Sunday, October 26, 2014
Big show at BU
Thursday, September 11, 2014
Friday, September 5, 2014
siteChunks, first fall show at ROOM
siteCHUNKS
at ROOM 83 Spring
Featuring
the work of Bailey Bob Bailey, Liza Bingham, Kirstin Lamb
September 6 – October 16
Reception: Saturday,
September 20, 5 – 7
The work of Bailey,
Bingham and Lamb engages a visual vernacular both present tense and
retrospective. Sculpture, painting and installation shake off the snooze of
everyday saturation with humor, homage and editorial wit.
We hope you can visit or
join us at the reception!
For more information
contact:
Tuesday, June 10, 2014
Work For Food @ ROOM
45 artists gather to support Food For Free, The Boston Area Gleaners and the Watertown Food Pantry in a show and sale of work on paper at Room 83 Spring.
Reception Sunday, June 15, 3-5
My piece is Interlude, a collaboration with Michael Gold, a musician, Deborah Robbins, a cook, and Laura Robbins, a Hebrew scholar.
Check us out at www.room83spring.com or like us on facebook at room 83 spring.
Mark Luiggi did the poster piece, it's tiny baskets and crates made from paper and watercolor.
Friday, April 18, 2014
Wicked Local
'Out of True' art show featuring
local artists
Out of True," a new show at ROOM 83 Spring, Watertown,
opens Thursday. See work by three multitasking artist/writers, a hooker (the
yarn kind) and a painter/professor who share a sensibility of primitive
sophistication in widely varied media.
The show runs April 17 to May 29 at 83 Spring St. There is a
preview April 17 from 6 to 8 p.m. and a reception Sunday, May 11, from 3 to 5
p.m.
Gallery hours are Thursday from 2 to 4 p.m. and Saturday from noon to 4
p.m.
The show includes
giant pencils and smaller wood sculpture by Paul Angiolillo of Watertown. He is also a journalist and has
written for the Waltham News Tribune. His artwork is in the shop at the Fuller
Craft Museum in Brockton.
Cat Bennett, a multi-media artist and
author who lives and works in Watertown, is showing many tiny multi-chromed
people. Bennett teaches drawing at the Arsenal Center for the Arts and is an
animator and illustrator. Her most recent book is “Making Art a Practice.”
Frances Hamilton, a Boston painter and
collage artist who teaches at MassArt and shows at the Clark Gallery in
Lincoln, exhibits her wildly colorful mixed media paintings on books.
Phyllis Poor, one of the region’s
premiere fiber artists, contributes hooked chairs, pillows and handbags. She
lives in Bedford and has taught hooking with yarn at the DeCordova and the
Fuller museums and exhibited her work throughout New England for many years.
Subversive stitcher
and writer Maggie Stern does framed
stitched handkerchiefs of animals and people. She lives and works in Concord
and sells her work at the Guilford Art Center in Guilford, Conn., Essentia in
Wellesley, and The American Museum of Folk Art in New York.
Wednesday, April 16, 2014
Monday, April 14, 2014
Out of True @ ROOM
Paul Angiolillo, Cat Bennett, Frances Hamilton, Phyllis Poor, Maggie Stern
Out Of True
April 17 – May 29
Preview: Thursday, April 17, 6:00 to 8:00
Reception: Sunday, May 11, 3:00 to 5:00
"Art does not reproduce the visible, it makes visible" – Paul Klee
Miniature polychrome clay heads, stitched drawings on repurposed linen, hand-painted books, carved wooden birds and snakes, hooked chairs and a giant pencil – the works in this show share an aesthetic kinship with folk and outsider art. Vital impulse trumps representation in works conjured from personal experience. Meet five artists who follow an honest instinctual expression of life as art.
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Saturday, April 12, 2014
a lotta art
The Bromfield show opened last week (no opening tonight.) It will be there through April.
See more on my new website: EllenWinebergStudio.com.
Kinda busy.
More to come!
Thursday, April 10, 2014
Saturday, March 8, 2014
ROOM press and events
photo credit: Freddie Wiss
A boisterous preview night. here's the card and the image list.
And the article in the Boston Globe
The Boston Globe 3/12/14
New space in Watertown
By
Cate McQuaid
Un-Mapping
the Air: Bob Oppenheim, Carol McMahon, Ted Ollier
At: Room 83 Spring,
83 Spring St., Watertown. www.room83spring.com
Artists Ellen Wineberg and Cathleen Daley have opened a new
project space next door to Drive-By Projects in Watertown. They’re reluctant to
call it a gallery. “We’re artists for artists,” says Daley.
Their first show, “Un-Mapping the Air,” is spare,
uncluttered, and deeply moving. It’s all about foiling expectations. Large is
made small. Something tactile and present somehow conveys absence.
Bob Oppenheim’s painted panels stitched and splayed with
loose threads are delicate with breathy hues and barely visible lines. They
might map the cosmos, or the underside of a piece of embroidery. They pull you
in close with their hints and whispers, weaving a net of memory and longing.
What’s there feels like traces of what has gone.
