Deciphering Identity attempts to confront and describe, through a diversity of perspectives, realities, and parameters that shape the individual identity. Pieces selected from the group show include multi-media works from undergraduate, graduate, and alumni. This collaborative exhibition includes work from, Massachusetts College of Art, The Art Institute of Boston, The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, and Wellesley College. Additionally, esteemed filmmaker Abigail Child, will be including one film short from her series, “The Suburban Trilogy.” The Jewett Art Gallery will host a screening of Child’s entire trilogy on March 25th, as an extension of the exhibition.
Opening night includes a short audio/visual collaboration between, Berklee College of Music, and visual art students.

Group Exhibition featuring work by recent alumnae and current graduate and undergraduate students at Art Institute of Boston, School at the Museum of Fine Arts, and Massachusetts College of Art and Design

Fort Yates, North Dakota as a member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.

He spent the majority of his formative years in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Education

BFA 2001- University of South Dakota

MFA 2005- University of Wisconsin-Madison

Exhibitions

2011          FUNNY FACE- group show
Curated by Zach Bruder at Lavai Maria, New York, NY

2011          A PERSON OF COLOR- group show
Curated by Jose Lerma at Green Gallery, Milwaukee, WI

2007          IT’S NOT FUNNY ANYMORE- group show
Project 1981 pop up space, Long Island City, NY

Wellesley College

On view at the Jewett Art Gallery at Wellesley College

TRAVIS KRUPKA: FERRARIS IN A FOREST

When: November 5^th – November 30^th (opening reception Monday November 5^th, 4-6pm.)

Where:  Wellesley College, Jewett Arts Center 106 Central St, Wellesley, MA 02481

Hours: Weekdays 9am-5pm: Weekends 12-5pm

Mon & Holidays – Closed

Cost: Free and open to the public

FERRARIS IN A FOREST:

No one really knows what art is. But everyone knows what Ferraris are.

With regard to painting, I’ve always been more attracted to the way in which something is being manipulated, rather than what or why. And yet I find it to be more compelling when the object has to contend with an image. The Ferraris let me hold onto something. They give me a constraint that allows for more freedom in almost every other respect. And they definitely have an animistic quality that informs the attitude of the painting process. I actually don’t even know that much about cars. But they certainly do look quite lovely surrounded by flora.

The Jewett Gallery of Art

Wellesley College

Ecstasy and Commonsense: Samantha Fields

Visual Texts: Curated by Boston Artist, Ben Sloat

Wire Sculptures, Playing Grown Up: Clyde Bango

When: October 7 – October 26 (opening reception Sunday October 14, 4-6pm.)

 Ecstasy and Commonsense Highlights: 

Focusing on color, shape, line and form, Samantha Fields’ work embraces materials and processes that engage a rich and transgressive history. Fields’ explores a visual language that has been associated with the feminine, the infantile and primitive, or has been relegated to be superficial and excessive, and therefore unworthy of serious consideration. Field states: “We no longer make; we buy. Crocheting, embroidery, and weaving leave the trace of the hand and the understanding of labor, time, and are imbued with our everyday experience. Craft holds within it the art/life dichotomy. It embodies both by its mere existence.” Fields’ exploration begins with the afghan, which carries with it a multiplicity of meaning, hybrids of form, and social constructs. These hybrids are viewed with their excess of ornament, ruffle upon ruffle, beads and sequins, as an elevation of what has been traditionally considered a de- evolution of a sophisticated western society.

Visual Text Highlights:

Considering the long and reflexive relationship between photography and text, works from this exhibition explore a range of its creative potential.  A further aspect to this show is a series of handmade artist books and prints that further the inquisition and materiality concerning image and text. Local photographers such as Karl Baden, Jane Tuckerman, Matthew Gamber, Jim Dow, Douglas Weathersby, Bruce Myren and others use text in manners that range from diaristic and creative writing to photographs of signage and commercial lettering. In one series, the poet Katie Peterson writes spontaneous poems over photographs of Alaska made by Youngsuk Suh on a trip they took together. In another series, Geoff Hargadon photographs the range of public locations he has installed his creative signage works, “Cash For Your Warhol.”

Wire Sculptures, playing grown up:

Clyde Bango’s intricately woven wire frames can be loosely described as line drawing in free space, but they represent much more. The hand-made sculptures evolved from the artist’s childhood experiences of crafting toy cars out of recycled wire in Harare, Zimbabwe. Bango’s artwork represent adamant resilience to growing up yet accepts the responsibilities and challenges that inevitably come with being grown up. The themes are very personal and often political. Subjects are derived from memories, art history and current affairs, and they showcase a range of innovative techniques that address surface modeling, abstract geometry and rendering of micro detail with steel wire.  When the final product emerges, it is stripped of all the coldness of steel but luscious with life, spacious in volume, and in some cases captured in motion. Bango is a young artist seeking to make his mark as a contemporary African artist.

Samantha Fields

Visual Text

Clyde Bango

Yesterday afternoon we hosted an opening reception for “Here & Now:” Senior Thesis/Senior Majors exhibition. We had a great turnout with students and faculty to celebrate the end of the year! The exhibition is up through May 25, don’t miss it!