East Boston Artists

East Boston is home to many visual artists and musicians, incredible parks, delicious food and the best views of the city—come visit! Open Studios May 18-19, 2013

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Liz Nofziger: 80 Border Street, Studio 317

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JD Elliott: 80 Border Street, Studio 115

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Chris Chou: 80 Border Street, Studio 315

Painting is an attitude about life.

Painting gives me faith, because I know what I have been through.

Painting teaches me to be humble, because there are so many things I do not know.

    I want to paint what I see.

I see things very directly. I only select the form or color, which really speak to me. I am using personal symbols to tell the story of thing which I care. They come from nature and the relationship between people/things and God/me.

Much of my painting is about building layer after layer of paint; I do this both for the texture and for the stories. They can be read as a history of the canvas, different  time in one stage and as the mass of color they become.

I love color.

I paint the color of red.

I want to push red as far as it can go.

Red is hot, red is blood, red is energy.

I love red and I paint red.

  I love form.

I draw the form of circle.

It could be an egg: the life itself.

It could be a manna: the food from heaven.

It could be a watermelon: the fruit that I enjoy.

It could be a window: to lead you to another landscape.

It could be an eye: but what an eye.

  Life is not easy but still beautiful.

Using color and form, I want to focus on that beauty.

I want use it to share, to comfort, and to celebrate.

  My need is to go beyond pretty to encompass true beauty.

My mission is to bring fresh light to things so familiar that we no longer notice them. I want to make people look at them as if for the first time, with the excitement of a child receiving a new gift.

  Painting is my prayer.

Through my painting--

 May you smell different season of life.

 Have a date with surprise! Or….  Just simply a smile.

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B. Amore: Harbor Arts

B. Amore is an artist, educator and writer. She studied at Boston University, University of Rome, Accademia di Belle Arti di Carrara and is the recipient of Massachusetts Cultural grants, a Fulbright Grant, Mellon Fellowship as well as a Citation of Merit Award presented by the Vermont Arts Council. She is founder of the Carving Studio and Sculpture Center in Vermont. Amore taught for many years at the Boston Museum School and has won numerous public art commissions in both the USA and Japan and is represented by SOHO 20 Gallery, New York and Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston. Life line – filo della vita, her multimedia exhibit, that premiered at the Ellis Island Museum, has recently been published as An Italian American Odyssey, Life line-filo della vita: Through Ellis Island and Beyond. Her most recent project and book, Invisible Odysseys, is the result of working with Mexican migrant farmworkers in Vermont. 

www.bamore.com

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Elizabeth Michelman: Harbor Arts

Elizabeth is an interdisciplinary artist whose art-forms encompass sculpture, painting, poetry, drawing, site-responsive installation, public art, and video. She is curator of the 2013 summer exhibition of outdoor temporary art at HarborArts, East Boston:  “OccupyING the Present.”  In addition to free-lance curating she writes art criticism for Artscope Magazine, a New England publication on the arts. Both her art and writing shape a dialogue with her audience on the intersection of art and values in a democracy and the relation of language to power. Her studio is at Waltham Mills Artists Association in Waltham, MA. 

URL: elizabethmichelman.com

email: [email protected]

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Wendy Wolf: Harbor Arts

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Bio: Wendy Wolf creates obsessive repetitive artwork inspired by language and leaves. She was born in 1974 in New York State, received her BFA in Printmaking from Alfred University, and moved to Philadelphia, PA in 2003 to complete her MFA in Printmaking from Tyler School of Art, Temple University. She currently lives in Newton, MA and continues to maintain a studio in Philadelphia. Utilizing processes she developed for herself in printmaking, Wendy has focused on painting and works from paper since 2005. She has exhibited her work nationally, notably at the International Print Center NY, the Sam Quinn Gallery in Philadelphia, the Center for Emerging Visual Artists in Philadelphia, the Independence Seaport Museum, and a solo show at the George School in Newtown, PA. Wendy has completed artists residencies at Taliesin West, Contemporary Artists Center at Woodside, and Beechwood Arts. She is currently represented by FitzRoy Knox Gallery in NY and LA and will be featured in Scope NY and Miami in 2013.

Artist Statement

Living within urban and suburban communities, constructed landscapes have been my primary experience with nature. I create a record of a fleeting moment; reproducing leaves that have been altered by weather or bugs, and preserve them through reproduction. Using yupo, an industrial plastic paper, as my base material

I neutralize nature by reducing it to formal aspects of shapes while creating leaves that will not decompose.

Through the use of line, I manufacture tenuous visual and physical connections. Cotton threads that will weaken and disintegrate with time create the structure for my reproduced leaves to exist. My intent is to establish a tenuous connection with the natural world by bringing my manufactured leaves as a mimesis of nature in dialogue with the landscapes of human construct.

I produce all of my work within a restrained structure of repeated marks and repeated process. Everything is obsessively repeated—mark making, cutting, assembling, and movement. Through the physical labor, the act of doing is of equal importance to the visual representation of the work.

The series Natural Repetition began during a residency at Taliesin West (Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture) in Scottsdale, AZ. The residency gave me the opportunity to create an outdoor installation piece. While exploring the grounds I found an orchid tree whose leaves looked very similar to the repeated marks I had been working with in my painting and cutpaper series. I processed the leaves by tracing and reproducing them in paper as I had been doing with the marks in my paintings. As soon as that first strand of leaves was installed in the courtyard, it completely changed the way people interacted with the space.

Instead of walking through with their heads bent down, they stopped and looked up—seeing this beautiful tree above them—and spent time exploring and making personal associations with my paper leaves. I was thrilled to watch hundreds of people walk through the space (on daily tours) with expressions of delight.

That installation has since lead to a whole series of work based on different locations and the natural repetition found in various types of plants.

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Neil Wyatt: 80 Border Street, Studio 218A

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Adrian Johnston — Studio 218B: 80 Border Street

Adrian Johnston graduated from the University of Iowa where he studied drawing under professor Joseph Patrick.  Adrian has spent recent years in China, where he taught drawing and painting for two years in Guizhou University College of Art.   His work has been exhibited both in America and China.  He currently studies under professor Bruce Herman, and lives in Melrose, MA with his family.

URL: www.kmov.org

Email: [email protected]

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Maureen O'Connor — Studio 211: 80 Border Street

Maureen O'Connor has been called a "masterful painter of our favorite things (like candy)" by Randi Hopkins, curator at Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art and former art critic for the Boston Phoenix.

  In O'Connor's recent work she continues her interest in a pair of ceramic ducks given to her by the Parisian mother of an old roommate. The ducks are known for their anthropomorphic quality and have been compared to the work of Japanese artist Takashi Murakami. Along with her ducks she continues her work with candy, cookies and gumball machines. 

  Her ducks are in many  private collections including Bruce Dayton, founder of Target Department Stores, Richard Miner, founder of Android and a partner at Google.

  Her work is also in the collections of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Fidelity Investments and Boston Medical Center among others.

  O'Connor's work has appeared in the David Mamet film, Lipservice, filmed in Boston. O'Connor won 1st Prize in Painting at Home for the Arts in 2007, juried by Paul Tucker noted Monet Scholar and author ofMonet in the Twentieth Century. 

  O'Connor is represented by the Jack Meier Gallery, Houston, Texas, Bluestone Gallery, Philadelphia. Mostly recently exhibited at the Clark gallery in Lincoln, MA.

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