Atlantic Wharf
Islands on the Edge
Atlantic Wharf Gallery: 290 Congress Street, Boston MA 02210
June 29 — September 25, 2015
open daily 7am-10pm
Opening Reception Tuesday July 14, 5-7pm
above: Gianna Stewart, Pogus Ceasar, Christopher Squire, Ian Kennelly, Silas Finch, Maureen Vezina, Aaron Borque
“Since their ancient formation by rising sea level, the Boston Harbor Islands have literally been on the edge of the continent, places where land meets sea. With the growth of Boston and its surrounding communities, the islands came to be unusual for their lack of inhabitants and development at the edge of a major metropolitan area. Figuratively, the Boston Harbor Islands have often been on the ‘edge of society’: places used to isolate people, institutions, and activities.”-Boston Harbor Islands interpretive theme
Islands on the Edge explores the Harbor Islands and the concepts in the Islands’ interpretive theme, with drawing, painting, photography, video, mixed media, and sculptural installations by twenty-one artists.
Judith Belben
Aaron John Bourque
Pogus Caesar
Laura Davidson
Phyllis Ewen
Silas Finch
Jeffrey Heyne
Steve Hollinger
Tova Katzman
Ian Kennelly
Karen McFeaters
Maureen McNamara
Nathaniel Meyer
Wendy Shapiro
Sophia Sobers
Christopher Squier
John Steck Jr.
Gianna Stewart
Maureen Vezina
Sarah Wentworth
Guest juror: Elizabeth Devlin, independent curator, art consultant, and founder of FLUX.Boston
The Fort Point Arts Community’s show at Atlantic Wharf Gallery is part of a larger project, The Isles Arts Initiative (IAI), a project initiated by Flux.Boston in collaboration with the Boston Harbor Island Alliance, the National Park Service, the Department of Conservation and Recreation, Greenovate Boston and the Boston Art Commission.
IAI is a multi-site, multi media project that includes installation and performance on Boston’s Harbor Islands, and other gallery venues including The Boston Sculptors Gallery and Boston Children’s Museum. Partners in IAI include regional arts organizations, artists, and institutions from across Massachusetts and New E IAI is a rare initiative that is not tethered to city, but rather celebrates a regional treasure.
About the juror: Elizabeth Devlin is an independent curator, art consultant, and founder of FLUX. Boston, an online resource for artists and art enthusiasts in the Boston area and beyond. Through weekly event coverage, artist interviews, and educational posts, Elizabeth enables FLUX. readers to feel informed, engaged in, and connected to the pulse of Boston Arts. Her writing has been featured in Art New England, New American Paintings, and Art21 Magazine among others. As a trusted resource and friend to the Arts community, a certified Boston Redevelopment Authority artist and curator of several critically acclaimed exhibitions to-date, Elizabeth strives to make the art world more accessible and to champion the endeavors of Boston’s creative community. More about Elizabeth at
above: Maureen McNamara, Tova Katzman, Judy Belden, Wendy Shapiro, Laura Davidson, Karen McFeaters, Nathaniel Meyer
Read more about the Islands Arts Initiative here:
Thank you to Atlantic Wharf and Boston Properties for support of FPAC’s programming
at Atlantic Wharf Gallery
290 Congress Street
Boston MA 02210
Open daily 7am-10pm
above: Sarah Wentworth, Phyllis Ewen, Lisa Knox, Steve Hollinger, John Steck, Jeffrey Heyne, Silas Finch
Previous Exhibitions:
above:Jennifer Moses, Lauren Karjala, Kirk Lorenzo, Joffre Auguste, Greg Lookerse, Jesseca Ferguson, Stephen Sheffield
Eight Fort Point Arts Community member artists who teach exhibit their work alongside selected students’ work in this juried exhibition. Guest juror Caleb Cole selected a diverse group of artist/educators and their students: the FPAC artists teach at every level, from elementary school through college and beyond, to graduate school and continuing education.
The show features photography, painting, sculpture, printmaking, drawing, mixed media works.
Reception: June 9, 5-7pm
Jessica Burko, Eliot School, Jamaica Plain
Chris Faust, Medfield High School
Jesseca Fergusson, School of the Museum of Fine Arts
Jennifer Moses, University of New Hampshire.
Destiny Palmer, Boston Arts Academy, Boston Public Schools
Jose L. Santos, Brown Elementary School, Somerville Public Schools
Robert Siegelman, School of the Museum of Fine Arts
Stephen Sheffield, New England School of Photography
and selected students
SaraMarie Bottaro, Jamie Bowman, Taylor Byrne, Mateo Coronado,
Madeline Craig,Hannah Hayes, Lauren Karjala, Robert Labranche,
Miguel Llavori-Molina, Greg Lookerse, Kirk Lorenzo
Carol McMahon, Ruth Meadow-MacLeod, Marta Mendes
Alyssa Minahan, Greg Norstrom, Zoe Peters
and the Second Grade Students of the Brown School
above: Destiny Palmer, Jesseca Burko, Zoe Peters, Robert Siegelman, Jose L. Santos, Madeline Craig, Chris Faust
Drawing the Line: Drawing by Fort Point Arts Community members
The show runs through Friday April 24th
January 26—April 24, 2015
Opening Reception: Tuesday February 24th, 5:00-7:30pm
Guest juror: Stephanie Walker, Walker Contemporary
Atlantic Wharf Gallery, 290 Congress Street, Boston MA 02210
Drawing The Line is an exhibition of drawings by seventeen FPAC member artists. The show includes traditional approaches to drawing, such as graphite, silverpoint, ink, and pastel as well as digital drawings and needlework.
