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A new exhibit opened this month at the Borrego Art Institute featuring the photography of the late Major Morris (1921-2016), a former Escondido resident and champion of diversity.
The exhibit, titled “Gettin’ Along,” includes a collection of 42 black-and-white documentary photographs, mostly taken from Boston to Philadelphia during the 1960s and 1970s, capturing scenes of inner-city life, such as culturally diverse children playing together and protest marches of the 1960s.
“In my photographic experience I have always been drawn to capturing images of what life was for me as I groped my way through an underprivileged youthful existence; what life continues to be for so many young people living in circumstances similar to those of my early childhood, and in capturing those images, expressing what I feel about the strength and beauty of those children who refuse to be victims,” Morris wrote at the beginning of his book, “Nurture Their Dreams,” published in 200
MARSHFIELD When Rockland artist Kata Stack tells friends she works at the house on Route 139 with all those steel sculptures in the yard, they say, Oh that house? Wait a second, what s going on in there?
You re welcome to stop and see for yourself. George Greenamyer, the 81-year-old sculptor who lives there with his wife, Beverly Burbank, a former student, and works in the adjacent shop and welding room with young assistants, calls his property a sculpture garden. His recent work has been described as protest art.
Greenamyer taught at the Massachusetts College of Art for 40 years and founded the school s sculpture department in 1969. He has exhibited and had public art commissions across the country. He has works in the permanent collections of The DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park in Lincoln, The Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton, The Art Complex Museum in Duxbury and Boston University. The biggest piece he has done was in 2002 for the restored Penn Station i
Solo exhibition of photographs by Boston-based artist Pelle Cass opens at Abigail Ogilvy Gallery
Pelle Cass, Women s Water Polo at Harvard 2018. Inkjet print on heavy matte rag paper 13 x 19 in. (Ed. 4 - 15), 24 x 36 in. (Ed. of 10), 40 x 60 in. (Ed. of 3).
BOSTON, MASS
.-Abigail Ogilvy Gallery is presenting Crowded Fields, a solo exhibition of photographs by Boston-based artist Pelle Cass. This exhibition features work from two recent series in which the artist combines thousands of images to form one dynamic composition of a sporting event. Working in opposition to traditional sports photography, Pelle Cass aims to capture not the emotion of a moment, but the chaos and physicality of the entire game, evoking a Baroque-like sense of movement and angle in his compositions.
Don Wilkinson
South Dartmouth painter Roger Kizik doesn’t color within the lines. And probably never did.
Seventy-five years ago, he was born in Boston and raised in nearby West Medford. His mother was a learned and devoted opera fan. His father managed a sausage factory, all the while enjoying a parallel career as a gifted saxophonist in a dance and polka band dubbed The Modernistics.
Kizik acknowledged that the poles of “ethnic” and classical musical disciplines were an everyday fact and that those sounds still resonate deep within. But the music gene eluded him.
Childhood visits to the Museum of Fine Arts and the newly opened Decordova Museum offered an array of possibilities as to what art might actually be, well beyond comic books and the illustrations on the Saturday Evening Post. For him, museums garnered a kind of social and cultural fascination.