A QUALITY OF SPACIOUSNESS: TRANSFORMING THE TOXINS OF OUR TIMES
In this year of existential stress, Antoinette Winters, Laura Evans and Roya Amigh, all Boston artists, can teach us ways to endure the pervasive disturbances that threaten our personal psychic well-being as well as that of the culture. They bring to bear a quality of listening and clarity of response — above all, a spaciousness — that can support us in the face of outer burdens and inner needs unmet.
Each artist’s minimalist sensibility — in installations, drawing and sculpture — focuses awareness to a higher pitch and hones a delicate balance between means and message. Through their eyes and ears we become attentive to words and wordlessness; to voices that testify, hold back, or are silenced. Their measured forms hold, tolerate and transform the toxins of our times.
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