APATHiE

‘APATHiE' is a group exhibition showcasing the work of Marissa Malik, Sarah Gay O’Neill, Jennifer Murphy, Olivia Portegello (Flatline Zines), and Dael Mundy.

The artworks in ‘APATHiE' consider the constructs of femme identity through methods of coping with anger and outrage resulting from western patriarchy. How do femmes maintain their motivation to combat oppression in the wake of constant exhaustion due to stagnant societal progress?

The artists in this show are in constant dialogue with this question; each addressing it through the context of their personal narratives. The range of topics discussed include trauma, rape culture, feminism, and biracial identity. Together, ‘APATHiE’ creates a body of work displaying these intersectional feminist issues. 

Marissa Malik
www.marissa-malik.com
IG: @mariimals

Marissa Malik is a visual artist working in printmaking, painting, and digital media. She works as a professional screen printer at the Antidesigns studio in South Boston, and as an artist for the record label Artikal Music UK. Her work has been featured in THUMP Magazine, Urban Outfitters Without Walls, and notable galleries such as BLANC, Thomas Young, Trisolini, 301, and Lace. She recently created a sound installation at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, with collaborator Dael Mundy. Malik utilizes her experience as a biracial American, in addition to her knowledge of sociology, to comment on contemporary modes of racialization in the United States through fusing symbols from Pakistani and Mexican culture.

Sarah Gay O’Neill
www.HeySgay.com
IG: @heysgay

Sarah Gay-O’Neill (#HeySgay) is a human.
She uses mixed media to draw things she can’t synthesize into words.
She teaches in the Illustration department at LUCAD, works in a media lab at Harvard, and illustrates for various fashion companies throughout the US. 
She resides in the inviting folds of Somerville with her friend Chris and her mini black panther. 

 Jennifer Murphy
http://cargocollective.com/jennifermm
IG: @j_deadflowers

Jennifer Murphy is a Boston based artist traditionally trained in printmaking. She is currently questioning what it means to be assigned a singular gender in today’s society. Jennifer uses her printmaking skills as a base to experiment with merging the tactile aspects of woodblock printmaking with the immersive energy of installation art through sculpture to prompt discussions around gender inequality.  Jennifer prints reduction woodcuts on objects that are overtly feminine and “craft” oriented in order to speak to the oppression that women have faced over the years. These pieces often include sewing and yarn work to over emphasize the role society assigns to women. The work addresses the notions and connotations of what it means to be a woman in a male dominated world by the deconstruction of what is habitually expected of women. This tension is enhanced by bringing forth the beauty in deconstruction.       As a graduate of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, and Tufts University, Jennifer is part of the education staff at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston and practicing art therapy. 

Olivia Portegello
IG: @flatline_zines

Olivia Portegello is a New Jersey native currently residing and practicing in Boston. Coming from a strong photographic background, Olivia quickly discovered her passion for zine making and craft-based practices. In 2015 she began releasing her work as Flatline Zines. Dealing primarily with the themes of mental illness, sexuality, stream of consciousness writing, and femininity, her work gives viewers an eerily accurate look at what goes on inside her head. 

Dael Mundy
IG: @therealdael

Dael Mundy is a New York raised artist currently residing in Boston. Her work explores ideas of gender and sexuality; questioning  how one's autonomy is shaped by the norms of their society.  Mundy’s work often features the female forms entangled in plants, flowers, animals, and hair.  These images are inspired by the creations of her ancestors whom have generationally struggled with mental health and used creative practices as a mode of self expression.  Mundy utilizes these images to form a critic on the continuous impact society has over women's voices and bodies.

STAND WITH STANDING ROCK BENEFIT

This Saturday we are pleased to be hosting an art auction benefitting the frontline, indigenous led resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline. Boston based curators Olivia Ives-Flores, Oliver Mak, and Silvi Naci are selecting a wide array of works from local and national artists to be auctioned at the event. 

An after party event will also be hosted at Firebrand Saints with DJs Big Bear and Yvng Pavl CLLCTV Boston. All sales of Notch Beer will be donated to#NODAPL Resources. 

