May Events

Reception May 9th 

Showing through June 30th.

Unlimited  

Harvard Alliston Educational Portal  

The Art Gallery  

175 North Harvard Street, Allston MA  

Featuring artists from Boston Sculptors Gallery Caroline Bagenal, Murray Dewart, Mags Harries, Michelle Lougee, Andy Moerlein and Nora Valdez. Curated by John Quatrale.

 

This show will present two more abstract pieces that I very much like, and a piece that was featured in the Boston Globe when it hung at Boston Sculptors Gallery's 20th anniversary show. I have jazzed it up a tad for this venue (see the studio image below).

Hanging by a Thread

handmade stone, rope

Andy Moerlein

 (left) Fools Gold 
wood, graphite, fiberglass, mica
Andy Moerlein

(right) Balance
wood, fiberglass
Andy Moerlein

 

Unbound Visual Arts (UVA) is a nonprofit founded by artists, collectors and enthusiasts to recognize the importance of the visual arts in their personal, business or professional lives. Their aim is to develop and nurture partnerships and collaborations with other organizations and businesses.

 

CONVERGENCE celebrated it's Grand Opening on the Christian Science Plaza this week with hundreds of friends, fans, passersby. On exhibit all summer, with a passel of events every month, this is THE show to see. A grand gift of art in the heart of Boston. 

 

Double Take: Gillian Christy & Joseph Wheelwright 

A Guided Tour of the work  on Saturday May 18 11 am. Meet at the Mary Baker Eddy Library 200 Mass Ave.

 

Impossible

handmade stones

Andy Moerlein

Convergence

The Boston Sculptors Gallery and The First Church of Christ, Scientist. have partnered to bring a gift of art to the city of Boston. If ever there was a time, if ever there was a place, where art can speak a truth, Boston, NOW, is that time and place. Celebrate with us the good and joyous that sculpture can make evident.  Grand Opening Saturday May 4th, 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. tours. Comments at 3 p.m.

Participating artists include: Gillian Christy, Murray Dewart, Donna Dodson, Rosalyn Driscoll, Laura Evans, Sally S. Fine, Chris Frost, Peter DeCamp Haines, Jim Henderson, Michelle Lougee, Nancy Winship Milliken, Andy Moerlein, The Myth Makers, Eric Sealine, George Sherwood, Margaret Swan, Marilu Swett, Joseph Wheelwright, Leslie Wilcox, and Andy Zimmermann.

In a convergence of imagination and civic pride, over two dozen art installations from Boston Sculptors Gallery members will be displayed on The Christian Science Plaza from Wednesday, May 1 to Thursday, October 31, 2013. Join us for the catalog launch on Thursday, June 6, from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. A complete schedule of events can be found on the Convergence website, including images and artist information.

Impossible 
2013 handmade stones

Mass is a law of gravity.
Personality is a force.
My mother always said I was, impossible.                          

Andy Moerlein

Poised
The Myth Makers
Donna Dodson & Andy Moerlein
2013 saplings, wire ties 30' high

Gray-suited and stodgy, frayed but grand, the Great Blue Heron is no bright flash. Elegantly poised, it stands perfectly still, waiting patiently for fish to swim through its legs. The Myth Makers are a collaborative team of sculptors who enjoy the physical and philosophical challenges of working together.



Tiger Mothers

2013 styrofoam, cement, paint
8' h x 4' x 4'  each

Fierce and protective as wild animals, but loving, warm and human, Tiger Mothers stand guard near the Children's Fountain on the Christian Science Plaza.  They are a tribute to Amy Chua's book, The Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother.  Dodson celebrates the mystical relationship between human beings and the animal kingdom.

