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Past Exhibits 2010 - 2008
These prints offer humor, pain, honesty, truth. They show the ingenuity and dedication of 93 contemporary Cuban artists making outstanding art under difficult conditions. Continuing its history of international collaboration, the Boston Printmakers is proud to celebrate the richness of Cuban culture in conjunction with exhibitions at the Fuller Craft Museum and the Massachusetts College of Art.
- Candy Nartonis and Marjorie Javan, CuratorsExhibition Schedule:
Opening Reception: Friday, Oct. 2, 5:30-8pm & October 15, 6-7pm
Gallery talk with artist/collector Phyllis Ewen: Azul y Blue
October 18, 1-2pm: Gallery talk with artist/collector Steven Daiber: Collaboration with Cuban Print Studios
November 6, 5:30-8pm: First Friday Reception
November 22, Sunday, 3-4pm: Closing party: drinks & tapas.
Gallery Hours: Thursday - Sunday, 12-4pm
First Fridays, 5:30-8pm
Artists in the exhibition:
Pedro Abascal Vázquez
Michel Acosta
Pavel Acosta
Juan Carlos Alom
Franklin Álvarez
Belkis Ayón
Hugo Azcuy Castillo
Abel Barroso
Pablo Borges Delgado
Yamilys Brito
Tania Bruguera
Janet Brossard Duharte
Luis Cabrera
Ányel Maidelin Calzadilla Fernandez
Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons
Iván y Joan Capote
Marlon Castellanos Barrera
Liset Castillo Valdéz
Osvaldo Castillo
Sandra Ceballos Obaya
Angel Delgado
Liang Dominguez
Nelson Dominguez
Luis Lamothe Duribe
ENEMA
Ricardo Elías
Carlos Estévez
Dania Fleites Díaz
Ordoamoris Gabinete
Carlos Garaicoa Manso
Amalia Amayo García
Aliosky Garcia
Yordanis García Delgado
Alejandro González
Eduardo Guerra
Inti Hernández
Laura Hidalgo Cabrer
Joel Jiménez
Glenda León
Antonio Lewis
Alberto Lescay
Ted Magee
Jacqueline Maggi Hallands
Cecilia Mandrile
Norberto Marrero Pirez
Frank Martinez
Mayimbe
Janier Méndez
Maria Mencia
Francisco Mendez-Diez
Manuel Mendive
Juan Carlos Menéndez Ruiz
Tatiana Mesa
Abel Milanes
Enrique Miralles Tarabull (Tente)
Ibrahim Miranda
Ricardo Silverira Miro
Orlando Montalván
Carlos Montes De Oca
Yalili y Daniel Rivero Mora
Yamilianis Morales
Eduardo Múnoz
Antonio Núnez Hernández
Julio Cesar Pena Peralta
Hanoi Pérez Cardero
Roberto Fabelo Pérez
Eduardo Ponjuán González
Adislen Reyes Pino
Alain Pino
Planchet
Juan Carlos Pozo Galvez
Rene Quintana
Ángel Roque Ramíriz
Alfredo Ramos
Sandra Ramos
Jesús Roberto (Chucho) Reyes Romeu
Andy Rivero
Juan Carlos Rivero Cintra
Fernando Rodrígues Falcón
Isolina Limonta Rodríguez
Elio Rodríguez Valdés
Lázaro Saavedro González
Alejandro Ramón Alfonso Saínz
Eduardo Hernández Santos
Bernardo Sarrias
Alberto Sautúa
González Suárez
Israel Tamayo Zamora
José Angel Toirac
Ulises Urra
Elio Rodrígues Valdés
Rafael Zarza Gonzalez
Kerstin Zurbrigg
Plastic Fantastic!