Join the Distillery Gallery on Dec. 3rd 6-9pm for the exhibition and silent auction (event is free, 21 plus)

Featured Artists include Matt Zaremba, Raul Gonzalez, Heather McGrath, Alex Sewell, Ana Karina DaCosta, SarahCronin, Autumn Ahn, Ellen Murphy, Thomas Chung, Shane Butler, Elaine Bay, Nick Zaremba, Josh Falk, Maria Molteni, Greg Burdett, Kevin Redstar, Henry Kunkel, Erin Shaw, Damion Silver, Loretta Park, Zachary Naylor, Brian Hart, Pat Falco, Scott Chasse, Andrew Jacob, Farrell Mason, Cyrille Conan, Marka27, Jesse Hernandez, Marisa Malik, Jay Lacouture, Ryan Lombardi, Kristin Texeria, TJ Kelley III, Percy Fortini-Wright, Nabeela Vega, Dana Woulfe, Nineta, Jamezie Helenski, Leika Akiyama, Rebecca Greene, Rosie Ranauro, Mike Dacey, Goldenstash, Geoff Hargadon, Marine Cornuet, Kate Gilbert and more. DJ Emerson (White Animal Sound), Land of Enchantment, and Creaturos will perform.

Antidesigns will be live silkscreening at the event.


Preview images of the works are being updated daily at the following url:http://solidaritywithstandingrock.tumblr.com/


Native American Rights, ecology and human rights violations against protestors have united artists and curators to take action in solidarity with Standing Rock. As winter descends upon Standing Rock, weather appropriate supplies are needed for continued resistance against the North Dakota Access Pipeline. The Dec. 3rd Art Auction directly supports Red Warrior Camp and the Camp of Sacred Stones via NODAPLSOLIDARITY.ORG


ABOUT NODAPLSOLIDARITY.ORG
#NoDAPL Solidary is dedicated in supporting the frontline, indigenous led resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline. The organization unites allies from around the world to take action against the institutions that are attempting to construct the pipeline by joining in sustained action in solidarity with the Red Warrior Camp and the Camp of the Sacred Stones.

PALATIAL P'LEASURES

Palatial P'leasures (pronounces puh-latial puh-leasures) features work by three Boston-affiliated artists: 

Melanie Bernier
Peaches Goodrich
Ali White

On view in this exhibition is work celebrating sumptuous, magnificent, or otherwise memorable places, from stadiums to basements, psyches to bodies. 

October 8 - November 2
Reception: Saturday October 8, 7-10 PM

¡CAPICÚ! LET THEM EAT CAKE

ibition
by Shey Rivera Ríos + Anabel Vázquez Rodríguez

September 9 - October 1
Reception: Friday, September 16, 7-10 PM

On June 29th the Congress of the United States of America passed the PROMESA ACT. This law has explicit human rights violations. A direct impact upon the lives of over 3.5 million U.S. citizens in Puerto Rico. This exhibition is a reaction to this act of violence.

Altered Ephemera: Unearthing Histories of Racism and Acculturation

Presented in Collaboration with Mobius Inc. 

Show Dates: June 8 - July 30
Reception: Saturday, June 18, 6-9 PM

James Ellis Coleman
Altered Ephemera: Unearthing Histories of Racism and Acculturation

“We owe it to ourselves not to re-write history just because we take offense to it. Rather, by continually contextualizing what history has produced, we can better understand its intentional and unintentional impact and intent. Altering the context and format of historical works enables me to highlight the content and meaning of the original expression and provides understanding of the past in our present. I believe there is integrity to original materials and objects produced for/in another age, no matter how offensive I, or others, might find them to be (for example, black memorabilia or hate literature produced throughout the 19th and early 20th century).

Many individuals have denied historical events including the Armenian genocide, Darfur, the Holocaust, and the cruelties of American slavery. Often the only proof survivors and/or witnesses have are facts which can be leveraged in efforts to call for justice. We must for their sake, as much for ours, preserve history and remind others of any attempt to alter it.”

- James Ellis Coleman

James Ellis Coleman’s work takes form through a variety of practices including, photography, collage, video, and sculpture. His mixed media and time-based digital alterations (re)contextualize commercial, political, historical and personal ephemera. James Ellis Coleman has been a Mobius artist since 2010.

