Collage at 100 I/III

 

March 30 - June 18, 2012
 

Reception Friday, March 30, 4-7 p.m.

Assembly Monday, April 9, 10-11 a.m.
Gallery Talk Saturday, April 14, 1-2 p.m.

 

To honor The Cambridge School of Weston's 125th anniversary, the Boundless Ambition series examines the school's convictions about learning and pedagogy. The third of three exhibitions, Part Process, Part Product features seven Cambridge School of Weston Alumni/ae: Austin Eddy '05, Chris Freeman '80, Niho Kozuru '86, Jennifer Langhammer '89, Julie Oppermann '00, Jonas Wood '95 and Kelly Zutrau '06. This final exhibition looks at the kinship between methodology and productivity via the differences between how each artist approaches issues of abstraction within their respective studio practices.

 

Visitors are invited to communicate with the artists—please visit the Thompson Gallery Blog.

 

 

To honor The Cambridge School of Weston's 125th anniversary, the Boundless Ambition series examines the school's convictions about learning, process and product. The second of three exhibitions in the series, Part Dedication, Part Abandon, presents the school's third faculty/staff biennial. The exhibition showcases the interests and talents of the school's teachers, administrators and staff while exploring the nature of and intention behind our pedagogy.

 

Reception: Thursday, December 15, 6 p.m. (Evening of the Arts Celebration 2011)

Assembly: Thursday, January 12, 2012, 10-11 a.m.

Gallery Talk: Saturday, January 28, 1-2 p.m.
 

 

Visitors are invited to communicate with the artists—please visit the Thompson Gallery Blog.

 

 

Chronicle, examines a trend among contemporary artists to cull history's riches and carnage for images, ideas and content. The series has thus far explored "uncollage" and virtual collage, and now turns its gaze to "guerilla collage" as exemplified by Lauster's appropriationist works. Lauster's art showcases a deep commitment to exploring Americanness through commemoration, memory and its loss, as it blurs the distinction between historical artifacts and the wholesale fabrication of cultural memory.

To view Darryl Lauster's artist statement and gallery wall texts, click this link: Darryl Lauster Statement & Didactics

Visitors are invited to communicate with the artist, Darryl Lauster—please visit the Thompson Gallery Blog.

 

 

 

Visitors are invited to communicate with the artist, Fran Forman—please visit the Thompson Gallery Blog.

 

Contemporary Painting After a Century of Abstract Art
Part II. Intuition-based Abstraction 

Alfred DeCredico—DeConstructing Chaos
The second of three exhibitions looking at Contemporary Painting After a Century of Abstract Art, Deconstructing Chaos presents selected images from the artist's life long body of work. Alfred DeCredico's densely constructed drawings, paintings, and three-dimensional works acknowledge the origins of Abstract Expressionism, while addressing contemporary human issues. Not easily categorized, his work weaves eastern and western perspectival space and is complex with imagery often constructed through the use of non-traditional subtractive methods. The work in this exhibition are rich in unexpected combinations of personal imagery, haunting surrealistic elements, mysterious figuration, poetic allusions, musical references, and cryptic text.

January 8 — March 12, 2010 

Art New England Review of Deconstructing Chaos

 

Complexities of Social Justice
Part II

 

Tough Love

Tough Love examines gay rights, same sex marriage and anti-gay rhetoric. Tough Love introduces Daren Young, an openly gay artist and activist living in Salt Lake City, Utah, who presents his multimedia "Virtual Wedding" and an autobiographical series of drawings, which chronicles his personal story as he came to acknowledge his sexual identity. Tough Love also welcomes back Andrew Graham (Brooklyn, N. Y.), a 1999 CSW alumnus who creates painted replicas of the placards which Rev. Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church (Topeka, Kan.) use during their protests at various events including gay pride gatherings, military funerals, and Christian and political gatherings. Juxtaposing Young's work with Graham's raises many questions about civil rights, first amendment rights, the definition of marriage and the "pursuit of happiness," and it dovetails with The Cambridge School of Weston's focus on social justice.

December 18, 2008 — February 6, 2009

 

Part III

Final of three exhibitions during the 2007 — 2008 school year to examine climate change

March 31 — June 10, 2008

 

Sublime Climate — Addressing Global Warming
Part I

Subliminal — Recognizing the Global Dilemma
First of three exhibitions during the 2007 — 2008 school year to examine climate change.

October 20 — December 20, 2007