Contemporary Arts International

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The mission of CAI is to promote the understanding an dappreciation of contemporary art through art education, exhibition and international symposium.

06/17/2023

Note: the CAI policy about people trespassing on private property has become more strict because unfortunately some people walk or drive into the museum with no intention of paying the admission fee. We hope that people who support the arts will understand that, as a small non profit organization, the nominal admission fee we charge goes toward keeping our sculpture grounds and gallery spaces beautiful for all of our guests. Thank you, as always, for your patronage!

04/09/2023

Hello friends! Our art grounds are open to public everyday 10am to 6pm, contingent on good weather. To make sure we are prepared to receive visitors, we request that you call 617-699-6401 to make an appointment ahead of time or at the yellow gate just before coming in. Our admission, which can be paid (cash, Venmo or CashApp) inside the entrance of the red YV Museum building, is $10/adult, $5/senior over 65 or students under 16, free for children under 7.

09/20/2020

Due to Covid-19 situation, the YV Art Museum/CAI Art Grounds still remain closed, which means we have canceled all activities, including Container Man concert and all other exhibitions.
We predict that we will remain close until the late Spring of 2021. Hopefully, everyone will have received vaccine by then.
Meanwhile, we are using this time to improve our art grounds, several new sculptures have been installed and a sculpture walking trail has been cultivated. This large scale improvement takes time and energy, so we are using this "quiet time" to get it done. So that we can present a "brand new world" to you when the world is safe again.

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03/20/2020

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03/15/2020

Due to the Coronavirus outbreak, our Art Grounds are close to the public until further notice. Thank you.

The artists-in-residency at CAI are often inspired by the environment to expand beyond their usual media. For example, L...
02/06/2020

The artists-in-residency at CAI are often inspired by the environment to expand beyond their usual media. For example, Lin Chia-Hung is primarily a painter, but during the residency he carved a granite sculpture as a 3D version of his painting on CAI's New Art Archeology stone pile.

11/25/2019

We just added a couple of 'new to us' museums! Check out the Stockade Museum & Carry A. Nation Home and the YV Art Museum formerly Contemporary Arts International when you have a moment!

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11/06/2019

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YV Art Museum administered under The Contemporary Arts International (CAI), a non-profit, 501c3 art center located at 68 Quarry Road, Acton MA, is hosting an exhibition entitled ““WHY WE in YV ART …

11/05/2018

– Contemporary Arts International (CAI), a 501(c) non-profit art center, also known as YV Art Museum (WHY WE Art Museum) announces the solo exhibition of paintings by multi-disciplined artist Greg Mason Burns. The exhibition entitled “RECEPTION THEORY” will be on display from Nov 4 to Nov 30 in CAI’s main hall.

Reception Theory, as an academic concept, studies the mass media's message versus the audience's interpretation of that message. Because there is an original message and a resulting interpretation, there exists an inherent "understanding gap" between the two entities. Burns treats that gap not as an academic concept, but as a physical place instead - as if it were a town or a village - where he paints what the people, buildings, and objects might look like in this village. This expansion of the theory into the field of visual arts has sparked a debate about the role of the media in the contemporary world in relation to contemporary art.

Burns initially developed this project during his time in Brazil, particularly during the contentious impeachment of Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff. As an artist with a journalism degree and substantial international experience, this specific controversial period in Brazil’s history sparked the curiosity that created this project, and it has become more relevant in the US. He has exhibited in Brazil, Portugal, and the United States.

Because he tries to remove the "noise" from the media's message, Burns’ work is often reductive in nature. Color Field, as an artistic style, is a tool for presenting this village to the public due to its minimalist underpinning, and is the primary approach for this exhibit.

CAI’s admission fee is $5 for students/ seniors and $10 for adults, which will include a tour of the studio and the sculpture park.

CHANG CHIA-MING is an outstanding painter and stone sculptor from Taiwan. As the Title of the show indicated Chang is a ...
10/15/2018

CHANG CHIA-MING is an outstanding painter and stone sculptor from Taiwan. As the Title of the show indicated Chang is a multi-faceted artist; not only has he mastered stone carving, he is also a serious painter. It seems that the subjects and media Chang choose to present in this show are the two extremes in the field of both 2D art and 3D art, “soft” as creating the fragile, short-lived flower by paint brushes, “hard” as holding the heavy air tools, electric grinders and chisels to the strong, long-lived stone.