Steve Novick, Rob Rovenolt, Brian Zink
June 27 - August 1, 2009 ( + by appt. in August)
Exhibition Schedule:
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 27, 4-6pm
Gallery Hours: Fri, 11-3pm
Sat & Sun, 12-4pm
Plastic Fantastic! presents work by three artists whose works combines found
objects, assemblage and formalism
without losing their sense of humor. Inhabiting the territory between sculpture
and painting, these artists employ color,
texture and cultural references in equal measure delivering self-contained topographies
that are both familiar and
surprisingly unknown. Whether using high chroma toys, industrial plastics or
discarded metal parts, the formal clarity
of these assemblages relies on the careful consideration of the relationship
between different parts of a specific work.
The artists must also navigate the previous lives or intended uses of these
materials outside the art world. The
recognizable objects employed are revitalized or disguised completely as elements
in new constellations where
form replaces function.
Brain Zink and Steve Novick use “off the shelf” objects and architectural
hardware as raw material in their sculptural
and wall works. The contemporary, kitschy feel of the objects is embraced and
subverted by a deliberate formality
and exacting construction that never feels severe. While they often approach
Minimalism in the simplified geometric
forms and patterns, the materials themselves resist the solemn feel of Tony
Smith’s or Robert Irwin’s work from the
1970’s while directly referencing either the Pop Art or Op Art works of
that same period.
Robert Rovenolt has a slightly more nostalgic approach often using materials
that have aged a bit by comparison to
Zink’s and Novick’s clean new plastics. Found and distressed objects
lend a warmer but still very strict geometry
to Rovenolt’s compositions. Closer to Cornell or Rauschenberg than Smith,
the history of the surfaces and parts feel
more illustrative and mysteriously narrative than formal.
Together these artist demonstrate the appropriation aspect of the plastic arts
that Duchamp and Manzoni irreverently
introduced into artistic production. Updating the “found object”
in an era when plastic is demonized and recycling has
taken on political overtones is an interesting task which each of these artists
responds to in a very individual way.
James Hull - Curator
Past Exhibits:
The 150 x150 Mad Dash returns! Laconia Gallery May 1st preview + Saturday May 2nd @ Noon is the Dash!
List of artists in the 150 x 150!
This Years's Mad Dash! 2009 at Laconia ( More Videos)
150 works for only $150 each, it's a race... Video of the dash HERE
This fundraiser is first come first served event where participants race in and grad the tag next to the work they want to purchase for only $150! The event will have a preview friday, May 1st during "First Friday" in the South End and the Dash will happen at High Noon on Saturday, May 2nd. People line up ahead of time to get the best chance at the pice of art they want. Come and see how exciting it can be to buy art in public!
Cash or check only - some works remain on sale after the dash May 3rd - 8th (Sunday May 3, 12 - 4 pm, Monday - Friday 6-9pm)
Our thanks to the generous artists that make this event possible, they donate 100% of the works sale price to our non-profit gallery.
Dana Clancy
Sight Plan
March 21 - April 25, 2009
433 Harrison Avenue ( South End)
Boston, MA 02118
Dana Clancy, Spin (2008)
oil on canvas 58 x 58 inches
Dana Clancy, Network (2008/9)
acrylic on panel , colored pencil and latex
Like a concert tour, but with sketchbooks.
We send you the sketchbook, you make the art. Then Art House is taking all the
sketchbooks on a 6 city tour to galleries and museums across the U.S. The goal
of the exhibition is to encourage anyone to create artwork and build a collective
of sketchbooks made by artists from all over the world.
At Laconia Gallery March 6, 2009 ( First Friday!)
Images of installations at Laconia Gallery:
Chris Faust: Inland
Chris Faust touching up mural ( 20 feet x 9 feet) produced with his brother David Faust
Detail of center of mural
Gallery installation view of "Inland"
Chris Faust "Hillside" oil on canvas
Chris Faust, "Imaginary Landscape II" drawing detail (50 x 60 inches)
Chris Faust, "Spire" acrylic on canvas painting
Chris Faust, Detail of Spire
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