Donna Dodson 



  
Christian Science Plaza
210 Mass Ave Boston MA 

The first Guided tour on the Plaza:

Saturday  May 18th 11am "Double Take: Gillian Christy & Joseph Wheelwright "

Wheelwright has carved two 3-ton granite boulders into a pair of stone heads which gaze lovingly into each other's eyes. Their title is simply "Loving Stones." During his talk Wheelwright will provide a guided tour of the exhibition CONVERGENCE and explain the process of collecting and carving stones on this scale. His best known local stone head is the "Listening Stone" in the permanent collection of the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park in Lincoln, MA.

 "The Space Within" by Christy consists of a pair of sculptures in which New England clapboards define the house shape. The details within either piece are sculpted organic buds or leaves. Christy will discuss her interest in expressing connectivity through form and share her informed impressions of the sculptures on view.

Identifying Birds and Relationships

Leich Lathrop Gallery Albuquerque, NM
Opening reception: Friday, April 5, 5 – 8 p.m. Brief Artist Comments: 6 p.m.

April 4 – May 5, 2013

Gallery hours: Wednesday - Sunday, 12 – 6 p.m.

Identifying Birds and Relationships is a debut solo exhibition for New Hampshire artist Andy Moerlein at Leich Lathrop Gallery. This show features Moerlein’s ceramic birds, wood sculpture and prints.

Moerlein’s work has a storyteller’s attitude - that tightrope walk between naturalism and symbolism. Ceramic birds fill branches and stones with a communication that is evident yet ambigous. Some snuggle together; others turn their backs to each other. The birds seem ordinary - an embodiment of stillness - frozen in place. Yet each conveys a gesture that implies movement. These birds are prone to startle and fly at any moment.

Moerlein’s birds are a mix of authentic and exceptional. Real feathers festoon the rather generic small birds. Wood “stones” and complex branches complete a scene that suggests the interruption of an event. “My birds are steeped in presence. I express my human story with small birds as actors.”

The prints selected to hang with this show are similarly avian predicaments. The birds are often familiar, some even authentic in colors and pose, but they have an attitude that suggests dialogue.  There is no doubt that Moerlein has observed birds closely, but the images suggest his focus is on human relationships.

 

 

 Shadow Play 2013 wood, ceramic, stain          Proposal 2013 monoprint, colored pencil

Fountain Art Fair

For the second year in a row, the Artist Collective: Andy Moerlein, Donna Dodson, and Stephan Fowlkes exhibited new works of art at Fountain Art Fair March 8th - March 10th in the 69th Regiment Armory, 68 Lexington Ave at 25th. 

 

Andy Moerlein 

 This year, ARTIST COLLECTIVE presented the sculptural and wall works of Donna Dodson, Stephan Fowlkes and Andy Moerlein.  These three artists use Nature both as inspiration and as material–particularly wood–in their work, with three very different approaches and outcomes.  With works ranging from figurative to geometric to ethereal, there is something for everyone  at the ARTIST COLLECTIVE.

Donna Dodson

Fountain Art Fair was founded in 2006 by David Kesting, Lincoln Capla, and John Leo as an attempt to leverage support for smaller independent galleries, collectives and artists who wished to gain access to a larger audience of collectors and critics. From its roots deep within the independent Williamsburg, Brooklyn art scene, Fountain has grown to represent over 60 international avant garde galleries and projects, showcasing progressive primary-market works in New York, Miami, Chicago and Los Angeles.
Fountain Art Fair has received critical acclaim for its uniquely alternative art fair model and genuine dedication to the artists and galleries who share in its vision and ideology. Celebrated as the first of a new influential generation of alternative fairs, Fountain is reinterpreting the concept of the art fair experience and paving a new path for the future of contemporary art.
When Marcel Duchamp arrived in New York for the first time to exhibit his work at the original 1913 Armory Show at the 69th Regiment Armory, he left a lasting legacy that challenged people’s preconceived notions of what art can be. One hundred years later, Fountain Art Fair is challenging people’s preconceived notions of what an art fair can be. Based primarily in Miami and New York City, Fountain bridges the gap between art and contemporaries delivered to America all those years ago.
Like Duchamp, and his famous ready made Fountain, Fountain Art Fair is the foundation upon which a whole generation of working artists and galleries are able to engage the global art market on their own terms. As a family, Fountain comes together to define an accessible alternative vision for the future of contemporary art. [From the website, http://www.fountainartfair.com/about/]
 

