the hallway gallery

Matthew Hincman and Josh Luke are pleased to announce the unveiling of their first intervention in the series 24kt txt at The Hallway Gallery. The installation consists of two gilded-text acronyms in the windows of the gallery’s storefront.

The final touches of 'TWITA'.

The 24kt txt project investigates the changing nature of contemporary language in the face of new technologies and forms of communication. Depictions of text message shorthand & chat acronyms are rendered in gold on glass in display windows throughout the neighborhood of Jamaica Plain. Created through traditional water-glass gilding techniques, the chosen abbreviations are recursive – text messages referencing language and modes of communication, questioning the evolution and future of written and spoken language.

Over the next few weeks, new interventions will pop up in Jamaica Plain storefronts near you!

24kt txt #1: TWITA (that’s what I’m talking about)

24kt txt #2: WOA (work of art)

Follow the progress at twitter: @metchew

Matthew Hinçman

Matthew is an associate professor at the Massachusetts Collge of Art and Design in Boston. A Jamaica Plain resident, he has been creating site-specific installations for JP and beyond since his Jamaica Pond Bench debuted in 2006. Two Boston Public Schools feature Matthew’s work: the Ellis Mendell School in Roxbury, and the Denis Haley School in Roslindale (in collaboration with students from MassArt).

matthewhincman.com

Josh and Matt applying the first sheets of gold leaf for 'WOA'.

Josh Luke

Josh graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz, with a BFA in Painting before working for several years at New Bohemia Signs in San Francisco, one of the most well known independent hand-painted sign-businesses in the country. Josh’s works with New Bohemia are featured throughout the Bay Area and his paintings have recently been featured in several San Francisco and Boston galleries. In 2010, Josh founded Jamaica Plain based Best Dressed Signs, an all-by-hand sign business that offers shops, restaurants and other local businesses the benefit of quality and attractive storefronts and signage.

bestdressedsigns.com

Join us for our 3 year anniversary celebration on May 3rd!

Rising Up is a group show featuring the work of
Janine Rissewyck, Aaron Staples and Evan Voelbel.

Janine Rissewyck (Providence, RI) will be exhibiting 3-D etchings of organic, sea-like forms floating off the paper. Aaron Staples (Portland, ME) has created intricate, marine-life ink drawings; blending ocean and urban life. In addition, glass artist Evan Voelbel (Boston, MA) will be showing an array of his more recent glass sculptures depicting mussels, bird skulls and organic forms.

Opening Reception
May 3rd 6-9pm
showing thru May 26th

April 2012

Gretjen Helene – Of the Egg In the Heart

This interactive installation generates an inquiry of the substance that shapes the edge between dedication and obsession in matters of the heart and the egg; love and assimilation of two individuals becoming one entity.

This solo exhibition includes alternative process liquid emulsion photographs printed on the inside of egg shells, black & white photography and other mixed media works by Boston-based photographer Gretjen Helene.

More info on Gretjen can be found here.

OPENING RECEPTION
April 5th
6-9pm

showing thru April 27th.

A group of senior printmaking students from Massachusetts School of Art & Design will be showcasing their work during the month of March.

ARTIST PROOFS
Opening Reception
March 1st 6-9pm

This month long exhibit will help fund their upcoming trip to the annual SGCI Printmaking Conference in New Orleans.

“SGCI is the largest print organization in North America. Its annual conference is the biggest annual gathering focused on the field of printmaking. Artists from all 50 states attend the conference. Regular international attendees come from Canada, South and Central America, and Europe. While organizing a conference is a lot of work, there are significant professional benefits to the host institution, its faculty and students.

For the institution, hosting a conference is an opportunity to showcase its programs in not only printmaking, but other studio areas as well. The conference provides an opportunity to feature the work and philosophies of a program’s faculty and students. The educational and professional benefits of hosting and attending a conference for an institution’s students are significant. Hosting the SGCI conference also serves to strengthen relationships between the people and the units committed to the visual arts at the host institution.”

Featuring work by:

Gina Biondo
Peyton Kay Davis
Paul Deruvo
Nick Irzyk
Eric Lee
Donald Morin
Monika Plioplyte
Chelsea Teta

showing thru March 1-31st

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.