“40 Part Part” by Jace Clayton
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On view at the MassArt Art Museum through July 30
Artist Jace Clayton grew up in North Andover and graduated from Harvard before recently returning to the MassArt Art Museum for a series of three installations, including the striking “40 Part Part.”
Inspired by artist Janet Cardiff’s presentation of 16th-century choral works, Clayton creates what appears to be a “minimalist sculpture” consisting of 40 speakers on stands around the room. Audiences are invited into the space to connect their phones to the speaker and listen to music of their choosing. As part of the installation, Clayton has designed an algorithm that changes how visitors hear the music.
“You start playing the music,” Bowen described, “and it gets absorbed because of this algorithm into different ways throughout the room. So it will come from just one speaker or you’ll just hear part of the sound and then the rest of that sound is distributed through another speaker around the room.”
He added that “it was such an odd feeling to have this piece of music that you know so well, that’s kind of fundamental to your upbringing and then have it just completely distorted and dismantled and played with. It kind of almost felt like I had stepped into a different reality.”
“Normal” by Steve Locke
On view at the MassArt South Building
One of Boston’s “great stars,” Steve Locke [MassArt Alumnus, MFA ‘01], has returned from New York for an installation on the exterior of MassArt for the institute’s 150th anniversary. The title gets its name from the term “normal school,” which was used to describe MassArt at its founding. (Today, such an institution would be called a teaching college.)
Locke’s work uses pink neon to outline the letters of the word “normal” in the brickwork to emphasize that the arts are normal. “The arts aren’t something exceptional, they’re just a normal part of our life,” Bowen said.
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In Its 150th Year, MassArt Presents 2023 MFA Thesis Exhibitions
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Massachusetts College of Art and Design is pleased to present MFA Thesis 2023, showcasing the work of 12 Master of Fine Arts candidates in the final semester of their graduate programs in 2D/3D Fine Arts, Photography, and Film/Video. The exhibition is on view in two parts at the MassArt x SoWa gallery through June 4, with a student-curated on-campus component, My Feelings These Days, on view at the college’s Doran Graduate Gallery through June 2.
Featured 2023 MFA Thesis artists include Yukai Chen, Hadis Karami, Catherine LeComte, Kierra LoRayne, Lucie March, Dara Morgenstern, Yuxiao Mu, Yana Nosenko, Ashley Pelletier, Katalina Simon, Piyu Somani, and Jialin (Tiffany) Wang.
Homage to the Auction Block #65, overlook, 2020
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Live Furnish doubles size of team to 76 in past 12 months
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Jason Guerette has also joined Live Furnish as its digital stylist. He most recently spent five years as a 3D stylist at Wayfair for exclusive brands including Joss & Main, Birch Lane, AllModern and Perigold. He comes from an extensive background in photography.
He received his bachelor’s degree from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, where he majored in fine arts.
In one sense, the local connection is institutional. The Massachusetts College of Art and Design serves as a conduit for Trachtman, Ishikura, and Higgins alike—they were all educated there. Ishikura and Higgins now teach there, and Trachtman taught at MassArt starting in 1982. This is relevant to their work’s vernacular, and it may reflect the prominent place of illustration at the school today.
Artists of the Month, Brooke Lambert & Kurt Hanss Through March at the Parish Center for the Arts
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Brooke Lambert is a professional printmaker and painter. She received her BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design and has shown her work widely in New England, New York, and beyond. She is currently represented by the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition Gallery in New York and is sponsored by Akua Inks and Speedball Art Products. Brooke teaches adult art classes in MA, ME, & NH. Her work can be found in Western Avenue Studios in Studio 447 and online at www.brookelambertartist.com
New Topographies: Gabriela Gomboa Brings a Mountain to Miami
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Gabriela Gamboa is a multidisciplinary artist born in Pittsburgh and raised in Venezuela; currently based in Miami. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Art and Design from the University of Chicago and an MFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Gamboa has been an artist-in-residence at Bakehouse Art Complex since 2018 and at Deering Estate in 2022.
When the pandemic lockdown began, Gabriela Gamboa realized that something important was missing in Miami: a mountain. Specifically, she longed for Cerro Bolívar, the mountain near her childhood home in southern Venezuela, close to the iron mines. This mountain had always given her “solace and peace.”
Photo Walk: Gabriela Gamboa at the Deering Estate
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About the artist
(b. 1956, Pittsburgh, PA) received her BFA in Art and Design from the University of Chicago and an MFA in Visual Art from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She has exhibited artwork both regionally and internationally at renowned institutions including Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas, Venezuela; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Lima, Peru; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Santiago, Chile; and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo del Zulia, Venezuela. In 2021, she was awarded an Ellies Creator Award by Oolite Arts, Miami’s visual arts awards. Gamboa has been an artist-in-residence at Bakehouse Art Complex since 2018.
“Since we began our program of installing contemporary art in our public spaces in 2018, we have been able to introduce the work of many remarkable artists and present a unique platform for their creative and intriguing projects,” said Olivier Meslay, Hardymon Director of the Clark. “We are delighted to continue this series in collaboration with Elizabeth Atterbury, whose extremely personal works bring the past and present into a fascinating dialogue.”
Elizabeth Atterbury is a sculptor, photographer, and printmaker who lives and works in Portland, Maine. Her work has recently appeared in the New England Triennial at deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts; the Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine; and the Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine. She received her BA from Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts and her MFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston.
