Artist News | September 2021
Resting Head, sculpture by Sylvia Vander Sluis
CORE ARTIST NEWS
Marie Craig has an installation in "All the World’s A Stage," an outdoor sculptural invitational exhibit at the Hopkinton Center for the Arts in Hopkinton MA. The exhibition runs from June 19 - September 30.
Kay Hartung has work in "Walls" at The Holocaust and Human Rights Center of Maine, 46 University Drive, Augusta, The exhibition runs June 25-September 19 with a closing reception on September 19, 3-5pm.
Ponnapa Prakkamakul has a zine in Chinatown Story Cart Pop-Up Event at 66 Hudson Street in Chinatown. This ACDC's event is on September 4th from 11-2pm and will have free zines + boba, drawing activities, and live music.
Prakkamakul has a collaborative public artwork with Sasaki Fabrication Studio, All About Us, installed at Monmouth Park in Brookline. The exhibition is part of the Brookline Art Center public art program and will be on display until October.
Allison Maria Rodriguez has a video installation included in the three-person exhibition “A Thread, Extended“ at Northeastern University’s Gallery 360 in Boston, from June 16 - October 2. The exhibition is curated by NEU Gallery 360 Director Amy Halliday. “In A Thread, Extended, Odette England, Justin Levesque, and Allison Maria Rodriguez explore embodied forms of wayfinding, drawing on familial labor, somatic experience, oral histories, and ecological research to surface the marks we make on the landscape, and how it marks and makes us in return.” Exhibition is open to the public Mon - Sat from 11am - 5pm. Details regarding an artist talk and fall events will be posted on the website.
Melissa Shaak's "Forest Air" is on view outdoors at the Hapgood Wright Town Forest in Concord, MA from September 1 - November 14. Her installation, an ensemble of seven archetypal figures, is part of the Umbrella Art's Art Ramble 2021.
Sylvia Vander Sluis’ sculpture, Resting Head, is included in “Recumbent: The Art of Lying,” an exhibit at the Equity Gallery, 245 Broome Street, New York, NY. Exhibition Dates: September 8 – October 2 with an opening reception on Thursday, Sept. 9 from 6 - 8pm.
ASSOCIATE ARTIST NEWS
Linda DeStefano Brown has an exhibit at 6 Bridges Gallery, 77 Main Street, Maynard. “Lines of Thought” runs now through October 2. There is also a virtual reception via Zoom on Thursday September 9, beginning at 7pm. Registration is required and can be accessed at 6bridges.gallery or here.
Susan Greer Emmerson has work in the “Members Exhibition” at Gallery 263, 263 Pearl St. in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The exhibition runs Sept. 1 - 25. No receptions are scheduled yet.
ANNEX ARTIST NEWS
Chelsea Bradway’s photograph, Speed Reading, won the Stephen Jareckie Photography Prize at the 85th Regional Exhibition of Art and Craft at Fitchburg Art Museum at 185 Elm Street, Fitchburg, MA. The exhibition runs June 26 –September 5, with an opening reception on August 27, 6-8 pm.
Bradway has an exhibit, “Be a Lady They Said,” of 17 photographs at The Franklin Square Salon at The Hanover Theatre, 2 Southbridge St., Worcester, MA. The exhibition runs September 18 - December 11, with a public reception on Sunday, September 19, 3-5pm.
Bill Cohn is exhibiting his "industrial/organic" ceramic sculptures in the 3-person show “Three Views of a Secret” at the Old Schwamb Mill in Arlington, MA. The show runs through November 7. Gallery hours on Tuesdays and Saturdays from 10-4 and by appointment.
Cohn has one of his ceramic totems on display in “Franconia (NH) Artwalk,” an annual exhibition of outdoor sculpture. The show, which includes works from more than 20 New England artists, runs through October.
Shany Porras has paintings in a three-woman Abstract Paintings show at Dottie’s in Pittsfield, MA, starting September 1. The one-month show will feature abstract works representing her translations of music by Maurice Ravel, Michael Kiwanuka, Bob Moses, and David Gray.
Shany Porras has a selection of large abstract paintings showing in the Pittsfield, MA, First Fridays Arts Walk. In September, her artwork will remain at The MarketPlace Café at 53 North Street and can be seen during regular business hours.
Kristin S. Street has work in “2021 Abstract Only!” at Hawaii Island Art Alliance, Wailoa Center, 200 Piopio St., Hilo, Hawaii. The exhibit runs August 6 – September 6 with an opening reception on August 6, 6-8pm.
