Liminal Spaces

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Image in header courtesy of exhibiting artist, Dara Durost

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January 21 – February 15 , 2020
At Cambridge College’s Town Common Gallery
500 Rutherford Avenue, Charlestown MA
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Juried by Tereza Swanda

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Reception: Saturday, January 25, Noon-2pm RSVP

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About | “A liminal space is the time between the ‘what was’ and the ‘next.’ It is a place of transition, a season of waiting, and not knowing. Liminal space is where all transformation takes place, if we learn to wait and let it form us.”

Why Liminal Space? This exhibit is part of Cambridge College’s Spring 2020 Semester programs centered around  the theme Spaces and Places. “The places we live, the places we have traveled, or the places we consider home are as unique as who we are. Our connection to places and spaces affect our health, our history, and our relationships with one another. The power of place has been well documented, but place is dynamic and contested. What do places stand for? Who do spaces belong to? How do we relate to them, and how do they relate to us?”

The use of the word liminal lends itself to extending beyond the physical, and into a variety of themes focusing on what space truly is. Liminal Space can be locations of transition (apartments, dorms, airports, elevators, etc.), it can be a space that closes and reopens (businesses, schools, buses, trains, etc.), or liminal space can be events that are largely transitional and leave us lingering between the past and the future.

Here is an article that describes liminal space in a thought-provoking way: https://www.betterhelp.com/advice/general/understanding-how-liminal-space-is-different-from-other-places/

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About the juror | Tereza was born Mazurova (implying paternal possession) in what was Czechoslovakia and resides both in CZ as well as the States. In her nomadic life, she explores alternative structures to familial and societal constructs that engender and classify bodies.

Swanda teaches at Sculpture, Painting and Art History at Salem State University, Dean College as well as Roxbury Community College. She holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and BFA in Painting and Sculpture from Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Swanda has recently received the A.R.T. Fund award to pursue her project, Capital Cleanse, which she installed in a rogue installation at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She has exhibited her work at the Whitney Center for the Arts (Pittsfield, MA), University of Oregon (Eugene,OR), Berliner Kunstprojekt (Berlin), 450 Broadway Gallery (NY), Bakalar and Paine Galleries (Boston, MA), Chemeketa Community College Art Gallery (Salem, OR), and online in Storyscape Journal. Her series, To/From Mothering, shown at the Center on Contemporary Art (Seattle, WA), won first prize. She has been awarded residencies at VSC (Johnson, VT), at the Millay Colony (Austerlitz, NY), and has been attending workshops with Rose Shakinovsky and Claire Gavronsky in Italy and South Africa since 2000.

Swanda’s distinctions include the Wilhelmina Denning Jackson Art Award as well as scholarship for graduate work.

Juror’s Statement | I had a wonderful time during the holiday season reviewing work for Liminal Spaces. I want to thank ALL artists for their submissions and apologize for not being able to accept all work. As I made my way through the series of works, I was looking for that space, one that brings me to a threshold, or perhaps is in a state of transitioning itself. Some pieces were representation while others were abstract or conceptual. I looked at relationships between pieces entered, between artists, at relationships formed around the subject of liminality. I want to thank all of the artists for bringing me closer to the unknown, to some other place in the body rather than the brain, to a feeling. Well done!