In East Boston, we cannot escape our connection to the water. Even surrounded by buildings, a glance in one direction or another leads you directly to the harbor. Entering the ClipArt Gallery at the newly developed Clippership Wharf, the smell of the ocean on the wind joins you, and panoramic windows offer glimpses of the harbor. Through “Water: Medium & Mirror,” an eclectic and fascinating collection of works by New England artists, curator Stephanie Arnett of the Atlantic Works Gallery shows that “Water is essential to all known life.” A stark grouping of three cyanotype works by Connie Lowell has you striding across the gallery to take a closer look. Lowell is fascinated by cyanobacteria, the 3.5-billion-year-old “architects” of stromatolites, mounds and columns formed by the bacteria’s natural pursuance of light. In her pieces “4 Billion B.C.E.,” “1 Billion B .C.C.” and “2.5 … [Read more...] about LOCATION. LOCATION. LOCATION.: HARBOR GALLERY PERFECT FOR CLIPART WATER THEME