Chang was invited by the Museum/CAI at first as a stone carver to participate in the CAI’s New Art Archeology program, during the 3-week Stone Carving Symposium he carved a 10-foot tall, 6-ton monumental granite sculpture. After the completion of the Symposium, Chang started to paint flowers in reaction to the environment surrounding of the Museum’s sculptural grounds. His sharp observation of the subtle colors hidden in this dense forest, and the colors of the man-made sculptures on the grounds comes out on huge canvases. He sets up his 10 feet tall canvas frame in the woods next to the big stone pile. He paints from dawn to dusk and lets the daylight gradation speak to him throughout the day. His elevated spirit and supreme inspiration has evidently shown through the painted flowers.
Chang’s artwork associates profoundly to the figurative and its social implication. His composition lingers on the edge between abstraction and concreteness.

At age 50, Chang has had experience in a variety of media, stone, wood, fiberglass, bronze, plaster…to name a few, and diverse world cultures. His sensitivity to other cultures perhaps was first ignited by his 6 years of art study in Japan. With that he earned a BFA degree in Sculpture at the Nagoya Art University. After having been a successful artist, his intellectual curiosity brought him to pursue another master study in Cultural Anthropology in 2007. Naturally his approach to Anthropology is intensely artistic; consequently he examines his artwork with an anthropological perception since. When asked how he balanced the art sensational realm versus academic rational realm, he replied “it’s not about balancing, it’s about the effectiveness, in other words, if when expressing my idea, paint is effective, I will paint, otherwise, I will sculpt.”

CAI’s admission fee is $5 for students/ seniors and $10 for adults, which will include a tour of the studio and the sculpture park.

For more information, visit our website at www.contemporaryartsinternational.org.

Our scope is global, 3D, and multidisciplinary

“BEFORE ENDING  THE JOUNEY” by TAI MING-TEContemporary Arts International (CAI), a nonprofit art center, announces the i...
06/27/2018

“BEFORE ENDING THE JOUNEY” by TAI MING-TE

Contemporary Arts International (CAI), a nonprofit art center, announces the interdisciplinary exhibition in CAI’s Gallery. Curated by Viktor Lois, the exhibition entitled “Before the End of the Journey: Paintings of My Older Brother” by Taiwanese artist Ming-Te Tai will be open to the public from July 8 to Oct 8, 2018. This is our anchor show of the year. An Opening Reception and Artist Talk will be held on July 8 at 2:00PM.

A collection of more than 40 paintings in this exhibition utters empathetically the struggle of human distress and despair. Through an artistic recording of the artist’s brother’s last period in his life journey, Tai expresses from the bottom of his soul the humanity’s deepest fear toward the end of our destiny. Each painting elucidates a level of elevation in the artist’s heart. Tai’s motive unequivocally gives a total artistic Life to his brother, and makes “before the Ending of the Journey” tangible.

As the artist’s statement stated: “… the year 2012 was the last period of my late older brother with a terminal oral cancer. I looked at his weak and fractured cheeks and body, and felt the urge to record the last of him in images. However, the section from his nasal cavity to his neck is bandaged with gauze with blood oozing out, I could not bring myself to lift the cold camera and press the shutter to the brutal scene. I started drawing his portrait on the thin wrapping paper from his medical supply kits. Needless to say, my mind was filled with chaotic thoughts and the anxiety on our rapidly approaching eternal separation...
Two years later, the doodling was transformed into this painting series.

Tai writes further: “…My older brother and I were 17 years apart, our relationship is in many ways like that of a father and son. His build was burly, his character with a strong sense of righteousness, he often took a leadership role among his peers, and frequently got into fights with local gangsters when he was young and unruly. Even though they were outnumbered ten to one, he persisted in the bloodshed until the end. His job took him traveling constantly until an illness drove him back to his hometown to become a ‘good citizen’. I marveled at his value of life. To me, the suffering state of his predicament was no different from that of a saint! Paintings of my Older Brother perhaps are autobiographical revealing my fear in facing my own end in the future.”

The series, though a portrait of the artist’s brother, is obviously not a depiction of his appearance but the apprehension of his vigilance, courage, and witness of the easy attitude he beheld when facing excruciating pain.

