the hallway gallery

Michael Ulman
Opening Reception
February 2, 2012
6-9pm
on exhibit thru the 26th

“Being a found object sculptor I am in the unique position of finding my materials anywhere, such as junkyards, dumpsters and flea markets. I look for objects that were once destined to some mundane existence and give them new purpose through my sculpture. While most people see an object for what it is, I try to see it for what it could be.

The objects that I use fall into two categories: the happened-upon objects that offer me inspiration and those that I search for in order to fill a specific role in my vision. With multiple projects in progress at any given time, the process of finding pieces is never ending.

My newest collection, “Les Femmes d’Objets,” is a distinct departure from my primary subject matter of working within the realm of hot rods and motorcycles. What began as an exercise in creating art at a quicker pace, soon became a new avenue in which to explore. The collection has allowed me to work within my medium but from a very different perspective, in turn opening up my imagination to a whole new world of inspiration.”

-Michael Ulman

There will be nearly a dozen of Ulman’s new female sculptures on display, with plans to include a hotrod and motorcycle into the exhibit. Please join us for the opening reception or find time to come by during gallery hours.

Join us for the opening reception of Marisa’s Martino’s exhibit Dormit, Non Est Mortua (Dreaming, Not Dead) on January 5th, 2012 (6-9pm). If you are unable to attend the opening reception, her work will be showing through January 29th.

Dormit, Non Est Mortua is a series of memorials for eight well-known boxers. Martino’s work evokes imagery and sensibilities from Victorian Memorial Art, Outsider Art, Italian Baroque paintings and religious scenarios, in order to explore ways that we cope with tragedy, particularly death and violence. Using her sensibility as a printmaker she created memorials for the boxers, owning through repetition the violence that would otherwise be beyond her control.

The labor inherent in the kind of tedious mark making and crafting in these drawings is an homage to the often working class man that seeks a way out of his destiny through the sport. In some ways the ornamentation is detritus of the labor. The embellishments are created only when the compulsive activity of mark making is honored.

This body of work engages in contemporary issues of glamorizing the working class, culling from a variety of cultures and traditions, exhausting material options and exploring trends of violence. Using the audience to complete the concept, the multi-media works allow the viewer to participate as both the spectator and the spectacle.

Marisa Martino has an MFA in printmaking from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She lives and works in Boston. Most of her work features images of broken gangsters, boxers and circus performers. Her body of work in progress is called The Monumentalist of Monuments.

Are you wanting to give art to your friends or family this holiday season?!

John Steck Jr. - Unique C-Print

I have worked with dozens of artists and can help find the perfect gift!

If you are in the need of some assistance this holiday season, please contact me at

email@thehallwayjp.com
617-818-5996

Happy Holidays!

Brent Refsland

The Hallway is 6 feet longer!!

Subterranean Books is now occupying the mysterious space behind the red curtains.

Carrying books on art and art theory, cultural studies, history, poetry, drama, philosophy, counterculture, literature and contemporary fiction.

Come welcome Chris Barber to Jamaica Plain and browse his back-room emporium of eclectic second-hand books and CDs.

http://www.subterraneanbooks.net/

December 1-23, 2011

Katrine Hildebrandt

circulate//accumulate

Opening Reception
December 1st 6-9pm

The ocean has become truly important to both my work and life in the past several years. I’m interested in the movement, currents and circulation of water. Pushing and pulling with an energy and force that can change the patterns of matter. Through my work I wish to express the pulse of the sea.

With each new wave a circulation begins, accumulating its findings on the land, only to pile up and fade away.

-K. Hildebrandt

View the show here!
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Katrine Hildebrandt lives and works in Hyde Park. She received a BA from Hartwick College in Oneonta, NY and a MFA from Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, MA. She has exhibited her work in such places as Boston, New York, California, London, and Australia.

Join us on Monday, November 21st from 7-9pm for a casual evening of free life drawing. Bring a pillow or chair for comfort, along with your supplies. Space is limited.

November 3rd-27th

A group show of local female artists focusing on the female body.

Kate True '(he said I looked like) Sylvia Kristel' - oil on paper

Join us on November 3rd for the Opening Reception. 6-9pm

Kate True, Carolyn Johnson, Darien Bird, Dana Cowley, Maria Molteni and others will be exhibiting an array of mediums and styles with the female figure taking center stage.

Join us for a rare night
with Boston-based painter
and performance artist,
Jessica Gath.

FOR YOU I FEEL LUCKY

The concept of this interactive performance, and Gath’s entire For You I Feel Lucky body of artwork, is to catalyze generosity in real time in people’s real lives. In this performance the artist celebrates a roomful of people – acquaintances, friends, strangers or any combination thereof. It is completely anonymous.

For You I Feel Lucky begins when people RSVP and culminates at The Hallway Gallery on November 8th(8pm). It is an RSVP-only event. The guest list will close at 11:59pm on Monday, October 24th. Attendees should plan on being contacted via e-mail by the artist once or twice between then and November 8th.

Gath has exhibited nationally and internationally. Her upcoming shows include the deCordova Museum and Sculpture Park’s 2012 Biennial. You may know her as The World Famous Secretary.

For more information and to RSVP,
please email jessica@jessicagath.org

Join us for a solo exhibit featuring the paintings of Dan Golden.

Golden has handed out paperclips to colleagues, friends, family members and strangers asking for a sculpture in return. He selects the most interesting and using sepia watercolor, he paints each sculpture. Come see 40 of these beautiful paintings during the month of October.

Years ago I began a series of paintings involving reconstructed paperclips. At one point or another, practically everyone has either consciously or not turned this ubiquitous everyday object into something other than what it was intended for. Is it possible that these miniature ‘sculptures’ somehow carry with it the distinct personality of it’s creator? In many cases, I believe they do. Therefore, I feel as if these paintings are in a sense, portraits of the individuals doing the manipulating.

A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, Dan Golden has been working as an artist in the Boston area for well over a decade. In addition to his focus on painting, Dan has explored a variety of artistic outlets in both the commercial and fine art worlds. His fine art work has focused primarily on portraiture as well as more conceptual work like the paperclip series. He has worked commercially as an editorial illustrator and background painter for studios such as Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Olive Jar Animation, Handcranked Film Productions and many others.

An active musician as well, Dan has created several film scores for several award winning animated films. He lives in Natick with his wife Robin and their young daughter Sydney.

The Paperclip
Opening Reception
October 6th 6-9pm

Join us on September 1st for the opening reception of Chromatics, an exhibition featuring the color etchings of James Mustin III. There also will be an array of other works by artists who have previously shown at the hallway gallery.

6-9pm

Showing thru September 25th.