REGARDING BOSTON
“Regarding Boston” features seven Fountain Street artists and multiple meanings of the word “regarding” – to look at, to be about, to hold in high esteem. The exhibition, which includes painting, photography, mixed media, and video stills, highlights Bostonians and Boston cityscapes, locations of note, and iconic sculptural details. Taken together, the work assembled here portrays a vibrant and multi-faceted view of this beloved city.
Thank you City of Boston Department of Arts and Culture!
Participating artists are all core members of Fountain Street Gallery: Marie Craig, Frantz Lexy, Vicki McKenna, Lior Neiger, Chris Plunkett, Allison Maria Rodriguez, and Melissa Shaak.
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Photo credit: Artists For Humanity
THE CURATOR
Melissa Shaak's abstract acrylic paintings balance color shifts with amorphous forms that appear ponderous, whimsical or surreal. She explores how the act of concealing, by means of overpainting with large swaths of flat color, reveals and brings focus to the sprawl of life in the layers underneath. Shaak experiments with both imagery and medium — archetypal figures find themselves in paintings, sculptural cutouts of their forms, and as an ensemble captured on video. Her most recent work is in experimental video, in which she plays an unlikely explorer.