When asked about the process of creating these paintings, Tai articulates that this series was first painted with trembling hands when Tai directly faced his brother and sketched him. Based on the draft, after the brother passed away, a large number of interpretive finer sketches were produced. Tai freely employed diverse materials to express himself in various stages of anxiety and despair. Tai explored the integration of acrylics and mixed materials for presentation. Through acrylics and the cutting, covering, filling in color, and blooming on vinyl cuttings, the resulting imagery was extremely similar to that of woodcut prints, expressing the harshness, strength and life-like movement of the figure in the painting. In the dark-colored area with moist ink, the symbol of time delivers the reference and inference of the Paintings of “My Brother” heading to the end of his Life. The linear cut marks overlap and intersect, vacillating between certainty and uncertainty. They weave the direct contact and treatment of the separation and pain.

The emotional imagery in the show resonates the famous print/painting “Scream” by Edvard Munch, not only the subject matter of expressing the artist’s inner thoughts and strong feeling, but also its swirling movement, rhythm and intensity. Munch’s extreme despair completely override the painterly application, the “Scream” hits the viewer with a solely direct feeling of anxiety. As Munch’s diaries read: "I was walking down the road with two friends when the sun set; suddenly, the sky turned as red as blood. I stopped and leaned against the fence, feeling unspeakably tired. Tongues of fire and blood stretched over the bluish black fjord. My friends went on walking, while I lagged behind, shivering with fear. Then I heard the enormous infinite scream of nature." Like Munch, Tai Ming-Te’s paintings express not merely psychological agony but also physical suffering on the edge of insanity. Munch is from Norway, Tai is from Taiwan, the common denominator is their extraordinary human feeling. Through art, they both evoke the empathy in our hearts.

Both Yin and Viktor have known Tai personally since 2005, and witnessed the dedication and even the near “madness” in which he created and lived his art. Touched by Tai’s authenticity and artistic spirit, they brought this series to New England to share with the Western viewers a glimpse of this moving and critical Asian artist, whose voice and life journey we all, at various degrees, one time or other, have encountered.

Tai has obtained his Master of Fine Arts from the Tainan National University of the Arts, and is an Associate Professor of Visual Art at the National Jiayi University in Taiwan.

CAI’s admission fee is $5 for students and $10 for adults, which will include a tour of the studio and the sculpture park.

For more information, visit our website at www.contemporaryartsinternational.org

Yes - The Quarry is an amazing place to visit. Read all about it in Fifty Plus Advocate!!http://www.fiftyplusadvocate.co...
06/27/2018

Yes - The Quarry is an amazing place to visit. Read all about it in Fifty Plus Advocate!!

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By Jane Keller Gordon Acton – Driving north along Quarry Road in Acton, next to a tan house, there is a huge granite statue that seems out of place. To ...

Yin and Viktor are in Hungary wrapping up a symposium there. Here is Yin, hard at work!!
06/27/2018

Yin and Viktor are in Hungary wrapping up a symposium there. Here is Yin, hard at work!!

Master carvers Yin and Viktor at work!!
05/31/2017

Master carvers Yin and Viktor at work!!

Winter class at The Quarry with Felix Huang, December 17, 2016
01/10/2017

Winter class at The Quarry with Felix Huang, December 17, 2016

11/19/2016

Sad news – "Our Board Member James Norton (1957-2016) passed away on Sunday November 13, having an heart attack while chaperoning a Boy Scout field trip in the White Mountain.

An angel as he had always been to CAI and to the community... It is a great loss for CAI...

There will be a church service on Saturday, November 19th at 2:00pm at The Church of theGood Shepherd, 164 Newtown Road, Acton, MA. After the service, there will be a reception at CAI Main Hall.

The Quarry art ground has been protected under the Norton family’s wing starting from day one.James’s contribution was multi-faceted, not only as a board member, but also as a dear friend, and the most generous, conscientious individual in this community. If you took a walk through Quarry Road on a weekend, likely you would run into a guy with a long stick moving slowly here and there. When you came closer, sure enough, you’d see this gentleman casually picking up the public’s trash with a style (a cigar in his mouth). This was our beloved James.

