Tag: meet the artist
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MEET THE ARTIST: Mark Kelner
Mark Kelner is a visual artist and filmmaker based in Washington, DC and Brooklyn. He has studied with the esteemed novelist Vasily Aksyonov during his time at George Mason University and, prior to the art world, worked alongside filmmaker Steven Spielberg coordinating the production of video testimonies of Holocaust survivors in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet…
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MEET THE ARTIST: JULIA CSEKÖ
Julia Csekö was born in Colorado, raised in Rio de Janeiro, and is now an art educator and practicing local Boston-based artist. Csekö’s resume boasts an impressively extensive background and highlights that, “her work gravitates around conversations and experiments grounded on a paradigm shift from competitive to collaborative mindset in social actions and interactions,”. One…
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MEET THE ARTIST: MICHAEL ZACHARY
Michael Zachary is a longtime Boston-based artist who has had his work shown across the country. Inspired by the technicality and manipulation of art and its mediums, with only pen and ink, Zachary creates drawings using a unique method that utilizes simple marks in four different colors to create full images. These images only come…
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MEET THE ARTIST: CINDY LU
Cindy Lu‘s piece, entitled “Collective Landscapes”, cascades down a wall in Beacon Gallery, surrounded by other artists’ works of a shared overarching theme. In the current group exhibition, ‘Coded‘, art explores the ways in which we instill, decipher, and pass on the messages contained within that same art, both as artists and viewers. Guests of…
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MEET THE ARTIST: DAMON CAMPAGNA
Two of Damon Campagna’s works now sit in the showroom of Beacon Gallery. Standing out amongst the other works, Campagna’s works are a non-traditional introduction or reminder to the unbounded definition of art, expression, and – in line with the exhibition’s message – the wide range of “codes” and meanings embedded in different artists’ creations.…
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MEET THE ARTIST: LORETTA PARK
Loretta Park, a local contemporary artist, creates works that playfully engage the viewer on a 3-dimensional level. Often bright, colorful, and highly tactile in their nature, Park’s pieces utilize a wide range of materials and forms, seeking to explore the ways in which both tactile and visual elements are related and perceived by the viewer.…