Make Happen Faster

June 7 - July 1

Opening Reception on Thursday, July 7th from 6-9pm

Facebook Invitation: http://www.facebook.com/events/141127212689215/

Make Happen Faster brings together artists Cody Hoyt (NYC), Sri Whipple (Salt Lake City) and Fionn McCabe (LA). While all three have distinct individual styles, they share similar influences and visual sensibilities. Each artist takes a common visual element, be it lettering, the human figure, or a Saturday morning cartoon and breaks it down to varying degrees of abstraction: a letter becomes line, an arm a curve, a high heel an arrow, leading into a surreal landscape that is at once strange and familiar.

http://codyhoyt.com/

http://fionnmccabe.com/

Sri Whipple… just google him.

http://aviarygallery.com/

If you haven’t yet seen our current show, Pale Blue Dot, stop by this week!  Congratulations to Katharine Shields and Robin Myers for graduating MassArt last week!

Tomorrow night is the opening reception for Pale Blue Dot. Pale Blue Dot is an exhibition of photographs by Robin Myers and Katharine Shields.  The photographs were curated by Quinn Gorbutt. Here is a statement by Quinn about the work in this show. See you all tomorrow from 6-9!  This show will be on view until Sunday, June 3rd.

As the astronomers unanimously teach, the circuit of the whole earth, which to us seems endless, compared with the greatness of the universe has the likeness of a mere tiny point.

—AMMIANUS MARCELLINUS ACA. 330-395

Photography, as history has demonstrated, often falls short of its intended function of transparent communication and instead underscores the gaps between our own perceptions and the way a camera can uniquely cut and flatten space. The two artists represented here have embraced this dimensional transliteration to hint at ideas that sit well outside of photography’s frame. The images toe a tenuous line between
incalculable vastness and invisible minutia, yet remain within sight of a recognizable reality. In the process of being suspended between endless moments or transported into a vision of space, we end up always back where we began, with both feet firmly on the ground, better prepared to reconsider our own immediate surroundings and our relationship to them.

-Quinn Gorbutt