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
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SEASIDE ART: EAST BOSTON: PRESENT TENSE AT CLIPART
Looking out onto the water where sailboats glide towards the Boston skyline, lies ClipArt Gallery, tucked away in the new luxury Clippership apartments and condos of East Boston. Its debut exhibit, “East Boston: Present Tense,” curated by Marjorie Kaye, the founder of Galatea Fine Art in Boston, showcases juried work from East Boston artists in a small space, where “a variety of different mediums are represented.” Currently open exclusively to residents and viewable by the public on Saturdays, ClipArt Gallery invites guests to escape into the art, away from the bustling city in the distance. A patchwork of collaged earthy oranges, greens and blues coalesce in Dominick Takis’s “Picasso’s Byzantined Brains,” the first artwork to greet viewers. The 40” x 40” work is a maze for the eyes as they get lost in the rough textures, colored tiles and cut-outs of faces, inspired by Picasso’s Cubism … [Read more...] about SEASIDE ART: EAST BOSTON: PRESENT TENSE AT CLIPART