Featuring Work By:
Karen Kemp • Joe Kitsch • Chris Spuglio • Laura Torres • Joan Ryan • Mike St. Germain • Maureen O’Connor • Jonathan Donahue • Rafael O. Ayala • Colette Bresilla • Samantha Marder • Sonia Domkarova • Carmen Sasso • Katie Kimbrell • Lola Baltzell
East Boston, March, 2008 –From March 5 to March 28, 2009, Atlantic Works Gallery presents NEW MEMBERS SHOW 2009 a survey of work created by the gallery’s new artists. In the midst of doom and gloom, more and ever more bad news, who would have thought that a group of artists (arguably some of the hardest hit people in any economic downturn) have a reason to celebrate? Well the Atlantic Works Gallery, East Boston’s gem on the waterfront is doing just that! Not BECAUSE of the economy….but IN SPITE of it! Atlantic Works invites the public to take a break from all of the bad news and come celebrate by welcoming fifteen talented artists whose work spans a number of mediums including photorealistic and abstract painting; photo dioramas that experiment with scale; playful works that feature pies, fruits, ducks; avante garde self-portraiture with cultural and psychological sub-tones and many many other works certain to distract you from the six o’clock news!
The public is invited to attend the OPENING RECEPTION on Thursday, March 5 from 6 to 9pm and to visit the gallery during the following hours: Fridays 2 – 6pm and Saturdays 2 – 6pm. The public is also invited to attend the Atlantic Works Gallery’s monthly THIRD THURSDAY SHINDIG on Thursday, March 19 from 6 to 9pm.
To schedule a private press viewing and interview at a more convenient time, please contact Laura Rollins, 617.877.8249.
Begun in 2003, ATLANTIC WORKS GALLERY, —East Boston’s Collaborative Space for Art and Ideas,? is a member-operated gallery located on the top floor of 80 Border Street on the waterfront of East Boston. It is T-accessible (near the Maverick T stop on the Blue Line) and parking space is usually ample. For detailed directions and other information about members and past and future shows, please see atlanticworks.org