Upcoming Exhibitions
Barbara Burgess Maier:
“On Edge”
Caroline Rufo: “Intervisible:
Red Lining and Blind Stitching
in the Fabric of Greater Boston”
March 4 - 29, 2020
Opening Reception
Friday, March 6, 6 pm - 8:30 pm
Barbara Burgess Maier
Barbara Burgess Maier: “On Edge”
We approach and retreat from the edge of wanting to know.
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We teeter on the edge wondering.
I invite you to confront the edge in my drawings, paintings, and prints.
Caroline Rufo
Caroline Rufo: “Intervisible:
Red Lining and Blind Stitching
in the Fabric of Greater Boston”
Hand-dyed fabric walls, pieced and stitched together create a room-size reproduction of a HOLC redline map of Boston and environs. Laser-cut paper walls suspended inside the space allow partial views of the map through decorative obstructions.
“Intervisible” is a term used in urban planning. It refers to the state of being mutually visible from specific positions in the landscape.
She asks the question, “What obstructs our view of each other?” and “Can we move toward greater Intervisibility where we work, play, and go to school?”
Can we create more intervisibility in our neighborhoods, homes and schools? where we work and where we play?
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The maps walls are made from cotton batting. Batting is typically used inside quilts and is not usually exposed in a finished piece.
- Intervisible: (from urban planning) is the state of being mutually visible from specific positions in the landscape.
- Redlining: a process by which banks and other institutions refuse to offer mortgages or offer worse rates to customers in certain neighborhoods based on their racial and ethnic composition.