Down Garden Paths Elin Spring of “What Will You Remember” Review Mark Feeney of The Boston Globe Review Curator’s Statement Video of Exhibition by Ivana Damien George Working the Land – Craig J. Barber Statement There are still those who continue a close relationship with the land and all it has to offer: hunters, farmers, woodsmen, gardeners, foragers. I… [Read More]
Flora
Statement Under the umbrella of the Griffin Museum’s overarching topic of “Down Garden Paths,” Palmer’s Flora is an exploration of beauty as an antidote for personal and political crisis. Writer and philosopher John O’Donohue states, “I think that beauty is not a luxury, but that it ennobles the heart and reminds us of the infinity that… [Read More]
9th Annual Self-Published Photobook Exhibition at Davis Orton Gallery and Griffin Museum
9th Annual Self-Published Photobook Exhibition is an annual competition open to photographers in the United States and abroad who have self-published a photobook. This competition is offered by Davis Orton Gallery in Hudson NY for the nineth year. The competition results were exhibited at Davis Orton Gallery and thirty-four photobooks are now traveling to the… [Read More]
Cate Wnek
cate wnek | the salty years | an artist book limited edition of 8, signed and numbered by the artist: I. mini diorama II. tunnel book III. star accordion IV. butterfly pamphlet to be presented in a handmade, custom case by Richard Smith. the salty years is a collection of 4 handmade artist books and… [Read More]
Selections from C. J. Pressma’s Evidence and Inhabitants Series
Artist Statement Evidence and Inhabitants Series In 1972 I was watching the Fellini film Roma and was captivated by splashes of light involving sparks from a street car at night. It seems strange to me (almost absurd) that such a momentary scene became a motivation for an entire body of work that is interwoven throughout my artistic… [Read More]
The Gaspé Peninsula
Statement Gaspé Peninsula, an isolated and remote piece of land in Quebec, Canada, is a striking, poetic landscape, with luminous skies and an undisturbed silence, particularly in the winter. Gaspé is a Micmac word for « land’s end ». This peninsula is the outermost advance into the sea of Quebec’s mainland territory; it is what Brittany’s Finistère… [Read More]
25th Annual Juried Members’ Exhibition
25th Annual Juried Members’ Exhibition Exhibition dates: July 18 – September 1, 2019 Reception: July 18, 2019 7-8:30 PM Juror: Julie Grahame Julie Grahame gallery walk/talk 6:15 PM, July 18, 2019 and will do a curator in residence reviews as well. Reviews are July 19th. 67 Shore Road, Winchester MA 01890 Photo of Julie Grahame… [Read More]
Shadows and Traces: The Photography of John Reuter
Statements Polaroid Possibilities: SX-70 Constructions As a young artist in 1975 I was given an SX-70 camera as a gift. I had grown up with Polaroid cameras in our house; my father was a quintessential Polaroid family photographer, shooting a pack or two at every holiday or event. From roll film to pack film that… [Read More]
Abstraction Attraction
“Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot see physically with his eyes….Abstract art enables the artist to perceive beyond the tangible, to extract the infinite out of the finite. It is the emancipation of the mind. It is an exploration into unknown areas.” ― Arshile Gorky The artists in the Abstraction Attraction… [Read More]
The Griffin Museum Secondary School Photography Exhibit
The Griffin Museum brings a Juried Secondary School Photography Exhibition to the Carney Gallery/ Regis College Fine Arts Center at 235 Wellesley Street, Weston, MA 02493 January 5 – 19, 2019 Reception and Awards Ceremony January 6, 2019 from 1 – 3 PM 18 schools will be participating in the exhibit. Public schools: Winchester High, Weston High, Concord-Carlisle Regional… [Read More]
