37-A Gallery

Gallery 37-A presents SEAWALL. www.seawallshop.com

Tue, 14 Aug 2012 10:41:22 -0400

Gallery 37-A presents SEAWALL.

www.seawallshop.com

"Critics’s pick: Jon Levitt “GrassDoe” Gallery 37-A, Portland"

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 08:51:20 -0500

“Critics’s pick: Jon Levitt “GrassDoe” Gallery 37-A, Portland”

- 2011 New England Art Awards winners « New England Journal of Aesthetic Research

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Mon, 02 Jan 2012 11:27:41 -0500

37-A Gallery will be closed for the winter, reopening come thaw.

Jon Levitt

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 12:27:00 -0500

DECEMBER 2011

Reception: First Friday December 2nd 5-8pm

37a wharf street portland maine

Amazing Rare things from the Countrey of Mawooshen
Photographs and Curios
Photographer and writer Jon Levitt presents oddities, rarities and evidences in our present stage of discovery tackling regional and national identity through objecthood.

Jon Levitt: GrassDoe

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 14:39:00 -0500

OCTOBER 2011

Jonathan Levitt is a graduate of Hampshire College, the Dubrulle...

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 14:37:00 -0500

Jon Levitt

Jonathan Levitt is a graduate of Hampshire College, the Dubrulle French Culinary Institute of Canada, and the Masters Program in Gastronomy at Boston University. His work has been published in Gastronomica, The Boston Globe, Saveur Magazine, Sports Illustrated,Yankee Magazine,The Radcliffe Quarterly and other publications. He lives on an acreage near the village of Ducktrap, Maine.

www.jonathanlevitt.com

www.grassdoe.blogspot.com

6-6-6: An Exhibition That Created Itself Through Connectivity

Mon, 12 Sep 2011 15:28:00 -0400

AUGUST 2011

Dan Schank, Broken Eggs for Breakfast, Pencil, Guache and Collage on Board 36” x 36”

6/6/6 an exhibition that created itself through...

Sat, 10 Sep 2011 10:40:00 -0400

6/6/6

an exhibition that created itself through connectivity

Gallery 37A is pleased to present 6/6/6, An Exhibition that Created Itself Through Connectivity. Six artists, including Jeff Badger from South Portland, Maine auto-curated this traveling exhibition, hosted in San Francisco, Chicago, Santa Fe, Detroit, Philadelphia 6/6/6 will make its final stop this September in Portland, Maine at Gallery 37-A. Please join us First Friday, September 2 from 6–10 pm for the final iteration of an exhibition that has successfully joined disparate artists and art communities across the United States.

About the Exhibition

With the proliferation of social networking and technology-based communication, making real connections becomes more important than ever. Each artist in this exhibition has selected one other artist who lives and works in a different community, forming a network of local art communities and creating personal and global connections among artists. This effort makes the local more than just local and infuses each region with energy from around the country. Like a chain letter, this process is expansive and like an exquisite corpse, the results are surprising and unexpected. This exhibition, in a sense, “created itself” by means of connectivity. Appropriately for a show about drawing connections, the show takes the drawn line as its subject and features artists from all over the country: Jeff Badger (Portland, ME), Carl Baratta (Chicago, IL), Amanda Curreri (San Francisco, CA); Joanne Lefrak (Santa Fe, NM), Kathy Leisen (Detroit, MI) and Dan Schank (Philadelphia, PA).

Throughout the past year 6/6/6 has travelled across the country, on exhibit in the hometowns of each artist: January in San Francisco (Queens Nails Projects), February in Santa Fe (Linda Durham Contemporary Art) , April in Chicago (Lloyd Dobler Gallery), May in Detroit (Popp’s Packing), and July in Philadelphia (Pterodactyl Projects). The show now makes its final stop in Maine, the home of local artist Jeff Badger, at Gallery 37A in Portland. 6/6/6 opens on Friday, September 2^nd with a reception during the First Friday Art Walk.

