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If you are in the Worcester area this weekend, be sure to check out the exhibition Alchemy: Art + Science which runs through Sunday, April 11th at Clark University’s Schiltkamp Gallery. The artists and scientists involved in this exhibition have created some pretty far out work. Here’s a tasty sampling of some of what you can see: optical illusions, kinetic sculptures, mathematical diagrams of sacred geometries, symbiosis between science and warfare, and MORE.

Artists and scientists in the show:
Grace DeGennaro, ME
Gary Duehr, Somerville, MA
Phyllis Ewen, Somerville, MA
Audrey Goldstein, Newton, MA
Gregory Gomez, Newton, MA
David Hibbett, Worcester, MA
Ayumi Ishii, Central Falls, RI
Oren Kalus, New Paltz, NY
David Lang, Wayland, MA
Jennifer Langhammer, Vineyard Haven, MA
Rachel Loischild, Worcester, MA
Anna Mazzarella, Worcester, MA
Soi Shin, Cambridge, MA
Fletcher Smith, Easthampton, MA
Rhonda Smith, Boston, MA
Naoe Suzuki, Waltham, MA
Marilu Swett, Boston, MA
Rachael Wren, Brooklyn, NY

Clark University, Schiltkamp Gallery/Traina Center for the Arts
92 Downing Street, Worcester, MA
Exhibition runs through April 11, 2010
Gallery Hours: Friday 9-5, Saturday 12-5, Sunday 12-9
Questions: Elli Crocker, Associate Professor and Gallery Director at 508-793-8818

Image credit: Rhonda Smith, Fractal Pile-up, pencil on paper, 14″ X 5”. Fractal Pile-up is a confluence in imagery of thoughts on water movement and its endless fractal iterations. Go here to learn what a fractal is.

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Robyn Love in collaboration with the Simmons College community have created Unconditional Yes, a mixed-media installation and performance.

Artist Robyn Love seeks answers to the question, “Have you ever made a decision with an unconditional yes?” Combining her knitted and crocheted aphorisms with text, objects, and artwork contributed by faculty, staff, students, and alumnae, the exhibition is both inclusive and provocative. Transforming the gallery’s center into a temporary “living room.”

A knitted trail pieced together from communal donations leads visitors to the “living room.”

Love explains, “I am hoping to encourage people to look a little deeper at some of their ideas about themselves. I think if we really consider why we make our choices, we can take responsibility for them and that gives us a lot of freedom. Also I hope that the process of creating this exhibition together will generate a renewed sense of community at Simmons.”

Simmons Arts Administration majors collaborated with Love on many aspects of the project, suggesting the knitted trail (inspired by Love’s The Knitted Mile), developing publicity, encouraging community participation, knitting, and creating and maintaining a blog and Facebook page. One Arts Administration student noted, “We wanted to have the trail be all different colors and textures, representing the diversity of Simmons as a whole.”

Unconditional Yes
Opening Reception: Thursday, March 25 from 5-7 p.m. at the Simmons College Trustman Art Gallery, fourth floor, Main College Building, 300 The Fenway, in Boston. The Simmons Choir will perform beginning at 6 p.m.
Exhibition dates : March 20 – April 18. Gallery hours:10 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday.The gallery is free, open to the public and wheelchair accessible. For more information, contact Marcia Lomedico at 617-521-2268.

Robyn Love will be in the gallery - in the living room - from Monday to Thursday, March 22 - 25, working and talking with visitors about the idea of Unconditional Yes. Love will also host periodic knit-togethers during the course of the installation.

Unconditional Yes is curated by Michele Cohen, Director of the Trustman Gallery and Assistant Professor, Arts Administration Program and the students in class AA390 who have been integral to the development of this project.

Image credits: All images courtesy of Simmons College, Trustman Gallery

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Ken Beck has decided to have an exhibition of his works on paper, some of which have been neatly tucked under the covers since 1979, the same year Gloria Gaynor sang “I Will Survive.” Well, his vision has not only survived, but is thriving. This is an extraordinary opportunity to see the range of work created by Ken, one of Boston’s treasured artists.