James lived a very full life. We know he has earned his seat in heaven and his spirit is with us forever. We shall miss him." Yin

Viktor Lois spoke for Hungarian artists Akos Banki and Agnes Verebics at an opening reception for their exhibit, held Oc...
10/14/2016

Viktor Lois spoke for Hungarian artists Akos Banki and Agnes Verebics at an opening reception for their exhibit, held October 9, 2016 in the Red Box Building at The Quarry.

A work in progress by Hungarian artist Akos Banki.
10/05/2016

A work in progress by Hungarian artist Akos Banki.

A work in progress by visiting Hungarian artist Agnes Verebics.
10/05/2016

A work in progress by visiting Hungarian artist Agnes Verebics.

“TWO REACTIONS, ONE ENVIRONMENT”  by Ágnes Verebics and Ákos BánkiAn opening reception will be held on October 9, Sun...
09/28/2016

“TWO REACTIONS, ONE ENVIRONMENT”
by Ágnes Verebics and Ákos Bánki

An opening reception will be held on October 9, Sunday, 2:00pm for the exhibition, “TWO REACTIONS, ONE ENVIRONMENT” by Hungarian Artists Ágnes Verebics and Ákos Bánki.

VEREBICS and BANKI were chosen for CAI's exchange program with the APA Gallery in Budapest. These two well accomplished artists came into the Quarry with open minds and sharp eyes. The show presents their two distinctly different personalities, sensitivities, and painting techniques. They used objects, photos, figurative and concrete and created abstract paintings in reaction to the environment surrounding the Quarry. The found objects, nature and man-made, they encounter inspires their view of the world specific to the Quarry in Acton, Massachusetts, New England.

Ágnes Verebics’s work in faces and masks, which hide behind devices attached to machines, calls for the ancestral genetics. In recent years, she has developed a special technique of painting on aluminum plates, which gives a futuristic look to her fantastic figurative work. She stated, “…exaggerated human and animal body parts inspire and dominate the power of my works... I use fragmentary body images as vehicles to explore the sexuality, violence and the wider human condition;�equally important are questions of what lies behind these faces, what is revealed and what stays out of sight. In the case of self- portraits, what, one may ask, what does one see when facing oneself”.

Ákos Bánki’s usually associates photographic studies of figurative elements to his series, which extract, transplant and translate some of them into his abstract language and then integrate it to his paintings. An experienced reality therefore becomes a physical and psychic manifestation. Sweeping aside the figuratives, he seeks and sneaks into the psychological, emotional, subconscious quarters of chromatics and visualizations in order to make it burst from the inside, aiming to generate an effect on the viewer.

Bánki’s is one of the main figures of the new wave of non-figurative painting in Hungary. As a total abstract painter who relates to actionism, expressionism, but also conceptualism, and who paints not only with his hand but with his whole body, not only with his mind, but with his guts, the dripping, leaking, flowing energy fields of Ákos Bánki’s works often slap the viewer with their energy, radiance and vibration.

Both born in 1982, Verebics and Banki each earned a Masters degree in painting at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in 2006. Banki has also pursued his studies with a DLA formation in 2011 at the University of Pécs.

CAI’s admission fee is $5 for students and $10 for adults, which will include a tour of the studio and the sculpture park.

One of two sculptures by Yin, welcoming you to the RedBox Building at The Quarry
09/14/2016

One of two sculptures by Yin, welcoming you to the RedBox Building at The Quarry

Ted Castro, whose sculptures, paintings, drawings, and stained glass work was on display in the Red Box Building in May ...
08/27/2016

Ted Castro, whose sculptures, paintings, drawings, and stained glass work was on display in the Red Box Building in May 2016, is continuing his exploration of "Mass Angst" at The Quarry - this time on the rock pile. His granite sculpture might represent a man swimming, or taking a pledge - of allegiance, for marriage, for promise? Ted says it's up to you, the viewer, to figure it out.

So please stop by and check it out, on the back of the rock pile.
This side is coming together, with some trees removed, and a growing number of pieces, including Hungarian sculptor Abel Kotorman, who is part of this summer's stone-carving symposium.

Dear Friends, Tomorrow Sunday 2pm is our Symposium Closing Exhibition.  The sculpture this year including a "Whales' Tai...
08/27/2016

Dear Friends,
Tomorrow Sunday 2pm is our Symposium Closing Exhibition. The sculpture this year including a "Whales' Tail," "Man on the Rock," "Two cows on Rock," "the Chief"... and more to see. Artists will talk about their experience and working process. I will also give a tour of the Art Grounds. Please come and enjoy the walk with us.

