Elizabeth Bradfield

Outpost

Elizabeth Bradfield and Broadsided Press offer the Outpost, part storyboard, part art, part notice board, this installation will accrue over time with the open participation of viewers. Each month, a new visual/literary collaboration will be posted and you are invited to take pen (or crayon, pencil, chalk, dirt) and leave your own responses (poems, notes, drawings).

We are more than passive ingesters of what is put before us. We deserve more than advertisements on our streets. Our participation in the dialogue is essential. Partake.

Since 2005, Broadsided has been publishing monthly collaborations between writers and visual artists with the goal of putting literature and art on the streets. Available free of charge on the website, "vectors" around the world print the letter-sized collaborations and post them in their communities. Modernizing the centuries-old tradition of the broadside and harnessing the power and spirit of guerilla art, Broadsided Press has received attention in the Utne Reader and Poets & Writers for its innovative project. Website

Richard Dorff

Furnishings

Furnishings will examine familiar furniture shapes that refer to their linguistic designation and implied use. Placing the furnishings outside also calls attention to the ambiguity of the room/space, in or out.

Richard Dorff is primarily interested in the space that his work occupies and how that space and the objects themselves interact. By making these connections, primarily through placement and lighting, he has transformed the historic home of high-line fisherman Capt. Frank Gaspa into a space that one might have not have intuited it could become. Using a variety of mediums, he has created an environment of works with their own inner space that extends beyond their physical dimensions. His exploration of space and objects, light and perception transports the viewer into a world of his own making.

Dorff's work will be in the gallery July 1 - July 15.

Luanne E Witkowski

Placed

Working intuitively with Mother Nature as collaborator, we create our abstract contemplative piece here as a process-driven response to the given environment using a variety of media. We engage in mingling the place in the piece & piece in the place using many strategies to create a perceptual & spiritual relationship with this place as locus for recognition of & solace for the self. This approach to the identification of the individual with nature is enlarged by a desire to discover & contact the particular indwelling essence or energy of this particular place

Strongly influenced by the shore and woodlands of outer Cape Cod, Maine, and now Nova Scotia, my ‘research sketchbook’ consists of documentary photography and video of environmental installations I create as references for my mixed and multi-media works in painting, photography, and video projection. I work intuitively to create abstract contemplative pieces that are rooted in and extracted from landscape and experience.

Process-driven, using non-traditional materials, I am intrigued as I translate experience into visual language… from the tiniest grain of sand to mountains of stone and architecture, from a drop of rain to a raging tsunami, the quietest sparkle of dawn to foreboding dusk. Incorporating the very elements that influence and inspire –clay, pigment, chemistry, technology– engages me to embrace the impact, to understand. I am reaching beyond the limits of the expected while expanding the possibilities of outcome and reflection.

Luanne E Witkowski is a studio and environmental installation artist and consultant (Boston, Wellfleet & Provincetown, MA) with works in collections throughout the United States and abroad. She is a member of the Kingston Gallery, Boston, and is also represented by Hutson Gallery in Provincetown, MA. Luanne is a member of several artist organizations including Provincetown Art Association & Museum, the Mission Hill Artist Collective, the United South End Artists, and the MassArt Alumni Association. She exhibits regularly in group, competition, invitational, and community shows, and has produced large scale environmental installations in Wellfleet & Provincetown MA; Deer Isle, ME; and Ingonish, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Luanne offers Basic Training Workshops for Artists and Creative People publicly and privately in a variety of venues. In addition to her studio practice, she is the Communication Design Studio Manager at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, a faculty member of the Critical & Creative Thinking (CCT) graduate program at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and an internet entrepreneur and business owner.