In UNWRAPPED, Ken will be exhibiting a varied group of over 60
framed works on paper, expressly selected to reveal the exploratory,
creative and mostly unseen processes through which an artist unearths
and develops visual imagery, often in media which are never publicly
exhibited. These works, all executed on different forms of paper, will
include drawings in various media, watercolors, collages, lithographic
prints and alternative photographs in the Holga and SX-70 Polaroid
formats. The imagery ranges from representational to abstract.

This exhibition is the result of a selection process that involved
unwrapping dozens of portfolios and “wrapped,” boxed and stored works
on paper from which the artist, in consultation with other artists and
friends, chose representative works for this exhibition. Most of the work
on view has never been exhibited before.

The month long exhibit will take place at the Gallery at the Piano Factory
which is one of the oldest artist-run exhibition venues in the city of
Boston. Its continuous exhibition history goes back to 1974 with the
opening of The Piano Factory as a unique live/work residence and art
space for visual and performing artists and craftspeople. Originally built
as the Chickering Piano Factory in 1854, the building itself was then the
second largest building in the United States next to the US Capitol
Building in Washington. With soaring 25’ ceilings, solid granite support
pillars, and 1000 square feet of exhibition space, the gallery space is the
public visual expression of the work and activities of the building’s
residents. This is Beck’s fourth one-person exhibition at this unique
gallery.

UNWRAPPED Ken Beck: Selected Works on Paper 1979-2009
Gallery at the Piano Factory
791 Tremont Street, Boston, MA
UNWRAPPED runs from March 5-28
Opening Reception: Saturday March 6 from 1-5pm
Hours: Fridays 5-7pm, Saturday and Sundays 1-5pm
Hours: Fridays 5-7pm, Saturday and Sundays 1-5pm
Or By Appointment call (617) 267-1411 or email kebeqsta@earthlink.net

Image credit: All images courtesy of Ken Beck. From top to bottom: Photograph of Ken Beck; Hot Summer, watercolor on paper, 13″ X 11″; Two Waters, watercolor on paper, 13″ X 11″; Nice Day, watercolor on paper, 13″ X 11″

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For more on Yanik’s work, be sure to visit his Web site.

Image credit: on left, Private Enterprise (2007), Oil on wood construction, 44″ x 33″ x 2 3/4″ On right, Viable Option (2007),
Oil on wood construction, 34″ x 16″ x 2.5″

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This just in from Greg Cook over at the New England Journal of Aesthetic Research blog:

I’m writing to ask you to invite your audience to vote in the 2009 New England Art Awards, which I organize via The New England Journal of Aesthetic Research to honor the best art made here and exhibits organized here last year. And I’d like to invite you to vote as well.

To vote, go here: http://gregcookland.com/journal/2010/01/vote-for-2009-new-england-art-awards.html (That webpage also explains how the awards work.)

Winners will be chosen by (1) local active art journalists and (2) anyone else who wants to vote – and will be announced in terms of these two categories of voters. All votes must be submitted by 11:59 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 24, to be counted.

Winners will be announced at the 2009 New England Art Awards Ball at 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 8, 2010, at the Burren, 247 Elm St., Davis Square, Somerville, Massachusetts. The event is free and open to all. Creative attire is encouraged.

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Today is election day. Polls close at 8pm.

To find out where to vote: http://www.wheredoivotema.com/bal/myelectioninfo.php

Image credit: Color lithograph, 31 x 23 cm., 1918, Z.P. Nikolaki.
Hello! This is liberty speaking - billions of dollars are needed and needed now. CALL NUMBER: POS - WWI - US, no. 229 (C size) [P&P]; REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZC4-8046 (color film copy transparency); LC-USZ62-107238 (b&w film copy neg.); Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

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