Viewpoints

Viewpoints

Juried by Resa Blatman

Presented by Cambridge Art Association
at Cambridge College’s Town Common Gallery
500 Rutherford Avenue, Charlestown MA  

How do individuals and society respond to change? Can art both record and react to the vast changes in our world, if so, how can these viewpoints stimulate real change?

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About our juror | Resa Blatman is a Somerville-based visual artist specializing in large-scale installations, paintings, and drawings that are often inspired by nature and issues related to climate change. In August 2018, Resa traveled to Greenland to camp and hike on the Greenlandic ice sheet, hike at the Ilulissat ice fjord, Disko Island, and Eqi Glacier. She has received several grants and awards, including the Arctic Circle Residency in June 2015, where she sailed up the west coast of Svalbard, Norway, in the Arctic Circle, collecting washed up fishing line and rope for installation projects. Resa has juried and curated several exhibitions including Forecasted: Eight Artists Explore the Nature of Climate Change, Gallery 360 at Northeastern University, 2014; Painting Intricacies, Nave Gallery Annex, Somerville, 2014; Sprawl, FPAC Gallery, Boston, 2010; Overflow, Laconia Gallery, Boston, 2008. Her work is included in many private and public collections, including Fidelity; Twitter; Hilton Hotel; The WH Ming Hotel, Shanghai, China; United Arab Emirates; and Europe. Selected upcoming and recent exhibitions included in 2018: solo exhibit/INK Miami Art Fair at Art Basel Miami; group exhibit/7 Artists Respond to Climate Change and Sustainability, Grimshaw-Gudewicz Art Gallery, MA; group exhibit/Wake at the Dorsky Gallery, NY; group show at The Museum of Art at UNH. Resa’s work has been reviewed and featured in numerous publications and several recent articles and a podcast on her work and climate change can be found at the links on her homepage. To read these and to see more work, please visit resablatman.com

 

Juror Statement | It’s an honor to write about Viewpoints, a CAA Members’ show presented at Cambridge College Gallery, which asks the exhibiting artists to present a visual response to the following questions: How do individuals and society respond to change? Can art both record and react to the vast changes in our world, if so, how can these viewpoints stimulate constructive change?

I’ve enjoyed my role as the juror for Viewpoints, and spending time with the diverse work from the local artists’ community and beyond. Massachusetts is home to many talented artists and it’s refreshing to see the range of work which was submitted to this show. It’s never easy narrowing down the applicants, but the restricted venue and the specificity of the exhibition necessitated the obvious connections between photographs, drawings, sculptural works, prints, and paintings. Viewpoints highlights the pervading changes happening now, in the U.S. and the world, through a varied, yet consistent visual representation and overall theme. There is Dara Durost’s torn, ethereal photograph of an urban home and garden mounted on concrete, and a flowing acrylic painting by Jeannie Motherwell; both works feel as if they are reaching beyond our sightline for something fluctuating and leaving us wanting to know more.
There are rich impasto paintings by Judith Prager and Judith Kamm that evoke a tangled, storm-strewn forest, and a human-constructed landscape with a tempestuous sky, both paintings predicting or questioning the future of a changing planet. Three paintings of varied women by Lale Berke-Jenkins, Delaine Strandberg, and Youngsheen A. Jhe are agape in despair, rage, or relief, and a portrait of a man, by Polly Parke, sits undeterred — all perfect depictions of a powerful feminism and a renewed call for overdue cultural and social change. The photograph “Still Virgin Baffin Island,” by Mary Kostman, pulls at me with its flattened viewpoint and tiny humans in a barren, shifting landscape. If space allowed, I’d remark on every work included, as each one has a strength, light, beauty, elusiveness, or skill that binds them together to make for a compelling and illuminative exhibition.
Congratulations to all of the artists in this exhibition and thank you to Erin Becker for inviting me to be a juror for Viewpoints, I enjoyed the process and the privilege of choosing the work.

 

 

Important Dates

On View | November 2 – 30, 2018
Reception | November 15, 6:30-8pm

EXHIBITING ARTISTS

FIRST NAME LAST NAME TITLE MEDIA DIMENSIONS PRICE
Cynthia L. Andrews Passing By Oil 36 x 2 x 6 inches $800
Anne Beinecke Scape 8 Acrylic on paper 16 x 18 inches $550
Steve Bennett Trapped in a Melting World Photograph on metal 24 x 24 inches $450
Lale Berke-Jenkins Despair in the inferno Oil 24 x 36 inches $1,500
Paola F. Bidinelli Scars Mixed media on canvas 25 x 1 x 33 inches $4,500
Blake Brasher In Trouble with the Sysop Acrylic, indelible marker, and stickers on canvas 1.5 x 35 x 26 inches $1,820
Daniel Brenton The Same Old Moon in the Ever Changing River Watercolor on paper 20 x 16 inches $700
Nancy Hall Brooks At the Breakwater, I Monoprint 10 x 14 inches $250
Lev Brown Rousel Stones & metal Rods 5 x 8 x 18 inches $460
Mark Chadbourne Rising Pentagon Acrylic on canvas 24 x 24 inches $550
Kay Dolezal Hush Little Baby Don’t You Cry Beadwork glass beads on cardboard tube 56 x 2.5 inches NFS
Dara Durost Through the Concrete Mounted photograph 6 x 4.5 $500
Richard Hackel Great and Little Chebeague Islands: High and Low Tides Photography 26 x 56 inches $725
Youngsheen A. Jhe Enough Oil on canvas 36 x 36 inches $6,500
Susan B. Jones Betsy Wept When She Heard the News Oil on canvas paper mounted on plywood 20 x 16 inches $400
Judith Kamm Crossing Lines Oil on canvas 28 x 22 inches $500
Moon Hee Kim Maintenance Rehearsal Oil on canvas 48 x 36 inches $15,000
Jim kociuba Dreamers’ Paths Acrylic on canvas 36 x 48 x 1 inches $3,600
Mary Kostman Still Virgin Baffin Island Digital Photo 20 x 16 inches $180
Mary Kostman Going Solo Digital Photo 20 x 16 inches $180
Mary Kostman Going Solo Is No Longer Viable Digital Photo 20 x 16 inches $180
Tanya Hayes Lee Passage Oil on canvas 12 x 12 inches $155
Fiona Lovell Horning Proto III Graphite powder and pencil, Chinese white on paper. 17 x 24 inches $525
Jeannie Motherwell Insular Shelf Acrylic on clay board panel 6 x 12 x 2 inches $950
Jeannie Motherwell Magnum Acrylic on Yupo paper 40 x 26 inches $4,500
Slava Nikolova ” Meet me on the other side” Acrylics 12 x 12 inches $380
Polly Parke No Red Tape Whatsoever Acrylic on canvas 24 x 24 inches $900
Polly Parke Hmmm… Oil on canvas 16 x 20 inches $500
Judith Prager Other Worlds Acrylic on canvas 18 x 36 inches $850.
Judith Prager Between the Mountains and the Trees Acrylic on canvas 18 x 24 inches $600.
Delaine Strandberg Mermaid Refugee Acrylic on canvas 30 x 2 x 30 inches $2,390
Timothy Wilson Technology and Tuscany Photographic montage 30 x 35 x 1.5 inches $400
Timothy Wilson Old San Juan Before Maria Photograph 24 x 17 x 1 inches $300

 

Image in header courtesy of Steve Bennett