Here's a picture of "Whale's Tail" in progress by symposium member Ta-Hsien (Dore)

Hope to see you,

Yin

Meet Abel Kotorman, the youngest member of this summer's stone-carving group. He is a sculptor from Budapest, his father...
08/24/2016

Meet Abel Kotorman, the youngest member of this summer's stone-carving group. He is a sculptor from Budapest, his father and two uncles are sculptors as well.

He's working on a sculpture of two resting cows in the mountains. You can see his model of one cow in the photo.

This is Abel's first trip to the U.S.!! He plans to stay for a month beyond the stone-carving group.

Meet this year's stone carving symposium members, from left to right: Ted Castro, Ta-Hsien (Dore) Jen and Abel Kotorman
08/16/2016

Meet this year's stone carving symposium members, from left to right: Ted Castro, Ta-Hsien (Dore) Jen and Abel Kotorman

A new beautiful addition to The Quarry grounds. Tree painting by Richard Metz
08/16/2016

A new beautiful addition to The Quarry grounds. Tree painting by Richard Metz

08/09/2016

“The Heritage of Sound” by Nate Speare
--in memory of Jed Speare--

Contemporary Arts International (CAI), a nonprofit art center, announces the performance on CAI’s Container Man Stage. The performance is entitled “The Heritage of Sound” by Nate Speare, in collaboration with Ana Cantoran. It recognizes Jed’s Speare’s achievements and contributions as a sound artist and acoustic ecologist in the field of Sound Art. CAI’s Container Man Stage is a 14 piece-kinetic-sculptural-orchestral instrument created by Viktor Lois. There will be two shows respectively on Friday, August 19th, Friday, 8-9pm and Saturday, August 20, 2pm.

“The Heritage of Sound” is a tribute to Nate’s father, sound artist and multimedia artist Jed Speare, who passed away in March 2016. Jed Speare, nick-named “Mr. Mobius”, served for over 20 years as the director of Mobius, Boston’s artist-run center for experimental work in all media.

Jed Speare was an artist and arts manager working in a variety of media and settings. Initially trained in music composition, he has presented sound, performance, video, installation, conceptual, multimedia and community-based works locally, nationally, and internationally in festivals and locales such as San Francisco, Amsterdam, Canada, Taiwan, Croatia, Czech Republic, Poland, Belarus, Bulgaria, France, and Italy. A more extensive bio of Jed can be found at http://www.mobius.org/jed-speare/

Nate Speare is a storyteller, vocal performer and astrologer, whose performances referenced myriad sources of folklore-based oral tradition. He used an extended range vocal techniques of the Roy Hart Theatre, PanTheatre and other experimental companies. The subject matter of his works ranged from pedestrian struggles to sacred experiences.

“The Heritage of Sound” is co-created with the guidance, direction and performative sensibility of partner Ana Cantoran Viramontes, an accomplished interdisciplinary artist and ritualist. It explores memory as an urgent yet non-linear inquiry that is both personal and trans-personal; it unfolds in time and space. Nate Speare draws inspiration from his father, Jed Speare’s environmental approach to composing sound works: the soundscapes played during the performance are ‘found sound’ from a specific acoustic environment. The dynamic therein is an invitation for Speare to sing, which can also mean cry, lament, laugh, crescendo or suspend a moment of silence. At the same time, Speare invites the audience to participate in an act of remembering stories of parent-child bonds as he urgently conjures memories and associations in the moment based on prompts that the audience delivers. The inquiry posed involves the sometimes-awkward encounter between subjective, sentimental memory and the rawness of the surrounding world in all that it evokes, from alienation to astonishment to tenderness.

Nate Speare is a mythopoetic vocal artist, storyteller, educator and astrological consultant. He holds an MFA from Naropa University. He has performed and collaborated with PanTheatre (France), for which he was an artist-in-residence at the Roy Hart International Artistic Center in Cevennes, France. He has performed original solo work with Nettles Artists Collective, The One, United Solo Theatre Festival, and IRT Theater's 3b Development Series, and Mobius and CyberArts Gallery in Boston. He is a Teaching Artist at Marquis Studios and an astrological reader at Catland Books. He is also a storyteller and researcher for Storyeon, a folkloric archive associated with the Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism at the Carl Jung Center of NY.

