Where:
Uforge Gallery
767 Centre Street
Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
Admission:
FREE
Categories:
Art, Date Idea, LGBT, Lectures & Conferences, Meetup, Nightlife, Social Good
Event website:
http://www.uforgegallery.com/exhibitions/
Join us for the opening reception for Uforge Gallery’s final exhibits at its Jamaica Plain location: a group show entitled “Noir,” and “Thread Topologies” with featured artist Beverly Arsem, sponsored by the Eliot School of Fine and Applied Arts.
About Noir:
French for “black,” the term noir commonly relates to films with stark black and white lighting, hardboiled detectives, sexy femme fatales, and dangerous back alleys, plus murder, mayhem, and other dastardly deeds. For this open call exhibition, Uforge encouraged artists to make work that was inspired by these concepts, from highcontrast photography and smoky portraiture to bold abstractions in grayscale. Some artists have drawn from noir films, murder plots, and mystery novels, or more abstract concepts of light/dark and cinematic composition.
Exhibiting Artists:
Leah Abrahams, Daniel Breslin, Quenby Bucklaew, Maggie Carberry, Yvonne Christian, Sandrine Colson-Inam, Jack Dillhunt, Nathan Evans, James Flynn, Jannine Fonte, Mary Fries, Arthur Grau, Marnie Jain, Alex Kittle, Anne McCaffrey, Michelle Mendez, Karen Merritt, Heather M. Morris, Lior Neiger, Cristina Rosa Nelson, Carlyn Peters, Remi Pico, Eli Portman, Tamara Rohrer, Paul Shelasky, Michelle Stevens, Paul Theriault, Matt Towler, Ginny Zanger
About Beverly Arsem: Thread Topologies:
Creating and contributing something to the world every day has been an underlying component of Arsem’s life. This includes making a home, cooking a meal for others, performing music, and creating artwork. She considers this an integral part of living, not an optional activity or hobby. After many years working in the construction and architectural design fields, Arsem realized that she wanted to shift her focus more to fine art. She redirected herself, endeavoring to explore the yearning to be working with fabric, colors, textures, patterns, sewing, and quilting.
She often plans meticulously in advance, but not so with her fiber work. She loves to look at things upside down or reversed, chancing meetings, trying “whatifs,” mixing techniques and disparate ideas. Currently the tools and techniques she utilizes include: painted, dyed, and printed fabric, handstitching and machine sewing, plus folding, pleating, and otherwise manipulating fabric. In this newest body of work, Thread Topologies, she adds another element to the pieces, diversifying the materials used as thread to include twine, wire, cables, and rope.
Wednesday, Apr 17, 2024 goes until 12/31
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