DOWNWARD SPIRAL

DOWNWARD SPIRAL: Zines Today

Featuring zines by:
Adolfo Reyes
Anuj Shrestha
Elaine Bay
J. Morrison
Josh Bayer
Karl Stevens
Martine Workman
Rhonda Ratray
Tahnee Udero
Tim Devin
Tim McCool
Ron Rege Jr.

and video art by:
GJYD
Jeff Mack

Curated by Dave Ortega

Special Thanks: Adam Bernales (Seite Books - Los Angeles)

Show Dates: April 25 - June 4, 2016

THERE IS A GARDEN, AND IT EXISTS

THERE IS A GARDEN, AND IT EXISTS, a pop up show organized by the students of MassArt's FA2D Professional Practices.
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THERE IS A GARDEN, AND IT EXISTS seeks to explore the notion of paradise, its various attempts of entry, and our own crushed expectations upon arrival. What was intended to be paradise simply ends up becoming a rearranged version of our own mundane hell. Regardless, the dream endures, and the search continues despite the mounting proof of this dream of paradise being just that – a dream.

ARTISTS: 
Yael Ben-Zion
Ashley Billingsley
Kelley Donahue
Adam Eddy
Christopher Frost
Debra K Jayne
Sascha LaFave
Eung-Sun Lee
Michelle Long
Leeanne Maxey
Matthew Noonan
Adam Jaye Porter
Kara Skolnik
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EXHIBITION DATES:
April 18th - April 24th

GALLERY HOURS:
Monday - Tuesday: 12 - 5 PM
Wednesday: Reception
Thursday - Saturday: 12 - 5 PM
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CURATED BY:
Victoria Marie Barquin & Pauli Mia

PRODUCTION TEAM:
Maureen Anderson
Amanda Baker
Erin Kenny
Masha Keryan
Faust Lacrimosa
Brooke Lambert
Camila McCarthy
Lauren Olsen
Grace Shand

POST-GAY?

Post-Gay? considers the consequences of assimilation and progress. Where does growing mainstream acceptance leave more marginalized queer identities, and how do the myriad of LGBTQIA identities conceptualize themselves in the face of shifting cultural opinion? Who gets represented?

The twenty artists in this show are in contestation and dialogue with the idea of received representations, and are doing and undoing their own ideas of self and desire. Post-Gay? emphasizes the inventiveness of the LGBTQIA community as thinkers and artists who have the capacity to reshape society with new propositions. There are daring and confident assertions by the artists to paint new realities and lives, to re-imagine gender and sexuality in playful, thoughtful ways.

Featuring: Robert Chamberlin, Daniel Corral, Dave J Bermingham, DEAD ART STAR, Giancarlo Corbacho, Jamieson Edson, Jeremy Endo, Gordon Feng, David Hannon, I.B.E., Jamezie, Liss LaFleur, Christopher Lineberry, Kirk Lorenzo, Dino Rowan, Hogan Seidel, Randi Shandroski, Warith Taha, Sarah Washburn, Zoe Perry-Wood

Show Dates: March 18 – April 16, 2016
Reception: Friday, March 18, 7-9 PM
Performance & Artist Talk: Saturday, April 9, 4-6 PM

WISH YOU WERE THERE

The title of the show is a riff on Pink Floyd’s 1975 album Wish You Were Here. That seminal album was composed of songs that expressed loss and disenchantment, much of which was directly about the absence and tragic life of Syd Barrett. Wish You Were There was chosen because of its power to suggest the past tense, alluding to an event that once was. Perhaps an event that was missed can never truly be understood or appreciated by the absent individual(s). The collective works in this exhibition strive to re-create or examine a shared experience that is hard to quantify or represent. These experiences all come from populist events such as: live music, theatre, film and sporting events.

