Art is a process, a feeling, a place where peace, hope, expression, safety, and purpose live. While kneading thick clay, melting paint into blank canvases, and drawing new shapes on an iPad, over 100 students at Gateway Arts Center in Brookline, Massachusetts call art home. Each of these artists has a disability, but holds a different story within themselves that they use art to convey. The center’s current exhibit titled “TechnoGateway,” based on artwork created or inspired by technology, fills the walls with imaginative creatures and bright color. In Darryl Richard’s Untitled acrylic on canvas piece, a cartoon pear holds a “rock on” sign, a hot dog carries a boom box, and an onion raises a walker above its head in the center, amongst other food part of the crowd. Each piece of food has its own personality and the vibrant color creates energy and movement within the piece. For … [Read more...] about All Artists, All Abilities: “TechnoGateway” at Gateway Arts Center
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Common Threads: Contemporary Fiber Art at the Gardner
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is known for many things: the beautiful Venetian palazzo-inspired architecture, the unconventional way it displays its pieces of art, the largest and still-unsolved art heist in history, and Isabella Stewart Gardner’s wide taste in art — from Italian renaissance and medieval European to Asian and Islamic art; from paintings and sculptures to rare books and textiles — to name a few. Keeping in tradition with her love of textiles, “Common Threads: Weaving Stories Across Time,” is on view through January 13. The exhibition features work from contemporary artists who are continuing the tradition of conveying stories and histories in their works while pushing the boundaries of textile art and distorting the line around what can be defined as a tapestry. Their works are housed in both the Hostetter Gallery as well as the Tapestry Room. Walking into the … [Read more...] about Common Threads: Contemporary Fiber Art at the Gardner