IN THE ANNEX: SEPTEMBER 2021
September 1 - September 26, 2021
Marygrace Gladden, Szandra None, Jed Sutter
SoWa First Friday Art Walk: Friday, September 3, 2021, | 5:00–8:00 PM
Exploration of visual memory in deep fall colors takes over the Annex in September. Marygrace Gladden, Szandra None, and Jed Sutter embrace the storytelling and make us wonder about the future. We compare gorgeously simple photos by Marygrace to deeply personal stories by Szandra None and enter through a tunnel of a classical landscape by Jed Sutter.
The ANNEX is a section of the Gallery where we spotlight new work by regional artists.
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Marygrace Gladden
Marygrace Gladden tries to recall spaces that used to be hers in the past but all she sees is herself. Whether it be mentally or physically, she wants a clearer vision of the places where she once was. With this work Gladden makes her memories less distorted as well as documenting her time at home as an adult. Photographing the things around her instils them with some realness and enhances the future memory of the life she once lived. Gladden utilizes a large format field camera and pinhole cameras to emphasize the core elements of photography; light and time. She continues to explore the meaning and relationship of these two elements as they relate to her personal life.
Marygrace Gladden graduated with her BFA in Photography from Savannah College of Art and Design in the spring of 2021. Gladden works primarily in photographic mediums but creates in other performative mediums as well. She has started her own publication, From Where I am Now, and will publish more photography-based books in the near future. Her work is featured in multiple private collections. Though she has lived many places, she currently resides in Back Bay.
Szandra None
Szandra None is compelled to paint by questions. Does Being mean being perceived? Are we all of the things we are perceived to be? Which has more truth, that which one perceives of oneself or that which is believed about one? As she paints herself and her children, she thinks of legacy and how they are genetic fragments of each. They, too, are at once entities and conduits. None makes figures in spaces, not quiet narratives but emanations. Awkward perspectives and slight distortions are the worlds that emerge in her work—worlds wherein all things are both what they are and also what they aren’t. The vanishing point doesn’t line up, the proportion is off, the light is impossible. Is she creating, is she documenting?
Szandra None is an American narrative painter driven by relentless personal inquiry. She is an M.F.A. candidate at Savannah College of Art and Design, and began her higher education at SUNY Cortland, earning a B.A. (2005) in Fiber Art. None’s interest and passion for teaching led to a B.S. (2009) from SUNY New Paltz in Art Education and then her M.A. (2013) in Artist-Teaching from Boston University. None currently works as an AP Studio Art teacher at a high school in Connecticut. She is driven by the resounding sense of legitimacy, connectedness, and growth that arises from mentoring passionate emerging artists.
Jed Sutter
Jed Sutter is a painter with an interest in storytelling. He employs realism while avoiding becoming an illustrator or a journalist. His subjects range from the city where he lives to the villages and harbors of his childhood in Maine. He has an eye for color and light. Regardless of the environment, Sutter is interested in the reflections and/or translucency of glass and water, the textures of rust and chrome, and earth and steel. He notices the shaft of light poking through a space, or he may be struck by a juxtaposition, a value change, or a shape. Wanting to bring a greater immediacy to the works on this wall, Sutter repurposed pieces of used iron to weld together, rust and then varnish these frames, resulting in a synergy for each of the works. Sutter’s art is "extrospective" if you will, attempting to share visual experiences that he finds compelling.
After sailing in the merchant marine for a decade, then studying and working as a Physician Assistant Sutter picked up his first paintbrush at the age of 55. He uses multiple media, switching between oils, acrylics, watercolor, and gouache based on which one will capture the mood of his subject the best. Sutter is a full artist member of the Copley Society of Art in Boston. Among his many awards are the Blue Ribbon Award for Excellence in the Second Annual Gallery 334 Art Exhibition, an Award of Merit at Copley Society of Art. Jed lives with his wife, kids, two cats, and their dog just south of Boston, Massachusetts.