Susan Blatt, Sammy Chong, Maggie Connors, Laura Davidson, Ruth Fields,
Jason Fiering, Sarah Gay-O’Neil, Elisa H. Hamilton, T.D. Heavican,
Jan Johnson, Lisa Knox, Maria Molteni, Steven Muller, Krina Patel,
Alexandra Rozenman, Jonathan Sahula, Candice Smith Corby
About the juror:
Stephanie Walker, owner, Walker Contemporary, has over sixteen years of experience as a contemporary art dealer. Walker began her career at a gallery specializing in 19th & 20th century American impressionist work and then became the Director of a contemporary art gallery on Newbury Street, where she remained for more than eight years. Walker also spent a year living in Los A traveling all over the country and especially up and down the West coast to fairs, galleries and artists’ studios. It was a pivotal opportunity that solidified and deepened her passion for working with contemporary art and artists. Walker is deeply committed to the advancement of outstanding contemporary art through the promotion of dedicated, innovative and passionate, emerging, mid-career and established artists.
PREVIOUS EXHIBITIONS:
Big Picture
Reception: November 18th 5-7pm
On view through January 9, 2014
above: Jonathan Sahula
Opening Reception November 18th,
5:00-7:30pm
Open daily 7am-10pm
290 Congress Street, Boston MA 02210
Big Picture is an annual exhibition in conjunction with October Open Studios, featuring large scale works by FPAC members.
The show includes painting, photography, print-making, and mixed media.
Dirk Ahlgrim, Domingo Barreres, Brian Bishop, Denise Bosco, Jessica Burko, Don Eyles, Dylan Hurwitz, Helen Lee, Amy Baxter MacDonald, Stephen McMillan, Maria Molteni, Andrew Neumann, Pamela Reynolds, Jonathan Sahula, Dorothea Van Camp, Floor van de Velde, Charles Win
Guest juror:
Randi Hopkins, Associate Director of Visual Arts at the Boston Center of the Arts, Boston-based curator and arts writer
above: Amy MacDonald, Helen Lee, Domingo Barrares, Charles Win,
Dylan Hurwitz, Maria Molteni, Andrew Neumann
Dorothea VanCamp, Flor van De Velde, Don Eyles, Stephen McMillan, Denise Bosco, Pamela Reynolds, Brian Bishop
Dirk Ahlgrim
Thanks to Atlantic Wharf and Boston Properties for support of FPAC’s art programming at Atlantic Wharf Gallery
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PREVIOUS EXHIBITIONS:
Parks and Recreation
July 14- September 26, 2014
Opening Reception: Tuesday, July 22nd, 5-7:30pm
FPAC’s newest exhibition at Atlantic Wharf gallery embraces the spirit of summer. Parks & Recreation features art that kicks off its shoes, gets outdoors, catches a breeze, and savors the long days. The show includes work by eighteen FPAC member artists, with paintings, drawings, photography and mixed media.
Kristen Alexandrov, Emily Cobb, Chris Faust, Leslie Anne Feagley,
Sarah Gay-O’Neill, Elisa H. Hamilton, Mike Hammecker, Rachel Hammerman,
Peter Harris, Jeffrey Heyne, Ian Kennelly, Sterling Mulbry,
Andrew Neumann, Danny O, Stephen Sheffield,
Ryuji Suzuki, Nick Thorkelson, Jennifer Wood
Guest juror: Lexi Lee Sullivan, Assistant Curator,
deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum
About the juror: Lexi Lee Sullivan is currently working on a large-scale exhibition tracing walking as a radical artistic practice that will open at deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in May 2015. She curated Lesley Dill and PLATFORM: 13 Roberley Bell currently on view at deCordova, and recently curated BRINKv1 at the Mills Gallery at the BCA as well as The 2013 deCordova Biennial, Retreat: Jean Shin and Brian Ripel, PLATFORM 10: Dan Peterman, second nature: abstract photography then and now, and Rachel Perry Welty 24/7 at deCordova. Sullivan previously worked at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and was a co-founder of the event series PopRally. She received an MA from Tufts University and a BA from Williams College.