Featuring:
David Armacost
Melanie Bernier
Jason Kalogiros
Middle Kingdom
Okay Mountain
Rhonda Ratray

Organized by Jack W Schneider

Show Dates: February 5 – March 12, 2016
Reception: Saturday, February 6, 7-9 PM

YOUR TICKET OUT

Your ticket out. It's with you during rush hour in the back of your head, pulsing just loud enough to be audible over that new Drake song. At the movie theatre when the screen takes over your vision and fills your ears with the sounds of a story that keeps you awake the whole night. Since that afternoon you spent reading Cat's Cradle and laughed out loud at a book for the first time. In the sounds that stick with you from that song you heard in the record store that you just had to bother the clerk about. Ever since you spent the weekend at your friend's apartment in the city and saw so much more of the world in a single day than you had in your entire life; except you didn't want to cash in on it. You hid it behind a safer career path, a savings account built for the inevitable, suburban practicality, Netflix and chill, a keen interest in fine beers; but it's there. Sitting in the front left pocket of your favorite pair of blue jeans, crumpled and bent, playing neighbor to a ball of indigo lint, your ticket out.

Featuring:

Kari Byron

Thomas Dupere

Kyle Falzone

Eben Haines

Rory Hamovit

Elizabeth Harper

Ryan de la Hoz

TJ Kelley III

Simon Kercz

Mariel Kon

Paige Mulhern

Russ Pope

Skye Schirmer

Andrew Scripter

Chelsea Teta

Kristin Texeira

Paul Urich

Devonshire Yaw
Show Dates: December 7 - January 30

Opening Reception: Friday, December 11, 7-9 PM

... MOBIUS HALLOWEEN

MOBIUS HALLOWEEN

Join us on Halloween for ..., presented by Mobius.

On October 31st Mobius will host an epic costume party at the Distillery Gallery in South Boston. Costumes will be the ambient audio, visual, haptic, olfactory and experiential elements that will make for a complete night. Guests and host artists will create a constellation of interactions through their costumes.

Saturday, October 31, 8-11 PM

KATE DREWNIAK - FRAGMENTS AND SHORTS SENTENCES

Fragments and Short Sentences

Artwork by Kate Drewniak

Show Dates: September 12 - October 24
Reception: Saturday, September 12, 7-9 PM

Fragments and Short Sentences explores the mutable nature of memory and the desire to make order of existence. Kate Drewniak combines found materials such as blueprints, discarded books, and fabric remnants to create collages. These pieces act as a tangible record of memory as it relates to decay, accumulation, and preservation.

KIRK AMARAL SNOW - THE LONESOME CROWDED...

The Lonesome Crowded…

Work by Kirk Amaral Snow

Opening Reception: Friday June 26, 7-9 PM

June 26 – July 31, 2015

WINTER BLUES

Winter Blues

A group show featuring monochromatic work in shades of blue.

Bahar Yurukoglu
Jamie Horgan
Julian Guzman
Kristin Texeira
Nicole Duennebier
Randi Shandroski
Ross Normandin
Sarah Gay
TJ Kelley III
Vanessa Irzyk
Wayne Stokes

Show Dates: February 26 - March 28
Reception: Thursday March 5, 7-9 PM

SECOND SELVES

Text me back, I want to feel you vibrate in my hands*

When it’s late, you’ve been drinking, and you happen to find a dead iPhone in the back seat of a cab, you have a few options:

1) Return the iPhone to the driver, and trust they find its owner
2) Take the iPhone home, charge it, and promise to mail it back the next day
3) Steal the iPhone, remove its sim card, wipe its data, claim it as your own

You decide to take it home, though, you’re not quite sure what to do with the device yet. You look at your own phone and imagine it must be impossible to be selfish enough to steal someone else’s. Its sleek glass body holds so much personal data that you’ve come to identify as integral to your being; lengthy text threads with a former lover which you enjoy reading when you’re feeling lonely, a history of your endearing plights to receive attention on various social media channels, and thousands of photographs, of yourself, of your naked body, of your “experiences,” however you wish to define them. It is as personal as it is detached, and as romantic as it is cold. Willingly and habitually, you provide this device with as much attention as you would something sacred.

I found an iPhone last night. I took it home and charged it, planning on trying to return it. It was unlocked. It hadn’t been updated, it was still running iOS6. The last text message was from 4 months ago. The owner had gotten a new one. There were less than 100 photos. It had been discarded as obsolete, cast off, shut out, forgotten in a cab. In that moment I felt bad for it. “Is it healthy to feel more sorrow for this object than for the owner who may be wondering where it went?” I thought to myself. “It’s better off with me.” I’ve justified being naughty by instead deciding that I would become a godmother to this sad little iPhone.

