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May 9, 2015 by profk

02478: Belmont Art Association

Summer Exhibit

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02478 is the summer exhibition of the Belmont Art Association (BAA), and offers an opportunity to meet many of the artists—both amateur and professional—who live and work in our community. Showcasing work by BAA members, the exhibit includes work in a wide variety of media from painting, drawing, printmaking and collage, to sculpture, ceramics, textiles, and photography.

Founded in 2013, the Belmont Art Association’s mission is to “create a community of and for Belmont-based visual artists by sharing information and resources and creating opportunities to display their work.” For more information about the organization visit their website.

Thanks to all who attended the Opening Reception!
June 12, 6-8pm

Closing Reception: September 11, 6-8pm

Participating Artists

Christine Chang
Karla Cohen
Sandrine Colson-Inam
Diane Covert
Steven Covert
Warren Croce
Norma Dumont
Richard Hill
Kay Hudgins
Susan Jones
Alexandra Jordankova
Anne Katzeff
Susan Kottler
Helen Morse
John Norton
Dari Paquette
Gerald Rhodes
Ian Todreas
Jane Wentzell
Ed Wintner

Gallery Summer Hours

Beginning June 26 through September 4

Monday through Thursday 10am–4pm
Fridays 10am–1pm
Sunday, June 28 – 1–4pm

Regular Gallery Hours Resume September 10

Thursday and Friday 10am–4pm
Sunday 1–4pm

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Filed Under: Show Archives, Shows Tagged With: Alexandra Jordankova, Anne Katzeff, Belmont Art Association, Christine Chang, Dari Paquette, Diane Covert, Ed Wintner, Gerald Rhodes, Helen Morse, Ian Todreas, Jane Wentzell, John Norton, Karla Cohen, Kay Hudgins, Norma Dumont, Richard Hill, Sandrine Colson-Inam, Steven Covert, Susan Jones, Susan Kottler, Warren Croce

January 9, 2009 by profk

in the minds of men

Photography by Eric Almquist and Paintings by Warren Croce

Opening Reception: Friday, January 9, 5:30-8pm

(left) Detail: Prisoners by Warren Croce, (right) Detail: Trinity by Eric Almquist
(left) Detail: Prisoners by Warren Croce, (right) Detail: Trinity by Eric Almquist

From the minds of men throughout our human history have come many great things: works of great beauty, invention, scholarship…but also power, destruction, manipulation, and war. What happens in the minds of men has had a profound effect on human destiny–oftentimes resulting in tragic consequences. Belmont artists Warren Croce and Eric Almquist have tried to address and reflect on some of these issues in the new thought-provoking IN THE MINDS OF MEN exhibit at the Belmont Gallery of Art.

Jim Dow, professor at Tufts University and himself a noted photographer, says, “In the Minds of Men is a thoughtful pairing of these images and art’s role in our culture and its ability to comment on politics, both big P and small. The artists’ work is very subject-specific, but they can be looked at as genuinely beautiful images.”

As Dow notes, “Most people who see the show will have very strong opinions about the subject matter. The show will make visitors come away from the show feeling challenged, but in a Socratic kind of way.”

Warren Croce
CEO #2 by Warren Croce
CEO #2
by Warren Croce 

 

“There is a certain disquiet to the work in this show”, says artist Croce. “I can’t say I’m happy with the direction our country took in recent years and it manifested in my work. I hope that doesn’t mean George W inspired me,” he says laughing.

Some of my art has a political aspect to it. The ‘CEO’ series is me expressing some anger about our country having devolved into a plutocracy where the wealthy (and corporations in particular) have a disproportionate influence on government. These faces I paint … they are the face of greed.”

A graduate of Pratt Institute, Croce says he’s had a pencil in his hand since he “was a small kid.” He spends a lot of time drawing the human figure, “Many of my paintings, whether they are oil, acrylic or mixed media, contain a figurative aspect. When I paint, I never know where I’m going to end up. It’s always open to possibility.” Several of Croce’s oil stick on board portraits in the show have an almost menacing and confrontational quality about them. They’re intense and challenging to the viewer–it’s hard to look away.

Warren Croce’s Website

Eric Almquist
Photograph by Eric Almquist
Photograph by Eric Almquist
Photograph by Eric Almquist
Photograph by Eric Almquist

Longtime Belmont resident Almquist’s work in the show includes a number of photographs from his series “Trinity,” which focuses on the three US atomic bomb sites during World War II. Almquist’s photographs, taken during a visit to the Alamogordo, New Mexico, bomb test site location in April 2003, have a haunting, almost-surreal feeling about them.

I photographed the site a couple of years before the 50th anniversary of the first atomic test. I’ve always been interested in the Manhattan Project–the enormity of the undertaking, the science and scientists involved, and the goal to “have the bomb” before the Germans. The Bomb is such a complex topic from a moral perspective–it helped end World War II but it killed many Japanese civilians; many of us have lived under it’s threat for decades, but nuclear detente has been effective in that no bombs have been used in war since WWII. While disarmament is progressing, the worry is ever greater about bombs being used by terrorists. So it’s a very complex and emotional set of issues.

The Trinity Site by Eric Almquist by Eric Almquist: The Trinity Site history
World Nuclear Weapons (1945-2002)
Eric Almquist’s Biography

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Filed Under: Show Archives Tagged With: Eric Almquist, Warren Croce

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Homer Municipal Building
19 Moore St., 3rd floor
Belmont Center, MA 02478

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