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September's Acrylic Palettes

Blobsquatches at Adjacent to Life

Tinsquo's curatorial project, Adjacent to Life, presents Blobsquatches by Mark Roth.

Mark Roth’s paintings find inspiration in the cryptozoological artifact of blobsquatches – a blobsquatch being the indeterminate blob in a photograph that a keen-eyed observer ascertains is a visual capture of Sasquatch. Generally they take the form of forest views with a circle drawing one’s attention to the purported creature.

Roth contends the resilience of Bigfoot speaks to the persistent yearning to see primeval nature staring back at us in a form analogous to our own.

In a blobsquatch the circling line is the essential component for it represents the culmination of careful scrutiny and an urgency to share the benefits of passionate looking. In these works the artist has made it his quest to locate evidence of Sasquatch in the paintings of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Here the encircling lines of the blobsquatches are drawn from painting referents where the composition rotates around a central locus. This target-like shape utilizes the notion that a bullseye represents an apogee of yearning – in this case to strike a connection with primordial painters in the wilderness of art and its making.

Blobsquatches is on view through October 17, 2024 at the Adjacent to Life gallery housed in Ninth Street Espresso (341 E. 10th Street at Ave B, New York City).

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August's Acrylic Palettes

Strangers and Family at Adjacent To Life

Tinsquo's curatorial project, Adjacent To Life, presents Strangers and Family by Elizabeth Hatcher Williams.

Marisa Malone contributes the exhibition essay:

The photography of Elizabeth Hatcher Williams captures the choreography of intimacy. Composing a narrative from stills of daily life, her work illuminates the ways in which we mirror, invite, close off, and hold space with others.

The genesis of this project came after reviewing eight years worth of photo negatives that Hatcher Williams had yet to use. Pulling images that were strong and arranging them together, an unconscious theme embedded throughout her work emerged: the exploration of the intangible familiarity that connects us. Over the past year and a half, Hatcher Williams continued to shoot new work documenting the dynamics among close friends, total strangers, and between artist and subject.

Hatcher Williams has a natural sensitivity for composition, lighting, and perspective. Equipped with a small point-and-shoot film camera, she records quickly and generously her environment. “The word I keep using to describe [the work] is ‘incidental,’” she explains, “I’m allowing the scenes to come to me.”

Moments of friendship, solitude, joy, and connection are revealed in her photographs. Some subjects are aware of their participation, others are not, yet in each image there is the sense of a tender observer. “You're constantly interacting with people, you’re responsible for holding that person within your atmosphere whether they know it or not” says Hatcher Williams, “[as an artist] you're responsible for telling some kind of truth about them and responsible for that person's right to intimacy with you.”

- Marisa Malone

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Marisa Malone grew up in the Sierra foothills of Nevada. She studied writing and literature at The Evergreen State College and currently lives in Brooklyn, NY. Her writing has been published in BlazeVox Journal and Selfish Magazine, along with two self-published poetry chapbooks.

Strangers and Family is on view through September 20, 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, August 24, 7:00 - 9:00 pm.

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July's Acrylic Palettes

Artists and the Archive at UMass Boston

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.

Random Reflections at Adjacent To Life

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.

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