It’s almost impossible to discuss intimacy without also referencing the role consumer technology has in orchestrating it. My own former devices, while rarely activated, serve me as cherished diaries; I turn them on and flip though their contents in an effort to retreat to a distant past, some archived secondary self that I can never quite remember unless prompted in the present tense. I inadvertently associate the soft vibrations of my current devices with passion, touching its glass becomes as sexy as touching skin, waiting for updates as emotionally taunting as longing to feel loved.

A few months ago, I was invited by Pat Falco of the Distillery Gallery in Boston to organize an exhibition around networked culture. Having just uprooted my known existence and moved to New York, I had found myself in a tumultuous state of both utopian freedom and nostalgic sorrow for what I had just left, both selves fighting against the other. The artists I approached for this project make work that project a certain exposed duality of being, altering their publicly preserved image to portray inner struggles with sexuality, placement, mortality, and undecided fate, often mirrored against their private ideal self.

The exhibition, Second Selves, is a minimal group show of six artists—Leah Schrager, Blake Hiltunen, Julie Nymann, Sam Metcalf,Philip Fryer, and myself—with each artist presenting one work from a larger series. I am fortunate to have had the opportunity to work with these artists, outlined below, and look forward to bringing these works together in Boston.

Artists:

Leah Schrager

Sam Metcalf

Julie Nymann

Philip Fryer

Blake Hiltunen

Alexis Anais Avedisian

Curated by:
Alexis Avedisian
http://holyurl.co/

Show Dates: January 15 - February 21
Opening Reception: Thursday, January 15, 7-9 PM

BACK TO SCHOOL

Back To School
A selection of undergraduate work by academically trained artists

Dana Woulfe
Mike Dacey
NINETA
Andrea Evans
Maria Molteni
Randi Shandroski
Thomas Buildmore
Lina Maria Giraldo
Percy Fortini-Wright
Jamie O’Neil
Stephen Hamilton
Brian Buttler
Derek Hoffend
Paul Todd Sullivan
Adam O'Day

Curated by Thomas Young Gallery

Show Dates: September 18 - October 25
Reception: September 18, 6-9 PM

SONANCE

Opening Reception: Thursday August 14, 6 - 9 PM (Live Performances 8-9 PM )

Show Dates: August 14 - September 14

An exhibition featuring installations of sonified forms and interactive audio objects.

Featuring works by:

Jason Sanford
Vic Rawlings
Derek Hoffend

Curated by Derek Hoffend

Sonance brings together three Boston-based artists who maintain creative practices that cross boundaries between musician and form-maker, such as in the construction of instruments and objects for use in live performance as well as stand-alone sculptures and installations that combine the physical with the sonic.

Each artist produced audio-oriented works responding to the gallery site, emphasizing the acts of listening, exploration, and interaction. Resting in silence until activated, each work is brought to life through active viewer engagement.

Jason Sanford is an artist working with sound. For 20 years he has made instruments for and performed with his band, Neptune. Sonance presents nine new sculptures by Sanford, which use sound to negotiate between instrument, architecture, action, and object.

Sanford displays sound sculptures from time to time in gallery settings, and he collaborates occasionally with dancers or other kinds of performers, but his work can most frequently be experienced in the context of his musical performances, solo, with Neptune, and with E.

www.neptune-band.com
www.j-s-sanford.com
www.abandcallede.com

Vic Rawlings engages with sound as a musician, instrument builder, teacher, and through installed objects.

In Sonance, he presents interactive pieces that reference his teaching practice (workshops in sound and improvised music) and his electroacoustic instrument building.

vicrawlings.com

Derek Hoffend is a visual and audio artist who creates interactive sound-sculpture installations that explore sound as a medium intersecting with physical forms, bodies, and spaces to create participatory experiences for viewers.

Recent work is influenced by therapeutic potentials of combined sound, colored light, and geometric structures to create immersive sensory experiences. Hoffend currently records and performs electronic music under the moniker Aether Chroma.

www.derekhoffend.com
aetherchroma.com
https://soundcloud.com/derek-hoffend