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Adria Arch’s show Anti-Gravity, installed in Distillery Gallery’s raw, lower-level space feels like it could be a set for an underground rave or an all-night dance party. This Saturday, May 2, Arch is planning something close: a choreographed activation of the space with the Human Movement Project. Aesthetically, politically, physically—this will be the ultimate culmination of a bold show from an artist refusing to play it safe.
waiting for my man at LaMontagne Gallery is Steve Locke’s first solo show in Boston since the artist moved to New York in 2019. It was a painful departure, following withdrawal of his proposed Auction Block Memorial at Faneuil Hall after divisive opposition from the Boston NAACP. This exhibition signals a meaningful return to the city where the artist’s career took off. Last month, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, where Locke taught for over a decade, welcomed him back for a live conversation with MASS MoCA’s Evan Garza, who curated Steve Locke: the fire next time (MASS MoCA Aug. 2024 – Nov. 2025). The house was packed, the energy was high. Steve Locke was back and the community celebrated.
A comprehensive exhibition of work by the sculptor Ming Fay opened last week at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Edge of the Garden explores memory, cultural identity and connection to nature with over 100 objects from Fay’s abundant oeuvre. Misstropolis talks with Parker Fay, son of the great artist who passed away in February, about growing up in the studio, the exhibition and the importance of gardens to his remarkable father’s art and life.
On the occasion of her first residency at the private print studio Stone Hill Press, Misstropolis talks with Boston area visual artist Linda Pagani about process, constraints and the power of quiet work in a noisy world.
In her cheerful, unassuming studio in Somerville, MA, Zainab Sumu is fashioning a bridge to Africa. The artist/designer has been working on it for years, creating a multidisciplinary body of work that honors and reimagines various artistic traditions of west and north Africa with all the color, ingenuity and music the region inspires.
Sculptor Karen LaMonte gives shape and weight to subjects as amorphous as female identity and stratospheric phenomenon. With her cloud sculptures cast in marble and iron, she brings the consequential weight of climate change down to earth with a unique, material honesty.
But manifesting the weather is not the most complicated thing the Prague-based, multidisciplinary artist has done. She did something even more complex during COVID, which she hopes will be a model other artists can follow. She made her international artistic practice carbon negative.
Happy Earth Day, 2021.
