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LIVE VIDEO SOUND PERFORMANCE INSTALLATION

SEE THE VIDEO AT http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEWZWnzrayQ

The Echo as Original Sound: The Self-Made Man in the American Landscape Featuring the works of Gina Siepel and Christopher Carroll May 14 – 28, 2010

fivesevendelle project space presents:

The Echo as Original Sound: The Self-Made Man in the American Landscape

Featuring the works of Gina Siepel and Christopher Carroll

May 14 – 28, 2010



Events: Artist Reception May 14, 2010. 5:00-8:00 PM

Gallery Hours: Tuesday, May 18. 2:00-6:00 PM; Saturday, May 22. 1:00-5:00 PM; Friday, May 28. 2:00-6:00 PM; or by appointment

Address: 57 Delle Ave, Mission Hill, Boston MA 02120

In The Echo as Original Sound, artists Gina Siepel and Christopher Carroll explore and delight in ambiguous collisions of nature and culture. Their works echo, commemorate, and re-frame iconic cultural images and actions of Americans in nature. This exhibit features sculptural works, video, and photography by both artists.

In The Boy Mechanic Project, Gina Siepel builds objects from a series of books called The Boy Mechanic, published between 1913 – 1925. Siepel has examined this period in American history, transplanted this series of historical exercises into her own contemporary life, and inserted them into a paradigm of fluid gender identity and a post-industrial ecological reality. Siepel’s Boy Mechanic Project seeks to recontextualize the Boy Mechanic, both celebrating and ironizing his origins.

Christopher Carroll’s Trophy series echoes his struggle to engage with the natural environment that he encounters as a result of urban life. Performing as an iconic but not-quite-right hunter/soldier/explorer character in urban natural sites such as the Fenway, Carroll both engages in and parodies particularly American stereotypes of masculinity in nature. His works explore humor, failure, and ultimately Romanticism as they enact an urban fantasy world of an almost unreachable Nature.

The exhibition takes its title from a passage in Thoreau’s Walden, in which he described the sounds of church bells from nearby villages reverberating through the woods. He noted that the bells became as much part of the trees as of the man-made steel bells from which they originated. Through their work, both artists echo Thoreau’s observation that nature and culture are inseparable. The works by Siepel and Carroll explore and complicate the American relationship to landscape and identity. These explorations are simultaneously joyous and critical, nostalgic and ironic, romantic and irreverent.



Contact:

Gina Siepel: ginasiepel@earthlink.net

Christopher Carroll: chris@christophercarroll.org

placement

The artists behind the Placement project are moving out of fivesevendelle and directly into the Mission Hill neighborhoods. Look for their projects the first two weeks of May in public spaces around Mission Hill.



April 5 –April 26, 2010

Reception: Saturday, April 24, 2:00 - 5:00 p.m.



A Jonathan Santos Project
at fivesevendelle



A group of student-artists from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design are investigating Mission Hill’s history and everyday situations as a point of departure for site-responsive projects. They are developing projects that are situated in the public sphere and that aim to be both socially and spatially engaging in relation to the surrounding communities. The group is focused on researching, discovering and developing a range of temporary, non-destructive and pedestrian-friendly projects in situ.

In the month of April, the group will occupy a project space in the neighborhood which will function as a creative laboratory, a repository for research findings, and a place to present ideas and engage in a dialogue with the community. The lab space will be open to the public every Monday from 2:00-5:00 p.m., with the exception of April 19, Patriots Day. During the first weeks of May, each self-directed project will be temporarily installed, activated, distributed or performed within the neighborhood. Further details will be announced.

This initiative is in partnership with Massart’s Center for the Arts and Community Partnerships; CACP cultivates innovative, sustainable relationships with the broader community to explore and expand the relevance of art in public life. It is also in partnership with fivesevendelle; a creative project space in the Mission Hill neighborhood of Boston located in a brownstone dating from 1875. The space is dedicated to providing a professional exhibition environment and a platform for creative interaction within the surrounding communities. Many thanks to: Tina Hinojosa, Casey Engels and ESF for their support.

Group Members: San Martin Figueroa, Nadia Gohar, Emma Gohlke, Peter Kazantsev, Holly Kelly, Savannah Mark, Sean McGann, Patrick O’Neill, Phillip Pham, Meghan Robbins, Tamara Safford, Fiona Stoltze, Amelia Young, Caitlin Nesbit, Project/Teaching Assistant; Jonathan Santos, Assistant Professor in Studio Foundation at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design.

