❖ HAPPENINGS❖
SONHOOD
A creative family story
Sasha Statman-Weir is a experimental filmmaker and a avid art collector with a taste for outsider and abstract art. His parents,California artists Ron Weil (1944-2019) and Leah Statman (1954-2011) provided their son with rich, fertile ground to grow with experience in the arts, setting him on his path to become the observant filmmaker he has.The show investigates Statman-Weil's artistic inheritances beyond his parent's actual creations. On exhibit are several examples of his parents work, his own films, and a cross-section of his personal art collection, including outsider works, some trained artists and unknown, and unsigned works. One outstanding outlier is a print by Jacques Lipchitz
A creative family story
Sasha Statman-Weir is a experimental filmmaker and a avid art collector with a taste for outsider and abstract art. His parents,California artists Ron Weil (1944-2019) and Leah Statman (1954-2011) provided their son with rich, fertile ground to grow with experience in the arts, setting him on his path to become the observant filmmaker he has.The show investigates Statman-Weil's artistic inheritances beyond his parent's actual creations. On exhibit are several examples of his parents work, his own films, and a cross-section of his personal art collection, including outsider works, some trained artists and unknown, and unsigned works. One outstanding outlier is a print by Jacques Lipchitz
Held over through March 30
ABBIE STEINER:
A TBI Story: working through a traumatic brain injury.
A TBI Story: working through a traumatic brain injury.
Before her accident, Steiner was a physical therapist & a private-practice Alexander Technique teacher. She was well-regarded for her intricate Judaica artworks. Then, she suffered a concussion. This show presents, in pictures and words, "how I kept my mind and soul alive when my brain went off the rails."
Djata Bumpus Gallery
PETER MISHKIN
ABSTRACTING THE REAL I find it hard to describe Peter Mishkin's (Amherst, b. 1949) new painting subjectively. Perhaps it doesn't need an explanation. Physically they are patterned, playful juxtapositions of the elements of design, very bright, with fully saturated color. Each pigment he creates is his own, he does not use out of the tube colors. He is very careful to avoid any scumbling or any blending technique other than to lay pure color next to pure color creating secondary ocular effects that are very delightful.
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The Passway Gallery West
Selections from the collection
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A grouping of artworks in a variety of media including selections from Andrea, Kyle Mitchell, Inung Hwang, Jules Jones, John Landino, Molly Rupp, Michael Tillyer. Works on canvas in oil and acrylic, collage, and sculpture are available. Andrea is a primarily reticent painter, Kyle Mitchell was a very talented graphic painter passed away at age 2027, Inung Hwang is a young Korean art therapy student, Jules Jones is a collage artist from Greenfiled, MA. John Landino, passing in 2022, was known for his Dadaism, Molloy Rupp has a style honed in Europe, Michael Tillyer is the founder and co-director of the NEVAmuseum with his wife Susan Foley.
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Danny Gayder (1948-2006)
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“you got to feel sorry for yourself to paint, it all comes from the pain, the CBS - Cosmic Bull Shit - most artists have it. I get all mixed up sometimes. I think my feelings and feel my thoughts. I don’t paint with feeling, though. I paint feelings.” A sought after “outsider artist,” Danny’s work has been shown internationally at major galleries in Holland and New Zealand, and in the US in Baltimore, New Orleans, Florida and VSA in Washington, DC.
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The Passway Gallery East December 8-23
Ben Hotchkiss
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Ben Hotchkiss paints highly authentic and original abstract works with oil paint on panels. Hotchkiss is self-taught. From his reclusive living space, he works in solitude at night with very fine brushes, some with a single hair, often from a reclined position with his panel propped up on his knees. Hotchkiss was exhibited several years at the Outsider Fair in New York City and at prominent NYC galleries that represent outsider artists.
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Ongoing display of collected works
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Since 1997, the Anchor House of Artists has subsidized, supported, and represented artists living with life-interrupting neurodiverse conditions. Over the decades some of the founding artists continue on and some have deceased. Acquired works are conserved in an extensive collection. These are researched and displayed in rotational exhibits.
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POV Out of Body ←link
From the virtual exhibit February 2021, Augusta Savage Gallery, University of Massachusetts
From the virtual exhibit February 2021, Augusta Savage Gallery, University of Massachusetts
the life of the artist matters
- Exhibits feature an extensive array of objects and artifacts from the hands of self-taught artists.
- Hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 1:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
- Free admission. $10 donations towards furthering our vision are appreciated
The world is better with a place
that can do these things with your help:
that can do these things with your help:
- Subsidize artists living with neurodiverse conditions
- Conserve and research regional self-taught and visionary art
- Give New England artists the chance to self-stage exhibitions
- Celebrate new music and performance on a noncommercial platform
- Provide art education to income-sensitive citizens
CURATOR OPPORTUNITY
New England Visionary Artists Museum is offers two-month slots for curator projects. Preferred projects offer a talk and exhibit presenting self-trained New England artists living or deceased who work outside the academic tradition. Applicants will include documented credentials: Vitas, articles and images, and references. Apply online or on-site. CLICK IMAGE |
Because art is incidental to the life of the creative hand who crafted it,
let the artists speak.
let the artists speak.