Luanne E Witkowski received a BFA from MassArt and an MA from the University of Massachusetts. In 2010 she received a Commonwealth of Massachusetts Lifetime of Arts and Commercial Achievement Recognition. Recent exhibitions in Boston, MA include Kingston Gallery, Massachusetts State House, Boston Public Library, Bakalar and President’s Galleries at Massachusetts College of Art and Design; as well as Hutson, Schoolhouse, PAAM, and AMP Galleries in Provincetown, MA; Cook’s Dune & Drummer Cove in Wellfleet, MA; and Haystack School of Arts and Crafts, Deer Isle, ME. Website

Shez Arvedon

Cape Cod Kitsch

Shez Arvedon's Cape Cod Kitsch will exist as a loving totem-like assemblage of Arvedon's father's life-long, extensive collection of Cape Cod art and artifact to be installed sometime late this summer. Arvedon's work will be in the gallery in September.

Elizabeth Bradfield

Prime Vector Project

Elizabeth Bradfield and Broadsided Press offer the Prime Vector Project, part storyboard, part art, part notice board, this installation will accrue over time with the open participation of viewers. Each month, a new visual/literary collaboration will be posted and you are invited to take pen (or crayon, pencil, chalk, dirt) and leave your own responses (poems, notes, drawings).

We are more than passive ingesters of what is put before us. We deserve more than advertisements on our streets. Our participation in the dialogue is essential. Partake.

Since 2005, Broadsided has been publishing monthly collaborations between writers and visual artists with the goal of putting literature and art on the streets. Available free of charge on the website, "vectors" around the world print the letter-sized collaborations and post them in their communities. Modernizing the centuries-old tradition of the broadside and harnessing the power and spirit of guerilla art, Broadsided Press has received attention in the Utne Reader and Poets & Writers for its innovative project. Website

Linda Leslie Brown and Luanne E Witkowski

Climb

Climb is a site-specific, evolving installation employing the organic and inorganic to focus on light, reflection, and place created by Linda Leslie Brown and Luanne E Witkowski for AMP: Art market Provincetown's 2012 summer season.

The collaborative installation treats landscape as an arena for the deployment of light. Prismatic refraction, reflection, projection and mirroring/doubling are all used as strategies for creating a perceptual and spiritual relationship with Place as locus for recognition of and solace for the self. This traditional American approach to the identification of the individual with landscape is enlarged by a desire to discover and contact the particular indwelling essence or energy of a particular place.

The energy of place is directly expressed in living ecosystems of plants and animals. Growth and interdependent activity are found in an infinite variety. The fragile systems of beauty and power that exist in the natural world are accessible through the creative process of perception and felt by us when we allow ourselves to relax and use our five senses.

Witkowski’s architecturally installed mirrors and design capture and multiply light and space into infinity while Brown is interested in enticing and catching these reflections. Ropes of crystals create webs of light that define new spatial relationships in the landscape of climbing vegetation. The energetic reach of heirloom scarlet runner beans continually alters the colors and shapes in the piece.

Both artists also work with video as a way of extending the immediate experience of landscape into a flexible temporal dimension. As part of the installation’s evolution they will create an evening experience for visitors using video, light projection and sound to reveal further dimensions of the work.

I approach my art from a number of perspectives: there is generally a confluence of my intellectual interests, my involvement with the sensuousness and symbolism of the materials with which I work, and an underlying framework of the Buddhist psychology and practice that informs my daily life. In my work it is fundamental that the materials, the methods of making and the ideas are interrelated on multiple levels. I find that the installation format allows the materials, objects, sounds and images to enjoy a playful relationship that creates a generous array of images and ideas. Elements within the installation may include crystals, motors, living plants, sound, video, wire, fabric and resin.

Linda Leslie Brown is a graduate of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Rhode Island School of Design. Her work was included in RISD’s New England Biennial 2009 exhibition. She has exhibited her work nationally, including shows at Louisiana State University, University of Southern Maine, Wentworth Institute of Technology, Emmanuel College, the Danforth Museum of Art, Boston Center for the Arts, and galleries in Chicago, Montreal, Philadelphia, and New York. She has received recent grants and awards from Suffolk University, the Saint Botolph Club Foundation, and Hambidge Center for the Arts.