Half-Life

Video at http://www.youtube.com/user/videosphere#p/a/u/1/U4EJSlialtY


Corey Corcoran



Corey Corcoran : Half Life
March 6 – March 26, 2010
fivesevendelle
57 Delle Ave
Mission Hill, Boston MA 02120

Opening reception Saturday, March 6 / 6 – 9 p.m.
Gallery open by appointment: liz.fivesevendelle@gmail.com

fivesevendelle is pleased to present Half Life, an exhibition of new work by Corey Corcoran. Through paintings, mixed media, and site-specific installation, Corcoran creates dense visual ecosystems. Using everything from plaster to watercolor and faux fur, his landscapes teeter on the edge of collapse and fruition. Half-dead bodies fill these transitory spaces as gods of destruction or biological fodder for its change. Color, texture, and pattern act as the primordial soup from which the notion of progress and finality may arise.

Corey Corcoran is a Boston-based painter whose work has been exhibited nationally at such venues as OCCCA in Santa Ana, CA and K Space Contemporary in Corpus Christi, TX. Corcoran received a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2007 and is a recipient of the prestigious Stephen D. Paine Scholarship Award from the Boston Art Dealers Association as well as the New Art ‘08 award from the Kingston Gallery. His work was featured in the experimental publication Apenest Volume II as well as breach dynamics, a book produced by the international creative consortium ROJO®.

fivesevendelle is a creative project space in the Mission Hill neighborhood of Boston located in a brownstone dating from 1875. The space is dedicated to providing a professional exhibition environment and a platform for creative interaction within the surrounding communities.

This Collective Pull

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Dude, where's my apocalypse?

Alex DeMaria
Jack Schneider
Todd White



DUDE, WHERE’S MY APOCALYPSE @ FIVESEVENDELLE
REVIEW BY CEARA DANAHER
Big Red and Shiny
PUBLISHED: FEBRUARY 14, 2010

The Boston artists Jack W. Schneider, Alexander DeMaria, and Todd White came together in January to present “Dude, where’s my apocalypse?” at the fivesevendelle project space.

One of the most compelling aspects of the show is the impetus and effect of the grouping of the three artists. DeMaria, White and Schneider may not seem to be the likeliest combination to be sharing this space, which is one floor of a 19th century brownstone located in Boston’s Mission Hill neighborhood Stylistically, the greatest kinship lies between White and DeMaria, who render many of their drawings in meticulously inked details. White’s images are somewhat grotesque and supernatural in nature, reminiscent of adolescent doodles that have evolved into elaborate accomplishments of design. The intricacy of drawings like “Bipolar Monster” and “Happy Twins” is mesmerizing. DeMaria’s pen-and-ink drawings are as equally detailed as White’s work, but the artists deviate in their choice of subject matter. DeMaria’s mythological focus clashes with the mystical fantasy of White’s drawings, yet they still both illustrate an interest in ecologically-themed deities or monsters. DeMaria’s “The Sleeping Moss” and White’s “Caveman Man” each blend an anthropomorphic creature with a geological formation.

Schneider’s contributions to the exhibition come largely in the form of a varied grouping of paintings. Several of his pieces are boldly patterned images on mid-sized wood panels and in content, this work deals with concepts of physical breakdown and decay. While also engaging in an exploration of the artistic process, the paintings’ theme of natural process offers a fit analogy to the work of DeMaria and White. Contrasting the patterned works is “Mulberry Street,” a small watercolor set apart in an enclave. Unlike its bolder companions, the painting is a realistic representation of a coffee cup and surrounding detritus. Both the work’s familiar imagery and its overt sense of abandon detracts from the show.

The connection between the three artists occurs thematically—and not necessarily obviously—through the show’s focus on unexpected juxtapositions: combinations of the folk and the modern. This is also where the show’s title finds its relevance. The artists, for the most part, do not deal with the apocalypse in traditional, overt ways such as the eerie stillness of an abandoned coffee cup. This is where much of the show’s power and charm lies. Their works as displayed at fivesevendelle share a feeling, a mood that begins to hint at the artists’ personal concepts of the apocalypse, and that feeling is not ominous, but unsettling and that sense not of danger, but of a unexplainable discomfort. It is evoked by White’s “Word as Flesh in the Nebulous Bonestorm” and, very differently, by Schneider’s “Houndstooth 2.0.” Schneider suggests that it’s what we don’t know that makes us afraid. He speaks about how, throughout history, the apocalypse has been represented by different cultures in various ways and it’s not always inexorable doom. “What gets confused a lot, though,” he says, “is that a lot of people picture the post-apocalypse as being just devastation and ruin. Thinking Biblically, people used to actually consider the coming of the apocalypse as a good thing, and the post-apocalypse as paradise.” This take on the subject comes across subtly in the work of all three artists, who do not portray doom, but rather uncertainty and a state of limbo that can also be interpreted optimistically, as potential.

Check out the video of the show: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQ8IQIM7Ffw

content/community

Ashley Billingsley
Zach Gabbard
Marisa Miller
Mathew Oates
Helene Schlumberger
Gina Siepel
Tim Stigliano

Curated by Liz Geller

Check out the video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrsw6I6EvB8