Stephan Fowlkes

CONVERGENCE: BOSTON SCULPTORS GALLERY EXHIBITS AT THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE PLAZA

My installation Impossible will be a part of this great show:

CONVERGENCE

BOSTON SCULPTORS GALLERY EXHIBITS AT THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE PLAZA
Wednesday, May 1, 2013  Thursday, October 31, 2013

BOSTON, MA: The Boston Sculptors Gallery is pleased to announce its first outdoor exhibition of monumental, site-specific artworks, co-sponsored by The First Church of Christ, Scientist. In a convergence of imagination and civic pride, over two dozen art installations from Boston Sculptors Gallery members will be displayed on The Christian Science Plaza from Wednesday, May 1 to Thursday, October 31, 2013. Join us for our grand opening on Saturday, May 4, from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. and again for the Catalog Launch on Thursday, June 6th 2p-5p. Jen Mergel remarks at 3pm. Tours at 2:15 and 4:15p with the artists

Each sculpture will speak to its architectural surroundings, activate the site that inspired it, and create a unique destination for the Boston community to see contemporary art. Following on the heels of the newly built Contemporary Wing at the Museum of Fine Arts and as a celebration of the newly designated statewide Fenway Cultural District (established March 20, 2012 by the Massachusetts Cultural Council), this exhibition carries forth the vision to draw attention to visual art of the moment and promote its prominent place in the life of the city. We invite the public to enter, look, think, hope, dream, and be a part of the experience.

Participating artists include: Gillian Christy, Murray Dewart, Donna Dodson, Rosalyn Driscoll, Laura Evans, Sally S. Fine, Chris Frost, Peter DeCamp Haines, Jim Henderson, Michelle Lougee, Nancy Winship Milliken, Andy Moerlein, Eric Sealine, George Sherwood, Margaret Swan, Marilu Swett, Leslie Wilcox, Joseph Wheelwright, and Andy Zimmermann.

Boston Sculptors Gallery was founded in 1992 by 18 prominent Boston-area artists. In twenty years the cooperative has held over 227 art shows and supported the work of 58 sculptors with work in 48 U.S. states and 36 foreign countries. Gallery members have received numerous honors including 81 residencies, 315 awards or fellowships, and 134 grants. Members have taught in 70 settings, generated 169 permanent public art works and 308 temporary public artworks, and are included in 1,100 private and public collections. Boston Sculptors Gallery articulates, challenges, and promotes the role of sculpture in the public sphere, in communities, and in the lives of individuals.

The Christian Science Plaza is a 14 acre pedestrian refuge amid the busy traffic patterns of Boston's urban environment and attracts thousands of visitors each year from all over the world. In the heart of the Plaza sits The Original Mother Church, built in 1894, and its domed extension, built in 1906. The Plaza has been influenced over the past two centuries by several architects, including Chester Lindsay Churchill in the 1930s and the firm of I.M. Pei & Partners and Araldo A. Cossutta, Associated Architects, in the 1970s and is a designated Boston Landmarks Property.

The Fenway Cultural District, the first Boston-based Massachusetts-wide Cultural District, is comprised of more than 40 cultural and academic institutions, community organizations and private residents and is managed by the Fenway Alliance, a consortium of 22 institutions. The owner of the Christian Science Plaza, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, has always been active within the Boston community and was a founding member of The Fenway Alliance, the group responsible for the creation and organization of this cultural district.

VISITOR INFORMATION: The Christian Science Plaza is located at the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Huntington Avenue, in Boston, MA. Admission to this outdoor exhibition is free, and open to the public from Wednesday, May 1, 2013 to Thursday, October 31, 2013. Exhibition catalogs will be available for purchase after June 1, 2013, from the shops at The Mary Baker Eddy Library, 200 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston and The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston.

