“Adapt or Die: Dancing Between Art and Coexisting on Earth,” on view through this Sunday, September 28 at the Piano Craft Gallery in Boston, features artworks by members of the National Association of Women Artists, Massachusetts Chapter (NAWAMA). The show was juried by Althea Bennett (BFA Parsons School of Design and MAT Massachusetts College of Art) and artist Rebecca Rose Greene, curated by Piano Craft Director Kamal Ahmad and installed by Erik Grau. NAWAMA President Jean Okumura’s painting “Adapt or Die” is the clarion call for the entire selection. She courage gallery visitors to “Waltz around cultural barriers, be nowhere and everywhere, express boundaries and beliefs through form and energy” in her artist statement, laying the seeds for all the works in the exhibit. When you enter the gallery, you pass by Erica Joy Sloan’s photograph“Alpine Solitude,” which like Ansel Adam’s … [Read more...] about ADAPT OR DIE

    Curated by artist and director Ellen Wineberg, “Paint and Poetry” is a collaborative show at Storefront Art Projects in Watertown, featuring the poems of Edison Dupree, and the abstract paintings of Pam Rajpal and James Kinny. Wineberg is skilled in organizing communities in the New England arts scene, knowing how to throw a small and intimate soirée of artists and writers. Wineberg described herself as a matchmaker in a past life. The small space is elongated by the abstract art and concise, stanza poetry on the wall. At first glance, it may seem like Kinny’s work is on one side while Rajpal’s is on the opposing, but the paintings are in every corner and crevice of the space, including a painting of Rajpals in a back hallway entering Wineberg’s own studio space. In addition to the full-scale paintings, sketches from Rajpal and Kinny are displayed under their works, … [Read more...] about Paint and Poetry As Reassurance