August 1 - 20 2008
Daniel Ranalli, Breon Dunigan, Anna Poor & Tabitha Vevers

Daniel Ranalli · Chalkboard Series

Daniel Ranalli will be exhibiting new work from his Chalkboard Series made from photographs of found classroom chalkboards at Boston University where he teaches.  These color prints combine text, mathematical symbols and various marks into densely layered montages.  The works are filled with mystery and complexity and build on Ranalli's practice of drawing on randomly generated and found imagery and marks for his work. Daniel Ranalli's work is in the permanent collections of over two-dozen major museums here and abroad including the Museum of Modern Art (NY), Museum of Fine Arts Boston, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and National Gallery of American Art (Smithsonian).  He has had over 125 solo and group shows and has received a number of artist's fellowships including two from the National Endowment for the Arts. 

Breon Dunigan · Entourage

Breon Dunigan will be exhibiting an entourage of  figurative sculptures, posturing for the audience. These new works are created from bronze, stone, wood and plaster. They are accompanied by a group of recent prints and plaster drawings. Dunigan lives and works in Truro, MA. She has an MFA fro Rutgers University and a BFA from Mass. Art.

Anna Poor · Artifacts

Anna Poor 's new sculptures are physically and psychologically fragmented from their time and place of origin.  Diminutive in size, they bring up the issues of appropriation, the plunder of cultures and their objects and ownership of art.  Imbued with art historical references from the Assyrian wall reliefs depicting Prince Assurbanipal's Lion Hunt (7th Century BC in the British Museum) to Giacometti's Woman with Her Throat Cut (1932), Anna Poor creates her own storage room of treasures.

Tabitha Vevers · Lover's Eyes

Tabitha Vevers continues her Lover's Eye series with paintings of women's eyes quoted from images spanning nearly 2000 years, from Pompeii to the paparazzi. A multitude of individual eyes peer out at the viewer through time, supplanting the gaze of the original male artists with that of the model. Some works play off of Man Ray's Object to be Destroyed , in which the eye of his lover, Lee Miller, was attached to a metronome. We are confronted with the eyes of famous lovers such as Marilyn Monroe, Princess Diana, and Monica Lewinsky waving back & forth, each confronting us at their own tempo. Vevers was recently awarded First Prize for Best Monographic Show from the New England Chapter of the International Association of Art Critics. Twenty-five years of her work will be featured in a mid-career retrospective entitled Tabitha Vevers: Narrative Bodies at the DeCordova Museum, opening in January 2009 & traveling to the Provincetown Art Association & Museum in May 2009.

images: MATHEMATICS (from Chalkboard Series) photomontage 2008, 22 x 34", digital color print, by Dan Ranalli. PR UINOSE 2008 bronze and stone, 13 1/2 x 6 x 3 1/2", by Breon Dunigan. POSSIBLY PRINCE ASSURBANIPALS' CUP, CIRCA 7th C. BC , destroyed July 2008, wax, 2" x 3" x 1.5" by Anna Poor. LOVER'S EYE (MARILYN, DIANA, MONICA) oil on ivorine with metronome, 9 x 4.5 x 4.5" each, by Tabitha Vevers.

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