Daily Archives: May 24, 2024

Saturday, May 25 – Monday, September 2 – 25th Studios Without Walls

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The Brookline Department of Public Works and Open Space hosts the 25th Annual Studios Without Walls at Riverway Park in Brookline. The Opening Reception is Saturday, May 25 from noon – four pm. The exhibition features site responsive sculpture in Riverway Park by artists Sarah Alexander, Gail Bos, Anne Eder, Janaal Eversley, Barbara Fletcher, Gateway Artists, Liz Helfer, Linda Hoffman, Janet Kawada, Chris King, Bette Ann Libby, Mary McCusker, Silvina Mizrahi, Rachel Shatil, Adrienne Shishko + Suzanne Moseley, Marnie Sinclair, Allen M. Spivack, and Dan Rocha. There are daily self guided tours and an Art Treasure Hunt. For all information visit http://www.studioswithoutwalls.org/

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Saturday, June 1 through Sunday, October 6 – The Lost Bird Project

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Todd McGrain’s “The Lost Bird Project” recognizes the tragedy of environmental destruction by immortalizing North American birds that have been driven to extinction, including the Passenger Pigeon, the Carolina Parakeet, the Labrador Duck, the Great Auk, and the Heath Hen. The Berkshire Botanical Garden exhibition includes large-scale outdoor sculptures and an indoor gallery show (beginning August 10) featuring smaller-scale versions of the same sculptures, supplemented with original drawings and other related artwork. “These bronze sculptures are subtle, beautiful and hopeful reminders,” McGrain says. “The human scale of each outdoor sculpture elicits a physical sympathy. The smooth surface, like a stone polished from touch, conjures the effect of memory and time. I model these gestural forms to contain a taut equilibrium, a balanced pressure from outside and from inside — like a breath held in. As a group, they are melancholy yet affirming. They compel us to recognize the finality of our loss, they ask us not to forget them, and they remind us of our duty to prevent further extinction.”

Opening reception is Saturday, Aug. 10, from 5 to 7 p.m. For more information visit https://www.berkshirebotanical.org/leonhardt-galleries-2024