Past Show • September 3-26, 2020
(See pop-up hours below)
LIMITED ACCESS
A Window Installation at Gallery A3
Valerie Gilman and Rebecca Muller
ART FORUM / ZOOM EVENT
Thursday, September 17 at 7:30 pm
Join the artists in an interactive dialogue and a virtual gallery tour
VARIATIONS IN 3-D
A Window Display at Goberry Amherst
Laura Holland and Nancy Meagher
LIMITED ACCESS / Valerie Gilman and Rebecca Muller
A Site Specific Installation at Gallery A3, viewed through the window
POP-UP HOURS / with limited in-gallery access (1-person at a time)
Thursday, September 3, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Every Friday and Saturday in September, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Masks are required, social distancing will be observed.
ART FORUM / ZOOM EVENT
Thursday, September 17th at 7:30 p.m.
Join the Artists in an interactive dialogue and a virtual gallery tour.
For a zoom link, please email [email protected]
This exhibit is very responsive to changes in natural light. Please visit at different times of the day to enjoy the early morning sun and late afternoon light.
Building on gallery window exhibitions in July and August, Gallery A3 presents its first 3-D window installation, titled Limited Access, opening on Thursday, September 3. Gallery members Valerie Gilman and Rebecca Muller combine their creative energy and experience as 3-D and installation artists, to explore ways to visually draw the viewer’s attention into deeper space. This exhibition continues Gallery A3’s efforts to keep visual art actively present in the community, despite the effects of restricted activity due to the coronavirus.
The installation was created through the month of August, behind the display wall of the August exhibit. Employing an iterative process and dialogue, Valerie and Rebecca combine translucent and partially masked elements using vocabulary/matter familiar to each of them: scrim, clay, debris, rusted and deteriorated metal, rebar, mesh, wood, and other industrial material. While working “inside” the gallery, the artists’ challenge is how to draw the viewer’s attention deeper and deeper into a space that can primarily be viewed only from “outside” and potential frustration of experiencing a 3-D environment from one vantage point. Only in their imagination can viewers walk through and inhabit the space, and experience the form, light, and texture from multiple points of view. In a series of Pop-Up events, imagination briefly may become reality, when the door to Gallery A3 will be open and (masked) viewers can take turns entering a restricted area, to experience the other side of the window.
The artists hope to reflect the complexity of this difficult and challenging time of limited access, restriction, and desire. In this time, we challenge our old habits and propensity to get stuck in single or limited view, and instead reach to embrace the vivid possibility of imagining new, more inclusive, and respectful pathways as a community and culture.
A Site Specific Installation at Gallery A3, viewed through the window
POP-UP HOURS / with limited in-gallery access (1-person at a time)
Thursday, September 3, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Every Friday and Saturday in September, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Masks are required, social distancing will be observed.
ART FORUM / ZOOM EVENT
Thursday, September 17th at 7:30 p.m.
Join the Artists in an interactive dialogue and a virtual gallery tour.
For a zoom link, please email [email protected]
This exhibit is very responsive to changes in natural light. Please visit at different times of the day to enjoy the early morning sun and late afternoon light.
Building on gallery window exhibitions in July and August, Gallery A3 presents its first 3-D window installation, titled Limited Access, opening on Thursday, September 3. Gallery members Valerie Gilman and Rebecca Muller combine their creative energy and experience as 3-D and installation artists, to explore ways to visually draw the viewer’s attention into deeper space. This exhibition continues Gallery A3’s efforts to keep visual art actively present in the community, despite the effects of restricted activity due to the coronavirus.
The installation was created through the month of August, behind the display wall of the August exhibit. Employing an iterative process and dialogue, Valerie and Rebecca combine translucent and partially masked elements using vocabulary/matter familiar to each of them: scrim, clay, debris, rusted and deteriorated metal, rebar, mesh, wood, and other industrial material. While working “inside” the gallery, the artists’ challenge is how to draw the viewer’s attention deeper and deeper into a space that can primarily be viewed only from “outside” and potential frustration of experiencing a 3-D environment from one vantage point. Only in their imagination can viewers walk through and inhabit the space, and experience the form, light, and texture from multiple points of view. In a series of Pop-Up events, imagination briefly may become reality, when the door to Gallery A3 will be open and (masked) viewers can take turns entering a restricted area, to experience the other side of the window.
The artists hope to reflect the complexity of this difficult and challenging time of limited access, restriction, and desire. In this time, we challenge our old habits and propensity to get stuck in single or limited view, and instead reach to embrace the vivid possibility of imagining new, more inclusive, and respectful pathways as a community and culture.
VARIATIONS IN 3-D / Window Exhibition at GoBerry Amherst
Laura Holland and Nancy Meagher
Relating to the sculptural installation in Gallery A3, Nancy Meagher and Laura Holland play with 3-D variations of 2-D work in Go Berry’s storefront windows. Nancy created a wire sculpture of a dress riffing off her illustrations of workers at the Leeds Mill River Button Company swept away in the flood of 1874. Laura cut her large-scale photographs from their frames, then folded each into an eight-page book.
Laura Holland and Nancy Meagher
Relating to the sculptural installation in Gallery A3, Nancy Meagher and Laura Holland play with 3-D variations of 2-D work in Go Berry’s storefront windows. Nancy created a wire sculpture of a dress riffing off her illustrations of workers at the Leeds Mill River Button Company swept away in the flood of 1874. Laura cut her large-scale photographs from their frames, then folded each into an eight-page book.
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ARTISTS IN COMMUNITY
Forums and videos are part of the Artists in Community program. This program is supported in part by a grant from the Amherst Cultural Council, a local agency, which is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency. 
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