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Member News – March 2021

Mar 02, 2021

Here are some of the exciting shows and events CAA Members are taking part in. We’ve also included external opportunities & news from other organizations! If you have an exhibit, open studio, class, or call for art coming up – click here to fill out our form!

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CLARE ASCH

Round Dances and Convergences
At Galatea Fine Art
Coming March 5 – 28, 2021
First Friday Reception: March 5, 6-8pm
For more information: https://www.galateafineart.com

About |In this series of paintings, I continue to explore the interaction of gestural abstraction and geometry, with the circle being my main focus. I find the implied motion and fluidity of the circle fascinating. For me, circles bring to mind wheels. They are also associated with the universal symbol of wholeness as can be seen in mandalas and medicine wheels.

Part of my interest in circles stems from my desire to break free of the rectangular shape of the traditional canvas yet still hold on to the structure that a geometric shape provides. I associate rectangles with constructed spaces in opposition to natural forms. Though a circle is also a geometric shape, to my mind it appears closer to nature.

In my shaped canvases, I paint directly on the unprimed canvas with fluid, acrylic paint. The paint is poured and brushed, emphasizing the interactions of the materials and of my hand. This series of paintings includes large shaped canvases and watercolors on arches paper. The watercolors, like the shaped canvases explore the motif of the overlapping and intersecting circles only on a more intimate scale.

Transparency is an important element in both the watercolors and the acrylic shaped canvases. The transparency, together with the shaded and toned areas of color gives a sense of spatial depth that I find magical and dream-like. It is this feeling of being enveloped in a dream that I aim for in my abstract paintings”. – Clare Asch

IVANA GEORGE

An Interactive Virtual Art Show
March 20, 2021
For more information: http://www.ivanadamiengeorge.com/live-art-show

About | Welcome into my art world of creativity and inspiration! My next online art show is on March 20th at 7:00 pm EST. In these live interactive events, I dialog with you while sharing artworks & the creative process. This month I am sharing limited edition works from the Sustain series that celebrate the beauty and abundance of the produce grown in my organic urban garden. I will take you behind the scenes to see how these photographs are made! Click the link to learn more and get free registration!

PHOTOGRAPHY ATELIER

At The Griffin
February 20 – March 26, 2021
Reception: February 21, 7-9pm
For more information: https://photographyatelier.org/?fbclid=IwAR0ErhCwM3e8cPzxTbkF_NLWwsguM2muWUbS6CVUSmn-TRzk9PT_LLqmBjg

Featured CAA Members: 

  • Sally Bousquet
  • Marc Goldring,
  • Judith Montminy
  • Bonnie Newman

About | Photography Atelier is a portfolio and project building course for emerging to advanced photographers taught by Meg Birnbaum. Participants engage in supportive critical discussions of each other’s work and leave with a better understanding of the industry and an ability to edit and sequence their own work.

PANDEMIC LENS

Pandemic Lens created by CAA Member, Steve Bennett features artwork by artists that express their reaction to these surreal times and their vision of what the days and years ahead might look like.

Featured CAA Members so far:

SIKA FOYER

Mara River Crossing
At Soloway Gallery
February 21- March 27, 2021
Performance: March 14 at 2pm
For more information:  http://soloway.info/

About | Soloway Gallery is pleased to present “Mara River Crossing” the solo debut of New York based artist Sika Foyer’s fabric bricolage sculptures and paintings.

Lumpy with stuffed bundles, upholstered extremities overflow into the space and beyond their media. Paintings and garments sprout appendages as trickster spirit pushes through textile skins with unexpected genders and genres. Surfaces and textures collide but the joint project of making a figure holds them together. “Trojan Horse” stands tall wearing a floor length gown of bundles which swirl ringlike from the hem up to the torso, which in turn is criss-crossed by dark blue and white yarn and attached by a long thickened cord to the wall. Another piece, “Black Skin White Masks” is a smart graphic patterned cocktail dress sporting a tie and an oversized phallic attachment also made out of chic fabric. In “Black Skin White Masks 2”, a canvas and a sculpture share an eye and a head.

