Small
Works To Showcase
59
Cambridge Artists for Maud Morgan Center
by Susie
Davidson
CORRESPONDENT
Artistic
talent in any given medium is hardly in short order within the confines of this
city. A Sacramento Street Gallery exhibit opening Friday and running through
Dec. 20 will showcase a very broad panorama of local talent in a fundraiser for
the Maud Morgan Center.
The second annual “Small Works” show will feature the works of a full 59 Cambridge artists. Obviously, for such a representation, the works must be unencumbering; they all thus measure approximately 12 inches by 12 inches, and will cost $150 to $1500.
Half of the
proceeds from sales will benefit the Maud Morgan Center; the other half will go
to the artists. The Center, which will house programs and workspace in
painting, drawing, printing, sculpture and ceramics, will be built in a 19th
century carriage house behind the Agassiz Neighborhood Council. When the Center
is finished (groundbreaking is projected for 2003), children will obtain
high-quality hands-on experience in the visual arts, while artists can meet,
experiment, exhibit, and teach as they acquire space where they can work
collaboratively as well as on large projects.
Artists
featured in the Small Works exhibit, which will help to raise the $1,400,000
needed to build the Center, will include painters Maggi Brown, Paul Shakespear,
Michael Mazur, Wendy Prellwitz, Joseph Barbieri, John Devaney, and Tabitha
Vevers. Sculptors and artists in three-dimensional formats are Mags Harries,
Brenda Star, Nancy Webb, Paul Grey, Phyllis Ewen and Peter Haines. Artist Peik
Larsen will show prints. Photography by Dan Ranalli and John Lueders-Booth will
be available as well as ceramic work by Marcia Halperin and Judy Motzkin. Andy
Magdanz, Susan Shapiro, Linda Lichtman and Lillian Hsu Flanders will contribute
their objects of sheer beauty, including glass pieces, Mitch Ryerson will
present two candlestick holders from found objects, and a necklace of hand
blown glass beads by Thalia Tringo will also be included.
Collage
artist Jeannie Motherwell will be represented at the show for the second year.
The Senior Program Assistant for artist Daniel Ranalli at Boston University's
Arts Administration Graduate Program, she studied art at Bard College and the
Art Student's League in New York, and is represented at the Lyman-Eyer Gallery
in Provincetown. She praised the gallery, which she said has always supported
local artists.
“My
involvement with Noca (North Cambridge Arts) Open Studios,” she said,
“spearheaded my connection to the Cambridge art community, following my
move from the New York area in 1998. The Sacramento Street Gallery seconded my
emotion by offering Noca a show last Spring, giving us another opportunity to
share our work with the neighborhood.”
The Agassiz Neighborhood Council is a private, non-profit organization which has, for 30 years, helped to promote the health, safety and welfare of Cambridge residents through educational and cultural programs for almost thirty years.
“I
feel honored to be included again this year,” said Motherwell, “in
a show exhibiting such a marvelous array of accomplished artists.”
The
Sacramento Street Gallery is located at 20 Sacramento St., just north of
Harvard Square off Mass. Ave., and is open Monday through Friday from 9
a.m.–5 p.m. Admission is free; all contributions to the building fund of
the Morgan Center are tax deductible. For more information, call 617-349-6287.