November News

I built an installation Above inside the gallery for

The ROCK SHOW 

At Zeitgeist Gallery 167 Market Street, Lowell

Opening Reception on Sat. November 10, 6:30- 9 pm

The Show will run from November 10 to November 24

Gallery Hours are Wed.- Sat. 1-8 pm

Featuring stone carvings and stone installations by Jay Hungate, Bill Turville, Marcus Nechay,

Yin Peet, Kevin Duffy, Scott Cahaly, and Andy Moerlein

with paintings and prints by Denise Manseau and decorated stones from the ROCK PARTY on Nov.4

  

and included Stone Stack 6 x 6 x 30" h

November 18th GRAND OPENING!

If you are in Anchorage or know art enthusiasts there, both Donna Dodson and I have work with
Georgia Blue and Gina Hollomon at their NEWLY minted contemporary art venue.

blue.hollomon gallery

3555 Arctic Blvd, 5c

Anchorage, AK 99503

See my latest: Outlook  20 x 26 x 60 maple, ceramic

 

 

 

 

See at the Derryfield School in Manchester NH:

Journey
wood, handmade stones 6 x 18' x 10' h

BIRDS of a Feather, NIGHT HUNTER and October News

Showing at Dana Hall School with Donna Dodson, 

Suzette Jones & G.A. Scattergood-Moore,
Bird themed painting and sculpture
October 15-November 20, 2012
Opening Reception: Tuesday, October 16, 5-7:30 p.m.

SPRING ICE

wood, fiberglass, ceramic “birds” 24w x 28 h x 18”d

A silent view of shifting water levels. Freeze. Thaw. Refreeze. Numb.

 SMALL TALK
wood, ceramic "birds"
2012 22 x 24 x 48"h

We all know the party. Strolling and trolling for a conversation that is more than bird chatter. Deeper conversation is hard to find.

 

PROMISES RECONSIDERED

wood, ceramic

2011 24 x 30 x 86"h

Promises are hard work, but I am reconsidering my future with optimism.

MYTH MAKERS Burn

Night Hunter

@ Fruitlands Museum, Harvard MA

Saturday, October 27 at Dusk

 A burning owl fire sculpture by Myth Makers Donna Dodson and Andy Moerlein

Owls hunt on silent wings, often unseen,  in the dark of night. For all of history, civilizations have celebrated their mystery in myths of magic and deep knowing. Celebrate the end of the season with Fruitlands Museum in a dusk ceremony of fire and community. Enjoy this family gathering with s'mores, cider, apples, and the grand finale of a forty foot flaming owl as the sun sets and the October Hunter's Full Moon rises over the late fall landscape.

This free community gathering sponsored by Fruitlands Museum and Myth Makers Donna Dodson and Andy Moerlein.

Still showing!

September 17th – October 28th

10th Rock Garden Art Group The Center for the Arts Homer NY

WATER BIRDS
wood, ceramic, hand made stone

Mill Brook Gallery & Sculpture Garden 

“It’s All About Clay”
August 28th - December 24th

Anne Alexander, Megan Bogonvich, Joan Carcia, Tim Christensen, Liz Corrigan, Steve Cunliffe,
Barbara Danser, Larry W. Elardo, Liz Fletcher, Ronnie Gould, Steven Hayden, Al Jaeger,
Elenora Lecei, Glen MacInnis, Alex Matisse, Christine Merriman, Maureen Mills, Iris Minc,
Andy Moerlein, Boyan Moskov, Rob Rossel, Lee Stice, and Teresa Taylor

 OUTBURST

2012. wood, ceramic, feathers 14”h x 9”w x 7”d

Like a grenade in the window.
Patience and appropriate are not always well weighted.
I am not known for subtly. I am an earthquake.