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marjorie kaye

SOWA FALL PREVIEW: CHANGES IN THE AIR

// Exhibits, Featured, Visual Arts

By Suzanne Volmer Boston, MA - From the dusty landscape of the Big Dig, the SoWa Art+Design District emerged as an accessible phenomenon to become the ‘it” location for contemporary art galleries in Boston. SoWa is buzzing on First Friday when galleries have their openings from 5-9 p.m. The public is, of course, welcome during other stated business days; however, First Fridays have a nice block party vibe that is sophisticated and bohemian, with evenings that are fun with family and friends, solo or as a date night activity. Harrison Avenue’s Thayer Street block is a pedestrian promenade pinched between two nearly identical buildings numbered 450 and 560 Harrison Avenue. The promenade stretches straight through to Albany Street. It is landscaped to create a sense of place framing architectural characteristics like spatial openness, which is achieved by a subterranean undercut to … [Read more...] about SOWA FALL PREVIEW: CHANGES IN THE AIR

Works by Marjorie Kaye (L) and George Shaw

Marjorie Kaye and George Shaw: The Poetics of Space at Atlantic Works Gallery

// Visual Arts

By Kate Kenney Boston, MA - Imagine a room made up of contrasting colors, pulsating yellows and deep sparkling plums. That is what you’ll see when you enter Marjorie Kaye and George Shaw’s “The Poetics of Space” exhibition at Atlantic Works Gallery in East Boston. Walking through the studio, you are arriving into a world of vibrant 2D and 3D objects. To the left, twisting wooden sculptures of wood painted ombre pop, drawing viewers closer. To the right is a room to both compliment and contrast. It is Shaw’s constructions of wood panels, swathed in rich jewel tones. Kaye’s rainbow hued sculptures draw from the sensation of “listening to Bach notation,” the artist explained. It is as if each layer of wood represents the rising and falling of notes, and at times, evoking an optical illusion. Along the wall, paintings of swirling primary colors compliment the vibrant life of the 3D … [Read more...] about Marjorie Kaye and George Shaw: The Poetics of Space at Atlantic Works Gallery