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3-D Illustration Exhibit: Red Nose Studio

The new exhibit at 700 Beacon Street is a collection of photographs, sculpture, and video by Chris Sickels of Red Nose Studio.  Sickels creates three-dimensional sculptures and then photographs and films them to create remarkable works of art.  This is a uniquie opportunity to see both the finished "3-D illustrations" and the sculptures used to create them. 

The opening reception followed by an artist talk with Sickels is scheduled for 5pm this Thursday, November 10th.

The AIB library has two books illustraed by Sickels and many other resources on this emerging medium.  For more information, check out the 3D Illustration Research Guide at the AIB Library.

BCA’s Cyclorama features Art Institute of Boston faculty

Two weeks, zero boundaries in the BCA’s Cyclorama features Art Institute of Boston faculty

 BOSTON, MA – The Art Institute of Boston is pleased to announce that one of its instructors was selected to create an installation for CycSpecific at the BCA: All Things Transformative in the historic Cyclorama at the Boston Center for the Arts. Peter Hoss, who has been an instructor of drawing at the Art Institute since 2003, has recruited five students to assist with his installation.

 CycSpecific at the BCA brings two weeks of visual and performing arts to one of Boston’s most unique venues from February 18 to 27. A site-specific installation in the historic Cyclorama, the event features dance, live music, sound sculptures, spoken word, experimental performance and more.

 Peter Hoss’ work is about the abstraction of the natural and urban landscape. The inspiration for his latest work came during a trip to a local recycling plant where materials of all kinds were collected and melted or otherwise processed to be reused. Hoss was struck with the beauty in the random clutter of discarded debris. In his new work, he moves on from drawing the forms and structures to assembling them.

 “This concept evolved from my recent collages,” says Peter Hoss of the project. “Although three-dimensional, I continue to deal with issues of size, shape, line, pattern, texture and color as I arrange and compile common, everyday, disposed-of items into a visual object.”

Peter Hoss will host a gallery talk on Monday, February 21 at noon in the Cyclorama. Hoss’s student assistants include Christopher Burbank, Matthew Doyle, Gerald Hastings, Danielle Kelly and Roxanna Minor.

“2010 James and Audrey Foster Prize Exhibit”

“2010 James and Audrey Foster Prize Exhibit”
    Before this response, I had never visited the Institute of Contemporary Art yet in Boston; it surprised me with its rather homely looking appearance, it is not grand and huge like the MFA or the Met, but small and intimate. From the outside, it is not extremely modern or many stories high like the MoMa, but it holds the same beauty that each of the museums do. The size allowed the viewers to explore the entire gallery in just one evening, not just to look at things but to become familiar with each piece. I had never been to a museum in which I could see the entire collection in one day. Instead I have always visited museums in New York City, where my eye feasts on everything and craves all of the artwork display but cannot satisfy the hunger. The size of the gallery allowed me to really observe the beauty and variety within the exhibition.
    The 2010 James and Audrey Foster Exhibition at the ICA displayed a variety of media, size, power; each artist was individualized by a separate style. For instance, Matthew Rich’s “Spiral” caught my eye most due to the vivid colors and the illusionist form. Rich is known for his use of forms to create such illusions, with shapes. The viewer can deduct this just from this one piece of work. It is one that truly caught my eye because of the way it’s focal point brings the viewer into the piece and moves the eye around the colors like a spiraling vortex or flamboyant staircases. I consider myself partial to paint, and the use of colors because in my own art I tend to incorporate any elements of the color to evoke emotion and to please the eye.

Matthew Rich, “Spiral”, 2010

    The exhibition moves from pieces like Rich’s to Stephen Tourlentes’ work, photography with an eerie subject. Tourlentes’s photography displayed are of state and private prisons, obvious of his style is the black and white of both images and the sharp light that creates an eerie image of death prisons, prisons of not only the life but of soul. The images seem to trap the soul of the prisons inmates displaying scenes that are so lifeless that the world seems to be at a standstill. For instance, in Tourlentes’s “New York State Prison, Marcy, NY” the prison gives off that exact image, a lifeless image in the middle of the woods. The harsh lighting from the street lights help create the harsh difference of black and white and create a chill up the viewers spine. Each artist was given individual intimacy with the viewer, and each piece will stay with me for a while inspiring the art that I will make in the future.

Stephen Tourlentes, “New York State Prison, Marcy, NY”, 2009

You are invited to a Gallery Talk at AIB!

TO ALL FACULTY & STAFF: You are invited to a Gallery Talk at AIB! 

Please join us for a gallery talk focusing on the Sue Coe Exhibition in the AIB Gallery. This is an exhibition of prints and drawings that address the subject of war in the tradition of Goya. This event includes short talks by Bonnie Robinson, who will discuss the process of curating the exhibition, and Tony Apesos, who will address the art historical context of Coe's work.

WHO: Bonnie Robinson & Tony Apesos 
WHAT: Gallery Talk 
WHEN: Thursday, October 21st (6:00) 
WHERE: AIB Gallery 
WHY: Great Art! 

Refreshments will be served. This event is free and open to the public.

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Space Is The Place

 “Black Hole at the Top of the Key” inkjet print 24 x 36 inches

CULLEN WASHINGTON JR. / SPACE IS THE PLACE
On view from October 16 - November 20, 2010 

@ HallSpace Gallery
950 Dorchester Ave, Dorchester, MA 02125
Email: Hallspace@aol.com, Website: www.hallspace.org, Tel: 617.288.2255

 Cullen’s current body of work utilizes objects bearing evidence of southern culture and social memory. His desire is to reconcile his specific cultural identity with the broader context of the universe. In doing so, Washington creates binary representations that signify place and space. The use of Black and white tonalities reference this tension between the individual and the universal.  Conversations between social histories and cosmic esoterics create a new cosmology. Basketball hoops become black holes, catfish nets become alien motherships and wood paneling becomes nebula.

       In making the work, Washington approaches sculpture and photography with a drawing sensibility. And in turn, creates drawings with sculptural qualities.  To further contrast conditions, photos are placed beside drawings and sculpture beside video. Each individual piece works within a  gestalt. One piece informs the other in a collective narrative. (Review in Art New England Oct/Nov issue)

To view Cullen’s work online visit:
www.cwashingtonstudio.com

For Directions to Gallery:
http://www.hallspace.org/map.html

Peter Hoss @ Mills Gallery Opening

If you missed the opening of Strange Loops and Matinee/Matiné be sure to check out the show. AIB Faculty Peter Hoss has recent three-dimensional works among others on display. The show is on view at The Mills Gallery at the Boston Center for the Arts from November 13, 2009 – January 3, 2010