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Posted on March 11, 2017

Return to the Clouds
Fran Forman
March 16 – June 1, 2017

Reception April 27, 2017 3-5 PM
Due to security restrictions imposed by the State House your RSVP is Required

Bird flying by window
Woman holding dove on water
Girl with goggles and gull at the sea

Person walking by houses and deer
Cage and iguana
Person in boiler room with teddy bear

Girl walking with cage towards the shore
Sailor with cage and cards
Elephant and boy and cage in forest

Bird, boy in an arch

The Griffin Museum of Photography Brings Fran Forman to Massachusetts State House

 

The Griffin Museum of Photography is proud to announce that we have been invited by Senator Jason Lewis to exhibit at the Massachusetts State House. The Griffin has chosen Watertown artist Fran Forman to exhibit Return to the Clouds. The exhibit is the 12th installment of a new Senate effort to showcase local art from across Massachusetts outside of the Senate Chamber at the State House in Boston.

Return to the Clouds exhibition will run at the Massachusetts State House from March 18, 2017 – June 1, 2017. An opening reception will be April 27, 2017 from 3-5 PM. The exhibition will be shown in Room 426 of the State House which is the room where the Senate will temporarily meet in spring due to renovations of the Senate Chambers and the Lobby where exhibits usually take place.”

“The Griffin Museum of Photography is one of our region’s most impressive cultural institutions and a treasured Winchester destination,” said Senator Jason Lewis.  “I’m thrilled that the Griffin Museum will have the opportunity to showcase an exhibit at the State House to give the entire Commonwealth a taste of our local flavor.”

The Executive Director of the Griffin Museum of photography Paula Tognarelli is the curator of the exhibition “Return to the Clouds.” She says, “We are excited to exhibit Fran Forman once again as her last exhibition with us was in 2008.” Tognarelli says more about the exhibition. “Much of what Fran Forman speaks to in her artwork is humankind’s relationship to the past, to history and myth, our animal brethren and the concept of hope. The bird-cage shows itself in many of Forman’s images due to her influence by the surrealist artist, René Magritte.  The bird is a reoccurring character in her narratives that speak to freedom, escape and the natural world.”

Fran Forman received her BA from Brandeis University in sociology and art, an MSW in psychiatric social work, and an MFA from Boston University. Forman is a Resident Scholar at the Women’s Studies Research Center at Brandeis and represented by Pucker Gallery in Boston, AfterImage, Dallas TX and Susan Spiritus, Los Angeles, CA. A monograph, “Escape Artist, the Art of Fran Forman,” was published in 2014 from Schiffer Books. Curator and designer Elizabeth Avedon selected it as one of the best photo books of 2014, and it won first prize in an international juried competition selected by 21st Editions.

The Massachusetts State House is located
at 24 Beacon St., Boston, MA 02133. The exhibition is open to employees and guests and special events made specifically for the exhibit. For reception enter through the Hooker entrance. Go through metal detector. Take elevator to the 4th floor. Room 426.

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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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