A PRIZE EVERY TIME!
September 6th thru 29th, 2013
at the A.P.E. Gallery in Northampton, MA
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Come join us for pecuniary pleasures
at our
OPENING RECEPTION
Friday., Sept.6, 5:00-8:00 PM
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Sally Curcio, Amy Johnquest , Anne LaPrade Seuthe
A.P.E. Ltd. Gallery
126 Main Street
Northampton, MA 01060
Hrs: Tues–Sun: 12-5, Fri: 12-8
Closed Mondays
This program is supported in part by a grant from the Northampton Arts Council,a local agency which is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.
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Last chance to see Amy “BannerQueen” Johnquest’s in-process installation WAS IS in it’s final state.
Friday May 10th, 5:00pm – 10:00pm, Room 126 (Across from the Apollo Grill) in EastWorks, 116 Pleasant St., Easthampton, MA.
Come for the party, come to see the grand finale, or come to make off with a super art buy deal.
Statement:
Over time our perspective changes, but all that is behind us is still with us.
The nature of my installation work is about being in the space and allowing the sense of where I am dictate where I should go. This piece follows in the footsteps of a previous installation called “MOM”
After my Mother (a terrific pack rat) died, my Father carefully went through her well stuffed studio, and sent me a box filled with her keepsakes – all on paper. They came from a time when people wrote letters – by hand – on a regular basis. And pictures were printed (good or bad) from a roll of film at the drug store. The contents ran the gamut from a hand typed evaluation from my orthodontist, to a funny October 1958 collaged congratulatory card for giving birth to (me) a baby girl.
With my current project “WAS IS,” I’m taking this theme one step further and attempting to tackle the daunting task of sorting through the ephemera of my own pack-rattish life. A purging of sorts, I’ve selected from piles of sketches, keepsakes, letters, art, and photos (good and bad) and have collaged these with the random cards, receipts and odd documents that have filled files, drawers, boxes and closets throughout my home. “WAS IS” is the stuff of a tactile, low tech, pre digital nature. This physical marking of the passage of time, of lost loved ones, and long gone pets is both tribute, acknowledgment, and love letter to the fleetingness of memory and existence. I salute it now and one day will kiss it all goodbye.
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