Gallery @ BMC
The Gallery@BMC is a community-centered multi-media art gallery located in the Belmont Media Center. Our gallery space encourages, supports, and promotes the work of local artists in Belmont and surrounding communities. Already a vibrant community media center with extensive hours open to the public, BMC is an excellent venue for local art exhibits. If you are interested in showing your work at the Gallery@BMC please email pat@belmontmedia.org
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Lisa Gibalerio: A Study in Portraits
May 12 - June 16 , 2012
Artist's Reception: Thursday, May 17th, 6 - 8 PM
Artist Statement:
"Shortly before my third birthday, my mother became gravely ill with Lupus, a chronic and debilitating illness. It follows that the most central figure in my world was a person whose health was constantly vulnerable. I grasped early on a sense of how fleeting life is.
When I was 12, I received my first camera as a Christmas gift. Then as now, taking pictures was about preserving memories and freezing images.
I remember realizing long ago that while the people I love will not always be around, I can cherish the photographs I have taken of them. Photos became a source of comfort in the face of permanent separation.
So, I guess you could say, that death has been a driving force for me as a photographer. But I prefer to think of photography as a quest to capture life, to seize a moment in time, and hold on to it forever.
These portraits of my family and friends represent such moments in time.
I hope to see you at the exhibit."
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Aaron Needle: Collage Degree
Monday, April 2 to May 4, 2012
Artist's Reception: Thursday, April 5: 6 pm - 9 pm
Aaron Needle:
"I am the youngest child of a literary family from Newton. I've loved making collages since the 5th grade when I pasted a simple loop of figurines encircling the title of the Beatle's song, 'Come Together' to a piece of construction paper. My recent collages were actually intended as preliminary images to print greeting cards from, but have come to be main focus of what I do.
"I am the youngest child of a literary family from Newton. I've loved making collages since the 5th grade when I pasted a simple loop of figurines encircling the title of the Beatle's song, 'Come Together' to a piece of construction paper. My recent collages were actually intended as preliminary images to print greeting cards from, but have come to be main focus of what I do.
Essentially my art consists of photocopied old and rare printed advertisements and old book covers and blending them with my own borders composed with high quality marbled paper. I am striving to creatively enhance these treasures of early graphic design while resurrecting them from relative obscurity.
My collages were made to be appreciated as art, but also to hopefully inspire viewers with the rich content of their written words and imagery."
Art Night: Home and Away
January 23 - February 24 2012
A multi-media exhibit exploring both home and away
Read about this exhibit on Belmont Patch
The Legacy of Ski History
Focusing on Austria’s Influence on American Skiing
A BMC Interactive Free ExhibitNov. 19 - Jan 20th
Prepared & presented by Ian Scully
Featuring award-winning documentary film series, photographs & written works. With emphasis on the birth and development of the 10th Mt. Division, the United States’ first division of mountain troops, and some of New England’s iconic ski areas: Franconia and the Mt. Washington Valley in New Hampshire, Stowe, including the Trapp Family Lodge and Cross-Country Ski Center, and Stratton, Vermont.
For more information about Ian Scully, go to: culturefilms.com
Diane Covert : The X-Ray Project & Why They Left
Exhibit: September 12-October 21, 2011
The X-Ray Project is an installation of radiographs, x-rays and CT scans, of survivors of terror attacks. All of the radiographs were provided by the two largest hospitals in Jerusalem, Hadassah Ein Kerem and Shaare Zedek Medical Center. Jerusalem is an international city and people from all walks of life are represented here. They are Jews, Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus and atheists; they are old and very young, some are well-off and some are poor; they are from various ethnic backgrounds.
The X-Ray Project has traveled to more than thirty colleges, universities, medical schools, galleries and hospitals in the United States. This is a partial installation of the exhibit. You can learn more at x-rayproject.org
Why They Left is a project that has to do with why groups of people sometimes flee their host country. The first phase is focused on the experiences of Jews in Eastern Europe during the latter part of the 19th century and the early decades of the 20th century. There were three major waves of pogroms, violent anti-Jewish riots, which led to loss of life conservatively estimated in the tens of thousands. I have documentary photographs of the largest wave of pogroms (1918-1921), images made by the perpetrators, by surviving relatives, by town officials, and by medical staff. These images make it clear why Eastern European Jews fled. Most American Jews are descendants of individuals that left Ukraine and other parts of greater Russia in the pogrom years, roughly 1880 through 1921.
Kenny Heitz &
Peter Donnelly
Exhibit: Late July - September 2, 2011
Artist Reception: June 11th @ 4pm to 6pm
Exhibit: Tuesday, May 31st - Friday, July 15 2011
MGNE Annual Meeting: Saturday, June 11th @ 11am
Tuesday, April 19 - Friday, May 20th
Opening Reception: Friday, April 22nd 6-8 PM
Fairley & Ford - February 2011
Irene Fairley
People, Places, and Patterns
In this exhibit, Fairley is featuring her printmaking.
Some of the monotypes and solar etchings are based on freehand drawings from life, while others derive from landscapes she observed or photographed on her many walks around New England or her travels abroad.
The works on display show her focus on both natural and urban landscape, as well as her continued interest in the human figure.
Patrick Ford
Fences and Other Landscapes
The landscape of the Antrim Coast and Glens in Northern Ireland is at times so wild and forbidding as to seem devoid of human life.
But there are signs that its human inhabitants are close at hand.
There are fences that keep people and their animals in (or out); gates through which they may pass; telephone poles and wires through which they maintain their contacts with others; roads and paths that enable their passages.
These paintings develop that theme: essentially, the landscape, rugged and compelling as it is, but bearing the unmistakable signs of human habitation.