EXTERNAL OPPORTUNITIES & NEWS

These may be opportunities from outside organizations. Please look at the information links to see who to contact.

Brookline Arts Center – Mural Project
Call For Art
Submission Deadline: June 4, 2021
More Information: https://brooklineartscenter.com/submit-a-mural-proposal/

The Brookline Arts Center is seeking proposals for a temporary mural to be exhibited in our Annex Gallery in Fall 2021. Artists are invited to develop a plan for a site-specific temporary mural, based on any theme or narration they wish. The artist selected will design, create and exhibit their proposed installation.

City of Salem, MA – 2021 ARTISTS′ ROW CALL FOR CREATIVES & PUBLIC ARTISTS FOR THE ARTISTS’ ROW PUBLIC ARTIST IN RESIDENCE PROGRAM
Call For Artists
Submission Deadline: March 12
More Information:  https://www.salem.com/sites/g/files/vyhlif3756/f/uploads/call_for_public_artists_in_residence_2021_-_city_of_salem_artists_row_.pdf

The City of Salem is currently looking to fill one (1) PAID position for Public Artists in Residence, lasting for a term of 8 months.

The City is interested in applicants that will contribute to the vibrancy of the Artists’ Row community and this important gateway to Salem’s bustling downtown. The variety of activities/uses considered for Artists’ Row spaces include, but are not limited to, original uniquely produced or hand-crafted artworks, performances, art ‘happenings’, art ‘interventions’, art making, virtual art experiences and temporary public art installations both large and small.

Kingston Gallery
Call For Art
Submission Deadline: March 12
More information:  https://kingstongallery.submittable.com/submit/186224/call-for-entries-whistling-in-the-dark

Kingston Gallery, located in Boston’s SoWA arts district, is calling for entries for the juried exhibition, Whistling in the Dark, which will be open from July 28 – August 29, 2021. Our distinguished jury of artists includes Lavaughan Jenkins, Jeesoo Lee, and Jamal Thorne.

We are seeking work that is visually engaging and will foster a broader dialogue about the influence of art. The gallery will hold related public events weekly through its series Kingston Conversations.

MASS CULTURAL COUNCIL’S AVAILABLE GRANTS:

Festivals Program provides $500 grants to help festival programmers meet the needs of producing, promoting, and developing audiences. Application opens: Jan 27. Deadline: Mar. 15.

Projects grants provide either $1,000 or $2,500 to support a cultural organization’s specific project. Deadline: Mar. 2.

The U.S. Small Business Administration’s (SBA) Shuttered Venue Operators Grant offers emergency assistance for eligible venues affected by the COVID pandemic.

Boston LGBTQIA+ Artist Alliance
Call For Art & Monthly Portfolio Reviews
Read more about the call for art, here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1s_JIb_36UTxObrVDk422qQziCkkoS2yr8sGs11NT9us/viewform?edit_requested=true
Read more about the Portfolio Reviews, here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1RgTzh42m-Mku8NVzeOPHTPFVN9vbIzTLX4mj6gK8Bzw/viewform?edit_requested=true

Gallery 263 – FLORA
Call For Art
Submission Deadline: April 22 at 11:59 PM
More information: https://www.gallery263.com/artist-opportunities/flora/

The botanical world is woven into the realms of art and science, providing materials for artmaking, a muse for inspiration, a reminder of our mortality, evidence of a complicated history—including colonization, and, perhaps even a way to decenter our human perspective. Beyond the simple beauty of plants lives contemporary solutions for sustenance and global sustainability. Gardening, foraging, and spending time outdoors can serve as solitary acts of escapism and also foster connections to both the bounty and precariousness of the plant world. Gallery 263 invites artists based in the United States to submit artwork that evokes the wonder of plants or questions our preconceived notions. The exhibition is juried by artist Mark Dion.

ARTISANSXRESIDENCY
Residency
More information: https://artisansasylum.com/artisansxresidency-begins/

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