images above:
Peter Harris, Sarah Gay-O’Neill, Mike Hammecker, Jeffrey Heyne, Andrew Neumann, Emily Cobb, Elisa H. Hamilton
Sterling Mulbry, Ian Kennelly, Ryuji Suzuki, Stephen Sheffield, Nick Thorkelson, chris Faust, Rachel Hammerman
Emily Cobb, Kristen Alexandrov, Danny O, Jennifer Wood, Andrew Neumann, Leslie Feagley, Sarah Gay-O’Neill
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April 14, 2014-July 6, 2014
290 Congress Street, Boston MA 02210
Opening Reception Tuesday April 29, 5:00-7:30
featuring works by:
Marin Berinstein, Jamie Bowman, Jessica Burko, Laura Davidson, Leslie Feagley, Jesseca Ferguson, Sharon Freed, Kate Gilbert, Todd Gieg, Kippy Goldfarb, Joanne Kaliontzis, Ian Kennelly, Lisa Knox, Miklos Pogany, Claudia Ravaschiere, Adrienne Schlow, Sylvia Stagg-Giuliano, Daniel J. van Ackere, Mike Ware
nostalgia : a sentimental longing or wistful affection for the past, typically for a period or place with happy personal associations
Nostalgia is often a powerful and recurring undercurrent in artists’ work. Whether yearning for a time gone by, or a beloved place or object, nostalgia can have a powerful hold on the artist’s imagination. Artists in this show explore varied layers of nostalgia: home that is no longer a home, memories of longed for places, the toys of their youth, remnants of vintage ephemera.
Featuring works by nineteen members of
the Fort Point Arts Community, Nostalgia includes photography, painting, drawing, video, digital collage, encaustic, and mixed media constructions.
The guest juror for this show was Mary M. Tinti, Associate Curator at the Fitchburg Art Museum. Mary is an art historian who specializes in modern and contemporary art, and public art. Prior to joining the staff at FAM, Tinti was the Koch Curatorial Fellow at deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum (), an arts blogger for WGBH (2012), the first-ever Public Art Fellow at the New England Foundation for the Arts (), and the Deputy Artistic Director of WaterFire Providence (). Tinti received her Ph.D. from Rutgers University (2008) and her B.A. from Providence College (2000).
Open daily 7am-10pm
For more information, or to inquire about a purchase, contact Gabrielle Schaffner at gabrielle@fortpointarts.org
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PREVIOUS EXHIBITIONS:
Drawn to Water
December 23, 2013 – March 28, 2014
Opening Reception: January 23, -7:30PM
A group show of works by Fort Point Arts Community members inspired by water. The exhibition includes paintings, drawings, photography, prints, video, and sculpture in which water plays a central role.
Participating artists
Martin Berinstein, Brian Bresnahan, Laura Davidson, Michael Eder, Chris Faust, Jacob Higginbottom, Linda Huey, Jenifer Mumford, Shaari Neretin, Bryan Ramey, Nora Charney Rosenbaum, Jose L. Santos, Matthew Shanley, Stephen Sheffield, Sylvia Stagg-Giuliano, Nick Thorkelson, Dorothea Van Camp, Sara Whitman, Tom Wojciechowski, Yu-Wen Wu
Guest Juror: Elizabeth Devlin of
About our juror:
Elizabeth Devlin is an independent curator, art consultant, and founder of FLUX.Boston, an online resource for artists and art enthusiasts in the Boston area and beyond. As a trusted resource and friend to the arts community, a certified BRA artist and curator of several critically acclaimed exhibitions to-date, Elizabeth strives to make the art world more accessible and to champion the endeavors of Boston’s creative community. Her most recently curated exhibition was Pedigree, at the New Arts Center. More about Elizabeth at www.
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Big Picture
Atlantic Wharf Gallery
290 Congress Street
October 14-November 23, 2013
open daily 7am-10pm
a show of large works by FPAC member artists in conjunction with Open Studios
Kristen Alexandrov, Jodie Baehre, Martin Berinstein, Katherina Chapuis, Maggie Connors, Coyote Painting Walls/Ivan Fernandez, Kippy Goldfarb, Lisa M. Greenfield, Peter Harris, Joanne Kaliontzis, Ian Kennelly, Lisa Knox, Lara Loutrel, Ralph Mercer, Wendy Shapiro, Sylvia Stagg-Giuliano, Dorothea Van Camp, Mike Ware, Meg Weed
Guest Juror: Bruce Ployer, Campus Curator, Northeastern University
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Atlantic Wharf Gallery
290 Congress Street
July 1, 2013 –
September 21, 2013
open daily 7am-10pm
Road trips are a timeless summer tradition. Rolling through a kaleidoscopic American landscape past motels, diners, and art deco gas stations toward grandma’s house, the summer cabin, or some fabled roadside attraction. Whether a rite of passage, or the start of an adventure, the road trip holds a place in our hearts and captures our imaginations.
ROAD TRIP at Atlantic Wharf features works by 15 Fort Point artists, and includes photography, drawings, paintings, and mixed-media assemblage.
Artists: Daniel J. van Ackere, Barry Cronin, Leslie A. Feagley, Elisa H. Hamilton, Peter Harris, Ian Kennelly, Lisa Knox, Karen McFeaters, Stephen Sheffield, Heather Meri Stewart, Ryuji Suzuki, Mike Ware, Tom Wojciechowski, Jennifer Wood, Martin Yeeles
Guest juror: Beth Kantrowitz of Drive-By Productions
Thank you to Atlantic Wharf and Boston Properties for their programming support.ISSUU - At Home in Arkansas Jan/Feb 2014 by Network Communications Inc.
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