Ana Cantoran Viramontes is an interdisciplinary performer, movement artist, director and researcher of the relationship between ritual and the performative body. In working with Nate Speare, she seeks to find the artistic structures that provide the vocal and aural container for human memory, as well as elevating sounds of iron and concrete in our search for connection with what is bigger than usCAI’s admission fee is $5 for students and $10 for adults, which will include a tour of the studio and the sculpture park.

For more information, visit our website at www.contemporaryartsinternational.org.

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Contemporary Arts International (CAI), also known as The Quarry, is a non-profit located in a 12.9-acre quarry in Acton MA. The mission of CAI is to promote the creation, understanding and appreciation of contemporary arts in the global context through art education, exhibition, and international symposium. For more information, visit the CAI’s website.
Contemporary Arts International (CAI)
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Jed Speare is an artist and arts manager working in a variety of media and settings. Initially trained in music composition, he has presented sound, performance, video, installation, conceptual, multimedia and community-based works locally, nationally, and internationally in festivals and locales su...

08/09/2016

Dear Friends,
There is a slight time change on Nate Speare’s performance "The Heritage of Sound." The current schedules for the two shows are:

Friday, August 19th at 8pm
Saturday, Augusts 20 at 2pm

Admissioni s $5/students and $10/adults, which includes a tour of our Art Grounds (with more than 80 outdoor sculptures).

Please come and join us,

Best, Yin

There's rain in the forecast for this Sunday, July 10th. At 2pm, duck indoors an experience the grandeur of Robert Malon...
07/08/2016

There's rain in the forecast for this Sunday, July 10th. At 2pm, duck indoors an experience the grandeur of Robert Maloney's exhibit, "Building Memories." Here's a sneak peek!! See you then.

07/08/2016

Message from Yin:

Dear Friends,
After coming back from a trip to Europe where I helped to open two exhibitions from CAI’s artists-in-residency in our Hungarian Residency site, I walked into another “wonderland” in our very own gallery at the Quarry -- the video/sculptural installation by Robert Maloney.

Mysterious sculptural objects stand behind richly colored projections; every second of viewing stimulates a different spot in my brain, and only something as complex as my own “Memories” can perhaps describe this experience, as Maloney so appropriately entitled this show.

We are holding the opening reception at 2PM on July 10 (this coming Sunday). Please come, experience it with us and discover the complex artistic brain behind it.

Best,

Yin

07/08/2016

Boston Globe coverage of Robert Maloney's upcoming show, "Building Memories"

"SCULPTURE AT THE QUARRY Contemporary Arts International in Acton announces the opening of Robert Maloney’s “Building Memories,” a multimedia installation on exhibit July 6 through 31, with an opening reception on Sunday, July 10, from 2 to 5 p.m. and an artist talk on Sunday, July 24, at 2 p.m. The installation utilizes digital projection of portraits superimposed on architecturally inspired structures made of topographic maps and thin strips of wood. Admission fee is $5 for students and $10 for adults, which includes a tour of the studio and the sculpture park. Contemporary Arts International is at The Quarry, 68 Quarry Road, Acton. For more information, call 617-699-6401 or go to www.contemporaryartsinternational.org."

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/regionals/west/2016/06/29/acton-actress-reprises-her-earlier-role-thoroughly-modern-millie/TDzYfTaBsfcdqu5qrpeefI/story.html

Eugene Y. C. Zhou's exhibit at the Tatabanya Museum in Hungary.
06/18/2016

Eugene Y. C. Zhou's exhibit at the Tatabanya Museum in Hungary.

06/18/2016

Yin and Viktor celebrate the June 17th opening of Eugene Y. C. Zhou (formerly Yu Chen - congratulations) exhibit at the Tatabanya Museum in Hungary.

“Building Memories” by Robert Maloney CAI) announces the opening of Robert Maloney’s “Building Memories” multi media ins...
06/15/2016

“Building Memories” by Robert Maloney

CAI) announces the opening of Robert Maloney’s “Building Memories” multi media installation. The show runs from July 6 through July 31, 2016 at CAI Gallery in the Red Box Building.

