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New paintings on view at the Walter Grossmann Memorial Gallery in the Joseph P. Healey Library at UMASS Boston as part of the exhibition Artists and the Archive.
My fellow Endpoint Collective members and I created work in response to the library’s archival material to examine climate issues. The exhibit is a component of the University’s Thinking About Climate Change: Art, Science, and Imagination in the 21st Century conference happening October 25 and 26. The show runs through January 17, 2025.
The wall label text:
Mark Roth’s Triptych suggests subtle shifts of emphasis can have outsized impact.Responding to photographs in the Thompson Island and Boston Urban Gardeners collections, the artist rearranges the file names of the archival material to present an alternate perspective – one that recognizes the agency of other-than-human entities: trees in this instance.
The photographs labeled “Man in front of a tree” and “Woman in front of tree” become the paintings Tree In Front of a Man and Tree in Front of Woman. The prioritization of the human in relation to the tree is reconsidered. The tree becomes subject, the actor of the story.
The source image for the central panel is a photograph identified as “Group gathers around fir tree.” It shows gardeners proudly posing with a newly planted tree. Fir Trees Gather Around Group depicts trees as reciprocating actors. Here the forest is an always present potentiality, a collaborative entity ready to give succor and sustenance in response to human efforts, even seemingly modest ones.
Tinsquo's curatorial project, Adjacent To Life, presents Random Reflections by Jack Tricarico.
Jack Tricarico is a New York City painter and poet who has lived on the Lower East Side for more than 40 years. He began studying art at the age of 12 at the Art Students League of New York, and later at the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture. He has exhibited his paintings in New York art galleries in one-person shows and group exhibitions since 1963.
He states: "Art has always felt as a necessity for me. I develop an image exclusively on impulse based on my immediate reaction to a blank surface. This reaction is primarily chaotic. Gradually an underlying structure arises, reflecting an interconnected whole."
His poetry has been published in poetry journals and anthologies in the United States, Europe and Mexico. He recently published a book of poems, Selected Poems, Jack Tricarico".
Random Reflections is on view through August 23, 2024 at the Adjacent To Life gallery housed in Ninth Street Espresso (341 E. 10th Street at Ave B, New York City). Artist's reception: Saturday, July 27, 5:00 pm.
