Every week, BR&S picks out a series of gallery events, screenings, exhibitions, performances. Here are our choices for you to go & see:
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Tuesday August 12 2014
Boston Open ScreenBoston Open Screen is BACK! Help us start the new season with a blast at the Coolidge Corner Theatre!
Open Screen is Boston's one and only open mic night for movies! Whether you sold your home to finance your 35mm masterpiece, or you made it last night in your basement -- if your movie is under 10 minutes, we'll screen it.
Sign up begins at 7 pm, the show starts at 7:30 pm.
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Tuesday August 12 - Friday August 22 2014
Amuse Bouche: Paintings by Sarah Lutz & Richard BakerThe Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill will have an exhibition of a collection of small works by Sarah Lutz and Richard Baker between August 12th and August 22nd.
Sarah Lutz was born in Madison, Wisconsin in 1967 but spent most of her childhood in Vermont and Guatemala. She received a B.S. in Studio Art from Skidmore College in 1989 and an M.F.A. from The American University in 1992. She was a Junior Fellow in Residence at Dartmouth College in 1994 and did a 1 month residency at The Vermont Studio Center in 1996. She has been living and working with her husband, painter John van Rens, and their two daughters, in New York City since 1994. Sarah has had solo exhibitions at the Richmond Art Center in 1993 in Windsor, CT; in New York City at 55 Mercer Gallery in 1995 and The Painting Center in April 2003. Sarah exhibited her work at The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY from May 1 - June 6, 2004 and had a solo show at Brickwalk Books and Fine Art in 2005. She exhibits with DNA Gallery in Provincetown, MA annually since 2001. Sarah is currently represented by Lohin Geduld Gallery in New York.
Richard Baker attended the Maryland Institute, College of Art and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He has shown in nationally, received awards from the NY Foundation for the Arts, the New England Foundation for the Arts and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. He has taught painting at the University of Iowa, Boston University, Fine Arts Work Center, Rhode Island School of Design, and the School of Visual Arts in NY. He currently teaches at the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University. He is represented by the Tibor de Nagy Gallery in New York and the Albert Merola Gallery in Provincetown.
The Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill continues to provide workshops, lectures, exhibitions, and festive community events for residents and visitors. There are many renowned artists and writers teaching this summer including; Morton Dean, Ann Hood, Judy Pfaff, Joan Snyder, Stuart Shils, Ken Kewley, Catherine Kehoe, Maria Magdalena Compos Ponds and many, many more taking part in the summer season.
Reception
Thursday August 14
4 pm - 6pm
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Friday August 15 2014
Highland Street Foundation's Free Fun Fridays!The Highland Street Foundation is a charitable organization established in 1989 by David J. McGrath, Jr., the founder of TAD Resources International, Inc., the famous employment agency. Highland generously supports local non-profit institutions and sponsors a summer program called Free Fun Fridays. There is free admission, with very few restrictions, at many museums, historic sites, theaters, art centers, and many attractions.
The foundation supports further programs including the Youth Philanthropy Initiative that empowers youth to raise money for charities, ReadBoston, which holds free storytelling events for children in Boston's neighborhoods,
Highland Holidays which helps provide toys, books, games, and other supplies to children during the holiday season, and many more programs that support community organizations.
See the rest of the participants for August 15th here.
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Saturday August 16 2014
Sergei Tcherepnin and Film Screening: Stephen King's Maximum OverdriveExhibition Tour
1 pm
List Projects: Sergei Tcherepnin
Bakalar Gallery
Join Curatorial Fellow Jeff De Blois for a guided tour of Sergei Tcherepnin's List Projects exhibition. Tcherepnin's new work Subharmonic Lick Thicket incorporates sound recordings emanating from a floor built above the List's existing Bakalar Gallery floor. Visitors are encouraged to interact with Tcherepnin's sculptural forms, which exist simultaneously as speakers and instruments.
Film Screening
2 pm
Maximum Overdrive, Directed by Stephen King, 1986, 97 min.
Bartos Theatre, lower level atrium
Maximum Overdrive, author Steven King's only directorial effort, was hand selected by Tcherepnin to be screened in conjunction with his exhibit. This cult-favorite horror film is loosely based on King's short story "Trucks". After a radiation storm brings machines and inanimate objects to life, Bill Robinson (Emilio Estevez), a truck driver and ex-con, rallies survivors to fight back against the machines who are bent on wreaking annihilation. The film is set to a soundtrack composed by AC/DC and was nominated for two 1986 Golden Raspberry awards, including Worst Director for Stephen King and Worst Actor for Emilio Estevez.
