Opening Reception for Sally Lutz and Laurie Alpert

Bromfield Gallery, 450 Harrison Ave, Boston, MA | Get Directions »
FREE

This shows is on display at the Bromfield Gallery May 4 through May 28.

From Sally Lutz:

"These Are a Few of My Favorite Things"

These paintings began as a way to both celebrate and exorcise an obsession with certain small objects which have occupied space in one corner of my studio for many years-hence the title of the show.   

They are small, worn, discarded things, difficult to identify, probably humble in origin. For inexplicable reasons they have taken hold of my imagination over time. They are of metal, paper, plastic, styrofoam or cloth.

My process is messy and redundant, serendipitous, yet oddly controlled. I begin by either scanning or photographing the object to gather a somewhat "realistic" image. That image is then run through a low-quality scanning process onto ordinary copier paper where it appears much enlarged.This image is then glued in pieces to mat board where I prepare it to withstand an oil medium.  

Each painting is a portrait of an individual object, but also an attempt to transform and transcend the reality of the thing, itself.

 From Laurie Alpert:

"Snap?"

I have been a member of EES Arts, a professional printmaking cooperative, for many years. Periodically, we produce group portfolios, each with a theme meant to be interpreted by the artist in a personal way. We recently completed a portfolio titled "Lighten Up."

The timing of this could not have been better for me. For the past few years I have been working with imagery inspired by the Dead Sea Scrolls, the tension in the Middle East and my mother's music. A dominant motif that exists in the work is a photograph of a sculpture that I took while visiting the Golan Heights. It is a life-size soldier pointing his gun out toward Syria. There is a great deal of tension between the violence that this suggests and the beauty that my mother's music embodies.

This is why "Lighten Up" was well timed. My artist's books and prints have evolved into a more playful series of mixed media works on paper. There is now a different kind of tension taking place in this new body of work: the seemingly disparate images join to create a world far from the violent nature of what is unfortunately still going on in the world.