October 6-28, 2012
Curated by Jenn Harrington
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Opening Reception:
Saturday, October 6, 2012, 5-7 pm
Performances by Chadley Kolb (of Coyote Kolb) and
Man Alive!
Monster cookies will be served! See our call for cookies on our facebook event page.
Artists:
Robin Arnold, Sarah Bilotta, Robin Mae Gawron, Anastasia Cazabon, Reid Elem, Joe
Keinberger, Scott Lapham, Claudia Mastrobuono, Matthew Maybruck, Martha McCollough,
Alexandra Photopoulos, William Schaff, Geoff Stein, Nick Ward, Brendan Vogt, Roscoe Wilson
A special soundtrack to the exhibit with music by:
the 'Mericans, Caroline Hecht,
Coyote Kolb, The Fagettes, Fat Creeps, Grade A Gray Days,
Man Alive!, Marc Pinansky, Milo Jones, The
Operators, Sodafrog
In a land not so far away, where everything seems quite big and terribly bad, The Nave
Gallery presents visions of The BIG BAD. Whether it be the repo man, banks, politicians,
the ex, the evil step-parent, the monster in the closet, the tick-tock of a bad heart—The
BIG BAD explores the true representations of the foes that wreck our homes, our health,
our families, our childhoods. The bump in the dark of night, the shadow lurking in the
corner of your eye, those things that haunt us even if we've buried it four times over,
The BIG BAD aspires to show that the real-world adversaries threatening our ruin are close
companions to the phantoms locked in our imaginations.
Sarah Bliss + Heather Johnson + Katie Jurkiewicz
Jane Lincoln + Nancy Winship Milliken + Ted Ollier
Marzia Ellero Ransom + Rimas Simaitis + Catharyn Tivy
Nave Gallery, Somerville
7 Sep - 22 Sep 2012
Opening Reception: 7 Sep 2012, 6 - 8 PM
Curators' Statement
The artists presented in Invested Landscape wield a wide variety of methods and
aesthetics
for investigating the human/landscape relationship. For centuries artists have interacted
and interpreted the great outdoors, capturing the light in their surrounding village or
recording exotic vistas, real or imagined, from distant lands. Recently, this interaction
has become more direct, digging up the earth for land art that can only be seen from
above. In this exhibit, urban and rural landscapes, both near and far, familiar and
unfamiliar, are altered and deconstructed to represent or interpret our relationship with
place.
Artist Jane Lincoln abstracts the ever-elusive color and light on the bogs of
Provincetown
into vertical signifiers in her paintings. In contrast, Rimas Simaitis constructs a
self-contained exploration vehicle and videotapes his exploration of a suddenly alien
landscape. Sarah Bliss collects information through interviews, images and found objects,
that helps her define a foreign landscape she encountered during her residency in Cill
Rialaig, County Kerry, Ireland. Each artist invests the landscape with a personal
interpretation of place and affect. Gathered here is a group of works that deconstruct the
understanding of what landscape is. Tivy's postcards, Ransom's pinhole cameras, Johnson's
descriptive snippets--they're all landscapes, but put through a diffracting lens.
--Katie Jurkiewicz + Nancy Winship Milliken + Ted Ollier
Links:
Sarah Bliss
Heather Johnson
Katie Jurkiewicz
Jane Lincoln
Nancy Milliken
Ted Ollier
Marzia Ellero Ransom
Rimas Simaitis
Catharyn Tivy
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