Just in time for the holidays, I'll be participating in two great sales.
First is the annual SMFA Art Sale coming up this weekend. The sale features work by SMFA students, alumni, faculty and MFA staff members. I had a lot of fun last year (and great success!) and once again have submitted five pieces. They're all photos from my Instagram theme project, one framed and four matted. All of my co-workers from the photo studio also have great prints for sale, and the art ranges greatly in price. I'll be at the opening reception Thursday night, so definitely come say hi and check it out!
Second, I just found out that I've been accepted into a holiday art/craft sale sponsored by UForge gallery in Jamaica Plain. I've been working toward getting things ready to be in a fair like this for a while, and I'm so excited to try out the whole sale circuit! I'll be selling my theme prints in a bunch of sizes, as well as some other framed pieces and cards. It will take place Saturday, December 13 at Eliot Hall in JP. There will be around 30 other vendors, so please stop by to check out everyone's work and keep me company!
Sneak peak!
I put the final touches on my piece for the April UForge show today. The pegboard arrived in perfect condition and looks great. I printed my photos this week thanks to the lab at Aviary Gallery in JP. It took a lot of searching, but I finally found super strong magnets too. I'll be dropping this off tomorrow - save the date for the opening on Thursday, April 3!
Read more about the idea behind this piece here.
Work in progress
I’m simultaneously working on three different gallery submissions, so it’s been a busy few weeks! But the main focus has been the April show at UForge Gallery called “Decon/Recon.” The gallery’s website about the show describes it this way:
“It is an old adage that the only constant is change itself, a fact perhaps seen most clearly in shifts in urban spaces as buildings are torn down and replaced or renovated. The plot of land remains the same but its appearance is changed, just as old materials may be repurposed for new uses.”
With that in mind, I headed over to one of my favorite areas in my neighborhood, the SoWa district. It is full of old warehouses and brick factories that have been repurposed for mostly artistic spaces (lofts, galleries, restaurants, open markets). I decided to focus on roughly one block, and try to take photos that fulfilled a different adage: “something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue.” I looked for an old building in its original form; new or more modern architecture; something that has been re-used for an entirely new purpose; and something rundown, or looking a little “blue” in comparison to its neighbors. The final piece in the show will contain these four photos.
I also decided to forgo the frame this time and flesh out an idea I’ve been mulling for a while. I’ve thought that a lot of my photos of industrial and urban spaces would be better presented with a display format that is itself more industrial. I’ve also had the idea of creating a modular system, where different size photos can be interchanged and displayed together. So I ordered some metal pegboard to use as a background and mount for these photos. We’ll see how it goes when it arrives…
Keep a look out for more updates, but here’s one of the photos going into the show:
New show in April!
I've joined the group art show Decon/Recon at UFORGE Gallery, which will be on view in April. UFORGE is a great gallery in Jamaica Plain that works to promote new artists through their group assignment shows. There's no jury, so it's a first come, first serve process that makes it easier to get into the gallery scene. As they say in their mission, it was founded with "the belief that everyone has the right to show their creativity." You just have to submit an artwork based on the designated month's theme (a perfect match for me!).
I was part of their Grayscale show last year and really enjoyed the experience. The opening is always on the first Thursday of the month to coincide with JP's First Thursday Art Stroll. It's become really popular and makes for a fun and busy evening.
I'm working on a new photo piece specifically for this show, so stay tuned for more about that process and for details on the opening reception!
Source: http://www.uforgegallery.com/