EXHIBITIONS

September 1 - 26, 2021

Opening Reception: Friday, September 3, 6-8:30 pm

Patty Stone: “Watermark”

Ingrid Ludt: “Beyond Matter”

Patty Stone: “Watermark”

Patty Stone investigates the movement of water through the lens of climate change in a new series of abstract paintings and works on paper.  Watermark juxtaposes a fluid paint surface against geometric shapes and lines of measurement suggesting rising tides or changing shorelines.

Ingrid Ludt: “Beyond Matter”

Ingrid Ludt’s first solo exhibition in Boston, “Beyond Matter” consists of paintings that abstract bits and pieces of the universe to liberate them from the burden of representation. Colors and forms drawn from nature are transformed into play pieces in elaborate studio games.

The compositions are drawn from pieces of bark, shell, and other natural ephemera and then carefully arranged to respond to the rectangle of the canvas. The patterns and geometries of nature’s fragments are pared down and rendered on the canvas. In some cases, the universe can be found within a single fragment; in others, the pieces are assembled in order to unlock some kind of secret.

The colors, on the other hand, are chosen through randomness and games: picking among crumpled swatches, assigning colors to dice, and drawing Tarot cards. Ludt is inspired by the irreverent anarchism of the Dadaists in the early 20th Century, who worked amid war and disease not unlike the 21st Century. Ludt’s response, like the Dadaists before her, is to bring playfulness and chance to the foreground. The lightness and pleasure of the process is palpable in the paintings, where the shapes radiate the colors that they’ve been assigned.