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Past Exhibitions
Kiran a.k.a. Karen Meninno
Mapping Indaly: Sculpture and drawing.
Curated by William Kerr of Gallery XIV.
June 3 - 28, 2008
Opening Reception: Friday, June 6, 5.30 – 8.30 pm.
The first solo show for Boston-trained sculptor Kiran a.k.a. Karen Meninno. Kiran’s concept for her show is to explore the creation of her own country in an aesthetic manner. Her soft sculptures use traditional sari materials and represent a physical manifestation of the Indian Diaspora. The sculptures explore form and surface as co-existing but competing forces. Her drawing installation aims to map the country of Indaly and is inspired by Baroque ornament. Her work deals with themes of globalism, nationalism, alienation, multi-culturalism and the concept of home.
She asks of the viewer: what is a country to you?
Inspired by this hymn that she was forced to sing every morning assembly at secondary school in England, she now views the words much differently…
I vow to thee, my country, all earthly things above,
Entire and whole and perfect, the service of my love:
The love that asks no question, the love that stands the test,
That lays upon the altar the dearest and the best;
The love that never falters, the love that pays the price,
The love that makes undaunted the final sacrifice.
And there's another country, I've heard of long ago,
Most dear to them that love her, most great to them that know;
We may not count her armies, we may not see her King;
Her fortress is a faithful heart, her pride is suffering;
And soul by soul and silently her shining bounds increase,
And her ways are ways of gentleness and all her paths are peace.
- Sir Cecil Spring-Rice
Karen Meninno
Title: Cobalt Woman 2007
Materials: mixed media sculpture, 35"x26"x35"
Karen Meninno
Title: Baroque City 2008
Materials: drawing installation, met. pen on paper, dimensions vary
Center Gallery:
Lotscapes
Catelin Mathers-Suter
Catelin Mathers-Suter’s work explores the complex dynamic between the structures humans design and build and the needs these creations simultaneously serve and undermine. She dissects/questions/celebrates the array of effects
our parking lots, high rises, highways and malls have had on present day life and on the contemporary imagination.
Catelin Mathers-Suter
Title: Lotscape 1, 2008
Materials: graphite on paper, 29"x40"
HILARY TOLAN : Remainder
April 29 - May 31, 2008
Opening Reception: Friday May 2, 5- 7:30
Solo exhibition featuring sculpture, installation, and drawing
Hilary Tolan's newest work draws us into a place where the artificial and the natural world meet and intermingle. Wax coated faded flowers exist alongside their man-made equivalents. On a lavishly appointed banquet table real and replica ferns, roots, flowers and leaves take the place of the usual domestic table settings. Drawings in the exhibit play on organic forms. Cut images of roots dangle from the wall and keep company with printed images and objects. The work evokes ideas of preservation, memory and loss as it questions what is real, what is artifice and just what we hope to save.
Hilary Tolan
Title: Beloved 2006, 2007
Materials: photograph and mixed media installation, dimensions variable
Hilary Tolan
Title: Remembrance 2008
Materials: photograph, 10" x13"
Hilary Tolan
Title: Vanitas #1 2006
Materials: photograph
"drawing on water" new photographs by Mary Lang
April 1 - 26, 2008
First Fridays reception: April 4, 5 - 7:30 pm
Gallery Talk by the Artist and Opening Reception: Saturday, April 5, 4 – 7 pm
Photographer Mary Lang exhibits the fourth and final chapter in her ongoing exploration of the ungraspable quality of both water and mind. The images, thirteen large color photographs of water, from the Charles River to Nehalem Bay on the Pacific Ocean, use reflection, scale, surface and depth, and time, creating drawings with the slow shutter speed’s way of capturing light, to point at the unknowable.
The exhibit is accompanied by a 20-page color catalog with an essay by the artist and a preface by Arthur Dion, Director of Gallery NAGA.
Mary Lang
Title: Nehalem Bay, April 2006
Materials: photograph
Mary Lang
Title: Near the Pump House I, 2007
Materials: photograph
Mary Lang
Title: Esplanade, Boston, 2006
Materials: photograph
Exhibition Schedule
(Complete 18-month exhibition calendar)
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