October 3-November 4 2012

Outside Time

Opening reception Friday, October 12th for Women's Week, 6-9pm

Barbara Hadden

Backshore

"I paint from observation, in the world and from memory, and this involves much walking, staring, drawing, and photography. One of the things I stare at, by the ocean, is the foam that momentarily covers what is under the foam. I do a lot of painting over, so that the activity of the painting reflects the activity in the water."

Barbara Hadden was born in Hamburg, Germany, and spent her childhood in Europe and the Middle East. She studied painting, photography and filmmaking at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She was awarded an Alumni Traveling Fellowship from that school for her work in photography. Hadden was a finalist in the Regional Fellowships for Visual Arts, awarded through the New England Foundation for the Arts. In the last decade, she regularly attended artist residency programs, which have deepened her commitment to landscape-based painting and photography. She lives in western Massachusetts. Website

Chaya Kupperman

Portal

"I am interested in landscapes in which the viewer's journey is reflected within as well as mirroring the distance between the actual process in the work." Website

Marsha Lieberman

Meanders and Paleomeanders

I returned to visual media after a nearly three decade long career as a dancer. That career left me with a lasting interest in pattern and in the structure of space.

The painting series Meanders and Paleomeanders explores the behavior of water, its ability to make its way effortlessly, though often forcefully, as it trends toward the sea. I experience the relentless movement and trending as sources of great hope.

The series seeks to capture the ways in which water systems leave permanent traces upon the land, creating a readable aqueous fossil record.

The river systems described are imaginary, though based on the behavior of actual systems. The paintings use a dual perspective (with views both across and from above), the better to imagine such landscapes. Website