It’s the biggest group of art openings in North Adams at one time, bigger than ever in known history: Thursday evening June 26th.
MCLA Gallery 51 presents Terms of Surrender, by Rich Remsberg. Rich is well-known in the community, our very own bearded photo and film-archivist for numerous documentary productions, as well as author, photojournalist, and collector of the unusual. Here’s Rich and one of my cats, Masaccio, when M. was a wiggly kitten:
Rich is presenting some new video art, as well as some of his better-known works such as his short film, “Jeweler’s Eye,” which premiered at the Slamdance Film Festival earlier this year, and “Common Pictures: A Journey Through the Eyes of Found Photography,” which was an opening act for the electronic music duo, “The Books,” on their spring 2007 tour.
The entire Downstreet Art event kicks off – with Maya III, by Jarvis Rockwell courtesy of MASS MoCA (Despite the belief that the museum doesn’t show local artists, here again MASS MoCA is again presenting the work of another local artist. In another of their current exhibits, Badlands, the Williamstown painter Michael Glier presents a set of fabulous contemporary paintings.)
Another notable opening downtown will be Lumens, and internet-enable installation by Ven Voisey, Sean Riley and Matthew Belanger.
In Main St. 107 is the new North Adams Artist’s Cooperative opens its doors – including works by Kay Canavino, Sharon Carson, Cynthia Lewis, Laura Christensen, Deborah Combs, Karen Combs, Carmen Cuccia, Andrew Davis, Martha Flood, Jen Flores, Jaye Fox, Emily Gold, Barry Goldstein, Karen Kane, Leslie Kearsley, Erin Ko, Steve Levin, Susan Manley, Barbara May, Melanie Mowinski, Lisa Nilsson, Debi Pendell, Sarah Pike, Gregory Scheckler, Diane Sullivan, Thor Wickstrom, Julie Wigg, Rodney Wilkinson, Colleen Williams and Mary Wright.
At IO Gallery, new environmental works (opened on Saturday)
There’s a lot more going on – check out DownstreetArt.org for more information.
