november2024 by John Greiner-Ferris and Pollination: Physique and Soul by Dominick Takis
Atlantic Works Gallery introduced that its November exhibition will encompass side-by-side solo reveals by two member artists, one who makes use of combined media to research the pure world and the opposite who makes use of it to touch upon American society. Collectively, their complementary paintings delivers a visible collision that’s meant to ask guests to replicate on and query their beliefs.
Each reveals will open on Saturday, November 2, with a gap reception on Sunday, November 3 from 2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. There will probably be a second reception on Thursday, November 14 from 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. when the artists will discuss their work. The exhibition closes at 6:00 p.m. on Saturday, November 30.
John Greiner-Ferris is an artist who borrows from, and combines, a number of disciplines to create paintings. For November 2024, he makes use of combined media to fluidly handle the perils inflicted on people by fashionable society. The deliberately lo-tech nature of his paintings is in response to what he believes is an excessive amount of of an emphasis within the artwork world on commercialism and salability at the expense of originality and reality, and challenges viewers to query their notion of artwork.
“My paintings has at all times been about, and can proceed to be about, the person’s wrestle to preserve individuality and dignity within the face societal pressures—each actual and imagined,” he stated.
The supplies and ensuing paintings of Takis, a former development employee, replicate his deep love of nature, the outside, and artwork. He makes use of every little thing from discovered natural and inorganic supplies to development materials to research the pure world to make what he calls “collage/work” whose textural, sculptural surfaces invite the viewer’s eye to linger of their complexity. “I need folks to essentially get into the floor of my work,” he stated. For Pollination, Takis, who had been discovering bee and wasp nests for years, contemplates and compares the function of bees and artists of their respective societies. “The artist’s job is to feed the soul, by means of artwork, music, and literature,” he stated. Takis will probably be exhibiting 9 items, and cites influences as disparate because the writings of Hermann Hesse, the work of Cezanne and El Greco, and the music of Brian Eno and Nick Cave.
Greiner-Ferris will probably be exhibiting a sequence of six 4’ x 3’ items he started in January 2024 and continued engaged on proper as much as October 2024. “They’re my response to a few of the occasions and points that presently are prevalent in the US, similar to financial disparity, divisiveness, faculty and mass shootings, and our species’ capability to destroy itself,” he stated. “The aim of this exhibition is to use textual content and pictures to have a dialog with the viewer. Simply as an actor breaks the fourth wall on a stage and talks on to the viewers, I exploit textual content and a visible language to interrupt the image aircraft to talk on to the viewer.” As a result of the end result of the November presidential election will nonetheless be unknown on the opening, Greiner-Ferris presents hope and encouragement with the ultimate piece.
Atlantic Works Gallery, 80 Border Road, Boston, MA 02128, now in its twenty-first 12 months, is an artist-run collaborative area for artwork and concepts situated in East Boston. The gallery is open to the public each Friday and Saturday, 2:00 – 6:00 p.m. For personal viewing, contact contact@atlanticworks.org. For extra data, go to https://atlanticworks.org/ .