Brown's recent work incorporates a variety of techniques, including sculpture, painting, video/sound, and large scale digital photographic prints. Her work engages the interdependent relationships between the energies of nature and human creative perception. Site-specific installations create habitats that attract and protect the energy of place.

Linda Leslie Brown lives and works in an artist's cooperative building in the Fort Point neighborhood of Boston. She is Professor and Foundation Studio Program Director at NESAD, Suffolk University, where she has been teaching drawing, painting, design and critical studies in contemporary art since 1980. Her work is represented in Boston by the Kingston Gallery.

Strongly influenced by the shore and woodlands of outer Cape Cod, Maine, and now Nova Scotia, my ‘research sketchbook’ consists of documentary photography and video of environmental installations I create as references for my mixed and multi-media works in painting, photography, and video projection. I work intuitively to create abstract contemplative pieces that are rooted in and extracted from landscape and experience. Process-driven, using non-traditional materials, I am intrigued as I translate experience into visual language… from the tiniest grain of sand to mountains of stone and architecture, from a drop of rain to a raging tsunami, the quietest sparkle of dawn to foreboding dusk. Incorporating the very elements that influence and inspire –clay, pigment, chemistry, technology– engages me to embrace the impact, to understand. I am reaching beyond the limits of the expected while expanding the possibilities of outcome and reflection.

Luanne E Witkowski is a studio and environmental installation artist and consultant (Boston, Wellfleet & Provincetown, MA) with works in collections throughout the United States and abroad. She is a member of the Kingston Gallery, Boston, and is also represented by Hutson Gallery in Provincetown, MA. Luanne is a member of several artist organizations including Provincetown Art Association & Museum, the Mission Hill Artist Collective, the United South End Artists, and the MassArt Alumni Association. She exhibits regularly in group, competition, invitational, and community shows, and has produced large scale environmental installations in Wellfleet & Provincetown MA; Deer Isle, ME; and Ingonish, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Luanne offers Basic Training Workshops for Artists and Creative People publicly and privately in a variety of venues. In addition to her studio practice, she is the Communication Design Studio Manager at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, a faculty member of the Critical & Creative Thinking (CCT) graduate program at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and an internet entrepreneur and business owner.

Luanne E Witkowski received a BFA from MassArt and an MA from the University of Massachusetts. In 2010 she received a Commonwealth of Massachusetts Lifetime of Arts and Commercial Achievement Recognition. Recent exhibitions in Boston, MA include Kingston Gallery, Massachusetts State House, Boston Public Library, Bakalar and President’s Galleries at Massachusetts College of Art and Design; as well as Hutson, Schoolhouse, PAAM, and AMP Galleries in Provincetown, MA; Cook’s Dune & Drummer Cove in Wellfleet, MA; and Haystack School of Arts and Crafts, Deer Isle, ME. Website

Richard Dorff

Movable Commas

Richard Dorff has constructed two large movable-at-will "commas or yin/yang-like" sculptures in wood and paint infusing the gallery's historic structure with a modern inversion and playful tension.

Dorff is primarily interested in the space that his work occupies and how that space and the objects themselves interact. By making these connections, primarily through placement and lighting, he has transformed the historic home of high-line fisherman Capt. Frank Gaspa into a space that one might have not have intuited it could become. Using a variety of mediums, he has created an environment of works with their own inner space that extends beyond their physical dimensions. His exploration of space and objects, light and perception transports the viewer into a world of his own making.

Dorff's work will be in the gallery in May and June.

Shari Kadison

Family Tree, Five Generations

Shari Kadison will transfer part of her outdoor site-specific installation, Family Tree, Five Generations from 'Appearances' earlier this season, to AMP for a new interpretation in early September. Family Tree is comprised of a series of nests with nearby telephones at varying points in their stylistic development. Kadison manages to, in part, deftly address the morphing displacement of nature with a new form of modern bird song, the tweet. Kadison's work will be in the gallery in September.