Speaking of cosmic, Ted Ollier’s silkscreened pulsing
concentric circles with pools of color at their core are simplified visions of
planets and their rings. They read like objects of meditation, icons that draw
you into the center. “Planetary Rings, Uranus” has a small pale blue circle at
its center, and the rings around it imply distance. “Planetary Rings, Neptune”
has a larger, turquoise core, and fewer rings. Where Uranus recedes, Neptune
seductively rises to meet us.
Carol McMahon explores the dark side of domesticity with
white-washed doll houses. “Homefront” is nearly empty, upside down and askew,
with stray boxes and a white-painted doll’s hat resting on its upturned
foundation. God knows what damage came to this home, from within or without, to
leave it so bereft.
We were featured in an artscope eblast by Lacey Daley:
2/27/14
Greetings!
This blast is full of what we like to call innovators. The
folks of these exhibitions are opening new art spaces, displaying life-size
artwork and debuting the entire realm of a renowned artist's work—all of which
we consider to be trailblazing efforts. So whether you consider them pioneers
of paint or theme or space, they're all trying something a little different,
which is always worth checking out.
Un-Mapping The Air at Room 83 Spring
in Watertown, Massachusetts today through April 10th
|
Arts without exception, it's all about the conversation—that's
the tagline for a new art venue opening in Watertown and we think they've got
the right idea. Room 83 Spring
is a space for art and a studio for projects and events that promote
experimentation and process, hosting a mix of creative disciplines, provocative
installations and engaging discourse. Artists Cathleen Daley
and Ellen Wineberg
launched Room 83 Spring, located at 83 Spring Street between Common and
Main Streets and adjacent to the venerable Drive-By Projects Gallery,
as a project to foster and celebrate other artists. For years, the duo has been
looking for the perfect spot to open an alternative, inclusive art space, and
starting tonight, they get to do just that. The debut exhibition, Un-Mapping
The Air, features the paintings, assemblages, prints and video of Bob Oppenheim,
Carol McMahon
and Ted Ollier. The
featured artists work to undo the scaffolding and disrupt the foundation of all
concepts familiar, shaking our every expectation and turning them inside out. Oppenheim
is Professor Emeritus at Simmons College
and former director of the Trustman Art Gallery.
He is represented by Miller Yezerski Gallery.
McMahon exhibits at Bromfield Gallery,
where her last two solo shows were Age of Un-Reason and Home Front.
Ollier also exhibits at Bromfield Gallery, is Press Master at Harvard University's
Bow and Arrow Press
and teaches at Harvard Extension
and the New Hampshire Institute of Art. Un-Mapping The Air opens tonight, Thursday, February
27th and will be on view through Thursday, April 10th. A reception
will be held on Sunday, March 9th from 3-5pm. Room 83 Spring
is open every Thursday from 12-4pm, and by appointment. As for future shows and
exhibitions, the venue will combine painters and sculptors with authors,
artisans, poets and more. With art on the wall and off, Room 83 Spring
ensures that compelling conversations will ensue. Join their talks now by
liking them on their Facebook page.
and a capsule preview by Brian Goslow:
In
the march/april 2014 artScope:
It’s been gratifying to see a number of new
galleries opening up in the New England region in recent months. As we went to
press, Ellen Wineberg and Cathleen Daley opened the doors to their room 83
spring gallery, which they call, “A site for experimentation and process.” The
space is intended to host a mix of creative disciplines, provocative
installations and engaging exchange. “We are artists who wish to
foster and celebrate other artists. Arts without exception, it's all about
the conversation.” Room’s first exhibition, “Un-Mapping The Air,” featuring
works by Bob Oppenheim, Carol McMahon and Ted Ollier, continues
through April 10 at 83 Spring Street, Watertown, Mass.
Find us on facebook at ROOM 83 Spring!
Friday, February 21, 2014
ROOM opens
Carol McMahon's Standard and Microwave
There is a visceral feeling of loss and sadness in Carol's and Bob's work...
Bob Oppenheim, Limit
and a vastness in Ted Ollier's Planetary Rings...
Lisa Tung, Best of Boston Mass Art Curator and art advisor to Mayor Marty Walsh, and her husband Spencer were our first visitors on Sat. right after we finished hanging. They looked and looked and loved the show and the place. On Thursday we had a visit from Cat Bennett, an artist and writer who showed us her new work. And a visit from Liz Heichelbech who wanted to buy Cat's book, Making Art A Practice, and run an improv group in our back space...
We are excited. That's Cathleen Daley, Co-Director, in the window.
Thursday, February 20, 2014
ROOM 83 Spring
Cathleen Daley and I have been
looking for the perfect spot to open an alternative art space for
years. Well, the time has come, we got an offer we couldn't refuse. A
store-front/studio space adjacent to the fabulous Drive-By Projects Gallery on
Spring St. in Watertown came up for rent and we took it. We launch at the
end of February and will host shows, conversations, workshops, events and a
summer work-in-process residency. Visit www.room83spring for more info and like room 83 spring on Facebook for news and updates.
Here are pix from our first show: Bob Oppenheim, Carol McMahon and Ted Ollier in Un-Mapping The Air. Feb. 27 to April 10, reception March 9, 3-5.
Valentines from the Women's Inn
A good project. In between lunch and the bed lottery on a frigid day.
Not everyone loves Valentine's day. So we made a bunch for Paul
who works the front desk.
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