For more information :

Gallery 37A: http://www.thirtysevena.com/

6/6/6 blog: http://666exhibition.blogspot.com/

6/6/6 Facebook page: facebook.com/sixartistssixcitiessixconnections

Contact:

Daniel Pepice

Gallery 37-A

37A Wharf St

Portland ME 04101

danieljohnpepice@gmail.com

Jeff Badger

Artist/Co-Organizer

207 776 3298

jeff@jeffbadger.com

"The exhibition “6/6/6” is a concept show in which six artists from six cities connected..."

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 14:13:00 -0400

“The exhibition “6/6/6” is a concept show in which six artists from six cities connected with each other through social networking media. Each artist selected another artist from a different city and so, through chain-letter logic, the direction was expansively unpredictable.”

- Art Review: A half-dozen artists connect on a fully enjoyable show | The Portland Press Herald / Maine Sunday Telegram

Hannah Barnes: New Paintings

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0400

JULY 2011

“New Paintings” from Hannah Barnes, open from July...

Sun, 10 Jul 2011 10:46:00 -0400

“New Paintings” from Hannah Barnes, open from July 1st to July 28th
Opening Reception First Friday July 1st 6-10pm.

The work in this show has in no small way been influenced by the short stories of Jorge Luis Borges. I particularly looked to his ideas about time and his use of narrative structures as metaphors for meaning and experience. I found his use of mirrors, symmetry, simultaneity and circularity, labyrinths, and chance operations to be themes that applied directly to my own painting ideas.

“Eyes of Borges” is based on an enlarged digital reproduction of an actual contour drawing made by Borges. The drawing is a self-portrait Borges created later in his life when he had lost his sight – literally, a blind contour drawing. I selected the portion of the image I imagined to represent his eyes. When my digital reproduction was enlarged in Photoshop, it became a broken, pixilated mass of lines and squares. I loved the idea of this drawing seen from a great distance – as a bad pixilated reproduction. I also love that the initial drawing was created from Borges’ memory of his face, from a place of blindness.

Artist Bio
Hannah Barnes was born in Bridgewater, Massachusetts and currently lives and works in Muncie Indiana. Barnes received her BFA in Painting from Maine College of Art and her MFA in VisualArt from Rutgers State University of New Jersey. Her work has been exhibited in galleries nationally including Work Gallery and Hogar Collection in Brooklyn NY, the Ohio State University in Columbus OH, Hay Gallery in Portland ME, Hello Gallery in New Haven CT, Arthouse Contemporary in Austin TX, and the Shore institute for Contemporary Art in Long Branch, NJ. Barnes has been a visiting artist and lecturer at Ohio State University, Kent State University, and Maine College of Art and is currently assistant professor of painting at ball state university.

Barnes’s work draws on traditional media and painterly craft to explore themes of ambiguity, fragmentation, and the rejection of overt meaning in painting. This exhibition presents new oil paintings, works on paper, and a large site-specific wall painting.

Iain Kerr: THINGS: PROPOSITIONS/EXAPTATIONS

Fri, 20 May 2011 15:38:00 -0400

MAY 2011

Iain Kerr: THINGS: PROPOSITIONS/EXAPTATIONS

Tue, 10 May 2011 10:58:00 -0400

Iain Kerr: THINGS: PROPOSITIONS/EXAPTATIONS

Iain Kerr is an internationally recognized artist and writer...

Mon, 09 May 2011 10:51:00 -0400

Iain Kerr is an internationally recognized artist and writer whose work has been widely exhibited including exhibitions with The Whitney Museum of American Art, Mass MoCA and Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO. Kerr lives and works in Montclair, New Jersey and holds teaching appointments at Montclair State University, The University of Maine andBates College.

While Iain Kerr is best known in his active role in spurse – a peripatetic collective and experimental consultation service – his own unique body of work has rarely been presented, until now. Kerr’s Things: Propositions/Exaptations is a trenchant critique of the western tradition’s fundamental misunderstanding of “Things,” and a sweeping set of alternative propositions.Things: Propositions/Exaptations conceives of the gallery space as an extended experimental form of diagrammatic essay and philosophical argument. It moves beyond the medium of writing to more of an embodied form of dialog, with some of the thinkers that have been central to Kerr’s work over the years: Simondon, Whitehead, Thompson, Deleuze and Stengers. As an experiment beyond our current paradigm of “thingness,” the dynamics of space, diagrams and the reader are entangled to produce a new aesthetic consideration of things as active entangled material propositions.

