Current Exhibitions
Barbara Burgess Maier: “On Edge”
Caroline Rufo: “Intervisible:
Red Lining and Blind Stitching
in the Fabric of Greater Boston”
Extended through August 2, 2020
Opening Reception
Friday, March 6, 6 pm - 8:30 pm
Barbara Burgess Maier
Barbara Burgess Maier: “On Edge”
(The image above shows details of the paintings, prints, and digital images from the exhibit.)
At a time when truth and lies… fear and trust…are playing hide and seek right in front of us, we run toward…and away, from the edge of knowing.
My work has absorbed the dark of our times and challenged me to visually respond in ways that can help gain perspective.
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The figure appears…is it the artist’s self-portrait… is it the viewer?... or is it other asking for help? Advancing… or retreating? Visible… or invisible? Confronting… or withdrawing? Searching… or finding? Accepting… or denying?
Words appear, barely legible, hardly understood, then redacted. On edge, and amid the ambivalence and chaos that swirls around us, search hard to find that place where you can speak and listen for un-redactable truths.
Instead of a precipice into the abyss… are we poised at the edge of finding our best selvesfor the good of all?
Caroline Rufo - Installation View
Caroline Rufo - Installation View
Caroline Rufo: “Intervisible:
Red Lining and Blind Stitching
in the Fabric of Greater Boston”
Hand-dyed fabric walls, pieced and stitched together create a room-size reproduction of a HOLC redline map of Boston and environs. Laser-cut paper walls suspended inside the space allow partial views of the map through decorative obstructions.
“Intervisible” is a term used in urban planning. It refers to the state of being mutually visible from specific positions in the landscape.
She asks the question, “What obstructs our view of each other?” and “Can we move toward greater Intervisibility where we work, play, and go to school?”
Can we create more intervisibility in our neighborhoods, homes and schools? where we work and where we play?
The maps walls are made from cotton batting. Batting is typically used inside quilts and is not usually exposed in a finished piece.
Intervisible: (from urban planning) is the state of being mutually visible from specific positions in the landscape.
Redlining: a process by which banks and other institutions refuse to offer mortgages or offer worse rates to customers in certain neighborhoods based on their racial and ethnic composition.