Free!
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Satruday August 16 2014
New England Zine FestThe Boston Hassle is throwing their first annual New England Zine Fest! They'll have workshops, skillshares and tables upon tables of zines presented by the people who made them.
A team of Boston Hassle's Zine Queens presents a How-to-Make-a-Zine workshop throughout the day. (Learn to make your own for next year's fest!)
Special guests include...
Papercut Zine Library
Trifecta Editions
Brian Connolly of Nothing Mattress
Free!
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Saturday August 16 2014
The Lawn on D Opening CelebrationKick off a first-of-its kind experience in Boston at the official opening of The Lawn on D this Saturday, August 16 starting at noon! The city’s groundbreaking new outdoor experimental event space brings art, games, food, music and free events to the buzzing Innovation District and South Boston neighborhoods.
Opening festivities include live music performances , high-energy sets from Mmmmaven DJs, massmouth storytelling, interactive art projects & installations, face-painting, bocce, Ping Pong and other dynamic, community-building activities. Local food and ice cream trucks, as well as beer and wine available for purchase in the tented bar fuel up the fun.
See the entire line-up of events here.
About The Lawn on D:
A first-of-its-kind outdoor interactive space in Boston, The Lawn on D is an experimental landscape that brings together different communities, audiences and area residents for innovative programming and events in the epicenter of the Innovation District and South Boston neighborhood. The trial landscape will offer opportunities in an interactive environment to create a unique Boston experience. The Lawn on D will be open for approximately 18 months beginning in August with seasonally changing programming. With direct feedback and ideas from the community sourced during the experimental phase, the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority (MCCA) will develop plans and programs for a year-round space that will further entrench the BCEC in Boston.
Free!
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Thursday August 21 - Saturday September 13 2014
TTTRIP: A Group Exhibition featuring Garret Gould, Claudia O'Steen and Sophia SobersGRIN is pleased to present tttrip., a group exhibition of installation and sculpture by artists Claudia O’Steen, Garret Gould, and Sophia Sobers.
A trip is a form of disconnection and an experience of time. Whether referring to the tripping of a circuit or a ride in an airplane, a trip brings about a drastic change to the subject and it’s surroundings. The work in tttrip. explores the various aspects of the word through visual, physical, conceptual experiences.
Claudia O’Steen’s work exhibits both analog and digital forms of communication alongside their inability to compose the intended outcome. Through the position of altered and handmade objects, O’Steen places the utmost importance on the hand of the artist as well as the potential relationship it creates with the viewer. Elements such as extension cords wrapped and painted provide an alternate route for the viewers’ experience with the work — often leading them to a new conclusion or a destination.
Garret Gould provides a subtle playfulness in the journey of the viewer. With a propensity for humor and the anatomy of "the joke", Gould’s sculptures suggest a hesitation before comprehension, which ultimately creates an interpretive interaction.
Sophia Sobers’ installations in tttrip. reference the displacement of objects and the presence they hold in their surrogate environments. Sobers’ works are representations and documentations of her meditative practice - attempting to achieve a more intimate connection with nature and her environment. Sobers aims for a better understanding of the ephemerality of the natural world parallel to her place within it.
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- Garret Gould, Rubber Chicken, 2014.
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- Catch the return of Boston Open Screen at the Coolidge Corner Theatre in Brookline, this Tuesday.
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- Sarah Lutz & Richard Baker’s show Amuse Bouche opens Tuesday August 12 at the Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill.
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- The Fitchburg Art Museum is free this Friday as part of Highland Street’s summer long series, Free Fun Fridays.
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- Saturday, August 16 brings a special double feature at the MIT List Visual Arts Center: a guided tour of Sergei Tcherepnin’s List Projects exhibition, Subharmonic Lick Thicket, followed by a screening of Maximum Overdrive, directed by Stephen King.
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- Boston Hassle’s first annual New England Zinefest is this Saturday at the Cambridge YMCA.
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- Break new experimental ground and help christen the Lawn on D at their Opening Celebration this Saturday.