“THINGS: PROPOSITIONS/EXAPTATIONS” is open from May 6 through May 29.
Opening Reception First Friday May 6th 6-10pm.

Artist Bio
Iain Kerr is an artist, writer, and teacher whose engagements have taken him into and across the fields of philosophy, emergent architectures, evolutionary ecology, developmental systems theory, clothing design, labor practices, and foodways, amongst other things. He is a founding member of the international trans-disciplinary collectivespurse and the corporation: That Word Which Means Smuggling Across Borders, Incorporated (2004-2009).

His individually and collaborative work has been hosted by various institutions in the US (such as the Whitney, Grand Arts, CAFK+A, Indianapolis Museum of Art, and Mass MoCA), as well as internationally (Poland, New Zealand, Canada, Mexico, Italy, Nunavut, and the Netherlands), and published in a number of books and journals including: The Interventionists, The Object of Labor, Experimental Geography, The International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Surface, ID, NY Times, Elle, Teme Celeste, Art Papers, Monitor, Interior Design, Art Journal, and Western Front.

In addition to working as part of spurse he has collaborated with the artists: Petia Morozov, Leon Johnson, William Pope L., Mark Dion, Cesare Pietriosti, Allison Knowles, J. Morgan Puett, Brian Massumi, Erin Manning, and Bartow+Metzgar; lectured and taught widely (including Harvard University, Columbia University, Parsons, University of Maine, CCA, RISDI and the University of Venice). He current writing has focused on the Philosophy of Things, Systems Theory, Trans-species Foodways and experimental pedagogic practices.

About Gallery 37-A
Gallery 37-A is a project space initiated in December of 2009 by Brook Delorme and Daniel Pepice. Presenting exhibitions of the work of emerging and established artists, Gallery 37-A is located at 37A Wharf Street in Portland, Maine’s Old Port District. Gallery 37-A is open to the public Thursday – Monday 12 – 6pm and by appointment.

For Further Information, Please contact
Brook DeLorme, brookdel@yahoo.com
Daniel Pepice, danieljohnpepice@gmail.com

"Confronting and denying conventional aesthetics and modes of exhibition, Iain Kerr: artist, writer,..."

Sat, 07 May 2011 14:12:00 -0400

“Confronting and denying conventional aesthetics and modes of exhibition, Iain Kerr: artist, writer, educator, and founding member of spurse, an international peripatetic collective and experimental consultation service, intimately reinvents the project space at Gallery 37-A. The artist presents a series of two-dimensional diagrams and abstracted meditations on his cross-disciplinary proposal for a reconsideration of being. Ingesting and re-contextualizing the arguments of thinkers such as Heidegger, Whitehead, Deleuze, Debord, and Michael Pollan, Kerr intertwines art and science to provide an alternative approach to Western philosophy.”

- Review: Iain Kerr examines truth, reality, and the human way - Museum And Gallery

Megan O'Connell: "...are as the poles asunder"

Wed, 20 Apr 2011 15:42:00 -0400

APRIL 2011

April 2011 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PORTLAND, MAINE Gallery 37A is...

Sun, 10 Apr 2011 12:33:00 -0400

April 2011
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
PORTLAND, MAINE

Gallery 37A is pleased to present Megan O’Connell’s “…are as the poles asunder” an exhibition of O’Connell’s tablets and text works crafted from hand-cast, dyed and carved Dead Skin Press Paper suspended in fine Italian beeswax. O’Connell’s tablets are imbued with a melancholy reverence for craft.

“…are as the poles asunder” is open from April 1– April 29, Opening Reception First Friday April 1st 6–10pm.

Megan O’Connell centers her practice around language and its visible forms. Under The Dead Skin Press imprint, she has generated installations /events /printed matter /discrete objects. The output of the press is archived in major libraries and collections in the US and Europe. ”…are as the poles asunder” will focus on O’Connell’s divination of the word/object.