An opening reception for the exhibition will take place on July 10, 2016, 2pm 5pm. Robert will be present for an artist talk Sunday July 24 at 2pThe gallery is closed for a private event July 16.

An interdisciplinary artist, Robert Maloney has often incorporated “space” into his visual memories/experience. Inspired by the fluid and flawed process of our deteriorating memories, Maloney’s Building Memories installation at CAI Gallery utilizes digital projection of portraits that are superimposed onto architecturally inspired structures made of topographic maps and thin strips of wood. The portraits cycle through a series of time-lapse animations, as the imagery is projected onto the structures, they ameliorate and deteriorate at different stages of recognition.
The skeletal structures fragment the imagery into a field of cubist­like architectural shadows.

As Maloney states, “we struggle to make out the features embedded in the structures in the same way that we excavate the memories of the individuals and dwellings of our past”. In this installation, a soundtrack of ambient and rhythmic sounds will accompany the video footage to create a fully immersive experience for the viewer.
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n conjunction with “Building Memories” at CAI, a joint exhibit of Robert’s monotype prints and mixed media wall constructions will be on view at Rapscallion Table & Tap, a restaurant/bar only two miles away from CAI grounds (artist reception July 31, 3pm ­ 5pm).

Robert Maloney is an Assistant Professor at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. His recent work focuses on the connections between the temporary materials of our man­made, urban structures and how these fragile forms relate to the erosion of memory. His work has been featured in Creative Quarterly Magazine, Cloth Paper Scissors Magazine, The Pulse of Mixed Media (North Light Books), Art Revolution (North Light Books) and Artscope Magazine and his work is held in the collection of Wellington Management, Liberty Mutual and private collections.

CAI’s admission fee is $5 for students and $10 for adults, which will include a tour of the studio and the sculpture park. For a group rate (10+), please contact us beforehand so that we can better prepare for your visit.

Hungarian artist Gabor Mikya turned granite into an amazing sculpture at The Quarry. Stop by to see this piece, and Ted ...
06/01/2016

Hungarian artist Gabor Mikya turned granite into an amazing sculpture at The Quarry. Stop by to see this piece, and Ted Castro's exhibit "Mass Angst," now in the Red Box Building's gallery.

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🔸開放時間: 週四至週日 13:00-18:00
🔸活動訊息: https://contemporaryartsinternational.org/event/lin-chia-hung-solo-exhibition/ ;Chia-Hung Lin's Studio 林家弘創作交流

#藝術銀行
This place is magical. Serene, lovely, inspiring, with beautiful artworks in a wooded setting.
Dear Friends,
It's our annual Symposium time again. This is our 7th year in the realization of the "New Art Archeology" idea at the Quarry, the progress is going forward very steadily! This year we want to thank the support from the Massachusetts Local Cultural Councils of the following towns: Acton-Boxborough, Billerica, Chelmsford, Concord, Harvard, Littleton and Westford.
The Opening reception will be held on August 5, Sunday at 2:00PM; and Closing Exhibition on August 26, Sunday at 2:00PM.
Today one of our visitors commented "... so eventually you are going to finish carving the entire pile, right?...I am so glad I get to see the pile now..." Very true, at each and every stage of this "Archeological site", it is worth being the witness.

We are open to the public everyday 2pm to 5pm or by appointment (617-699-6401). The admission is $10 for adults, $5/child & Senior. In our indoor Gallery, we are featuring a series of thought-provoking paintings entitled "Before the End of The Journey" by Tai Ming-Te. Currently, we have more than 100 sculptures in display on our outdoor art grounds. We are in the process of naming this art ground "YV Art Museum" ("Why We Art Museum"). Attached is our logo to entertain this idea.

Hope to see you,
Best,
Yin
I want to check this place out!
I had no idea this was in Acton. I am going to visit tomorrow! I have been by it many times and did not know it was there.
Breathe Pause Breathe, an exhibition by Clive Moloney opens this Saturday Juy 1 at 2PM at The Quarry, Contemporary Arts International

Could someone please get back to me ASAP?
excited about upcoming show.
Best budget vacations for fall
Beautiful work being done here...one week to finish before the closing reception, Sat. 8/23.
I'd love to see some images of this years Symposium artists and carvings! I bet they are amazing...
Geoff, I'm sorry I disappeared on you, I sort of panicked. I'll see you on Saturday.
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