be instrumental for its development. I deeply recognize the

hallmark moment this could be for the introduction of the work. Thank you for providing

this incredible opportunity for budding visions and artists that know they have something

greater to share with the world.

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