ARTIST BIO

Megan O’Connell has been active in printmaking and bookmaking for three decades. She has founded two independent presses, The Dead Skin Press which generates cross-disciplinary work, including installations /events /printed matter and discrete objects. The output of the press is archived in major libraries and collections in the US and Europe, including MoMA. Walker Art Center, and the Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete & Visual Poetry. In 2006 she created The Bracket[t] Press expressly for collaborative ventures. Through the two initiatives, she has worked with Alison Knowles, Dexter Sinister, Joan Retallack, Grand Duchy, The Maine Arts Commission, Creative Material Group, and a range of other individuals and organizations.

Throughout her career, O’Connell has focused on the press as an interdisciplinary vehicle, innovating courses at each venue she has taught at. For more than a decade, she served as the Director of the Typography Lab at University of Oregon and led intensive summer courses in bookmaking and printmaking at Skidmore College and at Mildred’s Lane, Beach Lake, Pennsylvania. She has presented on the use of the press as an agent for critical thinking and change at international conferences including TypeCon and The Fourth International Conference on the Book. O’Connell has taught First Year Involve/Infuse/Inspire, Critical Approaches to Contemporary Art and Graphic Design History and Theory at Maine College of Art.

O’Connell’s work is included Live from Detroit at Fred Torres Projects, New York, New York and the G.R. N’Namdi Gallery, Detroit, Michigan. Other recent exhibitions include: Renovating Walden, Tufts University Gallery; Vivaria Particula, ICA at MECA; and Interrobang, SPACE Gallery, Portland, Maine.

“…are as the poles asunder”
Megan O’Connell, Portland, Maine 2011

Excerpted from “Orlando”, Virginia Woolf’s heartfelt tribute to Vita Sackville-West, the exhibition’s title stands to remind us of the difﬁculties inherent in reconciling planes of experience. The sentence, in its entirety, reads: ‘[t]hought and life are as the poles asunder .’

I chose this claim as a starting point to trace the dimensions of framing and producing text-/and diagram-based responses across a vast terrain of concerns and imperatives. I can, only now, conclude:

-Engineered logic met with the unpredictability of the hand reforms the message

-Once a voice is calibrated to the pitch of material processes, it is heard anew

-A meshing of history and direction {where to aim next?} pervades the site

-Opposing forces are everywhere; water ﬂows through everything

Materials: Hand-cast, dyed, and carved Dead Skin Press Paper; Davy board; PVA, archival adhesive; Witches Brew ink; magnesium; hardwood; Belgian airplane linen; Italian beeswax; and Maine slate. Sources include: Saint Augustine, Thomas Nashe, Henry David Thoreau, Joseph Cornell, Virginia Woolf, J. Morgan Puett, Rob Fitterman, Matvei Yankelevich, Leon Johnson, and anonymous others.

Funded in part by a grant from the Maine Arts Commission, an independent state agancy supported by the National Endowment for the Arts. My gratitude to Daniel Pepice; Brook DeLorme; Christina Bechstein; Donna McNeil; Luc Collette & Collette Monuments; Jan Reaves; and Leon, Marlowe & Leander Johnson. “As we read, so shall we make.” −MO’C

www.deadskinpress.com

"Once Orlando, the eponymous protagonist of Virginia Woolf’s novel, awakens from a seven-day..."

Sat, 02 Apr 2011 14:11:00 -0400

“Once Orlando, the eponymous protagonist of Virginia Woolf’s novel, awakens from a seven-day slumber to find that he is, in fact, a woman, Woolf sends her into gypsy country. Here, Orlando milks goats, pilfers hen’s eggs, and generally relishes the reprieve from the strictures of Englishness. After some gypsy rituals, Woolf sets her alone on an embankment, where during a long and glorious passage we witness Orlando alone and enraptured by nature, awake at last in the full scope of her imagination.”

- Review: Megan O’Connell writes on the walls of Gallery 37-A - Museum And Gallery

Stanley Atwater / Felt

Mon, 28 Mar 2011 16:15:00 -0400

MARCH 2011

STANLEY ATWATERyeah no, AN INSTALLATION

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 12:38:00 -0500

STANLEY ATWATER
yeah no, AN INSTALLATION