Sponsored by BioMed Realty
September 7 – October 11, 2023
Presented at CAA @ Canal, 650 E. Kendall Street, Cambridge MA
Hours: Wednesday – Friday, 12:00-4:00pm
Curated by Catherine Caddigan
Exhibiting Artists | Liz Albert • Elsa Campbell • Amy Dyer • Shane VanOosterhout
The Cambridge Art Association (CAA) is pleased to announce Who Do You Think You Are?, a Members Curatorial Exhibit, featuring Catherine Caddigan, Liz Albert/Shane VanOosterhout, Elsa Campbell, Amy Dyer, collaborators. This exhibit is part of our new Members’ Curatorial Series, an annual opportunity for members of the CAA to curate an exhibit of three or more artists.
About Who Do You Think You Are?
It is said that all work by an artist is a self portrait. As artists, in the act of creating an image, idea, or object we represent ourselves, our psyche, our history. In revealing ourselves to an audience, we are either reflecting ourselves to our audience, or the reverse. It is obvious with a self portrait, but when we represent another subject the artist puts his own spirit on that image, calling to mind their own hand, their personal choices.
An artist choses a medium or mediums that most represent the comfort they feel with it, but they are prone to pushing boundaries and stretching themselves to continually grow within their choices or in covering new ground. This is an exhibit of artists pushing the boundaries within their chosen medium, all of whom reflect themselves in their work by way of the “stories” they chose to tell, leaving their audience with questions more than answers.
EVENTS AT CAA @ CANAL
- Opening Reception: September 7, 6:00-8:00pm
- Artist Talk: September 10, 2:00-3:15pm
- Poetry Reading: September 23, 7:00-8:30pm
- Cambridge Science Festival Art at Night Poetry Reading: September 29, 7:00-8:30pm
About Catherine Caddigan | Catherine Caddigan received her MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, concentrating in Photography and alternative image making, including offset printing. She then pursued a successful career in graphic design.Currently Caddigan is concentrating on her fine art. Caddigan has exhibited her work in the US and internationally, often a winner of awards. She practices photography, and recently, digital art and mobile photography. She is a juried member of several Art Associations and exhibits frequently.
About Liz Albert | Liz Albert (Belmont, MA) is a lens-based artist who has exhibited her work throughout the United States including The Griffin Museum of Photography, The Photographic Resource Center, Gallery 263 and The Alice Wilds Gallery. Online and print features include: Fraction Magazine, Lenscratch, The Print Center and Maake Magazine, as well as the French weekly magazine, Courrier International. In addition, she has exhibited her work in solo exhibitions at The Danforth Museum, (Framingham, MA), Revela’t Analogue Photography Festival, (Barcelona, Spain) and Art Prize, (Grand Rapids, MI).
About Elsa Campbell | Elsa Campbell is an abstract artist based in East Boston, Massachusetts working out of her studio in the Atlantic Works artist building. She attended the Art Institute of Boston majoring in photography. Upon graduation she helped found Vision Gallery for Photography in Boston. During this time, her photography evolved to include alternative photographic processes and collage.
Elsa began making artist’s books as an extension of her photography and collage work. This exploration has led her to expanded mixed media work incorporating painting, drawing and printmaking using ink, acrylic paint, graphite, and artist crayon.
About Amy Dyer | Amy Dyer is a painter based in Somerville, Massachusetts. She received an Engineering degree from Olin College and worked in software development before returning to MassArt, where she received a BFA in Painting. Her work, primarily figurative and autobiographical, explores drawing and painting as a tactile means of investigation, in tension with her more abstract work as a software engineer.
About Shane VanOosterhout | Shane VanOosterhout is a creative entrepreneur, designer and plant whiz. He works as an adjunct digital media professor at Kendall College of Art & Design and is a coordinator with the Grand Rapids Center for Community Transformation where he dons many hats ranging from mentoring; landscape design and horticulture expertise. He resides in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Liz and Shane became friends when they both performed in the 1977 Civic Theatre production of Pinocchio. From that fateful experience came a life-long bond as they shambled through High School and their own colorful family dynamics. After graduation they both attended art school at University of Michigan and have pursued careers in the arts and education. Instant Classic is a joint project they have been working on since spring of 2020. Since that time, they have shown their work at The Alice Wilds Gallery in Milwaukee, WI, The Danforth Museum of Art in Framingham, MA and as a large-scale public art installation at ArtPrize 2021 in Grand Rapids, MI. Their work has also been featured in the print publication, Maake Magazine.
Image in header courtesy of Amy Dyer